| Author | Title | Level | Pts. | Description | Pages |
| Taback, Simms | Joseph Had a Little Overcoat | 1.7 | 0.5 | A very old overcoat is recycled numerous times into a variety of garments. | 33 |
| Talbot, Frank H. | Under the Sea (Nature Company Discoveries Library) | 7.3 | 1 | Provides information about ocean life and covers such questions as why the ocean is blue and what is the oldest living marine animal. | 61 |
| Talkington, Bruce | Happy Birthday, Pooh! | 3.4 | 0.5 | Pooh's friends forget his birthday and must hurry to throw him a party before it is too late. | 29 |
| Tamar, Erika | Soccer Mania! | 3 | 1 | Nine-year-old Pete and his friends, who enjoy playing pick-up soccer, get registered as an official team and discover the negative aspects of competition. | 63 |
| Tambini, Michael | Future (Eyewitness) | 8.7 | 1 | Provides a look ahead to the technological, environmental, and biological developments of the twenty-first century. | 60 |
| Tames, Richard | Journey Through Japan | 5.9 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, culture, and people of Japan. | 32 |
| Tanaka, Shelley | Attack on Pearl Harbor | 5.7 | 1 | Through vivid eyewitness account, this book re-creates the dramatic moments of the unforgettable day that American entered World War II. | 64 |
| Tanaka, Shelley | Graveyards Of The Dinosaurs: What It's Like To Discover Prehistori | 6.6 | 1 | This book discusses the work of paleontologists who have found dinosaur bones and fossils in Canada, Argentina, and the Gobi Desert. | 48 |
| Tanaka, Shelley | Secrets of the Mummies | 7 | 1 | This book describes the ancient Egyptian practice of preserving the dead through the process of mummification and explains what scientists have learned from unwrapping and examining mummies. | 48 |
| Tang, Greg | Math for All Seasons: Mind-Stretching Math Riddles | 3.5 | 0.5 | In this book, rhyming riddles introduce strategies for solving a variety of math problems. | 40 |
| Tarcov, Edith | Frog Prince, The | 2.8 | 0.5 | Rebuffed by the princess after retrieving her golden ball, a noble frog sets out to find a more suitable mate. | 32 |
| Tashjian, Janet | Tru Confessions | 5.4 | 3 | When the local cable channel announces a teen video competition, Tru knows that this is her chance to show the world who Eddie really is and to prove her TV talent. | 167 |
| Tate, Eleanora E. | Front Porch Stories at the One-Room School | 4.2 | 2 | Twelve-year-old Margie and her seven-year-old cousin are treated to tall tales from Margie's father while sitting on the front porch of the one-room school he attended as a boy. | 92 |
| Tavares, Matt | Zachary's Ball | 3.6 | 0.5 | Dad takes Zachary for his first Boston Red Sox game, where they catch a ball and something magical happens. | 30 |
| Taylor, C.J. | How We Saw the World: Nine Native Stories of the Way Things Began | 4.5 | 1 | Native American creation myths retold in nine stories. | 32 |
| Taylor, Mildred D. | Friendship, The | 4.1 | 1 | Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly black man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s. | 53 |
| Taylor, Mildred D. | Gold Cadillac, The | 4.1 | 1 | Two Black girls living in the North are proud of their family's beautiful new Cadillac, until they take it on a visit to the South and encounter racial prejudice for the first time. | 43 |
| Taylor, Mildred D. | Land, The | 5 | 18 | Paul-Edward, son of a white plantation owner and a slave mother of African-Indian heritage, follows his dream of owning his own land through hard work and determination. | 375 |
| Taylor, Mildred D. | Mississippi Bridge | 4.2 | 1 | During a heavy rainstorm in 1930s rural Mississippi, a ten-year-old white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers off a crowded bus to make room for late-arriving white passengers and then set off across the raging Rosa Lee Creek. | 62 |
| Taylor, Mildred D. | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | 5.7 | 10 | Warmth, humor and hard times prevail as a black family struggles to maintain dignity and independence in Depression-era Mississippi. | 276 |
| Taylor, Mildred D. | Song of the Trees | 3.8 | 1 | Every day when Cassie opened her windows, the trees would greet her; now her mother has been forced to sell the trees. This story begins the chronicle of the Logan family that is continued in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and Let the Circle Be Unbroken. | 48 |
| Taylor, Mildred D. | Well: David's Story, The | 4.3 | 3 | In Mississippi in the early 1900s, ten-year-old David Logan's family generously share their well water with both white and black neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence. | 92 |
| Taylor, Paul D. | Fossil (Eyewitness) | 8.2 | 1 | A photo essay about different types of fossils, from bacteria and algae to birds and mammals. An Eyewitness book. | 63 |
| Taylor, Sydney | All-of-a-Kind Family | 4.9 | 5 | Five girls have simple but happy times, with parents rich in kindness but poor in money. | 189 |
| Taylor, Theodore | Boy Who Could Fly Without a Motor, The | 5.6 | 2 | In 1935, living at a lighthouse near San Francisco, a lonely nine-year-old boy inadvertently summons a magician who teaches him the secret of flying. | 138 |
| Taylor, Theodore | Cay, The | 5.3 | 4 | A fine portrayal of how a boy makes his separate peace with racial prejudice. | 144 |
| Taylor, Theodore | Maria: A Christmas Story | 4.4 | 2 | Maria Gonzaga organizes the Mexican-Americans in the San Joaquin Valley to create a float for the annual Christmas parade. | 84 |
| Taylor, Theodore | Timothy of the Cay | 5 | 5 | In a prequel to The Cay, Timothy finds himself afloat on a life raft with a white boy. | 161 |
| Taylor, Theodore | Trouble with Tuck, The | 5.5 | 4 | From an award-winning author comes a compelling story of a young girl who works against all odds to provide her blind dog with a guide dog of his own. | 110 |
| Taylor, Theodore | Tuck Triumphant | 5.1 | 5 | Fourteen-year-old Helen, her blind dog Friar Tuck, and her family face some dramatic challenges when they discover that the Korean boy they have adopted is deaf. Sequel to The Trouble with Tuck. | 150 |
| Taylor, Theodore | Walking Up a Rainbow | 5.8 | 12 | Orphaned at 14, Susan is suddenly the owner of an Iowa home, 2,000 sheep, and a debt that puts her at the mercy of a man that wants to take it all away. | 282 |
| Tazewell, Charles | Littlest Angel, The | 6.3 | 0.5 | An earth-sick little angel newly arrived in the celestial kingdom finds his recent transition from boy to cherub a difficult one. | 27 |
| Teague, Mark | Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School | 3.6 | 0.5 | Gertrude LaRue receives funny typewritten and paw-written letters from her dog Ike entreating her to let him leave the Igor Brotweiler Canine Academy and come back home. | 32 |
| Teague, Mark | Lost and Found, The | 2.7 | 0.5 | Three adventurous friends search for a lucky hat in the mysterious hidden world of the lost and found. | 30 |
| Teague, Mark | Secret Shortcut, The | 3.4 | 0.5 | BEcause Wendell and Floyd have trouble getting to school on time, they decide to take a shortcut which leads to unexpected adventure. | 30 |
| Tedrow, T.L. | Children of Promise | 4.9 | 6 | A community battle ensues when Laura raises the issue of education for the children of immigrant farm workers. | 209 |
| Tedrow, T.L. | Home to the Prairie | 4.4 | 7 | Laura and Pa Ingalls drive out to find their original little house on the prairie while reminiscing about their lives. | 222 |
| Tedrow, T.L. | Missouri Homestead | 5.3 | 7 | Laura and her husband establish a farm in Missouri and confront a timber baron. | 213 |
| Temko, Florence | Traditional Crafts from the Caribbean | 6.1 | 1 | This book provides instructions for making traditional Caribbean crafts. | 62 |
| Temple, Frances | Grab Hands and Run | 4 | 4 | After his father disappears, twelve-year-old Felipe, his mother, and his younger sister set out on a difficult and dangerous journey, trying to make their way from their home in El Salvador to Canada. | 165 |
| Testa, Fulvio | Too Much Garbage | 2 | 0.5 | Two boys discover garbage everywhere, mountains and mountains of garbage. | 25 |
| Thaler, Mike | Gym Teacher from the Black Lagoon, The | 2.2 | 0.5 | There's a new gym teacher at our school this year. We hear he's a real monster. | 30 |
| Thaler, Mike | Librarian from the Black Lagoon, The | 3.2 | 0.5 | Sometimes things "they" say are not always true, as in the case of the school librarian. | 30 |
| Thaler, Mike | Principal from the Black Lagoon, The | 2.4 | 0.5 | A humorous story about every child's fear of a visit with the school principal. | 30 |
| Thaler, Mike | School Bus Driver from the Black Lagoon, The | 3 | 0.5 | Rumors have been spreading about the new school bus driver, and a young boy's imagination runs wild while he waits for the bus to pick him up. | 30 |
