Summer Reading List for Children-Pre K through 6th Grade

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)