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Humorous Books - Grade 4
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Lexile: 0
Two best friends embark on a project to study the behavior and taste of the popular girls at their elementary school so that by the time they get to middle school they too will be in the right crowd.
Pgs: 204Call Letters: F Ign
Ignatow, Amy
Kids of Polk Street School: Sunny-Side Up (series)
Lexile: 180
Summer for Richard Best, nicknamed Beast, means facing the two ordeals of summer school and losing his best friend, who is moving to a distant state.
Pgs: 74Call Letters: BC
Giff, Patricia Reilly
Zack Files: My Grandma, Major League Slugger (series)
Lexile: 250
When magic enables Zack's 88-year-old grandmother to become a terrific batter, she ends up playing in a Chicago White Sox baseball game.
Pgs: 58Call Letters: BC
Greenburg, Dan
Stuart's Cape
Lexile: 300
Bored because there is nothing to do in the house to which his family has just moved and worried about starting third grade in a new school, Stuart makes a magical cape out of his uncle's ties and has a series of adventures.
Pgs: 55Call Letters: F Pe
Pennypacker, Sara
Kids of Polk Street School: Beast in Ms. Roony's Class (series)
Lexile: 340
Held back for a year in second grade, Richard can't seem to help getting into trouble, until he gets really interested in reading and helps his class in a special way.
Pgs: 76Call Letters: BC
Giff, Patricia Reilly
Cool Zone with Pain and the Great One (series)
Lexile: 370
More adventures at school and at home with Jake, a 1st-grader, and his older sister Abigail, known to each other as the Pain and the Great One.
Pgs: 109Call Letters: F Bl
Blume, Judy
Pee Wee Scouts: Camp Ghost-Away (series)
Lexile: 380
The Pee Wee Scouts sell donuts to raise money for a camping trip. When they arrive at the camp, a strange and scary voice scares them during the night.
Pgs: 80Call Letters: BC
Delton, Judy
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Humorous Books - Grade 4
First Day of School Forever
Lexile: 400
Everything goes wrong for 11-year-old Artie on his first day at Ardmore Middle School, from the moment his alarm goes off until the next morning, when everything is repeated exactly the same way.
Pgs: 183Call Letters: F Sti
Stine, R.L.
Friends Forever?: The Complicated Life of Claudia Cristina Cortez (seri
Lexile: 400
Claudia tries to talk her friend, Monica, out of trying out for cheerleading fearing that she will be let down because only the cool kids make the squad.
Pgs: 88Call Letters: F Ga
Gallagher, Diane
Rotten School: The Great Smelling Bee (series)
Lexile: 440
In order to hide a bulldog in his no-pets-allowed dorm, scheming 4th-grader Bernie Bridges enrolls his pet as a transfer student.
Pgs: 108Call Letters: F St
Stine, R.L.
Sideways Stories from Wayside School (series)
Lexile: 460
Humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story.
Pgs: 124Call Letters: F Sa
Sachar, Louis
Trading Faces (series)
Lexile: 460
7th-grade twins Payton and Emma decide to shake things up at their new middle school by switching places and taking on each other's lives, and their antics teach them that no one is exactly who the world thinks they are.
Pgs: 300Call Letters: F De
DeVillers, Julia
Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing (series)
Lexile: 470
Peter finds his demanding two-year-old brother an ever-increasing problem.
Pgs: 120Call Letters: F Bl
Blume, Judy
Loser List
Lexile: 480
Danny Shine tries to get his name off the "Loser List" in the girls' bathroom and winds up in detention, where the school bullies befriend him. But when the bullies steal from his favorite store, Danny needs to find a way to return it and end his association with the bullies before he gets a new reputation.
Pgs: 213Call Letters: F Ko
Kowitt, Holly
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Humorous Books - Grade 4
Please Write in This Book (MHL Winner 2012)
Lexile: 480
When 4th grade teacher Ms. Wurtz leaves a blank book in the Writer's Corner with a note encouraging those who find it to "talk to each other" in its pages, the student's entries spark a classroom-wide battle.
Pgs: 97Call Letters: F Am
Amato, Mary
Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid
Lexile: 480
Every morning, Judy Moody measures Stink and it's always the same: 3 feet, 8 inches tall. Stink feels like even the class newt is growing faster than he is. Then, one day, the ruler reads 3 feet, 7 and 3/4 inches! Is Stink shrinking?
