Barrington Area Library

Kids' Catalog | Fun Reads

Going into Kindergarten | Going into grade 1  | Going into grade 2
Going into grade 3 | Going into grades 4–5 | Going into grades 6–8

Going into grade 3

Beginning Readers | Fiction | Nonfiction

Adler, David A.  Bones and the Birthday Mystery. 
Adler, David A.  Young Cam Jansen and the Lion's Lunch.
Baker, Barbara.  Digby and Kate 1,2,3.
Bottner, Barbara.  It's Not Marsha's Birthday.
Cazet, Denys.  Minnie and Moo and the Haunted Sweater.
Chaconas, Dori.  Cork and Fuzz: Good Sports.
Danziger, Paula.  What a Trip, Amber Brown.
Family Stories You Can Relate To.
Figueroa, Acton.  I Am the Hulk.
Gantos, Jack.  Rotten Ralph Feels Rotten.
Jenner, Caryn.  Survivors: The Night the Titanic Sank.
Jinkins, Jim.  Pinky Dinky Doo: Back to School Is Cool!
Parish, Herman.  Amelia Bedelia, Rocket Scientist?
Pierce, Terry.  Tae Kwon Do!
Rylant, Cynthia.  Mr. Putter and Tabby Run the Race.
Saunders, Catherine.  Spider-Man: Worst Enemies.
Van Leeuwen, Jean.  Amanda Pig, First Grader. 
Tripp, Valerie.  Hopscotch Hill series.
Wallace, Carol.  Turkeys Together.
Webster, Christine.  Otter Everywhere.
West, Tracey.  Pikachu in Love.

Fiction

Ahlberg, Allan.  The Children Who Smelled a Rat.
Birney, Betty.  Trouble According to Humphrey.
Cooper, Ilene.  Lucy on the Loose.
diCamillo, Kate.  Mercy Watson: Princess in Disguise.
diCamillo, Kate.  The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.
Freeman, Martha.  The Trouble with Cats.
Gardner, Sally.  The Countess's Calamity.
Gutman, Dan.  Ms. Krup Cracks Me Up.
Haas, Jessie.  Jigsaw Pony. 
Ibbotson, Eva. Not Just a Witch.
Jonell, Lynne.  Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat.
Kelly, Katy.  Lucy Rose: Busy Like You Can't Believe. 
Meadows, Daisy.  The Rainbow Magic series.
Pennypacker, Sara.  The Talented Clementine.
Varon, Sara.  Robot Dreams.
Whelan, Gloria.  Welcome to Starvation Lake.

Nonfiction

Bailey, John.  Fishing.
Bailey, Linda.  Adventures with the Vikings.
Bishop, Nic.  Spiders.
Buckley, James.  A Batboy's Day. 
Carroll, Lewis.  Jabberwocky: The Classic Poem from Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There."
Cole, Joanna.  Ms. Frizzle's Adventures: Medieval Castle.
Coren, Stanley.  Why Do Dogs Have Wet Noses?
Darsie, Richard.  String Games.
Gibbons, Gail.  Horses!
Harper, Charise Mericle.  Imaginative Inventions: The Who, What, Where, When, and Why of Roller Skates, Potato Chips, Marbles, and Pie, and More!
Hutchins, H. J.  A Second Is a Hiccup.
Jackson, Tom.  Wild Horses.
Jenkins, Steve.  Living Color. 
Parnell, Fran.  The Barefoot Book of Monsters.
Platt, Richard.  Spies!
Sanders, Nancy.  D Is for Drinking Gourd.
Schwartz, David M.  Where in the Wild?
Silverstein, Shel.  Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook. 
Whitehead, Jenny.  Holiday Stew.
Zemke, Deborah.  Don't Feed the Babysitter to Your Boa Constrictor.

Going into grades 4–5

Fiction | Nonfiction

Fiction

Alexander, Lloyd.  The Chronicles of Prydain series. 
Bauer, Joan.  Sticks.
Birdsall, Jeanne.  The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy.
Buckley, Michael.  The Sisters Grimm series. 
Clements, Andrew.  No Talking. 
Couloumbis, Audrey.  Maude March on the Run!
Creech, Sharon.  The Castle Corona. 
diCamillo, Kate.  The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread.
Funke, Cornelia.  Igraine the Brave. 
Gantos, Jack.  Joey Pigza series.
Giff, Patricia Reilly.  Eleven. 
Gutman, Dan.  Satch and Me.
Haddix, Margaret Peterson.  Dexter the Tough.
Ibbotson, Eva.  The Haunting of Granite Falls.
Klise, Kate.  Regarding the Bathrooms: A Privy to the Past.
Kompaneyets, Marc.  The Squishiness of Things. 
Martin, Ann M.  A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray. 
Martin, Ann M.  The Meanest Doll in the World.
McKissack, Pat.  Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and Other Wily Characters.
Patron, Susan.  The Higher Power of Lucky.
Raskin, Ellen.  The Westing Game.
Rodda, Emily.  Rowan of Rin.
Selznick, Brian.  The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
Spinelli, Jerry.  Stargirl.
Spinner, Stephanie.  Be First in the Universe.
Stewart, Trenton.  The Mysterious Benedict Society.
Townley, Rod.  Into the Labyrinth: A Novel.
Vande Velde, Vivian.  Three Good Deeds.
Wiles, Debbie.  Each Little Bird that Sings. 
Yee, Lisa.  So Totally Emily Ebers.

Nonfiction

Adams, Simon.  Code Breakers: From Hieroglyphs to Hackers.
Becker, Helaine.  Like a Pro: 101 Simple Ways to do Really Important Stuff.
Blanchette, Peg.  Kids’ Easy Knitting Projects.
Boonyadhistarn, Thiranut.  Beading: Bracelets, Barrettes, and Beyond.
Browning, Marie.  Totally Cool Soapmaking for Kids.
Curlee, Lynn.  Ballpark: The Story of America's Baseball Fields. 
Dahl, Roald.  Vile Verses. 
Flaherty, Somer.  Girls in a Fix: Quick Beauty Solutions and Why They Work.
Glenday, Craig, ed.  Guinness Book of World Records, 2008.
Hufford, Deborah.  Room Decorating: Make Your Own Space Unique.
Ichord, Loretta Frances.  Double Cheeseburgers, Quiche, and Vegetarian Burritos: American Cooking from the 1920's through Today.
Osborne, Mary Pope.  The One-Eyed Giant.
Pensiero, Janet.  Totally Cool Journals, Notebooks, & Diaries.
Prelutsky, Jack.  Read a Rhyme, Write a Rhyme. 
Sanderson, Ruth.  Cinderella.
Swain, Ruth Freeman.  Hairdo! What We Do and Did to Our Hair.
Tanaka, Shelley.  Mummies: The Newest, Coolest, & Creepiest from around the World. 
Wagner, Lisa.  Cool Cuisine for Super Sleepovers: Easy Recipes for Kids to Cook.