ELEMENTARY SUMMER READING 2015

For Students Entering Grades K - 5

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Curriculum Summer Reading 2015

HAVE A WONDERFUL SUMMER AND HAPPY READING!

ELEMENTARY SUMMER READING LIST FOR 2015 Dear Parents/Guardians: Educators consider summer reading very important for developing life-long reading habits, for maintaining literacy skills and for promoting reading for pleasure. Studies show that children who continue to read during the summer months perform better when school resumes in the fall How exciting it is when children respond to literature in meaningful ways, by laughing out loud or making a connection with their own life experience. Here are a few suggestions to encourage them in this important adventure called Reading. • Let them see you reading: Books, magazines, newspapers; they will want to do as you do! • Limit TV viewing! • Follow up your child’s latest interests with books. Ask your child questions:

“What was your favorite part?” “Do you want to read the sequel?”

• Help your child create a library of his or her own. Go to a garage sale or your

public library when they have a sale, and don’t forget that Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com and Borders.com sell used books too.

• Make it a treat to read in bed and don’t be afraid of cookie crumbs and a little

spilt milk!

• Continue to read aloud to your child, even after he or she reads independently.

• Encourage your child to choose a book to read aloud to someone else. • Play a summer reading game or join a reading program at your local library. • A subscription to a kids’ magazine is a terrific gift. (Cricket, New Moon, and Highlights are some of the best) We encourage families to consult this reading list not just in the summer, but throughout the school year.

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Kindergarten (*Books in series)

Picture Books

Brown, Peter Capucilli, Alyssa

You Will Be My Friend My First I Can Read Book *

Carle, Eric Does A Kangaroo Have A Mother Too? Crews, Donald Truck (and many others) French, Jackie Kaplan, Michael Li-Qiong, Yu

Diary Of A Baby Wombat Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake A New Year’s Reunion

Seuss, Dr. Hop On Pop (and many others) Shaw, Nancy Sheep In A Jeep Slobodkina, Esphur Caps For Sale (a classic!) Rylant, Cynthia Puppy Mudge Finds A Friend Waber, Bernard Lyle Walks The Dogs A Counting Book Willems, Mo Elephant & Piggie: Can I Play Too? *

Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale *

Alphabet Books Becker, Leslie The Animal ABC Bridwell, Norman Clifford’s ABC Heller, Nicholas Ogres! Ogres! Ogres!: A Feasting Frenzy From A to Z Hoban, Tana 26 Letters and 99 cents Horowitz, Dave Twenty-six Princesses Parker, Marjorie A Paddling of Ducks: Animals In Groups From A to Z

Non�Fiction

Benjamin, Cynthia Hello Reader! Science Level 1 * Facklam, Margery Bugs For Lunch Ling, Mary See How They Grow * Nilsen, Anna Animal Antics * Ring, Susan Step Into Reading * Schaefer, Lola Ocean Life Series Swartz, Stanley Marine Life For Young Readers *

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Kindergarten Page Two Folklore

Edwards, Roberta Five Silly Fisherman Hayward, Linda Pepe and Papa Lurie, Alison The Black Geese: A Baba Yaga Story From Russia MacKinnon, Mairi The Fox And The Crow The Fox And The Stork The Sun And The Wind Pinkney, Jerry The Lion and the Mouse Westcott, Nadine There’s A Hole In The Bucket Poetry

Booth, Philip Crossing Elliot, David My People Hooper, Patricia Where Do You Sleep, Little One? Johnston, Tony It’s About Dogs MacLachlan, Patricia Once I Ate A Pie Paolilli, Paul Silver Seeds: A Book Of Nature Poems Taylor, Jane Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Favorite Authors

Frank Asch Denise Fleming Cynthia Rylant Jan Brett Don Freeman Bernard Waber Eric Carle Gail Gibbons Rosemary Wells Lauren Child Pat Hutchins Mo Willems Donald Crews Leo Lionni

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Grade 1 (*Books in series)

