Fizz Boom READ! 2014 Summer Reading Program Recommended Reading List

Picture Books

Chris van Allsburg – Zathura: a Space Adventure

Linda Ashman – Castles, Caves, and Honeycombs

Jennifer Berne – On a Beam of Light: a Story of Albert

Einstein

Eric Carle – The Tiny Seed

Eric Carle – The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Matthew Cordell – Hello! Hello!

Nicola Davies – Extreme Animals:

the Toughest Creatures on Earth

Kelly DiPucchio – Clink

Ame Dyckman – Boy + Bot

Lois Ehlert – Leaf Man

Lindsay Barrett George – In the Garden: Who’s Been

Here?

Brenda Z. Guiberson – Into the Sea

Tad Hills – How Rocket Learned to Read

Anne F. Rockwell – Growing Like Me

Margriet Ruurs – In My Backyard

Dr. Seuss – Bartholomew and the Oobleck

Susan Shea – Do You Know Which Ones Will

Grow?

Judy Sierra – The Secret Science Project That

Almost Ate the School

Grades 3-8

David A. Adler – Cam Jansen and the

Mystery of the UFO

M.T. Anderson – Whales on Stilts

Jim Benton – Franny K. Stein Series

Pseudonymous Bosch – The Name of

This Book is Secret

Frank Cattrell Boyce - Cosmic

Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton -

Aliens Don’t Wear Braces!

Kate DiCamillo – Flora and Ulysses

Kate DiCamillo – The Magician’s Elephant

Helen Fox – Eager

Alison Goodman – Singing the Dogstar Blues

Peni R. Griffin – 11,000 Years Lost

Dan Gutman – The Homework Machine

Margaret Peterson Haddix – Among the Hidden

Ben Hatke – Zita the SpaceGirl

Lucy Hawking – George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt

Norton Juster – The Phantom

Tollbooth

David Klass – Stuck on Earth

Ingrid Law - Savvy

Lois Lowry – The Giver

Kathy Mackel – Can of Worms

Linda Sue Park – Archer’s Quest

Adam Rex – The True Meaning of

Smekday

Martha Weston – Space Guys!

Non-Fiction

Chris Barton – The Day-Glo Brothers

Don Brown – Odd Boy Out: Young Albert

Einstein

Jordan Brown – Crazy Concoctions: a Mad

Scientist’s Guide to Messy Mixtures

Loree Griffin Burns – Citizen Scientists: Be a

Part of Scientific Discovery from Your Own

Backyard

Nicola Davies – What’s Eating You? Parasites:

the Inside Story

Douglas Florian - Poetrees

Janis Herbert – Leonardo da Vinci for Kids:

His Life and Ideas

Kathleen Krull – The Boy Who Invented TV:

the Story of Philo Farnsworth

Laura C. Martin – Nature’s Art Box: From

T-Shirts to Twig Baskets: 65 Cool Projects for

Crafty Kids to Make With Natural Materials

You Can Find Anywhere

Faith McNulty – If You Decide to Go to the Moon

Caitlin O’Connell – The Elephant Scientist

Jack Prelutsky – It’s Raining Pigs and Noodles

April Jones Prince – What Do Wheels Do All Day?

Diane Swanson – Turn it Loose: the Scientist in

Absolutely Everybody

Jeff Szpirglas – Gross

Universe: Your Guide to All Disgusting Things under

the Sun