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Nonfiction recommendation list for 4th graders, including animals, crafts, friendship, fun books about math, history, science and nature, and secret codes.

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Fly Guy Presents: Sharks

by: Tedd Arnold
Fly Guy Presents: Sharks
While visiting a dog show, Buzz and Fly Guy learn all about man's best friend! From exploring different breeds, to famous dogs throughout history, to learning all about working dogs and more, there's plenty for the best friends to explore.

Rascal

by: Sterling North
Rascal
The author's carefree life in a small midwestern town at the close of World War I, and his adventures with his pet raccoon, Rascal.
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The Stick Book

by: Fiona Danks
release date: Feb 21, 2012
The Stick Book
"“…while many projects have tangible payoffs — a sun clock, musical percussion sticks, magic wands and charcoal pencils pleased both the boy and me — each project seldom requires more than a page of description, even when providing actual learning opportunities within the fun.” - Dallas News

The stick is a universal toy. Totally natural, all-purpose, free, it offers limitless opportunities for outdoor play and adventure and it provides a starting point for an active imagination and the raw material for transformation into - almost anything! As New York's Strong National Museum of Play pointd out when they selected a stick for inclusion in their National Toy Hall of Fame, 'It can be a Wild West horse, a medieval knight's sword, a boat on a stream, or a slingshot with a rubber band . . .' In this book Fiona Danks and Jo Schofield offer masses of suggestions for things to do with a stick, in the way of adventures and bushcraft, creative and imaginative play, games, woodcraft and conservation, music and more.

The World Record Paper Airplane Book

by: Ken Blackburn, Jeff Lammers
The World Record Paper Airplane Book
Provides resources for beginners and experienced paper airplane fliers alike with a total of 20 models and 112 flyers, ready to pull out and fold. This book features a text section with photos and information on aerodynamics, competitions, and designing your own high-performing models.

Math Fables

by: Greg Tang
Math Fables
Math Strategies That Multiply: The Best of Times

Friends

by: Patti Kelley Criswell
release date: Sep 01, 2006
Friends
FRIENDS gives girls everything they need to know about making new friends and making the most of the friendships they already have. The interactive book is full of quizzes, crafts, and thoughtful advice, including tips and true friendship stories from girls. Five mini posters are bound at the back of the book for girls to tear out and share with friends!

Top Secret

by: Paul B. Janeczko
release date: Apr 11, 2006
Top Secret
"The author's upbeat, positive tone is refreshing and his enthusiasm about his topic is contagious." — SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review)

Pssst! Do you know the difference between a code and a cipher? Can you tell a St. Cyr slide from a Cardano grille? Did you know that the discovery of a substitution cipher caused Mary Queen of Scots to lose her head? Don't look now, but packed into this practical field guide is everything a young person needs to know about the art of concealment - making and breaking codes, mastering cipher systems, and experimenting with secret writing. Offering plenty of hands-on practice sessions, tips for creating a code-making kit, sidebars on secret codes in history, and an amusing pair of spies to illustrate techniques, Paul B. Janeczko's tantalizing TOP SECRET won't stay a secret for long.

Natural Disasters

by: Claire Watts
release date: Mar 20, 2006
Natural Disasters
What causes a hurricane to form? Can animals sense an impending earthquake? Explore the dangerous and destructive side of nature - the awesome powers of tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfire, volcanoes and more in the updated edition of Natural Disasters. Each revised Eyewitness book retains the stunning artwork and photography from the groundbreaking original series, but the text has been reduced and reworked to speak more clearly to younger readers. Still on every colorful page: Vibrant annotated photographs and the integrated text-and-pictures approach that makes Eyewitness a perennial favorite of parents, teachers, and school-age kids.

Enter the Earth

by: Lee Welles, Ann Hameister
Enter the Earth

Elizabeth Angier was happy to be at the end of the school year. She thought her summer on the family farm would be full of work and play with her best friend, Rachel, and her other best friend, her dog, Maizey. However, Elizabeth didn't anticipate the Harmony Farms Corporation moving to her town. Her world starts to crumble as her best friend moves away and her parents whisper of farmers selling their land and the effects this factory farm operation could have on them. When she thinks things can't get much worse, she meets the most unusual creature, Gaia, the living entity of the Earth. Strange things begin to happen to her, around her, and through her! Elizabeth discovers that with these new powers comes responsibility. A dire mistake makes Elizabeth wonder if meeting Gaia has been a blessing or a curse. Will Elizabeth have the strength to fight a large corporation? Or will her upstate New York home be spoiled by profit driven pork production that fouls the air, land, and water?