Picture Books

Barton, Chris Shark vs. Train Dotlich, Rebecca Bella & Bean Fox, Mem Where Is The Green Sheep? Graham, Bob April and Esme Tooth Fairies Lin, Grace Ling And Ting London, Jonathan Let’s Go, Froggy! * Martin, Bill Chicka, Chicka Boom Boom Marzolla, Jean Pierre The Penquin Minarik, Else Little Bear Series O’Connor, Jane Fancy Nancy Sees Stars * Pinkwater, Daniel I Am The Dog Rathman, Peggy 10 Minutes Till Bedtime and Goodnight Gorilla Rey, H.A. Curious George * Rickards, Lynne Pink! Scotton, Robert Love, Splat Trivizas, Eugenios Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig Watt, Melanie Scaredy Squirrel* Yolan, Jane How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?

Non�Fiction

Bodden, Valerie Amazing Animals * Curry, Don What Hatches? Endres, Hallie Blastoff! Readers * Falk, Laine Meet President Barack Obama Johnson, Jinny Busy Baby Animals * Riehecky, Janet Pebble Plus. Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals * Wade, Mary Dodson I Like Plants! *

Beginning Chapter Books Arnold, Ted Hi! Fly Guy * DiCamillo, Kate Mercy Watson To The Rescue * Lin, Grace Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same! Lobel, Arnold Manushkin, Fran

Frog and Toad * Katie Woo*

McMullan, Kate Fluffy, The Classroom Guinea Pig * Rylant, Cynthia Willems, Mo

Henry and Mudge * and Poppleton * Elephant and Piggie*

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Grade 1 Page Two Folklore

Bae, Hyun-Joo New Clothes For New Year’s Day Demi The Empty Pot Emberley, Rebecca The Red Hen Galdone, Paul Jack And The Beanstalk Hooks, William Feed Me!: An Aesop Fable Kimmel, Eric Runaway Tortilla Kimmelman, Leslie The Little Red Hen And The Passover Matzoh MacDonald, Margaret Read

The Old Woman And Her Pig: An Appalachian Folktale

O’Connor, Jane The Teeny Tiny Woman Taback, Simms Joseph Had A Little Overcoat

Poetry

Dillon, Leo Mother Goose: Numbers On The Loose Florian, Douglas In The Swim: Poems And Paintings Grimes, Nikki When Gorilla Goes Walking Katz, Susan A Revolutionary Field Trip: Poems Of Colonial America MacLachlan, Patricia I Didn’t Do It McMillan, Bruce Play Day: A Book Of Terse Verse Pierce, Terry Ticktock: Time Nursery Rhymes Prelutsky, Jack, ed. The Random House Book Of Poetry For Children

(It’s still the best!) Tudor, Tasha Yolen, Jane

Around The Year Count Me A Rhyme: Animal Poems

Favorite Authors

Marc Brown Kevin Henkes Dr. Seuss Miriam Cohen Ezra Jack Keats Bernard Waber Lois Ehlert James Marshall Mo Willems

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Grade 2 (*Books in a series)

Fiction

Cazet, Denys Minnie and Moo * Cronin, Doreen Giggle, Giggle, Quack and Diary of a Worm Dorros, Arthur Abuela Gradits, John Joyce, William

Ten Rules You Absolutely Must Not Break If You Want to Survive the School Bus The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

Klassen, Jon I Want My Hat Back McDonald, Megan Stink, The Incredible Shrinking Kid

(author of Judy Moody books) Munsch, Robert The Paperbag Princess Park, Barbara Junie B. Jones * Piven, Hanoch My Best Friend Is As Sharp As A Pencil Polacco, Patricia My Rotten, Redheaded Older Brother Reich, Susanna Minette’s Feast: The Delicious Story of Julia Child and Her

Cat Rylant, Cynthia Henry and Mudge and the Great Grandpas

(first recipient of the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for beginning reader books)

Thaler, Mike Principal From The Black Lagoon * Van Dusen, Chris King’ Hugo’s Huge Ego Wood, Audrey and Quick As A Cricket Wood, Don The Napping House

Non�Fiction

Adler, David A Picture Book of Sacagawea (and other “Picture Book” biographies)

Cobb, Vicki I Face the Wind Jenkins, Steve Almost Gone: the World’s Rarest Animals Katz, Alan Take me Out Of The Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs Kroll, Steven Lewis and Clark Ringgold, Faith If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks Tang, Greg Math for All Seasons Wheeler, Lisa Mammoths On The Move Winter, Jeanette Wangari’s Trees of peace: A True Story from Africa

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Grade 2 Page Two Folklore

Fleming, Candace Clever Jack Takes The Cake Kellogg, Steven Jack and the Beanstalk Lowell, Susan The Three Little Javelinas Marshall, James Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella Wood, Audrey King Bidgood’s In The Bathtub Young, Ed Lon Po Po Zelinsky, Paul Rapunzel Poetry

Berry, James Around The World In Eighty Poems Elliot, David In The Wild Florian, Douglas Insectlopedia Hoberman, MaryAnne A House Is A House For Me Lansky, Bruce If Kids Ruled The School O’Neill, Mary Hailstones and Halibut Bones Prelutsky, Jack Baby Uggs Are Hatching and Pizza The Size Of The Sun Yolen, Jane How Beastly! Favorite Authors

Steven Kellogg Cynthia Rylant David Weisner Mary Pope Osborne Jon Scieszka Margie Palatini David Shannon

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Grade 3 (*Books in Series)

Fiction

Barrows, Annie Ivy and Bean* DiCamillo, Kate Bink & Gollie* DiPucchio, Kelly S. Liberty’s Journey Estes, Eleanor 100 Dresses Hoberman, Mary Ann And to Think That We Thought That We'd Never Be Friends Krensky, Stephen Play Ball, Jackie! Polacco, Patricia The Art of Miss Chew Pulver, Robin Punctuation Takes A Vacation Schwartz, Amy Things I Learned In Second Grade Steig, William Shrek! (Here’s where the movie comes from.) Woodson, Jacqueline Coming On Home Soon Chapter Books

Barnes, Derrick Ruby And The Booker Boys * Danziger, Paula Amber Brown * Greenburg, J.C. Andrew Lost * Gutman, Dan My Weird School * Howe, James Bunnicula * Look, Lenore Alvin Ho * Osbourne, Mary Pope Magic Tree House * Scieszka, Jon Time Warp Trio * Stilton, Geronimo Geronimo Stilton * Non�Fiction

Branley, Franklyn M. What Makes Day and Night Cobb, Vicki Gherman, Beverly

Your Body Battles a Skinned Knee First Mothers

Giovanni, Nikki Rosa Hillman, Ben How Big Is it? A Big Book All About Bigness Kalman, Maira Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey Lorbiecki, Marybeth Escaping Titanic: A Young Girl’s True Story of Survival Osborne, Mary Pope Magic Tree House Research Guides* Patrick, Jean The Girl Who Struck Out Babe Ruth Slade, Suzanne Climbing Lincoln’s Steps: The African American Journey Solheim, James Spinner, Stephanie

It’s Disgusting And We Ate It Alex The Parrot

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Grade 3 Page Two Biography

Borden, Elsie Fly High! The Story of Bessie Coleman De la Pena, Matt A Nation’s Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis Edwards, Roberta Barack Obama: United States President Giblin, James George Washington and Thomas Jefferson Golio, Gary Jimi: Sounds Like A Rainbow; A Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix Hill, Laban Carrick Dave The Potter Hopkinson, Deborah Michelle (Obama) Krull, Kathleen Pollack, Pam

Harvesting Hope (Cesar Chavez) and The Boy on Fairfield Street: How Ted Geisel Grew Up To Become Dr. Seuss Who Was Steve Jobs?* (So-called, “Bobble Head Biographies”)

