Grades 4-5 Reading Lists

Comtemporary Fiction

This multi-part book list is organized by genre. The yellow box on the right lists the categories of books we've compiled. You'll find many books that will edify and satisfy the most reluctant and voracious readers. Just print out the list and run to your library, then kick back and enjoy summer--one page at a time!

Bingo Brown's Guide to Romance, by Betsy Byars

Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh

Seedfolks, by Paul Fleischman and Judy Pedersen (Illustrator)

Stone Fox, by John Reynolds Gardiner and Marcia Sewall (Illustrator)

Running Girl: The Diary of Ebonee Rose, by Sharon Bell Mathis

Yang the Third & Her Impossible Family, by Lensey Namioka and Kees De Kiefte (Illustrator)

Saving Shiloh, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger, by Louis Sachar and Joel Schick (Illustrator)

Boys at Work, by Gary Soto and Robert Casilla

Scooter, by Vera B. Williams

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