Prince George's County Public Schools

 The Prince George's County Public Memorial Library offers a wealth of  free resources for you and child.  Please take time to read with your child during the summer.  We would like to provide you with suggested titles:

 

Kindergarten List 
The Runaway Bunny, by Brown 
How To Be a Nature Detective,
by Selsam 
Sunflower House, by Bunting 
Do Like Kyla, by Johnson 
Fish Eyes: A Book You Can
Count On, by Ehlert 
The Very Busy Spider, by Carle 
Mouse Paint, by Walsh 
Corduroy, by Freeman 
Curious George Goes to School,
by Rey 
The Giving Tree, by Silverstein 
The Little Engine That Could,
by Piper 
The Three Little Pigs, by Galdone 
George and Martha One Fine Day,
by Marshall 
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf, by Ehlert 
Jamaica's Find, by Havill 
We Are Best Friends, by Aliki 
Fireflies For Nathan, by Oppenheim 
Make Way for Ducklings,
by McCloskey 
Same Goes Trucking, by Horenstain 
The Little Red Hen, by Galdone 
Thunder Cake, by Polacco 
 
First Grade List 
Amazing Grace, by Hoffman 
Berlioz the Bear, by Brett 
JoJo's Flying Side Kick,
by Pinkney 
A House for Hermit Crab, by Carle 
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Numeroff 
Johnny Appleseed, by Kellogg 
Tell Me a Story, Mama,
by Johnson 
Frog and Toad Are Friends,
by Lobel 
Ira Sleeps Over, by Waber 
Little Red Riding Hood, by Hyman 
Now One Foot, Now the Other, by DePaola 
Peter's Chair, by Keats 
Jamaica Tag-Along, by Havill 
Newt, by Novak 
Galimoto, by Williams 
Home in the Sky, by Baker 
How Many Stars in the Sky?
by Hort 
Beaver at Long Pond, by George 
The Paperboy, by Pilkey 
 
Second Grade List 
Owl Moon, by Yolen 
The Legend of the Bluebonnet,
by De Paola 
Mirandy and Brother Wind,
by McKissack 
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble,
by Steig 
Miss Nelson is Missing! by Marshall 
The Grouchy Ladybug, by Carle 
Aunt Flossie's Hat, by Howard 
Mike Mulligan and His Steam
Shovel, by Burton 
Meet Danitra Brown, by Grimes 
The Popcorn Book, by DePaola 
Kitten Training and Critters, Too,
by Peterson-Fleming 
Gregory Cool, by Binch 
Honey, I love and other Love
Poems, by Greenfield 
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters,
by Steptoe 
The Tenth Good Thing About
Barney, by Viorst 
 
Third Grade List 
Amelia Bedelia Series, by Paris 
Hosie's Alphabet, by Hosen,
Tobias and Baskin 
A Bear Called Paddington, by Bond 
The Courage of Sarah Noble, by Dalgliesh 
The Wheel on the School,
by De Jong 
Little House in the Big Woods,
by Wilder 
Encyclopedia Brown Series,
by Sobel 
Where the Sidewalk Ends,
by Silverstein 
Nate the Great Series, by Sharmat 
Look Who's Playing First Base,
by Christopher 
Willie Pearl, by Green 
Meet Addy, by Porter 
To Think I Saw It on Mulberry
Street, by Dr. Seuss 
East of the Sun and West of the
Moon, by Asbjornsen 
My Black Me: A Beginning Book
of Black Poetry, by Adoff 
The Wump World, by Peet 
Music, Music for Everyone,
by Williams 
Beacons of Light Lighthouses,
by Gibbons 
Jackpot of the Beagle Brigade,
by Epstein 
Very Last First Time, by Andrews 
Outside and Inside You,
by Dragonwagon 
And Ellis Island Christmas,
by Jacobs 
Aunt Harriet's Underground
Railroad in the Sky, by Ringgold 
Jumanji, by Van Allsburg 
The Magic School Bus Series,
by Cole 
 
