| Author | Title | Level | Pts. | Description | Pages |
| Quackenbush, Robert | Henry's Awful Mistake | 2.4 | 0.5 | Henry the Duck tries all sorts of methods to rid his kitchen of an ant before his guest comes to supper. | 42 |
| Quackenbush, Robert | Henry's Important Date | 2.8 | 0.5 | Due to circumstances beyond his control, Henry arrives at Clara's birthday party just before he thinks it will end. | 48 |
| Quattlebaum, Mary | Jackson Jones and the Puddle of Thorns | 3.2 | 2 | Jackson wants a basketball for his birthday, but his mother gives him a garden plot near their inner-city apartment. | 113 |
| Quattlebaum, Mary | Underground Train | 3 | 0.5 | As an underground train rushes beneath the city streets taking a little girl to visit her Nana, many things are happening above ground. | 28 |
| Randle, Kristen D. | Only Alien on the Planet, The | 4.6 | 8 | A young girl in a new school is drawn to a severely troubled boy. | 222 |
| Rankin, Joan | Scaredy Cat | 3 | 0.5 | A little kitten fearfully faces scary things such as a huge figure on the wall, but when he encounters a tiny spider, he discovers a bravery deep inside himself. | 29 |
| Ransome, Arthur | Fool of the World and the Flying Ship: A Russian Tale, The | 4.7 | 1 | The fool, a peasant despised by his parents, wins the hand of the Czar's daughter after overcoming many obstacles in this story. A Caldecott Medal book. | 40 |
| Rappaport, Doreen | Escape from Slavery | 5 | 3 | Five accounts of black slaves who managed to escape to freedom during the period preceding the Civil War. | 104 |
| Raskin, Ellen | Westing Game, The | 5.3 | 8 | Sixteen game players, heirs to Sam Westing's fabulous fortune, are all suspected of his murder. This book is part mystery story, part play-along game, and part do-it-yourself puzzle. | 216 |
| Rathmann, Peggy | Officer Buckle and Gloria | 3.4 | 0.5 | The children at Napville Elementary School always ignore Officer Buckle's safety tips until a police dog named Gloria accompanies him when he gives his safety speeches. | 30 |
| Raven, Margot Theis | M Is for Mayflower: A Massachusetts Alphabet | 6.7 | 1 | This book presents information about the state of Massachusetts in an alphabetical arrangement. | 40 |
| Rawlings, Marjorie | Yearling, The | 5 | 19 | A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet. | 509 |
| Rawls, Wilson | Summer of the Monkeys | 4.8 | 13 | A fourteen-year-old Ozark Mountain boy attempts to recapture monkeys escaped from a traveling circus. | 283 |
| Rawls, Wilson | Where the Red Fern Grows | 4.9 | 11 | This is a simply written, moving story of the love between a young boy and his two dogs. | 249 |
| Reeder, Carolyn | Foster's War | 5.9 | 9 | When his older brother joins the army during World War II in order to escape the rages of an authoritarian father, eleven-year-old Foster fights his battles on the home front. | 267 |
| Reeder, Carolyn | Grandpa's Mountain | 5.3 | 7 | Carrie loves her grandparents' store in the Blue Ridge mountains, but a new national park threatens their home. | 171 |
| Reeder, Carolyn | Shades of Gray | 5.3 | 6 | At the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his immediate family, reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia countryside with his aunt and uncle he considers "traitors" because they refused to take part in the war. | 152 |
| Rees, Rosemary | Ancient Greeks (Understanding People in the Past), The | 5.1 | 1 | This book shows how people lived in ancient Greece. | 64 |
| Reeves, Nicholas | Into the Mummy's Tomb | 6.9 | 2 | An account of Howard Carter's discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamun, descriptions of the artifacts inside and their importance, the discovery in 1988 of more artifacts, and theories about the curse associated with the tomb. | 64 |
| Reiff, Stephanie | Secrets of Tut's Tomb and the Pyramids | 5 | 1 | Discusses the building of the Egyptian pyramids, strange stories associated with them, and possible powers possessed by pyramids. | 48 |
| Reiff, Tana | Boat People | 2.7 | 1 | After narrowly escaping their homeland, a Vietnamese family runs into problems with American fishermen. | 75 |
| Reiff, Tana | Climbing the Wall | 2.9 | 0.5 | A hyperactive child's parents seek ways to solve his problem. | 58 |
| Reiff, Tana | Different Home, A | 2.9 | 1 | After fleeing Castro's Cuba, a man is able to reconcile his success in America with his Cuban roots. | 76 |
| Reiff, Tana | Door Is Open, The | 2.7 | 0.5 | A middle-aged housewife is determined to earn her high school diploma. | 58 |
| Reiff, Tana | Family from Vietnam, The | 2.8 | 0.5 | A family gets separated when fleeing Saigon for the United States. | 57 |
| Reiff, Tana | For Gold and Blood | 2.9 | 1 | Two Chinese brothers become prospectors during the California Gold Rush. | 76 |
| Reiff, Tana | Hungry No More | 2.4 | 0.5 | A nineteenth-century Irish family escapes the potato famine only to find they must endure new hardships in America. | 76 |
| Reiff, Tana | Little Italy | 2.7 | 1 | A newly arrived Italian family finds back-breaking labor in the new world. | 76 |
| Reiff, Tana | Magic Paper, The | 2.7 | 1 | A young Mexican couple struggle to become U. S. citizens while as illegal aliens they live in constant fear of being caught and sent back to Mexico. | 76 |
| Reiff, Tana | Missing Piece, The | 2.7 | 0.5 | Is marriage the solution to a young woman's dilemma? | 60 |
| Reiff, Tana | Nobody Knows | 2.7 | 1 | After migrating from the South to Chicago, a young African-American woman must find work when her husband is killed in an accident. | 76 |
| Reiff, Tana | O Little Town | 2.6 | 1 | When WWI breaks out, a German American realizes that America is really his home. | 76 |
| Reiff, Tana | Old Ways, New Ways | 2.5 | 1 | A Russian-Jewish family in New York is thrown into emotional turmoil when the son rejects his father's traditional lifestyle. | 76 |
| Reiff, Tana | Play Money | 2.7 | 0.5 | A young woman gets heavily in debt by overusing her credit cards. | 60 |
| Reiff, Tana | Push to the West | 2.8 | 1 | A Norwegian couple cross the Great Plains in a wagon train to establish a claim of their own. | 76 |
| Reiff, Tana | So Long, Snowman | 2.5 | 0.5 | A young drug addict fights desperately to kick his habit. | 58 |
| Reiff, Tana | Time to Choose, A | 2.8 | 0.5 | A man must choose between his family and a career as a race car driver. | 58 |
| Reiss, Johanna | Upstairs Room, The | 2.9 | 6 | During World War II, a young Jewish girl and her sister in Holland hide from the Nazis in the home of a Gentile family. | 165 |
| Reiss, Mike | Santa Claustrophobia | 3.6 | 0.5 | Holiday characters ranging from the Easter Bunny to the April Fool try to take over Christmas responsibilities so that stressed Saint Nick can take a vacation. | 32 |
| Repchuk, Caroline | Snow Tree, The | 3.5 | 0.5 | A bear cub wakes up to see snow for the first time and, with the help of other animals, searches for the colors of the forest and creates a magical symbol of the Christmas season. | 22 |
| Rex, Michael | Brooms Are for Flying! | 1.2 | 0.5 | A group of young trick-or-treaters demonstrate that "feet are for stomping," "eyes are for peeking," "mouths are for moaning," and "tummies are for treating." | 30 |
| Rey, H.A. | Curious George | 2.6 | 0.5 | Curiosity gets George the monkey into trouble, until he learns to put it to good use. | 54 |
| Rey, H.A. | Curious George Gets a Medal | 4.1 | 0.5 | Following a day of misadventures, Curious George becomes the first space monkey. | 47 |
| Rey, H.A. | Curious George Learns the Alphabet | 3.2 | 0.5 | Readers learn the alphabet along with George as the man in the yellow hat teaches the curious monkey how to read. | 72 |
| Rey, H.A. | Curious George Rides a Bike | 4.1 | 0.5 | George the curious monkey borrows a bike, delivers newspapers, joins a circus, saves a bear from a tree, goes home a hero. | 45 |
| Rey, H.A. | Curious George Takes a Job | 3.6 | 0.5 | Curious George takes a job washing windows and ends up a movie star. | 47 |
| Rey, Margret | Curious George Flies a Kite | 2.7 | 0.5 | Another delightful adventure with George, the curious monkey. | 80 |
| Rey, Margret | Curious George Visits the Zoo | 2.6 | 0.5 | George's trip begins with his being a pest but ends with his being helpful. Adapted from the Curious George film series. | 30 |
| Rey, Margret/ H.A. | Curious George Goes to a Movie | 3.4 | 0.5 | When his curiosity leads him to investigate how the movie gets onto the screen, George, an inquisitive monkey, disrupts the show. | 24 |
| Rey, Margret/H.A. | Curious George Goes to the Beach | 2.9 | 0.5 | Curious George has fun feeding the sea gulls at the beach and then saves the day when he rescues a picnic basket and helps his friend overcome her fear of the water. | 24 |
| Rey, Margret/H.A. | Curious George Goes to the Hospital | 3.4 | 0.5 | Curious George eats a puzzle piece and goes to the hospital, while there he meets all kinds of new friends. | 45 |
| Reynolds, Peter H. | Dot, The | 1.9 | 0.5 | Vashti can't draw -- she's no artist. To prove her point, Vashti jabs at a blank sheet of paper, leaving an unremarkable, angry dot. | 32 |
| Rhoads, Dorothy | Corn Grows Ripe, The | 4.7 | 2 | A young Mayan boy struggles to support his family. | 88 |
| Rice, Earle | Animals, The | 3.8 | 1 | World War II tale of a downed pilot and his valiant effort to thwart a German plan to kill the Prime Minister of England. | 58 |
| Rice, Earle | Fear on Ice | 3.7 | 1 | SporTeller novel about hockey, fighting, and becoming successful. | 60 |
| Rice, Earle | Tiger, Lion, Hawk | 4 | 1 | Story about the Flying Tigers in air warfare in World War II. | 60 |
| Richards, Brant | Mountain Biking (Fantastic Book Of) | 5.8 | 0.5 | This book provides step-by-step instructions for both basic techniques and more advanced tricks to be used in mountain biking. | 40 |
| Richardson, Adele | India (Let's Investigate) | 5.6 | 0.5 | This book examines the history, landscape, wildlife, people, and weather of the nation of India. | 31 |
| Richardson, Adele D. | Hades (World Mythology) | 4.2 | 0.5 | This book relates the exploits of Hades and his importance in Greek mythology and includes some of the stories about him. | 24 |
| Richardson, Adele D. | Hercules (World Mythology) | 4.1 | 0.5 | This book relates the exploits of Hercules and his importance in Roman mythology, including his connection to such figures as King Augeas and Queen Hippolyte, and describes the role of myths in the modern world. | 24 |
| Richter, Conrad | Light in the Forest, The | 5.5 | 5 | A four-year-old white boy is adopted into an Indian warrior tribe. | 120 |
| Rinaldi, Ann | Break with Charity, A | 4.7 | 8 | While waiting for a church meeting in 1706, Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy Salem merchant, recalls the malice, fear, and accusations of witchcraft that tore her village apart in 1692. | 299 |
| Rinaldi, Ann | Coffin Quilt, The | 4 | 7 | In the 1880s, young Fanny McCoy witnesses the growth of a terrible and violent feud between her Kentucky family and the West Virginia Hatfields, complicated by her older sister Roseanna's romance with a Hatfield. | 226 |
| Rinaldi, Ann | Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce: A Pilgrim Boy, The | 4.9 | 5 | A fourteen-year-old indentured servant keeps a journal of his experiences on the Mayflower and during the building of Plymouth in 1620 and 1621. | 155 |
| Rinaldi, Ann | Numbering All the Bones | 4.2 | 5 | Eulinda is left behind to deal with a cruel mistress, and a master who will not acknowledge that Eulinda is his daughter. | 170 |
| Rinaldi, Ann | Ride into Morning, A | 4.8 | 10 | When unrest spreads at the Revolutionary War camp in Morristown, New Jersey, under the command of General Anthony Wayne, a young woman cleverly hides her horse from the mutinous soldiers who have need of it. | 353 |
| Ripken/Bryan | Cal Ripken, Jr.: My Story | 5.5 | 4 | Baltimore Orioles' star Cal Ripken tells, in his own words, the story of his personal life and baseball career. | 113 |
| Ritter, John H. | Choosing Up Sides | 4.2 | 5 | In 1921, thirteen-year-old Luke finds himself torn between accepting his left handedness or conforming to the belief of his preacher-father that such a condition is evil and must be overcome. | 166 |
| Robb, Don | Hail to the Chief: The American Presidency | 6.7 | 0.5 | This book explains and describes the powers and duties of the presidency, including highlights of the accomplishments of individual presidents. | 31 |
| Roberts, Bethany | Halloween Mice! | 1.6 | 0.5 | Mice whirling and skipping on Halloween night are threatened by an approaching cat, until they come up with a scary trick to defend themselves. | 32 |
| Roberts, Bethany | Mouse Told His Mother, A | 2 | 0.5 | A little mouse's imagination makes his bedtime an exciting adventure, as he takes a fantasy trip to catch crocodiles, ride bucking broncos, and sail where the wind blows. | 26 |
| Roberts, Willo Davis | Baby-sitting Is a Dangerous Job | 5.3 | 6 | Thirteen-year-old Darcy thought she was being followed for some strange reason, and then the children she baby-sat for were kidnapped. | 139 |
| Roberts, Willo Davis | Girl with the Silver Eyes, The | 5.3 | 7 | Katie's silver-colored eyes and her ability to communicate with animals start a suspense-filled search for others like herself. Excellent, believable science fiction. | 198 |
| Roberts, Willo Davis | Kidnappers: A Mystery, The | 4.8 | 5 | No one believes eleven-year-old Joey, who has a reputation for telling tall tales, when he claims to have witnessed the kidnapping of the class bully outside their expensive private school. | 137 |
| Roberts, Willo Davis | Megan's Island | 5 | 7 | When eleven-year-old Megan, her younger brother, and her mother go up to the lake cottage, a mysterious stranger follows them. | 187 |
| Roberts, Willo Davis | View from the Cherry Tree, The | 5.2 | 7 | Rob admits having seen a murder, but no one believes him--except the murderer. | 181 |
| Robertson, Keith | Henry Reed, Inc. | 5.5 | 8 | Fourteen-year-old Henry Reed and his friend Midge Glass turn Grover's Corner, New Jersey, upside down when they open a research business. | 239 |
| Robertson, Keith | Henry Reed's Baby-Sitting Service | 5.1 | 6 | Back in Grover's Corners, N.J. for the summer, Henry and his partner Midge establish a baby sitting service and find a disappearing child and a peacock among their charges. | 204 |
| Robertson, M.P. | Egg, The | 3 | 0.5 | When George finds a gigantic egg in his mother's chicken house, he knows that it is his responsibility to keep it warm and read it stories until it hatches. | 25 |
| Robertus, Polly | Dog Who Had Kittens, The | 3.3 | 0.5 | Baxter the Basset Hound comes to the aid of some kittens when their mother disappears one afternoon. | 28 |
| Robinet, Harriette Gillem | Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule | 4.3 | 5 | Born with a withered leg and hand, Pascal, who is about twelve years old, joins other former slaves in a search for a farm and the freedom that it promises. | 131 |
| Robinet, Harriette Gillem | Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues | 4.1 | 4 | Twelve-year old Alfa Merryfield, his older sister, and their great-grandmother struggle for rent money, food, and their dignity as they participate in the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott in the summer of 1956. | 146 |
| Robinson, Barbara | Best Christmas Pageant Ever, The | 5.1 | 2 | The Herdman children, given to horrible pranks, take over the Sunday school Christmas pageant but eventually learn the true meaning of Christmas. | 80 |
| Robinson, Barbara | Best School Year Ever, The | 5.4 | 3 | The terrible kids at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School return with more wild behavior and outrageous lies. | 117 |
| Robinson, Fay | Sound All Around | 2.5 | 0.5 | Discusses sound how we hear it and how it travels. | 31 |
| Robson, Pam | People and Places (Geography for Fun) | 5.4 | 1 | This book uses interactive projects to look at where and how people live and work. | 32 |
