| 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 return of the bone. | 32 |
| O'Dell, Scott | Black Pearl, The | 5.4 | 4 | In claiming as his own the magnificent black pearl he finds, a sixteen-year-old youth enrages the sea devil that legend says is its owner. | 96 |
| O'Dell, Scott | Black Star, Bright Dawn | 4.3 | 4 | A thrilling story of a teenage girl's first running in the Iditarod--the challenging long-distance dog sled race held every year in Alaska. | 134 |
| O'Dell, Scott | Carlota | 5.4 | 4 | A young girl relates her feelings and experiences as a participant in the battle of San Pasqual during the last days of the war between the Californians and Americans. A Laurel-Leaf book. | 141 |
| O'Dell, Scott | Island of the Blue Dolphins | 5.4 | 6 | An Indian girl is left alone on an island for ten years. | 181 |
| O'Dell, Scott | My Name Is Not Angelica | 4.8 | 4 | Relates the experiences of a young Senegalese girl brought as a slave to the Danish-owned Caribbean island of St. John, as she participates in the slave revolt of 1733-1734. | 130 |
| O'Dell, Scott | Sarah Bishop | 4.9 | 7 | With the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, Sarah, a young New Yorker, finds herself fugitive from the British Army, living outside the law. | 230 |
| O'Dell, Scott | Sing down the Moon | 4.9 | 4 | The forced migration of Navahos from their homeland, is described from the Native American point of view. | 121 |
| O'Dell, Scott | Streams to the River, River to the Sea | 4.8 | 7 | A fictionalized version of the life of Sacagawea, the Shoshone guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition. | 163 |
| O'Dell, Scott | Thunder Rolling in the Mountains | 4.6 | 4 | In the late nineteenth century, a young Nez Perce girl relates how her people were driven off their land by the U. S. Army and forced to retreat north until their eventual surrender. | 128 |
| O'Dell, Scott | Zia | 5.1 | 5 | Poignant sequel to 'The Island Of The Blue Dolphins,' in which Zia and her Aunt Karana are reunited, but not for long. | 144 |
| Ogburn, Jacqueline K. | Magic Nesting Doll, The | 4.3 | 0.5 | After her grandmother dies, Katya finds herself in a kingdom where the Tsarevitch has been turned into living ice, and she uses the magic nesting dolls her grandmother had given her to try to break the spell. | 32 |
| O'Grady, Scott | Return with Honor | 7.3 | 10 | An American fighter pilot's heroic tale of survival behind enemy lines in Bosnia. | 188 |
| O'Halloran, Susan | Hunt for Spring, The | 3.3 | 0.5 | When Winter holds Spring prisoner in the coldest part of the world, the land remains cold and coated with ice. The people long to feel the warm sunshine again. So a brave girl named Ursula decides to go north to set Spring free. | 31 |
| Old, Wendie | To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers | 5.4 | 1 | This book traces the work that the two Wright brothers did together to develop the first machine-powered aircraft. | 48 |
| Olson, Kay Melchisedech | China (Many Cultures, One World) | 4.3 | 0.5 | This book is an introduction to the geography, history, economy, culture, and people of China. | 32 |
| Olson, Kay Melchisedech | Ireland (Many Cultures, One World) | 4.6 | 0.5 | This book is an introduction to the geography, culture, and people of Ireland. Includes a map, legend, recipe, craft, and game. | 32 |
| Olson, Mary W. | Nice Try, Tooth Fairy | 1.7 | 0.5 | Hoping to get back her lost tooth, Emma writes a series of letters to the Tooth Fairy, but when the wrong teeth keep getting returned, the mistakes create complications. | 25 |
| O'Neill, Alexis | Recess Queen, The | 3 | 0.5 | Mean Jean is the biggest bully on the school playground until a new girl arrives and challenges Jean's status as the Recess Queen. | 32 |
| Oppenheim, Joanne | Row, Row, Row Your Boat | 2.2 | 0.5 | A classic children's song is expanded to include almost every kind of boat. | 32 |
| Oreshnik, A.F. | Demeter Star, The | 3.6 | 1 | On his first ocean dive, Mike discovers a sunken cargo ship that he later learns may be carrying treasure in silver. | 60 |
| Orgel, Doris | Mouse Who Wanted to Marry, The | 2.3 | 0.5 | A young mouse searches for the perfect husband, who turns out to be right under her whiskers. | 32 |
| Orgel, Doris | Nobodies & Somebodies | 3.6 | 4 | Laura is the new girl at school, and she desperately wants to become part of an exclusive clique. | 152 |
| Orlev, Uri | Island on Bird Street, The | 4.6 | 7 | During World War II, a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constant life-threatening conditions. | 162 |
| Orr, Wendy | Peeling the Onion | 5.3 | 7 | Following an automobile accident in which her neck is broken, a teenage karate champion begins a long and painful recovery with the help of her family. | 166 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Adaline Falling Star | 4.6 | 4 | After her mother dies, Adaline is sent to live in St. Louis while her father, the famous scout Kit Carson, explores the West. | 170 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Afternoon on the Amazon | 2.6 | 1 | Eight-year-old Jack, his seven-year-old sister Annie, and Peanut the mouse ride in a tree house to the Amazon rain forest, where they encounter flesh-eating piranhas, hungry crocodiles, and wild jaguars. | 67 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Buffalo Before Breakfast | 3.3 | 1 | The magic tree house takes Jack and his sister Annie to the Great Plains, where they learn about the life of the Lakota Indians. | 72 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Civil War on Sunday | 3.4 | 1 | Jack and Annie are transported by their magic tree house to the time of the Civil War, where they meet Clara Barton. | 74 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Day of the Dragon King | 3.3 | 1 | The magic treehouse takes Jack and Annie back 2000 years to ancient China, where they must find the original copy of an old legend before the Imperial Library is burned down by the evil Dragon King. | 68 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Dingoes at Dinnertime | 3.2 | 1 | The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to Australia, where they must save some animals from a wildfire. | 75 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Dinosaurs Before Dark | 2.6 | 1 | A time-travel fantasy in which two children encounter dinosaurs in their tree house. | 68 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Dolphins at Daybreak | 3.1 | 1 | The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie deep into the sea where they meet up with dolphins, sharks, and octopi as they search for the answer to an ancient riddle. | 67 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Earthquake in the Early Morning | 3.3 | 1 | The Magic Tree House takes Jack and Annie to San Francisco in 1906, in time for them to experience one of the biggest earthquakes the United States had ever known. | 72 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Favorite Greek Myths | 6.1 | 2 | This book retells twelve tales from Greek mythology, including the stories of King Midas, Echo and Narcissus, the Golden Apples, and Cupid and Psyche. | 81 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Ghost Town at Sundown | 3 | 1 | Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to the wild west, where they experience excitement and danger and try to solve a riddle. | 73 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Good Morning, Gorillas | 3.3 | 1 | The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to an African rain forest, where the siblings encounter gorillas and learn to communicate with them. | 71 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Hour of the Olympics | 3.3 | 1 | The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to retrieve a lost story in ancient Greece, where they witness the original Olympic games. | 70 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Kate and the Beanstalk | 3.6 | 0.5 | A girl climbs to the top of a giant beanstalk, where she uses her quick wits to outsmart a giant and make her and her mother's fortune. | 31 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Knight at Dawn, The | 2.9 | 1 | Jack and Annie time travel back to medieval England via a magic tree house. | 65 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Land of the Dead, The | 4.9 | 1 | Odysseus and his men have defeated the one-eyed giant, but his