Bayou View Elementary
Summer Reading Suggestions
Students entering 3rd grade
**Titles with an asterisk are part of a series. If your child enjoys these titles, you may wish to look for more in
the series.
Title
Author
Dinosaur Dinners
Abuela
Arthur, The King
**Days with Frog and Toad
** The Magic Treehouse: Dinosaurs Before Dark
The Giving Tree
Henry and Mudge: The First Book of Their Adventures
The Tiny Seed
Shoeshine Girl
**The Magic School Bus Hops Home: A Book About Animal Habitats
Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln
Henry's Freedom Box
The Lorax
The Treasure
How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
**The Magic School Bus Wet All Over: A Book About the Water Cycle
**The Magic Treehouse: Twister on Tuesday
**I Was a Third Grade Spy
Balto, the Dog Who Saved Nome
I Am Rosa Parks
**The Magic Treehouse: Earthquake in Early Morning
**The Magic Treehouse: Hour of the Olympics
**The Magic Treehouse: Polar Bears Past Bedtime
**Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday
Where the Wild Things Are
The Stories Julian Tells
**Cam Jansen and the School Play Mystery
Marvin and the Meanest Girl
How to Be Cool in the Third Grade
Is There Life in Outer Space?
The Snow Walker
How to Eat Fried Worms
Grandfather's Journey
The Secret Garden
The Emperor of Absurdia
**The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth
The Stranger
Anber Brown is Not a Crayon
Lee Davis
Arthur Dorros
Karen Wallace
Arnold Lobel
Mary Pope Osborne
Shel Silverstein
Cynthia Rylant
Eric Carle
Clyde R. Bulla
Joanna Cole
Jean Fritz
Ellen Levine
Dr. Seuss
Uri Shulevitz
Marjorie Priceman
Joanna Cole
Mary Pope Osborne
Mary Jane Auch
Margaret Davidson
Rosa Parks with Jim Haskins
Mary Pope Osborne
Mary Pope Osborne
Mary Pope Osborne
Judith Viorst
Maurice Sendak
Ann Cameron
David Adler
Suzy Kline
Betsy Duffey
Franklyn M. Branley
Margaret K. Wetterer
Thomas Rockwell
Allen Say
Pauline Francis
Chris Riddell
Joanna Cole
Chris Van Allsburg
Paula Danziger
Level
2.4
2.5
2.5
2.5
2.6
2.6
2.7
2.7
2.7
2.7
2.9
3.0
3.1
3.1
3.1
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.3
3.3
3.3
3.3
3.3
3.4
3.4
3.4
3.4
3.4
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.5
3.6
3.6
3.6
3.6
3.7
3.7
NF
NF
NF
NF
NF
NF
NF
NF
NF
NF
Bayou View Elementary
Summer Reading Suggestions
Students entering 3rd grade
**I Was A Third Grade Science Project
Winnie Dancing on Her Own
**The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System
**The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks
Sam Samuri
**The Magic Treehouse: A Perfect Time for Pandas
The Courage of Sarah Noble
The Kid Who Only Hit Homers
My Great-Aunt Arizona
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
**Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions Around the World
The Lighthouse Family: The Storm
Mary Jane Auch
Jennifer Jacobson
Joanna Cole
Joanna Cole
Jon Scieszka
Mary Pope Osborne
Alice Dalgliesh
Matt Christopher
Gloria Houston
Verna Aardema
Donald J. Sobol
Selby Beeler
Cynthia Rylant
Attention!
Parents,
We ask that students not read the following titles this summer. These books
will be read, during the 3rd grade year, as class novel studies.
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Tales from the Odyssey: Book 1 and Book 2 by Mary Pope Osborne
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
The Raft by Jim Lamarche
Moonshot by Michael Collins
3.7
3.7
3.7
3.7
3.8
3.8
3.9
3.9
4.0
4.0
4.1
4.2
4.4
NF
NF
NF