2024
Summer
reading list
pre-Third Grade Students
Recommended and compiled by Reading Teachers
From the
Baldwin Union Free School District
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Fiction
The Pain and the Great One
by Judy Bloom
Tales of a Fourth Grade
Nothing by Judy Bloom
Otherwise Known as Shelia
the Great by Judy Bloom
The Hockey Machine
by Matt Christopher
Henry and Beezus
by Beverly Cleary
Beezus and Ramona
by Beverly Cleary
Dirt Bike Racer
by Matt Christopher
Jake Drake, Know it All
by Andrew Clements
Adventures of the Bailey School Kids by Debbie Dadey
The Sneetches and Other
Stories by Dr. Seuss
A Pocket for Corduroy
by Don Freeman
Gooney Bird Greene
by Lois Lowry
Babysitters Club (Series)
by Ann Martin
Make Way for Ducklings
by Robert McCloskey
Magic Tree House (Series)
by Mary Osborne
Skinnybones
by Barbara Park
The Littles (Series)
by John Peterson
Ricky Ricotta's Adventures
by Dave Pilkey
Solo Girl
by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Fire! Fire!
by Gail Gibbons
My Very Own Room/Mi Propio
Cuartito by Amada Irma Perez
Amazing Grade
by Mary Hoffman
Little Elephant Song
by Wolfram Hanel
My Sister the Sausage Roll
by Barbara Ware Holmes
The Celery Stalks at
Midnight by James Howe
Bunnicula
by Deborah and James Howe
Russell and Elisa
by Johanna Hurwitz
Spy in the Sky
by Kathleen Karr
One Lucky Summer
by Laura Kvasnosky
Nim and the War Effort
by Milly Lee
Encyclopedia Brown (Series)
by Donald Sobol
Fourth Grade Rats
by Jerry Spinelli
Tooter Pepperday
by Jerry Spinelli
The Tortoise and the Hare
by Janet Stevens
Island Magic
by Martha Bennett Stiles
Jumanji
by Chris Van Allsburg
Thank You, Mr. Falker
by Patricia Polacco
Pink and Say
by Patricia Polacco
A-Z Mysteries
by Ron Roy
NonFiction
Beginning Chapter Books
If You Sailed on the Mayflower
in 1620 by Ann McGovern
How Much, How Many, How Far,
How Heavy, How Long, How Tall is 1000?by Helen Nolan
What Do You Do With
a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins
Endangered Animals
by Lynne M. Stone
Wildlife Conservation Society:
Amazing Dolphins!
by Sarah L. Thomson
Wildlife Conservation Society:
Amazing Gorillas!
by Sarah L. Thomson
Wildlife Conservation Society:
Amazing Whales!
by Sarah L. Thomson
Sarah Morton's Day
by Kate Waters
Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln
by Jean Fritz
Cam Jansen and ... (Series)
by David Adler
Ellray Jakes the Recess King
by Sally Warner
Cookies and Crutches
by Judy Delton
Aliens for Breakfast/Aliens
for Lunch by Jonathan Etra
New Neighbors for Nora
by Johanna Hurwitz
Horrible Harry and the Ant
Invasion by Suzy Kline
Horrible Harry and the
Dungeon by Suzy Kline
Mary Marony, Mummy Girl
by Suzy Kline
Song Lee in Room 2B
by Suzy Kline
Nate the Great (Series)
by Marjorie Sharmat
Biography
You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer
by Shana Corey
Great African American
Biographies by Patrick McKissack
Richard Wright and the Library
Cards by William Miller
Folk and Fairy Tales
One Grain of Rice (A
Mathematical Folktale)
by Demi
Boy of the Three Year Nap
by Dianne Snyder
Series Books
The Zach Files
by Dan Greenburg
My Weird School
by Dan Gutman
Stink
by Megan McDonald
Judy Moody
by Megan McDonald
Jigsaw Jones
by James Preller
Picture Books
Momma, Where Are You From?
by Marie Bradby
Faraway Home
by Jane Kurtz
Molly Bannaky
by Alice McGill
Cowardly Clyde
by Bill Peet
Poetry
All the Colors of the Race
by Arnold Adoff
Wanted... Mud Blossom
by Betsy Byars
Honey, I Love You
by Eloise Greenfield
Home To Me: Poems
Across America By Lee Hopkins
My Parents Think I'm Sleeping
by Jack Prelutsky
The New Kid on the Block
by Jack Prelutsky
The Random House Book Of
Poetry for Children
by Jack Prelutsky
Something Big Has Been Here
by Jack Prelutsky
Falling Up
by Shel Silverstein
A Light in the Attic
by Shel Silverstein
Please use this list only as a guide. These books have been chosen for their quality, their appeal to children, and their availability at the Baldwin Public Library. Additional nonfiction books have been added in order to align texts to NYS Common Core Learning Standards. You are encouraged to read other titles by these authors. If a particular title is not available, a librarian can assist you in selecting another title on the same topic, by the same author, or in the same genre. The public library also updates its own summer reading lists each year.
