Union Summer Reading List 

Level E ● Cinderella Dressed In Yellow- Williams, Rozanne   ● The Big Hungry Bear-Williams, Rozanne   

● Five Little Monkeys Jumping On The Bed-Christelow, Eileen  

● Feast For Ten-Falwell, Cathryn 

● Morris the Moose series-Bernard Wiseman  ● My New School-Hall, Kirsten 

● By Myself Or With My Friends-Jordano, Kimberly  ● Where Is My Home?-Nelson, Robin 

● Baby Pandas by Bethany Olson  ● Puppy Mudge Finds a Friend by Cynthia Rylant 

● Flying High by Nick Eliopulos  ● Go, Dog. Go! by P.D. Eastman  

● Construction Kitties by Judy Sue Goodwin-Sturges  ● Ballet Stars by Joan Holub 

Level F and G 

● Biscuit series- Rylant  ● Are You Ready to Play Outside?-Willems  

● Can I Play Too? -Willems  ● Before and After by Joy Frisch-Schmoll  

● Mittens at School by Lola M. Schaefer  ● I Like Bugs by Margaret Wise Brown 

● Too Many Dogs by Lori Haskins   ● Money, Money Honey Bunny! by Marilyn Sadler 

● I Love Rocks by Cari Meister  ● Honey Helps by Laura Godwin 

● Pig Has a Plan by Ethan Long   ● How Many Fish? by Caron Lee Cohen 

● Snowball Soup by Mercer Mayer  ● Messy Bessey's Garden by Pat McKissack 

● Fire Trucks and Rescue Vehicles by Jean Coppendale 

● The Cow in the House by Harriet Ziefert 

● Can I Play Too? by Mo Willems  ● Bill's Bike by Andy Blackford 

● Mice on Ice by Rebecca Emberley  ● Peanut and Pearl's Picnic Adventure by Rebecca Kai Dotlich 

● I Shop with My Daddy by Grace Maccarone (1.7)  ● Who Stole the Cookies? by Judith Moffatt   

● Elephants Cannot Dance! by Mo Willems  ● Loose Tooth by Lola M. Schaefer 

All levels are an approximation due to various leveling systems, but should be good independent reading books based on your child’s EOY reading level from mCLASS 

 

Union Summer Reading List 

Level H ● Aaaarrgghh, Spider! -Monks, Lydia  ● Captain Cat Series: I Can Read! Level 1-Hoff, 

Syd 

● Hoppy Birthday, Jo-Jo! Series-Goodhart, Pippa  ● The Real-Skin Rubber Monster Mask- Miriam Cohen 

● How Tiger Got His Stripes- Cleveland, Rob  ● My Friend Rabbit-Rohmann, Eric 

● Series: Elephant & Piggie-Willems, Mo  ● Series: Funny Bone Readers -Dinardo, Jeff 

● Super Fly Guy Series: Fly Guy--Arnold, Tedd  ● Carl And The Puppies Series: My Readers: Level 1-Day, Alexandra 

● Series: Danny And The Dinosaur- I Can Read- Hoff, Syd 

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● A Snack For Cat-Williams, Rozanne L  ● Series: Read It! Readers: The Life Of Max-Klein, Adria F.  

● Woolly Mammoth- Helen Frost  ● The Golly Sisters Go West- Betsy Byars 

● Put Me in the Zoo- Robert Lopshire  ● The Story about Ping- Marjorie Flack 

Level I 

● Little Beauty- Browne, Anthony  ● Messy Bessey Series: Rookie Readers - Level C- McKissack, Patricia and Fredrick 

● Series: Graphic Sparks -Hoena, Blake A.  ● Series: Penguin Young Readers Level 2-Maitland, Barbara 

● Dragon Gets By Series: Dragon Tales-Pilkey, Dav  ● Ora, The Sea Monster Series: Stone Arch Readers: Monster Friends- Meister, Cari 

