Reading List: Third Grade

It can be really hard to find books that are appropriate for your child and on his or her reading level.

So...

Here is a list of books that are on a third grade reading level. We've used all of these and enjoyed them.

Beginning of Third Grade
A Toad for Tuesday
Plenty of Fish
Seeds and More Seeds
Let's get Turtles
The Stories Julian Tells by Ann Cameron
More Stories Julian Tells by Ann Cameron
Julian's Glorious Summer by Ann Cameron
Striped Ice Cream
Walking the road to Freedom: A Story about Sojourner Truth
Lily and Miss Liberty
Stanley in Space
Stanley and the Magic Lamp
Flat Stanley
Invisible Stanley
Stanley, Flat Again!
Louis Braille, The Boy Who Invented Books for the Blind
Mama Elizabeti
Millions of Cats
Blackberries in the Dark
Chalk Box Kid
Chicken Sunday
The Chocolate Touch
Storytime with the Millers
Cinder Edna
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Abigail Adams
By the Dawn's Early Light
A Band of Angels
Coolies
Dandelions
Donavan's Word Jar
The Wild Boy
Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin
26 Fairmont Avenue
Watching Penguins in Antarctica
The Titanic: Lost and Found
Samuel Eaton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy
Sami and the Time of the Troubles
Richard Wright and the Library Card

Middle of Third Grade
Abe Lincoln Remembers
Alejandro's Gift
Appalachia: The voices of Sleeping Birds
The Courage of Sarah Noble
An Ellis Island Christmas
Gloria's Way
Heroes
The Honest-to-Goodness Truth
The Hundred Dresses
Mailing May
Meg Mackintosh and the Mystery at the Medieval Castle
Meg Mackintosh and the Mystery at the Soccer Match
Meg Mackintosh and the Mystery in the Locked Library
Meg Mackintosh and the Mystery on Main Street
Meg Mackintosh and the Case of the Curious Whale Watch
Meg Mackintosh and the Case of the Missing Babe Ruth Baseball
A New Coat for Anna
Night Golf
Paper Lanterns
The Raft
Raising Dragons
Running the Road to ABC
Sable
Shark Lady: True Adventures of Eugenie Clark
Shoeless Joe & Black Betsy
Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims
The Story of Benjamin Franklin: Amazing American
A Symphony of Whales
Tornado
What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?
The Year of Miss Agnes
Allen Jay and the Underground Railroad
Fudge
Can't you Make Them Behave, King George?

End of Third Grade
White Stallion of Lipizza
The Erie Canal
The Story of Eli Whitney
Winter at Valley Forge: Survival and victory
Amelia Earhart
Balto and the Great Race
The Canada Geese quilt
Crickwing
Dolphin adventure: A True Story
The Dragon of Lonely Island
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
Fantastic Mr. Fox
A grain of Rice
Helen Keller
If you Live in Williamsburg in colonial Days
Home run: The Story of Babe Ruth
The International Space Station
 Knots on a counting Rope
Little Panda: The World welcomes Jua Mei at the San Diego Zoo
Michelangelo
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman
My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
On the Same Day in March: A Tour of the World's Weather
The Hundred Penny Box
Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story
A Picnic in October by Eve Bunting

Tar Beach

A River Ran Wild

Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter

Satchel Paige

Sir Cumference and the Sword and the cone

Smoky Night by Eve Bunting

Sunken Treasure

Tiger Math

The Wall

Return to Dragon Island

Joyful Noise

The Real McCoy

Wilma Unlimited

Uncle Jed's Barbershop

The Magic School Bus Series

As always, you should read any books you give your children first to decide if they are right for your family. Hopefully, our list should make it easier to narrow them down.

Wishing you homeschool blessings,


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