| Author | Title | Level | Pts. | Description | Pages |
| Macaulay, David | Black and White | 3.4 | 0.5 | Four brief "stories" about parents, cows, and trains, or is it really all one story? | 32 |
| Macaulay, David | Castle | 7.9 | 1 | A description with drawings and humor of how castles and surrounding towns were built. | 74 |
| Macaulay, David | Pyramid | 7.5 | 1 | Describes in detail the painful and complicated occupation of building a pyramid. Black-and-white illustrations reveal the process of pyramid-building step by step. | 80 |
| MacBride, Roger Lea | Little House on Rocky Ridge | 4.2 | 8 | A continuation of the Little House On The Prairie series as the Wilders move out on their own. | 353 |
| Maccarone, Grace | Itchy, Itchy Chicken Pox | 0.7 | 0.5 | Spunky rhythm and peppy rhymes in a lively story that shows how to deal with chicken pox. | 30 |
| Maccarone, Grace | My Tooth Is About to Fall Out | 1.6 | 0.5 | An easy-to-read book concerning a young girl about to lose her first tooth. | 30 |
| Maccarone, Grace | What is That? Said the Cat | 1.4 | 0.5 | The animals try different ways to get a big box open, only to be very surprised by what is inside. | 29 |
| MacDonald, Alan | Beware of the Bears! | 3 | 0.5 | The three bears seek revenge on Goldilocks for ransacking their house, but find they have made a dreadful mistake. | 32 |
| MacDonald, Betty | Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle | 5.2 | 4 | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle cures a show-off, crybaby, bully, whisperer, and slowpoke. | 125 |
| MacDonald, Betty | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle | 5.2 | 3 | Eight funny and instructive stories in which the magical Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle helps teach children how to behave. | 119 |
| MacDonald, Betty | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Farm | 4.9 | 4 | Wise, funny tales about untruthfulness, forgetfulness, destructiveness, and other lapses children (and grown-ups) are prone to. | 127 |
| MacDonald, Betty | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic | 5.5 | 5 | Seven families are helped out by Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's magic cures when they are faced with thought-you-saiders, tattletales, bad table manners, interrupters, heedless breakers, never-want-to-go-to-schoolers, and waddle-doers. | 126 |
| Macdonald, Caroline | Speaking to Miranda | 4.6 | 7 | An eighteen-year-old Australian girl begins searching for clues to the identity of the mother she never knew and uncovers startling things about herself. | 251 |
| MacDonald, Elizabeth | Wolf Is Coming!, The | 3.8 | 0.5 | The wolf is on the farm, and the animals must get away. | 24 |
| MacDonald, George | Princess and the Goblin (Unabridged), The | 6.1 | 8 | A little princess is protected by her friend Curdie from the goblin miners who live beneath the castle. | 241 |
| MacDonald, Golden | Little Island, The | 3.6 | 0.5 | Depicts the changes that occur on a small island as the seasons come and go, as day changes to night, and as a storm approaches. | 40 |
| Macdonald, Maryann | Hedgehog Bakes a Cake | 2.2 | 0.5 | As Hedgehog starts to make a cake, his friends stop by, one by one; and each has advice for the project. | 28 |
| Machotka, Hana | Outstanding Outsides | 4.9 | 0.5 | Explores how the outside coverings of animals protect them from enemies, the elements, germs, and drying out. | 29 |
| MacLachlan, Patricia | All the Places to Love | 3.9 | 0.5 | A young boy describes the favorite places that he shares with his family on his grandparents' farm and in the nearby countryside. | 28 |
| MacLachlan, Patricia | Baby | 4 | 2 | A girl and her family find an abandoned baby in their driveway. The time they spend with her helps them come to terms with the loss of their own infant son. | 132 |
| MacLachlan, Patricia | Caleb's Story | 2.9 | 2 | The stranger lurking on the Witting family's prairie farm turns out to be their long-lost grandfather, whose presence, plus prodding from Caleb, forces Jacob to deal with his past. | 116 |
| MacLachlan, Patricia | Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt, The | 5.7 | 4 | Story of an endearing, clever girl and the relationships she encounters on her way to growing up. | 136 |
| MacLachlan, Patricia | Journey | 3.8 | 2 | When Journey and Cat's mother goes off, leaving them with their grandparents, the two children feel as if their past has been erased until Grandfather finds a way to restore it to them. | 83 |
| MacLachlan, Patricia | Sarah, Plain and Tall | 3.4 | 1 | In this loving story of a motherless family, a tall, plain woman comes to stay with them. | 58 |
| MacLachlan, Patricia | Seven Kisses in a Row | 3.4 | 1 | Emma learns to accept "different strokes for different folks" when her aunt and uncle come to take care of her and her brother. | 56 |
| MacLachlan, Patricia | Skylark | 3.2 | 1 | In the sequel to Sarah, Plain and Tall, Sarah's new family experiences some doubts about their future. | 87 |
| MacLachlan, Patricia | Three Names | 4.1 | 0.5 | Great-grandfather reminisces about going to school on the prairie with his dog, Three Names. | 31 |
| MacLachlan, Patricia | Through Grandpa's Eyes | 3.2 | 0.5 | A young boy learns a different way of seeing the world from his blind grandfather. Featured in Reading Rainbow. NCTE Adventuring with Books. | 36 |
| Maddern, Eric | Fire Children: A West African Creation Tale, The | 3.8 | 0.5 | A West African creation myth sheds light on why people come in so many colors. | 26 |
| Maestro, Betsy | Coming to America | 5.9 | 0.5 | This book explores the evolving history of immigration to the United States. | 39 |
| Maestro, Betsy | Exploration and Conquest: The Americas After Columbus, 1500-1620 | 7.2 | 1 | Christopher Columbus's voyages led to European exploration of the New World. The Americas were irresistible to gold-hungry conquistadors, and exploration soon came to signify conquest. The lives of its inhabitants would be changed forever. | 48 |
| Magorian, Michelle | Good Night, Mr. Tom | 4.8 | 12 | A young boy is sent to the English countryside during World War II to avoid the horrors of war and a disturbed mother. | 318 |
| Maguire, Gregory | Seven Spiders Spinning | 5.5 | 4 | Seven prehistoric spiders that had been trapped in ice for thousands of years bring excitement to rural Vermont and briefly unite two rival clubs at a local elementary school. | 132 |
| Mahy, Margaret | Down the Dragon's Tongue | 3 | 0.5 | When twins Harry and Miranda bring their buttoned-down father to the playground, he discovers that he does not want to stop sliding down the dragon's-tongue slide. | 28 |
| Mahy, Margaret | Rattlebang Picnic, The | 4.5 | 0.5 | The McTavishes, their seven children, and Granny McTavish take their old rattlebang of a car on a picnic up Mt. Fogg and have an exciting adventure. | 29 |
| Maifair, Linda Lee | Case of the Mixed-Up Monsters, The | 3.4 | 1 | When neighbors claim to have seen her brother Allen dressed in his Halloween monster costume committing acts of vandalism, Darcy Doyle vows to find out who's framing him. | 63 |
| Malam, John | Ancient Greeks (History Starts Here!), The | 4.5 | 0.5 | This book introduces the history, culture, and people of ancient Greece and examines its many contributions to the development of Western society. | 32 |
| Malamud, Bernard | Natural, The | 6.3 | 12 | Roy Hobbs returns to the Major Leagues at age 34. Still a tremendous player, he carries his team into the race for the National League pennant. However, he is plagued with romantic indecision and the temptation to fix games. | 223 |
| Mandino, Og | Twelfth Angel, The | 6.5 | 7 | A special story of old friendships, life changes, love and courage, that help John recover from the loss of his wife and son. | 164 |
| Manes, Stephen | Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days! | 4.2 | 1 | Milo, tired of problems with his sister, parents, and classmates, finds a book in the library which promises to make him perfect in just three days. | 76 |
| Mann, Elizabeth | Great Pyramid, The | 5.6 | 0.5 | This book is a history of the construction of the Great Pyramid at Giza and the civilization that produced it. | 48 |
| Mann, Elizabeth | Great Wall, The | 6.4 | 1 | This book examines the centuries of conflict with the Mongols that led to the building of the Great Wall of China as a means of defense. | 48 |
| Marcellino, Fred | I, Crocodile | 2.9 | 0.5 | While plundering Egypt's mummies, sphinxes, and palm trees, Napoleon can't resist a souvenir crocodile. Paris is enchanted by this creature; but for a crocodile with an appetite as big as his ego, being the toast of the town has its downside, too. | 30 |
| Margaret, Amy | Groundhog Day (The Library of Holidays) | 4.5 | 0.5 | This book explains the origins of Groundhog Day and how people celebrate this holiday. | 24 |
| Markle, Sandra | After the Spill: The Exxon Valdez Disaster, Then and Now | 6.5 | 0.5 | This book examines the impact of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill on the environment and people of Prince William Sound. | 32 |
| Markle, Sandra | Outside and Inside Alligators | 5.8 | 0.5 | This book describes the external and internal physical characteristics of alligators and how they find their food, mate, and raise their young. | 40 |
| Markle, Sandra | Outside and Inside Bats | 5.6 | 1 | This is an introduction to the inner and outer workings of bats; their diet, anatomy, and reproduction. | 40 |
| Markle, Sandra | Outside and Inside Birds | 4.9 | 0.5 | Full color photgraphs show birds inside and out. Includes activities. | 40 |
| Markle, Sandra | Outside and Inside Sharks | 5.2 | 0.5 | This book describes the inner and outer workings of sharks, including their diet, anatomy, and reproduction. | 40 |
| Markle, Sandra | Outside and Inside Snakes | 5.1 | 0.5 | This book describes the external and internal physical characteristics of snakes, and how they find their food, mate, and raise their young. | 40 |
| Markle, Sandra | Outside and Inside Spiders | 4.9 | 0.5 | This book, with its striking photos, describes the characteristics of spiders and how they live, eat, protect themselves and reproduce. | 40 |
| Marshall, Edward | Fox in Love | 1.8 | 0.5 | Fox isn't happy when Mom makes him take his little sister to the park. But when he spies a pretty, white fox sitting all alone, he changes his mind. | 48 |
| Marshall, Edward | Three by the Sea | 1.8 | 0.5 | Three friends relax after their picnic lunch by each telling his or her best story. | 48 |
| Marshall, James | Fox Be Nimble | 2 | 0.5 | Fox babysits for the miserable Ling children, makes a big scene when he slips on a skate and hurts himself, and gets to lead the band in the big parade. | 48 |