● Wind Power Whiz Kid -Nickel, Scott  ● Dragon’s Fat Cat- Dav Pilkey 

● Hiccups for Elephant- James Preller  ● The New Kid- Larry Brimner 

● We Just Moved- Stephen Krensky  ● We Just Moved- Stephen Krensky  

● The Planets- Martha Rustad  ● Go away, Dog- Joan Nodset 

● It’s Not Easy Being a Bunny- Marilyn Sadler  ● Are You My Mother?- P.D. Eastman 

● Big Dog, Little Dog- P.D. Eastman  ● Hattie and the Fox- Mem Fox 

All levels are an approximation due to various leveling systems, but should be good independent/ read together books based on your child’s EOY reading level from mCLASS or level advised by teacher 

 

Union Summer Reading List 

Level J ● Charlie Needs a Cloak- Tomie dePaola  ● Series: Frog and Toad- Arnold Lobel 

● The Elephant and the Bad Baby- Elfrida Vipont  ● Froggy Learns to Swim-Jonathan London 

● The Great Snake Escape- Molly Coxe  ● Series :Henry and Mudge-Cynthia Rylant 

● Hop on Pop- Dr. Seuss  ● Little Bear series- Else Minarik 

● Morris and Boris at the Circus- Bernard Wiseman  ● The Mystery of the Missing Dog- Elizabeth Levy 

● The Snowy Day- Ezra Jack Keats  ● Tumbleweed Stew Series: Green Light Readers- Level 2 

● Zelda And Ivy The Runaways Series: Zelda & Ivy  ● Iris And Walter And The Field Trip Series: Iris And Walter - Green Light Reader 

● Series: Mr. Putter And Tabby -Rylant, Cynthia  ● Harry The Dirty Dog- Zion, Gene 

● Series: Fox - Marshall, James  ● The Stray Dog-Simont, Marc 

● Series: Poppleton  ● Sam and the Firefly by P.D. Eastman 

Level K 

● Sharks! Series: National Geographic Leveled  ● Deadliest Animals Series: National Geographic Leveled 

● Series: Mercy Watson- DiCamillo, Kate  ● Series: Houndsley And Catina- Howe, James 

● Series: Katie Woo- Manushkin, Fran  ● Series: Nate The Great -Sharmat, Marjorie W. 

● Bunny Cakes- Wells, Rosemary  ● The Paper Bag Princess- Munsch, Robert 

● Corduroy- Freeman, Don  ● Series Poppleton: Rylant 

● Series: Young Cam Jansen- Adler, David A.  ● Series: Andy Shane- Jacobson, Jennifer 

● High-Rise Private Eyes-Rylant, Cynthia  ● Sheila Rae, The Brave- Henkes, Kevin 

● Bat Bones and Spider Stew-Michelle Poploff  ● Series: Zelda and Ivy-Kvasnosky 

● Bootsie Barker Ballerina-Barbara Bottner  ● The Popcorn Book-Tomie dePaola 

All levels are an approximation due to various leveling systems, but should be good independent/ read together books based on your child’s EOY reading level from mCLASS or 

level advised by teacher      

Union Summer Reading List 

Level L ● Series: George and Martha- James Marshall  ● Series: Pinky and Rex-James Howe 

● Miss Nelson Is Missing-Harry Allard  ● Series: Horrible Harry-Suzy Kline 

● Series: Polk Street Kids-Giff  ● Series: Pee Wee Scouts- Delton 

● Series: Weird School-Gutman  ● Series: Stink-McDonald 

● The Josefina Story Quilt- Eleanor Coerr  ● Mermaid Island- Margaret Frith 

● The Best Worst Day- Bonnie Graves  ● Science – Just Add Salt- Sandra Markle 

● The Dog that Stole Home- Matt Christopher  ● Storms-Seymour Simon 

● Series: Amelia Bedelia-Peggy Parish  ● The Three Blind Mice Mystery- Stephen Krensky 

