The following booklist is meant to help identify some
quality books and
authors that might be appropriate for third grade children. Several of these
books we read together in literacy class as marked by the ****.
****Aesop’s Fables retold by Jerry Pinkney.
Here
are 60 of Aesop's tales with wonderful illustrations.
Amber Brown is Not a Crayon by Paul Danziger
Amber learns her best friend is moving to Alabama.
Be A Perfect Person In Just Three Days by Stephen Manes
Milo, tired of problems with his sister, parents, and classmates, finds a book
in the library that promises to make him perfect in just three days.
Bears on
Hemlock Hill by Alice Dagleish.
Only
Jonathan believed that there were bears on Hemlock Mountain.
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler
Warner (Series)
The resourceful Alden children survive without adult supervision and make a
home for themselves in an abandoned boxcar.
****The Chalkbox Kid by Clyde Robert Bulla.
Gregory
makes a garden that surprises everyone at his new school.
Chocolate Fever by Robert Kimmel Smith
Henry Green develops the first recorded case of chocolate fever.
The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Remembering her mother’s words, an eight-year-old girl finds courage to go
alone with her father to build a new home in the wilderness and to stay with
the Indians when her father must go back to bring the rest of the family.
Encyclopedia
Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol (Series)
There are ten baffling mysteries for the boy detective and the reader to solve.
Encyclopedia’s solutions are included at the end of the book.
****Freckle Juice by Judy Blume.
Andrew
wants freckles, and he tries many strange recipes to get them.
George Washington’s Teeth by Deborah Chandra
and Madeleine Comora.
Did
George Washington have wooden teeth?
****The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein.
An apple tree shares everything with a boy from the time he is very young until he is very old.
How to Be Cool in the Third Grade by Betsy Duffy
Robbie decides that the only way he’ll survive the third grade is by being
cool.
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Billy bets his friends he can eat fifteen worms in fifteen days, and has to go
through with it.
Hundred-Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
Michael’s love for his great-great-aunt, who lives with them, leads him to
intercede with his mother, who wants to toss out all her old things.
Judy Moody by Megan McDonald
Third grader Judy Moody is in a first day of school bad mood until she gets an
assignment to create a collage all about herself and begins creating her
masterpiece, the Me collage.
****Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express by
Margaret K. Wetterer
Here is the true story of a young girl who braved a fierce storm to try to warn a train about a collapsed bridge.
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie by Connie and Peter Roop
Abbie
kept the lighthouse lamps lit during a fierce storm in 1856.
Knights of the Kitchen Table by Jon Scieszka
(Trilogy)
When Joe, Fred, and Sam are sent back in time by a magic book, they find
themselves face-to-face with giants, dragons, wizards, and the Knights of the
Round Table.
The Littles by John Peterson
Tiny people who live within the walls of the Biggs’ house, the Littles fear
mice.
The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl
When a girl of eight points her magic finder, a family of duck hunters sprout
wings and learn what it feels like to be hunted.
****Molly’s Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen
Molly must make a doll like a Pilgrim for the Thanksgiving display.
****Muggie
Maggie by Beverly Cleary
Maggie resists
learning cursive writing in the third grade, until she discovers that knowing
how to read and write cursive promises to open up an entirely new world of
knowledge for her.
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The Random House Book of Poetry for Children Selected
by Jack Prelutsky
More than 550 poems by
American, English and anonymous authors.
****Sarah Plain And Tall by Patricia MacLachian
Loving story of a motherless family and the tall, plain woman who comes to stay
with them.
Shoot For The Hoop by Matt Christopher
A boy with diabetes is kept off the basketball team by his parents.
Sideway Stories From Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Not only was the school build one room on top of another instead of next to
each other, everyone in it is a little mixed up, too.
S.O.R. Losers by Avi
Everyone at South Orange River Middle School is expected to participate in one
sport each year, and this is the story of a soccer team that would rather be
doing something else.
Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
Rooted in Rocky Mountain legend, this is the story of a 10-year-old boy and
legendary Indian, each determined to win a race and a prize.
Stuart Little by E. B. White
A heroic mouse sets out on a great adventure to find his
best friend.
****Tales of a Fourth
Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
Peter Hatcher has a terrible
problem – his 2-year-old little brother.
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