Coles Elementary Summer Reading List  2008

          The summer months are a great time to promote reading as a lifelong skill.  Remember to pack some books or magazines for vacation.  

          Please remember that the public libraries have many activities and programs for children and adults.  They are great places for weekly summer visits.  The Summer Quest Program is free and offers many fun activities for students.  Summer Quest participation may be used as documentation for the Prince William County Summer Reading Program.

          Please remember that the summer reading list is only a “suggested” list.  It may be used as a guide to help children and families choose age/grade level appropriate books.  If students already have reading preferences, summer is a great time to enjoy whatever excites them as readers.  Reading should be seen as an enjoyable, informative, and entertaining pastime, and summer is a great time to explore your own interests.  If you need some suggestions to guide your choices, you may refer to the following grade level lists.  Have a great summer and Happy Reading!

Coles Librarian

Kindergarten               Grade 1              Grade 2    

Grade 3                Grade 4              Grade 5

Annotated Lists Are Found After Each Grade List

Kindergarten    

• Students are requested to read   5   books.
• On a piece of paper, list the title and author of each of the 5 books along with parent signature verifying that the student has read the books.
• The students may use the Prince William Summer Quest Program as documentation for the summer reading program.
• The students will receive a certificate and small prize for completion of the summer reading.

Author	Title	Publisher
Lionni, Leo	A Color of His Own	Pantheon
Christelow, Eileen	Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed	Clarion
Rey, H.A.	Curious George books	Houghton Mifflin
McQueen, Lucinda	The Little Red Hen	Scholastic
Berenstain, Jan	Berenstain Bears books	Random House
Guarino, Deborah	Is Your Mama a Llama?	Scholastic
Bridwell, Norman	Clifford books	Scholastic
Carle, Eric	The Very Hungry Caterpillar and others	Philomel
Hutchins, Pat	The Doorbell Rang	Green Willow
Numeroff, Laura	If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and others	Harper Collins
Dr. Seuss	The Foot Book and others	Random House
Eastman, P.D.	Go Dog Go!	Random House
Lobel, Anita	Alison’s Zinnia	Greenwillow
Martin, Bill	Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Did You See?	Henry Holt & Co.
Viorst, Judith	Alexander and Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day	Macmillan

Kindergarten Annotated List

Title	Annotation
A Color of His Own	A Chameleon goes in search of a color of his own, and finds a true friend.
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed	A counting book in which one by one the little monkeys jump on the bed only to fall off and bump their heads.
Curious George	A curious monkey who has many adventures.
The Little Red Hen	The little red hen finds none of her lazy friends willing to help her plant, harvest, or grind wheat into flour, but all are eager to eat the cake she makes from it.
Berenstain Bears books	The adventures and misadventures of this wonderful bear family.
Is Your Mama a Llama?	Lloyd the llama meets all kinds of animals as he asks his question, until at last his friend Llyn leads Llyod to the answer he longs to hear.
Clifford Books	These books tell about Clifford, the big red dog, and his many adventures.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar	A colorful story about the metamorphosis of a butterfly.
The Doorbell Rang	Each time the doorbell rings, there are more people who have come to share Ma’s wonderful cookies.
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie	Relates the cycle of requests a mouse is likely to make after you give him a cookie.  It takes the reader through a young boy’s day.
The Foot Book	Exploring opposites with creative and wild illustrations.
Go, Dog, Go!	A fun experience with opposites, color words, and number words.
Alison’s Zinnia	In this alphabet book, flowers are used to guide youngsters through their ABC’s.
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?	A Pattern book involving colors and animals.
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day	Alexander has the kind of day that is one mishap after another.  He thinks about moving to Australia just to get away from his bad luck.

Grade 1    

· Students are required to read  5  books.

· On a piece of paper, list the title and author, along with parent signature verifying the child has  read the books.

· The students may use Prince William Summer Quest Program as documentation for the summer reading program.

· The student will receive a certificate and small prize for completion of summer reading.

Author	Title	Publishing Company
Ehlert, Lois	Snowballs	Harcourt Brace
Keats, Jack	Peter’s Chair	Harper
Slobodkina, Esphyr	Caps for Sale	Harper and Row
Burton, Virginia	Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel	Scholastic
Stevens, Janet	Tops and Bottoms	Harcourt
Bourgeois, Paulette	Franklin in the Dark, Franklin Goes to School	Scholastic
Martin Jr. Bill	Chicka Chicka Boom Boom	Simon & Schuster
McCloskey, Robert	Blueberries for Sal	Viking
Hoban, Russell	Bedtime for Frances	Harper Collins
Pinkwater, Daniel	The Big Orange Splot	Scholastic
Dr. Seuss	Green Eggs and Ham	Random House
Shaw, Charles	It Looked Like Spilt Milk	Harper Collins
Gag, Wanda	Millions of Cats	Putnam
Sendak, Maurice	Where the Wild Things Are	Harper Collins
Martin, Bill	Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?	Holt
Payne, Emmy	Katy no-Pocket	Houghton Mifflin

First Grade  Annotated List

Title	Annotation
Snowballs	Some children create a family out of snow.  Includes labeled pictures of all the items they use, as well as, information about how snow is formed.
Peter’s Chair	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.
Caps for Sale	This humorous tale describes a peddler, his caps, and the monkeys who steal his caps while he is napping.  The peddler gets his caps back by applying the old adage, “Monkey see, monkey do.”
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel	Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel, Marianne, team up to do a big job with persistence.
Tops and Bottoms	Hare turns his bad luck around by striking a clever deal with the rich and lazy bear down the road.
Franklin in the Dark, Franklin Goes to School	The adventures and misadventures of Franklin the turtle and his friends.
Chicka, Chicka Boom Boom	In a rhythmic alphabet chant, all the letters race one another up the coconut tree.
Blueberries for Sal	Sal and her mother set off in search of blueberries for the winter at the same time as a mother bear and her cub.
Bedtime for Frances	Frances finds it difficult to go to sleep with the strange noises and shapes that seem to fill her room after dark.
The Big Orange Splot	When a seagull drops a can of orange paint on his house, Mr. Plumbean gets an idea that affects his entire neighborhood.
Green Eggs and Ham	This cumulative rhyme story tells of the many ways Sam-I-Am tries to get the car to eat his favorite foods.
It Looked Like Spilt Milk	Illustrations show that a cloud may look like spilt milk, an ice cream cone, a tree, a mitten, a rabbit, or many other objects.
Millions of Cats	An old man searches for just one cat among the “Millions and billions and trillions of cats” that live on a high hill.
Where the Wild Things Are	After he is sent to bed without supper for behaving like a wild thing, Max dreams of a voyage to an island where the wild things are.
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?	Zoo animals from polar bear to walrus make their distinctive sounds for each other, while children imitate the sounds for the zookeeper.
Katy No-Pocket	Katy the kangaroo finds the perfect solution after hunting for a pocket.

Grade 2

· Students are required to read  5   books to participate.

· On a piece of paper, list the title and author of the 5 books read, along with parent signature verifying that the child has read the books.

· Students may use the Summer Quest Program as documentation for Summer reading Program.

· The students will receive two extra credit grades for the first marking period upon completion of summer reading.

Author	Title	Publishing Company
Gibbons, Gail	Fire, Fire	Harper
Lobel, Arnold	Mouse Soup	Harper
Brown, Margaret	Goodnight Moon	Harper
Cannon, Janell	Stellaluna	Harcourt
Flack, Marjorie	The Story About Ping	Viking
Brown, Jeff	Flat Stanley	Harper & Row
Adler, David	Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, or any other biography by this author	varied
Rylant, Cynthia	Henry & Mudge Series	varied
Steig, William	Sylvester and the Magic Pebble	Aladdin
Brown, Marc	Arthur Meets the President	Little, Brown
Hoban, Lillian	Arthur series, any book	Harper & Row
Giff, Patricia	The Beast in Mrs. Rooney’s Room	Dell
Berenstain, Stan and Jan	The Berenstain Bears and Too Much TV	Random
Lobel, Arnold	Frog and Toad are Friends	Harper
Dr. Seuss	Hop on Pop	Random
Delton, Judy	Blue Skies, French Fries	Dell

