| Author | Title | Level | Pts. | Description | Pages |
| Cabot, Meg | Princess Diaries, The | 5.7 | 9 | Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne. | 238 |
| Cadnum, Michael | Book of the Lion, The | 6.9 | 8 | In twelfth-century England, seventeen-year-old Edmund finds himself traveling to the Holy Land as squire to a knight crusader on his way to join the forces of Richard Lionheart. | 204 |
| Calabro, Marian | Perilous Journey of the Donner Party, The | 7.2 | 6 | This book uses materials from letters and diaries written by survivors of the Donner Party to relate the experiences of that ill-fated group as they endured horrific circumstances on their way to California in 1846-47. | 192 |
| Calhoun, Mary | Cross-Country Cat | 3.9 | 0.5 | When he becomes lost in the mountains, a cat with the unusual ability of walking on two legs finds his way home on cross-country skis. | 40 |
| Calhoun, Mary | Hot-Air Henry | 3.6 | 0.5 | A sassy Siamese cat stows away on a hot air balloon and ends up taking a fur-raising flight across the mountains. | 38 |
| Calhoun, Mary | Katie John | 4.2 | 4 | Katie John and her family move into an inherited house in order to sell it, but find they don't want to part with it. | 134 |
| Calmenson, Stephanie | Roller Skates! | 2.5 | 0.5 | When the town store has a big sale on roller skates, everyone from the mailman to Pete the pizza boy ends up on wheels. | 28 |
| Calvert, Patricia | Bigger | 5.7 | 6 | A boy fails to persuade his Confederate father to return home to a life of peace -- and defeat. | 137 |
| Calvert, Patricia | Snowbird, The | 5.2 | 7 | Willie and her brother TJ are orphaned and must journey to the Dakota Territory to live with their uncle and aunt they do not even know. | 135 |
| Cameron, Ann | Julian, Dream Doctor | 2.9 | 1 | Julian and Huey try to find the perfect birthday gift for Dad with amusing results. | 62 |
| Cameron, Ann | Julian's Glorious Summer | 3.1 | 1 | When his best friend, Gloria, receives a new bike, seven-year-old Julian makes up a story about why he can't take the time to learn to ride rather than face his fears. | 62 |
| Cameron, Ann | More Stories Julian Tells | 2.9 | 1 | More episodes in the life of Julian including a bet with his best friend Gloria, a secret project, and what happens when his brother Huey decides to be Superboy. | 82 |
| Cameron, Ann | Stories Julian Tells, The | 3.4 | 1 | The imaginative Julian transforms everyday family activities into extraordinary, heartwarming childhood experiences. | 71 |
| Cameron, Eleanor | Court of the Stone Children, The | 6.1 | 8 | Aided by the journal of a young woman who lived in nineteenth-century France, Nina solves a murder mystery dormant since the time of Napoleon. | 191 |
| Cameron, Eleanor | Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, The | 6.3 | 6 | Two boys and the mysterious Tyco Bass, a mushroom grower, collaborate in the making of a space ship and plans for a wonderful space adventure. | 214 |
| Campbell, Eric | Shark Callers, The | 5.5 | 6 | Two teenage boys, one on a shark hunt and the other traveling with his family, face the challenge of their lives when a volcano erupts, causing a massive tidal wave in the South Seas. | 230 |
| Cannon, A.E. | Amazing Gracie | 3.8 | 6 | The daughter of a depressive mother finds strength and maturity. | 214 |
| Cannon, A.E. | Charlotte's Rose | 4.1 | 6 | As a twelve-year-old Welsh immigrant carries a motherless baby along the Mormon Trail in 1856, she comes to love the baby as her own and fear the day the baby's father will reclaim her. | 246 |
| Cannon, Janell | Crickwing | 4.2 | 0.5 | A lonely cockroach named Crickwing has a creative idea that saves the day for the leaf-cutting ants when their fierce forest enemies attack them. | 46 |
| Cannon, Janell | Stellaluna | 3.5 | 0.5 | After she falls headfirst into a bird's nest, a baby bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her mother. | 45 |
| Cannon, Janell | Verdi | 3.4 | 0.5 | A young python does not want to grow slow and boring like the older snakes he sees in the tropical jungle where he lives. | 40 |
| Capeci, Anne | Halloween Joker, The | 4.4 | 6 | With the whole town preparing for a Halloween party, a practical joker is targeting kids and the jokes are getting out of hand. Wishbone and his friends are on the case, determined to stop the joker before he or she strikes again. | 255 |
| Caple, Kathy | Friendship Tree, The | 2.2 | 0.5 | Blanche and Otis, two friends who are sheep, enjoy each other's company from the autumn through the winter to the spring. | 48 |
| Capucilli, Alyssa Satin | Biscuit Finds a Friend | 0.8 | 0.5 | A puppy helps a little duck find its way home to the pond. | 24 |
| Carbone, Elisa | Starting School with an Enemy | 4.8 | 3 | Worried about finding friends when she moves from Maine to Maryland, Sarah gets off to a bad start by making an enemy of a boy. | 103 |
| Carbone, Elisa | Stealing Freedom | 5.6 | 10 | A novel based on the events in the life of a young slave girl from Maryland who endures all kinds of mistreatment and cruelty, including being separated from her family, but who eventually escapes to freedom in Canada. | 258 |
| Card, Orson Scott | Ender's Game | 5.5 | 16 | Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer games. But in reality he is being trained to be the military genius that the planet needs in its all-out war with an alien enemy. | 324 |
| Carle, Eric | Grouchy Ladybug, The | 2.8 | 0.5 | A braggart becomes a better-behaved bug as it learns something about getting along with others. | 39 |
| Carle, Eric | House for Hermit Crab, A | 3.7 | 0.5 | A hermit crab who has outgrown his old shell moves into a new one, which he decorates and enhances with the various sea creatures he meets in his travels. | 26 |
| Carle, Eric | Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me | 2.2 | 0.5 | Monica's father fulfills her request for the moon by taking it down after it is small enough to carry, but it continues to change in size. | 28 |
| Carle, Eric | Tiny Seed, The | 2.7 | 0.5 | This story describes seeds' travels throughout the seasons. | 32 |
| Carle, Eric | Very Busy Spider, The | 1.3 | 0.5 | A spider is too busy spinning her web to do anything with her friends. | 22 |
| Carle, Eric | Very Hungry Caterpillar, The | 2.9 | 0.5 | Follow the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a large quantity of food (right through the pages), then wraps a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep. | 14 |
| Carle, Eric | Very Lonely Firefly, The | 2.4 | 0.5 | A lonely firefly goes out into the night searching for other fireflies. | 25 |
| Carle, Eric | Very Quiet Cricket, The | 3 | 0.5 | A very quiet cricket who wants to rub his wings together and make a sound as do so many other animals finally achieves his wish. | 22 |
| Carlson, Judy | Nothing Is Impossible, Said Nellie Bly | 3.1 | 0.5 | The biography of Nellie Bly and her trip around the world in less than 80 days. Her philosophy was "Nothing is impossible." | 30 |
| Carlson, Nancy | Loudmouth George and the Sixth-Grade Bully | 3.1 | 0.5 | After having his lunch repeatedly stolen by a bully twice his size, Loudmouth George and his friend Harriet teach him a lesson he'll never forget. | 28 |
| Carlson, Nancy | Smile a Lot! | 2.6 | 0.5 | A frog explains how smiling is a great way to get through life's ups and downs. | 32 |
| Carlson, Natalie | Grandmother for the Orphelines, A | 4.7 | 2 | The children from the orphanage set out to find the right grandmother, but go about it the wrong way. | 91 |
| Carlson, Natalie Savage | Family Under the Bridge, The | 4.7 | 3 | An old tramp, adopted by three fatherless children when their mother hides them under a bridge on the Seine, finds a home for mother and children and a job for himself. | 97 |
| Carlsruh, Dan K. | Cannibals of Sunset Drive, The | 4.2 | 4 | Ten-year-old Mike is convinced that the old monastery in his town is inhabited by a group of cannibal monks, until he meets the sole occupant of the building. | 143 |
| Carlstrom, Nancy White | Blow Me a Kiss, Miss Lilly | 3.6 | 0.5 | When her best friend, an old lady named Miss Lilly, passes away, Sara learns that the memory of a loved one never dies. | 28 |
| Carlstrom, Nancy White | What a Scare, Jesse Bear | 2.6 | 0.5 | At Halloween Jesse Bear picks out a pumpkin, helps make a jack-o-lantern, works on a costume, and has fun trick-or-treating. | 26 |
| Carrick, Carol | Patrick's Dinosaurs | 3.3 | 0.5 | Patrick sees dinosaurs everywhere until his brother tells him how long they've been gone. | 32 |
| Carris, Joan | Hedgehogs in the Closet | 4.2 | 4 | Unhappy with his family's move to England, eleven-year-old Nick slowly begins to thrive in the very British setting of his new home and school. | 186 |
| Carroll, Lewis | Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass | 7.8 | 10 | By falling down a rabbit hole and stepping through a mirror, Alice experiences unusual adventures with a variety of nonsensical characters. | 253 |
| Carroll, Lewis | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Unabridged) | 7.4 | 5 | Alice lives an ordinary life, until the day she finds herself in the wonderful world of mad tea parties and remarkable characters. | 181 |
| Carter, Kyle | Animals That Fight (Things Animals Do) | 4.2 | 0.5 | Discusses why and how some animals fight. | 24 |
| Carter, Kyle | Animals That Survive (Things Animals Do) | 4.2 | 0.5 | Discusses how some animals use their defenses to survive. | 24 |
| Carwardine, Mark | Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises | 7.1 | 1 | Describes where these creatures live, what they eat, and how they care for their young. | 63 |
| Cassedy, Sylvia | Behind the Attic Wall | 4.9 | 9 | Maggie, a "problem child," is passed from boarding schools to relatives and ends up living with aunts in a mysterious house with strange noises. | 315 |
| Catling, Patrick | Chocolate Touch, The | 4.7 | 2 | Instead of gold, everything John Midas touched turns to precious chocolate. | 87 |
| Caudill, Rebecca | Certain Small Shepherd, A | 4 | 1 | An unexpected snowstorm cancels the school Christmas show, but mute Jamie still gets a chance to wear his costume on a special Christmas Eve. | 48 |
| Cazet, Denys | Minnie and Moo Go Dancing | 2 | 0.5 | Cow friends Minnie and Moo decide to dress up and attend a party at the farmer's house. | 48 |
| Cazet, Denys | Minnie and Moo Go to Paris | 2 | 0.5 | Two cow friends, Minnie and Moo, find a bus and try to drive to Paris to see the Eiffel Tower. | 48 |
| Cazet, Denys | Minnie and Moo Go to the Moon | 2 | 0.5 | Two cow friends, Minnie and Moo, have an adventure when they drive the farmer's tractor. | 48 |
| Cazet, Denys | Minnie and Moo Save the Earth | 2 | 0.5 | While relaxing in the farmer's hot tub, two cow friends unknowingly thwart an alien invasion and save the planet. | 48 |
| Cazet, Denys | Never Spit on Your Shoes | 2 | 0.5 | First-grader Arnie tells his mother about his tiring first day at school, while the illustrations reveal the mayhem he is leaving out of his account. | 27 |
| Cendrars/Brown | Shadow | 3.2 | 0.5 | Shadow lives in the forest; it goes forth at night to prowl around the fires. In the African experience, Shadow is much more, an eerie image that shifts between the beliefs of the present and the spirits of the past. | 36 |
| Cerullo, Mary M. | Dolphins: What They Can Teach Us | 7.8 | 1 | This book describes the behavior of dolphins, their interactions with humans, and ways in which dolphins and people can benefit each other. | 42 |
| Chalmers, Aldie | In-Line Skating (Fantastic Book Of) | 6.2 | 0.5 | This book discusses the history, techniques, and safety measures for in-line skating, with fold-out pages on skating events. | 40 |
| Cherry, Lynne | Armadillo from Amarillo, The | 4.2 | 0.5 | A wandering armadillo sees some of the cities, historic sites, geographic features, and wildlife of Texas. | 30 |
| Cherry, Lynne | Great Kapok Tree, The | 3.8 | 0.5 | The many different animals that live in a great kapok tree in the Brazilian rainforest try to convince a man with an ax of the importance of not cutting down their home. | 30 |
| Cherry/Plotkin | Shaman's Apprentice: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest, The | 5.1 | 0.5 | Kamanya believes in the shaman's wisdom about the healing properties of plants found in the Amazon rain forest and hopes one day to be a healer for his people. | 30 |
| Child, Lauren | Beware of the Storybook Wolves | 4.5 | 0.5 | Herb loves Mom to read scary stories to him at bedtime as long as the books are taken out of his room at night. One night Mom forgets, the book stays open on the bedside table, and the storybook wolves come around for a most unwanted visit. | 32 |
| Chinn, Karen | Sam and the Lucky Money | 3.6 | 0.5 | Sam must decide how to spend the lucky money he's received for Chinese New Year. | 28 |
| Chodos-Irvine, Margaret | Ella Sarah Gets Dressed | 2.6 | 0.5 | Despite the advice of others in her family, Ella Sarah persists in wearing the striking and unusual outfit of her own choosing. | 32 |
| Choi, Sook Nyul | Year of Impossible Good-byes | 5.6 | 7 | A young Korean girl survives the oppressive Japanese and Russian occupation of North Korea during the 1940s, to later escape to freedom in South Korea. | 169 |
| Choi, Yangsook | Name Jar, The | 3.1 | 0.5 | After Unhei moves from Korea to the United States, her new classmates help her decide what her name should be. | 32 |
| Chrisp, Peter | Greek Theater (Look Inside), A | 6 | 1 | This book describes typical features of theaters in Ancient Greece and many of the common objects used in them including armor, comic masks, papyrus rolls, and aulos. | 32 |
| Chrisp/Haslam | Roman Empire (Make It Work!), The | 7 | 2 | This book provides information about clothing, transportation, food, religion, and many other aspects of life in ancient Rome. It is also accompanied by a variety of related craft projects. | 64 |
| Christopher, John | City of Gold and Lead, The | 6.5 | 8 | Three teenage boys compete to gain entry to an extraterrestrial city. | 218 |
| Christopher, John | Pool of Fire, The | 7 | 8 | Will and a small group of free people plan to destroy the three great cities of the Tripods before the arrival of a space ship destined to doom the planet. | 218 |
| Christopher, John | White Mountains, The | 6.2 | 7 | Giant Tripods control men's minds and rule the future world. | 214 |
| Christopher, Matt | Basket Counts, The | 4.3 | 2 | Long practice improves Mel's value as a basketball player, but how does he surmount the prejudice of a teammate? | 125 |
