| Author | Title | Level | Pts. | Description | Pages |
| Aardema, Verna | Borreguita and the Coyote | 3.1 | 0.5 | A little lamb uses her clever wiles to keep a coyote from eating her up. | 24 |
| Aardema, Verna | Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain | 4.6 | 0.5 | A cumulative rhyme relating how Ki-pat brought rain to the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain. | 14 |
| Aardema, Verna | Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears | 4 | 0.5 | A mosquito tells a tall tale that sets off a chain reaction. Charming picture book lavishly illustrated in full color. | 26 |
| Abbott, Tony | Humbug Holiday: A Christmas Carol | 3.9 | 4 | The library zapper gates have transported the class misfits again, this time into Dickens's own Christmas classic. Frankie and Devin find themselves on a wacky, ghost-guided tour that just might turn around this humbug holiday. | 135 |
| Abbott, Tony | Mississippi River Blues: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | 3.8 | 3 | When Mrs. Figglehopper's autographed page of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" falls between the library's zapper gates, Devin and Frankie have no choice but to dive in after it. Through the crack, they are transported right into Mark Twain's book. | 127 |
| Abbott, Tony | Trapped in Transylvania: Dracula | 3.8 | 4 | When Devin and Francine do poorly on a book report on "Dracula", the teacher sends them to work in the library. When they accidentally drop a copy of the book behind an old security gate, the sixth graders find themselves in Transylvania. | 128 |
| Abbott, Tony | What a Trip! Around the World in Eighty Days | 4.2 | 4 | Frankie and Devin are transported into "Around the World in Eighty Days" when they get near Mrs. Figglehopper's library zapper gates. | 141 |
| Abbott, Tony | X Marks the Spot: Treasure Island | 4 | 4 | Frankie and Devin set sail for a pirate adventure when they are transported to the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, TREASURE ISLAND. | 136 |
| Ackerman, Karen | By the Dawn's Early Light | 4 | 0.5 | A young girl and her brother stay with their grandmother while their mother works at night. | 32 |
| Ackerman, Karen | Leaves in October, The | 5.4 | 3 | After her mother leaves them, nine-year-old Livvy struggles to understand and forgive as her father loses his job and takes her and her younger brother to live in a shelter for homeless people. | 117 |
| Ackerman, Karen | Night Crossing, The | 5.3 | 1 | When the Nazis invade Austria, Clara's Jewish family flees to Switzerland. | 56 |
| Ackerman, Karen | Song and Dance Man | 4 | 0.5 | Grandpa demonstrates for his visiting grandchildren some of the songs, dances, and jokes he performed when he was a vaudevillian. | 21 |
| Ada, Alma Flor | Daniel's Mystery Egg | 1.6 | 0.5 | When he finds an egg, Daniel and his friends try to guess what is inside. | 23 |
| Ada, Alma Flor | Gathering the Sun | 4.7 | 0.5 | This is a book of poems about working in the fields and nature's bounty, one for each letter of the Spanish alphabet. | 40 |
| Ada, Alma Flor | Under the Royal Palms | 6.6 | 3 | In this book, the author recalls her life and impressions of growing up in Cuba. | 88 |
| Adams, Douglas | Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The | 6.6 | 8 | The insanely funny, satiric bestseller about the end of the world and the days that follow it. Authur Dent must find a new home after the world is destroyed, to make way for the new hyperspatial express route. | 215 |
| Adams, Richard | Watership Down | 6.2 | 25 | Picaresque saga of a maverick band of rabbits who set out against all odds on a quest for a new society. | 478 |
| Adamson, Thomas K. | Pluto (Exploring the Galaxy) | 2.1 | 0.5 | In this book, readers will learn about Pluto's conditions and what makes it unique in the solar system. | 24 |
| Adamson, Thomas K. | Saturn (Exploring the Galaxy) | 1.8 | 0.5 | In this book, readers will learn about Saturn's conditions and what makes it unique in the solar system. | 24 |
| Adler, C.S. | Cat That Was Left Behind, The | 4.3 | 4 | Chad doesn't believe his new foster family will be any better than the others, but after getting to know them, he starts to change his mind. | 146 |
| Adler, C.S. | Eddie's Blue-Winged Dragon | 4.4 | 4 | A sixth-grader with cerebral palsy becomes the owner of a brass dragon, which helps him out in some of the battles he faces due to his handicap. | 144 |
| Adler, C.S. | Magic of the Glits, The | 5.5 | 3 | Twelve-year-old Jeremy, spending the summer on Cape Cod, befriends an eight-year-old girl whose mother has just died. | 90 |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the Barking Treasure Mystery | 3.5 | 1 | When a woman's poodle disappears during a boat ride around the city, Cam uses her photographic memory to solve the mystery. | 55 |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the Catnapping Mystery | 3.4 | 1 | While visiting Aunt Molly at a fancy downtown hotel, Cam uses her photographic memory to help one of the guests find her stolen luggage, pet cat, and to catch the thief. | 56 |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the Ghostly Mystery | 3.4 | 1 | Cam uses her photographic memory to catch a thief disguised as a ghost. | 58 |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Circus Clown | 3.9 | 1 | Pickpockets disguised as clowns are no match for Cam Jansen, the girl with the photographic memory. | 57 |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Dinosaur Bones | 3.8 | 1 | When she notices some bones missing from a dinosaur skeleton exhibited in the museum, a young girl with a photographic memory tries to discover who has been taking them and why. | 56 |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Gold Coins | 3.7 | 1 | Fifth grader Cam Jansen puts her mental camera to work when her box camera disappears from the school science fair. | 57 |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds | 3.2 | 1 | A fifth-grader with a photographic memory and her friend Eric help solve the mystery of the stolen diamonds. | 58 |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the U.F.O. | 3.4 | 1 | Ten-year-old Cam, possessor of a photographic memory, and her friend Eric investigate what seems to be a brief appearance of U.F.O.s. | 58 |
| Adler, David A. | Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man | 4.6 | 0.5 | Traces the life of the Yankees' star ballplayer, focusing on his character and his struggle with the terminal disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. | 28 |
| Adler, David A. | Picture Book of Christopher Columbus, A | 3.9 | 0.5 | This is a brief account of the life and accomplishments of Christopher Columbus. | 29 |
| Adler, David A. | Young Cam Jansen and the Pizza Shop Mystery | 2.8 | 0.5 | Cam, her friend Eric, and her father go shopping at the mall. Cam must rely on her photographic memory to locate her missing jacket. | 32 |
| Adler, Susan S. | Meet Samantha | 3.8 | 1 | In 1904, Samantha and her servant friend try to learn what happened to the seamstress who suddenly left her job. | 61 |
| Adler, Susan S. | Samantha Learns a Lesson | 4.3 | 1 | Samantha is determined to help nine-year-old Nellie, attending school for the first time, with her school work and learns a great deal herself about what it is like to be a poor child and work in a factory. | 61 |
| Aiken, Joan | Wolves of Willoughby Chase, The | 6.5 | 7 | After two children are chased by wolves and their parents are lost at sea, they escape and travel four hundred miles to London. | 168 |
| Alarcótwo children are chased by wolves and their parents are lost at sea, they escape and travel four hundred miles to London. | From the Bellybutton of the Moon and Other Summer Poems | 4.7 | 0.5 | This book is a collection of poems which celebrates the childhood memories of summer in the city. | 32 |
| Alavedra/Wensell | They Followed a Bright Star | 3.8 | 0.5 | This book retells the story of how an angel led the shepherds and kings to Bethlehem when Jesus was born. | 36 |
| Albert, Richard E. | Alejandro's Gift | 5 | 0.5 | Lonely in his house beside a road in the desert, Alejandro builds an oasis to attract the many animals around him. | 21 |
| Alborough, Jez | Duck in the Truck | 2.5 | 0.5 | Duck's truck is stuck in the muck. Can anyone help him get his truck out of the muck? Or is duck out of luck? | 29 |
| Alborough, Jez | Watch Out! Big Bro's Coming | 2 | 0.5 | Terror spreads through the jungle as animals hear the news that rough, tough Big Bro is coming. | 24 |
| Alcock, Vivien | Monster Garden, The | 4.2 | 5 | Using a tissue sample she believes is from one of her father's experiments in genetic engineering, Frankie accidentally creates a baby monster, which begins to grow at an alarming rate. | 164 |
| Alcott, Louisa May | Eight Cousins | 8.2 | 13 | Left an orphan after her father's death, Rose Campbell is sent to live at the "Aunt Hill" with her six aunts and seven rowdy boy cousins. | 299 |
| Alcott, Louisa May | Jo's Boys (Unabridged) | 8.8 | 18 | The story of a teacher's struggle to unlock the mystery of a child's pain and rediscover the child who has been lost to a world far more sinister than anyone could suspect. | 350 |
| Alcott, Louisa May | Little Men | 8.1 | 19 | Relates the story of Plumfield School, established by Jo and her husband to provide a secure, homelike environment for boys and girls. | 369 |
| Alcott, Louisa May | Little Women (Book I and II) (Unabridged) | 7.9 | 33 | This story is based on the family life of the author and her sisters and their diverse personalities as they grew up. This complete edition contains both Book 1 "Little Women," and Book 2 "Good Wives." | 475 |
| Alcott, Louisa May | Old-Fashioned Girl (Unabridged), An | 8.2 | 18 | Polly's friendship with the wealthy Shaws of Boston helps them to build a new life and teaches her the truth about the relationship between happiness and riches. | 345 |
| Alcott/Monfried | Little Women (Great Illustrated Classics) | 4.7 | 2 | This is the story of the four March sisters growing up in 19th century America. Their happy family life is disturbed when their father leaves for the Civil War and by all of the changes that take place as the sisters become grown women. | 238 |
| Alexander, Lloyd | Beggar Queen, The | 5.3 | 9 | In this continuation of Westmark and The Kestrel, Mickle, once a common street urchin, now rules Westmark as the wise Queen Augusta. | 237 |
| Alexander, Lloyd | Black Cauldron, The | 5.2 | 7 | In Prydain, a young Assistant Pig-Keeper achieves honor in a quest to destroy the evil Black Cauldron. | 182 |
| Alexander, Lloyd | Book of Three, The | 5.3 | 7 | Taran sets out with some strangely assorted companions to save his beloved land. | 190 |
| Alexander, Lloyd | Castle of Llyr, The | 5.4 | 7 | While undergoing training to be a princess, Eilonwy learns about magic for evil purposes. | 174 |
| Alexander, Lloyd | Cat Who Wished to Be a Man, The | 5 | 3 | When he begins dealing with humanity, Lionel the cat begins to understand why his wizard master was reluctant to change him into a man. | 107 |
| Alexander, Lloyd | First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha, The | 5.2 | 7 | After paying a silver penny to encourage a magician to perform in the town square, a carpenter's helper is conjured to a strange place where the people call him King of Abadan. | 213 |
| Alexander, Lloyd | Fortune-Tellers, The | 4.6 | 0.5 | A carpenter goes to a fortune teller and finds the predictions about his future coming true in an unusual way. | 27 |
| Alexander, Lloyd | Gawgon and The Boy, The | 5.5 | 7 | In Depression-era Philadelphia, when eleven-year-old David is too ill to attend school, he is tutored by the unique and adventurous Aunt Annie, whose teaching combines with his imagination to greatly enrich his life. | 199 |
| Alexander, Lloyd | Gypsy Rizka | 5.4 | 6 | Living alone in her wagon while waiting for her father's return, Rizka, a Gypsy and a trickster, exposes the ridiculous foibles of some of the townspeople. | 195 |
| Alexander, Lloyd | High King, The | 6.1 | 11 | When the sword of Dyrnwyn falls into the hands of Arawn Death-Lord, Taran and his friends raise an army to march against him. | 248 |
| Alexander, Lloyd | Illyrian Adventure, The | 5.5 | 5 | Vesper Holly sails to the tiny country of Illyria to search for the treasure and magical army of King Vartan by the author of the Prydain Chronicles. | 132 |
| Alexander, Lloyd | Iron Ring, The | 4.8 | 10 | Driven by his sense of dharma or honor, young King Tamar sets off on a perilous journey, with a significance greater than he can imagine during which he meets talking animals. | 280 |
| Alexander, Lloyd | Kestrel, The | 5.2 | 9 | With war in Westmark and the assumption of the throne by Mickie, all Theo's talents are needed, as well as those of his former companions. | 244 |
| Alexander, Lloyd | Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian, The | 6.5 | 8 | When fourth fiddler Sebastian loses his place in the Baron's orchestra, he takes to the highway and soon finds himself dealing with disaster after disaster. | 204 |
| Alexander, Lloyd | Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen, The | 5.4 | 9 | Bearing six unusual gifts, young Prince Jen embarks on a perilous quest and emerges triumphantly into manhood. | 273 |
| Alexander, Lloyd | Taran Wanderer | 6.2 | 9 | Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper, who wants to be a hero, goes questing for his parentage. | 222 |
| Alexander, Lloyd | Time Cat | 4.7 | 5 | Jason and his magic cat Gareth travel through time to visit countries all over the world during different periods of history. | 206 |
| Alexander, Lloyd | Westmark | 5.3 | 6 | Falling in with a roguish doctor, his dwarf attendant, and an urchin girl, Theo embarks on an unforgettable adventure in the kingdom of Westmark. | 184 |
| Aliki | Feelings | 2 | 0.5 | Depicts a wide range of emotions--guilt, fear, sadness, anger, nervousness, etc.--for the youngest readers. | 32 |
| Aliki | Marianthe's Story: Painted Words & Spoken Memories | 3.5 | 0.5 | Of the two stories in this book , one tells of Mari starting school in a new land; the other describes her life in her old country. | 26 |
| Aliki | Mummies Made in Egypt | 5.2 | 0.5 | Unravels the secret of the ancient Egyptian art of mummy-making. | 27 |
| Aliki | My Five Senses | 2 | 0.5 | Simple words and sparkling pictures develop the child's understanding of his senses - what they are and what he learns through them about the world. | 32 |
| Aliki | My Visit to the Dinosaurs | 3.2 | 0.5 | A young boy learns much about dinosaurs on his first trip to the museum. | 32 |
| Aliki | William Shakespeare and the Globe | 5.5 | 0.5 | Tells the story of the well known playwright William Shakespeare and the famous Globe Theatre in which many of his plays were performed. | 48 |
| Allard, Harry | Miss Nelson Has a Field Day | 3 | 0.5 | The notorious Miss Swamp reappears at the Horace B. Smedley School, this time to shape up the football team and make them win at least one game. | 32 |
| Allard, Harry | Miss Nelson Is Back | 2.7 | 0.5 | While Miss Nelson is recuperating from her tonsillectomy, her class dreads the arrival of Miss Swamp, the substitute teacher. | 32 |
| Allard, Harry | Miss Nelson Is Missing! | 2.7 | 0.5 | Miss Nelson has the worst-behaved class in school; then Miss Swamp turns up to straighten things out. Who is Miss Swamp? That's the mystery. | 32 |
| Allen, Debbie | Dancing in the Wings | 3.5 | 0.5 | Sassy tries out for a summer dance festival in Washington, D.C., despite the other girls' taunts that she is much too tall. | 29 |
| Alley, Robert | Ghost in Dobbs Diner, The | 2.7 | 0.5 | The ghost that pops out of the old green bottle Mr. Dobbs finds is very helpful in the diner, but the rest of the help and the customers are too frightened to find out what a nice ghost he really is. | 48 |
| Allison, Amy | Dropping in on Germany | 4.9 | 0.5 | This book describes the country of Germany, including main cities and regions, and gives information about the history, geography, and people of the country. | 32 |
| Almond, David | Skellig | 3.5 | 4 | An unusual being called Skellig enters the life of Michael, a boy whose family has moved into a new house and whose baby sister is gravely ill. Michael's sadness and isolation lead to a special friendship with Skellig and with a neighbor girl. | 182 |
| Alphin, Elaine Marie | Ghost Cadet | 5.5 | 6 | Twelve-year-old Benjy, in Virginia visiting the grandmother he has never met, meets the ghost of a Virginia Military Institute cadet who was killed in the Battle of New Market in 1864 and helps him recover his family's treasured gold watch. | 182 |
