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Booklist for Grade 4
Hidden Worlds of the Woodlands
Woodland Class Set |
Author |
Forest Animals |
Francine Galko |
Beetles: Incredible Insects |
James Gerholdt |
Ants |
Ruth Berman |
Insect Field Guide (Class) |
Author |
Insects: A Golden Guide |
Herbert Zim |
Woodland Team Set |
Author |
A Dead Log |
Jen Green |
Beetles: The Most Common Insects |
Sara Miller |
Centipedes: Animals Without Bones |
Jason Cooper |
Millipedes: Life Cycles |
Donna Schaffer |
Temperate Forests |
Sally Wilkins |
Beetles and Bugs |
Jen Green |
Woodland General Individual Books |
Author |
What's the Difference: Amphibians |
Stephen Savage |
Weird Wildlife Reptiles |
Jen Green |
Insects: A True Book |
Melissa Stewart |
Earth and Us: Continuous |
Patrick Lewis |
Woodland Team Struggling Readers |
Author |
Week 1 — SS-Snakes |
Lucille Penner |
Week 2 — Ladybugs and Beetles |
Sally Morgan |
Week 3 — Looking at Insects |
David Glover |
Week 4 — How Earthworms Live |
Platter |
Week 5 + 6 — The Butterfly Farm Burglar |
Wright Group |
CORE LIST for Woodland Project
Woodland Individual |
Title |
Author |
Mammal |
Mice |
Mice |
Kevin Holmes |
Rodents: From Mice to Muskrats |
Sara Swan Miller |
Raccoon |
Raccoons: Rookie Read About |
Allan Fowler |
Raccoons |
Jeff Fair |
Racoons: Welcome to the world of |
Diane Swanson |
Fox |
Foxes: Welcome to the World |
Diane Swanson |
Foxes: Wild Canines |
Jalma Barrett |
Insect/Spider |
Spiders |
Spiders are Not Insects |
Allan Fowler |
Spiders |
Ester Cullen |
Butterfly / Moth |
Butterflies and Moths |
Dane Brimner |
Moths and Butterflies of North America |
Iika List |
Ant |
Let's take a trip to an ant colony |
Kathy Furgang |
Reptile |
Snake |
Cobras |
Linda George |
Snakes: Nature Fact File |
Barbara Taylor |
Turtle |
All About Turtles |
Jim Arnosky |
Turtles: Life in a Shell |
Sara Miller |
Lizard |
Lizards |
Louise Martin |
Lizards |
Claudia Schnieper |
Amphibian |
Frog/Toad |
Frogs |
Gail Gibbons |
Frogs and Toads |
Maria Julivert |
Salam-ander |
Sneaky Salamanders |
Suzanne Dell'Oro |
Salamanders |
Cherie Winner |
Other Amphibian |
Amphibians |
Melissa Stewart |
Scales, Slime, and Salamanders |
Pat Miller-Schroder |
Hidden Worlds of the Wetlands
Wetland Class Set |
Author |
Wetlands |
Adele Richardson |
What Are Wetlands? |
Bobby Kalman |
Mosquito |
Jill Bailey |
Wetland Plants |
Ernestine Giesecke |
Meat Eating Plants |
D. H. Souza |
Wetland Animals |
Francine Galko |
Wetland Team Set |
Author |
A Dragon in the Sky |
Laurence Pringle |
American Wetlands |
Frank Staub |
Marshes and Swamps |
Gail Gibbons |
One Small Square: Swamp |
Donald Silver |
The Vegetation of Rivers, Lakes, and Swamps |
Andreu Llamas |
Endangered Wetland Animals |
Dave Taylor |
Insect Field Guide (Class) |
Author |
Insects: A Golden Guide |
Herbert Zim |
Wetland Team |
Author |
Mosquitoes |
Cori Meister |
Mosquitoes |
Mary Ann McDonald |
Wetland Team |
Author |
Carnivorous Plants |
Kim Griswell |
Plants Bite Back |
Richard Platt |
Wetland Team Struggling Readers |
Author |
Week 7 — Life in a Wetland |
Allan Fowler |
Week 8 — Wetlands |
Darlene Stille |
Week 9 — Mosquito |
Julie Murray |
Week 10 — Plants that Eat Animals |
Allan Fowler |
Week 11 + 12 — The Secret of the Song |
Irene Schultz |
CORE LIST for Wetland Project
Wetland Individual |
Title |
Author |
Mangrove Swamp |
Mosquitoes |
Mosquitoes |
Cari Meister |
Mosquitoes |
Mary McDonald |
Mosquito |
Jill Bailey |
Crocodile |
Crocodile: Natural World |
Joyce Pope |
Manatee |
Manatees |
Sarah Palmer |
Pelican |
Pelicans, Cormorants, and Their Kin |
Erin Swan |
Sea Horse |
Sea Horses |
Sally M. Walker |
Fresh Swamp |
Alligator |
Killer Creatures: Alligator |
Davis Jefferis |
Anaconda |
Anacondas |
Sherie Bargar |
Salamander |
Salamanders |
Cherie Winner |
Crayfish |
Crayfish |
Phyllis Grimm |
Raccoon |
Welcome to the World of Raccoons |
Diane swanson |
Bog |
Carnivorous Plants |
Carnivorous Plants |
Kim Griswell |
Plants Bite Back |
Richard Platt |
Meat-eating Plants |
D.M. Douza |
Cranberry |
Cranberries: Fruit of the Bogs |
Diane Burns |
Mosquitoes |
Mosquitoes |
Cari Meister |
Mosquitoes |
Mary McDonald |
Mosquito |
Jill Bailey |
Lemming |
What's a Lemming |
Dorothy Souza |
Fresh Marsh |
Crane |
Whooping Crane |
Karen Dudley |
Dragonfly |
Dragonflies |
Shane McEvey |
Dragonflies |
Heather Amery |
Turtle |
Turtles: Life in a Shell |
Sara Swan Miller |
Frog |
Frogs and Toads: The Leggy Leapers |
Sara Swan Miller |
Beaver |
Welcome to the World of Beavers |
Diane Swanson |
Salt Marsh |
Crab |
The Secret World of Crabs |
Theresa Greenaway |
Heron |
Herons |
Frank Staub |
Flamingo |
Wild Flamingos |
Bruce McMillan |
Mollusks |
Mollusks: Snails, Clams, and Their Relatives |
Beth Blaxland |
Birds |
Waterfowl: From Swans to Screamers |
Sara Swan Miller |
Wading Birds: From Herons to Hammerkops |
Sara Swan Miller |
Narrative Woodlands and Wetlands
Stories (Class) |
Author |
The Tree in the Ancient Forest |
Carol Reed-Jones |
Insectlopedia |
Douglas Florian |
Under One Rock |
Anthony Fredericks |
Joyful Noise |
Paul Fleischman |
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears |
Verna Aardema |
Novels (Class) |
Author |
Bug Boy |
Sonenklar |
The Boxcar Children: The Panther Mystery |
Gertrude Warner |
Beetles Lightly Toasted |
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
Woodland Book Club (Team) |
Author |
Girl's Who Looked Under Rocks |
Jeannine Atkins |
The Fire Bug Connection |
Jean Craighead George |
Spider Boy |
Ralph Fletcher |
Bug Muldoon: The Garden of Fear |
Paul Shipton |
Chasing Redbird |
Sharon Creech |
Owen Foote, Frontiersman |
Stephanie Greene |
Who Really Killed Cock Robin |
Jean Craighead George |
Shoebag |
Mary James |
John Muir: My Life with Nature |
Joeseph Cornell |
Harry the Poisonous Centipede's Big Adventure |
Lynne Reid Banks |
Wetland Book Club (Team) |
Author |
The Prince of the Pond |
Donna Jo Napoli |
To Walk the Sky Path |
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
The Missing 'Gator of Gumbo Limbo |
Jean Craighead George |
Danger in Quicksand Swamp |
Bill Wallace |
'Gator Aid |
Jane Cutler |
The Talking Earth |
Jean Craighead George |
The Mystery of Alligator Swamp |
Gertrude Chandler Warner |
Hungry Plants |
Mary Batten |
The Mystery of the Plant That Ate Dirty Socks |
Nancy McArthur |
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Slippery Salamander |
Donald Sobol |