7 Great Series for Third Graders
Third grade is that sweet spot where most kids are comfortable reading & ready for great stories with more detailed plots. Treat your munchkins to these seven great series…
Babymouse. Meet Babymouse—Her dreams are big! Her imagination is wild! Her whiskers are ALWAYS a mess! In her mind, she's Queen of the World! In real life…she's not even Queen of the lunch table.
The Boxcar Children. The Boxcar Children tells the story of four orphaned children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny. They create a home for themselves in an abandoned boxcar in the forest. They eventually meet their grandfather, who is a wealthy and kind man. The children decide to live with the grandfather, who moves the beloved boxcar to his backyard so the children can use it as a playhouse.
Cam Jansen series. Each mystery features Cam—the fifth grade sleuth with the photographic memory—who solves the case with the help of her best friend, Eric.
Dog Man. This series features comedic graphic novels focusing on a part-dog, part-man police officer.
Fantastic Frame series. Ten-year-old Tiger Brooks and Luna Lopez are sucked into famous paintings and must navigate the world of art while searching for their neighbor’s long-lost son. The book features black-and-white line art, but when the main characters get sucked into the painting, the art is in full color and in the style of the featured artist. Biographical information about the featured artist is available at the end of the book.
Ivy & Bean series. Meet Ivy and Bean, two friends who never meant to like each other: Ivy and Bean are very different. Bean is loud and wild and goofy. She loves to be involved in games and poke her nose in other people's business. Ivy is quiet and full of ideas. Each girl thinks the other one is weird. Each girl thinks she could never be friends with the other. But sometimes opposites can become the best of friends…
Jake the Fake Keeps it Real series. Comedian and film star Craig Robinson, #1 New York Times bestselling author Adam Mansbach, and NAACP History Maker recipient and cartoonist Keith Knight co-write this series about Jake the Fake (who faked his way into the Music and Art Academy for the gifted and talented).