| Alphin, Elaine Marie | Telephones (Household History) | 7 | 1 | This book presents the technological development of the telephone through a description of the various inventions that led up to it, then examines the role of the phone in popular culture. | 48 |
| Amato, Mary | Word Eater, The | 4.5 | 4 | Lerner Chanse, a new student at Cleveland Park Middle School, finds a worm that magically makes things disappear, and she hopes it will help her fit in, or get revenge, at her hated school. | 151 |
| Ambrose, Stephen E. | Good Fight: How World War II Was Won, The | 8.2 | 2 | This book chronicles the major events of World War II, and includes personal anecdotes from soldiers, photographs, and key campaign and battlefield maps. | 96 |
| Andersen/Pinkney | Ugly Duckling, The | 4.5 | 0.5 | An ugly duckling spends an unhappy year ostracized by the other animals before he grows into a beautiful swan. | 30 |
| Andersen/San Joséspends an unhappy year ostracized by the other animals before he grows into a beautiful swan. | Little Match Girl, The | 3.5 | 0.5 | The wares of the poor little match girl illuminate her cold world, bringing some beauty to her brief, tragic life. | 32 |
| Anderson, C.W. | Billy and Blaze | 3.7 | 0.5 | A young boy who loves horses gets a pony of his own. | 48 |
| Anderson, C.W. | Blaze and the Lost Quarry | 3.4 | 0.5 | Billy and his pony, Blaze, discover the way to an abandoned quarry where they perform a brave deed. | 46 |
| Anderson, C.W. | Blaze Finds the Trail | 3.9 | 0.5 | Billy and his pony, Blaze, explore on an old woodland road. Their adventures soon lead them off the trail and deep into the woods. Before they know it, the sky grows dark with a coming storm, and Billy cannot find the way out of the woods. | 44 |
| Anderson, Laurie Halse | Fever, 1793 | 4.4 | 7 | In 1793 Philadelphia, fourteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic. | 251 |
| Anderson, Laurie Halse | Thank You, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving | 3.7 | 0.5 | This book relates how Sarah Hale, a magazine editor and author, persuaded President Lincoln to transform Thanksgiving Day into a national holiday. | 40 |
| Anderson, Peter | John Muir: Wilderness Prophet | 6.3 | 1 | John Muir blazed a trail for other Americans who would go on to defend the value of national parks and wildlands. | 62 |
| Anderson/Moesta | Darkest Knight | 7.9 | 6 | The dark Jedi student Zekk has been given a chance to lead a raid on the great Wookie computer center, but to do so he must first face his old friends Jacen and Jaina. | 216 |
| Anderson/Moesta | Delusions of Grandeur | 7 | 7 | As the search for Raynar Thul's father continues, the young Jedi Knights turn for help to a most unusual and dangerous source. | 229 |
| Anderson/Moesta | Heirs of the Force | 6.7 | 7 | While exploring the jungle outside the academy, the twins make a startling discovery, the remains of a TIE fighter that had crashed years ago. | 217 |
| Anderson/Moesta | Lightsabers | 7.8 | 7 | At last it is time for the young Jedi knights to build their light sabers, but first they must learn about the mysterious bond between the Jedi and the light saber. | 232 |
| Anderson/Moesta | Lost Ones, The | 7 | 6 | Jacen and Jaina are reunited with their old friend Zekk; he feels, compared to them, he is a lost boy. | 232 |
| Anderson/Moesta | Shadow Academy | 6.5 | 7 | Brakiss has been given a great task to undertake, he must kidnap the heirs to the skywalker bloodline, and turn them to the dark side of the force. | 225 |
| Andreae, Giles | Giraffes Can't Dance | 3.8 | 0.5 | The giraffe Gerald is too clumsy to dance with all the other animals at the Jungle Dance, until he finds the right music. | 30 |
| Andrews, Jan | Very Last First Time | 3.7 | 0.5 | When the tide recedes, a young Eskimo girl living in northern Canada journeys alone for the first time under the ice, walking on the seabed floor to gather mussels. | 28 |
| Anton, Tina | Sharks Sharks Sharks | 3 | 0.5 | Discusses the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of sharks. | 30 |
| Appelt, Kathi | Bat Jamboree | 3.3 | 0.5 | At an abandoned outdoor movie theater, fifty-five bats perform in a toe-tapping, wing-flapping revue-and await the grand finale. | 22 |
| Appelt, Kathi | Oh My Baby, Little One | 2.8 | 0.5 | A mother explains to her child all the ways her love remains even while she's away. | 27 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Alien, The | 3.7 | 4 | Ax and his friends know they have to stop the Yeerks. | 159 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Andalite Chronicles, The | 4.5 | 9 | His name is Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul, an Andalite war-prince. The one who gave five young humans the ability to morph into any animal they touch. | 326 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Andalite's Gift, The | 3.6 | 5 | After the Animorphs take some time off to relax, Rachel turns up missing; and it's up to them to find out what has happened. | 227 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Android, The | 4 | 4 | Marco and friends morph so they can check Erek out to make sure he is not a human-Controller. | 170 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Arrival, The | 4.2 | 3 | Andalites have arrived on Earth to help the Animorphs and Ax fight against the Yeerk invasion. | 148 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Attack, The | 4.2 | 4 | In the battle for ultimate power, the Ellimist will choose the Animorphs and Erek the Chee, the Crayak will choose his army of Howluns, and the loser will be erased from the universe. | 145 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Capture, The | 3.6 | 4 | Jake finds out his brother is one of them. Tobias stays in his morph too long. Jake and friends find out where the Yeerk base is. | 154 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Change, The | 3.8 | 4 | Tobias is about to make a very special choice. It could mean the difference between being a hawk or a human. | 162 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Conspiracy, The | 3.9 | 3 | Jake's dad and brother, Tom, have left for a meeting of The Sharing, where Tom may force their dad into involuntary Yeerk infestation. Jake must save his father. | 139 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Decision, The | 4.5 | 4 | When Ax and the Animorphs decide to morph mosquitoes, they end up stuck in Zero-space with no oxygen. | 168 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Departure, The | 3.8 | 4 | When Cassie decides to leave the Animorphs, she is unaware that her last mission left unsolved business and someone is out to finish her. | 159 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Discovery, The | 3.8 | 4 | Part one of a trilogy: The blue box Elfangor is found by a kid named David who discovers its power. Now the choices left are to turn David over to the Yeerks or make him the sixth Animorph. | 153 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Encounter, The | 3.8 | 4 | It is four kids and a hawk against a force that is determined to destroy them. | 154 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Escape, The | 4 | 4 | Marco's mother is taken over by the Yeerk in her brain, and now she is overseeing a secret underwater project. | 163 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Experiment, The | 4.1 | 3 | The Yeerks are trying to take away the human ability to make decisions in order to speed up the invasion of Earth. Now the Animorphs and Ax must try to slow down the invasion and stop the genetic testing being done on a small group of humans. | 139 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Exposed, The | 3.7 | 3 | When the Animorphs try to help their only true ally, the Chee, they discover that the Chee's problem is deeper than they could have imagined. And the Animorphs realize what will happen if Visser Three discovers the valuable secrets of the Chee. | 154 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Extreme, The | 4.1 | 3 | Marco, Ax, and the other Animorphs launch a plan to defend Earth from the Yeerks. | 146 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Forgotten, The | 3.8 | 4 | Jake, the other Animorphs, and Ax find themselves in another place and another time. | 162 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Hidden, The | 4.6 | 3 | The Yeerks have discovered and repaired a damaged Helmacron ship. They know of its morph-seeking capabilities, and they plan to use the ship to capture the "Andalite bandits." | 121 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Hork-Bajir Chronicles, The | 4.3 | 5 | Aldrea, a young member of the outpost the Andalite race has placed on the planet of the Hork-Bajir, must help her native friend Dak when the ruthless, parasitic Yeerks try to enslave his people. | 202 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Illusion, The | 3.6 | 3 | The Yeerks possess a weapon that could be the biggest threat to the Animorphs yet. The anti-morphing ray transforms a person in a morph back to natural form. | 156 |
| Applegate, K.A. | In the Time of Dinosaurs | 4 | 6 | After an explosion blows everyone millions of years back in time the animorphs must search for a way back. | 229 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Invasion, The | 3.7 | 5 | Jake and his friends take a shortcut one night and meet an alien after his ship crashes. | 184 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Message, The | 3.9 | 4 | The Animorphs have to figure out if the strange dreams they have all been having are a message or a trap. | 151 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Mutation, The | 4.1 | 3 | Morphing into killer whales, the animorphs discover a whole new world where humans with gills exist in the deep waters below. | 142 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Predator, The | 3.6 | 4 | Marco is worried about his father, but the Yeerks have a surprise waiting for him. | 150 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Pretender, The | 4 | 4 | Tobias's long-lost cousin claims a lawyer has discovered Tobias's father's last will and testament, and she offers to go with him to the reading. But something doesn't seem right with this situation, so the Animorphs decide to check it out. | 154 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Prophecy, The | 4.2 | 3 | Cassie is losing her mind, but she is gaining the mind of Aldrea. Aldrea's persona, her memory, and a valuable bit of information now belong to Cassie. | 141 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Proposal, The | 3.7 | 3 | The Yeerks are stepping up their invasion tactics. Marco has problems of his own. His dad is starting to date, but Marco knows his mother might still be alive. | 147 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Reaction, The | 3.8 | 4 | Rachel's morphing is out of control. She and the other Animorphs have to find out what is happening very quickly. | 130 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Reunion, The | 4 | 3 | Marco is stressed over getting his mom back. He is trying to determine if she is still a Controller. The situation with Marco's mom could jeopardize everything. Will Marco give away the secret of the Animorphs? | 156 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Secret, The | 3.9 | 4 | Something strange is happening in the woods behind Cassie's house, and the Animorphs have to stop a bogus logging camp. | 158 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Separation, The | 3.3 | 3 | Rachel demorphs and now there are two of her with completely opposite personalities. Now the Animorphs have to figure out a way to put Rachel back together again. | 158 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Sickness, The | 3.7 | 3 | Ax is dying and the Animorphs do not know what to do about it. Cassie and the other Animorphs come up with a plan involving finding a new way into the Yeerk pool. | 152 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Solution, The | 3.9 | 4 | Part three of a trilogy: David the new Animorph is trouble and no one knows what to do about him. | 152 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Stranger, The | 3.7 | 4 | Rachel and the other Animorphs have found the new entrance to the Yeerk pool. Some guy is also giving them the choice of living on a different planet or staying on Earth to fight the Yeerks. | 163 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Suspicion, The | 4.2 | 3 | Animorph Cassie and Ax have to find a way to to keep the Helmacrons from shrinking other beings down to an inch. | 155 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Threat, The | 4.1 | 4 | Part two of a trilogy: When David, a new Animorph, begins to break the rules and taking risks that put the group in jeopardy. | 158 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Underground, The | 3.9 | 4 | The Yeerks are getting a little crazy after eating oatmeal. | 167 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Unknown, The | 4 | 4 | The Animorphs decide to pay Zone 91 and the Yeerks a visit, but discover it is not at all what they expect. | 166 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Visitor, The | 3.7 | 4 | Rachel and her friends knew morphing wouldn't always be great, but can they save the earth? | 175 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Visser | 4.9 | 5 | On trial for treason, Edriss 562 explains how she infested a series of human hosts in order to spearhead the invasion of Earth by her people, the ruthless, parasitic Yeerks. | 192 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Warning, The | 3.9 | 4 | Jake finds that there are other people out there who know about the Yeerks. Maybe. | 146 |
| Applegate, K.A. | Weakness, The | 4 | 3 | When Jake has to leave town, the other Animorphs and Ax figure life will pretty much be normal until he gets back. But when Tobias discovers Visser Three's newest feeding place, the kids decide they have to check it out. | 129 |
| Arden, William | Mystery of the Headless Horse, The | 5.1 | 6 | Suspense with Alfred Hitchcock & the Three Investigators. | 144 |
| Armentrout, Patricia | Extreme Machines on Land | 4.7 | 0.5 | This book briefly describes some unusual land vehicles, such as all-terrain vehicles, Indy cars, jet cars, dragsters, tanks, and solar cars. | 24 |
| Armour, Michael C. | Orca Song | 3.7 | 0.5 | Orca Pup is trapped in an abandoned net and separated from his family until he hears the song that they sing while looking for him. | 31 |
| Armstrong, Jennifer | Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World | 7.3 | 6 | During the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, the ship, "Endurance," was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey. | 131 |
| Armstrong, Jennifer | Steal Away | 4.5 | 6 | In 1855 two thirteen-year-old girls, one white and one black, run away from a southern farm and make the difficult journey north to freedom, living to recount their story 41 years later to two similar young girls. | 206 |
| Armstrong, William H. | Sounder | 5.3 | 3 | Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read with the help of a devoted dog, Sounder. | 116 |
| Arnold, Caroline | When Mammoths Walked the Earth | 7.9 | 1 | This book describes the physical characteristics, known habits, and fossil sites of mammoths, prehistoric animals closely related to the elephant. | 40 |
| Arnold, Tedd | Green Wilma | 2.8 | 0.5 | Has Wilma turned into a frog overnight, or is her new green skin (and appetite for flies) just a passing phase? A fresh, hilarious story with a surprise ending. | 28 |
| Arnold, Tedd | More Parts | 2.6 | 0.5 | A young boy is worried about what will happen to his body when he hears such expressions as "give him a hand" and "hold your tongue." | 32 |
| Arnold, Tedd | No Jumping on the Bed! | 4.5 | 0.5 | Walter's father told him no more jumping on the bed, and Walter finds out why. | 26 |
| Arnold, Tedd | Parts | 2.8 | 0.5 | A five-year-old boy thinks his body is falling apart until he learns new teeth grow, and hair and skin replace themselves. | 28 |
| Arnosky, Jim | All About Frogs | 4.5 | 0.5 | This book is an introduction to frogs. | 26 |
| Arthur, Alex | Shell (Eyewitness) | 8.7 | 1 | Photographs and text examine different types of shells, including seashells, eggshells, and fossil shells, focusing on such aspects as how shells camouflage themselves and how they may be collected. An Eyewitness book. | 62 |
| Arthur, Robert | Mystery of the Green Ghost, The | 5.1 | 6 | The Three Investigators become entangled in the theft of a string of rare pearls and a fraudulent scheme involving a family inheritance when they try to solve the mystery of a ghost's appearance in the old Green mansion. | 179 |
| Arthur, Robert | Mystery of the Screaming Clock, The | 4.4 | 4 | A retired actor is missing, and the only sign of his life is the gift of a screaming alarm clock sent to a friend. The Three Investigators take the case. | 177 |
| Arthur, Robert | Mystery of the Talking Skull, The | 4.7 | 4 | It all started with a dollar paid at auction by Jupiter for an old trunk that once belonged to a magician, who vanished as mysteriously as one of his tricks. The trunk attracts a host of bizarre characters. | 164 |
| Arthur, Robert | Mystery of the Vanishing Treasure, The | 4.8 | 5 | Three young detectives become involved in mysteries related to the disappearance of an ancient Japanese jeweled belt from a museum exhibit, and the strange antics of a group of gnomes around an elderly woman's house. | 152 |
| Arthur, Robert | Mystery of the Whispering Mummy, The | 5.1 | 6 | Three young detectives undertake a case involving an Egyptian mummy that whispers, but only to one man. | 180 |
| Arthur, Robert | Secret of Skeleton Island, The | 4.8 | 5 | The Three Investigators are assisted by a Greek youth as they search for clues to a mysterious thief on an island once inhabited by pirates. | 152 |
| Asch, Frank | Bread and Honey | 2.1 | 0.5 | Ben paints a picture of his mother, with a little help from Owl, Rabbit, Alligator, Elephant, Lion, and Giraffe. | 48 |
| Asch, Frank | Happy Birthday, Moon | 2.6 | 0.5 | When a bear discovers that the moon shares his birthday, he buys the moon a beautiful hat as a present. | 26 |
| Asch, Frank | Milk and Cookies | 2.4 | 0.5 | While spending the night at Grandfather's house, Baby Bear dreams of feeding milk and cookies to a dragon. | 48 |
| Asch, Frank | Moongame | 2.6 | 0.5 | During a game of hide-and-seek, Moon hides behind a cloud, leaving his friend Bear very worried. | 30 |
| Asch, Frank | Sand Cake | 2.7 | 0.5 | Papa Bear uses his culinary skills and a little imagination to concoct a sand cake. | 45 |
| Asimov/Hantula | Neptune (Isaac Asimov's 21st Century Library...Solar System) | 6.1 | 0.5 | This book introduces the fourth largest known planet in the solar system. | 32 |
| Atherlay, Sara | Math in the Bath (and Other Fun Places, Too!) | 1.7 | 0.5 | Helps children look for math in unexpected places. | 30 |
| Atwater, Richard/Florence | Mr. Popper's Penguins | 5.6 | 3 | Mr. Popper trains his band of penguins to star in a vaudeville tour. | 139 |
| Auch, Mary Jane | Glass Slippers Give You Blisters | 4.4 | 5 | Kelly's involvement in helping design a production of her junior high school's drama club, spurred on by encouragement from her artistic grandmother, helps her discover her own artistic identity. | 169 |
| Auch, Mary Jane | Journey to Nowhere | 4.6 | 7 | In 1815, while traveling by covered wagon to settle in the wilderness of western New York, eleven-year-old Mem experiences a flood and separation from her family. | 202 |
| Auch, Mary Jane | Peeping Beauty | 3.1 | 0.5 | Poulette the dancing hen falls into the clutches of a hungry fox who exploits her desire to become a great ballerina. | 29 |
| Auch, Mary Jane | Road to Home, The | 4.9 | 7 | In 1817, after her mother had died and her father abandoned his children, thirteen-year-old Mem searches for a new home for Joshua, herself, and their little sister. | 213 |
| Avi | Blue Heron | 4 | 5 | While spending the month of August on the Massachusetts shore with her father, stepmother, and their new baby, almost thirteen-year-old Maggie finds beauty in and draws strength from a great blue heron, even as the family around her unravels. | 186 |
| Avi | Christmas Rat, The | 3.7 | 3 | Alone in his apartment during Christmas vacation, eleven-year-old Eric finds himself caught in a battle between a strange exterminator and the rat he wants to kill. | 135 |
| Avi | Crispin: The Cross of Lead | 5 | 7 | Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret. | 262 |
| Avi | Don't You Know There's a War On? | 3.6 | 4 | In wartime Brooklyn in 1943, eleven-year-old Howie Crispers mounts a campaign to save his favorite teacher from being fired. | 200 |
| Avi | Good Dog, The | 3.7 | 5 | McKinley, a malamute, is torn between the domestic world of his human family and the wild world of Lupin, a wolf that is trying to recruit dogs to replenish the dwindling wolf pack. | 243 |
| Avi | Midnight Magic | 4.7 | 6 | In the Kingdom of Pergamontio in 1491, Mangus the Magician and his apprentice are summoned to the castle of King Claudio to determine if his daughter is indeed being haunted by a ghost. | 247 |
| Avi | Nothing But the Truth | 3.6 | 4 | A ninth-grader's suspension for humming "The Star-Spangled Banner" during homeroom becomes a national news story. | 177 |
| Avi | Perloo the Bold | 4.9 | 7 | In this wild adventure Perloo, a rabbit-like Montmer, travels over snowy mountains, through underground tunnels, and into enemy territory and alters the future of Montmers everywhere. | 225 |
| Avi | Poppy | 4.5 | 4 | A brave young mouse challenges the owl that rules over the territory and saves her family from starvation. | 147 |
| Avi | S.O.R. Losers | 3.6 | 2 | Everyone at South Orange River Middle School is expected to participate in one sport each year. This is the story of a soccer team that would rather be doing something else. | 90 |
| Avi | Secret School, The | 4.1 | 3 | In 1925, Ida Bidson secretly takes over as the teacher when the one-room schoolhouse in her remote Colorado area closes unexpectedly. | 153 |
| Avi | True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, The | 5.3 | 8 | As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious. | 215 |
| Avi | Who Stole the Wizard of Oz? | 3.6 | 2 | Becky and her brother use some ingenious clues to identify the person who stole five children's books from the town's library. | 116 |
| Avi | Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway? | 2.7 | 3 | In the mid-1940s, when nearly everyone else is thinking about World War II, sixth-grader Frankie Wattleson gets in trouble at home and at school because of his preoccupation with his favorite radio programs. | 170 |
| Avi | Windcatcher | 4 | 3 | During a summer visit to his grandmother's home in Connecticut, a young boy learns to sail, discovers a sunken treasure, and wards off greedy treasure hunters. | 124 |
| Awdry, W. | Happy Birthday, Thomas! | 1.1 | 0.5 | Thomas the train engine thinks that all the other engines are too busy to help him celebrate his birthday, but he is in for a surprise. | 29 |
| Aylesworth, Jim | Old Black Fly | 1.4 | 0.5 | Rhyming text and illustrations follow a mischievous old black fly through the alphabet as he has a very busy bad day landing where he should not be. | 30 |
| Babbitt, Natalie | Devil's Other Storybook, The | 5.6 | 1 | The Devil is back, just as full of vanity and other human failings as he was in the first collection of stories. | 81 |
| Babbitt, Natalie | Devil's Storybook, The | 5.5 | 2 | This is a book of stories about the Devil, who is full of vanity and other human failings. | 101 |
| Babbitt, Natalie | Eyes of the Amaryllis, The | 5 | 3 | An eerie tale of an old grandmother and her granddaughter who watch for a sign from the sea concerning a lost grandfather. | 128 |
| Babbitt, Natalie | Kneeknock Rise | 4.4 | 2 | Egan goes to visit relatives in Instep, where he encounters an unusual moan that comes from the top of Kneeknock Rise. | 118 |
| Babbitt, Natalie | Search for Delicious, The | 5.4 | 4 | The Prime Minister is compiling a dictionary; and when no one at court can agree on the meaning of delicious, the King sends his twelve-year-old messenger to poll the country. | 167 |
| Babbitt, Natalie | Tuck Everlasting | 5 | 4 | Winnie Foster discovers a magic spring that has given the Tuck family eternal life. She is faced with the difficult decision of whether or not to drink from it, and whether to tell all when a stranger wants to know the secret in order to sell the water. | 139 |
| Bachrach, Susan | Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust | 8.7 | 2 | An informative book about the holocaust based on exhibits at the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. | 87 |
| Backstein, Karen | Blind Men and the Elephant, The | 2.6 | 0.5 | A retelling of the fable from India about six blind men who each get a limited understanding of what an elephant is by feeling only one part of it. | 30 |
| Baer, Edith | This Is the Way We Go to School | 2.2 | 0.5 | This book describes, in text and illustrations, the many different modes of transportation children all over the world use to get to school. | 35 |
| Baglio, Ben M. | Bunnies in the Bathroom | 4.1 | 4 | Mandy's new friend John has his heart set on buying two baby rabbits in the local pet shop. Before he has a chance to buy the rabbits, Barney and Button are gone. | 135 |
| Baglio, Ben M. | Dog at the Door | 4.5 | 4 | Mandy finds a distressed golden retriever tied up outside Animal Ark with no sign of her owner. The dog is expecting puppies, and it doesn't look like there's long to wait! | 145 |
| Baglio, Ben M. | Guinea Pig Gang | 3.3 | 2 | Mandy's friends have started a club for their guinea pigs -- the guinea pig gang. Lisa, a girl in Mandy's class, loves guinea pigs but won't join the club. Is something wrong with her guinea pig? | 100 |
| Baglio, Ben M. | Guinea Pig in the Garage | 4.4 | 3 | When Mandy asks Rachel Farmer to look after a neighbor's guinea pigs, Rachel is thrilled. When Rachel loses one of the babies, she is worried she will never be allowed to have a pet of her own. | 125 |
| Baglio, Ben M. | Hamster in a Handbasket | 4.3 | 4 | When James is chosen to look after the school hamster during the summer, he and Mandy are thrilled. Then someone vandalizes James's garden and steals the hamster. | 145 |
| Baglio, Ben M. | Puppy in a Puddle | 4.1 | 3 | Mandy Hope and her friend James become concerned that a local breeder may be mistreating puppies when two sheepdogs turn up at the Animal Ark clinic. | 129 |
| Baglio, Ben M. | Stallion in the Storm | 4.9 | 4 | Mandy's father promised to take Mandy and James to visit Folan's Racing Stables. When they arrive, they discover that Folan's is in trouble and some of the jockeys believe the stables are haunted by a stallion who died in a race. | 127 |
| Bagnold, Enid | National Velvet | 5.5 | 11 | In this beloved tale, a fourteen-year-old girl rides her piebald horse in the Grand National. | 314 |
| Bahr, Mary | My Brother Loved Snowflakes: The Story of Wilson A. Bentley, the S | 3.4 | 0.5 | In this imaginary reminiscence, Charles Bentley recalls the life and times of his brother, Wilson A. Bentley, who made the study of snow his life's work. | 28 |
| Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin | Miss Hickory | 5.9 | 4 | When a country doll is left outside for the winter, she must depend on her own resources to survive. | 123 |
| Baillie, Allan | Little Brother | 4.8 | 5 | A boy escapes from Cambodia into Thailand fleeing from the Khmer Rouge soldiers. | 144 |
| Baker, Barbara | One Saturday Morning | 2.2 | 0.5 | One Saturday, a family enjoys such activities as getting up one by one, going to the park, and eating spaghetti for lunch. | 48 |
| Baker, Betty | Little Runner of the Longhouse | 2.7 | 0.5 | A young Iroquois tries to participate in the New Year activities reserved for the older boys. | 63 |
| Baker, Jeannie | Where the Forest Meets the Sea | 3 | 0.5 | On a camping trip in an Australian rain forest with his father, a young boy thinks about the history of the plant and animal life around him and wonders about their future. | 28 |
| Baker, Olaf | Where the Buffaloes Begin | 5.7 | 0.5 | Little Wolf goes to the fabled lake where buffaloes rise up out of the mist. A Caldecott Honor book. | 42 |
| Balcziak, Bill | John Henry (Tall Tales) | 3.8 | 0.5 | This book presents the life story of John Henry, the African American railroad legend known as the "Steel Driving Man." | 32 |
| Ballard, Robert D. | Finding the Titanic | 4 | 0.5 | This book describes the voyage of the Titanic, the accident that caused it to sink, the rescue of those who survived, and discovery of the wreck. | 48 |
| Bang, Molly | Paper Crane, The | 3.6 | 0.5 | A mysterious man enters a restaurant and pays for his dinner with a paper crane that magically comes alive and dances. | 27 |
| Bang, Molly | Ten, Nine, Eight | 1.3 | 0.5 | This is a counting book which is also the story of a young girl getting ready for bed. | 20 |
| Banks, Lynne Reid | Adventures of King Midas, The | 5 | 4 | King Midas travels far and wide to reverse the spell that turns everything into gold. | 153 |
| Banks, Lynne Reid | Broken Bridge | 4.6 | 11 | As two teenagers walked through the streets, there was an attack, and one was dead, the other left with tough choices as the only witness. | 301 |
| Banks, Lynne Reid | Fairy Rebel, The | 4.2 | 3 | A rebellious fairy named Tiki, already in trouble for breaking the rule against wearing jeans, risks the further wrath of the fairy queen by trying to fulfill a human's special request for help. | 118 |
| Banks, Lynne Reid | I, Houdini | 6.2 | 5 | A boastful hamster with exceptional talent as an escape artist, recounts his experiences chewing, wriggling, or squeezing his way out of various closed areas in his quest for the great outside. | 127 |
| Banks, Lynne Reid | Indian in the Cupboard, The | 4.6 | 6 | A young boy discovers that his magic cupboard and key can turn toys into live people and animals. | 229 |
| Banks, Lynne Reid | Key to the Indian, The | 4.8 | 8 | In this fifth volume of <I>The Indian in the Cupboard</I> series, Omri and his father try to go back 200 years to the time of their friend, Little Bear, whose tribe is in grave danger. | 228 |
| Banks, Lynne Reid | Mystery of the Cupboard, The | 4.9 | 7 | Omri unearths an old journal that reveals the mystery of the Indian in the cupboard. | 246 |
| Banks, Lynne Reid | One More River | 5 | 9 | Lesley is in shock when her father moves the family to a kibbutz in Israel. | 248 |
| Banks, Lynne Reid | Return of the Indian, The | 4.6 | 5 | In this sequel to Indian In The Cupboard, Omri brings Little Bear to life again and begins a spellbinding adventure. | 189 |
| Banks, Lynne Reid | Secret of the Indian, The | 5.2 | 5 | In this third book about Omri and his magic cupboard, Omri and his friend Patrick must risk grown-ups discovering their secret when they find themselves in need of a friend whose toy plastic doctors can be brought to life to save wounded people. | 147 |
| Banks, Sara Harrell | Abraham's Battle | 5.3 | 2 | In 1863, as the Civil War approaches his home in Gettysburg and he realizes that a big battle is about to begin, a freed slave named Abraham decides to join the ambulance corps of the Union Army. | 88 |
| Barbour, Karen | Little Nino's Pizzeria | 2.3 | 0.5 | Tony likes to help his father at their small family restaurant, but everything changes when Little Nino's Pizzeria becomes a fancier place. | 29 |
| Barner, Bob | Dinosaur Bones | 3.6 | 0.5 | This book is filled with fun facts and rhyming text about dinosaurs that may have lived in your neighborhood millions of years ago. | 31 |
| Barr, Linda | Volcano! When a Mountain Explodes | 3.8 | 0.5 | This book discusses what causes volcanic eruptions, the three main types of volcanoes, early myths about volcanoes, and the environmental impact of eruptions, and takes a comprehensive look at the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington State. | 48 |
| Barrett, Judi | Animals Should Definitely Not Act Like People | 2.2 | 0.5 | Pictures and text depict the inconveniences animals would be burdened with if they behaved like people. | 31 |
| Barrett, Judi | Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing | 2 | 0.5 | Pictures of animals wearing clothes show why this would be a ridiculous custom for them to adopt. | 29 |
| Barrett, Judi | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | 4.3 | 0.5 | Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow, where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers--until the weather takes a turn for the worse. | 28 |
| Barrie, James M. | Peter Pan | 7.2 | 8 | The adventures of Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up, have delighted readers for nearly a century. | 242 |
| Barrie/Leighton | Peter Pan (Great Illustrated Classics) | 4.6 | 2 | In one of the most beloved fantasy stories ever written, children learn to fly, mermaids frolic, and little lost boys find their home at last. All sorts of adventures can be had on the wonderful island of Neverland. | 238 |
