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Merrie Daitch-Library Media Specialist

Jean Pineau-Library Clerk

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Summer Reading Lists

 

Remember, these are only suggestions. Read whatever you like; just keep reading!!

FOR STUDENTS ENTERING 2ND GRADE

Picture books

Borden                         The Greatest Skating Race

Child                           Clarice Bean, Guess Who’s Babysitting

Connor                        Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel

Demi                           One Grain of Rice

Ernst                            Any title by this author

Fleming                        Boxes for Katje

Hall                              Henry and the Kite Dragon

Henkes                         Any title by this author

Hesse                           The Cats in Krasinski Square

Hoffman                       Amazing Grace (Any in series)

Hopkinson                    Apples to Oregon

Kirk                             Sky Dancers

Knudsen           Library Lion

Munsch                        Any title by this author

Napoli                          Albert

Rodman                       My Best Friend

Stewart                        The Friend

Woodson                     Show Way

Easy Readers (JE in public library)

Adler                            Young Cam Jansen (Any in series)

Adler                            Bones Detective (Any in series)

Byars                           Golly Sisters (Any in series)

Chaaconas                   Cork and Fuzz (Any in series)

Marshall                       Fox on the Job (Any in series)

Miller                           Three Stories You Can Read to Your Dog

                                    Three Stories You Can Read to Your Teddy Bear

Kline                            Song Lee (Any in Series)

Lowry                          Goonybird Green (Any in series)

Stilton                          Geronimo Stilton  (Any in series)

Mills                            Gus and Grandpa (Any in series)

Parish                           Amelia Bedelia (Any in series)

Pilkey              Dragon Series

Roop                            Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie

Rylant                           Henry and Mudge (Any in series)

Rylant                           High-Rise Private Eyes (Any in series)

Theising           The Aliens are Coming

Yolen                           Commander Toad (Any in series)

 

Chapter Books

Abbott                         Secrets of Doon  (Any in series)

Brown                          Flat Stanley (Any in series)

Christopher                  Soccer Cats (Any in series)

Cleary                          Ramona Quimby (Any in series)

Dadey, Deborah          Adventures of the Bailey School Kids (Any in series)

DiCamillo                     Mercy Watson (Any in series)

Gannett                        My Father’s Dragon (Any in series)

Giff                               Ballet Slippers (Any in series)

 

Non-Fiction

Barner

Bug Safari

J 595.7 B               

Branley

Mission to Mars

J 629.4553 B        

Fisher

How High Can a Dinosaur Count?

J 513 F           

Gans

Rock Collecting

J 552 G                     

Hooper  

Pebble in My Pocket   

J 550 H             

Lauber

Be a Friend To Trees

J 582.16 L              

McNulty 

If You Decide to Go To The Moon

J 629.45 M       

Nagda 

Panda Math

J 513.2 N           

Pfeffer

From Tadpole to Frog

J 597.89 P            

Scott

Cowboy Country

J 978 S                      

Seulihg

Drip Drop!  How Water Gets To Your Tap

J 628.1 S               

Sven

Man On the Moon

J 629.45 S                 

Thomson

Amazing Sharks

J 597.3 T           

Winer

Birds Build Nests

J 598.1 W               

Biography

           

Hank Aaron, Brave in Every Way  - Golenbock

Christopher Columbus - Krensky

Mozart, Play!  - Sis

I Dreamed I Was a Ballerina - Pavlova

President George Washington – Adler

Childhood of Famous Americans - Ready to Read  (Any in series)

  • Annie Oakley Saves the Day
  • A Lesson for Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Babe Ruth and the Ice cream Mess
  • Mark Twain at Work
  • Betsy Ross and the Silver Thimble
Harry Houdini Escape Artist

FOR STUDENTS ENTERING 3RD GRADE

 

Picture Books

Peet                             Any title by this author

Smith                            John Paul George Ben

Yolen                           Encounter

Thaler                           From the Black Lagoon…(Any in series)

Scieszka                       Any book by this author

Easy Readers

Guest                           Iris and Walter (Any in series)

Howe                           Pinky and Rex (Any in series)

Sharmat                        Nate the Great (Any in series)

Sharmat                        Olivia Sharp     (Any in series)

Chapter Books

Adler                            Cam Jansen (Any in series)

Barrows                       Ivy and Bean

Byars                           The SOS File

                                    Tornado

Dadey                          Bailey School Kids (Any in series)

Cleary                          Ramona the Brave (Any in series)

de Paola                       26 Fairmont Avenue (Any in series)

DiTerlizzi                    Spiderwick Chronicles (Any in series)

