2nd Grade Reading List
Reading Suggestions for 2nd Graders from the Weber County Library

Mossy, a turtle with a garden growing on her shell, is sad when she is taken from her home to become an exhibit in a museum.

After Mr. Putter buys three goldfish and takes them home, he discovers that his cat Tabby has a serious problem with them.

A boy imagines himself inside some of the exhibits when he goes on a field trip to a museum.

Pancake-lover Nate the Great solves the mystery of the missing picture.

Owl's adventures include an evening with Winter, tear-water tea, and a conversation with the moon.

Penny instantly loves the doll her grandmother sends her, but finding the perfect name for her is a challenge.

Sam the owl and Gus the firefly have fun playing together at night until Gus begins to make mischief with his light.

An easy-to-read account of Sam and his father fighting as minutemen against the British in the Battle of Lexington.

Packed with madcap humor and whimsical illustrations, this quirky story is chock full of introductory facts and silly antics that make learning geography as fun as taking a vacation.

This picture book is about the concept of words--how they sound, their power to communicate how we feel, how hot the sun is, how pretty a seashell is. This abstract concept is expressed with bright montages which suggest cut paper.

A new, unusual version of the familiar nursery rhyme.

Introduces the concept of nonstandard measurement as three friends compete in a sand castle building contest.

A journey through the fields, forests, ponds and wetlands to see how animals survive in the snowy winter months, and when the sun's rays grow stronger, join all the animals as they get ready for springtime.

Read some funny poems written by animals about school.

Seasons change from winter to fall in this book of poetry. Flowers blooming in sheets of snow make way for happy frogs dancing in the rain. Summer swims move over for autumn sweaters until the snow comes back again.

This is a story about a mouse, and how he got swallowed up by a wolf, and who he met down in its belly, and what happened after that.

Cam and her friend Eric take a trip to the library to get crime books, but they run into a real-life mystery instead.