| Barron, T.A. | Ancient One, The | 6.1 | 14 | While helping her Great-Aunt Melanie try to protect an Oregon redwood forest from loggers, thirteen-year-old Kate goes back five centuries through a time tunnel and faces the evil creature Gashra, who is bent on destroying the same forest. | 367 |
| Barron, T.A. | Fires of Merlin, The | 5 | 9 | Having voyaged to the Otherworld in his quest to find himself, the young wizard must face fire in many different forms and deal with the possibility of losing his own magical power. | 261 |
| Barron, T.A. | Heartlight | 5.4 | 8 | An astronomer and a woman are hurled into a dazzling cross-galactic adventure. | 272 |
| Barron, T.A. | Lost Years of Merlin, The | 5.1 | 12 | A young boy who has no identity nor memory of his past washes ashore on the coast of Wales and find his true name after a series of fantastic adventures. | 326 |
| Barron, T.A. | Merlin Effect, The | 5.3 | 9 | When she joins her father and several others investigating a strange whirlpool and possible sunken treasure ship off the coast of Baja California, thirteen-year-old Kate is drawn into a centuries-old conflict between Merlin and the evil Nimue. | 254 |
| Barron, T.A. | Mirror of Merlin, The | 5.4 | 9 | Through adventures involving a haunted marsh, talking trees, and the creature called the ballymag, the young wizard Merlin continues to experience both his growing powers and his essential humanity. | 245 |
| Barron, T.A. | Seven Songs of Merlin, The | 5.2 | 12 | Having stumbled upon his hidden powers, the young wizard Merlin voyages to the Otherworld in his quest to find himself and the way to the realm of the spirit. Volume Two of "The Lost Years of Merlin." | 306 |
| Barron, T.A. | Wings of Merlin, The | 5.8 | 14 | Merlin's fragile home on the isle of Fincayra is threatened by the attack of a mysterious warrior with swords for arms, and by the escape of Stangmar from his imprisonment. | 352 |
| Barry, Robert | Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree | 3.5 | 0.5 | Mr. Willowby's Christmas tree is too tall, but what will happen to the tree's top once it's cut off? | 32 |
| Bartoletti, Susan Campbell | Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska, A | 5.5 | 6 | This book is a diary account of thirteen-year-old Anetka, life in Poland in 1896, immigration to America, marriage to a coal miner, widowhood, and happiness in finally finding her true love. | 219 |
| Barton, Byron | Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs | 2.9 | 0.5 | In prehistoric days, there were many different kinds of dinosaurs, big and small, those with spikes and those with long, sharp teeth. | 33 |
| Bartone, Elisa | Peppe the Lamplighter | 3.3 | 0.5 | Peppe's father is upset when he learns that Peppe has taken a job lighting the gas street lamps in his New York City neighborhood. | 30 |
| Base, Graeme | Water Hole, The | 1.4 | 0.5 | As ever-growing numbers of animals visit a watering hole, introducing the numbers from one to ten, the water dwindles. | 32 |
| Bateman, Teresa | Farm Flu | 3.1 | 0.5 | When the farm animals seem to catch the flu one after another, a young boy does his best to take care of them. | 32 |
| Bateman, Teresa | Red, White, Blue, and Uncle Who? The Stories Behind Some of Americ | 7.5 | 2 | This book looks at seventeen well-loved patriotic symbols and examines how they came to represent America. | 64 |
| Bates, Betty | Thatcher Payne-in-the-Neck | 4.6 | 3 | Kib and Thatcher are long-time friends who enjoy the summers spent together at Trout Lake. They also share a sadness--Kib's mother and Thatcher's father were killed in a plane crash. Can they get their parents to marry each other? | 130 |
| Bauer, Joan | Hope Was Here | 5.1 | 6 | When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved in the political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor. | 186 |
| Bauer, Joan | Stand Tall | 3.9 | 5 | Tree, a six-foot-three-inch twelve-year-old, copes with his parents' recent divorce and his failure as an athlete by helping his grandfather, a Vietnam vet and recent amputee, and Sophie, a new girl at school. | 182 |
| Bauer, Marion Dane | On My Honor | 4.7 | 2 | A twelve-year-old boy must learn to live with his fear and grief when his swimming partner drowns. | 90 |
| Bauer, Marion Dane | Question of Trust, A | 5.1 | 4 | After his mother leaves the family, Brad copes with his feelings of rejection by secretly taking care of a stray cat and her two newborn kittens. | 130 |
| Baum, L. Frank | Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Unabridged), The | 7 | 7 | Lifted from Kansas to the magical Land of Oz, Dorothy Gale meets a Scarecrow, a Tin Woodman, and a cowardly Lion, all of whom set off to find the Wizard and defeat the Wicked Witch of the West. | 260 |
| Baum/Laiken | Wizard of Oz (Great Illustrated Classics), The | 5.1 | 2 | Dorothy is whisked away by a cyclone to a magical land called Oz. There she meets unforgettable friends. | 235 |
| Baumgart, Klaus | Laura's Star | 3.9 | 0.5 | In this magical story, a lonesome girl learns that friendship sometimes means giving away the brightest treasures. | 28 |
| Baylor, Byrd | Hawk, I'm Your Brother | 3.6 | 0.5 | Lyrical storybook with spacious illustrations and poetic text. | 42 |
| Baylor, Byrd | I'm in Charge of Celebrations | 3.9 | 0.5 | A dweller in the desert celebrates a triple rainbow, a chance encounter with a coyote, and other wonders of the wilderness. | 32 |
| Baylor, Byrd | Table Where Rich People Sit, The | 4.3 | 0.5 | A girl discovers that her impoverished family is rich in things that matter in life, especially being outdoors and experiencing nature. | 30 |
| Beard, Darleen Bailey | Flimflam Man, The | 3.7 | 1 | In the summer of 1950, a con man comes to Wetumka, Oklahoma, about his fabulous circus, and although he swindles the townspeople, two young girls grow from the experience. | 85 |
| Beatty, Patricia | Charley Skedaddle | 5.2 | 7 | During the Civil War, a twelve-year-old Bowery Boy from New York City joins the Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle in Virginia, and encounters an old mountain woman. | 186 |
| Becker, Bonny | Christmas Crocodile, The | 3.6 | 0.5 | A very hungry crocodile is mistakenly delivered to the wrong address and thoroughly disrupts the Christmas celebrations of Alice Jayne and her family. | 28 |
| Bedard, Michael | Emily | 3.1 | 0.5 | When a mother and child pay a visit to their reclusive neighbor Emily, who stays in her house writing poems, there is an exchange of special gifts. | 40 |
| Bedard, Michael | Sitting Ducks | 4.6 | 0.5 | A sympathetic alligator befriends a lonely duck and becomes alienated from the rest of the town's alligators who think of ducks only as food. | 40 |
| Behrman, Carol H. | Programmed for Terror | 4.3 | 3 | Not everyone's a whiz at computers. And Judi's no exception. But when someone or something changes what Judi writes in her computer and adds terrifying threats, Judi is scared stiff! | 125 |
| Beil, Karen Magnuson | Fire in Their Eyes | 6.3 | 1 | This book depicts in text and photographs the training, equipment, and real-life experiences of people who risk their lives to battle wildfires. It also details people who use fire for ecological reasons. | 64 |
| Belina, Tom | Flight to Fear | 3.2 | 1 | A young woman's trip to Jamaica becomes a nightmare when Flight 136 is hijacked by three terrorists. | 59 |
| Bell, William | Forbidden City | 6.3 | 9 | A seventeen-year-old boy accompanies his reporter father to China during the student uprising. | 199 |
| Bellairs, John | Curse of the Blue Figurine, The | 5.1 | 8 | Johnny Dixon likes scary programs and reading about the curses of the pharaoh's tombs, but he never believed in evil spirits until he mistakenly removes a blue figurine from the basement of the town church. | 200 |
| Bellairs, John | Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost, The | 5.8 | 5 | When Johnny Dixon, hero of The Curse of the Blue Figurine, is supernaturally possessed, it is up to the eccentric Professor Childermass to rescue him. | 147 |
| Belton, Sandra | From Miss Ida's Porch | 4.4 | 1 | In the evening, the residents of Church Street gather on Miss Ida's porch to share memories and hear stories about events in the past, events significant to them as black people. | 37 |
| Belton, Sandra | McKendree | 4.9 | 7 | In 1948, while spending the summer with her aunt in West Virginia to find her family roots, Tilara Haynes finds new beginnings and self-love in an unexpected place: an old folks' home called McKendree. | 260 |
| Bemelmans, Ludwig | Madeline | 3.1 | 0.5 | Madeline, smallest and naughtiest of the 12 little charges of Miss Clavel, wakes up one night with an attack of appendicitis. | 43 |
| Bemelmans, Ludwig | Madeline's Christmas | 3.2 | 0.5 | With everyone else sick in bed with a cold on Christmas Eve, it is up to Madeline to run the school, and she finds a remarkable helper in a rug-selling magician. | 26 |
| Bemelmans, Ludwig | Madeline's Rescue | 3.2 | 0.5 | A hound rescues a schoolgirl from the Seine, becomes a beloved school pet, is chased away by the trustees, and returns with a surprise. Caldecott Medal winner. | 52 |
| Benchley, Nathaniel | Ghost Named Fred, A | 2.4 | 0.5 | Seeking shelter from the rain, a small boy enters an old house where he meets a ghost. | 59 |
| Benchley, Nathaniel | Oscar Otter | 2.6 | 0.5 | The sly fox watches Oscar Otter building his secluded home, not knowing that he also is being watched. | 64 |
| Benchley, Nathaniel | Red Fox and His Canoe | 2.2 | 0.5 | An Indian boy's canoe capsizes after taking on too many animal passengers. The ending is a surprise in this "I Can Read Book." | 62 |
| Benjamin, A.H. | It Could Have Been Worse | 2.7 | 0.5 | While walking home an unlucky mouse suffers minor mishaps which repeatedly save him from being eaten by various animals. | 26 |
| Berends, Polly | Case of the Elevator Duck, The | 4 | 1 | This book tells the story of an eleven-year-old detective and his adventures after finding a duck in the elevator of his apartment building. | 54 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Bear Detectives, The | 2.2 | 0.5 | The Bear family don their detective gear and try to solve the mystery of the missing prize pumpkin. | 37 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Bear Scouts, The | 2.3 | 0.5 | Papa Bear shows the cubs the ins and outs of camping. | 62 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Bears' Christmas, The | 1.9 | 0.5 | Papa Bear tries to show his son how to use the sled, skates, and skis Santa brought for Christmas. | 59 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Bears' Picnic, The | 1.9 | 0.5 | The Bears try to find the right spot for their picnic. | 64 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Bears' Vacation, The | 2 | 0.5 | Papa Bear demonstrates his seaside safety rules when the Bears take a vacation. | 63 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bear Scouts and the Humongous Pumpkin, The | 4 | 1 | Papa planted a special pumpkin seed guaranteed to grow the biggest pumpkin ever, but the seed is part of a plot of the evil Weasel McGreed. | 96 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bear Scouts and the Sci-Fi Pizza, The | 3.9 | 1 | Evil Weasel McGreed has cooked up something to destroy the Scouts. The monstrous flying pizza is getting ready to attack. | 98 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bear Scouts in Giant Bat Cave, The | 4.4 | 1 | Ralph Ripoff wants to turn the cave, home to Bear Country's bats, into an underground theme park! | 96 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bear Scouts Meet Bigpaw, The | 4.4 | 1 | The grown-ups of Bear Country want to attack Bigpaw, but is he really dangerous? | 96 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears Accept No Substitutes, The | 3.7 | 1 | Brother heads for trouble when he tortures the substitute teacher. | 102 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Bad Habit, The | 3.9 | 0.5 | With the help of her family, Sister Bear breaks her habit of biting her nails. | 29 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Bully, The | 3.4 | 0.5 | The Berenstain Bears try to set a bully straight. | 29 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Drug Free Zone, The | 4.4 | 1 | Brother and Sister Bear just say no to drugs. | 102 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Female Fullback, The | 4.1 | 1 | Sexual stereotyping in Bear Country when a girl signs up for the football team. | 102 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Ghost of the Forest, The | 2.8 | 0.5 | Papa Bear's attempt to scare a band of young campers by telling them about ghosts in the woods comes to an unexpected conclusion with a double ghost lesson. | 29 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Messy Room, The | 4.1 | 0.5 | The entire Bear family becomes involved in an attempt to clean and organize the cubs' messy room. A First Time Book. | 29 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Missing Dinosaur Bone, The | 1.8 | 0.5 | The three Bear Detectives search for a dinosaur bone that is missing from the Bear Museum. | 36 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Nerdy Nephew, The | 3.9 | 1 | Professor Factual's nerdy nephew has a special talent. | 102 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the New Girl in Town, The | 3.8 | 1 | Brother falls in love with a girl, but their relationship is thwarted by feuding families. | 102 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Prize Pumpkin, The | 4.2 | 0.5 | Mama Bear's reminders about the true meaning of Thanksgiving are left in the dust as the spirit of competition takes over and Papa Bear and the cubs begin a campaign to win first prize in the Thanksgiving Pumpkin contest. | 29 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Red-Handed Thief, The | 3.7 | 1 | Brother and Sister find out who is breaking into the lockers at school. | 102 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the School Scandal Sheet, The | 4.4 | 1 | Frustrated by their lack of artistic freedom on the staff of the school newspaper, Brother Bear and his friends start an underground paper and discover some basic truths about freedom of the press and responsibility. | 104 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Sitter, The | 3.4 | 0.5 | Mom and Dad are going out. Gramps and Gran are, too. Who will stay home with the cubs? Just anyone won't do. . . . | 29 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree, The | 1.1 | 0.5 | One by one, three brave little bears have second thoughts about exploring the interior of a spooky old tree. | 38 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Friends, The | 3.5 | 0.5 | Sister Bear and Lizzy Bruin learn one can't always have their way if they want to have friends. | 29 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Grownups, The | 3.9 | 0.5 | The squabbling in the Bear household between parents and cubs subsides after Mama and Papa Bear and Brother and Sister Bear perform humorous role-playing skits. | 29 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Truth, The | 3.6 | 0.5 | Brother and Sister Bear learn how important it is to tell the truth after they accidentally break Mama's favorite lamp. | 29 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Week at Grandma's, The | 3.8 | 0.5 | Brother and Sister Bear are reluctant to spend a week with their grandparents, but they learn much from them; and the older bears learn how wonderful it is to be grandparents. | 29 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Wheelchair Commando, The | 3.8 | 1 | Harry, a new student at Bear Country School who is disabled and uses a wheelchair, has trouble making friends until the others discover that he is really very much like them. | 104 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and Too Much Birthday, The | 3.6 | 0.5 | Papa Bear and the cubs learn there can be too much birthday when they go overboard in planning Sister's sixth birthday party. | 29 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food, The | 4 | 0.5 | Mama Bear lays down the law when she notices her family is getting chubby. | 30 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and Too Much Pressure, The | 3.9 | 0.5 | The Bears' lives grew more and more hectic, and there's no time left for family fun. | 29 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and Too Much TV, The | 3.8 | 0.5 | Mama Bear decides her family spends too much time in front of the TV, so she bans it for a week. The Bears find other ways to keep busy; and when the week is up, they watch less TV without missing it. | 29 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears at the Super-Duper Market, The | 1.8 | 0.5 | In this story, the family goes to the market to shop. | 24 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears Don't Pollute (Anymore), The | 4.5 | 0.5 | Brother and Sister Bear create Earthsavers Club to deal with pollution in Bear Country. | 29 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears Forget Their Manners, The | 4.3 | 0.5 | Mama Bear decides to start a Bear Family Politeness Plan with a set of simple rules and penalties. | 29 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears Get Stage Fright, The | 3.8 | 0.5 | After relentless teasing of Sister Bear, it is Brother Bear who ends up with opening night stage fright. | 29 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears Go to the Doctor, The | 3.2 | 0.5 | Take a deep breath. Stick out your tongue. The young Bears see Doctor Grizzly for a checkup. | 29 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears Gotta Dance!, The | 3.6 | 1 | Brother's new girlfriend makes him a quick study as a dance student. | 102 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears in the Dark, The | 3.8 | 0.5 | When Brother Bear brings a spooky book from the library, bedtime and the dark become ominous and threatening to Sister Bear. | 29 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears Learn About Strangers, The | 3.6 | 0.5 | When Papa Bear tells the children why they should never talk to strangers, Mama Bear brings reassuring sense to the problem. | 29 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears' Mad, Mad, Mad Toy Craze, The | 3.9 | 0.5 | Brother and Sister Bear, and even Papa, get caught up buying as many of the popular new Beary Bubbies as they can. | 29 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears Meet Santa Bear, The | 4.1 | 0.5 | Sister Bear enjoys Christmas preparations, especially getting her list ready--but on Christmas morning she realizes what Christmas is really all about. | 29 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears' New Neighbors, The | 3.4 | 0.5 | A panda family moves next door and teaches the bears a lesson about acceptance of differences. | 29 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears on the Moon, The | 1.9 | 0.5 | Two Berenstain Bears and their pup take a rocket ship to the moon. | 38 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears Ready, Get Set, Go!, The | 1.2 | 0.5 | The Berenstain family engage in competitive sports events while demonstrating to the reader the comparison of adjectives. | 28 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears Think of Those in Need, The | 3.9 | 0.5 | When Mama Bear decides that the family has accumulated too many old toys, books, and games, they sort through all their extra stuff and take it to the Old Bears' Home, the Beartown Young Cubs Hospital, and the Bears Who Care store. | 30 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears Trick or Treat, The | 4 | 0.5 | The Berenstain Bear cubs have an adventure on Halloween night that proves Mother's adage, 'appearances can be deceiving.' | 29 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears' Trouble at School, The | 4 | 0.5 | When Brother Bear ignores make-up work after being out sick with a cold, he learns the consequences of neglecting responsibilities. | 29 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears' Trouble with Money, The | 4 | 0.5 | Brother and Sister Bear learn some important lessons about earning and spending money. | 29 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears' Trouble with Pets, The | 3.6 | 0.5 | Brother and Sister Bear learn that a new puppy is not a plaything but a responsibility. | 29 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Big Honey Hunt, The | 1.7 | 0.5 | Humorous story of the Bear family's search for honey. | 64 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Bike Lesson, The | 1.6 | 0.5 | Papa Bear teaches junior to ride his bike. | 61 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Goofy, Goony Guy, The | 2.7 | 1 | The new cub in Sister Bear's second-grade class looks and acts so strange that Sister avoids him when he tries to make friends. | 90 |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Haunted Lighthouse, The | 3.1 | 1 | When the Berenstain bears vacation in an abandoned lighthouse, mysterious things start to happen. | 88 |
| Berg, Julie | Richard Scarry (Young at Heart) | 5.6 | 0.5 | This book examines the life and career of Richard Scarry, illustrator and author of popular children's literature. | 32 |
| Berger, Melvin | Spinning Spiders | 3.7 | 0.5 | This book describes the characteristics of spiders and the methods they use to trap their prey in webs. | 28 |
| Betancourt, Jeanne | Detective Pony | 3.4 | 1 | The Pony Pals notice that a stray cat who was staying at the clinic is missing. | 79 |
| Betancourt, Jeanne | Good-bye Pony | 3.4 | 1 | Pam and Lulu help Anna, who is upset when her old horse Winston becomes ill. | 86 |
| Betancourt, Jeanne | Too Many Ponies | 3.8 | 1 | When Pam takes a job training two new ponies, the other girls feel left out because she doesn't have the time to spend with them. | 86 |
| Beyer, Julie | Miniature Cars (Cool Collectibles) | 5.4 | 1 | This book discusses the history of die-cast toy car manufacturing, values, and how to start a collection. | 48 |
| Bial, Raymond | Cajun Home | 7.8 | 1 | This book discusses the history and culture of the Cajuns, French-speaking people who settled deep in the woods and bayous of Louisiana. | 48 |
| Billingsley, Franny | Well Wished | 5.8 | 6 | In a time of dire need, Nuria tries to outwit the magical wishing well in her mysterious mountain village. | 170 |
| Birdseye, Tom | Just Call Me Stupid | 4.5 | 5 | A teacher and a classmate help a troubled boy learn how to read. | 181 |
| Birdseye, Tom | Regular Flood of Mishap, A | 3.3 | 0.5 | Six-year-old Ima Bean sets off such a "flood of mishaps" when she tries to help her grandpa that she begins to worry whether she will ever be forgiven. | 30 |
| Birdseye, Tom | Soap! Soap! Don't Forget the Soap! | 3.6 | 0.5 | Plug has such a bad memory that all the folks in Sassafras Hollow think he could forget his own name. | 28 |
| Birdseye, Tom | Tarantula Shoes | 4.3 | 4 | Ryan and his family are moving from Arizona to Kentucky, and he is worried about having to go to a new school, make new friends, and fit in with a new crowd. | 131 |
| Bishop, Claire Huchet | Twenty and Ten | 4 | 2 | A nun and 20 French children contrive to hide ten Jewish refugee children. This is their exciting tale of courage and kindness. | 76 |
| Bishop, Nic | Secrets of Animal Flight, The | 5.6 | 1 | In text and photographs, this book presents birds, insects, bats, and other flying animals. | 32 |
| Blackwood, Gary L. | Shakespeare Stealer, The | 5.2 | 7 | A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to transcribe the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty, after becoming part of the acting troupe. | 216 |
| Blackwood, Gary L. | Shakespeare's Scribe | 6.1 | 10 | In plague-ridden 1602 England, a fifteen-year-old orphan boy, who has become an apprentice actor, goes on the road with Shakespeare's troupe and finds out more about his parent's along the way. | 265 |
| Blair, David Nelson | Fear the Condor | 4.3 | 5 | The story of an Aymara Indian of Bolivia who finds the strength within herself to learn to read and write despite the landowner's effort to instill fear against new ways in her people. | 137 |
| Bledsoe, Lucy Jane | Colony of Fear | 4 | 1 | When young Samuel Roberts arrives in Stonesbury, Massachusetts, he doesn't know that before long he will be a shoemaker's apprentice in love with the Reverend's daughter. . . and on trial for witchcraft. | 72 |
| Bledsoe, Lucy Jane | Journey Home, The | 4.1 | 2 | Nineteen-year-old Nicole Roberts has spent nearly her entire life in a St. Louis orphanage. When trapper Wilson Wilder arrives, the two set out on a long journey back to Nicole's birthplace--the Crow Indian territory. | 72 |
| Bledsoe, Lucy Jane | Matter of Pride, A | 3.9 | 2 | Frances Roberts leaves her home in Stonesbury to marry Morris Dunford, a southerner. Frances becomes determined to turn a neglected rice plantation into a thriving enterprise once again. | 72 |
| Bledsoe, Lucy Jane | Two Kinds of Patriots | 4.4 | 1 | Hank Roberts and Samuel Dunford are cousins as well as fellow soldiers in Washington's army. Neither is aware of the traitor in their midst. | 68 |
| Bligh/Kestel | Mutiny on Board HMS Bounty (Great Illustrated Classics), The | 6.1 | 3 | Captain William Bligh recorded the most famous mutiny in sea history when a group of his men, led by Fletcher Christian, forced him from his ship onto a small launch and cast him adrift into the sea. | 236 |
| Blos, Joan W. | Brothers of the Heart | 6 | 6 | Fourteen-year-old Shem, spends six months in the Michigan wilderness alone with a dying Indian woman, who helps him not only to survive but to mature to the point where he can return to his family and the difficulties of life as a cripple. | 161 |
| Blos, Joan W. | Gathering of Days, A | 6.7 | 5 | When Catherine's mother dies in childbirth and her father decides to remarry, Catherine must face painful changes. | 144 |
| Bloss, Janet Adele | Max and the Secret Skunk | 3.6 | 2 | Gershwin thinks he has everything: a swimming pool, ski trips, an exotic rock collection, and his prize-winning dog. Gershwin and Mr. Mighty versus Max and the Secret Skunk sounds like a wrestling match, but it's the final showdown. | 127 |
| Blumberg, Rhoda | Shipwrecked! The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy | 7.4 | 2 | In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro learns new laws and customs, as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the U.S. | 80 |
| Blume, Judy | Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. | 3.6 | 4 | Margaret approaches adolescence with trepidation, but with the help of God and nature, she makes a successful transition. | 149 |
| Blume, Judy | Double Fudge | 3.6 | 5 | His younger brother's obsession with money and the discovery of long-lost cousins Flora and Fauna provide many embarrassing moments for twelve-year-old Peter. | 213 |
| Blume, Judy | Freckle Juice | 3.1 | 0.5 | Andrew wants freckles more than anything else and uses a "freckle juice" recipe with hilarious results. | 47 |
| Blume, Judy | Fudge-a-Mania | 3.3 | 3 | Pete describes the family vacation in Maine with the Tubmans, highlighted by the antics of his younger brother Fudge. | 147 |
| Blume, Judy | Here's to You, Rachel Robinson | 4.3 | 6 | A trip to Ellis Island shifts a child prodigy's perspective in this humorous story about real friendship. | 196 |
| Blume, Judy | Iggie's House | 3.5 | 3 | When Grove Street gets its first black family, Winnie is a welcoming party of one. | 117 |
| Blume, Judy | Just as Long as We're Together | 3.7 | 7 | A humorous story of how three girls' friendship is tested as they enter their first year of junior high school. | 296 |
| Blume, Judy | One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo, The | 2.5 | 0.5 | Freddy Dissel is tired of being nothing more than the middle child. Then the school play gives him the chance to be recognized for himself. | 39 |
| Blume, Judy | Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great | 3.5 | 4 | A new friend shows Sheila that you have to admit your fears before you can overcome them. | 118 |
| Blume, Judy | Pain and the Great One, The | 3.1 | 0.5 | "The Pain" and "The Great One" are a brother and sister, and each thinks the other is the most loved by their parents in these two short stories. | 28 |
| Blume, Judy | Superfudge | 3.4 | 4 | In a sequel to Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, twelve-year-old Peter relates his life with his troublesome little brother, Fudge. | 166 |
| Blume, Judy | Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing | 3.3 | 3 | Peter Hatcher has a terrible problem--his two-year-old little brother. | 120 |
| Blume, Judy | Then Again, Maybe I Won't | 3.6 | 5 | Tony Miglione's father's invention makes the family rich, but wealth causes more problems than Tony has expected. | 164 |
| Bodkin, Odds | Crane Wife, The | 3.2 | 0.5 | This book is a retelling of the traditional Japanese tale about a poor sail maker who gains a beautiful but mysterious wife skilled at weaving magical sails. | 27 |
| Bodkin, Odds | Ghost of the Southern Belle: A Sea Tale | 3.9 | 0.5 | The young son of a ship's captain finds a way to end the curse of a ghost ship whose daring Confederate captain once gave him a lucky ball. | 32 |
| Boekhoff/Kallen | Geysers (Wonders of the World) | 7.4 | 1 | This book discusses what geysers are, where they are located, why they erupt, how different kinds of geysers behave, and their interactions with their environments. | 48 |
| Bokoske, Sharon | Dolphins! | 2.8 | 0.5 | Introduces dolphins and their physical characteristics, behavior, social structure, intelligence, and interaction with humans. | 48 |
| Bond, Felicia | Tumble Bumble | 2.1 | 0.5 | A tiny bug goes for a walk, but it's no ordinary stroll. Along the way he bumps into a cat, a crocodile, even a baby pig. More creatures join them until they tippy-toe into a house that belongs to a young boy who happily tumble bumbles with them. | 30 |
| Bond, Michael | Bear Called Paddington, A | 4.7 | 4 | A bear from darkest Peru goes to live with a family in London. | 128 |
| Bond, Michael | Paddington at Work (Revised Edition) | 6.2 | 4 | In this book, Paddington dabbles a bit in the stock market, takes a stab at barbering, and even has a fling at the ballet. | 134 |
| Bond, Michael | Paddington Bear and the Busy Bee Carnival | 4 | 0.5 | Bears love adventures, especially Paddington Bear! So when Paddington's friend Mr. Gruber takes him to the carnival, their first stop is the Busy Bee Adventure Trail. | 30 |
| Bond, Michael | Paddington Bear at the Circus | 3.8 | 0.5 | Paddington Bear and the Browns have front-row seats at the circus. When Paddington sees a man hanging from a rope above his head, he rushes off to save the trapeze artist. | 32 |
| Bond, Nancy | String in the Harp, A | 5.2 | 17 | When Peter and his sisters are forced to move to Wales, he finds a harp-tuning key that transports him back to the sixth century. | 370 |
| Bond/Jankel | Paddington Bear Goes to the Hospital | 3.7 | 0.5 | Paddington Bear has hurt his arm, and he's having trouble remembering just how it happened. The Browns are worried enough to take Paddington on his first trip to the hospital. | 30 |
| Bonsall, Crosby | And I Mean It, Stanley | 0.9 | 0.5 | A little girl plays alone until her dog arrives. | 32 |
| Bonsall, Crosby | Day I Had to Play with My Sister, The | 0.5 | 0.5 | A young boy becomes very frustrated when he tries to teach his little sister to play hide-and-seek. | 32 |
| Bonsall, Crosby | Piggle | 1.8 | 0.5 | Nobody will play with Homer until Bear comes along and teaches him a new game. | 64 |
| Borden, Louise | Good Luck, Mrs. K.! | 3.5 | 0.5 | All the students in the third grade are affected when their beloved teacher, Mrs. Kempczinski, is suddenly hospitalized with cancer. | 29 |
| Bornstein, Ruth | Little Gorilla | 2.6 | 0.5 | A simple, rhythmic text about a gorilla who grows and grows and grows. | 28 |
| Borton de Treviñic text about a gorilla who grows and grows and grows. | I, Juan de Pareja | 6.5 | 7 | After the slave Juan de Pareja is willed to the great Spanish painter Velár, Mrs. Kempczinski, is suddenly hospitalized with cancer. | 180 |
| Bosveld, Jane | While a Tree Was Growing | 5.8 | 1 | Traces the growth, from seed to maturity, of a 3500-year-old giant sequoia, juxtaposing its development with a chronology of world events from the Trojan War to the present day. | 44 |
| Bourgeois, Paulette | Finders Keepers for Franklin | 2.8 | 0.5 | Someone lost a camera. Should Franklin try to find the owner after finding it? | 32 |
| Bourgeois, Paulette | Franklin and Harriet | 2.5 | 0.5 | Franklin learns to share with his little sister. | 24 |
| Bourgeois, Paulette | Franklin and the Thunderstorm | 2.5 | 0.5 | Franklin decides to learn more about the weather because he is afraid of storms. | 32 |
| Bourgeois, Paulette | Franklin and the Tooth Fairy | 2.6 | 0.5 | Franklin's friends are being visited by the tooth fairy. He feels bad that he has no teeth to lose. | 32 |
| Bourgeois, Paulette | Franklin Fibs | 2.7 | 0.5 | Jealous of what his friends can do, Franklin fibs about his own abilities. | 29 |
| Bourgeois, Paulette | Franklin Goes to School | 2.9 | 0.5 | It is the first day of school for Franklin, but his teacher knows how to make it a wonderful day. | 32 |
