For many summer means road trips and vacations, but I feel like summer also means quiet time reading. I love nothing more than walking around the corner to find one of my kids with their face shoved in a book. As they read, you can see their wheels turning and their imagination running wild. To help jumpstart, your kids summer reading, we have compiled a list for each grade level.
These books are suggestions based on Accelerated Reading levels. Some kids might read up or down a level, but we wanted to have a good starting place. Also, we wanted to suggest books that might be of more interest to a girl or boy because quite frankly sometimes can be difficult to find books that boys like to read. Again these are just suggestions.
First Grade
Girls
- Princess Posey and the First Grade Parade by Stephanie Green and Stephanie Roth Sisson
- Madeline by Ludwig
Bemelmand - Nina, Nina Ballerina by Jane O’Connor
- Katy Duck by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
- Unicorn Wings by Mallory Loehr
Boys
- Hi! Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold
- Danny and the Dinosaur by Syd Hoff
- Nate the Great by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
- Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel
- Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys, and their Monkey Business by Esphyr Slobodkina
Second Grade
Girls
- Rainbow Magic Series by Daisy Meadows
- Candy Fairies by Helen Perelman
- Junie B. Jones by Barbara Park
- Amelia Bedelia by Herman Parish
- Pinkalicious by Victoria Kann and Elizabeth Kann
Boys
- Leonardo the Terrible Monster by Mo Williams
- Buzz Boy and Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold
- Inspector Hopper by Doug Cushman
- Horrible Harry Series by Suzy Kline
- Mighty Robot Series by Ricky Ricotta
Third Grade
Girls
- Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
- The Never Girls by Kiki Thorpe, Andrea Posner-Sanchez, Kristen L Depken
- The Cupcake Diaries by Coco Simon
- Sarah, Plain
and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan - Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Boys
- Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce
- How to Train your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
- The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
- Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things by Lenore Look
- How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Fourth Grade
Girls
- Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
- Fourth Grade Fairy by Eileen Cook
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Ally Finkle’s Rules for Girls by Meg Cabot
- Secret Sisters by Sandra Byrd
Boys
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series
- Trapped in a Video Game by Dustin Brady
- The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger
- Holes by Louis Sachar
- Gregor The Overlander by Suzanne Collins
- Zoobreak by Gordon Korman
Fifth Grade
Girls
- Dork Diaries by Rachel Renee Russell
- Ever After
- Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
- Land of Stories by Chris Colfer
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Boys
- Ranger’s Apprentice by John Flanagan
- Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
- Jedi Academy by Jeffrey Brown
City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau- My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
