Commack Schools
Supplementary Summer
Reading List
2015
Grades K-5
“Every Hero Has a Story”
KINDERGARTEN - Picture books for parents to read aloud.
Author Beaumont, Karen
Bertram, Debbie
Brett, Jan
Carle, Eric
Carlson, Nancy
Chodos-Irvine, Margaret
Clements, Andrew
Cousins, Lucy
Dyer, Jane
Ehlert, Lois Fleming, Denise
Gall, Chris
Gliori, Debi
Guarino, Deborah
Henkes, Kevin Hest, Amy
Holabird, Katherine
Howard, Arthur
Intriago, Patricia
Howe, James
Jennings, Linda
Klassen, John
Keller, Holly
Leopold, Niki
Lionni, Leo
Martin Jr., Bill
McGhee, Alison
Meisel, Paul
Meister, Cari
Numeroff, Laura
O’Malley, Kevin Park, Linda Sue
Parr, Todd Penn, Audrey
Rex, Michael
Rinker, Sherri
Rohmann, Eric
Rosenthal, Amy
Rylant, Cynthia
Seeger, Laura Vaccaro
Slate, Joseph
Spinelli, Jerry
Stead, Philip
Tafuri, Nancy
Underwood, Deborah
Wells, Rosemary
Wheeler, Lisa
Willems, Mo
Wilhelm, Hans
Wilson, Karma
Wood, Audrey
Title Who Ate All the Cookie Dough
Best Time to Read; Best Place to Read
All picture book titles
All picture book titles
Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come
Ella Sarah Gets Dressed
Slippers at School and other picture book titles
All picture book titles
Little Brown Bear and all picture book titles
All picture book titles
All picture book titles
Dinotrux
Flora's Surprise
Is Your Mama a Llama?
All picture book titles
Baby Duck titles
Angelina books
Cosmo Zooms
Dot
Horace and Morris but Mostly Dolores
Little Puppy Lost
I Want My Hat Back; This is Not My Hat
That's Mine, Horace
K is for Kitten
All picture book titles
All picture book titles
Countdown to Kindergarten
See Me Run
When Tiny Was Tiny; Tiny the Snow Dog; Tiny Goes to the Library
If You Give a … series
Little Buggy
Yum! Yuck!
All picture book titles
The Kissing Hand; A Pocket Full of Kisses; A Kiss Good-bye
All titles
Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site
My Friend Rabbit, A Kitten's Tale
Little Oink; Little Pea; The OK Book
Puppy Mudge series
First The Egg; Dog and Bear series
Miss Bindergarten series
My Daddy and Me
A Sick Day For Amos McGee
All picture book titles
The Quiet Book
All picture book titles
Dino-Soccer, Dino-Hockey, Dino-Baseball
All picture book titles
Noodles series
All titles
The Napping House and other picture books
Yolen, Jane
How Do Dinosaurs series
GRADE 1
Books to Read Together and Beginning Readers
Author Allard, Harry
Barrett, Judi
Brenner, Emily
Brown, Marc
Capucilli, Alyssa
Child, Lauren
Curtis, Jamie Lee
Davis, Jacky
DeGroat, Diane
DiCamillo, Kate
Dodd, Sarah
Falconer, Ian
Forest, Heather
Fox, Mem
Frazee, Marla
Frost, Helen
George, Lindsay Barrett
Hamm, Mia
Hoberman, MaryAnn
Hoose, Phillip
Hutchins, Pat
Kasza, Keiko
Kirk, Daniel
Lobel, Arnold
Lovell, Patty
McDonnell, Patrick
McMullan, Kate
Munsch, Robert
Munson, Derek
Numeroff, Laura
Otoshi, Kathryn
Parish, Herman
Pilkey, Dav
Rankin, Laura
Rathmann, Peggy
Reynolds, Peter
Rockwell, Anne
Rose, Deborah Lee
Rosenthal, Amy Krouse
Rylant, Cynthia
Saunders-Smith, Gail
Sendak, Maurice
Simont, Marc
Sierra, Judy
Stadler, Alexander
Theobald, Joseph
Waber, Bernard
Watt, Melanie
Title Miss Nelson series
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
On the First Day of Grade School
Arthur books
Biscuit series
All picture book titles
Big Words for Little People
Ladybug Girl titles
Brand-New Pencils, Brand-New Books
Bink and Gollie series
Dog's Colorful Day; Dog's ABC
Olivia books
The Little Red Hen; Stone Soup
All picture book titles
Roller Coaster
All About Pets series
Around the Pond: Who’s Been Here?; In the Woods: Who's Been There?