| Thaler, Mike | Teacher from the Black Lagoon, The | 2.4 | 0.5 | A young boy dreads meeting his new teacher and imagines nightmarish things about her. | 29 |
| Theodorou, Rod | Across the Solar System | 5.2 | 0.5 | This book takes the reader on a journey through the solar system, describing comets, asteroids, and the planets, including their average temperature, length of day, distance from the sun, and more. | 32 |
| Thesman, Jean | When the Road Ends | 4.2 | 6 | Sent to spend the summer in the country, three foster children and an older woman recovering from a serious accident are abandoned by their slovenly caretaker and must try to survive on their own. | 184 |
| Thimmesh, Catherine | Girls Think of Everything: Stories of...Inventions by Women | 7.4 | 2 | This book tells the story of how women through the ages have responded to situations confronting them in daily life by inventing items such as correction fluid, space helmets, and disposable diapers. | 57 |
| Thomas, Jane Resh | Comeback Dog, The | 4.9 | 1 | The heartwarming story of a special dog, a very special boy, and how they learn to live with each other. | 62 |
| Thomas, Jane Resh | Scaredy Dog | 3.7 | 0.5 | With patience and love, a young girl helps the dog she has chosen from the Humane Society grow from a frightened puppy into a happy pet. | 44 |
| Thomas, Joyce Carol | I Have Heard of a Land | 3.1 | 0.5 | Describes the hardships and joys experienced by an African-American pioneer woman who staked a claim for free land in the Oklahoma Territory. | 28 |
| Thomas, Shelley Moore | Good Night, Good Knight | 2.1 | 0.5 | The Good Knight discovers three little dragons who can't fall asleep. There is no one to read to them or tuck them in. Is this a job for the Good Knight? Read this sweet, funny book and find out. | 48 |
| Thomasma, Kenneth | Naya Nuki | 5.6 | 4 | A beautiful story of Naya Nuki, an eleven-year-old Indian girl, who was taken captive by a rival Indian tribe and forced into slavery by a cruel, old squaw. She is determined to escape and return to her own people a thousand miles away. | 175 |
| Thompson, Kay | Eloise in Moscow | 4.6 | 1 | There is hardly a creature on earth more likely to confound early cold war Soviet society than Eloise, and here she runs roughshod over guides, interpreters, spies, and everyone else whose job it is to see her safely around and out of Moscow. | 68 |
| Thompson, Lauren | Mouse's First Christmas | 2.1 | 0.5 | This book is about a mouse experiencing his first Christmas. | 30 |
| Thomson, Sarah L. | Stars and Stripes: The Story of the American Flag | 4.5 | 0.5 | This book is an introduction to the history of the American flag, from colonial times to the present. | 32 |
| Thurber, James | Many Moons | 4.5 | 0.5 | Story of a princess who wears the moon like a necklace. | 30 |
| Tildes, Phyllis Limbacher | Counting on Calico | 3.8 | 0.5 | This book describes the calico cat, its characteristics, and behavior. | 30 |
| Titherington, Jeanne | Pumpkin Pumpkin | 2.4 | 0.5 | Jamie plants a pumpkin seed and, after watching it grow, carves it and saves some seeds to plant in the spring. | 24 |
| Tolan, Stephanie S. | Surviving the Applewhites | 5.5 | 7 | Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had. | 216 |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | Fellowship of the Ring, The | 6.1 | 29 | It is up to Frodo and his faithful servant Sam with a small band of companions to carry the Ring of Power to the one place it could be destroyed, while avoiding the Ringwraiths. | 423 |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | Hobbit, The | 6.6 | 16 | This stirring adventure is a fantasy that introduces the far-wandering hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. | 330 |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | Return of the King, The | 6.2 | 22 | Sam and Frodo must make their way deep into Mordor to destroy the Ring of Power in the fires of Mount Doom. | 507 |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | Two Towers, The | 6.3 | 23 | The Fellowship was scattered. Some were bracing hopelessly for war against the ancient evil of Sauron. | 447 |
| Tompert, Ann | Just a Little Bit | 2.7 | 0.5 | When Mouse and Elephant decide to go on the seesaw, Mouse needs a lot of help from the other animals before they can go up and down. | 30 |
| Towne, Mary | Dive Through the Wave | 6.2 | 4 | During her family's visits to the beach on Long Island, Ruth makes friends with a lifeguard who helps her handle her worries about the war, an outbreak of polio, and being the youngest girl in sixth grade. | 124 |
| Townley, Roderick | Great Good Thing, The | 4.4 | 4 | Twelve-year-old Princess Sylvie's storybook kingdom really is a storybook, where nothing ever changes, even the characters' mad scramble to reach their places whenever the book is opened. | 216 |
| Trapani, Iza | Itsy Bitsy Spider, The | 2.7 | 0.5 | The itsy bitsy spider encounters a fan, a mouse, a cat, and a rocking chair as she makes her way to the top of a tree to spin her web. | 32 |
| Travers, P.L. | Mary Poppins | 6.1 | 6 | A young boy and girl embark on a wonderful adventure with their nanny. | 206 |
| Tresselt, Alvin | Hide and Seek Fog | 4.3 | 0.5 | A fog takes over a small village for three days. | 28 |
| Tresselt, Alvin | White Snow Bright Snow | 4.2 | 0.5 | When it begins to look, feel, and smell like snow, everyone prepares for a winter blizzard. | 28 |
| Tripp, Valerie | Changes for Felicity | 4.1 | 1 | The outbreak of the Revolutionary War in 1775 brings drastic changes to Felicity's life in Williamsburg, affecting both her family and her friendship with Elizabeth. | 69 |
| Tripp, Valerie | Changes for Samantha | 3.9 | 1 | When Samantha moves to New York, she plans a daring rescue to free a servant friend from an orphanage. | 67 |
| Tripp, Valerie | Felicity Saves the Day | 4.5 | 1 | During a visit to her grandfather's plantation in Virginia during the summer of 1775, Felicity's loyalty is torn between her father and Ben, her father's apprentice. Ben needs her help as he runs away to join George Washington's army of Patriots. | 67 |
| Tripp, Valerie | Happy Birthday, Molly! | 3.5 | 1 | When an English girl comes to stay at Molly's during World War II, she and Molly learn to bridge their differences and ultimately enjoy a wonderful, mutual birthday party. | 57 |
| Tripp, Valerie | Happy Birthday, Samantha! | 3.7 | 1 | A ten-year-old girl discovers the modern delights of turn-of-the-century New York City when she travels there with her grandmother. | 56 |
| Tripp, Valerie | Josefina Learns a Lesson | 4.5 | 2 | Josefina and her sisters distrust learning to read and write as well as other changes their Tia Delores is bringing to the household. | 67 |
| Tripp, Valerie | Josefina Saves the Day | 4.2 | 1 | In 1825 when Josefina trusts a trader in Santa Fe with an important deal, she makes a surprising discovery about this young American who leaves town without paying her. | 67 |
| Tripp, Valerie | Josefina's Surprise | 4.6 | 1 | The second Christmas after their mother has died, Josefina and her three sisters find that participating in the traditions of Las Posadas helps keep memories of Mama alive. | 60 |
| Tripp, Valerie | Meet Felicity | 4.2 | 1 | In Williamsburg in 1774, nine-year-old Felicity rescues a beautiful horse that is being beaten and starved by its cruel owner. | 69 |
| Tripp, Valerie | Meet Josefina | 4.1 | 2 | Nine-year-old Josefina, the youngest of four sisters living in New Mexico in 1824, tries to help run the household after her mother's death. | 83 |
| Tripp, Valerie | Meet Molly | 4.2 | 1 | During World War II, Molly eats terrible vegetables from the victory garden and plans revenge on her brother for spoiling her Halloween. | 59 |
| Tripp, Valerie | Molly's Surprise | 3.6 | 1 | Even though he is away serving in an English hospital during World War II, Molly's father finds a way to make the family Christmas very special. | 64 |
| Tripp, Valerie | Samantha Saves the Day | 3.8 | 1 | When Samantha and the twins head off to find Teardrop Island, their exploration puts them in the middle of a dangerous storm. | 65 |
| Trivizas, Eugene | Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig, The | 4.6 | 0.5 | A hilarious retelling in reverse of the traditional story of the villainous monster who destroys homes. | 28 |
| Trumbauer, Lisa | Life Cycle of a Chicken (Life Cycles), The | 1.5 | 0.5 | Simple text and photographs present a brief description of the life cycle of chickens. | 24 |
| Tryon, Leslie | Albert's Field Trip | 3.4 | 0.5 | Albert leads the third-grade class on a memorable field trip to an apple farm. | 32 |
