It’s summer time! Now that school is out, kids have more time than ever to do some reading. You know those days when there is nothing to do, your friends are out of town, your parents are at work, and your older siblings have better things to do than play with you. Those are the perfect days to read. With a book you can have tons of fun! Even adults could use some more time to read this summer. Now here is the question, what if you don’t read much, but want to start reading more or don’t have many books… where do you get them? Well the answer is the San Marco Branch Library or The San Marco Book Store. They are two great locations to get the perfect book in the San Marco area. Below you will see school reading lists along with book suggestions from the county. There are also some links for some other fun reads. So, are you going to dive into a book this summer? I know I will!
Hendricks Avenue Elementary:
(source: www.duvalschools.org/hendricks )
Level Pre-A
Wordless picture books
Level A
Look What I Can Do Jose Aruego
Do You Want to Be My Friend? Eric Carle
What Do Insects Do? Susan Canizares
Eating Apples
Gail Saunders Smith
Level B
Have You Seen My Cat? Eric Carle
Have You Seen My Duckling? Nancy Tafuri
Runaway Monkey J. Stewart & L. Salem
What’s For Dinner? Karen Hoenecke
Who Lives In A Tree? Susan Canizares
Who Lives In The Artic? Susan Canizares
Level C
What’s For Lunch? Eric Carle
Brown Bear, Brown Bear Bill Martin
Boots Schreiber & A. Doughty
Halloween Mask for Monster Virginia Mueller
Spots Feathers and Curly Tails Nancy Tafuri
Weather Pamela Chanko
Level D
Bears on Wheels Stan & Jan Berenstain
How Many Bugs in a Box? David Carter
I Saw a Hippopotamus Hector V. Lee
Sheep In A Shop Margot Apple
Pumpkin Pumpkin Jeanne Titherington
From Bud to Blossom Gail Saunders Smith
Level E
All By Myself Mercer Mayer
Inside, Outside, Upside Down
Stan & Jan Berenstain
A Great Place for Llama Virginia Mueller
Cookie’s Week Cindy Ward & Tomi de Paola
Animal Babies Bobbie Hamsa
A Buzz is a Part of a Bee Carolyn Lunn
Level F
Monkey See, Monkey Do Marc Gave
A Moon for Ana Garcia Anne S. O’Brien
Itsy Bitsy Spider Iza Trapani
Soccer Game Grace Maccarone
Butterfly Colors Helen Frost
What Am I? Margaret Hillert
Level G
Sheep In A Jeep Nancy Shaw
More Spaghetti, I Say Rita Gelman
Dinosaur, Dinosaur Byron Barton
The Doorbell Rang Pat Hutchins
Fishy Facts Ivan Chermaneff
I’m a Caterpillar Jean Marzollo
Level H
Just Me and My Dad Mercer Mayer
Sammy the Seal Syd Huff
If the Dinosaurs Came Back Bernard Most
A Mother for Choco Keiko Kasza
Building a House Byron Barton
Pine Trees Marcia Freeman
Level I
It’s Not Easy Being a Bunny
Marylin Sadler
Noisy Nora Rosemary Wells
Mrs. Brice’s Mice Syd Hoff
All Tutus Should Be Pink
Sheri Brownrigg
Spring Gail Saunders Smith
Police Cars Marcia Freeman
Level J
Mouse Tales Arnold Lobel
Henry and Mudge series Cynthia Rylant
Danny and the Dinosaur Syd Hoff
Curious George series Margaret & H. A. Rey
Coral Stanley L. Swartz
Where People Live Angela Royston
Level K
Nate the Great series Marjorie Sharmat
Corduroy Don Freeman
Frog and Toad series Arnold Lobel
Madeline Ludwig Bermelmens
Starfish and Urchins Stanley L. Swartz
President’s Day Helen Frost
Dinosaurs Gail Gibbons
Chicks & Chickens Gail Gibbons
Level L
Cam Jansen series David Adler
Amelia Bedelia series Peggy Parrish
Loveable Lyle Barnard Waber
Horrible Harry series Suzy Kline
Abraham Lincoln Lola Schaefer
The Bravest Dog Ever – The Story of Balto
Natalie Standiford
Black Lagoon Adventures by Mike Thaler
Level M
Bailey School Kids series Dadey and Jones
Junie B Jones series Barbara Park
Magic Tree House series Mary Pope Osbourne
Boundless Grace Mary Hoffman
Arthur series Marc Brown
A Book About Your Skeleton Ruth Belov Gross
Buttons for General Washington Peter Roop
The Bailey School Kids by Debbie Dadey
Cats Gail Gibbons
Dogs Gail Gibbons
Level N
Judy Moody series Megan McDonald
Amber Brown series Paula Danziger
Stories Julian Tells Ann Cameron
Jigsaw Jones series James Preller
Adam Joshua series Janice Lee Smith
The Bill of Rights Patricia Ryon Quiri
Jackie Robinson and the Story of All-Black
Baseball Jim O’Connor
Pythons Mary Ann McDonald
Garter Snakes Mary Ann McDonald
Any non fiction by Mary Ann McDonald
Apples Gail Gibbons
A to Z Mysteries Series Ron Roy
Level O
The Boxcar Children series
Gertrude Chandler Warner
The Littles series John Peterson
Ramona series Beverly Cleary