curse follows them at every turn. | 105 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Lions at Lunchtime | 3 | 1 | The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to Africa, where they meet up with some wonderful animals and where they even solve a mystery. | 70 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Midnight on the Moon | 2.8 | 1 | The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to a moon base in the future where they continue to search for the fourth thing they need to free their friend Morgan from the magic spell. | 70 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Mummies in the Morning | 2.7 | 1 | Jack and his younger sister take a trip in their tree house back to ancient Egypt, where they help a queen's mummy continue her voyage to the Next Life. | 65 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | My Brother's Keeper: Virginia's Diary | 4.3 | 2 | During the days leading to the Battle of Gettysburg, Virginia Dickens begins a diary. Gettysburg soon comes the center of the biggest battle of the Civil War; and Ginny wonders if her father and brother will make it home. | 109 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck | 5.5 | 4 | Thirteen-year-old Madeline's diaries for 1941 and 1942 reveal her experiences living on Long Island during World War II, while her father is away in the navy. | 186 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | New York's Bravest | 2.8 | 0.5 | This book tells of the heroic deeds of the legendary New York firefighter Mose Humphreys. | 32 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Night of the Ninjas | 2.7 | 1 | Jack and Annie travel back to ancient Japan in search of an enchantress. | 69 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | One-Eyed Giant, The | 4.8 | 1 | When Odysseus must leave his home to fight in the Trojan War, he never imagines that he will be away from his family for so many years. | 105 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Pirates Past Noon | 2.8 | 1 | Jack and Annie travel back in time to the age of pirates and buried treasure. | 67 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Polar Bears Past Bedtime | 3.3 | 1 | The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to the Arctic, where a polar bear leads them onto very thin ice. | 74 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Revolutionary War on Wednesday | 3.5 | 1 | Using their magic tree house, Jack and Annie travel back to the time of the American Revolution and help General George Washington during his famous crossing of the Delaware River. | 69 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Spider Kane and the Mystery Under the May-Apple | 4.1 | 2 | Lieutenant Leon Leafwing and Detective Spider Kane investigate a mysterious kidnapping and suspect an evil force is behind it. | 117 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Stage Fright on a Summer Night | 3.3 | 1 | Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house to Elizabethan London, where they become actors in a production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and try to rescue a tame bear. | 70 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan | 5.1 | 4 | A Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763. | 184 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Sunset of the Sabertooth | 3 | 1 | The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie on a mission to the Ice Age where they encounter Cro-Magnons, cave bears, sabertooth tigers, and woolly mammoths. | 68 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Thanksgiving on Thursday | 3.3 | 1 | Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house to the year 1621, where they celebrate the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians in the New Plymouth Colony. | 73 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Tigers at Twilight | 3 | 1 | Having used their magic tree house to travel to India, where they must get a gift to help free the dog Teddy from a spell, Jack and Annie have adventures involving a tiger and other endangered jungle animals. | 72 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Tonight on the Titanic | 3.1 | 1 | The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie to the deck of the Titanic to find a mysterious gift that will free their puppy from a terrible magic spell. | 71 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Twister on Tuesday | 3.2 | 1 | When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado. | 70 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Vacation Under the Volcano | 3.3 | 1 | Their magic tree house takes Annie and Jack to Pompeii just as Vesuvius is about to erupt, and they must find a Roman scroll before everything is covered with burning ash. | 74 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Viking Ships at Sunrise | 3.3 | 1 | Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to a monastery in medieval Ireland, where they try to retrieve a lost book while being menaced by Viking raiders. | 71 |
| Osborne, Will/Mary | Pirates: A Nonfiction Companion to Pirates Past Noon | 4.9 | 1 | Jack and Annie research the world of pirates and find out the facts behind the fiction. | 117 |
| Osborne, Will/Mary | Rain Forests: A Nonfiction Companion to Afternoon on the Amazon | 4.8 | 1 | Join Jack and Annie as they research rain forests and find out the facts behind the fiction. | 119 |
| Osborne, Will/Mary | Titanic: A Nonfiction Companion to "Tonight on the Titanic" | 5.1 | 1 | Join Jack and Annie as they research the Titanic and find out the facts behind the fiction. | 135 |
| Otfinoski, Steven | Verlaine Crossing, The | 3 | 1 | Roger Morgan determines to foil the spies that are after a world-famous scientist and his secret papers. | 44 |
| Otfinoski, Steven | Village of Vampires | 3.2 | 1 | Story of the undead as two scientists battle vampires in a remote Mexican town. | 59 |
| Packard, David | Ball Game, The | 0.4 | 0.5 | A young player steps up to bat at a crucial point in a baseball game and succeeds in making the play that wins the game. | 23 |
| Palatini, Margie | Bedhead | 2.1 | 0.5 | After many unsuccessful attempts to control his unruly hair one morning, Oliver and his family think that they have solved the problem, until he gets to school and finds that it is school picture day. | 36 |
| Palatini, Margie | Ding Dong Ding Dong | 2.4 | 0.5 | Despite repeated difficulties, a large ape tries various approaches to selling Ape-On Cosmetics and his persistence pays off in an unexpected way. | 32 |
| Palatini, Margie | Earthquack! | 3.7 | 0.5 | When Chucky Ducky feels the earth beneath him grumble and rumble, he runs to alert the other barnyard animals to the coming earthquake. Just as a wily weasel is about to take advantage of their fears, the true source of the rumbling is revealed. | 32 |
| Palatini, Margie | Mooseltoe | 2.5 | 0.5 | Moose thinks he has all his Christmas preparations taken care of, but at the last minute he must come up with a substitute for the Christmas tree. | 30 |
| Palatini, Margie | Piggie Pie! | 2.5 | 0.5 | Gritch the witch flies to Old MacDonald's farm for some pigs to make a piggie pie; but when she arrives, she can't find a single porker. | 28 |
| Palatini, Margie | Tub-boo-boo | 2.6 | 0.5 | Henry gets his toe stuck in the tub spout while taking a bath, and almost everyone who tries to free him gets stuck as well. | 32 |
| Palatini, Margie | Web Files, The | 2.5 | 0.5 | Ducktective Web and his partner try to quack the case of the pilfered peck of perfect purple almost-pickled peppers. | 32 |
| Palatini, Margie | Zoom Broom | 2.4 | 0.5 | When her broom breaks down, Gritch the Witch visits a foxy salesman in search of a new Zoom Broom but ends up with something unexpected. | 29 |
| Pallotta, Jerry | Skull Alphabet Book, The | 3.8 | 0.5 | This book identifies the alphabet by the functions of facial bones and teeth. The skull of an animal is used for each letter of the alphabet. | 32 |
| Paraskevas, Betty | Cecil Bunions and the Midnight Train | 3.5 | 0.5 | A young boy has a dreamlike adventure on the Midnight Super Train where he meets Cecil Bunions, a private eye. | 29 |
| Parish, Herman | Bravo, Amelia Bedelia! | 2.5 | 0.5 | When Mrs. Rogers sends Amelia Bedelia to the station to pick up the conductor for the school concert, she doesn't expect her to bring back the train conductor. As usual, Amelia Bedelia has gotten things all mixed up in her latest hilarious adventure. | 40 |
