Concord Public Schools
Summer Reading List

Grade 3
June 2008

Brought to you by your Public School Librarians

 

FICTION

 

Abbott, Tony

 

Secrets of Droon series (more titles)

Arenstam, Peter

Nicholas: A Massachusetts Tale

Birney, Betty G.

Humphrey series (more titles)

Clements, Andrew

Jake Drake, Billy Buster

Jake Drake, Bully Buster (pb)

Coville, Bruce

The Dragon of Doom

DaCosta, Jennifer

Snow in Jerusalem

Davies, Jacqueline

The Lemonade War

Friedman, Laurie

Mallory series (more titles)

Gifford, Peggy Elizabeth

Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little

Grindley, Sally

Dear Max series (more titles)

Hesse, Karen

Just Juice

Just Juice (pb)

Hoffman, Mary

Encore, Grace!

Holm, Jennifer

Babymouse series (more titles)

Holt, Kimberly Willis

Piper Reed, Navy Brat

Howe, James

It Came From Beneath the Bed

Kraft, Erik

Lenny and Mel’s Summer Vacation

La Fevers, Robin

Lowthar’s Blade trilogy (more titles)

Levine, Ellen

Henry’s Freedom Box

Lies, Brian

Bats at the Beach

Marsden, Carolyn

The Gold Threaded Dress

Marsden, Carolyn

The Jade Dragon

McKissack, Patricia

Away West

O’Malley, Kevin

Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude

Pennypacker, Sara

Clementine’s Letter

Preller, James

Jigsaw Jones series (more titles)

Rodda, Emily

Fairy Realm series (more titles)

Roy, Ron

A to Z Mystery series (more titles)

Scieszka, Jon

Time Warp Trio series (more titles)

Seuling, Barbara

Robert series (more titles)

Whybrow, Ian

Little Wolf series (more titles)

 

NONFICTION

 

Bishop, Nic

 

Nic Bishop Spiders

Facklam, Margery

Lizards: Weird and Wonderful

Fisher, Valorie

How High Can a Dinosaur Count?

Gibbons, Gail

Ice Cream: The Full Scoop

Gibbons, Gail

Galaxies, Galaxies!

Goodman, Susan

All in Just One Cookie

Kennedy, Edward

My Senator and Me: A Dog’s Eye View
of Washington DC

Leedy, Loreen

Look at My Book: How Kids Can Write and Illustrate Terrific Books

Markle, Sandra

Tough, Toothy Baby Sharks

Melcher, Gary

Audubon Society First Field Guide:
Night Sky

Nagda, Ann Whitehead

Cheetah Math: Learning About Division from Baby Cheetahs

Raczka, Bob

3-D ABC: A Sculptural Alphabet

Seuling, Barbara

Flick a Switch

Simon, Seymour

Our Solar System

Smith, Lane

John, Paul, George and Ben

Stemple, Heidi

One if by Land: A Massachusetts
Number Book

Street, Michael

Lucky 13: Solitaire Games for Kids

Suen, Anastasia

Wired

Taylor, Joanne

Full Moon Rising

Tomecek, Steve

Moon

Wick, Walter

Can You See What I See?: Once Upon
a Time

Willette, Andy

Swimming for Fun

Yorinks, Adrienne

Quilt of States

 

FOLKTALES

 

Artell, Mike

 

Three Little Cajun Pigs

Fleischman, Paul

Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal

Kellogg, Steven

Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett

Kimmel, Eric

Gershon’s Monster

Krensky, Steven

Any tall tale

Lester, Julius

John Henry

Lorbiecki, Marybeth

Paul Bunyan’s Sweetheart

Martin, Rafe

The Shark God

Myers, Tim

Basho and the River Stones

Mora, Pat

Dona Flor: A Tall Tale About a Giant

 

POETRY

 

Adoff, Arnold

 

Street Music: City Poems

Ashman, Linda

The Essential Worldwide Monster Guide

Bing, Christopher

Casey at the Bat

Davies, Jacqueline

The Boy Who Drew Birds

Florian, Douglas

Comets, Stars, the Moon & Mars

Franco, Betsy

Mathematickles

George, Kristine O.

Toasting Marshmallows

Gollub, Matthew

Cool Melons Turn to Frogs!

Hopkins, Lee Bennett

Blast Off: Poems About Space

Hopkins, Lee Bennett

Got Geography!

Janeczko, Paul

Wing Nuts: Screwy Haiku

Lewis, J. Patrick

Please Bury Me in the Library

Pollock, Penny

When the Moon Is Full: A Lunar Year

Prelutsky, Jack

Good Sports

Shields, Carol D.

Almost Late to School

Singer, Marilyn

Fireflies at Midnight

Stevenson, James

Just Around the Corner

Weatherford, Carole B.

Sidewalk Chalk: Poems of the City

Yolen, Jane

Shape Me A Rhyme: Nature’s Forms in Poetry

 

BIOGRAPHY

 

Adler, David

 

Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man

Christensen, Bonnie

The Daring Nellie Bly

Cline-Ransome, Lesa

Young Pele: Soccer’s First Star

Dooling, Michael

Young Thomas Edison

Kerley, Barbara

What To Do About Alice?

Krull, Kathleen

The Boy on Fairfield Street
(Dr. Seuss)

Krull, Kathleen

Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez

Lasky, Kathryn

Vision of Beauty

Ransom, Candice

Clara Barton

Schanzer, Roz

How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning

Schroeder, Alan

Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman

Yolen, Jane

The Perfect Wizard: Hans Christian Andersen

 

CLASSICS for the WELL-READ CHILD

 

Burnett, Frances H.

 

The Secret Garden

Dahl, Roald

James and the Giant Peach

Eager, Edward

Half Magic

Grahame, Kenneth

The Wind in the Willows

Hest, Amy

When Jessie Came Across the Sea

King-Smith, Dick

Babe: The Gallant Pig

Lindgren, Astrid

Pippi Longstocking

MacLachlan, Patricia

Sarah, Plain and Tall

Martin, Jacqueline Briggs

Snowflake Bentley

McCloskey, Robert

Homer Price

McCully, Emily Arnold

Mirette on the High Wire

Montgomery, L.M.

Anne of Green Gables

Robertson, Keith

Henry Reed series (more titles)

Taylor, Sidney

All of a Kind Family series (more titles)

Wilder, Laura Ingalls

Little House on the Prairie series (more titles)