Doyle                           The Giggler Treatment

Estes                            The Hundred Dresses

Giff                               Polk Street School Series

Hurwitz                        Busybody Nora (Any of the author’s young readers)

Hurwitz                       Aldo Applesauce (Any in series)

Jenkins             Toys Go Out

Krulik                          Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo  (Any in series)

Look                            Ruby Lu, Brave and True or Ruby Lu, Empress of Everything

McDonald                   Judy Moody (Any in series)

Meadows                     Rainbow Magic (Any in series)

Osborne                       Magic Tree House (Any in series)

Pennypacker                Clementine

Preller                          Jigsaw Jones (Any in series)

Roy                              A to Z Mysteries (Any in series)

Rylant                           The Lighthouse Family Series

Scieszka                       Time Warp Trio (Any in series)

Shreve             The Flunking of Joshua T Bates

Slote                            My Robot Buddy or My Trip to Alpha 1

Tripp                           American Girl (Any in series)

Warner                        Boxcar Children (Any in series)

 

 

Non-Fiction

Arnosky

Beachcombing

J 578.769 A 

Branley

The Sun: Our Nearest Star

J 523.7 B        

Branley

Tornado Alert

J 551.5 B 

Branley

The International Space Station

J 629.44 B

Butterworth

Sea Horse: The Shyest Fish

J 597 B 

Clements

Brave Norman

  

Clements

Ringo Saves the Day

  

Hawes

Why Frogs Are Wet

J 597.8 H 

London

Panther: Shadow of the Swamp

J 599.75 L

McClintock

Cinderella        

J 398.2 M 

Simon

Pyramids and Mummies

J 932 S 

Tatham

Baby Sea Otter

J 599.769 T 

Biography

Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein

Anne Frank (Poole)

Starry Messenger (Sis)

Dizzy  (Winter)

A Picture Book of….(Adler) Any in series  

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (Weatherford)
First Start Biography Series (Any in Series)
  • Young Frederick Douglass (Woods)
  • Young Christopher Columbus (Carpenter)
  • Young Thurgood Marshall (Carpenter)
  • Young Amelia Earhart (Alcott) 
  • Young Jackie Robinson (Farrell)

 

FOR STUDENTS ENTERING 4TH GRADE

Picture Books

Bunting             The Wall

Polacco                        Any title by this author

Ryan                            Amelia and Eleanor Go For A Ride

Van Allsburg                Any title by this author

Chapter Books

Avi                               Poppy (Any in series)

Birney                          The World According to Humphrey

                                    Friendship According to Humphrey

Buckley                        The Sisters Grimm: The Fairy Tale Detectives (Any in series)

Christopher                  The Spy on Third Base

                                    The Lucky Bat

Cleary                          Henry Huggins (Any in series)

Cleary                          Ramona (Any in series)

Clements                      Jake Drake (Any book in this series)

Dahl                             James and the Giant Peach

                                    Fantastic Mr. Fox

Danziger                       Amber Brown (Any in series)

DiCamillo                     The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

DiTerlizzi                      The Spiderwick Chronicles (Any in series)

Eager                           Half Magic (Any in series)

Funke                           Dragon Rider

Gardiner                       Stone Fox

Greene                         Queen Sophie Hartley

Gutman                        My Weird School (Any in series)

Hurwitz                        Any book by the author

Ibbotson                       The Secret of Platform 13 (Any by author)

King-Smith                   Lady Lollipop (Any by author)

Kline                            Horrible Harry (Any in series)

Lovelace                      Betsy-Tacy (Any in series)

McDonald                    Judy Moody (Any in series)

Moss                            Amelia’s Notebook (Any in series)

Rockwell                      How to Eat Fried Worms

Sachar                          Wayside School (Any in series)

Simon                           Einstein Anderson (Any in series)

Sobol                           Encyclopedia Brown (Any in series)

Van Draanen                Shredderman (Any in series)

Non-fiction

Aliki

Mummies Made in Egypt

J 393 A            

Cheney

When Washington Crossed the Delaware

J 973.3 C                  

Craft          

King Midas and the Golden Touch

J 292 C

George

How to Talk to Your Dog

J 636.7 G       

George

How to Talk to Your Cat

J 636.8 G        

Hatkoff

Owen and Mzee

J 599.63 H   

Janeczko 

A Kick in the Head:  An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms

J 811.008 K           

Lauber

Tubs, Toilets, Showers

  

Maestro

A More Perfect Union

J 342 M       

Miller       

The Monster Health Book

J 613.7 M

Murphy

I Am Sacajawea; I am York:  Our Journey West with Lewis and Clark

J 978 M                   

Prelutsky

If Not for the Cat

J 811.54 P             

St. George            

So You Want to Be an Explorer

J 910.9 S 

St. George            

The One and Only Declaration of Independence

J 973.3 S 

Shaughnessy

The Legend of the Curse of Bambino

J 796.357 S 

Silverstein

Where the Sidewalk Ends

  

