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The
following books have been screened by and are recommended for 3rd grade children by the
authors of Straight Talk About Reading:

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Third Grade
Recommended Books
Third Grade
Author |
Title |
Publisher
Copyright Date |
Lexile Score |
Average: |
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Avi |
Who Stole the Wizard of Oz? |
Alfred A. Knopf, 1981 |
510 |
Byars, Betsy |
The Computer Nut |
Viking
Penguin, 1984 |
510 |
Cleary, Beverly |
Henry Huggins |
William
Morrow & Co., 1950 |
650 |
Dadey, Debbie |
Cupid Doesnt Flip Hamburgers |
|
570 |
Dixon, Franklin |
The Case of the Cosmic Kidnapping (Hardy
Boys) |
Out of print. Check the
library. |
655
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Duffy, Betsy |
How to Be Cool
in Third Grade A Boy in the
Doghouse |
Penguin
Group,
1993
Simon & Schuster, 1991 |
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MacLachlan,
Patricia |
Sarah, Plain and Tall |
HarperCollins,
1985 |
540 |
McKenna, Colleen
OShaughnessy |
Good Grief ... Third Grade |
Scholastic,
1993 |
570 |
Sachar, Louis |
Theres a Boy in the Girls Bathroom |
Alfred
Knopf, Inc.,
1897 |
530 |
Tripp, Valerie |
Meet Molly: An American Girl |
Pleasant
Company,
1986 |
630 |
Warner, Gertrude |
The Boxcar
Children (series of books) |
Albert
Whitman, 1942 |
500 |
Harder: |
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Avi |
Poppy |
Avon,
1995 |
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Babbitt, Natalie |
Tuck Everlasting |
Farrar
Straus Giroux, 1975 |
700 |
Banks, Lynne Reid |
The Return of the Indian |
Doubleday,
1986 |
710 |
Butterworth,
Oliver |
The Enormous Egg |
Little,
Brown, 1956 |
840 |
Dahl, Roald |
James and the Giant Peach |
Alfred
A. Knopf, 1961 |
870 |
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
Puffin
Books, 1964
Alfred A. Knopf |
890 |
Hurwitz, Johanna |
Aldo Applesauce |
William
Morrow & Co., 1979 |
730 |
LEngle,
Madeleine |
A Wrinkle in Time |
Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, 1962 |
750 |
Lindgren, Astrid |
Pippi Longstocking |
Penguin,
1950 |
890 |
McKenna, Colleen
OShaughnessy |
Fourth Grade is
a Jinx Fifth Grade: Here Comes Trouble
(out of print. check library, and
see other books by author.) |
Scholastic,
1989 |
780
740 |
Selden, George |
The Cricket in Times Square |
Bantam
Doubleday Dell, 1960 |
770 |
Silverstein, Shel |
A Light In the Attic |
HarperCollins,
1991 |
(poetry) |
Speare, Elizabeth |
The Sign of the Beaver |
Bantam
Doubleday Dell, 1983 |
790 |
Steig, William
|
Dominic Abels
Island |
Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, 1972
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976 |
910
890 |
White, E.B. |
Charlottes
Web The
Trumpet of the Swan |
Harper
& Row, 1952
Harper & Row, 1970 |
700
730 |
Wilder, Laura
Ingalls |
Little House on the Prairie |
HarperCollins,
1935 |
780 |
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Recommended Books to Read-Aloud
to a Third Grade Student
Author |
Title |
Publisher
Copyright Date |
DeJong, Meindert |
The Wheel on the School |
Harper Trophy,
1954 |
Gipson, Fred |
Old Yeller |
Harper & Row,
1956 |
Forber, Esther |
Johnny Tremain |
Houghton Mifflin,
1943 |
Lawson, Robert
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Ben and Me: A
New and Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin as Written by his good Mouse Amos |
Little, Brown,
1939 |
Lewis, C.S. |
The Chronicles of Narnia, a series of 7 books |
HaperCollins,
1950s |
Slepian, Jan |
The Broccoli Tapes |
Putnam &
Grosset, 1988 |
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