Book Recommendations for Third Grade
We have collected our Waldorf inspired reading list that is age appropriate for each child.
● A.A. Milne: Now we are Six
● A.A. Milne: The House at Pooh Corner
● A.A. Milne: Winnie the Pooh
● Ann Tompert: Little Fox Goes to the End of the World
● Arthur M. Pittis: When I Hear My Heart Wonder
● Astrid Lindgren: Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter
● Astrid Lindgren: Mio, My son
● Astrid Lindgren: Pippi Goes on Board
● Astrid Lindgren: Pippi Longstocking
● Astrid Lindgren: Pippi on the Run
● Bill Peet: Big Bad Bruce
● Bill Peet: Eli
● Chief Seattle: Brother Eagle, Sister Sky: A Message from Chief Seattle
● Dan Millman: Quest for Crystal Castle
● Dan Millman: Secret of the Peaceful Warrior
● E.B. White: Charlotte’s Web
● E.B. White: Stuart Little
● E.B.White: Charlotte’s web
● E.B: White: The Trumpet of the Swan
● Ella Young: Celtic wonder Tales
● Ella Young: The Tangle-Coated Horse
● Ellis Credle: Down Down the Mountain
● Eric Kastner: Emil
● Erich Kastner: Emil and the Detectives
● Erich Kastner: The Flying Classroom
● Ervin Lazar: Arnica the Duck Princess
● Ezra Jack Keats: An American Legend
● Felix Salten: Bambi
● Frances Carpenter: Tales of a Korean Grandmother
● Frank L. Baum: Wizard of Oz
● Frank Waters: Book of the Hopi
● George MacDonald: The princess and Curdie
● George MacDonald: The Princess and the Goblin
● George MacDonald: At the back of the North Wind
● Han Micko: Turtle Power
● Holling C. Holling: The Book of Indians
● Ingwe: Ingwe
● Isabel Wyatt: King Beetle-Tamer and Other
● Isabel Wyatt: Lighthearted Wonder Tales
● Isabel Wyatt: The Book of Fairy Princes
● J.M.Barrie: Peter Pan
● Jacob Streit: And There Was Light
● Jacob Streit: We Will Build a Temple
● James Thurber: The Thirteen Clocks
● Jill Barklem: Autumn Story
● Jill Barklem: Spring Story
● Jill Barklem: Summer Story
● Jill Barklem: The World of Brambly Hedge
● Jill Barklem: Winter Story
● John Bierhorst: The Woman Who Fell from the Sky
● José Patterson: Angels, People, Rabbis and Kings from the Stories of the Jewish People
● L. Frank Baum: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
● Laura Ingalls Wilder: Farmer Boy (read first)
● Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Little House in the Big Woods
● Leo Politi: The Nicest Gift
● Leo and Diane Dillon: Ashanti to Zulu
● Leo and Diane Dillon: Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ear
● Lin Grace: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
● Ludwig Bemelman: Madeline series
● Manitonquat: The Children of the Morning Light Wampanoag Tales as told by Medicine Story
● Marilee Heyer: The Weaving of a Dream
● Mary Pope Osborne: American Tall Tales
● Michael Ende: Jim Botton and the Wild 13
● Nancy Luenor: The Dragon Kite
● Norman Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth
● Peter Spier: London Bridge is Falling Down
● Phoebe Gilman: Something from Nothing
● R. and F. Atwater: Mr. Popper’s Penguins
● Rachel Carson: The Sense of Wonder
● Roald Dahl: James and the Giant Peach
● Roald Dahl: Matilda
● Roald Dahl: The B F G
● Roald Dahl: The Witches
● Robert Kimmel Smith: Chocolate Fever
● Robert Kimmel Smith: Jelly Belly
● Robert Kimmel Smith: Mostly Michael
● Robert Kimmel Smith: The War with Grandpa
● Robin Moore: When the Moon is Full: Supernatural Stories from the Old Pennsylvania Mountains
● Rudyard Kipling: Just So Stories
● Rudyard Kipling: Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
● Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Books
● Russel Hiban: Bread and Jam for Frances
● Russel Hoban: Bedtime for Frances
● Ruth Manning-Sanders: Red Indian Folk and Fairy Tales
● Hyemeyohsts Storm: Seven Arrows
● Tony Johnston: The Adventures of Mole and Troll
● Ursula Le Guin: Catwings
● Ursula Le Guin: Catwings Returns
● Ursula Le Guin: Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings
● Wilhelm Hauff: Little Long-Nose
● William Steig: Doctor DeSoto
● William Steig: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
● Williams: The Velveteen Rabbit
● Yen Shen: A Cinderella Story from China
● Yoshiko Uchida: The Magic Listening Cap
● Johann Wyss: Swiss Family Robinson
● John Buchan: Salute to Adventurers
● John Christopher: City of the Golden Lead
