Third Grade Reading List


Coming Soon!!

Amber Brown is Not a Crayon
by Paula Danziger – J DANZIGE

As Amber tells her teasing third-grade classmates, she's not a crayon color but a girl--messy but well adjusted, lucky in a teacher who makes a game of studying other countries, trying to forget that best-friend Justin is moving to Alabama as soon as his parents can sell their house.

Harriet the Spy
by Louise Fitzhugh – J FITZHUG

Eleven-year-old Harriet writes down everything she knows about everyone in a secret notebook, including her classmates, neighbors, and best friends. But one day her notebook falls into the wrong hands….

Encyclopedia Brown Saves the Day
by Donald Sobol – J SOBOL

Two kidnapped pigs... A boy with wings... And a foot-warmer inventor who accidentally puts his own foot right in his mouth! These are just some of the ten brain-twisting mysteries that Encyclopedia Brown must solve by using his famous computerlike brain. Try to crack the cases along with him--the answer to all the mysteries are found in the back!

Strange Mysteries From Around the World
 by Seymour Simon – J 001.9 SIMON

Describes ten strange natural phenomena and possible explanations for them, including the day it rained frogs, an atomic explosion that occurred forty years before the atom bomb, and an eerie crystal skull.

Jumanji
by Chris Wan Allsburg – E VAN ALL

Left on their own for an afternoon, two bored and restless children find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical jungle adventure board game.

The Mouse and the Motorcycle
by Beverly Cleary – J CLEARY

A reckless young mouse named Ralph makes friends with a boy in room 215 of the Mountain View Inn and discovers the joy of motorcycling.

Nasty Stinky Sneakers
by Eve Bunting – J BUNTING

Will ten-year-old Colin find his missing stinky sneakers in time to enter The Stinkiest Sneakers in the World contest?

Thunder Cake
by Patricia Polacco – E POLACCO

Grandma consoles her frightened granddaughter by telling her that the dark clouds of the impending storm are nothing more than the ingredients for a Thunder Cake.

Librarian From the Black Lagoon
by Mike Thaler – E THALER

Despite her status as the school librarian, Mrs. Beamster is known by all the kids as "The Laminator"" because she is said to laminate anyone who is caught whispering….

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
by A. Wolf-Scieszka by Jon Scieszka
E SCIESZK

The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs.