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Third Grade Reading List

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This page has a suggested third grade reading list.

If your child is in second grade and is ready for books that are more challenging to read, it is OK to move up.

Also, if your child is struggling with reading in fourth grade it is OK to revisit these books to help build up their confidence and reading skills.


Chapter Books

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume

Bunnicula by Deborah and James Howe

Skinnybones by Barbara Park

The Hoboken Chicken Emergency by Daniel Manus Pinkwater

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White


Popular Series

Catch That Pass! by Matt Christopher

Amber Brown series by Paula Danziger

The Time Warp Trio series by John Scieszka

Encyclopedia Brown series by Donald Sobol

Boxcar Children series by Gertrude Chandler Warner


Click here for more series books.


Read Alouds

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

Frindle by Andrew Clements

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman

The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton

Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth

by E. L. Konigsberg

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor


Nonfiction Books

My Name is Maria Isabel by Alma Flor Ada

Teammates by Peter Golenback

Helen Keller by Stewart and Polly Ann Graff

Band of Angels by Deborah Hopkinson

Days of the Knights by Christopher Maynard


More Great Books for Third Grade

The Case of the Elevator Duck by Polly Berrien Berends

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins by Barbara Kerley

Look to the North: A Wolf Pup Diary by Jean Craighead George

The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes

Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary

The Story of Jumping Mouse by John Steptoe

Superfudge by Judy Blume


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Click here for the Second Grade List.


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