| Marshall, James | Fox on the Job | 2 | 0.5 | Fox tries to earn the money for a new bicycle from several different jobs. | 48 |
| Marshall, James | George and Martha | 2.7 | 0.5 | Two hippos teach each other how to behave with grace under pressure. | 46 |
| Marshall, James | George and Martha Encore | 2.4 | 0.5 | This book contains five stories about two great friends in which the dignity and the bulk of the hippos are in contrast with the ludicrousness of their situations. | 46 |
| Marshall, James | George and Martha Rise and Shine | 2.1 | 0.5 | Five brief episodes about two friends, George and Martha, who happen to be hippopotamuses. | 47 |
| Marshall, James | George and Martha Round and Round | 2.6 | 0.5 | This book's five episodes chronicle the ups and downs of a special friendship. | 46 |
| Marshall, James | George and Martha Tons of Fun | 2.4 | 0.5 | This book's five episodes chronicle the ups and downs of a special friendship. | 46 |
| Marshall, James | George and Martha, One Fine Day | 2.4 | 0.5 | This book includes five episodes in the friendship of two hippopotamuses. | 44 |
| Marshall, James | Summer in the South, A | 4.5 | 2 | A great detective, Eleanor Owl, is drawn into a mystery while vacationing at a beachside hotel. | 97 |
| Marshall, James | Three up a Tree | 2.1 | 0.5 | Sam and Spider build a tree house and go there with Lolly to trade stories. | 48 |
| Marshall, James | Willis | 3.5 | 0.5 | Snake, Bird, and Lobster use their imagination to earn twenty-nine cents to buy sunglasses for Willis. | 47 |
| Marshall, John | Working Machines (Energy and Action) | 4.2 | 0.5 | Describes simple machines and how they work, including the inclined plane, levers, wheels and axles, the wedge, screws, and pulleys. | 24 |
| Martin Jr., Bill | Barn Dance | 3.4 | 0.5 | A young boy climbs through his window and follows a voice to the barn, where he learns there is really magic in the air. | 29 |
| Martin Jr., Bill | Knots on a Counting Rope | 2.8 | 0.5 | Warm, beautifully told story of a young boy and his grandfather, who relates the story of the boy's birth and tries to help the boy face his blindness. | 29 |
| Martin Jr., Bill | Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? | 2.1 | 0.5 | Zoo animals from polar bear to walrus make their distinctive sounds for each other, while children imitate the sounds for the zookeeper. | 24 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Boy-Crazy Stacey | 3.9 | 3 | While Stacey devotes all her energies to a lifeguard, and Mary Anne tends to seven children, their friendship is really put to the test. | 138 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Claudia and Mean Janine | 3.8 | 4 | Along with responsibilities to the club, Claudia deals with a very mean sister and a beloved grandmother's stroke. | 145 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Claudia and the Bad Joke | 3.9 | 4 | While baby-sitting for Betsy, one of Betsy's pranks causes Claudia to fall and break her leg. | 141 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Claudia and the Genius of Elm Street | 4.1 | 4 | Baby-sitting for a nine-year-old genius may be too much for Claudia to handle. | 140 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Claudia and the Great Search | 4.4 | 4 | Claudia is sure that she was adopted and sets out to prove it. | 144 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Claudia and the Middle School Mystery | 4.3 | 4 | Claudia is thrilled with the A she got on her math test until her teacher accuses her of cheating. | 150 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Claudia and the New Girl | 4.1 | 4 | There's a new girl in town, and she's pulling Claudia away from her friends in the Club. | 142 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls | 3.8 | 4 | Claudia keeps getting calls while baby-sitting that make her certain that the house she's staying in is the next target for the Phantom Jewel Thief. | 153 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Claudia and the Sad Good-bye | 4.7 | 4 | Claudia's sad farewell is to her beloved grandmother, who has been suffering the results of a stroke. | 147 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Dawn and the Big Sleepover | 4.3 | 4 | The Baby-Sitters organize fund-raising projects for a Native American school that has been destroyed in a fire. | 138 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Dawn and the Impossible Three | 3.9 | 4 | Dawn not only has to show the Barrett kids that she's the boss, she must prove herself to Kristy too. | 155 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Dawn and the Older Boy | 4.2 | 4 | The Baby-Sitters must tell Dawn when they see her boyfriend with another girl. | 138 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Dawn on the Coast | 4 | 4 | Dawn must choose between life in California with her father and life in Connecticut with her mother and the Club. | 142 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Dawn's Big Date | 3.8 | 4 | Dawn decides that the only way to impress Mary Anne's cousin is with an entirely new image. | 159 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Dawn's Wicked Stepsister | 4.3 | 4 | When Dawn's mother marries Mary Anne's father, their friendship is jeopardized. | 146 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Ghost at Dawn's House, The | 3.8 | 4 | When Dawn hears creaking stairs and spooky noises, then finds a secret passage to her own room, she's sure her house is haunted. | 148 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Good-bye Stacey, Good-bye | 4.1 | 4 | The club must figure out how to say goodbye to one of its principal members. | 142 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Hello, Mallory | 3.7 | 3 | Mallory seems like a natural for the Club, but the Baby-Sitters are doing all they can to keep her from joining. | 136 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Jessi and the Dance School Phantom | 4.4 | 5 | When Jessi gets the lead in her school's latest ballet production, someone tries to sabotage her efforts. | 166 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Jessi and the Superbrat | 4.1 | 4 | Jessi begins baby-sitting for a young TV star, who is also a spoiled brat. | 135 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Jessi Ramsey, Pet-Sitter | 4 | 4 | When the Mancusis go on vacation, the Club is called to watch their pets. | 141 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Jessi's Baby-sitter | 4.1 | 4 | Jessi is mortified to learn that her parents are getting a baby-sitter--for her. | 137 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Jessi's Secret Language | 4.3 | 4 | Jessi is learning sign language for a very special child. | 145 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Jessi's Wish | 4 | 4 | Jessi meets a special child when she volunteers to be a supervisor at the Kids Can Do Anything Club. | 140 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Karen's Bully | 2.7 | 1 | The bully from Karen's class moves right down the street from her. | 107 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Karen's Carnival | 2.8 | 1 | Karen's plan to hold a neighborhood carnival becomes more of a problem than she expected. | 99 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Karen's in Love | 3 | 1 | Ricky could be Karen's Valentine if they could get along long enough. | 105 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Karen's New Teacher | 3 | 1 | Karen's favorite teacher is out sick, and she thinks the substitute is the meanest teacher ever. | 103 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Karen's Roller Skates | 2.7 | 1 | While showing off on her skates, Karen falls and breaks her wrist. | 107 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Karen's Snow Day | 2.9 | 1 | Karen gets a day off from school because of the snow, so she goes into the shoveling business. | 101 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Karen's Worst Day | 2.7 | 1 | From the moment Karen fell out of bed, her day went downhill. | 100 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Kristy and the Baby Parade | 4.5 | 4 | The Club decides to enter a float covered with babies in a parade. | 137 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Kristy and the Mother's Day Surprise | 3.9 | 4 | The Baby-Sitters Club decide to give their moms the day off on Mother's Day. | 141 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Kristy and the Secret of Susan | 4.2 | 4 | Kristy comes to understand that the autistic girl that she baby-sits for will never be able to attend a "regular" school. | 145 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Kristy and the Snobs | 4.1 | 4 | The snobby kids in Kristy's new neighborhood are making fun of her, the club, and her ailing collie, but she'll get the last laugh. | 145 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Kristy and the Walking Disaster | 3.9 | 4 | It's not until after the Baby-Sitters form a softball team that they realize they are all klutzes. | 141 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Kristy's Big Day | 4 | 4 | Kristy has her hands full being a bridesmaid and a baby-sitter for 14 children, all on the same day. | 153 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Kristy's Great Idea | 3.6 | 4 | Four unsuspecting girls start a baby-sitting club without considering things like twin St. Bernards or two children turning into five. | 153 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Kristy's Mystery Admirer | 4.1 | 4 | Kristy hopes the mysterious love letters that she's been receiving are not practical jokes. | 144 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Little Miss Stoneybrook...and Dawn | 4 | 4 | When members of the Club are asked to help rivals in the Little Miss Stoneybrook contest, trouble and humor are sure to follow. | 144 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Logan Likes Mary Anne! | 3.8 | 4 | Logan becomes an associate member of the Baby-Sitters Club, but his interest in Mary Anne is other than professional. | 139 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Mallory and the Mystery Diary | 4.2 | 4 | A locked trunk and a secret diary add up to a mystery for the Baby-Sitters. | 144 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Mallory and the Trouble with Twins | 4.2 | 4 | As Mallory gains insight into the Arnold Twins and that they want to be treated as individuals, her job gets easier. | 141 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Mallory on Strike | 4.7 | 4 | The pressures on Mallory build up to a point where she decides to stop baby-sitting. | 152 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Mary