Grade 3 Summer Reading

Summer Reading Suggestions from the Upper Merion Elementary School Librarians Grade 3 Imagine Your Story…

Dragonbreath by Ursula Vernon Fairy Tale Comics edited by Chris Duffy Danny Dragonbreath can’t breathe fire, but he has no fear. From favorites like “Puss in Boots” and “Goldilocks” to obscure And that comes in handy when a bad grade at school gems like “The Boy Who Drew Cats” Fairy Tale Comics has inspires him to enlist his cousin the sea-serpent’s help with something to offer every reader. Seventeen fairy tales are a research project. Using a hybrid of comic-book panels wonderfully adapted and illustrated in comics format by and text, Ursula Vernon introduces an irresistible set of seventeen different cartoonists, including Raine Telgemeier, Brett characters that will have readers laughing until smoke Helquist, Cherise Harper and more J GN FAIRY comes out of their noses! J VERNON Rump: the True Story of Rumplestiltskin ( Fairly True Tales) Dragon’s Slayer’s Academy by Kate McMullan by Liesl Shurtliff When a traveling minstrel foretells that he is to become a In a magic kingdom where your name is your destiny, 12-year-old hero, Wiglaf sets out to fulfill his destiny: he signs up at the Rump is the butt of everyone’s joke. But when he finds an old Dragon’s Slayers’ Academy. But how can he ever hope to spinning wheel, his luck seems to change. Rump discovers he be a dragon slayer when he can’t even stand the sight of has a gift for spinning straw into gold . His best friend, Red blood? J PAPERBACK SERIES DRAGON Riding Hood, warns him that magic is dangerous and she’s right. WIth each thread he spins, he weaves himself deeper into a Drawing Fantasy Creatures by A.. Sautter curse. To break the spell, Rump must go on a perilous quest, Little grabs people’s imaginations more than fire-breathing fighting off pixies, trolls, poison apples and a wickedly foolish dragons, magical elves and other fantastic creatures. queen. The odds are against him, but with courage and friendship Fantasy fans can learn to draw their favorite creatures and —and a cheeky sense of humor—he just might triumph in the learn more about them at the same time. Simple, step-by- end. J FANTASY SHURTLIFF/ J PAPERBACK S step instructions team up with lively creature descriptions to teach young artists how to draw dragons, orcs, dwarves, Giants Beware! by Jorge Aguirre and many other fantastical creatures. Make way for Claudette the giant slayer in this delightful, fantastical adventure! Claudette’s fondest wish is to slay a giant. Emily Windsnap series by Liz Kessler But her village is so safe and quiet! What’s a future giant slayer Half-mermaid, half-human and all magic, Emily Windsnap to do? With her best friend Marie (an aspiring princess), and her has underwater adventures and has had middle-grade brother Gaston (a pastry-chef-to-be) , Claudette embarks on a readers under her spell for more than a decade. All six of super-secret quest to find a giant—without parental permission. her shimmering underwater adventures are now available in Can they find and defeat the giant before their parents find them one beautiful collection of paperbacks with a bonus twelve- and drag them home? J GN AGUIRRE page friendship booklet for readers to share with their BFFs. J PAPERBACK KESSLER The Little Legends series by Tom Percival Tale Town is on lockdown as Mayor Fitch prepares for an attack from the trolls. Desperate to gain the trolls’ magical power, he is encouraging a war and gambling his town’s safety on his quest for magical power. When the children of Tale Town learn from their troll friend what’s really going on, they know it’s up to them to save their troll friend from danger and convince the people of Tale Town of Fitch’s evil plan. The feat seems impossible—until a leaf from the story tree changes everything.

