3rd Grade
Book locations in the library:
J - children's fiction
JB - children's biography
J 398.2 - folktales - in children's non-fiction
J 811 - poetry - in children's non-fiction
First Chapter books
| J Bauer | The Blue Ghost When is a ghost not scary? When is it a guardian angel? A time-traveling haunt? Liz enters into her family’s past and helps to save its future. |
| J Cooper | The Magician’s Boy A sorcerer’s apprentice, performing a puppet show of St. George and the Dragon, goes on a quest for the missing knight puppet in the Land of Story. |
| J Greene | Owen Foote, Mighty Scientist* Bold Owen and timid Joseph begin their science fair project on how weed killer affects tadpoles. The thing you expect to go wrong doesn’t, with unexpectedly funny results. |
| J Greenwald | Rosy Cole’s Memoir Explosion* When Rosy writes about her memories according to a book called Write Your Life, her family and friends wish she’d never become an author. |
| J Haas | Jigsaw Pony Fran and Kiera are twins. When their dad brings a pony home, they fight over him, as usual—until they must find out why Jigsaw won’t jump. |
| J Pennypacker | Clementine* Clementine (the third-grader, not a tangerine) cuts off all of her friend’s hair, names her brother Spinach, and ends up as the Hero of the Great Pigeon War. |
Fiction
| J Averill | Jenny Goes to Sea * Jenny Linsky, a little black cat with a bright red scarf, and her brothers Edward and Checkers bid farewell to the Cat Club as they sail aboard the Sea Queen to far-away lands. |
| J Avi | The End of the Beginning Avon the wistful snail goes s-l-o-w-l-y out on a limb to find adventure, along with his antsy friend Edward. |
| J Babbitt | Jack Plank Tells Tales An out-of-work pirate spins yarns to a group of boardinghouse residents about his adventures on the high seas and discovers his true calling. |
| J Brown | Flat Stanley* Squashed by a falling bulletin board, half-inch-wide Stanley Lambchop goes places no ordinary boy could: in a mailbox, up into the sky, down a sewer, into a painting. |
| J Cleary | Mouse and the Motorcycle* When Keith stays in an old hotel he befriends a young mouse named Ralph, who soon figures out he can ride Keith’s mini model motorcycle just by saying pb-pb-b-b-b. |
| J Dahl | Esio Trot “TEG REGGIB, ESIO TROT!” are the magic backwards words Mr. Hoppy gives to his TRAEHTEEWS Mrs. Silver to make her pet reptile grow up. |
| J DiCamillo | The Tale of Despereaux A wee mouse with big ears who loves books and a princess. . .a serving girl who wants to be a princess . . . a pit of nasty rats . . . a kidnapping! Will it all end up happily ever after? |
| J Ellis | The Several Lives of Orphan Jack Young Jack is apprenticed out as a bookkeeper, but he hates doing the math. He wanders the road to seek his fortune, and finds his greatest asset is his imagination. |
| J Fleischman | The White Elephant Run-Run is an elephant handler in old Siam who is given another, sacred, elephant by the prince as a curse. Today a “white elephant,” is something valuable you own but may not want to keep. |
| J Gannett | My Father’s Dragon* Elmer takes the advice of a worldly cat to travel to the Island of Tangerina and among the jungle creatures of Wild Island to rescue a baby dragon. |
| J Jenkins | Toys Go Out Lumphy the stuffed buffalo, plush little StingRay, and the mysterious Plastic venture outside the Little Girl’s room in six riotous stories. |
| J King-Smith | A Mouse Called Wolf A tiny mouse discovers he can sing the melodies played by the kindly old lady of the house who plays piano, and soon he is teaching her his own music. |
| J Kline | Herbie Jones* Herbie and Raymond hate being in the lowest reading group at school. How they get out of it involves stinky fish, haunted bathrooms, Charlie perfume, and a couple of spiders named Gus and Spike. |
| J MacDonald | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle* Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is not your ordinary grandmotherly type. Razor-sharp smart, she knows exactly how to cure children of their faults in the most amusing and friendly ways. |
