Recommended Summer Reading

Many of the suggestions correlate to the Just Read, Florida! recommended reading list

Elementary School (K-2)

• Chicka, Chicka 1, 2, 3, Bill Martin Jr.
• ABC Safari,  Karen Lee
• "Slowly, Slowly, Slowly," said the Sloth, Eric Carle
• Turtle Summer,  Mary Alice Monroe
• Hilda Must Be Dancing, Karma Wilson
• The Dot, Peter H. Reynolds
• Hot City, Barbara Joosse
• The Rainforest Grew All Around, Susan Mitchell
• Ocean Seasons, Ron Hirschi
• Beverly Billingsly Can’t Catch, Alexander Stadler
• Where the Wild Things Are, Marice Sendak
• One Odd Day,  Doris Fisher
• Leaf Jumpers, Carole Gerber
• Buster, Denise Fleming
• Actual Size, Steve Jenkins
• Daddy & I, Elosie Greenfield
• No, David!, David Shannon
• A Day in the Life of Murphy, Alice Provensen
• My Name is Yoon, Helen Recorvits
• The Giraffe Who Was Afraid of Heights,  David A. Ufer
• Diary of a Worm, Doreen Cronin
• The Everything Book, Denise Fleming
• Silly Little Goose, Nancy Tafuri
• The Mitten, Jan Brett
• Wemberly Worried, Kevin Henkes
• Aunt Flossie’s Hats, Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
• Miss Nelson Is Missing!, Harry Allard
• Stellaluna, Janell Cannon
• Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, William Steig
• Blueberries for Sal, Robert McCloskey

Elementary School (3-5)

• Gooney Bird Greene, Lois Lowry
• Riddle-iculous Math, Joan Holub
• The Pot that Juan Built, Nancy Andrews- Goebel
• The Courage of Sarah Noble, Alice Dalgliesh
• Crossing Jordan, Adrian Fogelin
• Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Judy Blume
• Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan
• Ramona Quimby, Age 8,Beverly Cleary
• A New Coat for Anna, Harriet Ziefert
• Farmer Boy, Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Life Under Ice, Mary M. Cerullo
• Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O’Dell
• Shiloh, Phyllis Naylor
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Ronald Dahl 
• Superfudge, Judy Blume