2012 Summer Challenge Book List

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2012 Summer Challenge Book List www.scholastic.com/summer

Ages 5-7 (By Title, Author and Illustrator) FF 101 Freaky Animals, Melvin Berger & Gilda Berger FF A Butterfly is Patient, Dianna Hutts Aston & Sylvia Long FF All the Water in the World, George Ella Lyon & Katherine Tillotson

FF The Amelia Bedelia series, Peggy Parish FF Beatrice’s Goat, Page McBrier & Lori Lohstoeter FF The Berenstain Bears by the Sea, Jan and Stan Berenstain FF Betty Bunny Loves Chocolate Cake, Michael Kaplan & Stephane Jorisch

FF Big Red Lollipop, Rukhsana Khan & Sophie Blackall FF The Black Lagoon series, Mike Thaler & Jared Lee FF Blackout, John Rocco FF The Cam Jansen series, David A. Adler FF Chalk, Bill Thomson

FF Doctor De Soto, William Steig FF The Elephant and Piggie series, Mo Willems FF Every Thing On It: Poems and Drawings, Shel Silverstein FF The Fancy Nancy books, Jane O’Connor & Robin Preiss Glasser

FF The Flat Stanley series, Jeff Brown & Macky Pamintuan FF The Fly Guy #1: Hi! Fly Guy, Tedd Arnold FF The Geronimo Stilton series, Geronimo Stilton FF The Gingerbread Girl Goes Animal Crackers, Lisa Campbell Ernst

FF Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss FF The Henry and Mudge series, Cynthia Rylant & Suçie Stevenson

FF Here Come the Girl Scouts!, Shana Corey & Hadley Hooper

FF The Junie B. Jones series, Barbara Park & Denise Brunkus

FF Just Behave, Pablo Picasso!, Jonah Winter & Kevin Hawkes

FF Let’s Count to 100!, Masayuki Sebe FF Ling and Ting: Not Exactly the Same!, Grace Lin FF The Library Mouse books, Daniel Kirk FF The Magic Tree House series, Mary Pope Osborne & Sal Murdocca

FF Math For All Seasons: Mind-Stretching Math Riddles, Greg Tang

FF The Max Spaniel series, David Catrow FF Me . . . Jane, Patrick McDonnell FF Memoirs of a Goldfish, Devin Scillian & Tim Bowers FF Miss Fox’s Class Shapes Up, Eileen Spinelli & Anne Kennedy

FF Homer, Shelley Rotner & Diane Degroat

FF Miss Smith Under the Ocean, Michael Garland

FF How Georgie Radbourn Saved Baseball, David Shannon

FF Mouse & Lion, Rand Burkert & Nancy Ekholm Burkert

FF How to Teach a Slug to Read, Susan Pearson

FF The Mouse and Mole series, Wong Herbert Yee

FF Huck Runs Amuck, Sean Taylor & Peter Reynolds

FF Mouse Loves School, Lauren Thompson & Buket Erdogan

FF Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Judi Barrett & Ron Barrett

FF The I Spy series, Jean Marzollo & Walter Wick

FF Mr. Duck Means Business, Tammi Sauer & Jeff Mack

FF Coral Reefs, Jason Chin

FF Immi’s Gift, Karin Littlewood

FF Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Richard & Florence Atwater

FF Detective Blue, Steve Metzger & Tedd Arnold

FF Ish, Peter Reynolds

FF The Mr. Putter and Tabby series, Cynthia Rylant

FF Diary of a Spider, Doreen Cronin & Harry Bliss

FF Joe and Sparky, Superstars!, Jamie Michalak and Frank

FF Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White FF Chester, Melanie Watts FF Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Bill Martin Jr., John Archambault, & Lois Ehlert

FF The Scholastic Discover More series

Remkiewicz

& Arthur Howard

FF My Father’s Dragon, Ruth Stiles Gannett

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2012 Summer Challenge Book List www.scholastic.com/summer

Ages 5-7 (By Title, Author and Illustrator) FF The My Weird School series, Dan Gutman FF The Nate the Great Series, Marjorie S. Sharmat & Marc Simont

FF The Snail and the Whale, Julia Donaldson FF Snowmen All Year, Caralyn Buehner and Mark Buehner FF Splat the Cat: Good Night, Sleep Tight, Rob Scotton

FF On Meadowview Street, Henry Cole

FF Split! Splat!, Amy Gibson & Steve Bjorkman

FF Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, Brian Floca

FF Stay: The True Story of Ten Dogs, Michaela Muntean

FF The Pet Shop Revolution, Ana Juan FF Pirates Don’t Change Diapers, Melinda Long & David Shannon FF Pluto Visits Earth!, Steve Metzger & Jared D. Lee FF Ponyella, Laura Numeroff, Nate Evans & Lynn Munsinger FF The Pony Scouts series, Catherine Hapka & Anne Kennedy FF The Poppleton series, Cynthia Rylant & Mark Teague FF The Princess Posey series, Stephanie Greene FF The Raft, Jim LaMarche FF The Rainbow Magic series, Daisy Meadows FF Ron’s Big Mission, Rose Blue, Corinne Naden & Don Tate FF The Salamander Room, Anne Mazer, Steve Johnson

& K.C. Bailey & Steve Kazmierski

FF The Story of Ferdinand, Munro Leaf & Robert Lawson FF Strega Nona, Tomie dePaola FF Stuart Little, E. B. White FF The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith

FF When a Dragon Moves In, Jodi Moore & Howard McWilliam FF Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak FF Winter’s Tail: How One Little Dolphin Learned to Swim Again, Craig Hatkoff, Juliana Hatkoff & Isabella Hatkoff

FF The You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You series, Mary Ann Hoberman & Michael Emberley

& Lou Fancher

FF The Scaredy Squirrel books, Melanie Watt FF The Scrambled States of America, Laurie Keller FF Sight Word Readers Parent Pack: Learning the First 50 Sight Words Is a Snap!, Scholastic

FF The Skippyjon Jones series, Judy Schachner

Recommended Recommended for for From Scholastic Parent & Child Recommended forGraphic Novel From Scholastic Parent & From Child Scholastic Parent & Child Read-Aloud Award Read-Aloud Winner Award Winner Award Winner Graphic Novel Graphic Available Novel in Spanish Available inAvailable Spanish Series in SpanishSeries Nonfiction SeriesNonfiction Nonfiction Book listBook Key:list Book Key:list Key: Read-Aloud Reluctant Readers Reluctant Readers Reluctant Readers 100 Greatest100 Book Greatest List 100 Book Greatest List Book List ®

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