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Optional Book Packs to Use with Drawn into the Heart of Reading Level 3
Range of Reading Levels: 3.5 - 5.1
These optional book packs are to be used after the
Emerging Reader Set.
They are for use with children who are ready for chapter books with
fewer pictures and are ready for more advanced reading material.
Average second graders should follow the
Emerging Reader’s Schedule.The list below is for use with
Level 3 of Drawn into the Heart of Reading The Level
3 books are for average to advanced Level 3 readers.
In these levels,
your child will read the chosen books out loud to you for a total of 15
days for each genre. Each book on the list below has an approximate
reading level noting the grade and month next to it. Use this
information to choose the set that best suits your child’s reading
level. Please keep in mind, these specific titles are not needed,
but each book was very carefully chosen as an excellent reading
selection for the noted reading level.
Our book sets were created to save you time and to help you find quality books at the
right reading level. This is one of the keys to a successful reading
experience for your child. You are welcome to use your own book
selections if you prefer.
Drawn into the Heart of Reading truly
works with any books you choose.
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LEVEL 3 BOOKS: Range of Reading Levels 3.5 – 5.1
Book Pack - Level 3 $83.31 $70.96 - Save $12.35! [Add to Cart]
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Biography |
Louis Braille, The Boy Who Invented Books for the Blind, by Margaret Davidson,
1991
Scholastic Paperbacks, ISBN 059044350X, Reading Level: 3.8, List Price:
$4.99
Suggested number of days to spend reading: 10 days
[Add to Cart]
Can you imagine what it would be like to long to read books, but to be
unable to because you are blind? Margaret Davidson has captured the
poignant story of how Louis Braille developed the incredible Braille
system of printing for the blind. You’ll never read a book without
appreciating your ability simply to be able to do so!
The Story of Thomas Alva Edison, by Margaret Davidson, 1990 Scholastic
Paperbacks
ISBN 0590424033, Reading Level: 3.5, List Price: $4.99
Suggested number of days to spend reading: 5 days
[Add to Cart]
Thomas A. Edison was a person who caused the discovery of a whole new
world, full of inventions, benefits, and comforts. What could not have
even been imagined before not only became possible, but in fact, a
reality. This simple biography of a genius may be the first step into
learning more about this brilliant man, whom dedicated his time,
ingenuity and efforts towards achieving his dreams with an endless
spirit of innovation.
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Adventure |
Toliver’s Secret, by Esther Wood Brady, 1993 Yearling
ISBN 0679848045, Reading Level: 4.7, List Price: $5.99
Suggested number of days to spend reading: 15 days
[Add to Cart]
When her grandfather is injured, 10-year-old Ellen Toliver replaces him
on a top-secret patriotic mission. Disguised as a boy, she manages to
smuggle a message to General George Washington. This is an unusually
fine historical novel for this age level.
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Historical Fiction |
 Sarah,
Plain and Tall, by Patricia MacLachlan, 1987 HarperTrophy
ISBN 0064402053, Reading Level: 3.5, List Price: $5.99
Suggested number of days to spend reading: 5 days
[Add to Cart]
In the late 19th century a widowed midwestern farmer with two
children--Anna and Caleb--advertises for a wife. When Sarah arrives she
is homesick for Maine, especially for the ocean which she misses
greatly. The children fear that she will not stay, and when she goes off
to town alone, young Caleb--whose mother died during childbirth--is
stricken with the fear that she has gone for good. But she returns with
colored pencils to illustrate for them the beauty of Maine, and to
explain that, though she misses her home, "the truth of it is I would
miss you more".
 Matchlock
Gun, by Walter D. Edmonds, 1998 Putnam Juvenile
ISBN 0698116801, Reading Level: 5.1, List Price: $6.99
Suggested number of days to spend reading: 10 days
[Add to Cart]
In 1756, New York State was still a British colony, and the French and
the Indians were constant threats to Edward and his family. When his
father was called away to watch for a raid from the north, only Edward
was left to protect Mama and little Trudy. His father had shown him how
to use the huge matchlock gun, an old Spanish gun that was twice as long
as he was, but would Edward be able to handle it if trouble actually
came?
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Fantasy |
 Catwings,
by Ursula K. Le Guin, 2003 Scholastic
ISBN 0439551897, Reading Level: 4.3, List Price: $3.99
Suggested number of days to spend reading: 5 days
[Add to Cart]
Down an alley in a dumpster, Mrs. Jane Tabby gives birth to four
kittens. But these are no ordinary offspring, each has a pair of wings.
Although Mrs. Tabby is unperturbed by her kittens' appearance, her
neighbors are not so charitable; when the kittens are old enough to fly,
Mrs. Tabby sends her children out into the world. Because both winged
and four-footed creatures mistrust them, the kittens have trouble
finding a place to live, but eventually discover a loving home.
 A
Mouse Called Wolf, by Dick King-Smith, 1999 Yearling
ISBN 0375800662, Reading Level: 4.4, List Price: $5.50
Suggested number of days to spend reading: 10 days
[Add to Cart]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mouse ("Wolf," for short) has a big name for such a
little mouse. But the name fits. His favorite pastime is listening to
Mrs. Honeybee, the lady of the house, play the piano. If only he could
sing along to the music! One day, Wolf decides to try -- and to his
surprise, out of his mouth comes a perfect melody. It's not long before
Wolf is singing everything from "Three Blind Mice" to Chopin, all to Mrs. Honeybee's accompaniment. Then an accident leaves
Mrs. Honeybee in danger, and it's up to Wolf to save her... the only way
he knows how.
