| Author | Title | Level | Pts. | Description | Pages |
| Ibbotson, Eva | Dial-a-Ghost | 5.8 | 6 | A family of nice ghosts protect a British orphan from the diabolical plans of his evil guardians. | 195 |
| Ibbotson, Eva | Island of the Aunts | 5.9 | 9 | As caretakers of the Island, the three aunts tend to an amazing assortment of creatures, including mermaids, selkies, and a couple of ghosts. However, they are getting old and they must kidnap some children who can take over the Island. | 281 |
| Ibbotson, Eva | Journey to the River Sea | 5.6 | 12 | Sent with her governess to live with the dreadful Carter family in exotic Brazil in 1910, Maia endures many hardships before fulfilling her dream of exploring the Amazon River. | 298 |
| Ibbotson, Eva | Secret of Platform 13, The | 5.8 | 7 | Odge and an old wizard travel through a magical tunnel from their island to London to rescue the son of the King and Queen who was stolen as an infant. | 231 |
| Ibbotson, Eva | Which Witch? | 6.2 | 7 | Deciding that he must sire a child to carry on his tradition of Loathing Light and Blighting the Beautiful, the Great Wizard Arriman announces a competition among the witches of Todcaster, one of whom will marry him. | 249 |
| Inkpen, Mick | Kipper | 2 | 0.5 | Kipper's basket is old and worn, and his blanket is smelly and disgusting. But can he find a better place to sleep? | 26 |
| Inkpen, Mick | Kipper's Snowy Day | 3.1 | 0.5 | Kipper the dog spends the day enjoying the snow with his best friend Tiger. | 24 |
| Irving/Kelly | Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle (Great Illustrated, The | 4.8 | 3 | The folks of the valley are a superstitious lot, believing in witches and goblins and ghosts and things they can't see, as much as they believe in the real world around them. | 236 |
| Irving/Moses | Rip Van Winkle | 6.6 | 1 | This is a retelling of the tale in which a man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world. | 40 |
| Irving/Rackham | Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The | 11 | 3 | This is the rollicking tale of Ichabod Crane, a schoolmaster, who challenges his rival, Brom Bones, for the love and fortune of Katrina Van Tassel. | 105 |
| Isaacs, Anne | Swamp Angel | 5 | 0.5 | A Tennessee tall tale about a good-natured heroine. | 34 |
| Isaacs, Sally Senzell | Abraham Lincoln (America in the Time Of) | 5.7 | 1 | This book uses the life of Abraham Lincoln as a reference to examine the history of the United States from 1815 to 1869. | 48 |
| Isadora, Rachel | Ben's Trumpet | 2.2 | 0.5 | Ben wants to be a trumpeter, but plays only an imaginary instrument until one of the musicians in a neighborhood night club discovers his ambition. | 36 |
| Isherwood, Shirley | Flora the Frog | 3.3 | 0.5 | Flora is afraid that everyone will laugh at her if she is the frog in the class play, but at the pond by her house she makes a remarkable discovery and decides that being a frog in the play might not be so bad. | 26 |
| Jackson, Alison | Crane's Rebound | 4.3 | 3 | Eleven-year-old Les sets out for basketball camp to discover a whole load of predicaments. | 122 |
| Jackson, Alison | If the Shoe Fits | 3.7 | 0.5 | The old woman who lives in a shoe sets out to find a larger home for her many children, and gets mixed up in other nursery rhymes along the way. | 25 |
| Jackson, Donna M. | Bone Detectives: How Forensic Anthropologists Solve Crimes and, Th | 7.8 | 2 | Explores the world of forensic anthropology and its applications in solving crimes. | 45 |
| Jackson, Ellen | Cinder Edna | 4.5 | 0.5 | Cinderella and Cinder Edna, who live with cruel stepmothers and stepsisters, have different approaches to life; and, although each ends up with the prince of her dreams, one is a great deal happier than the other. | 29 |
| Jackson, Ellen | Scatterbrain Sam | 3.5 | 0.5 | Scatterbrain Sam finds true love while gathering ingredients for the mysterious glue stew that is supposed to make him smarter. | 32 |
| Jackson, Ellen | Turn of the Century | 5.4 | 1 | Children living in Great Britain and the United States at the beginning of each century between 1000 and 2000 A.D. describe their lifestyle at the time. | 29 |
| Jacques, Brian | Bellmaker, The | 5.7 | 14 | Worried about his daughter Mariel, Joseph the Bellmaker is led by a dream from Redwall Abbey to Southsward, where he is caught up in the battle between Squirrelking Gael and the vicious Foxwolf Nagru. | 336 |
| Jacques, Brian | Castaways of the Flying Dutchman | 5.4 | 12 | In 1602, a boy and his dog are rescued from the doomed ship, Flying Dutchman, by an angel who guides them in traveling the world, eternally helping those in need. | 327 |
| Jacques, Brian | Legend of Luke, The | 5.7 | 16 | When Martin the Warrior leaves Redwall Abbey and embarks upon a journey to the place of his birth, he learns about the brave and noble deeds of his father Luke, a real Warrior Chieftain. | 374 |
| Jacques, Brian | Long Patrol, The | 6 | 15 | Tammo, a daring young hare hungry for adventure, is sent to join the Long Patrol and defend Salamandastron against the Rapscallion hordes. | 358 |
| Jacques, Brian | Lord Brocktree | 5.5 | 16 | The mountain of Salamandastron needs the help of Brocktree the Badger Lord when evil comes in the form of the Blue Hordes of Ungatt Trunn, the Earth Shaker. | 379 |
| Jacques, Brian | Mariel of Redwall | 5.7 | 16 | The mousemaid Mariel achieves victory at sea for the animals of Redwall Abbey, fighting the savage pirate rat Gabool the Wild, warlord of rodent corsairs. | 387 |
| Jacques, Brian | Marlfox | 5.7 | 17 | When three young residents of Redwall Abbey go on a quest to recover a tapestry stolen by the Marlfoxes, their bravery removes the curse of these evil animals on a lost island. | 386 |
| Jacques, Brian | Martin the Warrior | 5.5 | 14 | Magical saga of a mouse warrior who embarks on a series of adventurous battles. | 376 |
| Jacques, Brian | Mattimeo | 5.2 | 18 | The evil fox Slagar ventures into Redwall Abbey and kidnaps the Woodland children. Sequel to: Redwall and Mossflower. | 446 |
| Jacques, Brian | Mossflower | 5.1 | 17 | Martin the warrior mouse and Gonff the mousethief set out to find the missing ruler of Mossflower, while the other animal inhabitants of the woodland prepare to rebel against the evil wildcat who has seized power. The triumphant prequel to Redwall. | 431 |
| Jacques, Brian | Outcast of Redwall | 6.3 | 15 | The destinies of the badger lord dubbed Sunflash and his mortal enemy, the ferret warlord Swartt Sixclaw, are entwined with those of many creatures, particularly the inhabitants of Redwall Abbey. | 356 |
| Jacques, Brian | Pearls of Lutra | 6.1 | 18 | Tansy, a young hedgehog living at Redwall Abbey, attempts to solve the riddle of the missing pearls, while at the same time the evil marten Mad Eyes desires them for himself. | 405 |
| Jacques, Brian | Redwall | 5.6 | 16 | The peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes. Matthias determines to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior which, he is convinced, will help destroy the enemy. | 351 |
| Jacques, Brian | Salamandastron | 5.7 | 16 | The defense of the badger citadel occupies this entry in the Redwall chronicles. | 356 |
| Jacques, Brian | Taggerung | 5.2 | 19 | A young otter, kidnapped in his infancy and raised as a warrior-thief by a band of vermin, leaves the tribe and goes off to seek adventures on his own. | 438 |
| Jacques, Brian | Triss | 5.8 | 17 | Triss, Shogg, and Welfo escape from slavery at Riftgard and are pursued across the sea toward Redwall by Princess Kurda, Prince Bladd, and a band of freebooters who seek the rumored treasure of Brockhall. | 389 |
| Jaffe, Nina | Uninvited Guest and Other Jewish Holiday Tales, The | 6 | 2 | Includes background information and retellings of traditional tales from Jewish folklore and legend related to major holidays, such as Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Hanukkah, and Purim. | 72 |
| James, Robert | Hands (Human Body Discovery) | 4.1 | 0.5 | Describes the anatomy of the human hand, how it differs from the "hands" and "paws" of animals, and its susceptibility to injury. | 24 |
| James, Will | Smoky the Cow Horse | 6.5 | 13 | This is the story of the cow horse Smoky, and Clint, the man who trained and loved him. | 310 |
| Janeczko, Paul B. | Stone Bench in an Empty Park | 3.2 | 0.5 | This is an anthology of haiku reflecting nature in the city. | 36 |
| Janke, Katelan | Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards | 6.4 | 6 | A twelve-year-old girl keeps a journal of her family's and friends' difficult experiences in the Texas Panhandle, part of the "Dust Bowl," during the Great Depression. | 189 |
| January, Brendan | Thirteen Colonies (A True Book), The | 5 | 0.5 | This book examines the creation of the original thirteen colonies in the United States. | 48 |
| Jefferis, David | Spacecraft (Monster Machines) | 5.3 | 0.5 | This book describes the various vehicles and machines used in the space program, including rockets, space shuttles and rovers. | 32 |
| Jeffers (Illus.), Susan | Brother Eagle, Sister Sky: A Message from Chief Seattle | 4.4 | 0.5 | A Suquamish Indian chief describes his people's respect and love for the earth and concern for its destruction. | 32 |
| Jenkins, Steve | Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest, The | 5.6 | 0.5 | This book describes the conditions and terrain of Mount Everest, attempts that have been made to scale this peak, and general information about the equipment and techniques of mountain climbing. | 30 |
| Jenkins/Page | What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? | 3 | 0.5 | This book looks at the ways in which different animals use their ears, eyes, mouths, noses, feet, and tails. | 32 |
| Jenner, Caryn | First Flight: The Story of the Wright Brothers | 6 | 1 | Growing up in rural Ohio, Orville and Wilbur Wright were fascinated by all kinds of vehicles -- a toy helicopter, bicycles, and the first motorized cars, but what they dreamed of was flight. | 48 |
| Jenner, Caryn | Survivors: The Night the Titanic Sank | 3 | 0.5 | Will and Lucy sail on the Titanic and are separated from their father when the ship hits an iceberg and begins to sink. | 32 |
