Good Books For Third Grade

These books were taken from lists compiled by the Dover Public Library and the New Castle County Library System

• Paddington series by Michael Bond
• Ramona series by Beverly Cleary
• The Carp in the Bathtub (Cohen)
• The Hundred Dresses (Estes)
• The Beast in Miss Rooney's Room (Giff)
• Bill Peet books
• Daniel Pinkwater books
• Chris Van Allsburg books
• Charlotte's Web (White)
• Little House in the Big Woods and other Little House books (Wilder)
• Babe the Gallant Pig and other books by Dick King-Smith
• The Borrowers (Norton)
• Nate the Great books by Marjorie Sharmat
• Cam Jansen series by David Adler
• Double Fudge (Blume)
• The Keeper of the Doves (Byars)
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Dahl)
• Owen Foote, Frontiersman
• Just Juice (Hesse)
• Oh No, Noah! (Hurwitz)
• Herbie Jones Moves On (Kline)
• The Adventures of Captain Underpants (Pilkey)
• Gooney Bird Greene (Lowry)
• Sara, Plain and Tall (MacLachlan
• Judy Moody (McDonald)
• The Best School Year Ever (Robinson)
• The BFG (Dahl)
• Encyclopedia Brown series (Sobol)
• How to Eat Fried Worms (Rockwell)
• The Keeping Quilt (Polacco)

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