Pgs: 102Call Letters: F Mc
McDonald, Megan
Vampire State Building
Lexile: 490
11-year-old Sam Bamford's on-line chess pal is in New York to play in a tournament, but Sam's sister and cousin are wary because Vlad has pointy teeth, comes from Romania, and admits to keeping secrets.
Pgs: 100Call Letters: F Le
Levy, Elizabeth
Big Nate: In a Class By Himself
Lexile: 500
Supremely confident middle school student Nate Wright manages to make getting detention from every one of his teachers in the same day seem like an achievement.
Pgs: 214Call Letters: F Pei
Peirce, Lincoln
Kylie Jean: Drama Queen (series)
Lexile: 500
Kylie Jean Carter knows she would be perfect to play the Queen of Hearts in the class play, but the new girl, Paula Dupree, also has her sights set on the role.
Pgs: 103Call Letters: F Pes
Peschke, Marci
Ellie McDoodle: New Kid in School
Lexile: 510
11-year-old Ellie McDoodle illustrates her sketchbook with chronicles of her adventures and mishaps while camping with her cousins, aunt, and uncle.
Pgs: 170Call Letters: F Ba
Barshaw, Ruth
Dork in Disguise
Lexile: 510
Starting middle school in a new town, brainy Jerry Flack changes his image from "dork" to "cool kid," only to discover that he'd rather be himself.
Pgs: 164Call Letters: F Go
Gorman, Carol
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Humorous Books - Grade 4
Nasty Stinky Sneakers
Lexile: 510
Will 10-year-old Colin find his missing stinky sneakers in time to enter The Stinkiest Sneakers in the World contest?
Pgs: 105Call Letters: F Bu
Bunting, Eve
Secret Identity (Book 1: Shredderman)
Lexile: 520
5th-grader Nolan Byrd, tired of being called names by the class bully, has a secret identity--Shredderman!
Pgs: 138Call Letters: F Va
Van Draanen, Wendelin
Chicken!: Be Brave with David Mortimore Baxter (series)
Lexile: 520
While at camp with his classmates, David is too scared to walk over a suspension bridge and gets the nickname chicken, which he tries to live down.
Pgs: 88Call Letters: F Ta
Tayleur, Karen
George Brown: World's Worst Wedgie (series)
Lexile: 520
10-year-old George Brown tries his best to earn money for a special toy he wants, but whether he is working in his mother's craft shop or setting up a backyard circus, the magic burps erupt at exactly the wrong time and foil his plans.
Pgs: 123Call Letters: BC
Krulick, Nancy
Geronimo Stilton: Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye (series)
Lexile: 530
Newspaper editor and adventure author Geronimo Stilton--who is also a mouse--gets roped into his sister Thea's treasure hunt on a remote island after she discovers an intriguing old map.
Pgs: 116Call Letters: BC
Stilton, Geronimo
Judy Moody (series)
Lexile: 530
3rd grader Judy Moody is in a first day of school bad mood until she gets an assignment to create a collage all about herself and begins creating her masterpiece, the Me collage.
Pgs: 160Call Letters: F Mc
McDonald, Megan
Frankie Pickle and the Closet of Doom (series)
Lexile: 530
Pickle's mother wants him to clean his room. However, he's much more interested in imagining adventures. When Frankie's mother agrees to let him not clean his room, the consequences surprise them both.
Pgs: 79Call Letters: F Wig
Wight, Eric
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Humorous Books - Grade 4
Ghostville Elementary: Ghost Class (series)
Lexile: 540
ghosts who haunt the basement of Sleepy Hollow Elementary are determined not to allow living students to use their room.
Pgs: 79Call Letters: BC
Jones, Marcia Thornton
My Rotten Life
Lexile: 540
Tired of continually having his feelings hurt by popular students and bullies, 5th-grader Nathan agrees to try an experimental formula (Hurt-Be-Gone) and becomes a half-dead zombie, a condition which, he soon discovers, has some real advantages.
Pgs: 160Call Letters: F Lu
Lubar, David
Morgy Makes His Move
Lexile: 550
When 3rd-grader Morgy MacDougal-MacDuff moves from California to Massachusetts with his parents, he has a lot of new things to get used to before he feels comfortable.
Pgs: 74Call Letters: F Le
Lewis, Maggie
Mallory on the Move (series)
Lexile: 550
After moving to a new town, 8-year-old Mallory keeps throwing stones in the "Wishing Pond" but things will not go back to the way they were before, and she remains torn between old and new best friends.
