2019 Summer Reading List - Primary List for Grades K 2 - South Orange Public Library

South Orange Maplewood School District

             2019 Summer Reading List
                       Primary List for Grades K – 2
             Reading is one of the most important lifelong skills we can develop in children.
                This list of summer reading suggestions was compiled by your librarians
       from the South Orange and Maplewood elementary schools and the public libraries, and is
                available online through the SOMSD website and the public library sites.
   We have included many great books to read over the summer. Enjoy the summer and keep reading!

                    You can find these and other books at your public library:
South Orange Public Library             Maplewood Memorial Library              Maplewood Library Hilton Branch
      www.sopl.org                      www.maplewoodlibrary.org                  www.maplewoodlibrary.org
     65 Scotland Road                        51 Baker Street                         1688 Springfield Ave.
  South Orange, NJ 07079                  Maplewood, NJ 07040                       Maplewood, NJ 07040
      973.762.0230                        973.762.1622 ext 5005                         973.762.1688

                  Thanks to the SOMSD & Public Library librarians: Jen Latimer, Clinton School ;
   Teresa Quick, Jefferson School ; Maria-Daphne Kazanis, Marshall School ; Janine Poutre, Seth Boyden School ;
          Cathy Campbell, South Mountain School & South Mountain Annex ; Amy Popp, Tuscan School ;
     Amalia Butler, Jane Folger, & Rachael Guerrero, Maplewood Library ; Beth Halliday, South Orange Library

ALPHABET, NUMBERS, & CONCEPTS:
3 x 4: A Toon Book by Ivan Brunetti
Baby Goes to Market by Atinuke
Billions of Bricks by Kurt Cyrus
Mixed: A Colorful Story by Arree Chung
Today I Feel… An Alphabet of Feelings by Madalena Moniz
Yaks Yak: Animal Word Pairs by Linda Sue Park

BIOGRAPHY:
Brave Ballerina by Michelle Meadows
Counting on Katherine by Helaine Becker
The Crayon Man by Natascha Biebow
Dorothy Vaughan by Virginia Loh-Hagen
          also read other books in the My Itty-Bitty Bio series
The Girl With a Mind For Math by Julia Mosca
Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code by Laurie Wallmark
I Am Neil Armstrong by Brad Meltzer — also read other books in the series
Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor by Patricia Valdez
Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed
Malala’s Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai
Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpre by Anika Denise
Secret Engineer by Rachel Dougherty
Shark Lady by Jess Keating
Through the Window: Views of Marc Chagall’s Life and Art by Barb Rosenstock
When Angels Sing: The Story of Rock Legend Carlos Santana by Michael Mahin

CHAPTER BOOKS:
Big Foot and Little Foot by Ellen Potter — also read The Monster Detector
Dr. KittyCat: Posy the Puppy by Jane Clarke — also read other books in the series
Eva’s Big Sleepover by Rebecca Elliot — also read other Owl Diaries books
Fox & Chick: The Quiet Boat Ride by Sergio Ruzzier — also read The Party
Frog and Friends: Outdoor Surprises by Eve Bunting — also read other books in the series
Humphrey’s Big Birthday Bash by Betty Birney — also read Humphrey’s Tiny Tales

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Infamous Ratsos Are Not Afraid by Kara LaReau — also read other books in the series
Inspector Flytrap by Tom Angleberger — also read other books in the series
The Last Firehawk: The Ember Stone by Katrina Charman — read the rest of the series
Lulu and Cat in the Bag by Hilary McKay — also read other MacKay Lulu books
Lulu is Getting a Sister by Judith Viorst— also read other Viorst Lulu books
The Missing Baseball by Mike Lupica — also read other Zach & Zoe Mysteries
Monsters Unleashed by John Kloepfer — also read others books in the series
Mouse Scouts by Sarah Dillard — also read other books in the series
Polly Diamond and the Magic Book by Alice Kuipers
Sofia Martinez: Picture Perfect by Jacqueline Jules — and other books in the series
Stella Diaz Has Something to Say by Angela Dominguez
Tumtum & Nutmeg: Adventures Beyond Nutmouse Hall by Emily Bearn

