LS Suggested Summer Reading Lists

June 19, 2007

INCOMING JUNIOR KINDERGARTEN (JK)

Carle, Eric - From Head to Toe
Crews, Nina - One Hot Summer Day
Eastman, P D - Go Dog Go
Florian, Douglas - A Beach Day
Gallowey, Ruth - Fidgety Fish
Kennedy, Jimmy - The Teddy Bears Picnic
Komoda, Beverly - The Too Hot Day
Langstaff, John - Frog Went a-Courtin'
Lee, Dennis - Dinosaur Dinner (With a Slice of Alligator Pie)
Lionni, Leo - Inch by Inch
Martin, Bill - Listen to the Rain
Martin, Bill - Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
McBratney, Sam - Guess How Much I Love You
Paxton, Tom - Going to the Zoo
Prater, John and French, Vivian - Once Upon a Picnic
Regan, Diane Curtis - Daddies
Spiers, Peter (Illustrator) Peter Spiers Rain
Wood, Audrey & Don The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Hungry Bear

The books listed above have been selected by our faculty because they appeal to a broad range of interests and reading levels. They are suggestions, not requirements. There are many, many wonderful books to enjoy this summer. Please don't let these recommendations limit your son's enthusiasm for reading. The most important requirement is that he reads everyday.

To download and print a copy of the JK Suggested Summer Reading List, click here.

INCOMING KINDERGARTEN SUGGESTED SUMMER READING LIST

Authors that all children should be familiar with:

Frank Asch, Margaret Wise Brown, Norman Bridwell, Eric Carle, Barbara Cooney, Donald Crews, Tomie dePaola, Lois Ehlert, Don Freeman, Paul Galdone, Kevin Henkes, Eric Hill, Tana Hoban, Ezra Jack keats, Steven kellogg, Robert Kraus, Bill Martin, Jr., Helen Oxenbury, Dr. Seuss, maurice Sendack, Rosemary Wells, Brian Wildsmith.

Picture Books Everyone Should Know
Andy and The Lion, by James Daughtery
Bread and Jam For Frances, by Russell Hoban
Caps for Sale, by Esphyr Slobodkina
Curious George, by H.A.Rey
The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate The Wash, by Trinka H. Noble
Doctor De Soto, by William Steig
George and Martha, by James Marshall
Harry,the Dirty Dog, by Gene Zion
Lyle,Lyle, Crocodile, by Bernard Waber
Madeline, by Ludwig Bemelmans
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, by Virginia L. Burton
Millions of Cats, by Wanda Gag
Mother Goose Rhymes
Mouse Paint, by Ellen S. Walsh
Mushroom in the Rain, by Mirra Ginsburg
The Napping House, by Audrey Woods
The Polar Express, by Chris Van Allsburg
Rosie’s Walk, by Pat Hutchins
Stone Soup, by Marcia Brown
The Story of Ferdinand, by Munro Leaf
Swimmy, by Leo Lionni
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, by William Steig
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
The Three Little Pigs

To download and print a copy of the Kindergarten Suggested Summer Reading List, click here.

INCOMING FIRST GRADE SUGGESTED SUMMER READING LIST:

Aliki - Fossils Tell of Long Ago
Anno, Mitsumasa - Anno's Journey and Anno's USA
Asch, Frank - Moonbear's Pet
Banks, Kate - A Gift from the Sea
Bourgeois, Paulette - Franklin Wants a Pet
Bridwell, Norma - Clifford Takes a Trip
Brown, Marc - Arthur's Pet Business and Arthur's New Puppy
Bunting, Eve - A Day's Work and Going Home
Carle, Eric - The Grouchy Ladybug, A House for Hermit Crab, and The Very Lonely Firefly
Christian, Peggy - If You Find a Rock
Day, Alexandra - Carl Makes a Scrapbook
de Paola, Tomie - Strega Nona, Big Anthony, Tomie dePoala's Book of Poems, Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs, Andy: That's My Name, Cookie's Week (Tomie dePaola illustrated this book), and The Clown of God
deBrunoff, Laurent - Babar the Wully Wully
Dunn, Judy - The Little Kitten
Ehlert, Lois - Moon Rope: A Peruvian, Growing Vegetable Soup, and Planting a Rainbow
Falconer, Ian - Olivia and Olivia Saves the Circus
Fox, Mem - Night Noises
Gams, Roma - Let's Go Rock Collecting
Hartman, Gail - As a Crow Flies: A First Book of Maps
Hooper, Meredith - Tom's Rabbit: A Surprise on the Way to Antarctica
Hurst, Carol Otis - Rocks in His Head
Komaiko, Leah - Aunt Elaine Does the Dance from Spain
Leedy, Loreen - Mapping Penny's World
Lionni, Leo - Six Crowns, Inch by Inch, and On My Beach There are Many Pebbles
Mayer, Mercer - One Frog Too Many
McLerran, Alice - The Mountain that Loved a Bird
Numeroff, Laura - Laura Numeroff's 10 Step Guide to Living with Your Monster
Polacco, Patricia - The Keeping Quilt, Chicken Sunday, When Lightening Comes in a Jar, and Mrs. Katz and Tush
Rylant, Cynthia - The Whales
Schuett, Stacey - Somewhere in the World Right Now
Sweeney, Joan - Me and the Map
Williams, Vera B. - A Chair for My Mother and Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe
Yaccarino, Dan - An Octopus Followed Me Home
Yolen, Jane - Owl Moon

The books listed above have been selected by our faculty because they appeal to a broad range of interests and reading levels. They are suggestions, not requirements. There are many, many wonderful books to enjoy this summer. Please don't let these recommendations limit your son's enthusiasm for reading. The most important requirement is that he reads everyday.

