Recommended Books for Kids In Third Grade
Encourage them to read books that will stretch them but let them also read books that are quick and easy because reading should be enjoyable. Continue reading-aloud…children’s understanding far surpasses their reading ability!
- Saturday (and Sunday)
- Cazet
- Henry Huggins (6 titles)
- Cleary
- Ramona The Pest (8 titles)
- Cleary
- Flatfoot Fox
- Clifford
- Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
- Coerr
- Molly’s Pilgrim
- Cohen
- The BFG
- Dahl
- Youch It Bites! Real-life Monsters
- Day
- The Whipping Boy
- Fleishman
- Pippi Longstocking (4 titles)
- Lindgren
- Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (4 titles)
- MacDonald
- Amelia’s Notebook (8 titles)
- Moss
- The Adventures of Captain Underpants (4 titles)
- Pilkey
- Cut From The Same Cloth (short stories)
- San Souci
- Where The Sidewalk Ends (poetry)
- Silverstein
- The Boxcar Children (83 titles)
- Warner
- Little House On The Prairie (9 titles)
- Wilder
- American Girl Books (7 girls, 6 books each, historical)
- various authors
