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
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
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
Mystery
A House with a Clock in
its Walls by John Bellairs
Match Wits with
Sherlock Holmes
by Murray Shaw
Time for Kids - Age 8+
Family Edition
National Geographic
Kids
Astronomy for Kids
Folk and Fairy Tales
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
I Survived...
by Lauren Tarshis
Whatever After
by Sarah Mylnowski
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.