The Hundred Dresses Eleanor Estes
Baseball’s Best – Five True Stories
Andrew Gutelle
Caves and Caverns Gail Gibbons
Bats Gail Gibbons
Cabin Creek Mysteries Kristiana Gregory
Level P
Encyclopedia Brown series Donald Sobol
Magic School Bus series Joanna Cole
Sideways Stories From Wayside School
Louis Sachar
Time Warp Trio Series Jon Scieszka
One Day in the Life of …series
Jean Craighead George
Baby Whale Rescue: The True Story
Caroline Arnold
Hank the Cow Dog Series John Erickson
Level Q
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Judy Blume
Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Trumpet of the Swan E. B. White
Bunnicula series James Howe
Finding the Titanic Robert D. Ballard
If You Lived at the Time… series various
authors
The American Girls Collection
Soup Robert M. Peck
Level R
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
Charlotte’s Web E. B. White
Upchuck and the Rotten Willy Bill Wallace
Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Endangered Animal series J. David Taylor
Harry Houdini, Master of Magic Robert Kraske
Because of Winn Dixie DiCamillo
Level S
The Borrowers Mary Norton
Bridge to Teratbithia Katherine Paterson
In the Year of the Boar & Jackie Robinson
Bette Boa Lord
Sixth Grade Secrets Louis Sachar
Back to the Titanic Beatrice Gormley
Bats: Amazing Upside Downers Phyllis Perry
Flying Solo Ralph Fletcher
Level T
Baseball in April Gary Soto
Backwater Swamp Bill Wallace
Bud, Not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis
Tracker Gary Paulson
The California Gold Rush May McNeer
Cleopatra Diane Stanley
Everglades Jean Craighead George
Sing Down the Moon Scott O’Dell
Level U
Crash Jerry Spinelli
Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George
Ginger Pye Elanor Estes
The View From Saturday E. L. Klonigsburg
Alexander Graham Bell: An Inventive Life
Elizabeth MacLeod
First Ladies of the White House
Nancy Skarmeas
Oprah Winfrey: A Voice for the People
Philip Brooks
Level V
Absolutely Normal Chaos Sharon Creech
The Birthday Room Kevin Henkes
The Incredible Journey Sheila Burnford
A Long Way From Chicago Richard Peck
John James Audubon: Wildlife Artist
Peter Anderson
The Riddle of Rosetta Stone
James Cross Giblin
Stealing Home: The Story of Jackie Robinson
Barry Denenberg
Music of the Dolphins Karen Hesse
Level W
Dragonwings Laurence Yep
The Dragon in the Tollbooth Norton Juster
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred Taylor
Danger in Quicksand Swamp Bill Wallace
The Tarantula in My Purse
Jean Craighead George
Easter Island: Giant Stone Statues…
Caroline Arnold
Meteorite! The Last Days of the Dinosaurs
Richard Norris
You want the Woman to Vote Lizzie Stanton, Jean Fritz
Level X
Call It Courage Armstrong Sperry
Out of the Dust Karen Hesse
Tuck Everlasting Natalie Babbit
Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls
Bill Cosby: The Changing Black Image
Robert Rosenberg
Cowboys of the Wild West Russell Freedman
Maya Angelou: Journey of the Heart
Jayne Pettit
Poetry
Any poetry books by Jack Prelutsky
Any poetry books by Eloise Greenfield
Any poetry books by Shel Silverstein
Any poetry books by Lewis Carroll
Any poetry books by Carl Sandburg
Any poetry books by Walt Whitman
Landon Middle School:
(source: www.duvalschools.org/landon)
6th grade Book Choices:
Fever 1793 (Laurie Halse Anderson)
Bud Not Buddy (Christopher Paul Curtis)
Hatchet (Gary Paulsen)
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (E. L. Konigsburg)
Heat (Mike Lupica)
Esperanza Rising (Pam Munoz Ryan)
7th grade Book Choices:
My Side of the Mountain (Jean Craighead George)
The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros)
Where the Red Fern Grows (Wilson Rawls)
Among the Hidden (Margaret Peterson Haddix)
Jackie’s Nine (Sharon Robinson)
Red Scarf Girl (Ji-li Jiang)
8th grade Book Choices:
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
The Chocolate War (Robert Cormier)
Slam! (Walter Dean Myers)
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (Avi)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
High School:
(source: www.duvalschools.org )
Additional Lists:
For other interesting books, go to these helpful links.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2011-05-24-hottest-summer-books_n.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/index.html?scp=1-spot&sq=books&st=cse
http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/overview.html
