Golden Door
Charter School
Suggested Summer Reading List- Grade 3 
Amigo
by, Byrd
Baylor (easy)
Alex
is My Friend
by, Marisabina Russo (easy)
And
to Think That We Thought We’d Never Be Friends by, Mary Ann Hoberman
(average)
Charlotte’s
Web by,
E.B. White (average)
Best
Friends by,
Loretta Krupinski (advanced)
The
Mountain That Loved a Bird by, Alice McLerran (advanced)
Farewell
to Shady Glade
by, Bill Peet (easy)
Wild
in the City
by, Jan Thornhill (easy)
Birds,
Nests and Eggs
by, Mel Boring (average)
City
Park by,
Wendy Davis (average)
Come
Back, Salmon! by, Molly Cone (advanced)
Coyotes
in the Crosswalk by, Diane Swanson (advanced)
How
I Spent My Summer Vacation by, Mark Teague (easy)
Crocodile’s
Masterpiece
by, Velthuijs (easy)
Frederick
by, Leo
Lionni (average)
Behind
the Couch
by, Mordicai Gerstein (average)
Maria’s
Comet by,
Deborah Hopkinson (advanced)
My
Life With the Wave by, Octavio Paz (advanced)
Lemonade
for Sale
by, Stuart J. Murphy (easy)
The
Treasure
by, Uri Shulevitz (easy)
Round
and Round the Money Goes by, Melvin and Gilda Berger (average)
Saturday
Sancocho
by, Leyla Torres (average)
Our
Money by,
Karen Bornemann Spies (advanced)
Screen
of Frogs
by, Sheila Hamanaka (advanced)
Tell
Me a Story, Mama by, Angela Johnson (easy)
The
Worry Stone by,
Marianna Dengler (easy)
A
Storyteller’s Story by, Rafe Martin (average)
May’naise Sandwiches and Sunshine Tea
by, Sandra
Belton (average)
Firetalking by, Patricia Polacco (advanced)
One
Grain of Rice by,
Demi (advanced)
(over)
Theme- Country Life
The
Raft by,
Jim LaMarche (easy)
Mowing
by, Jessie
Haas (easy)
Night
in the Country by, Cynthia Rylant (average)
A
River Ran Wild by, Lynne Cherry (average)
Winter
Wheat by,
Brenda Z. Guiberson (advanced)
Unseen
Rainbows, Silent Songs by, Susan L. Goodman (advanced)
