3rd-4th Grade Classics Reading List *Third and fourth graders may select books from the following list, as well as books from the 5th-6th Grade Reading List. English/Language Arts Author Title Lexile AR Ahlberg, & Allan The Bear Nobody Wanted Alexander, The Arkadians The Beggar The Cauldron The Book of Three The Castle of Llyr The Cat Who Wanted to Be a Man The Foundling The High King The Iron Ring The Kestral Taran Wanderer Time Cat: The Remarkable Journeys of Jason Westmark 780 670 760 770 790 670 870 900 680 710 870 660 690 5.4 5.3 5.2 5.3 5.4 5 5.9 6.1 4.8 5.2 6.2 4.7 5.3 Andersen, Hans Christian The Little Mermaid: The Original Story Atwater, Richard Mr. Popper’s Penguins 910 5.6 Banks, Lynne Reid The Adventures of King Midas The Indian in the Cupboard The Mystery of the Cupboard The Return of the Indian The Secret of the Indian 780 770 740 870 4.6 4.9 4.6 5.2 Baum, L. Frank Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz The Emerald City of Oz Little Wizard Stories of Oz The of Oz The Marvelous Land of Oz Ozma of Oz The Patchwork Girl of Oz The Road to Oz The Scarecrow of Oz Tik-Tok of Oz The Tin Woodman of Oz 1020 990 1110 1070 7.4 7.5 6.9 7.3 8 7.4 7.2 7.2 7.4 7.9 7.6
Burnford, Sheila The Incredible Journey 1320 7.6 Burleigh, Robert Langston’s Ride 690 Carroll, Lewis Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass 940 7.4 7.6 Cohlene, Terri Turquoise Boy 680 Collodi, Carlo Pinocchio 5.3 Cooper, Susan The Dark is Rising Greenwich The Grey King Over Sea, Under Stone Silver on the Tree 920 830 930 830 900 6.2 5.3 6.2 5.4 6 Dahl, Roald (any) The BFG Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Danny, the Champion of the World The Enormous Crocodile Esio Trot Fantastic Mr. Fox George’s Marvelous Medicine The Giraffe and the and Me and the Giant Peach The Magic Finger Matilda The Minpins The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets The Twits The Vicar of Nibblewick The Witches 720 810 720 770 410 740 600 640 840 870 450 840 720 750 980 740 4.8 4.8 4.4 4.7 4 4.4 4.1 4 4.7 4.8 3.1 5 5.1 6 4.4 5.9 4.7 Dalgliesh, Alice The Courage of Sarah Noble 610 3.9 De Aneli, Marguerite The Door in the Wall 990 6.2 De la Mare, Walter The Lord Fish de The Little Prince 710 5 DeJong, Meindert The House of Sixty Fathers Hurry Home Candy Shadrach The Singing Hill The Wheel on the School 820 750 710 820 5.5 5 4.9 5.5 Estes, Elenor The Hundred Dresses The Middle Moffat The Moffats 870 650 800 5.4 4.6 5.2
The Moffat Museum Pinky Pye Rufus M. The Witch Family 700 890 710 5 5.9 5.2 5.4 Farley, Walter (any) The Black Stallion The Black Stallion’s Blood Bay Colt The Black Stallion Challenged The Stallion’s Courage The Black Stallion and Flame The Black Stallion’s Filly The Black Stallion’s Ghost The Black Stallion and the Girl The Black Stallion Mystery The Black Stallion Returns The Black Stallion Revolts The Black Stallion and Satan The Black Stallion’s Sulky Colt The Island Stallion The Island Stallion’s Fury The Island Stallion Races Man o’ War The Son of the Black Stallion The Black Stallion 680 870 800 860 920 810 900 890 830 850 770 820 870 880 880 930 5.2 6 5.6 5.8 6.4 5.8 6.6 5.5 5.5 6.1 5.3 5.4 5.2 5.8 5.5 5.8 6.1 6.7 Fink, Sam The Declaration of Independence Fleischman, Sid The Whipping Boy 570 Frasier, Debra Miss Alaineus 690 Freedman, Russell Give Me Liberty! Fritz, Jean Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May? 1000 Gannett, Ruth Stiles The Dragons of Blueland Elmer and the Dragon My Father’s Dragon 810 800 990 4.9 4.6 5.6 George, Jean Craighead Julie of the Wolves My Side of the Mountain On the Far Side of the Mountain 860 810 760 5.8 5.2 4.5 Gipson, Fred Old Yeller Savage Sam 910 940 5 5.7 Grahame, Kenneth The Reluctant Dragon 1070 6.5 Gelprin, Mark The City in Winter The Veil of Snows Hermes, Patricia Our Strange New Land, Elizabeth’s Jamestown Colony Diary Season of Promise 350 430
