Suggested Summer Reading List for Rising Third Graders
St. Michael School Library
Be sure to visit your public library once a week! There are summer reading programs, activities, and events
going on at each public library. When you visit, bring your library book bag to fill with a variety of reading: fiction,
non-fiction, biography, etc. Be assured that most of what you find in the aisles of the children's room will be of
good quality, as librarians are reading reviews and making good choices.
Here are some favorite books, series, and authors we enjoy in 3rd grade Library time:
Laurie Halse Anderson, Volunteer Vets series
Jabari Asim, Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington
Mac Barnett, Brixton Brother mysteries series
Marion Dane Bauer books for younger readers include The Blue Ghost, The Golden Ghost, The Green Ghost, The
Red Ghost, The Secret of the Painted House, The Very Little Princess: Rose’s Story, and The Very Little Princess:
Zoey’s Story.
Lara Bergen, Sophie series
Jennifer Berne, On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein (new!)
Betty Birney, The World According to Humphrey series
Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi, The Spiderwick Chronicles series
Judy Blume, Fudge series, Blubber, Pain and the Great One, Freckle Juice.
Fred Bowen, All-star sports series
Clyde Robert Bulla
Ann Cameron, Julian books, Spunky Tells All
Ruth Chew
Bonnie Christensen, “I, Galileo”
Matt Christopher
Beverly Cleary, Ramona books, Ralph S. Mouse series; Henry Huggins series
Cressida Cowell, How to Train Your Dragon, How to Speak Dragonese, How to Be a Pirate
Doreen Cronin, The J.J. Tully Mysteries series (The Trouble with Chickens, etc.)
Debbie Dadey, Bailey School Kids series
Roald Dahl
Alice Dalgliesh
Paula Danzinger, Amber Brown series
Jacqueline Davies, The Lemonade War, The Lemonade Crime, The Bell Bandit, The Candy Smash
Tomie DePaola, 26 Fairmont Avenue series
Franklin W. Dixon, Hardy Boys series.
Edward Eager, Half Magic, etc. (Magic series)
John R. Erickson, Hank the Cowdog series
Brian Floca, Locomotive (new!)
Jean Fritz
Cornelia Funke, Ghosthunters series
Jean Craighead George, "One Day in the...(Alpine Forest, Tropical Rain Forest, Desert, etc.)" series
Patricia Reilly Giff, Kids of Polk Street School series
J.C. Greenburg, Andrew Lost series
Dan Gutman, My Weird School series, Baseball Card Adventures
Bruce Hale, Chet Gecko series
Marguerite Henry
Kimberly Willis Holt, Piper Reed (series)
James Howe, Bunnicula series
Elizabeth Singer Hunt, Secret Agent Jack Stalwart (series)
Johanna Hurwitz, Park Pals Adventures, etc.
Steve Jenkins, The Beetle Book
Lynne Jonell, The Secret of Zoom, Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat (“Emmy” series)
Carolyn Keene, Nancy Drew series
David Kelly, Ballpark Mysteries
Dick King-Smith, many wonderful books
Liz Kessler, Emily Windsnap series
Kate Klise, Dying to Meet You series, Regarding the Fountain, Letters from Camp, Trial by Journal
Gordon Korman, the Titanic trilogy
Nancy Krulik, Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo series
Kathleen Krull, Lives of the … series
Chris Kurtz, The Adventures of a South Pole Pig (new!)
Robert Lawson, Rabbit Hill
Ursula LeGuin, Catwings series
Elizabeth Levy, Something Queer mysteries
Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking series, Noisy Village series, Emil books
Lois Lowry, Gooney Bird Greene
David Macaulay, Jet Plane: How It Works; Castle: How It Works
Ellen MacGregor, Miss Pickerell series
Ann M. Martin, The Doll People series
Sharon Mathis, The Hundred Penny Box
Robert McClosky, Homer Price series
Megan McDonald, Stink series
Lewis B. Montgomery, Milo and Jazz mysteries series
Michael Morpurgo, Kaspar the Titanic Cat
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Emily’s Fortune, Emily and Jackson Hiding Out
Kadir Nelson, Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
E. Nesbit, The Railway Children, Five Children and It, etc.
Barbara O’Connor. The Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis; The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester
Mary Norton, The Borrowers series.
Barbara Park, Skinnybones
Katherine Paterson, The Flint Heart
Robert Newton Peck, Soup series
Louis Sachar, Wayside School series
Angie Sage, Araminta Spookie series (My Haunted House, etc.)
Graham Salisbury, Calvin Coconut series
Jon Scieszka, Time Warp Trio series
Seymour Simon (nonfiction)
Marilyn Singer, Mirror, Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse; Follow Follow: a Book of Reverso Poems
Donald Sobel, Encyclopedia Brown series
Johanna Spyri, Heidi
William Steig
Lauren Tarshis, I Survived… series
Peggy Thomas, “For the Birds” (biography of Roger Tory Peterson)
Wendelin Van Draanen, Shredderman series
Vivian Vande Velde, Three Good Deeds
Bill Wallace, many wonderful books
Rich Wallace, sports novels
Gertrude Chandler Warner, Boxcar Children series
E.B. White, Stuart Little
“Who Was…?” series of famous people
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Henry Winkler, Hank Zipzer series