Anne Arundel County Public Schools
Summer Reading Lists
Select Grade Level:
Preschool
| Title | Author |
| Bear Feels Sick | Wilson |
| Bear Snores On | Wilson/Chapman |
| Brown Bear, Brown Bear | Martin |
| Carrot Seed | Krauss |
| Chicka, Chicka Boom Boom | Martin |
| Clifford, the Big Red Dog | Bridwell |
| Counting Kisses | Katz |
| Good Night, Gorilla | Rathman |
| Harold and the Purple Crayon | Johnson |
| Hop on Pop | Seuss |
| No, David | Shannon |
| Swimmy | Lionni |
| Very Hungry Caterpillar | Carle |
| When Sophie Gets Angry-- Really, Really Angry | Bang |
Entering Kintergarten
| Title | Author |
| Book, Book, Book | Bruss |
| Bud and Gabby | Davis |
| Butterfly, Butterfly | Horacek |
| Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack | Cronin |
| Flora’s Surprise | Gliori |
| Home for a Tiger, Home for a Bear | Williams |
| How Do Dinosaurs Go to School? | Yolen |
| I Stink | McMullan |
| I’m Not Cute | Allen |
| Just Like Daddy | Asch |
| Kitten’s First Full Moon | Henkes |
| Leo the Late Bloomer | Kraus |
| Lunch | Fleming |
| Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready. For Kindergarten | Slate |
| Old Black Fly | Aylesworth |
Entering Grade 1
| Title | Author |
| Click Clack Moo: Cows that Type | Cronin |
| Cork and Fuzz: Short and Tall | Chaconas |
| Diary of a Wombat | French |
| Dog and Bear: Two Friends, Three Stories | Seeger |
| Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus | Willems |
| Guji Guji | Chen |
| Hondo & Fabian | McCarty |
| How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight | Yolen |
| Jazz | Myers |
| Olivia | Falconer |
| One Green Apple | Bunting |
| Where is the Green Sheep | Fox |
| Where the Wild Things Are | Sendak |
| Wolves | Gravett |
Entering Grade 2
| Title | Author |
| Diary of a Worm | Cronin |
| Henry’s Freedom Box | Levine |
| Iris & Walter: The School Play | Guest |
| Leaf Man | Ehlert |
| Minnie & Moo: Wanted Dead or Alive |
Cazet |
| My Buddy | Osofsky |
| My Great Aunt Arizona | Houston |
| Owen & Mzee: True Story of a Remarkable Friendship | Hatkoff |
| Rainbow Fish | Pfister |
| Song Lee in Room 28 | Kline |
| Tops and Bottoms | Stevens |
Entering Grade 3
| Title | Author |
| Brothers | Yin |
| Chair for My Mother | Williams |
| Clean Your Room, Harvey Moon | Cummings |
| George and Martha | Marshall |
| Ivy and Bean | Barrows |
| John, Paul, George & Ben | Smith |
| Man Who Walked Between the Towers | Gerstein |
| Martin Bridge Blazing Ahead | Kerrin |
| Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman | Schroeder |
| My Rows and Piles of Coins | Mollel |
| Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building | Hopkinson |
| Zoom | Banyai |
Entering Grade 4
| Title | Author |
| Cook-a-Doodle-Doo | Crummel |
| Fourth Grade Fuss | Hurwitz |
| Harriet the Spy | Fitzhugh |
| The Hoboken Chicken Emergency | Pinkwater |
| Ida B. and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World | Hannigan |
| King of the Wind | Henry |
| Leonardo: Beautiful Dream.. | Byrd |
| Liberation of Gabriel King | Going |
| Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Lewis |
| 7 Professors of the Far North | Fardell |
| Secrets of the Sphinx | Giblin |
| Week in the Woods | Clements |
Entering Grade 5
| Title | Author |
| Artemis Fowl | Colfer |
| Caddie Woodlawn | Brink |
| City of Ember | Duprau |
| Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad | Petry |
| Homework Machine | Gutman |
| Matilda | Dahl |
| Million Dollar Shot | Gutman |
| Mysterious Matter of I.M. Fine | Stanley |
| Regarding the Fountain | Klise |
| Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs | Birney |
| Smart Dog | Velde |
| Where the Sidewalks Ends | Silverstein |
Entering Grade 6
| Title | Author |
| Ella Enchanted | Levine |
| Free Baseball | Corbett |
