Third Grade Reading List
| Book Title | Author |
| Miss Nelson is Missing | Allard, Harry |
| The Great Skating Race: A World War II Story from the Netherlands | Borden, Louise |
| SOS File | Byars, Betsy |
| Tornado | Byars, Betsy |
| Chocolate Touch | Catling, Patrick |
| Henry Huggins | Cleary, Beverly |
| Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (and other Ramona books) | Cleary, Beverly |
| Jake Drake | Clements, Andrew |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Dahl, Roald |
| James and the Giant Peach | Dahl, Roald |
| One Potato, Two Potato | DeFelice, Cynthia |
| Because of Winn Dixie | DiCamillo, Kate |
| How to Be Cool in the Third Grade | Duffey, Betsy |
| Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars | Florian, Douglas |
| Stone Fox | Gardiner, John Reynolds |
| The Thing About Georgie | Graff, Lisa |
| The Cats of Kasinski Square | Hesse, Karen |
| Toys Go Out | Jenkins, Emily |
| The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Lewis, C. S. |
| Judy Moody | MacDonald, Megan |
| Sarah Plain and Tall (other books in the series) | MacLachlan, Patricia |
| Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight became an Inventor | McCully, Emily Arnold |
| Tippy Lemmy | McKissack, Patricia |
| Richard Wright and the Library Card | Miller, William |
| Max's Logbook | Moss, Marisa |
| Roxie and the Hooligans | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds |
| Shiloh | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds |
| Down Girl and Sit: On the Road | Nolan, Lucy |
| How to Steal a Dog | O’Connor, Barbara |
| Bad Boys | Palatini, Margie |
| Piggie Pie | Palatini, Margie |
| Zoom Broom | Palatini, Margie |
| The Winner's Walk | Patterson, Nancy Ruth |
| Clementine | Pennypacker, Sara |
| Fat Men from Space | Pinkwater, Daniel |
| How to Eat Fried Worms | Rockwell, Thomas |
| Marvin Redpost (series) | Sachar, Louis |
| Ballet of the Elephants | Schubert, Leda |
| The Rescuers | Sharp, Margery |
| This is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness | Sidman, Joyce |
| Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective | Sobol, Donald |
| George Crum and the Saratoga Chip | Taylor, Gaylia |
| The Gold Cadillac | Taylor, Mildred |
| Jumanji | Van Allsburg, Chris |
| Charlotte's Web | White, E. B. |
| Stuart Little | White, E. B. |
| The Earth Dragon Awakes: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 | Yep, Laurence |
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Blue cells are books on the 2008-2009 Blue Bonnet List |