I found a great list of summer reading book recommendations for Kids courtesy of Lakeshore Learning.
There are a variety of books for children aged Pre-K to 6th grade and the books are broken down by age below.
I thought this might be a handy list to take to the library or to the bookstore- or you can click the book title and check the prices on Amazon. Typically I find Amazon to have the best deals on books.
So hopefully this helps keep the kiddos engaged this summer -and not in front of the TV or video games 😉
Pre K- Kindergarten
- ABC T-Rex by Bernard Most $6.30
- Alphabet Adventure by Audrey Wood $13.94
- Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman $5
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr $5
- Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr and John Archambault $4.50
- Go Away, Big Green Monster by Ed Emberley $8.54
- Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown $3.94
- The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle $7.45
- Guess How Much I love You by Sam McBratney $4.50
- How Many Snails? A Counting Book by Paul Giganti Jr $6.29
- Is Your Mama a Llama by Deborah Guarino $4
- It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw $6.29
- The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper $6.29
- The Napping House by Audrey Wood $13.98
- Quick as a Cricket by Audrey Wood by $6.29
- There’s a Nightmare in My Closet by Mercer Mayer $7.19
- To Market, To Market by Anne Miranda $6.30
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle $6
- Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak $5.58
Grades 1-2
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst $13
- Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish $2.94
- Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina $3.94
- The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss $5
- A Chair For My Mother by Vera B. Williams $6
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett $3.96
- Corduroy by Don Freeman
- Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel $6.27
- The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein $10
- Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss $5
- If You Give a Pig a Party by Laura Numeroff $13.50
- Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans $4.50
- Miss Nelson is Missing! by Harry G Allard $3.94
- My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett $5.97
- Nate the Great by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat $4.57
- One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss $5
- The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant $7.99
- Sharks by Gail Gibbons $7.15
- Stone Soup by Marcia Brown $6.43
- Strega Nono by Tomie dePaola $5.64
- Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester $6.29
Grades 3-4
- And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? by Jean Fritz $6.29
- Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo $4
- The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner $3.38
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl $4
- Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White $5
- Doctor De Soto by William Steig $7
- Freckle Juice by Judy Blume $3
- Frindle by Andrew Clements $3.94
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil by E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg $5.72
- The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble $7
- How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell $5.47
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl $4
- Runaway Ralph by Beverly Cleary $6
- Shiloh Phyllis by Reynolds Naylor $4.22
- Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar $3.94
- The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare $3.94
- Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner $5.39
- The Stories Julian Tells by Ann Cameron $4.49
- Stuart Little by E. B. White $3.38
- Superfudge by Judy Blume $5.39
- Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume $3.38
- There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom by Louis Sachar $6.29
- What a Trip, Amber Brown by Paula Danziger $3.61
Grades 5-6
- Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery $5.39
- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson $3.94
- Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis $4.54
- The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer $5.33
- The Giver by Lois Lowry $4.36
- The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson $5.39
- Hatchet by Gary Paulsen $4.22
- Holes by Louis Sachar $4.22
- The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks $4.22
- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell $3.94
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis $4.51
- Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli $8
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry $3.94
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor $4.51
- The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White $8
- Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt $3.84
- Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls $6.29
- The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman $5.39
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare $3.94
Thanks again to Lakeshore Learning for this great list.
Here are a few other things that might interest you:
Free Summer Reading Programs for Kids (with Prizes!)
100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (for Mom and Dad)
Hi Charlene, This book list looks great, how can I print it to take to the library?
Joanna,
Either push Ctrl + P and print the page you want or just copy and paste into a word doc and print 🙂
Thanks for the list! Does it go by the grade my child is in now or will be going into in the fall?
Heather- my guess is the grade they are going into. I have a soon to be 2nd grader and some of those books are better suited for her little sister. Her sister is going into Kindergarten and I think the Kindergarten books look right for her. 🙂