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Butler Children's Literature Center Summer Reading List 2009

Preschool to Grade 2

Silly School Riddles  Lisa Eisenberg
Bees, Snails, & Peacock Tails  Betsy Franco & Steve Jenkins
Turtle’s Penguin Day  Valeri Gorbachev
Big Chickens Fly the Coop  Leslie Helakoski 
The Fisherman and the Turtle  Eric Kimmel
Goodnight Goon: a Petrifying Parody  Michael Rex
Little Hoot  Amy Krouse Rosenthal & Jen Corace
Wild Boars Cook  Meg Rosoff & Sophie Blackall
Never Kick a Slipper at the Moon  Carl Sandburg
One Boy  Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Too Many Toys  David Shannon
Sheep Blast Off!  Nancy Shaw
Dinosaur vs. Bedtime  Bob Shea
Watch Me Throw the Ball!  Mo Willems

Grade 2 to Grade 6

My Dad's a Birdman   David Almond
The Naked Mole-Rat Letters   Mary Amato
Whales on Stilts   M.T. Anderson
Ouch! A Tale from Grimm   Natalie Babbitt, reteller
Frantastic Voyage   Jim Benton
Bertie's Picture Day   Pat Brisson
Skeleton Man   Joseph Bruchac
Wanna Buy an Alien?   Eve Bunting, Illustrated by Timothy Bush
Minnie and Moo Go Dancing   Denys Cazet
The Giant's Toe   Brock Cole
The Legend of Spud Murphy and The Legend of the Worst Boy in the World   Eoin Colfer
How to Be a Pirate and How to Train Your Dragon   Cressida Cowell
Mr. Chickee's Messy Mission   Christopher Paul Curtis
Dahl's Revolting Rhymes   Roald Dahl
The Homework Machine   Dan Gutman
Lemonade War   Jacqueline Davies
Dark Knights and Dingy Castles   Terry Deary
Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken   Kate DiCamillo 
Tyrannosaurus Drip   Julia Donalson
Phineas L. MacGuire...Erupts!   Frances O'Roark Dowell
The Giggler Treatment   Roddy Doyle
Three Spinning Fairies   Lisa Campbell Ernst
The Return of the Killer Cat   Anne Fine
Lowji Discovers America   Candace Fleming
Buster   Denise Fleming
The Dangerous Alphabet   Neil Gaiman
This Book Bites!   Tim Gower
The Cockroach War   Jonathan Harlen
The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County   Janice N. Harrington
Crows and Cards   Joseph Helgerson
Naked Bunyip Dancing   Steven Herrick
Scat   Carl Hiaasen
Wing Nuts: Screwy Haiku   Paul Janeczko, with J. Patrick Lewis
The Cowboy and the Black-Eyed Pea and The Ghost of Nicholas Greebe   Tony Johnston
Flim-flam Fairies   Alan Katz
What to Do about Alice?:  How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy   Barbara Kerley
Hairy Hezekiah   Dick King-Smith
Schooled   Gordon Korman
Fartiste   Kathleen Krull
Green as a Bean   Karla Kuskin
Harley   Star Livingstone
The Willoughbys   Lois Lowry
The Way We Work: Getting to Known the Amazing Human Body   David Macaulay, with Richard Walker  
Seven Spiders Spinning   Gregory Maguire
Baron von Baddie and the Icy Ray Incident   George McClements
Dooley Takes the Fall   Norah McClintock
Flossie and the Fox   Patricia McKissack
7 x 9 = Trouble!   Claudia Mills
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great   Gerald Morris
Velcome   Kevin O’Malley
The Funeral Director’s Son   Coleen Murtagh Paratore
Mudshark   Gary Paulsen
Talking Vegetables   Won-Ldy Paye
Goldilocks and the Three Hares   Heidi Petach
Fat Camp Commandos and The Hoboken Chicken Emergency   Daniel Pinkwater
The Wee Free Men   Terry Pratchett
Headless Horseman Rides Tonight and My Dog May Be a Genius   Jack Prelutsky
The Many Adventures of Johnny Mutton and Patricia von Pleasantsquirrel   James Proimos
Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich   Adam Rex
Calvin Coconut : Trouble Magnet   Graham Salisbury
Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Mostly True Stories of Growing Up   Jon Scieszka, .  
Little Vampire   Joann Sfar
John, Paul, George & Ben   Lane Smith
Kaput & Zosky   Lewis Trodenheim
No Girls Allowed (Dogs Okay)   Trudi Trueit
The Autobiography of Meatball Finkelstein   Ross Venokur
Oggie Cooder   Sarah Weeks
Food Hates You, Too and Other Poems   Robert Weinstock
Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed   Mo Willems
The 39 Apartments of Ludwig Van Beethoven   Jonah Winter
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: Dealing with Dragons (1992); Searching for Dragons
(1991); Calling on Dragons (1994); Talking to Dragons (1993) Wrede, Patricia. 
Sleeping Ugly   Jane Yolen

Grade 6 to Grade 10

Dream Factory   Brad Barkley
Peeled   Joan Bauer
The Unnameables   Ellen Booraem
13   Jason Robert Brown
She’s So Money   Cherry Cheva
Beanball   Gene Fehler
The Patron Saint of Butterflies   Cecilia Galante
Ghostgirl   Tonya Hurley
My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins & Fenway Park   Steve Kluger
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks   E. Lockhart
The Big Game of Everything   Chris Lynch
What the World Eats   Peter Menzel
Click  Linda Sue Park,  [et al.]
Dead is the New Black   Marlene Perez
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians   Brandon Sanderson
I Heart You, You Haunt Me   Lisa Schroeder
The Comeback Season   Jennifer E. Smith