| Jennings, Richard | Orwell's Luck | 6 | 5 | While caring for an injured rabbit which becomes her confidant, horoscope writer, and source of good luck, a thoughtful seventh grade girl learns to see things in more ways than one. | 146 |
| Jinkins/Ryan | Funnie Family Vacation | 3.6 | 0.5 | The last thing Doug wants to do on his summer vacation is go camping with his family, especially when it means missing Beebe's annual swim party. The camping trip has a few surprises in store for Doug and turns out to be more fun than anybody expected. | 55 |
| Johnson, Angela | Heaven | 4.7 | 3 | Fourteen-year-old Marley's seemingly perfect life in the small town of Heaven is disrupted when she discovers that her father and mother are not her biological parents. | 138 |
| Johnson, Angela | When I Am Old with You | 2.7 | 0.5 | A child imagines being old with Grandaddy and joining him in such activities as playing cards all day, visiting the ocean, and eating bacon on the porch. | 26 |
| Johnson, Crockett | Picture for Harold's Room, A | 2.3 | 0.5 | When the hero of Harold and the Purple Crayon realizes that his room needs a picture, he draws one and it becomes real. | 64 |
| Johnson, D.B. | Henry Hikes to Fitchburg | 2.1 | 0.5 | While his friend works hard to earn the train fare to Fitchburg, young Henry Thoreau walks the thirty miles through woods and fields, enjoying nature. | 29 |
| Johnson, Emily Rhoads | Write Me If You Dare! | 5.4 | 6 | Three years after the death of her mother, eleven-year-old Maddie finds a note attached to a popped balloon, leading to a correspondence with a mysterious fourteen-year-old girl, who helps Maddie understand that life must go on. | 194 |
| Johnson, Scott | Safe at Second | 4.3 | 8 | Paulie Lockwood's best friend Todd Bannister is destined for the major leagues until a line drive to the head causes him to lose an eye and they both must help each other find a new future for themselves. | 245 |
| Johnston, Tony | Amber on the Mountain | 3 | 0.5 | With the help of a girl from the city, a country girl learns how to read and write. | 30 |
| Johnston, Tony | Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella | 3.3 | 0.5 | Tis version of the familiar story in which a mistreated step-child finds happiness with the "man" of her dreams is set in the old-growth forest and features Bigfoot characters. | 29 |
| Jonas, Ann | Splash! | 0.9 | 0.5 | A little girl's turtle, frogs, dog, and cat jump in and out of a backyard pond, constantly changing the answer to the question "How many are in my pond?" | 20 |
| Jonas, Ann | Trek, The | 1.5 | 0.5 | A child describes her trip through a jungle and across a desert - right on the way to school. | 32 |
| Jones, Diana Wynne | Dark Lord of Derkholm | 5.5 | 18 | Derk, an unconventional wizard, and his magical family, become involved in a plan to put a stop to the devastating tours of their world arranged by the tyrannical Mr. Chesney. | 345 |
| Jones, Diana Wynne | Lives of Christopher Chant, The | 5.8 | 13 | Young Christopher Chant, in training to become the next Chrestomanci or head controller of magic in the world, becomes a key figure in a battle with renegade sorcerers because he has nine lives. | 330 |
| Jones, Diana Wynne | Witch Week | 5 | 10 | When a teacher at an English boarding school finds a note on his desk accusing someone in the class of being a witch, magical things begin to happen and an Inquisitor is summoned. | 270 |
| Jones, S.D. | Debt, The | 3.8 | 1 | Reconstruction, carpetbaggers, and the Ku Klux Klan form the backdrop for Miles Pryce's one-man war against his cousin Jefferson Dunford. At stake: Economic survival. | 68 |
| Jones, S.D. | Fortune in Men's Eyes | 3.8 | 2 | Gold-seeker Matthew Wilder and runaway slave Zeke Rutlidge face some hard choices as they get caught in the government's plan to forcibly 'resettle' Indian tribes in the Colorado territory. | 69 |
| Jones, S.D. | Splendid Little War, A | 3.5 | 2 | Olive Dunford is horrified when she learns how her newspaper articles have influenced a member of her own family. | 69 |
| Jones, S.D. | Test of Loyalty, A | 3.7 | 2 | Harry Dunford Drewes travels to Oregon to learn about his family's business. He is torn between sympathy for the oppressed workers and loyalty to the management people who take orders from his own parents. | 73 |
| Jones/Dadey | Howling at the Hauntlys' | 3.6 | 1 | After hearing strange howling sounds, Annie and Jane begin to think that Kilmer's cousin fromTransylvania is a werewolf. | 71 |
| Jordan, Deloris/Roslyn | Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream | 3.6 | 0.5 | Young Michael Jordan, who is smaller than the other players, learns that determination and hard work are more important than size when playing the game of basketball. | 32 |
| Joyce, William | Santa Calls | 4 | 0.5 | Art Aimesworth receives a mysterious summons from Santa Claus, and he shares a Christmas adventure with his sister that brings them closer together. | 35 |
| Joyce, William | Sleepy Time Olie | 2.8 | 0.5 | When Pappy bumps his head before bedtime, Olie cheers him up by inventing a silly ray, and then they both become happy, sleepy robots. | 40 |
| Juster, Norton | Phantom Tollbooth, The | 6.7 | 7 | In this wise and witty fantasy, a boy travels through time and space to the Lands Beyond. | 256 |
| Kalman, Bobbie | Arctic Animals | 6.8 | 2 | Describes the land, climate, and the animals that make the Arctic their home. | 56 |
| Kaplan, Leslie C. | Land and Resources of Ancient Egypt | 5.1 | 0.5 | This book describes the land and resources available to the ancient Egyptians. | 24 |
| Karim, Roberta | Kindle Me a Riddle: A Pioneer Story | 2.5 | 0.5 | The riddles that a pioneer family share explain the origin of such things in their lives as their log cabin, johnnycakes, the broom, a cloak, candles, and more. | 40 |
| Karlin, Nurit | Fat Cat Sat on the Mat, The | 1.9 | 0.5 | Rat tries to get the fat cat off the mat and back to his usual resting place in the vat. | 32 |
| Karr, Kathleen | Great Turkey Walk, The | 4.5 | 6 | In 1860, a somewhat simple-minded fifteen-year-old boy attempts to herd one thousand turkeys from Missouri to Denver, Colorado, in hopes of selling them at a profit. | 199 |
| Kassem, Lou | Listen for Rachel | 4.3 | 6 | Moving up into the mountains of Tennessee introduces Rachel to a possible calling, as she learns about folk medicine from a local healer, until the Civil War divides the family loyalities and brings romance into her life. | 164 |
| Kassirer, Sue | What's Next, Nina? | 2.3 | 0.5 | When the string of a borrowed necklace breaks, Nina must quickly get the beads back in order and restrung before her sister finds out. | 32 |
| Kastner, Jill | Princess Dinosaur | 1.9 | 0.5 | Princess Dinosaur has fun playing with the rest of the toys until Spots comes and carries her off. | 32 |
| Kasza, Keiko | Dorothy & Mikey | 2.7 | 0.5 | This book includes three stories featuring Mikey and Dorothy, two friends who play and compete with one another. | 30 |
| Kaye, M.M. | Ordinary Princess, The | 6.4 | 4 | Princess Amy runs away to a neighboring kingdom, where she meets and falls in love with her own special prince--someone just like herself. | 112 |
| Keats, Ezra Jack | Goggles! | 1.8 | 0.5 | Two boys must outsmart the neighborhood bullies before they can enjoy their new treasure, a pair of motorcycle goggles. | 37 |
| Keats, Ezra Jack | Letter to Amy, A | 2.4 | 0.5 | Peter wants to invite Amy to his birthday party but he wants it to be a surprise. | 32 |
| Keats, Ezra Jack | Pet Show! | 2.2 | 0.5 | When he can't find his cat to enter in the neighborhood pet show, Archie must do some fast thinking to win a prize. | 34 |
| Keats, Ezra Jack | Peter's Chair | 1.8 | 0.5 | Peter is not happy when he sees all of his things being painted pink for his new sister. | 28 |
| Keats, Ezra Jack | Snowy Day, The | 2.5 | 0.5 | A small boy experiences the joys of a snowy day. | 28 |
| Keats, Ezra Jack | Trip, The | 1.6 | 0.5 | Playing alone, Louie creates a scene out of a shoebox that has a magical effect, calling his imagination back to his old friends and old times. | 35 |
| Keats, Ezra Jack | Whistle for Willie | 2.5 | 0.5 | A child and his city world are captured in colorful illustrations. | 28 |
| Keehn, Sally M. | I Am Regina | 4.4 | 8 | In 1755, as the French and Indian War begins, ten-year-old Regina is kidnapped by Indians in western Pennsylvania, and she must struggle to hold onto memories of her earlier life as she grows up as an Indian. | 240 |
| Keene, Carolyn | Bungalow Mystery, The | 5.6 | 5 | After a near disaster, when the boat Nancy and her two friends were in gets caught in a horrible storm, a mystery unravels in a bungalow that they have found. | 180 |
| Keene, Carolyn | Clue of the Broken Locket, The | 5.4 | 5 | Nancy tackles two interesting mysteries this time, both for Cecily a friend she just met, one involving Cecily's fiance, the other a family treasure. | 178 |
| Keene, Carolyn | Crooked Banister, The | 5.3 | 5 | While helping the police find the owner of a mysterious house with a crooked staircase and an unpredictable robot, Nancy finds time to capture a swindler. | 179 |
| Keene, Carolyn | Exhibition of Evil | 4.8 | 6 | Nancy and the Hardy Boys team up to solve two murders in Williamsburg, Virginia, where colonial America comes alive. | 216 |
| Keene, Carolyn | Hidden Staircase, The | 5.5 | 6 | Nancy finds the hidden staircase in the "haunted" house and also rescues her kidnapped father. | 182 |
| Keene, Carolyn | Mystery at Lilac Inn, The | 5.3 | 6 | Nancy solves another exciting mystery involving stolen electronic parts and stolen diamonds. | 180 |
| Keene, Carolyn | Secret of Red Gate Farm, The | 5.7 | 5 | Nancy Drew uncovers a counterfeiting ring and in the process has a run-in with a hood-wearing cult. | 178 |
| Keene, Carolyn | Secret of the Forgotten City, The | 5.2 | 5 | There are rumors that long ago a treasure was hidden in a city now buried under the Nevada desert. | 180 |
| Keene, Carolyn | Secret of the Old Clock, The | 5.4 | 5 | Nancy's decided that Mr. Crowley must have left a second will, so she proceeds to find out the mystery of the old clock. | 180 |
