| Author | Title | Level | Pts. | Description | Pages |
| Facklam, Margery | And Then There Was One | 7.2 | 2 | Examines the many reasons for the extinction and near-extinction of animal species. Discusses how some near-extinctions have been reversed through special breeding programs and legislation to save endangered species. | 53 |
| Facklam, Margery | Spiders and Their Web Sites | 6.2 | 1 | This book provides a close-up look at the physical characteristics and habits of twelve different spiders and of daddy longlegs. | 32 |
| Falconer, Ian | Olivia | 2 | 0.5 | Whether at home getting ready for the day, enjoying the beach, or at bedtime, Olivia is a feisty pig who has too much energy for her own good. | 32 |
| Falconer, Ian | Olivia Saves the Circus | 1.9 | 0.5 | At school, Olivia tells about her summer vacation and how she saved the day at the circus. | 38 |
| Farley, Walter | Black Stallion Mystery, The | 5.5 | 8 | When Alec Ramsay saw the three handsome foreign-born colts, he couldn't believe his eyes. The colts were almost exact models of the Black Stallion, but the official Arabian records said the Black's sire was dead. | 199 |
| Farley, Walter | Black Stallion Returns, The | 6.1 | 8 | When his rightful owner repossesses the Black Stallion, eighteen-year-old Alec travels across the deserts of Arabia to find the great stallion and helps to solve a tribal feud. | 199 |
| Farley, Walter | Black Stallion Revolts, The | 5.3 | 10 | The plane taking Alec and the Black to a much-needed vacation crashes, leaving Alec with a concussion and amnesia and the Black running wild. Fate brings them together, and Alec regains his memory during a climactic race. | 257 |
| Farley, Walter | Black Stallion, The | 5.2 | 7 | Story of the wildest of all wild creatures--a stallion unbroken, untamed! | 196 |
| Farley, Walter | Black Stallion's Blood Bay Colt, The | 6 | 12 | A young driver trains Bonfire with the hope of becoming a harness-racing champion. | 278 |
| Farley, Walter | Island Stallion, The | 5.8 | 8 | A boy and his archeologist friend spend two weeks on a desolate Caribbean island where they discover a hidden valley, underground tunnels built by Spanish Conquistadors, and a wild flame-colored stallion. | 212 |
| Farley, Walter | Son of the Black Stallion | 6.1 | 11 | The story of a spirited colt with a savage, killer instinct. | 282 |
| Farmer, Nancy | Girl Named Disaster, A | 5.1 | 14 | While journeying to Zimbabwe, eleven-year-old Nhamo struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits. | 293 |
| Farris, Christine King | My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. | 5 | 0.5 | This biography looks at the early life of Martin Luther King, Jr., as seen through the eyes of his older sister. | 40 |
| Feder, Paula Kurzband | Where Does the Teacher Live? | 2.3 | 0.5 | Three children try to discover where their teacher lives. | 46 |
| Feiffer, Jules | By the Side of the Road | 3.9 | 0.5 | Richard refuses to stop fooling around in the backseat of the car. After his father pulls over to the side of the road and lets him out, Richard takes up a new residence. | 64 |
| Feiffer, Jules | I Lost My Bear | 2.1 | 0.5 | When she cannot find her favorite stuffed toy, a young girl asks her mother, father, and older sister for help. | 36 |
| Fein, Eric | Outnumbered: Davy Crockett's Final Battle at the Alamo | 4.1 | 0.5 | Davy Crockett joins the defenders of the Alamo and his life ends there. | 32 |
| Fenner, Carol | Skates of Uncle Richard, The | 4.3 | 1 | With her Uncle's encouragement, a nine-year-old takes the first step toward realizing her dream of becoming a figure skater. | 46 |
| Fenner, Carol | Yolonda's Genius | 4.8 | 6 | After moving from Chicago to Grand River, Michigan, fifth-grader Yolonda, big and strong for her age, determines to prove that her younger brother is not a slow learner but a true musical genius. | 208 |
| Ferguson, Alane | Cricket and the Crackerbox Kid | 4.1 | 4 | Eleven-year-old rich kid Cricket thinks she has finally found a friend in Dominic, who lives in the low-income houses called crackerboxes, until they quarrel over ownership of a dog and their classroom becomes a courtroom to decide who is right. | 179 |
| Ferguson, Alane | Stardust | 3.9 | 4 | When her acting career comes to an end, eleven-year-old Haley has trouble adjusting, so she assumes the personality of the popular television character she had portrayed so that her new classmates will like her. | 155 |
| Fernandes, Eugenie | Tree that Grew to the Moon, The | 2.9 | 0.5 | A little girl and her mother discuss the tree seedling that the little girl finds wilting on a hot summer day in Brooklyn. | 32 |
| Ferris, Jeri | Go Free or Die: A Story About Harriet Tubman | 4.6 | 1 | A biography of the black woman whose cruel experiences as a slave in the South led her to seek freedom in the North for herself and for others through the Underground Railroad. | 53 |
| Ferris, Jeri | Walking the Road to Freedom | 5.9 | 1 | This book traces the life of the Black woman orator who spoke out against slavery throughout New England and the Midwest. | 64 |
| Field, Rachel | Hitty: Her First Hundred Years | 7.1 | 11 | Hitty is a doll of great charm and real character whose memoirs are full of her thrilling adventures on land and sea. | 235 |
| Filipovic, Zlata | Zlata's Diary | 4.3 | 5 | A young girl's diary records the destruction of her city during the war in Yugoslavia. | 200 |
| Finchler, Judy | Miss Malarkey Won't Be in Today | 2.1 | 0.5 | Miss Malarkey, the teacher, imagines the chaos that takes place when she stay home from school one day because she is ill. | 32 |
| Fink, Joanne | Jack, the Seal and the Sea | 4.4 | 0.5 | Jack spends his days sailing the seas and taking in nets full of half-dead fish, ignoring the polluted condition of the water, until he finds an ailing seal and receives a message from the sea itself about its sorry state. | 26 |
| Fisher, Dorothy Canfield | Understood Betsy | 5.9 | 8 | Sent to live with country relatives, Betsy does not care to return to the city when her aunt gets well. | 211 |
| Fisher, Leonard Everett | Great Wall of China, The | 3.8 | 0.5 | This book is a brief history of the Great Wall of China, begun about 2,200 years ago to keep out Mongol invaders. | 30 |
| Fisher, Leonard Everett | Gutenberg | 6 | 0.5 | A biography of the fifteenth-century German printer who revolutionized printing with the invention of movable type. | 32 |
| Fitzgerald, John D. | Great Brain at the Academy, The | 5.8 | 6 | In the strict atmosphere of a Catholic boarding school, Tom Fitzgerald's fertile brain concocts hilarious trouble. | 164 |
| Fitzgerald, John D. | Great Brain Does It Again, The | 5 | 5 | Tom's many business ventures include operating a carnival ride, and helping a fat boy reduce. | 129 |
| Fitzgerald, John D. | Great Brain Reforms, The | 5.1 | 6 | Great Brain is home for the summer and is ready to reform, and that's how the trial between the kids of Adenville and the Great Brain takes place on a summer afternoon. | 165 |
| Fitzgerald, John D. | Great Brain, The | 5.2 | 7 | A boy genius has scheming adventures. | 175 |
| Fitzgerald, John D. | Return of the Great Brain, The | 5.5 | 6 | The shrewdest young con artist west of the Mississippi rides again, and along with his brother attempt to solve a train robbery. | 150 |
| Fitzhugh, Louise | Harriet the Spy | 4.5 | 8 | Harriet's notebook of her feelings about classmates and neighbors is found by her classmates. | 298 |
| Flack, Marjorie | Angus and the Cat | 2.7 | 0.5 | Angus the terrier has to share his home with a new cat who eats Angus's food and sits in his favorite places. How will they ever get along? | 30 |
| Flack, Marjorie | Angus and the Ducks | 2.5 | 0.5 | When Angus, a very curious young terrier, sees that the door is open one day, he decides to go exploring. Little does he know what neighbors await him. | 30 |
| Flack, Marjorie | Ask Mr. Bear | 2.3 | 0.5 | Danny solves the problem of what to give his mother for her birthday. | 34 |
| Fleischman, Paul | Borning Room, The | 5 | 3 | Lying at the end of her life in the room where she was born in 1851, Georgina remembers what it was like to grow up on the Ohio frontier. | 101 |
| Fleischman, Paul | Half-A-Moon Inn, The | 5.7 | 3 | A mute boy is held captive by the strange proprietress of an inn. | 88 |
| Fleischman, Paul | Seedfolks | 4.3 | 2 | One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden. | 69 |
| Fleischman, Paul | Time Train | 2.3 | 0.5 | A class takes a field trip back through time to observe living dinosaurs in their natural habitat. | 28 |
| Fleischman, Paul | Weslandia | 4.8 | 0.5 | Wesley's garden produces a crop of huge, strange plants which provide him with clothing, shelter, food, and drink, thus helping him create his own civilization and changing his life. | 32 |
| Fleischman, Sid | 13th Floor: A Ghost Story, The | 4.4 | 4 | When his older sister disappears, Buddy Stebbins follows her back in time and finds himself aboard a seventeenth-century pirate ship captained by a distant relative. | 131 |
| Fleischman, Sid | Bandit's Moon | 4.2 | 3 | Twelve-year-old Annyrose relates her adventures with Joaquír back in time and finds himself aboard a seventeenth-century pirate ship captained by a distant relative. | 136 |
| Fleischman, Sid | By the Great Horn Spoon! | 5.1 | 6 | The book follows the adventures of young Jack and his aunt's butler Praiseworthy, as they stow away on a ship and head for their place in the Gold Rush of 1849. | 193 |
| Fleischman, Sid | Humbug Mountain | 4.2 | 4 | Wiley sets out on a search for his grandfather and ends up having to outwit some villains who plan to ambush his Grandfather's boat of gold. | 133 |
| Fleischman, Sid | Jim Ugly | 4.3 | 3 | This story tells of the adventures of twelve-year-old Jake Bannock and Jim Ugly, his father's part-mongrel, part-wolf dog, as they travel through the Old West trying to find out what really happened to Jake's actor father. | 130 |
| Fleischman, Sid | McBroom's Ghost | 4 | 0.5 | The McBroom family is plagued by a mysterious ghost that visits their amazing one acre farm after every prolonged freezing spell. | 62 |
| Fleischman, Sid | Midnight Horse, The | 4.2 | 1 | Touch enlists the help of The Great Chaffalo, a ghostly magician, to thwart his great-uncle's plans to put Touch into the orphan house and swindle The Red Raven Inn away from Miss Sally. | 84 |
| Fleischman, Sid | Whipping Boy, The | 3.9 | 2 | A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places. | 90 |
| Fleming, Denise | In the Small, Small Pond | 2 | 0.5 | Illustrations and rhyming text describe the activities of animals living in and near a small pond as spring progresses to autumn. | 29 |
| Fleming, Denise | In the Tall, Tall Grass | 1.6 | 0.5 | Rhymed test (crunch, munch, caterpillars lunch) presents a toddler's view of creatures found in the grass from lunchtime till nightfall, such as bees, ants, and moles. | 22 |
| Fleming, Denise | Time to Sleep | 2.1 | 0.5 | When Bear notices winter is nearly here, she hurries to tell snail; after each animal tells another, soon they are all sleeping. | 28 |
| Fletcher, Ralph | Fig Pudding | 3.9 | 4 | The Abernathys, who do everything in a big way, have an eventful year. | 136 |
| Fletcher, Ralph | Flying Solo | 3.9 | 3 | Rachel, having chosen to be mute following the sudden death of a classmate, shares responsibility with the other sixth-graders who decide not to report that the substitute teacher failed to show up. | 138 |
| Fletcher, Susan | Shadow Spinner | 4.6 | 8 | When Marjan, a thirteen-year-old crippled girl, joins the Sultan's harem in ancient Persia, she gathers for Shahrazad the stories which will save the queen's life. | 217 |
| Fletcher, Susan | Stuttgart Nanny Mafia, The | 3.8 | 5 | In an effort to gain more time alone with her mother, Aurora schemes to get rid of Tanja, a nineteen-year-old au pair from Germany. | 166 |
| Fletcher, Susan | Walk Across the Sea | 4.3 | 5 | In late nineteenth-century California, when Chinese immigrants are being driven out or even killed for fear they will take jobs from whites, Eliza defies the townspeople and her father to help a Chinese boy. | 214 |
| Florentz, Christopher | So Wild a Dream | 3.3 | 1 | Seventeen-year-old Beth's seemingly simple mission to deliver a letter for General Washington ends in a British camp where she is sentenced to hang as a spy. | 59 |
| Florian, Douglas | Insectlopedia: Poems and Paintings | 3.3 | 0.5 | This book presents twenty-one short poems about such insects as the inchworm, termite, cricket, and mayfly. | 48 |
| Flournoy, Valerie | Patchwork Quilt, The | 3.7 | 0.5 | Using scraps cut from the family's old clothing, Tanya helps her grandmother make a beautiful quilt that tells the story of her family's life. | 28 |
| Flournoy, Valerie | Tanya's Reunion | 4.1 | 0.5 | When she and her grandmother go to help with preparations for a big family reunion, Tanya learns about the history of the farm in Virginia where Grandma grew up. | 36 |
| Foley, Patricia | John and the Fiddler | 4.7 | 1 | A young boy befriends an old violin maker who teaches him the beauty of music and friendship. | 63 |
| Forbes, Esther | Johnny Tremain | 5.9 | 13 | This book follows a young apprentice from a tragic accident in a silversmith's shop to his dramatic involvement as a patriot in the days just before the American Revolution. | 293 |
| Forest, Heather | Woman Who Flummoxed the Fairies, The | 4.4 | 0.5 | Asked to make a cake for the fairies, a clever bakerwoman must figure out a way to prevent the fairies from wanting to keep her with them always to bake delicious cakes. | 26 |
| Forrester, Sandra | Sound the Jubilee | 5 | 6 | A slave and her family find refuge on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, during the Civil War. | 183 |
| Foster, Alan Dean | Dinotopia Lost | 6.2 | 17 | When a storm-swollen breaker hurls the pirate ship "Condor" ashore, the peace of the Land Apart from Time will be shattered. | 326 |
| Foster, Alan Dean | Hand of Dinotopia, The | 7 | 18 | Will and Sylvia search for the mysterious Hand of Dinotopia, which will supposedly lead to a safe sea route to and from the hidden island where people and dinosaurs live together peacefully. | 409 |
| Fowler, Allan | Chicken or the Egg?, The | 2.7 | 0.5 | A brief look at the physical characteristics, breeds, and habits of chickens. | 31 |
| Fox, Mem | Boo to a Goose | 2.3 | 0.5 | A boy relates a long list of things he would do before he would say boo to a goose. | 33 |
| Fox, Mem | Feathers and Fools | 4.1 | 0.5 | A modern fable about some peacocks and swans who allow the fear of their differences to become so great that they end up destroying each other. | 29 |
| Fox, Mem | Guess What? | 0.6 | 0.5 | Through a series of questions to which the reader must answer yes or no, the personality and occupation of a lady called Daisy O'Grady are revealed. | 32 |
