South Carolina 4th grade reading list

The 593 books most commonly assigned to South Carolina 4th grade students in US schools — each with its reading level and a cited source.

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Books593Lexile410L–1000LSourceSC College & Career Ready Standards✓ sources cited per book

Most-assigned nationally: across every US state’s official reading and award lists, the Elementary (K–5) titles appearing in the most states are Wonder (29 states), Because of Winn-Dixie (26 states), and Shiloh (25 states). From our 2026 study of 13,258 source-cited assignments (as of 2026-07-13).

Start here — most-cited for South Carolina 4th grade

These are the 20 titles named in South Carolina’s own curriculum documents for this grade — everything below is the wider national list. Read against the Common Core Appendix A complexity band; reading level is not thematic maturity, and several sit below the band because they are assigned for discussion.

  1. A Royal Conundrum

    Lisa Yee

    Cited in 1 South Carolina curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 6. Covers friendship, humor and adventure.

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  2. Dogtown

    Katherine Applegate & Gennifer Choldenko

    Cited in 1 South Carolina curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 6. Covers friendship, perseverance and humor.

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  3. Farther Than the Moon

    Lindsay Lackey

    Cited in 1 South Carolina curriculum document, taught from grade 6 to 8.

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  4. Final Word (The Winterton Deception #1)

    Janet Sumner Johnson

    Cited in 1 South Carolina curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 7. Covers mystery, family and words.

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  5. Four Eyes: A Graphic Novel

    Rex Ogle

    Cited in 1 South Carolina curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 7. Covers self-image, middle school and family.

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  6. Good Different

    Meg Eden Kuyatt

    Cited in 1 South Carolina curriculum document, taught from grade 6 to 9. Covers neurodiversity, identity and acceptance.

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  7. Hidden Hope: How a Toy and a Hero Saved Lives During the Holocaust

    Elisa Boxer

    Cited in 1 South Carolina curriculum document, taught from grade 2 to 5. Covers history, courage and Holocaust.

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  8. Iceberg

    Jennifer A. Nielsen

    Cited in 1 South Carolina curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 7. Covers history, survival and courage.

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  9. Jawbreaker

    Christina Wyman

    Cited in 1 South Carolina curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 7. Covers self-image, family and middle school.

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  10. Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy

    Angie Thomas

    Cited in 1 South Carolina curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 7. Covers magic, family and identity.

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  11. Nothing Else But Miracles

    Kate Albus

    Cited in 1 South Carolina curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 7. Covers family, history and resourcefulness.

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  12. Oliver's Great Big Universe

    Jorge Cham

    Cited in 1 South Carolina curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 6. Covers science, humor and middle school.

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  13. Race for the Ruby Turtle

    Stephen Bramucci

    Cited in 1 South Carolina curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 6. Covers nature, adventure and neurodiversity.

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  14. The Cursed Moon

    Angela Cervantes

    Cited in 1 South Carolina curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 6. Covers fear, family and ghosts.

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  15. The Firefly Summer

    Morgan Matson

    Cited in 1 South Carolina curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 7. Covers family, summer and mystery.

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  16. The Guardian Test (Legends of Lotus Island #1)

    Christina Soontornvat

    Cited in 1 South Carolina curriculum document, taught from grade 2 to 5. Covers fantasy, nature and courage.

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  17. The Labors of Hercules Beal

    Gary D. Schmidt

    Cited in 1 South Carolina curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 7. Covers grief, mythology and family.

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  18. The Superteacher Project

    Gordon Korman

    Cited in 1 South Carolina curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 6. Covers humor, technology and friendship.

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  19. The Wild Journey of Juniper Berry

    Chad Morris

    Cited in 1 South Carolina curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 6. Covers adventure, courage and self-discovery.

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  20. When Sea Becomes Sky

    Gillian McDunn

    Cited in 1 South Carolina curriculum document, taught from grade 3 to 6. Covers family, nature and art.

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593 books cited for South Carolina 4th grade

Assignments tied directly to South Carolina’s SC College & Career Ready Standards or national curricula with a South Carolina-specific citation.

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About the South Carolina 4th grade reading list

In South Carolina schools, 4th grade students are most often assigned books drawn from SC College & Career Ready Standardsalongside the national curricula that apply nationwide — Common Core State Standards Appendix B, AP English, and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. ReadingList currently tracks 593 titles for 4th grade in South Carolina, each tied to a South Carolina-specific curriculum citation. Across the list, Lexile measures span 410L–1000L.

4th grade sits in the 3-5 grade band, where students are transitional readers. At this stage the emphasis is on shifting from learning-to-read to reading-to-learn and sustaining attention across longer chapter books. Assigned reading skews toward early novels, narrative non-fiction, and a student's first assigned full-length stories, with text complexity that, per Common Core’s Appendix A reading bands, typically falls around roughly 400L to 800L. Measured against that 740–1010L range, of the 48 titles here with a Lexile score 26 are grade-level, 22 are more accessible (often assigned for theme over challenge), and 0 are stretch texts that may need scaffolding. Because readers in a single 4th grade classroom can span several hundred Lexile points, this list is best read as a starting point rather than a fixed requirement.

South Carolina’s English Language Arts requirements are set by SC College & Career Ready Standards (ed.sc.gov). Most states pair their own standards with the Common Core text-complexity framework, so the 4th grade list below blends South Carolina-specific assignments with the widely-taught national canon. Every title links to its primary source on the book’s detail page, so you can confirm exactly where and why it is assigned.

How to use this list:match a title to your child’s most recent Lexile or guided-reading level rather than to the grade alone. Teachers building a 4th grade unit can pair a South Carolina-cited core text with a grade-appropriate companion novel; parents previewing summer or supplemental reading can check each book’s content notes and challenge history before assigning it.

Common questions

How many books are assigned to 4th grade students in South Carolina?
593 books appear on ReadingList for 4th grade students in South Carolina, sourced from SC College & Career Ready Standards and national curricula (Common Core, AP, IB) with applicable grade citations.
What's the Lexile range for 4th grade reading in South Carolina?
Lexile measures across the 4th grade South Carolina reading list range from 410L to 1000L. Books without a published Lexile (poetry, drama, picture books) are not included in this range.
Where does this reading list come from?
Entries reference SC College & Career Ready Standards (published at ed.sc.gov) plus national curricula that apply to South Carolina schools: Common Core State Standards Appendix B, AP English Literature and Language, IB Diploma Programme, and Cambridge Assessment International. Every assignment row on each book's detail page links its primary source.

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