| Christopher, Matt | Catcher with a Glass Arm | 3.7 | 2 | Jody is a catcher who does not throw well, and after he is hit by a ball, is afraid of pitched balls; but he is able to overcome his fear and humiliation. | 137 |
| Christopher, Matt | Dirt Bike Runaway | 5.3 | 5 | A shy, unhappy sixteen-year-old with a talent for working with motorcycles runs away from his foster home and gets involved with a variety of people, both bad and good. | 149 |
| Christopher, Matt | Dog That Called the Pitch, The | 3.3 | 0.5 | Mike and his dog, Harry, the Airedale with ESP, are shocked to discover that the new umpire for Mike's baseball games can hear their mental conversations. | 38 |
| Christopher, Matt | Fighting Tackle | 4.7 | 3 | Until his growth spurt, Terry McFee was the fastest defensive safety on the Clippers football team. But now he's lagging behind. | 147 |
| Christopher, Matt | Football Fugitive | 4.5 | 2 | Representing a pro football player whom his son admires brings a lawyer closer to his young son. | 119 |
| Christopher, Matt | Great Quarterback Switch, The | 4.2 | 2 | Twelve-year-old Michael, confined to a wheelchair after an accident, uses mental telepathy to communicate football plays to his quarterback twin brother Tom, then suddenly finds himself on the field in his brother's place. | 97 |
| Christopher, Matt | Hit-Away Kid, The | 3.8 | 1 | Barry McGee, hit-away batter for the Peach Street Mudders, enjoys winning so much that he has a tendency to bend the rules; then the dirty tactics of the pitcher on a rival team give him a new perspective on sports ethics. | 60 |
| Christopher, Matt | In the Huddle with...Steve Young | 6.3 | 4 | This book reviews the life and career of Steve Young, quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers. | 131 |
| Christopher, Matt | Kid Who Only Hit Homers, The | 3.9 | 2 | A boy becomes a phenomenal baseball player one summer when a mysterious player resembling Babe Ruth befriends him. | 151 |
| Christopher, Matt | Reluctant Pitcher, The | 3.9 | 2 | Wally Morris likes playing right field, but his coach wants him to pitch. He finds a friend who convinces him that being true to oneself is sometimes more important than fulfilling another's dreams. | 85 |
| Christopher, Matt | Run, Billy, Run | 4.6 | 4 | When fourteen-year-old Billy joins the track team, he improves his running and other areas of his life, too. | 145 |
| Christopher, Matt | Shadow over Second | 3.8 | 1 | Nicky is on his way to breaking the record for most runs batted in, but first he must overcome his superstitions, and someone who doesn't want to see the old record broken. | 62 |
| Christopher, Matt | Soccer Halfback | 4.6 | 4 | A young boy is pressured by his family to abandon his promising soccer career for football. | 182 |
| Christopher, Matt | Stranger in Right Field | 4 | 1 | Who is the new player on the Peach Street Mudders, and how can Alfie Maples help him improve his game? | 61 |
| Christopher, Matt | Tight End | 4.3 | 4 | Jim's school football career is jeopardized by someone who wants to make an issue of his father's being an ex-con. Mystery and plenty of football action as Jim fights against prejudice. | 137 |
| Christopher, Matt | Tough to Tackle | 4.2 | 2 | A young football player learns some important lessons about life when he must play a position he does not like or quit the team. | 152 |
| Christopher/Hirschfeld | Wheel Wizards | 4.3 | 3 | Angry and unhappy because he is now in a wheelchair and apparently no longer able to play basketball, twelve-year-old Seth is amazed to discover wheelchair basketball and find that his life is not over after all. | 120 |
| Ciencin, Scott | Windchaser | 4.5 | 4 | Raymond and Hugh help a wounded dinosaur in this prehistoric fantasy. | 148 |
| Clark, Ann Nolan | Secret of the Andes | 4.7 | 5 | An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors. | 120 |
| Cleary, Beverly | Beezus and Ramona | 4.8 | 3 | Nine-year-old Beezus finds it difficult to love her troublesome younger sister all the time, but her mother explains why that is all right. | 159 |
| Cleary, Beverly | Dear Mr. Henshaw | 4.9 | 3 | A series of letters from Leigh Botts to the author, Mr. Henshaw, dealing with Leigh's aspirations of being an author, as well as excerpts from Leigh's diary showing the concerns of this bright young boy. | 134 |
| Cleary, Beverly | Emily's Runaway Imagination | 6.1 | 6 | Emily Bartlett is a fourth-grader growing up in the small town of Pitchfork, Oregon, in the days before cars and TV. | 221 |
| Cleary, Beverly | Growing-Up Feet, The | 3 | 0.5 | The twins' feet haven't 'grown up' enough for new shoes, so they get bright red boots instead. | 30 |
| Cleary, Beverly | Henry and Beezus | 4.6 | 4 | Accompanied by friend Beezus, bubble-gum tycoon Henry schemes to get a bike of his own. | 192 |
| Cleary, Beverly | Henry and Ribsy | 4.6 | 3 | Henry Huggins and his dog, Ribsy, go fishing and end up as wet as the huge salmon they try to catch. | 192 |
| Cleary, Beverly | Henry and the Clubhouse | 5.1 | 4 | Collecting from his newspaper customers to buy lumber for a clubhouse, Henry Huggins runs into some funny complications. | 192 |
| Cleary, Beverly | Henry and the Paper Route | 5.3 | 4 | His heart set on having a paper route, Henry Huggins is sidetracked by various interesting and funny distractions. | 192 |
| Cleary, Beverly | Henry Huggins | 4.7 | 3 | Third grader Henry Huggins acquires a flea-bitten but charming dog named Ribsy. | 155 |
| Cleary, Beverly | Janet's Thingamajigs | 3.2 | 0.5 | Janet won't share her thingamajigs with her twin brother Jimmy. Now Jimmy and Janet are shoving and shouting at each other. Their mother is at her wit's end until a big surprise for the twins saves the day! | 30 |
| Cleary, Beverly | Jean and Johnny | 5.6 | 8 | Johnny, the most popular boy in school, asks Jean to dance; it should be the happiest moment of her life, but instead it is the most embarrassing. | 219 |
| Cleary, Beverly | Mitch and Amy | 6.2 | 6 | Nine-year-old twins Mitch and Amy have a special gift for infuriating each other. | 222 |
| Cleary, Beverly | Mouse and the Motorcycle, The | 5.1 | 3 | A boy and a mouse share a common love -- motorcycles. | 158 |
| Cleary, Beverly | Muggie Maggie | 4.5 | 1 | Maggie resists learning cursive writing in the third grade, until she discovers that knowing how to read and write cursive promises to open up an entirely new world of knowledge for her. | 70 |
| Cleary, Beverly | Otis Spofford | 4.6 | 4 | Otis Spofford stirs up a little excitement, and big trouble follows. | 191 |
| Cleary, Beverly | Ralph S. Mouse | 5.1 | 3 | Ralph, the motorcycle-riding mouse, is off on another adventure and acquires a new sports car to replace his broken motorcycle. | 160 |
| Cleary, Beverly | Ramona and Her Father | 5.2 | 3 | In this adventure with Beezus and Ramona, two of the best-loved characters in children's literature, Mr. Quimby loses his job, and the entire family learns to cope with hardship. | 186 |
| Cleary, Beverly | Ramona and Her Mother | 4.8 | 4 | Now that her daddy has a job, Ramona hopes that her mother will stop working. If Mrs. Quimby stays home again, Ramona won't have to stay with Howie's grandmother after school, and her parents won't be so tired and irritable. | 182 |
| Cleary, Beverly | Ramona Forever | 4.8 | 4 | Ramona is back and funnier than ever as she prepares for her aunt's wedding and the move her family might make. | 182 |
| Cleary, Beverly | Ramona Quimby, Age 8 | 5.6 | 3 | Now in third grade, Ramona rides the school bus alone and helps around the house while her mother works and her father attends college. | 190 |
| Cleary, Beverly | Ramona the Brave | 4.9 | 3 | Irrepressible Ramona bravely struggles to cope with the assorted trials of growing up. | 190 |
| Cleary, Beverly | Ramona the Pest | 5.1 | 4 | A lovable five-year-old girl starts kindergarten with a hilarious series of misdeeds. | 192 |
| Cleary, Beverly | Ramona's World | 4.8 | 4 | This story follows the adventures of nine-year-old Ramona...at home with big sister Beezus and baby sister Roberta, and at school in Mrs. Meacham's fourth grade class. | 192 |
| Cleary, Beverly | Ribsy | 5 | 4 | A wonderful week spent as the mascot for a second grade class is just one of the adventures Henry Huggins' dog Ribsy experiences during the month he is separated from his home. | 136 |
| Cleary, Beverly | Runaway Ralph | 5.3 | 4 | Wanting excitement, adventure, and his independence, the cycling mouse runs away from home on his shiny red motorcycle. | 175 |
| Cleary, Beverly | Socks | 5.2 | 2 | A comfortable cat's life for tabby Socks is disrupted by the arrival of a new baby in the owner's home. | 156 |
| Cleary, Beverly | Strider | 4.8 | 3 | In a series of diary entries, Leigh tells how he comes to terms with his parents' divorce, acquires joint custody of an abandoned dog, and joins the track team at school. | 179 |
| Cleaver, Vera/Bill | Where the Lilies Bloom | 5.2 | 6 | This is a tough and tender novel about an orphaned mountain family and the courageous fourteen-year-old, Mary Call, who keeps them together and alive. | 210 |
| Clement-Davies, David | Trojan Horse | 5.1 | 1 | This is a retelling of how the Greeks used a wooden horse to win the ten-year-long Trojan War. | 48 |
| Clements, Andrew | Double Trouble in Walla Walla | 3.8 | 0.5 | It's am ordinary morning in Walla Walla until LuLu, her teacher, the school nurse, and the principal are all infected by a word warp which makes them reduplicate everything they say. | 29 |
| Clements, Andrew | Frindle | 5.4 | 2 | When Nick Allen decides to turn his fifth-grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, he cleverly invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control. | 105 |
| Clements, Andrew | Jake Drake, Bully Buster | 3.5 | 1 | Jake Drake takes matters into his own hands when Link Baxter, SuperBully, moves into the neighborhood. Link's reign of terror must be stopped. | 73 |
| Clements, Andrew | Jake Drake, Know-It-All | 4.1 | 2 | Jake Drake wants to win the grand prize in the school's first science fair. He wants to beat the know-it-alls Marsha and Kevin, but to beat them means he has to become a know-it-all himself. | 88 |
| Clements, Andrew | Janitor's Boy, The | 5.4 | 4 | Fifth grader, Jack, finds himself the target of ridicule at school when it becomes known that his father is one of the janitors, and he turns his anger onto his father. | 140 |
| Clements, Andrew | Landry News, The | 6 | 4 | A fifth-grader starts a newspaper with an editorial that prompts her burnt-out classroom teacher to really begin teaching again, but he is later threatened with disciplinary action as a result. | 123 |
| Clements, Andrew | School Story, The | 5.2 | 5 | After Natalie writes a novel, Zoe helps her devise a scheme to get it accepted at the publishing house where Natalie's mother works as an editor. | 196 |
| Clements, Andrew | Week in the Woods, A | 5.5 | 7 | The fifth grade's annual camping trip in the woods tests Mark's survival skills and his ability to relate to a teacher who seems out to get him. | 190 |
| Clifford, Eth | Harvey's Horrible Snake Disaster | 4.4 | 3 | When Harvey's cousin brings a snake to his house for the weekend, Harvey knows he's headed for disaster. | 108 |
| Clifford, Eth | Harvey's Wacky Parrot Adventure | 4.3 | 3 | Harvey and his least favorite cousin Nora become embroiled in the search for a hidden treasure somewhere in Uncle Buck's house, with the only clue to its location held by a loudmouthed parrot. | 112 |
| Clifford, Eth | Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library | 4 | 2 | Rose and Jo-Beth are trapped in an old library during a blizzard and there are strange noises coming from upstairs. | 96 |
| Clifford, Eth | Just Tell Me When We're Dead | 4.3 | 3 | Jo Beth and Mary Rose follow their runaway cousin to a deserted amusement park where they hide in a train that whisks them toward the Tunnel of Terror. | 130 |
| Clifton, Lucille | Everett Anderson's Friend | 2.9 | 0.5 | Having eagerly anticipated the new neighbors, Everett Anderson is disappointed to get a whole family of girls. | 26 |
| Clifton, Lucille | Everett Anderson's Goodbye | 2.5 | 0.5 | Everett Anderson has a difficult time coming to terms with his grief after his father dies. | 20 |
| Clifton, Lucille | Lucky Stone, The | 4.4 | 1 | Young Tee loved to hear the stories of good-luck that accompany her grandmother's lucky stone, but she needs some good luck herself, and the stone doesn't belong to her. | 62 |
| Clifton, Lucille | Three Wishes | 3.3 | 0.5 | When a young girl finds a good luck penny and makes three wishes on it, she learns that friendship is her most-valued possession. | 29 |
| Climo, Shirley | Atalanta's Race: A Greek Myth | 4.3 | 0.5 | This book retells the myth of the Greek princess, rejected by her father, raised by bears, won in marriage in a race by Melanion, and then changed into a lioness by an angry Aphrodite. | 31 |
| Climo, Shirley | Little Red Ant and the Great Big Crumb, The | 2.8 | 0.5 | A small red ant finds a crumb in a Mexican cornfield, but she is afraid that she lacks the strength to move it herself and goes off to find an animal that can. | 40 |
| Clutton-Brock, Juliet | Cat (Eyewitness) | 7.3 | 1 | Discover the world of cats in close-up, their evolution, behavior, and secret lives. | 63 |
| Clymer, Eleanor | My Brother Stevie | 4.1 | 3 | An unmanageable younger brother makes life difficult for his sister, until a sympathetic school teacher befriends and helps them both. | 73 |
| Coatsworth, Elizabeth | Cat Who Went to Heaven, The | 5.9 | 2 | A magical cat inspires a Japanese artist to paint the greatest picture of his life. | 64 |
| Coerr, Eleanor | Big Balloon Race, The | 2.6 | 0.5 | Ariel almost causes her famous mother to lose a balloon race and then helps her to win it. | 62 |
| Coerr, Eleanor | Josefina Story Quilt, The | 2.7 | 0.5 | While traveling west with her family in 1850, a young girl makes a patchwork quilt chronicling the experiences of the journey and reserves two special patches for her hen Josefina. | 64 |
| Coerr, Eleanor | Mieko and the Fifth Treasure | 4.3 | 2 | Staying with her grandparents after the atomic bomb has been dropped on Nagasaki, ten-year-old Mieko feels that the happiness in her heart has departed forever and she will no longer be able to produce a beautiful drawing for the contest at school. | 77 |