| Parish, Peggy | Amelia Bedelia | 2.5 | 0.5 | Wacky misadventures as that hapless maid Amelia Bedelia interprets her instructions very literally. | 23 |
| Parish, Peggy | Amelia Bedelia and the Surprise Shower | 2.3 | 0.5 | Mad-cap misadventures of a very literal-minded housekeeper during a wedding shower. | 64 |
| Parish, Peggy | Amelia Bedelia Goes Camping | 1.8 | 0.5 | When Amelia goes camping, all sorts of amusing things happen. | 59 |
| Parish, Peggy | Clues in the Woods | 3.4 | 2 | Introducing Liza, Bill, and Jed, young detectives on a case at Grandma's. | 154 |
| Parish, Peggy | Good Work, Amelia Bedelia | 2.1 | 0.5 | Mr. and Mrs. Rogers leave a list of chores for Amelia to do while they are gone for the day. | 52 |
| Parish, Peggy | Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia | 2.1 | 0.5 | Everyone's favorite maid adds her literal-minded efforts to the Christmas festivities with predictable and humorous results. | 63 |
| Parish, Peggy | Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia | 2.3 | 0.5 | When Amelia, who follows all directions literally, plays baseball, the results are predictably funny. | 64 |
| Parish, Peggy | Teach Us, Amelia Bedelia | 1.9 | 0.5 | That hapless, literal-minded maid Amelia Bedelia is plagued by hilarious misunderstandings. | 56 |
| Parish, Peggy | Thank You, Amelia Bedelia | 2.6 | 0.5 | Preparing for the arrival of an important visitor, a wacky housekeeper follows her employer's instructions with humorous results. | 64 |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business | 2.9 | 1 | Junie is pretty upset about her new baby brother; but when she finally sees him, she goes ape. | 68 |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth | 3 | 1 | Junie creates the strangest job description for career day at school. | 69 |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky Peeky Spying | 2.9 | 1 | Junie spies on her teacher and gets into real trouble. | 66 |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones and That Meanie Jim's Birthday | 2.8 | 1 | Junie B. is very upset when a boy in her class plans to invite everyone except her to his birthday party, but her grandfather helps her deal with the situation. | 85 |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentime | 2.9 | 1 | When Junie B. Jones receives a mushy gushy "valentime" on Valentine's Day, she tries to find out who her secret admirer is. | 69 |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus | 2.9 | 1 | Junie goes off to kindergarten and gets locked in the school. | 69 |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones and the Yucky Blucky Fruitcake | 2.7 | 1 | Junie, a spunky, sometimes exasperating, kindergartner, looks forward to winning lots of prizes at the school carnival; but a fruitcake was not exactly what she had in mind. | 71 |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones Has a Monster Under Her Bed | 2.7 | 1 | After hearing from a classmate at kindergarten that people have monsters under their beds, Junie B. Jones is afraid to go to sleep. | 69 |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones Has a Peep in Her Pocket | 2.9 | 1 | When Junie B. learns that her kindergarten class is going on a field trip to a farm, she worries about being attacked by a rooster. | 67 |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones Is a Beauty Shop Guy | 2.8 | 1 | After her first trip to a beauty parlor Junie decides she wants to work there, and she practices on her bunny slippers, her dog, and herself with disastrous results. | 67 |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones Is a Graduation Girl | 3 | 1 | Junie B. Jones has just turned six and is looking forward to her kindergarten graduation, but when grape juice stains the white gown, she is afraid graduation is ruined. | 69 |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones Is a Party Animal | 2.8 | 1 | Lucille invites Junie B. and her friend Grace to sleep over at her rich nanna's house, where everything is beautiful and breakable. | 71 |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones Is Almost a Flower Girl | 2.7 | 1 | Six-year-old Junie B. is disappointed to find out that her aunt has asked someone else to be the flower girl at her wedding. | 68 |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones Is Captain Field Day | 2.8 | 1 | As captain of Room Nine's field day team, Junie B. Jones tries to rally her troops after they lose several events. | 66 |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook | 3 | 1 | Junie B. Jones experiences glee while showing off her new, furry mittens in kindergarten, but disaster strikes when her mittens disappear. | 67 |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones Loves Handsome Warren | 2.7 | 1 | Unable to compete with her friends' fancy clothes and running ability, irrepressible six-year-old Junie B. finds her own way to make the new boy at school like her. | 71 |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B., First Grader (at last!) | 2.6 | 1 | Junie B. thinks first grade is a flop when her kindergarten friend Lucille prefers the company of twins Camille and Chenille and Junie B. needs glasses. | 76 |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B., First Grader: Boss of Lunch | 2.8 | 1 | Junie, an outspoken, sometimes exasperating, first grader, is thrilled when she is told she can help out in the school cafeteria. | 77 |
| Park, Barbara | Kid in the Red Jacket, The | 3.9 | 3 | When ten-year-old Howard has to move with his family to a distant state, he is forced to live on a street named Chester Pewe, adjust to a new school, and get used to being shadowed by the little girl in a nearby house. | 113 |
| Park, Barbara | Skinnybones | 4.1 | 3 | Life looks hopeless when Alex's losing team has to play baseball against T.J.'s winning team. But Alex has a hidden talent that could save the day -- unless it ruins his life first. | 111 |
| Park, Linda Sue | Seesaw Girl | 5.7 | 3 | Impatient with the constraints put on her as an aristocratic girl living in Korea during the seventeenth century, twelve-year-old Jade Blossom determines to see beyond her small world. | 90 |
| Park, Linda Sue | Single Shard, A | 6.6 | 6 | Tree-ear, an orphan in Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the celadon ceramics himself. | 152 |
| Park, Linda Sue | When My Name Was Keoko | 4.6 | 8 | With national pride and occasional fear, a brother and sister face the increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War II, which threatens to suppress Korean culture entirely. | 199 |
| Parker, Steve | Fish (Eyewitness) | 7.6 | 1 | Photographs and text explore the characteristics, habitats, and varieties of fishes and other undersea life. An Eyewitness book. | 63 |
| Parker, Steve | Pond & River (Eyewitness) | 7.6 | 1 | Discover in close-up the ecology of the plants and animals that make freshwater habitats their home. | 63 |
| Parker/Wright | Bugs | 5 | 0.5 | Includes general information, jokes, and brief descriptions of the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of a variety of common insects. | 40 |
| Parks/Haskins | Rosa Parks, My Story | 6.2 | 6 | Biography of the woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus sparked a nationwide civil rights movement. | 192 |
| Parr, Danny | Lowriders (Wild Rides!) | 4.5 | 0.5 | This book discusses these customized vehicles, their history, parts, and the artwork with which owners decorate them. | 32 |
| Partridge, Elizabeth | Pig's Eggs | 2.1 | 0.5 | Pig and Hen love painting pictures together, until one day Hen doesn't join Pig because she is sitting on her eggs. Pig misses his painting partner, but gets a colorful idea while waiting. | 26 |
| Pascal/Stewart | Case of the Secret Santa, The | 3.3 | 1 | Sweet Valley Elementary School has a new custodian named Christopher Kringle, and Elizabeth thinks he looks just like Santa Claus. A Sweet Valley Kids Super Snooper. | 88 |
| Pascal/Stewart | Elizabeth Meets her Hero | 4 | 1 | Elizabeth is excited about seeing the taping of her favorite show until she hears the host yelling at his dog. | 73 |
| Pascal/Stewart | Elizabeth's Video Fever | 3.4 | 1 | Jessica helps her twin snap out of a video game mania. | 70 |
| Pascal/Stewart | Jessica the Baby-Sitter | 3.1 | 1 | The twins think that they are getting a baby brother or sister when their mother begins acting strangely. | 71 |
