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Summer Reading Program List for Grades 2 – 4

RC = Book on Cassette            BR = Braille         

  1. Amber was Brave, Essie Was Smart: The Story of Amber & Essie Told Here in Poems & Pictures by Vera B. Williams.
    Two sisters adjust to having their father in jail.                  RC54618
  2. Billy Jo Jive & the Case of the Missing Pigeons by John Shearer.
    Billy Jo and his sidekick search for a pigeon thief.       RC14876

  3. Cam Jansen…Monkey House by David Adler.
    Cam and her friend Eric investigate missing monkey from zoo. RC26085, BR8047
  4. Changes for Felicity: A Winter Story by Valerie Tripp.
    Felicity’s grandfather helps her friend’s father who’s in jail.                    RC43766
  5. Flatfoot Fox & the Case of the Bashful Beaver by Eth Clifford.
    Bashful Beaver asks detective Flatfoot Fox to find bag of buttons. RC43102
  6. Ghost Trap:  A Wild Willie Mystery by Barbara Joosse.
    Willie’s friend Kyle moves into a mysterious house. RC52510
  7. The Great McGoniggle’s Key Play by Scott Corbett.
    McGoniggle and his friend become involved in a jewel theft.         RC28089
  8. Kaya’s Escape: A Survival Story by Janet Shaw.
    Enemy horse raiders kidnap Kaya & her blind sister from their Nez Pierce village. RC56107, BR14607
  9. The Losers Fight Back: A Wild Willie Mystery by Barbara Joosse.
    Willie & Lucy figure out how to make their soccer team winners. RC52476
  10. A Mammoth Mix-Up: A Brian & Pea Brain Mystery by Elizabeth Levy.              Brian & Penny “Pea Brain” search for a missing   mammoth tusk they found in their backyard. RC54395
  11. Matt’s Mitt by Marilyn Sachs.
    An old baseball mitt Matt got as a baby makes baseball history.  RC10372
  12. The Panda Puzzle by Ron Roy.
    Dink, Josh & Ruth Rose investigate a baby panda kidnapping.  RC57693, BR15059
  13. The Quicksand Question by Ron Roy.
    Dink & friends try to find stolen money. RC57791, BR15057
  14. The Runaway Racehorse by Ron Roy.
    Dink & friends try to find out why a racehorse loses a race.                   BR14966
  15. The Seeing Stone: The Spiderwick Chronicles #2 by Tony DiTerlizzi.
    Goblins kidnap Simon. Mallory & Jared have scary adv entures rescuing him.  RC56515, BR14984
  16. Sly the Sleuth & the Pet Mysteries by Donna Jo Napoli.
    Detective Sly “Sylvia” solves mysteries involving pets, friends, and neighbors. RC60344
  17. Stairway to Doom by Robert Quackenbush.
    Ducktective Miss Mallard investigates guest disappearances. RC28420
  18. Two Miss Mallard Mysteries: Surfboard to Peril & Stage Door to Terror by Robert Quackenbush.
    Miss Mallard solves cases in Hawaii and Paris. RC51945
  19. The Unwilling Umpire: A to Z Mysteries by Ron Roy.
    Dink & friends help umpire accused of stealing signed baseballs. BR15058
  20. Wild Willie & King Kyle, Detectives: A Wild Willie Mystery by Gloria Whelan.
    Willie takes a case spying on the girl who moves into a friend’s old house.     RC54524

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