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So I have just recently made the move from teaching First Grade and will now be teaching Third Grade. In trying to set up my library, I know I may have missed books that are loved by kids over the time since I was that age. I already have a lot of Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Goosebumps, Bobbsey Twins, Magic Tree house and the likes. I could use any other suggestions of books that students at this age love to read. So if you have recently been this age or have kids this age or teach at this age..please give me some more ideas. Thanks!
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Also, all the retro Gordon Korman you can get - "Who is Bugs Potter?", "Bugs Potter LIVE! at Nickanniny", "No Coins, Please", "Our Man Weston", "This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall", "Beware the Fish", "Go Jump in the Pool", "Son of Interflux", "The Twinkie Squad", "I Want to Go Home" - those are a few of my favourites of his. Used editions are better, because the reprints got "modernised" and somewhat less funny. Steer clear of anything published after about 1996, though, when he succumbed to Successful Author Syndrome and lost the funny.
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Redwall, Gordon Korman. (Also, search these forums, if you haven't, this sort of thread has popped up a few times.)
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In third grade i think Encyclopedia brown was my favorite, that might have been earlier, but they still were some of my favorite younger year books.
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My daughter, who is ten, and so just a bit older than your group (she just finished 4th grade) says her favorite books recently are Despereaux (really, anything by Kate DiCamillo) and Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff.
The Cam Jansen series and the Boxcar children series are also good ones.
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quote:Originally posted by Belle: My daughter, who is ten, and so just a bit older than your group (she just finished 4th grade) says her favorite books recently are Despereaux (really, anything by Kate DiCamillo) and Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff.
The Cam Jansen series and the Boxcar children series are also good ones.
Thanks Belle that is what I was looking for someone who was just recently that age. I know what I liked back then and will put those books in my classroom but when you are removed from being 9 years old by 24 years, some things have changed!
Thanks everybody else too I have gotten great suggestions from all of you and am always willing to take more!
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I'm not sure if they're still popular, but I LOVED the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books... I think there are about four of them. They're about this little older lady who lives alone in an upside down house and befriends all the kids... And winds up teaching them lessons through her 'magic'. Probably not the best description, but they really are fun to read... : )
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quote:Originally posted by BlueWizard: Well, there is always-
'Series of Unfortunate Events' by Lemony Snicket (13 volumes)
'Spiderwick Chronicals' by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black (5 Volumes plus supplements)
The 'Artemis Fowl' series by Eoen Colfer - which I really like, the next adventure is coming out soon (book 7).
Another great book, especially for kids is -
'Half-Moon Investigations' by Eoin Colfer
Very funny book.
In addition, a three book series by Lois Lowry
'The Giver' 'Gathering Blue' 'Messenger'
Also, though perhaps not for 3rd graders, a wonderfully imaginative book for 10 and up, though some parent might think 12 and up is better, -
'The Book of Lost Things' by John Commolly
I really enjoyed this book about 12 year old David's journey to a lost land.
Also, though slightly dark, this is a book for young readers -
'The Boy from the Basement' by Susan Shaw
Again, perhaps a better read for 10 and up.
Steve/bluewizard
Yeah a lot of these books are really more upper 4th grade and 5th grade books. I do have some Artemis Fowl books for advanced readers, but the Giver is far to deep a book for a third grader to really understand (maybe I am wrong and will discover that Third Graders have advanced since I last worked with that grade level. I guess it will be a wait and see on that..If I feel I have students that can handle it, I do have a copy of it.
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