| Coerr, Eleanor | Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes | 4.1 | 1 | Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy. | 63 |
| Cohen, Barbara | 213 Valentines | 4 | 1 | Wade has trouble adjusting when he is transferred to a special fourth-grade class for the gifted and talented, so he plans to send himself 213 valentines signed by celebrities. | 55 |
| Cohen, Barbara | Make a Wish, Molly | 3.4 | 1 | Being different is not always bad, Molly learns after going to a birthday party. | 36 |
| Cohen, Caron Lee | Mud Pony, The | 3.7 | 0.5 | A poor boy becomes a powerful leader when Mother Earth turns his mud pony into a real one; but after the pony turns back to mud, he must find his own strength. | 28 |
| Cohen, Miriam | Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire! | 2.7 | 0.5 | Alex tries to impress his new first-grade class by having everything better than they do, according to him. | 28 |
| Cohen, Miriam | Lost in the Museum | 2.3 | 0.5 | Jim and his friends follow Danny to the dinosaur exhibit and the teacher and the rest of the class get lost. | 29 |
| Cohen, Miriam | No Good in Art | 2.8 | 0.5 | First-grader Jim can't paint a picture of himself as an adult because he's no good in art, but when he is encouraged to paint what he likes to do, he surprises everyone. | 29 |
| Cohen, Miriam | When Will I Read? | 2.3 | 0.5 | Impatient to begin reading, a first-grader doesn't realize that there is more to reading than books. | 28 |
| Cohen, Miriam | Will I Have a Friend? | 2.1 | 0.5 | Every child has a first day at school and this is the story of Jim's. His day begins with a lot of worries and wonders about his first day. | 28 |
| Cohlene, Terri | Quillworker: A Cheyenne Legend | 4.1 | 0.5 | This Cheyenne legend explains the origins of the stars and describes some of the history and culture of the Cheyenne Indians. | 47 |
| Colbert/Harms | Dear Dr. King | 4.5 | 1 | This book is a collection of letters written from children to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 63 |
| Cole, Joanna | Bony-Legs | 2.5 | 0.5 | This is the story of young Sasha's encounter with the witch, Bony-legs. | 46 |
| Cole, Joanna | Magic School Bus Inside a Beehive, The | 3.9 | 0.5 | Ms. Frizzle takes her class on a field trip to a beehive in her magic school bus. | 47 |
| Cole, Joanna | Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane, The | 4.3 | 0.5 | Ms. Frizzle's class takes a whirlwind field trip into the middle of a hurricane. | 42 |
| Cole, Joanna | Ms. Frizzle's Adventures: Medieval Castle | 3.6 | 0.5 | When Ms. Frizzle and her student Arnold follow an underground passage beneath Craig's Castle Shop and find themselves in the middle of a siege of a 12th century English castle, they learn a great deal about both castles and the Middle Ages. | 40 |
| Coles, Robert | Story of Ruby Bridges, The | 4.4 | 0.5 | For months, six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of segregationists when she becomes the first African-American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960. | 22 |
| Colfer, Eoin | Artemis Fowl | 5 | 9 | Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a brilliant criminal mastermind, but even he does not know what he has taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These fairies are armed and they are dangerous. | 277 |
| Colfer, Eoin | Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident | 5 | 9 | As Artemis rushes to his kidnapped father's rescue, he is stopped by a familiar nemesis, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police. This time, however, he is going to have to join forces with them if he wants to save his father. | 277 |
| Colle, Gisela | Star Tree, The | 4.1 | 0.5 | Memory and the Christmas spirit can be powerful and miraculous, as an old man with his basket full of stars proves. | 24 |
| Collier, James Lincoln | Jazz: An American Saga | 8 | 4 | This book examines the origins of jazz, its variety, greatness, and individual artists. | 101 |
| Collier, James/Christopher | Jump Ship to Freedom | 5.3 | 7 | In this sequel to War Comes to Willy Freeman, Daniel Arabus must escape from a ship to avoid certain slavery in the West Indies. | 198 |
| Collier, James/Christopher | My Brother Sam Is Dead | 4.9 | 7 | In this novel of the American Revolution, a young man is torn between his brother's patriotism and his father's Tory sympathies. | 216 |
| Collins, Mary | Airborne: A Photobiography of Wilbur and Orville Wright | 7.2 | 2 | This book examines the lives of the Wright brothers and discusses their experiments and triumphs in the field of flight. | 64 |
| Coman, Carolyn | What Jamie Saw | 5.4 | 3 | Having fled to a family friend's hillside trailer after his mother's boyfriend tried to throw his baby sister against a wall, Jamie finds himself living an existence full of uncertainty and fear. | 126 |
| Conford, Ellen | Dear Mom, Get Me Out of Here! | 4 | 4 | Trapped in a dreadful boarding school, Paul joins his classmates in attempting to uncover the shocking past of their headmaster, Mr. Pickles. | 160 |
| Conford, Ellen | Frog Princess of Pelham, The | 3.8 | 3 | When a kiss from Danny turns Chandler, a wealthy but lonely orphan, into a frog, Danny's humorous attempts to change her back into a human land the pair on a television talk show. | 106 |
| Conford, Ellen | Get the Picture, Jenny Archer? | 2.9 | 1 | Jenny lets her imagination run away with her when she decides to enter a photography contest and starts taking candid pictures around her neighborhood. | 64 |
| Conford, Ellen | Jenny Archer to the Rescue | 3.1 | 1 | After perfecting her first aid skills, Jenny is disappointed in not finding anyone to rescue and decides to invent her own emergencies. | 56 |
| Conford, Ellen | Jenny Archer, Author | 3.6 | 1 | Stymied by an assignment to write her autobiography, Jenny decides to enhance her life story by using her considerable imagination. | 61 |
| Conklin, Thomas | Titanic Sinks!, The | 6.1 | 3 | This book recounts the story of how the world's biggest, safest ship sank on its first trip. | 115 |
| Conly, Jane Leslie | Crazy Lady! | 3.8 | 5 | Although Vernon joins his friends in ridiculing the neighborhood outcasts, he develops a social conscience after all. | 180 |
| Conly, Jane Leslie | R-T, Margaret & the Rats of NIMH | 4.2 | 7 | The further adventures of the intelligent young rat Racso and his friends Christopher and Isabella as they try to ensure the survival of their secret community in Thorn Valley after its accidental discovery by two human children. | 260 |
| Conrad, Pam | My Daniel | 4.7 | 5 | Ellie and Stevie learn about a family legacy when their grandmother tells them stories of her brother's historical quest for dinosaur bones on their Nebraska farm. | 137 |
| Conrad, Pam | Pedro's Journal | 5.8 | 2 | The cabin boy on the 'Santa Maria' keeps a diary which records his experiences when he sails with Columbus on his first voyage to the New World in 1492. | 80 |
| Conrad, Pam | Prairie Songs | 5.3 | 5 | Louisa's life in a loving pioneer family on the Nebraska prairie is altered by the arrival of a new doctor and his beautiful but tragically frail wife. | 167 |
| Conrad, Pam | Rooster's Gift, The | 3.7 | 0.5 | Young Rooster thinks his gift is making the sun rise, until one morning when the sun rises without him. | 36 |
| Cooney, Barbara | Miss Rumphius | 3.8 | 0.5 | Alice Rumphius wants to travel the world and do the one thing her grandfather told her to do--make the world more beautiful. | 28 |
| Cooney, Caroline B. | Flash Fire | 5.8 | 6 | It was California. People were used to mud slides, earthquakes, sinkholes, and even brushfires. But this fire had a life of its own, and it had no intention of being put out. | 195 |
| Cooney, Caroline B. | Whatever Happened to Janie? | 4.7 | 7 | The members of two families have their lives disrupted when a teenage girl who had been kidnapped 12 years earlier discovers that the people who raised her are not her biological parents. | 199 |
| Cooney, Helen | Underwater Animals (Nature Company Young Discoveries Library) | 5 | 0.5 | Explores the intriguing lives of various marine and aquatic animals. | 30 |
| Cooper, Christopher | Eyewitness Science: Matter | 8.3 | 1 | Illustrated guide presents the principles, personalities, and historical scientific achievements of physics. | 64 |
| Cooper, Helen | Pumpkin Soup | 3.1 | 0.5 | Duck, Squirrel and Cat live peacefully until Duck wants to stir the pumpkin soup. | 32 |
| Cooper, Ilene | Queen of the Sixth Grade | 4.9 | 4 | After helping her supposed best friend Veronica found the sixth grade's secret club, the Awesome Kennedy Girls, Robin accidently gets on her wrong side and discovers how bossy and cruel Veronica really is. | 163 |
| Cooper, Susan | Boggart and the Monster, The | 6.2 | 7 | The invisible and mischievous spirit living in the Scottish Castle Keep sets out to help save Nessie the Loch Ness Monster, one of his few remaining friends. | 185 |
| Cooper, Susan | Boggart, The | 6.1 | 8 | After visiting her family's castle in Scotland and returning home to Canada, twelve-year-old Emily finds that she has accidentally brought back with her a boggart, an invisible and mischievous spirit with a fondness for practical jokes. | 196 |
| Cooper, Susan | Dark Is Rising, The | 6.2 | 13 | On his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs that will enable the Old Ones to triumph over the evil forces of the Dark. | 244 |
| Cooper, Susan | Greenwitch | 5.3 | 6 | Simon, Jane, and Barney discover the whereabouts of a priceless golden grail, possessed by a dreadful, vengeful power. | 131 |
| Cooper, Susan | Grey King, The | 6.2 | 9 | Will Stanton is swept into a quest to find the golden harp and wake the Sleepers. | 165 |
| Cooper, Susan | Over Sea, Under Stone | 5.4 | 12 | Three children on a holiday in Cornwall find an ancient manuscript which sends them on a dangerous quest for a grail that would reveal the true story of King Arthur. | 252 |
| Cooper, Susan | Silver Cow, The | 4.1 | 0.5 | The father of a young Welsh boy gifted with a magic cow manages to destroy all the good things the cow has brought to their lives. | 29 |
| Cooper, Susan | Silver on the Tree | 6 | 14 | In this conclusion of the tale begun in "Over Sea, Under Stone," Will Stanton, the Welsh boy Bran, and the Drew children try to locate the crystal sword that alone can vanquish the strong forces of Dark. | 274 |
| Cooper/Warren | Last of the Mohicans (Great Illustrated Classics), The | 5.9 | 3 | Hawkeye, the colonial scout, and Chingachkook, the Mohican warrior, are brought together by their love of the New World forests and their desire for peace between their races. | 238 |
| Coplon, Emily | She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain | 2.9 | 0.5 | This new version of the song "She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain" depicts a boisterous family celebration. | 32 |
| Corbishley, Mike | What Do We Know About the Romans? | 5.8 | 0.5 | Daily life among the Romans is detailed in drawings and photographs. | 45 |
| Corey, Shana | Milly and the Macy's Parade | 3.6 | 0.5 | Concerned that the immigrant employees of New York City's Macy's department store are homesick at Christmas, a young girl inspires the store's head to hold the first Macy's Parade. | 40 |
| Corey, Shana | You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer! | 3.5 | 0.5 | This is the story of Amelia Bloomer, an early women's rights activist, who wore baggy pantaloons with a short skirt over them, and liberated women from the dangerous and oppressive clothing of the mid-nineteenth century. | 30 |
| Cornelissen, Cornelia | Soft Rain | 4.3 | 3 | Soft Rain, a nine-year-old Cherokee girl, is forced to relocate along with her family from North Carolina to the West. | 115 |
| Cosby, Bill | Meanest Thing to Say, The | 2.2 | 0.5 | When a new boy in his second grade class tries to get the other students to play a game that involves saying the meanest thing possible to one another, Little Bill shows him a better way to make friends. | 29 |
| Cosgrove, Brian | Weather (Eyewitness) | 7.6 | 1 | Photographs and text depict different aspects of weather and how it is forecast. | 63 |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Bangalee (Original Text) | 4.9 | 0.5 | Tidy Bangalee teaches his friends that neatness is admirable. | 28 |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Catundra (Original Text) | 4.5 | 0.5 | Through exercise and a healthy diet, fat cat Catundra becomes a trim and terrific tabby. | 28 |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Creolésgrove, Stephen | 4.6 | 0.5 | Creole makes the other swamp kids look beyond her appearance to see her inner beauty. | 28 |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Dragolin (Original Text) | 5 | 0.5 | A friendly armadillo proves to little Dragolin that you can do anything if you just believe in yourself. | 28 |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Dream Tree (Original Text), The | 4.3 | 0.5 | Patti Caterpillar resolves to tell her caterpillar friends what it's like to be a beautiful butterfly when she becomes one herself. | 16 |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Feather Fin (Original Text) | 4.9 | 0.5 | Feather Fin, the eel, realizes there's no place like home. | 28 |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Flutterby (Original Text) | 4.3 | 0.5 | In a tale of being proud of who you are, Flutterby discovers it's great being a tiny horse with wings. | 28 |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Gnome from Nome (Original Text), The | 4.7 | 0.5 | The gnome and an otter find that love and friendship can keep you warm. | 28 |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Grampa-Lop (Original Text) | 4.9 | 0.5 | Grampa-Lop makes even the cranky older rabbits believe in magic. | 26 |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Hucklebug (Original Text) | 3.8 | 0.5 | Hucklebug discovers that life in bug village isn't so bad after all. | 28 |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Kartusch (Original Text) | 4.4 | 0.5 | The sleepless Fuzzy Eyefulls learn that there are as many beautiful things to behold in their dreams as there are when they are awake. | 28 |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Leo the Lop: Tail Three (Original Text) | 4.1 | 0.5 | Leo discovers that there are wonderful adventures he can enjoy all by himself. | 28 |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Leo the Lop: Tail Two (Original Text) | 4.9 | 0.5 | Leo proves to all that he is not just a cuddly bunny but a heroic one too. | 26 |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Little Mouse on the Prairie (Original Text) | 4.2 | 0.5 | Hard-working Tweezle Dee teaches the other mice how to stay warm in winter while they teach her how to have fun. | 28 |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Minikin (Original Text) | 4.6 | 0.5 | Minikin, the lamb, decides not to be in such a hurry to grow up. | 28 |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Morgan and Me (Original Text) | 4.3 | 0.5 | When he is transformed into a unicorn, Morgan learns that life comes with sacrifice and change. | 27 |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Morgan and Yew (Original Text) | 4.7 | 0.5 | Through the example of his friend Morgan, Yew the sheep discovers that the most precious possession in life is friendship. | 24 |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Muffin Muncher (Original Text), The | 5.1 | 0.5 | Industrious villagers and a very hungry dragon realize that by working together everyone can be happy. | 28 |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Raz-Ma-Taz (Original Text) | 4.6 | 0.5 | Nobody pays attention to the smart-alec Raz-Ma-Taz, until his friends come to his rescue in a lightning storm. | 28 |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Serendipity (Original Text) | 4.7 | 0.5 | Tiny Serendipity and her friends embark on a fantastic adventure to discover who she really is. | 28 |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Wheedle on the Needle (Original Text) | 4.4 | 0.5 | The Wheedle and the citizens of Seattle reap the benefits of compromise and ingenuity. | 28 |
