UGMS Media Center
AR Titles with Tests
GRADE 4
001.942 INN
Innes, Brian. Alien Visitors and Abductions.
Austin, TX : Raintree Steck-Vaughn, [1998], c1999.
Presents reports of people who claim to have had alien encounters, noting their similarities to one another, and suggests that this phenomenon may be a "modern myth.".
291.2 LOE
Loewen, Nancy. Venus.
New York : RiverFront Books, c1999.
Surveys classical mythology, discussing the relationship between Greek and Roman myths, and describes the birth and life of the goddess Venus.
292.2 LOE
Loewen, Nancy. Hercules.
New York : RiverFront Books, c1999.
Surveys classical mythology, discussing the relationship between Greek and Roman myths, and describes the birth and life of the demigod Hercules, known as Heracles in Greek mythology.
306.3 LES
Lester, Julius. From Slave Ship to Freedom Road.
1st ed. New York : Dial Books, c1998.
Presents the author's meditations on twenty paintings by artist Rod Brown, designed to encourage reflection on the hardships faced by African-American slaves until their emancipation.
599.9 POY
Poynter, Margaret. The Leakeys : Uncovering the Origins of Humankind.
Springfield, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c1997.
Profiles the lives of Louis and Mary Leakey and their dedication to the study of human evolution.
B ARM
Brown, Don. One Giant Leap : The Story of Neil Armstrong.
Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998.
Discusses the life and accomplishments of astronaut Neil Armstrong, from his childhood in Ohio to his famous moon landing.
B ATT
Millender, Dharathula H. Crispus Attucks : Black Leader of Colonial Patriots.
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 1986.
Focuses on the youth of the Massachusetts slave who, after joining the colonial patriot in their struggle for freedom, was the first man to die in the American Revolution.
B BIL
Green, Carl R. Billy the Kid.
Hillside, N.J. : Enslow Publishers, c1992. Traces the brief and violent life of the
outlaw who gained notoriety throughout the West.
B BRO
Blos, Joan W. The Heroine of the Titanic : A Tale Both True and Otherwise of the
Life of Molly Brown.
New York : Morrow Junior Books, c1991. An anecdotal account of some of the
adventurous activities of Molly Brown, with an emphasis on her survival of
the sinking of the Titanic.
B CAR
Sanford, William R. Kit Carson : Frontier Scout.
Springfield, N.J. : Enslow, c1996.
The life of Kit Carson, legendary scout, mountain man, and soldier of the Old West.
B CHA
Rumford, James. Seeker of Knowledge : The Man who Deciphered Egyptian
Hieroglyphs.
Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, c2000.
A biography of the French scholar whose decipherment of the Egyptian
hieroglyphic language made the study of ancient Egypt possible.
B CUR
Poynter, Margaret. Marie Curie : Discoverer of Radium.
Hillside, N.J. : Enslow, c1994.
Photographs and text cover the life and career of Nobel Prize winner Marie
Curie.
B EIN
Goldenstern, Joyce. Albert Einstein, Physicist and Genius.
Springfield, N.J., U.S.A. : Enslow Publishers, c1995.
Biography of physicist Albert Einstein discussing his childhood, life, and
creative genius.
B FOR
Mitchell, Barbara. We'll Race You, Henry : A Story about Henry Ford.
Minneapolis : Carolrhoda, c1986.
A brief biography of Henry Ford with emphasis on how he came to develop fast,
sturdy, and reliable racing cars that eventually gave him the idea for his
Model T.
B HAM
Wheeler, Jill C. Virginia Hamilton.
Edina, Minn. : Abdo & Daughters, c1997.
A biography of the children's writer known for her varied novels and
interest in black history.
B MIL
Wheeler, Jill C. A.A. Milne.
Edina, MN : Abdo/Rockbottom, 1992.
Discusses the life and works of the Englishman who wrote thousands of
articles, plays, stories, and novels, yet is best remembered for his creation,
Winnie the Pooh.
B OKE
Venezia, Mike. Georgia O'Keeffe.
Chicago : Childrens Press, c1993.
Briefly examines the life and work of the twentieth-century American
artist known for her paintings of flowers and presents examples of her art.
B PAT
Tompert, Ann. Saint Patrick.
1st ed. Honesdale, Penn. : Boyds Mills Press, 1998.
A picture book biography of the patron saint of Ireland.
B PIC
Sanford, William R. Bill Pickett : African-American Rodeo Star.
Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c1997.
Describes the life and accomplishments of the son of a former slave whose
unusual bulldogging style made him a rodeo star.
B PIK
Sanford, William R. Zebulon Pike : Explorer of the Southwest.
Springfield, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c1996.
A biography of the army officer and explorer who discovered, among other
places in the West and Southwest, the great Rocky Mountain peak in Colorado
that bears his name.
B SEU
Wheeler, Jill C. Dr. Seuss.
Edina, MN : Abdo/Rockbottom, 1992. Discusses the life and works of Theodore
Geisel.
B STI
Stine, R. L. It Came from Ohio! : My Life as a Writer.
New York: Scholastic, c1997.
