Grade 4 Literacy by Design Literature
Theme / Title / Author / Call #1: American Dreams / The Long Way Westward / Joan Sandin
Worlds Apart / Kathleen Karr
Dreaming of America: An Ellis Island Story* / Eve Bunting
Oranges on Golden Mountain / Elisabeth Partridge / Modeled
2: A Place for Us / Half and Half / Lensey Namioka
Hannah’s Journal / Marissa Moss
In The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson / Bette Bao Lord
Coming to America / Betsy Maestro / Modeled
3: So Many Kinds of Animals / The Jungle Book / Nicola Bayley & Rudyard Kipling
Whales on Stilts! / M.T. Anderson
Rabbit Hill / Robert Lawson
Seal / Judy Allen / Modeled
4: Seeds, Fruits, and Flowers / Seedfolks / Paul Fleischman
Shelterwood / Susan Hand Shetterly
Lichee Tree* / Ching Yeung Russell
Century Farm / Cris Peterson / Modeled
5: One Country, Many Regions / The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs / Betty Birney
Grasshopper Summer / Ann Turner
The Pepins and their Problems / Polly Horvath
Fire Storm* / Jean Craighead George / Modeled
6: The Land Shapes People’s Lives / Kumak’s Fish: A Tale From the Far North / Michael Bania
Little House on the Prairie / Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Yearling / Majorie Kinnan Rawlings
Artic Lights, Artic Nights / Debbie S. Miller / Modeled
7: Why Does Water Move? / 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea / Jules Verne
The Young Man and the Sea / Rodman Philerick
Kimo’s Escape / Dan Robison
Very Last First Time / Jan Andrews / Modeled
8: What Makes Soil Different? / Thimble Summer / Elizabeth Enright
Prairie Summer* / Bonnie Geisert
Out of the Dust / Karen Hesse
The Living Earth* / Eleonore Schmid / Modeled
9: Native People of North America / Naya Nuki: Shoshoni Girl Who Ran / Kenneth Thomasma
Sing Down the Moon / Scott O’Dell
The Sign of the Beaver / Elizabeth George Speare
Eagle Boy: A Pacific Northwest Native Tale / Richard Lee Vaughan / Modeled
10: Explorers Arrive / Pedro’s Journal / Pam Conrad
Bear Dancer / Thelma Hatch Wyss
The Talking Earth / Jean Craighead George
Christopher Columbus / David A. Adler / Modeled
11: Life in a Rain Forest / Morpha: A Rain Forest Story / Michael Tennyson
One Day in the Tropical Rain Forest / Jean Craighead George
Attack of the Jaguar* / M. A. Harvey
The Great Kapok Tree / Lynne Cherry / Modeled
12: Affecting the Rain Forest / My Life with the Chimpanzees / Jane Goodall
The Shaman’s Apprentice / Lynne Cherry & Mark J. Plotkin
Jaguar / Roland Smith
Rickie and Henri / Jane Goodall / Modeled
13: Products and Profits / Hannah’s Fancy Notions* / Pat Ross
Henry and the Paper Route / Beverly Cleary
Lunch Money / Andrew Clements
A Band of Angels: A Story Inspired by the Jubilee Singers / Deborah Hopkinson / Modeled
14: Buying Smart / Henry Reed, Inc. / Keith Robertson
Double Fudge / Judy Blume
Millions / Frank Cottrell Boyce
Boss of the Plains: The Hat that Won the West* / Laurie Carlson / Modeled
15: Earth Long Ago / Magic Tree House #1: Dinosaurs Before Dark / Mary Pope Osbone
Boy of the Painted Cave / Justin Denzel
The Magic School Bus: Dinosaur Detectives / Judith Bauer Stamper
Dinosaur Tree* / Douglas Henderson / Modeled
16: Wearing Away / Mary Kate and Ashley In Action: Operation Evaporation* / Eliza Willard
Brighty of the Grand Canyon / Marguerite Henry
Shadows of Disaster / Cathy Beveridge
Grand Canyon: A Trail Through Time* / Linda Vieira / Modeled
*Out of Print