Good Books

Here are suggestions for second graders:
PICTURE BOOKS: The Hat ~ Jan Brett Arthur Lost and Found ~ Marc Tolon Brown Voices in the Park ~ Anthony Browne Mama & Papa Have a Store ~ Amelia Carling Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse ~ Kevin Henkes Swamp Angel ~ Anne Isaacs Sam and the Tigers ~ Julius Lester In My Family: En Mi Familia ~ Carmen Lomas Garza The Ballot Box Battle ~ Emily McCully Ma Dears Aprons ~ Pat McKissack Martha Blah, Blah ~ Susan Meddaugh Moses Goes to a Concert ~ Isaac Millman Uncle Jed's Barber Shop ~ Margaree Mitchell Tomas and the Library Lady ~ Pat Mora Officer Buckle and Gloria ~ Peggy Rathmann The Old Woman Who Named Things ~ Cynthia Rylant Grandfather's Journey ~ Allen Say Snapshots from the Wedding ~ Gary Soto The Toy Brother ~ William Steig	BEGINNING TO READ BOOKS: The Stories Huey Tells ~ Ann Cameron Pinky and Rex and the New Neighbors ~ James Howe Horrible Harry and the Dungeon ~ Suzy Kline Lionel in the Summer ~ Stephen Krensky Three Stories You Can Read to Your Cat ~ Sara Swan Miller Poppleton Forever ~ Cynthia Rylant Henry & Mudge & Annie's Good Move ~ Cynthia Rylant In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories ~ Alvin Schwartz Amanda Pig, School Girl ~ Jean Van Leeuwen Step 1-4 Books Henry and Mudge Series Artuhur Chapter Book Series Junie B Jones Series Animal Ark Series Bailey School Kids Series

CHAPTER BOOKS: Cam Jensen Series David A. Adler Finding Providence Avi Flatfoot Fox and the Case of the Missing Schoolhouse Eth Clifford Pleasing the Ghost Sharon Creech Amber Brown Is Feeling Blue Paula Danziger Seven Brave Women Betsy Gould Hearne Starting School Johanna Hurwitz Marvin and the Mean Words Suzy Kline Meg Mackintosh and the Mystery in the Locked Library Lucinda Landon Junie B. Jones Series Barbara Park Solo Girl Andrea Pinkney Nate the Great Series Marjorie Weinman Sharmat Magic Tree House Series Boxcar Children Series The Skirt Gary Soto	POEMS-RIDDLES-SONGS: The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children Davida Adedjouma, ed. Street Music: City Poems Arnold Adoff Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring Poems Francisco X. Alarcon Ashley Bryan's ABC of African-American Poetry Ashley Bryan Arroz Con Leche Lulu Delacre For the Love of the Game: Michael Jordan and Me Eloise Greenfield Creepy Riddles Katy Hall Pass It On Wade Hudson Let Freedom Ring Seymour Rossel Snuffles and Shouts Laura Robb, Skyscrape-CityScrape: Poems of City Life Jane Yolen

FOLKTALES AND FAIRY TALES: Anansi Does the Impossible Verna Aardema Baby Rattlesnake Te Ata Turtle Knows Your Name Ashley Bryan The Greatest Treasure Demi The Hunter and the Crocodile Wague Diakite The Gingerbread Boy Richard Egielski Anansi and the Talking Melon Eric A. Kimmel John Henry Julius Lester Musicians Of The Sun Gerald McDermott Bearskin Howard Pyle Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter Diane Stanley The Khan's Daughter Laurence Yep Little Red Riding Hood Cultural Study Books	INFORMATIONAL BOOKS: Thinking About Ants Barbara Brenner Creepy, Crawley Caterpillars Margery Facklam Everglades Jean Craighead George Soaring the Wind: The Bald Eagle Gail Gibbons Snowflake Bentley Jacqueline Briggs Martinem The Life and Times Of the Peanut Charles Micucci Duke Ellington Andrea Davis Pinkney Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman Alan Schroeder Wolves Seymour Simon Diego Jeanette Winter