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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you know the chlld's lexile? My child is a fluent reader but wants to read Dog Man. [/quote]

I saw it on her iready scores (which i know aren't super reliable) and wondered if I should be encouraging her to read more challenging books. But the poster above made a great point. As long as she's enjoying reading I probably should just let her do her thing. [/quote]

If you’re no longer particularly concerned about reading level, here are some books I recommend for a third grader.  There are a few picture books that are included, but present more challenging text than your average picture book, as well as a few chapter books that are aimed at a lower reading level, but are nonetheless enjoyable.

Pippi Longstocking series
The Phantom Tollbooth
E. D. Baker
Kate Klise
Gail Carson Levine’s Princess Tales series
Secrets of Droon series
Bunnicula
Wayside School series by Louis Sachar
Holes by Louis Sachar
Danny Dunn series
Roald Dahl
Misty of Chincoteague 
Beverly Cleary
The Secret Garden
The Little Princess
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
All-of-a-Kind Family
Frindle
How to Eat Fried Worms
McBroom series by Sid Fleischman 
Flat Stanley
Fudge series (I think there’s a Santa spoiler)
Ben and Me
American Girl books
Nancy Drew series
Boxcar Children series
Liza, Bill, & Jed mystery series
Third-Grade Detectives series by George E. Stanley (more for the secret codes in each book than the stories)
Encyclopedia Brown series
Einstein Anderson series
Choose Your Own Adventure series
Folktales from children’s nonfiction section
A children’s encyclopedia (single-volume), atlas, almanac, etc.

Sisters Grimm series (may be too intense/scary - one of my DDs loved these, the other DD didn’t want anything to do with them)

The Quiltmaker’s Gift by Jeff Brumbeau (picture book)
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (picture book)
The Magic School Bus series (picture book

Where the Sidewalk Ends (quirky poetry)

As before, I highly recommend Just-So Stories to read aloud together.

Here are some I’d generally recommend for older kids.  While I’m sure your daughter is capable of reading them, I think she might enjoy them more when she’s a little older, but each kid is an individual and I don’t know your daughter’s preferences.  Some involve the deaths of main characters (which I don’t remember happening in the books I recommended above, but there could be some I just don’t remember).

A Wrinkle in Time
Tuck Everlasting
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 
The Westing Game
Hidden Talents by David Lubar
Narnia series (starting with The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe)
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Fairest by Gail Carson Levine
Little Women series by Louisa May Alcott
Ally Carter
Trixie Belden series
The Three Investigators series

The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper (intense/scary)
Green Knowe series (intense/scary)[/quote]

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