The Third Graders Recommend...
Below are some books that the Third Graders love. Ms. Roby added a few too.

Abbott- Kringle
Abbott- Secrets of Droon series
Avi- Don’t You Know There’s A War Going On?
Baglio- Animal Ark books
Barrows- Ivy and Bean books
Birdsall- Penderwick books
Blume- Super Fudge series
Blume- Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Bourke- Christian the Lion
Brennan- The Faerie Wars Chronicles
Brink- Caddie Woodlawn*
Broach- Shakespeare's Secret*
Brown- Flat Stanley
Buckley- NERDS
Buckley- Sisters Grimm books
Carman- Dark Hills Divide series
Catling- The Chocolate Touch
Cleary- Beezus and Ramona books
Cleary- The Mouse and the Motorcycle Series
Clements- No Talking and other titles
Coville- Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher and others
Curtis- Bud, Not Buddy
D’Lacey- Fire Within series*
Dahl- All titles
Daneshvari -School of Fear
DiCamillo- Mysterious Journey of Edward Tulane
DiCamillo- Tale of Desperaux and any other titles
DiTerlizzi- Spiderwick Chronicles
DuPrau- City of Ember series
Edwards-The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
Flanagan- Ranger’s Apprentice series*
Funke- Dragon Riders*
Funke- Inkheart and Inkspell*
Funke- The Thief Lord*
Gentle- Great American Horse series
Gidwitz- A Tale Dark and Grimm
Greenwald-My Life in Pink and Green*
Gutman-Jackie and Me
Haddix-The Shadow Children series
Hamilton- Weapons of the War
Henry- Misty of Chincoteague and other titles
Hesse- The Music of Dolphins
Horowitz- Alex Rider series*
Howe- Bunnicula
Hunter- Warriors series
Ibbotson- Several titles
Keene- Nancy Drew mysteries
Kessler- Emily Windsnap books
Kinney- Diary of a Wimpy Kid series
Klass- California Blue*
Konigsburg- From the Mixed- up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Law-Savvy*
LeGuin- Tales from Earthsea*

Lasky- Guardians of Ga'Hoole
Lewis- Chronicles of Narnia*
Lord- Rules
Lowry- Gooney Bird Greene
MacDonald- Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books
MacDonald- Judy Moody books and Stink books
Martel- Life of Pi*
McArthur- The Plant that Ate Dirty Socks
Meister- Dog series
O’Brien- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Osborne- The Magic Treehouse series
Paolini- Eragon series*
Parks- Junie B. Jones books
Paterson- The Great Gilly Hopkins
Paulsen- Hatchet*
Peirce-Big Nate books
Pullman-The Golden Compass*
Ransome- Swallows and Amazons series
Riordan- Percy Jackson series
Robinson- The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Robinson- The Best School Year Ever
Rodda- Deltora Quest series
Rowling- Harry Potter series*
Roy- A to Z mysteries
Ryan- Riding Freedom and others
Rylant- The Van Gogh Cafe
Sachar- Holes and other titles
Sachar- Sideways stories from Wayside School
Scieszka- Time Warp Trio
Sharmat- Nate the Great books
Simon- Horrid Henry books
Smiley-The Georges and the Jewels
Snicket- Series of Unfortunate Events books
Stewart- The Mysterious Benedict Society books *
Tolkien- Lord of the Rings* and The Hobbit*
Van Allsburg--all of his books
Vande Velde- Three Good Deads
Vernon-Dragonbreath books
Warner- Boxcar mysteries
Wilder- Little House on the Prairie books
Wiles- Each Little Bird That Sings
ZIzou- Lion Boy

Unknown- 20,00 Leagues Under the Sea (abridged)
Unknown- Time Machine (abridged)
Unknown- War of the Worlds (abridged)
Unknown- From the Earth to the Moon (abridged)
Unknown-Robin Hood (abridged)
Unknown-Call of the Wild (abridged)
Various -Greek Myths
Various- 39 Clues mysteries

Graphic Novels and Comics
Runton- Owly
Davis- Garfield books
Pilkey- Captain Underpants books
Smith- Bone series
Watterson- Calvin and Hobbs books

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* These titles are generally read by older children and young adults