Grade 2 Recommended Reading List
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Low:
- Miss Mary Mack adapted by Mary Ann Hoberman (1.5)
- Don’t forget the Bacon! By Pat Hutchins (2.0)
- Nate the Great by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat (2.0)
- Flip, flop, plop! by Karen Harrington picture book
- So Hungry! by Harriet Ziefert and Carol Nicklaus (1.4)
- Freckle Juice by Judy Blume (2.1)
- Green Wilma by Tedd Arnold (1.8)
- Henry & Mudge: the first book of their adventures by Cynthia Rylant (2.2)
- Stan and the Hot Dog Man by Ethel Kessler (1.3)
- Olivia by Ian Falconer (1.2)
Medium:
- Math Curse by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith (3.0)
- My Teacher Sleeps in School by Leatie Weiss (3.0)
- I Dance in my Red Pajamas by Edith Thatcher Hurd (2.9)
- The Witch’s Walking Stick by Susan Meddaugh (2.8)
- Danny and the Dinosaur by Syd Hoff (2.7)
- Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel (2.4)
- Today I feel Silly and Other Moods that Make my Day by Jamie Lee Curtis (2.4)
- The Berenstain Bears & the Bad Dream by Stan & Jan Berenstain (2.9)
- Trouble will Find You by Joan M.. Laxeu (3.1)
- The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle (2.6)
High:
- The Nasty Stinky Sneakers by Eve Bunting (3.3)
- The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner (3.2)
- Amber Brown is not a Crayon by Paula Danziger (3.8)
- Nights of the Pufflings by Bruce McMillan (3.3)
- Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss (3.8)
- Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (3.9)
- Strega Nona’s Magic Lesson by Tomie DePaula (3.8)
- Ralph S. Mouse by Beverly Cleary (4.1)
- Yen-Shen: a Cinderella story from China retold by Ai-Ling Louie (4.0)
- Giraffes Can’t Dance by Gile Andrede (4.3)