Recommended Reading for Year 3 (age 7-8)
The recommended reading list aims to help parents choose books that are most appropriate for their children’s reading levels at the time.
To do this, books have been organised by:
• reading difficulty (sentence lengths, word lengths, vocabulary complexity)
• length (based upon average reading speed to choose a book that suits your child’s current stamina)
Year 3 (age 7-8)
| Title | Author | Difficulty | Length |
| Monster Story-Teller | Jacqueline Wilson | Easy | 15m |
| Ivy and Bean series | Annie Barrows | Easy | 1h |
| Horrid Henry series | Francesca Simon | Easy | 47m |
| Diary of a Killer Cat | Anne Fine | Easy | 28m |
| Wayside School | Louis Sachar | Easy | 3h 40m |
| The Boy Who Climbed into the Moon | David Almond | Easy | 1h 43m |
| The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark | Jill Tomlinson | Medium | 1h 16m |
| The Giggler Treatment | Roddy Doyle | Medium | 1h 5m |
| The Legend of Spud Murphy | Eoin Colfer | Medium | 52m |
| Angel of Nitshill Road | Anne Fine | Medium | 1h 6m |
| George Speaks | Dick King-Smith | Medium | 49m |
| Ms Wiz series | Terence Blacker | Medium | 41m |
| Fantastic Mr Fox | Roald Dahl | Medium | 1h 23m |
| Flat Stanley | Jeff Brown | Medium | 4h 4m |
| Bill’s New Frock | Anne Fine | Hard | 1h 23m |
| Gangsta Granny | David Walliams | Hard | 4h 30m |
| The Twits | Roald Dahl | Hard | 1h 3m |
| Marble Crusher | Michael Morpurgo | Hard | 1h 8m |
| Max and the Millions | Ross Montgomery | Hard | 5h 55m |
| Astrosaurs series | Steve Cole | Hard | 1h 24m |
| Grk series | Joshua Doder | Hard | 5h 3m |
| Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf | Catherine Storr | Hard | 2h 6m |
| The Butterfly Lion | Michael Morpurgo | Hard | 1h 49m |
| Winnie-the-Pooh | A. A. Milne | Hard | 2h 54m |
| Magical Children series | Sally Gardner | Hard | 1h 23m |
| Beast Quest series | Adam Blade | Hard | 1h 48m |
| 100 Mile an Hour Dog series | Jeremy Strong | Hard | 1h 36m |
| Little Wolf | Ian Whybrow | Hard | 1h 32m |
| The Roman Mysteries | Caroline Lawrence | Hard | 8h 20m |
| Charlie Bone | Jenny Nimmo | Hard | 8h 20m |
| Groosham Grange | Anthony Horowitz | Hard | 3h 49m |
| Seriously Silly series | Laurence Anholt | Advanced | 13m |
| My Naughty Little Sister series | Dorothy Edwards | Advanced | 2h 12m |
| Matilda | Roald Dahl | Advanced | 5h 7m |
| Captain Underpants | Dav Pilkey | Advanced | 2h 18m |
| Urgum the Axeman | Kjartan Poskitt | Advanced | 5h 39m |
| The Great Food Bank Heist | Onjali Q. Raúf | Advanced | 1h 25m |
| Pippi Longstocking | Astrid Lindgren | Advanced | 3h 19m |
| Clarice Bean series | Lauren Child | Advanced | 2h 35m |
| Mr Gum series | Andy Stanton | Advanced | 1h 35m |
| The Sheep Pig | Dick King-Smith | Advanced | 2h 12m |
| Olga da Polga | Michael Bond | Advanced | 2h 19m |
| Spy Dog series | Andrew Cope | Advanced | 3h 14m |
| The Voyage of QV66 | Penelope Lively | Advanced | 6h 12m |
| A Dog So Small | Philippa Pearce | Advanced | 4h 30m |
| Monster Mission | Eva Ibbotson | Advanced | 7h 24m |
| Grubtown Tales | Philip Ardagh | Guided Reading | 1h 44m |
| Paddington series | Michael Bond | Guided Reading | 3h 9m |
| Stuart Little | E. B. White | Guided Reading | 2h 24m |
| The Mysterious Benedict Society | Trenton Lee Stewart | Guided Reading | 12h 4m |
| The Animals of Farthing Wood | Colin Dann | Guided Reading | 10h 8m |
| Worst Witch series | Jill Murphy | Guided Reading | 2h 29m |
| Mission to Marathon | Geoffrey Trease | Guided Reading | 1h 15m |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | Frank Cottrell-Boyce | Guided Reading | 2h 59m |
| How to Train Your Dragon | Cressida Cowell | Guided Reading | 3h 56m |
| The Happy Prince | Oscar Wilde | Guided Reading | 26m |
| The Dribblesome Teapots | Norman Hunter | Guided Reading | 5h 11m |
| Peter Pan | J. M. Barrie | Guided Reading | 6h 1m |
| King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table | Roger Lancelyn Green | Guided Reading | 8h 5m |
| The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | Guided Reading | 7h 29m |