| Cottringer, Anne | Movie Magic: A Star Is Born! | 4.9 | 0.5 | This book follows a girl as she auditions for a part in a science fiction movie, spends a day filming at a movie studio, meets all the people involved in the making of a film, and attends the gala opening to see the results. | 48 |
| Couric, Katie | Brand New Kid, The | 3.8 | 0.5 | Ellie and Carrie are nervous about the first day of school. Ellie makes a new friend and teaches the other classmates an important lesson about accepting people who are different. | 29 |
| Cousins, Steven | Frankenbug | 5.1 | 4 | Inspired by the movie Frankenstein, bug-lover Adam Cricklestein decides to create a monster bug that will protect him from the school bully, Jeb McCallister. | 151 |
| Coville, Bruce | Aliens Ate My Homework | 4.8 | 5 | Rod has enough troubles, but a tiny spaceship adds more problems to his life. | 179 |
| Coville, Bruce | Attack of the Two-Inch Teacher, The | 4.9 | 3 | Pleskit and his friend Tim decide to shrink Jordan Lynch, a school bully. Unfortunately, things don't work out as planned and Tim and their teacher Ms. Weintraub are the ones small enough to hide in a desk drawer. | 165 |
| Coville, Bruce | Dragonslayers, The | 4.6 | 3 | Princess Wilhelmina slays a dragon with the help of Brian, a castle page boy. She then gains her independence and the right to rule half the kingdom. | 119 |
| Coville, Bruce | Glory of Unicorns, A | 5.4 | 6 | This is a collection of stories about unicorns, spanning from Kabustan to the Far East and from an English village to the suburbs of America. | 198 |
| Coville, Bruce | Goblins in the Castle | 4.5 | 5 | William uncovers the secret of the castle where he grew up. | 164 |
| Coville, Bruce | I Left My Sneakers in Dimension X | 5.5 | 5 | Rod's summer vacation is already ruined when his bratty cousin Elspeth comes to stay. But when aliens capture him and take him to Dimension X, he is forced to make the most terrifying decision of his life. | 180 |
| Coville, Bruce | I Was a Sixth Grade Alien | 4.7 | 4 | Tim comes upon an alien in his sixth grade class and is invited back to his embassy, where he discovers a plan to sabotage the alien mission. | 168 |
| Coville, Bruce | Into the Land of the Unicorns | 6 | 5 | In a fantastic adventure, a young girl leaps into the land of unicorns. | 159 |
| Coville, Bruce | Jennifer Murdley's Toad | 4.6 | 4 | When an ordinary looking fifth-grader purchases a talking toad, she embarks on a series of extraordinary adventures. | 156 |
| Coville, Bruce | Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher | 4.9 | 4 | Small for his age but artistically talented, twelve-year-old Jeremy Thatcher unknowingly buys a dragon's egg. | 148 |
| Coville, Bruce | Monster's Ring, The | 3.9 | 2 | A timid boy, eager to frighten the school bully on Halloween, acquires a magic ring and the power to change himself into a monster. | 87 |
| Coville, Bruce | My Teacher Flunked the Planet | 5 | 5 | Peter Thompson's hilarious tour of Earth with disguised aliens continues as he searches for a way to save the planet. | 162 |
| Coville, Bruce | My Teacher Fried My Brains | 4.8 | 4 | Bill tries to figure out which new teacher at his school is an alien in the hilarious sequel to 'My Teacher Is An Alien.' | 136 |
| Coville, Bruce | My Teacher Glows in the Dark | 4.9 | 4 | Peter follows his alien teacher onto his spaceship, where he learns the alien's real reason for visiting Earth. | 137 |
| Coville, Bruce | My Teacher Is an Alien | 5.3 | 3 | Susan Simmons must prevent her alien teacher from taking selected classmates to another planet. | 123 |
| Coville, Bruce | Skull of Truth, The | 4.7 | 6 | Charlie, a sixth-grader with a compulsion to tell lies, acquires a mysterious skull that forces its owner to tell only the truth, causing some awkward moments. | 195 |
| Coville, Bruce | Some of My Best Friends Are Monsters | 4.8 | 3 | A camp director, who also directs movies, tries out his special effects on the Camp Haunted Hills. | 108 |
| Coville, Bruce | Song of the Wanderer | 5.8 | 9 | Having jumped into Luster, the land of unicorns, Cara makes a perilous journey to bring back her grandmother, the Wanderer, in order to release the Queen of the unicorns and allow her to die. | 330 |
| Coville, Bruce | William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream | 7.1 | 1 | A simplified prose retelling of Shakespeare's play about the strange events that take place in a forest inhabited by fairies who magically transform the romantic fate of two young couples. | 40 |
| Cowan, Catherine | My Life with the Wave | 4.2 | 0.5 | A child befriends a wave at the seashore and brings her home. | 28 |
| Cowcher, Helen | Antarctica | 3.2 | 0.5 | A brief introduction to the Antarctic and the animals that make this their home. | 34 |
| Cowcher, Helen | Rain Forest | 2.5 | 0.5 | Something powerful threatens the beautiful world and the creatures of the rain forest. | 31 |
| Cowen, Eve | Catch the Sun | 3.3 | 1 | Deena, a young runner, learns about dedication and working for a goal when she enters a marathon. | 60 |
| Cowen, Eve | High Escape | 3.4 | 1 | Irina has a bad fall while skiing, and it is up to Dory to help her. | 60 |
| Cowen, Eve | Race to Win | 3.2 | 1 | SporTeller novel about drag-racing. | 60 |
| Cowley, Joy | Agapanthus Hum and the Eyeglasses | 3.5 | 0.5 | Agapanthus struggles to do handstands and other acrobatic tricks while wearing her eyeglasses. | 44 |
| Cox, Judy | Weird Stories from the Lonesome Cafe | 3 | 1 | Sam moves to Nevada with his uncle to run a cafe in the middle of nowhere, and although Uncle Clem insists that nothing ever happens there, his clientele consists of a number of strange characters, including Dorothy and Toto, Elvis, and Bigfoot. | 72 |
| Coxe, Molly | Big Egg | 0.4 | 0.5 | A mother hen wakes up one morning to find a gigantic egg among the others in her nest and goes in search of the egg's origin. | 32 |
| Coxe, Molly | Bunny & the Beast | 3.9 | 0.5 | Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful rabbit maid releases a handsome rabbit prince from the spell that has made him an ugly beast. | 33 |
| Crane, Stephen | Red Badge of Courage (Unabridged), The | 8 | 8 | This stirring tale of action in the American Civil War captures the immediacies and experiences of actual battle and army life. | 278 |
| Crane/Vogel | Red Badge of Courage (Great Illustrated Classics), The | 5.4 | 3 | Henry Fleming, a Union soldier undergoes change from a boy to a man. He undergoes many trials of war. | 238 |
| Creagh, Carson | Things with Wings (Nature Company Young Discoveries Library) | 4.8 | 0.5 | Introduces and explores the lives of various creatures that have wings, such as butterflies, birds, and penguins. | 30 |
| Creech, Sharon | Bloomability | 5.2 | 7 | When her aunt and uncle take her from New Mexico to Lugano, Switzerland, to attend an international school, thirteen-year-old Dinnie discovers an expanding world and her place in it. | 273 |
| Creech, Sharon | Chasing Redbird | 5 | 7 | Thirteen-year-old Zinnia Taylor uncovers family secrets and self-truths while clearing a mysterious settler trail that begins on her family's farm in Kentucky. | 261 |
| Creech, Sharon | Fine, Fine School, A | 3.3 | 0.5 | The principal tells the students and the teachers that he would like to have school on Saturday. It is up to Tillie to convince him that it is not a good idea. | 32 |
| Creech, Sharon | Love That Dog | 4.5 | 1 | A young student surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem. | 86 |
| Creech, Sharon | Pleasing the Ghost | 3 | 2 | Nine-year-old Dennis, whose uncle and father died within a year of one another, is visited by the ghost of his uncle, and together they settle some unfinished business. | 89 |
| Creech, Sharon | Ruby Holler | 4.3 | 6 | Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage, but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called Ruby Holler | 310 |
| Creech, Sharon | Walk Two Moons | 4.9 | 9 | Sal hopes that her missing mother will soon return home. | 280 |
| Creech, Sharon | Wanderer, The | 5.2 | 6 | Thirteen-year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their transatlantic crossing aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five-foot sailboat. | 305 |
| Crew, Linda | Children of the River | 4.3 | 8 | Having fled Cambodia four years earlier to escape the Khmer Rouge army, seventeen-year-old Sundara is torn between remaining faithful to her own people and enjoying life in her Oregon high school as a "regular" American. | 213 |
| Crews, Donald | Cloudy Day Sunny Day | 0.7 | 0.5 | Whether the day is cloudy or sunny, it provides lots of opportunities for fun and entertainment. | 19 |
| Crider, Bill | Muttketeer! | 4.6 | 4 | Wishbone clashes with an evil official and his sinister sidekicks, who are trying to take over the French government. | 133 |
| Crimi, Carolyn | Don't Need Friends | 2.6 | 0.5 | After his best friend moves away, Rat rudely rebuffs the efforts of the other residents of the junkyard to be friendly, until he and a grouchy old dog decide that they need each other. | 32 |
| Cristaldi, Kathryn | Baseball Ballerina | 2.2 | 0.5 | A baseball-loving girl worries that the ballet class her mother forces her to take will ruin her reputation with the other members of her baseball team. | 48 |
| Cristaldi, Kathryn | Samantha the Snob | 1.8 | 0.5 | Samantha may look like a snob, but her glitzy appearance is deceiving. | 48 |
| Crompton, Anne Eliot | Snow Pony, The | 3.3 | 3 | Janet's afraid she will lose the beautiful pony she's helped train. | 117 |
| Cronin, Doreen | Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type | 2.3 | 0.5 | When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn, they start making demands and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want. | 29 |
| Crowe, Robert L. | Clyde Monster | 2.7 | 0.5 | Young Clyde Monster worries about people lurking in his darkened cave bedroom. | 28 |
| Cruickshank, Gordon | Cars and How They Work | 6.6 | 1 | Presents a history of car design and development. | 64 |
| Cummings, Pat | Talking with Artists | 5.9 | 3 | Fourteen distinguished picture book artists talk about their early art experiences, answer questions most frequently asked by children, and offer encouragement to those who would like to become artists. | 96 |
| Cummins, Julie | Tomboy of the Air: Daredevil Pilot Blanche Stuart Scott | 7.5 | 2 | This is the story of Blanche Stuart Scott, the first woman pilot in America. | 80 |
| Curlee, Lynn | Brooklyn Bridge | 8.2 | 1 | This book describes the planning, construction, and history of the Brooklyn Bridge. | 35 |
| Curlee, Lynn | Into the Ice: The Story of Arctic Exploration | 7.8 | 1 | The ice cap above the northernmost shores of Asia, North America, and Greenland, and the expeditions that crisscrossd it in search of the North Pole are described. | 40 |
| Curlee, Lynn | Liberty | 8.5 | 1 | This book discusses all the planning and efforts that went into the construction of one of the most famous symbols of the United States, the Statue of Liberty. | 41 |
| Curlee, Lynn | Rushmore | 8 | 1 | This book describes how this patriotic shrine and tourist attraction was conceived, designed and created by the dedicated artist Gutzon Borglum. | 48 |
| Curtis, Christopher Paul | Bud, Not Buddy | 5 | 8 | Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. | 245 |
| Curtis, Christopher Paul | Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963, The | 5 | 8 | The ordinary routines of the Watsons, an African-American family from Michigan, are drastically changed when they visit Alabama. | 210 |
| Cushman, Doug | Aunt Eater Loves a Mystery | 2.4 | 0.5 | Aunt Eater loves mystery stories so much that she sees mysterious adventures wherever she looks. | 64 |
| Cushman, Doug | Inspector Hopper | 2.5 | 0.5 | Inspector Hopper and his perpetually hungry assistant, McBugg, solve three mysteries for their insect friends. | 64 |
| Cushman, Karen | Ballad of Lucy Whipple, The | 5.8 | 7 | In 1849, twelve-year-old Lucy is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a small California mining town. Lucy helps run a rough boarding house and looks for comfort in books while trying to find a way to get "home". | 187 |
| Cushman, Karen | Catherine, Called Birdy | 6.4 | 8 | The daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off. | 169 |
| Cushman, Karen | Matilda Bone | 5.7 | 5 | Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and practitioner of medicine in a village in medieval England, tries to reconcile the various aspects of her life, both spiritual and practical. | 167 |
| Cushman, Karen | Midwife's Apprentice, The | 6 | 3 | In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world. | 122 |
