2020 Summer Reading List - Elementary Grades
Note: The following books are only suggestions. Please feel free to add any books that are appropriate for your reader. The staff in the Children/Youth Services area of the Huntsville-Madison County Public LIbrary and/or other local library branches will also have many wonderful suggestions for you.
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Kindergarten
- The Mixed-up Chameleon by Eric Carle
- My Five Senses by Aliki
- Mama Do You Love Me? by Barbara M. Joosse
- Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
- Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
- Ten Little Fish by Audrey Wood
- Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert
- Swimmy by Leo Lionni
- Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens
- Tomie dePaola’s Mother Goose by Tomie dePaola
- Chicken Little by Steven Kellogg
- The Little Red Hen by Margot Zemach
- Three Little Bears by Paul Galdone
- The Three Little Pigs by Rodney Peppe
- The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen
First Grade
- Arthur series by Marc Brown
- Berenstain Bear series by Jan and Stan Berenstain
- Clifford series by Norman Bridwell
- Franklin series by Paulette Bourgeois
- Froggy series by Johnathan London
- Junie B. Jones series by Barbara Park
- Rainbow Fish by March Pfister
- Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus
- Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
- How Much Is a Million? by David M. Schwartz
- Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions by Margaret Musgrove
- The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle
- Owen by Kevin Henkes
- Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
- Morris the Moose by Bernard Wiseman
Second Grade
- Berenstain Bear series by Jan and Stan Berenstain
- Polk Street Gang series by Patricia Reilly Giff
- Cam Jansen series by David A. Adler
- Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
- Arthur’s Prize Reader by Lillian Hoban
- The Story of Jumping Mouse by John Steptoe
- The Day Jimmy’s Boa At the Wash by Trinka Hakes Noble
- Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes
- Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry Allard
- Frog and Toad Together by James Marshall
- Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
- The Stories Julian Tells by Ann Cameron
- When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant
- Many Moons by James Thurber
- The Funny Little Woman by Arlene Mosel
Third Grade
- Amelia Bedelia series by Peggy Parrish
- Arthur series by Marc Brown
- Horrible Harry series by Suzy Kline
- Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Boxcar Children by Getrude Chandler Warner
- Mirandy and Brother Wind by Patricia C. McKissack
- Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
- The Talking Eggs by Robert D. San Souci
- Ramona Quimby Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
- Teammates by Peter Golenbock
- Doctor DeSoto by William Steig
- Pinky and Rex by James Howe
- Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully
- The Village of Round and Square Houses by Ann Grifalconi
- Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Fourth Grade
- Cam Jansen series by David Adler
- Marvin Redpost series by Louis Sachar
- Encyclopedia Brown series by Donald J. Sobol
- Aliens Ate My Homework by Bruce Coville
- Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
- Harriet, the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
- Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
- Julian, Secret Agent by Ann Cameron
- Baseball Fever by Johanna Hurwitz
- The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
- The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
- The Stories that Julian Tells by Ann Cameron
- Dog on Third Base by Constance Hiser
- Little House in Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgleish
Fifth Grade
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsberg
- Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
- Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
- Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
- The BFG by Roald Dahl
- Matilda by Roald Dahl
- Holes by Louis Sachar
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Skinnybones by Barbara Park
- Frindle by Andrew Clements
- Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
- The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
- Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers