Golden Door Charter School

Suggested Summer Reading List- Grade 2                        

 

Theme- Sharing Stories                                                                                                         

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)

 

Theme- Kindness                                                                                                                  

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)

 

Theme- Look Again                                                                                                              

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)

 

Theme- Fossils                                                                                                                      

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)

 

Theme- Courage                                                                                                                   

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)

 

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 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)