Summer School Reading Program

The purpose of the Summer Reading Program is to encourage students to enjoy quality literature and to continue developing their independent reading skills. Student participation in the program is voluntary. Students who choose to participate in the program are required to complete a minimum number of readings over the summer.
Below you will find a suggested list of titles for each grade level. Students may use these suggestions or participate in the Prince William County Public Library Summer Quest or Teen Quest Program.

Guidelines for Student Completion of the Summer Reading:

Parents and students will read together a minimum of five books.

Parents and students will record the name of author, the title of the book, and a parent or guardian statement that the student has completed the reading.

For Grades k-4 students who participate in Prince William County Public Library’s Summer Quest Program, the Summer Quest documentation will apply.

Students in Grades k-2 will receive an extra S+ for each book completed, for a total of five.

Extra credit for grades k-8 will count 10% of a student’s grade in the affected marking period.

Completion of the Summer Reading will be recorded for students by the end of the second week of school.

Kindergarten

Participation is optional; students who choose to participate must read a minimum of five (5) books.

Author	Title	Publisher	Published Year	Annotation
Berenstain, Stan & Jan	The Bears’ Vacation	Beginner Books	1968	While on vacation, Papa Bear shows Small Bear how to play safely, with some interesting and humorous results.
Carle, Eric	The Very Busy Spider	Philomel	1984	The farm animals try to divert a busy little spider from spinning her web, but she persists and produces a thing of both beauty and usefulness.
Carle, Eric	Walter the Baker	Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers	1995	By order of the duke, Walter the baker must invent a tasty roll through which the rising sun can shine three times.
Crews, Donald	School Bus	Greenwillow Books	1984	Follows the progress of school buses as they take children to school and bring them home again.
Crews, Donald	Sail Away	Harper Trophy	1995	A family takes an enjoyable trip in their sailboat and watches the weather change throughout the day.
Crews, Donald	Freight Train	Greenwillow Books	1978	Brief text and illustrations trace the journey of a colorful train as it goes through tunnels, by cities, and over trestles.
DePaola, Tomie	Tomie DePaola’s Mother Goose	Putman	1985	Includes index. An illustrated collection of 204 Mother Goose nursery rhymes, including well-known ones such as "Little Boy Blue" and less familiar ones such as "Charlie Warlie and His Cow."
DePaola, Tomie	The Cloud Book	Holiday House	1975	Includes index. Introduces the ten most common types of clouds, the myths that have been inspired by their shapes, and what they indicate about the weather.
Ehlert, Lois	Color Zoo	HarperCollins	1989	Introduces colors and shapes with illustrations of shapes on die-cut pages that form animal faces when placed on top of one another.
Hoban, Tana	26 Letters and 99 Cents	Greenwillow Books	1987	Enjoy the colorful photographs of the letters, coins and everyday objects which introduce the alphabet, money and counting.
Hoban, Tana	Let’s Count	Greenwillow Books	1999	Photographs and dots introduce the numbers one to one hundred.
Keats, Ezra Jack	Peter’s Chair	Viking	1998	When Peter discovers his blue furniture is being painted pink for a new baby sister, he rescues the last unpainted item, a chair, and runs away.
Keats, Ezra Jack	Whistle for Willie	Viking Press	1964	A young boy tries to learn how to whistle, so that he can call his dog like all the bigger boys do.
LeSieg, Theo	Ten Apples Up on Top!	Beginner Books	1989	A lion, a dog, and a tiger balance apples on their heads.
London, Jonathan	Froggy Learns to Swim	Viking	1995	Froggy is afraid of the water until his mother, along with his flippers, snorkel, and mask, help him learn to swim.
London, Jonathan	Froggy Goes to the Doctor	Viking	2002	Froggy isn't looking forward to his check-up because he might get a shot but when it's over and he's pronounced a very healthy frog, Dr. Mugwort is the one who dreads Froggy's next visit.
MacDonald, Suse	Alphabatics	Aladdin	2005	The letters of the alphabet are transformed.
Piper, Watty	The Little Engine That Could	Buccaneer	1981	Although she is not very big, the Little Blue Engine agrees to try to pull a stranded train full of toys over the mountain.
Rey, H. A.	Curious George Goes to the Hospital	Houghton Mifflin	1994	A curious monkey goes to the hospital after swallowing a piece of jigsaw puzzle.
Scarry, Richard	Richard Scarry’s Best Mother Goose Ever	Western Publishing	1992	A colorfully illustrated collection of fifty traditional Mother Goose rhymes.
Cassie, Brian and Jerry Pallotta	The Butterfly Alphabet Book	Charlesbridge	1995	Introduces butterflies from A to Z, describing their distinctive features while highlighting each letter of the alphabet.
Sendak, Maurice	Where the Wild Things Are	HarperCollins	1991	After he is sent to bed without supper for behaving like a wild thing, Max dreams of a voyage to the island where the wild things are.
Seuss, Dr.	The Foot Book	Random House	1968	Beginner's text describes all sorts of feet doing all sorts of things.
Seuss, Dr.	One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish	Beginner Books	1988	A story-poem for beginning readers about the activities of such unusual creatures as the Nook, Wump, Yink, Yop, Gack, and the Zeds.
Seuss, Dr.	Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You?	Random House	1998	Mr. Brown is an expert at imitating all sorts of noises.

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