Incoming Second Grade Reading List

 

The Rabbit and the Turtle by Eric Carle,2008

Bread and jam for Frances by Russell Hoban

The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch

Vulture View by April Pulley Sayre (science)

Gooney Bird Greene by Lois Lowry

Fancy Nancy books by Jane O'Connor

Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco

So What's It Like To Be A Cat by Karla Kuskin, 2005

Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry Allard

Nacho and Lolita by Pam Munoz Ryan

The Top Job by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel, 2007 (informational)

Lightship by Brian Floca (nonfiction) a 2008 Sibert Honor Book

My Dog Is as Smelly as Dirty Socks: And Other Funny Family Portraits by Hanoch Piven, 2007

I, Amber Brown by Paula Danziger, (series)

Daisy Comes Home by Jan Brett

How I Spent My Summer Vacation by Mark Teague, 2006

You can read reviews of these books written by the "School Library Journal" and the Americn Library Association on Amazon.com, or most will also be found on the California Department of Education site Recommended Literature for Kindergarten Through Grade 12.