4th grade Great Stone Face Book Award reading list
Books referenced by Great Stone Face Book Award at the 4th grade level. Source: www.librarything.com.
About the 4th grade Great Stone Face Book Award reading list
Great Stone Face Book Award is the Great Stone Face Book Award framework. ReadingList tracks 41 titles referenced by Great Stone Face Book Award at the 4th gradelevel, each tied to a primary-source citation on the book’s detail page. Across the list, Lexile measures span 420L–950L. The framework is published at librarything.com.
At the 4th grade level — the 3-5grade band — students are transitional readers, with the curriculum focused on moving from learning-to-read to reading-to-learn across longer chapter books. Per Common Core’s Appendix A complexity bands, text difficulty at this stage typically falls around roughly 400L to 800L. Measured against that 740–1010L range, of the 21 titles here with a Lexile score 11 are grade-level, 10 are more accessible, and 0 are stretch texts. A single Great Stone Face Book Award classroom can still span a wide range of reading levels.
Unlike a state reading list, a Great Stone Face Book Award list is portable: the same framework is taught across districts and, in the case of AP and IB, across countries. That makes these titles a reliable backbone for 4th grade planning whether you are a teacher mapping a unit, a homeschooler following a recognized sequence, or a parent checking what Great Stone Face Book Award expects.
How to use this list: treat the Great Stone Face Book Award titles as the core and layer in state-cited or thematically-related books to round out a 4th gradeyear. Each book’s page shows its Lexile measure, grade range, themes, and any challenge history, so you can match a text to a specific reader rather than to the grade label alone.
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A Rover's StoryJasmine Warga
A Tale Dark and GrimmAdam Gidwitz
A Work in ProgressJarrett Lerner
Because of Winn-DixieKate DiCamillo · 610L
Diary of a Wimpy KidJeff Kinney · 950L
El DeafoCece Bell · 420L
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's LibraryChris Grabenstein
Esperanza RisingPam Muñoz Ryan · 750L
Fish in a TreeLynda Mullaly Hunt · 550L
FrindleAndrew Clements · 830L
Gregor the OverlanderSuzanne Collins
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's StoneJ.K. Rowling · 880L
HootCarl Hiaasen · 760L
Impossible CreaturesKatherine Rundell
MatildaRoald Dahl · 840L
New KidJerry Craft
Not NothingGayle Forman
Number the StarsLois Lowry · 670L
OdderKatherine Applegate
Other Words for HomeJasmine Warga · 930L
Out of My MindSharon M. Draper · 700L
PaxSara Pennypacker · 760L
Roller GirlVictoria Jamieson · 440L
Ruby HollerSharon Creech
RulesCynthia Lord
ShilohPhyllis Reynolds Naylor · 890L
Small SpacesKatherine Arden
SuperfudgeJudy Blume
Swim TeamJohnnie Christmas
SwindleGordon Korman
Tales of a Fourth Grade NothingJudy Blume · 470L
The City of EmberJeanne DuPrau
The Labors of Hercules BealGary D. Schmidt
The Mouse and the MotorcycleBeverly Cleary · 860L
The One and Only IvanKatherine Applegate · 570L
The PenderwicksJeanne Birdsall
The War That Saved My LifeKimberly Brubaker Bradley · 580L
Where the Red Fern GrowsWilson Rawls · 700L
WildfireRodman Philbrick
WonderR.J. Palacio · 790L- WonderstruckBrian Selznick