Pgs: 158Call Letters: F Fr
Friedman, Laurie
Snarf Attack, Underfoodle and the Secret of Life
Lexile: 550
Older brother Wilbur recounts three missions that he and Orville tackle: to capture a bank robber, discover hidden treasure in their house and "overthrow a king."
Pgs: 151Call Letters: F Am
Amato, Mary
Three Times Lucky
Lexile: 560
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the Colonel, a café owner with a forgotten past of his own, is implicated in a murder.
Pgs: 312Call Letters: F Tur
Turnage, Sheila
Zach Files: Great-Grandpa's in the Litter Box (series)
Lexile: 570
Zack takes home from the local animal shelter a scruffy tomcat who not only talks but claims to be the reincarnation of Zack's Great-Grandpa Julius.
Pgs: 59Call Letters: BC
Greenburg, Dan
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Humorous Books - Grade 4
Reinvention of Bessica Lefter
Lexile: 570
Bessica Lefter looked forward to middle school until a rash decision to get matching pixie haircuts led to her having to attend the school entirely on her own, without her longtime best friend Sylvie.
Pgs: 305Call Letters: F Tra
Tracy, Kristen
Alvin Ho: Allergic to Camping, Hiking and Other Natural Disasters (seri
Lexile: 570
Alvin makes a new friend and learns that he can be brave when his father takes him camping, hoping to instill a love of nature.
Pgs: 170Call Letters: F Loo
Look, Lenore
Spaceheadz
Lexile: 580
Michael moves to a new school and learns that some of his friends are really aliens who have come to Earth in order to convince millions of kids to be Space Heads.
Pgs: 163Call Letters: F Sci
Scieszka, Jon
Legend of Spud Murphy (series)
Lexile: 580
Brothers Will and Marty have been ordered to spend their summer at the library, under the supervision of the terrifying librarian, surrounded by row after row of books they're sure will bore them silly. Will the brothers figure out a way to survive a summer marooned on the carpet of Spud's children's section?
Pgs: 95Call Letters: F Co
Colfer, Eoin
Sloppy Copy Slip-Up
Lexile: 590
4th-grader, Brian Higman, worries about how his teacher Miss Fromme will react when he fails to hand in a writing assignment; but he ends up being able to tell his story after all.
Pgs: 103Call Letters: F Dis
DiSalvo, Dyanne
Samantha Hansen Has Rocks in Her Head
Lexile: 590
While anticipating a vacation to the Grand Canyon, 10-year-old Samantha Hanson wonders why her mother refuses to talk about her father, who died when Samantha was young, and finds it difficult to control her temper towards her older sister.
Pgs: 178Call Letters: F Vi
Viau, Nancy
Guinea Dog
Lexile: 600
When his mother brings home a guinea pig instead of the dog he has always wanted, 5th-grader Rufus is not happy - until the rodent starts acting exactly like a dog.
Pgs: 183Call Letters: F Jen
Jennings, Patrick
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Humorous Books - Grade 4
How Not to Run for President
Lexile: 600
When 12-year-old Aidan saves presidential candidate Bettina Brandon from a falling campaign sign and ends up the "Clarinet Hero," he's adopted by the campaign and hits the road.
Pgs: 235Call Letters: F Cla
Clark, Catherine
Melvin Beederman: Terror in Tights (series)
Lexile: 610
Los Angeles superhero Melvin Beederman and Candace, his partner in "uncrime," find themselves on an adventure involving liquid bologna and country music after Melvin receives some mysterious, threatening e-mails.
Pgs: 138Call Letters: BC
Trine, Greg
Niagara Falls, Or Does It? (Book 1: Hank Zipzer)
Lexile: 610
When Hank Zipzer has to write an essay on what he did over the summer, he decides instead to "show" what he did.
Pgs: 133Call Letters: F Wi
Winkler, Henry
Melonhead
Lexile: 620
Adam "Melonhead" Melon, a budding inventor with a knack for getting into trouble, enters a science contest that challenges students to recycle an older invention into a new invention.
Pgs: 209Call Letters: F Kel
Kelly, Katy
Boys are Dogs
Lexile: 630
After Annabelle's mother starts dating a new boyfriend, she faces life in a new town with a new school, and a new puppy, and while training the dog Annabelle decides to experiment with some of her training techniques to deal with the unruly middle school boys in her class.
Pgs: 195Call Letters: F Ma
Margolis, Leslie
Lemonade War
Lexile: 630
Evan and his younger sister, Jesse, react very differently to the news that they will be in the same class for 4th grade and as summer's end approaches, they battle it out through lemonade stands, each trying to be the first to earn 100 dollars.
