books 4th graders should read

Outcome: I can find a great book to read within my Lexile Range. I can use the OPAC to help me.

• A quiet tale of friendship

endures. Chester Cricket,

Tucker Mouse and Harry

Cat meet at a newsstand

in a New York subway

station when a lonely little

boy, Mario Bellini, finds

the cricket in a pile of

trash. He decides to keep

Chester as a pet, and a

series of adventures

follow; Lexile 780

• Set in the early 1900s,

Tom Fitzgerald, aka "The

Great Brain," is of the

"Tom Sawyer" ilk. He is a

shrewd and wily kid with

a keen ability to earn a

penny. Nevertheless, his

intelligence ends up

saving the day when he

and his younger brother

get lost in Skeleton Cave.

Lexile 840

• Jenna learns that she is a

princess found as a baby by

the man she believed was her

father and now she and

Septimus, who was taken at

birth by the midwife, are being

threatened by the evil wizard,

DomDaniel who intends to

finish off the entire royal line.

Lexile 640

• Twelve-year-old Jake sets off on an

adventure through the Old West,

accompanied by Jim Ugly, his

father's part-mongrel, part-wolf

dog, in an attempt to find out what

really happened to his missing

father, Sam. Lexile 710

• Detective Chet Gecko and his

associate, Natalie Attired, take

a case tailing what they think is

a cheating boyfriend but are

instead led to a school mystery

that involves blackmail and

robots. Lexile 580

• Edgar, an eleven-year-old orphan,

finds a book that reveals significant

secrets about Atherton, the strictly

divided world on which he lives,

even as geological changes

threaten to shift the power structure

that allows an elite few to live off

the labor of others. Lexile 950

• A young student, who comes to

love poetry through a personal

understanding of what

different famous poems mean

to him, surprises himself by

writing his own inspired poem.

Lexile 1010 : 95 pages

• Twelve-year-old Greg, who has

always been good at

moneymaking projects, is

surprised to find himself teaming

up with his lifelong rival, Maura,

to create a series of comic books

to sell at school. Lexile 840

• The noisy fifth grade boys of

Laketon Elementary School

challenge the equally loud fifth

grade girls to a "no talking"

contest. Lexile 820