| Bourgeois, Paulette | Franklin Has a Sleepover | 2.6 | 0.5 | Franklin can't wait for his best friend Bear to arrive for their first sleepover. | 29 |
| Bourgeois, Paulette | Franklin in the Dark | 2.5 | 0.5 | Franklin, a turtle afraid of crawling into his dark shell, learns a lesson about fear from his mother. | 32 |
| Bourgeois, Paulette | Franklin Is Bossy | 2.2 | 0.5 | Franklin the Turtle learns that no one likes a bossy friend. | 29 |
| Bourgeois, Paulette | Franklin Is Lost | 2.6 | 0.5 | A turtle's story of wandering too far is a lesson in safety and security. | 32 |
| Bourgeois, Paulette | Franklin Is Messy | 2.8 | 0.5 | Franklin learns to be neat and organized in this story about being messy. | 29 |
| Bourgeois, Paulette | Franklin Plays the Game | 2.8 | 0.5 | Franklin can count forwards and backwards. He can zip zippers and button buttons. He can slide down a riverbank by himself. He can even sleep alone is his small, dark shell. And he's trying very hard to be the best player on his soccer team. | 29 |
| Bourgeois, Paulette | Franklin Rides a Bike | 2.6 | 0.5 | Franklin has a hard time learning to ride a bike. | 28 |
| Bourgeois, Paulette | Franklin Wants a Pet | 2.5 | 0.5 | Franklin proves he's ready to care for a pet. | 29 |
| Bourgeois, Paulette | Franklin's Bad Day | 2.5 | 0.5 | Franklin has a bad day, and it doesn't get better until he realizes how to fix the problem. | 29 |
| Bourgeois, Paulette | Franklin's Blanket | 3 | 0.5 | Franklin's favorite blanket is missing. He searches everywhere because he can't sleep without it. | 29 |
| Bourgeois, Paulette | Franklin's Class Trip | 2.5 | 0.5 | Franklin and his classmates go on a filed trip to the museum, but Franklin is worried is going to run into a "real" dinosaur. | 29 |
| Bourgeois, Paulette | Franklin's Neighborhood | 2.9 | 0.5 | Franklin ventures out and meets his surrounding neighbors. | 29 |
| Bourgeois, Paulette | Franklin's New Friend | 2.7 | 0.5 | Franklin learns that even if people are different, they can still be a friend. | 29 |
| Bourgeois, Paulette | Franklin's Secret Club | 3.2 | 0.5 | Franklin discovers a hideaway and decides to start a secret club. | 30 |
| Bourgeois, Paulette | Franklin's Valentines | 2.9 | 0.5 | Franklin learns what friendship is all about. | 29 |
| Bourgeois, Paulette | Hurry Up, Franklin | 2.8 | 0.5 | Even though he is very slow and has many distractions on the way, Franklin the turtle manages to get to Bear's house just in time for a special event. | 29 |
| Bourgeois/Jennings | Franklin Goes to the Hospital | 3.4 | 0.5 | This book describes Franklin's experience when he gets hurt while playing soccer with his friends and needs an operation. | 28 |
| Bourgeois/Jennings | Franklin's Canoe Trip | 3 | 0.5 | Franklin and Bear are thrilled to be heading out on a canoe trip with their fathers. They’friends and needs an operation. | 32 |
| Boyd, Candy Dawson | Circle of Gold | 4 | 3 | Mattie Benson knows just what to get her mother for Mother's Day until she loses her best job and is accused of stealing. She thinks that she can still get the present, but maybe she is expecting miracles again. | 124 |
| Bradby, Marie | More Than Anything Else | 3.3 | 0.5 | Nine-year-old Booker works with his father and brother at the saltworks but dreams of the day when he'll be able to read. | 31 |
| Bradley, Steve | Candy Man, The | 2.6 | 1 | When Peg first meets a fellow traveling to New York, she has no idea he is about to involve her in a deadly game of smuggling. | 60 |
| Brady, Esther Wood | Toliver's Secret | 4.7 | 4 | During the Revolutionary War, a ten-year-old girl crosses enemy lines to deliver a loaf of bread containing a message for the patriots. | 166 |
| Brady, Laurel Stowe | Say You Are My Sister | 5.5 | 9 | In rural Georgia during World War II, Ramona Louise determines to do everything to help her older sister keep the family together after the death of their parents, even to keeping a secret, which could destroy their close relationship. | 208 |
| Brandenberg, Franz | I Wish I Was Sick, Too! | 2.3 | 0.5 | Elizabeth envies her brother the pampered treatment he gets when he is sick in bed. Then she gets sick, too. | 29 |
| Brandenburg, Jim | Sand and Fog: Adventures in Southern Africa | 7.3 | 1 | A photoessay on the Namib desert in South Africa. | 44 |
| Brandt, Keith | Paul Revere: Son of Liberty | 5.3 | 1 | Remembering his boyhood, Paul Revere knows that the steeple of North Church will make an excellent watchtower in his brave plan to warn countryside that the British are coming. | 48 |
| Branley, Franklyn M. | Earthquakes | 4.2 | 0.5 | Discusses why earthquakes happen, what their sometimes-devastating effects can be, where the danger zones are, and what measures people can take to safeguard themselves. | 32 |
| Brenner, Barbara | Beef Stew | 1.8 | 0.5 | When his friends decline to come over for a beef stew dinner, Nicky feels bad until a surprise visitor shows up. | 32 |
| Brenner, Barbara | Wagon Wheels | 2.6 | 0.5 | Shortly after the Civil War, a Black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act. A Reading Rainbow book. | 64 |
| Brett, Jan | Annie and the Wild Animals | 2.7 | 0.5 | When Annie's cat disappears, she attempts friendship with a variety of unsuitable woodland animals, but with the emergence of spring, everything comes right. | 28 |
| Brett, Jan | Beauty and the Beast | 5.3 | 0.5 | Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast. | 32 |
| Brett, Jan | Berlioz the Bear | 3 | 0.5 | Berlioz the bear and his fellow musicians are due to play for the town ball when their bandwagon becomes stuck in a hole in the road. A strange buzzing in Berlioz's double bass turns into a surprise that saves the day. | 30 |
| Brett, Jan | Comet's Nine Lives | 4 | 0.5 | Comet the cat uses up eight of his nine lives trying to find the right place to live on Nantucket Island. | 30 |
| Brett, Jan | Daisy Comes Home | 3.8 | 0.5 | Daisy, an unhappy hen in China, floats down the river in a basket and has an adventure. | 32 |
| Brett, Jan | First Dog, The | 3.9 | 0.5 | Kip and Palewolf each face hunger and danger on a journey in Paleolithic times. They decide to join forces and help one another; Palewolf becomes the first dog. | 30 |
| Brett, Jan | Fritz and the Beautiful Horses | 3.4 | 0.5 | Fritz, a pony excluded from the group of beautiful horses within the walled city, becomes a hero when he rescues the children of the city. | 31 |
| Brett, Jan | Gingerbread Baby | 3.5 | 0.5 | A young boy and his mother bake a gingerbread baby that escapes from their oven and leads a crowd on a chase similar to the one in the familiar not-so-clever gingerbread man. | 31 |
| Brett, Jan | Goldilocks and the Three Bears | 4.4 | 0.5 | Lost in the woods, a tired and hungry girl finds the house of the three bears where she helps herself to food and goes to sleep. | 30 |
| Brett, Jan | Hat, The | 2.6 | 0.5 | When Lisa hangs her woolen clothes in the sun to air them out for winter, the hedgehog, to the amusement of the other animals, ends up wearing a stocking on his head. | 28 |
| Brett, Jan | Hedgie's Surprise | 3.5 | 0.5 | Hedgie, the hedgehog, helps Henny, the speckled hen, trick the Tomten who has been eating all of Henny's eggs for breakfast. | 30 |
| Brett, Jan | Mitten, The | 3.9 | 0.5 | Several animals sleep snugly in Nicki's lost mitten until the bear sneezes. | 27 |
| Brett, Jan | Town Mouse, Country Mouse | 4 | 0.5 | After trading houses, the country mice and the town mice discover there's no place like home. | 29 |
| Brett, Jan | Trouble with Trolls | 3.1 | 0.5 | While climbing Mt. Baldy, Treva outwits some trolls who want to steal her dog. | 30 |
| Brett, Jan | Wild Christmas Reindeer, The | 4.1 | 0.5 | After a few false starts, Teeka discovers the best way to get Santa's reindeer ready for Christmas Eve. | 29 |
| Brewster, Hugh | Anastasia's Album | 6.4 | 1 | The last Tsar's youngest daughter tells her own story. | 64 |
| Bridges, Ruby | Through My Eyes | 5.9 | 2 | Ruby Bridges recounts the story of her involvement, as a six-year-old, in the integration of her school in New Orleans in 1960. | 64 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford and the Big Parade | 2.4 | 0.5 | Clifford helps celebrate the town's 100th birthday with a big parade. | 30 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford and the Big Storm | 2.1 | 0.5 | Clifford comes to the rescue when a hurricane strikes. | 30 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford and the Grouchy Neighbors | 2 | 0.5 | Clifford the Big Red Dog seems to be unable to do anything that does not displease the new neighbors. | 30 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford and the Halloween Parade | 0.9 | 0.5 | Clifford, the big red dog, joins the Halloween parade disguised as a fire engine. | 32 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford at the Circus | 2.1 | 0.5 | Clifford the Big Red Dog and Emily Elizabeth have a day at the circus they will always remember. | 30 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford Gets a Job | 1.8 | 0.5 | Emily has a dog named Clifford that is too expensive to feed. Clifford must find work to pay for his dog food. Clifford stumbles onto the perfect job for him. | 30 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford Goes to Hollywood | 2 | 0.5 | Clifford goes to Hollywood and becomes a famous star. He has everything but he is lonely. | 30 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford Grows Up | 1.9 | 0.5 | This book is about the different experiences in the life of Clifford, the dog, as he grows up. | 29 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford Keeps Cool | 2 | 0.5 | This is a story about how Clifford, the dog, keeps cool in the heat of the summer. | 30 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford Makes a Friend | 0.4 | 0.5 | Because Clifford, the big red dog, imitates everything the boy does, he quickly makes a friend. | 29 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford Takes a Trip | 2 | 0.5 | Clifford gets left behind when the family goes on vacation and strange things happen. | 28 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford the Big Red Dog | 1.2 | 0.5 | Emily Elizabeth tells the reader about the dilemmas and delights of having a really big, red dog. | 30 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford the Firehouse Dog | 2 | 0.5 | Clifford helps the firefighters put out a fire. | 30 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford the Small Red Puppy | 2.1 | 0.5 | Clifford's owner tells the amazingly funny story of how Clifford got to be so BIG. | 30 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford Visits the Hospital | 2.5 | 0.5 | When he was a puppy, Clifford accidentally went on a visit to the hospital. | 32 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford, We Love You | 1.6 | 0.5 | When Clifford starts feeling blue, Emily writes a song to cheer him up. | 30 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's Best Friend: A Story About Emily Elizabeth | 1.9 | 0.5 | Emily Elizabeth describes her typical day, from getting up in the morning, to going to school, playing with Clifford after she does her homework, and going to bed. | 32 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's Birthday Party | 2.5 | 0.5 | Clifford's birthday is a special treat when his entire family shows up at the party. | 30 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's Christmas | 1.9 | 0.5 | Good intentions turn into disaster when Clifford helps Santa Claus. | 30 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's First Autumn | 1.8 | 0.5 | Clifford discovers that autumn has a lot to offer as well as summer. | 28 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's First Halloween | 1.9 | 0.5 | Clifford celebrates his first Halloween. | 30 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's First Snow Day | 1.7 | 0.5 | Emily Elizabeth thinks back to when Clifford was a puppy and experienced his first snowfall. | 30 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's First Valentine's Day | 2.1 | 0.5 | Emily Elizabeth and Clifford make valentines and go to the post office. | 29 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's Good Deeds | 2.2 | 0.5 | When the big red dog sets out to do good deeds, trouble follows quickly. | 30 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's Halloween | 1.8 | 0.5 | A giant ghost (Clifford in costume), joins the fun at a Halloween party. | 30 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's Happy Easter | 1.9 | 0.5 | A funny story about Clifford's Easter. | 30 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's Happy Mother's Day | 1.9 | 0.5 | When he was a puppy, Clifford helped Emily Elizabeth get something special for her mother on Mother's Day. | 32 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's Kitten | 1.9 | 0.5 | More about the big red dog Clifford, and now he even has a kitten. | 30 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's Manners | 1.9 | 0.5 | Young readers can learn their manners by emulating their big, red friend. | 26 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's Pals | 2.4 | 0.5 | Clifford spends the day with his dog buddies causing trouble at a construction site. | 30 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's Puppy Days | 1.9 | 0.5 | The story of Clifford the big red dog's days as a small, small puppy. | 31 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's Riddles | 1.4 | 0.5 | This is a book of riddles made up by Clifford, the dog. | 30 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's Sports Day | 1.8 | 0.5 | Sports day at school with Clifford along can be quite interesting. | 30 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's Spring Clean-Up | 2.3 | 0.5 | It's time for spring cleaning, and everyone is chipping in to get the job done, including Clifford. | 30 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's Thanksgiving Visit | 2.1 | 0.5 | Clifford discovers how lucky he is on Thanksgiving Day. | 30 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's Tricks | 1.8 | 0.5 | Clifford and the new dog on the block have a contest to see who is smartest. | 30 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Count on Clifford | 1.5 | 0.5 | Young readers learn to count with Clifford--the biggest, reddest, most lovable dog around. | 26 |
| Bridwell, Norman | Oops, Clifford! | 1.9 | 0.5 | This book is about the adventures of Clifford, the big red dog. He gets into trouble because he doesn't realize there are some things he cannot do because he is too big. | 28 |
| Bridwell/Fry | Windy Day, The | 1.8 | 0.5 | It's so windy that Emily Elizabeth's painting blows away. Clifford gets it back for her, but he causes some big trouble along the way! | 20 |
| Bridwell/Wehn | Clifford's Hiccups | 1.6 | 0.5 | Clifford's friends try to cure his hiccups. | 24 |
| Briggs, Raymond | Snowman Storybook, The | 2.5 | 0.5 | When his snowman comes to life, a little boy invites him into his home and in return is taken on a flight high above the countryside. | 19 |
| Brimner, Larry Dane | Cowboy Up! | 0.6 | 0.5 | Presents a rhyming look at a cowboy's day at the rodeo. | 31 |
| Brink, Carol Ryrie | Caddie Woodlawn | 6 | 8 | This is a story of a spirited pioneer girl's adventures on the Wisconsin frontier. | 242 |
| Britain, Kristen | Green Rider | 5.9 | 23 | On her journey home from school through the immense forest called Green Cloak, Karigan comes across a dying man who convinces her to carry on his mission. Her promise changes her life forever. | 471 |
| Brittain, Bill | Dr. Dredd's Wagon of Wonders | 4.6 | 4 | In agreeing to make a deal with Dr. Dredd for the services of Bufu the Rainmaker, the drought-stricken town of Coven Tree enters into a devastating struggle with the forces of evil. | 179 |
| Brittain, Bill | Wish Giver, The | 4.4 | 4 | When a strange little man comes to the Coven Tree Church Social promising he can give people exactly what they ask for, three young believers-in-magic each make a wish that comes true in the most unexpected way. | 181 |
| Brockmann, Carolee | Going for Great | 4.1 | 3 | Feeling abandoned by her parents and her best friend, sixth grader Jenna worries that her severe stage fright will spoil her performance at a flute competition--until she gets to know a class misfit who is a good musician and an even better friend. | 119 |
| Broekel, Ray | Fire Fighters (New True Books) | 2.5 | 0.5 | Briefly discusses the work, uniform, and tools of fire fighters and describes a variety of fire trucks. | 45 |
