Open Court

Grade 4

Communication

599.8 Pat

Patterson, Francine. Koko's kitten. New York : Scholastic,

c1985. The real life experience of Koko, a gorilla in

California who uses sign language, with a young kitten whom

she loved and grieved over when it died.

B Bra

Davidson, Margaret, 1936-. Louis Braille, the boy who invented

books for the blind. New York : Scholastic, c1971. The

life of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who invented an

alphabet enabling the blind to read.

F Ack

Eckert, Allan W. Incident at Hawk's Hill. Toronto ; New York :

Bantam, 1987, c1971. Around the turn of the century, six

year old Ben Macdonald gets lost on the Saskatchewan

prairie, and is nurtured by a female badger. Based on an

actual incident.

F Cle

Cleary, Beverly. Dear Mr. Henshaw. New York : Morrow Junior

Books, c1983. In his letters to his favorite author,

ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his

parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally

finding his own place in the world.

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Clements, Andrew, 1949-. Frindle. 1st ed. New York, N.Y. :

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1996. When he

decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the

dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new

word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond

his control.

F Duf

Duffey, Betsy. Utterly yours, Booker Jones. New York, N.Y. :

Viking, c1995. Middle school student and aspiring author

Booker Jones is evicted from his bedroom when his

grandfather moves in, creating problems both at home and at

school.

F Sai

Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944. The little prince. 1st

Harvest/HBJ ed. New York : Harcourt Brace, c1971. An

aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert

encounters a little man from a small planet, who describes

his adventures in the universe, seeking the secret of what

is really important in life.

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Clements, Andrew, 1949-. Frindle. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.

New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 1998. When he decides to

turn his fifth-grade teacher's love of the dictionary around

on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a

chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.