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back to the elementary library homepage = = = = = = = = = = =Paul Cuffee Elementary School Summer Reading Lists =  Titles available through the Providence Public and Community Library Systems. Titles are recommended, but students may choose their own for summer reading!

** Incoming Kindergarten and First Grade **

READ ANY OF THESE GREAT TITLES, __OR__ OTHER TITLES BY THESE AUTHORS… READ WITH A GROWN-UP, A FRIEND, OR ON YOUR OWN…

// Get Set for Kindergarten series //, by Rosemary Wells

// I Love Saturdays y Domingos //, by Alma Flor Ada

// Llama, Llama, Red Pajama //, by Anna Dewdney

// Get Up and Go! // by Nancy Carlson

// Animals On Board, // by Stuart Murphy

// The Little Red Hen //, by Byron Barton

// Diary of a Worm //, by Doreen Cronin

// I Lost My Tooth in Africa, // by Penda Diakite

// I Am Invited to a Party! // by Mo Willems

// How Will We Get to the Beach? // by Brigitte Luciani

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! // by Candace Fleming Fleming

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Tar //// Beach ////, // by Faith Ringgold

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Frederick //, by Leo Lionni

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// The Hello, Goodbye Window //, by Norton Juster

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Below, // by Nina Crews

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Our Seasons //, by Grace Lin

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Just In Case: A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet Book, // by Yuyi Morales

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Mr. Putter and Tabby series //, by Cynthia Rylant

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Pearl and Wagner series //, by Kate McMullen

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Bones // series, by David Adler

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Amanda Pig and Her Big Brother Oliver // series, by Jean Can Leeuwen

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">** Incoming Second and Third Grades **

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">READ ANY OF THESE GREAT TITLES, OR OTHER TITLES BY THESE AUTHORS…

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14.6667px;">Any //Anansi// story by by Eric Kimmel

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Zelda and Ivy series //, by Laura Kvasnosky

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Mysterious Tadpole //, by Steven Kellogg

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Carmine: A Little More Red //, by Melissa Sweet

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14.6667px;">//How I Learned Geography//, by Uri Shulevitz

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses //, by Paul Goble

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Thanks a Million //, by Nikki Grimes

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Dona Flor: A Tall Tale about a Giant Woman with a Great Big Heart //

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14.6667px;">by Pat Mora

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Probudti! // by Chris Van Allsburg

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// A Couple of Boys Have the Best Weekend Ever //, by Marla Frazee

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Crickwing //, by Janell Cannon

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Abuela, // by Arthur Dorros

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart, A Picture Book of Jackie Robinson, // //A Picture Book of// <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14.6667px;"> //Abraham Lincoln//, or any other biography by David Adler

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Actual Size //, by Steve Jenkins

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// The Stories Julian Tells // by Ann Cameron

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Mercy Watson series // by Kate DiCamillo

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Bink and Ollie //, by Kate DiCamillo

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Puppy Power //, by Judy Cox

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Owen Foote series //, by Stephanie Green

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Clementine series // by Sara Pennypacker

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Gooney Bird Greene //, by Lois Lowry

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// The Zack Files // series, by Dan Greenburg

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Stink // or //Judy Moody series//, by Megan MacDonald

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">** Incoming Fourth and Fifth Grades **

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: center;">READ ANY OF THESE GREAT TITLES, OR OTHER TITLES BY THESE AUTHORS…

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Regarding the Fountain, // by Kate Klise

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Emmaline the Bunny //, by Katherine Hannigan

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Baseball Card Adventure series, // by Dan Gutman

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Year of the Dog //, by Grace Lin

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// The World According to Humphrey //, by Betty Birney

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Teammates //, by Peter Golenbock

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// The Bug Scientists //, by Donna Jackson

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Can’t You Make Them Behave, King George? //, OR <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Shh! We’re Writing the Constitution, // <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14.6667px;">by Jean Fritz

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Becoming Naomi Leon //, by Pam Munoz Ryan

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Drita, My Homegirl //, by Jenny Lombard

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Love That Dog //, by Sharon Creech

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Deep, and Dark, and Dangerous //, by Mary Downing Hahn

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// No Talking! // By Andrew Clements

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane // , <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14.6667px;"> by Kate DiCamillo

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Houdini Box //, by Brian Selznick

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// 11 Birthdays //, by Wendy Mass

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14.6667px;">The following titles are also available in e-book format through the PCS library homepage. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Go to [|www.paulcuffee.org] and click on the library link. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14.6667px;">Once you are on the library homepage, click on the link that says, “Access Books Online!” <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14.6667px;">To login:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14.6667px;">Username: student <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14.6667px;">Password: pcu

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Encyclopedia Brown Cracks the Case //, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14.6667px;"> by Donald Sobol.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Almost to Freedom //, by Vaunda Nelson

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Al Capone Does My Shirts //, by Gennifer Choldenko

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Savvy //, by Ingrid Law

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// The Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night, // by Joyce Sidman

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// The Red Pyramid //, by Rick Riordan

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Batboy //, by Mike Lupica

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">//Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone: A Math Adventure,// by Cindy Neuschwander

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Alchemy and Meggy Swann //, by Katherine Cushman

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// Cam //// Jansen and the Chocolate Fudge Mystery //, by David Adler

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">// How to Clean a //Hippopotamus, by Steve Jenkins

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">(Remember to check your teacher's assignment that goes along with the list! If you have misplaced the assignment, contact Paul Cuffee School at 453-2626.)