Anne and the Great Romance | 4.4 | 4 | Dawn's mother and Mary Anne's father decide to marry. | 147 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Mary Anne and the Search for Tigger | 3.7 | 4 | Mary Anne and the other Club members go to great lengths to find the missing kitten Tigger. | 142 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Mary Anne and Too Many Boys | 4.4 | 4 | When Mary Anne and Stacey get baby-sitting jobs in Sea City, they learn very quickly there are too many boys. | 140 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Mary Anne Misses Logan | 4.3 | 4 | Mary Anne thinks it might be time to reconcile with Logan, but Cokie will try to prevent it. | 138 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Mary Anne Saves the Day | 3.7 | 4 | By handling an emergency responsibly, Mary Anne impresses her over-protective father and the other Club members. | 167 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Mary Anne vs. Logan | 4 | 4 | A decision to see less of Logan, could leave Mary Anne with no boyfriend at all. | 137 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Mary Anne's Bad-Luck Mystery | 4.1 | 4 | After throwing away a chain letter, Mary Anne's bad luck doesn't seem to end. | 137 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Poor Mallory! | 4 | 4 | The Baby-Sitters Club tries to help Mallory out after her father loses his job. | 142 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Stacey and the Mystery of Stoneybrook | 4.7 | 4 | When Stacey sees a mysterious face in the window of a supposedly haunted house, she begins to believe the rumors. | 139 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Stacey's Emergency | 4 | 4 | The girls in the Baby-Sitters Club provide emotional support for an overpressured Stacey when she is hospitalized for diabetes. | 139 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Stacey's Mistake | 4.3 | 4 | When the Baby-Sitters visit Stacey in New York City, they have no idea how out of place they will feel. | 145 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Truth About Stacey, The | 3.8 | 4 | Stacey's parents want to drag her off to another specialist in the hope of curing her diabetes, but she worries about losing her new friends in the Club. | 167 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Welcome Back, Stacey! | 4.2 | 4 | When Stacey's parents decide to divorce, Stacey must decide whether to remain in New York with her father or return to Stoneybrook with her mother. | 144 |
| Martin, Francesca | Clever Tortoise: A Traditional African Tale | 2.7 | 0.5 | Clever Tortoise leads the other jungle animals in teaching bullying Elephant and Hippopotamus a lesson by tricking them into engaging in a tug of war with each other. | 33 |
| Martin, Jacqueline Briggs | Snowflake Bentley | 4.4 | 0.5 | William Bentley discovers a way to photograph snowflakes. | 28 |
| Martin, James | Komodo Dragons: Giant Lizards of Indonesia | 5.4 | 0.5 | Giant lizards of Indonesia. | 48 |
| Martin, Rafe | Rough-Face Girl, The | 4 | 0.5 | In this Algonquin Indian version of the Cinderella story, the Rough-Face Girl and her two beautiful but heartless sisters compete for the affections of the Invisible Being. | 30 |
| Martin, Rafe | Storytelling Princess, The | 4 | 0.5 | Having survived a shipwreck, a princess tries to tell a prince a story whose ending he does not know and thus qualify for his hand in marriage. | 32 |
| Martin/Kellogg | Beasty Story, A | 1.6 | 0.5 | A group of mice venture into a dark, dark wood, where they find a dark brown house with a dark red stair leading past other dark colors to a spooky surprise. | 34 |
| Martin-James, Kathleen | Floating Jellyfish | 2.6 | 0.5 | This book introduces the jellyfish by describing its habitat, behaviors, and physical characteristics. | 32 |
| Marzolla, Jean | I'm a Caterpillar | 0.9 | 0.5 | This book follows the life cycle of a caterpillar through the changing seasons. | 32 |
| Marzollo, Jean | I'm a Seed | 1 | 0.5 | This story follows the life cycle of a seed to a plant through the changing seasons. | 32 |
| Marzollo, Jean | Soccer Sam | 2.6 | 0.5 | Sam's cousin from Mexico comes for an extended visit and teaches Sam and all the second-graders to play soccer. | 48 |
| Matas, Carol | Daniel's Story | 4.9 | 5 | Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation. | 136 |
| Mathers, Petra | Sophie and Lou | 3.1 | 0.5 | Shy Sophie, enticed by the dancing that she sees in the studio across the street, sets out to learn on her own. | 30 |
| Mathis, Sharon Bell | Hundred Penny Box, The | 3.9 | 1 | The Box contains a penny for each year of Aunt Dew's life, and each penny symbolizes a memory which she shares ritually with her great-great-nephew Michael. | 47 |
| Matson, Nancy | Boy Trap, The | 4.8 | 3 | Girls are naturally smarter and more polite in class and Emma Adams sets out to prove it scientifically. Emma is sure her experiments will be a success, but the boys are out to prove her wrong! | 108 |
| Maurer, Tracy Nelson | Snow Skiing (Radsports Guides) | 5.3 | 1 | This book surveys the history, equipment, techniques, and safety factors of snow skiing. | 48 |
| Mayer, Gina/Mercer | Just Like Dad | 2.3 | 0.5 | Little Critter wants to be just like his dad when he grows up. | 24 |
| Mayer, Gina/Mercer | Just Say Please | 2.6 | 0.5 | Little Critter's class is learning about manners and using them in their daily lives. | 24 |
| Mayer, Gina/Mercer | School Play, The | 2.2 | 0.5 | When Little Critter gets a part in his school play, he's proud and excited. On the night of the play, however, he gets stage fright. | 21 |
| Mayer, Gina/Mercer | Taking Care of Mom | 2 | 0.5 | Little Critter's mother is in bed with a cold, so it's up to him and his sister to take care of her. | 24 |
| Mayer, Gina/Mercer | This Is My Body | 2.2 | 0.5 | Little Critter takes young readers on a friendly tour of his own body. | 24 |
| Mayer, Gina/Mercer | Trick or Treat, Little Critter | 2.5 | 0.5 | Little Critter describes all the fun Halloween brings. | 22 |
| Mayer, Marianna | Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave | 5.3 | 1 | Russian folktale about a beleaguered stepchild who is sent on an errand to a fearsome witch. | 37 |
| Mayer, Mercer | All by Myself | 1.3 | 0.5 | Little Critter thinks about all the things he can do all by himself and the one thing he cannot do. | 23 |
| Mayer, Mercer | Baby Sister Says No | 1.8 | 0.5 | Baby sister says no to everything. Especially when Mama said, "NAP!" | 23 |
| Mayer, Mercer | Happy Easter, Little Critter | 2.3 | 0.5 | Little Critter experiences all the joys of Easter, getting his basket, going to church, dying eggs and finding them during an egg hunt. | 24 |
| Mayer, Mercer | Just a Daydream | 2.5 | 0.5 | Little Critter daydreams about what he would do to the local bully if he were Super Critter. | 23 |
| Mayer, Mercer | Just for You | 2 | 0.5 | A little creature tries and tries to do something special for his mother, but something always seems to go wrong. | 23 |
| Mayer, Mercer | Just Going to the Dentist | 2.4 | 0.5 | Little Critter goes to the dentist for a checkup and finds that going to the dentist isn't so bad. | 23 |
| Mayer, Mercer | Just Me and My Babysitter | 1.3 | 0.5 | A little critter thinks he's the most helpful person in the world to his baby-sitter. | 23 |
| Mayer, Mercer | Just Me and My Dad | 1.4 | 0.5 | Exciting adventures as a little animal and his father encounter a bear and other diversions while camping. | 23 |
| Mayer, Mercer | Just Me and My Little Brother | 2.5 | 0.5 | A little critter story about brothers and sisters. | 23 |
| Mayer, Mercer | Just Me and My Mom | 2.2 | 0.5 | Little Critter and his mother take a trip to the city to explore the department stores and museums. | 22 |
| Mayer, Mercer | Little Critter's Christmas Book | 3.1 | 0.5 | Little Critter is doing all he can to get ready for Christmas. He celebrates the holiday season with his family in a way only Little Critter can! | 44 |
| Mayer, Mercer | Merry Christmas Mom and Dad | 2.4 | 0.5 | Little Critter approaches Christmas with the intention of being a good helper, but trying to be good without bungling everything up is difficult. | 24 |
| Mayer, Mercer | New Baby, The | 1.9 | 0.5 | The new baby takes some getting used to, but she's worth it. | 24 |
| Mayer, Mercer | There's a Nightmare in My Closet | 2.3 | 0.5 | A humorous bedtime story to chase away fears of the dark. | 23 |
| Mayer, Mercer | There's an Alligator Under My Bed | 2.1 | 0.5 | The alligator under his bed makes a boy's bedtime a hazardous operation, until he lures it out of the house and into the garage. | 29 |
| Mayer, Mercer | Trip, The | 0.8 | 0.5 | Little Critter and his family have an eventful trip to their summer vacation cabin. | 32 |
| Mayer, Mercer | When I Get Bigger | 2.2 | 0.5 | Little Critter imagines the things he will do when he gets bigger. | 23 |
| Mayer/Farber/Sansevere | Purple Pickle Juice | 2.9 | 0.5 | Thistle Howl desperately wants to grow, but drinking purple pickle juice doesn't help; and her aunt's magic makes Thistle think that maybe she's content just as she is. | 43 |
| Maze/O'Neill Grace | I Want to Be a Chef | 7 | 1 | This book describes some of the careers in the culinary arts including: master chef, executive chef, pastry chef, prep chef, and more. It also discusses the training, vocabulary, competitions, and possibilities in this field. | 48 |
| Maze/O'Neill Grace | I Want to Be a Firefighter | 7.2 | 1 | This book describes the different jobs done by people working in the fire-fighting profession and some people who have made important contributions in this field. | 47 |
| Mazer, Anne | Salamander Room, The | 3 | 0.5 | A young boy finds a salamander and thinks of the many things he can do to make a perfect home for it. | 20 |
| Mazer, Norma Fox | Good Night, Maman | 3.5 | 4 | After spending years fleeing from the Nazis in war-torn Europe, twelve-year-old Karin Levi and her older brother, Marc, find a new home in a refugee camp in Oswego, New York. | 185 |
| McArthur, Nancy | Plant That Ate Dirty Socks, The | 4.1 | 4 | Michael 's side of the room was a mess. Brother Norman was a neatness nut. They got a plant, and the problem was gone--and so were their socks. | 119 |
| McAuliffe, Jim | Three Mile House | 2.6 | 1 | Mystery in the streets of San Francisco as innocent people become involved in a crime that took place years before. | 60 |
| McBratney, Sam | Caterpillow Fight, The | 4.1 | 0.5 | A rowdy pillow fight among young caterpillars causes the Big Caterpillar to step in and take action. | 24 |
| McBratney, Sam | I'll Always Be Your Friend | 2.6 | 0.5 | A little fox gets angry and tell his mother that he will not be her friend anymore when she tells him it is time to stop playing. | 25 |
