These books are suggestions. You do not have to read them all.
For students going into the:

Third Grade:
Saint Biographies
Magic School Bus (series) by: Joanna Cole
Meet George Washington by: Joan Heilbroner
Mr. Popper’s Penguins by: Richard Atwater
A Cricket in Times Square by: George Selden
The Little House on the Prairie (series) by: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Diary of An Early American Boy and other titles by: Eric Sloane
Black Beauty by: Anna Sewell
Shel Silverstein (poetry)
Wright Brothers biography
Abraham Lincoln biography
Lives of the Saints books
Geronimo Stilton (series) / Thea Stilton
American Girl (series)
Who was? (series)
What was? (series)
Magic Tree House (series) by: Mary Pope Osborne

*Note: These books are just suggestions you do not have to read them all.