| Pascal/Stewart | Runaway Hamster | 2.8 | 1 | While the twins are in charge of the class hamster, he escapes. | 73 |
| Pascal/Stewart | Sweet Valley Cleanup Team, The | 4 | 1 | Elizabeth and Jessica try to get the help of a business man's snobby grandson to try to talk his grandfather into not building a parking lot. | 68 |
| Pascal/Suzanne | Against the Rules | 5 | 4 | Elizabeth decides to have a secret birthday party for her friend even though her parents have told her to stay away from the girl. | 104 |
| Pascal/Suzanne | Amy Moves In | 4.3 | 4 | Amy stays with the Wakefields while her house is being repaired, but best friends don't always make good roommates. | 132 |
| Pascal/Suzanne | Big Brother's in Love | 3.9 | 3 | The Wakefield twins try to end their brother's lovesickness. | 133 |
| Pascal/Suzanne | Holiday Mischief | 4.6 | 4 | On a trip to Washington, D.C., Elizabeth and Jessica come up with a plan to reunite their friend Anna with her long-lost sister Leslie. A Super Edition. | 133 |
| Pascal/Suzanne | Lila's Secret Valentine | 4.5 | 5 | Lila invents a boyfriend for Valentine's Day. A Sweet Valley Twins Super Edition book. | 181 |
| Pascal/Suzanne | War Between the Twins, The | 4.6 | 3 | Jessica and her friends start a newspaper to compete with Elizabeth's. | 133 |
| Pascoe, Elaine | Spiders Spin Silk (How & Why?) | 3.5 | 0.5 | This book explains how spiders make silk and use it in various ways. | 24 |
| Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw | Fire: Friend or Foe | 7.2 | 1 | Discusses forest forest and the effect that they have on both people and the natural world. | 80 |
| Paterson, Katherine | Bridge to Terabithia | 4.6 | 5 | The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer, who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm. | 128 |
| Paterson, Katherine | Come Sing, Jimmy Jo | 4.7 | 8 | Young James is a singing star on stage, but his offstage world is coming apart. | 178 |
| Paterson, Katherine | Flip-Flop Girl | 4.6 | 5 | A nine-year-old girl comes to terms with death and shattered dreams after her father's illness. | 120 |
| Paterson, Katherine | Great Gilly Hopkins, The | 4.6 | 5 | An eleven-year-old foster child tries to cope with her longings and fears as she schemes against everyone who tries to be friendly. | 148 |
| Paterson, Katherine | Jacob Have I Loved | 5.7 | 8 | Sibling rivalry divides twin sisters living on an island in Chesapeake Bay. | 175 |
| Paterson, Katherine | Jip: His Story | 5.3 | 7 | While living on a Vermont poor farm during 1855 and 1856, Jip learns his identity and that of his mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this place. | 178 |
| Paterson, Katherine | Master Puppeteer, The | 5.4 | 7 | Set in feudal Japan, this is the story of a young boy who is drawn into the magical and mysterious world of the puppet-theater. | 179 |
| Paterson, Katherine | Parzival: The Quest of the Grail Knight | 6 | 3 | A retelling of the Arthurian legend in which Parzival, unaware of his noble birth, comes of age through his quest for the Holy Grail. | 127 |
| Paterson, Katherine | Preacher's Boy | 5.2 | 7 | In 1899, ten-year-old Robbie, son of a preacher in a small Vermont town, gets himself into all kinds of trouble when he decides to give up being Christian in order to make the most of his life before the end of the world. | 168 |
| Paterson, Katherine | Same Stuff as Stars, The | 4.3 | 8 | When Angel's mother leaves her and her younger brother with their great-grandmother, the eleven-year-old girl worries about her family and the frail old woman, but also about a mysterious man who begins sharing with her the wonder of the stars. | 242 |
| Patneaude, David | Last Man's Reward, The | 4.2 | 5 | In hopes of winning the valuable baseball card that he and his new friends have hidden in a remote cave outside Granite Falls, Washington, Albert asks the gruff P. E. teacher at his middle school to help him become a long-jumper. | 192 |
| Patneaude, David | Someone Was Watching | 4.5 | 6 | Chris has a hard time adjusting to his younger sister's disappearance and decides to seek out her kidnappers. | 220 |
| Paton Walsh, Jill | Green Book, The | 5.5 | 2 | When a group of Britons depart a dying Earth, it is the children who do not give up hope when they arrive at a new planet. | 69 |
| Patten, J.M. | Elements, Compounds and Mixtures (Let's Wonder About Science) | 4.3 | 0.5 | Discusses elements, compounds, and mixtures and what all things are made of. | 24 |
| Patterson, Nancy Ruth | Shiniest Rock of All, The | 4.4 | 2 | Fourth-grader Robert Morris Reynolds, who cannot say his name properly because he has trouble pronouncing his Rs, works hard with a speech therapist to overcome his problem. | 72 |
| Pattou, Edith | Mrs. Spitzer's Garden | 3 | 0.5 | With her loving, gardener's touch, Mrs. Spitzer nurtures the students in her classroom each year. | 32 |
| Paul, Ann Whitford | Everything to Spend the Night from A to Z | 1.7 | 0.5 | While showing her grandfather all the things that she has brought with her to spend the night, a little girl suddenly realizes she forgot one important item. | 32 |
| Paul, Ann Whitford | Silly Sadie, Silly Samuel | 2.3 | 0.5 | Although their actions sometimes seem silly to their sensible neighbor, Sadie and Samuel enjoy their nonsensical lives. | 40 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Alida's Song | 5.3 | 2 | A fourteen-year-old boy who has been neglected by irresponsible parents spends a wonderful summer on a farm where his grandmother cooks for two elderly brothers. | 88 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Boy Who Owned the School, The | 5.5 | 2 | Jacob Freisten, often in a fog, tries to ease through high school unnoticed; but a beautiful classmate takes notice of him and his life begins to change. | 85 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Brian's Return | 5.5 | 4 | After living alone in the wilderness on the edge of death, Brian dreams of returning to the woods where he is more comfortable than in civilization. | 115 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Brian's Winter | 5.9 | 5 | Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet. | 133 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Call Me Francis Tucket | 5.5 | 3 | Tucket now feels more confident that he can handle anything. A year ago on a wagon train, he was kidnapped by a Pawnee hunting party. He escaped with the help of a mountain man. Now he is alone. | 97 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Canyons | 5.5 | 5 | Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800s. | 184 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Christmas Sonata, A | 4.4 | 1 | A young boy, who no longer believes in Santa Claus, and his mother spend the holiday in Minnesota with his cousin who is dying. A Christmas miracle restores both children's faith in the spirit of the season. | 76 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Cookcamp, The | 5 | 3 | During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness. | 115 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Culpepper's Cannon | 3.7 | 2 | Dunc and Amos go back to the time of the Civil War where they are mistaken for Northern spies. | 90 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Dancing Carl | 5 | 3 | As winter progresses, the strange man in the worn flight jacket dances frequently on the ice of the rink, expressing more with his movements than most people do with words. | 105 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Dogsong | 5.2 | 5 | A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy, who feels assailed by the modernity of his life, takes a 1,400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own "song" of himself. | 177 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Dunc and Amos Hit the Big Top | 4.6 | 2 | To impress Melissa, Amos decides to perform on the trapeze at a visiting circus. | 84 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Dunc Gets Tweaked | 3.5 | 2 | Dunc and Amos search for a stolen prototype skateboard. | 89 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Hatchet | 5.7 | 7 | After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends 54 days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given to him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. | 195 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Haymeadow, The | 5.4 | 6 | Fourteen-year-old John comes of age and gains self-reliance during the summer he spends up in the Wyoming mountains tending his father's herd of sheep. | 195 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Island, The | 5.7 | 8 | Fifteen-year-old Wil discovers himself and the wonders of nature when he leaves home to live on an Island in northern Wisconsin. | 201 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Monument, The | 4.9 | 3 | An artist commissioned by a Kansas town to create a war memorial turns the town upside down in his attempt to give the townspeople a memorial that will be most meaningful to them. | 151 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Mr. Tucket | 5 | 4 | A young boy is captured on the Oregon Trail by Pawnee Indians. | 166 |
