Suggested Reading for 3rd Grade

Suggested Reading for 3rd Grade

Updated July 24, 2025
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The Beatryce Prophecy
DiCamillo, Kate
Paper Book
A #1 New York Times bestseller From two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo and two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall comes a fantastical meditation on fate, love, and the power of words to spell the world. We shall all, in the end, be led to...
The list of things that will not change
Stead, Rebecca
Paper Book
EIGHT STARRED REVIEWS! The reassuring book kids and families need right now. "An absolute original . . . a story that kids will love." --R. J. Palacio, bestselling author of Wonder At a time when everything is changing for Bea and her family, the important things...
Violet and Jobie in the Wild
Perkins, Lynne Rae
Paper Book
"A gem of a story. "--Booklist (starred review) "A marvelous heroic journey. "--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A narrative centering family bonds and new experiences. "--Publishers Weekly (starred review) Newbery Medal winner Lynne Rae Perkins introduces Violet and Jobie,...
Aven Green, sleuthing machine
Bowling, Dusti
Paper Book
Third-grader Aven Green has been solving mysteries for a whole month--cracking such cases as The Mystery of the Cranky Mom. But can this perceptive detective solve two cases at the same time? First her teacher's lunch bag disappears. Then Aven's great-grandma's dog goes missing....
The invasion
Grine, Chris
Paper Book
The wildly popular, bestselling sci-fi series by Katherine Applegate and Michael Grant returns in a new full-color graphic novel series, adapted by Chris Grine.Sometimes weird things happen to people. Ask Jake. He could tell you about the night he and his friends saw a strange light in the sky that...
Continental Drifter
MacLeod, Kathy
Paper Book
Winner of the American Library Association's Asian/Pacific American Award for Children's Literature With a Thai mother and an American father, Kathy lives in two different worlds. She spends most of the year in Bangkok, where she's secretly counting the days till summer...
Willodeen
Applegate, Katherine
Paper Book
From #1 New York Times bestselling author of Odder and The One and Only Ivan, a heartfelt story about a girl named Willodeen who risks everything to help a magical, endangered creature. The earth is old and we are not, and that is all you...
The Cartoonists Club: A Graphic Novel
Telgemeier, Raina
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestselling cartoonists Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud team up for a one-of-a-kind friendship story about creativity and self-expression that blends how-to and comics magic. Welcome to the club! Makayla is bursting with ideas but doesn't know how to make...

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