Stuart's Cape
10 best books like Stuart's Cape (Sara Pennypacker): Good Grief...Third Grade, How to Be Cool in the Third Grade, Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon, Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel, The Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great, Beyond the Pawpaw Trees: The Story of Anna Lavinia, The Girl with 500 Middle Names, The Stories Julian Tells, Prince of Underwhere, Lulu's Mysterious Mission
| Author | Colleen O'Shaughnessy McKenna |
| ISBN | 0590451243 |
Our oldest is starting to read longer chapter books, so I've been looking for books that have a third-grade theme (the same grade she's in.) This book has a good message about learning about someone before you judge them, about not blaming someone for stealing (or putting a dead snake in your locker) unless...
How to Be Cool in the Third Grade
| Author | Betsy Duffey |
| ISBN | 0141304669 |
I thought this book was simple but really the cover really explains the whole plot to the book. Robert wants to dress cool not be called Robbie and has a plan on how to do it. This book knows where it's going and has a plan. The moral is really saying that being cool more abstract than what you wear. It's a good...
Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon
| Author | Paula Danziger |
| ISBN | 0142406198 |
Amber Brown and Justin Daniels are best friends. They've known each other for practically forever, sit next to each other in class, help each other with homework, and always stick up for each other. Justin never says things like, "Amber Brown is not a crayon." Amber never says, "Justin Time." They're...
| Author | Nikki Grimes |
| ISBN | 0399251758 |
Dyamonde Daniel may be new in town, but that doesn't stop her from making a place for herself in a jiffy. With her can-do attitude and awesome brain power she takes the whole neighborhood by storm. The only thing puzzling her is the other new kid in her class. He's awfully grouchy - but Dyamonde's determined...
| Author | Gerald Morris |
| ISBN | 0618777148 |
Many years ago, the storytellers say, the great King Arthur brought justice to England with the help of his gallant Knights of the Round Table. Of these worthy knights, there was never one so fearless, so chivalrous, so honorable, so…shiny as the dashing Sir Lancelot, who was quite good at defending...
Beyond the Pawpaw Trees is a tour through a land as strange and wonderful as Oz, filled with people as delightfully batty as any in Alice’s looking glass. It is a place to which you will want to return again and again, to read of Anna Lavinia’s adventures and to marvel over author and illustrator Palmer...
| Author | Margaret Peterson Haddix |
| ISBN | 0689841361 |
JANIE WHO?
It's hard enough being the new kid in school. It's even tougher when all of your new classmates live in big houses and wear expensive clothes, while your parents have little and are risking everything just to give you a chance at a better life.
Now Janie's about to do something that...
| Author | Ann Cameron |
| ISBN | 0394828925 |
Julian is a quick fibber and a wishful thinker. And he is great at telling stories. He can make people—especially his younger brother, Huey—believe just about anything. Like the story about the cats that come in the mail. Or the fig leaves that make you grow tall if you eat them off the tree. But some...
| Author | Bruce Hale |
| ISBN | 0060851244 |
It's tough to be ZeKe.
He's got his hands full: There is his prissy, know-it-all twin sister; his mean cousin Caitlyn, who's house-sitting for his missing parents; and a bully making life tough at school (as though it wasn't hard enough already). And now, thanks to a stinky, scruffy, good-for-nothing...
| Author | Judith Viorst |
| ISBN | 1442497467 |
This irresistible third illustrated chapter book starring Judith Viorst’s Lulu is full of hilarious hijinks, delightful twists, and a top-secret mission!
Eeny meeny miney mo,
That babysitter’s got to go.
Lulu has put her tantrum-throwing days behind her. That is, until...
| Author | Kate Messner |
| ISBN | 0545142458 |
A funny, accessible chapter-book series about an irrepressible third grader.
Marty McGuire's third-grade class has a special assignment: Save the Earth! Even more exciting, the best project wins a special award. Marty's pretty sure her classmates' ideas won't stand a chance against her...
| Author | Lucy Nolan |
| ISBN | 0761451846 |
THE HILARIOUS ADVENTURES OF TWO CONFUSED CANINES Down Girl and Sit are two dogs who are "smarter than squirrels." They know how to protect their masters from all the things that can go wrong in the neighborhood: they bark at paperboys and guard the garbage cans, and keep mischievous squirrels at bay....
| Author | Carolyn Marsden |
| ISBN | 0763615692 |
A young girl from Thailand finds that there are many shades to being American in this poignant story about longing to belong.