| Paulsen, Gary | My Life in Dog Years | 5.6 | 3 | The author describes some of the dogs that have had special places in his life, including his first dog, Snowball. | 137 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Nightjohn | 3.8 | 1 | Sarny is a slave who wants to read and write, and Nightjohn is a slave who returned from freedom in the North to educate his friends. | 92 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Puppies, Dogs and Blue Northers | 6 | 2 | Dog-musher Gary Paulsen reflects on the growth--both his own and the puppies'--as man and animal discover the world. | 81 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Rifle, The | 6.8 | 3 | A priceless, handcrafted rifle carried throughout the American Revolution is passed down through the years until it fires on a fateful Christmas Eve of 1994. | 105 |
| Paulsen, Gary | River, The | 5.5 | 4 | Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for 54 days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival. | 129 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Rodomonte's Revenge | 3.7 | 1 | Brett and Tom play a virtual reality game until a computer infiltrates their minds. | 76 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Schernoff Discoveries, The | 5.6 | 3 | Harold and his best friend, both hopeless geeks and social misfits, try to survive unusual science experiments and other dangers of junior high. | 99 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Soldier's Heart | 5.7 | 2 | Eager to enlist, fifteen-year-old Charley has a change of heart after experiencing both the physical horrors and mental anguish of Civil War combat. | 104 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Tracker | 5.3 | 2 | A thirteen-year-old boy must come to terms with the approaching death of his beloved grandfather, with whom he shares a very special relationship. | 90 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Tucket's Gold | 5.2 | 3 | Fifteen-year-old Francis and the two children he has adopted travel across the Old West, evade Comancheros, discover a treasure, and wind up rich beyond their wildest dreams. | 97 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Tucket's Home | 5.2 | 2 | Francis, Lottie, and Billy survive a series of hair-raising adventures while on their way west to the Oregon Trail, where they hope to find the Tucket family. | 93 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Voyage of the Frog, The | 6 | 5 | When David goes out on his sailboat to scatter his recently deceased uncle's ashes to the wind, he is caught in a fierce storm and must survive many days on his own as he works out his feelings about life and his uncle. | 141 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Winter Room, The | 5 | 3 | A young boy growing up on a northern Minnesota farm describes the scenes around him and recounts his old Norwegian uncle's tales of an almost mythological logging past. | 103 |
| Paulsen, Gary | Worksong | 3.1 | 0.5 | Illustrations and rhyming text depict people doing all kinds of work. | 26 |
| Paxton, Tom | Engelbert Joins the Circus | 3.4 | 0.5 | After traveling from the jungle to America to visit his cousin in the circus, Engelbert accidentally ends up in the spotlight and steals the show. | 28 |
| Pearce, Philippa | Tom's Midnight Garden | 6.1 | 9 | Late at night, when the clock strikes 13, Tom tiptoes downstairs to find a lush garden which is not there during the day. | 229 |
| Pearson, Anne | What Do We Know About the Greeks? | 5.7 | 0.5 | Everyday life among the Greeks is detailed in drawings and photographs. | 43 |
| Peck, Richard | Are You in the House Alone? | 4.9 | 6 | Timely and disturbing novel as a teenage rapist goes free because he's the son of an influential family, and authorities won't bring charges. | 172 |
| Peck, Richard | Fair Weather | 4.7 | 4 | In 1893, thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her family travel from their Illinois farm to Chicago to visit Aunt Euterpe, and attend the World's Columbian Exposition. | 139 |
| Peck, Richard | Long Way from Chicago, A | 5 | 5 | A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother. | 148 |
| Peck, Richard | Year Down Yonder, A | 4.5 | 4 | During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman. | 130 |
| Peck, Robert Newton | Soup | 4.4 | 2 | Rural Vermont during the 1920s is the setting of this nostalgic account of episodes in the lives of young Rob Peck and his pal, Soup. | 96 |
| Peck, Robert Newton | Soup in Love | 4.2 | 3 | As Valentine's Day approaches their Vermont town of Learning, Soup and Rob experience several forms of love. | 114 |
| Peck, Robert Newton | Soup in the Saddle | 4 | 2 | Anticipating the celebration of Miss Kelly Day in honor of the teacher of their one-room school, Soup and Rob save the day from certain catastrophe at the hands of Dr. Elsa Pinkerton Uppit. | 110 |
| Peck, Robert Newton | Soup on Ice | 4.7 | 3 | Rob and Soup engineer an incredible appearance by Santa and his sleigh in their small Vermont town. | 112 |
| Peck, Robert Newton | Soup on Wheels | 3.9 | 2 | Rob and Soup vie for the prize in their town's "Vermont Mardy Grah." | 101 |
| Peck, Robert Newton | Soup's Drum | 4.6 | 3 | Rob totes Soup's huge drum through the Fourth of July parade before he realizes Soup hasn't carried his share. Before the close of the celebration, Rob gets even. | 112 |
| Peck, Robert Newton | Soup's Goat | 4.1 | 2 | Clean and tidy cousin Sexton lends his unusual talent to Soup and Rob as they engage in the town's goat-cart race. | 97 |
| Peck, Robert Newton | Soup's Hoop | 4.4 | 3 | Soup's crazy plan to help his town's basketball team to victory includes constructing a musical instrument called a spitzentootle and snaring the evil Janice Riker in an unpleasant trap. | 130 |
| Peck, Robert Newton | Soup's Uncle | 5.1 | 3 | Soup's uncle comes roaring into town, along with his rowdy gang of motorcycle pals, the Hardboilers. Uncle Vi is a tough-riding carefree spirit, until he meets a special lady, the member of another motorcycle gang called the Leatherettes. | 123 |
| Peet, Bill | Farewell to Shady Glade | 5.2 | 0.5 | Sixteen animal tenants of treehouse have their home demolished by glowering bulldozers. | 38 |
| Peet, Bill | How Droofus the Dragon Lost His Head | 4.6 | 0.5 | Although he comes from a fierce family, Droofus is a good dragon undeserving of the price the king puts on his head. | 46 |
| Peet, Bill | Huge Harold | 4.5 | 0.5 | Harold the rabbit grows to such proportions that he gets to do something no other rabbit has done. | 46 |
| Peet, Bill | Kermit the Hermit | 5.1 | 0.5 | After a mean, selfish crab is rescued by a boy, the crab searches for a way to repay the kindness. | 48 |
| Peet, Bill | Randy's Dandy Lions | 4.9 | 0.5 | Five talented lions suffer from stage fright and are unable to perform their circus act. A new lion-tamer is hired. | 48 |
| Peet, Bill | Spooky Tail of Prewitt Peacock, The | 3.8 | 0.5 | When Prewitt's shamefully scraggly tail develops the appearance of a scary green-eyed monster, the other peacocks decide it has to go. | 30 |
| Peet, Bill | Whingdingdilly, The | 4.9 | 1 | Tired of a dog's life, Scamp visits the wicked little witch in the woods and becomes a whingdingdilly. | 60 |
| Peet, Bill | Wump World, The | 5.3 | 0.5 | The Wump World is an unspoiled place until huge monsters bring hordes of tiny creatures from the planet Pollutus. | 44 |
| Peet, Bill | Zella, Zack, and Zodiac | 4.5 | 0.5 | Zella the zebra helps Zack the ostrich when he is young and helpless; and when he grows up, Zack returns the favor by saving Zella's young offspring from a lion. | 32 |
