Reading Level 4-7
Book titles, grade level, difficulty level, and short description are included to help you decide as to where you should start. Books grade level ratings are as follows; 2-5, 3 -5, 4-7, 5-7, 6-8, 6-12, 7-12, 8-12, 9-12. There is also a reading difficulty level rating system G through Z+ where G is the easiest and Z+ is the most difficult. There is also N/A (not available) which means we could not find a rating.
| Stuart Little | 4-7 | R | Follow the adventures of the bravest little mouse with a loving big heart. | |
| Aliens on Vacation | 4-7 | N/A | Scrub is stuck spending the summer at his grandmother's inn...and there's something really weird going on. All of the guests look, dress, and act strangely, and Grandma's grocery list includes things like 50 boxes of tinfoil and 25 bottles of SPF 50 sunscreen. It turns out that Intergalactic Bed and Breakfast isn't just a cute name; Grandma's guests really are aliens from outer space! | |
| See Behind Trees | 4-7 | T | No matter how hard he tries, Walnut doesn't see as well as others do. So when he and the other boys of his tribe must prove they're ready to be adults by the accuracy of their arrow shooting, Walnut's worried. | |
| The Life of Rice | 4-7 | U | Rice is one of the most abundant and widely grown crops in the world today. In Thailand, rice is grown everywhere—and it is almost always a part of every meal. Photographer Richard Sobol invites us on a journey to Thailand to explore the life of rice: | |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | 4-7 | V | Harry has no idea how famous he is. That’s because he’s being raised by his miserable aunt and uncle who are terrified Harry will learn that he’s really a wizard, just as his parents were. | |
| A Wrinkle in Time | 4-7 | W | The story of Meg Murry, a high-school-aged girl who is transported on an adventure through timeand space with her younger brother Charles Wallace and her friend Calvin O'Keefe to rescue her father, a gifted scientist, from the evil forces that hold him prisoner on another planet. | |
| The Wind in the Willows | 4-7 | F | The tales relate the adventures of four animal friends and neighbors in the English countryside—Mole, Rat, Toad, and Badger. Through the fiction these animals converse, philosophize. Toad drives a car and each animal also keeps their animal behaviors. | |
| Ghost Cats | 4-7 | N/A | Eleven-year-old Peter and his three younger siblings rediscover their lost closeness when the ghosts of their dead pet cats begin to return mysteriously | |
| Soon Be Free | 4-7 | N/A | Dana thought she had solved all the historical mysteries in her parents' house in Lawrence, Kansas. But now that her parents have turned the house into a bed-and-breakfast, Dana isn't so sure. Their first guests, the Burks, are a suspicious couple who snoop where they shouldn't, searching for a secret document linked to the Weavers, a Quaker family who lived in the house almost 150 years ago | |
| Why I'm Afraid of Bees | 4-7 | P | Right brain. Wrong body. Gary Lutz needs a vacation . . . from himself. Bullies are constantly beating him up. His only friend is his computer. Even his little sister doesn't like him. | |
| Kid vs. Squid | 4-7 | S | Thatcher Hill is bored stiff of his summer job dusting the fake mermaids and shrunken heads at his uncle's seaside Museum of Curiosities. But when a mysterious girl steals an artifact from the museum, Thatcher's summer becomes an adventure that takes him from the top of the ferris wheel to the depths of the sea. | |
| The Vampire Plagues III | 4-7 | S | The vampire god has managed to secure nearly all the pieces of a powerful amulet that will give him power beyond imagining. There's only one piece missing, and it's in Mexico, the seat of Camazotz's power. | |
| About the B'Nai Bagels | 4-7 | T | Mark studying for his Bar Mitzvah and having his best friend move away. Now his mother becomes the new manager of his Little League team and make his older brother the coach. | |
| Sam I Am | 4-7 | T | Seventeen year-old Logan Wright has always turned to the make-believe world of her written words to escape the pain of her real life. Through her writing, she lives vicariously, creating gorgeous but dangerous male characters who hunt down, and fight for, their chosen mates. | |
| A Wind in the Door | 4-7 | V | Is about a young adult science fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle. It is a companion book to A Wrinkle in Time, and part of the Time Quintet. | |
| A Wind in the Door | 4-7 | V | A fantastic adventure story involving Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe, the chief characters of A Wrinkle in Time. The seed from which the story grows is a rather ordinary situation of Charles Wallace's having difficulty in adapting to school. | |
| Tuck Everlasting | 4-7 | W | The Tucks explain to Winnie that the spring is magical and grants eternal life to anyone who drinks its water. During the story, she falls in love with Jesse Tuck. Meanwhile the man in the yellow suit then further angers the Tucks when he tells them that he plans to gather the water from the spring and sell it to the public. | |
| Built to Last | 4-7 | Y | Recognizing struggling competitors whose businesses disappear after a period of time, Collins and Porras focus their research towards 18 bona fide, “visionary” companies and analyze them in accordance with guidelines they’ve set on what makes a good company. | |
| The Eighth Day | 4-7 | Y | When Jax wakes up to a world without any people in it, he assumes it's the zombie apocalypse. But when he runs into his eighteen-year-old guardian, Riley Pendare, he learns that he's really in the eighth day—an extra day sandwiched between Wednesday and Thursday. | |
| Little Women | 4-7 | Z | is based on the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy—the novel details their passage from childhood to womanhood and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters. | |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | 4-7 | Z+ | The stories are told in a first-person narrative from the point of view of Dr. Watson, as is the case for all but four of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The stories tend to point out social injustices, such as "a king's betrayal of an opera singer, a stepfather's deception of his ward as a fictitious lover, an aristocratic crook's exploitation of a failing pawnbroker, a beggar's extensive estate in Kent. | |
| Holes | 4-7 | N/A | Stanley Yelnats is unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where there is no lake. He and the other boys dig holes all day, every day. | |
| Dracula | 4-7 | N/A | Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel. It introduced Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy.[1] |
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| Bridge to Terabithia | 4-7 | T | Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. And he almost is, until the new girl in school, Leslie Burke, outpaces him. | |
| Peter Pan | 4-7 | X | The story of Peter Pan, a mischievous yet innocent little boy who can fly, and has many adventures on the island of Neverland that is inhabited by mermaids, fairies, Native Americans and pirates. | |
| The Chronicles of Narnia | 4-7 | N/A | Four adventurous siblings—Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie—step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter and enslaved by the power of the White Witch. | |
| Sing Down the Moon | 4-7 | T | Spanish Slavers were an ever-present threat to the Navaho way of life. One lovely spring day, fourteen-year-old Bright Morning and her friend Running Bird took their sheep to pasture. The sky was clear blue against the red buttes of the |
