The Carrollton Public Library recognizes the fact that every child learns to read and develops as a reader at his/her own unique pace. The following list is very general, and is in no way designed to be prescriptive.

Individual Titles

Byars, Betsy. Tornado.
As they wait out a tornado in their storm cellar, a family listens to their farmhand tell stories about the dog that was blown into his life by another tornado when he was a boy.

Brown, Jeff. Flat Stanley.
When a bulletin board falls on Stanley, he learns that there are some advantages to being flat.

Catling, Patrick. Chocolate touch.
A boy acquires a magical gift that turns everything his lips touch into chocolate, including his mother.

Cleary, Beverly. Ramona Quimby, age 8.
The further adventures of the Quimby family as Ramona enters the third grade.

Clements, Andrew. Frindle.
When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.

Dahl, Roald. Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Three farmers, each one meaner than the other, try all out warfare to get rid of the fox and his family.

Dalgleish, Alice. Courage of Sarah Noble.
Remembering her mother's words, an eight-year old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family.

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Danziger, Paula. Amber Brown is not a crayon.
Amber Brown, third grader, faces with humor the trials of growing up, her parents' divorce, and her mother's friendship and marriage to Max.

DeLaCroix, Alice. The hero for third grade.
When Randall changes to a new school, he pretends to be an anonymous hero until, when his third grade class plans a fundraiser, he finds that being himself is good enough.

Duffey, Betsy. Hey, new kid!
Third-grader Jeremy dreads going to a new school when his family moves, so he decides to reinvent himself, hoping his new classmates will be impressed.

Estes, Eleanor. 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.

Lawlor, Laurie. How to survive third grade.
Ernest, an unpopular third grader, has a difficult adjustment to make until he finds and experiences his first real successes in life.

MacDonald, Megan. Judy Moody.
Third grader Judy Moody is in a first day of school bad mood until she gets an assignment to create a collage all about herself and begins creating her masterpiece, the Me collage.

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MacLachlan, Patricia. Sarah, plain and tall.
When the father invites a mail order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.

Montes, Marisa. A crazy mixed-up Spanglish day.
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.

Rockwell, Thomas. How to eat fried worms.
Two boys set out to prove that worms can made a delicious meal.

Smith, Robert Kimmel. Chocolate fever.
From eating too much chocolate, Henry breaks out in brown bumps that help him foil some hijackers and teach him a valuable lesson abut self-indulgence.

White, E.B. Stuart Little.
The adventures of the debonair mouse Stuart Little as he sets out in the world to seek out his dearest friend, a little bird who stayed a few days in his family's garden.

Yep, Laurence. Cockroach cooties.
Teddy and his little brother Bobby devise strategies using bugs to defeat the school bully.

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Series

Adler, David. Cam Jansen.
Cam closes her eyes and says "click" to use her photographic memory to solve crimes.

Delton, Judy. Pee wee scouts.
The Pee Wee Scouts meet in Mrs. Peter's basement after school and they love getting badges. Each book in the series is about another badge that the scouts earn and their different reactions to it.

Erickson, John. Hank the cowdog.
Hank the cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, is framed for the murder of a chicken and becomes an outlaw with the coyotes.

Osborne, Mary Pope. The magic tree house.
Eight year old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic tree house filled with books that can trigger trips through time.

Pilkey, Dav. Adventures of Captain Underpants.
George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the Superhero Captain Underpants.

Sachar, Louis. Marvin Redpost.
Marvin Redpost's active imagination often gets this nine-year-old boy into difficult situations. His adventures involve growing up and assuming responsibility.

Warner, Gertrude Chandler. The Boxcar children.
Follow the adventures and exploits of Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden as they solve mysteries with their dog, Watch.

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