Pgs: 173Call Letters: F Da
Davies, Jacqueline
Loser
Lexile: 650
Even though his classmates from 1st grade on have considered him strange and a loser, Daniel Zinkoff's optimism and exuberance and the support of his loving family do not allow him to feel that way about himself.
Pgs: 218Call Letters: F Sp
Spinelli, Jerry
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Humorous Books - Grade 4
11 Birthdays
Lexile: 650
After celebrating their first nine same-day birthdays together, Amanda and Leo, who haven't spoken in a year, prepare to celebrate their 11th birthday separately. But peculiar things begin to happen as the day of their birthday begins to repeat itself over and over again.
Pgs: 267Call Letters: F Ma
Mass, Wendy
Bobby vs. Girls (Accidently)
Lexile: 650
Bobby inadvertently gets into a fight with his best friend Holly, and their disagreement develops into a boys versus girls war involving their whole 4th-grade class.
Pgs: 170Call Letters: F Ye
Yee, Lisa
Leon and the Spitting Image
Lexile: 690
Leon, a 4th grader at The Ethical School, tries to outwit the school bully and learn to sew for fanatical teacher Miss Cronheim, with unexpected help from his final project, a doll with magical powers.
Pgs: 301Call Letters: F Ku
Kurzweil, Allen
Geek Chic: The Zoey Zone
Lexile: 690
11-year-old Zoey is suffering the pains of entering the sixth grade, stressing over things such as having a bad hair day and finding a place at the primo lunch table.
Pgs: 184Call Letters: F Pal
Palatini, Margie
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
Lexile: 700
When Rafe Kane enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.
Pgs: 281Call Letters: F Pat
Patterson, James
Dragonbreath (series)
Lexile: 700
Danny Dragonbreath and his friend Wendell get an up-close underwater tour of the Sargasso Sea from Danny's sea-serpent cousin, encountering giant squid and mako sharks, and learn about standing up to bullies in the process.
Pgs: 146Call Letters: F Urs
Vernon, Ursula
Airball: My Life in Briefs
Lexile: 700
Kirby Nickel loves basketball. He loves watching basketball. He loves talking about basketball. The only problem is he can't play basketball. But coach has a plan for Kirby and the supremely untalented 7th-grade team. It involves the guys playing only in their briefs. Maybe the sportswear will really inspire the team. And maybe Kirby will find out who his
Pgs: 208Call Letters: F Ha
Harkrader, Lisa
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Humorous Books - Grade 4
Jennifer Murdley's Toad
Lexile: 700
When an ordinary-looking 5th grader purchases a talking toad, she embarks on a series of extraordinary adventures.
Pgs: 159Call Letters: F Co
Coville, Bruce
My Weird School: Miss Daisy is Crazy (series)
Lexile: 700
Miss Daisy's unusual teaching methods surprise her second grade students, especially reluctant learner A.J.
Pgs: 83Call Letters: BC
Gutman, Dan
Pete & Freemont
Lexile: 700
When circus owner Mike decides Pete the poodle has grown too old to continue as the starring act, Pete forms an unlikely alliance with a young grizzly bear, who only wants to go home to the woods.
Pgs: 180Call Letters: F Tr
Tripp, Jenny
Magnificent 12: The Call (series)
Lexile: 710
Mack MacAvoy, a seriously average 12-year-old boy, is faced with a difficult decision when a 3000-year-old man appears in the boys' bathroom and informs him that he is one of the Magnificent 12 and is needed to find his 11 teammates and save the world.
Pgs: 243Call Letters: F Gra
Grant, Michael
Frankly Franny (series)
Lexile: 710
Frannie Miller, who cannot wait to grow up and work in an office with a swivel chair and her own assistant, causes havoc when she tries to help out while on a school field trip to the local radio station.
Pgs: 123Call Letters: F Ste
A.J. Stern
Genie Scheme
Lexile: 730
12-year-old Jenna buys a hat for a homeless woman, only to discover the woman is actually a genie who will grant Jenna's every wish, but when Jenna realizes that all the things she is wishing for are being taken from someone else, she must decide if her own happiness is worth someone else's misery.
Pgs: 179Call Letters: F Jo
Jones, Kimberly
Dying to Meet You
Lexile: 730
In this story told mostly through letters, children's book author, I. B. Grumply, gets more than he bargained for when he rents a quiet place to write for the summer.
