Battle of the Books 2008 -2009

4th Grade (rev’d 10/7/2008)

Title

Author

The 100-year-old Secret

Tracy Barrett

Bella at Midnight

Diane Stanley

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Barbara Robinson

The BFG

Roald Dahl

The Boys Start the War

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery

Deborah Howe

Confessions of a Closet Catholic

Sarah Darer Littman

Dragon Rider

Cornelia Funke

Drita, my Homegirl

Jenny Lombard

The Homework Machine

Dan Gutman

Honus and Me

Dan Gutman

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh

Robert O’Brien

MVP*

Douglas Evans

Paint the Wind

Pam Munoz Ryan

The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy

Jeanne Birdsall

Princess Academy

Shannon Hale

Shiloh

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Sideways Stories from Wayside School

Louis Sachar

Skinnybones

Barbara Park

Tale of Despereux

Kate DiCamillo

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

Judy Blume

The Thing About Georgie:  a novel

Lisa  Graff

Time for Andrew

Mary Downing Hahn

The Underneath

Kathi Appelt