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Elementary Summer Reading List
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| Please go to your local public library for a wonderful summer reading program | ||
| Reading over the summer is one of the best things you can do with and for your child. This book list includes titles for various grades and reading levels. The list was compiled by the librarians in SBISD and contain favorite and recommended titles. Take some time out over the summer to share a book or two with your children. Visit the public library, join the summer reading program, and check out lots of books. Titles are listed with the author’s name in parenthesis. Those titles followed with asterisks (*) indicate that additional books by that author are available. | ||
| Early Emergent Readers | Picture Books |
| Colours (Pienkowski)* | Miss Nelson is Missing (Allard)* |
| Count and See (Hoban)* | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Barrett)* |
| Look What I Can Do (Aruego)* | Legend of the Bluebonnet (dePaola)* |
| One Hunter (Hutchins)* | Frederick (Lionni)* |
| Baby Says (Steptoe) | Whingdingdilly (Peet)* |
| Brown Bear, Brown Bear (Martin)* | Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse (Henkes)* |
| Going to Grandpa’s (Frankford | I Love You the Purplest (Joosse) |
| I Went Walking (Williams) | My Many Colored Days (Seuss)* |
| My Dream (Wildsmith)* | Chrysanthemum (Henkes)* |
| Now We Can Go (Jonas)* | Rumpelstiltskin (Zelinsky)* |
| Roll Over (Peek) | A Bad Case of Stripes (Shannon)* |
| Spots, Feathers, and Curly Tails (Tafuri)* | Martha Speaks (Meddaugh)* |
| Blue Bug Goes to School (Poulet)* | A Very Clumsy Click Beetle (Carle)* |
| How Many Bugs in a Box! (Carter) | Bunny Cakes (Wells)* |
| I Like Books (Browne)* | Joseph Had a Little Overcoat (Taback) |
| Ooops! (Mayer)* | The Ugly duckling (Pinkney)* |
| Where's Al (Barton)* | Off we Go (Yolen)* |
| David - Series (Shannon) | |
| Early Readers/Beginning Chapter | Bubba and Beau - Series (Appelt) |
| Last one in is a Rotten Egg (Kessler)* | Dear Mrs. LaRue (Teague) |
| Minnie and Moo - Series (Cazet)* | Adelita (dePaola)* |
| Amelia Bedelia (Parrish)* | Slowly, Slowly, Slowly, Said the Sloth (Carle) |
| Polk Street School Stories (Giff)* | |
| Pee Wee Scouts series (Delton)* | Poetry |
| Arthur series (Brown)* | Pizza the Size of the Sun (Prelutsky)* |
| Henry and Mudge series (Rylant)* | Sing a Song of Popcorn (DeRegniers)* |
| Nate the Great series (Sharmat)* | Where the Sidewalk Ends (Silverstein)* |
| Funnybones (Ahlberg)* | If I Were in Charge of the World (Viorst)* |
| Mooncake (Asch)* | Tomie dePaola’s book of Poems (dePaola)* |
| A My Name is Alice (Bayer) | Random House Book of Poetry (Prelutsky)* |
| Bears on Wheels (Berenstain)* | The 20th Century Children’s Poetry Collection (Prelutsky)* |
| Flat Stanley (Brown) | Laugh-eteria: Drawing and Poems (Florian) |
| Freckle Juice (Blume) | Bow Wow Meow Meow (Florian)* |
| Strega Nona (dePaola)* | |
| Chocolate Touch (Catling) | All Time Favorites |
| Much Ado about Aldo (Hurwitz)* | Sounder (Armstrong) |
| Justin and Best Biscuits in the World (Walter) | The Secret Garden (Burnett) |
| Noisy Nora (Wells)* | Enormous Egg (Butterworth) |
