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Sizzling Summer Material List
ABC Mindful Me
There’s Only One You
I Am Enough
The One Day House
We March
Let’s Celebrate Diwali
I Am Smart
Princess Truly: I Am a Super Girl!
Dreamers
Hello Summer!
Alma and How She Got Her Name
Jabari Jumps
Spring After Spring
Rainforest Opposites
Ty’s Travels: Zip, Zoom!
Protecting Earth’s Waters
More Than Peach
Lala’s Words
Literacy Skills Journal
Family Guide to Literacy
Summer Express Workbook
Learning On My Own – Reading Comprehension & Writing Activities
Family Time Reading Tips
Summer Reading Journal & Colored Pencils
I am Martin Luther King, Jr.
Red Kite, Blue Kite
Guacamole: Un Poema Para Cocinar / A Cooking Poem
Maria Tallchief
King & Kayla and the Case of the Secret Code
Soccer On Sunday
The Word Collector
National Geographic Readers: Weird Sea Creatures
Fly Guy’s Big Family
The World Is Not a Rectangle
Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol #3: Surf’s Up, Creepy Stuff!
Unicorns and Germs
Imagine
The Earth Gives More
Fly Guy Presents: Dogs
Pug’s Road Trip
King & Kayla and the Lost Library Book
Your Name is a Song
Drum Dream Girl
Literacy Skills Journal
Family Guide to Literacy
Summer Express Workbook
Learning On My Own – Reading Comprehension & Writing Activities
Family Time Reading Tips
Summer Reading Journal & Colored Pencils
Landed
A Marvelous Mexican Misunderstanding
The Hallelujah Flight
Coyote Tales
Who Would Win?: Killer Whale vs. Great White Shark
What If You Had T. Rex Teeth?
Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol #2: Ghosts Don’t Ride Bikes, Do They?
Mia Mayhem Learns to Fly
The Bad Guys
The Lion’s Share
Planting Stories
Camp Out!
Vera Vance: Comics Star
Science of Fun Stuff: Unmasking the Science of Superpowers!
Be A King
You Should Meet Katherine Johnson
Mia Mayhem Is A Superhero!
Who Would Win?: Walrus vs. Elephant Seal
Literacy Skills Journal
Family Guide to Literacy
Summer Express Workbook
Learning On My Own – Reading Comprehension & Writing Activities
Family Time Reading Tips
Summer Reading Journal & Colored Pencils
The Youngest Marcher
Yo-Yo and Yeou-Cheng Ma, Finding Their Way
Comeback Catcher
Bat and the End of Everytyhing
Cleo Edison Oliver, Playground Millionaire
Mega Robo Bros
Sarai and the Meaning of Awesome
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy
Yes! We Are Latinos
Schomburg
Ink!
Charlie and Frog
Manjhi Moves a Mountain
Thursday – War of the Waterslides
Future Hero #1: Race to Fire Mountain
Animal Rescue Friends
The International Space Station
Mario and the Hole in the Sky
Literacy Skills Journal
Family Guide to Literacy
Summer Express Workbook
Learning On My Own – Reading Comprehension & Writing Activities
Family Time Reading Tips
Summer Reading Journal & Colored Pencils
Making Friends with Billy Wong
Betty Before X
Wish Upon a Sleepover
The Great Migration
A Whole New Ballgame
Soar
Ugly
I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018
The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole
I Survived the Wellington Avalanche, 1910
Zayd Saleem, Chasing the Dream: On Point
Science Comics: Volcanoes: Fires and Life
Shirley Chisholm Dared
Any Day With You
Ocean Life
Hidden Figures
Flor and Miranda Steal the Show
You Can Save the Planet
Literacy Skills Journal
Family Guide to Literacy
Summer Express Workbook
Learning On My Own – Reading Comprehension & Writing Activities
Family Time Reading Tips
Summer Reading Journal & Colored Pencils
Scholastic Success Workbook with Reading Comprehension
Scholastic Success Workbook with Writing
Scholastic Success Workbook with Math
Her Own Two Feet
Game of Stars
Marcus Vega Doesn’t Speak Spanish
Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring
Top 20 Daredevils
Project Middle School
The Doughnut King
Ghost Squad
Legends of the Sky
What Do Fish Have To Do With Anything?
Torpedoed
The Way to Rio Luna
The Deadliest Hurricanes Then and Now
Native American Heroes
How To Be An Elephant
Child of the Dream
Forest World
Chasing Jaguars
Literacy Skills Journal
Family Guide to Literacy
Summer Express Workbook
Learning On My Own – Reading Comprehension & Writing Activities
Summer Reading Journal & Colored Pencils
Middle School 5-Magazine Pack
This is Just a Test
Finding Mighty
My Fate According to the Butterfly
Aru Shah and the Song of Death
Accidental Archaeologists
Salt
Finding Langston
The Dark Lord Clementine
Artemis Fowl
Rebel Voices
What Color Is My World?
