Summer Reading Lists

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TITLE

AUTHOR

Frog and Toad

Arnold Lobel
The Napping House Audrey Wood
Brown Bear, Brown Bear Bill Martin
Is Your Mama A Llama Deborah Guarino
Courduroy Don Freeman
School Bus Donald Crens
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle

In Grandma’s Arms     

Jayne C. Shelton

Chicka Chicka Boom  

John Archambault

A Busy Year   

Leo Lionni

Arthur Books  

Marc Brown
Big Red Barn    Margaret Wise Brown
I Like Me!        Nancy Carlson
Clifford Books  Norman Bridwell

Rosie’s Walk   

 Pat Hutchins

Amelia Bedelia Books 

Peggy Parish

More Spaghetti I Say   

Rita Golden Gelman

 

KINDERGARTEN  (READ-A-LOUD-BOOKS) click here for printable version

TITLE

AUTHOR

We Are Best Friends Aliki
Biscuit Books Alyssa
Frog and Toad Arnold Lobel
The Napping House Audrey Wood
Junie B. Jones Books Barbara Park
Brown Bear, Brown Bear Bill Martin
Henry and Mudge Series Cynthia Rylant
Young Cam Jansen Books David Adler
Courduroy Don Freeman
School Bus Donald Crens
Foot Book Dr. Seuss
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle
Curious George Books H.A. Rey
Who Took The Farmer’s Hat Joan Nodset
Chicka Chicka Boom John Archambault
A Busy Year Leo Lionni
Arthur Books Marc Brown
The Three Billy Goats Gruff Marcia Brown
Big Red Barn Margaret Wise Brown
Little Critter Books Mercer Mayer
I Like Me! Nancy Carlson
Clifford the Big Red Dog Norman Bridwell
Are You My Mother P.D. Eastman
Rosie’s Walk Pat Hutchins
Amelia Bedelia Books Peggy Parish
Why Can’t I Fly Rita Gelman
More Spaghetti I Say Rita Golden Gelman
Where Are You Little Mouse Robert Kraus
   

 

FOR CHILDREN ENTERING GRADE 1 click here for printable version

TITLE

AUTHOR

We Are Best Friends

Aliki

Biscuit Books

Alyssa

One of Three

Angela Johnson

Frog and Toad

Arnold Lobel

Pipi Longstockings Series

Astrid Ludgren

The Napping House

Audrey Wood

Junie B. Jones Books

Barbara Park

Henry and Mudge Series

Cynthia Rylant

Cam Jansen Series

David Adler

Young Cam Jansen Books

David Adler

Fix and Bear Look at the Moon

David McPhail

Courduroy

Don Freeman

Little Bear Series

Else H. Minarik

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Eric Carle

Curious George Books

H.A. Rey

Who Took The Farmer’s Hat

Joan Nodset

Chicka Chicka Boom

John Archambault

A Busy Year

Leo Lionni

Arthur Books

Marc Brown

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Marcia Brown

Big Red Barn

Margaret Wise Brown

Nate the Great

Marjorie Sharmat

Magic Three House Series

Mary Pope Osborne

Little Critter Books

Mercer Mayer

I Like Me!

Nancy Carlson

Clifford the Big Red Dog

Norman Bridwell

Are You My Mother

P.D. Eastman

Rosie’s Walk

Pat Hutchins

The Doorbell Rang

Pat Hutchins

Amelia Bedelia Books

Peggy Parish

Why Can’t I Fly

Rita Gelman

More Spaghetti I Say

Rita Golden Gelman

Where Are You Little Mouse

Robert Kraus

I Went Walking

Sue Williams

Danny and the Dinosaur Series

Syd Hoff

 

FOR CHILDREN ENTERING GRADE 2 click here for printable version

TITLE

AUTHOR

Biscuit Books

Alyssa

Frog and Toad Books

Arnold Lobel

Pipi Longstocking Series

Astrid Ludgren

The Carp in the Bathtub

Barbara Cohen

Island Boy

Barbara Cooney

Junie B. Jones Books

Barbara Park

The Keeping Quilt

Barbara Polacco

Lyle, Lyle Crocodile

Bernard Waber

“B” is for Betsy

Carolyn Haywood

The Case of the Scaredy Cats

Crosby Bonsall

Henry and Mudge Series

Cynthia Rylant

The Relatives Came

Cynthia Rylant

Cam Jansen Series

David Adler

Young Cam Jansen Books

David Adler

The Boy of the Three Year Nap

Diane Snyder

Courduroy

Don Freeman

Young Clara Barton

First Start Biography

Curious George Books

H.A. Rey

Pinky and Rex Series

James Howe

Chicka Chicka Boom

John Archambault

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Laura Numeroff

A Busy Year

Leo Lionni

Arthur Books

Marc Brown

Nine True Dolphin Stories

Margaret Davidson

Big Red Barn

Margaret Wise Brown

Joseph Who Loved the Sabbath

Marilyn Hirsch

Nate the Great

Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

Magic Three House Series

Mary Pope Osborne

Little Critter Books

Mercer Mayer

Clifford the Big Red Dog

Norman Bridwell

The Hello, Goodbye Window

Norton Juster

Rosie’s Walk

Pat Hutchins

The Doorbell Rang

Pat Hutchins

Amelia Bedelia Books

Peggy Parish

The Cow Who Fell in the Canal

Phyllis Krasilovsky

Grandpa’s Hotel

Riki Levinson

More Spaghetti I Say

Rita Golden Gelman

Blueberries for Sal

Robert McCloskey

Joseph Had a Little Overcoat

Simms Taback

Millions of Cats

Wanda Gag

Dr. DeSoto

William Steig

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

William Steig

The Story of Mimi and Simmy

Yaffa Ganz

 

