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Book Lists

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100 Great Books to be
Read by 3rd Grade
A. Lincoln & Me
Loiuse W. Borden
Adrift
Allan Baillie
Amber Brown Goes Fourth
Paula Danzinger
Basket Moon
Mary Lyn Ray
The Battlefield Ghost
Margery Cuyler
Because of Winn Dixie
Kate Dicamillo
The Big, Orange Splot
D. Mamus Pinkwater
The Blue & the Gray
Eve Bunting
The Boxcar Children (series)
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Butterfly Buddies
Judy Cox
Captain Underpants (series)
Dav Pilkey
Catwings
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Chalk Box Kid
Clyde Robert Bulla
Chicken Little
Steven Kellogg
Come On, Rain!
Karen Hesse
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
Barbara Kerley
The Doll People
Ann M. Martin& Laura Godwin
Duke, the Dairy Delight Dog
Lisa Campbell Ernst
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
Donald J. Sobol
Fourth Grade Rats
Jerry Spinelli
Freckle Juice
Judy Blume
Godzilla Ate My Homework
Marcia Thornton James
Graduation of Jake Moon
Barbara Park
Henry Huggins
Beverly Cleary
Hill of Fire
Thomas P. Lewis
Horrible harry Moves Up to 3rd
Grade
Suzy Kline
I Was a 3rd Grade Science Project
Mary Jane Auch
Invisible in the 3rd Grade
Margery Cuyler
Junie B. Jones Is a Graduation Girl
Barbara zPark
The Just Desserts Club
Johanna Hurwitz
Kidnap at the Catfish Cafe
Patricia Reilly Giff
Lily & Miss Loberty
Carla Stevens
The Littles
John Peterson
A Llama in the Family
Johanna Hurwitz
The Magic of Spider Woman
Louis Duncan
The Magic School Bus (series)
Johanna Cole
The Magic Tree house (series)
Mary Pope Osborne
Marvin Redpost
Louis Sachar
Molly’s Pilgrim
Barbara Cohen
Monsters
Russell Hoban
The Mouse of Amherst
Elizabeth Spires
Muggie Maggie
Beverly Cleary
My Dog, My Hero
Betsy Byars
My Father’s Dragon
Rugh Stiles Gannett
My Friend the Monster
Clyde Robert Bulla
Not My Dog
Colby F. Rodowski
Ramona’s World
Beverly Cleary
Rats
Pat Hutchins
Ricky Ricotta’s Mighty Robot (series)
Dav Pilkey
Sable
Karen Hesse
Sam & the Tigers
Julius Lester
The Seventh Princess
Nick Sullivan
Show & Tell
Stephanie Greene
The Skirt
Gary Soto
The Stray Dog
Marc Simont
The Stories Julian Tells
Ann Cameron
Stuart’s Cape
Sara Pennypacker
Summer Wheels
Eve Bunting
A Symphony of Whales
Steve Shuch
The Teacher From the Black Lagoon
Mike Thaler
There’s an Owl in the Shower
Jean Craighead George
Though Cookie
David Wisniewski
Treasure Island
Lisa Norby
26 Fairmont Avenue
Tomie DePaola
Vampires Don’t Wear Polka Dots
Devvie Dadey & Marcia Jones
We the Kids: The Preamble to the
Constitution of the United States
David Catrow
The Zack Files (series)
Dan Greenburg
Poetry
Mrs. Cole on an Onion Roll
Kalli Dakos
The New Kid on the Block
Jack Prelutsky
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Shel Silverstein
Non-Fiction
Armies of Ants
Walter Retan
Betsy Ross
Alexandra Wallner
Betty Doll
Patricia Polacco
The Courage of Sarah Noble
Alice Dalgliesh
A Dinosuar Named Sue: The Find of the
Century
Fay Robinson
Do Bears Sleep All Winter?
