ESOL Books: Print, Ebooks and Audiobooks: Level 4
Books recommended for Level 4 readers
This page recommends great books for Level 4 readers!
Even more options are available from these links:
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Fiction Level 4 (stories of all sorts)
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Biography Level 4 (information books about the lives of amazing people)
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Nonfiction Level 4 (information books on many different topics)
The vast wonder of the world : biologist Ernest Everett Just
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The Vast Wonder of the World :Biologist Ernest Everett Just
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African American scientist Ernest Everett Just was not like other scientists of his time. He noticed details others failed to see, and he persisted in his research despite the discrimination. His keen observations of sea creatures revealed new insights about egg cells and the origins of life.
Sarah Plain and Tall
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Sarah, Plain and Tall
Anna and her brother Caleb are waiting for the arrival of Sarah to their farm, in response to their father's advertisement for a wife and mother. What will she be like?
Skylark
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Skylark
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Sarah came to the prairie from Maine to marry Papa. But that summer, a drought turned the land dry and brown. Fires swept across the fields and coyotes came to the well in search of water. So Sarah took Anna and Caleb back east, where they would be safe. Papa stayed behind. He would not leave his land. Maine was beautiful, but Anna missed home, and Papa. And as the weeks went by, she began to wonder what would happen if the rains never came. Would she and Caleb and Sarah and Papa ever be a family again? Youth fiction.
Shererazade
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Sheherazade
King Shahriyar cannot trust women. Every afternoon he marries a wife, but the next morning he always kills her ... 'I can be Shahriyar's new wife!' says Sheherazade ... But how can Sheherazade stay alive for a thousand and one nights? And does Shahriyar learn to trust women again in the end?
Jake's Parrot
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Jake's Parrot
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When Jake Stevens goes to work for some months in Ireland, he feels happy. He loves talking about his job - making computer games for BananaTech in America. 'Your new game's going to be the best thing at the Irish Computer Games Show!' people tell him. Then someone steals Jake's game the night before the show. Who - or what - can help him to get it back?
Catwings
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Catwings
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Four young cats with wings leave the city slums in search of a safe place to live, finally meeting two children with kind hands. Book 1 in the Catwings series.
Catwings Return
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Catwings Return
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Wishing to visit their mother, two winged cats leave their new country home to return to the city, where they discover a winged kitten in a building about to be torn down. Book 2 of the Catwings series.
Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings
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Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings
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The parents of Alexander the kitten think he is just wonderful. But when he goes exploring on his own one day, he gets stuck in a tree. Soon a black kitten with wings helps him and brings him home to a whole family of winged cats. How can Alexander repay her kindness? Book 3 of the Catwings series
I am farmer : growing an environmental movement in Cameroon
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I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon
Read the true story of how environmentalist Farmer Tantoh is bringing bringing clean water and bountiful gardens to his home country of Cameroon.
Around the World in Eighty Days
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Around the World in Eighty Days
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Phileas Fogg must get back to London by December 21st or lose all his money. And with the help of his servant, Passepartout, Fogg travels in many ways - from train to elephant - and has some surprising adventures on the way.
Available in print and audiobook.
Separate is never equal : Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation
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Separate Is Never Equal : Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation
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Publication Date: 2014-05-06The true story of an American citizen of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage who spoke and wrote perfect English, Mendez was denied enrollment to a "Whites only" school.
Available in print and audiobook. (Multiple audiobook copies available)
Stone Fox
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Stone Fox
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Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm by winning money in a dog sled race.
Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson
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Minecraft Creator Markus Notch Persson
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Markus Persson designed his first computer game when he was just eight years old. Learn how Persson's love of computers and design helped him the popular video game Minecraft.
Sherlock Holmes : the blue diamond
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Sherlock Holmes : The Blue Diamond
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'He's an intelligent man. He was once rich and is now poor. His wife loved him once, but she doesn't love him now. And he's thirty or forty years old.' One look at an old hat, and Sherlock Holmes can tell you a lot about its owner. He sees - and thinks - a lot more than the people around him, and when a beautiful blue diamond disappears, Sherlock is the only man in London who can find it.
The Last of the Mohicans
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The Last of the Mohicans
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This famous American novel is set in 1757, before American became an independent country, and is full of adventure and romance. This copy of the novel is adapted for Level 4 readers.
Sit-in : how four friends stood up by sitting down
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Sit-In : how four friends stood up by sitting down
50 years ago, four college students staged a peaceful protest at a restaurant that became a defining moment in the struggle for racial equality and the growing civil rights movement.
Available in print and audiobook. (Multiple audiobook copies available)
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