FOR CHILDREN ENTERING GRADE 3 click here for printable version

TITLE

AUTHOR

   
Pipi Longstockings Series Astrid Ludgren
Henry and Ribsy Beverly Cleary
Henry Huggins Beverly Cleary
Ike and Mama Series Carol Snyder
A Lion to Guard Us Clyde Bulla
Cam Jansen Series David Adler
Our Golda David Adler
Encyclopedia Brown Series Donald J. Sobol
The Hundred Dresses Eleanor Estes
Young Clara Barton First Start Biography
Showflake Bentley Jacqueline Martin
Pinky and Rex Series James Howe
Aldo Applesauce Johanna Hurwitz
Busybody Nora Johanna Hurwitz
So You Want to be President Judith St. George
John Henry Julius Lester
Mercy Watson Kate DiCamillo
The Legend of Freedom Hill Linda Jacobs Altman
Sideways Stories From Wayside School Louis Sachar
Nine True Dolphin Stories Margaret Davidson
The Magic Tree House Series Mary Pope Osborne
Dreamer From the Village  Michelle Markel
Artists Biography Series Mile Venezia
Pink and Say Patricia Pollacco
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Growing Up in the Little House Patricia Reilly Giff
Amber Brown Series Paula Danziger
Mr. Popper’s Penquins Richard & Florence Atwater
The Adventure of K’tonton Sadie Weilerstein
The Disappearing Ice Cream & Other Cases Seymour Simon
26 Fairmount Avenue Tomie de Paola

 

FOR CHILDREN ENTERING GRADE 4 click here for printable version

TITLE

AUTHOR

   

If You Lived in Colonial Times

Ann McGovern

Summer of the Swans

Betsy Byars

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

Betty MacDonald

Dear Mr. Henshaw

Beverly Clearly

Ramona

Beverly Cleary

Nancy Drew

Carolyn Keene

Encyclopedia Brown Series

Donald J. Sobol

Charlotte’s Web

E.B. White

Stuart Little

E.B. White

Keep Ms. Sugarman in Fourth Grade

Elizabeth Levy

The Hardy Boys

Franklin Dixon

The Boxcar Children Mysteries

Gertrude Warner

My Brother Sam is Dead

James & Christopher Collier

The Biography Historical Selections

Jean Fritz

Baseball Fever

Johanna Hurwitz

Blubber

Judy Blume

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

Judy Blume

Letters From Rifka

Kara Hesse

Just Juice

Karen Hesse

Anastasia Series

Lois Lowry

Number the Stars

Lois Lowry

Sideways Stories From Wayside School

Louis Sachar

The Journey That Saved Curious George

Louise Borden

Sports Books

Matt Christopher

Sarah, Plain and Tall Series

Patricia MacLachlan

Skylark

Patricia MacLachlan

Pink and Say

Patricia Pollacco

Fourth Grade Celebrity

Patricia Reilly Giff

Little House on the Prairie Series

Patricia Reilly Giff

Ben and Me

Robert Lawson

All-of-a-Kind Family

Sydney Taylor

Abel’s Island

William Steig

Savta Simcha

Yaffa Ganz

The Advenutres of Jeremy & Heddy Levi

Yaffa Ganz

The Dollhouse Magic

Yona Zeldis McDonough

 

FOR CHILDREN ENTERING  GRADE 5 click here for printable version

TITLE

AUTHOR

Poppy

Avi

Summer of the Swans

Betsy Byars

Dear Mr. Henshaw

Beverly Cleary

Hoot

Carl Hiaasen

What Happened to Heather Hopkowitz

Charlotte Herman

Missing May

Cynthia Rylant

From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil Frankweiler

E.L. Konigsberg

Monday in Odessa

Eileen Sherman

My Side of the Mountain

Jean Craighead George

Anne Frank: A Life in Hiding

Johanna Hurwitz

Zayda Was a Cowboy

June L. Nislick

Because of Winn Dixie

Kate DiCamillo

The Tale of Desperaux

Kate DiCamillo

A Single Shard

Linda Sue Park

Number the Stars

Lois Lowry

Wayside School

Louis Sachar

King of the Wind

Marguerite Henry

Tuck Everlasting

Natalie Babbit

Masada

Neil Waidman

Lily’s Crossing

Patricia Reilly Giff

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl

Rabbit Hill

Robert Lawson

Homer Price

Robert McClosky

Mrs. Frisby & the Hats of Nimh

Robert O’Brien

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Scott O’Dell

Haym Salomon

Shirley Milgrim

 

 
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