Suggested Summer Reading List For Elementary Students

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Suggested Summer Reading List For Students Entering Grade Two
Title Author

• Young Cam Jansen and the Baseball Mystery* Adler
  
• Prairie School Avi
  
• Digby and Kate and the Beautiful Day Baker
  
• One Saturday Afternoon Baker
  
• Ant Plays Bear* Byars
  
• Hooray for the Golly Sisters* Byars
  
• The Friendship Tree Caple
  
• Agapanthus Hum and Major Bark* Cowley
  
• The Bug in Teacher’s Coffee: And Other School Poems Dakos
  
• What a Trip, Amber Brown* Danziger
  
• Boss for a Day* dePaola
  
• Iris and Walter* Guest
  
• Kitty Riddles* Hall
  
• Arthur’s Birthday Party* Hoban
  
• The Garden That We Grew Holub
  
• Lionel at School* Krensky
  
• Captain and Matey Set Sail Laurence
  
• Emma’s Yucky Brother* Little
  
• Harley Livingstone
  
• Frog and Toad Are Friends* Lobel
  
• Shawn and Keeper: Show and Tell London
  
• Geese Find the Missing Piece:School Time Riddle Rhymes Maestro
  
• Fox on Stage* Marshall
  
• When Tiny Was Tiny* Meister
  
• Gus and Grandpa at Basketball* Mills
  
• Harry’s Birthday* Porte
  
• Henry and Mudge and Annie’s Perfect Pet* Rylant
  
• High Rise Private Eyes: The Case of the Climbing Cat* Rylant
  
• Mr. Putter and Tabby Paint the Porch* Rylant
  
• Poppleton Has Fun* Rylant
  
• Nate the Great and the Monster Mess* Sharmat
  
• George and Diggety* Stern
  
• Oliver and Albert, Friends Forever* VanLeeuwen
  
  * Or any other title in the series
  Please consult your local public librarian for other suggestions.
  

Suggested Summer Reading List For Students Entering Grade Three
Title Author

• Cam Jansen and the Birthday Mystery* Adler
  
• I Was a 3rd Grade Spy* Auch
  
• Little Sister, Big Sister Brisson
  
• Arthur and the Lost Diary* Brown/Krensky
  
• The Gator Girls* Calmenson
  
• The Captain Contest* Christopher
  
• Annabel the Actress Starring in “Gorilla my Dreams”* Conford
  
• Jenny Archer* Conford
  
• Butterfly Buddies Cox
  
• Zero Grandparents Edwards
  
• Albertina, the Animals, and Me* Fowler
  
• Rosie’s Big City Ballet* Giff
  
• Runaway Radish Haas
  
• Pinky and Rex and the New Neighbors* Howe
  
• Summer with Elisa* Hurwitz
  
• Lady Lollipop King-Smith
  
• Horrible Harry Goes to the Moon* Kline
  
• Louise Goes Wild* Krensky
  
• Beezy Magic* McDonald
  
• Judy Moody* McDonald
  
• Tonight on the Titanic* Osborne
  
• Amelia Bedelia 4 Mayor* Parish
  
• Junie B. Jones is (Almost) a Flower Girl* Park
  
• The T. F. Letters Ray
  
• Not My Dog Rodowsky
  
• Some Good News* Rylant
  
• Josie to the Rescue Singer
  
• Good Night, Good Knight Thomas
  
• Jumping into Nothing Willner-Pardo
  
• Beany and the Dreaded Wedding* Wojciechowski
  
• The Ghost in Room 11 Wright
  
  *Or any other in the series
  Please consult your local public librarian for other suggestions.

Suggested Summer Reading List For Students Entering Grade Four
Title Author

• Andy and Tamika* Adler
  
• A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart* Adler
  
• Poppy* Avi
  
• Howie Bowles, Secret Agent* Banks
  
• Seal Island School Bartlett
  
• Skateboard Renegade* Christopher/Mantell
  
• Ramona Forever* Cleary
  
• Jake Drake, Bully Buster* Clements
  
• The School Story Clements
  
• The Magic School Bus Inside a Beehive* Cole
  
• Third Grade Pet Cox
  
• I, Amber Brown* Danziger
  
• 26 Fairmount Avenue* dePaola
  
• Cody Unplugged* Duffey
  
• Kidnap at the Catfish Cafe Giff
  
• Owen Foote, Frontiersman* Greene
  
• Beware the Mare* Haas
  
• Our Strange New Land: Elizabeth’s Diary* Hermes
  
• PeeWee’s Tale* Hurwitz
  
• Ghost Trap: A Wild Willie Mystery* Joosse
  
• Herbie Jones and the Birthday Showdown* Kline
  
• Morgy Makes his Move Lewis
  
• Zooman Sam* Lowry
  
• Sarah, Plain and Tall* MacLachlan
  
• Surviving Brick Johnson Myers
  
• Marvin Redpost: A Flying Birthday Cake* Sachar
  
• See You Later, Gladiator* Scieszka
  
• Oh No, It’s Robert* Seuling
  
• So You Want to Be President? St. George
  
• Hannah of Fairfield* Van Leeuwen
  
• Leftover Lily* Warner
  
• Spider Storch’s Desperate Deal* Willner-Pardo
  
• Ghost in the Family Wright
  
  *Or any other title in the series
  Please consult your local public librarian for other suggestions.
  

Jane M. Kenney
Elementary Librarian
June 2004