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2024

Summer

reading list

pre-Fifth Grade Students

Recommended and compiled by Reading Teachers

From the

Baldwin Union Free School District



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Fiction

Jake Drake, Teacher's Pet

by Andrew Clements


Matilda

by Roald Dahl


The United Tates of America

by Paula Danzinger


The Tale of Despereaux

by Kate DiCamillo


Miss Alaineus: A

Vocabulary of Disaster

by Debra Frasier


My Side of the Mountain

by Jean Craighead George


Old Yeller

by Fred Gibson


My Mama Had a

Dancing Heart

by Libba Moore Gray


The Clue in the Crumbling

Wall by Carolyn Keene


Johnny Appleseed

by Steven Kellogg


The Lion, the Witch and the

Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis


Anastasia Krupnik

by Lois Lowry






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Dear Lola or How to Build Your Own Family

by Judie Angell


Giants in the Land

by Diana Appelbaum


The Enormous Egg

by Oliver Butterworth


The Summer of the Swans

by Betsy Byars


Ralph S. Mouse

by Beverly Cleary


Ribsy

by Beverly Cleary


A Week in the Woods

by Andrew Clements


Frindle

by Andrew Clements







A Long Way from Chicago

by Rickard Peck


A Day No Pigs Would Die

by Robert Newton Peck


Boys Against Girls

by Phyllis Naylor Reynolds


The Best School Year Ever

by Barbara Robinson


The Trouble with Tuck

by Theodore Taylor


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Nonfiction

Historical Fiction

Mummies Made in Egypt

by Aliki


Save Our Forests

by Ron Hirschi


Escape from Slavery

by Doreen Rappaport


The Story of Valley Forge

by R. Conrad Stein


Wild Amazon

by LIsa Ryan-Herndon


The Rainforest Grew All Around

By Susan K Mitchell


Money, Money, Money

by Nancy Parker


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Drums at Saratoga

by Lisa Banim


Purely Rosie Pearl

by Patricia Cochrane


Wildflower Girl

by Marita Conlon-McKenna


Brady

by Jean Fritz


Lewis and Clark

and Me: A Dog’s Tale

by Laurie Meyers




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Biography

Magazines

The Many Lives of Benjamin

Franklin by Brandenberg Aliki


Make Way for Sam Houston

by Jean Fritz


Steamboat! The Story of Captain

Blanche Leathers by J.H. Gilliland


Bill Peet: An Autobiography

by Bill Peet


Daniel Boone

by Katherine E. Wilkie


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Mystery

A House with a Clock in

its Walls by John Bellairs


Match Wits with

Sherlock Holmes

by Murray Shaw

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Time for Kids - Age 8+

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National Geographic

Kids


Astronomy for Kids



Folk and Fairy Tales

Aladdin and the Wonderful

Lamp by Carol Carrick


Village of Round and

Square Houses

by Ann Grifalconi


Duffy and the Devil

by Harve Zemach

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Science

Science Alive

by Crabtree Publishing

Poetry

Series Books

The Hopeful Trout and Other Limericks by John Ciardi


Beast Feast

by Douglas Florian


My America

by Lee Bennett Hopkins


Knock at a Star

by X.J. and Dorothy Kennedy




Halloween Poems

by Myra Cohn Livingston


Fresh Paint

by Eve Merriam


Flower Moon Snow

by Kazue Mizumura


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I Survived...

by Lauren Tarshis


Whatever After

by Sarah Mylnowski



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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.




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