| Tryon, Leslie | Albert's Thanksgiving | 3.3 | 0.5 | Albert, the duck, works very hard to make sure this is the best Thanksgiving feast since 1621! | 28 |
| Tudor, Tasha | A Is for Annabelle: A Doll's Alphabet | 2.1 | 0.5 | Learn the alphabet from A to Z with the help of the doll Annabelle. | 56 |
| Tunis, John R. | Rookie of the Year | 5 | 6 | The seeming irresponsibility of a brilliant rookie pitcher becomes a threat to the team's chances for the pennant. | 220 |
| Tunnell, Michael O. | Joke's on George, The | 5.1 | 0.5 | This story tells of an incident when George Washington visited the American portrait painter Charles Willson Peale's natural history museum and was fooled by a lifelike painting. | 30 |
| Tunnell, Michael O. | Mailing May | 3.6 | 0.5 | In 1914, because her family cannot afford a train ticket to her grandmother's town, May is mailed and rides the mail car on the train to see her grandmother. | 32 |
| Tunnell, Michael O. | School Spirits | 4.8 | 4 | When Patrick moves to a new town, he is confronted by a ghostly boy who seeks his help. | 201 |
| Tunnell/Chilcoat | Children of Topaz: The Story of a Japanese-American Internment, Th | 7.6 | 3 | The diary of a third-grade class of Japanese-American children being held with their families in an internment camp during World War II. | 74 |
| Turner, Ann | Abe Lincoln Remembers | 4.1 | 0.5 | This is a simple description of the life of Abraham Lincoln, presented from his point of view. | 30 |
| Turner, Ann | Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, The | 5.1 | 5 | This is a journal of a young Navajo girl who, with her people, is forced by American soldiers to leave her home and traditions behind. | 191 |
| Turner, Ann | Grasshopper Summer | 3.6 | 4 | In 1874, eleven-year-old Sam and his family move from Kentucky to the southern Dakota Territory, where harsh conditions and a plague of hungry grasshoppers threaten their chances for survival. | 149 |
| Turner, Megan Whalen | Thief, The | 6 | 11 | Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone. | 219 |
| Twain, Mark | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Unabridged), The | 6.6 | 18 | Huck and Jim encounter life on the Mississippi in one of the great works of American Literature. | 279 |
| Twain, Mark | Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Unabridged), The | 8.1 | 12 | This timeless story of small town boyhood adventures ranks as one of the great American classics. | 256 |
| Twain, Mark | Prince and the Pauper (Abridged), The | 9.3 | 12 | A prince and pauper, who are identical in appearance, trade places in life. | 267 |
| Twain, Mark | Prince and the Pauper (Unabridged), The | 9.5 | 13 | This is the classic story of two boys, identical except for their clothes and stations in life, who switch identities. | 224 |
| Twain/Bogart | Prince and the Pauper (Great Illustrated Classics), The | 5 | 3 | Edward, the Prince of Wales, and Tom, a beggar boy, switch clothes and face adventures when they are accidentally thrust into each other's worlds. | 238 |
| Twain/Laiken | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Great Illustrated Classics), The | 4.9 | 3 | Huckleberry Finn escapes from his evil, drunken father who is trying to steal his treasure. Huck befriends Jim, a runaway slave and together they float towards freedom on a raft down the Mississippi river. | 238 |
| Twain/Laiken | Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Great Illustrated Classics), The | 5.3 | 2 | Join Tom Sawyer and his friends in a series of fantastic adventures: forming secret societies, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funerals, and even solving a murder. | 238 |
| Uchida, Yoshiko | Journey to Topaz | 6 | 5 | This is the story of 11-year-old Yuki and her family who, after Pearl Harbor, are forced from their home and made to live in Topaz, a concentration camp in the desert. | 149 |
| Udry, Janice May | Thump and Plunk | 1.3 | 0.5 | When Thump finds Plunk's doll Plunkit, an arguement starts that their mother resolves. | 24 |
| Udry, Janice May | Tree Is Nice, A | 2.2 | 0.5 | Explains some of the reasons why trees are nice. | 26 |
| Ullman, James Ramsey | Banner in the Sky | 5.1 | 11 | Rudi's father had been killed trying to climb the Citadel, a dangerous Swiss mountain. Now it is Rudi's dream to make that climb. | 285 |
| Vail, Rachel | Sometimes I'm Bombaloo | 2.8 | 0.5 | When Katie Honors feels angry and out of control, her mother helps her to be herself again. | 32 |
| Van Allsburg, Chris | Bad Day at Riverbend | 4.2 | 0.5 | Why had the stagecoach stopped in town when it never had before? | 30 |
| Van Allsburg, Chris | Garden of Abdul Gasazi, The | 4 | 0.5 | When the dog he is caring for runs away from Alan into the forbidden garden of a dog-hating magician, a spell seems to be cast over the dog. | 32 |
| Van Allsburg, Chris | Jumanji | 3.9 | 0.5 | Two children play a dice game, Jumanji, that must be played to the very end. | 27 |
| Van Allsburg, Chris | Just a Dream | 3.6 | 0.5 | When he has a dream about a future Earth devastated by pollution, Walter begins to understand the importance of taking care of the environment. | 44 |
| Van Allsburg, Chris | Polar Express, The | 3.8 | 0.5 | An incredible children's story, beautifully illustrated, about a young boy's Christmas adventure. | 29 |
| Van Allsburg, Chris | Sweetest Fig, The | 3.7 | 0.5 | A dentist receives two magic figs for an extracted tooth, but the dentist's dog has his own plan for the mysterious fruits. | 28 |
| Van Allsburg, Chris | Two Bad Ants | 4.7 | 0.5 | Superb illustrations complement a text concerning two naughty ants and a kitchen adventure. | 31 |
| Van Allsburg, Chris | Widow's Broom, The | 4.7 | 0.5 | A witch's worn-out broom serves a widow well until her neighbors decide the thing is wicked and dangerous. | 28 |
| Van Allsburg, Chris | Wreck of the Zephyr, The | 3.7 | 0.5 | A boy's ambition to be the greatest sailor in the world brings him to ruin when he misuses his new ability to sail his boat in the air. | 28 |
| Van Allsburg, Chris | Wretched Stone, The | 4.3 | 0.5 | A strange glowing stone picked up on a sea voyage captivates a ship's crew and has a terrible transforming effect on them. | 27 |
| Van Allsburg, Chris | Zathura: A Space Adventure | 3.8 | 0.5 | Left on their own for an evening, two boisterous brothers find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical space adventure board game. | 32 |
| Van Draanen, Wendelin | How I Survived Being a Girl | 5 | 5 | Twelve-year-old Carolyn struggles with being a girl when she really wants to be a boy. | 163 |
| Van Draanen, Wendelin | Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief | 4.6 | 6 | Sammy's penchant for speaking her mind gets her into trouble when she involves herself in the investigation of a robbery. | 163 |
| Van Leeuwen, Jean | Amanda Pig and Her Big Brother Oliver | 2.3 | 0.5 | This book contains five stories about Oliver and Amanda, who are sometimes called Mighty Pig, and Amazing Baby Pig. | 56 |
| Van Leeuwen, Jean | Amanda Pig on Her Own | 2.4 | 0.5 | Amanda's big brother Oliver leaves for school, and Amanda tries to play by herself. She discovers the troubles and joys of being alone. | 48 |
| Van Leeuwen, Jean | Amanda Pig, Schoolgirl | 2.5 | 0.5 | Amanda Pig's first day of school is every bit as wonderful as she always hoped it would be. | 48 |
| Van Leeuwen, Jean | Bound for Oregon | 5.3 | 6 | Historical novel about a family's tumultuous journey along the Oregon Trail in 1852. | 167 |
| Van Leeuwen, Jean | More Tales of Amanda Pig | 2.3 | 0.5 | This book includes five more adventures of Amanda Pig and her family, in which noisy cousins come to visit and Father gets a stuffed toy for his birthday. | 56 |
| Van Leeuwen, Jean | Oliver & Amanda and the Big Snow | 2.2 | 0.5 | Four stories about Amanda and Oliver Pig and their parents, who go outside to play after a big snowstorm. | 48 |
| Van Leeuwen, Jean | Oliver Pig at School | 2.5 | 0.5 | Oliver Pig goes to school. | 48 |
| Van Leeuwen, Jean | Tales of Amanda Pig | 2.2 | 0.5 | Amanda Pig, her brother Oliver, and their parents share a busy day, working and playing together from breakfast to bedtime. | 56 |
| Van Nutt, Julia | Skyrockets and Snickerdoodles | 3.6 | 0.5 | In 1845, with the Fourth of July only days away, Lucy Hart can barely contain her excitement. The anticipation fizzles, however, when Cobtown is told that it no longer exists. | 32 |
| Van Steenwyk, Elizabeth | Air Shows: From Barnstormers to Blue Angels | 7.8 | 1 | Describes the history of air shows from the first air races to modern events. | 64 |
| Van Steenwyk, Elizabeth | One Fine Day: A Radio Play | 4.1 | 0.5 | In the form of a radio play, this book portrays the Wright Brothers' first successful flight. | 32 |