| Fox, Mem | Hattie and the Fox | 1.8 | 0.5 | Hattie, a big black hen, discovers a fox in the bushes, which creates varying reactions in the other barnyard animals. | 32 |
| Fox, Mem | Koala Lou | 3.2 | 0.5 | Koala Lou is feeling unhappy because her mother is too busy to pay attention to her. She decides if she can win the tree climbing contest, maybe her mother will notice. | 32 |
| Fox, Mem | Magic Hat, The | 2.8 | 0.5 | A wizard's hat blows into town changing people into different animals when it lands on their heads. | 32 |
| Fox, Mem | Night Noises | 2.5 | 0.5 | Old Lily Laceby dozes by the fire with her faithful dog at her feet as strange night noises herald a surprising awakening. | 29 |
| Fox, Mem | Possum Magic | 3 | 0.5 | When Grandma Poss's magic turns Hush invisible, the two possums take a culinary tour of Australia to find the food that will make her visible once more. | 30 |
| Fox, Mem | Shoes from Grandpa | 4.3 | 0.5 | In a cumulative rhyme, family members describe the clothes they intend to give Jessie to go with her shoes from Grandpa. | 29 |
| Fox, Mem | Sophie | 2.1 | 0.5 | As Sophie grows bigger and her grandfather gets smaller, they continue to love each other very much. | 30 |
| Fox, Mem | Tough Boris | 1.7 | 0.5 | A rollicking adventure about a tough pirate with a heart of gold. | 29 |
| Fox, Mem | Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge | 3.5 | 0.5 | A Small boy tries to discover the meaning of memory so he can restore that of an elderly friend. | 30 |
| Fox, Mem | Zoo-Looking | 2.2 | 0.5 | While Flora visits the zoo with her father, not only does she look at the animals but some of them turn to look at her. | 28 |
| Fox, Paula | Monkey Island | 5 | 5 | Forced to live on the streets of New York after his mother disappears from their hotel room, eleven-year-old Clay is befriended by two men who help him survive. | 151 |
| Fox, Paula | Slave Dancer, The | 6 | 6 | In this spellbinding novel of suspense and survival, young Jessie, a musician, is hired to play for the slaves aboard a ship bound for America. | 127 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | Alabama (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.8 | 1 | Discusses the geography, history, industries, and famous people of Alabama. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | Alaska (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.2 | 1 | Introduces the history, geography, industry, and people of the state known as the Last Frontier. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | Arizona (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.4 | 1 | Introduces the geography, history, industries, notable sights, and famous people of the Grand Canyon State. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | California (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.2 | 1 | An introduction to the "Golden State," our most-populated state and our top farming and manufacturing state. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | Colorado (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.4 | 1 | An overview of the Centennial State, introducing its history, geography, industries, sites of interest, and famous people. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | Florida (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.8 | 1 | An introduction to the Sunshine State, its history, people, and sites of interest. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | Georgia (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 5.3 | 1 | An introduction of the Empire State of the South, introducing its history, geography, industries, sites of interest, and famous people. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | Hawaii (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.2 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, important people, and interesting sites of the Aloha State. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | Idaho (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.4 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, important people, and interesting sites of the Gem State. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | Illinois (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 5 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, important people, and interesting sites of Illinois. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | Iowa (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.3 | 1 | Introduces the history, geography, industries, notable sights, and famous people of the Hawkeye State. | 62 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | Kentucky (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.5 | 1 | An overview of the Bluegrass State, introducing its history, geography, industries, sites of interest, and famous people. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | Maine (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.3 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, important people, and interesting sites of the Pine Tree State. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | Maryland (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.4 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, important people, and interesting sites of the Old Line State. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | Massachusetts (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 5.4 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, important people, and interesting sites of Massachusetts. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | Michigan (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 5 | 1 | An introduction to the Wolverine State, its history, economy, cities, and people. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | Nebraska (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.3 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, famous people, and interesting sites of the "Cornhusker State." | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | New Hampshire (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.7 | 1 | An introduction of the Granite State, introducing its history, geography, industries, sites of interest, and famous people. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | New Jersey (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.4 | 1 | Introduces the geography, history, industries, notable sights, and famous people of the Garden State. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | New York (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.2 | 1 | An overview of the Empire State, introducing its history, geography, industries, sites of interest, and famous people. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | North Carolina (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 5 | 1 | Introduces the Tar Heel State, its geography, history, interesting sights, and people. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | Ohio (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.4 | 1 | Introduces the history, geography, industries, notable sights, and famous people of the Buckeye State. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | Pennsylvania (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.3 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, famous people, and interesting sites of the Keystone State. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | South Carolina (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.9 | 1 | An introduction to the Palmetto State, its geography, history, places to visit, and people. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | Tennessee (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.4 | 1 | Introducing the history, geography, industries, sites of interest, and famous people of the Volunteer State. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | Texas (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.4 | 1 | Introduces the geography, climate, history, industries, prominent cities, and famous people of Texas. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | Utah (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.5 | 1 | An overview of the Beehive State, introducing its history, geography, sites of interest, and famous people. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | Vermont (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.4 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, important people, and interesting sites of Vermont. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | Virginia (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.5 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, famous people, and interesting sites of Virginia. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | Washington, D.C. (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 5.1 | 1 | An introduction to the nation's capital city, its history, people, and sites of interest. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis B. | Wisconsin (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.7 | 1 | An overview of the Badger State, introducing its history, geography, industries, sites of interest, and famous people. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis Brindell | Signers: The 56 Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence, Th | 7.7 | 3 | This book profiles each of the fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence, giving historical information about the colonies they represented. | 164 |
| Fradin, Dennis/Judith | Arkansas (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.4 | 1 | Discusses the geography, history, industries, and famous people of Arkansas. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis/Judith | Connecticut (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.5 | 1 | An overview of the Constitution State, introducing its history, geography, industries, sites of interest, and famous people. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis/Judith | Delaware (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.4 | 1 | An introduction to the First State, its geography, history, places to visit, and famous people. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis/Judith | Indiana (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.4 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, important people, and interesting sites of the Hoosier State. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis/Judith | Kansas (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.3 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, important people, and interesting sites of the Sunflower State. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis/Judith | Louisiana (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.3 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, important people, and interesting sites of the Pelican State. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis/Judith | Minnesota (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.3 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, famous people, and interesting sites of Minnesota. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis/Judith | Mississippi (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.5 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, famous people, and interesting sites of the Magnolia State. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis/Judith | Missouri (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.1 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, famous people, and interesting sites of the "Show Me State." | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis/Judith | Montana (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.6 | 1 | Discusses the geography, history, industries, and famous citizens of the "Treasure State." | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis/Judith | Nevada (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.4 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, famous people, and interesting sites of the "Silver State." | 62 |
| Fradin, Dennis/Judith | New Mexico (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.2 | 1 | An introduction to the geography, history, people, cities, and famous sites of the large southwestern state known as "The Land of Enchantment." | 62 |
| Fradin, Dennis/Judith | North Dakota (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.4 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, famous people, and interesting sites of the Flickertail State. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis/Judith | Oklahoma (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.3 | 1 | Introduces the history, geography, industries, notable sights, and famous people of the Sooner State. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis/Judith | Oregon (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.4 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, famous people, and interesting sites of the Beaver State. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis/Judith | Puerto Rico (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.3 | 1 | Presents a history and description of this popular vacationland located 1,050 miles southeast of Miami, Florida. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis/Judith | Rhode Island (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.2 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, famous people, and interesting sites of the Ocean State. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis/Judith | South Dakota (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.5 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, famous people, and interesting sites of South Dakota. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis/Judith | Washington (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.5 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, famous people, and interesting sites of the Evergreen State. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis/Judith | West Virginia (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.5 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, famous people, and interesting sites of the Mountain State. | 59 |
| Fradin, Dennis/Judith | Wyoming (From Sea to Shining Sea) | 4.3 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, famous people, and interesting sites of the Equality State. | 59 |
| Frank, Anne | Diary of a Young Girl, The | 6.5 | 14 | A precocious young girl is obliged by encroaching Nazi regime to live in enforced seclusion with family and friends. | 285 |
| Franklin, Kristine L. | Lone Wolf | 4.2 | 6 | When a large family moves into the house near where he and his father live in the woods, Perry's friendship with the oldest girl helps him come to terms with his sister's death and his parents' divorce. | 220 |
