Summer Reading Suggestions
Kindergarten-1st Grade—Summer 2010
**=Top 10+
Amelia Bedelia Bakes Off—Parish
Anansi’s Party Time—Kimmel
Animal Crackers Fly the Coop—O’Malley
**B is for Baseball: Running the bases from A to Z
Best Horse Ever—DeLaCroix
**Black Book of Colors—Cottin
**A Book—Gerstein
Born to be Giants: How baby dinosaurs grew to rule the world—Judge
Bridget’s Beret—Lichtenheld
**Bug Faces—Murawski
Bugs and Bugsicles: Insects in the winter—Hansen
Can I Play Too?—Willems
Can You See What I See?: Treasure Ship—Wick
Case of the Stinky Socks—Montgomery
Cat the Cat Who it That?—Willems
Catfish Kate and the Sweet Swamp Band—Weeks
**Chester’s Masterpiece—Watt
Clemente!—Perdomo
Clementine, Friend of the Week (Clementine series) by Sara Pennypacker
Dear Primo: a letter to my cousin—Tonatiuh
Diamond Jim Dandy and the Sheriff—Burell
Dino Pets—Plourde
**Dunderheads—Fleischman
Every Cowgirl Needs a Horse—Janni
Guess Again!—Barnett
Hair-Shooting Tarantulas and other Weird Spiders—Bredeson
Have I Got a Book For You!—Watt
Here Comes the Garbage Barge—Winter
**Hip Hop Dog—Raschka
**How to Clean a Hippopotamus: a look at unusual animal partnerships—
Jenkins
I Want Two Birthdays—Ross
Ink Drinker—Sanvoisin
Insect Detective—Voake
Ivy and Bean series—Barrows
Joha Makes a Wish—Kimmel
Lion’s Lunch?—Tierney
LMNO Peas—Baker
Meet the Howlers—Sayre
Mouse was Mad—Urban
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country, be a part of it!
Night Fairy—Schlitz
Not All Princesses Dress in Pink—Yolen
Once Upon a Twice—Doyen
Pig Wig—Kido
**Poetrees—Florian
Pout Pout Fish—Diesen
Red, White, Blue and Uncle Who?—Bateman
**Rhyming Dust Bunnies—Thomas
Skippyjon Jones: Lost in spice—Schachner
Slow Down for Manatees—Arnosky
Stink: Solar System Superhero—McDonald
Sylvie—Sattler
Taming of Lola: a shrew story—Weiss
Twin Giants—King-Smith
Visitor for Bear—Becker
**Wendel’s Workshop—Riddell
**What Really Happened to Humpty—Ransom
A Whiff of Pine, A Hint of Skunk—Ruddell
Wizard from the Start: the incredible boyhood and amazing inventions of
Thomas Edison—Brown
Woof: A love story—Weeks
Young Zeus—Karas
Summer Reading Suggestions
2nd-3rd Grades—Summer 2010
**=Top 10+
All-Star!: Honus Wagner and the most famous baseball card ever—Yolen
Anansi’s Party Time—Kimmel
Andrew Lost: With the frogs (Andrew Lost series)—Greenburg
**B is for Baseball: Running the bases from A to Z—
Babymouse Burns Rubber (Babymouse series)—Holm
Best Horse Ever—DeLaCroix
A Book—Gerstein
Book That Eats People—Perry
Born to Be Giants: How baby dinosaurs grew to rule the world—Judge
Borrowers—Norton
Bugs and Bugsicles: Insects in winter—Hansen
Calvin Coconut: Dog Heaven—Salisbury
Can You See What I See?: Treasure Ship—Wick
Case of the Stinky Socks—Montgomery
Clemente!—Perdomo
Clementine, Friend of the Week (Clementine series) by Sara Pennypacker
**Cloud Tea Monkeys—Peet
Dinosaur Mountain: Digging into the Jurassic Age—Ray
Doll Shop Downstairs—McDonough
Doubles Troubles—Hicks
Dragon in the Driveway—Klimo (Dragonkeepers, book 2)
**Dunderheads—Fleischman (J Fleischman)
Earth-Friendly Crafts: clever ways to reuse everyday items—Ross
Fairies and the Quest for Never Land—Levine (sequel)
Fantastic Flying Fun with Science—Sobey
Frankie Pickle and the Pine Run 3000 (Frankie Pickle series)—Wright
Global Warming—Simon
**Growing Patterns: Fibonacci numbers in nature—Campbell
Have I Got a Book For You!—Watt
Hive Detectives: chronicle of a honey bee catastrophe—Burns
How Oliver Olson Changed the World—Mills