| Broekel, Ray | Maps and Globes (New True Books) | 3.8 | 0.5 | Briefly discusses different types of maps and globes and explains such map-related terms as symbol, key, direction, and scale. | 45 |
| Broekel, Ray | Snakes (New True Books) | 2.8 | 0.5 | Describes the physiology, habits, and behavior of snakes. | 45 |
| Bromley, Dudley | North to Oak Island | 3.4 | 1 | Robbed of all his money and desperate to get to the New World, Will becomes a stowaway on a pirate ship captained by a woman. | 59 |
| Brooke, Peggy | Jake's Orphan | 5.4 | 8 | When taken from an orphanage to work on a farm in North Dakota in 1926, twelve-year-old Tree searches for a home not only for himself but also for his irrepressible younger brother. | 261 |
| Brooks, Bruce | Everywhere | 5.2 | 2 | Afraid that his beloved grandfather will die after suffering a heart attack, a nine-year-old boy agrees to join ten-year-old Dooley in performing a mysterious ritual called soul switching. | 70 |
| Brooks, Philip | Invaders from Outer Space | 5.2 | 0.5 | This book examines the phenomenon of unidentified flying objects and encounters with alien beings. | 48 |
| Brooks, Terry | Elfstones of Shannara, The | 6.4 | 31 | The sequel to The Sword of Shannara, in which the elves Wil Ohmsford and Amberle must share a long and fantastic journey while trying to avoid the Reaper. | 564 |
| Brooks, Terry | First King of Shannara | 6.9 | 30 | The Druids come across a plot to destroy their world and need to use their own knowledge of magic to prevent a tragedy. | 439 |
| Brooks, Terry | Sword of Shannara, The | 8.7 | 42 | In this renowned fantasy in the Tolkien manner, half-elfin Shea Ohlmsford, along with Allanon, recover the Sword of Shannara to battle the Warlock Lord.. | 726 |
| Brooks, Terry | Tangle Box, The | 6.1 | 17 | Ben finds himself imprisoned within the gloom of the Tangle Box, lost in its mists, along with a despairing lady, who might once have been the Witch Nightshade, and an unhappy gargoyle, that might once have been the dragon Strabo. | 334 |
| Brooks, Terry | Wishsong of Shannara, The | 6.1 | 29 | The conclusion to the bestselling fantasy trilogy in which Allanon and Brin confront the ultimate evil. | 504 |
| Brown et al., Laurie Krasny | Pet Stories You Don't Have to Walk | 2.4 | 0.5 | This book is a collection of stories about the antics of different types of pets. | 64 |
| Brown, Alan | Windhover, The | 3.1 | 0.5 | A baby falcon is stolen from its nest in the school yard wall by a lonely boy, who returns it when it will not eat and watches it take its first flight. | 27 |
| Brown, Don | One Giant Leap: The Story of Neil Armstrong | 4.6 | 0.5 | Discusses the life and accomplishments of astronaut Neil Armstrong, from his childhood in Ohio to his famous moon landing. | 28 |
| Brown, Don | Ruth Law Thrills a Nation | 4 | 0.5 | A true story of a young woman's attempt to fly from Chicago to New York in one day in 1916. | 29 |
| Brown, Jeff | Flat Stanley | 4 | 1 | After a bulletin board falls on Stanley while he's sleeping, he finds that being flat has its advantages. | 57 |
| Brown, Jeff | Stanley, Flat Again! | 3.3 | 1 | After Stanley Lambchop goes flat once again, he uses his flatness to help win a sailboat race and to rescue a classmate from a collapsed building. | 87 |
| Brown, Ken | Scarecrow's Hat, The | 3.2 | 0.5 | Chicken admires Scarecrow's straw hat and he wants to swap it for a walking stick. | 25 |
| Brown, Ken | What's the Time, Grandma Wolf? | 3 | 0.5 | When the little animals hear there's a big, bad wolf in the woods, their curiosity gets the best of them. | 25 |
| Brown, M.K. | Sally's Room | 3.4 | 0.5 | Sally's messy room fights back. | 30 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur and the Scare-Your-Pants-Off Club | 3.1 | 1 | Arthur and his friends find out their favorite book series has been banned. | 58 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur and the True Francine | 2.3 | 0.5 | Francine and Muffy are good friends until Muffy lets Francine take the blame for cheating on a test. | 27 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur Babysits | 2.4 | 0.5 | Arthur's experience baby-sitting for the terrible Tibble Twins is as challenging as he expected, but he finally gets control by telling them a spooky story. | 29 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur Goes to Camp | 2.9 | 0.5 | Arthur is not looking forward to Camp Meadowcroak; and when mysterious things start happening there, he decides to run away. | 30 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur in a Pickle | 2.1 | 0.5 | After lying about what happened to his homework, Arthur has such a bad dream about being "in a pickle" that he decides to tell the truth. | 24 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur Lost and Found | 2.6 | 0.5 | When Arthur and Buster try to take the bus to Arthur's swimming lesson, they fall asleep and end up in a strange part of town. | 30 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur Makes the Team | 2.9 | 1 | Arthur makes the Little League team but is afraid he won't be able to play as well as his friends. | 61 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur Meets the President | 3.2 | 0.5 | Arthur's essay wins a contest and he has to read it to the President in a special ceremony at the White House. | 30 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur Writes a Story | 2.6 | 0.5 | Arthur has to write a story as a homework assignment and keeps changing his idea of what to write as he talks to his friends. | 30 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur, It's Only Rock 'n' Roll | 2.8 | 0.5 | Francine starts a rock band, hoping it will focus on music rather than money and fame. | 32 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's April Fool | 2.7 | 0.5 | Arthur worries about remembering his magic tricks for the April Fool's Day assembly and Binky's threats to pulverize him. | 32 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's Baby | 2.2 | 0.5 | Arthur isn't sure he is happy about the new baby in the family; but when his sister asks for his help in handling the baby, Arthur feels much better. | 30 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's Birthday | 2.3 | 0.5 | Their friends must decide which party to attend when Muffy schedules her birthday party for the same day as Arthur's. | 29 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's Chicken Pox | 2.9 | 0.5 | Arthur hopes he'll recover from the chicken pox in time to go to the circus. | 30 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's Christmas | 3 | 0.5 | With only two days left till Christmas, Arthur must decide what to give Santa, the most important person on his list. | 32 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's Computer Disaster | 2.4 | 0.5 | Arthur disobeys his Mother by playing a game on her computer which leads to a lesson in responsibility for one's actions. | 30 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's Eyes | 2.2 | 0.5 | Glasses meant being teased until Arthur discovers that four eyes are better and more fun than two. | 32 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's Family Vacation | 2.7 | 0.5 | Arthur makes his family's potentially disastrous family vacation into a success. | 19 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's Halloween | 2.8 | 0.5 | Arthur finds everything about Halloween scary, including his little sister's costume, his morning snack, and the big house on the corner. | 30 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's Lost Puppy | 1.9 | 0.5 | Arthur and D.W. do not know what is wrong with Baby Kate when they take her to the neighborhood fair, but Pal the puppy does. | 24 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's New Puppy | 2.7 | 0.5 | Arthur's new puppy causes problems when it tears the living room apart, wets on everything, and refuses to wear a leash. | 30 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's Nose | 1.6 | 0.5 | Unsatisfied with his nose, Arthur goes shopping for another. A Snuggle and Read Story Book. | 28 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's Perfect Christmas | 2.4 | 0.5 | Even without snow, turkey dinner, and a perfect tree, Arthur and his family and friends have a wonderful Christmas and Hanukkah celebration. | 40 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's Pet Business | 2.4 | 0.5 | Arthur embarks on a pet-sitting business with hilarious results. | 30 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's Teacher Moves In | 2.4 | 0.5 | Arthur thinks that having his teacher stay at his house will be a horrible experience. | 32 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's Teacher Trouble | 2.7 | 0.5 | Third-grader Arthur is amazed when he is chosen to be in the school spellathon. | 30 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's Thanksgiving | 3.1 | 0.5 | Arthur finds his role as director of the Thanksgiving play a difficult one, especially since no one will agree to play the turkey. | 30 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's Tooth | 2.8 | 0.5 | Arthur, tired of being the only one in his class who still has all his baby teeth, waits impatiently for his loose tooth to fall out. | 30 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's TV Trouble | 2.6 | 0.5 | When Arthur sees an advertisement for the amazing doggy treat timer, he decides to earn enough money to buy it for his dog. | 30 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's Underwear | 2.9 | 0.5 | It takes a really embarrassing moment in the school cafeteria to cure Arthur of his fear of being caught in his underwear. | 32 |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's Valentine | 2.5 | 0.5 | Arthur has a secret admirer, so he decides to use a trick to find out who she is. | 30 |
| Brown, Marc | Bionic Bunny Show, The | 2.8 | 0.5 | The reader gets to see all the production efforts that enable an ordinary rabbit to become Bionic Bunny on his television series. | 31 |
| Brown, Marc | D.W. the Picky Eater | 2.9 | 0.5 | Because her eating habits cause some problems, Arthur the Aardvark's younger sister has to stay home when the family eats out. | 22 |
| Brown, Marc | Locked in the Library! | 3.1 | 1 | Arthur gets locked in the library with Francine. They need to set aside their differences and work together to find a way out. | 58 |
| Brown, Marcia | Cinderella | 5.1 | 0.5 | Brown's illustrated translation of Perrault's tale in which Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper in her haste to flee the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect won the 1955 Caldecot medal. | 28 |
| Brown, Marcia | Once a Mouse... | 3.2 | 0.5 | As it changes from mouse to cat to dog to tiger, a hermit's pet also becomes increasingly vain. | 30 |
| Brown, Marcia | Stone Soup | 3.3 | 0.5 | When hungry soldiers get a chilly reception in the village, they use a trick to get a meal. | 33 |
| Brown, Margaret Wise | Another Important Book | 2.3 | 0.5 | This book describes how a child grows from ages one through six. | 28 |
| Brown, Margaret Wise | Goodnight Moon | 1.8 | 0.5 | Goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room; goodnight chairs, goodnight comb, goodnight air. | 30 |
| Brown, Margaret Wise | My World | 0.8 | 0.5 | A little bunny delights in all the familiar things in his daily life. | 32 |
| Brown, Margaret Wise | On Christmas Eve | 3.6 | 0.5 | The children creep downstairs to see the glorious tree and to make a Christmas wish. This book captures all the wonder and mystery of a child's Christmas Eve. | 29 |
| Brown, Margaret Wise | Runaway Bunny, The | 2.7 | 0.5 | A young bunny plays an imaginary game of hide-and-seek with his lovingly steadfast mother, who finds her child every time. | 40 |
| Brown, Ruth | Picnic, The | 2.6 | 0.5 | A group of humans on a picnic invade a field full of small animals. | 26 |
| Brown/Krensky | Arthur Accused! | 3.1 | 1 | Buster tries to help Arthur prove his innocence when the quarters for the charity drive disappear. | 58 |
| Brown/Krensky | Arthur and the Best Coach Ever | 3.3 | 1 | When Arthur's soccer team gets a new coach who gives them new uniforms and lots of ice cream, it takes them a while to realize that he doesn't know how to coach. | 58 |
| Brown/Krensky | Arthur and the Big Blow-Up | 3.3 | 1 | Arthur and his teammates are headed for the playoffs when their best players get into an argument. Will Arthur and Buster be able to help their friends settle their differences and make it to the playoffs? | 54 |
| Brown/Krensky | Arthur and the Cootie-Catcher | 3.1 | 1 | At Prunella's half-birthday party, her sister unveils a fortune-telling cootie-catcher that seems to be able to predict the future. | 61 |
| Brown/Krensky | Arthur and the Crunch Cereal Contest | 3 | 1 | Arthur can't come up with a catch jingle until he hears D. W. and wonders if he could use it. | 61 |
| Brown/Krensky | Arthur and the Lost Diary | 3.2 | 1 | When Sue Ellen loses her diary at the library, Arthur and his friends worry about what will happen if the diary falls into the wrong hands. Arthur is the one who finds it. Will he do the right thing and return it unread? | 55 |
| Brown/Krensky | Arthur and the Race to Read | 3.4 | 1 | To raise money for a literacy drive, everyone at Arthur's school is going to run a race together. | 58 |
| Brown/Krensky | Arthur and the Seventh-Inning Stretcher | 3.3 | 1 | Binky refuses to join his teammates in pre-game warm-ups, until he injures himself while running the bases in a game. | 52 |
| Brown/Krensky | Arthur's Mystery Envelope | 3 | 1 | Arthur has to take an envelope home to his parents from the principal. | 58 |
| Browne, Anthony | Voices in the Park | 2.8 | 0.5 | Lives briefly intertwine when two youngsters meet in the park. | 30 |
| Brownrigg, Sheri | All Tutus Should Be Pink | 1.8 | 0.5 | Two little girls attend ballet class and eat strawberry ice cream afterwards. | 29 |
| Bruchac, Joseph | First Strawberries, The | 3.5 | 0.5 | A Native American legend about how strawberries came into the world. | 30 |
| Bruchac, Joseph | Flying with the Eagle, Racing the Great Bear | 5.3 | 5 | This is a collection of traditional tales which present the heritage of various Indian nations, including the Wampanoag, Cherokee, Osage, Lakota, and Tlingit. | 128 |
| Bruchac, Joseph | Journal of Jesse Smoke: A Cherokee Boy, The | 6.2 | 6 | Jesse Smoke, a sixteen-year-old Cherokee, begins a journal in 1837 to record stories of his people and their difficulties as they face removal along the Trail of Tears. | 202 |
| Bruchac, Joseph | Skeleton Man | 4.8 | 3 | After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange "great-uncle," Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk story for her safety, and maybe even for her life. | 114 |
| Bruchac, Joseph | Squanto's Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving | 4.2 | 0.5 | Squanto recounts how in 1614 he was captured by the British, sold into slavery in Spain, and ultimately returned to the New World to become a guide and friend for the colonists. | 29 |
| Bruchac/Ross | Girl Who Married the Moon, The | 5.7 | 4 | This is a collection of Native American stories, focusing on the important roles women play in traditional Native American societies. | 127 |
| Brumbeau, Jeff | Quiltmaker's Gift, The | 4.6 | 0.5 | When a generous quiltmaker finally agrees to make a quilt for a greedy king but only under certain conditions, she causes him to undergo a change of heart. | 45 |
| Bruss, Deborah | Book! Book! Book! | 2.2 | 0.5 | When the children go back to school, the animals on the farm are bored, so they go into the library in town trying to find something to do. | 32 |
| Brust, Beth Wagner | Great Molasses Flood, The | 2.4 | 0.5 | When the huge molasses tank bursts, nobody in Boston believes Maggie because of all the tall tales she has told. | 46 |
| Bryant, Bonnie | Beach Ride | 4.7 | 4 | A pony saves Carole from drowning on a Florida vacation. | 136 |
| Bryant, Bonnie | Gift Horse | 5 | 5 | Will Stevie have to give up her dream horse? | 150 |
| Bryant, Bonnie | Hayride | 4.7 | 4 | The Saddle Club plans a hayride for Carole's birthday. | 150 |
| Bryant, Bonnie | Horse Sense | 4.8 | 5 | The Saddle Club is in trouble; the girls are all too busy to spend much time on club business. | 134 |
| Bryant, Bonnie | Horseshoe | 4.6 | 4 | The Saddle Club decides to set up a fortune-telling stand to raise money for the animal shelter. | 133 |
| Bryant, Bonnie | Purebred | 4.6 | 4 | Carole is trapped by a fierce winter blizzard. | 131 |
| Bryant, Bonnie | Secret of the Stallion, The | 4.9 | 6 | Join the Saddle Club as they try to uncover the secret of the stallion and the Duke who once lived in this English castle where tragedy struck many years ago. | 195 |
