Third Grade Reading List
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 Click here to make suggestions for the Third Grade Reading List. Click here for the Second Grade List. Click here to visit the Joy of Reading Book Shop!
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