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2nd Grade Book List

Selected titles of fiction and nonfiction appropriate for independent reading or as read alouds for second graders.

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  • Picture Book. When a piglet named Mercy arrives at the Watsons' front door, she brings love and chaos to their lives. Picture book introducing Mercy Watson as a piglet.
    Book, 2019Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2019. — Mercy Watson
  • Picture Book. "A look at the numbers that surround us, big and small, on earth and in outer space."-- publisher.
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]. — 510.2 Fish
  • Picture Book. As young rabbit siblings excitedly share the news that the new neighbors that have moved into their building are rats, the old neighbors inform the rabbits that rats are dirty, thieving, and destructive, but is it fair to judge the…
    Book, 2019New York, New York : Penguin Workshop, 2019. — McIntyre
  • Picture Book. After falling off the wall, Humpty Dumpty is very afraid of climbing up again, but is determined not to let fear stop him from being close to the birds.
    Book, 2017New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2017. — Santat
  • Picture Book. Follows a group of children as they experience their second grade school year, including chapter books, auditioning for the school play, and a visit to the principal's office.
    Book, 2017New York, New York : Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2017] — Steinberg
  • Hey, Wall

    a Story of Art and Community

    Verde, Susan,
    Picture Book. Armed with pencils, paints, dreams, and Grandma Addy's memories of how beautiful the neighborhood once was, Angel and others paint the big wall that had been cold, empty, and cheerless.
    Book, 2018New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2018] — Verde
  • Oye, muro

    un cuento de arte y comunidad

    Verde, Susan,
    Picture Book.
    Book, 2020New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2020] — Verde
  • Picture Book. Missing the familiarity of first grade and imagining the impossible tasks assigned by his next teacher, a boy refuses to start second grade.
    Book, 2017Boston ; New York : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017] — Vernick
  • Early Reader. Yasmin gathers a cape and mask and sets out to find a villain to defeat with her "super powers"--however, there are no villains hiding on her block, just neighbors who need a little help. A book in an early reader series about Yasmin.…
    Book, 2019North Mankato, Minnesota : Picture Window Books, [2019] — YASMIN Faruqi
  • Early Reader.
    Book, 2020North Mankato, Minnesota : Picture Window Books, una imprenta de Capstone, [2020] — Faruqi
  • Early Chapter Book. Roscoe Riley Rules Series. When the first-graders' bee antennae would not stay on their heads and the drummers would not stay in their seats for the open house play, Roscoe decides to help by using the "don't-you-dare" glue. …
    Book, 2008New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, [2008] — Applegate
  • Early Chapter Book. Masterpiece Adventures Series. When his best friend, a human boy named James, goes away on vacation, Marvin the beetle worries that their friendship may end.
    Book, 2014New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2014. — Broach
  • Early Chapter Book. Eerie Elementary series. Sam Graves discovers that his elementary school is plotting against the students, and as hall monitor, it is his job to protect them--but he will need some help from his friends.
    Book, 2014New York : Branches/Scholastic Inc, [2014] — Chabert
  • Early Chapter Book. Absolutely Lucy series. Bobby is a shy boy until he gets a beagle puppy named Lucy, who helps him to make new friends.
    Book, 2000New York : Golden Books, 2000. — Cooper
  • Early Chapter Book. On the first day of second grade at her new school, Pa Lia Vang discovers that things are not as bad as she had feared.
    Book, 2005Orlando : Harcourt, Inc., 2005. — Edwards
  • Early Chapter Book. 1st book in Carver Chronicles Series. Gavin wants to make a good impression at Carver Elementary, where no one knows he excels at soccer and skateboarding, but an annoying big sister, a bully, and his great aunt's Pomeranian are…
    Book, 2013Boston ; New York : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2013] — English CARVER 1
  • Early Chapter Book. 1st book in Nikki and Deja series.When an arrogant new girl comes to school, third-graders and best friends Nikki and Deja decide to form a club that would exclude her, but find the results not what they expected.
    Book, 2007New York : Clarion Books, [2007] — English
  • Early Chapter Book. On Thursday a toad is captured by an owl who saves him to eat on Tuesday, the owl's birthday, but the intervening five days change his mind.
    Book, 1998New York : Beech Tree, 1998. — Erickson
  • Early Chapter Book. 1st book in Eliza Boom series. Eliza Boom is the daughter of a spy gadget inventor who hopes to create a great invention like her father, but first she needs to get a roll of her father's top-secret film back from the class bully…
    Book, 2014New York : Aladdin, 2014. — Gale