| Buck, Pearl S. | Big Wave, The | 5.2 | 2 | A Japanese boy learns the joy of living after surviving a tidal wave that tragically destroys his family and his village. | 57 |
| Buck, Pearl S. | Christmas Day in the Morning | 3.9 | 0.5 | A boy surprises his father on Christmas morning by getting up early and milking the cows on their farm. | 36 |
| Budd, E.S. | Military Helicopters (Military Machines at Work) | 2.5 | 0.5 | This book describes what a military helicopter does and what is found in the cockpit. | 24 |
| Buehner, Caralyn | Fanny's Dream | 3.7 | 0.5 | Fanny Agnes is a sturdy farm girl who dreams of marrying a prince; but when her fairy Godmother doesn't show up, she decides on a local farmer instead. | 30 |
| Buehner, Caralyn | Snowmen at Night | 3 | 0.5 | This book is about snowmen playing games at night when no one is watching. | 28 |
| Buehner, Caralyn/Mark | Escape of Marvin the Ape, The | 2 | 0.5 | When no one is looking, Marvin, an overly friendly ape, slips out of the zoo and begins an adventure that introduces him to life in the big city. | 32 |
| Bulla, Clyde Robert | Chalk Box Kid, The | 2.7 | 1 | Nine-year-old Gregory's house does not have room for a garden, so he creates one in a surprising place. | 56 |
| Bulla, Clyde Robert | Daniel's Duck | 2 | 0.5 | A picture story set in rural Tennessee when people lived in log cabins. Young Daniel carves a wooden duck. When he exhibits his duck at the town fair, people laugh and Daniel is heartbroken. | 64 |
| Buller, Jon | 20,000 Baseball Cards Under the Sea | 2.5 | 0.5 | Roger's friend Kenneth uses an unusual sea vehicle of his own design to take them to an underwater cave, where a cache of old loot gathered by the mermaids turns out to contain a lot of very valuable, old baseball cards. | 48 |
| Buller/Schade | Space Mall | 3.4 | 1 | Ten-year-old Ron is at the mall when it is hijacked and flown into space by small but horrible extraterrestrials. | 63 |
| Bunting, Eve | Bones of Fred McFee, The | 3.1 | 0.5 | A toy skeleton at Halloween provides menace and mystery. | 32 |
| Bunting, Eve | Butterfly House | 3.4 | 0.5 | With the help of her grandfather, a little girl makes a house for a larva and watches it develop before setting it free. Every spring after that butterflies come to visit her. | 28 |
| Bunting, Eve | Can You Do This, Old Badger? | 2.9 | 0.5 | Although Old Badger cannot do some things as easily as he used to, he can still teach Little Badger the many things he knows about finding good things to eat and staying safe and happy. | 28 |
| Bunting, Eve | Coffin on a Case | 3.7 | 2 | Twelve-year-old Henry Coffin, the son of a private investigator, helps a gorgeous high school girl in her dangerous attempt to find her kidnapped mother. | 105 |
| Bunting, Eve | Dandelions | 3.5 | 0.5 | Zoe and her family find strength in each other as they make a new home in the Nebraska territory. | 43 |
| Bunting, Eve | December | 2.9 | 0.5 | A homeless family's luck changes after they help an old woman who has even less than they do at Christmas. | 36 |
| Bunting, Eve | Dreaming of America: An Ellis Island Story | 3.6 | 1 | A girl and her two smaller brothers immigrate to America in 1892. | 16 |
| Bunting, Eve | Flower Garden | 2.2 | 0.5 | Helped by her father, a young girl prepares a flower garden as a birthday surprise for her mother. | 29 |
| Bunting, Eve | Fly Away Home | 2.7 | 0.5 | A homeless boy who lives in an airport with his father, moving from terminal to terminal and trying not to be noticed, is given hope when he sees a trapped bird find its freedom. | 32 |
| Bunting, Eve | Gleam and Glow | 3.3 | 0.5 | After his home is destroyed by war, Viktor finds hope in the survival of two very special fish. | 32 |
| Bunting, Eve | Going Home | 2.7 | 0.5 | Although a Mexican family comes to the United States to work as farm laborers so that their children will have opportunities, the parents still consider Mexico their home. | 29 |
| Bunting, Eve | How Many Days to America? A Thanksgiving Story | 3.1 | 0.5 | Refugees from a Caribbean island embark on a dangerous boat trip to America, where they have a special reason to celebrate Thanksgiving. | 30 |
| Bunting, Eve | In-Between Days, The | 3.9 | 3 | A child confronts the death of his mother and his father's remarriage. | 119 |
| Bunting, Eve | Is Anybody There? | 3.9 | 4 | After discovering the disappearance of several household items, Marcus, a thirteen-year-old latchkey child, suspects that a stranger may be prowling around inside his house while he's at school and his mother is at work. | 170 |
| Bunting, Eve | Market Day | 3.3 | 0.5 | Tess and Wee Boy observe the farm animals, wonder at the sword swallower, hear playing of pipes, and experience all the excitement of a country fair in Ireland. | 28 |
| Bunting, Eve | Mother's Day Mice, The | 3 | 0.5 | Three little mouse brothers go into the meadow to find a present for their mother, but it is the littlest mouse that comes up with the most unusual gift of all. | 28 |
| Bunting, Eve | My Backpack | 2 | 0.5 | A boy discovers how many wonderful things he can fit in his backpack. | 32 |
| Bunting, Eve | Nasty, Stinky Sneakers | 3.3 | 2 | Will ten-year-old Colin find his missing stinky sneakers in time to enter The Stinkiest Sneakers in the World contest? | 105 |
| Bunting, Eve | Night Tree | 3.3 | 0.5 | A family makes its annual pilgrimage to decorate an evergreen tree with food for the forest animals at Christmastime. | 28 |
| Bunting, Eve | Our Sixth-Grade Sugar Babies | 3.9 | 4 | Vicki and her best friend fear that their sixth-grade project, carrying around five-pound bags of sugar to learn about parental responsibility, will make them look ridiculous in the eyes of the seventh-grade boy they both love. | 146 |
| Bunting, Eve | Scary, Scary Halloween | 2.6 | 0.5 | A band of trick-or-treaters and a mother cat and her kittens spend a very scary Halloween. | 30 |
| Bunting, Eve | Sharing Susan | 3.7 | 3 | Twelve-year-old Susan is shocked to find that she was switched with another baby in the hospital and that the parents who have raised her may have to give her up to her true biological parents. | 122 |
| Bunting, Eve | Smoky Night | 2.4 | 0.5 | A child's eye view of urban violence in a riot-torn city. | 28 |
| Bunting, Eve | SOS Titanic | 4.5 | 6 | Fifteen-year-old Barry O'Neill, traveling from Ireland to America on the maiden voyage of the Titanic, finds his life endangered when the ship hits an iceberg and begins to sink. | 243 |
| Bunting, Eve | Spying on Miss Muller | 4.4 | 6 | At Alveara boarding school in Belfast at the start of World War II, thirteen-year-old Jessie must deal with her suspicions about a teacher whose father was German and with her worries about her own father's drinking problem. | 179 |
| Bunting, Eve | St. Patrick's Day in the Morning | 2.7 | 0.5 | Jamie seeks a way to prove he is not too young to march in the big St. Patrick's Day parade. | 28 |
| Bunting, Eve | Summer of Riley, The | 3.8 | 4 | Shortly after he gets the perfect dog, Riley, eleven-year-old William must fight for his dog's life after Riley chases the neighbor's horse. | 170 |
| Bunting, Eve | Too Many Monsters | 2.3 | 0.5 | A young boy is frightened by the monsters that show up in his room at bedtime, until his parents show him how to get rid of them. | 32 |
| Bunting, Eve | Train to Somewhere | 2.8 | 0.5 | In the late 1800s, Marianne travels westward on the Orphan Train in hopes of being placed with a caring family. | 32 |
| Bunting, Eve | Turkey for Thanksgiving, A | 2.5 | 0.5 | Mr. and Mrs. Moose try to invite a turkey to their Thanksgiving feast. | 32 |
| Bunting, Eve | Twinnies | 2.4 | 0.5 | A little girl gradually becomes reconciled to her new twin sisters. | 28 |
| Bunting, Eve | Valentine Bears | 2.8 | 0.5 | Mr. and Mrs. Bear always missed Valentine's Day because they were hibernating, but this year they share a wonderful surprise. | 28 |
| Bunting, Eve | Wall, The | 2.4 | 0.5 | A boy and his father come from far away to visit the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington and find the name of the boy's grandfather, who was killed in the conflict. | 29 |
| Bunting, Eve | Wednesday Surprise, The | 2.8 | 0.5 | On Wednesday nights, Grandma brings her big bag of books to share with Anna. | 32 |
| Burch, Robert | Christmas with Ida Early | 5.1 | 5 | Ida's knack for show business turns Christmas into an unconventional celebration. | 157 |
| Burch, Robert | Ida Early Comes over the Mountain | 4.8 | 4 | Tough times in rural Georgia during the Depression take a lively turn when spirited Ida Early arrives to keep house for the Suttons. | 145 |
| Burch, Robert | Queenie Peavy | 5.6 | 5 | Story of what happens when the biggest troublemaker in school tries to behave for just one day. | 151 |
| Burgess, Thornton | Old Mother West Wind | 5.2 | 3 | All the favorite old Burgess characters and stories in a new illustrated edition. | 140 |
| Burleigh, Robert | Home Run: The Story of Babe Ruth | 2 | 0.5 | A poetic account of the legendary Babe Ruth as he prepares to hit a home run. | 30 |
| Burnett, Frances Hodgson | Little Lord Fauntleroy (Unabridged) | 8.1 | 11 | A seven-year-old boy is whisked away to live with a crotchety, selfish grandfather, and told he is to inherit a title and a fortune. | 237 |
| Burnett, Frances Hodgson | Little Princess (Unabridged), A | 6 | 11 | In this children's classic novel, the wealthy and gifted little girl Sara Crewe must adjust to a different life when her father dies penniless. | 312 |
| Burnett, Frances Hodgson | Secret Garden, The | 6.3 | 13 | Mary moves to a huge estate to live with her mysterious uncle, his ailing son, the servants--and a secret garden. | 343 |
| Burnett/Vogel | Secret Garden (Great Illustrated Classics), The | 4.9 | 3 | Mary and Colin find an old key that opens a hidden garden. The mystery and beauty of nature help them to overcome their problems. | 238 |
| Burnford, Sheila | Incredible Journey, The | 7.6 | 5 | Three house pets migrate through the wilderness to find their family. | 145 |
| Burnie, David | Eyewitness Science: Light | 7.3 | 1 | Illustrated guide presents the principles, personalities, and historical scientific achievements of the science of light. | 64 |
| Burnie, David | Tree (Eyewitness) | 7.4 | 1 | Photographs and text explore the anatomy and life cycle of trees, examining the different kinds of bark, seeds, and leaves; the commercial processing of trees to make lumber; the creatures that live in trees; and other aspects. | 63 |
| Burningham, John | Mr. Gumpy's Outing | 1.7 | 0.5 | This book tells the story of what happens when Mr. Gumpy lets too many animals ride in his boat. | 30 |
| Burton, Virginia Lee | Little House, The | 4.2 | 0.5 | Beautifully illustrated story of a little house threatened by progress when tall buildings envelop the countryside. | 40 |
| Burton, Virginia Lee | Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel | 4.4 | 0.5 | Mike prefers his steam shovel to the new gas and diesel-engine contraptions and digs his way to a happy ending. | 44 |
| Busby, Peter | First to Fly: How Wilbur & Orville Wright Invented the Airplane | 6.4 | 1 | With an inspiring text, original paintings, period photographs, and detailed diagrams, this book recreates the story of the Wright Brothers, from their earliest challenges to their final triumph. | 32 |
| Butterworth, Oliver | Enormous Egg, The | 5 | 6 | Twelve-year-old Nate Twitchell's hen lays an egg the size of a melon, and the creature that hatches makes world news. | 188 |
| Buzzeo, Toni | Sea Chest, The | 5.2 | 0.5 | A young girl listens as her great-great-aunt, a lighthouse keeper's daughter, tells of her childhood living on a Maine island, and of the infant that washed ashore after a storm. | 32 |
| Byars, Betsy | After the Goat Man | 4.5 | 3 | Impending highway construction force Figgy and his grandfather to leave their home in the woods, but Figgy's grandfather, the "Goat Man," rejects city life and returns to the woods. | 126 |
| Byars, Betsy | Animal, the Vegetable and John D Jones, The | 4.6 | 4 | Clara and Deanie can't stand John D. Jones, the son of their divorced father's girlfriend. The feeling is mutual, and John D. dubs the girls the Animal and the Vegetable. It takes a near tragedy to bring them together. | 150 |
| Byars, Betsy | Beans on the Roof | 2.4 | 1 | As each of the five members of the Bean family tries to write a "roof" poem, they come to realize just how nice it is to be a Bean. | 63 |
| Byars, Betsy | Blossoms and the Green Phantom, The | 4.6 | 4 | While Junior puts the finishing touches on his new invention, the Green Phantom, his grandfather disappears. | 146 |
| Byars, Betsy | Burning Questions of Bingo Brown, The | 4.1 | 4 | A boy is puzzled by the comic and confusing questions of youth and worried by disturbing insights into adult conflicts. | 166 |
| Byars, Betsy | Cartoonist, The | 4.2 | 3 | In his private attic hideaway, Alfie has a place all his own--a world of cartoons and a dream of someday becoming a famous cartoonist. | 119 |
| Byars, Betsy | Coast to Coast | 3.8 | 4 | A girl and her grandfather fly across the country in an antique plane. | 164 |
| Byars, Betsy | Cracker Jackson | 4.2 | 4 | After attempting to save his ex-babysitter from wife abuse, Cracker Jackson gains an adult insight into the sadness of failed heroics. | 146 |
| Byars, Betsy | Dark Stairs, The | 3.9 | 3 | Young detective Herculeah Jones solves a mysterious situation on a forbidding estate. | 130 |
| Byars, Betsy | Golly Sisters Go West, The | 2.1 | 0.5 | May-May and Rose, the singing, dancing Golly Sisters, have several adventures while traveling west by covered wagon, entertaining people along the way. | 64 |
| Byars, Betsy | Hooray for the Golly Sisters! | 2.4 | 0.5 | In continued adventures, May-May and Rose take their traveling road show to more audiences. | 64 |
| Byars, Betsy | Keeper of the Doves | 4 | 3 | In the late 1800s in Kentucky, Amen McBee and her four sisters both fear and torment the reclusive and seemingly sinister Mr. Tominski, but their father continues to provide for his needs. | 121 |
| Byars, Betsy | Midnight Fox, The | 4.9 | 4 | Tom, a city boy forced to spend the summer on his aunt's farm, is afraid of animals -- until he learns to love a black fox. | 157 |
| Byars, Betsy | My Brother, Ant | 1.7 | 0.5 | In four separate stories, Ant's older brother gets rid of the monster under Ant's bed, forgives Ant for drawing on his homework, tries to read a story, and helps Ant write a letter to Santa. | 32 |
| Byars, Betsy | Night Swimmers, The | 4.3 | 3 | With their mother dead and their father working nights, Retta tries to be mother to her two younger brothers. | 131 |
| Byars, Betsy | Not-Just-Anybody Family, The | 4.6 | 4 | A warm comedy demonstrates how both good and bad times help to unite a family, even one as strange as the unforgettable Blossom family. | 149 |
| Byars, Betsy | Pinballs, The | 3.8 | 3 | Three lonely foster children learn to care about themselves and each other. | 136 |
| Byars, Betsy | Summer of the Swans, The | 4.9 | 4 | A fourteen-year-old girl finds maturity while searching for her younger brother lost in the woods. | 142 |
| Byars, Betsy | Tornado | 3.2 | 1 | As they wait out a tornado in their storm cellar, a family listens to their farmhand tell stories about the dog that was blown into his life by another tornado when he was a boy. | 49 |
| Byars, Betsy | Trouble River | 4.9 | 3 | When he builds his raft, a twelve-year-old boy never dreams that it will serve as the sole means of escape for him and his grandmother when hostile Indians threaten their prairie cabin. | 158 |
| Byars, Betsy | TV Kid, The | 4.3 | 3 | Television is Lennie's only escape from loneliness and boredom, until a snake bite jolts him into reality. | 123 |
| Byars, Betsy | Wanted...Mud Blossom | 4.2 | 4 | Convinced that Mud is responsible for the disappearance of the school hamster that he was taking care of for the weekend, Junior Blossom is determined that the dog should be tried for his "crime." | 148 |
| Byars, Betsy | Winged Colt of Casa Mia, The | 4.6 | 4 | Charles was a serious, bookish kid whose mother had sent him out to his uncle's ranch for the summer. Uncle Coot was tired and bitter. The two just had nothing in common--until an amazing colt that can fly brings them together. | 128 |
| Byars/Duffey/Myers | My Dog, My Hero | 4.1 | 1 | A panel of three judges has to decide which dog out of eight finalists deserves to win the title of My Hero. | 47 |
| Byrd, Robert | Finn MacCoul and His Fearless Wife | 4.6 | 0.5 | With the help of his brave and clever wife, Finn MacCoul bests the fearsome giant Cucullin. | 30 |