| Frederick, Lee | Crash Dive | 3.4 | 1 | A German U-boat and an American destroyer fight to the finish in the English channel during World War II. | 59 |
| Freedman, Russell | Confucius: The Golden Rule | 7.6 | 1 | This book is an introduction to the life and teachings of Confucius. | 48 |
| Freedman, Russell | Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery | 7.8 | 6 | A detailed portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt's political career, personal causes, and private life. | 198 |
| Freedman, Russell | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 8.1 | 6 | Photographs and text trace the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt from his birth in 1882 through his youth, early political career, presidency, and to his death in Warm Springs, Georgia, in 1945. | 200 |
| Freedman, Russell | Give Me Liberty! The Story of the Declaration of Independence | 8.5 | 3 | This book describes the events leading up to the Declaration of Independence, as well as the personalities and politics behind its framing. | 90 |
| Freedman, Russell | Lincoln: A Photobiography | 7.7 | 5 | Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President. | 150 |
| Freedman, Russell | Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille | 6.7 | 2 | A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchmen who, having been blind himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper which enabled the blind to read. | 79 |
| Freedman, Russell | Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane, The | 7.7 | 4 | This book follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane. | 117 |
| Freeman, Don | Bearymore | 4.2 | 0.5 | A circus bear has trouble hibernating and dreaming up a new act at the same time. | 36 |
| Freeman, Don | Corduroy | 3.5 | 0.5 | A little girl wants a stuffed bear, but her mother refuses to buy it for her. | 28 |
| Freeman, Don | Pocket For Corduroy, A | 3.7 | 0.5 | When Lisa's toy bear Corduroy discovers that he doesn't have a pocket, he goes in search of one. | 28 |
| Friedman, Ina | How My Parents Learned to Eat | 2.9 | 0.5 | A young girl tells the story of her parents' courtship when the father was an American sailor and the mother was a Japanese schoolgirl. | 32 |
| Frisch, Aaron | History of the Denver Nuggets, The | 6.6 | 0.5 | This book is about the history of the Denver Nuggets. | 32 |
| Frisch, Joy | Costa Rica (Let's Investigate) | 5.9 | 0.5 | This book examines the history, landscape, wildlife, people, and weather of the nation of Costa Rica. | 30 |
| Fritz, Jean | And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? | 5.3 | 1 | A humorous biography of Paul Revere, covering more than his famous ride, like life in Boston in the 1700s. | 48 |
| Fritz, Jean | Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt! | 6.8 | 4 | Follows the life of the dynamic twenty-sixth President, discussing his conservation work, hunting expeditions, family life, and political career. | 121 |
| Fritz, Jean | Cabin Faced West, The | 5.1 | 3 | A young girl misses the life she had before her family moved into the wilderness, until she gets a very special visitor. | 124 |
| Fritz, Jean | Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? | 5.6 | 1 | A biography of George the Third, King of Great Britain at the time of the American Revolution. | 48 |
| Fritz, Jean | Double Life of Pocahontas, The | 5.9 | 4 | The story of the young Indian girl and her role in American history. | 96 |
| Fritz, Jean | George Washington's Breakfast | 4.1 | 0.5 | George W. Allen, namesake of George Washington, wants to learn everything about the first president, especially what he ate for breakfast. | 40 |
| Fritz, Jean | George Washington's Mother | 2.5 | 0.5 | Describes the life of the mother of our first President and her relationship with her children. | 48 |
| Fritz, Jean | Homesick, My Own Story | 5.1 | 6 | Autobiography of Jean Fritz, illustrated with drawings and photographs, covering her life from her birth in China to the present. | 163 |
| Fritz, Jean | Shh! We're Writing the Constitution | 7.1 | 1 | Describes how the constitution came to be written and ratified. Also includes the full text of the document produced by the Constitutional Convention of 1787. | 64 |
| Fritz, Jean | What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? | 5.5 | 1 | A brief biography of the eighteenth-century printer, inventor, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States. | 48 |
| Fritz, Jean | Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus? | 5.8 | 2 | With a few humorous touches, this biographer brings the great explorer and his voyages to life. | 80 |
| Fritz, Jean | Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May? | 5.9 | 1 | A brief biography of Patrick Henry, tracing his progress from planter to statesman. | 48 |
| Fritz, Jean | Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams? | 5.7 | 0.5 | A brief biography of Sam Adams, with some American History in the humorous vein added. | 47 |
| Fritz, Jean | Will You Sign Here, John Hancock? | 5.8 | 1 | A biography of the first signer of the Declaration of Independence, outlining all that he did for himself as well as what he did for Massachusetts and his new nation. | 48 |
| Fritz, Jean | You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? | 6.4 | 3 | The story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her fight for voting rights for women as well as equality for all. | 76 |
| Funke/Latsch | Thief Lord, The | 4.8 | 13 | Prosper and Bo are orphans on the run from their cruel aunt and uncle. The brothers decide to hide out in Venice, where they meet a mysterious thirteen-year-old boy who calls himself the "Thief Lord." | 349 |
| Furniss, Tim | Earth (Spinning Through Space), The | 5.7 | 0.5 | The Earth is just a small part of the universe and is one of the unique wonders of space. Humans, animals, plants and many other beings can breathe freely in Earth's atmosphere. There is no other planet in the explored universe capable of this. | 32 |
| Furniss, Tim | Moon (Spinning Through Space), The | 5.5 | 0.5 | For millions of years, humans have gazed up at the glowing surface of the Moon. Less than a lifetime ago, the first person stepped on the Moon's dusty surface and looked back at our planet. | 32 |
| Furniss, Tim | Solar System (Spinning Through Space), The | 5.5 | 0.5 | This book describes the family of nine planets and moons called the solar system. | 32 |
| Furniss, Tim | Sun (Spinning Through Space), The | 5.6 | 0.5 | This book describes the composition and behavior of the Sun, our nearest star. | 32 |
| Ga'g, Wanda | Millions of Cats | 3.5 | 0.5 | How can an old man and his wife select one cat from a choice of millions and trillions? Universally recognized as the first American 'picture book.' | 30 |
| Gaines, Isabel | Giving Bear, The | 2.3 | 0.5 | Christopher Robin, Piglet, and Tigger explain the importance of sharing to Pooh. | 38 |
| Galdone, Paul | Henny Penny | 3.2 | 0.5 | Henny Penny and her friends travel to see the King, but are outwitted by the fox. | 30 |
| Galdone, Paul | Little Red Hen, The | 2.9 | 0.5 | The little red hen teaches her friends a lesson when they will not help her make a cake. | 36 |
| Galdone, Paul | Three Billy Goats Gruff, The | 3 | 0.5 | To reach a fine meadow of grass and daisies, three hungry billy goats must first cross a bridge over the troll's home. | 32 |
| Galdone, Paul | Three Little Pigs, The | 3.2 | 0.5 | This is the classic tale of the three little pigs and the wolf who tries to get them. | 38 |
| Gambrell, Jamey | Telephone | 2.1 | 0.5 | A Russian nonsense poem whose hero is at his wits' end | 22 |
| Gammell, Stephen | Is That You, Winter? | 1.6 | 0.5 | Though Old Man Winter starts off the day feeling grumpy, his mood improves when he is reminded of how special he really is. | 29 |
| Ganeri, Anita | Ancient Romans (History Starts Here!), The | 4.4 | 0.5 | This book introduces the history, culture, and people of ancient Rome and examines its many contributions to Western society. | 32 |
| Ganeri, Anita | Aztecs (History Starts Here!), The | 4.4 | 0.5 | This book describes the history and civilization of the Aztecs, covering such aspects as religion, art, culture, medicine, and technology. | 32 |
| Ganeri, Anita | Oceans Atlas, The | 7.3 | 1 | An exciting atlas that explores the earth's oceans, including physical features, wildlife, and threats to their future. | 63 |
| Gannett, Ruth Stiles | My Father's Dragon | 5.6 | 1 | A young boy determines to rescue a poor baby dragon who is being used by a group of lazy wild animals to ferry them across the river on Wild Island. | 87 |
| Gantos, Jack | Joey Pigza Loses Control | 4.9 | 7 | Joey, who is taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the father he has never known. Dad insists that Joey stop taking his medication, and Joey loses control as he tries to help his baseball team. | 195 |
| Gantos, Jack | Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key | 4.9 | 5 | To the constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey has trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings when his prescription meds wear off and he starts getting worked up and acting wired. | 154 |
| Gantos, Jack | Rotten Ralph | 3 | 0.5 | Although Ralph is a rotten cat, Sarah loves him anyway. | 46 |
| Gantschev, Ivan | Christmas Teddy Bear, The | 3.6 | 0.5 | When a grandfather walking through the woods on Christmas Eve becomes lost in a snowstorm, the brightly dressed teddy bear he is bringing home for his granddaughter becomes instrumental in his rescue. | 23 |
| Gardiner, John Reynolds | Stone Fox | 4 | 1 | Little Willy hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dogsled race he enters. | 81 |
| Gardiner, John Reynolds | Top Secret | 4 | 2 | Allen Brewster, an inquisitive fourth grade student, turns himself into a human plant as part of a project for the Science Fair. | 108 |
| Garelick, May | Where Does the Butterfly Go When It Rains? | 2 | 0.5 | With illustrations and simple text, this book describes what different animals do when it rains. | 28 |
| Garland, Michael | Elf for Christmas, An | 4.2 | 0.5 | After falling asleep and being delivered along with a toy airplane for Christmas, a hard-working elf tries to make his way back to the North Pole. | 32 |
| Garland, Sherry | Lotus Seed, The | 4 | 0.5 | A young Vietnamese girl saves a lotus seed and carries it with her everywhere to remember a brave emperor and the homeland that she has to flee. | 26 |
| Garland, Sherry | Silent Storm, The | 5.5 | 9 | Alyssa is forced to confront the unspeakable memory of a tragic accident at sea. | 240 |
| Garrigue, Shelia | Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito, The | 4.2 | 5 | Sara forms a special friendship with the gardener, Mr. Ito, at a time when other Japanese-Canadians were being interned for the duration of World War II. | 163 |
| Gates, Doris | Blue Willow | 6.5 | 6 | A family forced to become migratory workers finally finds a permanent home again. | 172 |
| George, Jean Craighead | Arctic Son | 3.4 | 0.5 | A baby boy is given an Inupiat name to go with his English one and grows up learning the traditional ways of the Eskimo people living in the Arctic. | 32 |
| George, Jean Craighead | Frightful's Mountain | 4.7 | 8 | As she grows through the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of New York, a peregrine falcon called Frightful interacts with various humans. | 258 |
| George, Jean Craighead | Julie | 5 | 6 | Julie returns to live with her father and finds she must make choices between the old and the new in this sequel to Julie of the Wolves. | 226 |
| George, Jean Craighead | Julie of the Wolves | 5.8 | 6 | Common sense and courage enable a young Eskimo girl to survive when she becomes lost in the Arctic wild. | 170 |
| George, Jean Craighead | Julie's Wolf Pack | 5.7 | 6 | Continues the story of Julie and her wolves, in which Kapu protects his pack from famine and disease while uniting it under his new leadership. | 192 |
| George, Jean Craighead | Missing 'Gator of Gumbo Limbo, The | 4.6 | 4 | Fascinating ecological issues are raised in this story of homeless people living in the Florida Everglades. | 148 |
| George, Jean Craighead | My Side of the Mountain | 5.2 | 6 | Written in the form of a diary, this story relates the days of a young boy in the Catskill Mountains. | 177 |
| George, Jean Craighead | On the Far Side of the Mountain | 4.5 | 6 | Sam's peaceful existence in his wilderness home is disrupted when his sister runs away and his pet falcon is confiscated by a conservation officer. | 170 |
| George, Jean Craighead | Talking Earth, The | 5.2 | 6 | Billie Wind ventures out alone into the Florida Everglades to test the legends of their Indian ancestors and learn the importance of listening to the earth's vital messages. | 151 |
| George, Jean Craighead | Tarantula in My Purse and 172 Other Wild Pets, The | 5.4 | 3 | A collection of autobiographical stories about raising a houseful of children and wild pets, including crows, skunks, and raccoons. | 134 |
| George, Jean Craighead | There's an Owl in the Shower | 4.3 | 3 | Because protecting spotted owls has cost Borden's father his job as a logger in the old growth forest of northern California, Borden intends to kill any spotted owl he sees until he and his father find themselves taking care of a young owlet. | 134 |
| George, Jean Craighead | Tree Castle Island | 4 | 7 | After building his own canoe, fourteen-year-old Jack Hawkins goes to try it out in his beloved Okefenokee Swamp, where an accident tests his survival skills and leads him to a shocking discovery. | 242 |
| George, Jean Craighead | Water Sky | 4.7 | 7 | While searching for his uncle in Barrow, Alaska, a young boy joins the crew of an Eskimo whaling captain and learns the importance of whaling to the Eskimo culture. | 208 |
| Geringer, Laura | Three Hat Day, A | 3.2 | 0.5 | A hat collector is having a very bad day untils he meets his true love in the hat section of the department store. | 30 |
| Gibbons, Gail | Check It Out! The Book About Libraries | 4.8 | 0.5 | This book discusses what is found in the library and how different libraries serve their communities. | 31 |
| Gibbons, Gail | Honey Makers, The | 4.8 | 0.5 | Covers the physical structure of honeybees and how they live in colonies, as well as how they produce honey and are managed by beekeepers. | 28 |
| Gibbons, Gail | Nature's Green Umbrella: Tropical Rain Forests | 5.4 | 0.5 | This book describes the climatic conditions of the rain forest, as well as the different layers of plants and animals that comprise the ecosystem. | 30 |
| Gibbons, Gail | Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree, The | 2.6 | 0.5 | As the seasons pass, Arnold enjoys a variety of activities as a result of his apple tree. | 30 |