| Rock, Gail | House Without a Christmas Tree, The | 4.9 | 3 | Ten-year old Addie Mills feels cheated, since year after year her father hasn't let her have a Christmas tree. What's worse, he refuses to give her a reason. Addie finds a way to make her dream come true. But what will her father say? | 87 |
| Rock, Gail | Thanksgiving Treasure, The | 5 | 3 | Addie thinks her newfound friendship will go on forever even though her father is furious when he hears about her friendship with his archenemy, old man Rehnquist. | 91 |
| Rocklin, Joanne | For Your Eyes Only | 4.3 | 2 | The entries in the journal of several sixth grade students reveal much about their personal feelings, family lives, and a growing interest in poetry sparked by their new substitute teacher. | 136 |
| Rocklin, Joanne | Strudel Stories | 4 | 2 | Seven generations of a Jewish family hear stories of their family history, all told while making apple strudel. | 131 |
| Rocklin, Joanne | Very Best Hanukkah Gift, The | 3.3 | 2 | During his family's eight-day celebration of Hanukkah, eight-year-old Daniel learns the pleasure of giving and overcomes his fear of dogs. | 114 |
| Rockwell, Thomas | How to Eat Fried Worms | 3.5 | 2 | Billy accepts the challenge to eat fifteen worms in fifteen days when his friend bets fifty dollars that he cannot do it. | 115 |
| Rockwell, Thomas | How to Fight a Girl | 4.6 | 2 | Joe and Alan's plan to get revenge on Billy backfires when their secret weapon, the prettiest girl in their fifth-grade class, becomes Billy's friend instead. Sequel to How to Eat Fried Worms. | 112 |
| Rockwell, Thomas | How to Get Fabulously Rich | 4.5 | 3 | After Billy wins $410,000 in the lottery, his friends claim that he owes them a share for helping him play, creating a tangle of lies, memory, and money. | 134 |
| Rodanas, Kristina | Dragonfly's Tale | 4.5 | 0.5 | After a poor harvest, two children regain the Corn Maidens' blessings for their people with the aid of a cornstalk toy, the dragonfly. | 29 |
| Rodda, Emily | Forests of Silence, The | 5 | 4 | With only a hand-drawn map to guide them, Lief and his two companions set out on a dangerous quest to find the lost stones stolen from the magic Belt of Deltora and to rid their land of the Shadow Lord. | 131 |
| Rodda, Emily | Rowan of Rin | 4.7 | 5 | Because only he can read the magical map, young, weak, and timid Rowan joins six other villagers to climb a mountain and try to restore their water supply, as fears of a dragon and other horrors threaten to drive them back. | 151 |
| Rodgers, Mary | Freaky Friday | 4.4 | 4 | A day of revelations and fresh insights as Annabel Andrews, thirteen, wakes up to discover she has turned into her mother. | 145 |
| Rodowsky, Colby | Clay | 4.9 | 5 | After their parents divorce, Elsie and her younger brother, Tommy, who is mentally "different," must deal with a terrible secret that causes them and their mother to move from place to place and stay in hiding. | 165 |
| Rodowsky, Colby | Not My Dog | 4.3 | 1 | Eight-year-old Ellie has to give up her life-long dream of getting a puppy after her parents agree to take in the dog that Great-aunt Margaret can no longer keep. | 69 |
| Roop, Peter/Connie | Ahyoka and the Talking Leaves | 3.5 | 1 | In 1818, a Native-American girl and her father work to create a written language out of their Cherokee tongue. | 58 |
| Roop, Peter/Connie | Benjamin Franklin (In Their Own Words) | 5.4 | 2 | This is a biography of Benjamin Franklin, using his newspaper articles and personal recollections. | 125 |
| Roop, Peter/Connie | Christopher Columbus (In Their Own Words) | 4.8 | 2 | This is a biography of Christopher Columbus, using the journals he kept while traveling to the New World. | 128 |
| Roop, Peter/Connie | Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie | 2.2 | 0.5 | In the winter of 1856, a storm delays the lighthouse keeper's return to an island off the coast of Maine, and his daughter Abbie must keep the lights burning by herself. | 40 |
| Root, Phyllis | Aunt Nancy and Cousin Lazybones | 4 | 0.5 | When Cousin Lazybones comes to visit Aunt Nancy but refuses to help with any of the work around the house, she must figure out a way to get rid of him. | 24 |
| Root, Phyllis | Aunt Nancy and Old Man Trouble | 4.2 | 0.5 | When Old Man Trouble calls on Aunt Nancy, he tries very hard to perform a trick that will bother her; however, she knows just how to handle him. | 24 |
| Root, Phyllis | Grandmother Winter | 3.7 | 0.5 | When Grandmother Winter shakes out her feather quilt, birds, bats, bears, and other creatures prepare themselves for the cold. | 30 |
| Root, Phyllis | Rattletrap Car | 2.5 | 0.5 | Various disasters threaten to stop Poppa and the children from getting to the lake in their rattletrap car, but they manage to come up with an ingenious solution to each problem. | 40 |
| Rosen, Michael J. | Chanukah Lights Everywhere | 3.3 | 0.5 | A young boy counts the candles on the family menorah and the lights he sees in the world around him on each night of Hanukkah. | 25 |
| Rosen, Michael J. | We're Going on a Bear Hunt | 1.3 | 0.5 | Brave bear hunters go through grass, a river, mud, and other obstacles before the inevitable encounter with the bear forces a headlong retreat. | 32 |
| Rosenberg, Liz | Carousel, The | 3.9 | 0.5 | Two sisters find that the horses of a broken carousel have come alive in the rain. | 29 |
| Rosenberg, Liz | On Christmas Eve | 2.7 | 0.5 | Unable to reach Aunt Cleo's house on Christmas Eve because of a wild snowstorm, a young boy worries that Santa Claus won't be able to find his family at the motel where they are stranded. | 32 |
| Rosenberg, Liz | We Wanted You | 2 | 0.5 | Parents tell how they waited and prepared for the baby that they wanted so much. | 26 |
| Ross, Katharine | Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bug | 1.9 | 0.5 | After catching a lightning bug in a jar, it takes awhile for Big Bird to figure out how to get it twinkling again. | 32 |
| Ross, Michael Elsohn | Body Cycles (Cycles) | 4.7 | 0.5 | This book discusses body cycles, how the body repairs and renews itself again and again. | 30 |
| Ross, Pat | Meet M & M | 3.2 | 0.5 | Best friends Mandy and Mimi do everything together until they have a falling out. | 41 |
| Ross, Ramon | Harper & Moon | 4.6 | 6 | Although twelve-year-old Harper has always liked Moon, an abused, orphaned older boy, their friendship is tested by a discovery Harper makes when Moon joins the army in 1943. | 181 |
| Rossiter, Rick | Greedy Man in the Moon, The | 3.9 | 0.5 | When a poor boy rescues a wounded bird, he is rewarded for his kindness. Soon, the boy's neighbor tries to copy him, but in a much different way. | 28 |
| Roth, Arthur | Iceberg Hermit, The | 6.4 | 8 | Shipwrecked in 1757 on an iceberg in the Arctic seas with only an orphaned polar bear cub for companionship, seventeen-year-old Allan begins a seemingly hopeless struggle for survival. | 219 |
| Rottman, S.L. | Rough Waters | 4.2 | 10 | After their parents' death in an automobile accident, two teenage brothers are sent to Colorado to live with an estranged uncle, owner of a white water rafting outfit. | 179 |
| Rowland-Warne, L. | Costume (Eyewitness) | 8.4 | 1 | Photographs and text document the history and meaning of clothing, from loincloths to modern children's clothes. | 64 |
| Rowling, J.K. | Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them | 8.8 | 2 | This is the complete A to Z listing of magical beasts and their classifications. | 42 |
| Rowling, J.K. | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 6.7 | 14 | When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school. | 341 |
| Rowling, J.K. | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | 6.8 | 32 | In this fourth novel of Harry Potter's training as a wizard and his coming of age, Harry wants to be a normal, fourteen-year-old wizard. Unfortunately, he is not normal -- even by wizardry standards. In his case, different can be deadly. | 734 |
| Rowling, J.K. | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | 7.2 | 44 | Fifteen-year-old wizard Harry Potter struggles with a threatening teacher, a problematic house-elf, the dread of upcoming final exams, and haunting dreams that hint toward his mysterious past. | 870 |
| Rowling, J.K. | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 6.7 | 18 | When Harry and his best friends go back for their third year at Hogwarts, an escaped mass murderer is on the loose, and the sinister prison guards of Azkaban have been called in to guard the school. | 433 |
| Rowling, J.K. | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | 5.5 | 12 | Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. | 309 |
| Rowling, J.K. | Quidditch Through the Ages | 8.2 | 2 | This book is a copy from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, explaining the history of broomsticks, describing the evolution of Quidditch through the generations, and includes the rules of the game. | 56 |
| Roy, Ron | Absent Author, The | 3.4 | 1 | Dink and his two friends investigate the apparent kidnapping of famous mystery author Wallis Wallace. | 87 |
| Roy, Ron | Bald Bandit, The | 3.2 | 1 | Dink and his detective friends hope to receive a big reward by finding the person whose video recorder picked up a picture of the local bank robber. | 71 |
| Roy, Ron | Canary Caper, The | 3.4 | 1 | Dink and his friends investigate why pets are mysteriously disappearing all over town. | 87 |
| Roy, Ron | Deadly Dungeon, The | 3.4 | 1 | While visiting Wallis' castle, Dink and his friends investigate strange noises that lead them to a dangerous secret. | 86 |
| Roy, Ron | Empty Envelope, The | 3.5 | 1 | Dink and his friends unearth the mysterious truth behind the envelopes incorrectly delivered to his house. | 79 |
| Roy, Ron | Falcon's Feathers, The | 3.3 | 1 | Josh and his two friends look for the person who stole a peregrine falcon from its nest. | 87 |
| Roy, Ron | Goose's Gold, The | 3.3 | 1 | When Ruth Rose and her friends, vacationing in Florida, discover that her grandmother is about to invest in a project to recover sunken treasure, they stumble upon evidence that the entire plan may be a fraud. | 86 |
| Roy, Ron | Haunted Hotel, The | 3.4 | 1 | When the guests of the Shangri-la Hotel are scared away by a white-haired female ghost, Dink and his friends investigate the mystery. | 87 |
| Roy, Ron | Invisible Island, The | 3.6 | 1 | While picnicking on Squaw Island, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose find a hundred-dollar bill, and when they return to explore further they find an entire cave full of money. | 87 |
| Roy, Ron | Jaguar's Jewel, The | 3.5 | 1 | Dink and his friends use their detective skills to locate a giant emerald missing from a statue delivered to Uncle Warren's museum in New York City. | 86 |
| Roy, Ron | Ninth Nugget, The | 3.7 | 1 | When Dick, Josh, and Ruth Rose visit a dude ranch in Montana, they find themselves with another mystery to solve. | 86 |
| Roy, Ron | Panda Puzzle, The | 3.5 | 1 | Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate the kidnapping of the new baby panda at the petting zoo. | 84 |
| Roy, Ron | Quicksand Question, The | 3.7 | 1 | When someone steals the money the town has been collecting to help the ducks, Josh and his friends try to find the thief. | 80 |
| Roy, Ron | Runaway Racehorse, The | 3.6 | 1 | Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate the disappearance of a valuable racehorse that Dink's uncle and his friend, Forest Evans, have just bought and entered in a race at Saratoga. | 84 |
| Ruckman, Ivy | In Care of Cassie Tucker | 4.7 | 5 | When her teenage cousin moves in with her family on their Nebraska farm in 1899, eleven-year-old Cassie learns a lot, including the meaning of "heathen" and "bigot." | 166 |
| Ruckman, Ivy | Night of the Twisters | 4.7 | 4 | A twelve-year-old relates an account of the night that freakish and devastating tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska. | 153 |
| Ruckman, Ivy | No Way Out | 4.8 | 6 | Hiking along the Virgin River in Utah, nineteen-year-old Amy, her brother, and five friends battle a flash flood. | 212 |
| Russell, Barbara Timberlake | Blue Lightning | 4.7 | 4 | When a bolt of lightning provides twelve-year-old Calvin with an out-of-body experience, he meets the spirit of the father he never knew and brings a troubled ghost named Rory back to the living. | 122 |
| Rustad, Martha E. H. | Cockroaches (Insects) | 0.8 | 0.5 | This book uses simple text and photographs to present the features and behavior of cockroaches. | 24 |
| Ruth, Maria Mudd | Firefighting: Behind the Scenes | 6.9 | 2 | This book explains the challenging and dangerous work performed by firefighters, the clothing they wear, and the special gear they use. | 61 |
| Rutledge, Rachel | Best of the Best in Basketball, The | 7.1 | 2 | The author discusses the past and future of women's basketball and presents biographies of eight of the sport's most famous players: Cynthia Cooper, Teresa Edwards, Lisa Leslie, Rebecca Lobo, Nikki McCray, Dawn Staley, Kate Starbird, and Sheryl Swoopes. | 64 |
| Rutledge, Rachel | Best of the Best in Figure Skating, The | 7.5 | 2 | This book discusses the past and future of women's figure skating. It also presents biographies of eight famous skaters: Oksana Baiul, Surya Bonaly, Nancy Kerrigan, Michelle Kwan, Tara Lipinski, Chen Lu, Katarina Witt, and Kristi Yamaguchi. | 64 |
| Rutledge, Rachel | Best of the Best in Soccer, The | 7.5 | 2 | The author discusses the past and future of women's soccer and presents biographies of eight of the sport's most famous players: Michelle Akers, Joy Fawcett, Julie Foudy, Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly, Shannon MacMillan, Carla Overbeck, and Brianna Scurry. | 64 |
| Ryan, Cary | Louisa May Alcott: Her Girlhood Diary | 5.6 | 1 | Excerpts from the author's diaries, letters, and early poetic efforts, written between the ages of ten and fourteen, reveal her thoughts and feelings. | 42 |
| Ryan, Mary C. | Me Two | 4.8 | 6 | Lazy thirteen-year-old Wilf accidentally clones himself when a science experiment goes awry, and the clone proves to be more of a help than a hindrance. | 179 |
| Ryan, Pam Muñ-year-old Wilf accidentally clones himself when a science experiment goes awry, and the clone proves to be more of a help than a hindrance. | Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride | 4.2 | 0.5 | This is a fictionalized account of the night Amelia Earhart flew Eleanor Roosevelt over Washington, D.C., in an airplane. | 36 |
| Ryan, Pam Muñtionalized account of the night Amelia Earhart flew Eleanor Roosevelt over Washington, D.C., in an airplane. | Esperanza Rising | 5.3 | 6 | Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California on the eve of the Great Depression. | 262 |
| Ryan, Pam Muñ her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California on the eve of the Great Depression. | Mice and Beans | 3.6 | 0.5 | Rosa Maria, a Spanish-speaking grandmother, spends all week getting ready for her granddaughter's birthday party, and each day items keep disappearing, along with the mousetraps she sets to ensure the celebration isn't ruined by uninvited guests. | 32 |
| Ryan, Pam Muñ Spanish-speaking grandmother, spends all week getting ready for her granddaughter's birthday party, and each day items keep disappearing, along with the mousetraps she sets to ensure the celebration isn't ruined by uninvited guests. | Mud Is Cake | 2.5 | 0.5 | A brother and sister find that when they use their imagination mud can become cake and they themselves can become almost anything. | 32 |
| Ryan, Pam Muñ sister find that when they use their imagination mud can become cake and they themselves can become almost anything. | Riding Freedom | 4.5 | 3 | Charlotte (Charley) Parkhurst runs away from an orphanage, poses as a boy, moves to California, and fools everyone by her appearance. | 138 |