Almost Astronauts
Hour of the Bees
The Tryout
A Wish in the Dark
It’s the End of the World and I’m In My Bathing Suit
The Last Cuentista
Out of Hiding
Literacy Skills Journal
Family Guide to Literacy
Summer Express Workbook
Learning On My Own – Reading Comprehension & Writing Activities
Summer Reading Journal & Colored Pencils
Middle School 5-Magazine Pack
Ocdaniel
Sparrow
Fly Girls
The Dreamer
Stargirl
Rain Is Not My Indian Name
Unbound
Miles Morales
Resistance
Voices From the March on Washington
Behind the Mountains
Bouncing Back
Class Act
The Curse of the Mummy
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
The Great Penguin Rescue
They Lost Their Heads!
Into the Clouds
This Promise of Change
Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes
Literacy Skills Journal
Family Guide to Literacy
Summer Express Workbook
Learning On My Own – Reading Comprehension & Writing Activities
Summer Reading Journal & Colored Pencils
Middle School 5-Magazine Pack
Beautiful
Salam Alaikum
The Little Red Fort
Hello Goodbye Dog
Many Nations
Dragons Love Tacos
Bee Dance
The Gruffalo
Pug
Bikes
At the Beach
One Day On Our Blue Planet… In the Ocean
My First Soccer Game
See Me Dig
Sing, Don’t Cry
You Hold Me Up
I Promise
Paletero Man
The Littlest Yak
Going Down Home with Daddy
Literacy Skills Journal
Family Guide to Literacy
White Rabbit’s Color Book
How Do Dinosaurs Go To School?
National Geographic Little Kids Look & Learn: Count!
Be Fair and Share
The Shape of Things
Eating the Alphabet
Silly Sally
Bear Sees Colors
Blocks: Let’s Share!
Crash! Boom!
Tyrannosaurus Wrecks!
Grandes Y Pequeños / Big and Small
Llamas with Lemonade
Island Counting 1 2 3
I’m Happy-Sad Today
Ways to Welcome
Bisa’s Carnaval
Puddle
Soccer Time!
I See Fireflies
Literacy Skills Journal
Family Guide to Literacy
Summer Express Workbook
Learning On My Own – Reading Comprehension & Writing Activities
Family Time Reading Tips
Summer Reading Journal & Colored Pencils
ABC Mindful Me, Christiane Engel
Alma and How She Got Her Name, Juana Martinez-Neal
Attack of the 50-Foot Fly Guy , Tedd Arnold
Dreamers, Yuyi Morales
Hello Summer!, Shelley Rotner
I Am Enough, Grace Byers
I Am Smart, Suzy Capozzi
Jabari Jumps, Gaia Cornwall
Lala’s Words, Gracey Zhang
Let’s Celebrate Diwali, Añjalī Jośī
More Than Peach, Ballen Woodard
The One Day House, Julia Durango
Princess Truly: I am a Super Girl, Kelly Greenawalt
Protecting Earth’s Waters, Cody Crane
Rainforest Opposites, Erin Kelly
Spring After Spring, Stephanie Roth
Ty’s Travels, Kelly Starling Lyons
We March, Shane W. Evans
Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol: Ghosts Don’t Ride Bikes, Do They?, Andres Miedoso
Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol: Surf’s Up, Creepy Stuff!, Andres Miedoso
Diary Of A Pug: Pug’s Road Trip, Kyla May
Drum Dream Girl, Margarita Engle
The Earth Gives More, Sue Fliess
Fly Guy Presents: Dogs, Tedd Arnold
I am Martin Luther King, Jr., Brad Meltzer
Guacamole, Jorge Argueta
Imagine, Juan Felipe Harrera
Jingle Dancer, Cynthia Leitich Smith
King & Kayla and the Case of the Lost Library Book, Dori Hillestad Butler
Maria Tallchief: Woman of Two Worlds, Cinnamon Kills First
Merlin Missions #24 Soccer on Sunday, Mary Pope Osborne
The Word Collector, Peter H. Reynolds
Your Name Is A Song, Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
The Bad Guys, Aaron Babley
The Bad Guys: Open Wide and Say Arrrgh!, Aaron Babley
Bug Scouts Camp Out!, Mike Lowery
Coyote Tales, Thomas King
Hallelujah Flight, Phil Bildner
The Lion’s Share, Matthew McElligott
A Marvelous Mexican Misunderstanding, Evi Triantafyllides
Mia MayHem Is a Superhero!, Kara West
Mia Mayhem Learns to Fly!, Kara West
Planting Stories, Anika Denise
Unmasking the Science of Superpower, Jordan D. Brown
What if You Had T. Rex Teeth!? And Other Dinosaur Parts, Sandra Markle
Who Would Win? Killer Whale VS. Great White Shark, Jerry Pallotta
Who Would Win? Walrus VS. Elephant Seal, Jerry Pallotta