EARLY READERS:
Baby Monkey, Private Eye by Brian Selznick
Batman is Fast by Maggie Testa — also read other Simon Spotlight books
Brownie and Pearl Grab a Bite by Cynthia Rylant — also read other books in the series
Elephant and Piggie Biggie! by Mo Willems — also read other books in the series
Emmet to the Rescue — also read other level 1 DK Readers
Flip-A-Word: Stop Pop by Harriet Ziefert — also read other Flip-A-Word books
Frankie’s Magical Day by Michelle Romo
Hide! By Steve Henry — also read other books in the Holiday House Guided Reading series
I Lost My Tooth! By Mo Willems — also read other books by Mo Willems
The Itchy Book by LeUyen Pham — also read other books in the Elephant and Piggie I Like
Reading! series
Kick It, Mo! By David Adler — also read Get a Hit, Mo! and other Penguin Young Readers
level 1 books
My Friend Lucky by David Milgrim
My Friends Make Me Happy by Jan Thomas — also read other books by the author
Pete the Cat Goes Camping (I Can Read! series)
Riddle Rhymes by D.J. Panec — also read other We Both Read books
See Zip Zap by David Milgrim — also read other books in the series
Trucktown: Trucks Line Up by Jon Scieszka — also read other Trucktown books

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FANTASY & FOLK TALES:
Ayobami and the Names of the Animals by Pilar Lopez Avila
Love, Z by Jessie Sima
Miss Turie’s Magic Creatures by Joy Keller
Ocean Meets Sky by Terry Fan and Eric Fan
Sophie Johnson, Unicorn Expert by Morag Hood

GRAPHIC NOVELS:
Bad Kitty School Daze by Nick Bruel — also read other Bad Kitty books
Batman: An Origin Story — also read Superman and Green Lantern: An Origin Story
BOTS: The Most Annoying Robots in the Universe by Russ Bolts & Jay Cooper — also read
other books by Jay Cooper (Maplewood author)
Buzz Beaker and the Cool Caps by Cari Meister — also read other Buzz Beaker books
DC Super Friends: Fast as the Flash — also read other DC Super Friends books
The Dinosaur Disaster by Matthew McElligott — also read other Mad Scientist books
Good Morning Superman by Michael Dahl
           also read Bedtime for Batman & Be a Star, Wonderwoman!
The Great Art Caper by Victoria Jamieson — also read The Great Pet Escape
Hippopotamister by John Patrick Green
Meet Black Panther — also read other Marvel Passport to Reading books
My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder by Nie Jun
Noodleheads See the Future by Tedd Arnold — also read Noodlehead Nightmares
Peanut Butter and Jelly by Ben Clanton — also read other Narwhal and Jelly books
This is Spiderman — also read other World of Reading books
Tiger vs. Nightmare by Emily Tetri

NONFICTION:
Bloom Boom! By April Pulley Sayre
Brick Who Found Herself in Architecture by Joshua Stein
Cute as an Axolotl by Jess Keating
Do Not Lick This Book by Idan Ben-Barak
Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years by Stacy McAnulty
The Elephant by Jenni Desmond
Flying Deep: Climb Inside Deep-sea Submersible Alvin by Michelle Cusolito

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Give Bees a Chance by Bethany Barton
Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall
Hey-Ho To Mars We Go by Susan Lendroth
How to Code a Sandcastle by Josh Funk
If Da Vinci Painted a Dinosaur by Amy Newbold
Love by Matt de la Pena
Most People by Michael Leannah
Ocean Animals Collection — also read other National Geographic Kids Readers
A Place for Pluto by Stef Wade
Starry Skies by Samantha Chagollan
Trickiest! 19 Sneaky Animals by Steve Jenkins
Truth about Dolphins by Maxwell Eaton
We Are Grateful/ Otsaliheliga by Traci Sorell
What Can a Citizen Do? By Dave Eggers
What If You Had T-Rex Teeth? By Sandra Markle