Folklore

Aesop Fables (any edition will do) DePaola, Tomie Legend of the Persian Carpet Egielski, Richard The Gingerbread Boy Hamilton, Virginia The People Could Fly; The Picture Book Johnston, Tony Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella Pullman, Phillip Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp San Souci, Robert The Talking Eggs, Cinderella Skeleton Shipple, Laura If the Shoe Fits

Poetry

Adoff, Arnold Sports Pages Bolden, Tonya Rock of Ages Grimes, Nikki My Man Blue Katz, Bobbi Pocket Poems Lewis, J. Patrick Doodle Dandies: Poems That Take Shape Prelutsky, Jack

The Frog Wore Red Suspenders and The Dragons Are Singing Tonight

Raczka, Bob Guyku: A Year of Haiku for Boys Silverstein, Shel Where the Sidewalk Ends

Favorite Authors

Matt Christopher Tomie DePaola Gertrude Chandler Warner Roald Dahl James Howe Paula Danziger R. L. Stine

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Grade 4 (*Books in series)

Fiction

Avi Poppy (Series) and The End Of The Beginning: Being the Adventures of a Small Snail (and an Even Smaller Ant)

Buckley, Michael The Sisters Grimm* Cleary, Beverly Ramona The Pest (and others) Clements, Andrew The School Story and Frindle DiCamillo, Kate Louise Erdrich

The Tale of Despereaux and The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Birchbark House (and others)

DiTerlizzi, Tony Spiderwick Chronicles * Gownley, Jimmy Amelia Rules!* (Graphic Novel) Gutman, Dan Baseball Card Adventures * Hiaasen, Carl Hoot, Flush, & Scat Jacques, Brian The Great Redwall Feast Kimmel, Eric A. Website of the Cracked Cookies Manes, Stephen Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days O’Dell, Scott Island of the Blue Dolphins Sachar, Louis Wayside School * Sciezska, Jon Spaceheadz * Taylor, Mildred Trine, Greg

The Friendship and The Gold Cadillac The Adventures of Jo Schmo

Wilder, Laura Ingalls Little House on the Prairie * Winkler, Henry Hank Zipzer *

Non�Fiction Barton, Chris The Day-Glo Brothers Beccia, Carlyn I Feel Better With A Frog In My Throat: History’s Strangest Cures Cherry, Lynne A River Runs Wild Farris, Christine King March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World Frazee, Marla, and others

Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?

Hopkins, Lee Bennett Marvelous Math McCarthy, Meghan Pop!: The Invention Of Bubble Gum Miller, Debbie Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw

Great Serum Race, Blazing the Iditarod Trail Dogs On Duty

St. George, Judith So You Want To Be An Explorer? Tocci, Salvatore Experiments With Motion (from A True Book series) Sis, Peter Train of States Smith, Charles R. The Mighty 12: Superheroes of Greek Myth Yolen, Jane All Star!: Honus Wagner and the Most Famous Baseball Card Ever

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Grade 4 Page Two

Biography

Feinstein, Stephen Barack Obama Farris, Christine King Ferris, Jeri Chase

My Brother Martin Noah Webster & His Words

Kerley, Barbara The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins Kroll, Steven William Penn, Founder of Pennsylvania Nelson, Kadir Nobleman, Marc Tyler

Nelson Mandela Bill, The Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman

Reich, Susanna Jose! Born to Dance Rockwell, Anne Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth Ryan, Pam Munoz When Marian Sang Vernick, Audrey She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story Winter, Jonah Beisbol! Latino Baseball Pioneers and Legends

Poetry

Burleigh, Robert Hoops Ciardi, John Doodle Soup Fleischman, Paul Joyful Noise: Poems For Two Voices Lewis, J. Patrick If You Were A Chocolate Mustache: Poems Medina, Tony DeShawn Days Prelutsky, Jack Tyrannosaurus Was A Beast Scieszka, Jon Science Verse Viorst, Judith If I Were In Charge Of The World and Sad Underwear

Folklore

Kimmel, Eric The Hero Beowulf Hamilton, Virginia A Ring of Tricksters: Animal Tales From America, the