In Thailand she was named Oy, but here in America the teachers call her Olivia. Other things are not so easy to change, however. When Oy draws a self-portrait that has brown...
Upstairs Mouse, Downstairs Mole
| Author | Wong Herbert Yee |
| ISBN | 0618473130 |
Mouse and Mole are neighbors. Mouse lives inside an oak tree, and Mole lives in a hole underneath. They are neighbors, but they are also friends. Sometimes friends make mistakes, but friends always try to help each other out. That is what Mouse and Mole do.
A sweet and fun beginning chapter book...
| Author | Bruce Coville |
| ISBN | 0689857578 |
Edward is bored with life in the little town of Pigbone.
Then Moongobble the Magician and his faithful toad, Urk, move into the cottage on the hill.
Soon Edward has a job helping Moongobble. And Moongobble needs a lot of help, because it turns out he is not a very good magician. (His spells keep...
8 Class Pets + 1 Squirrel ÷ 1 Dog = Chaos
| Author | Vivian Vande Velde |
| ISBN | 0823423646 |
Twitch, the school yard squirrel, has really gotten himself into a bind this time. While trying to escape from a hungry owl, he roused the principal's dog and got chased into the school. Now he's locked in for a dangerous and disastrous night. Can Green Eggs and Hamster, Sweetie the library rat, and the...
Princess Posey and the Perfect Present
| Author | Stephanie Greene |
| ISBN | 0142418285 |
"Posey is the perfect fictional friend for any first-grade girl."—Kirkus Reviews
Posey loves first grade, her two new best friends, and, most of all, her teacher Miss Lee. When Miss Lee announces that her birthday is the next day, Posey can hardly wait to give her the pink home grown roses...
Super Chicken Nugget Boy and the Furious Fry
| Author | Josh Lewis |
| ISBN | 1423114914 |
He's faster than fast food! Crispier than Chex Mix! He's . . . . Super Chicken Nugget Boy!
When Fern Goldberg arrived at Bert Lahr Elementary School, he was just an average kid: nearsighted, a touch on the skinny side. Then he fell into the pool of radioactive green goo behind Bogie's Burger Barn....
No one knows the full story of Charlie Small. At least, not yet. His battered journal was found washed up on a remote, windswept shore. And at first we thought it an elaborate hoax. Surely no 8-year-old could have had so many wild adventures, witnessed so many extraordinary things, lived such an incredible...
Never Swipe a Bully's Bear
| Author | Katherine Applegate |
| ISBN | 0061148830 |
Neo and I spent some time today with Roscoe Riley, who always seems to be gagging into timeout. After taking his stuffed pig, Hamilton, to school one day, the class bully learns of this ultimate secret. Roscoe is afraid that he will be found out, but Wyatt seems more interested in mocking him from afar....
| Author | Lois Lowry |
| ISBN | 0547119674 |
The fourth hilarious title in Lowis Lowry's popular Gooney Bird series!
It’s a cold January at the Watertower Elementary School—the perfect weather for Gooney Bird Greene to break out her special brain-warming hat! It's a good thing she has one. Gooney Bird's brain will need to be as warm...
| Author | Louis Sachar |
| ISBN | 0747562830 |
That Louis Sachar is something else. In the book he introduces kids to the idea that English can be troublingly ambiguous. He shows the problems with assuming, and there's a fantastic dialogue sequence that takes place in between the protagonist and facial expressions of his friend/future wife.
So,...
First sentence: Poppleton used to be a city pig. He did city things. He took taxis. He joggined in the park. He went to museums.
Premise/plot: Poppleton is an early chapter series book by Cynthia Rylant. This is the first book in the series. There are three stories. In the first, readers get a proper...
Nate the Great and the Monster Mess
| Author | Marjorie Weinman Sharmat |
| ISBN | 0440416620 |
Beginning readers are introduced to the detective mystery genre in these chapter books. Perfect for the Common Core, kids can problem-solve with Nate, using logical thinking to solve mysteries!
Nate the Great loves his mother’s Monster Cookies. But now her Monster Cookie recipe is...
