River Road Elementary

Rising 4^th Grade Summer Reading List

·        M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton (AR 4.4 / Pts. 10 / 69,544 words)

·        Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White (AR 4.4 / Pts. 5 / 31,938 words)

·        Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (AR 4.4 / Pts. 4 / 29,617 words) Newberry Award - 1992

·        A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck (AR 4.5 / Pts. 4 / 29,815 words)  Newberry Award - 2001

·        Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park (AR 4.5 / Pts. 2 / 16,668 words)

·        Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (AR 4.6 / Pts. 5 / 32,888 words)  Newberry Award - 1978

·        Go Free or Die:  A Story About Harriet Tubman by Jeri Ferris         (AR 4.6 / Pts. 1 / 6,478 words)

·        Holes by Louis Sachar (AR 4.6 / Pts. 7 / 47,079 words)  Newberry Award - 1999

·        In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord     (AR 4.6 / Pts. 4 / 26,776 words)

·        The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks (AR 4.6 / Pts. 6 / 44,004 words)

·        Kira Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (AR 4.7 / Pts. 7 / 48,221 words)  Newberry Award - 2005

·        Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli  (AR 4.7 / Pts. 5 / 35,427 words)  Newberry Award - 1991

·        From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg (AR 4.7 / Pts. 5 / 30,906 words) Newberry Award - 1968

·        The BFG by Roald Dahl (AR 4.8 / Pts. 6 / 37,568 words)

·        Little House on the Prairie  by Laura Ingalls Wilder (AR 4.9 / Pts. 8 / 52,038)

·        The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden (AR 4.9 / Pts. 4 / 25,278 words)

·        Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (AR 4.9 / Pts. 9 / 59,400 words)  Newberry Award - 1995

·        The Sign of the Beaver  by Elizabeth George Speare (AR 4.9 / Pts. 5 / 32,818 words)

·        Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (AR 4.9 / Pts. 3 / 18,145 words)  Newberry Award - 1984