Back Quick Picks for 2nd Grade | Book List

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  Quick Picks for 2nd Grade  
Cilla Lee-Jenkins: Future Author Extraordinaire

Susan Tan - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover

"Meeting Cilla felt like making a new best friend." -- Grace Lin, bestselling author of Newbery Honor book Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Priscilla "Cilla" Lee-Jenkins is on a tight deadline. Her baby sister is about to be born, and Cilla needs to become a bestselling...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle

Brian Dennis - Little
Format: Print book

Nubs, an Iraqi dog of war, never had a home or a person of his own. He was the leader of a pack of wild dogs living off the land and barely surviving. But Nubs's life changed when he met Marine Major Brian Dennis. The two formed a fast friendship, made stronger by Dennis's willingness to share...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Mia Mayhem Is a Superhero!

Kara West - Little Simon
Format: Paperback

Meet Mia Macarooney, an ordinary eight-year-old who finds out she has an extraordinary super-secret in this first chapter book in the brand-new Mia Mayhem series!Mia Macarooney is a regular eight-year-old girl who finds out that she's A SUPERHERO! Her life literally goes from totally...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute: Lunch Lady #1

Jarrett Krosoczka - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

Serving justice . . . and lunch!Hector, Terrence, and Dee have always wondered about their school lunch lady. What does she do when she isn't dishing out the daily special? Where does she live? Does she have a lot of cats at home? Little do they know, Lunch Lady doesn't just serve...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Princess in Black

Shannon Hale - Candlewick Press (MA)
Format: Paperback

Who says princesses don't wear black? When trouble raises its blue monster head, Princess Magnolia ditches her flouncy dresses and becomes the Princess in Black!Princess Magnolia is having hot chocolate and scones with Duchess Wigtower when . . . Brring! Brring! The monster alarm! A big blue...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Willa the Wisp

Jonathan Auxier - Amulet Books
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to the Fabled Stables, a magical building filled with one-of-a-kind creatures. Creatures including the Gargantula, the Yawning Abyss, the Hippopotamouse . . . and Auggie. Auggie is the only human boy at the Stables, and he takes care of all the other animals. The Fabled Stables...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Dragons in a Bag

Zetta Elliott - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

The dragon's out of the bag in this diverse, young urban fantasy from an award-winning author!When Jaxon is sent to spend the day with a mean old lady his mother calls Ma, he finds out she's not his grandmother--but she is a witch! She needs his help delivering baby dragons to a magical...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Bo's Magical New Friend: A Branches Book

Rebecca Elliott - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Library Binding

Meet Rainbow Tinseltail and the unicorns of Sparklegrove Forest, in this magical series from the creator of the bestselling Owl Diaries series!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Flying Beaver Brothers and the Evil Penguin Plan

Maxwell Eaton III - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback

Meet Ace and Bub, the flying beaver brothers! Ace loves extreme sports and is always looking for a new adventure. Bub loves napping and, well, napping. But when penguins threaten to freeze Beaver Island for "resort and polar-style living," the brothers put their talents to work...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Missy Piggle-Wiggle and the Whatever Cure

Ann M Martin - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Print book

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has gone away unexpectedly and left her niece, Missy Piggle-Wiggle, in charge of the Upside-Down House and the beloved animals who live there: Lester the pig, Wag the dog, and Penelope the parrot, among others. Families in town soon realize that like her great-aunt, Missy...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

Judy Blume - Berkley
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Life with his little brother, Fudge, makes Peter Hatcher feel like a fourth grade nothing. Whether Fudge is throwing a temper tantrum in a shoe store, smearing mashed potatoes on the walls at Hamburger Heaven, or trying to fly, he's never far from trouble. He's an almost three-year-old...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Inspector Flytrap

Tom Angleberger - Amulet Books
Format: Print book

From husband-and-wife team Tom Angleberger, creator of the New York Times bestselling Origami Yoda series, and Cece Bell, author/illustrator of the Newbery Honor graphic novel El Deafo, comes the start to a funny and clever illustrated chapter-book series about a mystery-solving Venus flytrap....
Read More check catalog
 
 
Clementine

Sara Pennypacker - Disney Book Group
Format: eBook

Clementine is having not so good of a week. On Monday she's sent to the principal's office for cutting off Margaret's hair. Tuesday, Margaret's mother is mad at her. Wednesday, she's sent to the principal...again. Thursday, Margaret stops speaking to her. Friday starts...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Plant a Pocket of Prairie

