GEP P4 ERP Reading List

GIFTED EDUCATION PROGRAMME
EXTENSIVE READING PROGRAMME
PRIMARY 4
1. Allan Ahlberg, The Better Brown Stories	AHL (BISHAN LIB ONLY)
2. Andrew Clements, Frindle	CLE (JURONG LIB ONLY)
3. Anna Myers, Spotting the Leopard
4. Anne Fine, Step by Wicked Step	822.914 FIN (young adult)
5. Arthur Ransome, Pigeon Post	RAN(Yishun only)
6. Betsy Byars, Keeper of Doves	BYA(Geylang, Jurong, Tamp)
7. Betsy Byars, Pinballs	BYA (Yishun)
8. Betty Byars, The Midnight Fox
9. Beverly Cleary, Dear Mr. Henshaw	CLE
10. Bruce Brooks, Everywhere
11. Cynthia Kadohata, Kira-Kira
12. Cynthia Rylant, The Van Gogh Cafe
13. Dodie Smith, The Hundred and One Dalmatians
14. Doris Buchanan Smith, A Taste of Blackberries
15. E.L. Konigsburg, The View from Saturday
16. Edward Osmond, A Valley Grows Up
17. Elizabeth Coatsworth, The Cat Who Went To Heaven	COA
18. Emily Neville, It's Like This, Cat
19. Eric P. Kelly, The Trumpeter of Krakow
20. Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
21. Fred Gipson, Old Yeller
22. Gail Gauthier, A Year with Butch and Spike
23. Garry Kilworth, The Electric Kid
24. Gary Paulsen, Hatchet
25. George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin	MAC
26. Hans Stolp, The Golden Bird
27. Hendrik Willem van Loon, The Story of Mankind
28. Hilary McKay, Saffy’s Angel
29. Jean Webster, Daddy Long Legs
30. Joan Aiken, Is Underground
31. Joan Aiken, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
32. Johanna Spyri, Heidi
33. Judith Benet Richardson, First Came the Owl
34. Judy Blume, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing	BLU (Yishun, Woodlands)
Updated 9 Feb 09
35. K. M. Peyton, Poor Badger
36. Karen Cushman, The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
37. Kate Dicamillo, The Tale of Despereaux : Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
38. Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
39. Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
40. Lois Lenski, Strawberry Girl
41. Lois Lowry, See You Around, Sam
42. Lucy M. Boston, The Sea Egg
43. Maia Wojciechowska, Shadow of a Bull
44. Margaret Mahy, The door in the air and other stories
45. Natalie Babbitt, Eyes of the Amaryllis	BAB (Yishun, Woodlands)
46. Nina Bawden, A Handful of Thieves
47. Nina Bawden, Granny the Pag
48. Norton Jester, The Phantom Tollbooth
49. Paul Goble, Beyond the Ridge (Picture Book)
50. Roald Dahl, Danny, The Champion of the World
51. Roald Dahl, The BFG
52. Robert C. O' Brien, Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
53. Robert Lawson, Rabbit Hill	LAW(Youth Adult)
54. Russell Hoban, The Mouse and his Child	HOB
55. Stephanie Tolan, Pride of the Peacock
56. Stephanie Tolan, Sophie and the Sidewalk Man
57. Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising
58. Sylvia Cassedy, Behind the Attic Wall	CAS (young adult)
59. Todd Strasser, Help! I’m trapped in my teacher’s body
60. Zilpha Keatley Synder, The Witches of Worm	SNY(TPY)