Back 4th Grade Fantasy / Sci-fi | Book List

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  4th Grade Fantasy / Sci-fi  
Cakes in Space

Philip Reeve - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Get ready for cupcakes! Sprinkles! Space! Robots! And big adventure with hilarious illustrations on almost every page. Astras family is movingto a whole new planet. And what does any kid need on moving day Snacks! But when Astra asks her spaceships computer to whip up the ultimate treat,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures

Jackson Pearce - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

From bestselling authors Maggie Stiefvater and Jackson Pearce comes an exciting new series full of magical creatures, whimsical adventures, and quirky illustrations. Here's a list of things Pip Bartlett can talk to: Unicorns Miniature Silky Griffins Bitterflunks Basically, all magical...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Entirely True Story of the Unbelievable FIB

Adam Shaughnessy - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Print book

"What is the Unbelievable FIB?" That's the question eleven-year-old Prudence Potts discovers on a baffling card no one else in Middleton--except ABE, a new kid at school with a knack for solving riddles--seems to see. Then a mysterious man asks for ABE and Pru's help...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Lost Track of Time

Paige Britt - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

A magical fantasy, an allegorical cautionary tale, a feast of language, a celebration of creativity--this dazzling debut novel is poised to become a story for the ages!Penelope is running out of time!She dreams of being a writer, but how can she pursue her passion when her mother schedules...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Galaxy Pirates: Hunt for the Pyxis

Zoe Ferraris - Crown
Format: Print book

Ordinary kids are introduced to an extraordinary galaxy full of pirates, monkeys, and other colorful creatures - both human and otherwise - in this first book of this "absolutely action-packed" (School Library Journal) fantasy-adventure trilogy. On the night Emma Garton's...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Incredible Space Raiders from Space!

Wesley King - Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Format: Hardcover

Lord of the Flies meets Star Trek in this outer space story of adventure, mystery, and fantastical fun from the author of The Vindico and The Feros.When Jonah wakes up on the Fantastic Flying Squirrel, he's a bit confused. One second he is in his family's...
Read More check catalog
 
 
A Nearer Moon

Melanie Crowder - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

In a small river village where the water is cursed, a girl's bravery could mean the difference between life and death in this magical story of "perseverance and hope" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) from the author of Parched and Audacity.Along a lively...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Dr. Critchlore's School for Minions: Book 1

Sheila Grau - Amulet Books
Format: Print book

Welcome to Dr. Critchlore?s School for Minions, the premier trainer of minions for Evil Overlords everywhere. No student is prouder to be at Dr. Critchlore?s than Runt Higgins, a twelve-year-old werewolf. (At least he thinks he?s twelve. He was abandoned at the school as a baby, so he can?t...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Copernicus Legacy: The Forbidden Stone

Tony Abbott - Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Format: Print book

Bestselling author Tony Abbott's epic new middle grade series, the Copernicus Legacy, begins with The Forbidden Stone, a thrilling adventure packed with puzzles, intrigue, and action. Fans of Rick Riordan and Ridley Pearson will love this first book in an exciting series that takes...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Lost Children of the Far Islands

Emily Raabe - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

Twins Gus and Leo and their little sister, Ila, live a quiet life in Maineuntil their mother falls ill, and it becomes clear her strength is fading because she is protecting them from a terrible evil. Soon the children are swept off to a secret island far in the sea, where they discover...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Seven Stories Up

Laurel Snyder - Random House
Format: Print book

In this companion to Laurel Snyder's Bigger than a Bread Box, a leap back in time and an unlikely friendship change the future of one family forever. Annie wants to meet her grandmother. Molly wishes she had a friend. A little magic brings them together in an almost-impossible...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Wings of Fire Book One: The Dragonet Prophecy

Tui Sutherland - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling new series soars above the competition and redefines middle-grade fantasy fiction for a new generation!The seven dragon tribes have been at war for generations, locked in an endless battle over an ancient, lost treasure. A secret movement called the Talons of Peace is determined...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Cats of Tanglewood Forest

Charles de Lint - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

In this whimsical, original folktale, written and illustrated throughout in vibrant full color by two celebrated masters of modern fantasy, a young girls journey becomes an enchanting coming-of-age story about magic, friendship, and the courage to shape ones own destiny.Lillian Kindred...
Read More check catalog
 
 
An Army of Frogs

Trevor Pryce - Audible Studios
Format: Hardcover

Its frogs versus scorpions in this new series by professional football player, Trevor Pryce. For years, the frogs of the Amphibilands have lived in safety, protected by an elite group of poisonous frogs named the Kulipari and by the dreamcasting spell of the turtle king that cloaks their...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Magicalamity

Kate Saunders - Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

Tom is in shock. Hes just discovered that his dad is an escaped fairy on the run. And that he must trust his life to three dangerous fairy godmothers hes never met. Two of them are hardened criminals, and one falls out of the window when she tries to fly . . . Will their mad magic be enough...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Jinx

Sage Blackwood - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

The highly acclaimed first book of a fantasy adventure series set in a mysterious forest, starring a daring new hero."Readers will thrill to journey with Jinx" (SLJ, starred review) , a wizard's apprentice, as he sets off on a quest through the dangerous Urwald, a magical forest...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Cloak Society

Jeramey Kraatz - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

The first in a thrilling, action-packed middle grade trilogy, which School Library Journal declared "will likely find the same wide appeal as Rick Riordans Percy Jackson books.The Cloak Society: An elite organization of supervillains graced with extraordinary powers. Ten years ago the Cloak...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Spindlers

