Summer Reading List Grades 3-5
 
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The Summer Reading List is a Suggested List. If students are unable to find a particular title on the list they may read a book by an author from the list. Please be aware that some children’s authors write books suited for mature readers. Therefore, parent previewing of texts not specifically identified by title on this list is recommended. The suggested reading level for the book is in the last column. It is a guide for student and parent selection. Assessments and response criteria information are available for each grade level in the individual school libraries and are also provided below in electronic format.

Grade 3  Suggested Titles
 Grade 4  Suggested Titles
 Grade 5  Suggested Titles

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Grade 3 
Suggested Titles

Title

 Author

Suggested Reading Level
Abuela’s Weave

Castaneda

 3
Aldo Applesauce
Busybody Nora

Hurwitz

 3
Amazing Spiders

Parsons

 3
Amber Brown Sees Red
Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit

Danzinger

 3
And So They Build

Kitchen

 3
Annie and the Old One

Miles

 3
The Bailey School House Books (Series)

Dadey

  
Ballad of the Pirate Queens

Yolen

 3
Barry:  The Bravest St. Bernard

Hall

 3
Bathwater Gang

Spinelli

 3
Big Max

Platt

 3
Blueberries for Sal

McClosky

 3
Biography Today:  Artist Series

Lanzen-Harris

 K-5
The Boy Who Ate Dog Biscuits

Sachs

 3
Cactus, Hotel

Guiberson

 3
Cam Jansen (Series)
Cam Jansen and the Chocolate Fudge Mystery

Adler

 3
A Chair for My Mother

Hoberman

 3
Chang’s Paper Pony

Coerr

 3
Charlotte’s Web

White

 3-4
Chicken Sunday

Polacco

 3
The Chinese Mirror

Ginsburg

 3
Chrysanthemum

Henkes

 3
Class Clown

Hurwitz

 3
The Classroom at the End of the Hall

Evans

 3
The Comeback Dog

Thomas

 3
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Barrett

 3
Crow Boy

Yashima

 3
Dandelion

Freeman

 3
Danny the Champion of the World

Dahl

 3
Dolphin Adventure

Grover

 3
Dragon in the Rocks

Day

 3
The Dragonling

Koller

 3
If Dinosaurs Came Back

Most

 3
The Discovery of the Americas

Maestro

 3
Earthworms

Pigdon

 3
Encyclopedia Brown (Series)

Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Mysterious Handprints

Sobol

 3

 
Endangered Animals

Stone

 3
Exploring the Titanic

Ballard

 3
The Fantastic Mr. Fox

Dahl

 3
Favorite Fairy Tales Told In England/France (etc.)

Alexander

 3
Fig Pudding

Fletcher

 3
Flight

Burleigh

 3
Fly Away Home

Bunting

 3
The Fortune-Teller

Alexander

 3
Freckle Juice

Blume

 3
Front Porch Stories at the One Room School

Tate

 3
George and Martha

Marshall

 3
Giant Jam Sandwich

Lord

 3
Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artist

Venezia

 K-5
The Giving Tree

Silverstein

 3
The Great White Man-Eating Shark

Mahy

 3
Hannah

Wehlan

 3
Halmoni and the Picnic

Choi

 3
I Hate English

Levine

 3
Harold and the Purple Crayon

Johnson

 K-3
I’ll Meet You at the Cucumbers

Moore

 3
Helen Keller

Graff

 3
Henry and Risby
Henry Huggins

Cleary

 3
Humphrey- The Wayward Whale

Callenbach

 3
How to Draw (series)

 

 K-5
If You Grew Up With George Washington

Gross

 3
If You’re Not Here Please Raise Your Hand

Dakos

 3
Imogene’s Antlers

Small

 3
The Indian in the Cupboard

Banks

 3
Ira Sleeps Over

Waber

 3
Inspirations: Stories About Women Artists

Sills

 K-5
Julian Dream Doctor
Julian’s Glorious Summer

Cameron

 3
The Key to the Treasure

Parish

 3
 Knots on a Counting Rope

Martin

 3
Koko’s Kitten

Patterson

 3
Lemonade For Sale

Murphy

 3
The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush

DePaola

 3-5
The Librarian From the Black Lagoon

Thaler

 3
The Little Island

MacDonald

 3
Little House (Series)
Little House in the Big Woods
Little House on the Prairie

Wilder

 3
The Long Way Westward

Sandin

 3
Lives of the Artists (any in the series)

Krull

 K-5
Look What I Did with a Leaf

Sohi

 K-5
The Lucky Stone

Clifton

 3
The Magic School Bus Books (Series)
The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body
The Magic School Bus Inside a Beehive

Cole

 3-4

 
Marvin Redpost: Why Pick on Me

Sachar

 3
Make it with Felt

Lawson

 3-5
Mirette on the Highwire

McCully

  
Miss Nelson is Missing

Allard

 3
Millions of Cats

Gag

 3
Miss Rumphius

Cooney

 3
Molly’s Pilgrim

Cohen

 3
More Stories Julian Tells

Cameron

 3
Mr. Popper’s Penguins

Atwater,R.

 3
The Monster in the Third Dresser Drawer

Smith

 3
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters

Steptoe

 3
Mouse Paint

Walsh

 K-3
My Father’s Dragon

Gannett

 3
Nasty, Stinky, Sneakers

Bunting

 3
My Many Colored Days

Dr. Seuss

 K-3
Nate the Great (Series)
Nate the Great and the Missing Key

Sharmat

 3
Nathaniel Talking

Greenfield

 3
Nettie’s Trip South

Turner

 3
Owl Moon

Yolen

 3
Origami Crafts

Urton

 4-5
The Ox-Cart Man

Hall

 3
Paul Bunyan

Kellogg

 3
Pablo Picasso

Lebscky

 K-5
Painters of the Caves

Lauber

 K-5
Papier Mache for Kids

McGraw

 k-5
The Philharmonic Gets Dressed

Kuskin

 3
Poem Stew

Cole

 3
Pieces – A Year in Poems and Quilts

Hines

 2-4
The Principal’s New Clothes

Calmerson

 3
The Pyramid Plot

Somper

 3
Ralph S. Mouse
Ramona Quimby, Age 8
Ramona Forever

Cleary

 3
Rattle Your Bones – Skeleton Drawing Fun

Clemesha, Zimmerman

 2-5
Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest

McCermott

 3
Relatives Came

Rylant

 3
Riptide

Weller

 3
Sam, Banks and Moonshine

Ness

 3
Sarah, Plain and Tall

McLachlan

 3-4
The Skirt

Soto

 3
The Spy on Third Base

Christopher

 3
Spot a Cat

Micklethwait

 K-1
Spot a Dog

Micklethwait

 K-1
Soccer Sam

Marzollo

 3
Stone Fox

Gardiner

 3
Storm in the Night

Stolz

 3
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

Blume

 3
The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

Lester

 3
The Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder: Pioneer Girl

Stine

 3
Talking with Artists

Cummings

 K-5
Tar Beach

Ringold

 K-5
Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe

Williams

 3
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

Scieszka

 3
Uncle Jed’s Barbershop

King-Mitchell

 3
Vejigante Masquerader

DeLacre

 3
Wagon Wheels

Brenner

 3
What’s the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?

Fritz

 3
Where the Wild Things Are

Sendak

 3
Wild Weather: Tornadoes

Hopping

 3
The Year of the Panda

Schlein

 3


 

Grade 4 
Suggested Titles

Title

Author

Suggested Reading Level

The Adventures fo Ali Baba Bernstein

Hurwitz

4