Jun 5, 2012 by Yolanda Fontanez-Coleman | Reading, Summer Slide Prevention
One the best ways to prevent the summer brain drain is to have your child read a minimum of 6-10 books this summer! Our team of teachers put together a list of their favorite books for grades Pre-K- 12. We hope you enjoy these books! Happy Reading!
Preschool through Kindergarten
Itsy Mitsy Runs Away by Elanna Allen
An Egg is Quiet by Dianna Aston
Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! by Bob Barner
Sally and the Purple Socks by Lisze Bechtold
A Bedtime for Bear by Bonny Becker
If You Give a Dog a Donut by Laura Joffe Numeroff
Blue Chameleon by Emily Gravett
Goodnight, Little Monster by Helen Ketteman
Red Wagon by Renata Liwska
The Pirate of Kindergarten by George Ella Lyon
Grades 1 & 2
Young Cam Jansen and the Speedy Car Mystery by David Adler
Ivy + Bean by Annie Barrows
Diary of a Fly by Doreen Cronin
26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola
Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake by Michael Kaplan
Sam Get’s Lost by Mary Labatt
Tacky Goes to Camp by Helen Lester
Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel
Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates by Jonah Winter
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
Amelia Bedelia’s First Field Trip by Herman Parish
Grades 3 & 4
The Magical Ms. Plum by Bonny Becker
How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
Matilda by Roald Dahl
No Room For Dessert by Hallie Durand
The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary by Candace Fleming
Dear Max by Sally Grindley
Track Attack by Betty Hicks
Joe Bright and the Seven Genre Dudes by Jackie Mims Hopkins
Flight of the Phoenix by R.L. La Fevers
Dumpling Days by Grace Lin
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
The Graffiti Mystery by Barbara Mitchelhill
Grade 5
George Washington Carver by Tonya Bolden
The Atlantis Complex by Eoin Colfer
Crunch by Leslie Connor
Helen’s Eyes: A Photobiography of Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller’s Teacher by Marfe Ferguson
The Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester
Tall Story by Candy Gourlay
Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm
The Man Who Made Time Travel by Kathryn Lasky
The Sixty-Eight Rooms by Marianne Malone
Grade 6
A Thousand Never Evers by Shana Burg
Powerless by Matthew Cody
Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor
The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini by Sid Fleischman
Bound by Donna Jo Napoli
Wild Life by Cynthia DeFelice
Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
The Word Snoop by Urslula Dubosarsky
Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba by Margarita Engle
Grade 7 & 8
Enclave by Ann Aguirre
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Peeled by Joan Bauer
The Keeper’s Tattoo by Gill Arbuthnott
Fat Cat by Robin Brande
The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Gym Candy by Carl Deuker
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Season Bewitching by Marissa Doyle
Legend by Marie Lu
Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings
Prom & Prejudice by Elizabeth Eulberg
Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier
Once by Morris Gleitzman
Grade 9 & 10
Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn
Matched by Ally Condie
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Shelter: A Mickey Bolitar Novel by Harlan Coben
Soul Enchilada by David Macinnis Gill
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Welding With Children by Tim Gautreaux
Clarity by Kim Harrington
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Best of Ogden Nash by Odgen Nash
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Grade 11 & 12
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Wither by Lauren DeStefano
Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz
Dante’s Divine Comedy by Seymour Chwast
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
City of Veils by Zoe Ferraris
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen
Identical by Ellen Hopkins
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
For more information about reading and summer programs, visit our Reading Tutors page or our Summer Tutoring page!