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)