| McCaffrey, Anne | Black Horses for the King | 6.9 | 8 | Galwyn, son of a Roman Celt, escapes from his tyrannical uncle and joins Lord Artos, later known as King Arthur. He uses his talent with languages and way with horses to help secure and care for the Libyan horses that Artos hopes to use in battle. | 217 |
| McCaffrey, Anne | Dragonsong | 6.8 | 9 | Enchanting fantasy-adventure as the girl Menolly becomes the first female Harper, rediscovers the legendary fire lizards, and teaches her friends the fire lizards how to sing. | 176 |
| McCarty, Peter | Hondo and Fabian | 1.2 | 0.5 | Hondo, the dog, gets to go to the beach and play with his friend Fred, while Fabian, the cat, spends the day at home. | 32 |
| McCloskey, Robert | Blueberries for Sal | 4.1 | 0.5 | A bear cub and a little girl each mistakes the other's mother for its own. | 28 |
| McCloskey, Robert | Centerburg Tales | 6 | 5 | The further adventures of Homer Price, including those in which a jukebox sets the whole town singing against its will and in which a mad scientist develops weeds that overrun the town. | 191 |
| McCloskey, Robert | Homer Price | 6.6 | 4 | Ingenious young Homer Price captures thieves, solves mysteries, and helps people in trouble. | 149 |
| McCloskey, Robert | Make Way for Ducklings | 4.1 | 0.5 | A merry picture book; very few words; a gravity that underscores the delightful comedy of the pictures. | 61 |
| McCloskey, Robert | One Morning in Maine | 4.4 | 0.5 | Sal loses a tooth in this story of a family which lives on an island. | 64 |
| McCloskey, Robert | Time of Wonder | 5.1 | 0.5 | A family on an island off the coast of Maine experiences a hurricane. | 62 |
| McCully, Emily Arnold | Grandmas at Bat | 2.6 | 0.5 | Pip's two grandmothers who cannot agree on anything take over coaching her baseball team and create chaos. | 64 |
| McCully, Emily Arnold | Grandmas at the Lake | 2.6 | 0.5 | Pip and Ski have a hard time enjoying themselves at the lake with Pip's two grandmothers, who cannot agree on anything. | 62 |
| McCully, Emily Arnold | Mirette on the High Wire | 3.6 | 0.5 | Mirette learns to become a tightrope walker and also discovers a valuable lesson about courage and faith from her instructor. | 30 |
| McDermott, Dennis | Golden Goose, The | 3.4 | 0.5 | Hans's generosity helps him gain a princess for his bride. | 30 |
| McDermott, Gerald | Arrow to the Sun | 2.7 | 0.5 | Indian myth in which the Lord of the Sun sends the spark of life to earth, and it becomes a Boy. | 14 |
| McDermott, Gerald | Coyote: A Trickster Tale from the American Southwest | 2.6 | 0.5 | A story of Coyote, the Native American trickster, brought to life and inspired by Zuni folklore and southwestern design. Illus. by Gerald McDermott. | 28 |
| McDermott, Gerald | Jabuti the Tortoise: A Trickster Tale from the Amazon | 3.8 | 0.5 | All the birds enjoy the songlike flute music of Jabuti, except Vulture, who is jealous because he cannot sing. | 32 |
| McDermott, Gerald | Raven | 2.5 | 0.5 | A retelling of the story of Raven, the Native American trickster, with illustrations based on traditional designs from the Pacific Northwest. | 24 |
| McDermott, Gerald | Zomo the Rabbit | 2.3 | 0.5 | Three zoo animals learn there is more satisfaction in making music together than in performing separately. | 27 |
| McDonald, Megan | Beezy at Bat | 2 | 0.5 | This book includes three stories in which Beezy cracks nuts and riddles, picks berries, and plays baseball. | 48 |
| McDonald, Megan | Beezy Magic | 2.3 | 0.5 | This book includes three stories about Beezy, who lives in Florida with her best friend Merlin, Gran, and Funnybone. | 48 |
| McDonald, Megan | Judy Moody | 3.5 | 1 | Judy Moody is in a first day of school bad mood until she gets an assignment to create a collage all about herself. | 160 |
| McDonald, Megan | Judy Moody Gets Famous! | 3.5 | 1 | Judy Moody is jealous of Jessica Finch, who gets her picture on the front page of the newspaper. | 126 |
| McDonald, Megan | Judy Moody Saves the World | 3.6 | 1 | When Judy Moody gets serious about protecting the environment, her little brother, Stink, thinks she is overdoing it, but she manages to inspire her third-grade class to undertake an award-winning, environment-saving project. | 144 |
| McDonald, Megan | Lucky Star | 2.6 | 0.5 | Star cannot wait to share her library book with her best friend Blister, but when the book gets ruined, they get into a fight over it. | 48 |
| McGovern, Ann | Secret Soldier, The | 4.1 | 1 | This is the exciting, true story of a woman who became a soldier during the Revolutionary War by dressing and acting like a man. | 63 |
| McGovern, Ann | Too Much Noise | 1.5 | 0.5 | An old man seeks advice when he tries to find a way to make his noisy house quiet. | 44 |
| McGraw, Eloise Jarvis | Golden Goblet, The | 6.3 | 11 | A young Egyptian boy struggles to reveal a hideous crime and reshape his own destiny. | 248 |
| McGraw, Eloise Jarvis | Moccasin Trail | 5.8 | 12 | Jim Keath attempts to re-orient himself to life as a white man, after living for six years as a Crow Indian. | 247 |
| McKay, Hilary | Amber Cat, The | 4.6 | 4 | While recovering from chicken pox, Robin and his friends are drawn into his mother's story about the adventures she and her friends had years ago with an unusual girl. | 134 |
| McKenna, Colleen O'Shaughnessy | Fifth Grade: Here Comes Trouble | 4.4 | 3 | Unlike the other girls in her class, Collette Murphy becomes worried and embarrassed when she is invited to her first boy/girl party. | 137 |
| McKenna, Colleen O'Shaughnessy | Good Grief...Third Grade | 3.6 | 3 | Marsha Cessano, Collette Murphy's neighbor, is determined to be good in third grade--no messy desk, no tricks, no temper--but Roger Friday is making it difficult. | 152 |
| McKenna, Colleen O'Shaughnessy | Merry Christmas, Miss McConnell! | 5.6 | 5 | A fifth-grade girl with a tough new teacher and problems at home expects a terrible Christmas, only to have it turn out to be one of the best. | 155 |
| McKenzie, Ellen | Stargone John | 4.4 | 2 | Six-year-old John, emotionally withdrawn and resistant to traditional teaching methods, experiences ridicule and punishment until an old retired teacher reaches out from her blindness to share with him the world of reading and writing. | 67 |
| McKie/Eastman | Snow | 1.6 | 0.5 | A little girl plays in the snow. | 61 |
| McKinley, Robin | Beauty | 6.2 | 11 | A daughter gives her life to save her father and is doomed to live in a monster's castle. | 247 |
| McKinley, Robin | Blue Sword, The | 6.8 | 17 | Harry, bored with her sheltered life on the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers. | 272 |
| McKinley, Robin | Hero and the Crown, The | 7 | 15 | A return to the kingdom of Damar where the girl-warrior, Arien, wields the power of the Blue Sword. | 227 |
| McKissack, Patricia C. | Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love | 4.9 | 5 | Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind. | 214 |
| McKissack, Patricia C. | Goin' Someplace Special | 4.3 | 0.5 | In segregated 1950s Nashville, a young African American girl braves a series of indignities and obstacles to get to one of the few integrated places in town, the public library. | 32 |
| McKissack, Patricia C. | Mirandy and Brother Wind | 3.6 | 0.5 | To win first prize in the Junior Cakewalk, Mirandy tries to capture the wind for her partner. | 29 |
| McKissack, Patricia C. | Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba | 5.6 | 3 | This book presents the diary of thirteen-year-old Nzingha, a sixteenth-century West African princess who loves to hunt and hopes to lead her kingdom one day against the invasion of the Portuguese slave traders. | 136 |
| McLarey, Kristina/Myra | When You Take a Pig to a Party | 4.2 | 0.5 | Havoc ensues when Adelaide takes her usually well-behaved pet pig to a friend's birthday party. | 32 |
| McLean/Wiseman | Adventures of the Greek Heroes | 6.2 | 4 | A collection of stories that the poets told the people at Olympia. | 174 |
| McLerran, Alice | Mountain that Loved a Bird, The | 4.5 | 0.5 | A beautiful bird brings life to a lonely, barren mountain. | 21 |
| McLerran, Alice | Roxaboxen | 4 | 0.5 | A hill covered with rocks and wooden boxes becomes an imaginary town for Marian, her sisters, and their friends. | 28 |
| McMullan, Kate | Fluffy and the Firefighters | 2.4 | 0.5 | After firefighters visit Ms. Day's classroom, Fluffy gets a chance to see what they do firsthand. | 40 |
| McMullan, Kate | Fluffy Grows a Garden | 2.2 | 0.5 | Fluffy, the guinea pig, learns all about growing vegetables when Ms. Day's class plants seeds. | 40 |
| McMullan, Kate | I Stink! | 1.6 | 0.5 | A big city garbage truck makes its rounds, consuming everything from apple cores and banana peels to leftover ziti with zucchini. | 33 |
| McMullan, Kate | Story of Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad, Th | 4.7 | 3 | A biography of the African-American woman who escaped from slavery and led other slaves to freedom on the underground railroad. | 108 |
| McMurty, Ken | Survival! In the Mountains | 6.6 | 4 | A true story of how three young people in southern California survived a raging blizzard while mountain climbing. Plus survival tips and techniques. | 118 |
| McPhail, David | Bug, a Bear, and a Boy Go to School, A | 1.6 | 0.5 | A bug, a bear, and a boy enjoy themselves as they go to school, take a ride in a wagon, fly a kite, and paint a picture. | 28 |
| McPhail, David | Bug, a Bear, and a Boy, A | 1.3 | 0.5 | Three friends learn, love, and play together. | 28 |
| McPhail, David | Drawing Lessons from a Bear | 3.3 | 0.5 | A bear explains how he becomes an artist, first experimenting with simple drawings, then continuing to draw both things around him and things in his imagination. Includes tips for drawing. | 29 |
| McPhail, David | Edward and the Pirates | 4 | 0.5 | Once Edward has learned to read, books and his vivid imagination provide him with great adventures. | 28 |
| McPhail, David | Fix-It | 1.1 | 0.5 | Emma is upset when the television is broken, until her mother reads a book to her. | 24 |
| McPhail, David | Girl, a Goat, and a Goose, A | 1.7 | 0.5 | In this book four stories relate the adventures of three good friends. | 32 |
| McPhail, David | Mole Music | 2.7 | 0.5 | Feeling that something is missing in his simple life, Mole acquires a violin and learns to make beautiful, joyful music. | 28 |
| McPhail, David | Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore! | 2 | 0.5 | Pigs galore invade a house and have a wonderful party. | 26 |
| McQuade, Jacqueline | Christmas with Teddy Bear | 2.5 | 0.5 | From writing to Santa and decorating the tree to caroling with Mom and Dad, Teddy Bear's holiday season is filled with tradition and warmth. | 28 |