A biography of children's and young adult horror writer R.L. Stine, creator
of the "Goosebumps" and "Fear Street" series, with photographs from his family
album.
B TUB
Ferris, Jeri. Go Free or Die : A Story About Harriet Tubman.
Minneapolis : Carolrhoda, 1988.
A biography of the African-American woman whose cruel experiences as a
slave in the South led her to seek freedom in the North for herself and for
others through the Underground Railroad.
FIC AKE
Aker, Don. Stranger at Bay.
Buffalo, N.Y. : Stoddart Kids, c1997.
Randy, upset with the changes that have taken place in his life since his father
remarried, switched jobs, and moved them to the East Coast, gets in with the
wrong crowd at his new school and finds himself faced with a dangerous
dilemma.
FIC AND
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Speak.
1st ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1999.
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on
Melinda's freshman year in high school.
FIC ARC
Archer, Chris. Shape-Shifter.
New York : Pocket Books, c1998.
Todd Aldridge, missing for nine months, returns to his home with no memory of the time he was gone, but it does not take long for him to discover that he is not at all the same person he was before.
FIC AVI
Avi. Something Upstairs.
New York : Avon, [1997], c1988.
When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his murder by slave traders.
FIC BAN
Banks, Sara H. Under the Shadow of Wings.
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 1999, c1997.
During 1944, life in rural Alabama brings changes for eleven-year-old Tattnall as she realizes that she cannot always protect her older, brain-damaged cousin.
FIC BRI
Brisson, Pat. Sky Memories.
New York : Delacorte Press, 1999.
When ten-year-old Emily learns that her mother has cancer, the two of them begin a ritual that will help Emily remember her mother after she is dead.
FIC BRI
Brittain, Bill. The Wish Giver : Three Tales of Coven Tree.
New York : HarperCollins, c1983.
When a strange little man comes to the Coven Tree Church Social promising he can give people exactly what they ask for, three young believers-in-magic each make a wish that comes true in the most unexpected way.
FIC BRI
Brittain, Bill. Who Knew There'd Be Ghosts?
1st Harper Trophy ed. New York : HarperTrophy, 1988, c1985.
Three spunky youngsters join forces with two lively ghosts to save a historic mansion from being destroyed by a crooked antique dealer.
FIC BRI
Brittain, Bill. Wings : A Novel.
1st. Harper Trophy ed. New York, NY : HarperTrophy, 1995.
When twelve-year-old Ian grows an unsightly pair of wings, he becomes an embarrassment to his politically ambitious father and must look for help from class outcast Anita and her eccentric mother.
FIC BYA
Byars, Betsy Cromer. The Summer of the Swans.
[1st ed.]. New York : Viking, 1970.
A teenage girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally retarded brother gets lost.
FIC CHR
Christopher, Matt. Soccer Halfback.
Boston : Little, Brown, c1978.
A young boy is pressured by his family to abandon his promising soccer career for football.
FIC CON
Conrad, Pam. Stonewords : A Ghost Story.
New York : HarperCollins, 1990.
Zoe discovers that her house is occupied by the ghost of an eleven-year-old girl, who carries her back to the day of her death in 1870 to try to alter that tragic event.
FIC CRE
Creech, Sharon. Walk Two Moons.
New York : HarperCollins, c1994.
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
FIC DAN
Danziger, Paula. Thames Doesn't Rhyme with James.
New York : Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 1999, c1994.
While spending Christmas in London with her family, her boyfriend, and his family, fifteen-year-old Kendra finds herself roaming the city in another scavenger hunt, like the one in New York the previous summer.
FIC DE
De Jong, Meindert. Shadrach.
1st Harper Trophy ed. New York : Harper & Row, 1980, c1953.
The story of Davie and his little black rabbit, Shadrach, told with perceptions and emotions experienced by all children.
FIC DE
De Jong, Meindert. The Wheel on the School.
New York : HarperCollins, c1954.
The residents of a small town in Holland try to bring storks to nest in their
village.
FIC DIX
Dixon, Franklin W. Slam Dunk Sabotage.
New York : Pocket Books, c1996.
The Bayport Bombers are headed to the championship basketball game, but somebody wants to knock them out of contention by getting Frank and Joe Hardy out of the way.
FIC DIX
Dixon, Franklin W. A Will to Survive.
New York : Pocket Books, c1999.
The Hardy Boys investigate attempts to shut down a nature center.
FIC FEN
Fenner, Carol. Yolonda's Genius.
New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, c1995.
After moving from Chicago to Grand River, Michigan, fifth grader Yolonda, big and strong for her age, determines to prove that her younger brother is not a slow learner but a true musical genius.
FIC FLE
Fleischman, Paul. Seedfolks.
New York : HarperCollins, c1997.
One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and, in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed.
FIC GEO
George, Jean Craighead. Water Sky.
1st ed. [New York] : Harper & Row, c1987.
A boy who goes to Barrow, Alaska, to live with friends of his father for a while learns the importance of whaling to the Eskimo culture.
FIC GIF
Gifaldi, David. Toby Scudder, Ultimate Warrior.
New York : Clarion Books, c1993.
