Concord Public Schools
Summer Reading List

Grade 2
June 2008

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FICTION

Adler, David

Cam Jansen Series (more titles)

Armstrong, Jennifer

Once Upon a Banana

Barrows, Annie

Ivy & Bean Break the Fossil Record

Bunting, Eve

One Green Apple

Cameron, Ann

Gloria Rising

Gloria Rising (pb)

Chaconas, Dori

Cork and Fuzz series (more titles)

Cronin, Doreen

Diary of a Fly

DiCamillo, Kate

Mercy Watson series (more titles)

Dunlap, Julie

Louisa May and
Mr. Thoreau’s Flute

Friend, Catherine

The Perfect Nest

Grey, Mini

Traction Man Is Here!

Haas, Jessie

Jigsaw Pony

Hoffman, Mary

Princess Grace

Hurst, Carol Otis

Rocks in His Head

Jackson, Shelley

The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County

Jacobson, Jennifer

Andy Shane and the Very Bossy Dolores Starbuckle

Johnson, D.B.

Henry Works

Jordan, Delores

Salt in His Shoes

Kerrin, Jessica Scott

Martin Bridge series (more titles)

Look, Lenore

Ruby Lu, Empress of Everything

Lowry, Lois

Gooney, the Fabulous

Nolan, Lucy

Down Girl & Sit series (more titles)

McDonald, Megan

Stink and the Great Guinea Pig Express

Piven, Hanoch

My Dog is as Smelly as Dirty Socks

Roy, Ron

A to Z Mysteries (more titles)

Scieszka, Jon

Cowboy & Octopus

Silverman, Erica

Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa series (more titles)

 

NONFICTION

Aston, Dianna Hutts

An Egg Is Quiet

Aston, Dianna Hutts

A Seed Is Sleepy

Beeler, Selby

Throw Your Tooth on the Roof!

Blakey, Nancy

Go Outside!

Christian, Peggy

If You Find a Rock

Clements, Andrew

Brave Norman: A True Story

Dotlich, Rebecca

Over in the Pink House: New Jump Rope Rhymes

Hatkoff, C.  & I.

Owen and Mzee: The Language of Friendship

Hendry, Linda

Dog Crafts

Hooper, Meredith

The Pebble in My Pocket: A History of Our Earth

Jenkins, Steve

Living Color

Kidslabel

Spot 7 Animals

Leedy, Loreen

It’s Probably Penny

Miller, Debbie S.

Are Trees Alive?

Rockwell, Anne

Why Are the Ice Caps Melting

Roemer, Heide Bee

What Kind of Seeds Are These?

Simon, Seymour

Giant Machines

Stier, Catherine

If I Ran for President

 

FOLKTALES

Artell, Mike

Three Little Cajun Pigs

Child, Lauren

The Princess and the Pea

dePaola, Tomie

Tomie dePaola’s Big Book of Favorite Legends

Grey, Mini

The Very Smart Pea & the Princess-to-Be

Hamilton, Virginia

Bruh Rabbit and the Tar Baby Girl

Hawes, Louise

Muti’s Necklace

Ketteman, Helen

Waynetta & the Cornstalk

LaMarche, Jim

The Elves & the Shoemaker

Muth, Jon

Stone Soup

Pinkney, Jerry

Little Red Riding Hood

Shepard, Aaron

Master Man: A Tall Tale of Nigeria

Willey, Margaret

Clever Beatrice

 

POETRY

Chaikin, Miriam

Don’t Step On the Sky: A Handful of Haiku

Clements, Andrew

Dogku

Florian, Douglas

Handsprings

Goldstein, Bobbye

Bear in Mind: A Book of Bear Poems

Graham, Joan

Flicker Flash

Hoberman, MaryAnn

You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You (more titles)

Hopkins, Lee Bennett

Sports! Sports! Sports!

Kuskin, Karla

Toots the Cat

Larios, Julie

Yellow Elephant: A Bright Bestiary

Lee, Dennis

Dinosaur Dinner (With a Slice of Alligator Pie)

Lewis, J. Patrick

Doodle Dandies

Moore, Lillian

Sunflakes: Poems for Children

O’Neill, Mary

Hailstones and Halibut Bones

Peters, Lisa Westberg

Earthshake: Poems From the Ground Up

Prelutsky, Jack

Read a Rhyme, Write a Rhyme

Roemer, Heidi

Come to My Party

Swados, Elizabeth

Hey You! C’mere: A Poetry Slam

Yolen, Jane

Least Things: Poems About Small Natures

Zahares, Wade

Big, Bad and a Little Bit Scary

 

CLASSICS for the WELL-READ CHILD

 

Atwater, Richard

 

Mr. Popper’s Penguins

Butterworth, Oliver

The Enormous Egg

Cleary, Beverly

Ramona series (more titles)

Gannett, Ruth

My Father’s Dragon series (more titles)

Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie

Wilderness Cat

Kipling, Rudyard

Just-So Stories

MacDonald, Betty

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series (more titles)

Thurber, James

Many Moons

White, E.B.

Charlotte’s Web

Yolen, Jane

Owl Moon

 

BIOGRAPHY

 

Brighton, Catherine

 

The Fossil Girl: Mary Anning’s
Dinosaur Discovery

Brown, Don

Bright Path: Young Jim Thorpe

Farris, Christine King

My Brother Martin

Krensky, Stephen

Ben Franklin and His First Kite

Krull, Kathleen

The Boy on Fairfield Street: How Ted Geisel Grew Up to Become Dr. Seuss

Lowe, Steve

Walden

Parks, Rosa

I Am Rosa Parks

Roop, Peter

Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie

Ryan, Pam Munoz

When Marian Sang

Sheldon, David

Barnum Brown, Dinosaur Hunter