**How to Clean a Hippopotamus: a look at unusual animal partnerships—
Jenkins
Ink Drinker—Sanvoisin
Ivy and Bean series—Barrows
Joha Makes a Wish—Kimmel
Just Grace Goes Green (Just Grace series)—Harper
Let’s Go Outside!—Ward
**Letters to a Soldier—Falvey
Mallory Goes Green! (Mallory series)—Friedman
Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the trees of Kenya—Napoli
Meet the Howlers—Sayre
Mighty Mount Kilimanjaro (Geronimo Stilton series)—Stilton
**Mirror Mirror—Singer
Muddy as a Duck Puddle and other American Similies—Lawlor
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a part of it!—
Night Fairy—Schlitz
Oceans: dolphins, sharks, penguins, and more!—Rizzo
**Palazzo Inverso—Johnson
Piper Reed Gets a Job—Holt
**Poetrees—Florian
Red, White, Blue and Uncle Who?—Bateman
Saving the Baghdad Zoo—Halls
**Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crooks—Davis
Shining Star: the Anna May Wong story—Yoo
Skippyjon Jones: Lost in spice—Schachner
SpaceHeadz—Scieszka
Spider-tizers and Other Creepy Treats—Goldish
Stage Fright (Allie Finkel series)—Cabot
Stink: Solar System Superhero—McDonald
Twin Giants—King-Smith
Uncle Pirate to the Rescue—Rees
We the Children—Clements
Wendel’s Workshop—Riddell
**What Really Happened to Humpty—Ransom
Wizard from the Start: the incredible boyhood and amazing inventions of
Thomas Edison—Brown
**Young Zeus—Karas
Summer Reading Suggestions
4th-5th Grades—Summer 2010
**=Top 10+
**Alchemy and Meggy Swann—Cushman
Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis complex—Colfer
Baseball Rival—Green sequel to “Baseball Great”
**Batboy—Lupica
Big Nate: in a class by himself—Peirce
Birthday Ball—Lowry
Boom—Haddon
Calamity Jack—Hale
Case of the Gypsy Good-bye: An Enola Holmes Mystery (series)—Springer
Charlie Bone and the Red Knight (Children of the Red King, #8)—Nimmo
Cooking Rocks! Rachael Ray 30-minute meals for kids—Ray
Cosmic—Boyce
Crispin: The End of Time (series) by Avi
Dog Lost—Lee
Dragon in the Driveway—Klimo (Dragonkeepers, book 2)
**Drizzle—Van Cleve
Earth-Friendly Crafts: clever ways to reuse everyday items—Ross
Emma’s Poem: The voice of the Statue of Liberty—Glaser
Emperor’s Code (39 Clues, Book #8)—Korman
Enchanted Glass—Wynne Jones
Eyes on the Goal (4 on 4 series)—Coy
Falling In—Dowell
Fast and the Furriest—Behrens
Finally—Mass sequel to “11 Birthdays”
**Fizzy Whiz Kid—Williams
Freefall (Tunnels #3) –Gordon
Giant Slayer—Lawrence
Glitter Girls and the Great Fake Out —Cabot
Global Warming—Simon
**Goal: The fire and fury of Soccer’s greatest moments—Stewart
**Growing Patterns: Fibonacci numbers in nature—Campbell
**Henry Aaron’s Dream—Tavares
Hive Detectives: chronicle of a honey bee catastrophe—Burns
How to Survive Middle School—Gephart
**If America Were a Village—Smith
Inside Story (The Sisters Grimm, #8) –Buckley
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the world’s strangest parrot—Montgomery
Last Best Days of Summer—Hobbs
Lawn Boy Returns—Paulsen (sequel to “Lawn Boy”)
Legion of the Dead (Barnaby Grimes series)—Stewart/Riddell
Let’s Go Outside!—Ward
**Letters to a Soldier—Falvey
Magenta McPhee—Bateson
Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age—Bardoe
Mockingbird—Erskine
Mythbusters: Don’t try this at home—Packard
Nature Girl—Kelley
Northward to the Moon—Horvath
sequel to “My One Hundred Adventures”
Not Your Typical Book about the Environment—Kelsey
One Crazy Summer—Williams-Garcia
**Operation Yes—Holmes
**Out of my Mind—Draper
Palazzo Inverso—Johnson
