ELEMENTARY SUMMER READING
2015
For Students Entering Grades K - 5
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Summer Reading 2015
HAVE A WONDERFUL SUMMER AND HAPPY READING!
ELEMENTARY SUMMER READING LIST FOR 2015
Dear Parents/Guardians:
Educators consider summer reading very important for developing life-long
reading habits, for maintaining literacy skills and for promoting reading for
pleasure. Studies show that children who continue to read during the
summer months perform better when school resumes in the fall
How exciting it is when children respond to literature in meaningful ways, by
laughing out loud or making a connection with their own life experience.
Here are a few suggestions to encourage them in this important adventure
called Reading.
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Let them see you reading:
Books, magazines, newspapers; they will want to do as you do!
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Limit TV viewing!
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Follow up your child’s latest interests with books. Ask your child questions:
“What was your favorite part?”
“Do you want to read the sequel?”
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Help your child create a library of his or her own. Go to a garage sale or your
public library when they have a sale, and don’t forget that Amazon.com,
Barnes&Noble.com and Borders.com sell used books too.
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Make it a treat to read in bed and don’t be afraid of cookie crumbs and a little
spilt milk!
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Continue to read aloud to your child, even after he or she reads independently.
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Encourage your child to choose a book to read aloud to someone else.
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Play a summer reading game or join a reading program at your local library.
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A subscription to a kids’ magazine is a terrific gift. (Cricket, New Moon, and
Highlights are some of the best)
We encourage families to consult this reading list not just in the summer,
but throughout the school year.
Kindergarten
(*Books in series)
Picture Books
Brown, Peter
Capucilli, Alyssa
Carle, Eric
Crews, Donald
French, Jackie
Kaplan, Michael
Li-Qiong, Yu
Seuss, Dr.
Shaw, Nancy
Slobodkina, Esphur
Rylant, Cynthia
Waber, Bernard
Willems, Mo
You Will Be My Friend
My First I Can Read Book *
Does A Kangaroo Have A Mother Too?
Truck (and many others)
Diary Of A Baby Wombat
Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake
A New Year’s Reunion
Hop On Pop (and many others)
Sheep In A Jeep
Caps For Sale (a classic!)
Puppy Mudge Finds A Friend
Lyle Walks The Dogs A Counting Book
Elephant & Piggie: Can I Play Too? *
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale *
Alphabet Books
Becker, Leslie
Bridwell, Norman
Heller, Nicholas
Hoban, Tana
Horowitz, Dave
Parker, Marjorie
The Animal ABC
Clifford’s ABC
Ogres! Ogres! Ogres!: A Feasting Frenzy From A to Z
26 Letters and 99 cents
Twenty-six Princesses
A Paddling of Ducks: Animals In Groups From A to Z
Non−Fiction
Benjamin, Cynthia
Facklam, Margery
Ling, Mary
Nilsen, Anna
Ring, Susan
Schaefer, Lola
Swartz, Stanley
Hello Reader! Science Level 1 *
Bugs For Lunch
See How They Grow *
Animal Antics *
Step Into Reading *
Ocean Life Series
Marine Life For Young Readers *
1
Kindergarten
Page Two
Folklore
Edwards, Roberta
Hayward, Linda
Lurie, Alison
MacKinnon, Mairi
Pinkney, Jerry
Westcott, Nadine
Five Silly Fisherman
Pepe and Papa
The Black Geese: A Baba Yaga Story From Russia
The Fox And The Crow
The Fox And The Stork
The Sun And The Wind
The Lion and the Mouse
There’s A Hole In The Bucket
Poetry
Booth, Philip
Elliot, David
Hooper, Patricia
Johnston, Tony
MacLachlan, Patricia
Paolilli, Paul
Taylor, Jane
Crossing
My People
Where Do You Sleep, Little One?
It’s About Dogs
Once I Ate A Pie
Silver Seeds: A Book Of Nature Poems
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Favorite Authors
Frank Asch
Jan Brett
Eric Carle
Lauren Child
Donald Crews
Denise Fleming
Don Freeman
Gail Gibbons
Pat Hutchins
Leo Lionni
Cynthia Rylant
Bernard Waber
Rosemary Wells
Mo Willems
2
Grade 1
(*Books in series)
Picture Books
Barton, Chris
Dotlich, Rebecca
Fox, Mem
Graham, Bob
Lin, Grace
London, Jonathan
Martin, Bill
Marzolla, Jean
Minarik, Else
O’Connor, Jane
Pinkwater, Daniel
Rathman, Peggy
Rey, H.A.