Phyllis Root - Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Hardcover

Author Phyllis Root and illustrator Betsy Bowen last explored the vast, boggy peatlands of northern Minnesota in their book Big Belching Bog. Now, in Plant a Pocket of Prairie, Root and Bowen take young readers on a trip to another of Minnesota’s important ecosystems: the prairie.Once...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things

Lenore Look - Schwartz & Wade Books
Format: Hardcover

Here's the first book in the beloved and hilarious Alvin Ho chapter book series, which has been compared to Diary of a Wimpy Kid and is perfect for both beginning and reluctant readers. Alvin, an Asian American second grader, is afraid of everything - elevators, tunnels, girls,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Mystery of the Gold Coin

Harper Paris - Little Simon
Format: Paperback

In the first book of this new chapter book series about mystery, travel, and adventure, twins Ethan and Ella must find a missing coin before they move away from their hometown!When Ethan and Ella learn that their mother has accepted the position of travel writer for The Brookeston Times,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Real Pigeons Fight Crime (Book 1)

ANDREW MCDONALD - Yearling
Format: Paperback

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's - wait, it really IS a bird! Take another look, because what looks like an ordinary pigeon might just be a hero saving your butt! Meet the crime-fighting pigeons secretly flying around chasing bad guys in this hilarious illustrated series perfect...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Earth's Hottest Place and Other Earth Science Records

Martha E. H. Rustad - Pebble Plus
Format: Library Binding

Where is the worlds tallest tree? Where is the biggest cave? Crack open this book to find out!
Read More check catalog
 
 
Luke on the Loose: TOON Level 2

Harry Bliss - Toon Books
Format: Hardcover

Luke looks on at the pigeons in Central Park, while Dad is lost in boring Daddy talk, and before you know itLUKE IS ON THE LOOSE! Hes free as a bird, on a hilarious solo flight through New York City.,
Read More check catalog
 
 
How Things Work: Facts and fun, questions and answers, things to make and do

Sophie Dauvois - Thames & Hudson, 2015. ©2015
Format: Print book

An interactive book that answers all the questions young children have about how things work, from the creators of the innovative art-and-science magazine and television showHow Things Work is designed to appeal to and encourage the curiosity that young children have about the objects around...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Jo Jo Makoons: The Used-to-Be Best Friend

Dawn Quigley - Heartdrum
Format: Paperback

Hello/Boozhoo - meet Jo Jo Makoons! Full of pride, joy, and plenty of humor, this first book in an all-new chapter book series by Dawn Quigley celebrates a spunky young Ojibwe girl who loves who she is. Jo Jo Makoons Azure is a spirited seven-year-old who moves through the world a little...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Juana and Lucas

Juana Medina - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2017 Pura Belpré Author AwardFans of Judy Moody and Clarice Bean will love Juana, the spunky young Colombian girl who stars in this playful, abundantly illustrated new series.. Juana loves many things - drawing, eating Brussels sprouts, living in Bogotá, Colombia, and especially...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Zita the spacegirl

Ben Hatke - First Second

When young Zita discovers a device that opens a portal to another place, and her best friend is abducted, she is compelled to set out on a strange journey from star to star in order to get back home.
Read More check catalog
 
 
Beezus and Ramona

Beverly Cleary - HarperCollins
Format: Print book

Ramona Quimby is the youngest of all the famous characters in Mrs. Cleary's wonderful Henry Huggins stories. She is also far and away the most deadly. Readers of the earlier books will remember that Ramona has always been a menace to Beezus, her older sister, to Henry, and to his dog Ribsy....
Read More check catalog
 
 
How Big Were Dinosaurs?

Lita Judge - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to take a Velociraptor for a walk, or try to brush a Tyrannosaur's teeth? We think of dinosaurs as colossal giants, but how big were they REALLY? With kid-friendly text and seriously silly illustrations, this fact-filled book puts dinosaurs next...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Mindy Kim and the Yummy Seaweed Business

Lyla Lee - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover

Fresh Off the Boat meets Junie B. Jones in this first novel in an adorable new chapter book series about Mindy Kim, a young Asian American girl who is starting a snack business!Mindy Kim just wants three things: 1. A puppy! 2. To fit in at her new school 3. For her dad to be happy again...
Read More check catalog