These chapter books are all kid approved. They're ones that I have read with my students and my own children and they have loved them. I have loved them too. They're in no particular order.
There are plenty of other books I love, but these ones I have read with actual real live children and they have confirmed that they love that book too. They're all great books. The ones with an * are ones I've read out loud to my Grade 3 students, or read in our Grade 3 book club.
I don't have 50 yet....but that's the goal.
1. * The One and Only Ivan (Katherine Applegate)
2. Wonder (RJ Palacio)
3. * Number the Stars (Lois Lowry)
4. * The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (Kate DiCamillo)
5. * Counting by 7s
6. Skellig (David Almond)
7. * The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
8. *The Witches (Roald Dahl)
9. *Wonderstruck (Brian Selznick)
10. *The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Brian Selznick)
10. *The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me (Roald Dahl)
11. Matilda (Roald Dahl)
12. The Homework Machine (Dan Guttman)
13. *The Ivy and Bean series (Annie Barrows)
14. *Tuck Everlasting (Natalie Babbitt)
15. *James and the Giant Peach (Roald Dahl)
16. *Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Paterson)
17. *The Magician's Elephant (Kate DiCamillo)
18. Elephant in the Garden (Michael Morpurgo)
19. *Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren)
20. *The Breadwinner, Parvannah's Journey and MudHouse (Deborah Ellis)
21. The Mysterious Benedict Society (Trenton Lee Stewart)
22. Marty McGuire (Kate Messner)
23. *Inkheart (Cornelia Funke)
24. Charlie and the Chocolate Factyory (Roald Dahl)
25. Stargirl (Jerry Spinelli)
26. Al Capone Does My Shirts (Gennifer Choldenko)
27. *The Twits (Roald Dahl)
28. Listening for Lions (Gloria Whelan)
29. Flush (Carl Hiaasen)
30. Flora and Ulysses (Kate DiCamillo)
31. The Boy in the Box (Cary Fagan)
32. Babymouse series (Jennifer Holm)
33. Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back (Shel Silverstein)
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