| Ryan/Schmittroth | Shawnee (Tribes of Native America) | 5.6 | 1 | This book discusses the history, native religious beliefs, language, government, art, culture, customs, and daily life of the Shawnee. | 32 |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Blue-Eyed Daisy, A | 4.6 | 2 | Twelve-year-old Ellie wonders if her age is hard for everyone as she deals with growing up, her father's drinking, and her sisters' infatuation with boys. | 99 |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Fine White Dust, A | 4.2 | 3 | Pete is a boy who needs to know where he stands with God, his parents, and his best friend, a confirmed atheist. | 106 |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Great Gracie Chase: Stop That Dog!, The | 3.1 | 0.5 | Gracie Rose is out of her yard and no one in town can catch her. | 32 |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Henry and Mudge and Annie's Perfect Pet | 2.3 | 0.5 | Although Henry's cousin Annie likes his dog Mudge, when she gets her own pet she decides that a bunny will be perfect for her. | 40 |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Henry and Mudge and the Bedtime Thumps | 2.6 | 0.5 | Henry worries about what will happen to his big dog Mudge during their visit to his grandmother's house in the country. | 40 |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Henry and Mudge and the Careful Cousin | 2.1 | 0.5 | At first Henry's very neat cousin doesn't like the cookies from under his bed or Mudge's slobbery kisses, but when they all play Frisby, she begins to enjoy her visit. | 48 |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Henry and Mudge and the Forever Sea | 2.5 | 0.5 | Henry and his dog Mudge spend the day at the beach. | 46 |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Henry and Mudge and the Long Weekend | 2.4 | 0.5 | A wet weekend is transformed by a family project. | 40 |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Henry and Mudge and the Wild Wind | 2.3 | 0.5 | A big storm frightens Mudge the dog, and Henry comes to the rescue. | 40 |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Henry and Mudge Get the Cold Shivers | 2.7 | 0.5 | When Mudge gets sick unexpectedly, Henry does all he can to make him feel better. | 48 |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Henry and Mudge in Puddle Trouble | 2.5 | 0.5 | For Henry and his big dog Mudge, spring means admiring the first snow glory, playing in puddles, and watching the new kittens next door. | 48 |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Henry and Mudge in the Green Time | 2.4 | 0.5 | For Henry and his big dog Mudge, summer means going on a picnic in the park, taking a bath under the garden hose, and going to the top of the big, green hill. | 48 |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Henry and Mudge Take the Big Test | 2.4 | 0.5 | After eight weeks at Papp's Dog School, Henry's dog Mudge earns a certificate and lots of liver treats. | 40 |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Henry and Mudge Under the Yellow Moon | 2.3 | 0.5 | In the autumn, Henry and his big dog Mudge watch the leaves turn, meet with some Halloween spooks and share Thanksgiving dinner. | 48 |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Henry and Mudge, The First Book | 2.7 | 0.5 | Henry, feeling lonely on a street without any other children, finds companionship and love in a big dog named Mudge. | 40 |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Islander, The | 5.3 | 1 | Living with his grandfather on an island off British Columbia, ten-year-old Daniel feels deep loneliness until the night he meets a mermaid whose identity he tries to learn. | 97 |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Missing May | 5.3 | 3 | After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her Uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living. | 89 |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Mr. Griggs' Work | 4 | 0.5 | Mr. Griggs so loves his work at the post office that he thinks of it all the time and everything reminds him of it. | 25 |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Mr. Putter & Tabby Bake the Cake | 2.8 | 0.5 | Mr. Putter and Tabby decide to bake a Christmas cake for their strange neighbor, Mrs. Teaberry. | 36 |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Mr. Putter & Tabby Pour the Tea | 2.8 | 0.5 | Mr. Putter is lonely and wants someone to share his stories. | 37 |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Poppleton Everyday | 2 | 0.5 | Poppleton and his friends go look at the stars, go shopping and go sailing. | 48 |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Poppleton in Fall | 2.4 | 0.5 | Poppleton invites some geese in for cookies, shops for a new coat, and enjoys a pancake breakfast. | 48 |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Poppleton in Spring | 2.5 | 0.5 | This book describes some of the adventures Poppleton enjoys during the spring. | 48 |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Relatives Came, The | 4.1 | 0.5 | The relatives come to visit from Virginia, and everyone has a wonderful time. | 26 |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Scarecrow | 3.3 | 0.5 | Although made of straw and borrowed clothes, a scarecrow appreciates his peaceful, gentle life and the privilege of watching nature at work. | 30 |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Thimbleberry Stories | 4.8 | 1 | Nigel Chipmunk shares a pleasant life with his friends Dipper the hummingbird, Little Owl, Copper the butterfly, Claudius the garter snake, and Mudpuppy the salamander. | 56 |
| Rylant, Cynthia | When I Was Young in the Mountains | 3.6 | 0.5 | The story of an Appalachian childhood which evokes a love of a place, a family, and a way of life. | 29 |
| Sabuda, Robert | Tutankhamen's Gift | 5.4 | 0.5 | The story of a boy pharaoh in ancient Egypt. | 29 |
| Sachar, Louis | Dogs Don't Tell Jokes | 3.8 | 5 | Twelve-year-old Gary, known as Goon because of his constant clowning and joke-telling, tries to change his image and make new friends at school. | 209 |
| Sachar, Louis | Holes | 4.6 | 7 | As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert. | 233 |
| Sachar, Louis | Marvin Redpost: A Flying Birthday Cake? | 3.2 | 1 | Two days after Marvin sees a glowing green thing that looks like a flying birthday cake in the night sky, his third-grade class is joined by a mysterious new boy with peculiar behavior. | 76 |
| Sachar, Louis | Marvin Redpost: Alone in His Teacher's House | 2.9 | 1 | Marvin dog-sits his teacher's pet. | 83 |
| Sachar, Louis | Marvin Redpost: Class President | 3.4 | 1 | Even though they have all come to school in holey clothes, Marvin and his third grade class manage to impress their surprise visitor, the President of the United States. | 67 |
| Sachar, Louis | Marvin Redpost: Why Pick on Me? | 2.7 | 1 | Marvin is picked on by the class bully--and everyone else as well. | 64 |
| Sachar, Louis | Sideways Stories from Wayside School | 3.3 | 3 | Humorous episodes take place in the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story. | 124 |
| Sachar, Louis | There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom | 3.4 | 5 | An eleven-year-old misfit learns to believe in himself when he gets to know the new school counselor, who is a sort of misfit, too. | 195 |
| Sachar, Louis | Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger | 3.3 | 3 | Unusual things continue to happen in the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story. | 168 |
| Sachar, Louis | Wayside School Is Falling Down | 3.4 | 4 | More humorous episodes from the classroom on the 13th floor of Wayside School, where students learn to tango, face the cafeteria's dreaded Mushroom Surprise, and study a hobo during Show and Tell. Sequel to Sideways Stories from Wayside School. | 179 |
| Sachs, Marilyn | At the Sound of the Beep | 4.5 | 5 | Distraught at the thought of their parents divorcing, a brother and sister run away from home and take up residence in Golden Gate Park, where they encounter many homeless people and hear there is a murderer loose among them. | 154 |
| Saign, Geoffrey C. | Great Apes (First Book), The | 6 | 1 | Describes and compares the four great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and gorillas through a discussion of their physical, intellectual, emotional, and social characteristics. | 63 |
| Saint-Exupery, Antoine de | Little Prince, The | 5 | 2 | This enchanting fable tells the story of a pilot downed in the Sahara and a boy from outer space who teaches him the meaning of life. | 111 |
| Salas, Nichole | Night of the Kachina | 2.7 | 1 | Ray's visit to his great-grandfather in New Mexico results in a dangerous adventure in the ruins of a pueblo. | 44 |
| Salisbury, Graham | Lord of the Deep | 4 | 5 | Working for his stepfather on a charter fishing boat in Hawaii teaches Mikey about fishing, taking risks, and making sacrifices. | 182 |
| Salisbury, Graham | Under the Blood-Red Sun | 4 | 8 | Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a local bully until life with his Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941. | 246 |
| Salley, Coleen | Epossumondas | 3.9 | 0.5 | This is a retelling of a classic tale in which a well-intentioned young possum continually takes his mother's instructions much too literally. | 33 |
| Salten, Felix | Bambi | 4.9 | 6 | Bambi learns much about life and about people as he grows into a beautiful stag. | 190 |
| Sams/Stoick | Stranger in the Woods: A Photographic Fantasy | 2.9 | 0.5 | The resident birds and animals react to a snowman appearing in their woods after a winter storm. | 46 |
| Samuels, Barbara | Duncan and Dolores | 2.1 | 0.5 | Faye teaches Dolores a method for training her new kitten Duncan. | 29 |
| Samuels, Jenny | Nose Like a Hose, A | 1.9 | 0.5 | This book is a colorful, rhyming exploration of the many things an elephant can do with its unique nose. | 28 |
| San Souci, Robert D. | Birds of Killingworth, The | 4.9 | 0.5 | When her father persuades their colony to kill all the birds because they are eating the crops, Almira joins the schoolmaster in proving that the birds are not only beautiful, but, like all creatures, serve a larger purpose. | 32 |
| San Souci, Robert D. | Brave Margaret | 4.6 | 0.5 | In this retelling of an Irish folktale, a brave young woman battles a sea serpent and rescues her true love from a giant. | 36 |
| San Souci, Robert D. | Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella | 3.7 | 0.5 | A Creole variant of the familiar Cinderella tale set in the Caribbean and narrated by the godmother who helps Cendrillon find true love. | 36 |
| San Souci, Robert D. | Cinderella Skeleton | 5.2 | 0.5 | In this book, the famous story is retold of a young woman who finds her prince at a Halloween ball. | 32 |
| San Souci, Robert D. | Cut from the Same Cloth | 6.2 | 5 | Stories about the women of the United States who typify the strength, bravery, and humor of many regions and cultures in these folk pieces. | 128 |
| San Souci, Robert D. | Faithful Friend, The | 5.2 | 0.5 | A retelling of the traditional tale from the French West Indies in which two friends, Clement and Hippolyte, encounter love, zombies, and danger on the island of Martinique in the West Indies. | 33 |
| San Souci, Robert D. | Legend of Scarface | 5 | 0.5 | A retelling of the Blackfeet Indian tale about a noble but scarred young warrior who must persuade Father Sun to release Singing Rains from her vow to never marry. | 33 |
| San Souci, Robert D. | Snow Wife, The | 5.1 | 0.5 | When a Japanese woodcutter breaks his promise and describes his encounter with a terrifying snow woman, he loses his wife and must make a dangerous journey to win her back. | 29 |
| San Souci, Robert D. | Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella Story | 4.4 | 0.5 | This is the Native American version of Cinderella. | 32 |
| San Souci, Robert D. | Weave of Words, A | 4.7 | 0.5 | A reworking of an Armenian folktales in which a lazy prince learns to read, write, and weave his love only to have these very talents later save him from a three headed monster. | 30 |
| Sandburg, Carl | More Rootabagas | 5.2 | 2 | Recently discovered tales by the American poet. | 94 |
| Sassa/Simont | Stray Dog, The | 1.7 | 0.5 | A family befriends a stray dog, names him Willy, and decides to keep him. | 30 |
| Sathre, Vivian | Dog Overboard! | 4.2 | 5 | Wishbone imagines himself as a young Scottish lowlander bound for adventure and is kidnapped and forced to work as a cabin boy. | 139 |
| Sauer, Julia | Fog Magic | 6.1 | 4 | Story of a Nova Scotia girl for whom the fog blowing in from the sea had the power to transport her to her own secret world. | 107 |
| Saunders-Smith, Gail | Clouds (Weather) | 2 | 0.5 | Simple text and photographs describe different kinds of clouds and the types of weather they indicate. | 24 |
| Saunders-Smith, Gail | Rain (Weather) | 2 | 0.5 | Text and photographs simply describe what rain is and the cycle that repeatedly brings water to the earth. | 24 |
| Saunders-Smith, Gail | Sunshine (Weather) | 2.3 | 0.5 | Simple text and photographs describe the effects of light from the sun on earth and how it causes temperature changes, the seasons, winds, and clouds. | 24 |
| Sawyer, Ruth | Roller Skates | 6.3 | 8 | Ten-year-old Lucinda makes friends of all social classes in New York City while her wealthy parents spend the year in Europe. | 186 |
| Say, Allen | Bicycle Man, The | 3.8 | 0.5 | The amazing tricks two American soldiers do on a borrowed bicycle are a fitting finale for the school sports-day festivities in a small village in occupied Japan. | 38 |
| Say, Allen | Grandfather's Journey | 3.6 | 0.5 | A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America, which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries. | 32 |
| Say, Allen | Ink-Keeper's Apprentice, The | 4.8 | 7 | Master Noro will pass on more than a nickname to Kiyoi in Tokyo after World War II. His apprenticeship is an awakening, full of unusual sights, sounds, and people. | 149 |
| Say, Allen | Tree of Cranes | 2.6 | 0.5 | A Japanese boy learns of Christmas when his mother decorates a pine tree with paper cranes. | 32 |
| Scarry, Richard | Pie Rats Ahoy! | 2.1 | 0.5 | Uncle Willy uses a clever disguise to save his boat from a gang of pirates and make Busytown Bay safe again. | 32 |
| Schaefer, A.R. | Ken Griffey Jr. (Sports Heroes) | 4.6 | 0.5 | This book is a biography of the All-Star outfielder who, at the age of thirty, became the youngest player in baseball history to hit 400 career home runs, shortly after the Seattle Mariners traded him the Cincinnati Reds. | 48 |
| Schaefer, Jack | Old Ramon | 4.9 | 3 | A timeless story about an old shepherd, a young boy, and two brave dogs. | 102 |
| Schaefer, Lola M. | Wright Brothers (Famous People in Transportation), The | 2.2 | 0.5 | This book is about the lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright and their pioneering efforts in the development of the airplane. | 24 |
| Schanzer, Rosalyn | How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning | 5.1 | 0.5 | This book focuses on Benjamin Franklin's role as an inventor of whimsical gadgets and practical contraptions, with an emphasis on his experiment of flying a kite during a rainstorm. | 32 |
| Schanzer, Rosalyn | How We Crossed the West: The Adventures of Lewis & Clark | 6 | 1 | Describes the Lewis and Clark expedition across the west. | 40 |
| Schecter, Ellen | Boy Who Cried "Wolf!", The | 2.8 | 0.5 | Uses rebuses to retell the Aesop fable about a young boy whose false cries for help bring him to an unfortunate end. | 32 |
| Schecter, Ellen | I Love to Sneeze | 2.2 | 0.5 | A lover of sneezes describes the havoc wrought by such nasal explosions, which have the power to blow the whiskers off the cat and make freckles jump noses. | 32 |
| Schecter, Ellen | Sleep Tight, Pete | 2.3 | 0.5 | Pete's mother tells him three bedtime stories in which he is the hero. | 32 |