| Peles, Les Chats | Long Live Music! | 5 | 0.5 | Presents a history of musical instruments beginning with the flute in about 40,000 B. C. and including mention of pipes, trumpets, drums, opera, and jazz. | 38 |
| Pellowski, Michael J. | Double Trouble | 3.7 | 2 | Sandi and Randi Daniels are identical twins. Sandi is an "A" student, loves romance novels and hates sports. Randi is an average student, hates to read and is the star of her soccer team. Imagine the trouble they can get into if they switch roles! | 121 |
| Pellowski, Michael J. | Triple Trouble | 3.6 | 2 | Sandi and Randi Daniels are identical twins. They've learned that switching places with each other can be fun, but it can also lead to disaster. Then their cousin Mandy comes to visit, and she looks just like Sandi and Randi! | 111 |
| Penn, Audrey | Kissing Hand, The | 2.7 | 0.5 | When Chester the raccoon is reluctant to go to kindergarten for the first time, his mother teaches him a secret way to carry her love with him. | 28 |
| Penner, Lucille Recht | Dinosaur Babies | 2.1 | 0.5 | Describes what scientists know or speculate about the characteristics and behavior of baby dinosaurs and how they may have been cared for by the adults of their species. | 32 |
| Penner, Lucille Recht | Eating the Plates | 4.9 | 1 | This book gives information about the eating habits, customs, and manners of the Pilgrims in the colony of New Plymouth. | 117 |
| Penner, Lucille Recht | Statue of Liberty, The | 2.3 | 0.5 | Describes the construction and symbolism of the Statue of Liberty. | 32 |
| Pennington, Daniel | Itse Selu: Cherokee Harvest Festival | 4 | 0.5 | A story of Cherokee life in pre-Columbian North America as a young boy witnesses the harvest feast. | 28 |
| Perkins, Al | Nose Book, The | 1.4 | 0.5 | Noses are interesting and serve many purposes, including the one of holding up glasses. | 28 |
| Perrault/Arthur | Puss in Boots | 4.6 | 0.5 | In this version of the French fairy tale, a clever cat wins for his master a castle and the hand of a princess. | 30 |
| Petersen, P.J. | Can You Keep a Secret? | 2.9 | 2 | Mike has a reputation for not being able to keep a secret and he worries that he may reveal things that his classmates do not want known. | 106 |
| Peterson, John | Littles and the Big Storm, The | 3.6 | 1 | As the Littles prepare for a storm, they have a few adventures and even solve a mystery. | 80 |
| Peterson, John | Littles and the Lost Children, The | 4.2 | 2 | An exciting adventure about people who are no more than six inches tall. | 112 |
| Peterson, John | Littles Go Exploring, The | 3.5 | 1 | The Littles venture into the unknown land beyond the Dark Woods. | 94 |
| Peterson, John | Littles to the Rescue, The | 3.6 | 1 | There was a surprise for the Littles and Stubby Speck when they finally got to the end of the trail. | 94 |
| Peterson, John | Littles, The | 3.3 | 1 | The Littles, tiny people who live within the walls of the Biggs' house, fear mice. | 80 |
| Peterson/Slater | Littles and the Big Blizzard, The | 2.5 | 0.5 | One of the Littles is lost in the snow! Can Tom find her? | 32 |
| Peterson/Slater | Littles Get Trapped!, The | 2.3 | 0.5 | Tom and Lucy are trapped inside a cold, dark place. How will they get out? | 32 |
| Petry, Ann | Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad | 6.6 | 9 | Courageous Black woman leads slaves to Freedom. | 221 |
| Petty, Kate | Horse Heroes:True Stories of Amazing Horses | 5.7 | 1 | This book tells seven stories of heroic and amazing horses. | 48 |
| Pevsner, Stella | Me, My Goat, and My Sister's Wedding | 3.7 | 6 | Doug and his friends keep their pet goat a secret from their families; but before long, sightings of the high-spirited animal occur at very inappropriate places. | 180 |
| Pevsner, Stella | Night the Whole Class Slept Over, The | 5.3 | 5 | Eleven-year-old Dan, whose artist parents have kept him moving around all his life, fears he will lose the friends he has made at his new school until the class sleepover coincides with a bad winter storm. | 162 |
| Pfeffer, Susan Beth | Kid Power Strikes Back | 4.6 | 4 | Janie is the head of Kid Power, and her hometown is hit with the worst snowstorms anyone can remember. Mr. Rotten, the senior citizen Janie got stuck with, really lives up to his name. Worst of all, a sixth-grade bully is trying to take Janie's business. | 116 |
| Pfister/James | Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale | 3.6 | 0.5 | Rainbow fish must help his friends from a whale that lashes out at them. | 24 |
| Pfister/James | Rainbow Fish to the Rescue! | 3.7 | 0.5 | Rainbow Fish learns the lesson of standing up for others even when peer pressure to do the opposite is placed against someone who is different. | 24 |
| Pfister/James | Rainbow Fish, The | 3.3 | 0.5 | The most beautiful fish in the ocean learns the value of friendship. Illustrated with holographic foil images. | 24 |
| Pfister/Martens | Just the Way You Are | 2.6 | 0.5 | The animals are having a party, and, tired of their normal appearances, they all want to look special for the big event. | 27 |
| Philbrick, Rodman | Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds: The Donner Party Expedition, The | 5.7 | 4 | Douglas Deeds, a fifteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his travels by wagon train as a member of the ill-fated Donner Party, which became stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-1847. | 155 |
| Phillips, Joan | My New Boy | 1 | 0.5 | A little puppy acquires a boy, teaches him some tricks, and finds him when he is lost. | 32 |
| Pilkey, Dav | Dog Breath: The Horrible Trouble with Hally Tosis | 3.4 | 0.5 | Hally, the Tosis family dog, has such bad breath that Mr. and Mrs. Tosis plan to give her away, until she proves to be an invaluable watchdog. | 30 |
| Pilkey, Dav | Hallo-wiener, The | 3.2 | 0.5 | All the other dogs make fun of Oscar the dachshund until one Halloween when, dressed as a hot dog, Oscar bravely rescues the others. | 30 |
| Pilkey, Dav | Ricky Ricotta's Giant (Mighty) Robot | 2.9 | 0.5 | Getting picked on by creeps at your school? Wish you had a special friend? Meet Ricky Ricotta, a small mouse, and his giant flying robot. | 111 |
| Pinkney, Andrea Davis | Dear Benjamin Banneker | 6.4 | 0.5 | The story of Benjamin Banneker, the first African American scientist. | 29 |
| Pinkney, Andrea Davis | Duke Ellington | 5 | 0.5 | This book gives a brief acount of the career of this jazz musician and composer, who along with his orchestra, created music that was beyond category. | 30 |
| Pinkney, Andrea Davis | Seven Candles for Kwanzaa | 4.6 | 0.5 | Describes the origins and the practices of Kwanzaa, the seven-day festival during which people of African descent rejoice in their ancestral values. | 28 |
| Pinkney, Andrea Davis | Silent Thunder: A Civil War Story | 5.4 | 7 | In 1862, eleven-year-old Summer and her thirteen-year-old brother Rosco take turns describing how life on the quiet Virginia plantation where they are slaves is affected by the Civil War. | 218 |
| Pinkney, Brian | JoJo's Flying Side Kick | 3.2 | 0.5 | Everyone gives JoJo advice on how to perform in order to earn her yellow belt in tae kwon do class; but in the end, she figures it out for herself. | 28 |
| Pinkney, Jerry | Noah's Ark | 3.3 | 0.5 | This book retells the biblical story of the great flood and how Noah and his family faithfully responded to God's call to save life on Earth. | 34 |
| Pinkwater, Daniel | Big Bob and the Magic Valentine's Day Potato | 2.5 | 0.5 | To liven up Valentine's Day in Mr. Salami's second grade class, Big Gloria describes the imminent arrival of the Magic Valentine Potato. | 28 |
| Pinkwater, Daniel | Big Bob and the Thanksgiving Potatoes | 2.3 | 0.5 | Big Bob and Big Gloria, who are friends because they are both large for their age, start a new trend when their second-grade class is supposed to make turkey decorations for Thanksgiving. | 28 |
| Pinkwater, Daniel | Blue Moose | 4.4 | 0.5 | The adventures of a talking blue moose who moves in with Mr. Breton and helps him run his restaurant on the edge of the big north woods. | 47 |
| Pinkwater, Daniel | Hoboken Chicken Emergency, The | 4.9 | 2 | Help! Henrietta--a 15-feet-tall, 266-pound chicken--is lost. She roams the streets hungry and frightened as the fire and police departments look for her. Great Fantasy. | 83 |
| Piper, Watty | Little Engine That Could, The | 3.5 | 0.5 | The story of the little blue engine that thought she could pull the heavy train and did. | 37 |
| Pipes, Rose | Coasts and Shores (World Habitats) | 4.2 | 0.5 | This book introduces some notable coasts and shores around the world, including the Great Barrier Reef, the Orinoco delta, and the sandy coasts of the British Isles. | 32 |
| Pipes, Rose | Forests and Woodlands (World Habitats) | 4.4 | 0.5 | The book introduces some notable forests and woodlands around the world, including the taiga in Russia, the eucalyptus woodlands in Australia, and the mangrove forests of Central and South America. | 32 |
| Pipes, Rose | Grasslands (World Habitats) | 4.1 | 0.5 | This book introduces some notable grasslands around the world, including the Argentinian pampas, the North American prairie,, and the Australian grasslands. | 32 |
| Pipes, Rose | Hot Deserts (World Habitats) | 4 | 0.5 | Some notable deserts around the world, including the Sahara Desert in Africa, the Sonoran Desert in North America, and the Simpson Desert in Australia are introduced. | 32 |
| Pipes, Rose | Islands (World Habitats) | 4.1 | 0.5 | Some notable islands around the world, including Madagascar, Hawaii, and South Georgia are introduced. | 32 |
| Pipes, Rose | Mountains and Volcanoes (World Habitats) | 4.2 | 0.5 | The book introduces some famous mountains and volcanoes around the world, including the Andes, the Rocky Mountains, and the Alps. | 32 |
| Pipes, Rose | Rain Forests (World Habitats) | 4.2 | 0.5 | The book introduces some notable rain forests around the world, including those of South America, Congo, and Central America. | 32 |
| Pipes, Rose | Rivers and Lakes (World Habitats) | 4.3 | 0.5 | This book introduces some famous rivers and lakes around the world, including the Nile River, Lake Titicaca, and the Ganges River. | 32 |
| Pipes, Rose | Tundra and Cold Deserts (World Habitats) | 4.1 | 0.5 | This book introduces some notable tundras and cold deserts around the world, including Antarctica, the Canadian tundra, and Lapland. | 32 |
| Pipes, Rose | Wetlands (World Habitats) | 4.3 | 0.5 | The book introduces some notable wetlands around the world, including the Pantanal in Brazil, the Florida Everglades, and the Kakadu National Park in Australia. | 32 |
| Pirotta, Saviour | People in the Rain Forest | 4.4 | 0.5 | The people who live in the rain forests around the world, how they hunt, farm, their religions, festivals, food and medicine are described. | 32 |
| Pirotta, Saviour | Predators in the Rain Forest | 4.1 | 0.5 | This book describes the different types of predatory animals that inhabit the rain forests of the world as well as their habits, hunting methods, and survival techniques. | 32 |
| Pirotta, Saviour | Rivers in the Rain Forest | 4 | 0.5 | This book introduces aspects of rivers in the rain forest including their plants and animals, the water cycle, flooding, and mining. | 32 |
| Pirotta, Saviour | Trees and Plants in the Rain Forest | 4.2 | 0.5 | This book describes the different types of trees and plants that grow in layers of the rain forest, the fruits, nuts, and vegetables they provide, and what threatens their survival. | 32 |
| Pitts, Paul | Racing the Sun | 4.4 | 5 | When twelve-year-old Brandon's Navajo grandfather comes to live with him, Brandon is forced to consider his heritage and his father's rejection of the old ways. | 148 |
| Piumini, Roberto | Doctor Me Di Cin | 3.1 | 0.5 | The emperor's son has grown pale and thin. Doctor Me Di Cin tells him to go outside and get some fresh air, but the boy refuses. | 24 |
| Platt, Richard | Castle (Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections) | 6 | 0.5 | Illustrated look inside a medieval fortress, describes types of weapons, lifestyle inside the castle walls, and elaborate possessions. | 27 |
| Platt, Richard | Shipwreck (Eyewitness) | 7.7 | 1 | Discover the mysterious world of shipwrecks and lost treasures, and how they are recovered and preserved. | 59 |
| Plourde, Lynn | Pigs in the Mud in the Middle of the Rud | 1.3 | 0.5 | A feisty grandmother and her family struggle to get an assortment of farm animals out of the road so the family can pass in their Model T Ford. | 30 |
| Plourde, Lynn | School Picture Day | 3.8 | 0.5 | It is school picture day, and everyone, except Josephina, starts out clean, shiny, and all dressed up. She creates dirt and confusion as she figures out how things work, but in the end is the only one who can fix the camera. | 32 |
| Plummer, Louise | My Name is Sus5an Smith. The 5 is Silent. | 4.5 | 9 | After years spent idolizing and championing her long-absent and much-reviled Uncle Willy, 17-year-old Susan, a promising artist, meets him by chance in Boston and determines against all advice to prove her love and devotion. | 217 |
| Poe/Katz | Tales of Mystery and Terror (Great Illustrated Classics) | 5.4 | 3 | This book contains four famous short stories of mystery and suspense written by Edgar Allen Poe. | 238 |
| Polacco, Patricia | Appelemando's Dreams | 3.8 | 0.5 | Because he spends his time dreaming, the villagers are convinced that Appelemando will never amount to much, but in time his dreams change the village and all the people in it. | 30 |
| Polacco, Patricia | Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair | 4.2 | 0.5 | Aunt Chip saves the town of Triple Creek, where everyone has forgotten how to read because of the invasion of television. | 36 |
| Polacco, Patricia | Babushka's Doll | 2.4 | 0.5 | A little girl gets a doll that turns out to be twice as rambunctious as her owner. | 28 |
| Polacco, Patricia | Betty Doll | 4.3 | 0.5 | Whenever Mary Ellen needed Betty Doll, she was there. Mary Ellen's daughter opens a package and rediscovers the old doll, along with a letter written by her mother right before she died. | 40 |
| Polacco, Patricia | Butterfly, The | 3.8 | 0.5 | During the Nazi occupation of France, Monique's mother hides a Jewish family in her basement and tries to help them escape to freedom. | 48 |
| Polacco, Patricia | Chicken Sunday | 3.7 | 0.5 | To thank old Eula for her wonderful Sunday chicken dinners, the children sell decorated eggs and buy her a beautiful Easter hat. | 29 |
| Polacco, Patricia | Christmas Tapestry | 4.2 | 0.5 | A tapestry that is being used to cover a hole in a church wall at Christmas brings together an elderly couple who were separated during World War II. | 48 |
| Polacco, Patricia | Firetalking | 4.3 | 0.5 | This book discusses a popular author and illustrator of children's books. | 32 |
| Polacco, Patricia | Keeping Quilt (Revised Edition), The | 4.4 | 0.5 | A homemade quilt ties together the lives of four generations of an immigrant Jewish family, remaining a symbol of their enduring love and faith. | 37 |
| Polacco, Patricia | Mr. Lincoln's Way | 3.7 | 0.5 | When Mr. Lincoln discovers that Eugene, the school bully, knows a lot about birds, he uses this interest to help Eugene overcome his intolerance. | 40 |
| Polacco, Patricia | Mrs. Katz and Tush | 3.1 | 0.5 | A long-lasting friendship develops between Larnel, a young African-American, and Mrs. Katz, a lonely Jewish widow, when Larnel presents Mrs. Katz with a scrawny kitten without a tail. | 29 |
| Polacco, Patricia | My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother | 3.3 | 0.5 | Patricia shows her brother that there's one thing she can do better than him. | 29 |
| Polacco, Patricia | Pink and Say | 3.8 | 1 | Sheldon Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, and their capture by Southern troops during the Civil War. | 41 |
| Polacco, Patricia | Rechenka's Eggs | 4 | 0.5 | An injured goose rescued by Babushka, having broken the painted eggs intended for the Easter Festival in Moscva, lays 13 marvelously colored eggs to replace them, then leaves behind one final miracle in egg form before returning to her own kind. | 30 |
| Polacco, Patricia | Thank You, Mr. Falker | 4.1 | 0.5 | At first, Trisha loves school, but her difficulty learning to read makes her feel dumb, until, in the fifth grade, a new teacher helps her understand and overcome her problem. | 35 |
| Polacco, Patricia | Thunder Cake | 3.5 | 0.5 | Grandma finds a way to dispel her grandchild's fear of thunderstorms. | 30 |
| Polacco, Patricia | Trees of the Dancing Goats, The | 4.2 | 0.5 | During a scarlet-fever epidemic one winter in Michigan, a Jewish family helps make Christmas special for their sick neighbors. | 29 |
