Grade 4 Reading List: Books with Summaries and Free Quizzes
In fourth grade, children are ready for fantasy worlds and for stories about real feelings, including sad ones. In the UK this is Year 5, and in Australia Year 4. Every school and teacher picks its own books, so check the list with your child’s class. For some of the books, you will find our free printable book quiz with an answer key.
Books for grade 4
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C. S. Lewis
Four children step through a wardrobe into Narnia, where the White Witch makes it always winter. With the great lion Aslan, they fight to set Narnia free.
👉 Check your understanding: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Book Quiz – Grade 4
Bridge to Terabithia – Katherine Paterson
Jess and his new neighbor Leslie make up a secret kingdom in the woods. A moving book about friendship, imagination and dealing with loss.
👉 Check your understanding: Bridge to Terabithia Book Quiz – Grade 4
James and the Giant Peach – Roald Dahl
James escapes from his cruel aunts inside a giant peach and floats across the ocean with a group of huge, talking insects.
Because of Winn-Dixie – Kate DiCamillo
Opal adopts a scruffy dog in a supermarket, and thanks to him she makes friends in her new town and learns more about her mother.
Storm Boy – Colin Thiele
An Australian classic: a boy who lives on the wild coast of South Australia raises an orphaned pelican called Mr. Percival.
Free book quizzes for grade 4
Each quiz has multiple-choice questions, true or false sentences, events to put in order and open questions. Every print draws different questions, so a child can take the quiz again, or each child in a class can get a different version. The Show answers switch shows the answer key.
Want one quiz a day? The learning path Book Quizzes – Grade 4 puts them in order. Quizzes for every grade are on the Book quizzes – grades 1–8 page.
How to read these books with your child
- Start early: spread a longer book over two or three weeks.
- Note down the characters’ names and the main events. They help with the quiz and with class discussions.
- After the book, do the quiz and check the answers with the answer key.