| Gibbons, Gail | Sunken Treasure | 4.2 | 0.5 | Describes the many-years-long search for the treasure that went down with the Atocha, a Spanish galleon sunk off Florida in a hurricane in 1622. Includes facts about four other famous shipwrecks. | 32 |
| Giblin, James Cross | Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin, The | 6.6 | 1 | This book is a biography of the eighteenth-century printer, inventer, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States. | 48 |
| Giblin, James Cross | Mystery of the Mammoth Bones, The | 8 | 3 | This book describes the efforts of the artist, museum curator, and self-taught paleontologist, Charles Willson Peale, to excavate, study, and display the bones of a prehistoric creature that is later named "mastodon." | 97 |
| Giblin, James Cross | Riddle of the Rosetta Stone: Key to Ancient Egypt, The | 7.7 | 1 | Describes how the discovery and deciphering of the Rosetta Stone unlocked the secret of Egyptian hieroglyphs. | 85 |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Beast and the Halloween Horror | 2.7 | 1 | Beast writes an author telling him how much he liked his book (which he really hadn't read), and the author decides to visit him. | 73 |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Beast in Ms. Rooney's Room, The | 2.9 | 1 | Richard "Beast" Best has been held back in school and even had to take a special reading class with the "babies." But with the help of a reading teacher, Beast starts to enjoy reading and may even be able to help the second grade win a reading prize. | 76 |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Candy Corn Contest, The | 2.5 | 1 | Richard has been dipping into the jar of candy corn that is the object of Ms. Rooney's contest. What is Ms. Rooney going to do when she finds out? | 76 |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Clue at the Zoo, The | 2.5 | 1 | Dawn tries to track down a possibly poisonous notebook that she found in the zoo, while keeping an eye on Arno, "the killer kindergarten kid." | 74 |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | December Secrets | 2.7 | 1 | Everyone in Ms. Rooney's room has chosen a special person to be kind to. Almost everyone is happy except Emily who must be nice to the fat, class crybaby. Just before Christmas, the secrets are told; and Emily learns what a special friend really means. | 75 |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Emily Arrow Promises to Do Better This Year | 2.6 | 1 | After resolving to do everything better, Emily's good intentions are jeopardized by her best friend. | 71 |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Fish Face | 2.7 | 1 | Emily's new schoolmate, who has displaced her as fastest runner in her class, is also a thief. Nobody knows but Emily, and she's not sure that anyone will believe her. | 75 |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Fourth-Grade Celebrity | 5.6 | 3 | Casey Valentine resents being compared to her popular older sister and decides that she will make herself over. | 117 |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Garbage Juice for Breakfast | 2.4 | 1 | Dawn and Lizzie must face their hidden terrors to find the hidden loot at camp. | 69 |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Have You Seen Hyacinth Macaw? | 3.6 | 3 | Junior detective Abby Jones and her pal Potsie become involved in a series of lighthearted adventures. A great story for all those young readers who love a mystery. | 134 |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | In the Dinosaur's Paw | 2.5 | 1 | Richard "Beast" Best finds a magic ruler in his desk at school, and his wishes start coming true. | 72 |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Lazy Lions, Lucky Lambs | 2.7 | 1 | For Richard "Beast" Best, March is the worst time of the year, with report cards and the fear of being held back again. | 73 |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Lily's Crossing | 4.6 | 5 | During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently. | 180 |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Monster Rabbit Runs Amuck! | 2.8 | 1 | Beast has a big problem when he accidentally breaks off the head of the big Easter rabbit for the school's assembly. | 67 |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Nory Ryan's Song | 4.3 | 5 | When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive. | 148 |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Pet Parade | 3 | 1 | Pet Week is going to be a disaster for Richard "Beast" Best. How can he bring his dog Kissie Poo to school? She's a great dog, but she's fat and has only three teeth left. His friends will laugh. | 103 |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Pictures of Hollis Woods | 4.4 | 5 | A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her. | 166 |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Powder Puff Puzzle, The | 2.1 | 1 | When Dawn Bosco's cat jumps into a car as it speeds away, there are only a few clues to track it down. | 75 |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Purple Climbing Days | 2.4 | 1 | Richard 'Beast' Best must stay after school with Mrs. Miller--Miller the Killer--and he does not know what is in store for him. | 70 |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Riddle of the Red Purse, The | 2.2 | 1 | When Dawn finds a purse and several kids claim it, she must use her detective skills to find out who it belongs to. | 68 |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Ronald Morgan Goes to Bat | 1.9 | 0.5 | Although he can't hit or catch, Ronald Morgan loves to play baseball. | 32 |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Rosie's Nutcracker Dreams | 3.2 | 1 | A clash with her rival may end Rosie's dream of playing the leading role in her ballet class' production of "The Nutcracker." | 78 |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Say "Cheese" | 2.4 | 1 | Everyone is excited that the school year is almost over, but Emily gets lost on the class picnic. | 79 |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Shark in School | 3.5 | 2 | Matthew is concerned about starting over in a new school, after he forgot to read some books over the summer. | 103 |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Sunny-Side Up | 2.3 | 1 | "Beast" Best knows his summer hasn't been ruined by Summer School because he can still go swimming in the afternoon, but those plans could be changed. | 74 |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Trail of the Screaming Teenager, The | 2.6 | 1 | When someone steals a teenager's necklace while she is at the beach, Dawn Bosco trails the culprit. | 74 |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Valentine Star, The | 2.5 | 1 | Emily is made Class Monitor, and she feels very important until she is threatened for reporting a fellow student. | 72 |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Watch Out! Man-Eating Snake | 2 | 0.5 | When Stacey's first day at school does not go well, she sets out to win a best friend with a plan that just can't go wrong. | 79 |
| Giff, Patricia Reilly | Watch Out, Ronald Morgan! | 2.4 | 0.5 | Ronald has many humorous mishaps until he gets a pair of eyeglasses. Includes a note for adults about children's eye problems. | 24 |
| Gilbreth, Ernestine/Frank | Cheaper by the Dozen | 6 | 10 | This true-life story chronicles the adventures of twelve wonderful redheaded rascals. | 180 |
| Gill, Shelley | Big Blue | 4.1 | 0.5 | A young girl's dream to swim with a blue whale may finally come true when her mother, a writer, arranges for them to accompany her friends, who are marine biologists, on a research trip to Mexico. | 32 |
| Gillette, J. Lynett | Dinosaur Ghosts: The Mystery of Coelophysis | 6.3 | 0.5 | Explores the different scenarios put forth by scientists to explain the remarkable Coelophysis. | 32 |
| Gilman, Phoebe | Something from Nothing | 3.3 | 0.5 | In this retelling of a traditional Jewish folktale, Joseph's baby blanket is transformed into ever smaller items as he grows until there is nothing left--but then Joseph has an idea. | 27 |
| Gilson, Jamie | 4B Goes Wild | 4.6 | 4 | Fourth-graders on a three-day camping trip with their teachers experience frights and delights. | 147 |
| Gilson, Jamie | Do Bananas Chew Gum? | 4.2 | 5 | Sam, a sixth-grader who's a math whiz, has trouble learning to read and spell. | 158 |
| Gilson, Jamie | Hello, My Name Is Scrambled Eggs | 4 | 4 | In this sequel to Harvey, the Beer Can King, Harvey attempts to Americanize the son of a Vietnamese family who has moved to his town. | 159 |
| Gilson, Jamie | Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub | 5.2 | 4 | The boys and girls in the fourth grade devise a contest to "sink" their substitute teacher by making her cry. | 140 |
| Ginsburg, Mirra | Across the Stream | 1.7 | 0.5 | A duck and her three ducklings carry a hen and her three chicks across a wide, deep stream to safety in this exceptional picture book. | 24 |
| Ginsburg, Mirra | Chinese Mirror, The | 3.4 | 0.5 | A retelling of a traditional Korean tale in which a mirror brought from China causes confusion within a family as each member looks in it and sees a different stranger. | 25 |
| Gipson, Fred | Old Yeller | 5 | 5 | This is the heartwarming story of a boy and his dog and their many adventures in the Texas wilderness. | 158 |
| Givens, Terryl | Dragon Scales and Willow Leaves | 3.7 | 0.5 | Although they are twins, Jonathan and Rachel neither look the same, nor do they see things the same way - especially in the forest. | 30 |
| Glass, Andrew | Folks Call Me Appleseed John | 4.9 | 0.5 | This is one of the tall tales Johnny Appleseed liked to tell about the time his half brother, Nathaniel, came to live with him on French Creek in northwestern Pennsylvania. | 42 |
| Glass, Andrew | Wondrous Whirligig: The Wright Brothers' First Flying Machine, The | 4 | 0.5 | Inspired by a model helicopter and encouraged by their parents and sister, young Orville and Wilbur Wright attempt to build a life-size helicopter from scrap. | 32 |
| Glassman, Bruce S. | Midnight Fridge, The | 4.5 | 0.5 | Late one night, all the foods in the refrigerator start arguing about which one is the best. | 30 |
| Gliori, Debi | No Matter What | 2.1 | 0.5 | Small, a little fox, seeks reassurance that Large will always provide love, no matter what. | 25 |
| Gliori, Debi | Pure Dead Magic | 5.9 | 6 | When their father is kidnapped and danger looms, the Strega-Borgia children, their mysterious new nanny, and a large talking spider use magic and actual trips through the Internet to bring peace to their Scottish castle. | 182 |
| Goble, Paul | Adopted by the Eagles | 3.9 | 0.5 | Two friends go out hunting for horses, but only one returns, in this story based in the Lakota Indian tradition. | 25 |
| Goble, Paul | Gift of the Sacred Dog, The | 4.2 | 0.5 | The Great Spirit gives the sacred dog to an Indian boy seeking relief for his hungry people. | 26 |
| Goble, Paul | Girl Who Loved Wild Horses, The | 4.1 | 0.5 | Though she is fond of her people, a girl prefers to live among the wild horses where she is truly happy and free. | 27 |
| Goble, Paul | Her Seven Brothers | 4.3 | 0.5 | Retells the Cheyenne legend in which a girl and her seven chosen brothers become the Big Dipper. | 23 |
| Goin, Kenn | Soccer for Fun! | 4.8 | 0.5 | This book describes the basic rules, skills, and important people and events in the sport of soccer. | 48 |
| Goldin, Barbara Diamond | Journeys with Elijah | 5.4 | 2 | This book presents eight stories about the Old Testament prophet Elijah, set in a variety of time periods and in places all over the world where Jews have lived. | 75 |
| Goldsmith, Mike | Space Mysteries (Spinning Through Space) | 6.6 | 0.5 | This book is about some of the solved and unsolved mysteries of space. | 32 |
| Goldsmith, Mike | Space Travel (Spinning Through Space) | 6.5 | 0.5 | This book is an introduction to space travel. | 32 |
| Gollub, Matthew | Cool Melons Turn to Frogs | 4.4 | 0.5 | A biography and introduction to the work of the Japanese haiku poet whose love for nature finds expression in the more than thirty poems included in this book. | 34 |
| Gollub, Matthew | Twenty-Five Mixtec Cats, The | 4.3 | 0.5 | The inhabitants of a mountain village are suspicious of the twenty-five cats who come to live with their healer, until the cats are able to help lift a curse placed on their butcher. | 32 |
| Gomel/Laird | Face-to-Face with the Ant: Energetic Worker | 4.6 | 0.5 | This book discusses the physical characteristics, behavior, habitats, and life cycles of ants. | 25 |
| Goode, Diane | Thanksgiving Is Here! | 1.6 | 0.5 | A family gathers to celebrate Thanksgiving at Grandma's house. | 32 |
| Gordon, Sharon | Tasting (Rookie Read-About Health) | 2 | 0.5 | This book is a brief introduction to the concept of taste. | 32 |
| Gordon, Sharon | Touching (Rookie Read-About Health) | 2 | 0.5 | This book uses simple text and photographs to explain your sense of touch. | 32 |
| Gordon, Sheila | Waiting for the Rain | 5.8 | 9 | Chronicles nine years in the lives of two South African youths--one black, one white--as their friendship ends in a violent confrontation between student and soldier. | 214 |
| Gowan, Barbara | G Is for Grand Canyon: An Arizona Alphabet | 6.7 | 1 | People, places, animals, and characteristic things of Arizona are represented by the letters of the alphabet, with information about them presented in rhyme and explanatory notes. | 40 |
| Grabowski, John | Boston Red Sox Baseball Team, The | 6.5 | 1 | This book surveys the history of the legendary Boston Red Sox, covering some of the key players and coaches and some of the best games the team has played. | 48 |
| Graff, Stewart | Helen Keller | 4.1 | 1 | A biography of the young Helen Keller who overcame incredible physical difficulties and became an author and lectureer. | 58 |
| Graham, Bob | Max | 3.1 | 0.5 | Max, the young son of superheroes, is a late bloomer when it comes to flying, until he is inspired by the plight of a falling baby bird. | 28 |
| Grahame, Kenneth | Reluctant Dragon, The | 6.5 | 1 | A young boy and St. George find a way to calm frightened townspeople and spare the life of a harmless dragon. | 55 |
| Grahame, Kenneth | Wind in the Willows (Unabridged), The | 8.2 | 11 | Rat, Mole, and Badger love their friend Toad even when he becomes involved in crime. | 305 |
| Grahame/Vogel | Wind in the Willows (Great Illustrated Classics), The | 5.3 | 3 | Join Mole, Otter, and Water Rat as they get into and out of the mischief that vain, self-centered Toad creates. | 240 |
| Gramatky, Hardie | Little Toot | 4.7 | 0.5 | A tugboat conquers his fear of rough seas when he single-handedly rescues an ocean liner during a storm. | 86 |