● Series: Cam Jansen-David Adler   ● The True Story of Balto- Natalie Standiford 

● Tales of Amanda Pig- Jean Van Leeuwen  ● Rescue Helicopters-Rebecca Olien 

Level M 

● Series: Judy Moody-Megan McDonald  ● Series: My Father’s Dragon-Gannett 

● Series: Polk Street School- Giff  ● Series: Katie Kazoo- Krulik 

● Series: Magic Tree House-Osborne  ● Series: Junie B. Jones- Park 

● Series Marvin Redpost-Sachar  ● Series: Ivy + Bean-Barrows 

● Series Bailey School Kids-Dadey and Jones  ● Series: The Zack Files-Greenburg 

● Blue Ribbon Blues-Jerry Spinelli  ● Chicken Sunday-Patricia Polacco 

● Too Many Tamales-Gary Soto  ● Freckle Juice-Judy Blume 

● Frogs: Leaping Amphibians-Lola Schaefer  ● Screech!: A Book About Bats-Melvin A. Berger 

● Series: Flat Stanley-Jeff Brown  ● The Slime Wars-Debbie Dadey 

● Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse-Kevin Henkes   ● Russell Sprouts-Johanna Hurwitz 

● Niño Wrestles the World-Yuyi Morales  ● Commotion in the Ocean-Giles Andreae 

All levels are an approximation due to various leveling systems, but should be good independent/ read together books based on your child’s EOY reading level from mCLASS or level advised by teacher. 

Please pre read any books before allowing your child to read content.     

Union Summer Reading List 

Level N ● Series: A-Z Mystery-Roy  ● Series: Nancy Drew- Keene 

● Series: Amber Brown-Danziger  ● Series: Catwings-LeGuin 

● Series: Ruby Lu-Look  ● Series: Geronimo Stilton 

● The Case of Hermie the Missing Hamster-James Preller 

● The Enormous Crocodile- Roald Dahl 

● Experiment with Water- Bryan Murphy  ● Series: Flat Stanley- Jeff Brown 

● The Flunking of Joshua T. Bates-Susan Shreve  ● Lili the Brave-Jennifer Armstrong 

● Series: Julian-Ann Cameron  ● Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears-Aardema 

● Stellaluna-Janell Cannon  ● The Chocolate Touch-Patrick Skene Catling 

● Daisy Dawson and the Secret Pond-Steve Voake  ● The Pain and the Great One- Beverly Cleary 

● Series: Herby Jones-Suzy Kline  ● Comeback of the Home Run Kid- Christopher 

Level O ● Series: Babysitters Club-Martin  ● Series: Boxcar Children- Warner 

● Series: Clementine-Pennypacker  ● Series: Bunnicula-Howe 

● Series: Jake Drake-Clements  ● Series: Secrets of Droon-Abbott 

● Owl Moon- Yolen   ● Series: Pippi Longstocking-Astrid Lindgren 

● Ramona Quimby, Age 8- Beverly Cleary   ● Beezus and Ramona- Beverly Cleary 

● Series: Dragon Slayers Academy-Kate McMullan  ● Series: Clue Jr.- Parker C. Hinter 

● Chocolate Fever-Robert Kimmel Smith  ● Class Clown-Johanna Hurwitz 

● Mr. Popper’s Penguins-Atwater  ● Series: Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle-Betty MacDonald 

● Series: Wayside School-Louis Sachar  ● The Story of Ruby Bridges-Robert Coles 

● Ten True Animal Rescues-Jeanne Betancourt  ● The Not-Just-Anybody Family-Betsy Byars 

● The Whipping Boy-Sid Fleischman  ● A Mouse Called Wolf- Dick King-Smith 

All levels are an approximation due to various leveling systems, but should be good independent/ read together books based on your child’s EOY reading level from mCLASS or level advised by teacher. 

Please pre read any books before allowing your child to read content.      

