 | Read-Alouds for Grades 3-5 |
| Picture books, short stories, folktales, and nonfiction good for classroom sharing. Most can be read in a single 15-30 minute session.
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Picture Books (JE)
| Baillie | Rebel |
| Brisson | The Summer My Father Was Ten |
| Miller | Richard Wright and the Library Card |
| Pennypacker | Pierre in Love |
| Shulman | Mom and Dad Are Palindromes |
| Stanley | Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter |
| Trivizas | The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig |
| Vaes | The Princess and the Pea |
| Van Allsburg | Two Bad Ants |
Children’s Fiction (J)
| Anderson | Me, All Alone, at the End of the World |
| Avi | Tom, Babette & Simon: Three Tales of Transformation |
| Blake | Togo |
| Byars | The SOS File |
| Dahl | The Roald Dahl Treasury |
| Fleischman | A Carnival of Animals |
| Funny | Funny You Should Ask: The Delacorte Book of Original Humorous Short Stories |
| Gaiman | The Wolves in the Walls |
| Hearne | Who's in the Hall? A Mystery in Four Chapters |
| Heide | The Shrinking of Treehorn |
| Hughes | The Iron Giant: A Story in Five Nights |
| King-Smith | Animal Stories |
| Konigsburg | Altogether, One at a Time |
| Mahy | The Girl with the Green Ear: Stories About Magic in Nature |
| Newbery | A Newbery Zoo: A Dozen Animal Stories by Newbery Award-Winning Authors |
| Polacco | The Graves Family |
| Reid Banks | The Magic Hare |
| Sachar | Sideways Stories from Wayside School |
| Scieszka | Squids Will Be Squids: Fresh Morals, Beastly Tales |
| Selznick | The Houdini Box |
| Sorel | Johnny on the Spot |
| Thompson | Wild Stories |
| Thurber | Many Moons |
| Travers | The Elephant Truck |
| Wiles | Freedom Summer |
| Yin | Coolies |
Nonfiction, Folktales & Poetry
| J292 KI | The McElderry Book of Greek Myths |
| J398.2 Hamilton | The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales |
| J398.2 Mayo | Magical Tales from Many Lands |
| J398.2 McCaughrean | Starry Tales |
| J398.2 San Souci | Young Arthur |
| J398.2 Shannon | Stories to Solve: Folktales from Around the World (Also More Stories to Solve and Still More Stories to Solve) |
| J599.63 HA | Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship |
| J636.088 HO | The House of a Million Pets |
| J636.088 MA | Animal Heroes: True Rescue Stories |
| J639.9 GE | The Tarantula in My Purse: And 172 Other Wild Pets |
| J811 DA | If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand: Poems About School |
| J821 DA | Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes |
| J921 Ederle | America's Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle |
| J921 Einstein | Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein |
| J921 Jordan | Jump! From the Life of Michael Jordan |
| JE700.92 | Uncle Andy's |
| JE791.3 GE | The Man Who Walked Between the Towers |
| JE796.72 DO | The Great Horse-less Carriage Race |
Last Updated: 12/09