| McSwigan, Marie | Snow Treasure | 5.3 | 5 | Brave children help save Norway's gold from the invading Nazis during World War II. | 156 |
| Meddaugh, Susan | Martha Calling | 3 | 0.5 | Martha the talking dog wins a vacation for her family and manages to change the "no dogs allowed policy." | 30 |
| Meddaugh, Susan | Martha Speaks | 3.1 | 0.5 | Martha, the dog, eats some alphabet soup and starts to speak, to everyone's amazement and eventual annoyance. | 31 |
| Meddaugh, Susan | Martha Walks the Dog | 2.6 | 0.5 | Martha the talking dog rescues the neighborhood from a bully dog with the help of a parrott. | 32 |
| Medearis, Angela Shelf | 100th Day of School, The | 1.4 | 0.5 | The children learn 100 spelling words, plant 100 seeds, bake 100 cookies, and "do everything the 100 way" to celebrate this special day. | 30 |
| Meigs, Cornelia | Invincible Louisa | 8 | 10 | The true story of Louisa May Alcott, the author of "Little Women." | 241 |
| Meigs, Cornelia | Swift Rivers | 7 | 11 | After being turned out by his mean-spirited uncle, Chris Dahlberg decides to harvest some of the giant logs down the Mississippi River to market in St. Louis. | 270 |
| Melville/Bogart | Moby Dick (Great Illustrated Classics) | 5.3 | 2 | Ishmael, a young school teacher, signs up on a whaling ship to seek adventure. With his unexpected friend, Queequeg, he joins the Pequod, captained by the mysterious Ahab, who is only interested in seeking revenge upon the great white whale, Moby Dick. | 238 |
| Merrill, Jean | Pushcart War, The | 6.5 | 6 | This is the laugh-out-loud saga of the fierce war waged by pushcart peddlers and the city's children against the menacing bully trucks. | 222 |
| Merrill, Jean | Toothpaste Millionaire, The | 5 | 3 | Rufus Mayflower learns about making toothpaste, forming a corporation, and earning lots of money. | 89 |
| Meyer, Carolyn | Isabel: Jewel of Castilla | 6.6 | 5 | While waiting anxiously for others to choose a husband for her, Isabel, the future Queen of Spain, keeps a diary account of her life as a member of the royal family. | 204 |
| Meyer, Carolyn | White Lilacs | 5.5 | 8 | Historical novel about a young black girl's response to the forced relocation of her family in 1921 Texas. | 242 |
| Micucci, Charles | Life and Times of the Peanut, The | 5.4 | 0.5 | Examines the history and statistics of peanuts, their agriculture and influence. | 32 |
| Miles, Betty | Secret Life of the Underwear Champ, The | 3.7 | 2 | Being famous is one problem after another (if you modeled underwear like Larry, you'd try to keep your TV career a secret, too). | 117 |
| Miller, Jay | American Indian Festivals (A True Book) | 4.4 | 0.5 | Briefly describes some of the customs and practices related to festivals celebrated in various North American Indian cultures. | 48 |
| Miller, Jay | American Indian Games (A True Book) | 4.4 | 0.5 | Briefly describes some of the toys and games used by various North American Indian cultures to amuse their children and teach lessons about life. | 48 |
| Miller, Natalie | Story of the Liberty Bell, The | 5.1 | 0.5 | Learn how the Liberty Bell became one of our most-treasured symbol. | 30 |
| Miller, Natalie | Story of the Lincoln Memorial, The | 5.1 | 0.5 | Recounts the fund-raising, the choosing of the site, and the actual building of the Lincoln Memorial. | 31 |
| Miller, Natalie | Story of the Statue of Liberty, The | 5.2 | 0.5 | Describes Auguste Bartholdi's conception of the Statue of Liberty, its construction in France, and its eventual erection and dedication in New York Harbor. | 30 |
| Miller, Sara Swan | Funny Fishes (Watts Library) | 6.2 | 1 | This book portrays several species of fishes that have unusual appearances, habitats, or behaviors. | 63 |
| Miller, Sara Swan | Mammal Misfits (Watts Library) | 5.6 | 1 | This book describes several species of mammals that have unusual appearances, habitats, or behaviors. | 63 |
| Miller, Sara Swan | Three More Stories You Can Read to Your Dog | 2.4 | 0.5 | This book contains three stories addressed to dogs and written from a dog's point of view, featuring such topics as going to the vet, making friends with a rocklike creature, and getting a bath. | 46 |
| Mills, Claudia | Dynamite Dinah | 5 | 4 | Mischievous Dinah struggles to remain the center of attention when her baby brother comes home from the hospital and her best friend gets a lead role in the class play. | 120 |
| Mills, Lauren | Rag Coat, The | 3.9 | 0.5 | Minna proudly wears her new coat made of clothing scraps to school, where the other children laugh at her until she tells them the stories behind the scraps. | 29 |
| Milne, A.A. | House at Pooh Corner, The | 4.8 | 4 | Pooh and his friends make their escapades the funniest reading anywhere. | 180 |
| Milne, A.A. | Winnie-The-Pooh | 4.6 | 3 | Winnie-the-Pooh and all his friends delight readers with their adventurous exploits. | 161 |
| Milton, Joyce | Bats: Creatures of the Night | 2.9 | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitats of different kinds of bats. | 48 |
| Milton, Joyce | Dinosaur Days | 2.6 | 0.5 | Fact-filled book about dinosaurs made easy to read with phonics. | 47 |
| Milton, Joyce | Mummies | 3.5 | 0.5 | This book explains the Egyptian pharaohs' beliefs about life after death, details the technique of mummification, and describes pyramids as burial places. | 48 |
| Milton, Joyce | Wild, Wild Wolves | 3.3 | 0.5 | Introduces the natural history of wolves, examining their social structure, hunting tactics, growth, and development. Explores myths and legends about them. | 48 |
| Minarik, Else Holmelund | Father Bear Comes Home | 2.1 | 0.5 | When Father Bear returns from a fishing trip, Little Bear and his friends are on hand to welcome him. | 62 |
| Minarik, Else Holmelund | Kiss for Little Bear, A | 1.4 | 0.5 | When Grandma Bear sends a kiss to Little Bear, it travels a peculiar route through many animals until it finally reaches him. | 32 |
| Minarik, Else Holmelund | Little Bear | 2.4 | 0.5 | All about little Bear's trip to the moon, his birthday party, his wishes and adventures. | 63 |
| Minarik, Else Holmelund | Little Bear's Friend | 2.2 | 0.5 | Little Bear enjoys the summer he spends with Lucy; but when summer is over, the friends must part. | 63 |
| Minarik, Else Holmelund | Little Bear's Visit | 2.3 | 0.5 | Charmingly depicts Little Bear's delight in visiting his grandparents. | 64 |
| Minarik, Else Holmelund | No Fighting, No Biting! | 2.6 | 0.5 | The merry adventures of two scrapping alligator children--and Rosa and Willy, their human counterparts. | 62 |
| Minor, Wendell | Grand Canyon: Exploring a Natural Wonder | 6 | 0.5 | Through personal observations and beautiful illustrations, the author celebrates nature and introduces readers to one of the world's greatest wonders. | 30 |
| Miranda, Anne | To Market, To Market | 1.7 | 0.5 | Starting with the nursery rhyme about buying a fat pig at market, this tale goes on to describe a series of unruly animals that run amok, evading capture and preventing the narrator from cooking lunch. | 32 |
| Mitchell, Margaree King | Uncle Jed's Barbershop | 3.8 | 0.5 | Despite serious obstacles and setbacks, Sarah Jean's Uncle Jed, the only black barber in the county, pursues his dream of saving enough money to open his own barbershop. | 28 |
| Mitton, Tony | Dinosaurumpus! | 2 | 0.5 | A group of dinosaurs converge upon the swamp where they proceed to romp and stomp until they all fall asleep. | 32 |
| Mochizuki, Ken | Baseball Saved Us | 3.9 | 0.5 | A Japanese-American boy learns to play baseball when he and his family are forced to live in internment camps during World War II. | 30 |
| Mochizuki, Ken | Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story | 4.1 | 0.5 | The story of one man's courage and the respect between father and son who shared the weight of an amazing act of humanity during World War II. | 30 |
| Moeri, Louise | Save Queen of Sheba | 5.8 | 4 | Twelve-year-old King David and his little sister Queen of Sheba are the only survivors of an Indian attack on their wagon train. A story of courage and survival on the American Frontier. | 92 |
| Moffatt, Judith | Who Stole the Cookies? | 0.8 | 0.5 | Each in a series of animals denies taking the cookies from the cookie jar. | 32 |
| Mohr, Nicholasa | Felita | 3.6 | 2 | The everyday experiences of an eight-year-old Puerto Rican girl growing up in a close-knit, urban community. | 112 |
| Mohr, Nicholasa | Going Home | 4.4 | 6 | Feeling like an outsider when she visits her relatives in Puerto Rico, eleven-year-old Felita tries to come to terms with the heritage she always took for granted. | 192 |
| Mollel, Tololwa M. | Big Boy | 3.3 | 0.5 | Little Oli wants to be big enough to go bird hunting with his brother Mbachu, but has to take a nap instead. | 27 |
| Mollel, Tololwa M. | King and the Tortoise, The | 4.3 | 0.5 | The king challenges the animals in his kingdom to prove their wisdom by making him a robe of smoke, but only the tortoise is able to satisfy him. | 28 |
| Moncure, Jane Belk | What Do You Do with a Grumpy Kangaroo? | 2.2 | 0.5 | Tony tries to cheer up Grumpy Kangaroo by taking him to the circus and the playground. | 31 |
| Moncure, Jane Belk | What Do You Say When a Monkey Acts This Way? | 1.9 | 0.5 | Each day of the week, Little Monkey learns appropriate behavior for a variety of situations. | 31 |
| Moncure, Jane Belk | Yes, No, Little Hippo | 2.1 | 0.5 | After experiencing several falls and bumps, Little Hippo discovers how to play safely and have fun without the danger of accidents. | 31 |
| Monjo, F.N. | Drinking Gourd, The | 3 | 0.5 | A suspenseful story of a young boy who helps a slave family escape to Canada and to freedom. | 62 |
| Monson, A.M. | Wanted: Best Friend | 2.4 | 0.5 | Cat advertises for a new playmate when his best friend Mouse refuses to play checkers. | 30 |
| Montgomery, L.M. | Anne of Avonlea (Unabridged) | 8.6 | 16 | In this second volume of the beloved trilogy about Anne Shirley, sixteen-year-old Anne teaches at the Avonlea school. | 323 |
| Montgomery, L.M. | Anne of Green Gables (Unabridged) | 7.3 | 17 | This is the first novel in the Anne series that has delighted millions of young readers since its publication in 1908. Eleven-year-old Anne Shirley wins the heart of her foster mother. | 446 |
| Montgomery, L.M. | Anne of the Island (Unabridged) | 6.3 | 12 | Eighteen-year-old Anne leaves Prince Edward Island to attend Redmond College instead of getting married as some of her friends have done. | 298 |
| Montgomery, L.M. | Anne of Windy Poplars | 5.9 | 14 | Anne takes a position as principal in a town led by the head-strong Pringles. She quickly becomes the whole town's champion and confidant. | 258 |