Winners Never Quit
The Seven Silly Eaters; You Read to Me, I'll Read to You
Hey Little Ant
All titles
My Lucky Day; Wolf's Chicken Stew
Library Mouse titles
Frog and Toad series
Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon; Have Fun, Molly Lou Melon
The Gift of Nothing
Fluffy series
All picture book titles
Enemy Pie
Beatrice Doesn't Want To; What Grandmas Do Best and other What Best books
One; Zero
Amelia Bedlia's First Field Trip
The Paperboy
Ruthie and the Not so Teeny Tiny Lie
Officer Buckle and Gloria
The Dot; Ish
All nonfiction titles
Into the A, B, Sea
Spoon
The Great Gracie Chase; Annie & Snowball series; All in a Day; Poppelton series; Mr. Putter Tabby series
Basic nonfiction books on a variety of topics
Where the Wild Things Are
The Stray Dog
Born to Read
Beverly Billingsly titles
Marvin Wanted More!
Lyle the Crocodile series; Ira Sleeps Over
You're Finally Here; Scaredy Squirrel series
Willems, Mo
Wiseman, Bernard
Zion, Gene
Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct; Elephant and Piggie series
Morris the Moose series
Harry the Dirty Dog series
GRADE 2
Author Adler, David
Arnold, Tedd
Bloom, Becky
Brisson, Pat
Brown, Jeff
Buehner, Caralyn
Cole, Joanna
Cox, Judy
Creech, Sharon
Cronin, Doreen
Dannenberg, Julie
Danziger, Paula
Edwards, Pamela
Fearing, Mark
Forward, Toby
Gibbons, Gail
Hoffman, Mary
Hopkins, Lee Bennett
Jenkins, Steve
Keller, Holly
Klein, Abby
Krulik, Nancy
McKinley, Cindy
Meddaugh, Susan
O'Connell, Kristine
O’Connor, Jane
Osborne, Mary Pope
Parish, Peggy
Park, Barbara
Pattison, Darcy
Preller, James
Pulver, Robin
Ransom, Jeanie Franz
Richardson, Adele
Roy, Ron
Rylant, Cynthia
Schneider, Josh
Schwartz, Corey Rosen
Sharmat, Marjorie
Sierra, Judy
Stevens, Janet
Stevenson, James
Stier, Catherine
Teitelbaum, Michael
Thomas, Shelley Moore
Viorst, Judith
Title Young Cam Jansen series
Fly Guy series
Wolf!
