Before Third Grade
2020 SUMMER READING - Recommended Titles
The books on this list are not required reading in any way. We hope you will enjoy having suggestions for some of our favorite authors. Any book by the authors listed below is recommended. Happy reading!
(T) means that you will enjoy this title or any other title by this author.
(Agee, J.) Sit on a Potato Pan, Otis! More Palindromes (T)
(Arnold, E.) A Boy Called Bat
(Barnhill, K.) The Girl Who Drank the Moon
(Birney, B.) The World According to Humphrey (series)
(Bishop, N.) Nic Bishop’s Frogs (T) (also Nic Bishop’s Spiders, Butterflies, etc.)
(Blakemore, M.F.) Frankie Sparks and the Class Pet (series)
(Blume, J.) Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (T)
(Butler, E.) Freya & Zoose
(Carman, P.) Mr. Gedrick and Me
(Cheng, A.) The Year of the Baby (T)
(Coe, V.) Fenway and Hattie (series)
(Creech, S.) Saving Winslow
Dear America Series (includes various titles by various authors)
(Davies, J.) The Lemonade War (series)
(DiCamillo, K.) Flora & Ulysses : the illuminated adventures (T)
(Dominguez, A.) Stella Diaz Has Something to Say
(Donoghue, E.) The Lotterys Plus One
(Duffy, C.) Fairy Tale Comics: Classic Tales Told by Extraordinary Cartoonists
(Fleischman, S.) Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini (T)
(Gardiner, J.) Stone Fox (T)
(Grabenstein, C.) Home Sweet Motel: Welcome to Wonderland (series)
(Griffiths, A.) The 13-Story Treehouse (series)
(Grimes, N.) Garvey’s Choice
(Hale, C.) Todos iguales: un corrido de Lemon Grove = All equal: a ballad of Lemon Grove
(Hartland, J.) Bon Appetit! The Delicious Life of Julia Child
(Hoffman, A.) The Brave Cyclist: The True Story of a Holocaust Hero
(Holub, J.) Artemis the Brave (T)
(Kelly, E.E.) Lalani of the Distant Sea
(Lai, R.) Pie In the Sky
(McAnulty, S.) The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl
(MacLachlan, P.) My Father’s Words
(Newman, L.) Gittel’s Journey: An Ellis Island Story
(Paul, M.) Thanku: Poems of Gratitude
(Polacco, P.) Holes in the Sky (T)
(Sachar, L.) Sideways Stories from Wayside School (T)
(Shurtliff, L.) Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin (T)
(Steig, W.) The Amazing Bone (T)
(Tarshis, L.) The I Survived series
Recommended Lists and Websites:
Texas Bluebonnet Award Reading List
- 2020 Little Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List
- We Need Diverse Books