Who Would Win? Walrus VS. Elephant Seal, Thea Feldman
Animal Rescue Friends, Genevieve Kote, Gina Loveless, and Meika Hashimoto
Future Hero #1: Race to Fire Mountain, Remi Blackwood
International Space Station, Rebecca Kraft Rector
Manjhi Moves A Mountain, Nancy Churnin
Mario and the Hole in the Sky, Elizabeth Rusch
Salsa Stories, Lulu Delacre
Sarai and the Meaning of Awesome, Monica Brown and Sarai Gonzalez
Thursday: War of the Waterslides, Ralph Lazar
Ways To Make Sunshine, Renee Watson
Yes! We Are Latinos, Alma Flor Ada and Isabel Campoy
Yo-Yo & Yeou-Cheng Ma, Ai-Ling Louie
The Youngest Marcher, Cynthia Levinson
The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole, Michelle Cuevas
Any Day With You, Mae Respicio
Flor and Miranda Steal the Show, Jennifer Torres
The Great Migration: An American Story, Jacob Lawrence
Hidden Figures, Margot Lee Shetterly and Winifred Conkling
I Survived the Wellington Avalanche, 1910, Lauren Tarshis
Ocean Life, Toby Reynolds, Paul Calver
Shirley Chisholm Dared, Alicia D. Williams
Soar, Joan Bauer
A Spy Called James, Anne Rockwell
Towers Falling, Jewell Parker Rhodes
Ugly: A Beautiful True Story about One Very Ugly Kid, Robert Hoge
Volcanoes: Fire and Life, Jon Chad
A Whole New Ballgame, Phil Bildner
Wish Upon a Sleepover, Suzanne Selfors
You Can Save the Planet, Alessandra Potenza
You Can Save the Planet, Hena Khan
Child Of The Dream, Sharon Robinson
The Deadliest Hurricanes Then and Now, Deborah Hopkinson
Game of Stars, Sayantani DasGupta
Ghost Squad, Claribel A. Ortega
How to be an Elephant, Katherine Roy
Legends of the Sky, Liz Flanagan
The Way to Rio Luna, Zoraida Córdova
What Do Fish Have To Do With Anything, Avi
Wild Survival, Chasing Jaguars, Melissa Cristina Márquez
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
The Breakaways: Bad At Soccer. Okay At Friends, Cathy G. Johnson
Dactyl Hill Squad: Freedom Fire, Daniel José Older
Finding Mighty, Sheela Chari
It’s the End of the World and I’m in My Bathing Suit, Justin A. Reynolds
The Last Cuentista, Donna Barba Higuera
My Fate According to the Butterfly, Gail D. Villanueva
Out Of Hiding, Ruth Gruener
Rebel Voices, Louise Kay Stewart
This Is Just A Test, Madelyn Rosenberg and Wendy Wan-Long Shang
The Tryout, Christina Soontornvat
Behind The Mountains, Edwidge Danticat
Class Act, Jerry Craft
Insignificant Events In the Cactus, Dusti Bowling
Miles Morales: Spider Man, Jason Reynolds
Poetry for Young People, Langston Hughes
Rain Is Not My Indian Name, Cynthia Leitich Smith
Unbound , Ann E. Burg
Voices From The March On Washington, George Ella Lyon and J. Patrick Lewis
At The Beach, Anne Rockwell
Beautiful, Stacy McAnulty
Bee Dance, Rick Chrustowski
Dragons Love Tacos, Adam Rubin
Going Down Home With Daddy, Kelly Starling Lyons
The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson
Hello Goodbye Dog, Maria Gianferrari
I Promise, LeBron James
The Little Red Fort, Brenda Maier
The Littlest Yak, Lu Fraser
Many Nations: An Alphabet of Native America, Joseph Bruchac
My First Soccer Game, Alyssa Satin Capucilli
One Day On Our Blue Planet: In The Ocean, Ella Bailey
Paletero Man, Lucky Diaz
Pug, Ethan Long
Salam Alaikum, Harris J
See Me Dig, Paul Meisel
Sing, Don’t Cry, Angela Dominguez
You Hold Me Up, Monique Gray Smith
Additional Resources
Looking for more? Check out the following for resources to supplement your child’s summer reading!
Stories for Breakfast with Jonathan Kruk
As a Catholic School family, you now have access to a brand new series of storytelling sessions with Jonathan Kruk, master storyteller and a longtime partner with the Catholic Schools. Every year Kruk enchants at hundreds of schools, libraries, historic sites, and festivals, by tailoring programs to each venue. These story telling sessions will occur weekly throughout the months of July and August. Check out this link to view upcoming sessions and register to view story sessions live via Zoom!