| Montgomery, L.M. | Golden Road, The | 6.4 | 12 | Fun-loving Sara spends the winter with the King family, and together they work on publishing a magazine. | 213 |
| Montgomery, L.M. | Rainbow Valley | 7.6 | 14 | Rainbow Valley was the perfect spot for Anne's children to play, dream, and to make the most unusual new friends. Book 7 in the Anne of Green Gables series. | 225 |
| Montgomery, L.M. | Rilla of Ingleside | 7.9 | 16 | Anne's youngest daughter, pretty and high-spirited Rilla, joins her family in a dramatic struggle as she comes of age. | 277 |
| Montgomery, L.M. | Story Girl, The | 6.4 | 14 | In the old-fashioned town of Carlisle, children and adults come from miles around to hear Sara, the Story Girl, weave her spellbinding tales. | 258 |
| Montgomery, Sy | Snake Scientist, The | 6.4 | 1 | This book discusses the work of Bob Mason and his efforts to study and protect snakes, particularly red-sided garter snakes. | 48 |
| Montgomery/Warren | Anne of Green Gables (Great Illustrated Classics) | 5 | 3 | This much-loved classic tells the story of Anne Shirley, an orphan who turns life into an adventure for the farm couple that takes her in. | 236 |
| Montresor, Beni | Hansel and Gretel | 3.6 | 0.5 | This is a retelling of the well-known tale in which two children are lost in the woods and find their way home despite an encounter with a wicked witch. | 28 |
| Moore, Lilian | Don't Be Afraid, Amanda | 3.6 | 1 | Having entertained her country pen pal Adam in the city, city mouse Amanda overcomes her fear of the country to visit him among the pleasures of nature. | 64 |
| Moore, Lilian | I'll Meet You at the Cucumbers | 3.5 | 1 | Adam and Junius, two country mice, go for a visit to the city, where Adam despairs when his dear friend admits he might like to stay. | 63 |
| Moore, Lorrie | Forgotten Helper: A Christmas Story, The | 5.1 | 1 | When he is left behind at the house of a very bad little girl, Santa's grouchiest elf must find a way to improve her behavior so that Santa will return the following Christmas and take him back to the North Pole. | 82 |
| Mora, Pat | Tomas and the Library Lady | 2.7 | 0.5 | While helping his family in their work as migrant laborers far from their home, Tomas finds an entire world to explore in the books at the local public library. | 27 |
| Morey, Walt | Gentle Ben | 4.8 | 8 | Danger and excitement as young Mark Andersen struggles to save his friend, Ben, the big brown bear. | 191 |
| Morgan, Sally | Slugs and Snails (Looking at Minibeasts) | 4.1 | 0.5 | This book describes slugs and snails in their natural habitats, with information on how to observe these creatures without harming them or their environment. | 32 |
| Morpurgo, Michael | Butterfly Lion, The | 4.6 | 2 | Bertie rescues an orphaned lion cub and then is separated from the white cub when he is sent off to boarding school in England. | 128 |
| Morrissey, Dean | Christmas Ship, The | 3.3 | 0.5 | Joey and Sam, the toymaker, board a magical ship to help Father Christmas distribute gifts on Christmas Eve. | 26 |
| Mosel, Arlene | Funny Little Woman, The | 3.6 | 0.5 | Delightful retelling of Japanese tale in which a woman goes underground, finds a magic rice-paddle, and grows exceedingly rich. | 36 |
| Mosel, Arlene | Tikki Tikki Tembo | 4.2 | 0.5 | This book is the re-creation of an ancient Chinese folktale about the boy with the long name who fell down the well. | 38 |
| Moses, Brian | Egyptian Tomb (Look Inside), An | 6.8 | 0.5 | This book describes the amazing life and beliefs of the ancient Egyptians through the mysterious treasures that were buried in a pharaoh's tomb. | 32 |
| Moss, Lloyd | Zin! Zin! Zin!: A Violin | 3.3 | 0.5 | Ten instruments take their parts one by one in a musical performance. | 27 |
| Moss, Marissa | Amelia's Notebook | 3.7 | 0.5 | The hand-lettered contents of a nine-year-old girl's notebook in which she records her thoughts and feelings about moving, starting school, and dealing with her older sister, as well as keeping her old best friend and making a new one. | 30 |
| Moss, Marissa | Oh Boy, Amelia! | 4.1 | 1 | Ten-year-old Amelia watches her older sister Cleo change when she gets her first boyfriend, while Amelia takes a class in "life skills." | 40 |
| Most, Bernard | Cow That Went Oink, The | 2 | 0.5 | A cow that oinks and a pig that moos are ridiculed by the other barnyard animals until each teaches the other a new sound. | 34 |
| Most, Bernard | If the Dinosaurs Came Back | 2.9 | 0.5 | A small boy imagines a world in which dinosaurs perform beneficial public services. | 24 |
| Most, Bernard | Whatever Happened to the Dinosaurs? | 2.7 | 0.5 | This is a humorous speculation of what really happened to make the dinosaurs disappear. | 30 |
| Mowat, Farley | Dog Who Wouldn't Be, The | 7.9 | 10 | The adventures of Mutt--canine character whose extraordinary exploits are 'doggone' funny. | 195 |
| Mowat, Farley | Owls in the Family | 5 | 3 | Two owls, Wol and Weeps, join Billy and his dog Mutt to shake up the whole neighborhood. | 91 |
| Mozelle, Shirley | Zack's Alligator | 2.3 | 0.5 | A big box comes in the mail for Zack from his Uncle in Florida with a special surprise. | 63 |
| Mukerji, Dhan Gopal | Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon | 6.5 | 6 | Gay-Neck, a carrier pigeon, is trained by his owner and has many courageous and spirited adventures over the housetops of an Indian village, in the Himalayas, and finally on the French battlefield on World War I. | 191 |
| Munsch, Robert | Get Out of Bed! | 2.7 | 0.5 | Amy loves to sleep, so it’, is trained by his owner and has many courageous and spirited adventures over the housetops of an Indian village, in the Himalayas, and finally on the French battlefield on World War I. | 30 |
| Munsch, Robert | Ribbon Rescue | 3 | 0.5 | Jillian helps many people who are late for a wedding by using the ribbons on her dress. | 30 |
| Munsch, Robert | We Share Everything! | 2.4 | 0.5 | It is the first day of kindergarten, and Amanda and Jeremiah have a problem. They want to play with the same toys, and the teacher wants them to share everything. | 32 |
| Munsch, Robert N. | Alligator Baby | 3.3 | 0.5 | A little girl takes matters into her own hands after her brother is accidentally born in a zoo, and her parents repeatedly bring home the wrong baby. | 30 |
| Munsch, Robert N. | Love You Forever | 3.4 | 0.5 | A young woman tells her son, throughout his childhood, how she loves him, until a time when the son has a daughter of his own and passes on the same message of love. | 28 |
| Munsch, Robert N. | Promise Is a Promise, A | 4 | 0.5 | A retelling of an Inuit story about how a mother saves her children from the Qallupillut who live below the ice-covered ocean. | 29 |
| Munsch, Robert N. | Purple, Green and Yellow | 3.2 | 0.5 | Bridget is a budding artist who loves magic markers. | 29 |
| Munson, Derek | Enemy Pie | 3.2 | 0.5 | Hoping that the enemy pie which his father makes will help him get rid of his enemy, a little boy finds that it helps make a new friend. | 32 |
| Murdoch, David H. | Cowboy (Eyewitness) | 7.7 | 1 | Discover the real-life world of working cowboys, how they live on the trails, care for their horses, and work the range. | 64 |
| Murphy, Jill | Quiet Night In, A | 2.4 | 0.5 | Mr. and Mrs. Large's attempt to put the children to bed early and have a quiet night on their own has an unexpected ending. | 32 |
| Murphy, Jim | Across America on an Emigrant Train | 7.8 | 3 | A documentary history of railroad travel in the nineteenth-century American West. | 150 |
| Murphy, Jim | Blizzard! | 7.6 | 4 | This book presents a history, based on personal accounts and newspaper articles, of the massive snowstorm that hit the Northeast in 1888, focusing on the events in New York City. | 136 |
| Murphy, Jim | Great Fire, The | 7.6 | 4 | Thirty-one hours of terror, over 100,000 people were forced to flee the flames. You will meet some of the people who were there and learn more about the Great Fire of Chicago on October 8, 1871. | 138 |
| Murphy, Jim | Journal of James Edmond Pease: A Civil War Union Soldier, The | 5.7 | 6 | James Edmond Pease, a sixteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his experiences and those of "G" Company, which he joined as a volunteer in the Union Army during the Civil War. | 173 |
| Murphy, Jim | My Face to the Wind: The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teac | 5.6 | 6 | Following her father's death from a disease that swept through her Nebraska town in 1881, teenaged Sarah Jane must find work to support herself. In her diary, she records her experiences as a young schoolteacher. | 182 |
| Murphy, Jim | West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi | 5.2 | 6 | While traveling in 1883 with her Italian-American family and other immigrant pioneers to Idaho, Theresa keeps a diary of her experiences. | 204 |
| Murphy, Stuart J. | Best Vacation Ever, The | 1.8 | 0.5 | A girl uses data-collecting and problem-solving skills to determine where her family should go for a vacation. | 33 |
| Murphy, Stuart J. | Give Me Half! | 2.2 | 0.5 | Introduces the concept of halves using a simple rhyming story about a brother and sister who do not want to share their food. | 34 |
| Murphy, Stuart J. | Henry the Fourth | 1.5 | 0.5 | This is a simple story about four dogs at a dog show introduces the ordinal numbers: first, second, third, and fourth. | 29 |
| Murphy, Stuart J. | Ready, Set, Hop! | 2.4 | 0.5 | Explains equation-building as two frogs count their hops to a rock, a log, and a pond. | 31 |
| Murphy, Stuart J. | Too Many Kangaroo Things to Do! | 2 | 0.5 | A surprise birthday party, planned for a kangaroo by his friends, provides many opportunities for the reader to add and multiply various things. | 33 |
| Murrow, Liza Ketchum | Ghost of Lost Island, The | 4.5 | 5 | While helping his grandfather herd and shear his flock of sheep on a small island off the coast of Maine, twelve-year-old Gabe encounters a mysterious woman who may be the ghost of a drowned milkmaid. | 162 |
| Musgrove, Margaret | Spider Weaver: A Legend of Kente Cloth, The | 4.4 | 0.5 | It is said that long ago, a beautiful spider created a web so intricate and magnificent that the weavers of Ghana still tell the story. This is the legend of that master spider weaver and the remarkable gift she gave to people everywhere. | 34 |
| Muth, Jon J. | Stone Soup | 3.6 | 0.5 | Three wise monks trick a frightened community into finding happiness by teaching them the magic of generosity. | 32 |
| Myers, Anna | Captain's Command | 4.6 | 4 | Even as Christmas approaches and Gail longs to hear that her soldier father has not been killed in World War II, the sixth grader helps bring her handicapped uncle back to life. | 134 |
