Reading List
2nd to 3rd Grade

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By Patricia Reilly Giff
Purple Climbing Days
Say “Cheese”
Stacy Says Good-Bye
The Candy Corn Contest
The Clue at the Zoo
Spectacular Stone Soup
The Valentine Star
The Trail of the Screaming Teenager
Fish Face
Lazy Lions, Lucky Lambs
Snaggle Doodles
December Secrets

By Mary Pope Osbourne
Any of the Magic Tree House series, these are all appropriate level books for you to read.

By Linda Gondosch
Brutus the Wonder Poodle
The Monsters of Marble Avenue

By Marjorie Weinman Sharrmaty
The Great Genghis Khan Look-Alike

By Tanna Reiff
Old Ways, New Ways
A Different Home

By Betsy Sachs
The Boy Who Ate Dog Bisquits
Mountain Bike Madness

 

By Jerry Spinelli
Fourth Grade Rug Rats
Tooter Pepperday
The Bathwater Gang
There’s a Girl in my Hammerlock!
Who Put That Hair in my Toothbrush?
Crash!

 

By Barbara Parks

Any of the Junie B. Jones series, these are all appropriate level books.

By R. L. Stine
The Beast from the East
The Cuckoo Clock of Doom
It Came from Beneath the Sink!
Let’s Get Invisible!
Ghost Beach
One Day at HorrorLand
Phantom of the Auditorium
Attack of the Mutant
Deep Trouble
My Harriest Adventure

By Judy Delton
The Pooped Troop
Spring Sprouts
Lucky Dog Days
Cookies and Crutches
Camp Ghost Away
Grumpy Pumpkins
Bad, Bad Bunnies
Peanut-Butter Pilgrims
The Pee-Wee Jubilee
That Mushy Stuff
Sky Babies
Pee-Wees on First
Rosy Noses, Freezing Toes

 

By Jean Marzollo
Slam Dunk Saturday

By Gertrude Chandler Warner
Mike’s Mystery
The Yellow House Mystery
The Camp Out Mystery
Mystery Ranch
School House Mystery
Tree House Mystery
Houseboat Mystery
Mystery Behind the Wall
The Mystery Girl
The Mystery of the Hot Air Balloon

 

By Valerie Tripp
Happy Birthday Molly!

By Thomas Rockwell
How to Eat Fried Worms

By Lillian Moore
I’ll Meet You at the Cucumbers

By John Peterson
The Littles
The Littles Have a Wedding
The Littles Go Explorin

By William Hooks
Pioneer Cat

By Clyde Robert Bulla
The Chalk Box Kid
Shoeshine Girl
White Bird
A Lion to Guard Us

 

By Louis Sacher

Any of the Marvin Redpost series, these are all appropriate level books.
Wayside School Gets a Little Stangere
Wayside School is Falling Down
There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom

 

By Harry Mazer
When the Phone Rings

 

By Peggy Parish
Clues in the Woods

By Barbara Baker
Third Grade is Terrible

 

By Betsy Byars
The Seven Treasure Hunts
Tornado!

By Natalie Standiford
Brave Maddie Egg

By Judy Blume
Fudge-a-Mania
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
It’s Not the End of the World
Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great

By Suzy Kline

Any of the Horrible Harry Series: these are all appropriate level books. (Not all are AR.)

Herbie Jones

By James Preller
The Case of the Class Clown
The Case of the Marshmallow Monster
The Case of the Missing Hand
The Case of the Bicycle Bandit
By Lila McGinnis
The 24-Hour Genie

By Ellen Weiss
The Adventures of Ratman
Mike’s Mystery

By David Adler
Any of the Cam Jensen Series: these are all appropriate level books. (Not all are AR.)

By Erica Tamer
Soccer Mania!
The Junkyard Dog

By Marc Brown or Brown/Krensky
Any of the Arthur chapter books: these are all appropriate level books. (Not all are AR.)

 

By Matt Christopher
Baseball Pals
Little Lefty
Long Stretch at First Base

By Ann Cameron
Julian, Dream Doctor
The Stories Julian Tells
More Stories Julian Tells

By Tracey West
Night in the Haunted Tower
I Choose You!
Island of the Giant Pokemon

By P.J. Peterson
The Sub

By Stephan Manes
Chocolate Covered Ants

By Ellen Conford
Any of the Jenny Archer books: these are all appropriate level books. (Not all are AR.)

 By Alfred Slate
Make-Believe Ball Player
Rabbit Ears
The Trading Game