| Van Steenwyk, Elizabeth | Traitor Among Us, A | 4.3 | 4 | In occupied Holland in 1944, thirteen-year-old Pieter becomes increasingly involved in the work of the Dutch Resistance even though he knows the risk of being discovered by the Nazi informer who lives in his village. | 131 |
| Vande Velde, Vivian | Hidden Magic, A | 5.4 | 4 | Lost in a magic forest and separated from her prince, Princes Jennifer seeks help from a kindly young sorcerer in battling an evil witch. | 176 |
| Vande Velde, Vivian | Rumpelstiltskin Problem, The | 5.7 | 4 | This book is a collection of variations on the familiar story of a boastful miller and the daughter he claims can spin straw into gold. | 116 |
| Vande Velde, Vivian | Smart Dog | 5.5 | 4 | Fifth grader Amy finds her life growing complicated when she meets and tries to hide an intelligent, talking dog who has escaped from a university lab. | 146 |
| Vande Velde, Vivian | User Unfriendly | 5 | 10 | A pirated computer role-playing game provides an adventure for several teenagers and one adult. | 244 |
| VanDerRol/Verhoeven | Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary | 6.8 | 3 | Photographs, illustrations, and maps accompany historical essays, diary excerpts, and interviews, providing an insight ot Anne Frank and the massive upheaval which tore apart her world. | 113 |
| Vaughan, Marcia | Abbie Against the Storm | 4.4 | 0.5 | This is a fictionalized account of an incident in the life of a seventeen-year-old girl who tends her family's lighthouse during a fierce storm on the coast of Maine in the winter of 1856. | 30 |
| Verne, Jules | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Unabridged) | 10 | 28 | Captain Nemo takes the first submarine on exciting adventures. | 389 |
| Verne, Jules | Around the World in Eighty Days | 9.6 | 12 | Phileas Fogg and his servant make a breathless world tour, overcoming wild misadventures and rescuing a beautiful Indian maharani. | 297 |
| Verne/Leighton | Around the World in 80 Days (Great Illustrated Classics) | 5 | 2 | Phileas Fogg has many fantastic adventures as he races to win the bet that he can travel around the world in 80 days. | 236 |
| Verne/Schwach | Journey to the Center of the Earth (Great Illustrated Classics), A | 5.1 | 3 | Guided by an ancient parchment filled with a mysterious Runic code, three explorers encounter tumultuous storms, wild pre-historic animals, vast underground seas, and fierce cavemen in their daring quest down a volcano toward the center of the earth. | 238 |
| Verne/Vogel | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Great Illustrated Classics) | 5.2 | 3 | Professor Aronnax meets with Captain Nemo, the inventor of the submarine, Nautilus, and goes on an incredible underwater journey. | 236 |
| Vieira, Linda | Seven Seas: Exploring the World Ocean, The | 7 | 0.5 | This book presents an illustrated introduction to the world of the oceans and the history of ocean exploration. | 32 |
| Viorst, Judith | Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day | 3.7 | 0.5 | One day when everything goes wrong for him, Alexander is consoled by the thought that other people have bad days, too. | 21 |
| Viorst, Judith | Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday | 3.4 | 0.5 | Alexander has problems holding on to his money. A charming book that demonstrates how easy it is to spend and how difficult it is to save. | 28 |
| Viorst, Judith | Alexander, Who's Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going To Move | 3.5 | 0.5 | Angry Alexander refuses to move away if it means having to leave his favorite friends and special places. | 28 |
| Viorst, Judith | Earrings! | 2.8 | 0.5 | A young girl uses various arguments to convince her parents to let her have her ears pierced. | 27 |
| Viorst, Judith | Good-Bye Book, The | 1.9 | 0.5 | A child on the verge of being left behind by parents who are going out for the evening comes up with a variety of pleas and excuses. | 29 |
| Viorst, Judith | I'll Fix Anthony | 3.2 | 0.5 | A little brother thinks of the ways he will some day get revenge on his older brother | 32 |
| Viorst, Judith | Rosie and Michael | 3.3 | 0.5 | Two friends tell what they like about each other--even the bad things. | 36 |
| Viorst, Judith | Super-Completely and Totally the Messiest | 3.9 | 0.5 | Olivia, who is very neat and practically perfect, despairs because her sister, Sophie, is super-completely and totally the messiest person, no matter where she goes or what she does. | 32 |
| Viorst, Judith | Tenth Good Thing About Barney, The | 2.8 | 0.5 | In an attempt to overcome his grief, a boy tries to think of the ten best things about his dead cat. | 25 |
| Visconti, Guido | Genius of Leonardo, The | 5 | 0.5 | This is a biography of the work, dreams, and wild inventions of Leonardo da Vinci, as seen through the eyes of his mischievous assistant. | 41 |
| Vogel, Elizabeth | Washing My Hands (Clean and Healthy All Day Long) | 1.6 | 0.5 | A girl describes how she washes her hands and gives examples of times when hand washing is important. | 24 |
| Vogt, Gregory | Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors (Our Universe) | 5.2 | 1 | This book examines the characteristics of asteroids, comets, and meteors in our solar system. | 48 |
| Vogt, Gregory | Exploring Space (Our Universe) | 5.2 | 1 | This book discusses past, present, and future space travel. | 48 |
| Vogt, Gregory | Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune (Our Universe) | 5.1 | 1 | This book examines the characteristics of the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. | 48 |
| Vogt, Gregory | Living on Other Worlds (Our Universe) | 4.7 | 1 | This book explains how humans began their queries with nothing but the naked eye, yet have advanced their searches among the stars using mathematics, science, space probes, powerful telescopes, and spacecraft. | 48 |
| Vogt, Gregory | Mars (Our Universe) | 4.8 | 1 | This book explains how humans began their queries with nothing but the naked eye, yet have advanced their searches among the stars using mathematics, science, space probes, powerful telescopes, and spacecraft. | 48 |
| Vogt, Gregory | Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars (Our Universe) | 4.8 | 1 | This book examines the characteristics of the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. | 48 |
| Vogt, Gregory | Milky Way and Other Galaxies (Our Universe), The | 5.5 | 1 | This book examines the Milky Way and other galaxies. | 48 |
| Vogt, Gregory | Moons (Our Universe) | 4.5 | 1 | The book examines the characteristics of some of the moons in our solar system. | 48 |
| Vogt, Gregory | Nebulas (Our Universe) | 4.7 | 1 | Interstellar space is full of these clouds of dust and gas. This book reveals their origin and their effects. | 48 |
| Vogt, Gregory | Pluto and the Search for New Planets (Our Universe) | 5.3 | 1 | This book examines the characteristics of the planet Pluto and the search for new planets in our solar system. | 48 |
| Vogt, Gregory | Stars and Constellations (Our Universe) | 5 | 1 | This book explains how humans began their queries with nothing but the naked eye, yet have advanced their searches among the stars using mathematics, science, space probes, powerful telescopes, and spacecraft. | 48 |
| Vogt, Gregory | Sun (Our Universe), The | 4.6 | 1 | The book examines the characteristics of the sun. | 48 |
| Voigt, Cynthia | Callender Papers, The | 4.8 | 8 | In nineteenth century Massachusetts, orphan Jean, employed to sort out the family papers of a reclusive artist, becomes curious about the mysterious, long-ago death of his wife and the subsequent disappearance of their young child. | 261 |
| Voigt, Cynthia | Dicey's Song | 5 | 11 | Left without their mother, Dicey shepherds her young siblings from Provincetown to Chesapeake Bay for a new beginning with their grandmother. | 359 |
| Voigt, Cynthia | Homecoming | 4.4 | 16 | Young Dicey fights to keep her brothers and sister together and out of foster homes. | 402 |
| Voigt, Cynthia | Izzy, Willy-Nilly | 4.9 | 12 | Izzy had everything going for her until she accepted a date with Marco and ended up crippled for life. | 262 |
| Waber, Bernard | Anteater Named Arthur, An | 2.4 | 0.5 | This is a story of the worrisome and lovable antics of a boy anteater, as seen through the eyes of his doting mother. | 48 |
| Waber, Bernard | Ira Sleeps Over | 2.2 | 0.5 | Invited to spend the night at a friend's house, Ira wants to bring his teddy bear but is afraid of being teased. | 48 |
| Waber, Bernard | Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile | 4.6 | 0.5 | A lovable crocodile causes a neighborhood feud. | 48 |
| Waber, Bernard | You Look Ridiculous Said the Rhinoceros to the Hippopotamus | 3.8 | 0.5 | A worried hippopotamus walks through the forest, growing increasingly depressed as one animal after another confesses that she look ridiculous. | 32 |
