Third Grade Booklist

Third Grade Booklist

  • Cover image for Shredderman: Secret Identity

    Shredderman: Secret Identity

    Alvin Bixby: Hulking, knuckles of steel, hideous breath, foul temper. Kids call him: Bubba. Nolan Byrd: Puny, power walker, math genius, can’t keep shoes tied. Kids call him: Nerd. Bubba has been the bane of Nolan’s existence for five long years. So when Mr. Green asks the class to become reporters, Nolan decides he’ll write an exposé—on Bubba. He doesn’t want to sign his name to it (that’d be suicidal), so Nolan creates a secret identity for himself—on the Internet. He launches Shredderman.com as a place where truth and justice prevail—and bullies get what’s coming to them.

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  • Cover image for Cam Jansen: The Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds #1

    Cam Jansen: The Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds #1

    No mystery is too great for super-sleuth Cam Jansen and her amazing photographic memory! Can Cam help catch the diamond thief? Cam and her friend Eric are sitting at the mall when the jewelry store is robbed. Cam sees the thief, but the police arrest the wrong person. Now it's up to Cam to catch the real criminal! The Cam Jansen books are perfect for young readers who are making the transition to chapter books, and Cam is a spunky young heroine whom readers have loved for over two decades.

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    Lisa the Lollipop Fairy

    When the fairies discover that candy has lost its sweetness, Rachel and Kirsty are enlisted to help Lisa the lollipop fairy retrieve her magical charm from a thieving Jack Frost.

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    Freckle Juice

    Andrew wants freckles so badly that he buys Sharon's freckle recipe for fifty cents.

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  • Cover image for Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots

    Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots

    The new third grade class at Baily Elementary School is notorious for chasing away teachers as quickly as they are hired, but they meet their match in Mrs. Jeepers, whom they suspect of being a vampire

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    Clementine

    Clementine is having not so good of a week. On Monday she’s sent to the principal’s office for cutting off Margaret’s hair. Tuesday, Margaret’s mother is mad at her. Wednesday, she’s sent to the principal…again. Thursday, Margaret stops speaking to her. Friday starts with yucky eggs and gets worse. And by Saturday, even her mother is mad at her. Okay, fine. Clementine is having a DISASTROUS week.

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  • Cover image for Toys Go Out

    Toys Go Out

    Six stories relate the adventures of three best friends, who happen to be toys.

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  • Cover image for In Aunt Lucy's Kitchen

    In Aunt Lucy's Kitchen

    While staying with their aunt for a year, three nine-year-old cousins keep busy baking and selling cookies, putting on a poetry and singing performance, and trying to encourage a romance between their aunt and one of their former customers.

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  • Cover image for Judy Moody and Stink: the Big Bad Blackout

    Judy Moody and Stink: the Big Bad Blackout

    A latest full-color adventure in the series that includes The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Treasure finds Judy, Stink and the whole Moody family riding out a hurricane-induced blackout in their basement while playing musical board games and telling stories with Grandma Lou.

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    The Stories Julian Tells

    Relates episodes in seven-year-old Julian's life which include getting into trouble with his younger brother Huey, planting a garden, what he did to try to grow taller, losing a tooth, and finding a new friend.

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    The Mouse and the Motorcycle

    "Boy!" said Ralph to himself, his whiskers quivering with excitement. "Boy, oh boy!" Feeling that this was an important moment in his life, he took hold of the handgrips. They felt good and solid beneath his paws. Yes, this motorcycle was a good machine all right. Ralph the mouse ventures out from behind the piney knothole in the wall of his hotel-room home, scrambles up the telephone wire to the end table, and climbs aboard the toy motorcycle left there by a young guest. His thrill ride does not last long.

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    Arthur and the Popularity Test

    After Fern and Sue Ellen take a popularity test in a magazine for teenage girls, the two start changing, leaving their friends longing for the old Fern and Sue Ellen to return.