Beach is to Fun: A Book of Relationships
Flat Stanley series
Fanny's Dream
Magic School Bus series
My Family Plays Music
A Fine, Fine School
All titles
First Year Letters
A is for Amber series
Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke
The Book That Eats People
What Happened to Little Red Riding Hood: The Wolf’s Story
All nonfiction titles
Amazing Grace; Boundless Grace; Princess Grace
School Supplies: a Book of Poems
All titles
Help! A Story of Friendship
Ready Freddy series
Katie Kazoo series
One Smile
Martha series
Fold Me a Poem
Fancy Nancy titles
Magic Tree House series
Amelia Bedelia series
Junie B. Jones series
The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman
Jigsaw Jones Mysteries
Punctuation Takes a Vacation
What Really Happened to Humpty Dumpty
First Facts: Exploring the Animal Kingdom
A - Z Mystery and Calendar Mystery series
Henry and Mudge series; When I Was Young in the Mountains
Tales From Very Picky Eaters
Three Ninja Pigs
Nate the Great series
Wild About Books; Tell the Truth B.B. Wolf
The Great Fuzz Frenzy
Yard Sale
If I Were President; If I Ran for President
Backyard Sports series
Good Night, Good Knight
All Alexander titles
Willey, Margaret
Clever Beatrice
Suggested Magazines for the Primary Grades
High Five
Highlights for Children
Humpty Dumpty’s Magazine
Your Big Backyard
Zoobooks
GRADE 3
Author Title
Abbott, Tony
Baretta, Gene
Barrows, Annie
Blume, Judy
Child, Lauren
Clements, Andrew
Connor, Leslie
DiCamillo, Kate
Eyewitness Readers
Fern, Tracey
Giff, Patricia Reilly
Greenburg, Dan
Halls, Kelly Milner
Helfer, Ralph
Hopkinson, Deborah
Hutmocker, Kimberly
Jacobson, Jennifer Richard
Joyce, William
Katz, Jon
Kerrin, Jessica Scott
Kline, Suzy
Look, Lenore
Maddox, Jake
Manes, Stephen
McEwan, Jamie
Osborne, Mary Pope
Pennypacker, Sara
Prelutsky, Jack
Roy, Ron
Sachar, Louis
St. George, Judith
Scieszka, Jon
Shoveller, Herb
Silverstein, Shel
Vernick, Audrey
Yolen, Jane
Secrets of Droon series
Now and Ben: The Modern Inventory of Benjamin Franklin
Ivy and Bean series; Friend or Fiend
The Pain and the Great One series
Clarice Bean series
Jake Drake series
Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel
Mercy Watson series
Nonfiction titles
Barnum's Bones
Adventures of Minnie and Max series
Zack Files series
Dinosaur Mummies: Beyond Bare-bone Fossils
World's Greatest Lion
Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building; Annie and Helen
Therapy Dogs
Andy Shane and the Very Bossy Dolores Starbuckle; Pumpkin Trick
A Day with Wilbur Robinson
Meet the Dogs of Bedlam Farm
Martin Bridge series
Herbie Jones; Mary Marony and the Snake
Alvin Ho: Allergic to Camping, Hiking and Other Natural Disasters
Paintball Invasion; Skate Park Challenge; Slam Dunk Shoes; Soccer Shootout
Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days
Rufus The Scrub; Willie the Scrub; Whitwater Scrubs
Magic Tree House Companion non-fiction titles
Clementine series
Poetry anthologies including A Pizza the Size of the Sun; The New Kid on the Block
Capital Mysteries series
Marvin Redpost series
So You Want To Be President?; So You Want To Be An Inventor?; So You Want To Be An Explorer?
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales; Math Curse
Ryan and Jimmy: And the Well in Africa that Brought Them Together
Where the Sidewalk Ends; Light in the Attic; Falling Up
Brothers at Bat
Color Me a Rhyme; A Sip of Aesop
GRADE 4
Author Title
Baglio, Ben M.
Animal Ark series
Birney, Betty G.
Humphrey the Hamster series
Bode, N.E.