West Indies and Africa Reid, Sue Ancient Myths: The Voyages of Odysseus San Souci, Robert Cendrillon (A Caribbean Cinderella Tale) Schwartz, Alvin Whoppers: Tall Tales And Other Lies Singer, Marilyn Mirror, Mirror: A Book Of Reversible Verse Wisniewsky, David Golem Yolen, Jane Not One Damsel In Distress: World Folktales For Strong Girls

Favorite Authors

Avi Beverly Cleary Donna Jo Napoli Lynne Reid Banks Sharon Creech Jerry Spinelli Judy Blume E.L. Konigsburg

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Grade 5 (*Books in Series)

Fiction

Avi Sophia’s War: A Tale of the Revolution Burrow, Randi Saving Zasha Burnett, Frances Hodgson

The Secret Garden

Campbell, Julie Trixie Belden (Mystery Series−A Classic) Creech, Sharon Ruby Holler and Walk Two Moons Dahl, Roald Danny, The Champion of the World Funke, Cornelia Inkheart * Ibbotson, Eva The Secret of Platform 13 and Island of the Aunts Martin, Ann M. Belle Teal Peck, Richard The Teacher’s Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts Philbrick, Rodman The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg Pullman, Philip I Was A Rat! Paulsen, Gary Hatchet Selznick, Brian The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Wonderstruck Shiga, Jason Meanwhile: Pick Any Path. 3,856 Story Possibilities. Tashian, Janet My Life As A Book Van Allsburg, Chris The Mysteries of Harris Burdick Yep, Lawrence The Star Maker Non�Fiction

Bridges, Ruby Through My Eyes Curlee, Lynn Rushmore Dyson, Marianne Space Station Science Fradin, Dennis Duel! Burr and Hamilton’s Deadly War of Words Hopkinson, Deborah Titanic: Voices From the Disaster Krull, Kathleen Wish You Were Here – Emily’s Guide to the 50 States McKendry, Jo One Times Square: A Century of Change at the Crossroads

of the World Murphy, Jim

An American Plague: the True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

Schanzer, Rosalyn What Darwin Saw: The Journey That Changed The World Talbott, Hudson Forging Freedom

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Grade 5 Page Two Biography

Byrd, Robert Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer Fleischman, Sid Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini Freedman, Russell Lincoln: A Photobiography Gormley, Beatrice Barack Obama: Our 44th President Hubbard, Crystal Game Set Match: Champion Arthur Ashe Kerley, Barbara Walt Whitman: Words For America Krull, Kathleen A Woman For President: The Story of Victoria Woodhull Robinson, Sharon Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America Stone, Tanya Lee Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream Walker, Alice Langston Hughes, American Poet The Library of Author Biographies (J.K. Rowling, Lois Lowry, and others) Folklore

Hamilton, Virginia The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales and Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales and True Tales

Henderson, Kathy Lugalbanda: The Boy Who Got Caught Up In A War; An Epic Tale From Ancient Iraq

Osborne, Mary Pope American Tall Tales Yolen, Jane Mightier Than The Sword: World Folktales For Strong Boys

and Not One Damsel In Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls

Poetry

Dahl, Roald Frost, Robert

A Swinger of Birches

Hopkins, Lee Bennett Sharing The Seasons: A Book Of Poems Lewis, J. Patrick A World of Wonders: Geographic Travels In Verse And Rhyme Prelutsky, Jack The Gargoyle On The Roof Silverstein, Shel Falling Up Willard, Nancy Pish, Posh, Said Hieronymus Bosch Yolen, Jane A Sip of Aesop Favorite Authors

Avi Gail Carson Levine Katherine Patterson Louis Sachar Sharon Creech Ann M. Martin Gary Paulsen Jerry Spinelli Brian Jacques Donna Jo Napoli Rick Riordan Erin Hunter Phyllis Reynolds Naylor J. K. Rowling

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2015 SUMMER READING LIST

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