The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
—Dr. Seuss

Reading Lists for Grades 3 and 4

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Reading List (3 & 4)

Author:                Title: 

Applegate                  The One and Only Ivan
Atwater                    Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Avi                     A Beginning, a Muddle and an End 
                           The End of the Beginning
Banks                      Harry the Poisonous Centipede
Barden                     Cinderella Smith
Barnett                    The Brixton Brothers (series)
Birdsall                   The Penderwicks
Birney                     The World According to Humphrey
Blume                      Doublefudge
                           Coolzone with Pain & the Great One
                           Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Bond                       A Bear Called Paddington
Broach                     Masterpiece
                           Missing on Superstition Mountain
Buckley                    The Sister’s Grimm (series)
Byars                      Little Horse
Byng                       Molly Moon and the Incredible Book
                           Of Hypnotism
Child                      Clarice Bean
Choldenko                  Al Capone Does My Shirts
                           Al Capone Shines My Shoes
Cleary                     The Mouse and the Motorcycle
                           Ramona the Brave
Clements                   Frindle
                           The Report Card
                           Troublemaker
Colfer                     The Worst Boy in the World
Coville                    Space Brat
                           Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
Cowell                     How to Train a Dragon
Creech                     Pleasing the Ghost
                           Granny Torrelli Makes Soup
Crilley                    Akiko on the Planet Smoo (series)
Cronin                     The Trouble with Chickens
Dahl                       The BFG
                           Fantastic Mr. Fox
                           The Twits
                           Matilda
Davies, K.                 The Great Hamster Race
Davies, J.                 The Lemonade War
DiCamillo                  Because of Winn-Dixie
  The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
                           The Tale of Despereaux
DiTerlizzi                 The Spiderwick Chronicles
Donaldson                  Giants and the Joneses
Doyle                      The Giggler Treatment
Eager                      Half-Magic
Estes                      Ginger-Pye
Finney                     I, Jack
Fitzgerald                 The Great Brain
Fitzgerald                 Under the EGG **
Fitzhugh                   Harriet the Spy
Funke                      Ghosthunters
                           Igraine the Brave
Gifford                    Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little
                           Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Writing
                           Thank-you Notes
Goldberg                   Sugar Plum Ballerinas    
Griffin                     Witch Twins
Grimstone                  Gladiator Boys
Gutman                     Honus and Me
                           The Get Rich Quick Club
                           The Homework Machine
Haddix                     Say What?
Hannigan                   Emmaline and the Bunny
                           Ida B
Hoberman                   Strawberry Hill
Holt                       Piper Reed
Horvath                    Everything on a Waffle
Howe                       Bunnicula
Hunt                       Jack Stalwart (series)
Jenkins                    Toys Go Out  (great read-aloud)
                           Toys Dance Party
                           Toys Come Home     
                           Invisible Inkling
Juster                     The Phantom Toolbooth
Keane                      Joe Sherlock
Kelly                      Lucy Rose: Big on Plans
                           Melonhead    
Jackson                    Eggs Over Evie
Jonell                     Emmy & the Incredible Shrinking Rat
Kessler                    The Tale of Emily Windsnap (series)
King-Smith                 Funny Frank (any title by author)
Konigsburg                 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs.
                           Basil E. Frankweiler
Krosoczka                  Lunch Lady (series)
L’Engle                    A Wrinkle in Time
Levine                     The Princess Tales
Lin                        Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Look                       Alvin Ho (series)
Lowry                      All About Sam
  Gooney Bird Greene
                           The Willoughby’s
MacDonald                  Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
Martin                     The Doll People
Mazer                      The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes
McGhee                     Julia Gillian
Moss                       Max Disaster (series)
Mould                      Something Wickedly Weird (series)
Naylor                     Roxie and the Hooligans
Nimmo                      Charlie Bone (series)
Sachar                     Sideway Stories from Wayside School
Salisbury                  Calvin Coconut (series)
Scieszka                   The Time Warp Trio (series)
Selznick                   The Inventions of Hugo Cabret
                           Wonderstruck
Simon                      The Cupcake Diaries (series)
Simon                      Horrid Henry (series)
Sobol                      Encyclopedia Brown
Snicket                    The Series of Unfortunate Events
Stewart                    The Mysterious Benedict Society
Taylor                     All-of-a-Kind Family
Vail                       Justin Case
Vernon                     Dragonbreath (series)
Voigt                      Angus and Sadie
                           Young Fredle
Wayans                     Amy Hodgepodge (series)
Weeks                      Oogie Cooder
                           Pie
White                      Charlotte’s Web
                           Stuart Little
Whybrow                    Little Wolf’s Book of Badness
Wilder                     The Little House on the Prairie
Wood                       The Incorrigible Children of Ashton
                           Place