| Cutler, Jane | Darcy and Gran Don't Like Babies | 2.4 | 0.5 | Darcy and Gran are not happy about the idea of a new baby coming, but they change their minds after the birth. | 25 |
| Cuyler, Margery | 100th Day Worries | 3 | 0.5 | Jessica worries about collecting 100 objects to take to class for the 100th day of school. | 30 |
| Cuyler, Margery | Biggest, Best Snowman, The | 3.6 | 0.5 | Since Little Nell is always being told she is too little to help, she thinks she is too small to build a snowman. With help and encouragement from her forest friends, she builds the biggest, best snowman ever. | 30 |
| Cuyler, Margery | Stop, Drop, and Roll | 3.2 | 0.5 | Jessica, who worries about everything from her spelling homework to remembering to fill her dog's water dish, learns that fire safety begins with extinguishing her fears. | 32 |
| Cuyler, Margery | That's Good! That's Bad! | 2.3 | 0.5 | A little boy has a series of adventures and misadventures with a bunch of wild animals at the zoo. | 32 |
| Dadey/Jones | Aliens Don't Wear Braces | 3.7 | 1 | Strange doings erupt when a substitute teacher walks into Bailey School. | 74 |
| Dadey/Jones | Angels Don't Know Karate | 3.6 | 1 | Could the new karate teacher who is guarding the kids and granting wishes really be an angel? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out. | 65 |
| Dadey/Jones | Bigfoot Doesn't Square Dance | 3.7 | 1 | The Bailey School kids are investigating the strange adult that lives in Bailey City, for he may be the legendary Bigfoot. | 67 |
| Dadey/Jones | Bogeymen Don't Play Football | 3.4 | 1 | The Bailey School Kids investigate the new student teacher who they believe may be out to get them. | 70 |
| Dadey/Jones | Bride of Frankenstein Doesn't Bake Cookies, The | 4.2 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City, but is the strange new cookie chef at the ice rink really the Bride of Frankenstein? | 75 |
| Dadey/Jones | Cupid Doesn't Flip Hamburgers | 3.6 | 1 | The kids of Bailey School find out if the new cook in the cafeteria is really Cupid. | 76 |
| Dadey/Jones | Cyclops Doesn't Roller-Skate | 3.7 | 1 | Could the doctor who has come to check everyone's eyes really be a cyclops? Liza is determined to find out. | 65 |
| Dadey/Jones | Dracula Doesn't Drink Lemonade | 3.6 | 1 | Is the new counselor at Bailey School a vampire? | 71 |
| Dadey/Jones | Dracula Doesn't Rock and Roll | 3.8 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could Mr. Drake, the old school counselor, really be in a rock band full of vampires? | 67 |
| Dadey/Jones | Dragons Don't Cook Pizza | 3.6 | 1 | Could the new pizza place with a man dressed as a knight really have a fire-breathing dragon as a cook? Eddie's going to find out. | 58 |
| Dadey/Jones | Elves Don't Wear Hard Hats | 3.6 | 1 | Could the short construction workers building the school playground really be elves working on a secret present? | 70 |
| Dadey/Jones | Frankenstein Doesn't Plant Petunias | 3.7 | 1 | A fun-filled horror adventure story. | 57 |
| Dadey/Jones | Frankenstein Doesn't Slam Hockey Pucks | 4 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the large man coaching the new hockey team really be Frankenstein's monster? | 76 |
| Dadey/Jones | Gargoyles Don't Drive School Buses | 3.6 | 1 | Could the new bus driver who looks just like a statue on top of the old library really be a living gargoyle? | 66 |
| Dadey/Jones | Genies Don't Ride Bicycles | 3.6 | 1 | The Bailey School students are on the trail of a real genie. | 69 |
| Dadey/Jones | Ghosts Don't Eat Potato Chips | 3.4 | 1 | When potato chips begin forming secret messages on the floor of Aunt Matilda's house, there must be a ghost behind this spooky business. | 67 |
| Dadey/Jones | Ghosts Don't Ride Wild Horses | 4.1 | 1 | Could the mysterious man that the Bailey School Kids meet on a class trip really be the ghost of Coyote Pete, the roughest, toughest cowboy in the Wild West? | 69 |
| Dadey/Jones | Ghouls Don't Scoop Ice Cream | 3.7 | 1 | The Bailey School Kids think the new worker at Burger Doodle is a ghoul spying for vampires. | 66 |
| Dadey/Jones | Giants Don't Go Snowboarding | 3.8 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the large man giving snowboarding lessons really be a giant lurking on Ruby Mountain? | 76 |
| Dadey/Jones | Goblins Don't Play Video Games | 4.2 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the new computer teacher really be the Master Goblin from Melody's video game? | 82 |
| Dadey/Jones | Gremlins Don't Chew Bubble Gum | 3.7 | 1 | The electrical appliances of the new secretary at Bailey School blow up. | 80 |
| Dadey/Jones | Hercules Doesn't Pull Teeth | 3.7 | 1 | Could the dentist really be Hercules, the strongest man in the world? | 70 |
| Dadey/Jones | Knights Don't Teach Piano | 3.9 | 1 | The kids wonder if the new piano teacher is a knight planning to take over Bailey City. | 66 |
| Dadey/Jones | Leprechauns Don't Play Basketball | 3.8 | 1 | The students at Bailey Elementary School think their gym teacher is a leprechaun. | 71 |
| Dadey/Jones | Martians Don't Take Temperatures | 3.6 | 1 | Some of the students at Bailey School think the new school nurse is a Martian. | 67 |
| Dadey/Jones | Mermaids Don't Run Track | 3.8 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the beautiful singing track coach with long hair really be a magical mermaid? | 72 |
| Dadey/Jones | Monsters Don't Scuba Dive | 3.6 | 1 | The Bailey School kids go to summer camp. | 69 |
| Dadey/Jones | Mrs. Claus Doesn't Climb Telephone Poles | 3.5 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. Could the jolly woman fixing the phone lines after a big blizzard really be Mrs. Claus? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out! | 90 |
| Dadey/Jones | Mrs. Jeepers in Outer Space | 4.1 | 2 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But what happens when Mrs. Jeepers takes the third grade to space camp? Could she really turn all of the scientists into vampires? | 124 |
| Dadey/Jones | Mummies Don't Coach Softball | 3.8 | 1 | The Bailey School Kids have their doubts about the new softball coach who keeps wrapping up his injuries in bandages. | 70 |
| Dadey/Jones | Ninjas Don't Bake Pumpkin Pies | 4.1 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the new baker who makes the best pumpkin pies really be a ninja in town to steal some valuable Japanese art? | 70 |
| Dadey/Jones | Phantoms Don't Drive Sports Cars | 4 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. Could the strange man who plays in the orchestra, wears a cape and always has one side of his face shaded really be a phantom haunting the opera? | 75 |
| Dadey/Jones | Pirates Don't Wear Pink Sunglasses | 3.9 | 1 | Humorous adventures with the Bailey kids at summer camp. | 78 |
| Dadey/Jones | Robots Don't Catch Chicken Pox | 4.2 | 1 | Could the drama teacher directing the class play really be a robot that is trying to take over the school? | 73 |
| Dadey/Jones | Santa Claus Doesn't Mop Floors | 3.6 | 1 | The Bailey School Kids want to find out if the jolly new janitor could really be St. Nick. | 71 |
| Dadey/Jones | Sea Monsters Don't Ride Motorcycles | 4 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. Is the winning rider at the motorcycle races really a sea monster? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out! | 74 |
| Dadey/Jones | Skeletons Don't Play Tubas | 3.8 | 1 | The new band instructor at Bailey School teaches everyone to play instruments, even a skeleton! | 73 |
| Dadey/Jones | Trolls Don't Ride Roller Coasters | 3.8 | 1 | Could the small woman selling T-shirts at the carnival really be an evil troll? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out! | 68 |
| Dadey/Jones | Unicorns Don't Give Sleigh Rides | 3.6 | 1 | The Bailey school kids are investigating whether a horse is a unicorn or just a regular horse. | 69 |
| Dadey/Jones | Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots | 3.8 | 1 | The rowdy third-grade class at Bailey Elementary is given a new teacher--the formidable Mrs. Jeepers. | 78 |
| Dadey/Jones | Vikings Don't Wear Wrestling Belts | 4.1 | 1 | Could the professional wrestler in town for WrestleBaileyLive be a real-life Viking? | 75 |
| Dadey/Jones | Wizards Don't Wear Graduation Gowns | 3.8 | 1 | Could the new assistant principal really be a wizard who wants to turn everyone at graduation into an animal? | 74 |
| Dadey/Jones | Zombies Don't Play Soccer | 3.5 | 1 | The Bailey School Kids are going to find out what is wrong with the new Soccer Coach. | 70 |
| Dahl, Roald | BFG, The | 4.8 | 6 | Luckily for Sophie, the BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who carries her off is nothing like his giant neighbors who are headed for England to gobble children and must be stopped. | 208 |
| Dahl, Roald | Boy | 6 | 6 | Tales of his childhood by the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. | 176 |
| Dahl, Roald | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | 4.8 | 5 | Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way. | 155 |
| Dahl, Roald | Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | 4.4 | 5 | Charlie Bucket and his family share a fantastic journey as they attempt to return to the Chocolate Factory. | 161 |
| Dahl, Roald | Danny, the Champion of the World | 4.7 | 6 | A light-hearted tale of Danny and his Dad and the numerous brave and zany adventures they share. | 196 |
| Dahl, Roald | Enormous Crocodile, The | 4 | 0.5 | The enormous crocodile devises secret plans and a few clever tricks to secure his lunch only to have them foiled by his neighbors. | 42 |
| Dahl, Roald | Esio Trot | 4.4 | 1 | Shy Mr. Hoppy devises a plan to win the heart of his true love by teaching her a spell to make her tortoise grow bigger. | 62 |
| Dahl, Roald | Fantastic Mr. Fox | 4.1 | 1 | Mr. Fox saves his family and his animal friends when he outsmarts three farmers who are hunting him. | 90 |
| Dahl, Roald | George's Marvelous Medicine | 4 | 2 | What's the only cure for the meanest grandmother in the world? George creates a fierce and fantastic bubbling brew, the perfect cure. | 89 |
| Dahl, Roald | Going Solo | 6.1 | 9 | A marvelous evocation of Roald Dahl's wartime exploits. | 210 |
| Dahl, Roald | James and the Giant Peach | 4.8 | 4 | Madcap adventures take place as young James enters a peach as big as a house and encounters wonderful new friends. | 126 |
| Dahl, Roald | Magic Finger, The | 3.1 | 0.5 | A duck-hunting family learns a lesson when an eight-year-old girl turns her magic finger on them. | 63 |
| Dahl, Roald | Matilda | 5 | 6 | Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and to restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security. | 240 |
| Dahl, Roald | Twits, The | 4.4 | 1 | Meet Mr. and Mrs. Twit, the world's most horrible couple, who just love to be mean. | 76 |
| Dahl, Roald | Witches, The | 4.7 | 5 | In spite of everything his grandmother has taught him about witches, a young boy gets turned into a mouse but does manage to interrupt their plans. | 208 |
| Dalgliesh, Alice | Courage of Sarah Noble, The | 3.9 | 1 | A charming and brave eight-year-old girl accompanies her father into the wilderness of Connecticut in 1707 to cook for him while he builds a new home for his family. | 54 |
| D'Amelio, Dan | Silvabamba | 3 | 1 | Two explorers discover a lost civilization in the Peruvian jungle. | 60 |
| Daniel, Claire | Chick That Wouldn't Hatch, The | 1 | 0.5 | Before she hatches from her egg, a baby chick takes quite a trip around the farm, with her mother and other animals in pursuit. | 16 |
| Danziger, Paula | Amber Brown Goes Fourth | 3.7 | 1 | Amber is all ready for the fourth grade, except she needs to find a new best friend. | 101 |
| Danziger, Paula | Amber Brown Is Feeling Blue | 4 | 2 | Nine-year-old Amber Brown faces further complications because of her parent's divorce when her father plans to move back from Paris, and she must decide with which parent she will spend the holiday. | 133 |
| Danziger, Paula | Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon | 3.7 | 1 | Amber learns her best friend is moving to Alabama. | 80 |
| Danziger, Paula | Amber Brown Sees Red | 3.7 | 2 | Amber is upset and angry when her parents argue over who she should live with. | 116 |
| Danziger, Paula | Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit | 3.7 | 2 | Amber Brown is in deep trouble. No matter what she does, it isn't enough. Her room is a mess, her homework late, and her mom is dating someone. | 120 |
| Danziger, Paula | Earth to Matthew | 4.1 | 4 | Matthew Martin finds himself on the threshold of becoming a teenager in suburban America and experiences conflicting emotions regarding his future. | 148 |
| Danziger, Paula | Forever Amber Brown | 3.8 | 1 | Amber Brown is learning that sometimes when things change, the most important thing stays the same. | 101 |
| Danziger, Paula | I, Amber Brown | 3.7 | 2 | Because her divorced parents share joint custody of her, nine-year-old Amber suffers from lack of self-esteem and feels that she is a piece of jointly-owned property. | 140 |
| Danziger, Paula | It's a Fair Day, Amber Brown | 2.8 | 0.5 | Upset with her parents for arguing on what she hoped would be a perfect day, Amber gets lost at a county fair when she tries to follow her best friend Justin and his family through the crowd. | 48 |
| Danziger, Paula | It's Justin Time, Amber Brown | 2.8 | 0.5 | Amber Brown loves to measure time and hopes to receive a watch on her seventh birthday. | 48 |
| Danziger, Paula | Pistachio Prescription, The | 3.8 | 5 | Teenage novel in which thirteen-year-old Cassandra runs for class president and tries to cope with explosive conditions at home. | 154 |
| Danziger, Paula | What a Trip, Amber Brown | 2.6 | 0.5 | Amber Brown and her parents go to the Poconos for two weeks with Amber's best friend and his family. | 48 |
| Danziger, Paula | You Can't Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown | 3.5 | 1 | Amber Brown is one very excited third-grader. She is going to visit her Aunt Pam in London! Amber is all set for the best vacation ever, until she gets the chicken pox! | 101 |
| Danziger/Martin | P.S. Longer Letter Later | 4.5 | 5 | Twelve-year-old best friends Elizabeth and Tara continue their friendship through letter-writing after Tara's family moves to another state. | 234 |
| Dargie, Richard | Roman Villa (Look Inside), A | 5.9 | 1 | This book depicts life in ancient Rome by examining everyday objects that were found in Roman villas and describing how they were used. | 32 |
