Post on 03-Oct-2021
North End School/South End School 2020 Suggest Summer Reading – Grades 3 & 4
*Reading any book on this list is OPTIONAL.*
Our elementary media specialists and teachers are pleased to recommend the following titles for the summer of 2020.
Please Note: There are no assignments connected to any of the titles listed for any grade level. These books are provided simply for your reading pleasure as well as to continually develop our students’ reading skills.
Please note that the following books are only suggestions. Please feel free to add any books that are appropriate for your reader. The staff in the children’s area of the public library will also have many wonderful suggestions for you.
For Students Entering Grade 3
Title Author
Fiction:
Paper Wishes Lois Sepahban
I Was a Third Grade Spy Mary Auch
The Fantastic Mr. Fox Roald Dahl
How to Be Cool in Third Grade Betsy Duffey
Save Me A Seat Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan
Gooney Bird Green Lois Lowry
Cam Jansen Series David A. Adler
Chocolate Fever Robert Kimmel Smith
Fantastic Frame Series Lin Oliver
The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail Richard Peck
The Trouble with Chickens Doreen Cronin
Non-Fiction
When I Grow Up: Sonia Sotomayor AnnMarie Anderson
Separate is Never Equal: Silvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation
Duncan Tonatouh
So You Say You Want to Be an Inventor Judith St. George
So You Say You Want to Be President Judith St. George
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History Vashti Harrison
I Survived Series Lauren Tarshis
Who Would Win? Series Jerry Pallotta and Rob Bolster
Who Was? Series Various Authors
The Last Stop on Market Street Matt de la Pena
Delivering Justice James Haskins
The Science of...The Science of Spacecraft Alex Woolf
Science Verse Jon Scieszka
For Students Entering Grade 4
Title Author
Fiction:
Walk Two Moons Sharon Creech
No Talking Andrew Clements
Swindle Gordon Korman
The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate
Frindle Andrew Clements
Esio Trot Roald Dahl
The Magic Tree House Series Mary Pope Osborne and Sal Murdocca
Wish Barbara O’Connor
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground Rita Williams-Garcia
My Weird School Series Dan Gutman and Jim Paillot
Non-fiction
Rocket to the Moon Don Brown
The Slowest Book Ever April Pulley Sayre
Schomburg: The Man Who Built the Library Carole Boston Weatherford
Weird But True Series Various Authors
Fractions in Disguise: A Math Adventure Edward Einhorn
How to Eat a Poem (A Smorgasbord of Tasty and Delicious Poems for Young Readers)
American Poetry & Literacy
Project , Academy of American
Poets, Ted Kooser
Mistakes that Worked - 40 Familiar Inventions & How They Came to Be Charlotte Foltz Jones
Biographical Picture Book
Rosa Nikki Giovanni
I Dissent, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark Debbie Levy
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes Eleanor Coerr
Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker Patricia Hruby Powell