| Granfield, Linda | Circus: An Album | 7.3 | 2 | This book traces the history of circuses from the time of ancient Egypt and Greece to the spectacles created by P.T. Barnum and other modern-day showmen. | 96 |
| Gravett, Christopher | Castle (Eyewitness) | 7.7 | 1 | Discover the Medieval world of castles, how they were built, and what life was like inside them. | 63 |
| Gravett, Christopher | Knight (Eyewitness) | 7.7 | 1 | Origins, rise, and decline of the system of knighthood, chivalry, and the feudal system. | 63 |
| Gray, Elizabeth Janet | Adam of the Road | 6.5 | 9 | This story, set in thirteenth-century England, is about a boy's search for his father and lost dog. | 317 |
| Gray, Kes | Eat Your Peas | 3.7 | 0.5 | Mom tries to get Daisy to eat her peas by offering her many different bribes, but Daisy turns the tables on Mom in the end. | 25 |
| Gray, Libba Moore | My Mama Had a Dancing Heart | 3.8 | 0.5 | A ballet dancer recalls how she and her mother would welcome each season with a dance outdoors. | 30 |
| Gray, Shirley W. | Germany (First Reports) | 4 | 0.5 | This book introduces the history, geography, people, and culture of Germany. | 48 |
| Green, John | Alice and the Birthday Giant | 2.9 | 0.5 | It's Alice's birthday and she has wished for something really big! Her wish is granted, but what she gets is a lost one-eyed giant who loves hot dogs, ice cream, and cake! | 38 |
| Green, Roger Lancelyn | King Arthur and His Knights of The Round Table | 7.7 | 11 | The exciting and age-old legends of King Arthur and the knights of his court at Camelot are among the best-loved stories in the English language. In this version, you can read the tales of Sir Launcelot, Sir Gareth, Sir Tristram, and Sir Galahad. | 330 |
| Green, Roger Lancelyn | Tales of Ancient Egypt | 7.2 | 8 | These stories include the great myths: of Amen-Ra who created all the creatures in the world; of Isis, searching the water for her dead husband Osiris; of the Bennu Bird and the Book of Thoth. | 221 |
| Greene, Bette | Philip Hall Likes Me. I Reckon Maybe. | 5 | 4 | Young Beth loves Philip, but that doesn't mean she is averse to competing with him. | 135 |
| Greenfield, Eloise | For the Love of the Game: Michael Jordan and Me | 3.5 | 0.5 | Two children discover the importance of the human spirit and recognize their similarity to basketball star Michael Jordan. | 28 |
| Greenfield, Eloise | Rosa Parks | 4 | 0.5 | When Rosa Parks was growing up, she hated the unfair rules that black people had to live by. Years later, she changed the lives of African-Americans with one courageous act. | 41 |
| Greenwald, Sheila | Give Us a Great Big Smile, Rosy Cole | 3.8 | 1 | Rosy's tenth birthday is a disaster when she learns that she is going to be the unwilling star of her uncle's next book. | 76 |
| Greenwald, Sheila | Mariah Delany Lending Library Disaster, The | 5 | 2 | An eleven-year-old girl sets up her own lending library in competition with the New York Public Library and finds herself involved in more than she bargained for. | 123 |
| Greenwood, Barbara | Last Safe House: A Story of the Underground Railroad, The | 5.2 | 3 | Eleven-year-old Eliza appears at the home of the Reid family, the last stop on the Underground Railroad. Twelve-year-old Johanna Reid develops a deep admiration and respect for her new friend when she hears of the horrors Eliza has had to endure. | 119 |
| Greenwood, Barbara | Pioneer Sampler: The Daily Life of a Pioneer Family In 1840, A | 5.5 | 7 | Explores the life of a Canadian family in 1840. | 240 |
| Greer, Gery | This Island Isn't Big Enough for the Four of Us! | 4.6 | 4 | Peter and Scott excitedly plan a camping trip to a deserted island, only to arrive and discover that two girls with zany senses of humor are already in residence. | 151 |
| Greer/Ruddick | Billy the Ghost and Me | 2.3 | 0.5 | Young Sarah, with the help of friend Billy the Ghost, proves herself as a deputy by planning the perfect capture of two bank robbers in her western town of Cactus Junction. | 48 |
| Greer/Ruddick | Max and Me and the Time Machine | 6.6 | 4 | Steve buys a time machine at a garage sale and takes his friend Max to the year 1250 and the middle of a jousting match. An SLJ Best Book of the Year. | 114 |
| Gregory, Kristiana | Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Ha | 5.5 | 4 | In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hatti chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail. | 159 |
| Gregory, Kristiana | Eleanor: Crown Jewel of Aquitaine | 5.7 | 5 | This is the diary of Eleanor, first daughter of the Duke of Aquitaine, from 1136 until 1137, when at age fifteen she becomes Queen of France. | 187 |
| Gregory, Kristiana | Five Smooth Stones: Hope's Diary | 4.4 | 2 | A young girl writes about her life and the events surrounding the beginning of the American Revolution in Philadelphia in 1776. | 103 |
| Gregory, Kristiana | Legend of Jimmy Spoon, The | 5 | 5 | In the middle of the nineteenth century, twelve-year-old Jimmy leaves his Mormon family in Utah and ends up living with the Shoshoni Indians as the younger brother of Chief Washakie. | 196 |
| Gregory, Kristiana | Stowaway: A Tale of California Pirates, The | 5.4 | 3 | After witnessing the murder of his father by pirates, eleven-year-old Carlito climbs aboard their ship looking for revenge. When the ship sets sail, Carlito is trapped. Will he suffer his father's fate or will he bring his father's murderers to justice? | 126 |
| Gregory, Kristiana | Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jan, Th | 5.5 | 4 | Eleven-year-old Abigail presents a diary account of life in Valley Forge from December 1777 to July 1778 as General Washington prepares his troops to fight the British. | 167 |
| Griese, Arnold A. | Wind Is Not a River, The | 5 | 3 | Two children on a Pacific island during World War II discover an injured Japanese soldier. | 108 |
| Griffey, Harriet | Secrets of the Mummies | 5.6 | 1 | This book describes the Egyptian preservation of dead bodies, stories associated with mummies, and mummies from different cultures, including Incan and Sicilian. | 48 |
| Grimm, Brothers | Iron Hans | 5 | 0.5 | With the help of Iron Hans, the wild man of the forest, a young prince makes his own way in the world. | 26 |
| Grimm, Brothers | Rapunzel | 4.9 | 0.5 | Retells the tale of the beautiful girl imprisoned in a lonely tower by a witch. | 26 |
| Grimm, Jacob/Wilhelm | Grimms' Fairy Tales (Unabridged) | 9.9 | 19 | The Brothers Grimm gather a treasury of folk and fairy stories full of giants, dwarfs, witches, princesses, magical beasts and cunning children. | 342 |
| Grimm/Stewig | Mother Holly | 4.6 | 0.5 | Two sisters, kind, industrious Rose and vain, lazy Blanche, experience two very different adventures when each tumbles down a well and into the magical world of Mother Holly. | 32 |
| Gross, Ruth B. | Book About Your Skeleton, A | 3.9 | 0.5 | Easy-to-read introduction to the human skeletal system. | 38 |
| Gross, Ruth B. | Bremen-town Musicians, The | 2.2 | 0.5 | Four animal friends encounter cowardly robbers on their way to Bremen-town. | 32 |
| Grossman, Bill | My Little Sister Ate One Hare | 2.1 | 0.5 | Little sister has no problem eating one hare, two snakes, and three ants, but when she gets to ten peas, she throws up quite a mess. | 25 |
| Grove, Vicki | Fastest Friend in the West, The | 5.6 | 6 | When her best friend dumps her to be with the popular kids, overweight Lori shares an unusual but brief friendship with a homeless girl. | 174 |
| Grove, Vicki | Good-Bye, My Wishing Star | 5.2 | 4 | Twelve-year-old Jens, who adores the farm where she has lived all her life, is devastated when severe financial problems may force her family to sell out and move to the city. | 128 |
| Guarino, Deborah | Is Your Mama a Llama? | 1.6 | 0.5 | A young llama asks his friends if their mamas are llamas and finds out, in rhyme, that their mothers are other types of animals. | 27 |
| Gurney, James | Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time | 6.9 | 3 | A biologist and his young son are shipwrecked on the lost island of Dinotopia, where dinosaurs and humans live together in peaceful interdependence. | 159 |
| Guthridge, Sue | Thomas A. Edison: Young Inventor | 4.1 | 3 | A biography focusing on the childhood of the inventor who patented more than 1,100 inventions in 60 years. | 192 |
| Gutman, Dan | Babe & Me | 4.3 | 4 | Joe and his father travel back in time to discover whether Babe Ruth really did call the shot before his most-famous home run. | 161 |
| Gutman, Dan | Honus and Me | 4.3 | 3 | A baseball fan discovers a special baseball card worth more than just money. | 138 |
| Haas, Jessie | Unbroken | 4.1 | 7 | Following her mother's death in the early 1900s, thirteen-year-old Harry lives on Aunt Sarah's farm, where an accident with her spirited colt leaves her a changed young woman. | 185 |
| Haberle, Susan E. | Dominican Republic (Countries and Cultures) | 6.1 | 1 | This book discusses the geography, history, economy, and culture of the Dominican Republic. | 64 |
| Haddix, Margaret Peterson | Among the Barons | 4.8 | 6 | In a future world of false identities, government lies, and death threats, Luke feels drawn to the younger brother of the boy whose name Luke has taken. | 182 |
| Haddix, Margaret Peterson | Among the Betrayed | 4.9 | 5 | Thirteen-year-old Nina is imprisoned by the Population Police, who give her the option of helping them identify illegal "third-born" children, or facing death. | 156 |
| Haddix, Margaret Peterson | Among the Hidden | 4.8 | 5 | In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong. | 152 |
| Haddix, Margaret Peterson | Among the Impostors | 4.9 | 5 | In the future, where the law limits a family to only two children, third-born Luke has been hiding for the entire twelve years of his life. When he enters boarding school under an assumed name, he is forced to face his fears and his fellow humans. | 172 |
| Haddix, Margaret Peterson | Girl with 500 Middle Names, The | 3.8 | 2 | Janie's parents move to the suburbs so she can go to a better school, but when she discovers that all the other students are richer than she is, she feels out of place. | 81 |
| Haddix, Margaret Peterson | Running Out of Time | 4.8 | 7 | When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840s village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1996 tourist site under the observation of heartless scientists, and it is up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of dying children. | 184 |
| Hader, Berta/Elmer | Big Snow, The | 4.3 | 0.5 | Forest animals survive a cold winter with the help of kind people in the stone house. | 43 |
| Haduch, Bill | Food Rules! The Stuff You Munch, Its Crunch, Its Punch, and Why Yo | 6.1 | 3 | This comprehensive book on food and nutrition includes a supermarket of fascinating facts and information, plus zany pictures that explore food concepts and add to the fun. | 106 |
| Hague, Michael | Book of Pirates, The | 8.9 | 6 | It is glorious to be a pirate king, especially in this collection of eleven classic stories and poems. | 153 |
| Hahn, Don | Disney's Animation Magic | 8 | 2 | This book discusses the techniques and people involved in creating Disney's animated films, from the first story idea to opening night. | 96 |
| Hahn, Mary Downing | Anna All Year Round | 3.8 | 3 | Eight-year-old Anna experiences a series of episodes, some that are funny, others sad, involving friends and family during a year in Baltimore just before World War I. | 133 |
| Hahn, Mary Downing | Daphne's Book | 4.2 | 6 | While she denies it to her friends, Jessica comes to like the outcast Daphne as they work on their class project. | 183 |
| Hahn, Mary Downing | Dead Man in Indian Creek, The | 4.9 | 4 | When Matt and Parker learn the body they found in Indian Creek is a drug-related death, they fear Parker's mother may be involved. | 130 |
| Hahn, Mary Downing | Doll in the Garden, The | 4.8 | 4 | After Ashley and Kristi find an antique doll buried in old Miss Cooper's garden, they discover that they can enter a ghostly turn-of-the century world by going through a hole in the hedge. | 128 |
| Hahn, Mary Downing | Stepping on the Cracks | 4.7 | 8 | In 1944, while her brother is overseas fighting in World War II, eleven-year-old Margaret gets a new view of the school bully Gordy when she finds him hiding his own brother, an army deserter, and decides to help him. | 216 |
| Hahn, Mary Downing | Tallahassee Higgins | 4.6 | 6 | When a twelve-year-old who has lived for fun goes to live with her aunt, she must learn to live by the rules. | 180 |
| Hahn, Mary Downing | Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story | 4.5 | 6 | When Drew goes to spend the summer with his great-aunt in the family's old house, he is drawn 80 years into the past to trade places with his great-great-uncle, a boy who is deathly ill with diphtheria. | 165 |
| Hahn, Mary Downing | Wait Till Helen Comes | 4.6 | 5 | Molly must put aside her feelings for her spooky step-sister, when she realizes that the girl is being influenced by a ghost. | 184 |
| Haley, Gail E. | Story, A Story, A | 4.2 | 0.5 | This book recounts how most African folk tales come to be called "Spider Stories." | 32 |
| Hall, Donald | Ox-Cart Man | 4.5 | 0.5 | Describes the day-to-day life of an early nineteenth century New England family throughout the changing seasons. | 37 |
| Hall, Lynn | Mystery of Pony Hollow, The | 4.2 | 1 | While exploring her family's new farm on her pony, Sarah stumbles upon a skeleton and a supernatural mystery involving the ponies who lived there 40 years ago. | 56 |
| Hall, Zoe | Apple Pie Tree, The | 1.9 | 0.5 | An apple tree grows leaves and flowers and then produces fruit, while in its branches robins make a nest, lay eggs, and raise a family. | 30 |
| Hallinan, P.K. | Rainbow of Friends, A | 3.1 | 0.5 | This is a story in verse about how all friends are special and valuable regardless of differences or difficulties. | 22 |
| Halvorsen, Lisa | Letters Home from Peru | 5.5 | 0.5 | This book describes some of the sights and experiences on a trip through Peru, including visits to Lima, the walled city of Cuzco, and Machu Picchu. | 32 |
| Halvorsen, Lisa | Letters Home from Turkey | 4.9 | 0.5 | This book describes some of the sights and experiences on a trip through Turkey. | 32 |
| Hamilton, Virginia | Arilla Sun Down | 3.8 | 10 | Arilla learns that she will not always be in her older brother's shadow. | 296 |
| Hamilton, Virginia | Bruh Rabbit and the Tar Baby Girl | 3.2 | 0.5 | In this retelling of a familiar story, using Gullah speech, the wily Brer Rabbit outwits Brer Fox, who has set out to trap him. | 36 |
| Hamilton, Virginia | House of Dies Drear, The | 4.8 | 9 | This mystery concerns an African-American boy's move to Drear House, which had once played a part in the Underground Railroad. | 279 |
