Mama Monday: Third Grade Read Aloud List

The last few weeks I shared our Preschool Read Aloud List, Kindergarten Read Aloud List, First Grade Read Aloud List, and Second Grade Read Aloud List. This week I thought I would share what I’ve compiled for our read aloud time during our upcoming Third Grade year. Only a few picture books on this list before diving into some great chapter book selections. I have noted which books are chapter books and which are picture books by noting the picture books with a (pic) and chapter books/novels with a (ch). Please keep in mind that children can understand books at a higher level than they can read them, so if the books seem advanced for this age group, they are supposed to be! 

Also no family favorites marked in this list since we haven’t read these yet.

• The Serpent Slayer and Other Stories of Strong Women by Katrin Tchana (fairytales)
• Encounter by Jane Yolen (pic)
• Molly Bannaky by Alice McGill (pic)
• Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco (pic)
• Thunder at Gettysburg by Patricia Lee Gauch (pic)
• Frindle by Andrew Clements (ch)
• The Jacket by Andrew Clements (ch)
• The Janitor’s Boy by Andrew Clements (ch)
• The Landry News by Andrew Clements (ch)
• The Last Holiday Concert by Andrew Clements (ch)
• Lunch Money by Andrew Clements (ch)
• The Report Card by Andrew Clements (ch)
• A Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements (ch)
• The Button Boat by Glendon and Kathryn Swarthout (ch) OP
• Hoofbeats: Katie and the Mustang by Kathleen Duey (ch) series
• Riding Freedom by Pam Munoz Ryan (ch)
• The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes (ch)
• Keeper of the Doves by Betsy Byars (ch)
• Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park (ch)
• Shipwrecked: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy by Rhoda Blumberg (ch)
• Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuk (ch)
• Hiroshima: The Story of the First Atom Bomb by Clive A. Lawton (ch)
• The True Adventure of Daniel Hall by Diane Stanley (ch)
• Shoeshine Girl by Clyde Robert Bulla (ch)
• Skinnybones by Barbara Park (ch)
• Almost Starring Skinnybones by Barbara Park (ch)
• The SOS File by Betsy Byars, Betsy Duffey, and Laurie Myers (ch)
• The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (ch)
• Danny, the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl (ch)
• Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (ch)
• Strider by Beverly Cleary (ch)
• A Family Apart by Joan Lowery Nixon (ch) series
• Orphan Train Rider: One Boy’s True Story by Andrea Warren (ch)
• We Rode the Orphan Trains by Andrea Warren (ch)
• Finding Buck McHenry by Alfred Slote (ch)
• Hang Tough by Alfred Slote (ch)
• Paul Mather by Alfred Slote (ch)
• The Trading Game by Alfred Slote (ch)
• Jackie and Me by Dan Gutman (ch) series
• Francie by Karen English (ch)
• Gentle Ben by Walt Morey (ch)
• Canyon Winter by Walt Morey (ch)
• Hero by Walt Morey (ch)
• Kavik the Wolf Dog by Walt Morey (ch)
• Scrub Dog of Alaska by Walt Morey (ch)
• The Year of Miss Agnes by Kirkpatrick Hill (ch)
• I Was a Rat! by Philip Pullman (ch)
• Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo (ch)
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (ch) abridged
• Lily’s Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff (ch)
• Alan and Naomi by Myron Levoy (ch)
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (ch) series
• Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan (ch)
• The Monster Garden by Vivien Alcock (ch)
• My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George (ch)
• On the Far Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George (ch)
• Frightful’s Mountain by Jean Craighead George (ch)
• Frightful’s Daughter by Jean Craighead George (ch)
• Peppermints in the Parlor by Barbara Brooks Wallace (ch)
• The Perils of Peppermints by Barbara Brooks Wallace (ch)
• Cousins in the Castle by Barbara Brooks Wallace (ch)
• Ghosts in the Gallery by Barbara Brooks Wallace (ch)
• The Twin in the Tavern by Barbara Brooks Wallace (ch)
• Sparrows in the Scullery by Barbara Brooks Wallace (ch)
• The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (ch)
• Tales from the Homeplace by Harriet Burandt and Shelley Dale (ch)
• Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing by Judy Blume (ch)
• Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great by Judy Blume (ch)
• Superfudge by Judy Blume (ch)
• Fudge-a-Mania by Judy Blume (ch)
• Double Fudge by Judy Blume (ch)
• Toliver’s Secret by Esther Wood Brady (ch)
• A Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements (ch)
• Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls (ch)
• Five Children and It by E. Nesbit (ch) series
• The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit (ch)
• The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit (ch)
• Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome (ch)
• The Princess and the Goblin by George Macdonald (ch)
• The Princess and Curdie by George Macdonald (ch)
• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell (ch)
• Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (ch)
• Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (ch)
• Half Magic by Edward Eager (ch)
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (ch)
• The Doll People by Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin (ch) series
• Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (ch)
• Peter Pan by James M. Barrie (ch)
• The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright (ch) series
• The Borrowers by Mary Norton (ch) series
• Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers (ch) series
• The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall (ch) series
• The Green Ember by S. D. Smith (ch) series

Third Grade Read Aloud List Download

Some of these books are actually on Chipette's list to read next year since her reading level has caught up to our read aloud level, but there are so many good books out there and so little time! We're skipping the ones she's going to read and using the rest for read alouds at bedtime.

Looking forward to another fun year of reading in the tree house,

Chelli