| Waddell, Martin | Farmer Duck | 2.2 | 0.5 | When a kind and hardworking duck nearly collapses from overwork while taking care of a farm because the owner is too lazy to do so, the rest of the animals get together and chase the farmer out of town. | 32 |
| Waddell, Martin | Kitten Called Moonlight, A | 2.7 | 0.5 | A little girl and her mother recall how a special kitten came into their lives one dark and stormy night. | 31 |
| Waddell, Martin | Let's Go Home, Little Bear | 3.1 | 0.5 | Little Bear becomes scared, but Big Bear comforts him during a long walk in the big woods. | 29 |
| Wadsworth, Olive A. | Over in the Meadow | 2.5 | 0.5 | This is an old counting rhyme told by a succession of mother animals to their babies; and each mother has a progressively larger number of offspring. | 23 |
| Waldherr, Kris | Sacred Animals | 7.6 | 1 | Over the centuries thousands of stories have sprung up around animals, many based in truth, others the products of pure imagination, but all of them celebrating the magic and mystery of the natural world. | 48 |
| Waldron, Jan L. | Angel Pig & the Hidden Christmas | 3.9 | 0.5 | A group of pigs discovers the meaning of Christmas. | 20 |
| Wallace, Barbara Brooks | Miss Switch Online | 5.1 | 5 | Miss Switch, the witch, returns to save Rupert and the entire sixth grade from evil Saturna, who is operating a sinister Web site and has installed her brother as principal of the school. | 175 |
| Wallace, Barbara Brooks | Twin in the Tavern, The | 5.5 | 7 | A young orphan, afraid of being sent to the workhouse, finds himself at the mercy of the unsavory owner of a tavern in Alexandria, Virginia, while he tries to solve the mystery surrounding his past and a missing twin. | 179 |
| Wallace, Bill | Backward Bird Dog, The | 3.8 | 3 | J. C. the bird dog is having all kinds of problems with accidents and injuries to his nose, which he is to use for hunting. | 101 |
| Wallace, Bill | Biggest Klutz in Fifth Grade, The | 4.1 | 4 | This is a humorous story about the trials and tribulations of boys growing up. | 148 |
| Wallace, Bill | Blackwater Swamp | 4.2 | 5 | Ted and his sister find peril when they move to the Louisiana bayou. | 185 |
| Wallace, Bill | Buffalo Gal | 4.8 | 6 | Although she'd rather stay in San Francisco, Amanda agrees to go to Texas to save a herd of buffalo. | 185 |
| Wallace, Bill | Dog Called Kitty, A | 4.2 | 4 | Through a relationship with an abandoned puppy on an Oklahoma farm, Ricky overcomes his fear of dogs that he acquired as a toddler when he was attacked by a rabid canine. | 137 |
| Wallace, Bill | Eye of the Great Bear | 4.3 | 5 | After moving to Montana, Bailey Trumbull's whole life changes and he must face his fears head on. | 161 |
| Wallace, Bill | Red Dog | 4.4 | 5 | Lost in the wilderness, Adam and the red pup face the greatest danger of their lives. | 167 |
| Wallace, Bill | Totally Disgusting! | 3.7 | 2 | Despite his uncourageous name, Mewkiss proves to be a strong and brave kitten during a crisis in which his mistress' life is threatened. | 111 |
| Wallace, Bill | Trapped in Death Cave | 4.2 | 5 | A posthumous letter referring to buried treasure convinces Gary that his grandfather did not die a natural death and, with his friend Brian, he sets out to find both the treasure and his grandfather's killer. | 151 |
| Wallace, Bill | Upchuck and the Rotten Willy | 3.7 | 3 | Chuck the cat enjoys adventures with his best friend Tom until Tom moves away. | 101 |
| Wallace, Bill | Watchdog and the Coyotes | 3.7 | 2 | Sweetie the great dane could not afford to bark or bite. After three little nips, she would go to the pound. But when her friends and home are threatened, she must find a way to outfox the coyotes. | 104 |
| Wallace, Karen | Born to Be a Butterfly | 2.5 | 0.5 | Simple text and photographs describes the stages by which a butterfly develops from an egg. | 32 |
| Wallace, Nancy Elizabeth | Snow | 3.2 | 0.5 | When Grandpa Rabbit was a boy, he loved playing in the snow with his little brother. Now, he enjoys telling his grandson all about the fun they used to have. | 26 |
| Walsh, Ellen Stoll | Mouse Count | 2 | 0.5 | Ten mice outsmart a hungry snake. | 30 |
| Walsh, Ellen Stoll | Pip's Magic | 2.5 | 0.5 | The salamander Pip is afraid of the dark, so he sets out in search of a wizard who will help him overcome his fear. | 32 |
| Walsh, Ellen Stoll | You Silly Goose | 2.3 | 0.5 | A silly goose mistakes a mouse for a fox until the real fox arrives and sets her straight. | 34 |
| Walter, Mildred Pitts | Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World | 3.9 | 3 | Suffering in a family full of females, Justin learns real lessons in what "women's work" is, when he spends time on his beloved grandfather's ranch. | 122 |
| Walter, Mildred Pitts | Ty's One-man Band | 3 | 0.5 | A young black child while playing by the pond meets a one-legged one-man band who brings music to the community. | 18 |
| Walton, Rick | Bertie Was a Watchdog | 2.1 | 0.5 | Bertie, a dog as small as a watch, outsmarts an overconfident robber. | 50 |
| Walton, Rick | Once There Was a Bull...(frog) | 1.7 | 0.5 | A bullfrog in the Old West loses his hop in this lively tale where each page must be turned to complete the previous image. | 28 |
| Ward, Helen | Old Shell, New Shell: A Coral Reef Tale | 3 | 0.5 | A hermit crab who has outgrown his shell searches for a new one among the creatures of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. | 38 |
| Ward, Lynd | Biggest Bear, The | 3.9 | 0.5 | Johnny sets out to kill a big bear and insteads befriends him. Caldecott Medal Winner. NCTE Adventuring with Books. | 84 |
| Wardlaw, Lee | 101 Ways to Bug Your Parents | 3.9 | 5 | When his parents call off the family vacation and enroll their son in a creative writing class instead, twelve-year-old Steve comes up with a wacky money-making project. | 204 |
| Wardlaw, Lee | We All Scream for Ice Cream! The Scoop on America's...Dessert | 7.8 | 8 | This history of ice cream begins in ancient Greece and travels all the way to modern-day America. | 198 |
| Ware, Cheryl | Flea Circus Summer | 5.7 | 2 | Venola spends most of the summer writing letters, and she never gives up, whether she is begging for a job, nit-picking with a friend, or straightening out a flea company. | 135 |
| Waring, Richard | Hungry Hen | 2.3 | 0.5 | A greedy fox watches a hungry hen growing bigger every day, knowing that the longer he waits to eat her, the bigger she will be. | 26 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Amusement Park Mystery, The | 3.8 | 2 | The Boxcar Children investigate the theft of antique carousel horses from the amusement park. | 119 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Animal Shelter Mystery, The | 4.2 | 3 | The Alden children save an old woman's house, land, and all the animals in her animal shelter from greedy contractors. | 121 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Basketball Mystery, The | 3.9 | 3 | The Aldens investigate when the new coach of their community basketball league has her Most Valuable Player trophy stolen. | 135 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Benny Uncovers a Mystery | 3.8 | 2 | Two brothers take summer jobs at a department store, where a series of peculiar events brings them under suspicion. | 128 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Bicycle Mystery | 3.2 | 2 | Many complications follow when a dog attaches himself to the Aldens on a bicycle trip. | 127 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Black Pearl Mystery, The | 4.1 | 2 | While the Boxcar Children are visiting Hawaii with their grandfather, they uncover the legend of the black pearl and the mysteries that surround it. | 121 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Blue Bay Mystery | 2.9 | 2 | The Aldens find a castaway on a South Sea Island. | 157 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Boxcar Children, The | 3.9 | 2 | The resourceful Alden children survive without adult supervision and make a home for themselves in an abandoned boxcar. | 154 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Bus Station Mystery | 3.6 | 2 | The Alden children, isolated in a storm at a small bus station, are led into a mystery centering on a polluted river. | 127 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Caboose Mystery | 3.2 | 2 | A trip in a caboose leads to an old clown and a search. | 128 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Camp-Out Mystery, The | 3.3 | 2 | While on a camping trip with their grandfather, the Alden children try to find out about the loud music and missing food that threaten to scare away other campers. | 120 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Cereal Box Mystery, The | 3.7 | 2 | While the Boxcar Children