| Hamilton, Virginia | M.C. Higgins, the Great | 4.4 | 10 | Thirteen-year-old M.C. hopes his mother will be offered a recording contract so his family can leave their home before a sliding slag heap destroys it. | 278 |
| Hamilton, Virginia | Many Thousand Gone | 6.9 | 3 | The companion volume to People Could Fly traces the history of slavery in the U. S. and chronicles the route of the underground railroad that led many African Americans to freedom. | 151 |
| Hamilton, Virginia | Plain City | 3.5 | 6 | Buhlaire, a "mixed" child who feels out of place in her community, struggles to unearth her past and her family history as she gradually discovers more and more about her long-missing father. | 194 |
| Hamilton, Virginia | Planet of Junior Brown, The | 5.1 | 7 | Story of friendship between a troubled teenage pianist, a street-wise classmate, and a janitor who constructs a LO-planet revolving solar system. | 210 |
| Hamilton, Virginia | Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush | 3.8 | 8 | Drawn into a fascinating exploration of her family's recent past by a handsome stranger who calls himself Brother Rush, fourteen-year-old Tree uncovers a web of dark and frightening secrets. | 215 |
| Hamilton, Virginia | Willie Bea and the Time the Martians Landed | 4.1 | 8 | In October of 1938, on their farm homestead in Ohio, a black family is caught up in the fear generated by the Orson Welles "Martians have landed" broadcast. | 208 |
| Hamilton, Virginia | Zeely | 4.6 | 4 | Geeder's summer at her uncle's farm is made special because of her friendship with a very tall, composed woman who raises hogs and who closely resembles the magazine photograph of a Watutsi queen. | 122 |
| Hammersmith, Craig | Kerplunk! (Life Science) | 2.5 | 0.5 | This book explores life in a pond. | 24 |
| Hanel, Wolfram | Little Elephant Runs Away | 3.1 | 0.5 | Little Elephant is angry because his big sister took all his bananas and his big brother called him a crybaby and kicked him. | 25 |
| Hans, E. M. | Comets and Asteroids (Spinning Through Space) | 5.9 | 0.5 | This book is about comets and asteroids and their encounters with Earth. | 32 |
| Hans, E. M. | Constellations (Spinning Through Space) | 5.5 | 0.5 | This book shows some of the patterns of constellations and lets the reader in on the secret life of the stars. | 32 |
| Hansen, Joyce | I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed | 5 | 5 | The young, former slave Patsy keeps a diary of the confusing time following the end of the Civil War. | 197 |
| Hansen, Joyce | Which Way Freedom? | 4.5 | 5 | Obi escapes from slavery during the Civil War, joins a black Union regiment, and soon becomes involved in the bloody fighting at Fort Pillow, Tennessee. | 120 |
| Hanson, Mary Elizabeth | Foghorn | 3.8 | 0.5 | One summer day at the beach, Emma makes a cat out of sand. But Emma gets in trouble when the sand cat mysteriously follows her home. | 30 |
| Harlow, Joan Hiatt | Star in the Storm | 4.4 | 4 | In 1912, fearing for the safety of her beloved Newfoundland dog Sirius because of a new law outlawing non-sheepherding dogs in her Newfoundland village, twelve-year-old Maggie tries to save him by keeping him hidden. | 150 |
| Harmer, Mabel | Circus (New True Books), The | 2.5 | 0.5 | A brief account of circus life, as the circus moves from town to town to prepare for the next show. | 45 |
| Harris, Jim | Jack and the Giant | 4 | 0.5 | A western take on a Jack and the Beanstalk. | 28 |
| Harrison, David | Wake Up, Sun | 1.2 | 0.5 | Upon waking and seeing no sign of the sun, a dog enlists the aid of his friends in finding it. | 32 |
| Hart, George | Ancient Egypt (Eyewitness) | 8 | 1 | A photo essay on ancient Egypt and the people who lived there, documented through the mummies, pottery, weapons, and other objects they left behind. Describes their society, religion, obsession with the afterlife, and methods of mummification. | 63 |
| Haseley, Dennis | Story for Bear, A | 4.2 | 0.5 | A young bear who is fascinated by the mysterious marks he sees on paper finds a friend when a kind woman reads to him. | 32 |
| Haskins/Benson | Bound for America | 8.4 | 2 | Discusses the European enslavement of Africans, including their capture, branding, conditions on slave ships, shipboard mutinies, and arrival in the Americas. | 48 |
| Haslam/Taylor | Maps (Make It Work!) | 6.6 | 1 | This book explains what maps are, and how they help us investigate the world we live in. It is also accompanied by a variety of related craft projects. | 48 |
| Haslam/Taylor | Oceans (Make It Work!) | 6.7 | 2 | This book explains the characteristics of oceans and the forces and principles which act upon them, demonstrating with experiments and models. | 48 |
| Haslam/Wyse | Insects (Make It Work!) | 6.1 | 1 | This book provides information about the physical characteristics and habits of a variety of insects with instructions for related projects. | 48 |
| Haugaard, Erik Christian | Samurai's Tale, The | 6.3 | 10 | In turbulent sixteenth-century Japan, orphaned Taro is taken in by a general serving the great warlord Takeda Shingen, and grows up to become a samurai fighting for the enemies of his dead family. | 234 |
| Haus, Felice | Happy Birthday, Cookie Monster! | 1.1 | 0.5 | Unable to help himself, Cookie Monster eats the cake he'd baked for his birthday party, but his friends come through with lunch. | 29 |
| Hautzig, Deborah | Happy Birthday, Little Witch | 2.7 | 0.5 | Little Witch wants three special friends at her birthday party in this sequel to Little Witch's Big Night. | 48 |
| Hautzig, Deborah | Nutcracker Ballet, The | 2.8 | 0.5 | A little girl helps break the spell on her toy nutcracker and changes him into a handsome prince. | 48 |
| Hautzig, Esther | Endless Steppe, The | 6.3 | 10 | A true story of courage about a family exiled to Siberia. | 243 |
| Havill, Juanita | Treasure Nap | 3.2 | 0.5 | On an afternoon when it is too hot to sleep, a young girl asks to hear the story about how her great-great-grandmother came to the United States from Mexico, bringing a special treasure. | 32 |
| Hawes, Charles Boardman | Dark Frigate, The | 6.7 | 12 | A terrible accident forces orphaned Phillip to flee London in fear for his life. | 246 |
| Haywood, Carolyn | B Is for Betsy | 4.3 | 2 | Betsy experiences an interesting first year in school and looks forward to summer vacation at her grandfather's farm. | 159 |
| Haywood, Carolyn | Back to School with Betsy | 3.7 | 2 | Third-grader Betsy and her friend Billy seem to be always getting into scrapes both inside and outside of school. | 135 |
| Haywood, Carolyn | Betsy and Billy | 4.2 | 2 | Betsy, Billy, and their friends enjoy and learn from the many activities in the second grade. | 119 |
| Haywood, Carolyn | Betsy's Busy Summer | 3.7 | 3 | Betsy and her friends have a splendid summer having watermelon parties, selling lemonade, and having fun. | 163 |
| Haywood, Carolyn | Merry Christmas from Betsy | 3.9 | 2 | Another Christmas adventure finds Betsy and her friends on a sleigh ride with a mysterious driver who claims to be Santa Claus' twin brother. | 187 |
| Haywood, Carolyn | Snowbound with Betsy | 3.7 | 3 | It's one week before Christmas and due to an enormous snowstorm, Betsy and her sister, Star, are snowbound--they couldn't be happier. Betsy turns this snowbound holiday week into one merry adventure after another. | 188 |
| Hazen, Barbara Shook | Digby | 1.2 | 0.5 | Learning about the family dog Digby helps a young child understand aging. | 32 |
| Hazen, Barbara Shook | Tight Times | 2.4 | 0.5 | Tight times are intensified when a small boy's father loses his job. | 31 |
| Hearne, Betsy | Seven Brave Women | 4.4 | 0.5 | A young girl recounts the brave exploits of her female ancestors, including her great-great-great-grandmother who came to America in a wooden sailboat. | 16 |
| Heilbroner, Joan | Robert the Rose Horse | 1.8 | 0.5 | Robert, the horse, is allergic to roses. | 64 |
| Heiligman, Deborah | From Caterpillar to Butterfly | 2.9 | 0.5 | Explains the different life cycles of a butterfly. | 32 |
| Heine, Helme | Most Wonderful Egg in the World, The | 3.4 | 0.5 | To settle a quarrel between three hens, the king must choose which one lays the most beautiful egg. | 25 |
| Heinrichs, Ann | Colorado (This Land Is Your Land) | 4.1 | 0.5 | This book introduces the geography, history, government, people, culture, and attractions of Colorado. | 48 |
| Heinrichs, Ann | Fish (Nature's Friends) | 3.4 | 0.5 | This book introduces physical characteristics, methods of movement, habitats, feeding habits, life cycles, and different types of fish. | 32 |
| Helldorfer, M. C. | Hog Music | 4.6 | 0.5 | Travelers along the National Road help make sure that the birthday gift that Lucy's great aunt has sent makes it all the way from Maryland to her family's farm in Illinois. | 29 |
| Heller, Ruth | Chickens Aren't the Only Ones | 3.6 | 0.5 | Bright, colorful illustrations depict for young readers all types of animals that lay eggs. | 40 |
| Heller, Ruth | How to Hide a Butterfly | 3.6 | 0.5 | Rhyming text describes how various insects camouflage themselves to protect against predators. | 29 |
| Henderson, Aileen | Summer of the Bonepile Monster, The | 5 | 4 | When he and his sister Lou are sent to spend the summer with their blind great-grandmother in the tiny town of Dolliver, Hollis encounters some dark family secrets and vows to uncover them. | 138 |
| Hendry, Diana | Harvey Angell | 5.1 | 5 | When Harvey Angell zaps into Ballantyre Road, he brightens up Henry's life. Henry, no ordinary electrician, gets the residents of the house to make connections and overcome their sadness. | 143 |
| Henkes, Kevin | Chester's Way | 3.4 | 0.5 | Chester and Wilson share the exact way of doing things until Lilly moves into the neighborhood and shows them that new ways can be just as good. | 32 |
| Henkes, Kevin | Chrysanthemum | 3.3 | 0.5 | Chrysanthemum loves her name until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it. | 29 |
| Henkes, Kevin | Julius, the Baby of the World | 3 | 0.5 | Lilly is convinced that the arrival of her new baby brother is the worst thing that has happened in their house until Cousin Garland comes to visit. | 28 |
| Henkes, Kevin | Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse | 3.1 | 0.5 | Lily loves everything about school, especially her teacher; but when he asks her to wait awhile before showing her new purse, she does something she is very sorry for later. | 28 |
| Henkes, Kevin | Owen | 2.4 | 0.5 | Owen the mouse has grown too big for his blanket. | 22 |
| Henkes, Kevin | Sheila Rae, the Brave | 2.5 | 0.5 | When brave Sheila Rae, who usually looks out for her sister, Louise, becomes lost and scared one day, Louise comes to the rescue. | 28 |
| Henkes, Kevin | Weekend with Wendell, A | 2.7 | 0.5 | Sophie does not enjoy energetic, assertive Wendell's weekend visit until the very end, when she learns to assert herself and finds out Wendell can be fun to play with after all. | 30 |
| Henkes, Kevin | Wemberly Worried | 2.7 | 0.5 | Wemberly, the mouse, who worries about everything, finds that she has a whole list of things to worry about when she faces the first day of nursery school. | 30 |
| Henkes, Kevin | Words of Stone | 5 | 5 | Busy trying to deal with his many fears and his troubled feelings for his dead mother, ten-year-old Blaze has his life changed when he meets the boisterous and irresistible Joselle. | 152 |
| Henry, Marguerite | Brighty of the Grand Canyon | 5.6 | 7 | In this story, a lone burro creates friendships with a number of men in the Grand Canyon and helps to capture a murderer. | 222 |
| Henry, Marguerite | Justin Morgan Had a Horse | 5.8 | 5 | A remarkable little work horse that could walk faster, trot faster, run faster, and pull heavier logs than any other horse in all Vermont, sires a famous family of American horses. | 169 |
| Henry, Marguerite | King of the Wind | 5.4 | 5 | An Arab stable boy's love for a Sultan's horse begins the line from which Man o' War was sired. | 174 |
| Henry, Marguerite | Misty of Chincoteague | 5.3 | 4 | A breed of wild horses inhabit an island, and one is befriended and tamed by the love of two children. | 173 |
| Henry, Marguerite | Sea Star Orphan of Chincoteague | 4.8 | 4 | Enthralling story as the wild ponies of Chincoteague struggle to save Sea Star. | 173 |
| Henry, Marguerite | Stormy, Misty's Foal | 4.7 | 6 | A foal, born in the aftermath of a great storm, and her mother raise money to repair the damage on Chincoteague Island and restore the herds of wild ponies. | 223 |
| Henry, Marguerite | White Stallion of Lipizza | 5.5 | 5 | A young boy dreams of someday working with the magnificent Lipizzan horses. | 112 |
| Henry, O. | Gift of the Magi (Creative Education), The | 6.2 | 0.5 | A husband and wife sacrifice treasured possessions in order to buy each other Christmas presents. | 32 |
| Herman, Gail | Keep Your Distance! | 1.9 | 0.5 | Jen learns about closeness and the measurement of distance in inches, feet, yards, and miles when she has to share a room with her little sister Lucy. | 32 |
| Herman, John | Red, White, and Blue: The Story of the American Flag | 3.2 | 0.5 | This book describes how the American flag came into being, how it has changed over the years, and its importance as the symbol of our country. | 48 |
| Hermes, Patricia | Heads, I Win | 3.7 | 4 | In this sequel to 'Kevin Corbett Eats Flies,' Bailey runs for class president hoping that popularity will secure her place in her current foster home. | 132 |
| Hermes, Patricia | Our Strange New Land: Elizabeth's Diary, Jamestown, Virginia, 1609 | 3.2 | 2 | Nine-year-old Elizabeth kept a journal of her experiences in the New World as she encountered Indians, suffered hunger and the death of friends, and helped her father build their first home. | 109 |
| Hermes, Patricia | Season of Promise: Elizabeth's Jamestown Colony Diary | 3.6 | 2 | In 1610, ten-year-old Elizabeth continues a journal of her experiences living in Jamestown, as her brother Caleb rejoins the family, a new, strict governor comes to the colony, and her father considers remarriage. | 108 |
| Hermes, Patricia | Starving Time: Elizabeth's Diary, Book Two, The | 3.2 | 2 | Nine-year-old Elizabeth continues keeping a journal of her experiences in the New World . | 109 |
| Hermes, Patricia | Westward to Home: Joshua's Diary | 3.1 | 1 | Joshua writes a journal of his family's journey from Missouri to Oregon in a covered wagon. | 108 |
| Herriot, James | All Creatures Great and Small | 6.8 | 26 | Recounting the problems and joys of the life of a countryside veterinary surgeon. | 437 |
| Herriot, James | Christmas Day Kitten, The | 4.3 | 0.5 | An irresistible kitten finds a new home on Christmas morning. | 30 |
| Herriot, James | Only One Woof | 4.5 | 0.5 | Gyp, a cheerful but always silent sheep dog, startles everyone with uncharacteristic behavior during the championship sheep dog trials. | 31 |