Pgs: 147Call Letters: F Kl
Klise, Kate
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Humorous Books - Grade 4
Alice Miranda at School
Lexile: 740
Alice-Miranda finds her new boarding school to be a very curious establishment with no flowers in the gardens, a headmistress that has not been seen for years, and a mysterious stranger that seems to be hiding out on the premises.
Pgs: 257Call Letters: F Har
Harvey, Jacqueline
Witches
Lexile: 740
A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.
Pgs: 201Call Letters: F Da
Dahl, Roald
Big One-Oh
Lexile: 750
Determined not to be weird all his life like his neighbor, Charley Maplewood decides to throw himself a 10th birthday party, complete with a "house of horrors" theme, but first he will have to make some friends to invite.
Pgs: 181Call Letters: F Pi
Pitchform, Dean
Strange Case of Origami Yoda
Lexile: 760
6th-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight, as they try to figure out whether or not the puppet can really predict the future.
Pgs: 141Call Letters: F An
Angleberger, Tom
NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society
Lexile: 760
While running a spy network from their elementary school, five unpopular misfits combine their talents and use cutting-edge gadgetry to fight evil around the world.
Pgs: 306Call Letters: F Bu
Buckley, Michael
Cheesie Mack is Not a Genius or Anything
Lexile: 770
Ronald "Cheesie" Mack shares memories, thoughts, and drawings about everything that happened before, during, and after 5th grade graduation
Pgs: 229Call Letters: F Cot
Cotler, Stephen L
Thing About Georgie
Lexile: 770
Georgie's dwarfism causes problems, but he could always rely on his parents, his best friend, and classmate Jeanie the Meanie's teasing, until a surprising announcement, a new boy in school, and a class project shake things up.
Pgs: 220Call Letters: F Ga
Graff, Lisa
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Humorous Books - Grade 4
Aliens on Vacation
Lexile: 770
Scrub arrives at his grandmother's bed-and-breakfast only to discover she has opened the doors to aliens, and he must decide what to do when the local sheriff notices some of the kids Scrub has on a campout glow in the dark.
Pgs: 251Call Letters: F Smi
Smith, Clete Barrett
Vincent Shadow: Toy Inventor
Lexile: 770
Eleven-year-old Vincent Shadow, inspired by the ideas of the inventor Nikola Tesla, has always kept his many unusual toy inventions secret from his family until he enters a contest whose prize is to spend a summer working with the eccentric Howard G. Whizz of Whizzer Toys.
Pgs: 185Call Letters: F Ke
Kehoe, Tim
Lost and Found
Lexile: 780
Twin brothers Jay and Ray Grayson learn about friendship, honesty, and themselves after taking advantage of a clerical oversight in which their new school thinks there is only one Grayson boy.
Pgs: 161Call Letters: F Cl
Clements, Andrew
Justin Case: School, Drool and Other Deadly Disasters
Lexile: 790
Justin is very nervous about starting third grade and must make the best of things when he does not get the teacher he wanted, his best friend is in another class, and his favorite stuffed animal disappears.
Pgs: 245Call Letters: F Vai
Vail, Rachel
Clementine (series)
Lexile: 790
While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, 8-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building.
Pgs: 133Call Letters: F Pe
Pennypacker, Sara
Rising Star of Rusty Nail
Lexile: 790
In the small town of Rusty Nail, Minnesota, in the early 1950s, musically talented ten-year-old Franny wants to take advanced piano lessons from newcomer Olga Malenkov, a famous Russian musician suspected of being a communist spy by gossipy members of the community.
Pgs: 270Call Letters: F Bl
Blume, Lesley
Willoughby's
Lexile: 790
A tongue-in-cheek take on classic The four Willoughby children set out to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.
Pgs: 174Call Letters: F Lo
Lowry, Lois
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Humorous Books - Grade 4
The Trolls
Lexile: 810
Eccentric Aunt Sally comes from Canada to babysit the Anderson children while their parents are on a trip to Paris and every night the bedtime story adds another piece to a very suspect family history.
Pgs: 135Call Letters: F Ho
Horvath, Polly
Nerd Camp
Lexile: 810
For 10-year-old Gabe, the Summer Center for Gifted Enrichment is all that he dreamed it would be, but he must work hard to write about the fun in letters to Zach, his cool future stepbrother, without revealing that it is a camp for "nerds."
Pgs: 261Call Letters: F Wei
Weissman, Elissa Brent
Julia Gillian
Lexile: 810
9-year-old Julia Gillian learns a lot about facing fear as she and her St. Bernard, Bigfoot, take long walks through their Minneapolis neighborhood one hot summer, and she seeks the courage to finish a book that could have an unhappy ending.