| Keene, Carolyn | Wedding Day Mystery, The | 4.7 | 4 | Danger's walking down the aisle, and Nancy has vowed to stop it. | 149 |
| Kehret, Peg | Cages | 4.5 | 5 | After losing an acting role and fighting with her alcoholic stepfather, Kit is arrested for shoplifting and ordered to work as part of her sentence at an animal shelter. | 150 |
| Kehret, Peg | Earthquake Terror | 4.6 | 4 | When an earthquake hits the isolated island in northern California where his family had been camping, Jonathan must find a way to keep himself, his sister, and their dog alive until help arrives. | 132 |
| Kehret, Peg | Flood Disaster, The | 4.9 | 4 | Warren Spalding and Betsy Tyler have been assigned to do a paper on the Johnstown Flood of 1889. They decide to use their Instant Commuter time-travel device when they interview old Doc Keaton, who lost a daughter in the flood. | 146 |
| Kehret, Peg | Horror at the Haunted House | 5.2 | 5 | A fast-paced ghost story as two kids try to solve the mystery of a haunted mansion. | 132 |
| Kehret, Peg | I'm Not Who You Think I Am | 4.6 | 4 | Thirteen-year-old Ginger becomes the target of a disturbed woman who believes that Ginger is her dead daughter. | 154 |
| Kehret, Peg | My Brother Made Me Do It | 5.4 | 4 | In letters to an elderly pen pal, eleven-year-old Julie describes dealing with her younger brother, painful juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, and struggling to finish a fund-raising race on crutches. | 130 |
| Kehret, Peg | Nightmare Mountain | 4.6 | 5 | Twelve-year-old Molly's visit to her aunt and uncle's llama ranch in the state of Washington leads her into unexpected danger and suspense. | 164 |
| Kehret, Peg | Terror at the Zoo | 4.6 | 5 | A camp-out at a deserted zoo turns scary for Corey and her little brother. | 131 |
| Keith, Harold | Rifles for Watie | 6.1 | 14 | Sixteen-year-old Jeff cannot wait to join the Union army and fight against Stand Watie, leader of the Cherokee Indian rebels. | 332 |
| Kelleher, D.V. | Defenders of the Universe | 3.9 | 2 | Rachel joins the Defenders of the Universe--her neighborhood super heroes--and her first adventures put her in great peril. | 121 |
| Keller, Helen | Story of My Life, The | 6.8 | 12 | This is the story of Helen Keller's triumph over deafness and blindness. | 225 |
| Keller, Holly | Island Baby | 3.8 | 0.5 | Simon helps out Pops at a bird hospital on a Caribbean island, but he hates to see his cured patients fly away. | 29 |
| Keller, Laurie | Open Wide: Tooth School Inside | 4.3 | 0.5 | Through a classroom setting in which teeth are the students, this book presents information about the structure and care of teeth and the services provided by dentists. | 36 |
| Kelley, Leo P. | Time Trap, The | 2.7 | 1 | Two Earthlings travel back in time to investigate the annihilation of Planet X-12. | 59 |
| Kellogg, Steven | A-Hunting We Will Go! | 1.6 | 0.5 | This is a modern version of the children's song. | 43 |
| Kellogg, Steven | Best Friends | 3.4 | 0.5 | Kathy feels lonely and betrayed when her best friend goes away for the summer and has a wonderful time. | 29 |
| Kellogg, Steven | Can I Keep Him? | 2.7 | 0.5 | Arnold wants to have something to play with and brings home a variety of pets. | 30 |
| Kellogg, Steven | Chicken Little | 3.8 | 0.5 | Chicken Little and his feathered friends, alarmed that the sky seems to be falling, are easy prey to hungry Foxy Loxy when he poses as a police officer in hopes of luring them into his truck. | 28 |
| Kellogg, Steven | Christmas Witch, The | 4.6 | 0.5 | Gloria must prove that she has what it takes to become a Christmas Witch by bringing peace to a planet occupied by two feuding factions. | 37 |
| Kellogg, Steven | Island of the Skog, The | 3.5 | 0.5 | To escape the dangers of urban life, Jenny and her friends sail away to an island, only to be faced with a new problem--its single inhabitant--the Skog. | 24 |
| Kellogg, Steven | Jack and the Beanstalk | 4.1 | 0.5 | The author/illustrator brings this timeless tale to life with the zest and energy that are his trademarks. | 36 |
| Kellogg, Steven | Johnny Appleseed | 4.4 | 0.5 | Presents the life of John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, describing his love of nature, his kindness to animals, and his physical fortitude. | 36 |
| Kellogg, Steven | Mike Fink | 4.9 | 0.5 | The story of the folk hero who ran away from home at two days old and grew up to be King of the Keelboatmen. | 32 |
| Kellogg, Steven | Much Bigger Than Martin | 2.5 | 0.5 | Henry imagines what life would really be like if he were much bigger than Martin. | 26 |
| Kellogg, Steven | Mysterious Tadpole, The | 3.6 | 0.5 | It soon becomes clear that a pet tadpole is not turning into an ordinary frog. NCTE Adventuring with Books. | 30 |
| Kellogg, Steven | Mystery of the Flying Orange Pumpkin, The | 2.6 | 0.5 | When a new owner takes over the garden where they have been growing a pumpkin, the neighborhood children find their Halloween plans for the pumpkin in jeopardy. | 26 |
| Kellogg, Steven | Mystery of the Missing Red Mitten, The | 1.8 | 0.5 | The story of a little boy's search for a lost mitten and where he finds it. | 32 |
| Kellogg, Steven | Mystery of the Stolen Blue Paint, The | 1.9 | 0.5 | When Belinda's paint for the fence is stolen, she suspects the younger children; but the real thief may have only been hungry and four-legged. | 26 |
| Kellogg, Steven | Paul Bunyan | 5.7 | 0.5 | This story recounts the life of the extraordinary lumberjack whose unusual size and strength brought him many fantastic adventures. | 30 |
| Kellogg, Steven | Pecos Bill | 5.7 | 0.5 | A read-aloud winner depicting some of the legends of Pecos Bill. | 36 |
| Kellogg, Steven | Pinkerton, Behave! | 1.5 | 0.5 | Pinkerton goes to obedience school and later catches a burglar. | 32 |
| Kellogg, Steven | Prehistoric Pinkerton | 3.8 | 0.5 | Pinkerton's natural canine urge to chew on things while teething coincides with a chaotic visit to the museum's collection of dinosaur bones. | 29 |
| Kellogg, Steven | Rose for Pinkerton, A | 2.2 | 0.5 | Pinkerton's owner buys a cat at the pet store so he will not be lonely anymore. | 32 |
| Kelly, Eric | Trumpeter of Krakow, The | 7.1 | 10 | The legend of the Trumpeter of Krakow endures as a fifteenth-century Ukrainian family maintains a vow to keep Poland free from invasion. | 242 |
| Kendall, Carol | Gammage Cup, The | 5.9 | 8 | Fantasy about a new race of little people. | 283 |
| Kent, Jack | There's No Such Thing as a Dragon | 3.3 | 0.5 | Billy Bixbee is rather surprised when he wakes up one morning and finds a dragon in his room. | 27 |
| Kerley, Barbara | Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins, The | 5 | 0.5 | The unforgettable story of Waterhouse Hawkins and his dinosaurs has something to teach all of us about the importance of believing in oneself, and following a dream. | 42 |
| Kern, Noris | I Love You with All My Heart | 2.7 | 0.5 | Polo asks all his friends how their mothers love them. | 24 |
| Kerr, Judith | When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit | 5.7 | 9 | For nine-year-old Anna, being a German Jew in 1933 did not mean anything until her father disappeared and the rest of her family had to flee the country. | 191 |
| Kessler, Leonard | Big Mile Race, The | 1.7 | 0.5 | A story of animal friends preparing for a big race and how they got through the big event. | 47 |
| Kessler, Leonard | Last One in Is a Rotten Egg | 2 | 0.5 | After Freddy is pushed into deep water by a couple of toughs, he decides to learn to swim. | 64 |
| Key, Alexander | Forgotten Door, The | 5 | 5 | Jon must find the secret passage to his own peaceful world, through which he fell into this one. | 140 |
| Keyes, Daniel | Flowers for Algernon | 5.8 | 13 | Is superior intelligence the answer to all of Charlie's problems? If so, he gains more than he had bargained for. | 216 |
| Kimball, K.M. | Star-Spangled Secret, The | 5.7 | 6 | In 1814, as the War of 1812 threatens her Maryland home, Caroline sets out to discover the truth about the disappearance of her older brother. | 234 |
| Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody | Balto and the Great Race | 6.3 | 2 | This is the story of Balto, the sled dog that saved Nome, Alaska, in 1925 from a diptheria epidemic by delivering medicine through a raging snowstorm. | 94 |
| Kimmel, Eric A. | Anansi and the Talking Melon | 2.6 | 0.5 | A tricky spider outwits all the other animals in this African folk tale. | 30 |
| Kimmel, Eric A. | Billy Lazroe and the King of the Sea: A Tale of the Northwest | 4.4 | 0.5 | Billy Lazroe, a sailor from Oregon, jumps into the ocean at the command of Davy Jones and falls in love with one of Davy's daughters. | 35 |
| Kimmel, Eric A. | Iron John | 4.1 | 0.5 | With the help of Iron John, the wild man of the forest who is under a curse, a young prince makes his way in the world and finds true love. Adapted from the Brothers Grimm. | 27 |
| Kimmel, Eric A. | Squash It! | 4.2 | 0.5 | The king of Spain's fondness for a louse that bit him leads to good fortune for a clever peasant. | 24 |
| King, Elizabeth | Quinceanera: Celebrating Fifteen | 6.4 | 1 | This book describes the Quinceanera, a rite of passage, of two Latina girls. | 40 |
| King-Smith, Dick | Babe, the Gallant Pig | 5.6 | 3 | Babe, the piglet won by Farmer Hogget at a fair, learns to be a sheep-pig. | 118 |
| King-Smith, Dick | Cuckoo Child, The | 5.7 | 3 | With the unknowing help of his pet geese, eight-year-old Jack Daw decides to raise an ostrich on his father's farm. | 127 |
| King-Smith, Dick | Fox Busters, The | 7 | 4 | The story of three chicken sisters that could out-smart the foxes that came to attack at Foxearth Farm. | 117 |
| King-Smith, Dick | Funny Frank | 5 | 1 | The hen Gertie is appalled when her son Frank wants to swim with the ducks, but Jemima and her mother, the farmer's wife, make him a special outfit so that his dream can come true. | 108 |
| King-Smith, Dick | Harriet's Hare | 4.1 | 2 | A fantasy about the friendship between a young English girl and an extraterrestrial disguised as a rabbit. | 87 |