| Herriot, James | Oscar, Cat-About-Town | 4 | 0.5 | Nobody knows why a stray cat keeps sneaking away from his new home until he begins turning up at social events all over the village. | 30 |
| Herzig, Alison Cragin | Mystery on October Road | 3 | 1 | Two best friends try to learn more about a mysterious new neighbor. | 57 |
| Herzig, Alison Cragin | Sam and the Moon Queen | 3.3 | 5 | Sympathetic to a homeless girl's plight, Sam tries to help her find food for herself and medical aid for her dog. | 168 |
| Hesse, Karen | Just Juice | 3.8 | 3 | Realizing that her father's lack of work has endangered her family, nine-year-old Juice decides that she must return to school and learn to read in order to help their chances of surviving and keeping their house. | 138 |
| Hesse, Karen | Letters from Rifka | 4.2 | 4 | Rifka and her family flee the pogroms in Russia in 1919 and cross the Atlantic to land on Ellis Island. | 148 |
| Hesse, Karen | Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, A | 5.3 | 4 | In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state. | 167 |
| Hesse, Karen | Music of Dolphins, The | 3.4 | 3 | After rescuing an adolescent girl from the sea, researchers learn she has been raised by dolphins and attempt to rehabilitate her to the human world. | 181 |
| Hesse, Karen | Out of the Dust | 5.3 | 3 | In a series of poems, fourteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm. | 227 |
| Hesse, Karen | Phoenix Rising | 4 | 6 | Thirteen-year-old Nyle learns about relationships and death when fifteen-year-old Ezra, who was exposed to radiation leaked from a nearby nuclear plant, comes to stay at her grandmother's Vermont farmhouse. | 182 |
| Hesse, Karen | Sable | 3.8 | 1 | Tate is determined to keep a stray dog despite her mother's protests. | 81 |
| Hesse, Karen | Stowaway | 6.1 | 11 | This book relates in journal form, the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771, aboard the "Endeavour," which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook. | 319 |
| Hest, Amy | In the Rain with Baby Duck | 1.8 | 0.5 | Although her parents love walking in the rain, Baby Duck does not--until Grampa shares a secret with her. | 24 |
| Hest, Amy | Off to School, Baby Duck! | 2 | 0.5 | Baby Duck experiences the fear of the first day of school, but with a little help from Grampa, everything turns out okay in the end. | 24 |
| Hest, Amy | Private Notebook of Katie Roberts, Age 11, The | 3.5 | 1 | In a series of journal entries and letters to a pen pal, Katie relates her feelings about her father's death in World War II, her mother's remarriage, and the family's move from New York City to Texas. | 75 |
| Hest, Amy | Purple Coat, The | 3.4 | 0.5 | Despite her mother's reminder that 'navy blue is what you always have,' Gabby begs her tailor grandfather to make her a beautiful purple fall coat. | 28 |
| Hest, Amy | When Jessie Came Across the Sea | 3.2 | 0.5 | A thirteen-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and immigrates to the United States where she works for three years sewing lace and earning money to bring her grandmother to the United States. | 36 |
| Heyer, Marilee | Weaving of a Dream, The | 4.7 | 0.5 | When the beautiful tapestry woven by a poor woman is stolen by fairies, her three sons set out on a magical journey to retrieve it. An NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Book in the Field of Social Studies. | 30 |
| Heymsfeld, Carla | Coaching Ms. Parker | 3.8 | 2 | Mike and his friends try to help their fourth-grade teacher learn how to play baseball before the annual teacher-student game. | 85 |
| Heyward, Du Bose | Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes, The | 4.5 | 0.5 | All the other rabbits scoff when Country Bunny claims to be the Easter Bunny, but she shows them. | 42 |
| Hickman, Pamela | Animals Eating: How Animals Chomp, Chew, Slurp and Swallow | 5.9 | 1 | Whether their diets include plants, insects or other creatures, animals eat in some weird and fascinating ways. | 40 |
| Hicks, Peter | Romans (Look into the Past), The | 6.2 | 0.5 | Illustrates the culture and history of ancient Rome. | 32 |
| Hilgartner, Beth | Murder for Her Majesty, A | 5 | 8 | Eleven-year-old Alice disguises herself as a choirboy in the Yorkshire Cathedral to hide from her father's murderers. | 241 |
| Hill, Kirkpatrick | Year of Miss Agnes, The | 4.5 | 3 | Ten-year-old Fred (short for Frederika) narrates the story of school and village life among the Athabascans in Alaska during 1948 when Miss Agnes arrived as the new teacher. | 115 |
| Hillert, Margaret | Happy Easter, Dear Dragon | 0.9 | 0.5 | A boy and his dragon celebrate Easter by enjoying spring flowers, coloring eggs, hunting for Easter eggs, and going to Church. | 31 |
| Himmelman, John | Animal Rescue Club, The | 2.5 | 0.5 | Members of the Animal Rescue Club save wild animals in trouble, nurse them back to health, and return them to the wild. | 46 |
| Himmelman, John | Ups and Downs of Simpson Snail, The | 2.1 | 0.5 | This book contains four adventures of Simpson Snail as he visits a friend, gets a new shell, tries to fly, and makes a statue. | 47 |
| Hindley, Judy | Wheeling and Whirling-Around Book, The | 5.1 | 0.5 | A lively celebration of circles, disks, spheres, and all sorts of things that roll and spin. | 25 |
| Hines, Anna Grossnickle | When We Married Gary | 2.9 | 0.5 | Beth still remembers the daddy who went away, although her younger sibling does not, but both of them accept Gary and call him Papa. | 24 |
| Hitchcock, Alfred | Supernatural Tales...Terror...Suspense | 7.2 | 9 | Chilling tales by Muriel Spark, Raymond Chandler, Dorothy B. Bennett, and other outstanding authors are included among these spine-tingling stories selected by the master of suspense. | 213 |
| Hitchcock, Alfred | Witch's Brew | 6.3 | 8 | An anthology of eleven short stories about magic, witchcraft, and the supernatural. | 183 |
| Hite, Sid | Journal of Rufus Rowe: A Witness to the Battle of Fredericksbu, Th | 5.9 | 3 | In 1862, sixteen-year-old Rufus Rowe runs away from home and settles in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he documents in his journal the battle he watches unfold there. | 132 |
| Hoban, Julia | Buzby to the Rescue | 2.4 | 0.5 | Buzby the hotel cat does his best to help visiting movie star Serena Lovejoy keep track of her jewels and enjoy her stay at the hotel. | 64 |
| Hoban, Lillian | Arthur's Back to School Day | 2.7 | 0.5 | While hurrying to get on the school bus, Arthur and his friend unknowingly switch their lunch boxes; later Arthur finds out what surprise his sister had put into hers. | 47 |
| Hoban, Lillian | Arthur's Funny Money | 3.1 | 0.5 | When Violet has a numbers problem and Arthur is penniless, they go into business and solve both problems. | 64 |
| Hoban, Lillian | Arthur's Honey Bear | 2.9 | 0.5 | Arthur decides to sell his old toys but is reluctant to part with his old bear. An Arthur the Chimpanzee Book. | 64 |
| Hoban, Lillian | Arthur's Loose Tooth | 2.9 | 0.5 | Arthur the chimp is a little worried about losing his loose tooth until his sister and their baby-sitter show him the real meaning of bravery. | 64 |
| Hoban, Lillian | Arthur's Pen Pal | 3.1 | 0.5 | Arthur views his little sister in a different light after receiving a revealing letter from his pen pal. | 62 |
| Hoban, Lillian | Arthur's Prize Reader | 2.9 | 0.5 | Although Arthur loses the Super Chimp Club contest, his pupil, sister Violet, wins the first-grade reading competition and a prize for them both. | 64 |
| Hoban, Lillian | Case of the Two Masked Robbers, The | 2.5 | 0.5 | This book tells the story of raccoon twins, Arabella and Albert, who track down the robbers who stole Mrs. Turtle's eggs. | 62 |
| Hoban, Lillian | Silly Tilly and the Easter Bunny | 2.4 | 0.5 | Silly Tilly Mole is so forgetful and silly on Easter morning that she cannot find her bonnet and nearly fails to let the Easter Bunny into the house. | 31 |
| Hoban, Lillian | Silly Tilly's Thanksgiving Dinner | 2.6 | 0.5 | Forgetful Silly Tilly Mole nearly succeeds in ruining her Thanksgiving dinner, but her animal friends come to the rescue with tasty treats. | 63 |
| Hoban, Lillian | Silly Tilly's Valentine | 2.5 | 0.5 | This is a story about Silly Tilly, a mole who forgot it was Valentine's Day. | 48 |
| Hoban, Russell | Bargain for Frances, A | 2.8 | 0.5 | Thelma usually outsmarts Frances until Frances decides to teach her a lesson about friendship. | 62 |
| Hoban, Russell | Bedtime for Frances | 2.7 | 0.5 | Frances employs every ruse she can think of to put off bedtime, until the thought of a spanking makes her sleepy. | 28 |
| Hoban, Russell | Bread and Jam for Frances | 3.4 | 0.5 | Frances decides she likes to eat only bread and jam at every meal until, to her surprise, her parents grant her wish. | 31 |
| Hoban, Russell | Mouse and His Child, The | 6.6 | 8 | Once they are bought and leave the safety of the toy shop, the clockwork mouse and his child begin their search for the beautiful doll's house they had once known. Except, always on their track, determined to destroy them, is the evil Manny Rat. | 244 |
| Hobbie, Holly | Puddle's ABC | 2 | 0.5 | Puddle teaches his friend Otto the letters of the alphabet so that Otto can write his name. | 46 |
| Hobbs, Will | Beardance | 5.7 | 8 | While accompanying an elderly rancher on a trip into the San Juan Mountains, Cloyd, a Ute Indian boy, tries to help two orphaned grizzly cubs survive the winter and, at the same time, completes his spirit mission. | 197 |
| Hobbs, Will | Beardream | 3.6 | 0.5 | When Short Tail climbs into the mountains to find the Great Bear, he tires and slips into a dream in which the Great One reveals a marvelous secret. | 27 |
| Hobbs, Will | Big Wander, The | 5.1 | 8 | As he searches for his uncle through the rugged Southwest canyon country, fourteen-year-old Clay becomes involved with a group of Navajo Indians who are trying to save some of the last wild mustangs. | 181 |
| Hobbs, Will | Down the Yukon | 5.4 | 7 | In the wake of Dawson City's Great Fire of 1899, sixteen-year-old Jason and his girlfriend, Jamie, canoe the Yukon River across Alaska in an epic race from Canada's Klondike to the new gold fields at Cape Nome. | 193 |
| Hobbs, Will | Jason's Gold | 5.5 | 8 | When news of the discovery of gold in Canada's Yukon in 1897 reaches fifteen-year-old Jason, he embarks on a 5000-mile journey to strike it rich. | 221 |
| Hobbs, Will | Kokopelli's Flute | 5.3 | 6 | Thirteen-year-old Tepary discovers an old flute in a cliff dwelling in New Mexico, and through its power he learns about ancient Native American Magic. | 148 |
| Hobbs, Will | Maze, The | 5 | 7 | Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah, where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild. | 198 |
| Hoberman, Mary Ann | House Is a House for Me, A | 2.6 | 0.5 | This book lists in rhyme the dwellings of various animals and things. | 48 |
| Hoberman, Mary Ann | Seven Silly Eaters, The | 4.5 | 0.5 | Seven fussy eaters find a way to surprise their mother. | 38 |
| Hodges, Margaret | Saint George and the Dragon | 5.6 | 0.5 | Retells the segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings peace and joy to the land. | 32 |
| Hodgson, Mona Gansberg | Goofy Glasses | 2.4 | 0.5 | Taylor the tortoise tries to prove that he doesn't need glasses because he thinks he looks silly in them. | 48 |
| Hoff, Syd | Chester | 1.9 | 0.5 | Looking for love, a wild horse comes to the city to find a home. | 64 |
| Hoff, Syd | Danny and the Dinosaur | 2.3 | 0.5 | Danny spends an unforgettable day in the city with his friend, the museum dinosaur. | 64 |
| Hoff, Syd | Grizzwold | 2 | 0.5 | Grizzwold must find a new home now that loggers have cut down the forest. | 64 |
| Hoff, Syd | Horse in Harry's Room, The | 2.3 | 0.5 | Harry gives his imaginary horse its freedom, but it chooses to remain with him. | 32 |
| Hoff, Syd | Julius | 2.1 | 0.5 | Julius arrives in America and soon becomes the star attraction of the circus. A job he truly loves. | 64 |
| Hoff, Syd | Mrs. Brice's Mice | 2.3 | 0.5 | Mrs. Brice has 25 mice, and they all do everything together. | 32 |
| Hoff, Syd | Sammy the Seal | 2 | 0.5 | Sammy leaves the zoo to go exploring and learns to read while visiting a class of first-graders. | 64 |
| Hoff, Syd | Who Will Be My Friends? | 1.4 | 0.5 | Freddy learns that while it takes some time, there are friends for him in his new neighborhood. | 32 |
| Hoffius, Stephen | Winners and Losers | 4.3 | 5 | A sports story about rivalry and obsession between two track stars who are best friends. | 164 |
| Hoffman, Mary | Boundless Grace | 3.8 | 0.5 | Grace is invited for a visit with her father and his new family in Africa. | 24 |
| Hoffman, Mary | Henry's Baby | 3.4 | 0.5 | Henry feels both family and peer pressure when his brother is born. | 32 |
| Hogrogian, Nonny | One Fine Day | 3.5 | 0.5 | Catchy verses and ebullient illustrations combine to make this saga of a greedy fox irresistible. | 14 |
| Holabird, Katharine | Angelina on Stage | 4.6 | 0.5 | Cousin Henry gets all the attention in the grown-up musical, and Angelina becomes jealous. | 26 |
| Holabird, Katharine | Angelina's Christmas | 4 | 0.5 | Angelina and her cousin, Henry, help bring Christmas to a lonely old postman. | 26 |
| Holland, Isabelle | Behind the Lines | 4.9 | 6 | Katie works as a live-in maid for the wealthy Lacey family in order to supplement the family income. She also realizes that friendship can transcend race and class. | 194 |
| Holm, Jennifer L. | Boston Jane: An Adventure | 4.9 | 8 | Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and in the rugged life she lives there. | 273 |
| Holm, Jennifer L. | Boston Jane: Wilderness Days | 5 | 8 | Far from her native Philadelphia, Miss Jane Peck continues to prove that she's more than an etiquette-schooled graduate of Miss Hepplewhite's Young Ladies Academy as she braves the untamed wilderness of Washington Territory in the mid 1850s. | 242 |
| Holm, Jennifer L. | Our Only May Amelia | 4.8 | 7 | As the only girl in a Finnish American family of seven brothers, May Amelia Jackson resents being expected to act like a lady while growing up in Washington state in 1899. | 253 |
| Holman, Sheri | Sondok: Princess of the Moon and Stars | 6.6 | 5 | In a series of messages placed in her grandmother's ancestral jar, a sixth-century princess and future ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla vents her frustration at not being permitted to study astronomy because she is a girl. | 187 |
| Holt, Kimberly Willis | Dancing in Cadillac Light | 5.1 | 6 | In 1968, eleven-year-old Jaynell's life in the town of Moon, Texas, is enlivened when her eccentric Grandpap comes to live with her family. | 167 |
