Summer Reading
Entering 3rd Grade
Bath, Maine 04530
June 2008

Fiction
The Amazing Bone.  Steig                             

Amber Brown is not a Crayon. Danziger

Annie and Snowball series. Rylant

Annie and the Old One. Miles

Arthur's Honey Bear. Hoban

Bunnicula series. Howe

Buster. Fleming

Cam Jansen series. Adler

Cat Heaven. Rylant

Chrysanthemum. Henkes

Days with Frog and Toad. Lobel

Diary of a Worm.  Cronin

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus. Willems

Father Bear Comes Home. Minarik

Fox at School.  Marshall

The Gardener.  Stewart

Goony Bird Green. Lowry
How I Became A Pirate. Long

I Wanna Iguana.  Orloff

Jungle Drums.  Base

Knuffle Bunny Too. Willems

Little Bear's Friend.  Minarik

The Littles series. Peterson

Magic Tree House series. Osborne

Mighty Jackie: The Strike Out Queen. Moss

Mr. Putter & Tabby Walk the Dog.  Ryland

Officer Buckle and Gloria. Rathmann

One-Dog Canoe.  Casanova

Polk Street School series. Giff

Pop's Bridge. Bunting

Ramona Quimby, Age 8.  Cleary

Song Lee in Room 2B.  Kline 




Poetry
Animal Tracks: Wild Poems to Read Aloud.
 Ghigna

A Poke in the Eye.  Janeczko

Bow Wow, Meow Meow: It's Rhyming Cats and Dogs.  Florian

Pizza the Size of the Sun. Prelutsky
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children

Song of the Water Boatman & Other Pond Poems. Sidman

Talking like the Rain: A Read-to-me Book of Poems.

Zen Shorts. Muth


Books are available at the Patten Free Library.

Compiled by the K-8 Bath Public School Librarian.

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