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Grades 3-5

136 stories that start in grades 3-5.

Short stories

57 titles · One sitting, one story.
A Helping Hand Payal Dhar Grades 3-5short story A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett Grades 3-6short story A Stitch in Time Himadri Das; Veena Prasad Grades 3-5short story Around the World With a Chilli Nayan Chanda Grades 3-5short story Arya in the Cockpit Nandita Jayaraj Grades 3-5short story Bambi: A Life in the Woods Felix Salten Grades 3-6short story The Bungalow Mystery (Nancy Drew 3) Carolyn Keene Grades 4-7short story The Butterfly That Stamped Rudyard Kipling Grades 3-5short story The Case of the Missing Water Shalini Srinivasan Grades 3-5short story Chipko takes root Jeyanthi Manokaran Grades 3-5short story The Crab That Played with the Sea Rudyard Kipling Grades 3-5short story Creatures of Old Veena Prasad Grades 3-5short story The Dragon Tamers E. Nesbit Grades 3-6short story Emil and the Detectives Erich Kastner Grades 3-6short story Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon Dhan Gopal Mukerji Grades 4-7short story The Hidden Staircase (Nancy Drew 2) Carolyn Keene Grades 4-7short story The House on the Cliff (Hardy Boys 2) Franklin W. Dixon Grades 4-7short story How Old is Muttajji? Roopa Pai Grades 3-5short story How Pintu Found Pi Sarat Talluri Rao Grades 3-5short story How the Alphabet Was Made Rudyard Kipling Grades 3-5short story How the First Letter Was Written Rudyard Kipling Grades 3-5short story The Ice Dragon, or Do as You Are Told E. Nesbit Grades 3-6short story Kaa's Hunting Rudyard Kipling Grades 4-7short story Kaakaasaurus Shalini Srinivasan Grades 3-5short story Kali Wants to Dance Aparna Karthikeyan Grades 3-5short story Long Live Friendship! A Humorous Play for Children Meera Dixit Grades 3-5short story Lost in the Internet Kris Stokes; Madhurima Chakraborty Grades 3-5short story Mangalyaan: A Journey to Mars Nikhil Gulati Grades 3-5short story Mission Cycle Rohini Mohan Grades 3-5short story Mowgli's Brothers Rudyard Kipling Grades 4-7short story The Mystery at Lilac Inn (Nancy Drew 4) Carolyn Keene Grades 4-7short story The Mystery of the Cyber Friend Zac O'Yeah Grades 3-5short story Only Fools Go to School Chatura Rao Grades 3-5short story Peter Pan J. M. Barrie Grades 3-6short story Pollyanna Eleanor H. Porter Grades 3-6short story Raju's First Flight Nandita Jayaraj Grades 3-5short story The Reluctant Dragon Kenneth Grahame Grades 3-6short story Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Rudyard Kipling Grades 3-6short story Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving Grades 5-8short story The Scavenger Hunt Ajit Narra Grades 3-5short story The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew 1) Carolyn Keene Grades 4-7short story The Secret of the Old Mill (Hardy Boys 3) Franklin W. Dixon Grades 4-7short story Smoky, the Cow Horse Will James Grades 4-7short story The Sound of Water Shalini Srinivasan Grades 3-5short story Stormy, Misty's Foal Marguerite Henry Grades 3-6short story The Tale of the Toilet Veena Prasad Grades 3-5short story There's a Hole in my Galaxy Ananya Dasgupta Grades 3-5short story The Three Questions Leo Tolstoy Grades 3-8short story Tiger! Tiger! Rudyard Kipling Grades 4-7short story Tine and the Faraway Mountain Shikha Tripathi Grades 3-5short story Toomai of the Elephants Rudyard Kipling Grades 4-7short story The Tower Treasure (Hardy Boys 1) Franklin W. Dixon Grades 4-7short story The Trumpeter of Krakow Eric P. Kelly Grades 5-8short story Turtle Story Kartik Shanker Grades 3-5short story White Fang Jack London Grades 5-8short story The White Seal Rudyard Kipling Grades 4-7short story Who Stole Bhaiya's Smile? Sanjana Kapur Grades 3-5short story

Poems

18 titles · Read them out loud. Then read them again.
"Hope" is the thing with feathers Emily Dickinson Grades 5-12poem The Bells Edgar Allan Poe Grades 5-9poem Dreams Langston Hughes Grades 4-12poem Eldorado Edgar Allan Poe Grades 5-9poem Fog Carl Sandburg Grades 3-8poem I Hear America Singing Walt Whitman Grades 5-12poem I'm Nobody! Who are you? Emily Dickinson Grades 5-12poem In Flanders Fields John McCrae Grades 5-12poem Jabberwocky Lewis Carroll Grades 4-8poem Lift Every Voice and Sing James Weldon Johnson Grades 4-12poem Mother to Son Langston Hughes Grades 5-12poem The Pasture Robert Frost Grades 3-8poem Paul Revere's Ride Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Grades 4-8poem Rainbow Gold (selected poems for young readers) Sara Teasdale (editor) Grades 4-8poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost Grades 5-12poem There is no frigate like a book Emily Dickinson Grades 4-10poem The Village Blacksmith Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Grades 4-8poem The Walrus and the Carpenter Lewis Carroll Grades 3-6poem

