Lower School Summer Reading 2020 Recommended Reading Lists based on 2019-2020 grade level Kindergarten Individual Stories: Author Blueberries for Sal McCloskey, Robert Little Toot Gramatky, Hardie Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel Burton, Virginia Lee Millions of Cats Gag, Wanda Noah’s Ark Spier, Peter Stone Soup: An Old Tale Brown, Marcia The Carrot Seed Krauss, Ruth The Snowy Day Keats, Ezra Jack The Story about Ping Flack, Marjorie Where the Wild Things Are Sendak, Maurice Series: Dr. Seuss books Eric Carle books Little Bear books by Else Holmelund Minarik Madeline books by Ludwig Bemelmans and others Syd Hoff books The Rainbow Fish books by Marcus Pfister The Tale of Peter Rabbit books by Beatrix Potter Suggested Books: A Pocket for Corduroy Harold...Purple Crayon Rosie’s Walk A Whistle for Willie Inch by Inch Runaway Bunny Andy and the Lion Ira Sleeps Over Story of Ferdinand Anno’s Counting Katy No-Pocket Swimmy Are You My Mother? Leo the Late Bloomer Sylvester...Magic Pebble Ask Mr. Bear Little Rabbit’s Loose Tooth The Doorbell Rang Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Little Red Hen The Little Engine...Could Chickens Aren’t Only Ones Lyle, Lyle the Crocodile The Little House Cloudy...Chance of Meatballs Make Way for Ducklings The Sleepy Book Dandelion One Morning in Maine The Tale of Three Trees Frances Series Over in the Meadow The Velveteen Rabbit Frederick Peter’s Chair The Very Busy Spider Goodnight Moon Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf What Do You Say Dear? Suggested Series: Babar Curious George George and Martha Berenstein Bear Franklin Winnie the Pooh Clifford Seres Frog and Toad First & Second Grade Individual Stories: Author Caps for Sale Slobodkina, Esphyr Corduroy Freeman, Don Harry, the Dirty Dog Zion, Gene Ira Sleeps Over Waber, Bernard Make Way for Ducklings McCloskey, Robert Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel Burton, Virginia Lee Ox-Cart Man Hall, Donald The Courage of Sarah Noble Dalgliesh, Alice The Mitten: An Old Ukrainian Folktale Tresselt, Alvin R. The Snowy Day Keats, Ezra Jack The Velveteen Rabbit Bianco, Margery Williams Where the Wild Things Are Sendak, Maurice Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears Aardema, Verna Woof Finds a Family Dobson, Danae Series: Amelia Bedelia by Parrish, Peggy Danny and the Dinosaur by Hoff, Syd Frog and Toad Are Friends by Lobel, Arnold Little House in the Big Woods by Wilder, Laura Ingalls Madeline by Bemelmans, Ludwig Meet Kirsten, An American Girl by Shaw, Janet Beeler Miss Nelson is Missing by Allard, Harry The Boxcar Children Series by Warner, Gertrude The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Cleary, Beverly The Mystery of the Carousel Horse by Murphy, Elspeth Campbell The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Potter, Beatrix The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Carle, Eric Additional Books: Abraham Lincoln Crow Boy The Bears on Hemlock Adventures in the Big Thicket Dandelion Mountain Alexander…Very Bad Day Five Chinese Brothers The Big Snow Amazing Grace Flip The Chocolate Touch Are You My Mother? Frederick The Christian Mother Goose Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain Helen Keller The Day Jimmy’s Brown Bear…What Do You Leo the Late Bloomer Boa...Wash See? Little Toot The Emperor’s New Clothes Cloudy with a Chance of Millions of Cats The Story About Ping Meatballs Miss Rumphus The Velveteen Rabbit Cricket in Times Square Song and Dance Man Crictor Stone Soup Suggested Series: Alex Clifford Little Bear Arthur Curious George Petunia Billy and Blaze Frances Ramona Christopher Churchmouse If You Give a...series (Numeroff) The Chronicles of Narnia Third & Fourth Grade Individual Stories: Author Black Beauty Sewell, Anna Caddie Woodlawn Brink, Carol Ryrie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Dahl, Ronald Heidi Spyri, Joanna Mr. Popper’s Penguins Atwater, Richard Tupper My Side of the Mountain George, Jean Craighead Pilgrim’s Progress Simplified Bunyan, John Snow Treasure McSwigan, Marie Strawberry Girl Lenski, Lois The Borrowers Norton, Mary The Courage of Sarah Noble Dalgliesh, Alice The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Lewis, C.S. The Tower Treasure Dixon, Franklin The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle Lofting, Hugh The Whipping Boy Fleischman, Sid Where the Red Fern Grows Rawls, Wilson Series: Ben and Me books by Lawson, Robert Beverly Cleary books E.B. White books Encyclopedia Brown books by Sobol, Donald Frank Peretti books Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder Sarah, Plain and Tall by MacLachlan, Patricia The Boxcar Children Series by Warner, Gertrude Chandler Additional Books: Born Free Peter Pan The Little Princess Call it Courage Pinocchio The Matchlock Gun Daniel Boone Pippi Longstocking The Midnight Fox Helen Keller Rabbit Hill The Moffats Homer Price Shoeshine Girl The Secret Garden Jo’s Boys Sounder The Wheel on the Lassie Come Home Stone Fox School Little Men Swiss Family Robinson The Wind in the Little Women The Cabin Faced West Willows Miss Hickory The Family under Bridge The Wizard of Oz Misty of Chincoteague The Hundred Dresses Twenty-One Mrs. Firsby...Rats of Nimh The Incredible Journey Balloons Old Yeller The Indian in the Cupboard Suggested Series: Black Stallion Nancy Drew Spirit Flyer Hardy Boys Paddington Sugar Creek Gang Fifth Grade (may also choose from 3rd & 4th grade list) Individual Stories: Author From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Konigsburg Gentle Ben Morey, Walt Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates Dodge, Mary Mapes King of the Wind Henry, Marguerite Kristy’s Great Idea Martin, Ann M. Old Yeller Gipson, Fred The Door in the Wall deAngeli, Marguerite The Incredible Journey Burnford, Sheila Additional Books for Fifth Grade: A Christmas Carol Kidnapped The Jungle Book A Father’s Promise Miracles on Maple Hill The Phantom Tollbooth Amos Fortune, Free Man Mrs. Frisby...Nimh The Secret Garden Big Red My Side of the The Summer of the Swans Blue Willow Mountain The Tanglewood Secret Bridge to Terabithia Pollyanna The Wind in the Willows Call of the Wild Rascal The Witch of Blackbird Pond Carry On, Mr. Bowditch Robinson Crusoe The Yearling Dear Mr. Henshaw Roll of Thunder...Cry Tuck Everlasting Freedom Train Sounder Turn Homeward, Hannalee Hitty: Her First Hundred Star of Light Where the Red Fern Grows Years The Borrowers White Fang Johnny Tremain The Cay Joni The Good Master Suggested Series for Fifth Grade: Anne of Green Gables Cooper Kids Adventure .