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