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JoCoLibrary - Kids - Books for 4th Graders

A selection of books recommended for 4th grade readers.

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  • When Ridge, a time-traveling teenager from the future, gets trapped in 1999, he befriends Michael, a lonely twelve-year-old boy, changing the course of their lives forever.
    Book, 2024New York : Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024] — J FICTION Kelly Erin 03/2024
  • Getting an unexpected second chance to attend one of the Seven Schools of Magic, twelve-year-old Jupiter begins to doubt her skills until an age-old enemy returns to exact revenge on the schools, leaving her to finally find the courage and magic…
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York : Viking, [2024] — J GRAPHIC JUPITER Mandanna Sanqu v.1 06/2024
  • Eleven-year-old Simon is ready to make the Tangerine Pines his forever home, but when a robbery occurs in the apartment building, he and his new friend set out to solve the case and keep his family from moving again.
    Book, 2024New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, [2024] — J FICTION McDunn Gillian 04/2024
  • There is no Magic here on Earth. At least, that's what you've been told. But in an ordinary-looking house in an ordinary-looking village live a group of children who have just uncovered a secret. A tiny and helpless Magical Creature named Bug, lost…
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2024. — J SCIFI Cowell Cressida 10/2024
  • Animal Factopia!

    Follow the Trail of 400 Beastly Facts

    Beer, Julie (Children's author),
    Filled with funny animal facts, from escaping penguins and farting zebras to snorting elephants and dancing bears, this book is guaranteed to make curious kids ROAR with laughter as they learn all about the animal world.
    Book, 2023Greenbelt, Maryland, United States : Britannica Books, 2023. — J 590.2 Beer 03/2023
  • Greenwild

    the World Behind the Door

    Thomson, Pari,
    Eleven-year-old Daisy Thistledown is on the run. Her mother has been keeping big, glittering secrets, and now she has vanished. Someone is hunting Daisy across London, and when she flees to safety through a mysterious hidden doorway, she can barely…
    Book, 2023New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2023. — J SCIFI Thomson Pari 06/2023
  • Twelve-year-old Tyler Gooden's only goal is to make it to the speed cubing national championships in Las Vegas and finally silence his critics by coming home a winner. To win, Tyler has to outdo hundreds of speed cubers from around the country, so…
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2024. — J GRAPHIC Raymundo Peter 05/2024
  • Determined to go to an elite art camp, Korean American seventh grader Gigi Shin starts a tutoring club with her friends to make money. But when the first few sessions are chaotic, she wonders if she'll end up sacrificing more than she bargained for…
    Book, 2024New York : Aladdin, 2024. — J FICTION Lee Lyla 03/2024
  • Aggie and Jac might be twin sisters, but lately they haven't felt the same about anything. While Jac is excited about their move to Los Angeles and a chance to seem cool and mysterious, Aggie is worried her new locker won't open, that Jac could make…
    Book, 2024New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — J FICTION Benway Robin 11/2024
  • Unsure if he can live up to his father's all-star reputation, twelve-year-old Wyatt reluctantly plays quarterback on Earth's football team in an intergalactic sports tournament.
    Book, 2024New York : Penguin Workshop, 2024. — J SCIFI Savage J. QUANTUM v.1 09/2024
  • Explore the Gold Rush from the perspective of William Miller and Henry Garrison, two miners in the Sierra Nevada region, and uncover the often unrelenting conditions of the California gold mines. A story of community, determination, and the search…
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York : Penguin Workshop, 2024. — J GRAPHIC 979.404 Khor 04/2024
  • Mott's life becomes complicated when the abandoned puppy she found turns out to be a mythical Norse wolf who is partly responsible for bringing about the ends of worlds.
    Book, 2022New York : Harper, [2022] — J FICTION VanEekho Greg 09/2022
  • Fleeing her prince, Rosamund discovers the Princess Protection Program, an academy where fairy tale princesses evade unwanted fates and unwanted kisses, and as she adapts to real-world life and forms close friendships, she begins to question the…
    Book, 2024New York : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2024. — J FICTION London Alex 02/2024
  • Cinderella and the Beast

    Beauty and the Glass Slipper

    Bussing, Kim,
    When Cinderella finds herself in the Beast's castle and Beauty finds herself in an evil stepmother's home, both princesses must find their ways back to the right story"
    Book, 2025New York : Random House, 2025. — J SCIFI Bussing Kim 01/2025
  • Magnolia Wu, a ten-year-old sock detective bent on returning all the lonely only socks left behind in her parents' NYC laundromat.
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Philomel Books, [2024] — J MYSTERY Miller Chanel 04/2024
  • In 1880s Colorado, young Henry is trying to keep his brothers together now that their parents are dead by writing stories about The Kid, and after he stops, his editor, Herbert, arrives at the same time as Snake Eye Sam, who is determined to take…
    Book, 2024Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge Move, [2024] — J FICTION Schill Jeff 05/2024
  • Free dog Johannes' job is to observe everything that happens in his urban park and report back to the park's three bison elders, but changes are afoot, including more humans, a new building, a boatload of goats, and a shocking revelation that…
    Book, 2023New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2023] — J FICTION Eggers Dave 05/2023
  • When fifteen-year-old Valdez Jones VIII, a.k.a. Wrecker, unwittingly becomes entangled with a group of smugglers and grave robbers, he must deep dive into their shady dealings in order to escape their twisted net.
    Book, 2023New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2023] — J FICTION Hiaasen Carl 09/2023
  • An elite group of underdogs trained to fight crime must save their unique school from shutting down.
    Book, 2024New York : Random House, 2024. — J FICTION Yee Lisa 12/2023
  • Book, 2022New York, New York : Scholastic Press, 2022. — J FICTION Gino Alex 05/2015