Grade 2 Annotated List

Title	Annotation
Fire, Fire	This factual book explains how fire fighters fight fires.  It realistically details the fire fighting processes, labels, fire fighting equipment, and represents fire fighting personnel of all sorts.
Mouse Soup	A mouse convinces weasel he needs the ingredients from several stories to make a tasty mouse soup.
Goodnight Moon	Goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room: goodnight chairs, goodnight comb, goodnight air.
Stelluna	During an owl attack, Stellaluna, a baby fruit bat, loses her grip, falls from her mother, and lands in a bird’s nest.  She is adopted and raised by a mother bird until reunited with her mother.
The Story About Ping	Ping, a duck, lives with his mother, father, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, and forty-two cousins on a boat on the Yangtze River.  He is an inquisitive duck who has many adventures.
Flat Stanley	Stanley is a perfectly normal boy until his bulletin board falls on top of him.  Stanley has many adventures while he’s 14mm thick, but he eventually wants to be normal.
Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and other biographies	These are easy-to-read picture biographies by David Adler.
Henry & Mudge Series	These are easy-to-read stories featuring Henry and his 180 pound dog, Mudge.
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble	Sylvester the Donley finds a magic pebble and unthinkingly wishes himself a rock when frightened by a lion.  After he was safe from the lion, Sylvester cannot hold the pebble to wish himself into a donkey again!
Arthur Meets the President	Arthur’s essay wins a contest and he has to read it to the President in a special ceremony at the White House.
Arthur series	Arthur the Chimp and his sister violet have many adventures together.
The Beast in Mrs. Rooney’s Room	Held back for a year in second grade, Richard can’t help getting into trouble, until he finally gets interested in reading and helps his class in a special way.
The Berenstain Bears and Too Much TV	Concerned that the family is spending too much time in front of the TV, Mama Bear decides that there will be no television watching for one week.
Frog and Toad are Friends	Five tales recounting the adventures of two best friends.
Hop on Pop	Pairs of rhyming words are introduced and used in simple sentences.
Blue Skies, French Fries	The Pee Wee Scouts practice hard for their football game.  Can they win?

Grade 3          

• Students are required to read   3   books to participate.
• The student will need to write a paragraph summary of 3-5 sentences for each book to verify that the student has read the book.
• The student will receive one extra credit for completing the summaries for the summer reading.

Author	Title	Publishing Company
dePaola, Tomie	Strega Nona	Prentice Hall
Miles, Miska	Annie and the Old One	Little
Mathis, Sharon	The Hundred Penny Box	Viking
Young, Ed	Seven Blind Mice	Philomel
Huck, Charlotte	Princess Furball	Morrow
Goebel, Paul	Her Seven Brothers	Bradbury
Martin, Rafe	The Rough-Face Girl	Putnam
Rylant, Cynthia	When the Relatives Came	Bradbury
Polacco, Patricia	Chicken Sunday	Philomel
Sobol, Donald	Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective	Dutton
Osburne, Mary Pope	Magic Treehouse Series	Random House
Catling, Patrick	The Chocolate Touch	Putnam
Cameron, Ann	Julian, Secret Agent	Random House
Warner, Gertrude	The Boxcar Children Series	Whitman
Prelutsky, Jack	Something Big Has Been Here	Greenwillow

Grade 3 Annotated List

Title	Annotation
Strega Nona	When Strega Nona leaves him alone with her magic pasta pot, big Anthony is determined to show the townspeople how it works.
Annie and the Old One	A Navajo girl unravels a day’s weaving on a rug whose completion, she believes, will mean the death of her grandmother.
The Hundred Penny Box	Michael’s love for his great-great-aunt, who lives with them, leads him to intercede with his mother who wants to toss out all of her old things.
Seven Blind Mice	Retells in verse the Indian fable of the blind men discovering different parts of an elephant and arguing about its appearance.
Princess Furball	A Cinderella story about a girl and her coat of a thousand furs.
Her Seven Brothers	In this Cheyenne legend a girl and her 7 brothers become the Big Dipper.  This book is excellent for an introduction to the solar system.
The Rough-Faced Girl	In this Algonquin Indian version, the Cinderella character is scarred from tending the fire.  Her two beautiful but heartless sisters compete for the attention of the Invisible Being.
When the Relatives Came	When a car-load of relatives come from Virginia, a family cannot tell one cousin from another.
Chicken Sunday	Stewart, Winston, and their newly adopted Russian American sister, pool their money to buy their Gramma, Miss Eula, an Easter bonnet, but they come up short and must think of a way to earn the money.
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective	Leroy “Encyclopedia” Brown solves ten mysteries and by putting the solutions at the back of the book, challenges the reader to do the same.
Magic Treehouse Series	Annie and Jack find themselves transported back in time in a variety of adventures in the easy-to-read series.
The Chocolate Touch	A boy acquires a magical gift that turns everything his lips touch to chocolate.
Julian, Secret Agent	When Julian, his little brother Huey, and their friend Gloria decide to be “crime busters” they find themselves in one adventure after another.
The Boxcar Children Series	Four orphans, two boys and two girls, set u housekeeping in an old boxcar.
Something Big Has Been Here	An illustrated collection of humorous poems on a variety of topics.

Grade 4   

· Students are required to read  3  books to participate.

· The student will write a summary paragraph explaining the plot of the story to verify that the student has read the book.

· The student will receive an extra credit grade for the first marking period for completing the summaries for the summer reading.

Author	Title	Publishing Company
Howe, Deborah	Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery	Atheneum
Cleary, Beverly	Dear Mr. Henshaw	Morrow
McCloskey, Robert	Homer Price	Viking
Henry, Marguerite	Misty of Chincoteague