  

Union Summer Reading List 

Level P ● Series: Adventures of Captain Underpants- Pilkey  ● Series: Bad Kitty-Bruel 

● Series: Time Warp Trio-Scieszka  ● Wayside School-Louis Sachar 

● The Best School Year Ever-Barbara Robinson  ● Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing-Judy Blume 

● Fantastic Mr. Fox- Roald Dahl  ● Series: The Magic School Bus 

● Series: The Worst Witch-Jill Murphy  ● Amazing but True Sports Stories-Hollander 

● Ellen Tebbits-Beverly Cleary  ● If You Grew Up with Abraham Lincoln-McGovern 

● Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices- Fleischman  ● Stone Fox-John R. Gardiner 

● Tar Beach-Faith Ringgold  ● Tornadoes!-Lorraine Hopping 

● Who Stole The Wizard of Oz?- Avi  ● Series: Dragon Slayers Academy-Kate McMullan 

● Hot Fudge Hero-Pat Brisson  ● The Nina, the Pinta, and the Vanishing Treasure-Jill Santopolo 

Level Q 

● Series: If you live/traveled… series (Scholastic)  ● Series: Animal Ark-Baglio 

● Series: Chronicles-DiTerlizzi  ● Series: Chet Gecko, Private Eye- Hale 

● Series: Amulet-Kibuishi  ● Series: Adventures of Captain Underpants- Pilkey 

● Series: Dragonquest-Koller  ● Series: Island trilogy- Korman 

● Series: Alvin Ho-Look  ● Series: Dragon Slayers Academy-Kate McMullan 

● James and the Giant Peach-Dahl  ● Series: I Survived … - Tarshis 

● Series: Goosebumps-Stine Please be cautious of age  ● The Dumb Bunnies-Pilkey 

● Punished!-David Lubar  ● Charlotte’s Web-E.B. White 

● Class Trip to the Cave of Doom-Kate McMullan  ● James and the Giant Peach- Roald Dahl 

● Superfudge -Judy Blume  ● The Miraculous Journey - Edward Tulane 

All levels are an approximation due to various leveling systems, but should be good independent/ read together books based on your child’s EOY reading level from mCLASS or level advised by teacher. 

Please pre read any books before allowing your child to read content.   

 

Union Summer Reading List 

Level R ● The Miraculous Journey - Edward Tulane  ● Series: You Wouldn’t Want … (R+)-various 

● Series: Who was … (famous person)- various  ● Series: Magic Shop- Coville 

● Series: Kidnapped-Korman  ● Series: Shiloh trilogy- Naylor 

● Series: Hatchet-Paulsen  ● Series: Big Nate-Peirce 

● The Bully of Barkham Street-Mary Stolz  ● Charlie and the Chocolate Factory- Roald Dahl 

● A Dog Called Kitty-Bill Wallace  ● Series: Goosebumps-Stine Please be cautious of age 

● Freedom Crossing-Margaret Clark  ● Frindle- Andrew Clements 

● The Great Kapok Tree-Lynne Cherry  ● How to Eat Fried Worms-Thomas Rockwell 

● Because of Winn-Dixie-Kate DiCamillo   ● Stuart Little- EB White 

● Series: Sarah Plain and Tall-Stewart  ● Rules- Cynthia Lord 

Level S 

● From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler-E.L. Konigsburg 

● In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Betty B. Lord 

● Series:A Day in the Life of … (history) - Branse  ● Series: My Teacher-Coville 

● Series: Emily Windsnap-Kessler  ● Series: The Doll People-Martin 

● Series: The Borrowers- Norton   ● The Great Gilly Hopkins- Katherine Paterson 

● My Teacher Is an Alien- Bruce Coville  ● Matilda- Roald Dahl 

● Poppy-Avi  ● Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt-Hopkinson 

● The Van Gogh Café- Cynthia Rylant  ● The One and Only Ivan-Katherine Applegate 

● The Strange Case of Origami Yoda-Angleberger 

● Granny Torrelli Makes Soup-Sharon Creech 

● Flying Solo- Ralph Fletcher  ● Series of Unfortunate Events- Snicket 

● The War with Grandpa- Robert K. Smith  ● The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane- Kate DiCamillo 

All levels are an approximation due to various leveling systems, but should be good independent/ read together books based on your child’s EOY reading level from mCLASS or level advised by teacher. 

Please pre read any books before allowing your child to read content.   

