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PPS Books for Relaxing Reading Grades K-2, Authors A to B

This is the 2009 summer reading list for grades K-2 from the Pittsburgh Public Schools. Print the list.

Book cover Cam Jansen and the Triceratops Pops Mystery

When Cam Jansen and her friend Eric go the music store at the mall for the latest CD by the Triceratops Pops band, Cam uses her photographic memory to foil a crime.

Book cover The Princess and the Pizza

An out-of-work princess applies to become the bride of Prince Drupert, but first she must pass several tests, including a cooking contest.

Book cover The Tale of Tricky Fox: A New England Trickster Tale

Tricky Fox uses his sack to trick everyone he meets into giving him ever more valuable items.

Book cover If You Were Born a Kitten

Simply describes how various baby animals come into the world and what happens when a human baby is born.

Book cover The Berenstain Bears in the Dark

When Brother Bear brings a spooky book from the library, bedtime and the dark become ominous and threatening to Sister Bear.

Book cover The Best Place to Read

A young child with a new book hunts inside and outside the house before finding the right chair for reading.

Book cover Freckle Juice

Andrew wants freckles so badly that he buys Sharon's freckle recipe for fifty cents.

Book cover Soupy Saturdays with the Pain & the Great One

Revisits the sometimes challenging relationship between a six-year-old (The Pain) and his eight-year-old sister (The Great One) through seven chapters featuring such events as learning to ride a bicycle, having a birthday party, and dog-sitting.

Book cover The Mitten: A Ukrainian Folktale

Several animals sleep snugly in Nicki's lost mitten until the bear sneezes.

Book cover Flat Stanley

A picture book version of the story in which a bulletin board falls on Stanley while he is sleeping, and he finds that being flat has its advantages.

Book cover Arthur's New Puppy

Arthur's new puppy causes problems when it tears the living room apart, wets on everything, and refuses to wear a leash.

Book cover Stone Soup

When three hungry soldiers come to a town where all the food has been hidden, they set out to make soup of water and stones, and all the town enjoys a feast.

Book cover My Dad

A child describes the many wonderful things about "my dad," who can jump over the moon, swim like a fish, and be as warm as toast.

Book cover Bad Kitty

When a kitty discovers there is no cat food in the house, she decides to become very, very bad.