Books listed in new COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS
Second - Third Grade
Literature: Stories, Drama, Poetry "Who Has Seen the Wind?" Christina G. Rossetti
Charlotte's Web E. B. White
Sarah, Plain and Tall Patricia MacLachlan
Top and Bottoms Janet Stevens
Poppleton in Winter Cynthia Rylant
Informational Texts: Literary Nonfiction and Historical, Scientific, and Technical Texts
A Medieval Feast Aliki
From Seed to Plant Gail Gibbons
The Story of Ruby Bridges Robert Coles
A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder Walter Wick
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 Brian Floca
Digestive and excretory systems.
What Happens to a Hamburger Paul Showers
The Digestive System Rebecca L. Johnson
The Digestive System Kristin Petrie
Taking care of your body:
Healthy eating and nutrition.
Good Enough to Eat Lizzy Rockwell
Showdown at the Food Pyramid Rex Barron
Muscular, skeletal, and nervous systems.
The Mighty Muscular and Skeletal Systems Crabtree Publishing
Muscles Seymour Simon
Bones Seymour Simon
The Astounding Nervous System Crabtree Publishing
The Nervous System Joelle Riley
Books Listed Alphabetically by Author
Alexander, Beatrice Famous Myths of the Golden Age
Atwater, Richard Mr. Popper's Penguins
Bleeker, Sonia The Cherokee Indians
The Chippewa
The Delaware
The Sioux
Blume, Judy Freckle Juice
Buff, Mary Dancing Cloud
Butterworth, Oliver The Enormous Egg
Clark, Ann In My Mother's House
Cleary, Beverly Henry Huggins
Ramona the Pest
Coatsworth, Elizabeth The Cat Who Went to Heaven
d'Aulaire, I. and E. Abraham Lincoln
Benjamin Franklin
Columbus
George Washington
Leif the Lucky
Pocahontas
Dalgliesh, Alice Bears on Hemlock Mountain
Fourth of July Story
The Courage of Sarah Noble
The Thanksgiving Story
De Angeli, Marguerite Door in the Wall
Thee, Hannah!
Holling, H. C. Paddle to the Sea
Hurwitz, Johanna Aldo Applesauce
Kipling, Rudyard Just So Stories
Lawson, Peter Rabbit Hill
Ben and Me
Petersham, Maud The Silver Mace
Sasek, M. This is Greece
This is London
White, E. B. Charlotte's Web
Zim, Herbert Dinosaurs
Little Cats
Owls
Rabbits
Snakes
