4th Grade Reading List | The Wild Book

See our Teacher Tool Independent Reading (K-5) for guidance on how to use the suggested texts below.

Additional Texts by the Author

All the Way to Havana by Margarita Engle (890L)
Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir by Margarita Engle (1120L) **
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle **

Informational Texts to Build Content Knowledge

Dyslexia is My Superpower (Most of the Time) by Margaret Rooke
My Havana: Memories of a Cuban Boyhood by Rosemary Wells (760L)
National Geographic Countries of the World: Cuba by Jen Green (990L) **

Texts with Connecting Topics and Themes

Believing in yourself

Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Solan (770L)
El Deafo by Cece Bell
Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier (300L)
Hank Zipzer series by Henry Winkler (760-780L) *
Knees: The mixed up world of a boy with dyslexia by Vanita Oelschlager *
Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper (700L)
Rules by Cynthia Lord (670L)
The Color of My Words by Lynn Joseph (840L)
Tom’s Special Talent - Dyslexia by Kate Gaynor *
Wonder by R.J. Palacio (790L)

* lower Lexile or qualitative measures than core text.

** higher Lexile or qualitative measures than core text.

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Independent Reading Suggested Books for Believing in Yourself: The Wild Book