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    The Hidden Stairs and the Magic Carpet

    Underneath the steps leading down to Eric's basement is a hidden storage space. It's dusty and old -- nothing special at all. But when Eric, Julie, and Neal all huddle inside the gray room together, something unbelievable happens. A glittering light and then a rainbow-colored staircase appear. And as the kids take their very first step down into the mysterious land of Droon, they know that only magic and adventure await them! Book jacket.

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    Bad Kitty vs Uncle Murray

    Kitty's owners are taking a week off and leaving Kitty and Puppy at home. So who's going to watch them? Good ol' Uncle Murray, star of the Fun Facts feature of previous Kitty books--the guy you thought knew everything about cats. Think again! It isn't long before Uncle Murray is driven to near madness by shenanigans of epic proportions.

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  • Cover image for I Was a Third Grade Science Project

    I Was a Third Grade Science Project

    Teaming up with Brian, Josh is sure he will win the big prize, yet when Brian's plan is to hypnotize the family dog into thinking he is a cat, Josh is very doubtful . . . until he sees the final results with his very own eyes. Reprint.

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    The Hundred Dresses

    In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson. Includes a note from the author's daughter, Helena Estes.

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  • Cover image for Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute

    Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute

    Serving justice . . . and lunch! Hector, Terrence, and Dee have always wondered about their school lunch lady. What does she do when she isn’t dishing out the daily special? Where does she live? Does she have a lot of cats at home? Little do they know, Lunch Lady doesn’t just serve sloppy joes—she serves justice! Whatever danger lies ahead, it’s no match for LUNCH LADY!

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    The Magician's Boy

    A boy who works for a magician meets familiar fairy tale characters when he is transported to the Land of Story in search of a missing puppet.

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    Melonhead

    In the Washington, D.C., neighborhood of Capitol Hill, Lucy Rose's friend Adam "Melonhead" Melon, a budding inventor with a knack for getting into trouble, enters a science contest that challenges students to recycle an older invention into a new invention.

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    Sadie and Ratz

    Hannah and her hands, named Sadie and Ratz, regularly get into trouble, especially when younger brother Baby Boy is around.

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    Babymouse

    Babymouse, an imaginative mouse dreams of being queen of the world, but will settle for an invitation to the most popular girl's exclusive slumber party. Simultaneous.

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  • Cover image for Jake Drake, Bully Buster

    Jake Drake, Bully Buster

    Fourth-grader Jake Drake relates how he comes to terms with SuperBully Link Baxter, especially after they are assigned to be partners on a class project.

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    The Absent Author

    A is for author.... Dink writes to his favorite author, mystery writer Wallis Wallace, and invites him to visit Green Lawn. To Dink's amazement, Wallace says he'll come! But when the big day arrives, Wallace is nowhere to be found. The police think he just missed his plane, but Dink suspects foul play. It's up to Dink and his two best friends, Josh and Ruth Rose, to find the famous writer--before it's too late!

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  • Cover image for Lulu and the Brontosaurus

    Lulu and the Brontosaurus

    Now in paperback, an illustrated chapter book from industry legends Judith Viorst and Lane Smith! I’m gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, gonna, get a bronto-bronto-bronto-bronto-saurus for a pet! Lulu is so accustomed to getting what she wants that when her parents deny her birthday request for a brontosaurus, she throws a four-day temper tantrum and then storms off into the forest in search of the dinosaur she clearly deserves. Lulu isn’t particularly impressed with the snake, tiger, and bear she encounters, but then she finds him—a beautiful, long-necked, graceful brontosaurus. Mr.

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    Roxie and the Hooligans

    Roxie Warbler, the niece of a famous explorer, follows Uncle Dangerfoot's advice on how to survive any crisis when she becomes stranded on an island with a gang of school bullies and a pair of murderous bank robbers.

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    Alvin Ho

    A young boy in Concord, Massachusetts, who loves superheroes and comes from a long line of brave Chinese farmer-warriors, wants to make friends, but first he must overcome his fear of everything.

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  • Cover image for 7 X 9 = Trouble!

    7 X 9 = Trouble!

    Third-grader Wilson struggles with his times-tables in order to beat the class deadline.

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