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Click here for a printable list of  Year Two books K-3 and 4-6

​Suggested Book List - Year 2 - Grades K-3

September - Respect, Responsibility, Friendship
  1. Carla’s Sandwich  Debbie Herman
  2. Strictly No Elephants. Lisa Mantchev
  3. All for Me. Helen Lester
  4. Roxaboxen. Alice McLerran
  5. Freedom Summer. Deborah Wiles
  6. The Artist and Me. Shane Peacock
  7. Brave Enough for Two. Jonathon D. Voss
  8. Sister Anne’s Hands. Marybeth Lorbiecki
  9. Gilgamesh The King. Ludmilla Zeman

​October - Self-Control, Patience
  1. Lilly’s Plastic Purse. Kevin Hankes
  2. My Mouth Is a Volcano. Julia Cook
  3. Knots on a Counting Rope. Bill Martin
  4. Silent Lotus. Jeanne Lee​
  5. Dear Benjamin Banneker. Andrea Pinkney
  6. The Boy Who Held Back the Sea. Lenny Hort
  7. Anna and Solomon. Elaine Snyder
  8.  The Tortoise and the Hare. Jerry Pinkney
November - Wonder
  1. In November. Cynthia Rylant
  2. Owl Moon. Jane Yolen
  3. Butterfly House.  Eve Bunting
  4. The Little Island. Margaret Wise Brown
  5. Midnight in the Mountains.  Julie Lawson
  6. Walking with Henry. Thomas Locker
  7. I am the Rain. John Paterson
  8. Grand Canyon. Jason Chin​​
  9. Heartland. Diane Siebert
December - Charity
  1. The Magic Paintbrush. Julia Donaldson
  2. Night Tree. Eve Bunting​
  3. A Chair for My Mother. Vera B. Williams
  4. The Chanukkah Guest. Eric A. Kimmel​
  5. Share Some Kindness, Bring Some Light. Apryl Stott
  6. An Orange For Frankie. Patricia Polacco
  7. The Giving Tree. Shel Silverstein
  8. Papa Panov’s Special Day. Leo Tolstoy
January - Courage
  1. Amazing Grace. Mary Hoffman
  2. Snowflake Bentley. Jacqueline Briggs Martin
  3. Togo. Robert J. Blake
  4. Nian: The Chinese New Year Dragon. Virginia Loh-Hagen
  5. Away With Words. Lori Mortensen
  6. Moses. Margaret Hodges
  7. Captain John Smith’s Big and Beautiful Bay. Rebecca Jones
  8. Perseus. Warwick Hutton
  9. Mirette on the High Wire. Emily Arnold McCully
  10. Florence Nightingale. Demi
  11. Nelson Mandela. Karima Grant
February - Love of Country
  1. Francis Scott Key and the Star-Spangled Banner. Lynea Bowdish
  2. A Very Important Day. Maggie Rugg Herold
  3. Blue Sky, White Stars. Sarvinder Naberhaus​
  4. Saving Lady Liberty. Claudia Friddel
  5. The Biggest and Best Flag that Ever Flew. Rebecca Jones
  6. America The Beautiful. Katherine Lee Bates
  7. Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11. Brian Floca
  8. Leave it to Abigail. Barbara Rosenstock
  9. Founding Mothers. Cokie Roberts
  10. Ladies of Liberty. Cokie Roberts
March - Faithfulness
  1. Hachiko. Pamela Turner
  2. The Velveteen Rabbit. Marjorie Williams
  3. Anna The Bookbinder. Andrea Cheng
  4. Beauty and the Beast. Cynthia Rylant​
  5. Now One Foot, Now the Other. Tomie DePaola
  6. Dogger. Shirley Hughes
  7. The Keeping Quilt. Patricia Polacco
  8. Puss in Boots. Jerry Pinkney​
  9. Leah's Pony. Elizabeth Friedrich
April - Graciousness and Courtesy
  1. The Cat Who Came for Tacos. Diane Helmer
  2. Rules of the Wild: An Unruly Book of Manners. Bridget Levin
  3. Everyday Graces. Karen Santorum
  4. Being Frank. Donna W Earnhardt
  5. Please Please the Bees. Gerald Kelley
  6. Do Unto Otters.  Laurie Keller
  7. Hello Neighbor. Matthew Cordell
  8. Madeline Says Merci. John Bemelmans Marciano
  9. Interrupting Chicken. David Ezra Stein 
  10. Grandfather Gandhi. Arun Gandhi and Bethany Hegedus
May - Imagination
  1. The Raft. Jim LaMarche
  2. Write On, Irving Berlin! Leslie Kimmelman
  3. One Giant Leap. Robert Burleigh
  4. Antsy Ansel. Cindy Jenson-Elliot​
  5. Emily. Michael Bedard​
  6. My Name is Georgia. Jeanette Winter
  7. The Crayon Man. Natasha Biebow
  8. The Spacesuit. Alison Donald & Ariel Landy
  9. ​The Doctor with an Eye for Eyes. Julia Finley Mosca
June - Lives To Learn From
  1. Mary Cassatt: Extraordinary Impressionist Painter. Barbara Herkert
  2. Six Dots. Jen Bryant
  3. Salt in his Shoes. Deloris Jordan​
  4. When Marian Sang. Pam Munoz Ryan
  5. A Boy Named Giotto. Paolo Guarnieri
  6. A Blue Butterfly: A Story about Claude Monet. Bijou LeTord
  7. Beatrix Potter, Scientist. Lindsay H. Metcalf
  8. The Noisy Paint Box. Barb Rosenstock
  9. Yogi:The Life, Loves and Language of the Baseball Legend Yogi Berra. Barb Rosenstock