PICTURE BOOKS:
Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal
Bear and Wolf by Daniel Salmieri
Because by Mo Willems
A Big Mooncake for Little Star by Grace Lin
The Book in the Book in the Book by Julien Baer
The Book Tree by Paul Czajak
Carmela Full of Wishes by Matt de la Pena
The Case of the Missing Chalk Drawings by Richard Byrne
Crunch: The Shy Dinosaur by Greg Pizzoli
The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
Did You Take the B From My _ook? by Beck Stanton
Drawn Together by Minh Le
The Dreamer by Il Sung Na
Dreamers by Yuyi Morales — also read Sonadores
The Dress and the Girl by Camille Andros

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A Drop of the Sea by Ingrid Chabbert
El futbol me hace feliz by Maribeth Boelts — also read the English edition
Hello Goodbye Dog by Maria Gianferrari
Hello, Hello by Brendan Wenzel
Hello, Hot Dog! by Lily Murray
I Am Enough by Grace Byers
I Do Not Like Books Anymore! by Daisy Hirst
I Walk With Vanessa by Kerascoët
Imagine by Juan Felipe Herrera — also read the Spanish edition
Imagine! By Raul Colon
Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers
Interrupting Chicken and the Elephant of Surprise by David Stein
Jerome by Heart by Thomas Scotto
Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
Lena’s Shoes Are Nervous by Keith Calabrese
The Lost Book by Margarita Surnaite
Lucia the Luchadora and the Million Masks by Cynthia Garza
Mommy’s Khimar by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
My Dog Laughs by Rachel Isadora
My Heart by Corinna Luyken
Night Job by Karen Hesse
Otto and Pio by Marianne Dubuc
The Patchwork Bike by Maxine Benaba Clarke
Princess Hair by Sharee Miller
Puddle by Richard Jackson
The Rough Patch by Brian Lies
Run Wild by David Covell
Saffron Ice Cream by Rashin
Shhh! by Barroux
Snakes on a Train by Kathryn Dennis
Stewart’s Best Pen by Stephen Martin
Stop That Yawn! by Caron Levis
Thank You, Omu by Oge Mora
There are No Bears in This Bakery by Julia Sarcone-Roach

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There’s a Dinosaur on the 13th Floor by Wade Bradford
This Book is Spineless by Lindsay Leslie
Today I Feel by Madelena Moniz
Twig by Aura Parker
Under My Hijab by Hena Khan
Uni the Unicorn by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Unicorn (and Horse) by David Miles
Unicorn Thinks He’s Pretty Great by Bob Shea
Vamos! Let’s Go To The Market by Raul the Third
The Very Last Castle by Travis Jonker
The Visitor by Antje Damm
The Wall in the Middle of the Book by Jon Agee
Wallpaper by Thao Lam
What If by Samantha Berger
Why Johnny Doesn’t Flap by Clay Morton

POETRY:
I Am Loved by Nikki Giovanni
In the Past by David Elliott
A Round of Robins by Katie Hesterman
Seeing into Tomorrow by Richard Wright and Nina Crews
This Is My Eye: a New York Story by Neela Vaswani

SPORTS:
Aaron Judge by Jon M. Fishman
Cool Sports Facts: Soccer Facts
The Field by Baptiste Paul
Goodnight Soccer by Michael Dahl — also read other Sports Illus Goodnight books
Ibtihaj Muhammad: Olympic Fencer by Katie Lajiness
Neymar: A Soccer Dream Come True by Mina Javaherbin
Simone Biles: Olympic Gymnast by Katie Lajiness — and other Big Buddy Olympic Biographies
Sisters & Champions: The True Story of Venus and Serena Williams by Howard Bryant

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SERIES BOOKS YOU MAY LIKE

                                     A-Z Mysteries       Amelia Bedelia      Anna Hibiscus

               Ballpark Mysteries    Bink & Gollie        Black Lagoon       Cam Jansen      Capital Mysteries

Cat the Cat    Elephant & Piggie      Galaxy Zack         Gracie LaRoo       I Am Reading       Ivy + Bean             Katie Woo

King & Kayla    Knuffle Bunny       Mercy Watson        Miami by McKissack    Molly Mac         Nat Geo Kids
                                                                                                                         Pedro
                                                                                                  Readers
                                                                                                                    by Fran Manushkin

Pete the Cat    Pigeon series       Princess in Black    Princess Posey      Splat the Cat   Stories Julian Tells       Yasmin

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