| Daugherty, James | Andy and the Lion | 3.6 | 0.5 | In this retelling of Androcles and the Lion, Andy meets lion on the way to school and wins his friendship for life by removing a thorn from his paw. | 68 |
| Daugherty, James | Daniel Boone | 7.7 | 4 | Life on the frontier with Daniel Boone, includes exploring the wilderness and many adventures along the way. | 95 |
| Daugherty, James | Landing of the Pilgrims, The | 7 | 4 | The author draws on the Pilgrims' own journals to give a fresh and moving account of those precarious first years. | 151 |
| D'Aulaire, Ingri/Edgar Parin | Abraham Lincoln | 5.2 | 1 | An inspiring story of one of our most-beloved presidents, from his childhood in Kentucky in 1809 to his life in Washington and the end of the Civil War. | 55 |
| David, Peter | Worf's First Adventure | 5.7 | 4 | Commander Benjamin Sisko and Security Chief Odo have a killer on their hands who strikes without motive, endangering the space station itself. | 119 |
| Davids, Paul/Hollace | Mission from Mount Yoda | 6.5 | 3 | The struggle for control of the Empire continues as Luke must choose a side. | 87 |
| Davidson, Margaret | Helen Keller's Teacher | 4.3 | 4 | This is the true, inspiring story of Annie Sullivan, who helped Helen Keller realize her genius for living. | 153 |
| Davidson, Margaret | Louis Braille | 3.8 | 2 | This book is a biography of the French man who created a way for the blind to read. | 80 |
| Davidson, Margaret | Story of Benjamin Franklin: Amazing American, The | 5.2 | 2 | Describes the life and many notable accomplishments of the American printer, businessman, inventor, community leader, and statesman. | 102 |
| Davis, Gibbs | Camp Sink or Swim | 3.5 | 1 | In trouble at camp because he has bragged about his non-existent swimming abilities, Danny finds himself forming an unexpected alliance with the bully "Two Ton" Tonya. | 79 |
| De Angeli, Marguerite | Door in the Wall, The | 6.2 | 4 | A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the king. | 121 |
| De Angeli, Marguerite | Thee, Hannah! | 4.8 | 2 | Nine-year-old Hannah, a Quaker living in Philadelphia just before the Civil War, longs to have some fashionable dresses like other girls, but comes to appreciate her heritage and its plain dressing when her family saves the life of a runaway slave. | 99 |
| de Beer, Hans | Ahoy There, Little Polar Bear | 3.3 | 0.5 | Lars, a little polar bear, is accidentally scooped up in a fishnet and ends up on a ship, when he meets Nemo the cat who has a plan to help Lars find a way home. | 23 |
| de Beer, Hans | Little Polar Bear | 3.4 | 0.5 | While hunting with his father, a young polar bear drifts out to sea and ends up in a jungle where a friendly hippopotamus helps him return home. | 23 |
| de Beer, Hans | Little Polar Bear and the Brave Little Hare | 2.2 | 0.5 | A polar bear comes to the rescue of a snow rabbit. | 45 |
| de Beer, Hans | Little Polar Bear and the Husky Pup | 3.1 | 0.5 | Lars, the Little Polar Bear, rescues a husky puppy trapped in a deep crack in the ice. Instead of thanking Lars, the puppy snarls and yaps at him, then finds herself in trouble and needs to depend on Lars once more. | 25 |
| de Beer, Hans | Little Polar Bear, Take Me Home! | 3.2 | 0.5 | In his earlier adventures, Lars, the little polar bear, was often lost far from home; and each time, someone helped him get back safely. Now it's Lars' turn to help, when a little Siberian tiger named Sasha finds himself lost at the North Pole. | 24 |
| De Brunhoff, Laurent | Babar's Battle | 3.9 | 0.5 | Discord between the elephants and the rhinoceroses threatens to lead to war, but King Babar has a plan of his own. | 32 |
| De Brunhoff, Laurent | Babar's Birthday Surprise | 3.2 | 0.5 | Queen Celeste decides to surprise King Babar with a statue of himself for his birthday, but has a difficult time keeping it a secret. | 32 |
| De Brunhoff, Laurent | Babar's Little Circus Star | 1.5 | 0.5 | Babar's new daughter becomes the star of the big top, showing that there are huge advantages to being small. | 32 |
| De Capua, Sarah E. | Netherlands (First Reports) | 4.4 | 0.5 | This book introduces the geography, history, culture, and people of the Netherlands, a small country in northern Europe. | 48 |
| De Groat, Diane | Annie Pitts, Swamp Monster | 4.3 | 2 | As usual, things do not work out as planned when Annie lands the part of the swamp monster in a high school student's low-budget horror movie. | 98 |
| De Groat, Diane | Good Night, Sleep Tight, Don't Let the Bedbugs Bite! | 2.9 | 0.5 | Gilbert never thought his first night at overnight camp would result in a run-in with the Camp Hi-Dee-Ho ghost. Now he has no choice but to confront his fears face-to-face. | 29 |
| De Groat, Diane | We Gather Together...Now Please Get Lost! | 3.3 | 0.5 | Gilbert is determined to have fun on the class trip to Pilgrim Town. Now, if only his tattle-tale partner, Philip, would just get lost! | 32 |
| De Jong, Meindert | Along Came a Dog | 5.7 | 5 | A moving story about a dog, a hen, and a man and about the strange and wonderful friendship that grew between them. | 172 |
| De Jong, Meindert | House of Sixty Fathers, The | 5.5 | 6 | A young Chinese boy and his pet pig are separated from his parents when Japanese soldiers invade his country. | 189 |
| De Jong, Meindert | Hurry Home, Candy | 5 | 7 | Lost and nameless, a stray dog exhibits courage and finds a home at last. | 244 |
| De Jong, Meindert | Journey from Peppermint Street | 5 | 8 | Siebren goes on a journey with his grandfather and learns about people, about fear, and about love. | 242 |
| De Jong, Meindert | Shadrach | 4.9 | 5 | This beautiful story of a boy and his very special pet rabbit is told with a childlike perception and a sensitive understanding of a child's emotions. | 182 |
| De Jong, Meindert | Wheel on the School, The | 4.7 | 10 | Storks no longer come to the little Dutch fishing village of Shora to nest. Lina devises a plan to bring them back. | 298 |
| De Paola, Tomie | 26 Fairmount Avenue | 4.4 | 1 | Children's author-illustrator Tomie De Paola describes his experiences at home and in school when he was a boy. | 58 |
| De Paola, Tomie | Art Lesson, The | 3.6 | 0.5 | Tommy wants to be an artist and can't wait to take art lessons in school. | 32 |
| De Paola, Tomie | Big Anthony | 3 | 0.5 | Big Anthony, well meaning but inattentive, journeys around Italy causing one problem after another before meeting Strega Nona. | 29 |
| De Paola, Tomie | Big Anthony and the Magic Ring | 3.3 | 0.5 | When Big Anthony borrows Strega Nona's magic ring to turn himself into a handsome man, he gets more trouble than fun. | 32 |
| De Paola, Tomie | Hide-and-Seek All Week | 2.3 | 0.5 | Morgie, Moffie, and their kindergarten friends squander their recess time trying to decide how to play Hide-and-Seek. | 31 |
| De Paola, Tomie | Legend of Old Befana, The | 2.9 | 0.5 | Because Befana's household chores kept her from finding the Baby King, she searches to this day, leaving gifts for children on the Feast of the Three Kings. | 29 |
| De Paola, Tomie | Legend of the Bluebonnet, The | 4.2 | 0.5 | Luminous paintings capture the essence of a favorite Indian tale of a courageous small girl in the land now called Texas. | 28 |
| De Paola, Tomie | Legend of the Indian Paintbrush, The | 4.4 | 0.5 | Little Gopher follows his destiny as revealed in a Dream-Vision of becoming an artist for his people and eventually is able to bring the colors of the sunset down to earth. | 35 |
| De Paola, Tomie | Legend of the Poinsettia, The | 3.6 | 0.5 | Retelling of the Mexican legend of how the poinsettia came to be. | 28 |
| De Paola, Tomie | Little Grunt and the Big Egg | 2.9 | 0.5 | When a dinosaur hatches from the egg that Little Grunt brought home for dinner, Mama and Papa Grunt let him keep it as a pet until it grows too big for their cave. | 30 |
| De Paola, Tomie | Merry Christmas, Strega Nona | 3.7 | 0.5 | Big Anthony plans a surprise Christmas party for Strega Nona. | 32 |
| De Paola, Tomie | Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs | 3.4 | 0.5 | A small boy enjoys his relationship with his grandmother and his great-grandmother, but he learns to face their inevitable death. | 24 |
| De Paola, Tomie | Popcorn Book, The | 4.3 | 0.5 | Presents a variety of facts about popcorn and includes two recipes. | 28 |
| De Paola, Tomie | Strega Nona | 3.9 | 0.5 | When Strega Nona leaves him alone with her magic pasta pot, Big Anthony is determined to show the townspeople how it works. | 30 |
| De Paola, Tomie | Strega Nona's Magic Lessons | 2.8 | 0.5 | Big Anthony disguises himself as a girl in order to take magic lessons from Strega Nona. | 32 |
| De Paola, Tomie | Watch Out for the Chicken Feet in Your Soup | 1.3 | 0.5 | Embarrassed to introduce a friend to his old-fashioned Italian grandmother, a young boy gains a new appreciation of her when he finds how well she and his friend get along. | 32 |
| de Regniers, Beatrice Schenk | What Can You Do with a Shoe? | 2.7 | 0.5 | This book explores creative uses for common things. | 29 |
| Deady, Kathleen W. | Satellites (Explore Space!) | 4.1 | 0.5 | This book is an introduction to the history and various uses of artificial satellites. | 24 |
| Dean, Lou | Angels in Disguise | 5.3 | 4 | The story of Lou Dean Williams who later in life, was rescued from a life threatening accident by her beloved dog Jake. | 115 |
| Deaver, Jeffrey | Bone Collector, The | 4.6 | 17 | Lincoln Rhyme is dragged into the case of a diabolical killer known as the Bone Collector, who is stalking prey on the streets of New York City. | 423 |
| DeClements, Barthe | Monkey See. Monkey Do. | 4.1 | 5 | A rhyming story about a band of fun-loving, silly monkeys. | 146 |
| DeClements, Barthe | Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade | 3.7 | 4 | Jenny and her friends discover that although Elsie is fat, she is really a good friend. | 137 |
| Deedy, Carmen Agra | Library Dragon, The | 4.8 | 0.5 | Miss Lotta Scales is a dragon who believes her job is to protect the school's library books from the children, but when she finally realizes that books are meant to be read, the dragon turns into Miss Lotty, librarian and storyteller. | 28 |
| DeFelice, Cynthia | Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker, The | 5.2 | 5 | After his family dies of consumption in 1849, twelve-year-old Lucas becomes a doctor's apprentice. | 151 |
| DeFelice, Cynthia | Death at Devil's Bridge | 5.3 | 6 | Despite a great summer job as a first mate on a fishing boat out of Martha's vineyard, thirteen-year-old Ben gets caught up with illegal drugs and possible murder. | 181 |
| DeFelice, Cynthia | Devil's Bridge | 4.7 | 3 | Twelve-year-old Ben must cope with the loss of his father, who died the year before, and his mother's overprotectiveness when he enters the annual Striped Bass Derby on Martha's Vineyard. | 95 |
| DeFelice, Cynthia | Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs, The | 4.9 | 5 | Hindered by a fight with her friend Dub and a series of mysterious fires, eleven-year-old Allie investigates a fire that happened seventeen years earlier. | 180 |
| DeFelice, Cynthia | Ghost of Fossil Glen, The | 4.9 | 5 | Allie knows it's not her imagination when she hears a voice and sees in her mind's eye the face of a girl who seems to be seeking Allie's help. | 167 |
| DeFelice, Cynthia | Light on Hogback Hill, The | 4.6 | 4 | A girl befriends and learns the truth about the deformed recluse she had previously feared. | 139 |
| DeFelice, Cynthia | Lostman's River | 5.4 | 6 | Tyler hides from the law in the Florida swamps where he learns about that imperiled environment. | 160 |
| DeFelice, Cynthia | Nowhere to Call Home | 5.3 | 7 | When her father kills himself after losing his money in the stock market crash, twelve-year-old Frances, now a penniless orphan, decides to hop aboard a freight train and live the life of a hobo. | 200 |
| DeFelice, Cynthia | Weasel | 5 | 4 | Alone in the frontier wilderness in the winter of 1839 while his father is recovering from an injury, eleven-year-old Nathan runs afoul of the renegade killer known as Weasel and makes a surprising discovery about the concept of revenge. | 119 |
| Defoe, Daniel | Robinson Crusoe | 12.3 | 27 | A young seaman is cast ashore on an uninhabited tropical island. | 482 |
| Defoe/Vogel | Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (Great Illustrated Classics), The | 5.9 | 3 | A violent storm at sea destroys Robinson Crusoe's ship. He alone survives and is cast ashore on a deserted island where, for twenty-four years, he struggles to stay alive. | 233 |
| Defrates, Joanna | What Do We Know About the Aztecs? | 6.4 | 0.5 | The day-to-day life of the Aztecs in ancient Mexico. | 43 |
| Defrates, Joanna | What Do We Know About the Egyptians? | 6.4 | 1 | Everyday life in ancient Egypt is described in annotated photographs and drawings. | 43 |
| Delton, Judy | Back Yard Angel | 4.3 | 2 | Although ten-year-old Angel loves her little brother Rags dearly, the constant responsibility of taking care of him weighs heavily on her young shoulders. | 111 |
| Delton, Judy | Blue Skies, French Fries | 3.1 | 1 | Just before school starts, the Pee Wee Scouts have a big Labor Day Pee Wee Weenie Roast. | 87 |
| Delton, Judy | Camp Ghost-Away | 3.1 | 1 | When the Pee Wee Scouts go camping, they don't expect any scary ghosts. | 80 |
| Delton, Judy | Cookies and Crutches | 3 | 1 | Molly must decide to try for a skating badge or a cookie badge. | 69 |
| Delton, Judy | Eggs with Legs | 3.8 | 1 | The Pee Wees are planning fun activities for springtime holidays. | 87 |
| Delton, Judy | Grumpy Pumpkins | 3.1 | 1 | Molly worries when she learns that the Pee Wee Scouts' Halloween Party will be held in the nursing home where her grumpy grandfather lives. | 71 |
| Delton, Judy | Halloween Helpers | 4 | 2 | Mrs. Peters is out of town, and the Scouts need a leader to help them plan their Halloween party. | 115 |
| Delton, Judy | Lucky Dog Days | 2.9 | 1 | August is Help-a-Pet month, so the scouts head for the local pound to help out. | 69 |
| Delton, Judy | Peanut-Butter Pilgrims | 3.2 | 1 | Molly is determined that the show will go on when the Pee Wee Scouts put on a Thanksgiving play. | 74 |
| Delton, Judy | Pee Wee Christmas, A | 3.1 | 1 | The Pee Wee Scouts' plans for the holiday must wait when they rescue their scout leader, who is snowed in and whose baby is due. | 90 |
| Delton, Judy | Pee Wee Jubilee, The | 3.2 | 1 | The Pee Wee Scouts head for a big Jubilee in Atlanta, but one scout is afraid of airplanes. | 86 |