● John Christopher: Pool of Fire
● John Christopher: White Mountain
● John F. Kennedy: Profiles in Courage
● John Fenner: Brother Against Brother
● John Fenner: The Prince of Liberty
● John Fox: Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
● John G. Neihardt: Black Elk Speaks
● John Gunther: Death Be Not Proud
● John Kent: Elizabeth Fry
● John Lewis: Martin Luther King
● John Masefield: The Bird of Dawning
● John Nechardt: Eagle Voice
● John Steinbeck: Red Pony
● John Steinbeck: The Pearl
● John Steinbeck: Travels with Charley
● Johnathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
● Joseph Krumgold: Onion John
● Joy Adamson: Born Free
● Jules Verne: Around the World in 80 Days
● Julia Davis: No Other White Man
● Julia Davis: Ride with the Eagle
● Katherine Paterson: The Master Puppeteer
● Kathleen Krull: Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought)
● Kathleen Krull: Lives of the Writers: Comedies, Tragedies (and What the Neighbors Thought)
● Kenneth Roberts: Arundel
● Kenneth Roberts: Lydia Bailey
● Kenneth Roberts: Northwest Passage
● Kenneth Roberts: Oliver Wiswel
● Kenneth Roberts: Rabble in Arms
● Landmark Books: Landing of the Pilgrims
● Landmark Books: Story of Thomas Edison and others
● Landmark Books: The Vikings
● Lauren Elder: And I Alone Survived
● Laurens van der Post: Bar of Shadow
● Laurens van der Post: Heart of the Hunter
● Laurens van der Post: Lost World of the Kalahari
● Laurens van der Post: Prisoner and the Bomb
● Laurens van der Post: Seed and the Sower
● Leonard Wibberley: All the Treegate
● Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking Glass
● Lloyd Alexander: Taran Wanderer
● Lloyd Alexander: The Black Cauldron
● Lloyd Alexander: The Book of Three
● Lloyd Alexander: The Castle of Llyr
● Lloyd Alexander: The High King
● Lloyd Alexander: The Truthful Harp
● Lois Lenski: Indian Captive, The Story of Mary Jemison
● Lorenz Graham: Dove
● Lorenz Graham: Return to Southtown
● Louis Haber: Black Pioneers of Science and Invention
● Louisa May Alcott: A Double Life: Newly Discovered Thrillers of Louisiana May Alcott
● Louisa May Alcott: Hospital Sketches
● Louisa May Alcott: Little Men
● Louisa May Alcott: Little Women
● Louisa May Alcott: Glimpses of Louisiana
● Louise Andrew Kent: He Went with Christopher Columbus
● Louise Andrew Kent: He Went with Drake
● Louise Andrew Kent: He Went with Marco Polo
● Louise Andrew Kent: He Went with Vasco da Gama
● Louise S. Rankin: Daughter of the Mountains
● Lynn Hail: Dog of the Bondi Castle
● M. Benary-Isbert: Ark
● M. McKendrick: Ferdinand and Isabella
● Madeleine L'engle: Meet the Austins
● Madeleine L'engle: The Arm of the Starfish
● Madeleine L'engle: The Young Unicorns
● Manfred Kyber: Three Candles of Little Veronica
● Mara Kay: Masha
● Marcel Migeo: St. Exupery
● Margaret A. Stanger: That Quail Robert
● Margaret L. Coit: The Flight for Union
● Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind
● Margiad Evans: Ray of Darkness
● Marguerite Vance: Elisabeth Tudor
● Marguerite Vance: Martha, Daughter of Virginia
● Marian King: Young Mary Stuart
● Marie Curie: Madam Curie
● Marilyn Sachs: A Summer’s Lease
● Marjorie K. Rawlings: The Yearling
● Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee in King
● Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
● Mark Twain: Adventures of Tom Sawyer
● Mark Twain: Arthur’s Court
● Mark Twain: The Prince and the Pauper
● Martin Luther King: Chaos or Community
● Mary Johnston: To Have and to Hold
● Mary Stewart: Crystal Cave
● Mary T. Carroll: Keep My Flag Flying
● May McNeer: Stranger in the Pines
● McNeer-Ward: Martin Luther
● Mel Ellis: Flight of the White Wolf
● Michael Crichton: Andromeda Strain
● Michal Rusinek: Land of Nicholas Copernicus (about astronomy)
● Mildred Taylor: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
● Mollie Hunter: A Sound of Chariots
● Nancy Bona: A String in the Harp
● Nancy Wilson Ross: Joan of Arc
● Natalie Babbitt: Tuck Everlasting
● Nina Brown Baker: Henry Hudson
● Nina Brown Baker: Juan Ponce de Leon
● Noah Brooks: The Story of Marco Polo
● Norma Johnston: The Keeping Days
● Norma Klein: Mom, the Wolfman, and Me
● O’Henry: Short Stories
● Paul Brickhill: Reach for the Sky