| Schecter, Ellen | Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, The | 3.9 | 0.5 | When the town mouse and the country mouse visit each other, they find they prefer very different ways of life. | 47 |
| Scheer, Julian | Rain Makes Applesauce | 2.5 | 0.5 | Nonsense book with incredibly detailed illustrations. A Caldecott Honor book. | 31 |
| Schertle, Alice | Down the Road | 3.4 | 0.5 | Hetty is very careful with the eggs she has bought on her very first trip to the store, but she runs into trouble when she stops to pick apples. | 33 |
| Schlein, Miriam | Year of the Panda, The | 3.4 | 1 | A Chinese boy rescues a starving baby panda, and in the process learns why pandas are endangered and what the government is doing to save them. | 83 |
| Schlessinger, Laura | Growing Up Is Hard | 3.3 | 0.5 | When a young boy has a day where nothing goes right, his father helps him deal with his feelings. | 31 |
| Schlessinger/Lambert | Why Do You Love Me? | 2.9 | 0.5 | A young boy asks his mother why she loves him and learns that her love is unconditional. | 35 |
| Schmandt-Besserat, Denise | History of Counting, The | 6.6 | 1 | This book describes the evolution of counting and the many ways to count and write numbers. | 45 |
| Schroeder, Alan | Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman | 3.6 | 0.5 | Young Harriet Tubman, whose childhood name was Minty, dreams of escaping slavery on the Brodas plantation in the late 1820s. | 35 |
| Schroeder, Alan | Smoky Mountain Rose: An Appalachian Cinderella | 4.1 | 0.5 | In this variation on the Cinderella story, based on the Charles Perrault version set in the Smoky Mountains, Rose loses her glass slipper. | 29 |
| Schulz, Walter | Will and Orv | 2.9 | 0.5 | On a windy day in Kitty Hawk, N. C., in 1903, the Wright Brothers attempt to make history as they prepare the 'Flyer' for the world's first engine-powered flight. | 48 |
| Schumaker, Ward | Sing a Song of Circus | 2.5 | 0.5 | Two balloons escape from their bunch and join the circus, bringing water to the elephants, serving popcorn and soft drinks, and playing with the seals. | 29 |
| Schwartz, Alvin | Ghosts! Ghostly Tales from Folklore | 2.7 | 0.5 | This book contains ghostly tales from folklore. | 63 |
| Schwartz, Alvin | In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories | 2.5 | 0.5 | Seven scary stories to tell at night in front of a fire or in the dark, based on traditional stories and folktales from various countries. | 63 |
| Schwartz, Alvin | More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark | 4.7 | 1 | Retellings of over two dozen tales about abandoned graveyards and ghastly deeds. | 80 |
| Schwartz, Alvin | Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark | 4.1 | 1 | Stories of ghosts and witches gathered from American folklore. | 87 |
| Schwartz, Amy | Annabelle Swift, Kindergartner | 2.8 | 0.5 | Although some of the things her older sister taught her at home seem a little unusual at school, other lessons help make Annabelle's first day in kindergarten a success. | 28 |
| Schwartz, David M. | How Much Is a Million? | 3.4 | 0.5 | Examples from Marvelosissimo the Magician explain the concepts a million, a billion, and a trillion. | 34 |
| Schwartz, David M. | If You Hopped Like a Frog | 3.4 | 0.5 | This book introduces the concept of ratio by comparing what humans would be able to do if they had bodies like different animals. | 30 |
| Schwartz, David M. | If You Made a Million | 4.1 | 0.5 | Describes the various forms which money can take, including coins, paper money, and personal checks, and how it can be used to make purchases, pay off loans, or build interest in the bank. | 33 |
| Scieszka, Jon | Baloney (Henry P.) | 2.7 | 0.5 | A transmission received from outer space in a combination of different Earth languages tells of an alien schoolboy's fantastic excuse for being late to school again. | 34 |
| Scieszka, Jon | Frog Prince Continued, The | 3.2 | 0.5 | After the frog turns into a prince, he and the Princess do not live happily ever after and the Prince decides to look for a witch to help him remedy the situation. | 28 |
| Scieszka, Jon | Good, the Bad, and the Goofy, The | 3.8 | 1 | Joe, Sam, and Fred are cowboys who find the Wild West just a bit too wild. | 70 |
| Scieszka, Jon | It's All Greek to Me | 3.7 | 1 | As they are about to go on stage, Joe, Fred, and Sam are transported back to the time of Zeus and the other gods in Greek mythology, who, strangely enough, behave much as the characters in the trio's class play. | 73 |
| Scieszka, Jon | Knights of the Kitchen Table | 3.8 | 1 | When Joe, Fred, and Sam are sent back in time by a magic book, they find themselves face to face with giants, dragons, wizards, King Arthur, and the Knights of the Round Table. | 55 |
| Scieszka, Jon | Math Curse | 3.7 | 0.5 | When the teacher tells her class that they can think of almost everything as a math problem, one student acquires a math anxiety which becomes a real curse. | 29 |
| Scieszka, Jon | Not-So-Jolly Roger, The | 3.8 | 1 | Joe receives a mysterious book from his uncle, and soon Joe and his friends travel back in time to a pirate adventure on the high seas. | 57 |
| Scieszka, Jon | See You Later, Gladiator | 4.2 | 2 | Joe, Fred, and Sam demonstrate some of their professional wrestling moves, when they're transported to ancient Rome and forced to fight as gladiators in the Colosseum. | 87 |
| Scieszka, Jon | Squids Will Be Squids | 3.8 | 0.5 | Contemporary fables with tongue-in-cheek morals address such topics as homework, curfews, and television commercials. | 42 |
| Scieszka, Jon | Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, The | 3.4 | 0.5 | Madcap revisions of familiar fairy tales, including 'Jack and the Bean Soup,' 'Goldilocks and the Three Elephants,' and 'Cinderumplestilskin.' | 49 |
| Scieszka, Jon | Summer Reading Is Killing Me! | 3.9 | 1 | At the beginning of summer vacation Joe, Sam, and Fred find themselves trapped inside their summer reading list, involved in a battle between good and evil characters from well-known children's books. | 69 |
| Scieszka, Jon | True Story of the 3 Little Pigs, The | 3 | 0.5 | The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs. | 26 |
| Scieszka, Jon | Tut, Tut | 4.2 | 2 | Because of a magical time travel book, the kids are dodging crocodiles and trying to outwit the evil high priest. | 73 |
| Scieszka, Jon | Your Mother Was a Neanderthal | 3.7 | 1 | The Time Warp Trio find themselves in the middle of an adventure in prehistoric times, where cave art is a form of graffiti and "rock" music takes on a whole new meaning. | 76 |
| Scotellaro, Robert | Daddy Fixed the Vacuum Cleaner | 3.2 | 0.5 | One day Daddy decides to fix the vacuum cleaner. It seemed like a good idea. The only thing is, now it works so well that nothing is safe when it's turned on...not even the baby's diaper! | 22 |
| Scott, Janine | Mapping Our World (Social Studies) | 2.6 | 0.5 | This book is a brief introduction to making and using maps. | 24 |
| Scott/Vogel | Ivanhoe (Great Illustrated Classics) | 5.9 | 3 | Invanhoe returns home, finding his name dishonored. He fights for his name, rights, people, and the woman he loves. | 238 |
| Seidensticker/Lumpkin | Dangerous Animals (Nature Company Discoveries Library) | 7 | 1 | Provides information on various dangerous animals and their natural weapons. | 61 |
| Seidler, Tor | Mean Margaret | 4.7 | 4 | Will Margaret ever realize that there's more to life than being mean? | 165 |
| Seidler, Tor | Rat's Tale, A | 5.4 | 5 | Montague Mad-Rat learns about life and love after meeting his namesake. | 186 |
| Seidler, Tor | Tar Pit, The | 5.8 | 5 | Edward seeks refuge from his problems at school and at home by visiting his special spot at a nearby tar pit, and daydreaming of being a hero with a dinosaur friend. | 168 |
| Seidler, Tor | Wainscott Weasel, The | 4.6 | 5 | The lonely weasel Bagley Brown falls in love with Bridget the fish and saves her from certain death in this animal fantasy. | 193 |
| Selby, Jennifer | Seed Bunny, The | 2.9 | 0.5 | When Sam discovers a loose front tooth, his mother explains that after it falls out, the Seed Bunny will take it away and leave carrot seeds in its place. | 12 |
| Selden, George | Chester Cricket's New Home | 4.6 | 3 | One glorious spring day, Chester Cricket finds himself buried in rubble when two overweight picnickers sit on the old stump in which he lives. Though rescued by his friend Simon Turtle, Chester is forlorn without his own home. | 142 |
| Selden, George | Cricket in Times Square, The | 4.9 | 4 | Chester the cricket resides in a newsstand in Times Square. He has many adventures, climaxing with the rescue of the newsstand owner from financial disaster. | 151 |
| Selznick, Brian | Boy of a Thousand Faces, The | 4.8 | 0.5 | Obsessed with horror films, ten-year-old Alonzo dreams of transforming himself into "The Boy of a Thousand Faces" and gets his wish in an unexpected way. | 35 |
| Selznick, Brian | Houdini Box, The | 5 | 0.5 | A chance encounter with Harry Houdini leaves a small boy in possession of a mysterious box--one that might hold the secrets to the greatest magic tricks ever performed. | 52 |
| Sendak, Maurice | Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or There Must Be More to Life | 3.6 | 1 | Jennie, a terrier who has everything, decides that there must be more to life. She leaves her loving master and sets out on a quest to find the answer. | 69 |
| Sendak, Maurice | Sign on Rosie's Door, The | 2.4 | 0.5 | Rosie changes into a lovely lady singer, Alinda. Magic Man turns Alinda back into Rosie at the Fourth of July party, but she soon finds something else nice to be. | 47 |
| Sendak, Maurice | Where the Wild Things Are | 3.4 | 0.5 | A naughty little boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails to the land of the wild things where he becomes their king. | 21 |
| Seredy, Kate | Good Master, The | 4.4 | 5 | Two cousins spend an adventurous year on a ranch in the Hungarian plains. | 196 |
| Seredy, Kate | White Stag, The | 6.6 | 2 | The Huns and Magyars migrate from Asia to Europe, where they hope to find a permanent home. | 94 |
| Service, Pamela F. | Reluctant God, The | 6.3 | 9 | He is a pharaoh's young son in ancient Egypt. She is the daughter of a modern archaeologist. Their worlds collide when Lorna walks in the hills near her father's digs. | 182 |
| Service, Pamela F. | Stinker from Space | 5.1 | 2 | An agent of the Sylon Confederacy fleeing from enemy ships crash-lands on Earth, transfers his mind to the body of a skunk, and enlists the aid of two children in getting back to his home planet. | 84 |
| Seth, Marie | Dream of the Dead | 2.7 | 1 | A young woman visiting her childhood friend in Scotland is pursued by the restless spirit of a 200-year-old girl. | 59 |
| Settel, Joanne | Exploding Ants: Amazing Facts About How Animals Adapt | 6.4 | 1 | This book describes examples of animal behavior that may strike humans as disgusting, including the "gross" ways animals find food, shelter, and safety in the natural world. | 39 |
| Seuss, Dr. | 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, The | 4 | 1 | Bartholomew provokes the king when hats magically appear on his head every time he removes one. | 48 |
| Seuss, Dr. | And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street | 3.6 | 0.5 | A boy imagines a series of incredible sights on his way home from school so that he will have an interesting report to give his father. | 30 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Bartholomew and the Oobleck | 3.2 | 0.5 | The King, tired of rain, snow, sun, and fog, commands his magicians to make something else come down from the sky; but when oobleck falls in sticky greenish droplets, Bartholomew Cubbins shames the King and saves the kingdom. | 46 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Butter Battle Book, The | 3.9 | 0.5 | Engaged in a long running battle, the Yooks and the Zooks develop more and more sophisticated weaponry as they attempt to outdo each other. | 42 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Cat in the Hat Comes Back, The | 2.1 | 0.5 | Two children are left with chores to do and get unexpected help from the Cat in the Hat. | 63 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Cat in the Hat, The | 2.1 | 0.5 | Two children sitting at home on a rainy day are visited by the Cat in the Hat who shows them some tricks and games. | 61 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Cat's Quizzer, The | 2.7 | 0.5 | The Cat in the Hat plays quizmaster by challenging the reader with both entertaining and educational questions such as "Are freckles catching?" and "How old do you have to be to drive a car?" | 62 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? | 3.5 | 0.5 | Compared to the problems of some of the creatures the old man describes, the boy is really quite lucky. | 48 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Dr. Seuss's ABC | 2.1 | 0.5 | A fun introduction to the alphabet by the creator of "The Cat in the Hat." | 63 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book | 4 | 0.5 | A story in rhyme about how a yawning bug sets off a chain reaction of yawns until everyone finally goes to sleep. | 54 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Eye Book, The | 0.8 | 0.5 | A boy and rabbit both have two eyes that see all kinds of things, from blue and red to a bird and a bed. | 32 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Foot Book, The | 0.6 | 0.5 | Text and pictures tell about many kinds of feet--front feet, back feet, red feet, black feet, slow feet, quick feet, trick feet, sick feet. | 27 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Fox in Socks | 2.1 | 0.5 | A series of tongue-twisting verses beginning with fox in socks. | 61 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Great Day for Up! | 0.8 | 0.5 | Rhymed text and illustrations introduce the many meanings of "up." | 26 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Green Eggs and Ham | 1.5 | 0.5 | It takes much effort before Sam-I-am can convince another person to try green eggs and ham. | 62 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Happy Birthday to You! | 3.1 | 0.5 | Describes a birthday celebration in Katroo presided over by the Birthday Bird. | 51 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Hop on Pop | 1.5 | 0.5 | Pairs of rhyming words are introduced and used in simple sentences, such as "Day, Play. We play all day. Night. Fight. We fight all night.'" | 64 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Horton Hatches the Egg | 3.1 | 0.5 | When a lazy bird hatching an egg wants a vacation, she asks Horton, the elephant, to sit on her egg. He goes through all sorts of hazards until he is rewarded for doing what he said he would. | 30 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Horton Hears a Who! | 3.3 | 0.5 | A city of Whos on a speck of dust are threatened with destruction until the smallest Who of all helps convince Horton's friends that Whos really exist. | 60 |
| Seuss, Dr. | How the Grinch Stole Christmas | 3 | 0.5 | The Grinch tries to stop Christmas from arriving by stealing all the presents and food from the village; but much to his surprise, it comes anyway. Could Christmas be more than presents? | 50 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Hunches in Bunches | 2.9 | 0.5 | A boy has a difficult time making decisions even though there is a vocal bunch of Hunches to help him. | 38 |
| Seuss, Dr. | I Am Not Going to Get Up Today! | 2.1 | 0.5 | Chronicles a family's attempts to get one brother out of bed. | 40 |
| Seuss, Dr. | I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today | 2.9 | 0.5 | Three stories in verse: I Can Lick Thirty Tigers Today!, King Looie Katz, and the Glunk That Got Thunk. | 59 |
| Seuss, Dr. | I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! | 2.2 | 0.5 | The Cat in the Hat takes Young Cat in tow to show him the fun he can get out of reading. | 40 |