Melvin & Gilda Berger
The Emperor’s Egg
Martin Jenkins
Everest: Reaching for the Sky
Joy Masoff
Extreme Machines
Christopher Maynard
Helping Paws: Dogs That Serve
Melinda Luke
I Am Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks
If You Lived in the Days of the Knights
Ann McGovern
The Keeping Quilt
Patricia Polacco
Pocahontas: An American Princess
Joyce Milton
Pompeii: Buried Alive
Edith Kunhardt
Secrets of the Mummies
Harriett Griffey
Shipwrecked! The True Adventure of a
Japanese Boy
Rhonda Blumberg
The Story of Anne Frank
Brenda Lewis Ralph
Teammates
Peter Golenbock
Titianic
Victoria Sherrow Under the Royal Palms: A
Childhood in Cuba Alma Flor Ada
What’s the Big Idea, Ben Franklin
Jean Fritz
Folktales,
Legends & Myths
The Adventures of Spider
Joyce Cooper Arkhurst
Borreguita & the Coyote: A Tale from Ayutla,
Mexico
Verna Aardema
The Bunyans
Audrey Wood
Flossie & the Fox
Patricia McKissack
Rapunzel
Paul O. Zelinsky & Jacob W. Grimm
A Sip of Aesop
Jane Yolen
Sleepless Beauty
Frances Minters
The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the
American South
Robert D. San Souci
100
Great Books to be Read by 4th Grade
The Adventures of Taxi Dog
Debra & Sal Barracca
Alexander & the Wind-Up Mouse
Leo Lionni
Alligator Shoes
Arthur Dorros
Amer Was Brave, Essie Was Smart
Vera B Willilams
Amelia Bedelia
Peggy Parish
Amos & Boris
William Steig
Aunt Flossie’s Hats
James Ransome
Barn Dance
Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault
The Bat Boy & His Violin
Gavin Curtis
Bear Shadow
Frank Asch
Bear’s Dream
Janet Slingsby
The Beast in Mrs. Rooney’s Room
Patricia Reilly Giff
Beezy
Megan McDonald
Big, Bad Wolf
Claire Masurel
The Biggest Fish
Sheila Keenan
Black Cat
Christopher Myers
Blind Men & the Elephant
Karen Backstein
Blueberries for Sal
Robert McCloskey
Bunny Cakes
Rosemary Wells
A Busy Year
Leo Lionni
A Chair for My Mother
Vera B. Williams
Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months
Maurice Sendak
Click, Clack, Moo: Cow That Type
Doreen Cronin
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Judi Barrett
Color of His Own
Leo Lionni
David Gets in Trouble
David Shannon
The Dog That Stole Football Plays
Matt Christopher
Drinking Gourd
F.N. Monujo
Eat Your Peas, Louse!
Pegeen Snow
Emma
Wendy Kesselman
Flat Stanley
Jeff Brown
The Flying Dragon Room
Audrey Wood
Frog & Toad Together
Arnold Lobel
Froggy Goes to School
Jonathan London
The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein
Grandma’s Records
Eric Velasquez
The Great Kapac Tree
Lynne Cherry
Henny Penny H.
Werner Zimmermann
I Was a Second Grade Werewolf
Daniel Manus Pinkwater
Is Your Mama a Llama
Deborah Guarino
Junie B. Jones Smells Something Fishy
Barbara Park
Leo the Late Bloomer
Robert Kraus
Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse
Kevin Henkes
Lisa’s Airplane Trip
Anne Gutman
Little Bear
Elsa Holmelund Minarik
Martha Blah Blah
Susan Meddaugh
Monkey Monkey’s Trick
Patricia McKissack
Mr. Katz & Tush
Patricia Polacco
Never Let Your Cat Make Lunch For You
Lee Harris
Noisy Nora
Rosemary Wells
Officer Buckle & Gloria
Peggy Rathmann
Olivia
Ian Falconer
The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo
Judy Blume
100th Day Worries
Margery Cuyler
The Pet Shop
Allan Ahlberg
The Pet That I Want
Mary Packard
Purple is Part of a Rainbow
Carolyn Kowalczyk
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf
Lois Ehlert
Rotten Ralph
Jack Gantos
Ruby the Copycat
Peggy Rathmann
The Schoolyard Mystery
Elizabeth Levy
Socks
Beverly Cleary
Stellaluna
Janell Cannon
Stripe
Joanne Partis
The Teacher From the Black Lagoon
Mike Thaler
The Three Pigs
David Wiesner
Today Was a Terrible Day
Patricia Reilly Giff
The Very Kind Rich Lady & Her 100 Dogs
Chinlun Lee
Waiting for Wings
Lois Elhert
You Can’t Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown
Paula Danziger
Zelda & Ivy
Laura McGee Kvasnosky
Non-Fiction
Animal Tracks
Arthur Dorros
The Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story of
Balto
Natalie Standford
Brr! A Book About Polar Animals
Melvin Berger
Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!
Jennifer Dussling
Butterflies
Emily Neye
Crinkleroot’s Book of Animal Tracking
Jim Arnosky
Dinosaur Dinners
Lee Davis
Eruption: The Story of Volcanoes
Anita Ganeri
Growl! A Book About Bears
Melvin Berger
Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King
Jean Marzollo
Holiday! Celebration Days Around the World
Deborah Chancellor
I Am Water
Jean Marzollo
Jane Goodall & the Wild Chimpanzees
Bette Birnbaum
Johnny Appleseed
Eva Moore
Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
Doreen Rappaport
Sadako
Eleanor Coerr
A Snake Mistake
Mavis Smith
A Teddy Bear for President Roosevelt
Connie & Peter Roop
Folktales &
Fairy Tales
Anasi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti
Gerald McDermott
Bony-Legs
Joanna Cole
The Bossy Gallito
Lucia M. Gonzalez
B’rer Rabbit & the Peanut Patch
Susan Dickinson
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain: A Nandi
Tale
Verna Aardema
Fa Mulan: The Story of a Woman Warrior
Robert D. San Souci
The Gingerbread Man
Jim Aylesworth
Hush, Little Baby: A Folk Song With Pictures
Marla Frazee
Lon Po Po
Ed Young
Paul Bunyun, a Tall Tale
Steven Kellogg
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears
Verna Aardema
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