Summer Reading List
Entering Second Grade Reading List
Title
Author
A Kiss for Little Bear
Elsa Holmelund Minarik
ABC I Like Me!
Nancy Carlson
Abe Lincoln’s Hat
Martha Brenner
Addie’s Bad Day
Joan Robins
Amelia Bedelia and the Baby
Peggy Parish
Anteater Named Arthur
Bernard Waber
Arthur’s Computer Disaster
Marc Brown
Babushka’s Doll
Patricia Polacco
Bedtime for Frances
Russell Hoban
Bootsie Barker Ballerina
Barbara Bottner
Buzby
Julia Hoban
Clifford the Big Red Dog
Norman Bridwell
Daniel’s Duck
Clyde Robert Bulla
Danny and the Dinosaur
Syd Hoff
Digby and Kate
Barbara Baker
Fourth Grade Rats
Jerry Spinelli
Fox on Wheels
Edward Marshall
Franklin Is Bossy
Paulette Bourgeois
Freckle Juice
Judy Blume
Grizzwold
Growing Vegetable Soup
Lois Ehlert
Have You Seen My Duckling?
Nancy Tafuri
Is Your Mama a Llama?
Deborah Guarino
Jack and the Beanstalk
Matt Faulkner
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie
Peter and Connie Roop
Leo the Late Bloomer
Robert Kraus
Lionel at Large
Stephen Krensky
Little Blue and Little Yellow
Leo Lionni
Magic Tree House: Pirates Past Noon
Mary Pope Osborne
Miss Nelson is Missing!
Harry Allard
Monster Math
Grace Maccarone
Morris and Boris and the Circus
B. Wiseman
Mouse Soup
Arnold Lobel
Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present
Charlotte Zolotow
No More Monsters for Me
Pet Show!
Ezra Jack Keats
Sammy the Seal
Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims
Teddy Bear Cures a Cold
Susanna Gretz
The Best Nest
P.D. Eastman
The Biggest Fish
Sheila Keenan
The Chalk Box Kid
The Doorbell Rang
Pat Hutchins
The Drinking Gourd
F.N. Monjo
The Great Race
David McPhail
The Meanest Thing to Say
Bill Cosby
The Sword in the Stone
The Very Busy Spider
Eric Carle
Three Up a Tree
James Marshall
Wagon Wheels
Barbara Brenner
Willie’s Wonderful Pet
Mel Cebulash