Books Every Third Grader Should Know
Annotation:A little boy who loves horses gets a special birthday present.
Place a Hold
Annotation:A mysterious man enters a restaurant and pays for his dinner with a paper crane that magically comes alive and dances.
Annotation:A hound rescues a schoolgirl from the Seine, becomes a beloved school pet, is chased away by trustees, and returns with a surprise.
Annotation:From the day Paddington was discovered on a railway platform in London, he was seldom far from imminent disaster, but it always seemed to turn into hilarious fun.
Annotation:Shortly after the Civil War a black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act.
Annotation:Nine-year-old Gregory’s house does not have room for a garden, but he creates a surprising one in an unusual place.
Annotation:A boy acquires a magical gift that turns everything his lips touch into chocolate.
Annotation:Maggie resists learning cursive writing in the third grade, until she discovers that knowing how to read and write cursive promises to open up an entirely new world of knowledge to her.
Annotation:A retelling of the Comanche Indian legend of how a little girl’s sacrifice brought the flower called bluebonnet to Texas.
Annotation:A simple account of the sinking of the Titanic and the discovery of its remains many years later.
Annotation:A little duck finds adventure on the Yangtze River when he is too late to board his master’s houseboat one evening.
Annotation:Incidents from the life of Pecos Bill, from his childhood among the coyotes to his unusual wedding day.
Annotation:Herbie’s experiences in the third grade include finding bones in the boy’s bathroom, wandering away from his class on their field trip, and being promoted to a higher reading group.
Annotation:Four young cats with wings leave the city slums in search of a safe place to live, finally meeting two children with kind hands.
Annotation:Escapades of a lucky little girl who lives with a horse and a monkey–but without any parents–at the edge of a Swedish village.
Annotation:Twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from crocodile to ostrich.
Annotation:Great-grandfather reminisces about going to school on the prairie with his dog Three Names.
Annotation:Michael’s love for his great-great-aunt who lives with his family leads him to intercede with his mother who wants to toss out all her old things.
Annotation:Christopher Robin and his friends have adventures including Pooh Bear using a balloon to get honey, Piglet meeting a Heffalump, and Eeyore having a birthday.
Annotation:Only a few inches tall, the Little family encounters a myriad of dangers, especially when the house cat comes their way.
Annotation:To thank Miss Eula for her wonderful Sunday chicken dinners, three children sell decorated eggs to buy her a beautiful Easter hat.
Annotation:Humorous poems about such strange creatures and people as Baloney Belly Billy and the Gloopy Gloopers.
Annotation:In the winter of 1856, a storm delays the lighthouse keeper’s return to an island off the coast of Maine, and so his daughter Abbie must keep the lights burning by herself.
Annotation:A Southern folktale in which kind Blanche, following the instructions of an old witch, gains riches, while her greedy sister makes fun of the old woman and is duly rewarded.
Annotation:A boy grows to manhood and old age experiencing the love and generosity of a tree which gives to him without thought of return.
Annotation:When Miata leaves the skirt she needs for a dance performance on the school bus, she needs all her wits to get it back without her parents finding out that she has lost something yet again.
Annotation:Though many try, only the court jester is able to fulfill Princess Lenore’s one wish.
Annotation:Left on their own for an afternoon, two bored and restless children find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical jungle adventure board game.
Annotation:In an attempt to overcome his grief, a boy tries to think of the 10 best things about his dead cat.
Annotation:Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny are orphans. Determined to make it on their own, they set out to find a safe place to live. They discover an old, red boxcar that provides shelter from a storm and become the Boxcar Children.
Annotation:Debonair mouse Stuart Little sets out into the world, trying to find his dearest friend, a little bird he met in his family’s garden.
Annotation:By the time the Velveteen Rabbit is dirty, worn out, and about to be burned, he has almost given up hope of ever finding the magic called Real.
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Books selected by Daniel Boone Regional Library staff for third graders.
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