are trying to find stolen jewels, someone breaks into their home and steals a box of Benny's favorite cereal. | 111 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Chocolate Sundae Mystery, The | 4.3 | 2 | The Aldens solve the mystery of the missing ice cream. | 120 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Deserted Library Mystery | 3.7 | 2 | At an old library, the Alden children discover a boy who needs their help and a stranger who is after a valuable object they found in the library. | 121 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Dinosaur Mystery, The | 4.2 | 3 | Someone is sabotaging a new dinosaur exhibit at the museum. | 121 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Ghost Ship Mystery, The | 4 | 3 | The Aldens investigate the mysterious case of a ship lost at sea. | 121 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Ghost Town Mystery, The | 3.9 | 2 | Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny solve the mystery behind their grandfather's haunted land in the Rocky Mountains. | 121 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Gymnastics Mystery, The | 3.9 | 2 | A young Russian gymnast, Katya, has come to visit the Boxcar Children. Someone is trying to ruin Katya's chances of winning the big competition and Katya has been acting strange. Can the Boxcar Children solve both mysteries? | 132 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Haunted Cabin Mystery, The | 4 | 2 | The Alden children travel on a Mississippi paddle wheel steamer to visit an old family friend in his cabin near Hannibal, Missouri, and try to discover who is responsible for the mysterious activities near the house. | 121 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Houseboat Mystery | 3.4 | 3 | Floating down a lazy river, Benny finds a blackmail scheme in progress. | 128 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Hurricane Mystery, The | 3.8 | 2 | The children are in North Carolina during hurricane season, looking for a pirate's gold. | 118 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Lighthouse Mystery, The | 3.2 | 2 | Renting a lighthouse is unusual, but even more so is an unfriendly boy's peculiar behavior. | 128 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Mike's Mystery | 3 | 2 | Benny and Mike get into trouble when they get curious about a uranium mine. | 128 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Mountain Top Mystery | 3.6 | 2 | Marooned on a mountain, the Aldens survive a landslide and find an Indian secret. | 128 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Movie Star Mystery, The | 3.7 | 2 | While Tate Radison was filming his last movie, a lot of odd things happened. Now he wants to keep his presence in Greenfield a secret to avoid any more mishaps, but a note arrives in his mailbox and the troubles start again. | 119 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Mystery at Skeleton Point, The | 4.2 | 2 | When Grandfather's friend Charlotte buys a mysterious mansion, she invites the Alden children to help her fix it up. Then the mansion's valuable statutes begin to disappear. Could it be the Skeleton Point ghost? | 120 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Mystery at the Crooked House, The | 4.3 | 2 | The Boxcar Children help their housekeeper, Mrs. McGregor, try to solve the riddle of her home, the Crooked House, which could lead to a treasure. | 112 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Mystery at the Dog Show, The | 4 | 2 | Strange things start happening at Greenfield's first dog show. | 121 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Mystery Behind the Wall | 3.5 | 2 | A young Canadian visitor helps the Alden family solve a mystery involving a lost coin collection. | 127 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Mystery Bookstore, The | 4 | 2 | The Boxcar Children solve a mystery about a bookstore. | 120 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Mystery Cruise, The | 3.9 | 2 | Someone tries to delay the cruise ship the Boxcar Children are on so that Max Greene won't be in time to inherit his great aunt's estate. | 118 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Mystery Girl, The | 3.5 | 2 | The Boxcar Children notice some peculiar things about the girl who works in Jerry Taylor's general store. | 121 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Mystery Horse, The | 4.2 | 3 | The Boxcar Children spend the summer on a working farm. | 121 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Mystery in the Old Attic, The | 4.2 | 2 | When the Alden children arrive at the mansion, they can't wait to start looking through all the rooms; they find a diary with a riddle in it to find a diamond ring. | 135 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Mystery in the Sand | 3.7 | 3 | Living in a seaside mobile home, the Aldens unravel the secret of two secluded women. | 127 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Mystery in the Snow, The | 3.3 | 2 | Who's responsible for the missing skiis, the knocked-over snow sculptures, and the melting ice rink at the winter carnival? The Boxcar Children will find out. | 121 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Mystery of the Hidden Painting, The | 3.8 | 2 | Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny spot what looks like a necklace that was given to their grandmother when she was married, but later was stolen. | 117 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Mystery of the Hot Air Balloon, The | 3.5 | 2 | The Aldens solve a mystery at a hot air balloon rally. | 119 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Mystery of the Lost Village, The | 4.1 | 2 | The Aldens investigate the legend of an ancient Navajo village. | 121 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Mystery of the Mixed-up Zoo | 4.1 | 2 | The Boxcar Children must find out who's responsible for the trouble at the zoo, or it will be closed down. | 120 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Mystery of the Purple Pool, The | 4 | 2 | On a visit to New York City, the Aldens solve a mystery in their hotel. | 122 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Mystery of the Wild Ponies, The | 3.9 | 3 | Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny have promised Grandfather a vacation from mysteries during their island visit. However, the promise proves hard to keep when things start to go missing. | 135 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Mystery on Stage, The | 4.2 | 2 | The Boxcar children save the opening-night performance. | 121 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Mystery on the Ice, The | 3.9 | 2 | The Aldens find several promising suspects for the theft of precious jewels. | 117 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Mystery Ranch | 3.3 | 2 | When an eccentric old aunt needs help on her ranch, the Aldens overturn a plot against her. | 127 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Old Motel Mystery, The | 4 | 2 | The Boxcar Children help Aunt Jane fix a dilapidated motel, but someone sabotages their work. | 121 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Pilgrim Village Mystery, The | 4.2 | 2 | The Boxcar Children solve a mystery at a restored historical village. | 121 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Schoolhouse Mystery | 3.3 | 3 | Benny's curiosity while staying in a fishing village leads to the capture of a swindler. | 128 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Snowbound Mystery | 3.4 | 3 | A freak snowstorm traps the Aldens in a cabin, where they find a coded message. | 128 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Stuffed Bear Mystery, The | 4 | 2 | Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather, and they're going to a teddy bear jamboree! | 118 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Surprise Island | 4.2 | 3 | Summer vacation on an almost-private island gives the Aldens a challenge. | 178 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Tree House Mystery | 3.3 | 2 | From a high perch, Benny discovers a clue to a hidden room with contents that surprise everyone. | 127 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Woodshed Mystery, The | 4.3 | 5 | A double puzzle involves an old friend of Aunt Jane's, romance, discovering the truth behind rumors about the house Grandfather and Aunt Jane lived in as children. | 159 |
| Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Yellow House Mystery, The | 3.2 | 3 | A spooky old house on Surprise Island intrigues Benny. | 191 |
| Warner, Sally | Dog Years | 3.9 | 3 | After his father is imprisoned, twelve-year-old Case switches to a new school, where he makes some important discoveries about friendship and honesty. | 154 |
