Rising Third Grade Summer Reading List

Some Ways to Enjoy Reading:

Listen to a book being read aloud.

Take turns reading to a friend or parent.

Read the book by yourself and tell someone about your favorite parts.

Place a Post-it with a heart on it on parts of a story you love.

Record yourself reading the story out aloud on an iPad or iPhone. Then let your friend or parent listen to it

Check out a poetry book and make copies of your favorite poems. Read the poems out aloud. Sing them too! Write what the poem makes you feel.

3rd Grade Summer Reading Possibilities:

(students can use this list in addition to the one posted on the portal)

The Secrets of Droon Series by Tony Abbott

Cam Jansen series by David Adler

Finders Keepers? A True Story in India by Robert Arnett

Animal Ark by Ben Baglio

The Blue Ghost by Marion Dane Bauer

Freckle Juice by Judy Blume

Home Run: The Story of Babe Ruth by Robert Burleigh

The Magician’s Boy by Susan Cooper

Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin

Owen and Mzee by Isabella Hatkoff

The World’s Greatest Elephant by Ralph Helfer

The Gold Miner’s Daughter by Jackie Hopkins

I, Too, Am America by Langston Hughes

Prehistoric Actual Size by Steve Jenkins Bringing Asha Home by Uma Krishnaswami

The Boy on Fairfield Street by Kathleen Krull

Fire Race: A Karuk Coyote Tale of How Fire Came to the People by Jonathan London

Gooney Bird Greene by Lois Lowry

The Buddha’s Diamonds by Carolyn Marsden

If You Decide to Go the Moon by Faith McNulty

Wonder by R.J.Palacio

Mrs.Katz & Tush by Patricia Polacco

Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco

Viva Mexico!: A Story of Benito Juarez and Cinco de Mayo by Argentina Palacios

Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne

One World, Many Religions: The Way We Worship by Mary Pope Osborne

Rooster Prince & Breslov by Ann Redish

Mostly Monsterly by Tammi Sauer

Grandfather’s Journey by Allen Say

Encyclopedia Brown series by Donald Sobol

Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh

Falling for Rapunzel by Leah Wilcox

Hiroshima by Laurence Yep Peacemakers:

During the year, third graders will learn about peacemakers around the world and their role as activists and pacifists. Here are names of a few peacemakers we will be learning about. Have conversations with your child about these peacemakers and their roles as a pacifist/activist after reading about them in biographies or articles online. This will help her/him prepare our study on peacemakers beginning in the fall.

 14th Dalai Lama

 Dorothy Day

 Mahatma Gandhi

 Martin Luther King Jr.

 Mother Teresa  Susan B. Anthony

 Tegla Loroupe