UPPER MERION AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT SUMMER READING 2020 Toys Go Out by Emily Jenkins Love and Roast Chicken: a Trickster Tale From the Together is best for these three best friends. Together they Andes Mountains by Barbara Knutson look thing up in the dictionary, explore the basement, and One day, high in the Andes Mountains, Cuy the argue about the meaning of life. And together they face dogs, Guinea Pig is searching for wild spinach to eat when school, television commercials, the vastness of the sea, and Tio Antonio the Fox comes in search of Cuy to eat! the terrifying bigness of the washing machine. J JENKINS Tio Antonio thinks he’s found dinner, but crafty Cuy has other plans. Combining striking wood block Unicorn Magic series by Jessica Burkhart artwork with an authentic South American voice, this Join Princess Bella and Glimmer as they have adventures sly trickster tale shows that clever thinking is key throughout the Crystal Kingdom where members of the royal when you’re out-foxing the fox. E KNUTSON family receive a very special present: a unicorn of their very own, who will guide and protect them for the rest of their life. Magical Animal Adoption Agency series by K. (Kallie) George Unicorn Princess series by Emily Bliss Clover, who wants to change her bad luck, accepts a Welcome to an enchanted land ruled by unicorn princesses! position at a pet adoption agency unlike any other and Cressida Jenkins, a unicorn-obsessed girl who is sure that soon finds herself in a world of fairy horses, dragons unicorns are real, is invited to visit, and readers will be thrilled with temperamental snouts, wizards, princesses and, to journey to the Rainbow Realm along with her! In each unfortunately, witches. J PAPERBACK G story, Cressida is called to help a unicorn princess and her sisters in a magical adventure. Max & the Midknights by Lincoln Pierce Max wants to be a knight! Too bad that dream is Unicorn vs. Goblins by Dana Simpson about as likely as finding a friendly dragon. But when It all started when a girl named Phoebe skipped a rock across Max’s uncle, Budrick is kidnapped by the cruel King a pond and accidentally hit a unicorn in the face. Improbably, Gastley, Max has to act..and fast! Joined by a band of this led to Phoebe being granted one wish, and she used it to brave adventurers—the midknights—Max sets out on make the unicorn, Marigold Heavenly Nostrils, her obligational a thrilling quests: to save Burdick and restore the best friend. But can a vain mythical beast and a nine-year-old realm of Byjovia to its former high spirits! daydreamer really forge a connection? J GN SIMPSON J GRAPHIC NOVEL PIERCE 2019 The Very, Very Far North by Dan Bar-El Mermaids to the Rescue series by Lisa Ann Scott In the Very, Very Far North, past the cold, cold ocean and just In the same world as the Enchanted Pony Academy below the hill that looks like a baby whale, you’ll find Duane series, royal merchildren partner with magical sea and his friends. Duane is a sweet and curious young bear ponies in the elite Royal Mermaid Rescue Crew. who makes friends with everyone he meets—whether they’re J PAPERBACK SERIES MERMAIDS 2019 bossy, like Major Puff the puffin, or a bit vain, like Handsome the musk ox, or very, very shy, like Boo the caribou. For these National Geographic Kids Everything Mythology : arctic friends, every day is a new adventure. J FICTION BAR- Begin your Quests for Facts, Photos and Fun Fit EL 2019 for Gods and Goddesses by Blake Hoena This book is jam packed with fascinating facts and Zeus and the Thunderbolt of Doom: Heroes in Training awe-inspiring imagery that brings your favorite fierce serieS by Joan Holub mythological heroes to life, introducing kids to gods of After pulling a magical thunderbolt from a stone, ten-year-old ancient worlds. J 292 HOE 2014 Zeus goes on the adventure of a lifetime in this thrilling start to the series. The terrible Titans—merciless giants who enjoy Rise of the Earth Dragon: a Branches Book snacking on humans—have dominated the earth and put the by Tracey West world into chaos. But their rule is about to be put to the test Dragon Masters has it all! Dragons, a Dragon Stone, a as a group of young Olympians discover their powers and wizard and magic! In the first book in this fully- prepares righteously rule the universe… J HOLUB illustrated series, 8-year-old Drake is snatched up by King Roland’s soldier and taken to the castle. He is to be trained as a Dragon Master. The Dragon Masters must learn how to connect with and train their dragons—and they must under their dragon’s special powers. J PAPERBACK SERIES DRAGON 2014

UPPER MERION AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT SUMMER READING 2020