Grade 3 Junior Great Books
Reading List
Written by renowned and award-winning authors, the literature in Junior Great Books® Series 3-5 captures students' imagination and engages the best of their thinking.
The Banza Haitian folktale as told by Diane Wolkstein
The Man Whose Trade Was Tricks Georgian folktale as told by George and Helen Papashvily
The Fisherman and His Wife Brothers Grimm
Ooka and the Honest Thief Japanese folktale as told by I. G. Edmonds
It's All the Fault of Adam Nigerian folktale as told by Barbara Walker
The Monster Who Grew Small Joan Grant
The Selkie Girl Scottish folktale as told by Susan Cooper
The Mushroom Man Ethel Pochocki
The Princess and the Beggar Korean folktale as told by Anne Sibley O'Brien
The Fire on the Mountain Ethiopian folktale as told by Harold Courlander and Wolf Leslau
The Dream Weaver Concha Castroviejo
Jean Labadie's Big Black Dog French-Canadian folktale as told by Natalie Savage Carlson
Caporushes English folktale as told by Flora Annie Steel
The Upside-Down Boy Juan Felipe Herrera
The Green Man Gail E. Haley
The Ugly Duckling Hans Christian Andersen
White Wave Chinese folktale as told by Diane Wolkstein
The Mousewife Rumer Godden
How the Tortoise Became Ted Hughes
Two Wise Children Robert Graves