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Youth Services Summer 2025 Reading Lists: 2nd Grade-3rd Grade

2nd-3rd Grade Reading Lists

Link to Aliens Join the Scientists Searching Space For Extraterrestrial life by Joalda Morancy in the Catalog
Link to Animal Tales from India: Ten Stories from the Panchatantra by Nikita Gill in the Catalog
Link to Are We There Yet? by Stacy McAnulty in the Catalog
Link to Bad Badger by Maryrose Wood in the Catalog
Link to Beti and the Little Round House by Atinuke in the Catalog
Link to The Case of the Forest Fingers by Chi-heon Ahn in the Catalog
Link to Cat Kid Comic Club by Dav Pilkey in the Catalog
Link to Catty Corner Pounces into Action by Julie Murphy in the Catalog
Link to Detective Beans and the Case of the Missing Hat by Li Chen in the Catalog
Link to Evidence! How Dr. John Snow Solved the Mystery of Cholera by Deborah Hopkinson in the Catalog
Link to The Fabulous Fannie Farmer by Emma Bland Smith in the Catalog
Link to The Fairy Tale Fan Club: Legendary Letters Collected by C. C. Cecily by Richard Ayoade in the Catalog
Link to Fighting for YES by Maryann Cocca-Leffler in the Catalog
Link to The First Cat in Space and the Wrath of the Paperclip by Mac Barnett in the Catalog
Link to George Washington's Spectacular Spectacles by Selene Castrovilla in the Catalog
Link to Growing Home by Beth Ferry in the Catalog
Link to Henry Heckelbeck by Wanda Coven in the Catalog
Link to Horseback Hardships by Jake Maddox in the Catalog
Link to The Infinity Rainbow Club by Jen Malia in the Catalog
Link to InvestiGators by John Patrick Green in the Catalog
Link to Itty Bitty Betty Blob by Constance Lombardo in the Catalog
Link to Julia on the Go by Angela Ahn in the Catalog
Link to Life After Whale by Lynn Brunelle in the Catalog
Link to A Line Can Go Anywhere by Caroline McAlister in the Catalog
Link to Log Life by Amy Hevron in the Catalog
Link to The Kids in Mrs. Z's Class: Emma Mckenna, Full Out by Kate Messner in the Catalog
Link to Lady of the Lines by Michaela MacColl in the Catalog
Link to Lost and Found by Mei Yu in the Catalog
Link to Mystery at the Biltmore by Colleen Nelson in the Catalog
Link to On This Day by DK in the Catalog
Link to Pets Rule! by Susan Tan in the Catalog
Link to The Puppets of Spelhorst by Kate DiCamillo in the Catalog
Link to Rover and Speck by Jonathan Roth in the Catalog
Link to Sib Squad by Steve Breen in the Catalog
Link to Spooky Sleuths by Natasha Deen in the Catalog
Link to Stephen Curry: the Official Graphic Novel by Josh Bycel in the Catalog
Link to The Story of Taylor Swift by Rachelle Burk in the Catalog
Link to Up, up, Ever up! Junko Tabei: a Life in the Mountains by Anita Yasuda in the Catalog
Link to Wagnificent by Bethanie Murguia in the Catalog
Link to What Is Color? by Steven Weinberg in the Catalog
Link to When Frankie Made a Human by Rachel Delahaye in the Catalog
Link to Tyrannosaurus Rex vs. Velociraptor by Jerry Pallotta in the Catalog
Link to The Wire Zoo by Natasha Wing in the Catalog
Link to Your Pets' Secret Lives: the Truth Behind Your Pets' Wildest Behaviors by Eleanor Spicer Rice in the Catalog
Link to The Zebra's Great Escape by Sara Ogilvie in the Catalog
2026 Elementary Nutmeg Nominees Grades 2-3
Link to Darwin's Super-Pooping Worm Spectacular by Polly Owen in the Catalog
Link to The Egg Incident by Ziggy Hanaor in the Catalog
Link to Feathers Together by Caron Levis in the Catalog
Link to Great Carrier Reef by Jessica Stremer in the Catalog
Link to Henry, Like Always by Jenn Bailey in the Catalog
Link to The Iguanodon's Horn by Sean Rubin in the Catalog
Link to Just Harriet by Elana K Arnold in the Catalog
Link to The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish by Chloe Savage in the Catalog
Link to The Skull by Jon Klassen in the Catalog
Link to The World's Best Class Plant by Liz Garton Scanlon in the Catalog
2026 Intermediate Nutmeg Nominees Grades 4-6
Link to Air by Monica Roe in the Catalog
Link to The Carrefour Curse by Dianne Salerni in the Catalog
Link to The Dog Knight by Jeremy Whitley in the Catalog
Link to Dogtown by Katherine Applegate in the Catalog
Link to Frizzy by Claribel Ortega in the Catalog
Link to Grounded by Aisha Saeed in the Catalog
Link to It Found Us by Lindsay Currie in the Catalog
Link to Plotting the Stars 1: Moongarden by Michelle Barry in the Catalog
Link to Speak Up! by Rebecca Burgess in the Catalog
Link to Trex by Christyne Morrell in the Catalog