| Holt, Kimberly Willis | My Louisiana Sky | 4.6 | 5 | Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, in the 1950's, twelve-year-old Tiger Ann struggles with her feelings about her stern but loving grandmother, her mentally slow parents, and her good friend and neighbor, Jesse. | 200 |
| Holt, Kimberly Willis | When Zachary Beaver Came to Town | 4.5 | 6 | During the summer of 1971 in a small Texas town, thirteen-year-old Toby and his best friend, Cal, meet the star of the sideshow act, 600-pound Zachary, the fattest boy in the world. | 227 |
| Holtzman, Caren | Quarter from the Tooth Fairy, A | 2.4 | 0.5 | A boy has trouble deciding how to spend the quarter he gets from the Tooth Fairy. | 30 |
| Hong, Lily Toy | Two of Everything | 3.5 | 0.5 | A humorous Chinese tale about a couple who meet up with their doubles. | 28 |
| Hoobler, Dorothy/Thomas | Sign Painter's Secret: The Story of a Revolutionary Girl, The | 4.1 | 1 | When the Redcoats occupy her house in Philadelphia, young Annie finds a way to help General Washington's troops at Valley Forge. | 48 |
| Hooks, William | Monster from the Sea, The | 2.9 | 0.5 | A determined princess, whose father's policy of keeping strangers off their island kingdom has made her curious about the outside world, finally gets her wish to meet someone new. | 32 |
| Hooks, William | Pioneer Cat | 3.3 | 1 | When a young girl smuggles a cat aboard the wagon train taking her family from Missouri to Oregon, it turns out to be the best thing she could have done. | 63 |
| Hoose, Phillip/Hannah | Hey Little Ant | 2.5 | 0.5 | This is a song in which an ant pleads with the kid who is tempted to squish it. | 24 |
| Hopcraft, Xan/Carol | How It Was with Dooms | 4.8 | 1 | This true story of a cheetah cub who comes to live with the Hopcraft family when he is separated from his mother is told in the words of a twelve-year-old boy | 64 |
| Hopkins, Lee Bennett | Dino-Roars | 3.4 | 0.5 | Hold onto your belly! This book of silly dinosaur poems will make you roar...with laughter! | 48 |
| Hopkins, Lee Bennett | My America: A Poetry Atlas of the United States | 4.9 | 1 | This is a collection of poems evocative of seven geographical regions of the United States, including the Northeast, Southeast, Great Lakes, Plains, Mountain, Southwest, and Pacific Coast States. | 83 |
| Hopkinson, Deborah | Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt | 3.8 | 0.5 | Drawn from a true incident in African American history, this is the story of a young slave who uses a quilt as a map to the underground railroad. | 30 |
| Horvath, Polly | Everything on a Waffle | 5.8 | 5 | Eleven-year-old Primrose, living in a small fishing village in British Columbia, recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea. | 149 |
| Horwood, William | Willows and Beyond, The | 7.6 | 11 | This book continues the adventures of Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger as they reminisce about their past escapades and prepare to turn over the River Bank to the next generation. | 290 |
| Houston, Gloria | My Great-Aunt Arizona | 4 | 0.5 | An Appalachian girl, Arizona Houston Hughes, grows up to become a teacher who influences generations of schoolchildren. | 29 |
| Houston, Gloria | Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree, The | 4.2 | 0.5 | Ruthie and her mother wonder how they will fulfill their obligation of getting the perfect Christmas tree to the town for the holiday celebration, since Papa has left the Appalachian area to go to war. | 28 |
| Houston, James | Fire into Ice | 5.4 | 0.5 | This book is a fascinating introduction to glass making, one of the world's most ancient and most beautiful arts, through the experiences of the author who left his home in the Arctic to learn glass-making skills in New York City. | 32 |
| Houston, James | Frozen Fire | 4.9 | 5 | Determined to find his father who has been lost in a storm, a young boy and his Eskimo friend brave wind storms, starvation, wild animals, and wild men during their search in the Canadian Arctic. | 149 |
| Hovanec, Erin M. | I Wonder What It's Like to Be a Grasshopper | 4.4 | 0.5 | This book introduces the physical characteristics, habits, and behavior of grasshoppers. | 24 |
| Howard, Arthur | Hoodwinked | 2.9 | 0.5 | A young witch searches for a creepy pet. | 28 |
| Howard, Elizabeth Fitzgerald | Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Later) | 2.4 | 0.5 | Sara and Susan share tea, cookies, crab cakes, and stories about hats when they visit their favorite relative, Aunt Flossie. | 31 |
| Howard, Elizabeth Fitzgerald | Chita's Christmas Tree | 2.5 | 0.5 | Papa and Chita leave downtown Baltimore in a buggy to find a Christmas tree in the deep woods. | 15 |
| Howard, Ellen | Edith Herself | 4.4 | 3 | Orphaned by her mother's death, Edith goes to live with her older sister and her dour husband in their stern farming household, where the strain of adjusting seems to aggravate her epileptic seizures. | 131 |
| Howard, Ellen | Log Cabin Christmas, The | 3 | 0.5 | Elvirey decides that her family really needs to celebrate Christmas, even though it will not be the same since her mother died. | 29 |
| Howe, Deborah/James | Bunnicula | 4.2 | 2 | Chester, the Monroe family's cat, resorts to hilarious antics to alert his owners and Harold, their dog, that the newly adopted bunny may actually be a vegetable vampire. | 98 |
| Howe, James | Bunnicula Strikes Again! | 4.8 | 3 | When Bunnicula the rabbit starts acting strangely, the Monroe dogs and cat renew their suspicions that he is a vampire. | 116 |
| Howe, James | Celery Stalks at Midnight, The | 4 | 2 | Chester the cat is more than ever convinced that Bunnicula is a vampire when there is a harvest of white vegetables on the morning after the night that Bunnicula was probably wandering through the neighborhood. | 111 |
| Howe, James | Day the Teacher Went Bananas, The | 1.8 | 0.5 | With the new teacher, there are also new lessons. | 27 |
| Howe, James | Dew Drop Dead | 4.3 | 4 | While setting up a homeless shelter at the church, Sebastian and his friends Corrie and David solve the mystery of a dead man found in an abandoned inn. | 138 |
| Howe, James | Eat Your Poison, Dear | 4 | 3 | Young sleuth Sebastian and three friends probe the mystery of a poisoning in their school cafeteria. | 139 |
| Howe, James | Horace and Morris but Mostly Dolores | 2.6 | 0.5 | Three mice friends learn that the best clubs include everyone. | 29 |
| Howe, James | Howliday Inn | 4 | 4 | While investigating the horrible howling that emanates from Chateau Bow Wow, Chester the Cat and Harold the Dog stumble on a mystery involving some suspicious disappearances and maybe murder. | 195 |
| Howe, James | I Wish I Were a Butterfly | 3.4 | 0.5 | A wise spider helps a despondent cricket realize that he is special in his own way. | 35 |
| Howe, James | Invasion of the Mind Swappers from Asteroid 6! | 4.5 | 1 | In his new book, Howie, the wire-haired dachshund, writes all about how the Mind Swappers from Asteroid 6 invade Earth and how he and his friend Delilah save the day. | 89 |
| Howe, James | It Came from Beneath the Bed! | 4.1 | 1 | With help from his Uncle Harold, who wrote books about Bunnicula, Howie, the wire-haired dachshund, writes a story in which he saves the world from a science experiment gone awry. | 90 |
| Howe, James | Nighty-Nightmare | 4.2 | 2 | When scary strangers appear at the Monroes' overnight campsite, Chester the cat tries to convince the family's two dogs that foul play is intended. | 121 |
| Howe, James | Pinky and Rex | 3.1 | 0.5 | Rex and her best friend Pinky, each the proud possessor of twenty-seven stuffed animals, find their visit to the museum and it's gift shop complicated by Pinky's little sister. | 40 |
| Howe, James | Pinky and Rex and the Perfect Pumpkin | 3.2 | 0.5 | When Rex accompanies Pinky and his relatives on their traditional trip to pick and carve pumpkins, she feels left out because of the jealous behavior of Pinky's cousin Abby. | 40 |
| Howe, James | Return to Howliday Inn | 5.8 | 3 | In this sequel to "Howliday Inn," the Monroe family pets are again boarded at Chateau Bow-Wow, where some spooky goings-on serve as a distraction from the kennel's poor food. | 156 |
| Howe, James | There's a Dragon in My Sleeping Bag | 2.1 | 0.5 | Alex is intimidated by his older brother Simon's imaginary dragon until he is able to create his own friend--a camel named Calvin. | 26 |
| Howe, James | What Eric Knew | 3.9 | 3 | After Eric moves away, he sends cryptic notes to Sebastian and David, who follow them to investigate a mysterious death. | 138 |
| Howitt/DiTerlizzi | Spider and the Fly, The | 4.8 | 0.5 | The spider uses sweet words to hide his not-so-sweet intentions. | 36 |
| Hoyt-Goldsmith, Diane | Lacrosse: The National Game of the Iroquois | 6.2 | 1 | In this book, the author describes the sport of lacrosse, its origins, and connections to the Iroquois, or Haudenosaunee, peoples. | 32 |
| Huck, Charlotte | Princess Furball | 4.7 | 0.5 | A princess in a coat of a thousand furs hides her identity from a king who falls in love with her. | 40 |
| Hughes, Carol | Jack Black and the Ship of Thieves | 5.2 | 7 | Having fallen from his father's airship, Jack blunders into a feud between a pirate ship and a deadly ocean-going war machine and encounters danger, intrigue, and treachery. | 231 |
| Hughes, Dean | Nutty for President | 4.8 | 4 | One look at the new kid eating in the school cafeteria, and everyone agrees-- William Bilks is a nerd. But Nutty and his friends are in for a big surprise, because William is really a genius in disguise. | 117 |
| Hughes, Dean | Play Ball! (Scrappers) | 4.2 | 3 | Having failed to get their applications in for the middle school summer baseball league, Robbie and Trent scramble to find a sponsor, a coach, and enough players to form their own team. | 123 |
| Hughes, Dean | Theo Zephyr | 3.9 | 4 | Brad's fantasies in which an imaginary friend humiliates the bright athletic boy of whom Brad is extremely jealous start coming true in a way he cannot control. | 122 |
| Hugo/Vogel | Hunchback of Notre Dame (Great Illustrated Classics), The | 5.8 | 3 | Quasimodo lives in a Paris cathedral and is tormented by the people because of his physical deformities. They don't realize he has human feelings and emotions until he risks his life for a young dancer. | 238 |
| Hunt, Irene | Across Five Aprils | 6.6 | 10 | A moving story of the Civil War and one boy who grew up at home. | 190 |
| Hunt, Irene | Up a Road Slowly | 6.6 | 8 | Julie lives with Aunt Cordelia and forms an attachment with both her aunt and her new home. | 186 |
| Hunter, Mollie | Mermaid Summer, The | 6.1 | 5 | With the help of her brother, Jon, nine-year-old Anna daringly seeks to discover the secret means to undo a mermaid's curse upon their grandfather. | 118 |
| Hunter, Rebecca | Electricity and Magnetism (Discovering Science) | 5 | 0.5 | This book explains how electricity and magnetism are related, how they can be harnessed, and how they are useful. | 32 |
| Hunter, Rebecca | Energy (Discovering Science) | 5.1 | 0.5 | This book gives a simple explanation of energy and its many forms and sources. | 32 |
| Hunter, Rebecca | Light and Dark (Discovering Science) | 4.9 | 0.5 | This book defines light, demonstrates its properties, explains how plants and animals use light, and describes artificial lighting. | 32 |
| Hunter, Rebecca | Matter (Discovering Science) | 5.1 | 0.5 | This book defines matter and includes instructions for simple experiments that explain the properties of its three principal forms. | 32 |
| Hunter, Rebecca | Sound (Discovering Science) | 4.8 | 0.5 | This book describes sound and its influence on our lives. | 32 |
| Hunter, Rebecca | Space (Discovering Science) | 5.2 | 0.5 | This book gives a simple explanation of space and the solar system. | 32 |
| Hunter, Rebecca | Volcanoes and Earthquakes (Discovering Science) | 6.2 | 0.5 | This book gives a simple explanation of volcanoes and earthquakes. | 32 |
| Hunter, Rebecca | Weather (Discovering Science) | 5.1 | 0.5 | This book gives a simple explanation of weather and its many forms and sources. | 32 |
| Hurd, Thacher | Mama Don't Allow | 2.2 | 0.5 | Miles and the Swamp Band are a big hit at the Alligator Ball, but is it the music or the band that the alligators find interesting? | 38 |
| Hurd, Thacher | Mystery on the Docks | 2.4 | 0.5 | Ralph, a short-order cook, rescues a kidnapped opera singer from Big Al and his gang of nasty rats. | 29 |
| Hurmence, Belinda | Slavery Time: When I Was Chillun | 5 | 3 | Twelve oral histories of former slaves selected from the more than 2000 interviewed as part of the Slave Narratives of the Library of Congress for the Works Progress Administration in 1936. | 98 |
| Hurwitz, Johanna | Adventures of Ali Baba Bernstein, The | 4.6 | 2 | Eight-year-old David Bernstein's life changes drastically when he changes his name to Ali Baba, after seeing 17 listings for his name in the New York phone book. | 82 |
| Hurwitz, Johanna | Aldo Ice Cream | 4.8 | 2 | Nine-year-old Aldo discovers the pleasures of doing volunteer work to help the older citizens of the community and the satisfactions of earning his first money on his own for unselfish reasons. | 124 |
| Hurwitz, Johanna | Busybody Nora | 4.1 | 1 | Relates the adventures of an inquisitive little girl who lives in a large apartment building in New York with her parents and little brother Teddy. | 63 |
| Hurwitz, Johanna | Class Clown | 4.6 | 2 | Lucas Cott, the class clown, wants to become the perfect student but finds it hard to change his ways. | 98 |
| Hurwitz, Johanna | New Neighbors for Nora | 4.3 | 1 | This story continues the adventures of an inquisitive seven-year-old who lives in a New York City apartment building. | 95 |
| Hurwitz, Johanna | Russell Rides Again | 3.8 | 2 | This book is about Russell, his family, and friends, as he gets ready to celebrate his sixth birthday. | 86 |
| Hurwitz, Johanna | Russell Sprouts | 4.2 | 1 | Russell, age six and growing up fast, has some home and school adventures. | 95 |
| Hurwitz, Johanna | Teacher's Pet | 4.7 | 3 | Nine-year-old Cricket's expectations of being, as always, the teacher's favorite student are dashed by the arrival of an unusual new girl in her fourth-grade class. | 116 |
| Hutchins, Hazel | Three and Many Wishes of Jason Reid, The | 4.2 | 2 | Eleven-year-old Jason is granted three wishes which land him and his friends in some amazing scrapes. | 88 |
| Hutchins, Pat | Clocks and More Clocks | 2.3 | 0.5 | Mr. Higgins checks all the clocks in his house for the correct time. | 30 |
| Hutchins, Pat | Doorbell Rang, The | 1.9 | 0.5 | Each time the door bell rings, there are more people who have come to share Ma's wonderful cookies. | 22 |
| Hutchins, Pat | Happy Birthday, Sam | 2.8 | 0.5 | Sam's birthday brings a solution to several of his problems. | 28 |
| Hutchins, Pat | Rosie's Walk | 0.6 | 0.5 | Rosie the hen leaves the chicken coop and sets out for a little walk. | 32 |