Fourth Grade List 
Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing,
by Blume 
Dear Mr. Henshaw, by Cleary 
The Toothpaste Millionaire,
by Merrill 
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH,
by O'Brien 
The Not Just Anybody Family,
by Byars 
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,
by Robinson 
Sideways Stories from Wayside
School, by Sachar 
Getting Something on Maggie Marmelstein, by Sharmat 
Class Clown, by Hurwitz 
The Good Master, by Seredy 
Half Magic, by Eager 
Oh, Honestly Angela, by Robinson 
The Trumpet of the Swan, by White 
The Kid in the Red Jacket, by Park 
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, by
Hiller and Faucher 
Where the Red Fern Grows,
by Rawls 
Matilda, by Dahl 
The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by Konigsburg 
A Wrinkle in Time, by L'Engle 
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Series, by Wilder 
Superfudge, by Blume 
The Baby Sitters series, by Martin 
The Pushcart War, by Merrill 
New Kid on the Block, by Prelutsky 
Beetles, Lightly Toasted, by Naylor 
Black Beauty, by Sewell 
There's a Boy in the Girls'
Bathroom, by Sachar 
Mr. Popper's Penguins, by Atwater 
The Bad Times of Irma Baumlein,
by Brink 
Henry Huggins, by Cleary 
James and the Giant Peach, by Dahl 
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, by MacDonald 
Stuart Little, by White 
Pippi Longstocking, by Lindgren 
The Boxcar Children, by Warner 
The Chocolate Touch, by Catling 
Did You Carry the Flag Today,
Charley?, by Caudill 
Freckle Juice, by Blume 
Sarah, Plain and Tall, by MacLachlan 
 
Fifth Grade List 
The Hero and the Crown,
by McKinley 
Dear Mr. Henshaw, by Cleary 
Ben and Me, by Lawson 
Encyclopedia Brown Saves the
Day, by Sobol 
The Whipping Boy, by Fleischman 
The Egypt Game, by Snyder 
All Things Bright and Beautiful, by Herriot 
The Sign of the Beaver, by Speare 
A Light in the Attic, by Silverstein 
Koya Delaney and the Good Girl
Blues, by Greenfield 
Letter from Rifka, by Hesse 
Into the Mummy's Tomb, by Reeves 
Circle of Gold, by Boyd 
Yolanda's Genius, by Fenner 
Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus, by Fritz 
North Star to Freedom, by Gorrell 
The Orphan Train Quartet: A Family Apart, by Nixon 
The Pirate's Handbook, by Lincoln 
Dear Benjamin Banneker, by Pinkney 
The Hobbit, by Tolkein 
The Door in the Wall, by DeAngeli 
Miracle Worker, by Gibson 
The Indian in the Cupboard,
by Banks 
Caddie Woodlawn, by Brink 
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie 
Robinson, by Lord 
Maniac Magee, by Spinelli 
Journey to America, by Levitin 
 
Sixth Grade List 
Number the Stars, by Lowry 
Sixth-Grade Sleepover, by Bunting 
Under the Blood Red Sun,
by Salisbury 
Secret of Gumbo Grove, by Tate 
To Space and Back, by Ride and Okie 
Red Tail Angels: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II,
by McKissack 
Call if Courage, by Armstrong 
Stepping On the Cracks, by Hahn 
Jayhawker, by Beatty 
Island of the Blue Dolphins,
by O'Dell 
Dicey's Song, by Voight 
Call of the Wild, by Long 
Robinson Crusoe, by Defoe 
Treasure Island, by Stevenson 
Abel's Island, by Steig 
The Chronicles of Narnia, by Lewis 
The Secret Garden, by Burnett 
Tuck Everlasting, by Babbitt 
Lord of the Rings Trilogy,
by Tolkein 
Ann of Green Gables Series, by Montgomery 
The Yearling, by Rawlings 
The Great Gilly Hopkins, by Paterson 
Old Yeller, by Gibson 
Across Five Aprils, by Hunt 
Lassie Come Home, by Knight