2006 Grade 4 Lit Picks Book List

The Duluth Young Readers' Literature Award is a reading project established in spring 1990 to encourage reading of good books. The reading incentive program known as Lit Picks offers separate reading lists in grades K-2, 3-4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11. K-8 students read and listen to a required number of books from their grade level list and then vote on their favorite book in May. For more information contact Becky Ardren, reading and English language arts specialist, at Becky.Ardren@duluth.k12.mn.us

Our classroom is setting a goal to increase the number of readers and voters participating in the Lit Pick program this year. Student time spent reading, both in and out of school, leads to growth in reading achievement.

Grades 3 and 4
2006 Lit Picks
• Noel by Tony Johnston; art by Cheng-Khee Chee
• The Little Gentleman by Philippa Pearce
• Apples to Oregon by Deborah Hopkinson
• Great Wolf and the Good Woodsman by Helen Hoover (woodcuts by Betsy Bowen)
• Leave Only Ripples: A Canoe Country Sketchbook by Consie Powell
• Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein by Don Brown
• Sequoyah: The Man who Gave His People Writing by James Rumford
• Coming On Home Soon by Jacqueline Woodson
• Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange
• George Washington’s Teeth by Deborah Chandra
• The First Chinook by David Pagel
• Danny, the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
• Mighty Jackie: The Strike-out Queen by Marissa Moss
• The Tarantula Scientist by Sy Montogmery
• If Not for the Cat: Haiku by Jack Prelutsky
• Remember: The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison