Recommended Summer Reading Grades Two and Three
Developed by Howard County Public School Library Media Specialists
and Librarians from Howard County Library
Stories Around the World
Fiction stories with a world view to enjoy
What Will You Be, Sara Mee?
Avraham, Kate
Only One Year
Cheng, Andrea
I Lost My Tooth In Africa
Diakite, Penda
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love
Stuart Little
Gifford, Peggy
Drita My Homegirl
Lombard, Jenny
Wink: The Ninja Who Wanted to
Be Noticed
Chicken Sunday
Fly Free!
Phillips, J.C.
Dear Primo: A Letter to My Cousin
Four Feet, Two Sandals
Tonatiuh, Duncan
Williams, Karen
The titles selected for this recommended summer
reading list were chosen especially for those students
finishing second and third grade. Titles included are just
a sampling of the books you may enjoy reading during this
summer. Many of the authors on this list have written more
than one book. Check out some of those titles, too!
Polacco, Patricia
Thong, Roseanne
Travel the World
Read A Book
Real Around the World
Ecomazes: Twelve Earth
Adventures
Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of
the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride
Munro, Roxie
P is for Passport: A World Alphabet
Scillian, Devin
Horton Hears a Who
Seuss, Dr.
Hot Diggity Dog: The History of the
Hot Dog
Welcome to the World series
Sylver, Adrienne
Lights on Broadway: A Theatrical
Tour from A to Z
Ziefert, Harriet
Priceman, Marjorie
Nonfiction books that take you around the world
Recess at 20 Below
Aillaud, Cindy Lou
Let's Eat!: What Children Eat
Around the World
Children Just Like Me
Stand Straight, Ella Kate: The True
Story of a Real Giant
Coming to America: The Story of
Immigration
Hollyer, Beatrice
Listen to the Wind
Long Shot: Never Too Small to
Dream Big
Erika-San
Mortenson, Greg
Paul, Chris
2030: A Day in the Life of
Tomorrow's Kids
Zuckerman, Amy
Kindersley, Barnabas
Klise, Kate
Maestro, Betsy
Say, Allen
Various authors
Graphic Novels
Lunch Lady and the Cyborg
Substitute
The Adventures of Daniel Boom,
a.k.a Loud Boy: 3 Game On!
Adventures in Cartooning
Krosoczka, Jarrett
Kit Feeny On the Move
Towsend, Michael
Pet Shop Private Eye series
Venable, Colleen
Steinberg, D.J.
Sturm, James
The World
Lincoln Tells a Joke
Krull, Kathleen
Manjiro: The Boy Who Risked His
Life for Two Counties
Sky High: The True Story of
Maggie Gee
Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and
the Trees of Kenya
McCully, Emily
Moss, Marissa
Napoli, Donna Jo
Fables Folktales and Fairytales
Age old stories from around the world
of Animals
Fiction and
nonfiction
books with animals
as
the main subject
Bug Zoo
Baker, Nick
Birthday for Bear
Becker, Bonny
The World According to Humphrey
Birney, Betty
Lizards
Bishop, Nic
The Buddy Files: The Case of the
Fire Alarm
Gruffen
Butler, Dori
Animal Colors: A Rainbow of
Colors from Animals Around the
World
Emmaline and the Bunny
How To Clean A Hippopotamus
Hello, Bumblebee Bat
Fielding, Beth
Big Babies, Little Babies
Smarter Than Squirrels
Lulu and the Brontosaurus
Stuart Little
Mack, Lorrie
Nolan, Lucy
Viorst, Judith
White, E.B.
D'Lacey, Chris
Hannigan, Katherine
Jenkins, Steve
Lunde, Darrin
One Grain of Rice
Tales of Mystery and Magic
Wolf Wanted
Stories From the Billabong
Way Up and Over Everything
Cloud Tea Monkeys
The Lion and the Mouse
Demi
Lupton, Hugh
Machado, Ana Maria
Marshall, James
McGill, Alice
Peet, Mal and Elspeth
Grahm
Pinkney, Jerry
Wolf Pie
Seabrooke, Brenda
Poetry
Many things to many people
Sopa de Frijoles: Um Poema para
Concinar / Bean Soup: A Cooking
Poem
Poetrees
Argueta, Jorge
Good Sports: Rhymes about
Running, Jumping, Throwing, and
More
All the World
Prelutsky, Jack
Button Up!: Wrinkled Rhymes
Schertle, Alice
What in the Wild? : Mysteries of
Nature Concealed-- and Revealed:
Ear-Tickling Poems
Schwartz, David M.
Florian, Douglas
Scanlon, Liz
Biography
Books about people from around the world
Campy: The Story of Roy
Campanella
Hiromi's Hands
Adler, David
Soar, Elinor
Brown, Tami
Surfer of the Century: The Life of
Duke Kahanamoku
Crowe, Ellie
Barasch, Lynne
If you liked . . . Junie B. Jones
Ivy and Bean
Barrows, Annie
Ramona Quimby, Age 8
Cleary, Beverly
Nikki and Deja
English, Karen
Abigail Iris: The One and Only
Glatt, Lisa
Sugar Plum Ballerinas: Plum
Fantastic
Clara Lee and the Apple Pie
Dream
Goldberg, Whoopi
Han, Jenny
If you liked . . .Horrible Harry
Take the Mummy & Run series
Amato, Mary
Stinky
Davis, Eleanor
Super Chicken Nugget Boy and the
Furious Fry
Alvin Ho
Lewis, Josh
Stink and the Great Guinea Pig
Express
The Adventures of Ook and Gluk,
Kung-Fu Cavemen from the Future
McDonald, Megan
Look, Lenore
Pilkey, Dav
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