Summer Reading Lists

Entering Third Grade

The suggested reading selection to share with your child entering 3rd Grade this fall is any book written by Eve Bunting.  Books by this author will be the focus of our beginning literature activities in August.

Additional author and series lists are below.  However, please note these are only suggestions, there are many wonderful books available —the goal is to continue reading during the summer.

Reading List for Grade 3

Suggested Authors

Betsy Byars

Matt Christopher

Natalie Carlson

Roald Dahl

Kate DiCamillo

Dick Gackenbach

Gail Gibbons (non fiction)

Bette Greene

Kevin Henkes

Margaret Hiller

Julia Hoban

Syd Hoff

Dick King-Smith

Megan McDonald

Edward Marshall

Peggy Parrish

Barbara Porte

Thomas Rockwell

Cynthia Rylant

Louis Sachar

George Selden

Kate Spohn

Harriet Ziefert

      Suggested Series
· Avi-Poppy series

· Barbara Baker-Digby and Kate series

· Judy Blume-Fudge series

· Paulette Bourgeois-Franklin series

· Beverly Cleary-Ramona series

· Beverly Cleary-Henry Huggins series

· Debbie Dadey-Bailey School Kids

· Franklin Dixon-Hardy Boy series

· John Erickson-Hank the Cowdog

· James How-Bunnicula series

· Jonathan London-Froggy series

· Mary Norton—The Borrowers series

· Robert Newton Peck—Soup series

· Donald Sobol—Encyclopedia Brown series

· Gertrude Chandler Warner—Box Car Children series

· Laura Ingalls Wilder—Little House series

· Ron Roy—A to Z Mysteries

· Mary Pope Osborne—Magic Tree House

· Barbara Park—Junie B. Jones

· Keene—Nancy Drew

· Megan McDonald—Judy Moody

· Judy Delton—Pee Wee Scout
 

WEBSITES

http://www.wcs.edu/ges/media_center/mediacenter.htm

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com

www.enchantedlearning.com

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/audiences/kids

www.poetry4kids.com

www.gigglepoetry.com

www.scholastic.com/kids

www.timeforkids.com/kids