Lauren Oliver - Harper
Format: Book

Evocative of Alice in Wonderland, this novel from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver is a bewitching story about the reaches of loyalty and the enduring power of hope. Perfect for fans of the author's other middle grade novels: Liesl & Po and the Curiosity House series.Looking...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Always October

Bruce Coville - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

From Bruce Coville, the master of tween comic suspense, comes a tale of monsters, the bond between brothers, and saving the world.Jake's baby brother, LD, may be a monster (complete with fangs and fur!) , but together with his best friend, Lily, Jake isn't going to let anything happen...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Prairie Thief

Melissa Wiley - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

Experience life on the prairie - with one fantastical twist!Louisa Brody's life on the Colorado prairie is not at all what she expected. Her dear Pa, accused of thievery, is locked thirty miles away in jail. She's living with the awful Smirches, her closest neighbors and the very...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Gods and Warriors

Michelle Paver - Dial
Format: Hardcover

An action-packed new series set in the mysterious, dangerous Bronze Age Young Hylas--goatherd, Outsider, thief--is hunted by powerful warriors who want him dead and have kidnapped his sister. Hylas is forced to flee his home, but not before a mysterious stranger gives him a bronze dagger....
Read More check catalog
 
 
Whatever After #1: Fairest of All

Sarah Mlynowski - Scholastic Press
Format: Book

A fresh, modern spin on a classic fairy tale--from bestselling author Sarah Mlynowski!Mirror, mirror, on the basement wall . . .Once upon a time my brother and I were normal kids. The next minute? The mirror in our basement slurped us up and magically transported us inside Snow White's...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Villain School: Good Curses Evil

Stephanie S. Sanders - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover

Rune Drexler, Big Bad Wolf Jr., and Countess Jezebel Dracula are students at Master Dreadthorns School for Wayward Villains. Its like military school for the children of famous villains its where you learn to be bad. But Rune is failing at his villainous studies, so when he lands himself...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Wilma Tenderfoot: The Case of the Frozen Hearts

Emma Kennedy - Dial; First Edition, First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

Nothing and nobody stops Wilma Tenderfoot! If she does say so herself. Wilma Tenderfoot, a tiny, brash, and determined ten-year-old orphan, dreams of becoming a worldfamous detective so she can find out who her parents are. Wilma discovers that her new next-door neighbor is the renowned...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

Jonathan Auxier - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes is the utterly beguiling tale of a ten-year-old blind orphan who has been schooled in a life of thievery. One fateful afternoon, he steals a box from a mysterious traveling haberdashera box that contains three pairs of magical eyes. When he tries the first...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The phantom tollbooth

Norton Juster - Yearling
Format: Print book

A journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of words and numbers in providing a cure for his boredom.
Read More check catalog
 
 
Dragon Rider

Cornelia Funke - Chicken House; Deluxe edition
Format: Hardcover

Published before THE THIEF LORD in Germany, DRAGON RIDER established Cornelia Funke as a bestselling and critically acclaimed author. Now, this fantastical epic has come to America!Firedrake, a young dragon, receives a frightening warning one night: Humans are planning to destroy the valley...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Gregor The Overlander

Suzanne Collins - ‎Scholastic Press; First Edition
Format: Hardcover

This irresistible first novel tells the story of a quiet boy who embarks on a dangerous quest in order to fulfill his destiny -- and find his father -- in a strange world beneath New York City.When Gregor falls through a grate in the laundry room of his apartment building, he hurtles...
Read More check catalog
 
 
THE SISTERS GRIMM BOOK ONE

Michael Buckley - ABRAMS
Format: Hardcover

Please ask if you need a specific version. The data provided here may not be correct. With buying and not asking you are accepting the book as is.
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Summer of Moonlight Secrets

Danette Haworth - Walker Childrens
Format: Hardcover

At The Meriwether, Floridas famous antebellum hotel off of Hope Springs, nothing is quite as it seems. Secret staircases give way to servants quarters and Prohibition-era speakeasies make for the perfect hide-and-seek spot. Allie Jo Jackson knows every nook and cranny of The Meriwether--shes...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Elliot and the Goblin War

Jennifer Nielsen - Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Format: Hardcover

WARNING! As of today, there are only 7 CHILDREN who have ever read this book and lived to tell about it. 95 CHILDREN successfully read the first chapter, but upon beginning chapter 2, they started BLABBERING in some language known only as "flibberish." 38 CHILDREN made it halfway...
Read More check catalog
 
 
My Diary from the Edge of the World

Jodi Lynn Anderson - Aladdin
Format: Print book

Told in diary form by an irresistible heroine, this playful and perceptive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the May Bird trilogy sparkles with science, myth, magic, and the strange beauty of the everyday marvels we sometimes forget to notice.Spirited, restless...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Time Stoppers

Carrie Jones - Bloomsbury Childrens Book
Format: Print book

Annie Nobody thought she was, well, nobody, living in a nowhere town where nothing goes her way. Day 1 at her newest foster home proves to be dreadful, too . . . and things get even worse when she's chased by something big and scary that definitely wants to eat her. Luckily for Annie, not everything...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Furthermore

Tahereh Mafi - Dutton Children's Books
Format: Print book

The bestselling author of the Shatter Me series takes readers beyond the limits of their imagination in this captivating new middle grade adventure that reads like a modern day fairy tale. New York Times bestsellerRecently featured on "Late Night with Seth Meyers" Inspired by her childhood...
Read More check catalog