North End School/South End School 2020 Suggest Summer Reading – Grades 1 & 2

*Reading any book on this list is OPTIONAL.*

Our elementary media specialists and teachers are pleased to recommend the following titles for the summer of 2020.

Please Note: There are no assignments connected to any of the titles listed for any grade level. These books are provided simply for your reading pleasure as well as to continually develop our students’ reading skills.

Please note that the following books are only suggestions. Please feel free to add any books that are appropriate for your reader. The staff in the children’s area of the public library will also have many wonderful suggestions for you.

For Students Entering Grade 1

Title Author

Fiction:

Fly Guy series Tedd Arnold

Amelia Bedelia series Peggy Parish

The Story of Ferdinand Munro Leaf

Ghosts for Breakfast Stanley Todd Terasaki

Young Cam Jansen series David A. Adler

Iggy Peck, Architect Andrea Beatty

Frog and Toad series Arnold Lobel

I’m not just a Scribble and Scribble Stones Diane Alber

Elizabeti’s Doll Stephanie Stuve

Grumpy Monkey Suzanne Lang

Diary of a Worm Doreen Cronin

I Don’t want to Be a Frog Dev Petty

Rainbow Weaver/Tejedora del arcoíris Linda E. Marshall

Spoon Amy Krauss Rosenthal

Rumble in the Jungle OR Commotion in the Ocean Giles Andreae

Non fiction:

What if you Had series Sandra Markle

Vamos a leer sobre... César Chávez Jerry Tello

One Minute Till Bedtime: 60 Second Poems to Send You Off to Sleep Ken Nesbitt

Fly Guy Presents series Tedd Arnold

Earth, My First 4.54 Billion Years Stacy McAnulty

Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp Stride Andrea Davis Pinkney

Ordinary People Change the World series Brad Meltzer

For Students Entering Grade 2

Title Author

Fiction:

Horrible Harry series Suzy Kline

Cam Jansen series David A. Adler

The Scrambled States of America Laurie Keller

No Mush Today Sally Derby

Judy Moody and Stink series Megan McDonald

The Good Egg/The Bad Seed/The Cool Bean Jory John

The Wakame Gatherers Holly Thompson

The Invisible Boy Trudy Ludwig

Calendar Mysteries Ron Roy

Mercy Watson series Kate DiCamillo

First Day in Grapes L. King Perez

Narwhal and Jelly series Ben Clanton

The Notebook of Doom series Troy Cummings

Magic Tree House series Mary Pope Osbourne

Selvakumar Knew Better Virginia Kroll

Geronimo Stilton series Geronimo Stilton

Non fiction:

History of Fun Stuff series Various Authors

A Boy Called Slow: The True Story of Sitting Bull Joseph Bruchac

Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions from Around the World Selby Beeber

Finding Winnie: The story of the World’s Most Famous Bear Lindsay Mattick

Character Counts: Young Jackie Robinson Edward Farrell

Who Would Win? series Jeffrey Palotta

Dogku Andrew Clements