2024
Summer
reading list
pre-Fourth Grade Students
Recommended and compiled by Reading Teachers
From the
Baldwin Union Free School District
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Fiction
The Fairy Rebel
by Lynne Reid Banks
Superfudge
by Judy Blume
The Startup Squad
(Series) by Brian Weisfeld
Henry Huggins
by Beverly Cleary
Help! I'm a Prisoner
in the Library by Eth Clifford
The Twits
by Roald Dahl
The Butter Battle Book
by Dr. Seuss
Hank the Cowdog
(Series) by John R. Erickson
It Came From Beneath
the Bed (Bunnicula Series) y James Howe
Baseball Fever
by Johanna Hurwitz
Starting With Alice (Series)
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The Last Day of
Summer by Lamar Giles
Skinnybones
by Barbara Parks
Get a Grip, Vivy
Cohen! by Sarah Kapit
Soup
by Robert Newton Peck
The Whinedingdilly
by Bill Peet
Drita, My Homegirl
by Jenny Lombard
Jacob Two Two
by Mordecai Richler
How to Eat Fried
Worms by Thomas Rockwell
There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom by Louis Sachar
Food Fight
by Carol Diggory Shields
Trumpet of the Swan
by E.B. White
Nonfiction
Poetry
The Popcorn Book
by Tommy dePaola
Beyond the Sea of Ice
by Joan Elizabeth Goodman
The Amazing,
Impossible Eerie Canal
by Cheryl Harness
Biggest, Strongest,
Fastest by Jenkins
The Brooklyn Bridge
by Elizabeth Mann
The Great Pyramid
By Elizabeth Mann
If You Lived in Colonial
Times by Ann McGovern
The Scoop on Clothes,
Homes, and Daily Life
in Colonial America
by Elizabeth Raum
Koko's Kitten
by Francine Patterson
When is a Planet
Not a Planet? by Elaine Scott
A Day in the Life of a
Teacher
by Mary Bowman-Kruhm
Joyful Noise
by Paul Fleischman
Out and About
by Shirley Hughes
Where the Sidewalks Ends
by Shel Silverstein
Folk and Fairy Tales
Princess Gorilla and a
New Kind of Water
by Verna Aardema
The Random House
Book of Fairy Tails
by Amy Ehrlich
Fairy Tales
by The Grimm Brothers
A Story - A Story
by Gail C. Haley
Arrow to the Sun
by Gerald McDermott
The Tale of the
Mandarin Ducks
by Katherine Paterson
Biography
Beginning Chapter Books
Henry Ford
by Hazel Aird
If You Lived at the
Time of Martin Luther
King by Ellen Levine
Booker T. Washington
by Margo McLoone
Christa McAuliffe
by Corinne Naden
Who Let Muddy Boots
into the White House?
by Robert Quackenbush
Beginning Chapter Books
Pinky and Rex Books
by James Howe
Mr. Putter and Tabby
Walk the Dog by Cynthia Rylant
Magazines
Animal Tales
National Geographic Kids
Astronomy for Kids
Series Books
A Horse Called Starfire
by Betty D. Boegehold
Summer Wheels
by Eve Bunting
Grandaddy and Janetta
by Helen V. Griffith
Aldo Applesauce
by Johanna Hurwitz
Rats on the Roof
by James Marshall
The Hayloft
by Lisa W. Peters
Sofia Martinez
by Jacqueline Jules
Amulet
by Kazu Kibuishi
Alvin Ho
by Lenore Look
Wayside School
by Louis Sachar
Justin Case
by Rachel Vail
The Boxcar Children Series
by Getrude Chandler Warner
Social Studies
America: A Patriot
Primer by Lynne Cheney
Maggie's World:
A Diary of New York in 1858
by Rachel Conescu
The Cheyenne
by Dennis B. Fradin
The Art of the North
American Indian by Shirley Glubok
The Amazing
Impossible Eerie Canal
by Cheryl Harness
The Great Lakes
by Kathy Henderson
My New York
by Kathy Jakobsen
The Story of the
Statue of Liberty
by Natalie Miller
This is New York
by Miroslav Sasek
The Snow Walker
(Story of the Blizzard of '88)
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Chapter Books
Angel and Me and the Bayside
Bombers by Mary Jane Auch
The Seven Treasure Hunts
by Betsy Byars
Julian Series
by Ann Cameron
Stay Away From Simon
by Carol Carrick
Runaway Ralph
by Beverly Cleary
Walk Two Moons
by Sharon Creech
Meet Posy Bates
by Helen Cresswell
Amber Brown is Not
a Crayonby Paula Danzinger
That Cat!
by Eve B. Feldman
Roommates
by Kathryn Galbraith
Little House in the Big
Woods by Laura Engles Wilder
Historical Fiction
Science Fiction
Eagle Song
by Joseph Bruchac
Meet Addy
by Connie Porter
Meet Felicity
by Valerie Tripp
The Memory Coat
by Elvira Woodruff
The Hope Chest
by Karen Schwabach
Animorph Series
by K.A. Applegate
Danny Dunn Series
by Jay and Raymond Abrashkin Williams
Biography
The Book Itch: Freedom,
Truth & Harlem's Greatest
Bookstore
by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
All the Way to the Top
by Annette Bay Pimentel
Human Computer: Mary
Jackson Engineer by Andi Dehn
Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson's
Super-Soaking Stream of
Inventions
by Chris Barton
Science
Science Alive!
by Crabtree Publishing
Insects and Other
Invertebrates
by Beatrice MacLeod
Mystery
Nate the Great
(Series)
by Marjorie W. Sharmat
Encyclopedia Brown
(Series)
by Donald J. Sobol
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.