Rickards, Lynne
Scotton, Robert
Trivizas, Eugenios
Watt, Melanie
Yolan, Jane
Shark vs. Train
Bella & Bean
Where Is The Green Sheep?
April and Esme Tooth Fairies
Ling And Ting
Let’s Go, Froggy! *
Chicka, Chicka Boom Boom
Pierre The Penquin
Little Bear Series
Fancy Nancy Sees Stars *
I Am The Dog
10 Minutes Till Bedtime and Goodnight Gorilla
Curious George *
Pink!
Love, Splat
Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
Scaredy Squirrel*
How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?
Non−Fiction
Bodden, Valerie
Curry, Don
Endres, Hallie
Falk, Laine
Johnson, Jinny
Riehecky, Janet
Wade, Mary Dodson
Amazing Animals *
What Hatches?
Blastoff! Readers *
Meet President Barack Obama
Busy Baby Animals *
Pebble Plus. Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals *
I Like Plants! *
Beginning Chapter Books
Arnold, Ted
DiCamillo, Kate
Lin, Grace
Lobel, Arnold
Manushkin, Fran
McMullan, Kate
Rylant, Cynthia
Willems, Mo
Hi! Fly Guy *
Mercy Watson To The Rescue *
Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same!
Frog and Toad *
Katie Woo*
Fluffy, The Classroom Guinea Pig *
Henry and Mudge * and Poppleton *
Elephant and Piggie*
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Grade 1
Page Two
Folklore
Bae, Hyun-Joo
Demi
Emberley, Rebecca
Galdone, Paul
Hooks, William
Kimmel, Eric
Kimmelman, Leslie
MacDonald, Margaret
Read
O’Connor, Jane
Taback, Simms
New Clothes For New Year’s Day
The Empty Pot
The Red Hen
Jack And The Beanstalk
Feed Me!: An Aesop Fable
Runaway Tortilla
The Little Red Hen And The Passover Matzoh
The Old Woman And Her Pig: An Appalachian Folktale
The Teeny Tiny Woman
Joseph Had A Little Overcoat
Poetry
Dillon, Leo
Florian, Douglas
Grimes, Nikki
Katz, Susan
MacLachlan, Patricia
McMillan, Bruce
Pierce, Terry
Prelutsky, Jack, ed.
Tudor, Tasha
Yolen, Jane
Mother Goose: Numbers On The Loose
In The Swim: Poems And Paintings
When Gorilla Goes Walking
A Revolutionary Field Trip: Poems Of Colonial America
I Didn’t Do It
Play Day: A Book Of Terse Verse
Ticktock: Time Nursery Rhymes
The Random House Book Of Poetry For Children
(It’s still the best!)
Around The Year
Count Me A Rhyme: Animal Poems
Favorite Authors
Marc Brown
Miriam Cohen
Lois Ehlert
Kevin Henkes
Ezra Jack Keats
James Marshall
Dr. Seuss
Bernard Waber
Mo Willems
4
Grade 2
(*Books in a series)
Fiction
Cazet, Denys
Cronin, Doreen
Dorros, Arthur
Gradits, John
Joyce, William
Klassen, Jon
McDonald, Megan
Munsch, Robert
Park, Barbara
Piven, Hanoch
Polacco, Patricia
Reich, Susanna
Rylant, Cynthia
Thaler, Mike
Van Dusen, Chris
Wood, Audrey and
Wood, Don
Minnie and Moo *
Giggle, Giggle, Quack and Diary of a Worm
Abuela
Ten Rules You Absolutely Must Not Break If You Want to
Survive the School Bus
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
I Want My Hat Back
Stink, The Incredible Shrinking Kid
(author of Judy Moody books)
The Paperbag Princess
Junie B. Jones *
My Best Friend Is As Sharp As A Pencil
My Rotten, Redheaded Older Brother
Minette’s Feast: The Delicious Story of Julia Child and Her
Cat
Henry and Mudge and the Great Grandpas
(first recipient of the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award
for beginning reader books)
Principal From The Black Lagoon *
King’ Hugo’s Huge Ego
Quick As A Cricket
The Napping House
Non−Fiction
Adler, David
Cobb, Vicki
Jenkins, Steve
Katz, Alan
Kroll, Steven
Ringgold, Faith
Tang, Greg
Wheeler, Lisa
Winter, Jeanette
A Picture Book of Sacagawea
(and other “Picture Book” biographies)
I Face the Wind
Almost Gone: the World’s Rarest Animals
Take me Out Of The Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs
Lewis and Clark
If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks
Math for All Seasons
Mammoths On The Move
Wangari’s Trees of peace: A True Story from Africa
5
Grade 2
Page Two
Folklore
Fleming, Candace
Kellogg, Steven
Lowell, Susan
Marshall, James
Wood, Audrey
Young, Ed
Zelinsky, Paul
Clever Jack Takes The Cake
Jack and the Beanstalk
The Three Little Javelinas
Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella
King Bidgood’s In The Bathtub
Lon Po Po
Rapunzel
Poetry
Berry, James
Elliot, David
Florian, Douglas
Hoberman, MaryAnne
Lansky, Bruce
O’Neill, Mary
Prelutsky, Jack
Yolen, Jane
Around The World In Eighty Poems
In The Wild
Insectlopedia
A House Is A House For Me
If Kids Ruled The School
Hailstones and Halibut Bones
Baby Uggs Are Hatching and Pizza The Size Of The Sun
How Beastly!
Favorite Authors
Steven Kellogg
Mary Pope Osborne
Margie Palatini
Cynthia Rylant
Jon Scieszka
David Shannon
David Weisner
6
Grade 3
(*Books in Series)
Fiction
Barrows, Annie
DiCamillo, Kate
DiPucchio, Kelly S.
Estes, Eleanor
Hoberman, Mary Ann
Krensky, Stephen
Polacco, Patricia
Pulver, Robin
Schwartz, Amy
Steig, William
Woodson, Jacqueline
Ivy and Bean*
Bink & Gollie*
Liberty’s Journey
100 Dresses
And to Think That We Thought That We'd Never Be Friends
Play Ball, Jackie!
The Art of Miss Chew
Punctuation Takes A Vacation
Things I Learned In Second Grade
Shrek! (Here’s where the movie comes from.)
Coming On Home Soon
Chapter Books
Barnes, Derrick
Danziger, Paula
Greenburg, J.C.
Gutman, Dan
Howe, James
Look, Lenore
Osbourne, Mary Pope
Scieszka, Jon
Stilton, Geronimo
Ruby And The Booker Boys *
Amber Brown *
Andrew Lost *
My Weird School *
Bunnicula *
Alvin Ho *
Magic Tree House *
Time Warp Trio *
Geronimo Stilton *
Non−Fiction
Branley, Franklyn M.
Cobb, Vicki
Gherman, Beverly
Giovanni, Nikki
Hillman, Ben
Kalman, Maira
Lorbiecki, Marybeth
Osborne, Mary Pope
Patrick, Jean
Slade, Suzanne
Solheim, James
Spinner, Stephanie
What Makes Day and Night
Your Body Battles a Skinned Knee
First Mothers
Rosa
How Big Is it? A Big Book All About Bigness
Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey
Escaping Titanic: A Young Girl’s True Story of Survival
Magic Tree House Research Guides*
The Girl Who Struck Out Babe Ruth
Climbing Lincoln’s Steps: The African American Journey
It’s Disgusting And We Ate It
Alex The Parrot
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Grade 3
Page Two
Biography
Borden, Elsie
De la Pena, Matt
Edwards, Roberta
Giblin, James
Golio, Gary
Hill, Laban Carrick
Hopkinson, Deborah
Krull, Kathleen
Pollack, Pam
Fly High! The Story of Bessie Coleman
A Nation’s Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis
Barack Obama: United States President
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson
Jimi: Sounds Like A Rainbow; A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix
Dave The Potter
Michelle (Obama)
Harvesting Hope (Cesar Chavez) and
The Boy on Fairfield Street: How Ted Geisel Grew Up To
Become Dr. Seuss
Who Was Steve Jobs?* (So-called, “Bobble Head Biographies”)
Folklore
Aesop
DePaola, Tomie
Egielski, Richard
Hamilton, Virginia
Johnston, Tony
Pullman, Phillip
San Souci, Robert
Shipple, Laura
Fables (any edition will do)
Legend of the Persian Carpet
The Gingerbread Boy
The People Could Fly; The Picture Book
Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella
Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp
The Talking Eggs, Cinderella Skeleton
If the Shoe Fits
Poetry
Adoff, Arnold
Bolden, Tonya
Grimes, Nikki
Katz, Bobbi
Lewis, J. Patrick
Prelutsky, Jack
Raczka, Bob
Silverstein, Shel
Sports Pages
Rock of Ages
My Man Blue
Pocket Poems
Doodle Dandies: Poems That Take Shape
The Frog Wore Red Suspenders and
The Dragons Are Singing Tonight
Guyku: A Year of Haiku for Boys
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Favorite Authors
Matt Christopher
Roald Dahl
Paula Danziger
Tomie DePaola
James Howe
R. L. Stine
Gertrude Chandler Warner
8
Grade 4
(*Books in series)
Fiction
Avi
Buckley, Michael
Cleary, Beverly
Clements, Andrew
DiCamillo, Kate
Louise Erdrich
DiTerlizzi, Tony
Gownley, Jimmy
Gutman, Dan
Hiaasen, Carl
Jacques, Brian
Kimmel, Eric A.
Manes, Stephen
O’Dell, Scott
Sachar, Louis
Sciezska, Jon
Taylor, Mildred
Trine, Greg
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Winkler, Henry
Poppy (Series) and The End Of The Beginning: Being the
Adventures of a Small Snail (and an Even Smaller Ant)
The Sisters Grimm*
Ramona The Pest (and others)
The School Story and Frindle
The Tale of Despereaux and The Miraculous Journey of
Edward Tulane
Birchbark House (and others)
Spiderwick Chronicles *
Amelia Rules!* (Graphic Novel)
Baseball Card Adventures *
Hoot, Flush, & Scat
The Great Redwall Feast
Website of the Cracked Cookies
Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Wayside School *
Spaceheadz *
The Friendship and The Gold Cadillac
The Adventures of Jo Schmo
Little House on the Prairie *
Hank Zipzer *
Non−Fiction
Barton, Chris
Beccia, Carlyn
Cherry, Lynne
Farris, Christine King
Frazee, Marla, and
others
Hopkins, Lee Bennett
McCarthy, Meghan
Miller, Debbie
The Day-Glo Brothers
I Feel Better With A Frog In My Throat: History’s Strangest Cures
A River Runs Wild
March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?
Patent, Dorothy
Hinshaw
St. George, Judith
Tocci, Salvatore
Sis, Peter
Smith, Charles R.
Yolen, Jane
Dogs On Duty
Marvelous Math
Pop!: The Invention Of Bubble Gum
Great Serum Race, Blazing the Iditarod Trail
So You Want To Be An Explorer?
Experiments With Motion (from A True Book series)
Train of States
The Mighty 12: Superheroes of Greek Myth
All Star!: Honus Wagner and the Most Famous Baseball Card Ever
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Grade 4
Page Two
Biography
Feinstein, Stephen
Farris, Christine King
Ferris, Jeri Chase
Kerley, Barbara
Kroll, Steven
Nelson, Kadir
Nobleman, Marc
Tyler
Reich, Susanna
Rockwell, Anne
Ryan, Pam Munoz
Vernick, Audrey
Winter, Jonah
Barack Obama
My Brother Martin
Noah Webster & His Words
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
William Penn, Founder of Pennsylvania
Nelson Mandela
Bill, The Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman
Jose! Born to Dance
Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth
When Marian Sang
She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story
Beisbol! Latino Baseball Pioneers and Legends
Poetry
Burleigh, Robert
Ciardi, John
Fleischman, Paul
Lewis, J. Patrick
Medina, Tony
Prelutsky, Jack
Scieszka, Jon
Viorst, Judith
Hoops
Doodle Soup
Joyful Noise: Poems For Two Voices
If You Were A Chocolate Mustache: Poems
DeShawn Days
Tyrannosaurus Was A Beast
Science Verse
If I Were In Charge Of The World and Sad Underwear
Folklore
Kimmel, Eric
Hamilton, Virginia
Reid, Sue
San Souci, Robert
Schwartz, Alvin
Singer, Marilyn
Wisniewsky, David
Yolen, Jane
The Hero Beowulf
A Ring of Tricksters: Animal Tales From America, the
West Indies and Africa
Ancient Myths: The Voyages of Odysseus
Cendrillon (A Caribbean Cinderella Tale)
Whoppers: Tall Tales And Other Lies
Mirror, Mirror: A Book Of Reversible Verse
Golem
Not One Damsel In Distress: World Folktales For Strong Girls
Favorite Authors
Avi
Lynne Reid Banks
Judy Blume
Beverly Cleary
Sharon Creech
E.L. Konigsburg
Donna Jo Napoli
Jerry Spinelli
10
Grade 5
(*Books in Series)
Fiction
Avi
Burrow, Randi
Burnett, Frances
Hodgson
Campbell, Julie
Creech, Sharon
Dahl, Roald
Funke, Cornelia
Ibbotson, Eva
Martin, Ann M.
Peck, Richard
Philbrick, Rodman
Pullman, Philip
Paulsen, Gary
Selznick, Brian
Shiga, Jason
Tashian, Janet
Van Allsburg, Chris
Yep, Lawrence
Sophia’s War: A Tale of the Revolution
Saving Zasha
The Secret Garden
Trixie Belden (Mystery Series−A Classic)
Ruby Holler and Walk Two Moons
Danny, The Champion of the World
Inkheart *
The Secret of Platform 13 and Island of the Aunts
Belle Teal
The Teacher’s Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
I Was A Rat!
Hatchet
The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Wonderstruck
Meanwhile: Pick Any Path. 3,856 Story Possibilities.
My Life As A Book
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
The Star Maker
Non−Fiction
Bridges, Ruby
Curlee, Lynn
Dyson, Marianne
Fradin, Dennis
Hopkinson, Deborah
Krull, Kathleen
McKendry, Jo
Murphy, Jim
Schanzer, Rosalyn
Talbott, Hudson
Through My Eyes
Rushmore
Space Station Science
Duel! Burr and Hamilton’s Deadly War of Words
Titanic: Voices From the Disaster
Wish You Were Here – Emily’s Guide to the 50 States
One Times Square: A Century of Change at the Crossroads
of the World
An American Plague: the True and Terrifying Story of the
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
What Darwin Saw: The Journey That Changed The World
Forging Freedom
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Grade 5
Page Two
Biography
Byrd, Robert
Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer
Fleischman, Sid
Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini
Freedman, Russell
Lincoln: A Photobiography
Gormley, Beatrice
Barack Obama: Our 44th President
Hubbard, Crystal
Game Set Match: Champion Arthur Ashe
Kerley, Barbara
Walt Whitman: Words For America
Krull, Kathleen
A Woman For President: The Story of Victoria Woodhull
Robinson, Sharon
Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America
Stone, Tanya Lee
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
Walker, Alice
Langston Hughes, American Poet
The Library of Author Biographies (J.K. Rowling, Lois Lowry, and others)
Folklore
Hamilton, Virginia
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales and
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales and
True Tales
Lugalbanda: The Boy Who Got Caught Up In A War;
An Epic Tale From Ancient Iraq
American Tall Tales
Mightier Than The Sword: World Folktales For Strong Boys
and
Not One Damsel In Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls
Henderson, Kathy
Osborne, Mary Pope
Yolen, Jane
Poetry
Dahl, Roald
Frost, Robert
Hopkins, Lee Bennett
Lewis, J. Patrick
Prelutsky, Jack
Silverstein, Shel
Willard, Nancy
Yolen, Jane
A Swinger of Birches
Sharing The Seasons: A Book Of Poems
A World of Wonders: Geographic Travels In Verse And Rhyme
The Gargoyle On The Roof
Falling Up
Pish, Posh, Said Hieronymus Bosch
A Sip of Aesop
Favorite Authors
Avi
Sharon Creech
Brian Jacques
Erin Hunter
Gail Carson Levine
Ann M. Martin
Donna Jo Napoli
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Katherine Patterson
Gary Paulsen
Rick Riordan
J. K. Rowling
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Louis Sachar
Jerry Spinelli
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