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Children's Literature: Grade 3

A research guide for locating children's and young adults' literature available through and beyond the Tyndale libraries.

About this list...

The books on this list correspond to the Scholastic Guided Reading Levels J - Q.

Grade 3 Reading level

The Giving Tree

by Shel Silverstein 

PS 3569 .I47224 G5 1965

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

by Barbara Patterson, Judith Gwyn Brown (Illustrator)

PZ 7 .R5628 Be 1972

Freckle Juice

by Judy Blume

PS 3552 .L843 F73 1986

Pippi Longstocking

by Astrid LindgrenLouis S Glanzman (Illustrator)

PT 9875 .L598 P5 2005     E-book too

by Beverly ClearyAlan Tiegreen (Illustrator)

PS 3553 .L3914 R33 1981

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

by Beatrix Potter

PR 6031 .O72 T36 1987     E-book too.

Stuart Little

by E. B. White, Garth Williams (Illustrator) 

PS 3545 .H5187 S8 1973

by Beverly Cleary

PS 3553 .L3914 M6 1989

Read Aloud

Because of Winn-Dixie

by Kate DiCamillo

PS 3604 .I23 B43 2005

Charlotte's Web

by E. B. White; Jane Williams (Illustrator) 

PS 3545 .H5187 C5 1952

The One and Only Ivan

by Katherine Applegate; Patricia Castelao (Illustrator) 

PS 3551 .P569 O53 2012

Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Disgusting Sneakers

by Katherine Applegate; Patricia Castelao (Illustrator)  

PS 3551 .P569 O53 2012

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