Summer Reading Grades K-5

ENTERING GRADE 1:

Series books appear at the end of the list.

Agee Milo’s Hat Trick

Blume Freckle Juice (jFIC and jPB)

Bruchac How Chipmunk Got His Stripes (j398.2B and jP/PB)

Burton The Little House

Choi The Name Jar (jP/PB only)

Christelow Five Little Monkeys

Jenkins Five Creatures

Johnson Harold and the Purple Crayon

Kellogg A Penguin Pup For Pinkerton

Kimmel Anansi and The Magic Stick (jP/PB only)

LeSieg Ten Apples Up On Top! (jE)

Long When Papa Snores

Look Henry’s First Moon Birthday

Mayer There’s An Alligator Under My Bed

McCloskey Make Way For Ducklings

Middleton Tabitha’s Terrifically Tough Tooth

Pattou Mrs. Spitzer’s Garden

Piper The Little Engine That Could (RR)

Rylant The Great Gracie Chase

Shaw Sheep In A Jeep

Showers The Listening Walk (jP/PB only)

Smith Loki And Alex

Stevens And The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon

Stewart The Journey

Suen The Hamster Chase (jE & jE/PB)

Watt Leon The Chameleon

Wick Optical Tricks

Winthrop Dumpy La Rue

Wood Quick As A Cricket

Wood The Napping House

Recommended series books:

TITLE AUTHOR

Biscuit Capucilli (jE)

Madeline books Bemelmans (jP)

Rotten Ralph Gantos (jP & jE)

Frog & Toad Lobel (jE)

Little Bear Minarik (jE)

Curious George Rey (jP)

Henry & Mudge Rylant (jE)

Recommended authors:

Eric Carle, P.D. Eastman (jE), Kevin Henkes, Laura Joffe Numeroff, Dr. Seuss (jE), Rosemary Wells

RR=Reading Rainbow shelf.

All books are jP and jP/PB unless otherwise noted.

ENTERING GRADE 2:

Allard Miss Nelson Series

Arnold No More Water In The Tub, The Sign Maker’s Assistant

Barracca The Adventures Of Taxi Dog

Bercaw Halmoni’s Day

Brown Flat Stanley (jFIC & jPB)

Cannon Stellaluna

Creech Fishing In The Air

Ehlert Waiting For Wings

Finchler Miss Malarkey Doesn’t Live In Room 10

Guarino Is Your Mama A Llama

Hale Chameleon Wore Chartreuse (jPB)

Hoffman Amazing Grace (RR)

Kvasnosky Zelda And Ivy

Leedy Mapping Penny’s World (j 912 L)

Lester Tacky the Penguin

Markle Outside And Inside Dinosaurs (j 567.9 M)

Paladini The Web Files

Prelutsky It’s Raining Pigs And Noodles (j 811 P)

Seeger Abiyoyo

Simont The Stray Dog

Wood King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub

Recommended Authors For Grade 2:

Tomie de Paola, Kevin Henkes, (jP)

Jack Prelutsky & Shel Silverstein (Poetry j 811)

Recommended Series For Grade 2:

TITLE AUTHOR

Ivy and Bean Series Barrows (jFIC & jPB)

Amber Brown series Danziger (jFIC & jPB)

Henry & Mudge Rylant (jE)

Rotten Ralph series Gantos (jE & jP)

Frances series Hoban (jE & jP)

Frog And Toad Series Lobel (jE)

Judy Moody series McDonald (jFIC & jPB)

Rainbow fairy series Meadows (jPB)

Martha series Meddaugh

Little Bear Series Minarik (jE)

Magic Tree House Osborne (jFic & jPB)

Amelia Bedelia series Parish (jE)

Junie B. Jones series Park (jPB)

Jigsaw Jones Mysteries Preller (jPB)

Nate The Great Series Sharmat (jE)

Harry the Dirty Dog series Zion

Plus Folk & Fairy Tale books j 398’s

RR=Reading Rainbow Shelf.

Books are jP and jP/PB unless otherwise noted.

ENTERING GRADE 3:

Allard Miss Nelson Is Missing

Artell Petite Rouge: A Cajun Red Riding Hood (j 398.2 A)

Barrett Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Blume Freckle Juice(jFIC & jPB)

Cameron The Stories Julian Tells (jFIC &j PB)

Cherry The Great Kapok Tree (RR)

Cole Bony Legs (jE & jE PB)

DahI Fantastic Mr. Fox (jFIC & jPB)

Ernst Little Red Riding Hood: A Newfangled Prairie Tale

Etra Aliens For Breakfast (jPB)

Ferris Go Free Or Die, A Story About Harriet Tubman (jB Tubman)

Ferris Walking The Road To Freedom: Story about Sojurner Truth (jB Truth)

Ferris What Are You Figuring Now? Benjamin Banneker(jB Banneker)