| Warrick, Karen Clemens | If I Had a Tail | 2.4 | 0.5 | The reader is asked to guess what a creature is from a description of the appearance and use of its tail. | 33 |
| Waters, Jennifer | Great Ocean (Social Studies), The | 2.8 | 0.5 | This book is a brief introduction the Earth's oceans. | 24 |
| Watkins, Richard | Gladiator | 8.7 | 2 | This book describes the history of gladiators, including types of armor, use of animals, amphitheaters, and how the practice fit into Roman society for almost 700 years. | 85 |
| Watson, Jude | Jedi Quest | 5.2 | 5 | Krayn's evil has grown to a dangerous degree. Anakin and Obi-Wan must stop Krayn. Can Obi-Wan also stop Anakin from seeking vengeance against an old enemy? The path to truth is a clear one. Anakin's path is not. | 170 |
| Weil, Ann | Betsy Ross: Designer of Our Flag | 3.8 | 3 | Recreates the childhood of the woman traditionally remembered as the maker of the first American flag. | 192 |
| Weiss, Nicki | First Night of Hanukkah, The | 2.5 | 0.5 | As a family gets ready to celebrate Hanukkah, a young girl learns how the holiday began. | 48 |
| Wells, H.G. | Time Machine (Unabridged), The | 7.4 | 6 | An incredible invention enables the Time Traveller to reach year 802701. | 120 |
| Wells, H.G. | War of the Worlds, The | 9.1 | 11 | A daring portrayal of aliens landing on English soil. The survival of mankind in the face of scientific powers spinning out of control. | 194 |
| Wells, Rosemary | Mama, Don't Go! | 2.6 | 0.5 | Yoko loves kindergarten, but she doesn't want her mother to leave, until her new friend helps her realize that mothers always come back. | 31 |
| Wells, Rosemary | Man in the Woods, The | 5.2 | 8 | Helen knows when the police make the arrest that they have the wrong man, and she also knows that the criminal is aware of her. | 231 |
| Wells, Rosemary | Max's Dragon Shirt | 2.5 | 0.5 | Max and Ruby go shopping for pants for Max. | 22 |
| Wells, Rosemary | Read Me a Story | 2.7 | 0.5 | Yoko pretends she cannot read because she thinks that if her mother finds out she can, no one will read her a bedtime story. | 31 |
| Wells, Rosemary | Stanley and Rhoda | 2 | 0.5 | Three different adventures with Stanley and Rhoda. | 40 |
| Wells, Rosemary | Wingwalker | 4.3 | 1 | During the Depression, Reuben and his out-of-work parents move from Oklahoma to Minnesota, where his father gets a job as a carnival wingwalker and Reuben has a chance to overcome his terror of flying. | 63 |
| Wells/Bogart | Time Machine (Great Illustrated Classics), The | 5.4 | 3 | A young scientist perfects a machine that allows him to travel in time. | 238 |
| Wells/Vogel | Invisible Man (Great Illustrated Classics), The | 5.5 | 3 | This is the story of a suspicious-looking man who keeps his face hidden and his back to everyone. When he finally faces the townspeople, there are more questions than answers. | 238 |
| Weninger, Brigitte | Why Are You Fighting, Davy? | 2.6 | 0.5 | Davy and his friend Eddie quarrel. But Davy soon discovers that playing alone isn't all that much fun. There must be some way to end the quarrel. | 26 |
| West, Tracey | Island of the Giant Pokemon | 3.4 | 1 | Ash, Misty, Brock, and Pikachu are invited to a party on a cruise ship. It's a Team Rocket trap to steal their Pokemon. Things get worse when the ship sinks and everyone is trapped on an island with unfriendly giant Pokemon. | 85 |
| Whatley, Bruce | Wait! No Paint! | 3.2 | 0.5 | The three little pigs are in their usual trouble with the big bad wolf, until a mysterious Voice gets involved and mixes things up. | 32 |
| Wheeler, Jill C. | Judy Blume (Young at Heart) | 4.3 | 0.5 | Biography of the American writer who remembers so well what it was like to be young and who has written for young people for over 25 years. | 31 |
| Wheeler, Jill C. | Laura Ingalls Wilder (Young at Heart) | 4.6 | 1 | Discusses the life and works of the woman whose many moves with her family in her childhood provided the material to create her famous "Little House" books. | 32 |
| Wheeler, Jill C. | Louisa May Alcott (Young at Heart) | 3.8 | 0.5 | A biography of the well-known nineteenth-century American author whose popular novels "Little Women" and "Little Men" were based on her own family experiences. | 32 |
| Wheeler, W.H. | Wet Fire | 3.2 | 1 | Angry gods wiped out the people who had made them. Were they still on the mountain? | 60 |
| Whelan, Gloria | Angel on the Square | 5.6 | 8 | In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya eagerly anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home, to join her mother, a lady-in-waiting in the household of Tsar Nicholas II. The ensuing years bring world war, revolution, and undreamed of changes to her life. | 293 |
| Whelan, Gloria | Hannah | 4.3 | 1 | Hannah, a blind girl living in Michigan in the late nineteenth century, doesn't go to school until a new teacher comes to board at their house. | 63 |
| Whelan, Gloria | Homeless Bird | 5.3 | 5 | When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it. | 216 |
| Whelan, Gloria | Next Spring an Oriole | 4.5 | 1 | In 1837 ten-year-old Libby and her parents journey by covered wagon to the Michigan frontier, where they make themselves a new home near friendly Indians and other pioneers. | 60 |
| Whelan, Gloria | Night of the Full Moon | 4.2 | 1 | A novel based on true accounts of the Potawatomi Indians' forced migration from Michigan territory in 1840. | 63 |
| White, E.B. | Charlotte's Web | 4.4 | 5 | In this endearing story, a little girl and Charlotte, a beautiful grey spider, struggle to save Wilbur the pig from being butchered. | 184 |
| White, E.B. | Stuart Little | 6 | 3 | Stuart, an inventive and debonair mouse, has a great adventure. | 131 |
| White, E.B. | Trumpet of the Swan, The | 4.9 | 6 | Louis, the Trumpeter Swan, lacks a voice, but his father hits on a bold alternative so that Louis might win his love, Serena. | 252 |
| White, Ruth | Belle Prater's Boy | 4.4 | 5 | Gypsy is puzzled by Woodrow's calm acceptance of his mother's disappearance. When Woodrow finally reveals a secret about his mother, Gypsy begins to understand. | 196 |
| White, T.H. | Sword in the Stone, The | 7.5 | 16 | Humor, fantasy, and satire are evident in the adventures of the Wart, the medieval boy who becomes King Arthur. | 288 |
| Wick, Walter | Drop of Water, A | 5.8 | 0.5 | Describes the characteristics of water. | 34 |
| Wier, Ester | Loner, The | 5.3 | 5 | A lonely boy with no name and no memory wanders the southwest until he finds a home with a sheep rancher. | 151 |
| Wiesmüly boy with no name and no memory wanders the southwest until he finds a home with a sheep rancher. | In the Blink of an Eye | 3.9 | 0.5 | In this book, an eye on each page and clues in the text, challenge readers to figure out what living thing is watching them. | 32 |
| Wiesner, David | 29-Jun-99 | 3.6 | 0.5 | Holly launches her vegetable seedlings into the sky and gets surprising results. | 29 |
| Wiesner, David | Hurricane | 3.1 | 0.5 | The morning after a hurricane, two brothers find an uprooted tree which becomes a magical place, transporting them on adventures limited only by their imaginations. | 29 |
| Wiggin, Kate Douglas | Birds' Christmas Carol, The | 7.3 | 2 | Story of a young girl who has everything she could ever want, and wants to share her wonderful things with a family that does not have as much as she does. | 69 |
| Wiggin, Kate Douglas | Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | 8.1 | 13 | Talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, with whom she spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up. | 276 |
| Wiggin/Warren | Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Great Illustrated Classics) | 5.5 | 3 | Rebecca leaves her beloved Sunnybrook Farm to live with her two aunts. With courage, intelligence, and her own special charm, she wins the hearts of everyone who gets to know her. | 240 |
| Wilbur, Richard | Disappearing Alphabet, The | 5 | 0.5 | This is a collection of poems pondering what the world would be like if any of the letters of the alphabet should disappear. | 31 |
| Wilde/Siegel | Picture of Dorian Gray (Great Illustrated Classics), The | 4.8 | 3 | Dorian Gray makes an impossible wish to stay as young as the portrait of himself appears. But all of his evil deeds become etched on the portrait as well. | 240 |
| Wilder, Laura Ingalls | By the Shores of Silver Lake | 5.3 | 9 | The Ingalls family leaves Minnesota, travels to the Dakota Territory, and lives at a railroad camp until Pa can file their claim to a homestead near Silver Lake. | 290 |
| Wilder, Laura Ingalls | Dance at Grandpa's | 3.7 | 0.5 | A young pioneer girl and her family attend a wintertime party at her grandparents' house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. | 29 |
