2020s books assigned in 2nd grade

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• Buffalo Fluffalo · Bess Kalb
• Butt or Face? · Kari Lavelle
• Call Me Roberto!: Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos · Nathalie Alonso
• Chez Bob · Bob Shea
• Chooch Helped · Andrea L. Rogers
• Concrete: From the Ground Up · Larissa Theule
• Cornbread & Poppy · Matthew Cordell
• Cotorras Sobre Puerto Rico · Susan L. Roth
• Dadaji's Paintbrush · Rashmi Sirdeshpande
• Daughter of the Light-Footed People · Belen Medina
• De aquí como el coquí · Nomar Perez
• Dear Primo · Duncan Tonatiuh
• Don't Think of Tigers · Alex Latimer
• Don't Trust Cats: Life Lessons from Chip the Dog · Dev Petty
• Donut Feed the Squirrels · Mika Song
• Endlessly Ever After: Pick YOUR Path to Countless Fairy Tale Endings! · Laurel Snyder
• Except Antarctica! · Todd Sturgell
• Exclamation Mark! · Amy Krouse Rosenthal
• Eyes That Kiss in the Corners · Joanna Ho
• Farmhouse · Sophie Blackall
• Fireworks · Matthew Burgess
• Fly · Brittany J. Thurman
• Forever Cousins · Laurel Goodluck
• Fox at Night · Corey R. Tabor
• Fox Has a Problem · Corey R. Tabor
• Gibberish · Young Vo
• Gifts from the Garbage Truck · Andrew Larsen
• Greetings, Floof! · C. J. Hong
• Growing an Artist: The Story of a Landscaper and His Son · John Parra
• Haiku, Ew! Celebrating the Disgusting Side of Nature · Lynn Brunelle
• Hidden Hope: How a Toy and a Hero Saved Lives During the Holocaust · Elisa Boxer
• Honey, the Dog Who Saved Abe Lincoln · Shari Swanson
• Hot Dog · Doug Salati
• How Dinosaurs Went Extinct: A Safety Guide · Ame Dyckman
• How This Book Got Red · Margaret Chiu Greanias
• How to Eat a Book · MacLeod
• How to Make a Peanut Butter Sandwich in 17 Easy Steps · Bambi Edlund
• How to Stay Invisible · Maggie C. Rudd
• I Am a Tornado · Drew Beckmeyer
• I Know How to Draw an Owl · Hilary Horder Hippely
• I Lived Inside a Whale · Xin Li
• I Talk Like a River · Jordan Scott
• Ice Cream Everywhere: Sweet Stories from Around the World · Judy Campbell-Smith
• John's Turn · Mac Barnett
• Jose Feeds the World · David Unger
• Just Like Millie · Lauren Castillo
• King of Ragtime · Stephen Costanza
• Knight Owl · Christopher Denise
• Knight Owl and Early Bird · Christopher Denise
• Kumo · Kyo Maclear
• Leaf Man Board Book · Lois Ehlert
• Like · Annie Barrows
• Little Ghost Makes a Friend · Maggie Edkins Willis
• Little Red Riding Hood (40th Anniversary Edition) · Trina Schart Hyman
• Me & Mama · Cozbi A. Cabrera
• Me Gusta · Angela Dominguez
• Mexikid · Pedro Martín
• Midnight and Moon · Kelly Cooper
• Millie Fleur's Poison Garden · Christy Mandin
• Milloo's Mind · Reem Faruqi
• Mr. Fox's Game of "No!" · David LaRochelle
• Mr. S · Monica Arnaldo
• My Daddy Is a Cowboy · Stephanie Seales
• Navigating Night · Julie Leung
• Night in the City · Julie Downing
• No Cats in the Library · Lauren Emmons
• Norman Didn't Do It! · Ryan T. Higgins
• Not All Sheep Are Boring! · Bobby Moynihan
• Oh No, the Aunts Are Here · Adam Rex
• One Day This Tree Will Fall · Leslie Barnard Booth
• Our Planet! There's No Place Like Earth · Stacy McAnulty
• Over and Under the Rainforest · Kate Messner
• Poopsie Gets Lost · Hannah E. Harrison
• R-E-S-P-E-C-T · Carole Boston Weatherford
• See the Cat: Three Stories About a Dog · David LaRochelle
• Sir Ladybug · Corey R. Tabor
• Some of Us · Rajani Larocca
• Something, Someday · Amanda Gorman
• Sonadores (Dreamers) · Yuyi Morales
• Squirrel-Ish · Bambi Edlund
• Standing in the Need of Prayer · Carole Boston Weatherford
• Summer Vamp · Violet Chan Karim
• Swim Team · Johnnie Christmas
• Swing · Audrey Meeker
• Symphony for a Broken Orchestra: How Philadelphia Collected Sounds to Save Music · Amy Ignatow
• Thank a Farmer · Maria Gianferrari
• That's Not My Name! · Anoosha Syed
• The Aquanaut · Dan Santat
• The Barnabus Project · Terry Fan
• The Bear and the Moon · Matthew Burgess
• The Bees of Notre-Dame · Meghan Browne
• The Box Turtle · Vanessa Roeder
• The Coquíes Still Sing · Karina Nicole González
• The Dream Catcher · Marcelo Verdad
• The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza · Mac Barnett
• The Golden Hour · Niki Smith
• The Great Stink · Colleen Paeff
• The Guardian Test (Legends of Lotus Island #1) · Christina Soontornvat
• The Man Who Didn't Like Animals · Deborah Underwood
• The One and Only Ruby · Katherine Applegate
• The People's Painter · Cynthia Levinson
• The Puffin Keeper · Michael Morpurgo
• The Three Billy Goats Gruff · Mac Barnett
• The Yawns Are Coming · Christopher Eliopoulos
• The Yellow Bus · Loren Long
• There Might Be Lobsters · Carolyn Crimi
• There Was a Party for Langston · Jason Reynolds
• There's a Ghost in This House · Oliver Jeffers
• This Is Not My Hat · Jon Klassen
• Time to Make Art · Jeff Mack
• Tomfoolery! · Michelle Markel
• Two Dogs · Ian Falconer
• Two New Years · Richard Ho
• Unspeakable · Carole Boston Weatherford
• Ursula Upside Down · Corey R. Tabor
• Victory. Stand! · Tommie Smith
• Watch Out for the Lion! · Brooke Hartman
• Watercress · Andrea Wang
• We Are Water Protectors · Carole Lindstrom
• We Go Slow · Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
• Welcome to Scare School · Jarrett Lerner
• Whalesong: The True Story of the Musician Who Talked to Orcas · Zachariah OHora
• When Alexander Graced the Table · Alexander Smalls
• When You Can Swim · Jack Wong
• Where Butterflies Fill the Sky: A Story of Immigration, Family, and Finding Home · Zahra Marwan
• Whirligigs: The Wondrous Windmills of Vollis Simpson's Imagination · Carole Boston Weatherford
• Wild Blue: Taming a Big-Kid Bike · Dashka Slater
• William Still and His Freedom Stories · Don Tate
• Witchlings · Claribel A. Ortega
• Wombat Said Come In · Carmen Agra Deedy
• Yoshi and the Ocean: A Sea Turtle's Incredible Journey Home · Lindsay Moore
• Yoshi, Sea Turtle Genius · Lynne Cox
• You're So Amazing! · James Catchpole
• Yuna's Cardboard Castles · Marie Tang
• Zap! Clap! Boom!: The Story of a Thunderstorm · Laura Purdie Salas