ELEMENTARY SUGGESTED SUMMER READING LIST
This is a suggested list of books to check out at your local library this summer to enhance your child's reading skills while out of school. You can visit www.plcmc.org to find a list of the branch closest to you. We hope to see you this summer! FIFTH GRADE TITLE A Wrinkle in Time A Young Patriot: The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds Black Cowboy Wild Horses By the Great Horn Spoon! Earth’s Fiery Fury Going Back Home: An Artist Returns to the South In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have a Dream! Mr. Revere and I Nikola Tesla: a Spark of Genius Nory Ryan’s Song Phoebe the spy Pueblo Story teller Tales of the Shimmering Sky The Planets The True Adventures of Grizzly Adams Thomas Edison: Inventor of the Age of Electricity Walk Across the Sea AUTHOR Madeleine L’Engle Jim Murphy Cynthia Rylant Julius Lester & Jerry Pinkney Sid Fleischmann Sandra Downs Michelle Wood Bette Boa Lord Jacqueline D”Adamo Robert Lawson Carol Dommermuth-Costa Patricia Reilly Giff Judith Berry Griffin Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith Susan Milford Gail Gibbons Robert McClung Linda Tagliaferro Susan Fletcher
ELEMENTARY SUGGESTED SUMMER READING LIST
This is a suggested list of books to check out at your local library this summer to enhance your child's reading skills while out of school. You can visit www.plcmc.org to find a list of the branch closest to you. We hope to see you this summer! FOURTH GRADE TITLE A Chair for My Mother A Walk in the Desert Abigail’s Drum Across the Wide Dark Sea: The Mayflower Journey American Tall Tales Children of the Wild West Everglades Follow the Drinking Gourd From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler How to Think Like a Scientist: Answering Questions by the Scientific Method If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island Island of the blue Dolphin John Henry Marie Curie and the Discovery of Radium Odd Jobs: The Wackiest Jobs You’ve Never Heard Of! Poppy The Kids’ Invention Book The Toothpaste Millionaire Why Doesn’t the sun Burn Out? And Other Not Such Dumb Questions About Energy AUTHOR Vera B. Williams Rebecca L. Johnson John a. Minahan Jean Van Leeuwen Mary Pope Osborne Russell Freedom Jean Craighead George Jeanette winter E.L. Konigsburg Stephen P. Kramer Ellen Levine Scott O’Dell Julius Lester Ann E. Steinke Ellen Weiss Avi Arlene Erlbach Jean Merrill Vicki Cobb
ELEMENTARY SUGGESTED SUMMER READING LIST
This is a suggested list of books to check out at your local library this summer to enhance your child's reading skills while out of school. You can visit www.plcmc.org to find a list of the branch closest to you. We hope to see you this summer!
THIRD GRADE TITLE A Story a Story Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday Amigo And to Think That We Thought That We’d Never Be Friends Angel Child, Dragon child Everglades Honeybees In My Own Backyard Me and Uncle Romie Once Upon a Starry Night Out and About at the United States Mint Save, Spend, or Donate? A Book About Managing Money The Empty Lot The Man who Went to the Far Side of the Moon The Planets in Our Solar System The Stories Julian Tells The Tree House What’s Out There? A Book about Space Where People Live Wildlife Habitats AUTHOR Gail E. Haley Judith Viorst Byrd Baylor Mary Ann Hoberman Michele Maria Surat Jean Craighead George Deborah Heiligman Judi Kurjian Claire Hartfield Jacqueline Mitton Nancy Garhan Attebury Nancy Loewen Dale H. Fife Bea Uusma Schyffert Franklyn M. Branley Ann Cameron Lois Lowry Lynn Wilson Angela Royston Emily Stetson
ELEMENTARY SUGGESTED SUMMER READING LIST
