VCCB: RF Book Lists 2006 - 2nd Grade
Encouraging more independent reading. Read-alouds are still imperative: Sense of story and sequence; aid in comprehension; Book language; support Vocabulary development.
John, Paul, George and Ben written and illustrated by Lane Smith (Hyperion)
Dogzilla (Harcourt) and Dog Breath: The Horrible Trouble with Hally Tosis (Scholastic) written and illustrated by Dav Pilkey
Henry and the Kite Dragon by Bruce Edward Hall, illustrated by William Low (Penguin)
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs and The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Lane Smith (Viking)
My Father the Dog by Elizabeth Bluemle, illustrated by Randy Cecil (Candlewick)
Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School written and illustrated by Mark Teague (Scholastic)
The Pot That Juan Built by Nancy Andrews-Goebel, illustrated by David Diaz (Lee & Low)
Are We There Yet?: A Journey Around Australia by Alison Lester (Kane/Miller)
Boxes for Katje by Candace Fleming, illustrated by Stacy Dressen-McQueen (Farrar Straus & Giroux)
Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles, illustrated by Jerome LaGarrigue (Simon & Schuster)
Encounter by Jane Yolen, illustrated by David Shannon (Harcourt)
Elizabeti's Doll by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen, illustrated by Christy Hale (Lee & Low)
Beach is to Fun: a Book of Relationships by Pat Brisson, illustrated by Sachiko Yoshikawa (Henry Holt)
Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth by Alison McGhee, illustrated by Harry Bliss (Harcourt)
Straight to the Pole written and illustrated by Kevin O'Malley (Walker)
Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude written and illustrated by Kevin O"É1;Malley, Carol Heyer, and Scott Goto (Walker)
Non-fiction/Informational
O is for Old Dominion: A Virginia Alphabet by Pamela Duncan Edwards, illustrated by Troy Howell (Sleeping Bear Press)
Guts and Spiders (both HarperCollins) and just about anything else Seymour Simon writes!
Surprising Sharks by Nicola Davies, illustrated by James Croft (Candlewick)
Harvesting Hope: the Story of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Yuyi Morales (Harcourt)
Rosa by Nikki Giovanni, illustrated by Bryan Collier (Henry Holt)
Togo written and illustrated by Robert J. Blake (Penguin)
The Woods Scientist by Stephen Swinburne, photographs by Susan C. Morse (Houghton Mifflin Co.) and other titles in the ÒScientistÓ series.
Poetry
Jump Back Honey by Paul Laurence Dunbar, illustrated by various artists including Ashley Bryant, Carole Byard, Jerry Pinkney, Brian Pinkney, and Faith Ringgold (Hyperion)
Big, Bad and a Little Bit Scary: Poems that Bite Back compiled and illustrated by Wade Zahares (Viking)
Monster Goose by Judy Sierra, illustrated by Jack E. Davis (Harcourt)
In the Swim written and illustrated by Douglas Florian (Harcourt)
Science Verse by Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Lane Smith (Viking)
Chapter books/Transitional Novels
Big Surprise in the Bug Tank by Ruth Horowitz, illustrated by Joan Holub (Dial)
Marvin One Too Many by Katherine Paterson, illustrated byJane Clark Brown (HarperCollins)
See You Later, Gladiator by Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Adam McCauley (Viking)
Shredderman: Secret Identity by Wendelin Van Draanen, illustrated by Brian Biggs (Knopf)
Babymouse: Queen of the World (graphic novel) by Jennifer L. Holm, illustrated by Matthew Holm (Random House)
Novels (good for read-alouds)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and other titles by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Quentin Blake (Penguin)
Frindle and other school stories by Andrew Clements, illustrated by Brian Selznick (Simon & Schuster)
The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson (Penguin)
The Scarecrow and His Servant by Philip Pullman (Random House)
The Big House by Carolyn Coman (Boyds Mill Press)
Time Stops for No Mouse, Time Stops for No Mouse, and the Sands of Time by Michael Hoeye (Penguin)
Midnight for Charlie Bone series by Jenny Nimmo (Scholastic)
Smart Dog by Vivian Vande Velde (Harcourt)