Lightning Literature Grade 2: Book Schedule

Weeks

• 1 Max's Words by Kate Banks
• 2 The Old Woman Who Named Things by Cynthia Rylant
• 3 The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco
• 4 Teedie, The Story of Young Teddy Roosevelt by Don Brown
• 5 Insect Detective by Steve Voake
• 6 The Three Questions by Jon Muth
• 7 La Mariposa by Francisco Jimenez
• 8 Random House Book of Poetry by Jack Prelutsky and Arnold Lobel: "Flint", "January", "Feather or Fur", "Green Stems", "What in the World?", "One Day When We Went Walking"
• 9 Sequoyah by James Rumford
• 10 Anatole by Eve Titus
• 11 Pop's Bridge by Eve Bunting
• 12 The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy
• 13 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
• 14 The Extraordinary Mark Twain "According to Susy" by Barbara Kerley
• 15 The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
• 16 Random House Book of Poetry by J. Prelutsky and A. Lobel: "Rhyme", "The Months", "The Bat", "The Camel's Complaint", "Meg's Egg", "The Bluffalo", "Habits of the Hippopotamus", "Lumps"
• 17 The Enormous Crocodile by Roald Dahl
• 18 Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Maritn
• 19 Many Moons by James Thurber
• 20 Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine by Evaline Ness
• 21 This Is New York by Miroslav Sasek
• 22 The Bears on Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh
• 23 A Mouse Called Wolf by Dick King-Smith, Chapters 1-8
• 24 A Mouse Called Wolf by Dick King-Smith, Chapters 9-11
• 25 Random House Book of Poetry by J. Prelutsky and A. Lobel: "Mountain Brook", "Until I Saw the Sea", "Paper Dragons", "April Rain Song", "Mark's Fingers", "Feelings About Words", "What is Orange?", "What is Red?", "Foul Shot"
• 26 The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner, Chapters 1-5
• 27 The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner, Chapters 6-9
• 28 The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner, Chapters 10-13
• 29 My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett, Chapters 1-6
• 30 My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett, Chapter 7-10
• 31 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola, Chapters 1-5
• 32 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola, Chapters 6-9
• 33 Random House Book of Poetry by J. Prelusky and A. Lobel: "Trees", "Spring", "Cats", "Sing a Song of Subways", "Sing a Song of People", "Turtle Soup", "Poor Old Lady", "Solomon Grundy", "What Is Pink?"
• 34 Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater, Chapters 1-8
• 35 Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater, Chapters 9-16
• 36 Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater, Chapters 17-20