| Chocolate Fever (Smith)* | Ralph S. Mouse (Cleary)* |
| Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (steig)* | Harvey the Horrible Snake Disaster (Clifford)* |
| Biscuit Series (Capucilli) | My Side of the Mountain (George)* |
| Magic Tree House - (Osborne*) Series | Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub (Gilson)* |
| Pecos Bill (Kellogg)* | |
| Middle/Fluent Readers | Number the Stars (Lowry)* |
| Shiloh (Naylor)* | Pyramid (Macaulay)* |
| Help! I’m a Prisoner in the Library (Clifford)* | Green Book (Paton) |
| Courage of Sarah Noble (Dalgliesh) | Stuart Little (White)* |
| Herbie Jones (Kline)* | BoxCar Children (Warner) |
| Skinnybones (Park)* | Janice VanCleave’s Chemistry for Kids (VanCleave)* |
| Castle in the Attic (Winthrop)* | Castle (MacCaulay)* |
| Sounder (Armstrong) | To Space and Back (Ride) |
| Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine (Williams)* | Calculator Riddles (Adler)* |
| Sarah Plain and Tall (MacLachlan)* | Animalia (Base)* |
| Bunnicula series (Howe)* | Velveteen Rabbit (Williams) |
| Encyclopedia Brown series (Sobol)* | |
| Up and Down Spring (Hurwitz)* | Non-Fiction |
| Make Four Million Dollars (Manes)* | Magic School Bus Series (Cole)* |
| Night of the Twister (Ruckman) | Watt got you Started, Mr. Fulton (Quackenbush)* |
| Marvin Redpost series (Sachar)* | Anno’s Multiplying Jar (Anno)* |
| Catch that Pass (Christopher)* | Asimov’s Galaxy (Asimov)* |
| Ramona Forever (Cleary)* | Storms (Simon)* |
| Pippi Longstocking (Lindgren)* | Book of Think (Burns)* |
| Class Clown (Hurwitz) | Diary of a Young Girl (Frank)* |
| Bill Peet (Peet)* | Shh!! We’re writing the Constitution (Fritz)* |
| Christina’s Ghost (Wright)* | Ghost Liners (Ballard)* |
| Long Winter (Wilder)* | On Beyond a Million (Schwartz)* |
| Hank the Cowdog (Erickson)* | Red-Eyed Tree Frog (Cowley) |
| The Battlefield Ghost (Cuyler) | Spiders and Their Websites (Facklam) |
| Coblestone Cousin - Series - (Rylant)* | So You Want to be an Inventor? (St. George)* |
| Junie B. Jones (Park)* | Lunch at the Zoo (Altman) |
| Cam Jansen (Adler)* | |
| Polk Street Kids (Giff)* | Predictable/Cumulative Books |
| Hank the Cowdog- Series (Erickson)* | No Jumping on the Bed (Arnold)* |
| Double Fudge (Blume)* | That’s Good!That’s Bad (Cuyler) |
| Millions of Cats (Gag)* | |
| Award Winning Titles | Brown Bear, Brown Bear (Martin)* |
| Hey, Al (Yorinks) C | Napping House (Wood)* |
| Lon Po Po (Young) C | The Gingerbread Baby (Brett)* |
| Jumanji (Van Allsburg)*C | Old Black Fly (Aylesworth) |
| Where the Wild Things Are (Sendak)* | |
| Julie of the Wolves (George)* | Books with a Math Twist |
| Call of the Wild (London) | Grapes of Math(Tang) |
| Kneeknock Rise (Babbitt)* | Anna to the Infinite Power (Ames) |
| Little Princess (Burnett)* | G is for Google (Schwartz*) |
| Twenty one Balloons (DuBois)* | Librarian Who Measured the Earth (Lasky) |
| Homecoming (Voigt)* | Math Curse (Scieszka) |
| Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry (Taylor)* | Millions to Measure (Kellogg)* |
| Caddie Woodlawn (Brink)* | The Best of Times: Math Strategies that Multiply |
| Summer of the Swans (Byars)* | |
| King of the Wind (Henry)* | Read Alouds/Shared Reading Wordless |
