Third Grade Summer Reading List

Students Entering Third Grade

All students entering Third Grade must read The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
by Daniel Pinkwater.  In addition, three other books must be chosen from the list below.
Each chosen book must belong to a different category and a book card must be
completed for each book.  Parents are encouraged to read and talk about the books
with children, especially if the book is written above the child’s independent reading level.

Fantasy

Patrick Catling        The Chocolate Touch               
Katherine Paterson        The King’s Equal
Roald Dahl            Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
                (or any other Roald Dahl book)

Historical Fiction

Paul Fleishman        Lost! A Story in String
Ken Mochizuki        Baseball Saved Us
Edith Schaeffer        Mei Fuh:  Memories of China

Fiction

Kirkpatrick Hill        The Year of Miss Agnes
Suzy Kline            Herbie Jones and the Birthday Showdown
Beverly Clearly        Henry Huggins (or any other Beverly Cleary book)

Poetry

Eloise Greenfield        Night on Neighborhood Street
Neil Philip             Songs are Thoughts   
Jack Prelutsky            New Kid on the Block
Valerie Worth            More Small Poems

Mystery

David Adler            Cam Jansen series
Eth Clifford            Flatfoot Fox series

Informational Books

Scholastic Publishers        Magic School Bus chapter books
Erinn Banting            Australia: the Culture    (or The Land or The People)
Kris Hirschmann        Butterflies and Moths (or any butterfly book)

Biography

Floyd Cooper            Mandela
Tomie DePaola        26 Fairmount Avenue
Ellen M. Dolan        Susan Butcher and the Iditarod Trail
John Duggleby        Story Painter (the Life of Jacob Lawrence)

Adventure and Survival

Avi                Poppy and Rye
Allan Baillie            Adrift
Sid Fleischman        The Whipping Boy
Lisa Norby or             Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson,
N.C. Wyeth