● Paula Fox: Slave Dancer
● Pearl S. Buck: The Big Wave
● Pearl S. Buck: The Good Earth
● Peter Abrahams: Tell Freedom
● Peter Burchard: North by Night
● Prince Madupe: I Was a Savage
● R Hayes Platt: Wilderness
● R. & S. Benet: Book of Americans
● R. & S. Benet: America
● R. & S. Benet: The Devil and daniel Webster
● R. Newton Peck: Hang for Treason
● R. Newton Peck: The King’s Iron
● Rachel Carson: Silent Spring
● Ray Bradbury: Dandelion Wine
● Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
● Ray Bradbury: Martian Chronicles
● Rebecca Caudill: The Far-Off Land
● Reginald Berkeley: Lady With the Lamp
● Regine Pernoud: The Story of Joan of Arc
● Retold by Robin Lester: The Legend of King Arthur
● Richard Adams: Watership Down
● Richard E. Byrd: Alone
● Richard Peck: The Ghost Belonged to Me
● Rickard Peck: Ghosts I Have Been
● Robert Falcon Scott: Scott's Last Expedition
● Robert L. Stevenson: Kidnapped
● Robert Lawson: Ben and Me
● Robert Newton Peck: Soup
● Robert Spetch: Tisha
● Roger Duvoisin: The Four Corners of the World
● Roger Greene: Tales of King Arthur
● Ronald Syme: Balboa, Finder of the Pacific
● Ronald Syme: Captain Cook, Pacific Explorer
● Ronald Syme: Champlain of the St. Lawrence
● Ronald Syme: Henry Hudson
● Rosemary Harris: Bright and Morning Star
● Rudyard Kipling: Captains Courageous
● Rudyard Kipling: Kim
● Rumer Godden: Episode of Sparrows
● Rumer Godden: The Diddakoi
● Ruth Cromer Weir: Marco Polo
● Ruth Painter Randall: Courtship of Mr. Lincoln
● S.E. Hinton: That Was Then, This Is Now
● S.E. Hinton: The Outsiders
● Sandburg: Abe Lincoln Grows Up
● Saxby & Ingma: Great Deeds of Heroic Women
● Seymour Gates Pond: Ferdinand Magellan, Master Mariner
● Shannon Garst: Jim Bridger
● Sharon Mathis: A Teacup Full of Roses
● Shirley Wheeler: Dr. Nina and the Panther
● Sidney Rosen: Doctor Paracelsus
● Sidney Rosen: Galileo and the Magic of Numbers
● Sidney Rosen: The Harmonious World of Johann Kepler
● Silviu Craciunas: Last Footsteps
● Simone Weil: Gravity and Grace
● Simone Weil: Waiting on God
● Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe
● Stephen Crane: Red Badge of Courage
● Stewart E. White: Daniel Boone
● Stewart E. White: The Sword and the Stone
● Stewart H. Holbrook: America’s Ethan Allen
● Stewart H. Holbrook: Swamp Fox of the Revolution
● Susan Cooper: Dark is Rising
● Silviu Craciunas: Lost Footsteps
● T. E. Bethancourt: Instruments of Darkness
● Theodora Kroeber: Ishi in Two Worlds
● Theodora Kroeber: Ishi, Last of his Tribe
● Theodore Taylor: The Cay
● Theodore Taylor: Timothy of the Cay
● Thomas Nelson Page: Two Little Confederates
● Thor Heyerdahl: Kon-Tiki
● Thor Heyerdahl: Ra
● Thornton Wilder: Bridge of San Luis Rey
● Timothy Leary: Politics of Ecstasy
● Tom Cliff: Minutemen of the Sea
● Tom Dooley: The Night They Burned the Mountain
● Tom Galt: Peter Zenger
● Ursula Le Guin: The Farthest Shore
● Ursula Le Guin: The Tombs of Atuan
● Ursula Le Guin: A Wizard of EarthSea
● Van Der Rol & Verhoeven: Anne Frank, Beyond the Dairy
● Virginia Hamilton: The Great M. C. Higgins
● Virginia Hamilton: The House of Dies Drear
● Virginia L.S. Eifert: Out of the Wilderness
● Wallace Stegner: Great American Short Stories
● Walter D. Edmonds: Drums Along the Mohawk
● Walter D. Edmonds: In the Hands of the Senecas
● Washington Irving: Legend of Sleepy Hollow
● Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
● Washington Irving: The Voyages of Columbus
● Wilfred T. Grenfell: 40 Years for Labrador
● Wilfred T. Grenfell: A Labrador Doctor
● Will James: Smoky
● Willa Cather: Death Comes for the Archbishop
● Willa Cather: My Antonia
● Willa Cather: O Pioneers!
● Willa Cather: Shadows on the Rock
● William Armstrong: Sounder
● William Bixby: The Universe of Galileo and Newton
● William Blinn: Brian’s Song
● William Gibson: Miracle Worker
● William Henry Hudson: Green Mansions
● William James: Smoky, the Cowhorse
● William Mayne: Earthfasts
● William O. Steele: The Perilous Road
● William O. Steele: Westward Adventure
● William O. Steele: Flaming Arrows
● William O. Steele: The Lone Hunt
● Willian E. Barrett: Lilies in the Field
● Willo Davis Roberts: The View from the Cherry Tree
● Wilson Rawls: Where the Red Fern Grows
● Zilpha Keatley Snyder: Black and Blue Magic