| King-Smith, Dick | Harry's Mad | 4.8 | 3 | Harry's legacy from his great-uncle, a talking parrot, proves to be a much more exciting gift than he ever imagined. | 123 |
| King-Smith, Dick | Invisible Dog, The | 3.5 | 1 | When Janie can't afford the Great Dane puppy she wants, she invents an invisible dog as her pet. | 73 |
| King-Smith, Dick | Sophie Hits Six | 4.3 | 2 | The year that Sophie turns six, she sees her cat give birth to kittens, gets a pet rabbit, and pursues her dream of acquiring a dog. | 127 |
| King-Smith, Dick | Sophie in the Saddle | 4.5 | 1 | Sophie, who wants to be a lady farmer, gets a dog, goes on a holiday to the seaside, and has her first ride on a pony. | 92 |
| King-Smith, Dick | Sophie's Snail | 3.9 | 1 | Sophie is only four years old and knows she wants to be a lady farmer. She's fond of all creatures, but gets fed up with her twin brothers and the new girl Dawn. | 95 |
| King-Smith, Dick | Stray, The | 4.5 | 3 | When seventy-five-year-old Henny Hickathrift runs away from the old people's home, she meets five children and their parents, who welcome her into their family. | 139 |
| King-Smith, Dick | Three Terrible Trins | 5.1 | 2 | An animal fantasy in which three young mice make life miserable for some house cats. | 105 |
| King-Smith, Dick | Water Horse, The | 5.4 | 2 | In 1930, on the coast of Scotland, eight-year-old Kirstie finds a large egg which hatches into an unusual sea creature, and as he grows her family must decide what to do with him. | 120 |
| Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie | Canada Geese Quilt, The | 4.1 | 1 | Worried that the coming of a new baby and her grandmother's serious illness will change the warm, familiar life on her family's Vermont farm, ten-year-old Ariel combines her artistic talent with her grandmother's knowledge to make a very special quilt. | 60 |
| Kipling, Rudyard | Captains Courageous | 8 | 9 | A spoiled boy falls from an ocean liner, is rescued and matures in the harsh environment of the sea. | 169 |
| Kipling, Rudyard | Jungle Book (Book I) (Unabridged), The | 7.5 | 9 | This is the story of Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves in the jungle. | 173 |
| Kipling, Rudyard | Just So Stories (Unabridged) | 6.4 | 5 | This book creates the magical enchantment of the dawn of the world, when animals could talk and think like people. | 180 |
| Kipling/Pinkney | Rikki-Tikki-Tavi | 4.4 | 1 | A courageous mongoose thwarts the evil plans of Nag and Nagaina, two big cobras who live in the garden. | 46 |
| Kipling/Vogel | Captains Courageous (Great Illustrated Classics) | 5.3 | 3 | When Harvey, the son of a millionaire, is swept overboard and is rescued by a small fishing boat, he learns a new way of life. | 238 |
| Kipling/Vogel | Jungle Book (Great Illustrated Classics), The | 4.9 | 3 | Reared by wolves deep in the jungle, Mowgli sometimes hunts with the animals and sometimes is hunted by them! He must face unfriendly ones on his own, even his own kind, Man, and learn to live by the law of the jungle. | 238 |
| Kirk, David | Little Miss Spider: A Christmas Wish | 3.1 | 0.5 | Just when Little Miss Spider is wishing her hardest for a friend, she gets whopped with a snowball and discovers Asparagus Beetle. | 32 |
| Kirk, David | Miss Spider's New Car | 2.9 | 0.5 | Miss Spider and her husband go shopping for a car. | 30 |
| Kirk, David | Miss Spider's Tea Party | 3.9 | 0.5 | When lonely Miss Spider tries to host a tea party, the other bugs refuse to come for fear of being eaten. | 32 |
| Kirk, David | Miss Spider's Wedding | 4.3 | 0.5 | Miss Spider proves that her heart knows best when it comes to choosing a husband. | 37 |
| Kirschner/Contreras | Pagemaster, The | 4.4 | 3 | Ten-year-old Richard has no use for books until he meets the Pagemaster and literature is like real life. | 94 |
| Kirwan, Anna | Victoria: May Blossom of Britannia | 6.2 | 6 | This is a fictionalized account of young Queen Victoria's life in the early nineteenth century. | 219 |
| Kjelgaard, Jim | Big Red | 5.6 | 9 | This famous wilderness adventure portrays the story of a boy and his dog and their feud with Old Majesty, the legendary bear. | 218 |
| Kjelgaard, Jim | Snow Dog | 7.4 | 8 | Orphaned by a huge black wolf, a Husky puppy learns to survive in the northern wilderness. A thrilling adventure story of a great dog who avenges himself against his enemy and reaffirms his loyalty to men. | 163 |
| Klause, Annette Curtis | Alien Secrets | 6.6 | 8 | On her journey to the distant planet where her parents are working, twelve-year-old Puck befriends a troubled alien and becomes involved in a dangerous mystery involving a precious artifact. | 227 |
| Kline, Suzy | Herbie Jones | 3.5 | 2 | Herbie is elated at being promoted from the lowest reading group in his third- grade class, but it means leaving his best friend behind. | 95 |
| Kline, Suzy | Horrible Harry and the Ant Invasion | 3.1 | 1 | Horrible Harry of classroom 2B cuts back on his mischievous pranks after falling for Song Lee. | 56 |
| Kline, Suzy | Horrible Harry and the Christmas Surprise | 2.9 | 0.5 | When their teacher ends up in the hospital, the members of class 2B find a way to include her in their holiday celebration. | 54 |
| Kline, Suzy | Horrible Harry and the Dungeon | 3.1 | 1 | It's almost summer vacation and the students in room 2B are having trouble concentrating on their butterfly project until a frightening-looking new teacher comes to supervise the suspension room. | 58 |
| Kline, Suzy | Horrible Harry Goes to Sea | 3.3 | 1 | The students in Miss Mackle's class enjoy a boat trip on the Connecticut River after a class discussion of ancestors reveals that Sidney and Ida both have connections to the sea. | 58 |
| Kline, Suzy | Horrible Harry in Room 2B | 3.2 | 0.5 | Doug discovers that though being Harry's best friend in Miss Mackle's second- grade class isn't always easy, as Harry likes to do horrible things, it is often a lot of fun. | 56 |
| Kline, Suzy | Horrible Harry Moves up to Third Grade | 3.2 | 1 | Horrible Harry and friends start off third grade with a new room and a field trip to an old copper mine to study rocks. | 58 |
| Kline, Suzy | Orp Goes to the Hoop | 3.5 | 2 | All-star baseball pitcher Orp goes out for basketball in the seventh grade and finds that the skills he has developed in his old sport can be effectively transferred to his new one. | 109 |
| Kline, Suzy | Song Lee and the "I Hate You" Notes | 3.3 | 0.5 | Song Lee is upset when she receives hateful notes in class, but she finds an appropriate and positive way to deal with them. | 51 |
| Kline, Suzy | What's the Matter with Herbie Jones? | 3.3 | 2 | When Herbie Jones gets the dreaded "girl disease" and becomes lovesick for Annabelle Hodgekiss, it threatens his friendship with his good pal Ray. | 111 |
| Klise, Kate | Regarding the Fountain: A Tale in Letters, of Liars, and Leaks | 5.8 | 2 | When the principal asks a fifth grader to write a letter regarding the purchase of a new drinking fountain for their school, he finds that all sorts of chaos results. | 138 |
| Klise, Kate | Trial by Journal | 6 | 7 | Lily finds herself on the jury of a murder trial while conducting her own undercover investigation of the case. | 234 |
| Knight, Eric | Lassie Come-Home | 5.4 | 9 | After being sold because of hard times, Lassie time and again escapes and returns to her beloved Joe. | 230 |
| Knight, Hilary | Christmas Stocking Story, A | 3.3 | 0.5 | When their stockings get mixed up while being washed one Christmas Eve, a group of animal friends manage to sort out the gifts left by Santa Claus. | 48 |
| Knowles, Sheena | Edward the Emu | 3.6 | 0.5 | Edward is sick of the zoo because there is nothing to do. He decides to go on an adventure to see what is happening. | 27 |
| Knowles, Sheena | Edwina the Emu | 3.4 | 0.5 | Edwina the Emu looks for a job, hoping to help support her family. | 30 |
| Koda-Callan, Elizabeth | Good Luck Pony, The | 4.7 | 0.5 | A little girl finds the courage to ride when her mother gives her a tiny golden pony that radiates self-confidence. | 33 |
| Konigsburg, E.L. | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | 4.7 | 5 | Claudia and her brother Jamie run away from home and take up residence in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. | 162 |
| Konigsburg, E.L. | Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth | 4.5 | 3 | Lonely Elizabeth decides to be an apprentice witch to Jennifer, and that's when the fun starts. | 117 |
| Konigsburg, E.L. | Journey to an 800 Number | 4.7 | 5 | Bo learns about kindness, love, loyalty, appearances, and pretense from the unusual characters he meets when he is sent to stay briefly with his father after his mother's second marriage. | 138 |
| Konigsburg, E.L. | Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver, A | 5.4 | 5 | The story of Eleanor of Aquitane as she reflects on her life while waiting on a cloud in heaven for her husband King Henry II. | 201 |
| Konigsburg, E.L. | Throwing Shadows | 5.6 | 5 | Five short stories in which young people gain a sense of self. | 151 |
| Konigsburg, E.L. | View from Saturday, The | 5.9 | 7 | For the first time in the history of Epiphany Middle School, there is a chance that a sixth-grade team will beat the seventh grade in the Academic Bowl, putting them on the path to the state finals. | 163 |
| Korman, Gordon | Everest Book One: The Contest | 5.1 | 4 | Mount Everest has claimed the lives of many adults. Now, kids are going to compete to break the record. Some are not ready for what they will face and some will stop at nothing to get to the top. | 137 |
| Korman, Gordon | Everest Book Three: The Summit | 5.2 | 4 | Four kids are prepared to go into thin air in order to become the youngest person ever to climb Everest. However, they are not prepared for the challenges that await them as they get closer to the summit. | 154 |
| Korman, Gordon | Everest Book Two: The Climb | 5.2 | 4 | Four kids are on a quest to reach the top of Mount Everest. The unexpected happens and the climbing contest becomes a life-or-death rescue mission. No one is guaranteed to survive. | 151 |
