3rd grade Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) reading list
Books referenced by Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) at the 3rd grade level. Source: pyrcapsla.wixsite.com.
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About the 3rd grade Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) reading list
Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) is the Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) framework. ReadingList tracks 61 titles referenced by Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) at the 3rd gradelevel, each tied to a primary-source citation on the book’s detail page. Across the list, Lexile measures span 420L–830L. The framework is published at pyrcapsla.wixsite.com.
At the 3rd grade level — the 3-5grade band — students are transitional readers, with the curriculum focused on moving from learning-to-read to reading-to-learn across longer chapter books. Per Common Core’s Appendix A complexity bands, text difficulty at this stage typically falls around roughly 400L to 800L. Measured against that 420–820L range, of the 5 titles here with a Lexile score 4 are grade-level, 0 are more accessible, and 1 is a stretch text. A single Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) classroom can still span a wide range of reading levels.
Unlike a state reading list, a Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) list is portable: the same framework is taught across districts and, in the case of AP and IB, across countries. That makes these titles a reliable backbone for 3rd grade planning whether you are a teacher mapping a unit, a homeschooler following a recognized sequence, or a parent checking what Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) expects.
How to use this list: treat the Mountain Laurel Book Award (Pennsylvania) titles as the core and layer in state-cited or thematically-related books to round out a 3rd gradeyear. Each book’s page shows its Lexile measure, grade range, themes, and any challenge history, so you can match a text to a specific reader rather than to the grade label alone.
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61 books
A Bad Case of StripesDavid Shannon
A Friend for Lakota: The Incredible True Story of a Wolf Who Braved BullyingJim Dutcher
Aliens Are Coming!Megan McCarthy
Belly UpStuart Gibbs
Butt or Face?Kari Lavelle
BuzRichard Egielski
Can I Be Your Dog?Troy Cummings
ChesterMélanie Watt
Creepy Carrots!Aaron Reynolds
DandyAme Dyckman- Destiny Finds Her Way: How a Rescued Baby Sloth Learned to Be WildMargarita EngleDestiny Finds Her Way: How a Rescued Baby Sloth Learned to Be WildMargarita Engle
Double FudgeJudy Blume
Dragons Love TacosAdam Rubin
El DeafoCece Bell · 420L
Except Antarctica!Todd Sturgell
FrindleAndrew Clements · 830L
Fudge-a-ManiaJudy Blume
GhostsRaina Telgemeier
Good DogMaya Gottfried
HachikoPamela S. Turner
Henry's Freedom BoxEllen Levine
Humpty-Dumpty Egg-SplodesO'Malley, Kevin
Jake and LilyJerry Spinelli
Lewis and Clark and MeLaurie Myers
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- Mr. Fox's Game of "No!" · David LaRochelle
- My Teacher Is an Alien · Bruce Coville
- Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea · Ben Clanton
- No David! · David Shannon
- No More Water in the Tub · Tedd Arnold
- No Talking · Andrew Clements
- Nubby’s Story · Aubre Andrus
- Odder · Katherine Applegate
- Officer Buckle and Gloria · Peggy Rathmann
- Pop! The Invention of Bubble Gum · Meghan McCarthy
- Saving Winslow · Sharon Creech
- Scaredy Squirrel · Melanie Watt
- Scranimals · Jack Prelutsky
- Shark vs. Train · Chris Barton
- Shiloh Season · Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- Skippyjon Jones · Judith Byron Schachner
- So You Want to be President · Judith George
- Substitute Teacher Plans · Johnson, Doug
- Sunny Side Up · Jennifer L. Holm
- Swamp Angel · Anne Isaacs
- The Adventures of Captain Underpants · Dav Pilkey
- The Best School Year Ever · Barbara Robinson
- The Butterfly · Patricia Polacco
- The Giver · Lois Lowry
- The Great Fuzz Frenzy · Janet Stevens
- The Monkey Goes Bananas · C. P. Bloom
- The One and Only Ivan · Katherine Applegate
- The Scrambled States of America · Laurie Keller
- The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales · Jon Scieszka
- The Sweetest Fig · Chris Van Allsburg
- The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig · Eugenios Trivizas
- The Yawns Are Coming · Christopher Eliopoulos
- Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship and Survival · Kirby Larson
- We Don’t Eat Our Classmates! · Ryan T. Higgins
- Wedgie & Gizmo · Suzanne Selfors
- Widget · Lyn Rossiter McFarland