| Delton, Judy | Pee Wees on Parade | 3.5 | 1 | When the Pee Wee Scouts are asked to participate in the Fourth of July parade, only Molly doesn't know how to ride a horse. | 90 |
| Delton, Judy | Pooped Troop, The | 2.8 | 1 | The Pee Wee Scouts wear themselves out getting ready for the physical fitness festival. | 88 |
| Delton, Judy | Rosy Noses, Freezing Toes | 3.5 | 1 | Sonny is terrified of playing his violin in front of an audience. | 87 |
| Delton, Judy | Spring Sprouts | 2.8 | 1 | The Pee Wee Scouts observe the rights of spring as Molly charts the progress of her radish and the troop visits a farm. | 72 |
| Delton, Judy | Super Duper Pee Wee! | 3.7 | 2 | Yikes! Molly's newly divorced aunt is coming to town, and she's taking over Molly's dresser, Molly's closet, and Molly's life. It's up to Molly and Mary Beth to see if they can marry her off. Meanwhile, Molly is worried about her own parents. | 135 |
| Delton, Judy | Teeny Weeny Zucchinis | 3.5 | 1 | It's time for the harvest fest, and all the Pee Wees are planning to pitch in. | 88 |
| Delton, Judy | That Mushy Stuff | 3.2 | 1 | Everyone in the Pee Wee Scouts knows that Roger likes Patty, and they get teased during the scout meeting. | 63 |
| Delton, Judy | Trash Bash | 3.4 | 1 | Molly is determined to recycle whether anyone else does or not. | 86 |
| Demi | Empty Pot, The | 3.8 | 0.5 | When Ping admits that he is the only child in China unable to grow a flower from the seeds distributed by the Emperor, he is rewarded for his honesty. | 30 |
| Demi | Greatest Treasure, The | 3.4 | 0.5 | In this traditional Chinese tale, a poor man receives a treasure of gold and discovers the true value of simple pleasures. | 28 |
| Denenberg, Barry | Early Sunday Morning: The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows | 5.6 | 3 | Amber Billows keeps a journal of the days leading up to and following the Pearl Harbor attack in Hawaii. | 156 |
| Denenberg, Barry | Elisabeth: The Princess Bride | 7.4 | 3 | This is the diary of Princess Elisabeth, written in 1853-1854, describing her engagement and marriage to her cousin Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria. | 151 |
| Denenberg, Barry | Journal of Ben Uchida, Citizen 13559: Mirror Lake Internment C, Th | 5.2 | 4 | Twelve-year-old Ben Uchida keeps a journal of his experiences as a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp in Mirror Lake, California, during World War II. | 151 |
| Denenberg, Barry | Journal of William Thomas Emerson: A Revolutionary War Patriot, Th | 5.6 | 4 | Will, a twelve-year-old orphan, writes of his experiences in pre-Revolutionary War Boston where he joins the cause of the patriots who are opposed to British rule. | 156 |
| Denenberg, Barry | So Far from Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl | 4.4 | 3 | In the diary account of her journey from Ireland in 1847 and of her work in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Mary reveals a great longing for her family. | 164 |
| Denenberg, Barry | Story of Muhammad Ali: Heavyweight Champion of the World, The | 5.5 | 2 | Describes the life of the controversial heavyweight fighter, both in and out of the ring. | 104 |
| Denenberg, Barry | When Will This Cruel War Be Over? The Civil War Diary of Emma Simp | 6.6 | 3 | The diary of a fictional fourteen-year-old girl living in Virginia, in which she describes the hardships endured by her family and friends during one year of the Civil War. | 152 |
| deRegniers, Beatrice Schenk | May I Bring a Friend? | 2.7 | 0.5 | A boy visits the Royal Family and brings all his animal friends. | 41 |
| Desmoinaux, Christel | Mrs. Hen's Big Surprise | 2.7 | 0.5 | When Mrs. Hen finds a strange egg in her garden, she sits on it and is surprised by its contents when it hatches. | 29 |
| Devlin, Wende/Harry | Cranberry Christmas | 4 | 0.5 | Mr. Whiskers faces a gloomy Christmas until Maggie and her grandmother help him straighten out his house and find the deed to the nearby pond. | 30 |
| Devlin, Wende/Harry | Cranberry Thanksgiving | 3.7 | 0.5 | Grandmother almost loses her secret recipe for cranberry bread to one of the guests she and Maggie invite for Thanksgiving dinner. Includes the secret recipe. | 30 |
| Devlin, Wende/Harry | Cranberry Valentine | 3 | 0.5 | Maggie, her grandmother, and the sewing circle make Cranberryport a brighter place for Mr. Whiskers when they send him secret valentines. | 27 |
| DeVries, David | Home at Last | 4.7 | 6 | Billy, a streetwise kid from New York City, is sent to Nebraska and is taken in by a Swedish farm family, the Andersons. Initially fearful and resentful, Billy doesn't fit in, and he clashes with his new family and adoptive father. | 151 |
| DiCamillo, Kate | Because of Winn-Dixie | 3.9 | 3 | Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie. | 182 |
| DiCamillo, Kate | Tale of Despereaux, The | 4.7 | 5 | This is the adventures of Despereaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin. | 267 |
| Dickens, Charles | Christmas Carol (Unabridged), A | 6.7 | 5 | In this classic story, Ebenezer Scrooge learns the true meaning of Christmas after being visited by three ghosts. | 102 |
| Dickens/Leighton | Oliver Twist (Great Illustrated Classics) | 4.6 | 2 | Oliver Twist runs away to London only to fall into the clutches of a gang of thieves. Befriended by a man, Oliver ultimately learns his true identity and gains a home, a fortune, and a family. | 238 |
| Dickens/Leighton | Tale of Two Cities (Great Illustrated Classics), A | 5.8 | 3 | In this book, Lucie and her family become involved in the events of the bloody and dangerous French Revolution. | 238 |
| Dickens/Vogel | David Copperfield (Great Illustrated Classics) | 5 | 3 | Young David Copperfield, orphaned as a child and abandoned by a vicious stepfather, must learn to make a life for himself. | 238 |
| Dickens/Yamamoto | Great Expectations (Great Illustrated Classics) | 5.6 | 3 | Pip, an orphan boy, yearns to be a gentleman. His life changes when a fortune is left to him. | 238 |
| DiSalvo-Ryan, DyAnne | Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen | 3.3 | 0.5 | A boy spends the day with Uncle Willie in the soup kitchen where he works preparing and serving food for the hungry. | 32 |
| DiTerlizzi, Tony | Ted | 2.6 | 0.5 | A young boy manages to get his busy father's attention with the help of a special imaginary friend. | 40 |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Apeman's Secret, The | 6.7 | 6 | What started out as a prank is now something much more sinister. | 178 |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Danger on Vampire Trail | 5.1 | 5 | The Hardy boys and two friends take a camping trip to the Rocky Mountains in an attempt to locate a gang of credit-card counterfeiters. | 175 |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Deep Trouble | 5.1 | 5 | In a world of mystery and silence, terror always strikes without warning! | 153 |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Evil, Inc. | 5.4 | 5 | The Hardy boys are off to Paris to get the goods on a French businessman who may be the head of an international crime empire. | 153 |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Great Airport Mystery, The | 5.8 | 5 | The Hardy boys are called on to assist their father in solving a case involving platinum shipments that are being stolen from cargo planes. | 175 |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | House on the Cliff, The | 5.4 | 5 | Frank and Joe manage to escape from a hostage situation with a band of smugglers and, of course, solve another mystery. | 180 |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Hunting for Hidden Gold | 6.3 | 6 | Frank and Joe uncover the clues in this case that they seem to have been led to by mysterious happenings. | 177 |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Missing Chums, The | 5.2 | 5 | Frank and Joe investigate numerous crimes in their town that may or may not be related. | 175 |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Mystery of Cabin Island, The | 5.2 | 5 | The Hardy boys are invited to spend Christmas on a wealthy man's island where they learn of and solve a kidnapping and theft mystery. | 178 |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Mystery of Smugglers Cove | 5.1 | 5 | A valuable painting is stolen en route to Florida, and the Hardy Boys are suspects. | 168 |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Secret of the Caves, The | 5.2 | 5 | Triggered by the disappearance of a brilliant young professor, this mystery takes the Hardy boys first to Kenworthy College, where they find a puzzling message on an examination paper. | 175 |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Secret of the Old Mill, The | 5.5 | 5 | "Drop case or else danger for you and your family." This warning addressed to Fenton Hardy not only alarms the famous investigator and his detective sons, but also puzzles them because Mr. Hardy is working on more than one case. | 174 |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Serpent's Tooth Mystery, The | 4.7 | 4 | A poisonous plot endangers the safety of the Hardy boys' hometown. | 152 |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Shore Road Mystery, The | 5.6 | 5 | An offer to help a friend pits the Hardys against a ruthless gang of criminals. | 178 |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Sting of the Scorpion, The | 5.9 | 6 | During Mr. Hardy's investigation of a ruthless gang of terrorists, Frank and Joe witness an explosion in the sky near an airborne dirigible owned by Quinn Air Fleet. | 180 |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Tower Treasure, The | 5.4 | 6 | What did the speeding motorist have to do with the mystery of the Tower Treasure? | 180 |
| Dodds, Dayle Ann | Kettles Get New Clothes, The | 2.8 | 0.5 | When the small store where they usually buy their clothes changes hands, the Kettles are in for a surprise on their annual shopping trip. | 24 |
| Dodge, Mary Mapes | Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates | 8.2 | 14 | A Dutch boy and girl work toward two goals--finding the doctor who can restore their father's memory and winning the competition for the silver skates. Includes a brief biography of the author and a history of ice skating. | 284 |
| Dodge/Vogel | Hans Brinker (Great Illustrated Classics) | 5.2 | 3 | This is the story of a poor boy who wants to prove his own worth and to help his terribly sick father. It is also the story of Hans' little sister, Gretel,who dreams of winning the skating race whose prize is the silver skates. | 240 |
| Doeden/Scheff | Grasslands (Biomes) | 4.3 | 0.5 | This book explains how grassland biomes are formed, and how plants and animals adapt to grasslands. | 32 |
| Donnelly, Judy | True-Life Treasure Hunts | 3.7 | 1 | Incredible true stories of real treasure hunters. | 48 |
| Donohue, Shiobhan | Kristi Yamaguchi: Artist on Ice | 6.6 | 1 | A biography of the figure skater who won the National, Olympic, and World Championships in 1992. | 60 |
| Dorre, Pamela | Wind over Stonehenge | 3.2 | 1 | Archaeologists' excavation near Stonehenge unleash an evil power from the ancient past. | 59 |
| Dorrie, Doris | Lottie's Princess Dress | 3.1 | 0.5 | Lottie wants to wear her princess dress to school, but her mother doesn't want her to wear it. The authors offer a resolution that will surprise and delight every mother-daughter duo whose outlooks or outfits occasionally clash. | 30 |
| Dorris, Michael | Guests | 5.2 | 3 | A native American boy discovers the inevitability of change as he grows up. | 119 |
| Dorris, Michael | Morning Girl | 4.9 | 2 | A young Taino girl goes swimming off her Bahamian island and meets Christopher Columbus' landing party in this vivid portrait of a Native American family and their culture. | 74 |
| Dorris, Michael | Sees Behind Trees | 5.2 | 4 | A Native-American boy with a special gift to "see" beyond his poor eyesight journeys with an old warrior to a land of mystery and beauty. | 104 |
| Dowell, Frances O'Roark | Dovey Coe | 5.4 | 6 | When accused of murder in her North Carolina mountain town in 1928, Dovey Coe, a strong-willed twelve-year-old girl, comes to a new understanding of others, including her deaf brother. | 181 |
| Doyle, Arthur Conan | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Claremont), The | 8.8 | 16 | Ten short stories from the popular Sherlock Holmes adventures. | 255 |
| Doyle, Arthur Conan | Hound of the Baskervilles (Unabridged), The | 8.3 | 11 | Sherlock Holmes and Watson set out to solve the mystery that had haunted the Baskerville family for years and had recently occurred again. | 246 |
| Doyle, Arthur Conan | Mysterious Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The | 7.9 | 11 | Eight intriguing and mysterious adventures from the world's most-famous detective. | 246 |
| Doyle, Roddy | Giggler Treatment, The | 3.7 | 1 | A talking dog, the Mack children, and the small elf-like Gigglers themselves must try to stop the prank that the Gigglers have mistakenly set in motion to punish Mr. Mack for being mean to his children. | 112 |
| Doyle/Vogel | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Great Illustrated Classics), The | 5.7 | 3 | This book contains three of the most celebrated cases of Sherlock Holmes, the mastermind detective of the ages. | 238 |
| Dragonwagon, Crescent | Brass Button | 4.7 | 0.5 | When a brass button falls off Mrs Moffatt's coat, it begins a journey around the neighborhood and eventually ends up back where it started. | 36 |
| Drescher, Henrick | Simon's Book | 3.8 | 0.5 | Late one night, a boy at a drawing table starts to draw a story about Simon and the monster. He tires soon, however, and goes to bed, leaving the drawing of Simon and the monster to take on a life of its own. | 28 |
| Drucker, Malka | Jacob's Rescue: A Holocaust Story | 4.5 | 3 | A powerful Holocaust story based on real events about a Jewish boy rescued from Nazis. | 117 |
| du Bois, William Pét story based on real events about a Jewish boy rescued from Nazis. | Twenty-One Balloons, The | 6.8 | 6 | This tale relates the incredible adventures of Professor William Waterman Sherman, who in 1883 journeys in a balloon across the Pacific Ocean, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, and is eventually rescued in the Atlantic Ocean. | 180 |
| Dubowski, Cathy East | Cave Boy | 1.2 | 0.5 | Harry the cave boy has invented the wheel, but no one can figure out what it does. | 32 |