| Myers, Bill | Baseball for Breakfast: The Story of a Boy Who Hated to Wait | 4.2 | 0.5 | When Jimmy finds an unusual pocket watch that lets him skip ahead in time, he does only the things he thinks are fun, but he soon discovers the wisdom of God's plan for us to experience both the good times and the bad. | 29 |
| Myers, Laurie | Surviving Brick Johnson | 3.5 | 1 | Afraid of getting maimed for making fun of Brick, the new kid in his fifth-grade class, Alex decides that even his baseball collection will not protect him, so he signs up for karate class despite his brother's reassurances that Brick is not a bully. | 74 |
| Myers, Walter Dean | At Her Majesty's Request | 7.1 | 3 | This is a biography of the African princess saved from execution and taken to England, where Queen Victoria oversaw her upbringing and where she lived for a time before marrying an African missionary. | 140 |
| Myers, Walter Dean | Harlem | 3.6 | 0.5 | Words and pictures convey to readers the spirit of Harlem in its music, art, literature. | 32 |
| Myers, Walter Dean | Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A World War II Soldier, The | 5 | 4 | A seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France. | 139 |
| Myers, Walter Dean | Me, Mop, and the Moondance Kid | 3.9 | 5 | After they are adopted, eleven-year-old T.J. and his younger brother Moondance, remain involved with their friend Mop's relentless attempts to become adopted herself and to wreak revenge on their baseball rivals, the obnoxious Eagles. | 154 |
| Myers, Walter Dean | Mouse Rap, The | 5.3 | 5 | During an eventful summer in Harlem, fourteen-year-old Mouse and his friends fall in and out of love and search for a hidden treasure from the days of Al Capone. | 186 |
| Myers, Walter Dean | Somewhere in the Darkness | 4.4 | 6 | A teenage boy accompanies his father, who has recently escaped from prison, on a trip that turns out to be a time of discovery, often painful, for them both. | 168 |
| Myller, Rolf | How Big Is a Foot? | 4 | 0.5 | Thrown in jail because the bed he made for the Queen is too small, an apprentice comes up with a more accurate way of measuring size. | 31 |
| Nabb, Magdalen | Enchanted Horse, The | 5 | 2 | A lonely young girl living on a remote farm with her work-obsessed parents cares for an old and battered wooden horse with such devotion that it comes to life. | 89 |
| Nagda, Ann Whitehead | Dear Whiskers | 3.3 | 1 | Jenny is discouraged when her pen pal turns out to be a new student from Saudi Arabia who does not speak English very well. | 75 |
| Nagda/Bickel | Tiger Math: Learning to Graph From a Baby Tiger | 4.9 | 0.5 | This book decribes the growth of an orphan Siberian tiger cub using both words and graphs. | 30 |
| Namioka, Lensey | Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear | 4.6 | 3 | Newly arrived in Seattle from Shanghai, Yingtao is an outsider in his musical family because he's tone-deaf. | 134 |
| Namovicz, Gene | Joke War, The | 4 | 3 | John gives his cousin Charlie gum that turns his teeth black and soap that turns his face green. He soaks Charlie's towel with vinegar and goops up his comb with Vaseline. It's time for...the joke war. | 103 |
| Napoli, Donna Jo | Albert | 3.2 | 0.5 | When Albert is at his window, two cardinals come to build a nest in his hand, an event that changes his life. | 32 |
| Napoli, Donna Jo | Stones in Water | 4.2 | 7 | Roberto is forced to work for the German war effort until he escapes into the Ukrainian winter, desperately trying to get home to Venice. | 208 |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Agony of Alice, The | 5.3 | 5 | Eleven-year-old, motherless Alice, decides she needs a gorgeous role model until she discovers what really makes someone beautiful. | 131 |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Alice in April | 4.5 | 5 | Alice's attempts to take care of her family and their home are disasters, but she learns a lot from her failures. | 164 |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Beetles, Lightly Toasted | 5.7 | 5 | Andy competes with his know-it-all cousin in the fifth-grade essay contest when he cooks some unusual foods and tests them on unaware friends and family. | 134 |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Bernie Magruder & the Drive-Thru Funeral Parlor | 5.6 | 4 | Bernie thinks the strange happenings at the funeral parlor next door to his family's hotel are connected to a recent robbery, Bernie determines to become famous by catching the thief. Previously released as FACE IN THE BESSLEDORF FUNERAL PARLOR. | 144 |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Bodies in the Bessledorf Hotel, The | 5.5 | 4 | Dead bodies which appear and disappear mysteriously are threatening to lose Sam's father his job as the manager of the Bessledorf Hotel. | 132 |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Boy with the Helium Head, The | 3.8 | 0.5 | Jonathan is going to the doctor for a flu shot and knows that this will be a terrible day. | 62 |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Boys Against Girls | 5 | 4 | The Hatford brothers cannot imagine spending Thanksgiving dinner with the Malloy sisters as the practical jokes and rivalries between the two families continue. Sequel to "The Girls Get Even." | 147 |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Boys Start the War, The | 4.6 | 4 | A rollicking family feud escalates into a war of wits and pranks. | 133 |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Carlotta's Kittens and the Club of Mysteries | 5.5 | 4 | This continues the adventures of Marco, Polo, and the other members of the Club of Mysteries as they care for Carlotta's kittens and search for a home for them. | 131 |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Danny's Desert Rats | 4.4 | 4 | T.R. and Danny join their friends in forming a group called the Desert Rats, and their major mission for the summer is helping Paul keep his beloved cat despite their town house development's rule against pets. | 134 |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Face in the Bessledorf Funeral Parlor, The | 5.4 | 4 | Convinced that the strange things happening at the funeral parlor next door to his family's hotel are somehow connected to a recent robbery, Bernie determines to become famous by proving his theory and catching the thief. | 144 |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Fear Place, The | 5.4 | 5 | Despite the strained relationship between them, Doug must overcome his fear in order to search for his missing brother. | 118 |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Footprints at the Window | 6 | 7 | Beset by too many uncertainties, Dan tries to settle his affairs with his gypsy friends only to find himself in medieval York, England, in the middle of the Black Death. | 175 |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Grand Escape, The | 5 | 4 | After years of being strictly house cats, Marco and Polo escape into the wonderful but dangerous outside world and are sent on three challenging adventures by a group of cats known as the Club of Mysteries. | 148 |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | How I Came to Be a Writer | 6.4 | 3 | This story details the career of one writer from stories composed in grade school through first published pieces to novels written to date. | 121 |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | How Lazy Can You Get? | 5.5 | 1 | Miss Brasscoat continually asks the Megglethorp children whose peculiarities she doesn't understand how lazy and dirty can they be. They decide to show her. | 50 |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Night Cry | 5.4 | 6 | Ellen is awakened at night by horrible cries that may be human. | 154 |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Reluctantly Alice | 5 | 6 | Alice experiences the joys and embarrassments of seventh grade while advising her father and older brother on their love lives. | 182 |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Saving Shiloh | 4.9 | 6 | Sixth-grade Marty and his family try to help their rough neighbor Judd Travers change his mean ways even though their West Virginia community continues to expect the worst from him. | 137 |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Shadows on the Wall | 5.7 | 6 | While visiting York, England, a young American, already troubled by family problems, is assailed by strange feelings of dread whenever he approaches some of the ancient landmarks of the city. | 174 |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Shiloh | 4.4 | 4 | When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner. The owner is a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs. | 144 |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Spy Among the Girls, A | 4.9 | 4 | Are Beth and Josh really in love or just pretending to be in order to spy and continue the feud between the Malloy sisters and the Hatford brothers? | 134 |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | To Walk the Sky Path | 5.4 | 5 | The story of a young Seminole Indian, who because of his education, finds himself caught between the traditional world of his ancestors and the modern world of his schoolmates. | 144 |
| Negro, Janice Del | Lucy Dove | 5.1 | 0.5 | While sewing the laird's trousers by moonlight in a haunted churchyard in return for a sackful of gold, an aging seamstress outwits a terrible monster. | 30 |
| Neimark, Anne E. | Myth Maker: J.R.R. Tolkien | 7.5 | 4 | Follows the life and work of the renowned fantasy writer, creator of hobbits and Middle Earth, and "The Lord of the Rings." | 99 |
| Neimark, Anne E. | Wild Heart | 7.7 | 5 | This book is the biography of Joy Adamson, best known for her relationship with Elsa, the lion, and her book "Born Free." | 118 |
| Nelson, Julie | Forests (Biomes) | 4.6 | 0.5 | This book explains how forest biomes are formed, how plants and animals adapt in the forest, and how the forest relates to other biomes. | 32 |
| Nelson, Julie | San Francisco 49ers (NFL Today) | 7.1 | 1 | This book traces the history of the San Francisco 49ers football team from its beginnings through the 1999 season. | 32 |
| Nelson, Julie | Tundra (Biomes) | 4.4 | 0.5 | This book explains how tundra biomes are formed, how plants and animals adapt to a tundra, and how the tundra relates to other biomes. | 32 |
| Nelson, Marilyn | Carver: A Life in Poems | 5.9 | 1 | This is a collection of poems depicting the life of George Washington Carver. | 103 |
| Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux | Mayfield Crossing | 4.3 | 2 | The kids of Mayfield school are transferred to Parkview Elementary, where they begin to experience the sting of racial prejudice. | 88 |
