Suggested, Not Required Reading
Summer Reading Titles for Tara Oaks Elementary
We would like to encourage your student to read books of their choice for 20 minutes or more every day this summer.
Below is a suggested list of books for your child entering kindergarten in August 2017.
Kindergarten
Biscuit books by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
Miss Bindergarten books by Joseph Slate
Books by Mercer Mayer
I Can Read series level #1
Books written by Dr. Seuss
Step Into Reading series
Nonfiction books
First Grade
Henry and Mudge series by Cynthia Rylant
Nate the Great series by Majorie Weinman Sharmat
Books by Eric Carle
Pete the Cat books by James Dean
Clifford books by Norman Bridwell
Curious George books by Margret & H.A. Rey
Llama Llama books by Anna Dewdney
Arthur series by Marc Brown
I Can Read series (Level #1)
Magic Tree House series
Nonfiction
Second Grade
Amelia Beldia series by Peggy Parish
Flat Stanley series by Jeff Brown
I Can Read series (level 1 & 2)
Ivy and Bean series by Annie Barrows
Books by Laura Numeroff ( If You Give a Pig A Party, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie)
Froggy books by Jonathan London
Books by Doreen Cronin ( Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type, Diary of a Spider, Diary of a Worm)
Black Lagoon series by Mike Thaler
Freckleface Strawberry by Julianne Moore
Arthur’s books by Marc Brown
Nonfiction books
Third Grade
Judy Moody series by Megan McDonald
I Survived series
Jake Maddox series for boys
Jake Maddox series for girls
Never Girls series by Kiki Thorpe
Matt Christopher series
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
Puppy Place series by Ellen Miles
Magic Puppy series, Magic Kitten series, Magic Pony series, Magic Bunny series by Sue Bentley
Humphrey’s series by Betty Bimey
Box Car Mysteries series by Gertrude Chandler Warner
The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt
The Day the Crayons Came Home by Drew Daywalt
Biography books
Nonfiction books
Fourth Grade
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
I Survived series
Snicker of Magic by Natalie Lloyd
Escape From Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein
Terrible Two by Mac Barnett
The Math Curse by Jon Scieszka
Punished by David Lubar
Numbed by David Lubar
The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
Walter the Giant Storyteller’s Giant Book of Giant Stories by Walter M. Mayes
Wayside Stories series by Louis Sacher
Ronald Dahl’s series
The Cricket in Times Square by George Seldon
Ribsy by Beverly Cleary
Who was series: Albert Einstein, Annie Oakley, Ben Franklin, Sacagawea, Thomas Jefferson, Ferdinand Magellan,Thomas Alva Edison, Daniel Boone, George Washington, Paul Revere, Christopher Columbus, Davy Crockett, Alexander Graham Bell, Abigal Adams, Susan B. Anthony, Susan B. Anthony, Betsy Ross, Jacques Cousteau, Woodrow Wilson
What was series: Boston Tea Party, Gold Rush, First Thanksgiving, Lewis and Clark Expedition, Declaration of Independence
5th Grade
Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate
Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty
Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
The Iron Trial by Hooly Black and Cassandra Clare
Diary of a Mad Brownie by Bruce Coville (currently published as Cursed)
The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
The Key to Extraordinary by Natalie Lloyd
Woof by Spencer Quinn
A Dragon’s Guide to the Care of Feeding of Humans by Lawrence Yep and Joanne Ryder
Nonfiction books
Summer Reading Suggestions 2017
Collierville Middle Schools
Collierville Middle School and Schilling Farms Middle School
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander.
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.
The Jumbies by Tracy Baptiste
El Deafo by Cece Bell
The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
The Boys in the Boat (Young Readers Adaptation) by Daniel James Brown
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans by Don Brown.
Chasing Secrets by Gennifer Choldenko
The Inventor’s Secret by Andrea Cremer
Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
Space Case by Stuart Gibbs
Lost in the Sun by Lisa Graff
The Last of the Sandwalkers by Jay Hosler
The Mark of the Dragonfly by Jahleigh Johnson
Rain Reign by Ann Martin
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Brian Mealer.
Mark of the Thief by Jennifer Nielson
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
Pax by Sarah Pennypacker
Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip through the Motown Sound by Andrea Davis Pickney
No Summit out of Sight by Jordan Romero
Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan
Hoodoo by Ronald Smith
Last in a Long Line of Rebels by Lisa Lewis Tyre
Loot: How to Steal a Fortune by Jude Watson
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Some of the above are suggested by the librarians and some were also on the Volunteer State
Book Award Nominee list for the Middle School Division 2016-2018. Happy Reading!
Nancy France, SFMS Librarian
Gina Seeley, CMS Librarian