This year my son's teacher has said that they need to not only read fiction books but nonfiction so I am looking for good nonfiction books for a 3rd grade boy.  Anyone have any good recommendations?

Theresa

Theresa, give me some idea what your boy is like. Does he like cars and mechanical things, numbers or funny jokes. Maybe music, drawing or dance. Is he introspective or a social butterfly etc. Does he go with the flow or frustrates easily. Maybe he loves animals and nature. I know kids like just about anything at this age, but it's nice to zero in on what they like the most. This way I might be able to match him up with books he likes.

Hope I'm not too late.

Here are some suggestions but this would be easier to do if I knew what he's interested in:

• Building Manhattan by Laura Vila (2010)
• Buzz by Caroline Bingham (2007)
• The Case of the Vanishing Honeybees by Sandra Marble (2013)
• Claude Monet: The Painter Who Stopped the Trains by P.I. Maltbie (2010)
• El Deafo by Cece Bell (2014)
• Houdini: The Handcuff King by Jason Lutes (2007)
• It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way by Kyo Maclear and Julie Morstad (2019)
• The Kid's Guide to Digital Photography by Jenni Bidner (2004)
• The Mushroom Fan Club by Elise Gravel (2018)
• The Road to Oz by Kathleen Krull (2008)
• Strange Mr. Satie by M.T. Anderson (2007)
• Superlative Birds by Leslie Bulion and Robert Meganck (2019)

Thanks for the reply both of you.  I am not sure what he is into because for the most part we have only ever read fiction.

Theresa

What are his favorite fiction stories? I bet I can find some nonfiction ones to pair with them.

Sarah, he likes Cam Jansen and  Junior B. Jones. I am still trying to find fiction books that he really likes as well.  

Ah, he likes Mysteries!  I think I can find some non-fiction books with the subjects of how things are solved.
 

There are plenty of fuuny books on all sorts of non-fiction subjects. 

Some questions. Does he like?

Science: there are books on inventors or discoveries and how things are made

Math: Books on how things are calculated, like clocks, money, 

History: books on war, prehistory, religions, American history, you name it. 

Or any other subject. 
Let know what you think he may be into. 
 

He might be interested in secret messages and code breaking. For example: Ciphers and Codes by Karen Price Hossell (2002)