Brian's Winter: The Physics of Staying Alive
Hatchet ends with a rescue. This book asks what would have happened if the plane had never come, and the answer turns out to be a winter of applied physics...
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My Side of the Mountain: The Science and the Caution
This is the gentler Jean Craighead George, and it is also the one most likely to make your child want to go and do it. Both of those are reasons...
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Julie of the Wolves: The Science and the Caution
It is one of the best pieces of animal science ever written for children, and there is a scene in it you need to know about first. Both of those...
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10 Best Read-Aloud Books for Third Graders
Ordered from the one that works at five to the one I would hold until ten. Every entry says which child it fits and what to know before you start,...
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Holes: The Best Plot, and the Real Caution
Nothing else on this list does what the last forty pages of Holes do. It is also the one with real violence in it, and you should know exactly what...
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James and the Giant Peach: Read It Aloud
Dahl is one of the few children's writers who is genuinely better out loud than on the page. He is also crueler than people remember, and the first page is...
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