| J MacDonald | Judy Moody* Judy goes from mad to sad to glad as she makes her Me collage for third grade, attends an all-boys birthday party, and forms the T. P. Club. Or, as Judy would say, “ROAR!” |
| J MacLachlan | Sarah, Plain and Tall* Will Sarah stay in Caleb and Anna’s prairie home to be Papa’s new wife, or will she return to the wild Maine coast she left behind? Award-winning historical fiction. |
| J Naylor | Roxie and the Hooligans Roxie Warbler gets marooned on an island with a pack of bullies, pursued by the robbers Rat and Snake Eyes. Never fear--Roxie has read Lord Thistlebottom’s Book of Pitfalls and How to Survive Them. |
| J Newman | Hachiko Waits Every year on April 8, Shibuya Station is filled with families celebrating the life of the faithful akita dog of Japan. Yasuo grows from boy to man as he tells Hachiko’s story. |
| J Pullman | Spring-Heeled Jack Blam! Kapow! Sproing! See the heroic Spring-Heeled Jack leap tall buildings in a single bound as he saves three orphans from the villains of Victorian London. In both words and comic strip panels. |
| J Scieszka | Marco? Polo!* Joe, Sam, and Fred, the Time Warp Trio boys, get warped back to China in 1275 A.D. to meet Marco Polo, Kublai Khan, and the bad guy they call Ding Dong. |
| J Seidler | Mean Margaret A pair of woodchucks try to turn a tantrum-throwing Margaret into a reasonable child before she completely ruins their marriage, not to mention their furniture. |
| J M Sobol | Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Jumping Frogs* On a science club outing to catch frogs, Buddy’s camera is stolen. Leroy (“Encyclopedia”) Brown and Sally Kimball try to find out whodunit. Can you solve the 10 short mystery stories in this book without looking in the back for the answers? |
| J M Hale | Key Lardo* Chet Gecko loves wolf-spider lasagna, but hates math class and James Bland, the new penguin kid who just might take away Chet’s unofficial title of Best Private Eye at Emerson Hicky Elementary. |
Folktales
| J 398.2 Lunge-Larsen |
Hidden Folk: Stories of Fairies, Dwarves, Selkies, and Other Secret Beings |
| J 398.2 Shannon |
More Stories to Solve: Fifteen Folktales from Around the World* Very short riddle stories, some easy and some hard, from India to Ireland and everywhere in between. Guess the answer yourself or turn the page to find out. |
| J 398.2 Taback |
Kibitzers and Fools: Tales my Zayda Told Me Funny and colorful two-page Yiddish stories about kibitzers (busybodies) and schlemiels (fools) that end with traditional sayings like this one: “Just because you can talk, it doesn’t mean you’re making sense.” |
Poetry
| J 811 Poke | A Poke in the I Poems that are pictures! See them twist, fly, jump, swim, and yes, even collapse into bed. Poems chosen by Paul Janeczko, with paintings by Chris Raschka. |
| J 811 Silverstein |
A Light in the Attic Shel Silverstein’s poems that will crack you up and make you wonder. Here’s “Wavy Hair:” I thought that I had wavy hair Until I shaved. Instead, I find that I have straight hair And a very wavy head. |
Biographies
| J B Kahlo J SP B Kahlo |
Frida Frida Kahlo’s childhood and youth are painted in the images and colors of Mexican folklore, and show how she used her art to overcome all obstacles. By Jonah Winter. |
| J B Parks | Rosa They’re all here: the supporting cast of Rosa Park’s story. Raymond Parks, her husband. James Blake, the bus driver who yelled at her to move. Prof. Jo Ann Robinson, shopping when she heard of Rosa’s arrest. Dr. King, who said, “We will stay off the buses.” By poet Nikki Giovanni. |
| J B Sequoyah by Rumford |
Sequoyah Two children in a forest of giant redwoods want to know why these trees were named for a Cherokee man—and end up discovering a whole new way to write. By James Rumford. |
| J B Seuss by Krull |
The Boy on Fairfield Street Growing up in Springfield, Mass., Young Ted Geisel was fascinated with his neighbors and the zoo down the street. Later these became the zany characters and verses of Dr. Seuss. By Kathleen Krull. |
* Books with * next to the title have sequels or series.
