NH Department of Education Summer Reading List

 

Kindergarten Moongame, Frank Asch Any title by Byron Barton Any title by Stan Berenstain It Begins With A, Stephanie Calmenson The Very Best Spider, Eric Carle Any title by Eric Carle Ten Black Dots, Donald Crews Tomie DePaola's Mother Goose, Tomie DePaula Color Zoo, Lois Ehlert The Three Little Pigs, Paul Galdone I Read Signs, Tana Hoban Any title by Tana Hoban Peter's Chair, Ezra Jack Keats Ten Apples Up on Top!, Theo Lesieg Froggy Learns to Swim, Jonathan London Alphabatics, Suse MacDonald Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do you See? Bill Martin, Jr. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Bill Martin, Jr. The Little Engine That Could, Watty Piper Any Curious George book, H. A. Rey Richard Scarry's Best Mother Goose Book, Richare Scarry Where The Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss Hop on Pop, Dr. Seuss Any additional title by Dr. Seuss Have You Seen My Duckling, Nancy Tafari Mouse Count, Ellen Walsh Cat on the Mat, Brian Wildsmith	First Grade What Comes in 2's, 3's, and 4's? Suzanne Aker Goodbye House, Frank Asch Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle School Bus, Donald Crews Color Farm, Lois Ehlert Eating the Alphabet, Eric Ehlert Zoo, Gail Gibbons Jessica, Kevin Henkes I Read Signs, Tana Hoban Look! Look! Look! Tana Hoban Rosie's Walk, Pat Hutchins Alphabetics, Suse MacDonald Chicka Chicka Bboom Boom, Bill Martin, Jr. All By Myself, Mercer Mayer Blueberries for Sal, Robert McCloskey If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, Laura Numeroff Curious George Goes to School, H. A. Rey In Our House, Anne Rockwell We're Going on a Bear Hunt, Michael Rosen My Many Colored Days, Dr. Seuss Mouse Paint, Ellen Stoll Walsh Timothy Goes to School, Rosemary Wells I Went Walking, Sue Williams The Napping House, Audrey Wood
Grade Two Miss Nelson is Missing, James Allard Flat Stanley, Jeff Brown Arthur's Eyes, Marc Brown The Little House, Virginia Brown Stellaluna, Janell Cannon The Josefina Story Quilt, Eleanor Coerr Miss Rumphius, Barbara Cooney Clean Your Room, Harvey Moon! Pat Cummings Corduroy, Don Freeman Millions of Cats, Wanda Gag My Father's Dragon, Ruth Gannett Today Was a Terrible Day, Patricia Giff Grasshopper on the Road, Arnold Lobel Mouse Soup, Arnold Lobel If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, Laura Joffe Numeroff Molly the Brave and Me, Jane O'Conner Any book from the Magic Tree House Series, Mary Pope Osborne Amelis Bedelia, Peggy Parrish The Rainbow Fish, Marcus Pfister The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, Jon Scieszka Any book from the Nate the Great Series, Marjorie W. Sharmat Alexander and the Horribel, No Good Very Bad Day, Judith Viorst The Biggest Bear, Lynd Ward Owl Moon, Jane Yolen A New Coat for Anna, Harriet Ziefert	Grade Three Cam Jansen and the Chocolate Fudge Mystery, David A. Alder Miss Nelson Has a Field Day, Harry Allard Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great, Judy Blume Gerbils, pets, and Other Small Rodents, Ray Broekel Julian, Secret Agent, Ann Cameron Man Out at First, Matt Christopher Ramona the Brave, Beverly Clearly Case for Jenny Archer, Ellen Conford Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors, Dennis Fradin Busybody Nora, Johanna Hurwitz Herbie Jones and the Class Gift, Suzy Kline Rocks and Minerals, Illa Podendorf Whales and Sea Mammals, Elsa Posella Something Big Has Been Here, Jack Prelutsky Soccer, Bert Rosenthal Endangered Animals, Lynn M. Stone Amusement Park Mystery, Gertrude Warner Camp Out Mystery, Gertrude Warner On the Way Home, Laura Ingles Wilder
Grade Four Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Judy Blume Dear Mr. Henshaw, Beverly Cleary If You're Not Here Raise Your Hand, Kalli Dakos Aliens for Breakfast, Jonathan Etra The People Could Fly: American Black Folk Tales, Virginia Hamilton Misty of Chincotegue, Marguerite Henry Bunnicula, James and Deborah Howe Babe the Gallant Pig, Dick King-Smith Arthur for the Very First Time, Patricia MacLachlan Homer Price, Robert McCloskey The Fear Place, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Shiloh, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Mayfield Crossing, Vaunda Micheaux Nelson Skinnybones, Barbara Parks The Green Book, Jill Paton Walsh Minty: a Story of a Young Harriet Tubman, Alan Schroeder Fourth Grade Rats, Jerry Spinelli Abel's Island, William Steig The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, Chris Van Allsburg The Castle in the Attic, Elizabeth Winthrop	Grade Five Poppy, Avi Followers of the North Star, Susan Lechner & Susan Alman In the Eyes of the Cat: Japanese Poetry for All Seasons, Demi Around the World in a Hundred Years, Jean Fritz This Time, Tempe Wick? Patricia Lee Gauth Five Brave Explorers, Wade Hudson Helen Keller: the Story of My Life, Helen Keller To Walk the Sky Path, Phyllis R. Naylor Rosa Parks, My Story, Rosa Parks Indian in the Cupboard, Lynne Reid Banks The Return of the Indian in the Cupboard, Lynne Reid Banks The Secret of the Indian, Lynne Reid Banks Heartland, Diane Seibert The Light in the Attic, Shel Silverstein Call it Courage, Armstrong Perry Looking for Pa: a Civil War Journal, Geraldine Lee Susi Follow the Drinking Gourd, Jeanette Winter Dear Levi: Letters from the Overland Trail, Elvira Woodruff