Core Reading Literature
Akiak: A Tale from the Iditarod
Realistic Fiction by Robert Blake
(RL:3.3, AR Pts: .5)
Akiak the sled dog refuses to give up after being injured during the Iditarod sled dog race.
The Mystery on the California Mission Trail
Fiction by Carol Marsh
(RL:5.7, AR Pts: 3.0)
Four kids uncover a mystery as they travel along California's fascinating and historic Old Mission Trail.
Fourth Grade Rats
Fiction by Sid Fleischman
(RL:2.6, AR Pts: 6.0)
Suds learns that his best friend is wrong. You don't have to be a tough guy, a 'rat,' to be a grown-up fourth-grader.
By The Great Horn Spoon!
Fiction by Sid Fleischman
(RL:5.1, AR Pts: 6.0)
The book follows the adventures of young Jack and his aunt's butler Praiseworthy, as they stow away on a ship and head for their place in the Gold Rush of 1849.
The Hundred Dresses
Fiction by Eleanor Estes
(RL:5.4, AR Pts: 1.0)
In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson.
Pasquala, The Story of a California Indian Girl
Fiction by Gail Farber
A young Yokuts Indian girl describes her life on Old Buena Vista Lake in central California and the events that led her to a Spanish mission outside the world of her people.
Stone Fox
Fiction by John Reynolds Gardiner
(RL:4.0, AR Pts: 1.0)
Little Willy hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dogsled race he enters.
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Realistic Fiction by Judy Blume
(RL:3.3, AR Pts: 3.0)
Nine-year-old Peter Warren Hatcher has a bratty little brother, "Fudge." Fudge gets away with throwing tantrums and annoying Peter constantly.
Realistic Fiction by Robert Blake
(RL:3.3, AR Pts: .5)
Akiak the sled dog refuses to give up after being injured during the Iditarod sled dog race.
The Mystery on the California Mission Trail
Fiction by Carol Marsh
(RL:5.7, AR Pts: 3.0)
Four kids uncover a mystery as they travel along California's fascinating and historic Old Mission Trail.
Fourth Grade Rats
Fiction by Sid Fleischman
(RL:2.6, AR Pts: 6.0)
Suds learns that his best friend is wrong. You don't have to be a tough guy, a 'rat,' to be a grown-up fourth-grader.
By The Great Horn Spoon!
Fiction by Sid Fleischman
(RL:5.1, AR Pts: 6.0)
The book follows the adventures of young Jack and his aunt's butler Praiseworthy, as they stow away on a ship and head for their place in the Gold Rush of 1849.
The Hundred Dresses
Fiction by Eleanor Estes
(RL:5.4, AR Pts: 1.0)
In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson.
Pasquala, The Story of a California Indian Girl
Fiction by Gail Farber
A young Yokuts Indian girl describes her life on Old Buena Vista Lake in central California and the events that led her to a Spanish mission outside the world of her people.
Stone Fox
Fiction by John Reynolds Gardiner
(RL:4.0, AR Pts: 1.0)
Little Willy hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dogsled race he enters.
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Realistic Fiction by Judy Blume
(RL:3.3, AR Pts: 3.0)
Nine-year-old Peter Warren Hatcher has a bratty little brother, "Fudge." Fudge gets away with throwing tantrums and annoying Peter constantly.