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​Suggested Book List - Year 2 - Grades 4-6

September- Respect, Responsibility, Friendship
  1. Worst of Friends. Suzanne Tripp Jurmain
  2. Minnow and Rose. Judy Young
  3. One Green Apple. Eve Bunting
  4. The Other Side. Jacqueline Woodson
  5. A Sack Full of Feathers. Debby Waldman
  6. Friend on Freedom River. Gloria Whelan
  7. Goliath. Claudia Friddell
  8. Diva and Flea. Mo Willems
  9. The Artist and Me. Shane Peacock
October - Self Control, Patience
  1. The Children’s Book of Virtue – The King and his Hawk. William Bennett
  2. Robinson Crusoe. James Baldwin (218 pgs- 3 sessions)
  3. The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane. Russell Freedman 144 pgs (5 sessions)
  4. Smudge and the Book of Mistakes. Gloria Whelan
  5. Rushmore. Lynn Curlee
  6. A Voice of Her Own. Kathryn Lasky
November - Wonder
  1. In Blue Mountains. Thomas Locker
  2. John Muir, America’s Naturalist. Thomas Locker
  3. Cool Melons – Turn to Frogs. Matthew Gollub
  4. The Librarian Who Measured the Earth. Kathryn Lasky
  5. Song of Hiawatha. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  6. The Floating House. Scott Russell Sanders
  7. One Beetle Too Many. Katherine Lasky
December - Charity
  1. A Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens
  2. Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen. Dyanne Disalvo-Ryan
  3. The Little Match Girl. Hans Christian Anderson
  4. Sam and the Lucky Money. Karen Chinn
  5. Cornelius and the Dog Star. Diana Spyropulos​
  6. The Selfish Giant. Oscar Wilde
January - Courage
  1. Tutti’s Promise. K. Heidi Fishman
  2. Black Ships Before Troy. Rosemary Sutcliff
  3. The Wanderings of Odysseus. Rosemary Sutcliff
  4. The Greatest Skating Race. Louise Borden
  5. Friend on Freedom River. Gloria Whelan
  6. The Bravest Man in the World. Patricia Polacco
  7. It Can’t Be Done Nellie Bly. Nancy Butcher
  8. The Hero Beowulf. Eric Kimmel
  9. Walking the Road to Freedom. Jeri Ferris
  10. The Kitchen Knight. Margaret Hodges
  11. The Race of the Birkenbeiners. Lise Lunge-Larsen
  12. Tea with Milk. Allen Say
February - Love of Country
  1. My Country Tis of Thee. Claire Randolf Murphy
  2. Emma’s Poem. Linda Glaser
  3. Paul Revere’s Ride The Landlord’s Tale. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  4. Picturing America. Hudson Talbot
  5. Grace Banker and the Hello Girls Answer the Call. Claudia Fridell 
  6. Her Right Foot. David Eggers
  7. Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History. Walter Dean Mayers
  8. Purple Mountains Majesty. Barbara Younger
  9. Lady Liberty: A Biography. Doreen Rappaport
  10. By the Dawn’s Early Light. Steven Kroll
  11. We the People. Lynne Cheney
March - Faithfulness
  1. G. I. Dogs,Judy: Prisoner of War. Laurie Calkhoven
  2. Hachiko Waits. Leslea Newman
  3. My Heart Glow. Emily Arnold McCully
  4. The Wild Swans. Hans Christian Anderson
  5. Annie and Helen. Deborah Hopkinson
  6. Finn Maccoul – Favorite Medieval Tales. Mary Pope Osbourne
  7. The Little Prince. Antoine Saint-Exupery
  8. Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express. Margaret Wetterer
  9. Rikki Tikki Tavi. Rudyard Kipling
April - Graciousness and Courtesy
  1. “Aung San Suu Kyi in Character is Destiny. John McCain
May - Imagination

  1. The Book Itch. Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
  2. The Lady with the Books. Kathy Stinson
  3. Frindle. Andrew Clements (105 pgs)
  4. Ada Byron Lovelace. Laurie Wallmart
  5. A Wrinkle in Time. Madeline L’Engle
  6. The World is Not a Rectangle. Jeanette Winter
  7. Nothing Stopped Sophie. Cheryl Bardoe
  8. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies. Joyce Sidman
June - Lives To Learn From
  1. Willa. The Story of Willa Cather. Amy Ehrlich
  2. Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto. Susan Goldman Rubin
  3. Young Teddy Roosevelt. Cheryl Harness
  4. You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?. Jean Fritz
  5. Monument Maker: Daniel Chester French and the Lincoln Memorial.* Linda Booth Sweeney.
  6. Helen’s Big World. Doreen Rappaport
  7. Galileo. Leonard Everett Fisher
  8. Eliza: The Story of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton. Margaret McNamara
  9. Thurgood. Jonah Winter

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