3rd Grade Summer Reading List

Reading Tips For 3rd Grade Parents

Read about it, talk about it, and think about it! Find ways for your child to build understanding, the ultimate goal of learning how to read. Click on the link below to connect to Reading Rocket's Reading Tips For 3rd Grade Parents.  The tips offer some fun ways you can help your child become a happy and confident reader. Try a new tip each week. See what works best for your child.

Big Nate Strikes Again by Lincoln Peirce Year Published: 2010 3.0 AR Level BIG NATE will surpass all others! But it won’t be easy. He’s stuck with Gina, his all-time enemy, in a class project for his least favorite teacher Mrs. Godfrey, aka Godzilla. To make matters worse, Gina ALSO ends up on his fleeceball team, right when Nate is set to win his first fleeceball championship ever. This is his moment for glory, but Gina's sure to steal his thunder, or ruin everything.   Will Nate win or lose? Pass or fail? Or end up in detention . . . AGAIN?

Calvin Coconut Extra Famous by Graham Salisbury Year Published: 2013 3.1 AR Level There are zombies at Kailua beach!! Well, kind of. Fourth-grader Calvin Coconut and his friends have been recruited by Benny Obi (the boy from Kung Fooey who liked to tell crazy stories and ate bugs) to be extras in his uncle's movie: Zombie Zoomba! And who ends up with an actual part? Calvin's babysitter, Stella.

The Boxcar Children Bicycle Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner Year Published: 1990 3.2 AR Level Many complications follow when a dog attaches himself to the Aldens on a bicycle trip.

Judy Moody Around The World In 8 1/2 Days by Megan McDonald Year Published: 2006 3.3 AR Level Judy Moody cannot believe her ears. There at the lunch table, a girl called Amy Namey is interviewing Judy's best friends, Rocky and Frank. Even worse, Amy is dressed like Nellie Bly, daredevil woman reporter, much like Judy's emulation of a certain woman doctor. Is this clipboard-carrying girl destined to be Judy's new best enemy? Or new best friend? Judy Moody finds some unexpected potholes on the path to friendship as Class 3T takes a whirlwind tour of the globe, investigating everything from tooth-brushing sticks in Yemen to an Italian "spider dance" along the way. Fans will cheer as Judy finally masters the challenge of making new friends and keeping the old -- for sure and absolute positive!

The 104-Story Treehouse by Andy Griffiths Year Published: 2019 3.4 AR Level Andy and Terry live in a 104-story treehouse. (It used to be a 91-story treehouse, but they decided it was still missing a few things.) It has a never-ending staircase, a burp bank, a deep-thoughts thinking room, Mount Everest, a mighty fortress reinforced with extra-strong fortress reinforcer, and a money-making machine (that also makes honey!). When Andy has a toothache that hurts so bad he can’t write any jokes for their new book, Terry knows just what to do: buy a Joke Writer 2000™ to write the jokes for them! All they need first is some money from their money-making machine and then it’s off to the store. It’s a foolproof plan—a Terry-proof one, even! What could go wrong?

Iggie's House by Judy Bloom Year Published: 2002 3.5 AR Level Iggie's house just wasn't the same. Iggie was gone, moved to Tokyo. And there was Winnie, cracking her gum on Grove Street, where she'd always lived, with no more best friend and two weeks left of summer. Then the Garber family moved into Iggie's house—two boys, Glenn and Herbie, and Tina, their little sister. The Garbers were black and Grove Street was white and always had been. Winnie, a welcoming committee of one, set out to make a good impression and be a good neighbor. That's why the trouble started. Glenn and Herbie and Tina didn't want a "good neighbor." They wanted a friend.

Stop That Bull, Theseus by Kate McMullan Year Published: 2003 3.6 AR Level What a myth-o-maniac (old Greek-speak for liar)! Zeus's version of the myths is completely wrong. It's time to set the record straight. For the first time ever, Hades, King of the Underworld, reveals the true story behind the myths.This laugh-out-loud series of fractured Greek myths by best-selling author Kate McMullan is irreverent, irresistible, and totally twisted.That story about Theseus finding his way through the labyrinth and slaying the Minotaur? Bull hooey! The only thing Theseus did inside the labyrinth was get lost. That's because he forgot to bring along the ball of string the king's daughter had given him.

Fudge by Charlotte Towner Graeber Year Published: 1989 3.7 AR Level It's an exciting day in Chad Abernathy's neighborhood when Biggie gives birth to eleven puppies! Biggie's owner says Chad can have one of the puppies, and Chad wants Fudge. But right away, things go wrong. Bossy Leslie calls first dibs on the puppies. Will she choose Fudge?

Katie And The Cupcake Cure by Coco Simon Year Published: 2011 3.8 AR Level This first book in The Cupcake Diaries is told through the perspective of Katie Brown. We find Katie miserable on the first day of middle school. Her best friend Callie came back from camp boy-crazy and part of a whole new group of friends. When it's made clear that Callie is in the PGC (Popular Girls Club) and Katie is not invited to join, Katie suddenly feels incredibly alone. Katie realizes if she’s going to survive middle school she needs to seriously regroup and find some new friends. But how? She bites into the cupcake her mother packed her for lunch and for a second closes her eyes. The sweet treat makes her happy—finally something goes right! Looking around her table, Katie notices the other students seeming a bit lost, as well. Which gives her an idea…With three new friends Katie forms a club as a way to spread the cupcake love and earn some cupcake cash!

Because Of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo Year Published: 2001 3.9 AR Level The summer Opal and her father, the preacher, move to Naomi, Florida, Opal goes into the Winn-Dixie supermarket—and comes out with a dog. A big, ugly, suffering dog with a sterling sense of humor. A dog she dubs Winn-Dixie. Because of Winn-Dixie, the preacher tells Opal ten things about her absent mother, one for each year Opal has been alive. Winn-Dixie is better at making friends than anyone Opal has ever known, and together they meet the local librarian, Miss Franny Block, who once fought off a bear with a copy of WAR AND PEACE. They meet Gloria Dump, who is nearly blind but sees with her heart, and Otis, an ex-con who sets the animals in his pet shop loose after hours, then lulls them with his guitar. Opal spends all that sweet summer collecting stories about her new friends and thinking about her mother. But because of Winn-Dixie or perhaps because she has grown, Opal learns to let go, just a little, and that friendship—and forgiveness—can sneak up on you like a sudden summer storm.