ZIS LS Library: Grade 4 Real stories we liked

The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.

An English boy, Jim Hawkins, must find a buried pirate treasure before Long John Silver and then try to escape and return home safely.

A classic kof American humor, this story of a gentle house painter and his high-stepping penguins has delighted children for generations.

A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realisation that he needs human companionship.

After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.