Fleming Where Once There Was A Wood

Frasier Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster

George Look to the North: A Wolf Pup Diary (jP/PB only)

Giff Oh, Boy, Boston (jPB)

Hopkins Sports! Sports! Sports! (jE)

Jeffers Brother Eagle, Sister Sky a Message From Chief Seattle (jP/PB)

Kline Horrible Harry And The Dungeon (jFIC & jPB)

Krull Wilma Unlimited (jB Rudolph)

MacLachlan Sarah, Plain And Tall*

McGill Molly Bannaky

Polacco The Bee Tree, The Keeping Quilt

Robinson The Best School Year Ever (jFIC & jPB)

Rockwell How To Eat Fried Worms (jFIC & jPB)

Rodowsky Not My Dog (jFIC & PB)

Stevenson Rocks In His Head

White Charlotte’s Web (jFIC & jPB)

Yolen Letting Swift River Go

Recommended Series for Grade 3:

TITLE AUTHOR

Cam Jansen Series Adler (jFIC & jPB)

Bailey School Kids Series Dadey (jPB)

Amber Brown series Danziger (jFIC & jPB)

Meg Mackintosh Series Landon (jFIC &j PB)

Magic Tree House Series Osborne (jFIC &j PB)

The Littles series Peterson (jPB)

Jigsaw Jones Mystery Preller (jPB)

A-Z Mysteries series Roy (jPB)

Marvin Redpost series Sachar (jFIC &j PB)

Nate the great series Sharmat (jE)

Encyclopedia Brown series Sobol (jFIC &j PB)

Boxcar Children series Warner (jFIC &j PB)

Recommended Authors for Grade 3:

Matt Christopher

Beverly Cleary, Barbara Cooney, Robert McCloskey, Patricia McKissack (fiction and non-fiction choices), Allen Say, Jon Scieszka, William Steig, Chris Van Allsburg

RR=Reading Rainbow.

*Newbery Award.

Books are jP and jP/PB unless otherwise indicated.

ENTERING GRADE 4:

Barasch Radio Rescue (jP)

Blume Fudge-a-Mania

Coville My Teacher Is An Alien (PB only)

Dahl James And The Giant Peach

Erickson The Original Adventures Of Hank The Cowdog (PB only)

Howe Bunnicula

MacLachlin Caleb’s Story

O’Brien Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH*

O’Brien The Hindenburg (j 629.133)

Richler Jacob Two-Two Meets the hooded fang

Sachar Sideways Stories From Wayside School

St.George So You Want To Be President? (j 973 S)

Tang The Grapes Of Math (j793.7 T)

Thayer Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s Casey At The Bat (j 811 T oversize)

Recommended Authors For Grade 4 :

Ann Turner Dear America books

Patricia Polacco Various titles, mostly jP

Eleanor Coerr Sadako

Mildred Taylor Various titles

Shel Silverstein Poetry, j 811’s

Matt Christopher Sports fiction

Ann McGovern American history (j 973’s)

Recommended Series For Grade 4 :

TITLE AUTHOR

Secrets of Droon series Abbott (jPB only)

Little House series Wilder

Anastasia Krupnik series Lowry

My weird school series Gutman (jPB only)

Baseball card series Gutman

Series of unfortunate events Snicket

39 Clues series Various authors

Magic Tree house series Osborne

Time warp trio series Scieszka

* Newbery Award Winners.

All others are jFic & jPB unless otherwise noted.

ENTERING GRADE 5:

Avi Never mind! : a twin novel

Berlin The puzzling world of Winston Breen

Birdsall The Penderwicks : a summer tale of four sisters, two rabbits, …

Bosch The name of this book is secret

Broach Masterpiece

Clements No talking

Codell Vive la Paris

Corbett Free baseball

Davies Extreme animals : the toughest creatures on Earth (j 590 D)

Erdrich The birchbark house

Fleischman Escape! the story of the great Houdini (jB Houdini)

Going The liberation of Gabriel King

Gutman The kid who ran for President

Haven Two hot dogs with everything

Ibbotson The haunting of Granite Falls

Janeczko A kick in the head: an everyday guide to poetic forms (j 811 J)

Juster The phantom tollbooth

Lange 1607 : a new look at Jamestown (j 975.5 L)

Lowry The Willoughbys

McKissack Porch lies: tales of slicksters, tricksters, and other wily characters

Mercado Tripping over the lunch lady: and other school stories

O’Connor How to steal a dog: a novel

Park Project Mulberry: a novel

Patron The higher power of Lucky

Schanzer John Smith escapes again! (jB Smith)

Selznick The invention of Hugo Cabret

Woods My name is Sally Little Song

Yue Little Leap Forward: a boy in Beijing

ADDITIONAL MIDDLE SCHOOL TITLES ARE LOCATED IN THE REFERENCE ROOM

WITH ALL OF THE OTHER SUMMER READING.