May 16, 2014 by Yolanda Fontanez-Coleman | Learning Resources, Reading, Summer Slide Prevention
As summer approaches one great way to help reduce the risk of summer learning loss is to read, read and read some more. Our educational team at Team Tutor compiled their favorite list of children’s books. Do not let the summer go by without enjoying these great summer reads! Happy Reading!
Rising K-1st Grades:
How Georgie Randboum Saved Baseball by David Shannon
Junie B. Jones series by Barbara Parks & Denise Brunkus
Lon Po Po by Ed Young
The Magic School Bus series by Joanna Cole & Bruce Degen
The Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osbourne & Sal Murdocca
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Family Pictures/ Cuadros de familia by Carmen Lomas Garza
Flat Stanley series by Jeff Brown & Macky Pamintuan
Rising 2nd-4th Grades:
Clementine series by Sara Pennypacker & Marla Frazee
Freckle Juice by Judy Blume
Fudge series by Judy Blume
Geronimo Stilton series by Geronimo Stilton
I Survived series by Betty G. Birney
Ivy and Bean series by Annie Barrows & Sophia Blackall
Captain Underpants series by Dav Pikey
Ghost Buddy series by Henry Winkler & Lin Oliver
Rising 5th-6th Grades:
Almost Home by Joan Bauer
Dear Dumb Diary series by Jim Benton
Gaby, Lost and Found by Angela Cervantes
Gold Medal Summer by Donna Freitas
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Heat by Mike Lupica
Hold Fast by Blue Balliett
Holes by Louis Sachar
Middle School series by James Patterson, Chris Tebbetts & Laura Park
Young Adult:
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
Fat Kid Rules the World by K.L. Going
Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer
Love? Maybe by Heather Helper
Magisterium by Jeff Hirsch
Guts by Gary Paulsen
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Cleopatra’s Moon by Vicky Alvear Shecter
The Darkest Path by Jeff Hirsch
Endangered by Eliot Schrefer