HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!!!!!!

Summer Reading For Students Entering Grade 2
Parents: Please note that these are suggestions only. Many of the authors included have a variety of books from which you can choose.  Happy Reading!

PICTURE BOOKS

Janell Cannon	Stellaluna; Verdi

Lauren Child	Who‛s Afraid of the Big Bad Book?

Doreen Cronin	Diary of a Spider; Diary of a Worm

Mini Gray 	Traction Man Is Here!

Julius Lester 	Sam and the Tigers

Melinda Long 	How I Became a Pirate

Patricia McKissack Flossie & the Fox; Precious and the Boo Hag

Susan Meddaugh	Martha Calling; Martha Blah Blah Blah
Jon Muth 	Zen Shorts

Bill Peet 	Many titles, including Harold the Huge; Cowardly Clyde

Patricia Polacco Chicken Sunday; My Rotten Red-Headed Older Brother

Ted Rand	My Buddy; Prince William; Baby in a    Basket

Cynthia Rylant	The Relatives Came; When I Was Young in the Mountains

Carl Sandburg	The Huckabuck Family

Jon Scieszka  	Stinky Cheese Man; The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

Dr. Seuss 	Horton Hears a Who; Horton Hatches the Egg

William Steig 	Sylvester and the Magic Pebble; Caleb and Kate

Janet Stevens	And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon; Jackalope

Vera B. Williams A Chair for my Mother; Something Special For Me

Jacqueline Woodson Show Way; We Had a Picnic this Sunday Past

POPULAR CHAPTER BOOKS / SERIES

Joanna Cole 	The Magic Schoolbus Chapter Books

Paula Danziger 	A is for Amber; Get Ready for Second Grade, Amber Brown

Kate DiCamillo 	Mercy Watson titles

Suzy Kline 	2 series: Horrible Harry; Song Lee

Astrid Lindgren Pippi Longstocking

Lenore Look 	Ruby Lu, Brave and True; Ruby Lu, Empress of Everything

Claudia Mills 	Gus and Grandpa

Mary Pope Osborne Magic Treehouse Series

Cynthia Rylant 	Thimbleberry Stories; Cobblestone Cousins;  Henry and Mudge

Louis Sachor  	Marvin Redpost


MYSTERY BOOKS

David Adler 	Young Cam Jansen; Cam Jansen

Elizabeth Levy	Invisible Inc. Series

Ron Roy 	A to Z Mysteries

Cynthia Rylant	High-Rise Private Eyes

Marjorie Sharmont  Nate the Great

Gertrude C. Warner The Boxcar Children



FOLK and FAIRY TALES

Steven Kellogg	Several titles

Eric Kemmell 	Several Titles

Mary Pope Osborne American Tall Tales

Jan Pienkowski 	The Fairy Tales

Jerry Pinkney 	The Little Red Hen

Philemon Sturges The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza

Paul Zelinsky	Rapunzel; Rumpelstiltskin; Hansel and Gretel

POETRY

Lee Bennett Hopkins Several Titles
Jack Prelutsky	  For Laughing Out Loud : Poems to Tickle Your Funnybone
Adam Rex 	  Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich
Shel Silverstein  Many Titles
John Updike 	  A Child‛s Calendar

SCIENCE & MATH (& other Nonfiction)

Staney Coren	Why Do Dogs Have Wet Noses?

Steve Jenkins 	What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?

Stuart J. Murphy titles in the series Mathstarts – Level 2, age 6+; Level 3, 7+

Seymour Simon  	See More Science Titles from the series Let‛s- Read- and-Find-Out Science, Level 1 & 2

Gail Gibbons 	Planet Earth – Inside Out; The Milk Makers; Many others

Titles from the series Take-Along Guide (e.g.
Caterpillars, Bugs and Butterflies;Wildflowers, Blooms and Blossoms)