Summer Reading Together, K-5

BPS Summer Reading Assignment

This summer, read your assigned text (One Book/One Grade below) for about 20 minutes per session. Use the same process for your book of choice (from the Recommended Reading Lists below). As you read, consider the following questions:

For Fiction Books

What do you think the author wants us to know? What is the author’s message?
How did the author create humor; suspense, sadness, and so on?
Who is your favorite character in the story? Why?

For Nonfiction Books

What do you think the author wants us to know? What is the author’s message?
What new information are you learning?
What in the text makes you wonder?

One Book/One Grade

All of these books are available as Sora ebooks. For the ebook, click on the book cover below.

Recommended Reading Lists

All of these books are available in ebook and/or audiobook formats through the Boston Public Library. If you do not have a BPL card, you can get a free e-card to borrow ebooks. Click here for translations of the lists into

Grade K0/K1 (new to BPS)

Jabari Jumps

by Gaia Cornwall

Grades K-2 Recommended Reading List

For translations into Arabic, Cabo Verdean, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Somali, Spanish, and Vietnamese, click here.

Booklist21 K-2_list.pdf

Grade K2 (rising K1)

I Love My Hair!

by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley & E.B. Lewis

Grade 1 (rising K2)

Katie Woo Tries Something New

by Fran Manushkin

Grade 2 (Rising 1st)

Zoey Sassafras: Dragons & Marshmallows

by Asia Citro & Marion Lindsay

Zoey and Sassafras: Dragons and Marshmallows

Grade 3 (rising 2nd)

J.D. and the Great Barber Battle

by J. Dillard

Grades 3-5 Recommended Reading List