Cabot, Meg
Cleary, Beverly
Clements, Andrew
Colfer, Eoin
The Anybodies, The Nobodies, The Somebodies
Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls series
All titles
All children's titles
Worst Boy In The World
Hey Batta Batta Swing: The Wild Old Days of Baseball
Playing To Win: Althea Gibson
Because of Winn-Dixie; The Tale of Despereaux:Being the Story of a Mouse; Miraculous Journey of
Edward Tulane
Classroom at the End of the Hall; Elevator Family
Mallory series
Sugarplum Ballerinas series
Cabin Creek Mysteries series
My Weird School series; Baseball Card Adventures series
Emily Windsnap series
The Snow Baby
Ruby Lu: Empress of Everything; Brave and True
Mike Lupica's Comeback Kids series
Amazing Days of Abby Hayes series
Judy Moody series
Lewis and Clark and Me
Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair
Wayside School series
The Original Time Warp Trio series
The Houdini Box
Akimbo series
Fourth Grade Rats
Brave Dogs, Gentle Dogs; How They Guard Sheep
Super Emma
Hank Zipzer series
Cook, Sally and Charlton, James
Deans, Karen
DiCamillo, Kate
Evans, Douglas
Friedman, Laurie
Goldberg, Whoopi
Gregory, Kristina
Gutman, Dan
Kessler, Liz
Kirkpatrick, Katherine
Look, Lenore
Lupica, Mike
Mazer, Anne
McDonald, Megan
Myers, Laurie
Polacco, Patricia
Sachar, Louis
Scieszka, Jon
Selznick, Brian
Smith, Alexander McCall
Spinelli, Jerry
Urbigkit, Cat
Warner, Sally
Winkler, Henry
GRADE 5
Author Title
Applegate, Katherine
Avi
Baker, E. D.
Byng, Georgia
Creech, Sharon
DeClements, Barthe
DeFelice, Cynthia
Dennis, Brian
Duprau, Jeanne
Gantos, Jack
George, Jean Craighead
Giff, Patricia Reilly
Gutman, Dan
Hahn, Mary Downing
Hale, Shannon
Harrison, David
Hiaasen, Carl
The One and Only Ivan
Sophia's War
The Tales of the Frog Princess series
Molly Moon series
Ruby Holler; Chasing Redbird; The Wanderer; Love That Dog; Hate That Cat
Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade
Signal; The Ghost of Fossil Glen and other mysteries
Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, Marine and a Miracle
The City of Ember; The People of Sparks; The Prophet of Yonwood; Diamond of Darkhold
Joey Pigza series
The Cats of Roxville Station
Lilly’s Crossing; Willow Run; Hunter Moran Saves the Universe
The Homework Machine; Return of the Homework Machine
Wait Until Helen Comes; Deep and Dark and Dangerous; and other mystery/supernatural titles
The Princess Academy; Palace of Stone
Cave Detectives
Chomp; Hoot; Scat
Hunter, Erin
Horvath, Polly
Jenkins, Steve
Jones, Charlotte Foltz
Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody
Kinney, Jeff
Korman, Gordon
Law, Ingrid
Levine, Gail Carson
Lupica, Mike
MacDonald, Alan
Madonna
Martin, Ann
Mass, Wendy
Mills, Claudia
Myers, Walter Dean
Palacio, R.J.
Riordan, Rick
Spinelli, Jerry
Stewart, Trenton Lee
Tarshis, Lauren
Turnage, Sheila
Van Draanen, Wendelin
Various Authors
Warner, Sally
Yee, Lisa
The Warriors series
Everything on a Waffle; The Trolls; The Pepins and Their Problems
Dogs and Cats
Mistakes That Worked; Fifty Inventions Discovered by Mistake
Lily B series
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series
No More Dead Dogs; Island series; Dive series; On the Run series; Swindle series; Kidnapped series;
Schooled;Ungifted
Savvy; Scumble
All titles
Million Dollar Throw; The Big Field
Trolls Go Home
English Roses series
The Main Street series
Every Soul a Star; 11 Birthdays; Twice Upon a Time
Trading Places
Hoops
Wonder
Percy Jackson and the Olympians series; Kane Chronicles
Crash; Maniac Magee; Loser; The Library Card
The Mysterious Benedict Society series
I Survived series
Three Times Lucky
Flipped
The 39 Clues series
Best Friend Emma
Millicent Min, Girl Genius; So Totally Emily Ebers; Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time
Suggested Magazines for Grades 3, 4 5
American Girl
ASK (Arts and Sciences for Kids)
Contact Kids
Cricket Magazine
Jack and Jill
Kids Discover
Time for Kids
Muse
National Geographic World
Ranger Rick
Sports Illustrated for Kids
Stone Soup
Story Works