This is a suggested summer reading list by grade level for grades 2 - 8 for the 2004-2005 school
year. This list will be available all summer on Ft. Braden's web site <http://
www.ftbraden.leon.k12.fl.us/>

2nd Grade
The following recommended books will enhance your child's interest and understanding of the
units we will be covering in our Open Court Reading Series during the 2004-2005 school year.

Unit 1 - Sharing Stories
The Wednesday Surprise by Even Bunting
Jeremiah Learns to Read by JoEllen Bogart
Mouse Tales by Arnold Lobel
Dear Annie by Judith Caseley
Painted Words by Aliki

Unit 2 - Kindness
Jamaica's Find by Juanita Hamill
The Bat in the Boot by Annie Cannon
Uncle Wilie and the Soup Kitchen by Dyanne Disalvo-Ryan
Abe Lincoln's Hat by Martha Brenner
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
A Chair for My Mother by Vera Williams

Unit 3 - Look Again
Who's Hiding There? by Yoshi
A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni
What Do You Do When Something Wants to Eat You? by Steve Jenkins
The Trek by Ann Jones
The Mixed Up Chameleon by Eric Carle
Hiding Out by James Martin

Unit 4 - Fossils
Dinosaur Babies by Lucille Penner
A Boy Wants a Dinosaur by Hiawyn Oram
Archaeologists Dig for Clues by Kate Duke
Day of the Dinosaur by Stan and Jan Berenstain
If the Dinosaurs Came Back by Bernard Most
How Big Were the Dinosaurs? by Bernard Most

Unit 5 - Courage
White Dynamite and Curly Kid by Bill Martin, Jr
Ruth Law Thrills a Nation by Don Brown
The Buffalo Jump by Peter Roop
Jamaica and the Substitute Teacher by Juanita Havill
What's Under my Bed by James Stevenson
Birdie's Lighthouse by Debra Hopkinson

Unit 6 - Our Country
A Picnic in October by Eve Bunting
Amelia's Road by Sarah Carver
The Lotus Seed by Sherry Garland
Dancing with the Indians by Angela Madearis
Dragon Parade by Steven Chin
Dumpling Soup by Jim Rattigan


3rd Grade
Junie B. Jones Series by Barbara Parker
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate Dicamillo


4th Grade
Chapter Books & Series
Amber Brown Series by Paula Danzinger
Baby-Sitter’s Club Series by Ann Martin
Bailey School Kids Series by Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones
Boxcar Children Series by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Cam Jansen Series by David Adler
Ramona Series by Beverly Cleary

Books
The Stories Julian Tells by Ann Cameron
Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale by Demi
The True Story of The Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
Abel’s Island by William Steig
Amber Brown is Not a Crayon by Paula Danzinger
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? By Jean Fritz
Cam Jansen & The Chocolate Fudge Mystery by David A. Adler
The Case of the Elevator Duck by Polly B. Berends
The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Dear Benjamin Banneker by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Encyclopedia Brown Boy Dectective by Donald J. Sobol
Fantastic Mr. Fox by Ronald Dahl
Freckle Juice by Judy Blume
The Gator Girls by Joanna Cole
The Gold Cadillac by Mildred D. Taylor
Grandaddy’s Place by Helen V. Griffith
Here Comes McBroom by Sid Fleischman
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story From China by Ed Young
Sarah Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Sebastian (Super Sleuth) & The Copycat Crime by Mary B. Christian
Soup by Robert N. Peck
The Chocolate Touch by Patrick S. Catling
Class Clown by Johanna Hurwitz
The Dragonling by Jackie Koller
Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
The Littles by John Peterson
Pecos Bill by Steven Kellogg
The Paper Crane by Molly Bang
Not My Dog by Colby Rowonsky
7 x 9 = Trouble by G.Brian Karas
The Tenth Good Thing About Barney by Judith Viorst


5th Grade
The Kid Who Ran For President by Dan Gutman


6th Grade
Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCamillo
Rising Water by P. J. Petersen
Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen
The Gadget by Paul Zindel
Undercurrents by Willo Davis Roberts
Stand Tall by Joan Bauer
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac
Trouble Don't Last by Shelley Pearsall
Flight to Freedom by Ana Veciana-Suarez


7th Grade
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry


8th Grade
The Giver by Lois Lowry