Garden Heights · Independent Novel Study

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

a novel by Judy Blume

Nine-year-old Peter Hatch feels like a fourth-grade nothing — because everyone only notices his mischievous two-year-old brother, Fudge. From a swallowed pet turtle to a wrecked birthday party, a jungle-gym tumble, a runaway TV commercial, and an epic shoe-store tantrum, Fudge turns Peter’s world upside down. A warm, funny, true-to-life story about brothers, patience, and being seen. Each Part workbook has vocabulary, comprehension, literary analysis, and writing, plus CLIL cross-curricular background lessons.

Level 2Interactive & auto-gradedCLIL-based

📖 Recommended edition: Our Parts follow the book’s page numbers, so we recommend the standard Puffin (Penguin) paperback of Judy Blume’s text, so its page numbers line up with our Parts.

Level 2 · Confident ReadersUS Grades 3–4Lexile 470–910LAR 3.3–5.6

📖 Get the right book: our workbooks follow the Puffin (paperback) edition — ISBN 9780142408810. All recommended editions →

Subject Personalities

The real-world subjects this novel study leans into — the depth behind every Knowledge Bank and reading passage.

PRIMARY LENS

🧠 Growing Up & Sibling Life

Toddlers, tantrums and brotherly rivalry — the real psychology of a family.

SUPPORTING

🏙️ 1970s New York City

Apartments, lifts and city childhood — the world the Hatchers live in.

SUPPORTING

🐶 Pets & Responsibility

Dribble the turtle and the care a real pet needs.

Novel Study Workbooks

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