| Hoot | Hiaasen |
| Hope was Here | Bauer |
| Ice Drift | Taylor |
| Journey to the River Sea | Ibbotson |
| Mississippi Bridge | Taylor |
| Morning Girl | Dorris |
| Music of Dolphins | Hesse |
| My Life in Dog Years | Paulsen |
| My Teacher is an Alien | Coville |
| No More Dead Dogs | Korman |
| Our Sixth Grade Sugar Babies | Bunting |
| People Could Fly | Hamilton |
| Rules | Lord |
| So You Want to Be a Wizard | Duane |
| Surviving the Applewhites | Tolan |
| Tale of Despereaux-Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread | DiCamillo |
| Tiger Woods: An American Master | Edwards |
| Trouble with Tuck | Taylor |
| Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 | Curtis |
Entering Grade 7
| Title | Author |
| Airborn | Oppel |
| Broken Blade | Durbin |
| Cat Ate My Gymsuit | Danzinger |
| Code Talker | Bruchac |
| Crispin: The Cross of Lead | Avi |
| Curse of the Blue Figurine | Bellairs |
| Devil’s Arithmetic | Yolen |
| Downriver | Hobbs |
| Fire, Bed & Bone | Branford |
| Harris and Me | Paulsen |
| Heir Apparent | Vande Velde |
| Jackaroo | Voigt |
| Long Way from Chicago | Peck |
| Love Among the Walnuts | Ferris |
| Man Who was Poe | Avi |
| Martin Luther King: Peaceful Warrior | Clayton |
| Other Side of Dark | Nixon |
| Ravenmaster’s Secret | Woodruff |
| River | Paulsen |
| Shakespeare Bats Cleanup | Koertge |
| Squashed | Bauer |
| Trouble with Lemons | Hayes |
| When My Name was Keoko | Park |
| Zen and the Art of Faking It | Sonnenblick |
Entering Grade 8
| Title | Author |
| Absolutely Normal Chaos | Creech |
| Among the Impostors | Haddix |
| Dear Miss Breed | Oppenheim |
| Dune | Herbert |
| Fellowship of the Ring | Tolkien |
| Rhyming Season | Averett |
| Girl from Yamhill | Cleary |
| Holes | Sachar |
| I am Regina | Keehn |
| Indian Chiefs | Freedman |
| Invisible Thread | Uchida |
| Jacob Have I Loved | Paterson |
| Killer Angels | Shaara |
| Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery | Feinstein |
| Loser | Spinelli |
| On My Honor | Bauer |
| Out of the Dust | Hesse |
| Pigman | Zindel |
| Ransom of Mercy Carter | Cooney |
| Scorpia | Horowitz |
| Shades of Gray | Reeder |
| White Mountain | Christopher |
| Within Reach: My Everest Story | Pfetzer |
| Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane | Freedman |
| Zlata’s Diary | Filipovic |
Entering Grade 9
| Title | Author |
| Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, Broadway Bound | Simon |
| Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Haddon |
| Ender’s Game | Card |
| Gospel According to Larry | Tashjian |
| Hobbit | Tolkien |
| Ironman | Crutcher |
| Rebecca | Du Maurier |
| Shoeless Joe | Kinsella |
| Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants | Brashares |
| Slam | Myers |
| Stuck in Neutral | Trueman |
Entering Grade 10
| Title | Author |
| Bean Trees | Kinsolver |
| Bronx Masquerade | Grimes |
| Cape Ann | Sullivan |
| Dragonsong (or series) | McCaffrey |
| Emako Blue | Woods |
| Jubilee | Walker |
| Killer Angels | Shaara |
| Martian Chronicles | Bradbury |
| Piano Lesson | Wilson |
| Secret Life of Bees | Kidd |
Entering Grade 11
| Title | Author |
| All My Sons | Miller |
| Death Be Not Proud | Gunther |
| Invisible Man | Ellison |
| Little Foxes | Hellman |
| Shattering Glass | Giles |
| Stargirl | Spinelli |
| Sailing Around the Room | Collins |
| Song of the Buffalo Boy | Garland |
| Wait Til Next Year | Goodwin |
Entering Grade 12
| Title | Author |
| And Then There Were None | Christie |
| Jane Eyre | Bronte |
| Kite Runner | Hosseini |
| Lesson Before Dying | Gaines |
| Light Thickens | Marsh |
| Life of Pi | Martel |
| Purple Hibiscus | Adichie |
| Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats | Eliot |
| Tale of Two Cities | Dickens |
| Woman Warrior | Kingston |