Pgs: 280Call Letters: F M
McGhee, Alison
No Talking
Lexile: 820
The noisy 5th grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.
Pgs: 146Call Letters: F Cl
Clements, Andrew
Frindle
Lexile: 830
When he decides to turn his 5th-grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.
Pgs: 105Call Letters: F Cl
Clements, Andrew
Lunch Money
Lexile: 840
12-year-old Greg, who has always been good at moneymaking projects, is surprised to find himself teaming up with his lifelong rival, Maura, to create a series of comic books to sell at school.
Pgs: 222Call Letters: F Cl
Clements, Andrew
Matilda
Lexile: 840
Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
Pgs: 240Call Letters: F Da
Dahl, Roald
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Humorous Books - Grade 4
Dial-a-Ghost
Lexile: 850
A family of nice ghosts protects a British orphan from the diabolical plans of his evil guardians.
Pgs: 195Call Letters: F Ib
Ibbotson, Eva
Moving Day: Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls (series)
Lexile: 850
9-year-old Allie Finkle has rules for everything and is even writing her own rule book, but her world is turned upside-down when she learns that her family is moving across town, which will mean a new house, school, best friend, and plenty of new rules.
Pgs: 228Call Letters: F Ca
Cabot, Meg
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Writing Thank-You Notes (series)
Lexile: 870
10-year-old Moxy Maxwell has promised to write twelve thank-you notes by the day after Christmas so that she and her twin brother Mark can go to Hollywood to visit their father, but all her brilliant ideas to help finish the task more efficiently end up creating chaos in the house.
Pgs: 159Call Letters: F Gi
Gifford, Peggy
Oggie Cooder
Lexile: 880
Quirky 4th-grader Oggie Cooder goes from being shunned to everyone's best friend when his uncanny ability to chew slices of cheese into the shapes of states wins him a slot on a popular television talent show, but he soon learns the perils of being a celebrity - and having a neighbor girl as his manager.
Pgs: 176Call Letters: F We
Weeks, Sarah
Pepins and Their Problems
Lexile: 920
Whether it's waking up to find toads in their shoes, becoming trapped on the roof, or searching for cheese when their cow makes only lemonade, the Pepin family always seem to get into the most bizarre scrapes. Lucky for them they have great problem-solving readers.
Pgs: 179Call Letters: F Ho
Horvath, Polly
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Lexile: 950
Greg records his 6th grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.
Pgs: 217Call Letters: F Ki
Kinney, Jeff
Everything on a Waffle
Lexile: 950
11-year-old Primrose, who lives in a small fishing village in British Columbia, recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea.
Pgs: 149Call Letters: F Ho
Horvath, Polly
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Humorous Books - Grade 4
Julian Rodriguez Episode One: Trash Crisis on Earth
Lexile: 980
8-year-old Julian Rodriguez is sent to his room for refusing to take out the trash, and imagines that he is a space warrior.
Pgs: 123Call Letters: F St
Stadler, Alexander
Just Grace (series)
Lexile: 1060
Misnamed by her teacher, 7-year-old Just Grace prides herself on being empathetic, but when she tries to help a neighbor feel better, her good intentions backfire.
Pgs: 138Call Letters: F Ha
Harper, Charise Mericle
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
Lexile: 1070
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle loves children, both good and bad. She never scolds, but has positive cures for children with special problems such as answering back or never wanting to go to bed.
Pgs: 118Call Letters: F Ma
MacDonald, Betty
Masters of Disaster
Lexile: 1100
12-year-old Henry Mosely, having decided his life is boring, ropes his friends Riley and Reed into a series of hair-raising adventures, including trying to break world records, visiting a haunted house, and solving a century-old murder.
Pgs: 102Call Letters: F Pa
Paulsen, Gary
Milo: Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze
Lexile: 1180
In love with the girl he sneezed on the first day of school, Milo copes with being the new kid (again) as he struggles to survive the school year that is filled with reminders of what his life “used to be" before his mother died.
Pgs: 275Call Letters: F Sil
Silberberg, Alan
Lucy Rose: Here's the Thing About Me (series)
Lexile: 1190
8-year-old Lucy Rose keeps a diary of her first year in Washington, D.C., where she spends time with her grandparents, makes new friends, and longs to convince her teacher to let her take care of the class pet during a holiday.
Pgs: 137Call Letters: F Ke
Kelly, Katy
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