Third Grade Summer Reading List Have fun reading this summer! We have picked out lots of terrific books for you to choose from. You must read at least three books over the summer, but feel free to read as many more as you like. Please record all the books you read on the reading log. Bring the log to school with you on the first day of third grade. The three readers with the most amount of books read will win a prize on the first day of school! We are looking forward to seeing all the books you have read over the summer! Sincerely, The Third Grade Teachers
The following books are appropriate for ages 8-11: Chasing Vermeer, Blue Balliett The Wright 3, Blue Balliett The Calder Game, Blue Balliett Ellie McDoodle, Have Pen Will Travel, Ruth McNally Barshaw The Return of the Home Run Kid, Matt Christopher Medusa Jones, Ross Collins Spelling B and Missing Magic, Lexi Connor The BFG, Roald Dahl Matilda, Roald Dahl The Tale of Desperaux, Kate DiCamillo Ibby s Magic Weekend, Heather Dyer Dark Life, Kat Falls Dragon Rider, Cornelia Funke Coraline, Neil Gaiman Wait Till Helen Comes, Mary Downing Hahn Bird Lake Moon, Kevin Henkes Hoot, Kevin Henkes Aquamarine, Alice Hoffman Swindle, Gordon Korman The Black Pearl, Scott O Dell The Cricket in Times Square, George Seldon The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick My Father s Dragon, Ruth Gannett Stiles Dragon Breath, Ursula Vernon The Magnificent Mummy Maker, Elvira Woodruff The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Judy Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy, Jeanne Birdsall Freckle Juice, Judy Blume Cornelia and Audacious: Escapades of the Somerset Sisters Dear Mr. Henshaw, Beverly Cleary Henry and Ribsy, Beverly Cleary
Woodsong, Gary Paulsen Stuart Goes to School, Sara Pennypacker Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls Math Curse, Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith Gully s Travels, Tor Seidler & Brock Cole Dolphin Song, Lauren St. John Smile, Raina Telgemeier A Crooked Kind of Perfect, Linda Urban Charlotte s Web, E.B. White Sweet and Sunny, Coleen Murtagh Partore Lawn Boy, Gary Paulsen Room One: A Mystery or Two, Andrew Clements & Mark Elliott Lost and Found, Andrew Clements The Lemonade War, Jacqueline Davies Because of Winn Dixie, Kate DiCarmillo Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little, Peggy Gifford Violet Raines Almost Got Struck By Lightning, Danette Haworth Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid, Megan McDonald Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan Shiloh, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor How to Steal a Dog, Barbara O Connor Cam Janson Adventures- Adler Who Stole the Wizard of Oz?- Avi Ivy and Bean- Barrows, Bergen Jake Drake, Teacher s Pet- Andrew Clements Help! I m a Prisoner in the Library- Clifford Wild Willie Mysteries (series)- Joose The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins- Kerley Stories Huey Tells- Cameron The Spiderwick Chronicles- Black Year of the Book- Cheng A Hare-Raising Tale: A Flecher Mystery- Levy
Getting Through Thursday- Cooper The Upside-Down Reader- Gruber My Weird School (series)- Gutman Great Serum Race: Blazing the Iditarod Trail- Miller The Meanest Hound Around- Wallace The World According to Humphrey- Betty Birney The Chocolate Touch- Patrick Catling QB Blitz- Matt Christopher Jake Drake: Class Clown- Andrew Clements Fortunately, the Milk- Neil Gaiman The Get Rich Quick Club- Dan Gutman Young Zeus- Brian Karas The Water Horse- Dick King-Smith The Adventures of a South Pole Pig- Chris Kurtz Year of the Dog- Grace Lin Akimbo and the Elephants- Alexander McCall The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins- Barbara Kerley Sin-in: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down- Andrea Davis Pinkney Jack Adrift- Jack Gantos A Tale Dark & Grimm- Adam Gidwitz Jackie and Me- Dan Gutman Raymond & Graham, Cool Campers- Mike Knudson Kensuke s Kingdom- Michael Morpurgo
The False Prince- Jennifer A. Nielson Code Busters Club: The Secret of the Skelton Key- Penny Warner Eleven Planets: A New View of the Solar System- David Aguilar Boredom Blasters- Helaine Becker Into the Forest- Anthony Browne Who s Afraid of the Big Bad Book?- Lauren Child Young Pele: Soccer s First Star- Lesa Cline-Ransom Phineas L. MacGuire Erupts- Frances O Roark Dowell The Onts- Dan Greenburg Living Color- Steve Jenkins We Can t All Be Rattlesnakes- Patrick Jennings Captain Raptor and the Moon Mystery- Kevin O Malley How Oliver Olson Changed the World- Claudia Mills Jack and the Seven Deadly Giants- Sam Swope Precious and the Boo Hag- Patricia McKissack One Beetle Too Many- Kathryn Lasky *This list is just a selection of all the wonderful books there are just waiting to be read!* For other suggestions go to: www.scholastic.com/summer www.bcpl.info *The Children s Bookstore in Roland Park has a knowledgeable staff that always has great suggestions for suitable books for soon-to-be fourth graders!* Have a fun-filled summer and read lots of books!!
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