| Seuss, Dr. | I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew | 3.6 | 0.5 | Walking while not looking is the beginning of a young boy's problems. | 59 |
| Seuss, Dr. | If I Ran the Circus | 3.9 | 0.5 | Young Morris McGurk has big plans for starting a circus in the vacant lot behind Snellocks' Store. | 58 |
| Seuss, Dr. | If I Ran the Zoo | 4.1 | 0.5 | Young Gerald McGrew imagines the animal he'd have in the zoo if he were in charge. | 54 |
| Seuss, Dr. | King's Stilts, The | 4.1 | 0.5 | When the King's stilts are stolen and hidden and he can no longer enjoy his play hour, the whole kingdom is threatened with destruction until a page boy bravely saves the day. | 44 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Lorax, The | 3.1 | 0.5 | The Once-ler describes the results of the local pollution problem. | 61 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! | 1.1 | 0.5 | Suggests in rhyme a number of ways Marvin K. Mooney can travel as long as he gets going. | 26 |
| Seuss, Dr. | McElligot's Pool | 3.6 | 0.5 | A boy imagines the rare and wonderful fish he might catch in McElligot's pool. | 52 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? | 1.8 | 0.5 | Mr. Brown is an expert at imitating all sorts of noises. | 28 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Oh Say Can You Say? | 4 | 0.5 | A collection of silly verse tongue-twisters. | 38 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Oh, the Places You'll Go! | 3.3 | 0.5 | Advice in rhyme for proceeding in life; weathering fear, loneliness, confusion, and being in charge of your actions. | 44 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! | 1.8 | 0.5 | Relates in verse some of the unusual thinks you can think if only you try. | 39 |
| Seuss, Dr. | On Beyond Zebra | 4.2 | 0.5 | A fun way to learn and remember the alphabet. | 54 |
| Seuss, Dr. | One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish | 1.7 | 0.5 | Another story in rhyme from Dr. Seuss. | 63 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Scrambled Eggs Super! | 4.4 | 0.5 | Tired of scrambled eggs always tasting the same, Peter T. Hooper goes on a great egg hunt for his new recipe. | 52 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Shape of Me and Other Stuff | 1.7 | 0.5 | Rhyme and silhouette drawings introduce the shape of bugs, balloons, peanuts, camels, spider webs, and many other familiar objects. | 26 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Sneetches and Other Stories, The | 3.4 | 0.5 | Four short stories including: The Sneetches, The Zax, Too Many Daves, and What Was I Scared Of? | 65 |
| Seuss, Dr. | There's a Wocket in My Pocket! | 2.1 | 0.5 | A household of unusual creatures help beginning readers recognize common "household" words. | 26 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose | 3.4 | 0.5 | The story of what happened to the big-hearted moose whose kindness would tolerate others riding on his antlers. | 38 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Tooth Book, The | 2.1 | 0.5 | This book points out what animals have teeth, their uses, and how to care for them. | 40 |
| Seuss, Dr. | Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories | 3.3 | 0.5 | Includes three humorous stories in verse: Yertle the Turtle, Gertrude McFuzz, and The Big Brag. | 75 |
| Seuss, Dr. | You're Only Old Once! | 5.2 | 0.5 | In Dr. Seuss' first book for older people, this tale in the familiar Seuss format depicts aging and what life is like for "obsolete children." | 42 |
| Sewell, Anna | Black Beauty (Unabridged) | 7.7 | 11 | A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters. | 240 |
| Sewell/Laiken | Black Beauty (Great Illustrated Classics) | 5 | 2 | This classic tale, told from a horse's point of view, is about a life filled with meanness and cruelty, but also love and tenderness. | 232 |
| Shahan, Sherry | Fifth-Grade Crush | 3.9 | 2 | Tracy would never forget the first time she spotted the new teacher, Mr. Arnold. He was the cutest guy she had ever seen. She just had to make sure that she was assigned to his classroom. Then she would make sure that he noticed her. But how? | 123 |
| Shahan, Sherry | Sixth-Grade Crush | 4.2 | 2 | Tracy has a formula for love that she's sure will win the heart of her school's new softball coach. First, she has to get on the team. But before she can even do that, she has to bring her math grade up...or make sure no one finds out how bad it is! | 141 |
| Shalant, Phyllis | Beware of Kissing Lizard Lips | 4.2 | 5 | Zach is tired of being the shortest, scrawniest boy in sixth grade, and when he discovers girls he aims to change his image. | 183 |
| Shannon, David | Bad Case of Stripes, A | 3.8 | 0.5 | Camilla Cream worries so much about what other people think of her that she's about to break out in a bad case of stripes. | 30 |
| Shannon, David | David Goes to School | 0.9 | 0.5 | David's teacher has her hands full. From running in the halls to chewing gum in class, David's high-energy antics fill each school day with trouble. | 30 |
| Shannon, David | Duck on a Bike | 2 | 0.5 | When Duck gets the zany idea to ride a bike one day, each animal on the farm has a reaction. | 30 |
| Shannon, David | Rain Came Down, The | 3.2 | 0.5 | Once upon a sunny day, the sky clouded over, and the rain came down. The chickens squawked, the dog barked, the baby cried, and still, the rain came down. | 32 |
| Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman | Getting Something on Maggie Marmelstein | 4.2 | 2 | After Thad embarrasses Maggie and she retaliates by embarrassing him even more, he plots revenge. | 101 |
| Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman | Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport | 2.8 | 0.5 | A small boy's reluctance to move west from his home in New York City is increased by his wild imaginings. | 28 |
| Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman | Great Genghis Khan Look-Alike Contest, The | 2.5 | 1 | Fred grooms his dog to become a Hollywood star. | 73 |
| Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman | Nate the Great | 2 | 0.5 | Super-detective Nate tracks down Annie's missing picture and finds a lost cat in the bargain. | 50 |
| Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman | Nate the Great and the Missing Key | 2.9 | 0.5 | Nate must solve the riddle of Rosamond's strange poem in order to find Annie's missing house key. | 47 |
| Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman | Nate the Great and the Stolen Base | 2.9 | 0.5 | Nate searches for a purple octopus who's needed as a base on the ball field. | 47 |
| Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman | Nate the Great Goes down in the Dumps | 2.6 | 0.5 | When Rosamond looks into her crystal ball to read Nate the Great's future, she sees a new case for him to solve--her money box is missing and she wants him to find it. | 48 |
| Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman | Nate the Great Stalks Stupidweed | 2.7 | 0.5 | Nate the Great searches for a missing weed after it disappears from a pot on Oliver's porch. | 42 |
| Sharmat, Marjorie/Craig | Nate the Great and the Tardy Tortoise | 2.5 | 0.5 | As more and more of his flowers display the bite marks of a tortoise, Nate sets out to uncover the mystery of the reptile's origin. | 42 |
| Sharmat, Marjorie/Mitchell | Nate the Great, San Francisco Detective | 2.6 | 0.5 | Nate the Great goes to San Francisco where he solves a mystery for his cousin Olivia Sharp, who is also a detective. | 48 |
| Sharmat, Mitchell | Gregory, the Terrible Eater | 2.8 | 0.5 | A very picky eater, Gregory the goat refuses the usual goat diet staples of shoes and tin cans in favor of fruits, vegetables, eggs, and orange juice. | 28 |
| Shaw, Janet | Happy Birthday, Kirsten! | 4 | 1 | On a Minnesota farm in the mid-1800s, the hard-working members of the Larson family find time to celebrate Kirsten's tenth birthday. | 52 |
| Shaw, Janet | Kirsten's Surprise | 3.9 | 1 | Kirsten and her family celebrate their first Christmas in their new home on Uncle Olav's farm, in mid-nineteenth-century Minnesota. | 62 |
| Shaw, Janet | Meet Kirsten | 3.8 | 1 | Nine-year-old Kirsten and her family endure many hardships as they travel from Sweden to their new home in America in 1854. | 61 |
| Shaw, Nancy | Sheep in a Jeep | 1 | 0.5 | Records the misadventures of a group of sheep that go riding in a jeep. | 32 |
| Shaw, Nancy | Sheep out to Eat | 1.2 | 0.5 | Five hungry sheep discover that a tea shop may not be the best place to eat. | 31 |
| Shea, George | Strike Two | 3.4 | 1 | Al has a chance to become a member of the St. Louis baseball team if they will overlook his past and give him a try. | 60 |
| Shearer, Deborah A. | Space Missions (Explore Space!) | 4.3 | 0.5 | This book describes past space missions and explains the types of missions scientists and astronauts perform during space travel, remotely by robot, and on the international space station. | 24 |
| Shefelman, Janice | Mare for Young Wolf, A | 2.6 | 0.5 | Teased for choosing a mare for his first horse, Young Wolf learns how to ride like a warrior. | 48 |
| Shelley/Vogel | Frankenstein (Great Illustrated Classics) | 6.1 | 3 | While trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control and sets into motion a long and tragic chain of events. | 238 |
| Shelley/Weinberg | Frankenstein | 2.8 | 1 | This easy-to-read version of the classic tale tells the story of a monster, assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies, who develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and his creator. | 94 |
| Shemin, Margaretha | Little Riders, The | 5.4 | 2 | An American girl living in Nazi-occupied Holland resents the presence of a German soldier quartered in her grandparents' home, until the night she tries to hide part of the town's treasured clock mechanism. | 76 |
| Shepherd, Donna Walsh | Auroras: Light Shows in the Night Sky | 7 | 1 | Discusses the phenomenon of auroras, where they are found, the different types, and what forms them. | 63 |
| Shreve, Susan | Flunking of Joshua T. Bates, The | 5.1 | 2 | Joshua thinks he will be in the third grade forever, until he meets Mrs. Goodwin, a very surprising teacher. | 90 |
| Shreve, Susan | Gift of the Girl Who Couldn't Hear, The | 4.9 | 2 | Two friends, one of whom is deaf, help each other when tryouts are held for a seventh-grade production of Annie. | 79 |
| Shub, Elizabeth | White Stallion, The | 3 | 0.5 | Gretchen would never forget her wonderful friend, a proud white stallion that roamed the plains of Texas. | 54 |
| Shulevitz, Uri | Snow | 1.6 | 0.5 | As Snowflakes slowly come down, one by one people in the city ignore them, and only a boy and his dog think the snow fall will amount to anything. | 28 |
| Shura, Mary Francis | Search for Grissi, The | 5 | 4 | Eleven-year-old Peter feels uncomfortable at home and school after his family moves to Brooklyn, until his search for his sister's missing cat opens up a new life for him. | 126 |
| Shusterman, Neal | Dark Side of Nowhere, The | 5.8 | 8 | Fourteen year-old Jason faces an identity crisis after discovering that he is the son of aliens who stayed on Earth following a botched invasion mission. | 185 |
| Shuter, Jane | Ancient Egyptians (History Starts Here!), The | 4.6 | 0.5 | This book examines many different aspects of ancient Egyptian society, including religion, leisure, medicine, art, and technology. | 32 |
| Sidney, Margaret | Five Little Peppers and How They Grew | 7.9 | 13 | For the five poor Pepper children, life is very hard until Jasper King tumbles into their lives. | 290 |
| Siegal, Aranka | Upon the Head of the Goat | 5.5 | 10 | The fictionalized story of one Hungarian Jewish family's struggle to retain their ties, traditions, and self-respect during the Holocaust. | 183 |
| Sierra, Judy | Monster Goose | 4 | 0.5 | This book is a collection of nursery rhymes, rewritten to feature vampires, ghouls, mummies, the Loch Ness monster, and other fearsome creatures. | 53 |
| Silverman, Erica | Big Pumpkin | 2.8 | 0.5 | A Halloween tale about a witch who plants a pumpkin seed in hopes of a tasty pie. | 27 |
| Silverstein, Alvin | Sea Otter (Endangered in America), The | 7.2 | 2 | This book presents a wealth of information about the sea otters and efforts to save them. | 64 |
| Silverstein, Shel | Giving Tree, The | 2.6 | 0.5 | An apple tree shares all it has with a boy from the time he is very young until he is very old. | 35 |
| Silverstein, Shel | Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back | 4.9 | 1 | After leaving the jungle for the circus and a life of fame and wealth, a lion who taught himself to be the best shot in the world discovers he's not really a lion anymore, and not really a man, either. | 110 |
| Silverstein, Shel | Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros? | 2.8 | 0.5 | There are lots of things a rhino can do around one's house, including eating bad report cards before one's parents see them, tiptoeing downstairs for a midnight snack, and collecting extra allowance. | 56 |
| Simmons, Steven J. | Percy to the Rescue | 3.3 | 0.5 | A pigeon, who loves flying around London enjoying the sights, finds a way to help two boys who are stranded on an island in Hyde Park. | 28 |
| Simon, Seymour | Animals Nobody Loves | 5 | 0.5 | Text and striking photographs reveal the truth about some of nature's most misunderstood animals. | 46 |
| Simon, Seymour | Oceans | 5.8 | 0.5 | This book explores the physical characteristics, life forms, and fragility of the world's oceans. | 32 |
| Simon, Seymour | Volcanoes | 5.1 | 0.5 | This book looks at how volcanoes are formed, and some of the famous and destructive eruptions that have occurred around the world | 28 |
| Sims, Matt | Red Gem Mine (Sound Out), The | 2.1 | 0.5 | Each day Pete digs and digs but has not yet found one red gem. Jake, his mule, turns out to be quite a miner. | 27 |
| Sims, Matt | Up the Hill (Sound Out) | 2 | 0.5 | Kim and Jan race to the top of the hill where a "fortunate" mishap gives Jan the pep she needs for the race down. | 27 |
| Singer, Bill | Fox with Cold Feet, The | 1.9 | 0.5 | Wanting to protect his feet from the snow, Fox collects an odd assortment of make-shift boots from his animal friends in return for doing them favors, but just who benefits most is questionable. | 47 |
| Singer, Marilyn | Pair of Wings, A | 5.1 | 0.5 | This book looks at the variety of wings, as well as how they are used and how they make their owners unlike any other creatures. | 32 |
| Skurzynski, Gloria | Dangerous Ground | 4.6 | 5 | Before moving out of state, eleven-year-old Angela accompanies her beloved seventy-eight-year-old great-aunt Hil to Yellowstone National Park, where Hil's strange behavior suggests she may be losing her sanity. | 152 |
| Skurzynski, Gloria | Minstrel in the Tower, The | 4.2 | 1 | In the year 1195, eleven-year-old Roger and his eight-year-old sister Alice travel the French countryside in search of their ailing mother's estranged brother, a wealthy baron. | 62 |
| Skurzynski/Ferguson | Ghost Horses | 5.5 | 5 | Visiting Zion National Park with his family, twelve-year-old Jack encounters two mysteries; the strange behavior of a band of wild mustangs and the possibly sinister actions of his new foster brother, a Shoshone boy. | 145 |
| Skurzynski/Ferguson | Hunted, The | 5.4 | 5 | At Glacier National Park to investigate why grizzly bear cubs are disappearing, the Landon family becomes involved with a ten-year-old Mexican runaway boy. | 147 |
| Skurzynski/Ferguson | Wolf Stalker | 5.1 | 5 | Twelve-year-old Jack, his younger sister, and the family's teenage foster child Troy go to Yellowstone National Park, where Jack's mother, a wildlife veterinarian, is investigating the report that wolves reintroduced to the Park have killed a dog there. | 147 |
