Golden Door
Charter School
Suggested Summer Reading List- Grade 2 
Just
Like Me by,
Miriam Schlein (easy)
Dear
Annie by,
Judith Casely (easy)
Jeremiah
Learns to Read
by, Jo Ellen Bogart (average)
Mouse
Tales by,
Arnold Lobel (average)
The
Wednesday Surprise by, Eve Bunting (advanced)
Painted
Words by, Aliki (advanced)
Abe
Lincoln’s Hat
by, Martha Brenner (easy)
The
Giving Tree
by, Shel Silverstein (easy)
The
Bat in the Boot by, Annie Cannon (average)
Jamaica’s
Find by,
Juanita Havill (average)
Uncle
Willie and the Soup Kitchen by, DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan
(advanced)
A
Chair For My Mother by, Vera B. Williams (advanced)
The
Trek by,
Ann Jonas (easy)
Who’s
Hiding Here?, by,
Yoshi (easy)
The
Mixed-Up Chameleon by, Eric Carle (average)
A
Color of His Own by, Leo Lionni (average)
What
Do You Do When Something Wants To Eat You? by, Steve Jenkins (advanced)
Hiding
Out : Camouflage In The Wild by, James Martin (advanced)
Dinosaur
Babies by,
Lucille Recht Penner (easy)
The
Day of the Dinosaur by, Stan and Jan Berenstain (easy)
A
Boy Wants a Dinosaur by, Hiawyn Oram
(average)
If
the Dinosaurs Came Back by, Bernard Most (average)
Archaeologists
Dig For Clues by,
Kate Duke (advanced)
How
Big Were the Dinosaurs? by, Bernard Most (advanced)
White
Dynamite and Curly Kidd by, Bill Martin Jr. (easy)
What’s
Under My Bed? by,
James Stevenson (easy)
The
Buffalo Jump by,
Peter Roop (average)
Jamaica
and the Substitute Teacher by, Juanita Havill (average)
Birdie’s
Lighthouse by,
Deborah Hopkinson (advanced)
Ruth
Law Thrills a Nation by, Don Brown (advanced)
(over)
Theme- Our Country and Its People
A
Picnic in October by, Eve Bunting (easy)
Dragon
Parade by,
Steven A. Chin (easy)
Dumpling
Soup by, Jama Kim Rattigan (average)
Dancing
With the Indians by, Angela Shelf Medearis (average)
The
Lotus Seed by,
Sherry Garland (advanced)
Amelia’s
Road by,
Linda Jacobs Altman (advanced)
