Listed here are books for summer reading. These books are grouped for age appropriateness.

For additional reading list check out the:

Multnomah County Library
Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County

Pre-School

Bond - Tumble Bumble
Calmenson - Hotter Than a Hot Dog
Cannon - Stellaluna
Christiansen - Mars in the Morning
Cox - Now We Can Have a Wedding
Demi - The Greatest Treasure
Feiffer - Bark, George
Fox - Zoo-Looking
Isaacs - Swamp Angel
Lowell - Little Red Cowboy Hat
Lum - What! Cried Granny: An Almost Bedtime Story
Mahy - The Rattlebang Picnic
Shapiro - Mice Squeak, We Speak: A Poem
Shaw - Sheep in a Jeep
Wilson - Good Zap, Little Grog

Kindergarten and First Grade

Angelou - My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me
Buck - Oh Cats
Caple - Well Done, Worm!
Clarke - Baby Alligator
Crews - Cloudy Day/Sunny Day
Dussling - Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!
Flanagan - Cats: The Sound of Short A
Fowler - A Look at Teeth
Herold - A Very Important Day
Jenkins - Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest
Knight - From Cow to Ice Cream: A Photo Essay
Lauber - You're Aboard Spaceship Earth
Martin - Monkey Business
Rau - Purple Is Best
Simon - Mud!
Weeks - Drip, Drop

Second and Third Grade

Look What You Can Make With Paper Bags
Adler - A Picture Book of Sacagawea
Byars - My Dog, My Hero
Cameron - Gloria's Way
Cleary - Ramonia's World
Cushman - Inspector Hopper
Demi - The Donkey and the Rock
De Paola - 26 Fairmount Avenue
Fowler - Albertina the Practically Perfect
Gilland - Steamboat!: The Story of Captain Blanche Leathers
Johnson - Henry Hikes to Fitchburg
Lauber - Purrfectly Purrfect: Life at the Acatemy
Scieszka - See You Later, Gladiator
St. George - So You Want to Be President

Fourth and Fifth Grade

Byars - Disappearing Acts
Carbone - Sarah and the Naked Truth
Clement - Frindle
Demas - If Ever I Return Again
DiCamillo - Because of Winn-Dixie
Dowell - Dovey Coe
Gantos - Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
Gutman - The Million Dollar Shot
Haddix - Among the Hidden
Kallner - The Wildlife Detectives: How Forensic Scientists Fight Crimes Against Nature
Kehret - Searching for Candlestick Park
Krull - Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman
Kurtz - The Storyteller's Beads
Paulsen - Mr. Tucket
Mahy - The Horribly Haunted School
Masson - Dogs Have the strangest Friends: And Other True Stories of Animal Feelings