| Strawberry Girl (Lenski)* | Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher (Bang)* |
| Snowflake Bentley (Martin) | Do You Want to Be My Friend? (Carle)* |
| Rosie’s Walk (Hutchins)* | |
| Short Novels | Peter Spier’s Rain (Spier)* |
| Whipping Boy (Fleischman)* | Tuesday (Wiesner) |
| Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days (Manes) | Look Alikes (Steiner) |
| Lafcadio, the Lion that Shot Back (Silverstein)* | Sector 7 (Wiesner) |
| Amber Brown Goes Fourth (Danziger)* | Firefighters A to Z (Demarest) |
| How to Eat Fried Worms (Rockwell) | |
| Time Warp Stories (Scieszka)* | 2 X 2 List (for ages 2 - grade 2) |
| Junie B. Jones (Park)* | Mommy's Best Kisses (Anastas) |
| Babies on the Go (Ashman) | |
| Novels | Beautiful Blackbird (Bryan) |
| Tuck Everlasting (Babbitt)* | Full, Full, Full of Love (Cooke) |
| James and the Giant Peach (Dahl)* | Diary of a Worm (Cronin) |
| Homer Price (McCloskey)* | Ollie (Dunrea) |
| Cricket in Times Square (Selden) | bow wow meow meow: it's rhyming cats and dogs (Florian) |
| Soup (Peck)* | You Can Do It, Sam (Hest) |
| Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Lewis)* | Hands Can (Hudson) |
| Harry Potter - Series (Rowling)* | My Pony (Jeffers) |
| Pio Peep!: Traditional Spanish Nursery Rhymes | |
| Young Adult | Pick, Pull, Snap! Where Once a Flower Bloomed (Schaefer) |
| Hatchet (Paulsen)* | When the Moon is High (Schertle) |
| Sideway Stories (Sachar)* | Tippy-Toe Chick, GO! (Shannon) |
| Midnight Fox (Byars)* | About Arachnids: A Guide for Children (Sill) |
| A Dog Called Kitty (Wallace)* | Thesaurus Rex (Steinberg) |
| Sign of the Beaver (Speare)* | Tails (Van Fleet) |
| Pinballs (Byars)* | scrubba dub (Van Laan) |
| The Cat ate my Gymsuit (Danziger)* | One Dark Night (Wheeler) |
| Mixed up Files....(Konigsburg)* | A Frog in the Bog (Wilson) |
| Bridge to Teribithia (Paterson)* | |
| Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You (DeClements)* | Texas Bluebonnet Award 2004 – 2005 |
| A Wrinkle in Time (L’Engle)* | The Pot That Juan Built (Andrews-Goebel) |
| The Hobbit (Tolkien)* | Togo (Blake) |
| Across Five Aprils (Hunt)* | George Washington's Teeth (Chandra & Comora) |
| Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery)* | Where I'd Like To Be (Dowell) |
| A Time Apart (Stanley) | Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science (Fleischman) |
| Frightful’s Mountain (George)* | The Gorillas of Gill Park (Gordon) |
| Silverwing (Oppel) | A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie “Peanut” Johnson (Green) |
| Dear America - Series | Danitra Brown Leaves Town (Grimes) |
| Royal Diaries - Series | Runaway Radish (Haas) |
| Guts (Paulsen) | Dirty Laundry Pile: Poems in Different Voices (Janeczko) |
| The Good Dog (Avi)* | Any Small Goodness: A Novel of the Barrio (Johnston) |
| A Series of Unfortunate Events - Series | Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez (Krull) |
| Tippy Lemmey (McKissack) | |
| Arctic Lights, Arctic Nights (Miller) | |
| My Chimp Friday: The Nana Banana Chronicles (Mundis) | |
| Lewis and Clark and Me: A Dog’s Tale (Myers) | |
| Fame and Glory in Freedom, Georgia (O'Conner) | |
| Lord of the Deep (Salisbury) | |
| Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart (Williams) | |
| Locomotion (Woodson) |