Myths, fables and folk tales

30 titles · Stories people told long before anyone wrote them down.
The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy Padraic Colum Grades 5-8myth Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp Arabian Nights (Lang) Grades 4-7fairy tale Ashputtel Brothers Grimm Grades 3-6fairy tale The Badger and the Bear Zitkala-Sa Grades 3-6folk tale The Children of Odin: Norse myths Padraic Colum Grades 5-8myth Chinese fairy tales (set I) Richard Wilhelm (collected) Grades 3-6folk tale Fables VI: The Dog in the Manger, and four more Aesop Grades 3-5fable The Fisherman and the Genie Arabian Nights (Lang) Grades 4-7fairy tale The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship Arthur Ransome (retold) Grades 3-6folk tale The Happy Prince Oscar Wilde Grades 3-7fairy tale The Herd Boy and the Weaving Maiden Richard Wilhelm (collected) Grades 3-6folk tale Iktomi and the Coyote Zitkala-Sa Grades 3-6folk tale Iktomi and the Ducks Zitkala-Sa Grades 3-6folk tale Iktomi and the Muskrat Zitkala-Sa Grades 3-6folk tale Jack the Giant-Killer Traditional (Jacobs) Grades 3-5folk tale The Little Match Girl Hans Christian Andersen Grades 3-6fairy tale The Mirror of Matsuyama Yei Theodora Ozaki (retold) Grades 3-6folk tale The Nightingale Hans Christian Andersen Grades 3-6fairy tale The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor Arabian Nights (Lang) Grades 5-8fairy tale Shen of the Sea (selected stories) Arthur Bowie Chrisman Grades 3-6folk tale The Snow Queen Hans Christian Andersen Grades 4-7fairy tale Snowdrop Brothers Grimm Grades 3-6fairy tale The Story of Urashima Taro, the Fisher Lad Yei Theodora Ozaki (retold) Grades 3-6folk tale Tales from Silver Lands (selected stories) Charles J. Finger Grades 3-6folk tale The Toad and the Boy Zitkala-Sa Grades 3-6folk tale The Tree-Bound Zitkala-Sa Grades 3-6folk tale The Twelve Dancing Princesses Brothers Grimm Grades 3-5fairy tale West African folk tales (set II) W. H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair (collected) Grades 3-6folk tale Whittington and His Cat Traditional (Jacobs) Grades 3-5folk tale The Wild Swans Hans Christian Andersen Grades 3-6fairy tale

Chapter books and novels

29 titles · Longer reads, chapter by chapter.
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens Grades 5-8chapter book The Adventures of Pinocchio Carlo Collodi Grades 3-6chapter book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain Grades 5-8chapter book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Grades 3-7chapter book Anne of Green Gables L. M. Montgomery Grades 5-8chapter book Black Beauty Anna Sewell Grades 4-7chapter book Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz L. Frank Baum Grades 3-6chapter set The Emerald City of Oz L. Frank Baum Grades 3-6chapter set Five Children and It E. Nesbit Grades 3-6chapter set The Great Airport Mystery (Hardy Boys 9) Franklin W. Dixon Grades 4-7chapter set Heidi Johanna Spyri Grades 4-7chapter book Hunting for Hidden Gold (Hardy Boys 5) Franklin W. Dixon Grades 4-7chapter set The Marvelous Land of Oz L. Frank Baum Grades 3-6chapter set The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle Grades 5-8chapter book The Missing Chums (Hardy Boys 4) Franklin W. Dixon Grades 4-7chapter set The Mystery of Cabin Island (Hardy Boys 8) Franklin W. Dixon Grades 4-7chapter set Ozma of Oz L. Frank Baum Grades 3-6chapter set The Phoenix and the Carpet E. Nesbit Grades 3-6chapter set The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain Grades 5-8chapter set The Railway Children E. Nesbit Grades 4-7chapter book Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Kate Douglas Wiggin Grades 4-7chapter set The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett Grades 4-7chapter book The Secret of the Caves (Hardy Boys 7) Franklin W. Dixon Grades 4-7chapter set The Shore Road Mystery (Hardy Boys 6) Franklin W. Dixon Grades 4-7chapter set The Story of King Arthur and His Knights Howard Pyle Grades 5-8chapter book The Story of the Treasure Seekers E. Nesbit Grades 3-6chapter set Through the Looking-Glass Lewis Carroll Grades 4-8chapter book The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame Grades 3-7chapter book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum Grades 3-6chapter book

True stories

2 titles · Memoir, essays and real lives.
Indian Boyhood Charles A. Eastman Grades 5-8memoir The Story of My Life Helen Keller Grades 5-8memoir