This is a suggested list of books to check out at your local library this summer to enhance your child's reading skills while out of school. You can visit www.plcmc.org to find a list of the branch closest to you. We hope to see you this summer! SECOND GRADE TITLE A Chair for My Mother Autumn Leaves A Color of His Own Dancing with the Indians Dumpling Soup Fly Away Home Get Around in the city Hard-to-See Animals Jamaica and the Substitute Teacher Jamaica’s Find Just Me and My Mom Mama Provi and the Pot of Rice Nature’s Paintbrush; The Patterns and Colors Around You The Giving Tree The Lotus Seed The Mixed-up Chameleon The Paperboy Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen Under One Rock: Bugs, Slugs, and Other Ughs White Dynamite and Curly Kidd Wonderful Worms AUTHOR Vera B. Williams Ken Robbins Leo Lionni Angela Shelf Medearis Jama Kim Rattigan Eve Bunting Lee Sullivan Hill Allan Fowler Juanita Havill Juanita Havill Mercer Mayer Sylvia Rosa-Casanove Susan Stockdale Shel Silverstein Sherry Garland Eric Carle Dav Pikley DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan Anthony D. Fredericks Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault Linda Glaser
ELEMENTARY SUGGESTED SUMMER READING LIST This is a suggested list of books to check out at your local library this summer to enhance your child's reading skills while out of school. You can visit www.plcmc.org to find a list of the branch closest to you. We hope to see you this summer! FIRST GRADE TITLE 100 School Days Are Trees Alive? Brave Norman: A True Story Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain Bunnies on the Go: Getting from Place to Place Castles, Caves, and Honeycombs China town Flower Garden How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World In the Tall, Tall Grass Jamaica’s find Lizzy and Skunk Miss Malarkey Doesn’t Live in Room 10 Moving Day Mrs. Peachtree’s Bicycle Mrs. Rose’s Garden Night City Officer Buckle and Gloria One Small Place in a Tree Out and About at the Fire Station Over in the Garden Starring First Grade Teamwork The Bear Who Didn’t Like Honey The Cloud Book The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman The Tiny Seed Underground Unsinkable! What Makes the Weather AUTHOR Anne Rockwell Debbie S. Miller Andrew Clements Verna Aardema Rick Walton Linda Ashman William Low Eve Bunting Majorie Priceman Denise Fleming Juanita Havill Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick Judy Finchler Jo S. Kittinger Erica Silverman Elaine Greenstein Monica Wellington Peggy Rathmann Barbara Brenner Muriel L. Dubois Jennifer Ward Miriam Cohen Lisa Trumbauer Barbara Maitland Tomie dePaola Darcy Pattison Eric Carl Cynthia Klingel & Robert B. Noyed Larry Dane Brimner Janet Palazzo
ELEMENTARY SUGGESTED SUMMER READING LIST
This is a suggested list of books to check out at your local library this summer to enhance your child's reading skills while out of school. You can visit www.plcmc.org to find a list of the branch closest to you. We hope to see you this summer!
KINDERGARTEN TITLE Animal Orchestra Apple Pie 4th of July Feel the Wind Fish Faces From Tadpole to Frog George and Martha One fine Day Happy Birthday, America How to Catch a Star I have a Friend Just Like Josh Gibson Kumak’s Fish Leaf Jumpers Leo the Late Bloomer Mirandy and Brother Wind Mouse’s first Day of School Oceans One Little Seed Stone Soup Sun Up, Sun Down Tacky the Penquin The 100th Day of School The Cabbage Soup Solution The Enormous Potato The Flag We Love The Great Trash Bash The Patchwork Lady The Sun, the Wind, and the Rain The Very Hungry Caterpillar Vera’s first Day of School Violet’s Music Wind Yo! Yes? AUTHOR Scott Gustafson Janet S. Wong Arthur Dorros Norbert Wu Jan Kottke James Marshall Marsha Wilson Chall Oliver Jeffers Keiko Narahashi Angela Johnson Michael Bania Carole Gerber Robert Kraus Patricia McKissack Lauren Thompson Kristine Ward Elaine Greenstein Heather Forest Gail Gibbons Helen Lester Angela Shelf Medearis Erika Oller Aubrey Davis Pam Munoz Ryan Loreen Leedy Mary K. Whittington Lisa Westberg Peters Eric Carle Vera Rosenberry Angela Johnson Marion Dane Baurer Chris Raschka