Elementary Summer Reading List
2010
Current 5th graders click HERE to see the 6th grade reading list
Summer reading is a great activity for children and parents to share!
SBISD Librarians compiled this list of great choices for summer reading.
There are titles for all ages, grades, and interests! The books should be available at your public library.
2 X 2 List (Ages 2 - Gr. 2)
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Bluebonnet List (Grades 3-6)
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Picture Books
Adelita by Tomie dePaola*
A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon*
The Bubba and Beau Series by Kathi Appelt*
Bunny Cakes by Rosemary Wells*
Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes*
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett*
The David Series by David Shannon*
Dear Mrs. LaRue by Mark Teague
Epossumdas by Colleen Salley
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback
Legend of the Bluebonnet by Tomie dePaola*
Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes*
Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry Allard*
My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss*
Off We Go by Jane Yolen*
Rumpelstiltskin Paul O. Zelinsky*
Slowly, Slowly, Slowly, Said the Sloth by Eric Carle*
The Ugly Duckling by Jerry Pinkney*
A Very Clumsy Click Beetle by Eric Carle*
Predictable/Cumulative Books
Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Bill Martin*
The Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett*
Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag*
The Napping House by Audrey Wood*
No Jumping on the Bed by Tedd Arnold*
Old Black Fly by Jim Aylesworth
That’s Good! That’s Bad by Margery H. Cuyler
Read Alouds/Shared Reading/ Wordless
Do You Want to Be My Friend? by Eric Carle*
Firefighters A to Z by Chris Demarest)
Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher by Molly Bang*
Look Alikes by Joan Steiner
Peter Spier’s Rain by Peter Spier*
Rosie’s Walk by Pat Hutchins*
Sector 7 by David Wiesner*
Tuesday by David Wiesner*
Early Emergent Readers
Baby Says by John Steptoe
Blue Bug Goes to School by Virginia Poulet*
Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Bill Martin*
Colours by Jan Pienkowski*
Count and See by Tana Hoban*
Daisy Comes Home by Jan Brett*
The Franklin Series by Paulette Bourgeois
Going to Grandpa’s by Hiawyn Oram
How Many Bugs in a Box? by David A. Carter
How do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? by Jane Yolen
I Like Books by Anthony Browne*
I Went Walking by Sue Williams
Look What I Can Do by Jose Aruego*
My Dream by Brian Wildsmith*
Now We Can Go by Ann Jonas*
One Hunter by Pat Hutchins*
Oops! by Mercer Mayer*
The Poppleton Series by Cynthia Rylant
Roll Over by Merle Peek
Spots, Feathers, and Curly Tails by Nancy Tafuri*
Where's Al? by Byron Barton*
Where's Spot? by Eric Hill
Early Readers / Beginning Chapter
Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parrish*
The Arthur Series by Marc Tolon Brown*
Bears on Wheels by Stan Berenstain*
The Biscuit Series by Alyssa Capucilli
Chocolate Fever by Robert Kimmel Smith*
The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Catling
Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown*
Freckle Juice by Judy Blume*
Funnybones by Janet Ahlberg)*
The Henry and Mudge Series by Cynthia Rylant*
Justin & the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter
Last One in is a Rotten Egg by Leonard P. Kessler*
The Magic Tree House Series by Mary Pope Osborne*
The Minnie and Moo Series by Denis Cazet*
Mooncake by Frank Asch*
Much Ado about Aldo by Johanna Hurwitz*
The Nate the Great Series by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat*
Noisy Nora by Rosemary Wells*
The Polk Street School Stories Patricia Reilly Giff*
The Pee Wee Scouts Series by Judy Delton*
Strega Nona by tomie dePaola*
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig*
Middle / Fluent Readers
The Battlefield Ghost by Margery Cuyler
Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
The Bunnicula Series by James Howe*
The Cam Jansen Series by David A. Adler*
The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop*
Catch that Pass by Matt Christopher*
Christina’s Ghost by Betty Ren Wright*
Class Clown by Johanna Hurwitz*
The Cobblestone Cousin Series by Cynthis Rylant*
The Courage of Sarah Noble (Dalgliesh)
Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine by Jay Williams*
Double Fudge by Judy Blume*
The Encyclopedia Brown Series by Donald J.Sobol*
The Hank the Cowdog Series by John R. Erickson*
Help! I’m a Prisoner in the Library by Eth Clifford*
Herbie Jones by Suzy Kline*
Junie B. Jones by Barbara Park*
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder*
Make Four Million Dollars... by Stephen Manes*
The Marvin Redpost Series by Louis Sachar*
Night of the Twister by Ivy Ruckman
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren*
The Polk Street Kids Series by Patricia Reilly Giff*
Ramona Forever by Beverly Cleary*
Sarah Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan*
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor*
Skinnybones by Barbara Park*
Sounder by William H. Armstrong
Up and Down Spring by Johanna Hurwitz*
All-Time Favorites
Animalia by Graham Base
The Box Car Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Castle by David MacCaulay*
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth
The Green Book by Jill Paton Walsh
Janice VanCleave’s Chemistry for Kids by J. VanCleave*
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George*
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry*
Pecos Bill by Steven Kellogg*
Pyramid by David Macaulay*
Ralph S. Mouse by Beverly Cleary*
Sarah Plain & Tall by Patricia MacLachlan*
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Stuart Little by E. B. White*
To Space and Back by Sally Ride
Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Novels
Amber Brown Goes Fourth by Paula Danziger*
Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days by Stephen Manes
Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
The Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling*
Homer Price by Robert McCloskey*
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl*
Junie B. Jones by Barbara Park*
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis*
Soup by Robert Newton Peck*
Time Warp Stories by Jon Scieszka*
Tuck Everlasting (Babbitt)*
The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman*
Poetry
20th Century Children’s Poetry Collection by J Prelutsky*
Dirty Laundry Pile (Janeczko)
If I Were in Charge of the World by Judith Viorst*
Laugh-eteria: Drawing and Poems by Douglas Florian*
My America by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Pizza the Size of the Sun by Jack Prelutsky*
Random House Book of Poetry ed. by Prelutsky)*
Sing a Song of Popcorn (DeRegniers)*
Tomie dePaola’s book of Poems by T. dePaola*
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein)*
Books with a Math Twist
Anna to the Infinite Power by Mildred Ames
Anno’s Multiplying Jar by Anno*
The Best of Times: Math Strategies that Multiply by G Tang*
Book of Think by Mildred Burns*
G is for Googol by David M. Schwartz*
Grapes of Math by Greg Tang*
The Herbert Hilligan Series by Paul Epner
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky
Math Curse by Jon Scieszka
Millions to Measure by David M. Schwartz*
On Beyond a Million by David M. Schwartz*
Non-Fiction
Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank*
Ghost Liners by Robert Ballard*
Lunch at the Zoo by Joyce Altman
Magic School Bus Series by Joanna Cole*
Red-Eyed Tree Frog by Joy Cowley
Shh!! We’re Writing the Constitution by Jean Fritz*
So You Want to be an Inventor? by Judith St. George*
Spiders and Their Web Sites by Margery Facklam
Storms by Seymour Simon*
The Story of the Titanic by Eric Kentley
Watt got you Started, Mr. Fulton by Robt. M. Quackenbush*
Award Winning Titles
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink*
Crispin Cross of Lead by Avi*
King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry*
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George*
Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg*
Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
Kneeknock Rise by Natalie Babbitt*
Lon Po Po by Ed Young
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry (Taylor)*
Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Martin
Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCamillo
Twenty one Balloons William Pene DuBois*
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak*
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