Priding himself on not doing homework and on never losing a fight, Toby starts sixth grade planning to rule the school but sixth grade has some definite surprises in store for him.
FIC GOR
Gordon, Amy. When JFK was My Father.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Feeling neglected by her father in Brazil and her mother in Washington, D.C., Georgia Hughes tries to cope with life at a boarding school in Connecticut by imagining relationships with John Kennedy and Miss Beard, the ghost of the former head mistress of the school.
FIC HAH
Hahn, Mary Downing. The Spanish Kidnapping Disaster.
New York : Clarion Books, c1991.
Forced to accompany their parents on their honeymoon in Spain, new stepsisters Amy and Felix find the animosity between them escalating especially when Felix's boasting about family wealth to a stranger results in the kidnapping of the girls and their little brother.
FIC HAH
Hahn, Mary Downing. Wait Till Helen Comes : A Ghost Story.
New York : Clarion, c1986.
Molly and Michael dislike their spooky new stepsister Heather but realize that they must try to save her when she seems ready to follow a ghost child to
her doom.
FIC HAH
Hahn, Mary Downing. Stepping on the Cracks.
New York : Clarion Books, c1991.
In 1944, while her brother is overseas fighting in World War II, eleven-year-old Margaret gets a new view of the school bully Gordy when she finds him hiding his own brother, an army deserter, and decides to help him.
FIC HAH
Hahn, Mary Downing. The Wind Blows Backward.
New York : Clarion Books, c1993.
Although they share a love of poetry and problems with their parents, a shy high school senior's attraction to a popular classmate is tempered by her fear of his moody, self-destructive side.
FIC HAM
Hamilton, Virginia. Zeely.
New York : Macmillan, c1967.
Greeder's summer at her uncle's farm is made special because of her friendship with a very tall, composed woman who raises hogs and who closely resembles the magazine photograph of a Watutsi queen.
FIC HEN
Henkes, Kevin. Two Under Par.
1st ed. New York : Greenwillow Press, c1987.
When his mother's new marriage takes them into the household of a miniature golf course owner, ten-year-old Wedge struggles with feelings of resentment and dislike for his stepfather.
FIC HEN
Henry, Marguerite. Stormy, Misty's Foal.
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 1991, c1963.
A foal, born in the aftermath of a great storm, and her famous mother help raise money to repair the storm damage on Chincoteague Island and restore the herds of wild ponies on Assateague Island.
FIC HIL
Hill, Donna. Shipwreck Season.
New York : Clarion Books, c1998.
In 1880, forced to work with his uncle at a lifesaving station on Cape Cod, sixteen-year-old Daniel finds himself maturing as he encounters unexpected comradeship, challenges, and danger.
FIC HOW
Howe, James. The Watcher.
1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1997.
As she sits watching a seemingly perfect family and a handsome lifeguard on the beach, a lonely, troubled girl projects herself into the fantasy lives she has created for them.
FIC HUD
Hudson, Jan. Sweetgrass.
New York : PaperStar/Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 1999.
Living on the western Canadian prairie in the nineteenth century, Sweetgrass, a fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian girl, saves her family from a smallpox epidemic and proves her maturity to her father.
FIC JOH
Johnson, Angela. Toning the Sweep.
New York : Orchard Books, c1993.
On a visit to her grandmother Ola, who is dying of cancer in her house in the desert, fourteen-year-old Emmie hears many stories about the past and her family history and comes to a better understanding of relatives both dead and living.
FIC KIR
Kirkpatrick, Katherine. Trouble's Daughter : The Story of Susanna Hutchinson, Indian Captive.
New York : Delacorte Press, c1998.
When her family is massacred by Lenape Indians in 1643, nine-year-old Susanna, daughter of Anne Hutchinson, is captured and raised as a Lenape.
FIC LAW
Lawrence, Iain. The Smugglers.
New York : Delacorte Press, c1999.
In eighteenth-century England, after his father buys a schooner called the Dragon, sixteen-year-old John sets out to sail it from Kent to London and becomes involved in a dangerous smuggling scheme.
FIC LEN
L'Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1962.
Three extraterrestrial beings take Meg and her friends to another world.
FIC LEN
Lenski, Lois. Strawberry Girl.
New York: HarperCollins, c1973.
Birdie Boyer and her hard-working family raise strawberries in Florida, but have to face the dislike of their neighbors.
FIC LEV
Levitin, Sonia. The Singing Mountain.
1st ed. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1998.
While traveling in Israel for the summer, seventeen-year-old Mitch decides to stay and pursue a life of Jewish orthodoxy, forcing him to make some important decisions about the family and life he is leaving in southern California.
FIC LOW
Lowry, Lois. Switcharound.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1985.
Forced to spend a summer with their father and his "new" family, Caroline, age eleven, and J.P., age thirteen, are given unpleasant responsibilities for which they are determined to get revenge.
FIC MOO
Moon, Pat. The Spying Game.
1st American ed. New York : G.P. Putnam's, 1999, c1993.
After his father is killed in a traffic accident, twelve-year-old Joe Harris becomes obsessed with punishing the man he thinks is responsible, but his plan gets out of control when he discovers that the man's son is a classmate.