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Mystery |
 The
Mystery of Pelican Cove, by Milly Howard, 1993 BJU Press
ISBN 0890847118, Reading Level: 4.1, List Price: $8.99
Suggested number of days to spend reading: 15 days
[Add to Cart]
Blackie stood watching the spot where the shadow had disappeared. Jimmy
stared at the same spot. The dark shape surfaced again. Now it was only
fifty yards away. Both boy and dog shrank back. The shape surged
forward, rolled, and curved toward the dock. Jimmy yanked his feet from
the water, gasping in disbelief. What could it be? A submarine? A sea
monster?
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Folk Tales |
 A
Penny’s Worth of Character by Jesse Stuart, 1993 Jesse Stuart Foundation
ISBN 0945084323, Reading Level: 4.4, List Price: $5.00
Suggested number of days to spend reading: 10 days
[Add to Cart]
Shan Shelton is going to the store for his mother. If he had a dime, he
could buy his favorite treat, a chocolate bar and a lemon soda pop. Shan
knows that Mr. Conley, the storekeeper, pays a penny each for good used
paper sacks returned to the store. There are ten sacks at home, but
Shan's mother tells him to take only nine to Mr. Conley, because the
tenth sack has a hole in it. Shan wants a chocolate bar and a lemon soda
pop so much, that he disobeys his mother and takes the tenth sack. He
carries the sack with the hole in it concealed among the nine good
sacks, hoping Mr. Conley won't notice it. Mr. Conley overlooks it, but
Shan, eating his chocolate bar and drinking his lemon soda pop,
discovers something is wrong inside him and all around him, and his
mother helps him to put things right.
 Pocahontas
by Edgar and Ingri D’aulaire, 1998 Beautiful Feet Books
ISBN 0964380366, Reading Level: 4.8, List Price: $12.95
Suggested number of days to spend reading: 5 days
[Add to Cart]
This tale of the first colony at Jamestown is told from the perspective
of the princess daughter of the mighty chief Powhatan. When the Natives
judge the white man as evil, John Smith is condemned to death. Only the intervention of Pocahontas saves his life. A tentative
friendship is established between Pocahontas's tribe and the new
colonists. The King of England sends a crown, rich robes and a royal bed
to honor Powhatan and he is pleased, but the white man's insistence that
the Indians give them corn to sustain them through the long winters
threatens their tenuous relationship. Pocahontas's ultimate marriage to
John Rolfe, the birth of their son, their voyage to England and
presentation to the King and Queen is the stuff of fairy tales except
that it is one of the great stories of America's earliest days.
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Nonfiction |
 One
Small Square: Tropical Rain Forest, by Donald M. Silver, 1998
McGraw-Hill
ISBN 0070580510, Reading Level: A specific RL is not listed, but please
note that nonfiction selections typically are one full year advanced due
to difficult vocabulary. List Price: $7.95
Suggested number of days to spend reading: 15 days
[Add to Cart]
Bats and big cats. Armies of ants. Squawking parrots. Strangling figs.
From the ground up to the tree tops, the tropical rainforest teems with
life. Stunning drawings, step-by-step experiments, fun-to-do activities,
and fascinating facts abound in this magical exploration of an essential
ecosystem, in danger of disappearing forever.
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Humor |
 Owls
in the Family by Farley Mowat, 1996 Yearling
ISBN 0440413613, Reading Level: 4.9, List Price: $4.99
Suggested number of days to spend reading: 15 days
[Add to Cart]
Every child needs to have a pet. No one could argue with that. But what
happens when your pet is an owl, and your owl is terrorizing the
neighborhood? In Farley Mowat's exciting children's story, a young
boy's pet menagerie – which includes crows, magpies, gophers and a dog –
grows out of control with the addition of two cantankerous pet owls. The
story of how Wol and Weeps turn the whole town upside down is warm,
funny, and bursting with adventure and suspense
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Realistic Fiction |
 The Year
of Miss Agnes by Kirkpatrick Hill, 2002 Aladdin
ISBN 0689851243, Reading Level:
4.5, List Price: $4.99
Suggested number of days to spend reading: 15 days
[Add to Cart]
Teaching the children in an Athabascan village in a one-room schoolhouse
on the Alaskan frontier in 1948 is not every educator's dream. Then one
day, tall, skinny Agnes Sutterfield arrives and life is never the same
for the community. Frederika (Fred), the 10-year-old narrator, discovers
that unlike previous teachers, Miss Agnes doesn't mind the smell of fish
that the children bring for lunch each day. Miss Agnes immediately packs
away the old textbooks, hangs up the children's brightly colored
artwork, plays opera music, and reads them Robin Hood and Greek myths.
She even learns sign language along with her students so that Fred's
deaf sister can attend school. Hill introduces readers to a whole
community and makes a long-ago and faraway place seem very much alive.
This is an inspirational story about Alaska, the old and new ways, a
very special teacher, and the influence that she has over everyone she
meets.
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