Humorous Books - Grade 4 - Edina Public Schools...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

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.


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.


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.


Delton, Judy

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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.


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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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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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.


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.


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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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.


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.


Greenburg, Dan

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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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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.


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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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.


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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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.


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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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.


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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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.


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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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.


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.


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.


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.


Dahl, Roald

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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.


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.


Horvath, Polly

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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.


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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Humorous Books - Grade 4 - Edina Public Schools...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