Suggested Books for 2nd Graders

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EASY READERS to be read by 2nd Graders

Other books in these series and by these authors are also highly recommended

• Hooray for the Golly Sisters
  by Betsy Byars
• Minnie and Moo Go to Paris
  by Denys Cazet
• Frog and Toad
  by Arnold Lobel
• Amelia Bedelia
  by Peggy Parish
• The Case of the Sleepy Sloth
  by Cynthia Rylant
• Nate the Great
  by Marjorie Sharmat
• The Clubhouse
  by Anastasia Suen
• More Tales of Oliver Pig
  by Jean Van Leeuwen
• Make New Friends
  by Rosemary Wells
• The Ugly Duckling
  by Harriet Ziefert

 PICTURE BOOKS for adults to read with 2nd Graders

• The Fortune-Tellers
  by Lloyd Alexander
• Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
  by Judi Barrett
• Home at Last
  by Susan Middleton Elya
• Amazing Grace (series)
  by Mary Hoffman
• I Like the Music
  by Leah Komaiko
• Mice and Beans
  by Pamela Munoz Ryan

PICTURE PLUS (JP+) Stories to be read with 2nd Graders

• Amelia's Road
  by Linda Jacobs Altman
• Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
  by Rudyard Kipling
• The Bee Tree
  by Patricia Polacco
• Painted Dreams
  by Karen Lynn Williams

Longer READ-ALOUDS from the Fiction Collection

• My Father's Dragon
  by Ruth Stiles Gannett
• Tales From the Waterhole
  by Bob Graham
• A Mouse Called Wolf
  by Dick King-Smith
• Pippi Longstocking
  by Astrid Lindgren
• Stuart Little
  by E.B. White

 POETRY, FOLK TALES and NON-FICTION

• Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book
  by Yuyi Morales
  J 398 M
• The Stinky Cheese Man & Other Fairly Stupid Tales
  by Jon Scieska
  J 398 S
• You Can't Buy a Dinosaur for a Dime
  by Harriet Ziefert
  J 513.2 Z
• How Animals See Things, a "Rookie Read About Science" book
  by Allan Fowler
  J 573.8 F
• Truck Driver, a "Heinemann Read & Learn" book
  by Heather Miller
  J 629.28 M
• My Soccer Book
  by Gail Gibbons
  J 796.334 G
• Sports! Sports! Sports! : A Poetry Collection
  by Lee Bennett Hopkins
  J 811.508 S