| Slate, Joseph | Little Porcupine's Christmas | 2.5 | 0.5 | Even though the other animals exclude him from the Christmas play because of his quills, Little Porcupine still ends up in a starring role. | 32 |
| Slate, Joseph | Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten | 1.5 | 0.5 | Miss Bindergarten gets her students ready for kindergarten by teaching them the alphabet. | 37 |
| Slate, Joseph | Miss Bindergarten Plans a Circus with Kindergarten | 1.9 | 0.5 | Miss Bindergarten plans a circus with her kindergarten class. | 40 |
| Slate, Joseph | Miss Bindergarten Takes a Field Trip with Kindergarten | 1.7 | 0.5 | Miss Bindergarten and her kindergarten take a field trip to businesses around their town. | 40 |
| Slepian, Jan | Broccoli Tapes, The | 4 | 6 | During a stay in Hawaii with her family, Sara reports her experiences by tape back to her sixth-grade class in Boston, detailing her 'adoption' of a wild cat, a friendship with a Hawaiian boy, and the death of a beloved grandmother. | 157 |
| Sloat, Teri | Farmer Brown Goes Round and Round | 3.2 | 0.5 | A twister strikes Farmer Brown's farm and mixes the animals all up, so that the cows oinked, sheep clucked, hens brayed, and his hound neighed. | 28 |
| Slobodkina, Esphyr | Caps for Sale | 3.1 | 0.5 | Charming folktale as a peddler of caps runs into trouble when monkeys steal his wares. | 21 |
| Slote, Alfred | Finding Buck McHenry | 3.5 | 6 | Eleven-year-old Jason, believing the school custodian Mack Henry to be Buck McHenry, a famous pitcher from the old Negro League, tries to enlist him as a coach for his Little League team by revealing his identity to the world. | 250 |
| Slote, Alfred | My Robot Buddy | 3.6 | 1 | When an evil robotnapper starts lurking around the neighborhood, Jack needs all the help he can get from his look-alike robot friend, Danny One. | 70 |
| Slote, Alfred | My Trip to Alpha I | 4.3 | 1 | Voya-code is the most sophisticated form of interplanetary travel, but a young boy finds it is not without dangers. | 96 |
| Slote, Alfred | Trading Game, The | 3.3 | 5 | During a summer of baseball and baseball-card trading, eleven-year-old Andy makes discoveries about his father and grandfather, who played professional baseball, along with discovering himself. | 200 |
| Small, David | Imogene's Antlers | 2.6 | 0.5 | One Thursday, Imogene wakes up with a pair of antlers growing out of her head and causes a sensation wherever she goes. | 26 |
| Smith, A.G. | What Time Is It? | 7.6 | 2 | This book explains how calendars were invented, how people kept track of time before clocks were used, what time is, and more. | 85 |
| Smith, Dodie | Hundred and One Dalmatians, The | 5.4 | 7 | All over England, Dalmatian puppies are disappearing. It is up to Pongo and Missis, "a young married couple of Dalmatians," to save their own missing puppies. Fortunately, they have Mr. and Mrs. Dearly and all the country's dogs to aid their search. | 199 |
| Smith, Doris Buchanan | Taste of Blackberries, A | 4 | 2 | A little boy confronts grief and wrestles with the pain of loss when his best friend dies. | 85 |
| Smith, Lane | Happy Hocky Family, The | 2 | 0.5 | A whimsical tribute to family life seen through a baby's eyes. | 61 |
| Smith, Robert Kimmel | Bobby Baseball | 3.9 | 5 | Ten-year-old Bobby is passionate about baseball and convinced that he is a great player. The only problem is getting the chance to prove his skill, especially to his father. | 165 |
| Smith, Robert Kimmel | Chocolate Fever | 4.2 | 1 | Henry eats so much chocolate that he makes medical history by getting the first recorded case of Chocolate Fever. | 93 |
| Smith, Robert Kimmel | Jelly Belly | 4.1 | 4 | It's tough for eleven-year-old Ned to stop eating. At 4 feet 8 inches tall, he weighs 109 pounds and keeps growing wider. | 155 |
| Smith, Robert Kimmel | War with Grandpa, The | 3.9 | 3 | Peter is thrilled to hear that Grandpa is coming to live with him, until he finds out that he will have to give up his room. Peter decides that it will take a war to regain his room, but Grandpa has ideas of his own for retaining the room. | 140 |
| Smith, Roland | Captain's Dog, The | 5.8 | 8 | Captain Meriwether Lewis's dog Seaman describes his experiences as he accompanies his master on the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore the uncharted western wilderness. | 287 |
| Smith, Roland | Jaguar | 4.5 | 8 | While accompanying his father on an expedition up the Amazon River, Jacob must contend with dangerous animals and fortune-hunters. | 247 |
| Smith, Roland | Last Lobo, The | 4.7 | 5 | When Jake, a teenager, follows his grandfather on a visit to their Hopi tribal homeland in Arizona, he finds himself fighting to save an endangered Mexican wolf. | 178 |
| Smith, Roland | Sasquatch | 4.5 | 5 | In an attempt to protect the resident Sasquatch from ruthless hunters, thirteen-year-old Dylan follows his father into the woods on the slopes of Mount Saint Helens, which is on the brink of another eruption. | 188 |
| Smith, Roland | Thunder Cave | 4.2 | 9 | Determined after his mother's accidental death to foil his stepfather's plans for his future, fourteen-year-old Jacob travels alone to Africa in search of his father, a biologist studying elephants in a remote area of Kenya. | 249 |
| Smith, Roland | Zach's Lie | 4.3 | 7 | When Jack Osborne is befriended by his school's custodian and a Basque girl, he begins to adjust to his family's sudden move to Nevada, after entering the Witness Security Program. However, the drug cartel is determined to track them down. | 211 |
| Smith/Schmidt | In the Forest with the Elephants | 5.9 | 1 | Describes how elephants are trained to help in the timber camps of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, and their important contribution to the selective and sustainable harvesting of teak there. | 56 |
| Snicket, Lemony | Austere Academy, The | 6.7 | 6 | As their outrageous misfortune continues, the Baudelaire orphans are shipped off to a miserable boarding school, and find that they have been followed by the dreaded Count Olaf. | 221 |
| Snicket, Lemony | Bad Beginning, The | 6.4 | 4 | After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune. | 162 |
| Snicket, Lemony | Carnivorous Carnival, The | 6.6 | 7 | On the run as suspected murderers, the unlucky Baudelaire orphans find themselves trapped in the Caligari Carnival, where they must masquerade as freaks in order to hide from the evil Count Olaf. | 286 |
| Snicket, Lemony | Ersatz Elevator, The | 6.6 | 7 | The woeful saga of the Baudelaire orphans continues as evil Count Olaf discovers their whereabouts at EsméCarnival, where they must masquerade as freaks in order to hide from the evil Count Olaf. | 259 |
| Snicket, Lemony | Hostile Hospital, The | 6.9 | 6 | On the run after being falsely accused of murder, the three Baudelaire orphans find themselves in Heimlich Hospital, with the evil Count Olaf in close pursuit. | 255 |
| Snicket, Lemony | Miserable Mill, The | 6.2 | 5 | Accidents, evil plots, and general misfortune abound when, in their continuing search for a home, the Baudelaire orphans are sent to live and work in a sinister lumbermill. | 194 |
| Snicket, Lemony | Reptile Room, The | 6.3 | 5 | After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetologist with whom they live happily for an all-too-brief time. | 190 |
| Snicket, Lemony | Slippery Slope, The | 7.1 | 9 | In the perilous Mortmain Mountains, Klaus and Violet Baudelaire meet another well-read person, who helps them try to rescue Sunny from the villainous Count Olaf and his henchmen as they all near "the last safe place." | 337 |
| Snicket, Lemony | Vile Village, The | 6.7 | 7 | Under a new government program based on the saying "It takes a village to raise a child," the Baudelaire orphans are adopted by an entire town, with disastrous results. | 256 |
| Snicket, Lemony | Wide Window, The | 6.3 | 5 | Catastrophes and misfortune continue to plague the Baudelaire orphans after they are sent to live with fearful Aunt Josephine, who offers little protection against Count Olaf's treachery. | 214 |
| Snow, Pegeen | Eat Your Peas, Louise! | 0.7 | 0.5 | Louise is given all sorts of reasons for eating her peas. | 31 |
| Snyder, Dianne | Boy of the Three-Year Nap, The | 3.7 | 0.5 | A poor Japanese woman maneuvers events to change the lazy habits of her son. | 32 |
| Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | And Condors Danced | 6.1 | 9 | The year Carly turns eleven, 1907, is filled with playing detective, watching condors, observing a fierce feud involving her family's Southern California ranch, and coping with unexpected tragedies. | 211 |
| Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | Blair's Nightmare | 5.3 | 8 | David tries to help Blair find his "imaginary" dog before they are all found by criminals hiding in their neighborhood. | 192 |
| Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | Cat Running | 5.6 | 7 | When eleven-year-old Cat Kinsey builds a secret hideout to escape her unhappy homelife, she slowly gets to know a poor family who have come to California after losing their home in Texas to the dust storms of the 1930's. | 168 |
| Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | Egypt Game, The | 6.4 | 7 | It is only a game for six children, until an oracle tells the truth and a murderer appears. | 215 |
| Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | Fool's Gold | 5.6 | 8 | A suspense-filled adventure in an abandoned gold mine may cost three boys their lives. | 214 |
| Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | Gib and the Gray Ghost | 6.4 | 9 | In 1909, after spending several months back at the Lovell House Home for Orphaned and Abandoned Boys, eleven-year-old Gib returns to live on the Thornton ranch, where his natural way with horses helps to make him feel at home. | 230 |
| Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | Gib Rides Home | 6.3 | 9 | Despite the harsh treatment he has endured at the Lovell House orphanage, ten-year-old Gib Whittaker manages to maintain his hopeful outlook when he is "farmed out" to help with the horses of a wealthy banker in 1908. | 246 |
| Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | Gypsy Game, The | 5.2 | 8 | The game is great fun at first. Then Toby starts acting very strange and disappears on New Year's morning. Soon the new "Gypsies" are involved in a crisis no one could have imagined. | 217 |
| Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | Headless Cupid, The | 5.3 | 8 | The four Stanley children are amazed and enchanted when Amanda and her crow come to live with them . . . but is she really a witch? | 203 |
| Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | Libby on Wednesday | 6.3 | 8 | Having been put ahead in an accelerated eighth-grade program by her bizarre and creative family, precocious eleven-year-old Libby hates her "socialization" process until she makes some highly original friends in a writing workshop. | 196 |
| Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | Witches of Worm, The | 5.7 | 6 | Jessica has taken care of the cat, Worm, but the cat may be making her do things against her own wishes. | 183 |
| Sobol, Donald J. | Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of Pablo's Nose | 4.1 | 1 | Encyclopedia Brown is faced with solving the mystery of the missing professor, a missing monkey, and a thief in a thunderstorm. | 73 |
| Sobol, Donald J. | Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Mysterious Handprints | 4.5 | 1 | Ten all-new mysteries from the world's greatest boy sleuth's casebooks with solutions. | 91 |
| Sobol, Donald J. | Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Sleeping Dog | 4.2 | 1 | Encyclopedia Brown continues his war on crime with ten more cases. | 72 |
| Sobol, Donald J. | Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Treasure Hunt | 4.4 | 1 | This text offers ten brain-twisting mysteries that Encyclopedia Brown must solve by using his famous computer-like brain. | 91 |
| Sobol, Donald J. | Encyclopedia Brown Boy Detective | 4.1 | 1 | Presents ten baffling mysteries for the boy detective and the reader, with Encyclopedia's solutions included at the end of the book. | 111 |
| Sobol, Donald J. | Encyclopedia Brown Gets His Man | 4.4 | 1 | Encyclopedia Brown solves ten more mysteries, including the cases of a ghost who whistles and an Idaville boy who has literally lost his marbles. | 112 |
| Sobol, Donald J. | Encyclopedia Brown Keeps the Peace | 4.2 | 1 | Ten new mysteries from the casebooks of Leroy 'Encyclopedia' Brown, the ten-year-old detective. | 110 |
| Sobol, Donald J. | Encyclopedia Brown Lends a Hand | 4.2 | 1 | The solutions to ten mysteries solved by Leroy 'Encyclopedia' Brown are given in a separate section challenging the reader to match wits with the ten-year-old mastermind of Idaville's war on crime. | 96 |
| Sobol, Donald J. | Encyclopedia Brown Shows the Way | 3.9 | 1 | Encyclopedia Brown, brilliant fifth-grade amateur detective, solves ten crimes. The reader may match solutions with those at the end of the book. | 110 |
| Sobol, Donald J. | Encyclopedia Brown Solves Them All | 4.2 | 1 | Leroy 'Encyclopedia' Brown invites the reader to solve ten mysteries. Answers are provided at the back of the book. | 96 |
| Sobol, Donald J. | Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, The | 4.5 | 3 | A lively account of an exciting chapter in the history of flying by the author of the Encyclopedia Brown books. | 128 |
| Sommer, Carl | Mayor for a Day | 3.4 | 0.5 | When he gets to be mayor of his small, peaceful town for a day, Davy decides to abolish all rules, which turns out to be a big mistake. | 48 |
| Sonneborn, Liz | Iroquois (Watts Library), The | 7 | 1 | This book explores the culture and history of the Iroquois--their foods, their homes, and their ceremonies and traditions. | 64 |
| Sorensen, Lynda | Earth (Solar System) | 4.5 | 0.5 | Describes the physical nature, land section, layers, and lifeforms of the Earth. | 24 |
| Sorensen, Lynda | Stars (Solar System) | 4.3 | 0.5 | Discusses different kinds of stars, including dwarfs and giants; red, white, and blue stars; shooting stars; the North Star; and our sun. | 24 |
| Sorensen, Virginia | Miracles on Maple Hill | 4.9 | 7 | Marly and her family discover the miracle of maple syrup time and share many adventures when they move from the city to a farmhouse on Maple Hill. | 180 |
| Sorensen, Virginia | Plain Girl | 4.8 | 4 | Despite her father's objections, a young Amish girl secretly looks forward to attending public school where she makes a best friend and gains a new perspective on her family's way of life. | 151 |
| Soto, Gary | Baseball in April and Other Stories | 5.1 | 4 | A collection of 11 short stories focusing on the everyday adventures of Hispanic young people growing up in Fresno, California. | 134 |
| Soto, Gary | Boys at Work | 4.5 | 3 | Rudy Herrera is in major trouble when he accidentally breaks an expensive Discman belonging to a neighborhood tough guy. | 134 |
| Soto, Gary | Pacific Crossing | 4.6 | 4 | Fourteen-year-old Mexican American Lincoln Mendoza spends a summer with a host family in Japan, encountering new experiences and making new friends. | 134 |
| Soto, Gary | Skirt, The | 3.7 | 1 | Maita loses her folklorico shirt on the bus just before an important dance in the warm-hearted tale of a Mexican American family. | 74 |
| Soto, Gary | Too Many Tamales | 3.4 | 0.5 | Maria tries on her mother's wedding ring while helping make tamales for a Christmas family get-together, but panic ensues when hours later, she realizes the ring is missing. | 31 |
| Sourd, Christine | Orangutan: Forest Acrobat, The | 5.1 | 0.5 | This book is about the orangutan, a close cousin to human beings. | 27 |
| Souza, D.M. | Skunks Do More Than Stink! | 5.2 | 0.5 | This book provides information about the physical characteristics and habits of the striped, spotted, and hog-nosed skunk. | 32 |
