'Heart Of Gold'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
The books that immediately come to mind when I remember 4th grade are:
Charlotte's Web
by E.B. White
Owls In The Family
by Farley Mowat
Follow My Leader
by James B. Garfield
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
by Richard Bach
Some others that occur to me are:
The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
by C.S. Lewis
The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
A Wrinkle In Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I think that's the age that I started reading mysteries - Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, etc. Dunno what's popular now.
How about The Borrowers by Mary Norton and James and the Giant Peach, Dahl? Those are two I loved around that age.
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
sj, I bet the school librarian would have some great suggestions! There's a huge amount of really great, diverse children's books being published these days, so it's hard to know even where to start. I would just recommend that she make sure to look for newer titles in addition to the classics.
Oh, totally.
Kate, we don’t have a school librarian. Our school library is run entirely by volunteers.
Thanks for the suggestions. I’m going to keep a look out for those titles while thrifting and volunteering at the library bookstore.
Maybe ask the Empress (I still see her over on FB)? I think she teaches 2nd or 3rd rather than 4th, but would probably still have some good recs.
Epic, that was going to be my next stop.
Great minds think alike!