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Recommended Summer Reading for Upcoming 3rd Graders
Award-Winners
• Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
• The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
• 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola
• The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
• Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
• Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
• Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
• Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
• Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
• My Father’s Dragon by Rule Stiles Gannett
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Miscellaneous Fiction
• The Talented Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
• Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little by Peggy Gifford
• Stink and the World’s Super-Stinky Sneakers by Megan McDonald
• Mercy Watson: Princess in Disguise by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Chris van Dusen
• Ready, Freddy series by Abby Klein
• There’s an Owl in the Shower by Jean Craighead George
• No Talking by Andrew Clements
• Frindle by Andrew Clements
• Superfudge by Judy Blume
• The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Catling
• Sports fiction books by Matt Christopher
• Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
• My Weird School series by Dan Gutman
• Encyclopedia Brown books by Donald Sobol
• Paint the Wind by Pam Muñoz Ryan
• Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Nonfiction
• To Space & Back by Sally Ride
• Owen & Mzee: The Language of Friendship by Isabella and Craig Hatkoff and Paula Kahumba
• How it was with Dooms: A True Story from Africa by Xan Hopcroft and Carol Cawthra Hopcroft
• How Come? Planet Earth by Kathy Wollard and Debra Solomon
• The Usborne Internet-Linked First Encyclopedia of Our World by Felicity Brooks and David Hancock
• The Usborne Internet-Linked First Encyclopedia of Science by Rachel Firth
• Scholastic Book Of Lists New And Updated by Jr. James Buckley and Robert Stremme
• Amazing Animals Q & A by David Burnie
• Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings by Deborah Hopkinson
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