Terrific Books for Third & Fourth Graders

Odder spends her days practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. But when she comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn.

When a child goes missing from the Orphan House in the town of Stone-in-the-Glen, the mayor suggests the kindly Ogress is responsible, but the orphans do not believe that and try to make their deluded neighbors see the real villain among them.

Always turning to her wheel of fortunes, a cardboard circle covered with wisdom she's collected from fortune cookies, for answers and a dose of luck, 12-year-old Maya must find the courage to write her own fortune to answer her deep-down questions.

Swept into Engkantos, the land of gods and spirits, 10-year-old Marikit embarks on a quest to save her family from a sinister shadow god.

With no knightly experience, but plenty of pluck and an impressive vocabulary, a 12-year-old peasant, hoping to improve his station in life, volunteers to help a cowardly prince and his not-very-powerful wizard rescue a princess from an evil, foul-smelling monster.

When three children endure separate climate change disasters-- a wildfire in the California woods, a close encounter with a hungry polar bear in Canada and a massive hurricane in Florida-- they emerge from their experiences committed to changing the world.

As the 100th anniversary of the electrocution of the town's most infamous killer approaches, an anonymous text message lures five 12-year-olds to the cemetery, inspiring the first meeting of the Graveyard Girls and setting the stage for a terrifying tale.

When neighborhood queen bee Zara is threatened by new girl Naomi, Zara decides to break a Guinness World Record to get everyone to notice her again, until she realizes that maybe sharing her crown wouldn't be so bad.

When a tight-knit group of middle-school friends discover a trap door in the woods that leads to a completely intact bomb shelter, they vow to keep the place to themselves while sharing their individual secrets to build the safest space possible.

A 12-year-old Chinese American boy must learn to embrace his heritage and accept his beloved older brother's spirit companion-- a mystical fox named Kai-- to solve the mystery of Jamie's death.

Several months after the tragic events set in motion by bully Betty Glengarry, Annabelle McBride is struck by lightning during a powerful storm, leaving her with heightened senses that give her a new understanding of animals and teach her about compassion and forgiveness.

In this modern retelling of Anne of Green Gables, foster kid Anne Shirley finally lands in a loving home and befriends a girl for whom she may have more-than-friends feelings.

When a sinister force threatens the life-giving magic of the Great Tree, Zuli, along with her guardian owl, Frowly, must get to the root of it, and so embark on an epic journey to find the truth.

When a new phone app turns all his friends into zombies, Leon, who lives in a city full of superheroes and supervillains, uses his brain and follows his heart to save the day, transforming from ordinary to extraordinary.

When an adventure at sea goes awry, readers' choices determine if survival is possible for two friends marooned on a desert island with a deflated raft and few supplies.

The author provides supportive guidance and instruction to help kids establish and maintain meaningful relationships and effective communication with friends, teachers, family members and others in their communities.

Drawing on the latest science, this eye-opening overview of glaciers and how important they are explores the "what," the "how," and the "why" of global warming and climate change, revealing what will happen to our planet if glaciers keep disappearing.