The Starving Time 360 Hoog, Mark Dream Machine Field of Dreams The Gift Mountain Treasure Island Your Song Hunt, Irene Trail of Apple Blossoms Jacques, Brian (any) The Angel’s Command The Bellmaker Castaway of the Flying Dutchman Eulalia The Legend of Luke High Rhulain Loamhedge The Long Patrol Lord Backtree Mariel of Redwall Marlfox Martin the Warrior Mattimeo Mossflower Outcast of Redwall Pearls of Rakkety Tam Redwall Salamandastron Taggerung Triss 770 900 770 960 840 980 820 900 920 890 820 600 1010 980 950 800 890 770 850 5.2 5.7 5.4 6 5.7 5.5 5.3 6 5.5 5.7 5.7 5.5 5.2 5.1 6.3 6.1 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.2 5.8 Jansson, Tove (any) Comet in the Moominland Finn Family Moomintroll Moominpappa at Sea Moominland Midwinter Moominpappa’s Memoirs Moominsummer Madness Moominvalley in November The Summer Book The True Deceiver Tales from Moominvalley The Book About Moomin, Mymble, and Little My 740 5.4 5.2 5.6 Juster, Norton The Phantom Tollbooth 1000 6.7
Kipling, Rudyard Just So Stories Rikki-tikki-tavi 1060 810 6.4 4.4 Kjelgaard, Jim (any) Big Red Red Snow Dog Stormy 910 1080 1030 5.6 7.4 6.9 Madeleine (any) An Acceptable Time A Swiftly Tilting Planet A Wind in the Door A Wrinkle in Time Many Waters 710 850 790 740 700 4.5 5.2 5 4.7 4.7 Langley, Andrew You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Viking Explorer! 840 Lawson, Robert Ben and Me The Great Wheel Rabbit Hill 1010 990 1050 6.9 6.4 Lenski, Lois Indian Captive Judy’s Journey Strawberry Girl We Live in the Country 800 650 5.4 4.8 Lewis, C.S. The Horse and His Boy The Last Battle The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe The Magician’s Nephew Prince Caspian The Silver Chair The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 970 890 940 970 870 840 970 5.8 5.6 5.7 5.4 5.7 5.7 5.9 London, Jack Call of the Wild 1110 Lofting, Hugh The Story of Dr. Dolittle The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle 580 860 5.7 MacDonald, Fiona You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Crusader! 850 MacDonald, George The Golden Key The Light Princess 870 880 5.3 6.3 MacLachlan, Patricia Cassie Binegar The Facts and Fiction of Minna Pratt Sarah, Plain and Tall 700 650 560 4.3 5.7 McCaughrean, Geraldine Moby Dick or The White Whale McCloskey, Robert Homer Price 1000 6.6 Montgomery, L. M. (any) Anne of Avonlea Anne of Green Gables Anne’s House of Dreams 1020 990 930 8.6 7.3 6.1
Steig, William Abel’s Island 920 5.9 Street, Pat a Frog in My Throat! Travers, P. L. Mary Poppins Mary Poppins Back Mary Poppins Opens the Door Mary Poppins in the Park 830 6.1 5.2 5.1 4.8 Verne, Jules The Adventures of the Rat Family White, E. B. Charlotte’s Web Stuart Little The Trumpet of the Swan 680 920 750 4.4 6 4.9 Oscar Stories for Children Wilder, Laura Ingalls (any) By the Shores of Silver Lake Farmer Boy The First Four Years Little House in the Big Woods Little House on the Prairie Little Town on the Prairie The Long Winter On the of Plum Creek These Happy Golden Years 820 820 1030 930 760 850 790 720 840 5.3 5.2 5.8 5.3 4.9 5.4 5.3 4.6 5.6 Winthrop, Elizabeth The Castle in the Attic 750 4.9