4th grade Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award reading list

About the 4th grade Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award reading list

Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award is the Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award framework. ReadingList tracks 36 titles referenced by Maryland Black-Eyed Susan 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 360L–840L. The framework is published at maslmd.org.

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 12 titles here with a Lexile score 4 are grade-level, 8 are more accessible, and 0 are stretch texts. A single Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award classroom can still span a wide range of reading levels.

Unlike a state reading list, a Maryland Black-Eyed Susan 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 Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award expects.

How to use this list: treat the Maryland Black-Eyed Susan 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.