Sturges

Bridges are to Cross

J 624 S          

White

I Could Do That!  Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote

J 324.6 W       

           

Biography

Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man (Adler)

Joe Louis: America’s Fighter (Adler)    

The Perfect Wizard :  Hans Christian Anderson

Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa   

Bull’s Eye: A Photobiography of Annie Oakley 

Action Jackson

You’re on Your Way, Teddy Roosevelt

To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers

History Makers Bio  (Any in Series):

  • The Wright Brothers (Wadsworth)
  • Tecumseh (Aller)
  • Marie Curie (Waxman)
  • Milton Hershey (Sutcliffe)
  • Nellie Bly (Knudsen)
  • Geronimo (Welch)
  • Chief Joseph (Sutcliffe)
  • Dolley Madison (Patrick)

FOR STUDENTS ENTERING 5TH GRADE

Chapter Books

Avi                               A Book without Words:  A Fable of Medieval Magic

Avi                               Crispin

Avi                               Never Mind

Balliet              Chasing Vermeer

Barry                            Peter and the Starcatchers

Birdsall            The Pendericks

Blackwood                   Shakespeare Scribe (Any in series)      

Byars                           Herculeah Jones mystery (Any in series)

Christopher                  Any books by this author

Clements                      Any books by this author

Codell                          Sahara Special

Couloumbis     The Misadventures of Maude March

Cushman                      Rodzina

Creech                         Granny Torelli Makes Soup

DiCamillo                     Tale of Despereaux

Farmer                         The Sea of Trolls

Gardner                        I, Coriander

Giff                               Nory Ryan’s Song (Any in series)

Gutman                        Baseball Card Adventures (Any in seres)

Haddix                         Among the Brave (Any in the series)

Hannigan                      Ida B

Holm                            Penny from Heaven

Ibbotson                       Star of Kazan

Lowry                          Anastasia Krupnik (Any in series)

McAllister                    Mistmantle Chronicles

McKay                        Saffy’s Angel

Nimmo                         Charlie Bone Series

Ryan                            Esperanza Rising

Sachar                          Holes

Schmidt                        Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

Snicket                         Series of Unfortunate Events

Spinelli             School Daze Series

Springer                       Enola Holmes mystery series

Stanley                         Bella at Midnight

Stewart                        The Edge Chronicles series

Selznick                        Invention of Hugo Cabret.

Tolan                            Surviving the Applewhites

Van Draanen                Sammy Keyes Mystery Series

Winkler                        Hank Zipzer Series

 

Non-Fiction

Curlee 

Brooklyn Bridge

J 624 C                

Curlee

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

J 709 C                 

Curlee

Rushmore

J 730.9 C              

Fritz  

Leonardo’s Bridge

J 730.92 F              

Grandits           

Technically It’s Not My Fault:  Concrete Poems

J 811.6 G

Jenkins

Top of the World: Climbing Mt. Everest

J 796.53 J             

Lupton

The Adventures of Odysseus

J 398.2 Gre

Maestro

Liberty or Death: The American Revolution, 1763-1783

J 973.3 M            

Montgomery 

The Tarantula Scientist

J 595.44 M 

Prelutsky

Pizza the Size of the Sun

  

Provensen

Klondike Gold

J 971.9P

Scieszka

Science Verse

  

Sewall  

Jamestowne:  Struggle for Survival

975.5 S                 

Siegel

To Dance: A Ballerina’s Graphic Novel

J 741.6 S                

Silverstein

Light in the Attic

  

Simon

Volcanoes

J 551.21 S             

Simon 

Hurricanes

J 551.55 S            

Simon  

Gorillas

J 599.884 S           

Weitzman  

A Subway for New York

J 625.42 W   

Yolen

Unsolved Mystery Series

  

           

Biography

Through My Eyes –Ruby Bridges

The Chimpanzees I Love:  Saving Their World and Ours – Jane Goodall

Escape!  The Story of the Great Houdini

The Journey That Saved Curious George:  The True Wartime Escape of Margaret and H.A. Rey

Our Eleanor: A Scrapbook Look at Eleanor Roosevelt’s Amazing Life

Any biography written by Matt Christopher

Lives of the….Any in series (Krull)      

Creative Minds Biography Any in series including:

  • Liberty or Death a Story About Patrick Henry (McPherson)
  • Science Fiction Pioneer a Story About Jules Verne (Streissgurth)
  • The President of the Underground Railroad a Story about Levi Coffin (Swain