LINCOLN ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL



LINCOLN ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL

CLASSICAL READING PROGRAM

FOURTH GRADE REQUIREMENTS

The following are the requirements for the Fourth Grade Classical Reading List.

A total of eight (8) books are needed to be read to earn the Principal’s Award. The following is the breakdown of the requirements:

6 Classical Written Book Reports or Projects: Oral, Diorama, Mini-Booklet, Book Cover, or other Teacher Approved Projects

+2 Two (2) oral Presentations

8 Total Reports

Good Readers can choose from the fourth and fifth grade lists, the average readers can use the third and fourth grade lists. Books chosen by the student that are not on any lists, need a note with the title and author of the book and signed by the parent first; then given to the teacher for his/her approval.

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FOURTH GRADE CLASSICAL READING LIST

Blume, Judy. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great,

Superfudge, Fudge-a-Mania, or Double Fudge

Byars, Betsy. The Cybil War

- California Fiction/Non-Fiction (Teacher Approved)

Carrick, Carol. Stay Away From Simon

Cleary, Beverly. Henry Huggins, Dear Mr. Henshaw, Strider, or Ribsy

Coville, Bruce. Jennifer Murdley’s Toad

DeClements, Barthe. Fourth Grade Wizards

DeFelice, Cynthia. Light on Hogback Hill

Dixon, Franklin. Hardy Boy Series

Edmonds, Walter D. The Matchlock Gun

Estes, Eleanor. Hundred Dresses

Fitzgerald, John. The Great Brain Series

Fleischman, Sid. By the great Horn Spoon!, Jim Ugly, or Whipping Boy

Howe, James. Bunnicula, or the Celery Stalks at Midnight

Keene, Carolyn. Nancy Drew Mystery Series

Lenski, Lois. Indian Captive

Lord, Bette. In the year of the Boar, or Jackie Robinson

MacBride, Roger Lea. In the Land of the Big Red Apple

MacDonald, Betty. Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

McCloskey, Robert. Homer Price

Moss, Marissa. Rachel’s Journal

Naylor, Justin. Shiloh, or Shiloh Season

Pearce, Philippa. Tom’s Midnight Garden

Ryan, Pam Munoz. Riding Freedom

Sewell, Anna. Black Beauty (Abridged)

Sorensen, Virginia. Miracles on Maple Hill

- Various Authors – any Great Illustrated Classics

Wilder, Laura Ingalls. All books by author except “Little House in the Big Woods”

Winthrop, Elizabeth. Castle in the Attic

Biography and other books acceptable upon teacher approval.

No more than two books per author.

2010

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