2nd Grade Read Alouds

Celia is like other girls her age: she’s happy, she likes to have friends, and loves to learn and get to know new places. However, she has somethi...

Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the bus across town. But today, CJ wonders why they don't own a car like his friend Colby. Why ...

Maomao’s father goes to work all year long. He builds houses far away from the city and he only returns for the Chinese New Year celebration. His ...

Marwan’s Journey is made out of courage and memory. Very far, in his land, live his memories.Marwan is a boy that, next to a million other human b...

Natuk and White Bear are the very best of friends. But when a terrible catastrophe strikes the village, they might be separated forever. A winter ...

There are places that remind us of happy moments. Zoe, a little girl who has to flee from her city with her family because of a war, remembers the...

Two African-American boys and their Russian American 'sister' want to buy their 'gramma' that special Easter bonnet she admired at Mr. Kodinski's ...

A laugh-out-loud funny and charming picture book about being yourself and understanding others.

The sun lights the day and the moon lights the night, and morning seldom breaks to find them both up in the sky. But when the moon does stay up pa...

Set in an indigenous Mixtec village in the artist’s own Oaxaca, Mexico, the story involves an evil healer, a good healer and his extraordinary fel...

When Ping admits that he is the only child in China unable to grow a flower from the seeds distributed by the Emperor, he is rewarded for his hone...

According to this Nigerian legend, many, many years ago, the Sun and the Moon lived on Earth. Children will love seeing how they ended up living i...

That’s where her Cuban family comes in. While some of the Cucarachas offer her gifts to make her more attractive, only Abuela, her grandmother, gi...

  Neither the ducks nor the cats nor the bears have come to my party... Does anyone have a trick for making friends? Pocosmimos is a very small bea...

Carmen, Marcelino, Lupita, and Martín live in different countries of Latin America. Through verses and illustrations, they hold us by the hand and...

A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire.

To complete a school project, Eric has to see the new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum during his Christmas vacation. His grandmother promises t...

Disliking her name as written in English, Korean-born Yoon, or "shining wisdom," refers to herself as "cat," "bird," and "cupcake," as a way to fe...

Amelia Luisa Martinez hates roads. Los caminos, the roads, take her migrant worker family to fields where they labor all day, to schools where no ...

It was Danilito's first day in America. He and his parents have just made a long, exhausting move from the Caribbean to New York City. The ocean a...

Kalak lives with his family in a part of the world where the nests are old, the roofs are all damaged, the earth is dry, and there is never enough...

At first, Trisha loves school, but her difficulty learning to read makes her feel dumb, until, in the fifth grade, a new teacher helps her underst...

Paula and Beto live in an apartment with their parents, but they long to spend time outside the city. Sometimes their parents take them to a beach...

In this tale from a Spanish duo, a good-natured young man struggles to say no to things he’d rather not do.