  

Union Summer Reading List 

Level T ● Series: Dear America-various  ● Series: Ink trilogy- Funk 

● Series: Joey Pigza-Gantos  ● Series: Julie of the Wolves-George 

● Series: Princess Academy-Hale  ● Series: Diary of a Wimpy Kid- Kinney 

● Series: Chronicles of Narnia-Lewis  ● Series: Charlie Bone-Nimmo 

● Series: Storm Runners-Smith  ● Series: Molly Moon-Byng 

● The Horse and His Boy-C.S. Lewis  ● Harriet the Spy- Louise Fitzhugh 

● Blubber-Judy Blume  ● Bud, Not Buddy-Christopher Paul Curtis 

● Sounder-William Armstrong  ● The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis 

● Series: Percy Jackson & the Olympians-Riordan  ● Lost Star-Patricia Lauber 

● Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key-Jack Gantos  ● The Black Stallion-Walter Farley 

Level U 

● Series: 39 Clues -various authors  ● Series: Percy Jackson & the Olympians-Riordan 

● Series: Dear America-various  ● Series: Diary of a Wimpy Kid- Kinney 

● Series: Poison Apple-various authors  ● Series: Princess Diaries-Cabot 

● Series: Julie of the Wolves-George  ● Series: Warriors- Hunter 

● Series: Alice-Naylor  ● The BFG- Roald Dahl 

● Crash-Jerry Spinelli  ● The Door in the Wall-Marguerite De Angeli 

● Number the Stars-Lois Lowry  ● The Secret Garden-Frances Hodgson Burnett 

● Stay! Keeper’s Story- Lois Lowry  ● Ella Enchanted-Gail Carson Levine 

● Wringer- Jerry Spinelli  ● Tuck Everlasting-Natalie Babbitt 

● The Tale of Despereaux-Kate DiCamillo  ● The View from Saturday-E.L. Konigsburg 

All levels are an approximation due to various leveling systems, but should be good independent/ read together books based on your child’s EOY reading level from mCLASS or level advised by teacher. 

Please pre read any books before allowing your child to read content.    

  

Union Summer Reading List 

Level V ● Series: Falcondance- Atwater  ● Series: Chronicles of Vladimir Tod-Brewer 

● Series: Dragon Rider-Funke  ● Series: Gregor the Overlander-Collins  

● Series: Inkheart- Funke  ● Series: Guardians of Ga’Hoole-Lasky 

● Series: Circle of Magic- Pierce  ● Series of Unfortunate Events Series-Snicket 

● Series: Percy Jackson & the Olympians-Riordan  ● Series: Diary of a Wimpy Kid- Kinney 

● Anne of Green Gables-L.M. Montgomery  ● The Cay-Theodore Taylor 

● Series: Harry Potter (1-3)- Rowling  ● Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH- Robert O’Brien 

● A Wrinkle in Time-Madeleine L’Engle  ● Maniac Magee- Jerry Spinelli 

● Holes-Louis Sachar  ● Series: Origami Yoda-Tom Angleberger 

● Hoot: Hiaasen  ● Esperanza Rising-Pam Muñoz Ryan 

Level W 

● Series: Who is Carrie?-Collier  ● Series: The League-Kenyon (YA) 

● Series: Seventh Tower-Nix  ● Series: Land of Promise-Nixon 

● The City of Ember-Jeanne DuPrau  ● Coraline- Neil Gaiman 

● Crispin-Avi  ● Missing May- Cynthia Rylant 

● The Phantom Tollbooth -Norton Juster  ● Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry- Mildred Taylor 

● Series: Coal Haubor-Polly Horvath  ● Series: Star Girl- Jerry Spinelli 

● Series: Secret-Pseudonymous Bosch  ● A Dog's Purpose- W. Bruce Cameron 

● Series: Gaither Sisters- Rita Williams-Garcia  ● Series: Mr. Lemoncello's Library-Chris Grabenstein 

● Series: Watchers-Peter Lerangis  ● Bella at Midnight-Diane Stanley 

● Jip: His Story-Katherine Paterson  ● Ungifted-Gordon Korman 

All levels are an approximation due to various leveling systems, but should be good independent/ read together books based on your child’s EOY reading level from mCLASS or 

level advised by teacher. Please pre read any books before allowing your child to read content.