Grade 2
Recommended Books
Andy Shane and the very bossy Dolores
Starbuckle, Jacobson
+Basketball Bats, Hicks
The Best seat in second grade, Kenah
+The Boy That Pitched a No Hitter,
Christopher
+Bread and Jam for Frances, Hoban
Breakout at the bug lab, Horowitz
+Bright, Shiny Skylar, Tripp
Butterfly Buddies, Cox
Buying, training, & caring for your
dinosaur, Rennert
The Case of the Lost Boy, Butler*
Dancing Dinos go to school, Lucas
Dear Vampa, Collins*
Dinotrux, Gall*
Dirk Bones and the mystery of the haunted
house, Cushman
A Dozen Dozens, Ziefert
+In the Dinosaur’s Paw, Giff
Jenius : the amazing guinea pig, King-Smith
Jigsaw Pony, Haas
+Get Ready for Second Grade, Amber
Brown, Danziger
Go, Fractions!, Stamper
Green Wilma: frog in space, Arnold*
Little Horse, Byars
Max and Jax in Second Grade, Nolen
Maybelle Goes To Tea, Speck
Mush, a dog from space, Pinkwater
Pastry school in Paris : an adventure in
capacity, Neuschwander*
Princess Rosa's winter / Judy Hindley
+Rotten Ralph Feels Rotten, Gantos
Sly the Sleuth and the pet mysteries, Napoli
Sue MacDonald had a book, Tobin*
Tara and Tiree, fearless friends: a true story,
Clements
Favorite Series for Grade 2
A-Z Mysteries, Roy
Amanda Pig, Van Leeuwen
Amelia Bedelia, Parish
Annie and Snowball, Rylant
Arthur, Hoban
Buddy Files*
Cam Jansen, Adler
Commander Toad, Yolen
Cork and Fuzz, Chaconas
Fluffy, McMullan
George and Marsha, Marshall
Gym Shorts, Hicks*
Hopscotch Hill, Tripp
Houndsley and Catina, Howe*
Junie B. Jones, Park
Kids of Polk Street School, Giff
Little Bear, Minarik
Magic Tree House, Osborne
Mr. Putter and Tabby, Rylant
Mercy Watson, DiCamillo
Nate the Great, Sharmat
PeeWee Scouts, Delton
Pinky and Rex, Howe
Roscoe Riley Rules, Applegate
Zelda and Ivy, Krasnovsky *
Young Amber Brown, Danziger
Young Cam Jansen, Adler
Zack Files, Greenburg
Picture Books:
The Art Lesson, DePaola
Big Chickens, Helakoski
Boogie Knights,Wheeler
Click, Clack Moo: Cows that Type,
Cronin
Crocs, Greenberg
The Fish Who Cried Wolf, Donaldson *
Fred Stays with Me, Coffelt’
Help Me, Mr. Mutt, Stevens
How Do Dinosaurs Go To School? Yolen
I Feel A Foot, Rinck *
I’m Bad, McMullan
Little Polar Bear and the Whales, Beer
Lucy and the Bully, Alexander*
The Perfect Nest, Friend
Previously, Ahlberg*
Princess K.I.M. and the lie that grew,
Cocca-Leffler*
Splat the Cat, Scotton
Tadpole Rex, Cyrus
There’s an Alligator Under My Bed, Mayer
Too Many Frogs, Asher
A Visitor for Bear, Becker
What Really Happened to Humpty,
Ransom *
Wombat Walkabout, Shields
Nonfiction
Amazing Gorillas, Thomson
Astronaut Handbook, McCarthy
The Day the Dinosaurs Died, Brown
Frog in a Bog, Himmelman
Fun Facts about Frogs, Bredeson
Inside a Tepee, Schuh*
Living sunlight: how plants bring the earth
to life, Bang*
My, oh my-- a Butterfly! Rabe
Mt. Vesuvius and the destruction of
Pompeii, A.D. 79, Robertson
Once Upon a Time: Writing your own Fairy
Tale, Loewen*
S is for save the planet: a How-to-be Green
Alphabet, Herzog
There's no place like space, Rabe
Where do Polar Bears Live, Thomson*
The Wolves are Back, George
Biographies
Babe Ruth and the baseball curse, Kelly
A girl named Helen Keller, Lundell
Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King,
Jr.,Marzollo
Oooh! Picasso, Niepold*
A picture book of George Washington /
David A. Adler
President Barack Obama, Marks*
Reaching for the moon, Aldrin
Ruby Bridges goes to school: my true story,
Bridges*
Poetry
Beneath a Blue Umbrella, Prelutsky
The Bill Martin, Jr. big book of poetry
Here's a little poem: a very first book of
poetry, Candlewick
Spot the Plot, Lewis*
Toad by the Road, Ryder
Fairy Tales/Folk Tales
The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Hennessy
Chicken Little, Emberly
Frog Prince, Tarkov
How Spirit Dog made the Milky Way: a
retelling of a Cherokee legend,
O’Hearn*
Little Rooster’s Diamond Button,
MacDonald
Out of the Egg, Matthews
Red Riding Hood, Marshall
Sword in the Stone, Maccarone
This is the House that Jack Build, Taback
The three little gators, Ketteman
Zomo the Rabbit: a trickster tale from West
Africa, McDermott
 Mrs. Pettersen’s Favorites
+part of a series
*New