| Korman, Gordon | Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire | 3.2 | 1 | Zoe, an imaginative third grader, thinks that she has to make things up to be interesting, until a good friend and an eagle convince her that she does not have to lie to be special. | 84 |
| Kornblatt, Marc | Understanding Buddy | 4.3 | 2 | When a new classmate stops speaking because of the sudden death of his mother, fifth-grader Sam tries to befriend him and risks destroying his relationship with his best friend, Alex. | 113 |
| Koscielniak, Bruce | Geoffrey Groundhog Predicts the Weather | 2.9 | 0.5 | When Geoffrey Groundhog pops out of his hole to predict the weather, he is blinded by television cameras and lights and is unable to see if he has a shadow. | 32 |
| Koscielniak, Bruce | Story of the Incredible Orchestra, The | 7.9 | 0.5 | This book describes the orchestra, the families of instruments of which it is made, and the individual instruments in each family. | 28 |
| Koss, Amy Goldman | How I Saved Hanukkah | 4.6 | 2 | Marla, the only Jewish student in her fourth-grade class, wishes she celebrated Christmas like her best friend, Lucy, until one year when she decides to learn all about Hanukkah and to teach her family about it too. | 88 |
| Kramer, Stephen | Hidden Worlds: Looking Through a Scientist's Microscope | 7 | 1 | Text and photographs provide a fascinating look at the work of a microscopist and the remarkable worlds he explores. | 57 |
| Kraus, Robert | Leo the Late Bloomer | 1.2 | 0.5 | Leo, a young tiger, finally blooms under the eyes of very anxious parents. | 27 |
| Kraus, Robert | Whose Mouse Are You? | 0.8 | 0.5 | A mouse transforms himself into the beloved hero of his mother, father, sister, and brand-new baby brother. | 32 |
| Krauss, Ruth | Carrot Seed, The | 1.9 | 0.5 | A little boy plants and tends a carrot seed in spite of the pessimism of his family. | 25 |
| Krementz, Jill | Very Young Gymnast, A | 5.4 | 1 | Follows a young gymnast through her schedule of hard work and training. | 119 |
| Krementz, Jill | Very Young Skater, A | 5.2 | 1 | Story of a young ice skater and her training. | 103 |
| Krensky, Stephen | Abe Lincoln and the Muddy Pig | 3.7 | 0.5 | Abe Lincoln is on his way to give an important speech when he comes across a pig stuck in the mud. Abe helps the pig and makes his speech in a dirty suit. | 29 |
| Krensky, Stephen | Iron Dragon Never Sleeps, The | 3.2 | 2 | A story about the building of the transcontinental railroad in the California mountains in 1867. | 90 |
| Krensky, Stephen | Lionel in the Winter | 2.6 | 0.5 | Lionel's winter adventures include pretending to be an Arctic explorer, building a snowman, and making some New Year's resolutions. | 48 |
| Krensky, Stephen | Paul Revere's Midnight Ride | 5 | 0.5 | This book captures the thrill and the danger of a country on the verge of revolution, and the dramatic account of the night Paul Revere galloped into history. | 32 |
| Krensky, Stephen | Printer's Apprentice, The | 4.3 | 2 | In 1735 in New York City, a young printer's apprentice learns about the importance of freedom of speech when the printer Peter Zenger is arrested and tried for writing articles criticizing the government. | 103 |
| Krensky, Stephen | Taking Flight: The Story of the Wright Brothers | 5.3 | 0.5 | This book describes how the Wright Brothers came to build and fly the first powered aircraft. | 43 |
| Kroll, Virginia | Africa Brothers and Sisters | 3.1 | 0.5 | At lunchtime, Daddy and Jesse play their favorite game; a question and answer game about people who live in Africa and the ways in which they are connected to Jesse. | 26 |
| Krudop, Walter Lyon | Man Who Caught Fish, The | 4.2 | 0.5 | A stranger with a pole magically catches fish and hands them out to villagers, saying "One person, one fish," but the king will not be content until he receives a whole basket of fish. | 28 |
| Krudop, Walter Lyon | Something Is Growing | 3.1 | 0.5 | Little Peter finds and plants a seed in the dirt of a city street, gently helping it grow until is starts to take over the whole city, forcing a snoopy neighbor and a professor to investigate the situation. | 28 |
| Krull, Kathleen | Lives of Extraordinary Women | 8.5 | 3 | This book highlights twenty of the most influential women in history. | 95 |
| Krull, Kathleen | Lives of the Athletes | 7.9 | 3 | Presents 20 true stories of athletes whose physical accomplishments create a world of thrills and spills. | 96 |
| Krull, Kathleen | Lives of the Musicians | 6.9 | 3 | The inside stories of 20 famous musicians are presented in fascinating and humorous detail. | 96 |
| Krull, Kathleen | Lives of the Presidents | 8.2 | 4 | Focuses on the Lives of the Presidents as parents, husbands, pet owners, and neighbors while also including humorous anecdotes about hairstyles, attitudes, diets, and sleep patterns. | 96 |
| Krull, Kathleen | Lives of the Writers | 7.2 | 3 | The lives of 20 writers, ranging from Dickens, the Brontes, and Poe to Twain, Sandburg, and Langston Hughes, are profiled in this eclectic, humorous, and informative collection. | 93 |
| Krumgold, Joseph | And Now Miguel | 4.8 | 8 | The secret wish of Miguel Chavez, to go to the mountains with the men of his family, comes true. | 245 |
| Krumgold, Joseph | Onion John | 4.5 | 8 | An old man teaches his young friends the value of friendship. | 248 |
| Kudalis, Eric | Dracula and Other Vampire Stories | 4.5 | 0.5 | The vampire Dracula pursues his hunger for human blood, both in Transylvania and London. Includes information about vampire stories in books and films and the historical background of Dracula. | 48 |
| Kudalis, Eric | Frankenstein and Other Stories of Man-made Monsters | 4.1 | 0.5 | Dr. Frankenstein creates a monster which escapes and comes to an unhappy end. Includes information about the original story, different movie versions, and the scientific aspects behind the story. | 48 |
| Kudalis, Eric | Stories of Mummies and the Living Dead | 4.3 | 0.5 | When its casket is opened, an Egyptian mummy comes to life and tries to raise a princess from the dead. Includes information about other mummy stories and about how mummies were made in ancient Egypt. | 48 |
| Kudlinski, Kathleen V. | Marie: An Invitation to Dance | 4 | 1 | Marie dreams of becoming a ballerina; but without a wealthy sponsor, she faces a more mundane future dictated by her family's position in pre-Revolutionary Parisian society. | 67 |
| Laird, Elizabeth | Kiss the Dust | 5.1 | 10 | Follows the terrifying journey of a young Kurdish girl who flees the Iraqi Secret Police with her family and takes temporary shelter in the mountains of Kurdistan. | 279 |
| Laminack, Lester L. | Trevor's Wiggly-Wobbly Tooth | 3.6 | 0.5 | Although he is happy about having a loose tooth, Trevor worries when his classmates tell him some of the ways others might try to pull out the tooth. | 30 |
| Lamorisse, Albert | Red Balloon, The | 4 | 0.5 | The story of Pascal, a lonely French boy befriended by a wondrous red balloon. | 32 |
| Landon, Margaret | Anna and the King | 7.2 | 7 | Anna travels to Siam to teach the royal children and falls in love with the king. | 195 |
| Langstaff, John | Frog Went A-Courtin' | 2.7 | 0.5 | This story is the well-known American folk song about the courtship and marriage of the frog and the mouse. | 32 |
| Langton, Jane | Diamond in the Window, The | 5.8 | 8 | In the prequel to The Fledgling, Eleanor and Eddy are drawn into a dream realm. | 256 |
| Langton, Jane | Fledgling, The | 5 | 6 | Georgie's fondest hope, to be able to fly, is fleetingly fulfilled when she is befriended by a Canada goose. | 182 |
| Langton, Jane | Time Bike, The | 5.8 | 5 | Eddy Hall receives a mysterious gift from India, an old-fashioned bike that transports its rider through time. | 176 |
| Lanning, Sereta | Escape from Tomorrow | 2.6 | 1 | A simple experiment goes wrong. Soon every living thing will be dead. | 60 |
| Lansky, Bruce | Newfangled Fairy Tales (Book #1) | 4.7 | 3 | This collection of ten contemporary fairy tales puts a delightful new spin on classic stories and themes. | 110 |
| Larkin, Tanya | Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet: Explorers of the Mississippi | 7.3 | 2 | This book is a brief biography of the seventeenth-century French explorers who were the first Europeans to locate and chart the Mississippi River. | 112 |
| Lascaro, Rita | Down on the Farm | 0.5 | 0.5 | A child imitates the animals on the farm. | 17 |
| Lasky, Kathryn | Christmas After All: The Diary of Minnie Swift | 5.4 | 5 | In her fictionalized journal, eleven-year-old Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932. | 185 |
| Lasky, Kathryn | Jahanara: Princess of Princesses | 6 | 5 | Beginning in 1627, Princess Jahanara, first daughter of Shah Jahan of India's Moghul Dynasty, writes in her diary about political intrigues, weddings, battles, and other experiences of her life. | 186 |
| Lasky, Kathryn | Journal of Augustus Pelletier: The Lewis & Clark Expedition, The | 5.6 | 5 | This is a fictional journal kept by twelve-year-old Augustus Pelletier, the youngest member of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery. | 171 |
| Lasky, Kathryn | Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, | 6 | 4 | Twelve-year-old Mem presents a diary account of the trip she and her family made on the "Mayflower" in 1620 and their first year in the New World. | 171 |
| Lasky, Kathryn | Librarian Who Measured the Earth, The | 5.8 | 0.5 | Describes the life and work of Eratosthenes, the Greek geographer and astronomer who accurately measured the circumference of the earth. | 48 |
| Lasky, Kathryn | Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles | 6.2 | 7 | In 1769, thirteen-year-old Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, begins a journal chronicling her life at the Austrian court and her preparations for her future role as queen of France. | 236 |
| Lasky, Kathryn | Most Beautiful Roof in the World: Exploring the Rainforest Can, Th | 6.7 | 1 | Describes the work of Meg Lowman in the rainforest canopy, an area unexplored until the last ten years and home to previously unknown species of plants and animals. | 44 |
