Recommended Reading from Just Read, Florida!

Commissioner Blomberg announces the K-12 Summer Recommended Reading List which parents and educators can use to encourage students to continue reading during the summer months.  There are a variety of interesting titles available to spark the interest, imagination and most of all the love of reading for children of all ages.

Elementary School (K-2)

• Chicka, Chicka 1, 2, 3, Bill Martin Jr.
• ABC Safari,  Karen Lee
• "Slowly, Slowly, Slowly," said the Sloth, Eric Carle
• Turtle Summer,  Mary Alice Monroe
• Hilda Must Be Dancing, Karma Wilson
• The Dot, Peter H. Reynolds
• Hot City, Barbara Joosse
• The Rainforest Grew All Around, Susan Mitchell
• Ocean Seasons, Ron Hirschi
• Beverly Billingsly Can’t Catch, Alexander Stadler
• Where the Wild Things Are, Marice Sendak
• One Odd Day,  Doris Fisher
• Leaf Jumpers, Carole Gerber
• Buster, Denise Fleming
• Actual Size, Steve Jenkins
• Daddy & I, Elosie Greenfield
• No, David!, David Shannon
• A Day in the Life of Murphy, Alice Provensen
• My Name is Yoon, Helen Recorvits
• The Giraffe Who Was Afraid of Heights,  David A. Ufer
• Diary of a Worm, Doreen Cronin
• The Everything Book, Denise Fleming
• Silly Little Goose, Nancy Tafuri
• The Mitten, Jan Brett
• Wemberly Worried, Kevin Henkes
• Aunt Flossie’s Hats, Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
• Miss Nelson Is Missing!, Harry Allard
• Stellaluna, Janell Cannon
• Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, William Steig
• Blueberries for Sal, Robert McCloskey

Elementary School (3-5)

• Gooney Bird Greene, Lois Lowry
• Riddle-iculous Math, Joan Holub
• The Pot that Juan Built, Nancy Andrews- Goebel
• Because of Winn Dixie, Kate DiCamillo
• The Courage of Sarah Noble, Alice Dalgliesh
• Crossing Jordan, Adrian Fogelin
• Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Judy Blume
• Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan
• Ramona Quimby, Age 8,Beverly Cleary
• A New Coat for Anna, Harriet Ziefert
• Farmer Boy, Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Life Under Ice, Mary M. Cerullo
• Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis
• Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O’Dell
• Shiloh, Phyllis Naylor
• James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl

Middle School

• The Trumpet of the Swan, E.B. White
• Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
• Old Yeller, Fred Gipson
• Hoot, Carl Hiaasen
• Bridge of Terabithia , Katherine Paterson
• Esperanza Rising, Pam Munoz Ryan
• Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli
• Hattie, Big Sky, Kirby Larson
• Exploits of a Reluctant (But Extremely Good Looking) Hero, Maureen Fergus
• The Young Man and the Sea, Rodman Philbrick
• Inkspell, Cornelia Funke
• Backstage Pass, Gaby Triana
• Peter and the Starcatchers, Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
• Artemis Fowl: the Arctic Incident, Eoin Colfer
• Artemis Fowl:  the Eternity Code, Eoin Colfer
• Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Avi
• True Talents, David Lubar
• Tomboy of the Air: Daredevil Pilot Blanche Stuart Scott, Julie Cummins
• Ben Franklin’s Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman’s Life,   Candace Fleming
• Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois, Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan
• Bulls-eye: A Photobiography of Annie Oakley, Sue Macy
• The Wright Sister: Katharine Wright and Her Famous Brothers, Richard Maurer
• Carver, a Life in Poems, Marilyn Nelson
• An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever, Epidemic of 1793, Jim Murphy
• Magnificent Voyage: An American Adventurer on Captain James Cook’s Final Expedition, Laurie Lawlor
• The Road to There: Mapmakers and Their Stories, Val Ross
• The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins, Bea Uusma Schyffert

High School

• The Real Question,Adrian Fogelin
• The Fire and the Light, Tracy A. Akers
• The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise, Michael Grunwald
• Solomon, Marilyn B. Shaw
• Losing It All to Sprawl, Bill Belleville
• The Yearling, Marjorie K. Rawlings
• Forged by Fire, Sharon M. Draper
• We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success, Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt, and Sharon Draper
• The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
• Money Hungry, Sharon Flake
• Prom, Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
• The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
• The Old Man and the Sea,Ernest Hemingway
• Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft,Thor Heyerdahl
• Monster, Walter Dean Myers

You may also find more selections for High School readers at the For Teens, by Teens recommended reading.