Books for Truman Second Grade

Can't you just tell looking at this face, that this boy likes to laugh! 

Here are some books that will keep him smiling!

Adler, David A. The many troubles of Andy Russell / Book #1 / Series: Andy Russell. 1st Gulliver Books pbk. ed. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, 1999, c1998.

When some of his gerbils escape and he gets in trouble for not paying attention in class, fourth-grader Andy Russell worries about asking if a friend can move in with his family--especially when he learns that his mother is going to have another baby.

Blume, Judy. Tales of a fourth grade nothing. New York : Dutton Children's Books, c1972.

Peter finds his demanding two-year-old brother an ever increasing problem.

Dowell, Frances O'Roark. Erupts! 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 2007.



Fourth-grade science whiz Phineas MacGuire is forced to team up with the new boy in class on a science fair project, but the boy's quirky personality causes Phineas to wonder if they have any chance of winning.

Greene, Stephanie. Owen Foote, mighty scientist. New York : Clarion Books, c2004.



Third grade best friends Owen and Joseph struggle to come up with a great science fair project that they will both enjoy doing, then something goes wrong and they have to change their plans two days before the fair.

Greene, Stephanie. Owen Foote, super spy. 1st Clarion pbk. ed. New York : Clarion, 2005, c2001.

Owen and his friends learn the consequences of knowing too much when they decide it will be a fun challenge to spy on the school principal at his own home.

McDonald, Megan. Stink and the great Guinea Pig Express. 1st ed. Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 2008.



Stink Moody, friends Webster and Sophie, and Mrs. Birdwistle visit tourist attractions in Virginia as they try to give away 101 guinea pigs rescued from a laboratory, although Stink is very reluctant to relinquish his favorite, Astro.

McDonald, Megan. Stink and the incredible super-galactic jawbreaker. 1st ed. Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 2006.



Seven-year-old Stink Moody, having discovered that he can get free samples by writing letters of complaint to companies, gets so caught up in his letter writing campaign that he misses his best friend's birthday, but he plans a super surprise to make up for his mistake.

McDonald, Megan. Stink and the world's worst super-stinky sneakers. 1st ed. Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 2007.



A class visit to the Gross-Me-Out exhibit at the science museum inspires Stink Moody to create a variety of terrible smells to put on the sneakers he plans to enter in the World's Worst Super-Stinky Sneaker contest.

Rockwell, Thomas. How to eat fried worms. New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, [1988], c1973.

Two boys set out to prove that worms can make a delicious meal.

Sachar, Louis, 1954-. Sideways stories from Wayside School. New York : Avon, [1998], c1978.

Humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story.

Spinelli, Jerry. Fourth grade rats. New York : Scholastic, c1991.



Suds learns that his best friend is wrong. You don't have to be a tough guy, a "rat," to be a grown up fourth grader.