| Lasky, Kathryn | Night Journey, The | 5.3 | 5 | A young girl ignores her parents' wishes and persuades her great-grandmother to relate the story of her escape from Czarist Russia. | 150 |
| Lasky, Kathryn | She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head! | 4.9 | 0.5 | A fictionalized account of the activities of Harriet Hemenway and Minna Hall, founders of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, that would have an impact on the bird-protection movement. | 35 |
| Lasky, Kathryn | Time for Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, A | 5.9 | 6 | This is a diary account of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage, the war in Europe, and her own school work and family. | 217 |
| Lasky/Knight | Searching for Laura Ingalls: A Reader's Journey | 5.1 | 1 | A young girl's fascination with Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" books leads her family on a trip to see some of the places featured in them. | 45 |
| Latham, Jean | Carry on, Mr. Bowditch | 4.1 | 8 | This fictionalized biography tells the story of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain. | 251 |
| Lauber, Patricia | Flood: Wrestling with the Mississippi | 5.8 | 1 | This book describes the history of flooding of the Mississippi River, focusing on the 1927 and 1993 floods, the effects on people near the river, and efforts to avoid flooding and manage the river. | 63 |
| Lauber, Patricia | News About Dinosaurs, The | 4.8 | 0.5 | Over 40 illustrations, including renderings of the five newly discovered dinosaurs, are used to explain how scientists have refuted earlier assumptions about dinosaurs. | 48 |
| Lauber, Patricia | Snakes Are Hunters | 3.4 | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics of a variety of snakes and how they hunt, catch, and eat their prey. | 32 |
| Lauber, Patricia | What You Never Knew About Fingers, Forks, & Chopsticks | 4.4 | 0.5 | This book describes changes in eating customs throughout the centuries and the origins of table manners. | 28 |
| Lawlor, Laurie | Addie Across the Prairie | 4.9 | 4 | Unhappy to leave her home and friends, Addie reluctantly accompanies her family to the Dakota Territory and slowly begins to adjust to life on the prairie. | 128 |
| Lawrence, Iain | Smugglers, The | 4.7 | 6 | In eighteenth-century England, after his father buys a schooner called the Dragon, sixteen-year-old John sets out to sail it from Kent to London and becomes involved in a dangerous smuggling scheme. | 183 |
| Lawrence, Iain | Wreckers, The | 4.2 | 6 | Shipwrecked after a vicious storm, John attempts to save his father and himself while also dealing with an evil secret about the English coastal town where they are stranded. | 191 |
| Lawson, Robert | Ben and Me | 6.9 | 3 | Amos the mouse observes and records the life of his great friend, Benjamin Franklin. | 113 |
| Lawson, Robert | Mr. Revere and I | 7.5 | 5 | Timeless American Classic about Sherry, Paul Revere's faithful steed, and the Revolution as seen through this noble animal's eyes. | 152 |
| Lawson, Robert | Rabbit Hill | 6.4 | 3 | The Animals of the Hill prepare for the "new Folk" moving into the Big House. | 128 |
| Le Guin, Ursula K. | Catwings | 4.3 | 0.5 | Four young cats with wings leave the city slums in search of a safe place to live, finally meeting two children with kind hands. | 39 |
| Le Guin, Ursula K. | Farthest Shore, The | 6.1 | 10 | Book Three of prize-winning Earthsea Trilogy, in which Ged sets out to see if magic still exists in Enlad. | 223 |
| Leaf, Munro | Story of Ferdinand, The | 3.7 | 0.5 | Ferdinand is a little bull who would rather just sit and smell the flowers than fight. | 35 |
| Lear, Edward | Owl and the Pussycat, The | 2.5 | 0.5 | After a courtship voyage of a year and a day, Owl and Pussy finally buy a ring from Piggy and are blissfully married. | 25 |
| Leavitt, Caroline | Prince and the Pooch, The | 4 | 4 | When Joe fills in as a coach for a local baseball team, he finds out that it is not as simple as it seems. | 139 |
| Leavitt, Caroline | Robinhound Crusoe | 4 | 4 | When the power goes out in Oakdale, Wishbone must use his imagination to survive without food and water. | 137 |
| Legg, Gerald | From Egg to Chicken (Lifecycles) | 2.6 | 0.5 | Large illustrations and simple text describe what an egg is made of and how it hatches into a chicken. | 29 |
| Lehn, Barbara | What Is a Teacher? | 3.1 | 0.5 | This book depicts people engaged in activities that embody the qualities of a teacher. | 30 |
| L'Engle, Madeleine | Ring of Endless Light, A | 5.2 | 11 | Life is changing on Seven Bay Island for Vicky Austin, with Commander Rodney dead, her grandfather dying, and three boys who devote their attention to her. | 332 |
| L'Engle, Madeleine | Swiftly Tilting Planet, A | 5.2 | 10 | Third volume of classic trilogy in which 15-year-old Charles and the unicorn Gaudior thwart Madog Branzillo's plan to destroy the world. | 256 |
| L'Engle, Madeleine | Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas, The | 4 | 1 | To Vicky, the twenty-four days before Christmas are the most wonderful days of the year, but what if the new baby comes during Christmas and Mother has go to the hospital? | 71 |
| L'Engle, Madeleine | Wind in the Door, A | 5 | 7 | Suffering from a rare blood disease, a boy regains his health through the intervention of a space creature. | 211 |
| L'Engle, Madeleine | Wrinkle in Time, A | 4.7 | 7 | Meg Murry and her family receive a surprise visit from an unearthly stranger out of another dimension in time. | 211 |
| Lenski, Lois | Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison | 5.4 | 10 | Authentic reconstruction of Mary Jemison's capture and life with the Seneca Indians. | 298 |
| Lenski, Lois | Little Family, The | 1.8 | 0.5 | Mr. and Mrs. Little and their two children, live in a little house with a cat, a dog, a garden, chickens, and a car that takes them on picnics. | 48 |
| Lenski, Lois | Prairie School | 4 | 7 | Story of things that did or could have happened in a one-room rural school on the prairie of South Dakota. | 196 |
| Lenski, Lois | Strawberry Girl | 4.8 | 6 | This is the story of Birdie Boyer and how she battles nature, animals, and feuding neighbors in the backwoods of Florida to become a "strawberry girl." | 194 |
| Leodhas, Sorche Nic | Always Room for One More | 4.3 | 0.5 | In this Scottish folk song, a generous family always has room for another person and invites in everyone who passes by. A Caldecott Medal Book. | 22 |
| Leppard, Lois Gladys | Mandie and the Charleston Phantom | 5.7 | 5 | Mandie travels to Charleston with her family and finds herself in the middle of another mystery when she visits the seashore. | 136 |
| Leppard, Lois Gladys | Mandie and the Midnight Journey | 4.8 | 5 | Her mother's new baby is so disturbing to Mandie that she runs away from home to live with her Cherokee relatives. | 159 |
| Lerner, Sharon | Big Bird's Copycat Day | 1.7 | 0.5 | Big Bird barks like a dog, buzzes like a bee, and mimics everything else he sees in this Sesame Street rhyme. | 29 |
| Lerner, Sharon | Follow the Monsters! | 1.4 | 0.5 | A band of silly monsters march all the way to Sesame Street in this concept book about opposites. A Sesame Street book. | 32 |
| Lerner/Goldhor | Franny B. Kranny, There's a Bird in Your Hair! | 3.5 | 0.5 | Franny B. Kranny refuses to cut her wild hair, despite her family's insistence, and wears a bird in her hair to a family reunion. | 33 |
| LeSieg, Theo. | Wacky Wednesday | 1.3 | 0.5 | This book points out the many things that are wrong one wacky Wednesday. | 38 |
| Lessac, Frane | My Little Island | 3.6 | 0.5 | A young boy rediscovers the beauties of a small Caribbean island while on a visit with his best friend. | 39 |
| Lester, Alison | Quicksand Pony, The | 5.1 | 4 | Biddy is forced to go on without her pony when the pony becomes trapped, and so the mystery of what happened to the pony begins. | 135 |
| Lester, Helen | Hooway for Wodney Wat | 3.1 | 0.5 | All his classmates make fun of Rodney because he can't pronounce his name, but it is Rodney's speech impediment that drives away the class bully. | 32 |
| Lester, Helen | Listen Buddy | 2.7 | 0.5 | A lop-eared rabbit named Buddy finds himself in trouble with the Scruffy Varmint because he never listens. | 32 |
| Lester, Helen | Porcupine Named Fluffy, A | 2.4 | 0.5 | A porcupine named Fluffy is happier with his name after he meets a similarly misnamed rhinoceros. | 32 |
| Lester, Helen | Tacky and the Emperor | 3.9 | 0.5 | While awaiting a visit from the Emperor, a group of penguins fail to recognize their friend, Tacky, in the Emperor's clothes. | 32 |
| Lester, Helen | Three Cheers for Tacky | 2.8 | 0.5 | Tacky the Penguin competes in an iceberg-wide cheering contest. | 32 |
| Lester, Julius | John Henry | 4 | 0.5 | Retelling of the legend of the African American folk hero. | 36 |
| Lester, Julius | Sam and the Tigers | 3.1 | 0.5 | Relates what happens when a little boy named Sam matches wits with several tigers that want to eat him. | 33 |
| Leuck, Laura | My Monster Mama Loves Me So | 3 | 0.5 | A young monster describes all the things its mother does to show she loves it. | 24 |
| Levin, Betty | Gift Horse | 4.7 | 5 | Matt finds it easy to believe that his great uncle will give him a horse; caring for it after it arrives proves to be the greater challenge. | 168 |
| Levine, Gail Carson | Cinderellis and the Glass Hill | 4.3 | 2 | In this humorous retelling of a Perrault tale, a lonely young farm lad uses his unusual inventive ability to pass a nearly impossible test and win the hand of the neighboring princess. | 104 |
| Levine, Gail Carson | Dave at Night | 3.6 | 8 | When orphaned Dave is sent to the Hebrew Home for Boys where he is treated cruelly, he sneaks out at night and is welcomed into the music- and culture-filled world of the Harlem Renaissance. | 281 |
| Levine, Gail Carson | Ella Enchanted | 4.6 | 8 | In this novel based on Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given. | 229 |