| Polacco, Patricia | Uncle Vova's Tree | 4.6 | 0.5 | In this book, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and children gather at a farm house to celebrate Christmas in the Russian tradition. | 32 |
| Polacco, Patricia | Welcome Comfort | 4.5 | 0.5 | Welcome Comfort, a lonely foster child, is assured by his friend, the school custodian, that there is a Santa Claus, but he does not discover the truth until one wondrous and surprising Christmas Eve. | 32 |
| Politi, Leo | Song of the Swallows | 4.6 | 0.5 | Juan plants a garden for the swallows to nest in his yard, and gets his wish on St. Joseph's Day. | 30 |
| Pollock, Penny | Turkey Girl: A Zuni Cinderella Story, The | 4.8 | 0.5 | In this Indian variant of a familiar story, some turkeys make a doeskin dress for the poor girl who tends them so that she can participate in a sacred dance, but they desert her when she fails to return as promised. | 32 |
| Pomerantz, Charlotte | Outside Dog, The | 2.5 | 0.5 | A little Puerto Rican girl befriends a stray dog in this story that incorporates Spanish words in the English story. | 62 |
| Pomerantz, Charlotte | Piggy in the Puddle, The | 2.7 | 0.5 | A rhymed, tongue-twisting romp about a stubborn pig who finally gets her way. | 26 |
| Poole, Josephine | Joan of Arc | 4.8 | 0.5 | This is a biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English, witnessed the crowning of Charles VII, and was later burned at the stake for heresy. | 30 |
| Porte, Barbara Ann | Harry in Trouble | 2.7 | 0.5 | Harry is upset about losing his library card three times in a row, but feels better when he learns that his father and his friend Dorcas sometimes lose things. | 46 |
| Porter, A.P. | Jump at de Sun: The Story of Zora Neale Hurston | 5.9 | 2 | A biography of the African American novelist. | 95 |
| Porter, Connie | Addy Learns a Lesson | 3.9 | 1 | After escaping from a plantation in North Carolina, Addy and her mother arrive in Philadelphia, where Addy goes to school and learns a lesson in true friendship. | 68 |
| Porter, Connie | Happy Birthday, Addy | 4.3 | 1 | Addy makes a new friend, who encourages her to claim a birthday and helps her face prejudice. | 61 |
| Porter, Connie | Meet Addy | 4 | 1 | Nine-year-old Addy Walker escapes from a cruel life of slavery to freedom during the Civil War. | 69 |
| Porter/Leighton | Pollyanna (Great Illustrated Classics) | 3.8 | 2 | When Pollyanna's father dies, she is all alone in the world except for her cold and demanding aunt. She struggles to adjust to life in a new place with new people. To help her cope, she plays "the Glad Game." | 236 |
| Posada, Mia | Dandelions: Stars in the Grass | 2.6 | 0.5 | In this story, rhyming text presents the dandelion, not as a weed, but as a flower of great beauty. | 32 |
| Potter, Beatrix | Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The | 4.4 | 0.5 | Peter's cousin Benjamin helps Peter get his clothes back from Mr. McGregor. | 59 |
| Potter, Beatrix | Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, The | 4.7 | 0.5 | The story of a not-so-bright duck and the fox who befriended her. | 59 |
| Potter, Beatrix | Tale of Peter Rabbit, The | 4.2 | 0.5 | The classic tale of the little rabbit that didn't listen to his mother. | 59 |
| Powell, Randy | My Underrated Year | 4.6 | 6 | The new twins at school pose threats to Roger's chances of playing varsity football and making the tennis team. | 182 |
| Prager, Annabelle | Surprise Party, The | 2.2 | 0.5 | A little boy tries to plan his own surprise birthday party. | 48 |
| Preller, James | Case of the Detective in Disguise, The | 3.2 | 1 | Someone is stealing brownies from the sandwich shop, and Jigsaw goes undercover to catch the brownie bandit. | 72 |
| Preller, James | Case of the Marshmallow Monster, The | 2.8 | 1 | Jigsaw and his friends are on a camping trip, and Danika is sure a Marshmallow Monster is haunting the lake. | 74 |
| Preller, James | Case of the Stinky Science Project, The | 2.9 | 1 | Bobby Solofsky fooled Sally-Ann with a phony magic trick. Now something smelly is spoiling science time in Ms. Gleason's class. Could Bobby be the culprit? Jigsaw and Mila are hot on the case. | 74 |
| Preller, James | Case of the Stolen Baseball Cards, The | 3.1 | 1 | Eddie brought his baseball cards to school and now they are missing. It's time for Jigsaw Jones to step up to the plate and solve this mystery. | 73 |
| Preller, James | Hiccups for Elephant | 1.1 | 0.5 | How will Elephant get rid of his hiccups? | 28 |
| Prelutsky, Jack | Dragons Are Singing Tonight, The | 5.8 | 0.5 | A collection of poems about dragons, including "I'm an Amiable Dragon," "If you Don't Believe in Dragons," and "A Dragon Is in My Computer." | 40 |
| Preston, Tim | Lonely Scarecrow, The | 3.6 | 0.5 | A lonely scarecrow with a scary face has trouble making friends with the animals who surround him, until a heavy snowfall transforms him into a jolly snowman. | 24 |
| Price, Joan | Truth Is a Bright Star | 4.5 | 6 | Understanding and finally friendship develop between a Hopi Indian boy and the fur trapper who bought him from Spanish soldiers in 1832. | 150 |
| Priceman, Marjorie | How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World | 3.1 | 0.5 | Since the market is closed, the reader is led around the world to gather the ingredients for making an apple pie. | 30 |
| Pringle, Laurence | Extraordinary Life: The Story of a Monarch Butterfly, An | 7.2 | 2 | The life cycle, feeding habits, migration, predators, and mating of the monarch butterfly are introduced through the observation of one particular monarch named Danaus. | 64 |
| Propp, Vera W. | When the Soldiers Were Gone | 3.5 | 2 | After the German occupation of the Netherlands, Benjamin leaves the Christian family with whom he had been living and reunites with his real parents who returned from hiding. | 101 |
| Pryor, Bonnie | Plum Tree War, The | 4.6 | 4 | When Robert's irritating cousin Harriet comes to stay for a whole school year, it's war until the quarrelsome fourth-grade cousins discover how much alike they really are. | 115 |
| Pryor, Bonnie | Thomas: 1778-Patriots on the Run | 4.8 | 4 | Thomas believes the Revolutionary War will never come to his peaceful Pennsylvania valley. All to soon, he and his family are running for their lives. | 150 |
| Pullman, Philip | Amber Spyglass, The | 6.7 | 26 | Lyra and Will find themselves at the center of a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by Lyra's father, Lord Asriel. | 518 |
| Pullman, Philip | Broken Bridge, The | 5 | 9 | Sixteen-year-old Ginny, the mixed-race, artist daughter of an English father and a Haitian mother, learns that she has a half-brother from her father's earlier marriage and that her own mother may still be alive. | 218 |
| Pullman, Philip | Golden Compass, The | 7.1 | 19 | Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subjects of gruesome experiments in the Far North. | 399 |
| Pullman, Philip | Subtle Knife, The | 6.2 | 16 | As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife. | 326 |
| Pullman, Philip | Tin Princess, The | 6.5 | 14 | In 1882, Becky applies for a tutoring job in London and becomes embroiled in assassination, intrigue, and dangerous politics in the small European kingdom of Razkavia. | 299 |
| Putnam, James | Mummy (Eyewitness) | 7.4 | 1 | Documents the history and significance of mummies, both natural and man-made, and describes the principles and ceremonies associated with them. | 63 |
| Pyle, Howard | Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, The | 8.6 | 21 | Unabridged and unaltered republication of the 1st (1883) edition containing 22 stories of Robin Hood and his adventures in Sherwood Forest. | 285 |
| Pyle, Howard | Story of King Arthur and His Knights, The | 9.4 | 21 | Stories describe the perilous and thrilling adventures of King Arthur and his knights in that glorious age of chivalry and honor. | 313 |
| Pyle/Hanft | King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (Great Illustrated | 6.2 | 3 | With King Arthur at the head of the Round Table, the most gallant men of the realm fought to bring peace, to perform outstanding deeds of strength and bravery, and to win honor. | 238 |
| Pyle/Kestel | Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (Great Illustrated Classics), The | 5.7 | 3 | The brave and bold outlaw, Robin Hood, and his merry band of followers roam through Sherwood Forest robbing the rich and aiding the poor. | 238 |