Great Reads for 3rd and 4th Grade Girls - Villa Park Public Library

Great Reads for 3 rd and 4th Grade Girls
Masterpiece by Elise Broach JF BRO, PB JF BRO
After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he
shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
Lexile: 700
Wild Times at the Bed & Biscuit by Joan Davenport JF DAV
Gramp Bender is temporarily caring for wild animals at the Bed and Biscuit animal boardinghouse. All the
animals want to go home. Can Ernest, the capable mini-pig, help them to behave?
Lexile: 670
How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell PB JF TUB
Tthe adventures and misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third as he tries to pass the important
initiation test of his Viking clan, the Tribe of the Hairy Hooligans, by catching and training a dragon. (series)
Lexile: 990
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia JF WIL
In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother
they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they
discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants
them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
Lexile: 750
Leo and The Lesser Lion by Sandra Forrester JF FOR
In Depression-era Alabama, twelve-year-old Mary Bayliss Pettigrew struggles to understand why her beloved
older brother, Leo, died and whether she, miraculously, survived for some special purpose.
Lexile: 870
Camille McPhee Fell Under the Bus by Kristen Tracy JF TRA
Ten-year-old Camille McPhee relates the ups and downs of her fourth-grade year at her Idaho elementary school
as she tries to adjust to the absence of her best friend, maintain control of her low-blood sugar, cope with the
intensifying conflict between her parents, and understand the importance of honesty and fairness.
Lexile: 610
Reading levels and interests vary greatly. Feel free to ask a librarian for guidance.
Villa Park Public Library ∙ Youth Services Department 305 S. Ardmore Avenue ∙ Villa Park ∙ IL ∙ 60181 ∙
(630)834-1176 ∙ www.vppl.info

Great Reads for 3 rd and 4 th Grade Girls
Step Fourth, Mallory by Laurie B. Friedman JF FRI
Mallory enters fourth grade with high hopes for her best year ever, but instead she starts by breaking the
teacher’s rules and then feels left out when her best friend likes the same boy she does.
Lexile: 730
Be a Genie in Six Easy Steps by Linda Champman JF CHA
Four new stepsiblings move from London to an out-of-the-way English village, where they discover a book-inhabited
by a grouchy bookworm--that promises to make the reader a wish-granting genie.
Lexile: 590
Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace PB JF LOV
After Tacy Kelly moves into the house across the street from Betsy Ray, the five-year-olds become inseparable
friends. (series)
Lexile: 650
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan JF RIO, PB JF RIO
Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson learns he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea.
His mother sends him to a summer camp for demigods where he and his new friends set out on a quest to
prevent a war between the gods. (series)
Lexile: 740
Magical Ms. Plum by Bonny Becker JF BEC
The students in Ms Plum's third grade class soon learn that there is something very special about their teacher
and her classroom's mysterious supply closet.
Lexile: 670
The Doll People by Ann M. Martin JF MAR
A family of porcelain dolls that has lived in the same house for one hundred years is taken aback when a new
family of plastic dolls arrives and doesn't follow The Doll Code of Honor.
Lexile: 570
Reading levels and interests vary greatly. Feel free to ask a librarian for guidance.
Villa Park Public Library ∙ Youth Services Department 305 S. Ardmore Avenue ∙ Villa Park ∙ IL ∙ 60181 ∙
(630)834-1176 ∙ www.vppl.info