If you liked this “highlighted” book/series/genre in your Second Grade
Classroom this year then try a few of these suggestions this summer!
compiled by Mrs. Oleynik
FANTASY
The Magical Ms. Plum – Sideways Stories from Wayside School/Wayside School
(series) -- The Class Trip from the Black Lagoon/Black Lagoon (series) Red Riding
Hood Takes Charge /After Happily Ever After (series)
James and the Giant Peach -- Spiderwick Chronicles (series) -- The Twits
Charlotte’s Web -- Cricket in Times Square – Tumtum & Nutmeg Rose Cottage
Adventures
Toad for Tuesday -- Runaway Ralph/Ralph S. Mouse (series) -- Surprises According
to Humphrey/Humphrey (series) – Poppy/Tales from Dimwood Forest (series)
Magic Tree House (series, New Hurry Up, Houdini!) - - Japanese Ninja
Surprise/Flat Stanley (series) -- The Journey Home/Unicorn’s Secret (series)
Rainbow Magic Fairies (series, NEW Selena the Sleepover Fairy) -- The Night
Fairy – Rosetta’s Dress Mess/Disney Fairies (series) – Wednesdays in the
Tower/Tuesdays at the Castle (series) – The House Above the Trees
SCIENCE FICTION
Star Jumper/Journal of a Cardboard Genius -- Summer Reading is Killing Me
/Time Warp Trio (series) – Three Cheers for Who?/Katie Kazoo (series)
GRAPHIC NOVELS
Squish (series, NEW Power of the Parasite) – Case of the Toxic Mutants/Dragon
Breath (series) – Happy Birthday, Babymouse/Babymouse (series)
REALISTIC FICTION
Stink (series, NEW Stink and the Freaky Frog Freakout) -- Save the Earth/Ready
Freddy(series) -- Ellray Jakes Walks the Plank/Ellray Jakes (series)—Hey! Who
Stole the Toilet?/George Brown Class Clown (series) – How Oliver Olson Changed
the World
Puppy Place (series, NEW Oscar, Molly) -- Domino/Kitty Corner (series) -- Mr.
Popper’s Penguins – Parrot Pandemonium/Pet Sitter (series) – Doggie Dare/Cat’s
Cradle/Animal Ark Pets (series)
Judy Moody (series, NEW Not the Bummer Summer) -- Break the Fossil
Record/Ivy & Bean (series) – Aloha-ha-ha!/Junie B. Jones (series)—Second Grade
Baby/The Kids in Ms. Coleman’s Class (series) -- Just Grace and the Trouble With
Cupcakes/Just Grace (series) – Principal for the Day/Frankly, Frannie (series) –
Clementine and the Family Meeting/Clementine (series)
Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie -- Like Bug Juice on a Burger
BIOGRAPHIES
Rosa – Who Was Martin Luther King Jr./Who Was (series) -- Abe Lincoln and the
Muddy Pig -- Abe Lincoln Remembers -- George Did It -- Christopher Columbus
and his Voyage to the New World -- John F. Kennedy and the Stormy
Sea/Childhood of Famous Americans (series) – The Man Who Walked Between
the Towers – The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins – Now & Ben
MYSTERIES
Nate the Great and the Hungry Book Club/Nate the Great (series) – Encyclopedia
Brown Cracks the Case/Encyclopedia Brown (series) – The X’ed –Out X-ray/A to Z
Mysteries (series)—The Birthday Mystery/Cam Jansen (series) -- Mystery at the
Washington Monument/Carole Marsh Mysteries (series) – One Day at
Horrorland/Goosebumps (series) -- June Jam/Calendar Mysteries (series) Spiders
on the Case/The Deadlies (series)