Grade 2 – Reading List
- How the Grinch stole Christmas! / Seuss
Story is about a cartoon character Grinch, who is the meanest creature. But when he hatches a dastardly plot to steal Christmas from the citizens of Who-Ville, he is in for the surprise of his life.
- The greedy triangle /Marilyn Burns
Dissatisfied with its shape, a triangle keeps asking the local shapeshifter to add more lines and angles until it doesn’t know which side is up.
- Let’s get a pup! /Bob Graham
When Kate and her parents visit the animal shelter, an adorable puppy charms them, but it is very hard to leave an older dog behind.
- One grain of rice : a mathematical folktale /Demi
A reward of one grain of rice doubles day by day into millions of grains of rice when a selfish raja is outwitted by a clever village girl.
- Lon Po Po : a Red-Riding Hood story from China /Ed Young
Three sisters staying home alone are endangered by a hungry wolf who is disguised as their grandmother.
- The Little Island/ Margaret Wise Brown
Depicts the changes that occur on a small island as the seasons come and go, as day changes to night, and as a storm approaches.
- Families Are Different/Nina Pellegrini
An adopted Korean girl discovers that her classmates have different types of families.
- The giving tree /Shel Silverstein
A young boy grows to manhood and old age experiencing the love and generosity of a tree which gives to him without thought of return.