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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