**Raiders Ransom—Diamand
Ripley’s Human Body—de la Bedoyere
Roberto & Me: A baseball card adventure (series)—Gutman
**Sable Quean—Jacques
**Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crooks—Davis
Shining Star: the Anna May Wong story—Yoo
Sports Camp—Wallace
**Star in the Forest—Resau
Story of Cirrus Flux—Skelton
Saving the Baghdad Zoo—Halls
Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer—Grisham
This is Rocket Science—Skurzynski
This Means War—Wittlinger
Wacky Water Fun with Science—Sobey
We the Children—Clements
What’s the Big Idea? Inventions that changed life on Earth forever—Becker
Zombiekins—Bolger
Summer Reading Suggestions
6th-8th Grades—Summer 2010
Adventures of Jack Lime—Leck
Alchemy and Meggy Swann—Cushman
Alex Van Helsing: Vampire Rising—Henderson
Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis complex—Colfer
As Easy as Falling off the Face of the Earth—Perkins
Batboy—Lupica
Beastly—Flinn
Boom—Haddon
Broken Memory: a novel of Rwanda—Combres
Cardturner—Sachar
Charlie Bone and the Red Knight (Children of the Red King series, #8)—Nimmo
Complete History of Why I Hate Her—Jacobsen
Conspiracy of Kings—Turner
Cooking up a storm—Stern
Chains—Anderson
D-Day (24/7 Goes to War Series)—Miller
Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin—Berk
Daughters of the Sea: Hannah—Lasky
David Beckham: Gifted and giving soccer star—Roselius
Eat Fresh Food: awesome recipes for teen chefs—Gold
Enchanted Glass—Wynne Jones
Fat Cat—Brande
Flygirl—Smith
Freefall (Tunnels #3) –Gordon
Gimme a Call—Mlynowski )
Goal: The fire and fury of Soccer’s greatest moments—Stewart
Green Witch (sequel to “Green Angel”)—Hoffmann
Heart is not a Size—Kephart
Heist Society—Carter
I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President—Lieb
I and I: Bob Marley—Medina
If America Were a Village—Smith
If Stones Could Speak: Unlocking the secrets of Stonehenge—Aronson
Incarceron—Fisher
Is it Night or Day?—Chapman
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the world’s strangest parrot—Montgomery
Kings of Clonmel—Flanagan (Ranger’s Apprentice, book #8)
Last Summer of the Death Warriors—Stork
Lawn Boy Returns—Paulsen
Liberty or Death: the surprising story of runaway slaves who sided with the
British during the American Revolution—Blair
Light—MacHale
Light Beneath Ferns—Spollen
Little Miss Red—Palmer
Lockdown—Myers
Lonely Hearts Club—Eulberg
Love at First Bite: The unofficial Twilight cookbook—Meyers
Map of the Known World—Sandell
Maze Runner—Dashner
Me and Death—Scrimger
Missing in Action—Hughes
Mythbusters: Don’t try this at home—Packard
Northward to the Moon—Horvath
Out of My Mind—Draper
Premiere: On the Runway—Carlson
Princess of Glass—George
Real Food, Real Fast—Stern
Red Pyramid—Riordan
Ripley’s Human Body—de la Bedoyere
River—Beaufrand
Runaway: an Airhead novel—Cabot
Sable Quean—Jacques
Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs (sequel to “Shakespeare Bats Cleanup”)—
Koertge
Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: A Twilight Novella—Meyer
Small Free Kiss in the Dark—Millard
Sons of Liberty—Lagos
Spies of Mississippi—Bowers
Spilling Ink: A young writer’s handbook—Mazer/Potter
Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame—Woods
Sweet Life of Stella Madison—Zeises
Teens Cook Dessert—Carle
This is Rocket Science—Skurzynski
Three Rivers Rising—Richards
Unwind—Schusterman
What’s the Big Idea? Inventions that changed life on Earth forever—Becker
Woods Runner—Paulsen