| Levine, Gail Carson | Fairy's Mistake, The | 4 | 1 | In this humorous retelling of a Perrault tale, the fairy Ethelinda rewards one twin sister for good behavior and punishes the other for bad, only to discover that her punishment is more pleasing than her reward. | 84 |
| Levine, Gail Carson | Fairy's Return, The | 3.8 | 1 | In a retelling of the Grimm Brothers' THE GOLDEN GOOSE, the good-natured son of a baker wins the heart of a princess with the help of a fairy and a magic goose. | 104 |
| Levine, Gail Carson | For Biddle's Sake | 4.4 | 2 | In this humorous retelling of Andrew Lang's PUDDOCKY, a young maiden, who has been transformed into a toad by a jealous fairy, relies on her newly honed magical abilities to charm a prince into marriage. | 104 |
| Levine, Gail Carson | Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep | 4.1 | 2 | In this retelling of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, Princess Sonora, who is ten times smarter than anyone else, vows to choose for herself the best time to be pricked by the spindle. | 107 |
| Levine, Gail Carson | Two Princesses of Bamarre, The | 4.5 | 8 | With her adventurous sister, Meryl, suffering from Gray Death, meek and timid Princess Addie sets out to find a cure. | 241 |
| Levinson, Marilyn | No Boys Allowed | 4.3 | 5 | When her father leaves the family to marry a younger woman, Cassie refuses to trust any male, including her best friend, until her great-uncle helps her put the changes in her life in perspective. | 124 |
| Levitin, Sonia | Journey to America | 4.7 | 5 | Lisa and her family try to escape from Nazi Germany to join her father in America. | 150 |
| Levoy, Myron | Magic Hat of Mortimer Wintergreen, The | 4.2 | 5 | In 1893, thirteen-year-old Joshua and his eleven-year-old sister Amy travel from South Dakota to New York City with the help of the mysterious Mortimer Wintergreen and his unpredictable magic hat. | 211 |
| Levy, Elizabeth | Frankenstein Moved in on the Fourth Floor | 3.4 | 1 | Sam and Robert are convinced that their new neighbor is the real Frankenstein. | 57 |
| Levy, Elizabeth | Mystery of the Missing Dog, The | 3 | 0.5 | The invisible boy Chip intends to enter his invisible dog Max in the dog show; but when Max is lost, Chip and his Invisible Inc. friends suspect foul play. | 45 |
| Levy, Marilyn | Run for Your Life | 4.1 | 6 | While living in a housing project in Oakland, California, thirteen-year-old Kisha joins a track team which helps her discover that she can be a winner. | 217 |
| Lewis, C.S. | Horse and His Boy, The | 5.8 | 8 | A Talking Horse and a boy prince save Narnia from invasion. | 241 |
| Lewis, C.S. | Last Battle, The | 5.6 | 7 | Aslan leads his people to a glorious new paradise after defeating the evil that had infested Narnia. | 228 |
| Lewis, C.S. | Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The | 5.7 | 6 | Aslan, the noble lion, frees Narnia from the spell of the White Witch. | 206 |
| Lewis, C.S. | Magician's Nephew, The | 5.4 | 6 | When Digory and Polly try to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic is mixed up; they all land in Narnia where they witness Aslan blessing the animals with human speech. | 221 |
| Lewis, C.S. | Prince Caspian | 5.7 | 7 | Prince Caspian and his army of Talking Beasts conquer the Telmarines. | 238 |
| Lewis, C.S. | Silver Chair, The | 5.7 | 8 | Prince Rilian escapes from the Emerald Witch's underground kingdom. | 257 |
| Lewis, C.S. | Voyage of the "Dawn Treader", The | 5.9 | 9 | King Caspian and his crew sail through magic waters to the World's End. | 271 |
| Lewis, Elizabeth | Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze | 6.4 | 10 | The story of a young Chinese boy's life begins during the turmoil after the empress of China dies. | 267 |
| Lewis, Maggie | Morgy Makes His Move | 3.8 | 2 | When third-grader Morgy MacDougal-MacDuff moves from California to Massachusetts with his parents, he has a lot of new things to get used to before he feels comfortable. | 74 |
| Lewis, Thomas P. | Hill of Fire | 2.9 | 0.5 | An easy-to-read account of the birth of Paricutin volcano in the field of a poor Mexican farmer. | 63 |
| Lexau, Joan | Striped Ice Cream | 3.5 | 2 | A seven-year-old black girl is resigned to the fact that her mother cannot afford anything special for her birthday, but she does not understand why her older sisters and brother seem to turn against her--until the big day finally arrives. | 125 |
| Lim, Robin | Indonesia (A Ticket To) | 3.9 | 0.5 | This book discusses the people, geography, religion, language, customs, daily life, and culture of Indonesia. | 48 |
| Linch, Tanya | My Duck | 3.2 | 0.5 | A little girl writes a story about a duck who wears shoes, and a little girl with only one wing. | 26 |
| Lindbergh, Reeve | What Is the Sun? | 1.3 | 0.5 | As a grandmother tucks her grandson to bed, she quietly answers his questions about nature in rhyme. | 28 |
| Lindgren, Astrid | Pippi Goes on Board | 5.3 | 4 | Pippi Longstocking is going on a ship to the South Seas and gets unexpected company. | 140 |
| Lindgren, Astrid | Pippi in the South Seas | 5.4 | 3 | Christmas is coming, and Pippi and her friends want to celebrate. Can Pippi have Christmas on the island in the South Seas. | 125 |
| Lindgren, Astrid | Pippi Longstocking | 5.2 | 4 | A lucky little girl who lives with a horse and a monkey--but without any parents--at the edge of a Swedish village is involved in many escapades. | 160 |
| Lindquist, Susan Hart | Wander | 4 | 4 | Grieving for their dead mother, twelve-year-old James and his younger sister Sary find healing in their affection for a stray dog. | 133 |
| Lionni, Leo | Cornelius | 2.2 | 0.5 | An animal fable about a crocodile who sees things in a special way. | 27 |
| Lionni, Leo | Frederick | 3.1 | 0.5 | Frederick, an apparently lazy mouse, has a special surprise for the mice who thought he should have been storing up supplies for the winter. | 27 |
| Lionni, Leo | It's Mine! | 2.7 | 0.5 | Three selfish frogs quarrel over who owns their pond and island, until a storm makes them value the benefits of sharing. | 30 |
| Lionni, Leo | Swimmy | 2.9 | 0.5 | A little fish makes the most of his smallness in a big way. | 28 |
| Lisle, Janet Taylor | Afternoon of the Elves | 5 | 4 | As Hillary works in the miniature village allegedly built by elves in Sara-Kate's backyard, she becomes more and more curious about Sara-Kate's real life inside her big, gloomy house with her mysterious, silent mother. | 122 |
| Lisle, Janet Taylor | Art of Keeping Cool, The | 5 | 7 | In 1942, Robert and his cousin, Elliot, uncover long-hidden family secrets while staying in their grandparents' Rhode Island town, where they also become involved with a German artist who is suspected of being a spy. | 207 |
| Lisle, Janet Taylor | Lampfish of Twill, The | 5.8 | 6 | An old fisherman leads Eric down a whirlpool to an ancient and beautiful world in the core of the Earth. | 161 |
| Lisle, Janet Taylor | Lost Flower Children, The | 5.3 | 3 | After their mother's death, Olivia and Nellie go to live with their great aunt, where they slowly bring her overgrown and weedy old garden back to life, enabling them to adjust to a new life as well. | 122 |
| Little, Jean | Different Dragons | 3.7 | 3 | Timid Ben learns how to deal with his fears when he spends the weekend with Aunt Rose and meets a big Labrador retriever named Gully. | 123 |
| Little, Jean | From Anna | 4 | 5 | When the family moves from Germany to Canada in the 1930s, a nine-year-old girl discovers the reason for her awkwardness and apparent inability to do anything right. | 201 |
| Little, Jean | Mama's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird | 4.5 | 8 | When Jeremy meets Tess, he learns to come to terms with his father's imminent death, as he discovers the gifts his father will leave behind forever. | 213 |
| Livesey, Robert | Defenders (Discovering Canada), The | 8.3 | 2 | Although outnumbered ten to one, Canadian volunteers in the War of 1812 successfully defended their homes and towns from the skilled American armies that had attacked them. | 90 |
| Livesey, Robert | Fur Traders (Discovering Canada), The | 6.9 | 2 | This book describes the world of Indians and fur traders when the quest for beaver pelts was opening up the Canadian frontier. | 92 |
| Livesey, Robert | Native Peoples (Discovering Canada) | 6.8 | 1 | This book provides information about the life of the original native peoples who lived in Canada before the white European settlers "discovered" it. | 90 |
| Livesey, Robert | New France (Discovering Canada) | 7.3 | 1 | This book describes the lives of the brave men and women who first settled the New World and helped found the colony of New France. | 90 |
| Livesey, Robert | Railways (Discovering Canada), The | 8.2 | 2 | This book discusses how the advent of the railway system changed the face of Canada. | 90 |
| Livesey, Robert | Vikings (Discovering Canada), The | 6.6 | 1 | This book discusses the lives of the daring men and women who first discovered Canada. | 90 |
| Llewellyn, Claire | Some Bugs Glow in the Dark | 3.7 | 0.5 | This book provides information about various insects and their physical characteristics, homes, feeding habits, and defenses. | 32 |
| Lobel, Arnold | Days with Frog and Toad | 2.5 | 0.5 | Frog and Toad spend their days together but find sometimes it's nice to be alone. | 64 |
| Lobel, Arnold | Frog and Toad All Year | 2.6 | 0.5 | Five stories of Frog and Toad, one per season, and a Christmas story. | 64 |
| Lobel, Arnold | Frog and Toad Are Friends | 2.9 | 0.5 | Follow the friendship of Frog and Toad and their adventures in the woods. | 64 |
| Lobel, Arnold | Frog and Toad Together | 2.9 | 0.5 | Five further adventures of two best friends, Frog and Toad, as they share cookies, plant a garden, and test their bravery. | 64 |
| Lobel, Arnold | Ming Lo Moves the Mountain | 3.6 | 0.5 | A wise man tells Ming Lo how to move the mountain away from his house. | 29 |
| Lobel, Arnold | Mouse Soup | 2.4 | 0.5 | A little mouse tells a weasel four different stories in a way that enables him to avoid the weasel's stewpot. | 64 |
| Lobel, Arnold | Mouse Tales | 3 | 0.5 | Papa Mouse tells one Mouse Tale to each of the mouse children to help them to fall asleep. | 61 |