| Spangenburg/Moser | Mercury (Watts Library) | 7.5 | 1 | This book describes the orbit, temperature, surface formations, composition, and theories of formation of the planet Mercury, and the probe that took pictures of it in 1974 and 1975. | 63 |
| Spangenburg/Moser | Sun (Watts Library), The | 7.2 | 1 | This book describes what scientists have learned about the Sun through their observations on Earth and in space. | 63 |
| Speare, Elizabeth George | Bronze Bow, The | 5 | 10 | Eighteen-year-old Daniel, an Israeli, is consumed by hatred of the Romans who killed his father, until he learns from listening to Jesus that love is the answer. | 254 |
| Speare, Elizabeth George | Calico Captive | 6 | 9 | In 1754, an Indian raid on her small New Hampshire town leaves Miriam Willard a prisoner of the Indians, forced to take part in a harrowing march north. | 274 |
| Speare, Elizabeth George | Sign of the Beaver, The | 4.9 | 5 | A young boy in Maine, when rescued by an Indian chief and his grandson, must decide whether to spend the winter alone in the woods waiting for his family to return or move on to a new life with his new friends. | 135 |
| Speare, Elizabeth George | Witch of Blackbird Pond, The | 5.7 | 9 | Puritan neighbors regard Kit Tyler with suspicion, fear, and anger when she befriends an old woman accused of witchcraft. | 249 |
| Spedden, Daisy | Polar the Titanic Bear | 5 | 0.5 | Story about the Titanic as seen through the eyes of a young boy's teddy bear. | 63 |
| Speed, Toby | Two Cool Cows | 2.8 | 0.5 | Millie and Maude are two cool cows who fly to the moon and back in a night wearing the Huckabuck children's new black boots. | 29 |
| Sperry, Armstrong | Call It Courage | 6.2 | 3 | This is the inspiring story of a youth who overcomes his fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his tribe. | 95 |
| Spier, Peter | Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night, The | 2.7 | 0.5 | A timeless folksong provides inspiration for some of Spier's finest illustrations. | 42 |
| Spinelli, Eileen | Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch | 3.9 | 0.5 | A scout admirer sends the unsmiling Mr. Hatch a valentine. | 17 |
| Spinelli, Eileen | Sophie's Masterpiece: A Spider's Tale | 3.2 | 0.5 | Sophie the spider makes wondrous webs, but the residents of Beekman's Boardinghouse do not appreciate her until at last, old and tired, she weaves her final masterpiece. | 26 |
| Spinelli, Jerry | Blue Ribbon Blues | 2.7 | 1 | When Tooter Pepperday and her family move to her aunt's farm, she decides to show everyone and win a blue ribbon at the country fair. | 69 |
| Spinelli, Jerry | Crash | 3.6 | 4 | Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan is comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with a Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family. | 162 |
| Spinelli, Jerry | Fourth Grade Rats | 2.6 | 2 | Suds learns that his best friend is wrong. You don't have to be a tough guy, a 'rat,' to be a grown-up fourth-grader. | 84 |
| Spinelli, Jerry | Library Card, The | 4.3 | 4 | The lives of four young people in different circumstances are changed by their encounters with books. | 148 |
| Spinelli, Jerry | Loser | 4.3 | 5 | Even though his classmates from first grade on have considered him strange and a loser, Donald Zinkoff's optimism and exuberance and the support of his loving family do not allow him to feel that way about himself. | 218 |
| Spinelli, Jerry | Maniac Magee | 4.7 | 5 | After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries. | 184 |
| Spinelli, Jerry | Wringer | 4.5 | 5 | As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it. | 228 |
| Spinner, Stephanie | Aliens for Dinner | 3.4 | 1 | Aric the alien returns to Earth to help Richard Bickerstaff save the world from an invasion of Dwilbs, pollution-loving aliens who want to turn the planet into a toxic theme park. | 79 |
| Spohn, Kate | Turtle and Snake at Work | 0.6 | 0.5 | Turtle and Snake go off to work. Turtle directs traffic and Snake makes pizzas, and they both realize the importance of paying attention to what they are doing. | 32 |
| Springer, Nancy | Great Pony Hassle, The | 4.2 | 2 | When the mother of twin girls marries the father of twin girls, the rivalry and jealousy are worsened by one girl's demand for a pony as a reward for accepting the new family. | 76 |
| Spyri, Johanna | Heidi (Unabridged) | 8.2 | 16 | An orphan sent to live with her grandfather learns to love both the old man and the Swiss Alps and becomes homesick when she goes to the city to be a companion to an invalid. | 295 |
| Spyri/Laiken | Heidi (Great Illustrated Classics) | 5.1 | 2 | Heidi finds beauty and simple wisdom in nature, but her life suddenly changes when she must live in the city. | 236 |
| Squire, Ann O. | Animal Babies (A True Book) | 4.8 | 0.5 | This book is an introduction to animal babies, including their behavior and physical traits. | 48 |
| St. George, Judith | Dear Dr. Bell, Your Friend, Helen Keller | 7.6 | 3 | The meeting in 1886 between Helen Keller and Alexander Graham Bell. | 89 |
| St. George, Judith | So You Want to Be an Inventor? | 4.9 | 0.5 | This book presents some of the characteristics of inventors by describing the inventions of people such as Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and Eli Whitney. | 53 |
| St. George, Judith | So You Want to Be President? | 4.8 | 0.5 | This book presents an assortment of facts about the qualifications and characteristics of U.S. presidents, from George Washington to Bill Clinton. | 52 |
| Stadler, John | Adventures of Snail at School, The | 2.5 | 0.5 | Snail goes on three errands for his teacher and has amazing adventures. | 64 |
| Stainton, Sue | Santa's Snow Cat | 4.4 | 0.5 | Santa and his favorite cat search for each other after she falls out of his sleigh and lands in New York City on Christmas Eve. | 32 |
| Stamper, Judith Bauer | Five Goofy Ghosts | 3.1 | 0.5 | Five ghost stories blend spookiness and humor by taking young readers into the world of quirky ghosts and complementing each tale with funny twists. | 46 |
| Standiford, Natalie | Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story of Balto, The | 2.5 | 0.5 | Recounts the life of Balto, the sled dog who saved Nome, Alaska, in 1925 from a diphtheria epidemic by delivering medicine through a raging snowstorm. | 48 |
| Standiford, Natalie | Headless Horseman, The | 2.8 | 0.5 | A superstitious schoolmaster in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman. | 48 |
| Stanley, Diane | Joan of Arc | 6.9 | 1 | This is a biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English and was burned at the stake for witchcraft. | 42 |
| Stanley, Diane | Leonardo da Vinci | 6.8 | 1 | The biography of the artist and scientist Leonardo daVinci. | 45 |
| Stanley, Diane | Michelangelo | 7.3 | 1 | This book is a biography of the Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet well-known for his work on the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome. | 48 |
| Stanley, Diane | Moe the Dog in Tropical Paradise | 2.8 | 0.5 | The dog Moe and his friend Arlene cannot afford to spend their winter vacation in Tahiti, so they create their own tropical paradise. | 32 |
| Stanley, Diane | Raising Sweetness | 4 | 0.5 | Sweetness, one of eight orphans living with a man who is an unconventional housekeeper, learns to read and writes a letter to improve their situation. | 30 |
| Stanley, Diane | Saving Sweetness | 3.9 | 0.5 | The sheriff of a dusty western town rescues Sweetness, an unusually resourceful orphan, from nasty old Mrs. Sump and her terrible orphanage. | 30 |
| Stanley/Vennema | Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare | 6.2 | 1 | A brief biography of the world's most famous playwright, using only historically correct information. | 45 |
| Stanley/Vennema | Charles Dickens: The Man Who Had Great Expectations | 6.3 | 1 | Illustrated biography of the English novelist Charles Dickens. | 43 |
| Steele, Alexander | Moby Dog | 5.1 | 5 | Wishbone imagines himself as a sailor on board a great whaling ship under the command of peg-legged Captain Ahab. | 140 |
| Steele, Christy | Deserts (Biomes) | 4 | 0.5 | This book explains how desert biomes are formed, how plants and animals adapt to the desert, and how the desert relates to other biomes. | 32 |
| Steele, Christy | Oceans (Biomes) | 4.2 | 0.5 | This book explains how ocean biomes are formed, how plants and animals adapt to the ocean, and how the ocean relates to other biomes. | 32 |
| Steig, William | Abel's Island | 5.9 | 3 | Stranded on a deserted island, a lovable young mouse discovers inner resources he did not know he possessed. | 117 |
| Steig, William | Amazing Bone, The | 3.9 | 0.5 | Pearl, a pig, is saved from a band of highwaymen by a small bone, who can talk in any language and imitate any sound. | 28 |
| Steig, William | Amos & Boris | 4.7 | 0.5 | After being saved from drowning by a whale, a mouse gets a chance to repay the favor years later. | 28 |
| Steig, William | Brave Irene | 3.9 | 0.5 | Plucky Irene, a dressmaker's daughter, braves a fierce snowstorm to deliver a new gown to the duchess in time for the ball. | 28 |
| Steig, William | Doctor De Soto | 3.6 | 0.5 | Dr. De Soto, a dentist mouse, and his wife, who is also his assistant, were not in the habit of treating animals that could be threatening to mice; so when a fox with a very painful toothache showed up at their office, they had quite a decision to make. | 28 |
| Steig, William | Doctor De Soto Goes to Africa | 4.1 | 0.5 | While en route to Africa to tend to a suffering elephant, Dr. DeSoto is kidnapped by a rhesus monkey. | 28 |
| Steig, William | Sylvester and the Magic Pebble | 4 | 0.5 | In a moment of fright, Sylvester the donkey asks his magic pebble to turn him into a rock but then cannot hold the pebble to wish himself back to normal again. | 32 |
| Steig, William | Toby, What Are You? | 2.1 | 0.5 | Toby is making mischief as a boy of many disguises when he turns himself into a doormat, a flyswatter, and a plate of spaghetti. | 30 |
| Stein, R. Conrad | USS Arizona, The | 6.3 | 1 | Discusses the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, with an emphasis on the fate of the USS Arizona. | 29 |
| Steinbeck, John | Red Pony, The | 6.1 | 6 | Moving and beautiful story of a boy and his sorrel colt, and the sun-drenched California earth. | 120 |
| Steiner, Barbara | Oliver Dibbs and the Dinosaur Cause | 4.3 | 5 | Immersed in studying his favorite topic, dinosaurs, Oliver involves his fifth grade in a campaign to make the stegosaurus the Colorado state fossil and runs afoul with an interesting bully. | 156 |
| Steptoe, John | Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters | 4.3 | 0.5 | Mufaro's two beautiful daughters, one bad-tempered, one kind and sweet, go before the king, who is choosing a bride. | 25 |
| Steptoe, John | Story of Jumping Mouse, The | 3.8 | 0.5 | The gifts of Magic Frog and his own hopeful and unselfish spirit bring Jumping Mouse to the Far-Off Land where no mouse goes hungry. | 36 |
| Sterman, Betsy/Samuel | Backyard Dragon | 4.4 | 5 | Owen finds a dragon in his backyard, but no one believes him. | 189 |
| Stevens, Carla | Trouble for Lucy | 3.8 | 1 | Based on actual journals of the pioneer's journey to Oregon, the story combines with Ronald Himler's striking illustrations, to bring an exciting time in American history warmly to life. | 77 |
| Stevens, Janet | Coyote Steals the Blanket | 2.8 | 0.5 | Coyote takes a blanket that does not belong to him, but Hummingbird rescues Coyote from the angry desert. | 28 |
| Stevens, Janet | Tops & Bottoms | 3.2 | 0.5 | Hare turns his bad luck around by striking a clever deal with the rich and lazy bear down the road. | 31 |
| Stevens, Janet | Tortoise and the Hare, The | 3.3 | 0.5 | Recounts the race between the boastful hare and the persevering tortoise. | 28 |
| Stevens, Kathleen | Beast in the Bathtub, The | 3.1 | 0.5 | Lewis gets into mischief with an imaginary beast in the bathtub while his parents are watching television. | 31 |
| Stevens/Crummel | And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon | 2.6 | 0.5 | When Dish and Spoon run away, their nursery rhyme friends Cat, Cow, and Dog set out to rescue them in time for the next reading of their rhyme. | 48 |
| Stevens/Crummel | Cook-a-doodle-doo! | 2.7 | 0.5 | With the questionable help of his friends, Big Brown Rooster manages to bake a strawberry shortcake which would have pleased his great-grandmother, Little Red Hen. | 48 |
| Stevens/Crummel | Shoe Town | 1.7 | 0.5 | Mama mouse wants to take a hot bath and a long nap in her show. When friends come by to share, what will she do? | 23 |
| Stevenson, James | What's Under My Bed? | 2.6 | 0.5 | Grandpa tells his two young houseguests a story about his own childhood when he was scared at bedtime. | 32 |
| Stevenson, Laura | Happily After All | 4.1 | 9 | When her father dies, ten-year-old Rebecca is sent to live with the mother she's been brought up to believe had abandoned her and, through a growing relationship with a troubled foster child, begins to accept her mother. | 252 |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Black Arrow, The | 9 | 14 | During the War of the Roses, Richard Shelton's cross-bow and stout heart are pitted against the ambitious and wily Sir Daniel. | 327 |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Kidnapped | 7.6 | 14 | David Balfour's uncle has him kidnapped to prevent David from discovering that Shaws, the uncle's estate, is rightfully his own. David meets Alan Breck, and their adventures and narrow escapes from death make Kidnapped an exciting story. | 278 |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | My Shadow | 2.6 | 0.5 | An illustrated version of the poem in which a child describes her relationship with her shadow. | 26 |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Treasure Island | 8.3 | 12 | This classic presents a tale of piracy on the tropical seas, of treachery and greed combined with romance, treasure, and adventure. | 187 |
| Stevenson/Kestel | Kidnapped (Great Illustrated Classics) | 4.8 | 2 | David Balfour is tricked out of his inheritance by his greedy uncle. Betrayed and kidnapped aboard a ship, young David must endure the dangers of the high seas. He escapes to the Scottish highlands only to find himself wrongly accused of murder. | 236 |
| Stevenson/Laiken | Treasure Island (Great Illustrated Classics) | 5.5 | 2 | Young Jim Hawkins and his friends set sail for Treasure Island, hoping to find the buried loot of Captain Flint. Jim and his friends must find the treasure and escape before the pirates capture them. | 232 |
| Stevenson/Yamamoto | Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Great Illustrated Cla, Th | 5.4 | 3 | Dr. Jekyll is convinced that all men have two personalities lurking within them. When he discovers a drug and tests it on himself, his altered self becomes Mr. Hyde. | 238 |
| Stewart, Sarah | Gardener, The | 3.9 | 0.5 | A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her uncle in the city but takes her love for gardening with her. | 30 |
| Stewart, Sarah | Library, The | 3.3 | 0.5 | Elizabeth never liked to play with dolls, or skate. What she liked best was reading books. And when Elizabeth becomes a grown up she has a problem with all the books she has collected. | 28 |
| Stine, Megan | Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder: Pioneer Girl, The | 5.3 | 2 | A biography of the writer whose pioneer life on the prairie became the basis for her "Little House" books. | 102 |
| Stine, R.L. | Abominable Snowman of Pasadena, The | 3 | 3 | They just wanted to see snow. But now they're being chased by a monstrous creature. | 127 |
| Stine, R.L. | Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns | 3.3 | 2 | Drew and Walker have a plan for revenge involving two scary pumpkin heads. | 113 |
| Stine, R.L. | Attack of the Mutant | 3.5 | 3 | Skipper has an awesome comic-book collection, and his favorite is The Masked Mutant. Skipper finds a building that looks like the Mutant's secret headquarters. A building that appears and disappears. | 117 |
| Stine, R.L. | Bad Hare Day | 2.9 | 3 | Tim Swanson loves magic tricks and wants to be a real magician. | 117 |
| Stine, R.L. | Barking Ghost, The | 2.9 | 2 | Two evil-looking dogs cast a spell on two best friends. | 117 |
| Stine, R.L. | Be Careful What You Wish For | 3.7 | 3 | Sam meets someone who can grant her three wishes. Her wishes come true and turn her life into a nightmare. | 121 |
| Stine, R.L. | Beast from the East, The | 2.7 | 2 | There's something odd about this part of the woods. | 118 |
| Stine, R.L. | Beware, the Snowman | 3.2 | 2 | Jaclyn lives in a tiny village on the edge of the Arctic Circle where the snowmen are really creepy. | 113 |
| Stine, R.L. | Blob That Ate Everyone, The | 3 | 2 | Zackie finds a typewriter in a burned-out Antique Store, but when he takes it home and starts writing, everything he write starts coming true. | 114 |
| Stine, R.L. | Calling All Creeps! | 3.3 | 3 | Ricky decides to play a joke on Tasha, but the joke's on him. | 116 |
| Stine, R.L. | Chicken Chicken | 3.2 | 2 | You can't believe everything you hear, but then why are Crystal's lips turning hard like a bird's beak? | 112 |
| Stine, R.L. | Cuckoo Clock of Doom, The | 2.9 | 2 | Poor Michael--he should have listened to his dad. Someone has put a dangerous spell on the clock, and now Michael's life will never be the same. | 118 |
| Stine, R.L. | Curse of Camp Cold Lake, The | 2.9 | 2 | Camp is not what Sarah had expected. She comes up with a plan to drown so that everyone will feel sorry for her, but something by the lake is watching her, stalking her. | 114 |
| Stine, R.L. | Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, The | 4 | 3 | Gabe doesn't believe in the curse of the mummy's tomb. But that doesn't mean that the curse isn't real. | 132 |
| Stine, R.L. | Deep Trouble | 3.5 | 3 | Billy and his sister Shenna are visiting their uncle, Dr. Deep, on a Caribbean island. But something is lurking below the surface, something that is half-human, half-fish.... | 117 |
| Stine, R.L. | Deep Trouble II | 2.9 | 2 | Billy and Sheena are spending another summer in the Caribbean on their uncle's floating lab. This year there is something really scary going on under the sea! | 113 |
| Stine, R.L. | Don't Go to Sleep! | 2.7 | 2 | Matt hates his bedroom. He wants to sleep in the guest room, but Mom won't let him. He sneaks into the guest room one night and wishes he would have listened to his mother. | 118 |
| Stine, R.L. | Egg Monsters from Mars | 3 | 2 | Dana's little sister wants an egg hunt for her birthday, and Dana finds just the right kind of egg. | 115 |
| Stine, R.L. | Ghost Beach | 3.4 | 3 | Jerry can't wait to explore a dark, spooky cave he has found. There is a story about a ghost who lives deep inside the cave. It IS just a story, right? | 119 |
| Stine, R.L. | Ghost Camp | 3.1 | 3 | Harry and Alex are dying to fit in at Camp Spirit Moon. | 118 |
| Stine, R.L. | Ghost Next Door, The | 3.7 | 3 | Hannah's new neighbor keeps disappearing in the oddest ways. Is Hannah being haunted by the ghost next door? | 124 |
| Stine, R.L. | Girl Who Cried Monster, The | 3.6 | 3 | Lucy likes to tell monster stories, and everyone she knows is tired of them. Then she discovers a real monster, and no one believes her. | 137 |
| Stine, R.L. | Go Eat Worms | 3.7 | 3 | Todd is obsessed with worms, and he even keeps a worm farm in his basement. Suddenly, worms show up in the worst places: In bed, in homework, and in food. | 119 |
| Stine, R.L. | Haunted Mask II, The | 3.3 | 3 | Steve Boswell will never forget Carly Beth's Halloween mask. It was so gross, so terrifying. | 124 |
| Stine, R.L. | Haunted Mask, The | 3.8 | 3 | It's the best Halloween mask ever. Halloween is nearly over, and Carly Beth is still wearing that special mask... | 121 |
| Stine, R.L. | Haunted School, The | 3 | 3 | A boy moves to a new school and everyone is strangely grey. | 117 |
| Stine, R.L. | Headless Ghost, The | 3.2 | 2 | Everyone knows that Hill House is haunted by a boy with no head. | 113 |
| Stine, R.L. | Horror at Camp Jellyjam, The | 3.2 | 3 | Two kids end up at a weird sports camps. | 128 |
| Stine, R.L. | How I Got My Shrunken Head | 3.2 | 3 | Mark can't wait to show the kids at school his shrunken head. | 119 |
| Stine, R.L. | How I Learned to Fly | 2.9 | 3 | Jack wanted to get back at Wilson, but things are getting scary on earth. | 123 |
| Stine, R.L. | How to Kill a Monster | 2.9 | 2 | Gretchen and Clark don't think things could get much worse while they are staying at Grandma and Grandpa's house. | 112 |
| Stine, R.L. | It Came from Beneath the Sink! | 3.1 | 2 | Kat and Daniel find something really evil living in their new house. Something that comes from beneath the kitchen sink. | 112 |
| Stine, R.L. | It Came from Ohio! My Life as a Writer | 4.6 | 3 | This is an autobiography of the best-selling author who reveals what he was like when he was young and what his scary life is like now. | 140 |
| Stine, R.L. | Legend of the Lost Legend | 3.1 | 3 | The woods of Brovania are filled with the strangest creatures. | 122 |
| Stine, R.L. | Let's Get Invisible! | 3.3 | 3 | Max finds a magic mirror in the attic that can make him invisible. Getting invisible is turning into a dangerous game when Max has trouble coming back. | 139 |
| Stine, R.L. | Monster Blood | 4.1 | 3 | Evan buys a dusty can of monster blood. It's fun to play with until it starts growing and it has an appetite. | 128 |
| Stine, R.L. | Monster Blood II | 3.6 | 3 | Andy has a present for Evan; it's green and it's growing. Now, Evan's fears about Monster Blood coming back are real. | 121 |
| Stine, R.L. | Monster Blood III | 3.2 | 3 | Andy tries to teach Evan's genius cousin Kermit a lesson with a new batch of Monster Blood. | 126 |
| Stine, R.L. | My Best Friend Is Invisible | 2.8 | 2 | Sammy Jacobs is into ghosts and science fiction, but now Sammy has met someone totally unreal, an invisible friend. Sammy now needs to find a way to get rid of his new friend. | 114 |
| Stine, R.L. | My Hairiest Adventure | 3.5 | 3 | Larry Boyd and his friends start growing really gross, shiny hair all over--hair that keeps growing back even after it is shaved off. | 122 |
| Stine, R.L. | Night in Terror Tower, A | 3.5 | 3 | Sue and Eddie get locked in a gloomy prison tower with a strange, dark figure who wants them dead. | 129 |
| Stine, R.L. | Night of the Living Dummy | 3.7 | 3 | Kris is jealous of his sister Lindy and gets his own ventriloquist's dummy. Then weird things begin to happen. Can the dummy be the cause? | 134 |
| Stine, R.L. | Night of the Living Dummy II | 3.1 | 3 | An evil ventriloquist's dummy comes to life again. | 120 |
| Stine, R.L. | Night of the Living Dummy III | 3.2 | 3 | There are voices in the attic, and dummies keep showing up in the strangest places. | 125 |
| Stine, R.L. | One Day at HorrorLand | 3.4 | 3 | There is something weird about the rides at Horrorland. Something a little too creepy. A little too real. | 123 |
| Stine, R.L. | Phantom of the Auditorium | 3.4 | 3 | Really scary things start happening at the play "The Phantom." Is there really a phantom living under the stage? | 126 |
| Stine, R.L. | Piano Lessons Can Be Murder | 3.5 | 3 | Jerry hears stories about his piano teacher. Terrifying stories about other students. Students who went in and never came out. | 124 |
| Stine, R.L. | Return of the Mummy | 3.8 | 3 | Gabe learns a secret chant that is supposed to bring mummies back to life. Something starts moving. Words can't make the dead, can they? | 118 |
| Stine, R.L. | Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes | 2.9 | 3 | Two lawn gnomes terrorize the neighborhood. | 119 |
| Stine, R.L. | Say Cheese and Die - Again! | 3.2 | 3 | Mr. Saur gave Greg an "F" on his oral report. He didn't believe the story of the camera and the pictures it took. | 115 |
| Stine, R.L. | Say Cheese and Die! | 3.9 | 3 | Greg knows there is something wrong with the camera he found. Each picture is worth a thousand screams. Who will take the next fall for the evil camera? | 132 |
| Stine, R.L. | Scarecrow Walks at Midnight, The | 3.5 | 3 | Jodi loves visiting her grandparents' farm until one night she sees something odd. The scarecrows seem to be moving, twitching on their stakes. | 122 |
| Stine, R.L. | Shocker on Shock Street, A | 3.2 | 3 | Two friends love horror movies, and they know they aren't real. Right? | 117 |
| Stine, R.L. | Stay Out of the Basement | 3.9 | 3 | Dr. Brewer is doing some plant-testing in his basement. Margaret and Casey are worried about their father. Has their basement turned into another little shop of horrors? | 122 |
| Stine, R.L. | Vampire Breath | 3.2 | 2 | Freddy and Cara should not have opened the bottle of Vampire Breath. | 114 |
| Stine, R.L. | Welcome to Camp Nightmare | 3.9 | 3 | Billy's fellow campers start disappearing. Camp Nightmoon is turning into Camp Nightmare. Is Billy next? | 136 |
| Stine, R.L. | Welcome to Dead House | 3.7 | 3 | Amanda and Josh make some new friends in their new town, Dark Falls. These friends want to stay friends. . .forever. | 123 |
| Stine, R.L. | Werewolf of Fever Swamp, The | 3.5 | 3 | There's something horrible happening in Fever Swamp. Something really horrible. Is Grady's new dog to blame? | 123 |
| Stine, R.L. | Werewolf Skin | 3.2 | 3 | Strange things happen when Alex goes to visit Uncle Colin and Aunt Marta in Wolf Creek. | 125 |
| Stine, R.L. | Why I'm Afraid of Bees | 3.5 | 3 | Gary's dream is about to come true. Gary can't wait to get his new body. Except his new body isn't exactly human. | 117 |
| Stine, R.L. | You Can't Scare Me | 3.6 | 3 | Eddie knows Courtney believes that silly rumor about Mud Monsters in Muddy Creek. Too bad Eddie doesn't believe because it might be true. | 120 |
| Stolp, Hans | Golden Bird, The | 4 | 1 | Engaged in a losing battle with cancer, ten-year-old Daniel is comforted by many people but finds his greatest solace in the visits of a phoenix-like golden bird and its vision on rebirth and renewal. | 55 |
| Stolz, Mary | Dog on Barkham Street, A | 4.6 | 5 | For Edward Frost, getting a dog and getting rid of the bully, Martin Hastings, seem equally unlikely. | 184 |
| Stolz, Mary | Go Fish | 4.4 | 1 | After spending the day fishing in the Gulf of Mexico with Grandfather, eight-year-old Thomas has a quiet evening on the porch hearing more about his African heritage. | 73 |
| Stolz, Mary | Noonday Friends, The | 4.8 | 6 | Two young friends stop speaking to each other, even though they can't remember why they argued in the first place. This is just one more thing on top of the other problems that each has with her own family. | 182 |
| Stolz, Mary | Quentin Corn | 4.8 | 4 | Quentin Corn's life on the farm goes from dull to terrifying when poor Quentin learns that he's about to be barbecued. So the quick-witted pig runs away disguised as a boy! | 122 |
| Stolz, Mary | Storm in the Night | 3.2 | 0.5 | During a thunderstorm, Grandfather's gentle voice carries Thomas off to a time when Grandfather was a boy. | 28 |
| Stone, Lynn M. | Birds of Antarctica (Antarctica) | 4.1 | 0.5 | This book briefly describes the birds of the Antarctica region. | 24 |
| Stone, Lynn M. | Cockroaches (Creepy Crawler Discovery) | 4.1 | 0.5 | Describes what cockroaches look like, what they eat, where and how they live, who their relatives are, and how their antennas serve as senses. | 24 |
| Stone, Lynn M. | Life in the Antarctic (Antarctica) | 4.4 | 0.5 | This book briefly describes the different types of life found in the Antarctic. | 24 |
| Stone, Lynn M. | Salamanders (Creepy Crawlers Discovery) | 4.2 | 0.5 | Presents information about this amphibian most commonly found in North and South America, describes how it looks, how it lives, and how it relates with people. | 24 |
| Strasser, Todd | Don't Get Caught Driving the School Bus | 3.9 | 3 | Sarge, the new driver on the bus route, used to work at a prison, and he treats all the kids like they're criminals. Wilson, Dusty, and Kyle decide they'll show Sarge who's in charge! | 117 |
| Strasser, Todd | Help! I'm Trapped in a Professional Wrestler's Body | 3.8 | 3 | At WrestleInsanity, Jake suddenly realizes Andy is in the match, wrestling in the body of Bruce "Brainiac" Bloom, and he is getting beaten up! Suddenly wrestling doesn't look so fake. | 124 |
| Strasser, Todd | Help! I'm Trapped In My Principal's Body | 3.9 | 3 | Jake makes his buddy Josh switch bodies with the principal. Principals can do anything. They can hang out in their offices. They can play computer games all day. They can expel kids like Barry Dunn.... | 117 |
| Strasser, Todd | Help! I'm Trapped in Obedience School | 3.3 | 3 | Jake accidentally turns his buddy Andy into the Sherman family dog. Now Andy is chasing squirrels, stealing the ball at baseball games, and bringing squeeze toys for show-and-tell. | 126 |
| Strasser, Todd | Help! I'm Trapped in Obedience School Again | 3.5 | 2 | When Jake switches bodies with his sister's dog, Lance, he roots through the garbage, devours dog food, and has to put up with the affections of a little dog named Foo-Foo. | 118 |
| Strasser, Todd | Help! I'm Trapped in Santa's Body | 3.4 | 3 | Jake somehow switches bodies with Santa Claus and now must find a way to get out of this situation. | 121 |
| Strickland, Brad | Be a Wolf! | 4.9 | 4 | When Jo's backpack is confiscated, Wishbone and Jo must confront a scary neighbor who owns a big, mean dog. | 137 |
| Strickland, Brad | Salty Dog | 4.9 | 4 | There's a treasure in Oakdale, and Wishbone sets out to find it. | 135 |
| Strickland/Fuller | Treasure of Skeleton Reef, The | 4.5 | 5 | Joe and Wishbone are on hand to help restore an old building. | 139 |
| Sturges, Philemon | Bridges Are to Cross | 4.7 | 0.5 | This book discusses different kinds of bridges, from train bridges to fortified castle bridges, and provides an example of each. | 30 |
| Sullivan, George | Helen Keller (In Their Own Words) | 5.3 | 2 | This is a biography, told using excerpts from her own writings, of the woman who successfully dealt with her own disabilities while trying to better the lives of other deaf and blind people. | 128 |
| Sullivan, George | Wright Brothers (In Their Own Words), The | 5.9 | 2 | This is a biography of the brothers responsible for developing the first airplane, featuring excerpts from their journal entries, letters, and drawings. | 127 |
| Swan, Robert | Destination: Antarctica | 6.1 | 1 | This book follows the British adventurer Robert Swan and two other explorers on an exciting and dangerous 900-mile trek to the South Pole. | 38 |
| Swanson, Diane | Doctor and You, The | 5.2 | 0.5 | This book will show you how different tools are used and why, when you visit the doctor. | 32 |
| Sweeney, Joan | Me and My Amazing Body | 3.7 | 0.5 | A girl describes how her skin, bones, muscles, brain, blood, heart, lungs, and stomach receive energy and function as part of her body. | 29 |
| Swift/Vogel | Gulliver's Travels (Great Illustrated Classics) | 6.1 | 3 | Lemuel Gulliver, a doctor who longs for adventure, signs on board a sailing ship. Before he returns home, he experiences some of the most amazing adventures ever. | 240 |
| Sykes, Julie | Dora's Eggs | 2.8 | 0.5 | Dora the hen is proud of her batch of eggs until she sees all her friends with their young and thinks their babies are so much nicer than her plain, brown eggs. | 32 |
| Sykes, Julie | Little Tiger's Big Surprise! | 3.3 | 0.5 | Little Tiger isn't pleased when he learns that he is to have a new brother or sister, and Daddy Tiger has to get him to change his mind. | 25 |
| Sykes, Shelley | For Mike | 3.9 | 6 | When Jeff's best friend Mike disappears in the fall of their senior year in high school, Jeff has disturbing dreams in which Mike urges him to come get him, and a secret begins to unfold. | 197 |
| Syme, Ronald | Magellan: First Around the World | 5.2 | 1 | This book tells the historic story of Magellan's trip around the world. | 71 |