2nd – 3rd Grade Reading List
This list is for the kids that are just moving into bigger books
A Mouse Called Wolf, Babe, The Invisible Dog, and Martin’s Mice
by Dick King-Smith
Akimbo Series, Max & Maddy Mystery Series, and The Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean
by Alexander McCall Smith
Angus and Sadie
by Cynthia Voigt
Baseball Card Adventures, The Homework Machine, The Million Dollar Kick (or Shot, or Basket)
By Dan Gutman
Boxcar Children
By Gertrude Chandler Warner
Catwings
by Ursula Le Guin
Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little
by E.B. White
Flat Stanley
by Jeff Brown
Franny K. Stein Series
by Jim Benton
Freckle Juice, Superfudge, and Double Fudge
by Judy Blume
Geronimo Stilton Series
by Himself
Gooney Bird Greene Series, The Willoughby’s
by Lois Lowry
Happy Birthday Bad Kitty, Bad Kitty Gets a Bath
by Nick Bruel
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
by Bruce Covelle and Gary A. Lippincott
Judy Moody & Stink Series
by Megan McDonald
Lemony Snicket Series
by Himself
Little House on the Prairie Series
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
By Betty MacDonald
No Talking, The Report Card, The Landry News, and Frindle
By Andrew Clements
Odd and the Frost Giants
by Neil Gaiman and Brett Helquist
Pippi Longstocking and Ronia the Robber’s Daughter
by Astrid Lindgren
Ramona Series, Ralph S. Mouse
by Beverly Cleary
Savvy
by Ingrid Law
Stone Fox
By John Reynolds Gardiner
The End of the Beginning, Prairie School, Poppy
by Avi
The Great Brain
by John D. Fitzgerald
The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster
The Princess Tales
by Gail Carson Levine
The Sisters Grimm Series
By Michael Buckley
The Twits, The BFG, The Fantatic Mr. Fox, and Danny the Champion of the World….okay anything by Roald Dahl
by Roald Dahl
The Whipping Boy
by Sid Fleischman
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
Vet Volunteers Series
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Warriors Series
by Erin Hunter
Which Witch?
by Eva Ibbotson
- Jessica Wheeler