| Lobel, Arnold | Owl at Home | 2.7 | 0.5 | Five humorous tales about Owl and his house. | 64 |
| Lobel, Arnold | Uncle Elephant | 2.6 | 0.5 | When Little Elephant's parents don't return from a trip, he is comforted by Uncle Elephant until they arrive. | 64 |
| Locker, Thomas | Sky Tree: Seeing Science Through Art | 2.9 | 0.5 | The lyrical text records the changes in the tree's world just as simply as a child might observe them. | 28 |
| Locker, Thomas | Water Dance | 1.9 | 0.5 | Water speaks of its existence in such forms as storm clouds, mist, rainbows, and rivers. | 25 |
| Lodge, Bernard | Half-Mile Hat, The | 4.5 | 0.5 | When a fierce wind blows away a shepherd boy's cap, he not only manages to get it back, but also wins the hand of the Princess Yolanda and outwits the giant with the half-mile wide hat. | 32 |
| Loehr, Mallory | Earth Magic | 3.5 | 2 | Polly and Sam encounter strange magical objects as they walk through the woods. | 117 |
| Loehr, Mallory | Fire Dreams | 4 | 2 | While visiting their grandparents' farm, Joe, Polly, and Sam are called by the magic of fire to go to Mount Olympus to repay a debt to Prometheus. | 111 |
| Loehr, Mallory | Water Wishes | 3.5 | 2 | While staying at the beach for the summer, ten-year-old Polly and her younger brother Sam find a message in a bottle, providing them and their thirteen-year-old brother with exciting and scary adventures. | 117 |
| Loehr, Mallory | Wind Spell | 3.9 | 2 | Three feathers fall out of the sky into the hands of Joe, Polly, and Sam, promising them the ability to fly. | 117 |
| Lofting, Hugh | Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, The | 5.7 | 11 | This fictional classic presents the story of the good doctor who learns the language of animals and made adventurous voyages. | 355 |
| London, Jack | Call of the Wild, The | 8 | 7 | Rugged outdoor story of the sled dog, Buck, who was mistreated by his master and broke free to roam the Alaskan wilderness. | 201 |
| London, Jonathan | Eyes of Gray Wolf, The | 3.1 | 0.5 | Gray Wolf searches for a new mate in the Alaskan wilderness. | 22 |
| London, Jonathan | Froggy Goes to Bed | 2 | 0.5 | There are so many ways of postponing going to bed and Froggy knows them all. | 30 |
| London, Jonathan | Froggy Plays Soccer | 2.2 | 0.5 | Although Froggy is very excited when his Dream Team plays for the city soccer championships, he makes a mistake on the field that almost costs the team the game. | 28 |
| London, Jonathan | Let's Go, Froggy! | 1.9 | 0.5 | Froggy and his father search the house for the mislaid items they will need on their bike trip. | 28 |
| London/Vogel | White Fang (Great Illustrated Classics) | 6.1 | 3 | White Fang is an orphan cub of part wolf and part dog whose inborn instincts teach him to hunt, fight, and win. | 240 |
| London/Yamamoto | Call of the Wild (Great Illustrated Classics), The | 5.5 | 2 | Buck, a powerful young dog, is snatched away from an easy life in California and transported to the Far North where he becomes a sled dog and must learn cunning and toughness to survive. | 238 |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | Hiawatha and Megissogwon | 8.2 | 0.5 | In this selection from the classic poem, Hiawatha, grown to manhood, is a powerful figure righting wrongs, vanquishing demons, and finally confronting the mighty Megissogwon. | 32 |
| Lopez, Donald | Flight (Nature Company Discoveries Library) | 7.2 | 1 | Explores the field of aeronautics and flight, from birds to space crafts. | 61 |
| Lord, Bette Bao | In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson | 4.6 | 4 | In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn, where she starts to feel at home and makes friends when she discovers baseball and the Brooklyn Dodgers. | 169 |
| Lorian, Nicole | Birthday Present for Mama, A | 2.4 | 0.5 | Little Rabbit wants to give his mama a present, but none of his animal friends can make a good suggestion, until he talks to a fox. A Step Into Reading Book--Step 2. | 48 |
| Louie, Ai-Ling | Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China | 5.1 | 0.5 | A young Chinese girl overcomes the wickedness of her stepsister and stepmother to become the bride of a prince. | 31 |
| Lovelace, Maud Hart | Betsy-Tacy | 4 | 3 | Two young girls become inseparable friends. | 113 |
| Lovelace, Maud Hart | Betsy-Tacy and Tib | 4.2 | 3 | The adventures of young girls growing up in Deep Valley, Minnesota. | 127 |
| Lovell, Patty | Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon | 3.5 | 0.5 | When the class bully at her new school makes fun of her, Molly remembers what her grandmother told her. | 32 |
| Lowell, Melissa | Competition, The | 4.3 | 3 | Tori is looking forward to going to Lake Placid for a competition but is having some family problems that may affect her competition. | 116 |
| Lowell, Susan | Cindy Ellen: A Wild Western Cinderella | 5 | 0.5 | Cindy Ellen loses one of her diamonds spurs at the sqare dance in this wild western retelling of the classic Cinderella story. | 36 |
| Lowell, Susan | Three Little Javelinas, The | 3.7 | 0.5 | A southwestern-flavored version of the three little pigs, here represented by wild javelinas who are running from a hungry coyote. | 28 |
| Lowrey, Janette | Poky Little Puppy, The | 4 | 0.5 | A puppy who is always late coming home one night finds there is no dessert for him. | 27 |
| Lowry, Lois | All About Sam | 4 | 3 | The adventures of Sam, Anastasia Krupnik's younger brother, from his first day as a newborn through his mischievous times as a toddler. | 135 |
| Lowry, Lois | Anastasia at This Address | 4.6 | 4 | Ready for romance, thirteen-year-old Anastasia answers an ad in the personals with an exaggerated description of herself but soon runs into trouble when the unknown man turns up at a friend's wedding. | 129 |
| Lowry, Lois | Anastasia at Your Service | 4.3 | 5 | Twelve-year-old Anastasia has a series of disastrous experiences when, expecting to get a job as a lady's companion, she is hired instead to be a maid. | 149 |
| Lowry, Lois | Anastasia Has the Answers | 4.9 | 4 | Thirteen-year-old Anastasia is looking for the answers to some of life's big questions. | 123 |
| Lowry, Lois | Anastasia Krupnik | 4.5 | 3 | For ten-year-old Anastasia, life is full of problems like teachers, boys, a grandmother who does not remember her name, and the arrival of a new baby brother. | 113 |
| Lowry, Lois | Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst | 4.2 | 3 | Anastasia, feeling she is misunderstood by everyone, buys a bust of Freud and starts having "sessions" with it. | 119 |
| Lowry, Lois | Anastasia's Chosen Career | 4.5 | 4 | Thirteen-year-old Anastasia acquires poise and self-confidence, a new friend, and advice on becoming a bookstore owner when she commutes to Boston to take a modeling course. | 142 |
| Lowry, Lois | Attaboy, Sam! | 4.6 | 3 | Sam is able to help his sister Anastasia with the poem she is writing for their mother's birthday, but his own efforts to create a special perfume are disastrous. | 116 |
| Lowry, Lois | Gathering Blue | 5 | 7 | Lamed and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians. | 215 |
| Lowry, Lois | Giver, The | 5.7 | 7 | The Elders of the Committee choose Jonas to be the person responsible for receiving and keeping all the memories of the past--a huge task for this exceptional boy. | 180 |
| Lowry, Lois | Gooney Bird Greene | 3.9 | 2 | A most unusual new student, who loves to be the center of attention, entertains her teacher and fellow second-graders by telling absolutely true stories about herself, including how she got her name. | 88 |
| Lowry, Lois | Number the Stars | 4.5 | 4 | In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis. | 137 |
| Lowry, Lois | One Hundredth Thing About Caroline, The | 4.6 | 4 | Caroline and her brother believe their mother's new boyfriend has a plan to eliminate them. | 150 |
| Lowry, Lois | See You Around, Sam! | 4.4 | 3 | Sam Krupnik decides to run away to Alaska because his mother will not let him wear his plastic fangs in the house. | 113 |
| Lowry, Lois | Switcharound | 4.6 | 3 | Forced to spend a summer with their father and his "new" family, Caroline and P.J. are determined to get revenge in this sequel to The One Hundred Things About Caroline. | 118 |
| Lowry, Lois | Taking Care of Terrific | 5.3 | 5 | Fourteen-year old Enid Crowley does not like her name. When she takes a baby-sitting job for Joshua W. Cameron IV, she decides it is time for a change. Enid becomes Cynthia, Joshua becomes Tom Terrific, and then it is off to summer excitement. | 168 |
| Lowry, Lois | Your Move, J.P.! | 4.9 | 4 | Lovestruck J. P. finds himself doing all sorts of weird things to impress his new interest, but his life becomes very complicated when a simple lie gets out of control. | 122 |
| Lucado, Max | Because I Love You | 3.4 | 0.5 | Shaddai, a wise and loving man, builds a wonderful village for his children, but when one of them chooses to go out into the dangerous wilderness, Shaddai does not abandon him. | 32 |
| Lucado, Max | You Are Special | 3 | 0.5 | Punchinello's opinion of himself changes after talking to his creator. | 31 |
| Lum, Kate | What! Cried Granny | 2.9 | 0.5 | This is the story of a young boy's first overnight visit to his granny's. | 25 |
| Lunn, Janet | Root Cellar, The | 5.2 | 10 | For twelve-year-old Rose, the root cellar was a passage through which she could escape the present and travel back in time to the 1860s and the Civil War. | 229 |
| Lynch, Chris | Gold Dust | 4.6 | 7 | In 1975, twelve-year-old Richard befriends Napoleon, a Caribbean newcomer to his Catholic school. He is hoping that Napoleon will learn to love baseball and the Red Sox, and will win acceptance in the racially polarized Boston school. | 196 |
| Lyon, Nancy | Mystery of Stonehenge, The | 5.5 | 1 | Discusses the theories and superstitions that have arisen throughout the years to explain the existence of the circle of stones at Stonehenge. | 48 |
| Lyons, Mary E. | Talking with Tebe | 4 | 1 | The story of Clementine Hunter who spent 75 years on a Louisiana plantation and tells her story through her art. | 48 |