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Kingsbury Green Primary School Recommended Reading Books | Year 4

Updated July 2020

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Fiction: Chapter Books

‘Michael Rosen’s Sad Book’ – Michael Rosen 2.3

‘The Boy Who Swam With Piranhas’ – David Almond 3.7

‘The Toilet of Doom’ – Michael Lawrence 4.0

‘Passion Flower’ – Jean Ure 4.0

‘The Brilliant World of Tom Gates’ – Liz Pichon 4.0

‘Thief!’ – Malorie Blackman 4.1

‘Batpants and the Vanishing Elephant’ – Jeremy Strong 4.1

‘The Switch’ – Anthony Horowitz 4.5

‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ (Book 1) – Roald Dahl 4.8

‘The Dreadful Dragon’ – Kaye Umansky (no level)

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Kingsbury Green Primary School Recommended Reading Books | Year 4

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Fiction: Chapter Books

‘The Story of Tracy Beaker’ – Jacqueline Wilson 4.4

‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ – Michael Morpurgo 4.7

‘The Iron Man’ – Ted Hughes 4.7

‘Gangsta Granny’ – David Walliams 4.9

‘Matilda’ – Roald Dahl 5.0

‘Artemis Fowl’ series (Book 1: Artemis Fowl) – Eoin Colfer 5.0

‘Ghost Buddy’ series (Book 1: Zero to Hero) – Henry Winkler 5.1

‘I was a Rat!’ – Philip Pullman 5.2

‘Fizzlebert Stump the Boy who Cried Fish’ – A F Harrold 5.6

‘The Perfect Princess’ – E D Baker (no level)

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Kingsbury Green Primary School Recommended Reading Books | Year 4

Updated July 2020

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Fiction: Chapter Books

‘The Secret Garden’ – Frances Hodgson Burnett 6.3

‘The Wind in the Willows’ – Kenneth Grahame 8.4

‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ (Book 1) – J K Rowling 6.0

‘How to Train Your Dragon’ (Book 1) – Cressida Cowell 6.6

‘Fangs ‘n’ Fire’ – Chris Mould 6.0

‘Black Beauty’ – Anna Sewell 7.7

‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ – C S Lewis 5.7

‘One Hundred and One Dalmations’ – Dodie Smith 5.4

‘The Borrowers’ – Mary Norton 5.3

‘Angels Next Door’ – Karen McCombie 5.7