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Entering Grade 2 Summer Reading List 2017

Belleville Public Library & Belleville Public Schools

JOIN THE SUPERINTENDENT’S Favorite Authors CHALLENGE! Chris Van Allsburg Jerry Spinnelli Dr. Tomko challenges you Steven Kellogg to read as many books as you Leo Lionni can this summer! Peggy Parish (Every time you read a book, William Steig log it in!) Cynthia Rylant

Read! Read! Read! Check out the books listed below! They are some of the most popular books in the library. Read a book by your favorite author. Be curious! Pick up a book you’ve never read before!

Genre Key: Fiction Non-Fiction Biography Poetry

14 Cows for America by Carmen Deedy I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King Jr. Amelia Bedelia Series by Peggy Parish How Much is a Million? by David Schwartz Aunt Flossie’s Hats by Elizabeth Howard Laika: Astronaut Dog by Owen Davey Apples to Oregon by Deborah Hopkinson May I Bring a Friend? by Beatrice Schenk de A Bad Case of the Stripes by David Shannon Regneirs The Bathwater Gang by Jerry Spinelli Night Noises by Mem Fox Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John The Paper Crane by Molly Bank Coltrane by Carole Boston Weatherford Papá and Me by Arthur Dorros The Bug in the Teacher’s Coffee by Kalli Dakos Paul Bunyan by Steven Kellogg Captain Invincible and Space Shapes by Stuart The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg Murphy Read a Rhyme, Write a Rhyme by Jack The Chalk Box Kid by Clyde Robert Bulla Prelutsky Chanticleer and the Fox adapted from Geoffrey Roxaboxen by Alice McLerran Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales The Snails Spell by Joanne Ryder The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins Soccer Sam by Jean Marzollo Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Sylvester and the Magic Pebbles by William Barrett Steig Frederick by Leo Lionni Three by the Sea by Edward Marshall The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen by Dyanne Henry and Mudge by Cynthia Rylant DiSalvo-Ryan The Hinky Pink by Megan McDonald Wake Up, Emily, It’s Mother’s Day by I Am Rosa Parks by Rosa Parks Patricia Reilly Giff I Am the Book by Lee Bennett Hopkins