Staff recommendations for children at a second grade reading level.
Too-Good-to-Miss Books: 2nd Grade
Can you draw simple things like trees, fish and candy? Yes? Then you can make your own comic books! This hilarious book will show you how.
When Akimbo and his park ranger father unintentionally capture a lion cub near an African game park, Akimbo wants to keep the cub. Look for more Akimbo titles.
Describes how a teacher named Miss Chew encouraged individuality, and accepted learning differences, and helped a young student with academic difficulties get extra time to take tests and permission to be in advanced art classes.
Follows the life of a bear family as a newborn brown bear cub grows, plays, and learns how to take care of itself.
On a class field trip to the Sunnyview Memorial Zoo, Eugene McGillicudy's favorite animals--the elephants--are missing! Is Randy the tour guide really the evil Raging Radonkey, trying to ruin the field trip? Can the Sunnyview Superhero Squad save the day and find the elephants?
Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic tree house, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs.
After her best friend learns to read before she does, Dory retreats into her wild imagination and finds herself in the middle of one of the babyish books she is struggling to read, encountering imaginary friends and enemies along the way.
In the first book of this series, Zoey discovers a glowing photo and learns an amazing secret. Injured magical animals come to their backyard barn for help! When a sick baby dragon appears, it’s up to Zoey and Sassafras to figure out what’s wrong. Will they be able to help little Marshmallow before it’s too late?
When Ms. Albert teaches a lesson on kindness, Chloe realizes that she and her friends have been wrong in making fun of new student Maya's shabby clothes and refusing to play with her.
This inspiring story is about an extraordinary woman who changed America forever because she wouldn't take no for an answer.
A heroic collection of information about dragons and other fantastic creatures by a variety of authors.
A boy and his dog learn about each other, go to school to learn more, then explore the world around them as they study science, geography and even foreign languages together.
Amber is nervous about starting second grade with a new teacher, but despite being in the same class as mean Hannah Burton, things turn out just fine.
A most unusual new student who loves to be the center of attention entertains her teacher and fellow second graders by telling absolutely true stories about herself, including how she got her name.
Katie wants to be helpful, and so she starts making dinner on her own.
Thirteen humorous traditional Jewish tales, each accompanied by an appropriate saying.
After Mercy the pig snuggles to sleep with the Watsons, all three awaken with the bed teetering on the edge of a big hole in the floor. Look for more Mercy Watson titles.
When his best friend, a human boy named James, goes away on vacation, Marvin the beetle worries that their friendship may end.
What's up with Miss Daisy? She can't spell, doesn't understand math, and cannot read or write. It's a good thing her students are up to the task of teaching. First in the series My Weird School.
Nate the Great interrupts his backyard vacation to find his friend's lost grocery list before lunch. (Look for other stories about Nate the Great.)
Moving with his family from Korea to West Virginia, Hee Jun struggles to adjust to his new home, an unfamiliar language and the different appearances of his classmates before making friends and bringing a familiar flower home to his grandmother.
Prince Henrik makes a plan to find a wife who is nothing like his royal brother's wife, who he thinks is too sensitive.
Although she can throw farther, kick higher, and hit harder than anyone else at school, Isabel, aka Bunjitsu Bunny, never hurts another creature, unless she has to.
A collection of six stories about a family of shockingly silly people.
Follows the daily lives of seven children from around the world, including such places as Japan, India, Uganda, and Italy, and discusses how schools, meals, and play can be different or similar in different places in the world.
Stories addressed to dogs and written from a dog's point of view, featuring such topics as a burglar, bones, and running free. Look for more Three Stories titles.
Follows the activities of two children spending their summer vacation on an island off the coast of Maine.
As they wait out a tornado in their storm cellar, a family listens to their farmhand tell stories about the dog that was blown into his life by another tornado when he was a boy.
A wealthy man in a Japanese village, who everyone calls Ojiisan, which means grandfather, sets fire to his rice fields to warn the innocent people of an approaching tsunami.
Third-grader Max pursues neighborhood adventures with his dad as they both adjust to recent changes in their family.
Presents the life of nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks who became the youngest known child to be arrested for picketing against Birmingham segregation practices in 1963.
Zig and Wikki arrive on earth to search for a pet for Zig's class assignment. Will they make it off the planet in one piece?