| Duey, Kathleen | Francesca Vigilucci | 5.2 | 4 | In 1913, the Washington Post is full of headlines about the suffragists. Francesca does not want the life her family plans for her of privilege, good works, and a wife of a successful man. She dreams of becoming a reporter. | 128 |
| Duffey, Betsy | Alien for Rent | 2.6 | 1 | When a small fuzzy alien appears at their school, third-graders J.P. and Lexie accidentally direct his powers against the bully Bruce and things get out of control. | 71 |
| Duffey, Betsy | Math Wiz, The | 3.9 | 1 | Harry is in love and his best friend, Doug, is disgusted. Harry won't even throw snowballs at girls anymore. Will Harry ever go back to being his horrible self? | 67 |
| Dugan, Barbara | Loop the Loop | 3.7 | 0.5 | Anne thinks that Mrs. Simpson, who travels in a wheelchair and performs fabulous yo-yo tricks, is just great. | 28 |
| Dumas, Alexandre | Count of Monte Cristo (Abridged), The | 8.8 | 34 | Sentenced to life for a crime he did not commit, the hero escapes, determined to exact revenge from his enemies. | 441 |
| Dumas/Vogel | Three Musketeers (Great Illustrated Classics), The | 5.1 | 2 | This is a classic tale of adventure and romance historically set in the time of Louis the XIII of France. | 236 |
| Dumas/Yamamoto | Count of Monte Cristo (Great Illustrated Classics), The | 5.6 | 3 | After being unjustly imprisoned for fourteen years, Edmond Dantes escapes and seeks revenge against his enemies. | 236 |
| Dunbar, Joyce | Tell Me Something Happy Before I Go to Sleep | 2.2 | 0.5 | Willa has trouble falling asleep until her brother reminds her of all the happy things that await her in the morning. | 24 |
| Dunbar, Joyce | Very Small, The | 3.5 | 0.5 | When Giant Baby Bear finds a very small something in the woods, he takes it home to share in his day. | 25 |
| Duncan, Lois | Longest Hair in the World, The | 3.2 | 0.5 | On her sixth birthday, Emily wishes for the longest hair in the world, and as it continues to grow and grow it creates terrible problems for her and everyone around her. | 26 |
| Duquennoy, Jacques | Ghosts' Trip to Loch Ness, The | 2.7 | 0.5 | Four friends take a ghostly trip to Loch Ness to try and spot the monster. | 45 |
| Durbin, William | Journal of Sean Sullivan: A Transcontinental Railroad Worker, The | 5.9 | 5 | In 1867, fifteen-year-old Sean experiences both hardships and rewards when he joins his father in working on the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. | 181 |
| Durbin, William | Wintering | 6.1 | 7 | In 1801, fourteen-year-old Pierre returns to work for the North West Company and makes the long and difficult journey to a winter camp, where he learns both from the other voyageurs and from the Ojibwa Indians whose land they share. | 191 |
| Dygard, Thomas J. | Outside Shooter | 5.8 | 5 | A high school basketball star's personality problems threaten not only his own career but the success of the whole team. | 189 |
| Dygard, Thomas J. | Rookie Arrives, The | 5.2 | 6 | Cocky Ted Bell moves from being star of his high school baseball team directly into playing in the major leagues and finds that he has a lot to learn before becoming the world's greatest third-baseman. | 197 |
| Dygard, Thomas J. | Second Stringer | 5.8 | 6 | When Kevin replaces the quarterback and football hero who suffers a knee injury, the high school second stringer needs to prove that he can do the job and is not just a substitute. | 174 |
| Eager, Edward | Half Magic | 5 | 5 | Four children spending their summer in a city apartment enjoy a series of fantastic adventures by double-wishing on an ancient coin. | 217 |
| Eagle, Kin | Rub a Dub Dub | 4.3 | 0.5 | This story is a retold version of the classic, "Rub a Dub Dub." | 32 |
| Earle, Anne | Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats | 3.9 | 0.5 | This text provides basic facts about the behavior of bats and describes how they benefit the environment. | 32 |
| Easley, MaryAnn | I Am the Ice Worm | 4.5 | 4 | While traveling to visit her mother in the Arctic, a California girl learns the meaning of hardship and survival when she is taken in by an Inupiat family. | 127 |
| Eastman, P.D. | Go, Dog. Go! | 1.2 | 0.5 | This is a book about all varieties of dogs and the many adventures they experience. | 64 |
| Eastman, P.D. | Sam and the Firefly | 1.7 | 0.5 | Sam, the owl, spends the night with a mischievous firefly. | 62 |
| Eckert, Allan | Incident at Hawk's Hill | 7.2 | 9 | Set in 1870, this story about a boy and a badger is based on an actual incident. | 191 |
| Eckert, Allan W. | Return to Hawk's Hill | 7.4 | 7 | Running away from a vicious trapper, seven-year-old Ben MacDonald is separated from his family and eventually ends up on the shores of Lake Winnipeg, where he is taken in by a tribe of Metis Indians. Sequel to "Hawk's Hill." | 192 |
| Edmonds, Walter D. | Matchlock Gun, The | 5.1 | 1 | In 1756, during the French and Indian War in upper New York state, ten-year-old Edward is determined to protect his home and family with the ancient, and much too heavy, Spanish gun that his father had given him before leaving home to fight the enemy. | 62 |
| Edwards, Julie | Mandy | 4.8 | 7 | Lonely for a place of her own, a ten-year-old orphan creates a secret home in a deserted cottage. | 279 |
| Edwards, Nicholas | Return of Santa Paws, The | 4.7 | 5 | Santa Paws, the lovable dog, is involved in a plane crash with Gregory, Patricia, and their Uncle Steve. | 168 |
| Edwards, Nicholas | Santa Paws | 4.3 | 5 | While searching for a place to stay, a homeless puppy helps others who are in need. | 151 |
| Edwards, Nicholas | Santa Paws, Come Home | 5.2 | 6 | Before Santa Paws knew what was happening he was being driven far away from his home in a stranger's car. Will Santa Paws find his way back home to the Callahans in time for Christmas? | 199 |
| Edwards, Pamela Duncan | Barefoot: Escape on the Underground Railroad | 4 | 0.5 | A group of animals helps a runaway slave escape his pursuers. | 30 |
| Edwards, Pamela Duncan | Dinorella: A Prehistoric Fairy Tale | 3.5 | 0.5 | In this story, loosely based on that of Cinderella but featuring dinosaurs, the duke falls in love with Dinorella when she rescues him from the dreaded deinonychus at the Dinosaur Dance. | 30 |
| Edwards, Pamela Duncan | Ed & Fred Flea | 2.5 | 0.5 | As his brother prepares to leave the dog they share, Fred the greedy flea pretends to have the flu in order to stay behind and have the whole dog, unaware of the fate that awaits him. | 30 |
| Edwards, Pamela Duncan | Honk! The Story of a Prima Swanerina | 2.5 | 0.5 | A ballet-loving swan wins acclaim when she manages to join the other dancers in a performance of Swan Lake. | 30 |
| Edwards, Pamela Duncan | Muldoon | 3 | 0.5 | Muldoon works hard for the West family. Each day, he wakes everyone up on time, brings the children to school, and does all his chores. The text tells one story -- while the illustrations show the hilarious reality. | 32 |
| Edwards, Pamela Duncan | Wacky Wedding: A Book of Alphabet Antics, The | 3 | 0.5 | An alphabetical ant wedding, attended by the other animals, is beset by various disasters. | 30 |
| Edwards, Pamela Duncan | Warthogs in the Kitchen | 1.4 | 0.5 | Warthogs count various objects as they bake cupcakes. | 20 |
| Edwards, Pamela Duncan | Worrywarts, The | 3.3 | 0.5 | Wombat, Weasel, and Woodchuck take a weird and wonderful walk. | 32 |
| Edwards, Pamela Duncan | Wright Brothers, The | 5.2 | 0.5 | This book describes the series of events that led to the Wright Brothers' historic flight. | 32 |
| Edwards, Roberta | Five Silly Fishermen | 1.5 | 0.5 | A retelling of the traditional tale in which five silly fishermen, unable to count properly, are convinced that one of their group has drowned. | 32 |
| Egan, Tim | Burnt Toast on Davenport Street | 3.5 | 0.5 | Arthur and Stella Crandall, two dogs, are for the most part content with their lives until a fly gets mixed up while granting Arthur three wishes. | 30 |
| Ehlert, Lois | Planting a Rainbow | 2.6 | 0.5 | A mother and child plant a rainbow of flowers in the family garden. | 32 |
| Ehlert, Lois | Snowballs | 1.3 | 0.5 | Some children create a family out of snow. | 28 |
| Ehlert, Lois | Top Cat | 1.1 | 0.5 | The top cat in a household is reluctant to accept the arrival od a new kitten but decides to share various survival secrets with it. | 32 |
| Ehlert, Lois | Waiting for Wings | 2.8 | 0.5 | This book tells how a caterpillar turns into a beautiful butterfly. | 33 |
| Ehrlich, Amy | Leo, Zack, and Emmie | 2.8 | 0.5 | The new girl in Zack and Leo's class affects the boys' friendship. | 64 |
| Elliott, Dan | Ernie's Little Lie | 2.3 | 0.5 | Ernie enters a painting by his cousin Fred in a contest in order to win a box of paints. | 30 |
| Elliott, Dan | Oscar's Rotten Birthday | 2 | 0.5 | Everyone on Sesame Street helps Oscar to have the rottenest birthday ever. | 30 |
| Ellwand, David/Ruth | Midas Mouse | 3.8 | 0.5 | Midas Mouse becomes so enthralled with sunlight that he is given the power to turn anything he touches into gold. | 29 |
| Emberley, Barbara | Drummer Hoff | 4.7 | 0.5 | A cumulative folk song in which seven soldiers build a magnificent cannon, but Drummer Hoff fires it off. | 26 |
| Emert, Phyllis | Ghosts, Hauntings and Mysterious Happenings | 6.3 | 3 | Contains dozens of true tales whose unanswered questions have baffled people for years. | 117 |
| Engh, M.J. | House in the Snow, The | 4.6 | 4 | Benjamin and Mackie try to help seven boys that have been kidnapped and held inside a haunted house by invisible robbers who appear to have invisible powers. | 132 |
| Enright, Elizabeth | Thimble Summer | 5.7 | 5 | Nine-year-old Garnet Linden believes the silver thimble she found by the river has brought luck to her whole family. | 136 |
| Erickson, John R. | Case of the Black-Hooded Hangmans, The | 4.2 | 3 | When he gets blamed after one of Eddy the raccoon's tricks backfires, Hank's search for the missing Eddy leads him and his sidekick Drover to a haunted house. | 115 |
| Erickson, John R. | Case of the Car-Barkaholic Dog, The | 4.8 | 3 | Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, finds himself stranded in town and drawn into a dangerous situation involving his sister Maggie and a terrible bully named Rambo. | 116 |
| Erickson, Paul | Daily Life in a Covered Wagon | 7 | 2 | This book explores what life was really like on the wagon trail in the mid-1800s, drawing on diaries and letters, and illustrated with photographs of actual objects from the past. | 48 |
| Erickson, Paul | Daily Life on a Southern Plantation 1853 | 7 | 1 | This book portrays the daily life of people living on a cotton plantation in the Deep South before the Civil War. | 48 |
| Erickson, Russell | Toad for Tuesday, A | 4.4 | 1 | Can Warton persuade a hungry owl not to eat him for dinner? | 64 |
| Ericson, David | Money Game, The | 2.7 | 1 | A young man who works in senior citizen centers tricking old people out of their savings finds the table turned on him. | 44 |
| Erlbach, Arlene | Herbie Hummerston Homework Haters' Club, The | 3.9 | 2 | Homework stinks! It should be illegal. That's why I came up with my radically awesome idea, a movement to stamp out homework for good. | 111 |
| Erlbach, Arlene | Sidewalk Games Around the World | 5.9 | 1 | This details the different types of sidewalk games played around the world. | 62 |
| Ernst, Lisa Campbell | Sam Johnson and the Blue Ribbon Quilt | 4.2 | 0.5 | While mending the awning over the pig pen, Sam discovers that he enjoys sewing the various patches together but meets with scorn and ridicule when he asks his wife if he could join her quilting club. | 32 |
| Esbensen, Barbara Juster | Star Maiden, The | 3 | 0.5 | Tired of wandering in the sky, the star maiden searches for the perfect home on earth. | 29 |
| Esiason, Boomer | Boy Named Boomer, A | 2.9 | 0.5 | The author describes some childhood memories: Valentine's Day at school, fishing with his father, building a fort, letting frogs loose in his class, and Thanksgiving with his grandmother. | 44 |
| Estes, Eleanor | Ginger Pye | 6 | 9 | The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children. | 306 |
| Estes, Eleanor | Hundred Dresses, The | 5.4 | 1 | In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson. | 80 |
| Estes, Eleanor | Middle Moffat, The | 4.6 | 6 | Jane is always in the middle of all the fun, whether it's a fast and furious card game with the oldest inhabitant of Cranbury, playing the old pump organ and blowing out moths instead of music; or losing her head in the middle of the school play. | 234 |
| Estes, Eleanor | Moffat Museum, The | 5 | 8 | This book is about the adventures of the Moffat children living in Cranberry, Connecticut, in the early twentieth century. | 232 |
| Estes, Eleanor | Moffats, The | 5.2 | 6 | Living in Cranbury on New Dollar Street, having a mother who could make both ends just meet and have fun doing it, and being one of a family of four children is a rich, adventurous existence for the Moffat children. | 211 |
| Estes, Eleanor | Witch Family, The | 5.4 | 6 | Two little girls who love to draw witches build an elaborate world around the imaginary Old Witch and her family. | 223 |
| Etchemendy, Nancy | Power of UN, The | 4.8 | 5 | When he is given a device that will allow him to "undo" what has happened in the past, Gib Finney is not sure what event from the worst day in his life he should change in order to keep his sister from being hit by a truck. | 148 |
| Etra/Spinner | Aliens for Lunch | 3.7 | 1 | When their bag of microwave popcorn explodes and a space alien emerges, Richard and Henry join him on a top secret interstellar mission to save the desserts of the universe. | 64 |
| Ets, Marie Hall | Gilberto and the Wind | 2.8 | 0.5 | Gilberto's playmate the wind can sail boats, fly kites, and turn umbrellas inside out. | 28 |
| Ets, Marie Hall | Just Me | 2.6 | 0.5 | A little boy mimes the walk of the animals he sees. | 32 |
| Evans, Douglas | Elevator Family, The | 4 | 1 | The four members of the Wilson family decide to spend their holiday in one of the elevators at the San Francisco Hotel. | 87 |
| Evans, Richard Paul | Christmas Box, The | 5.4 | 2 | A young family moves in with a widow, discovers the first gift of Christmas, and learns what Christmas is really all about. | 125 |
| Evans, Richard Paul | Christmas Candle, The | 3.8 | 0.5 | On Christmas Eve, Thomas buys a magical candle that changes the way he views his fellow human beings and helps him feel charity for those less fortunate than he. | 25 |