| Nesbit, E. | Five Children and It (Unabridged) | 5.7 | 8 | It is an ancient, ugly, and irritable sand fairy that grants the children a wish a day. Magic, the children find, can be as awkward as it is enticing. | 237 |
| Ness, Evaline | Sam, Bangs & Moonshine | 3.6 | 0.5 | Sam is a fisherman's daughter who dreams rich and lovely dreams. After a near disaster involving Thomas her friend and Bangs her cat Sam is forced to draw a line between dreams and reality. | 34 |
| Neville, Emily Cheney | It's Like This, Cat | 4.7 | 5 | A teenage boy in New York City gets a cat instead of a dog simply to annoy his father, then begins to learn that his father is a caring human being, not just a strict parent. | 180 |
| Newman, Robert | Case of the Baker Street Irregular, The | 4.5 | 6 | When Andrew's guardian is kidnapped, he turns to a girl named Screamer and Sherlock Holmes. | 216 |
| Nhuong, Huynh Quang | Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam, The | 6.1 | 4 | Fifteen true stories of the author's childhood in Vietnam. | 127 |
| Nhuong, Huynh Quang | Water Buffalo Days: Growing Up in Vietnam | 6.4 | 3 | The author describes his close relationship to two water buffalo that were part of his family when he was growing up in a village of the central highlands of Vietnam. | 117 |
| Nichol, Barbara | Beethoven Lives Upstairs | 4.6 | 1 | The letters that ten-year-old Christoph and his uncle exchange show how Christoph's feelings for Mr. Beethoven, the eccentric boarder that shares his house, change from anger and embarrassment to compassion and admiration. | 40 |
| Nichols, John | Denver Broncos (NFL Today) | 7 | 1 | This book traces the history of the Denver Broncos football team from its beginnings through the 1999 season. | 32 |
| Nichols, John | Sport Climbing (Extreme Sports) | 5.3 | 1 | This book explains how the sport works and describes sport climbing safety, training, professionals, and competition. | 48 |
| Nikola-Lisa, W. | Year with Grandma Moses, The | 4.6 | 0.5 | This book is a collection of paintings and memoirs by the American folk artist describing the seasons and their related activities in rural upstate New York. | 31 |
| Nilsson, Ulf | If You Didn't Have Me | 4.2 | 3 | A small Swedish boy spends the summer on his grandmother's farm while his parents build a new house. | 113 |
| Nix, Garth | Above the Veil | 5.3 | 7 | The Underfolk are restless. For a long time, they have kept quiet, occupying the lower levels of the Castle. Now they are ready to be heard. | 248 |
| Nix, Garth | Aenir | 5.2 | 6 | The dream world Aenir is not a safe place. One wrong step can lead to danger, entrapment, or death. | 233 |
| Nixon, Joan Lowery | Aggie's Home | 4.2 | 2 | Aggie is sure no one will want to adopt her when she rides the orphan train out west. But when she meets the eccentric Bradon family she begins to have some hope. | 117 |
| Nixon, Joan Lowery | Caught in the Act | 5 | 6 | Eleven-year-old Michael Patrick Kelly from New York City is sent to a foster home, a Missouri farm with a sadistic owner, a bullying son, and a number of secrets, one of which may be murder. | 150 |
| Nixon, Joan Lowery | Dangerous Promise, A | 6 | 7 | Two teenage boys join a Civil War regiment. | 148 |
| Nixon, Joan Lowery | House on Hackman's Hill, The | 4.6 | 4 | Jeff and Debbie make their way to the old Hackman mansion to look for a stolen Egyptian mummy that old Mr. Karsten has told them about--and for which they could get a $10,000 reward. They are soon trapped in the house with a mummy that lives! | 126 |
| Nixon, Joan Lowery | Other Side of Dark, The | 4 | 6 | After a year in a coma, a girl is stalked by the man who shot her and murdered her mother. | 185 |
| Nixon, Joan Lowery | Place to Belong, A | 4.9 | 6 | In 1856, having traveled with his young sister from New York to a foster home on a farm in Missouri, ten-year-old Danny plots to get his foster father to send for and marry his mother. | 147 |
| Nixon, Joan Lowery | Search for the Shadowman | 4.9 | 4 | While working on a genealogy project for his seventh-grade history class, Andy Thomas becomes determined to solve the mystery surrounding a distant relative who was accused of stealing the family fortune. | 149 |
| Nobisso, Josephine | John Blair and the Great Hinckley Fire | 5.4 | 0.5 | This book tells how a brave African American porter helped save many lives when the train on which he was working was caught up in the horrendous firestorm near Hinckley, Minnesota, in 1894. | 31 |
| Noble, Trinka Hakes | Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash, The | 2.2 | 0.5 | Class trip to the farm turns into a riotous afternoon. | 25 |
| Noble, Trinka Hakes | Jimmy's Boa and the Big Splash Birthday Bash | 2.7 | 0.5 | Jimmy's birthday at SeaLand turns out to be a big splash when everyone ends up in the big tank. | 27 |
| Noble, Trinka Hakes | Jimmy's Boa Bounces Back | 2.7 | 0.5 | A pet boa constrictor wreaks havoc on a posh garden party. Sequel to The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate The Wash. | 27 |
| Noble, Trinka Hakes | Meanwhile Back at the Ranch | 3.5 | 0.5 | Rancher Hicks drives to Sleepy Gulch for some excitement, but it's his wife back at the ranch who has the really exciting day. | 27 |
| Nodset, Joan L. | Who Took the Farmer's Hat? | 1.7 | 0.5 | All the farm animals help the farmer search for his old brown hat that the wind has blown away. | 27 |
| Nolan, Dennis | Dinosaur Dream | 4.3 | 0.5 | Late one night, Wilbur hears a tapping at his window. There, standing in the yard outside his window, is a baby dinosaur. Knowing that the dinosaur can't stay, Wilbur begins the long journey back through time to take him home. | 28 |
| Nolan, Lucy | Lizard Man of Crabtree County, The | 3.3 | 0.5 | James becomes the unwitting source of wild rumors that a Lizard Man has appeared in his quiet rural community. | 29 |
| Nolen, Jerdine | Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm | 3.8 | 0.5 | A child ventures out in the middle of the night to see how Harvey Potter grows his wonderful balloons. | 29 |
| Nolen, Jerdine | Raising Dragons | 4.2 | 0.5 | A farmer's young daughter shares numerous adventures with the dragon that she raises from infancy. | 28 |
| North, Sterling | Rascal | 7.1 | 7 | The author recalls his carefree life in a small midwestern town at the close of World War I, and his adventures with his pet raccoon, Rascal. | 189 |
| Norton, Mary | Borrowers Afield, The | 6.4 | 7 | These are the further adventures of the family of miniature people who, after losing their home under the kitchen floor of an old English house, are forced to move out to the fields. | 238 |
| Norton, Mary | Borrowers Afloat, The | 6 | 6 | Mary Norton's beloved family of miniature people set out on a voyage in a tea kettle in search of a new home. | 191 |
| Norton, Mary | Borrowers Avenged, The | 5.3 | 10 | Escaping from an attic where they had been held captive over the long, dark winter, a family of tiny people set up house in an old rectory. | 297 |
| Norton, Mary | Borrowers, The | 5.3 | 5 | There are not many Borrowers left, as they like to live in quiet places. This is the story of the mysterious tiny people who live in old houses everywhere,... | 180 |
| Novak, David | Little Ant, The | 3.2 | 0.5 | When the little ant slips on a snowflake on his way home, he's sure the snowflake did it on purpose. But the snowflake blames someone else. Pretty soon, everyone is blaming someone else! | 29 |
| Novak, Matt | Mouse TV | 2 | 0.5 | The mouse family argues about what to watch on the television. | 27 |
| Numeroff, Laura | If You Give a Moose a Muffin | 2.4 | 0.5 | Chaos can ensue if you give a moose a muffin and start him on a cycle of urgent requests. | 29 |
| Numeroff, Laura | If You Give a Mouse a Cookie | 2.7 | 0.5 | Relating the cycle of requests a mouse is likely to make after you give him a cookie takes the reader through a young boy's day. | 28 |
| Numeroff, Laura | If You Give a Pig a Pancake | 2.5 | 0.5 | One thing leads to another when you give a pig a pancake. | 30 |
| Numeroff, Laura | If You Take a Mouse to the Movies | 2.1 | 0.5 | This book tells the story that if you take a mouse to a movie, you will have to buy him popcorn. Then he will want to string it together to hang on the Christmas tree. | 28 |
| Numeroff, Laura | Why a Disguise? | 2.3 | 0.5 | This book shows us many different ways a young boy can assume a new identity. It also reminds the readers that at the end of the day, it's still nice to know we are still ourselves. | 22 |
| Nussbaum, Al | Gypsy | 3.1 | 1 | When you race motorcycles, you race to win. No matter what the circumstances. | 60 |
| Nye, Naomi Shihab | What Have You Lost? | 6.1 | 3 | This is a collection of poems that explores all kinds of loss. | 205 |
| Nye, Robert | Beowulf: A New Telling | 5.6 | 3 | Not a literal translation, but a retelling of the old epic that captures the spirit of the original in language accessible to young readers. | 94 |
| O'Brien, Robert C. | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (The Secret of NIMH) | 5.1 | 8 | When Timothy, youngest of a family of field mice, becomes ill, his mother, Mrs. Frisby, enlists the aid of the Rats of NIMH to move their home from the path of the farmer's plow. | 233 |
| O'Brien, Robert C. | Z for Zachariah | 5.6 | 9 | This novel by the Newberry Award-winning author of Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH is about the aftermath of nuclear devastation. | 249 |
| O'Connor, Jane | Dragon Breath | 2.6 | 0.5 | While visiting a town in Wales, a boy encounters a legend of a sleeping dragon that wakes up to ravage the countryside every fifty years, a story that seems about to come true once more. | 48 |
| O'Connor, Jane | EEK! Stories to Make You Shriek | 2 | 0.5 | Three easy-to-read scary stories about a talking doll, a dog picture that barks, and a Halloween monster. | 48 |
| O'Connor, Jane | Molly the Brave and Me | 2 | 0.5 | Beth admires her friend Molly's courage; but on a visit to Molly's country home, Beth surprises herself with her own bravery when the two become lost within the maze of a cornfield. | 48 |
| O'Connor, Jane | Nina, Nina Ballerina | 1.9 | 0.5 | An accident becomes an opportunity for Nina to stand out in a group of dancing butterflies at the dance show. | 32 |
| O'Connor, Jane | Sir Small and the Dragonfly | 1.7 | 0.5 | When a dragonfly swoops over the town of Pee Wee and carries Lady Teena away, brave Sir Small rides off on his trusty ant, vowing to rescue her. | 32 |
| O'Connor, Jane | Teeny Tiny Woman, The | 2.2 | 0.5 | A teeny-tiny woman who puts a teeny-tiny bone she finds in a churchyard away in a cupboard before she goes to sleep is awakened by a voice demanding the retur |