The New 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth

by: EarthWorks Group, Sophie Javna
The New 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth
The world's a better place with EarthWorks Group's John Javna in it. He, along with his daughter, Sophie, help kids go from aware to active with simple (but inspiring) projects, tips, and little-known facts that puts a kid's own carbon footprint into perspective.

In The New 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth, Sophie and John have revised the original best-selling book for a concerned and vibrant Web 2.0 youth market. It's easy-to-do and kid-friendly projects show that kids can make a difference, and each chapter is packed with tons of links to groups and resources. What makes this book stand out, though, is that it doesn't just inform kids, it encourages them to make a difference by providing them, their friends and their families the tools to take action.

Together, John and Sophie enlighten, educate, and encourage our children with easy and smart ways to save the earth. Pretty darn cool, huh? We thought so. What you can do: Order now and help save the only earth we've got.

Mother Earth needs our help now. 

The Down-to-Earth Guide To Global Warming

by: Laurie David
release date: Sep 01, 2007
The Down-to-Earth Guide To Global Warming
Describes why global warming happens, how it affects the planet, and measure that can be taken to stop it.

I Was There: On Board the Titanic

by: Shelley Tanaka
I Was There: On Board the Titanic
"Jack felt the back of his neck prickle with fear. What he had known in his heart for the past hour was suddenly very clear. They would never get in a lifeboat. There simply weren't enough..."

Told through the eyes of two young survivors, and illustrated with breathtaking paintings and fascinating diagrams, this thrilling account vividly recreates the night the world's biggest ship plunged to the bottom of the ocean.

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!

by: Laura Amy Schlitz
release date: Jan 01, 2008
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.

Fooled You!: Fakes and Hoaxes Through the Years [Hardcover] [BYR] (Author) Elaine Pascoe, Laurie Keller

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Fooled You!: Fakes and Hoaxes Through the Years [Hardcover] [BYR] (Author) Elaine Pascoe, Laurie Keller

Crazy Cars

by: Matt Doeden
Crazy Cars
Examines wild and unusual cars, including ones that can fly, float, or drive on three wheels.
Title: Crazy Cars
Author: Doeden, Matt
Publisher: Lerner Pub Group
Publication Date: 2007/02/01
Number of Pages: 48
Binding Type: LIBRARY
Library of Congress: 2006019400

Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea (Scientists in the Field Series)

by: Sy Montgomery
release date: Jan 01, 2009
Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea (Scientists in the Field Series)
It looks like a bear, but isn't one. It climbs trees as easily as a monkey— but isn't a monkey, either. It has a belly pocket like a kangaroo, but what's a kangaroo doing up a tree? Meet the amazing Matschie's tree kangaroo, who makes its home in the ancient trees of Papua New Guinea's cloud forest. And meet the amazing scientists who track these elusive animals.
 
This title has been selected as a Common Core Text Exemplar (Grades 4-5, Informational Texts)

Owen & Mzee

by: Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff,  Dr. Paula Kahumbu
Owen & Mzee
Continues the story of the unusual friendship between Owen, a young orphaned hippo, and Mzee, a 130-year old Aldabra tortoise.

Oh, Rats!

by: Albert Marrin
release date: Aug 17, 2006
Oh, Rats!
A history of the relationship between rats and people and the many ways rats have been perceived by mankind.

Extreme Animals

by: Nicola Davies, Neal Layton
Extreme Animals
"Davies's chatty, funny text and Layton's colorful illustrations will pull kids
into this fascinating book about survival. . . . Exciting biology for the classroom." — Booklist (starred review)

From the persevering emperor penguins of the South Pole to the brave bacteria inside bubbling volcanoes, from the hardy reptiles of the driest deserts to the squash-proof creatures of the deepest seabeds, animals have adapted to survive in conditions that would kill a human faster than you can say "coffin." Discover how they do it in this amazing natural history book from a celebrated team — and find out who wins the title of the toughest animal of them all.

Deep in the Swamp

by: Donna M. Bateman
Deep in the Swamp
Count from 1 otter pup to 10 baby crayfish as readers learn about the special relationships of baby and mom mammals, reptiles, birds, and insects that make their home in the Okefenokee Swamp.

A helpful guide to swamp flora and fauna is included.

Modeled after the song "Over in the Meadow" by Olive A. Wadsworth.
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