Third Grade

Fiction

Juv E Ashman
The Essential Worldwide Monster Guide by Linda Ashman. 32 p.
This book contains descriptions of monsters from various countries in the form of the travel guide for a world tour by balloon.

Juv E Axelrod
My Last Chance Brother by Amy Axelrod.
When Max gets fed up with his older brother's antics, he makes a wish to turn him into a bug.

Juv E Bruchac
Crazy Horse's Vision by Joseph Bruchac.
A story based on the life of the dedicated young Lakota boy who grew up to be one of the bravest defenders of his people.

Juv E Bunting
How Many Days to America? by Eve Bunting. 32p.
Refugees from a Caribbean island embark on a dangerous boat trip to America where they have a special reason to celebrate Thanksgiving.

Juv E Chandra
George Washington's Teeth by Deborah Chandra. 40 p.
A rollicking rhyme portrays George Washington's lifelong struggle with bad teeth.

Juv Fic Creech
Love that Dog by Sharon Creech. 86 p.
A young student, who comes to love poetry through personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem.

Juv Fic Cutler
Leap, Frog by Jane Cutler. 197 p.
Edward and his new friend Charley prepare for the First Annual Mark Twain Memorial Jumping Frog Contest.

Juv Fic DeLaCroix
The Hero of Third Grade by Alice DeLaCroix. 72 p.
Randall changes to a new school where he pretends to be an anonymous hero until, when his third grade class plans a fundraiser, he finds that being himself is good enough.

Juv Fic DiCamillo
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo. 182 p.
Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.

Juv E Friedman
How My Parents Learned to Eat by Ina R. Friedman. 30 p.
An American sailor courts a Japanese girl and each tries, in secret, to learn the other's way of eating.

Juv E Helakoski
The Smushy Bus by Leslie Helakoski.
When the regular school bus is in the shop, a clever driver must use all that he knows about addition and subtraction to ensure that seventy-six children get on-and off-of the four-seat substitute bus.

Juv Fic Hopkinson
Cabin in the Snow by Deborah Hopkinson. 71 p.
While Papa is off fighting on the Missouri border, Charlie is left in charge of the family in their remote cabin in Bleeding Kansas and so must keep everyone safe when a fierce prairie blizzard growls and rages outside their door.

Juv Fic Kemal
Mixed-up Journey to Magic Mountain by Kurt Kemal. 58 p.
When Marco the magician's spells start coming out all wrong, Nina goes with him to the Magic Mountain to get help from the Magic Master.

Juv E Long
How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long.
Jeremy Jacob joins Braid Beard and his pirate crew and finds out about pirate language, pirate manners, and other aspects of their life.

Juv Fic McKenna
Third Grade Stinks! by Colleen O'Shaughnessy McKenna. 99 p.
Gordie loves his third grade teacher, but sharing a locker with a girl instead of his best friend and trouble with a school bully may ruin his best year ever.

Juv Fic Meddaugh
Lulu's Hat by Susan Meddaugh. 74 p.
Although he sometimes fails to pull a rabbit out of his hat, Lulu the magician delights audiences with his unpredictable magic.

Juv Fic Mills
7 x 9 = trouble! by Claudia Mills. 103 p.
Third-grader Wilson struggles with his times-tables in order to beat the class deadline.

Juv Fic Montes
A Crazy Mixed-up Spanglish Day by Marisa Montes.120 p.
In Northern California, Maritza Gabriela Morales Mercado struggles to deal with the third grade bully, to control her temper, and to remember to speak Spanish at home and English at school.

Juv E Nolen
Plantzilla by Jerdine Nolen.
In a series of letters a boy, his science teacher, and his parents discuss the progress of a very unusual, sometimes frightening, plant that becomes more human as the summer progresses.

Juv E O'Malley
Mount Olympus Basketball by Kevin O' Malley.
Zeus, Hera, Athene, Poseidon, and Hades pull some dirty tricks as they face off against Hercules, Jason, Odysseus, Achilles, and Theseus in this gods versus mortals basketball game in ancient Greece.

Juv Fic Pilkey
Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs. the Jurassic Jackrabbits from Jupiter by Dav Pilkey. 127 p.
General Jackrabbit and his Robo-Rabbits from Jupiter attempt to take over the world on Ricky Ricotta's birthday.

Juv E Pulver
Punctuation Takes a Vacation by Robin Pulver.
When all the punctuation marks in Mr. Wright's class decide to take a vacation, the students discover just how difficult life can be without them.

Juv Fic Sachar
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom by Louis Sachar. 195 p.
An unmanageable, but lovable, 11-year-old misfit learns to believe in himself when he get to know the new school counselor, who is a sort of misfit too.

Juv SF Scieszka
Hey, Kid, Want to Buy a Bridge? by Jon Scieszka. 74 p.
Thanks to their magical book, Fred, Sam, and Joe inadvertently travel through time to 1877 New York City, where they and their grand- daughters, who have also come from the future, help them find a way back to their own time.

Juv E Siebert
Motorcycle Song by Diane Siebert.
Rhyming text describes motorcycles of all kinds and their riders, as well as the joy of the open road.

Juv E Smith
Jingle Dancer by Cynthia Leitich Smith.
Jenna, a member of the Muscogee, or Creek, Nation, borrows jingles from the dresses of several friends and relatives so that she can perform the jingle dance at the powwow. Includes a note about the jingle dance tradition and its regalia.

Juv E Smith
Pinocchio, the Boy by Lane Smith. 41 p.
Pinocchio has been turned into a boy but no one, not even he, realizes it as he walks through Collodi-town trying to get some hot chicken soup for Geppetto.

Juv Fic Wallace-Brodeur
Blue Eyes Better by Ruth Wallace-Brodeur. 106p.
When her older brother is killed in an accident, ten-year-old Tessa and her parents find it difficult to overcome their grief and return to living normally.

Juv E Wells
Timothy's Tales From Hilltop School by Rosemary Wells. 64 p.
A collection of six stories featuring the teachers and students of Hilltop School as they learn about taking turns, working together, and never giving up.

Non-Fiction

Juv 398.2209756 J12G
Jack Outwits the Giants by Paul Brett Johnson.
In this Appalachian folktale, Jack outwits two giants who want fresh meat for breakfast.
 
Juv 530.8 SCH95M
Millions to Measure by David M. Schwartz. 32 p.
Marvelosissimo the Magician explains the development of standard units of measure, and shows the simplicity of calculating length, height, weight, and volume using the metric system.
 
Juv 708 B816S
The Shape Game by Anthony Brown.
The author/illustrator describes how his mother's wish to spend her birthday visiting an art museum with her family changed the course of his life forever.

Updated P.S. 4/05; Holdings checked 7/06 KRL