To download and print a copy of the First Grade Suggested Summer Reading List, click here.

INCOMING SECOND GRADE SUGGESTED SUMMER READING LIST:

Adler, David Cam Jansen Series
Allard, Harry Miss Nelson Series
Anderson, C.W. Billy and Blaze
Avi - Abigail Takes the Wheel
Bemelmans, Ludwig - Madeline
Benchley, N. - Oscar Otter
Berenstain, Jan & Stan - The Berenstain Bears series
Bonsall, Crosby Newell - The Case of the Cat's Meow and
The Case of the Scaredy Cats
Burton, Virginia Lee - Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Byers, Betsy - Hooray for the Golly Sisters
Calhoun, Mary - Audubon Cat and Hot-Air Henry
Carrick, Carol - What Happened to Patrick's Dinosaurs?
Christopher, Matt - The Hit Away Kid
Cohen, Miriam First grade series
Cole, Johanna - The Magic School Bus
Dadley, Debbie & Jones, Marcia - The Bailey School Kids
Eyewitness Junior books
Falconer, Ian - Olivia
Freeman, Don - A Pocket for Corduroy
Gage, W. - Mrs. Gaddy and the Ghost
Gibbons, Gail all titles
Giff, Patricia - New Kids of Polk Street series, Polk Street Kids School, and Ronald Morgan Goes to Camp
Graham, H. - Educating Arthur
Greene, Stephanie - Owen Foote, and Second Grade Strongman
Hiser, Berniece - The Adventures of Charlie and His Wheat-Straw Hat
Hoban, Lillian - The Arthur Series, Aunt Eater Mysteries, and Frances books
Henkes, Kevin all titles
Hurd, Thatcher - Mystery on the Docks
Keats, Ezra Jack - Goggles
Kessler, Leonard - Mr. Pine's Purple House
Kline, Suzy - Horrible Harry series
Krensky, Stephen - Lionel in Summer etc.Leaf, Munro - The Story of Ferdinand
Levy, Elizabeth - Something Queer on Vacation: A Mystery
Lexau, Joan - The Homework Caper
Lobel, Arnold - Frog and Toad series, Mouse Tales, Owl at Home, and Uncle Elephant
Mahy, Margaret - The Boy Who Was Followed Home
MacDonald, G. - The Little Island
Marshall, James - George and Martha, Digby and Kate, and Fox and His Friends series
McCloskey, Robert - Make Way for the Ducklings
Osbourne, Mary Pope - Magic Tree House series
Prelutsky, Jack - Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young
Rey, Hans Augusto - Curious George series
Roundtree, Katherine - A Carp for Kimiko
Rylant, Cynthia - -Mr. Putter series, Henry and Mudge series, and Poppleton series
Sharmat, Majorie Weinman - Nate the Great series and The Kids on the Bus series
Silverstein, Shel - A Light in the Attic
Sobol, Donald - Encyclopedia Brown series
Van Leeuwen, Jean - Tales of Amanda Pig, and Tales of Oliver Pig
Ward, L. - The Biggest Bear
Warner, Gertrude Chandles - The Boxcar Children series
Zion, Gene - Harry by the Sea and Harry, the Dirty Dog

The books listed above have been selected by our faculty because they appeal to a broad range of interests and reading levels. They are suggestions, not requirements. There are many, many wonderful books to enjoy this summer. Please don't let these recommendations limit your son's enthusiasm for reading. The most important requirement is that he reads everyday.

To download and print a copy of the Second Grade Suggested Summer Reading List, click here.

INCOMING THIRD GRADE SUGGESTED SUMMER READING LIST

Adler - Cam Jansen Series
Avi - Poppy
Banks - Indian in the Cupboard
Baum. L. Frank - The Wizard of Oz
Brooks - Throwing Smoke
Blume, Judy - Freckle Juice and Super Fudge
Christopher - The Spy on Third Base
Cleary - Ramona Quimby, Age 8
Cuyler - Invisible in the Third Grade
Dahl - The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, The BFG, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Danziger - Amber Brown Series
Duffy How To Be Cool in Third Grade
George, Jean Craighead - One Day in the Desert
Mowat - Owls in the Family
Osborne, Mary Pope - The Magic Tree House series
Peterson - The Littles
Prelutsky - Something Big Has Been Here and Pizza the Size of the Sun
Sachar - Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Sharmot - Nate the Great Series
Sobol - Encyclopedia Brown Series
Warner - Box Car Children

To download and print a copy of the Third Grade Suggested Reading List, click here.

INCOMING FOURTH GRADE SUGGESTED SUMMER READING LIST

Amato - The Word Eater
Avi - S.O.R. Loser
Banks - The Indian and the Cupboard
Boyd - The Circle of Gold
Buss - Journey of the Sparrow
Byars - The Summer of the Swan and The 18th Emergency
Coville - Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
Cleary (Most of her books are appropriate)
Dahl - The BFG and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Davidson - Martin Luther King-I Have a Dream
Dixon - The Hardy Boy Series
Eager - Seven Day Magic
Erickson - Hank the Cowdog series
Fox - A Likely Place
George - The Talking Earth
Jones - Witch Week
Lowry - All About Sam
Park - Skinnybones
Paulson - Voyage of the Frog
Sachar - Wayside School is Falling Down
Seldon - A Cricket in Times Square
Snicket - The Series of Unfortunate Events

The books listed above have been selected by our faculty because they appeal to a broad range of interests and reading levels. They are suggestions, not requirements. There are many, many wonderful books to enjoy this summer. Please don't let these recommendations limit your son's enthusiasm for reading. The most important requirement is that he reads everyday.

To download and print a copy of the Fourth Grade Suggested Summer Reading List, click here.