VCCB: RF Book Lists 2006 - 3rd Grade
THIRD GRADE BOOK LIST Joan Kindig, Ed.D.
Read-alouds continue to be important. They showcase book language and support acquisition of new vocabulary. The understanding of text structure, sequence, etc., supports comprehension – both in narrative/fiction and expository texts.
Picture books are still appropriate and necessary. Many good informational picture books are also available.
John, Paul, George and Ben written and illustrated by Lane Smith (Hyperion)
Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey written and illustrated by Maira Kalman (Penguin)
The Great Serum Race: Blazing the Iditarod Trail by Debbie S. Miller, illustrated by Jon Van Zyle (Walker)
Togo written and illustrated by Robert J. Blake (Penguin)
The Woods Scientist by Stephen Swinburne, photographs by Susan C. Morse (Houghton Mifflin Co.) and other titles in the ÒScientistÓ series.
Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School written and illustrated by Mark Teague (Scholastic)
The Araboolies of Liberty Street by Sam Swope, illustrated by Barry Root (Crown)
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs and The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Lane Smith (Viking)
Henry and the Kite Dragon by Bruce Edward Hall, illustrated by William Low (Penguin)
The Pot That Juan Built by Nancy Andrews-Goebel, illustrated by David Diaz (Lee & Low)
Are We There Yet?: A Journey Around Australia by Alison Lester (Kane/Miller)
Boxes for Katje by Candace Fleming, illustrated by Stacy Dressen-McQueen (Farrar Straus & Giroux)
Encounter by Jane Yolen, illustrated by David Shannon (Harcourt)
Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles, illustrated by Jerome LaGarrigue (Simon & Schuster)
Beach is to Fun: a Book of Relationships by Pat Brisson, illustrated by Sachiko Yoshikawa (Henry Holt)
Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude written and illustrated by Kevin O"É1;Malley, Carol Heyer, and Scott Goto (Walker)
Two Bad Ants and others titles by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton Mifflin)
Biography
The Hero and the Minotaur: The Fantastic Adventures of Theseus. Robert Byrd (Penguin)
Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates by Jonah Winter. Illustrated by Raul Colon (Simon & Schuster)
Diego (Bantam Doubleday Dell) and My Name is Georgia: A Portrait (Harcourt) written and illustrated by Jeanette Winter
Richard Wright and the Library Card by William Miller, illustrated by Gregory R. Christie (Lee & Low)
Sacagawea by Lisolette Erdrich, illustrated by Julia Buffalohead (Lerner)
Harvesting Hope: the Story of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Yuyi Morales (Harcourt)
Rosa by Nikki Giovanni, illustrated by Bryan Collier (Henry Holt)
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World written and illustrated by Lynn Curlee (Simon & Schuster)
Sharks, Muscles: Our Muscular System, Bones, and Hurricanes by Seymour Simon (all HarperCollins)
O is for Old Dominion: A Virginia Alphabet by Pamela Duncan Edwards, illustrated by Troy Howell (Sleeping Bear Press)
Tsunami: Helping Each Other by Ann Morris, illustrated by Heidi Larson (Lerner)
Poetry
Runny Babbit written and illustrated Shel Silverstein (HarperCollins)
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, illustrated by Christopher Bing (Handprint)
Science Verse by Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Lane Smith (Viking)
Beast Feast written and illustrated by Douglas Florian (Harcourt)
The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders by Jack Prelutsky, illustrated by Petra Mathers (HarperCollins)
Monster Goose by Judy Sierra, illustrated by Jack E. Davis (Harcourt)
Big, Bad and a Little Bit Scary: Poems that Bite Back compiled and illustrated by Wade Zahares (Viking)
Jump Back Honey by Paul Laurence Dunbar, illustrated by various artists including Ashley Bryant, Carole Byard, Jerry Pinkney, Brian Pinkney, and Faith Ringgold (Hyperion)
Chapter Books/Transitional Novels
The Magic Treehouse series by Mary Pope Osborne
Surviving Brick Johnson. Laurie Myers
Shredderman series by Wendelin Van Draanen, illustrated by Brian Biggs (Knopf)
The Time Warp Trio series (i.e., See You Later, Gladiator) by Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Adam McCauley (Viking)
Novels
The Series of Unfortunate Events (i.e., The Slippery Slope) by Lemony Snicket (HarperCollins)
Midnight for Charlie Bone series by Jenny Nimmo (Scholastic)
Smart Dog by Vivian Vande Velde (Harcourt)
The Scarecrow and His Servant by Philip Pullman (Random House)
The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson (Penguin)
Time Stops for No Mouse, Time Stops for No Mouse, and the Sands of Time by Michael Hoeye (Penguin)
The Big House by Carolyn Coman (Boyds Mill Press)