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Dean Road Elementary School
Recommended Summer 2008 Reading List
Grades 1-5

First Grade:

Alexander and the Terrible Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
Edward and the Pirates by David McPhail
Frederick by Leo Lionni
How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen
Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
No Jumping on the Bed by Tedd Arnold
The Seven Silly Eaters by Mary Ann Hoberman
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Second Grade:

How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long
Brave Irene by William Steig
Mighty Jackie by Marisson Moss
Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
Mailing May by Michael O. Tunnell
Junie B. Jones by Barbara Park
A Fine, Fine School by Sharon Creech
The Wolf Who Cried Boy by Rob Hartman
Tomas and the Library Lady by Pat Mora
Dinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope Osbourne

Third Grade:

Bunnicula by James Howe
Stone Fox by John Gardiner
Chocolate Fever by Robert Kimmel Smith
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective by Donald Sobol
Ramona the Brave by Beverly Cleary
Amber Brown is not a Crayon by Paula Danziger
Freckle Juice by Judy Blume
My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes

Fourth Grade:

The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
Lunch Money by Andrew Clements
Granny Torrelli Makes Soup by Sharon Creech
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
Fudge-a-Mania by Judy Blume
Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
Fourth Grade Rats by Jerry Spinelli
The Doll People by Ann Martin

Fifth Grade:

Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
The Old Willis Place by Mary Downing Hahn
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
Frindle by Andrew Clements
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
The Tale of Despereaux: being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread by Kate DiCamillo