| Wilder, Laura Ingalls | Farmer Boy | 5.2 | 9 | Almanzo Wilder's boyhood on his father's farm in upper New York state, a century ago. | 372 |
| Wilder, Laura Ingalls | First Four Years, The | 5.8 | 4 | Frontier homesteading is a rough but rewarding experience, as the hardy Wilder family can testify. | 135 |
| Wilder, Laura Ingalls | Little House in the Big Woods | 5.3 | 5 | The Ingalls family is snug in their Wisconsin house in spite of blizzards, wolves, and the lonely forest. | 238 |
| Wilder, Laura Ingalls | Little House on the Prairie | 4.9 | 8 | Laura and her family journey by covered wagon into Indian territory, and start a farm. | 335 |
| Wilder, Laura Ingalls | Little Town on the Prairie | 5.4 | 9 | Pa's homestead thrives, Laura gets her first job in town, blackbirds eat the crops, Mary goes to college, and Laura gets into trouble at school but becomes a certified schoolteacher. | 307 |
| Wilder, Laura Ingalls | Long Winter, The | 5.3 | 10 | Almanzo Wilder makes a dangerous trip to save the village from starvation. | 335 |
| Wilder, Laura Ingalls | On the Banks of Plum Creek | 4.6 | 8 | After moving to Minnesota, the Ingalls family encounters a terrible blizzard and a grasshopper plague. | 339 |
| Wilder, Laura Ingalls | On the Way Home | 5.3 | 3 | The diary of a trip from South Dakota to Missouri in 1894. | 101 |
| Wilder, Laura Ingalls | These Happy Golden Years | 5.6 | 10 | Fifteen-year-old Laura begins teaching and is courted by her future husband, Almanzo. | 289 |
| Wilder, Laura Ingalls | West from Home | 5.7 | 4 | A selection of letters by Laura Ingalls Wilder to her husband, in which she describes the highlights of her visit to the west coast in 1915. | 124 |
| Wilder, Laura Ingalls | Winter Days in the Big Woods | 4 | 0.5 | A young pioneer girl and her family spend the winter in their log cabin in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. | 27 |
| Wiles, Deborah | Love, Ruby Lavender | 4.2 | 4 | When her quirky grandmother goes to Hawaii for the summer, Ruby learns to survive on her own in Mississippi. | 188 |
| Wilhelm, Hans | It's Too Windy! | 0.5 | 0.5 | The family dog finds a clever way to stop Baby's stroller from rolling away. | 32 |
| Willard, Nancy | High Rise Glorious Skittle Skat...Angel Food Cake, The | 4.2 | 1 | As she is preparing a special angelfood cake for her mother's birthday, a girl is surprised by three angels who have dropped in for a taste. | 52 |
| Willard, Nancy | Visit to William Blake's Inn, A | 4.5 | 0.5 | A collection of poems describing the curious menagerie of guests who arrive at William Blake's inn. | 30 |
| Willard, Tom | Buffalo Soldiers | 6.3 | 13 | This book depicts the trials and tribulations that African-American soldiers endured while fighting for the freedom of white settlers. | 331 |
| Willems, Mo | Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! | 0.9 | 0.5 | A pigeon that longs to drive a bus sees a chance to make its dream come true when the bus driver takes a short break. | 36 |
| Williams, Barbara | Titanic Crossing | 4.3 | 5 | In 1912, thirteen-year-old Albert considers his younger sister a pest, but things change when they travel with their mother and uncle aboard the "Titanic" and are caught up in its tragic sinking. | 163 |
| Williams, Carol Lynch | If I Forget, You Remember | 3.9 | 6 | Twelve-year-old Elyse plans to write an award-winning novel during the summer, but is interrupted when her grandmother, who has Alzheimer's disease, moves in with the family. | 201 |
| Williams, Carol Lynch | My Angelica | 3.9 | 5 | Sage is enthusiastic about submitting her historical romance novel to the school creative writing contest, but her would be boyfriend George thinks that it is awful and tries to stop her. | 149 |
| Williams, Jay | Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like | 3.8 | 0.5 | Because of the road sweeper's belief in him, a dragon saves the city of Wu from the Wild Horsemen of the north. | 24 |
| Williams, Karen Lynn | Real Christmas This Year, A | 4.2 | 5 | Megan's efforts to provide a real Christmas for her multiple-handicapped brother and the rest of the family cause problems with her best friend and some other schoolmates. | 164 |
| Williams, Laura E. | Behind the Bedroom Wall | 4.4 | 4 | Korinna must decide whether to report her parents to her Hitler youth group when she discovers that they are hiding Jews in a secret space behind Korinna's bedroom wall. | 169 |
| Williams, Linda | Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, The | 3.5 | 0.5 | A little old lady who is not afraid of anything must deal with a pumpkin head, a tall black hat, and other spooky objects that follow her through the dark woods trying to scare her. | 29 |
| Williams, Margery | Velveteen Rabbit, The | 4.9 | 1 | Magical fable of the toy rabbit who becomes a real rabbit with the help of the boy who loves him. | 30 |
| Williams, Sherley Anne | Working Cotton | 2.8 | 0.5 | A young girl relates the daily events of her family's migrant life in the cotton fields of central California. | 28 |
| Williams, Suzanne | Library Lil | 4 | 0.5 | A formidable librarian makes readers not only out of the once-resistant residents of her small town, but out of a tough-talking, television-watching motorcycle gang as well. | 30 |
| Williams, Vera B. | Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart | 4.2 | 0.5 | Two sisters help each other deal with life while their mother is working and their father has been sent to jail. | 57 |
| Williams, Vera B. | Chair for My Mother, A | 3.4 | 0.5 | A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire. | 29 |
| Williams, Vera B. | More More More, Said the Baby | 2.5 | 0.5 | Three babies are caught up in the air and given loving attention by a father, a grandmother, and a mother. | 32 |
| Williams, Vera B. | Scooter | 4.6 | 3 | A child's silver blue scooter helps her adjust to her new home. | 147 |
| Williams, Vera B. | Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe | 3.5 | 0.5 | Mother, Aunt Rosie, and two children make a three-day camping trip by canoe. | 30 |
| Wilson, Karma | Frog in the Bog, A | 3.1 | 0.5 | A frog in the bog grows larger and larger as he eats more and more bugs, until he attracts the attention of an alligator who puts an end to his eating. | 32 |
| Wilson, Laura | How I Survived the Oregon Trail: The Journal of Jesse Adams | 5.2 | 1 | A young boy keeps a journal describing his family's five-month journey across country in a covered wagon in 1852. | 38 |
| Wilson, Sarah | Three in a Balloon | 3.3 | 0.5 | This book is based upon the true story of the world's first air passenger - a sheep, a duck, and a rooster - who flew over France in a new invention, a Montgolfier hot air balloon, on September 19, 1783. | 34 |
| Winchester, Faith | Asian Holidays (Read and Discover) | 3.7 | 0.5 | Briefly describes eight festivals celebrated by Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese, including various New Year's festivals, Ch'ing Ming, and Buddha's birthday. | 22 |
| Winer, Yvonne | Butterflies Fly | 3 | 0.5 | This book describes the poetics surrounding butterflies from around the world and identifies them. | 32 |
| Winer, Yvonne | Spiders Spin Webs | 2.9 | 0.5 | This book uses elaborate illustration to examine the beauty of spiders and their webs. | 32 |
| Winter, Jeanette | Follow the Drinking Gourd | 4.3 | 0.5 | By following the directions in a song taught them by an old sailor, runaway slaves journey north along the Underground Railway to freedom in Canada. | 42 |
| Winterfeld/Winston | Detectives in Togas | 5.1 | 7 | In an effort to save a boy wrongly accused, a group of young friends living in ancient Rome search for the culprit who scrawled graffiti on the temple wall. | 249 |
| Winters, Kay | Whooo's Haunting the Teeny Tiny Ghost? | 3 | 0.5 | The teeny, tiny, very timid ghost tries to be brave when he suspects that his house is haunted. | 30 |
| Winters, Kay | Wolf Watch | 2.3 | 0.5 | After spending their first few weeks being cared for in the safety of their den, four wolf pups emerge to face a world full of wonder and danger. | 23 |
| Winthrop, Elizabeth | Battle for the Castle, The | 4.4 | 6 | Twelve-year-old William uses the magic token to return through the toy castle in his attic to the medieval land of Sir Simon, which is now menaced by a skeleton ship bearing a plague of evil. | 211 |
| Winthrop, Elizabeth | Bear's Christmas Surprise | 2.5 | 0.5 | Bear is remorseful after he peeks at his Christmas packages while playing hide-and-seek, but Nora forgives him, he learns a lesson, and they have a happy holiday. | 30 |
| Winthrop, Elizabeth | Castle in the Attic, The | 4.9 | 6 | William has a fantastic present in the attic that is able to transport him to another land and another time for a challenging and exciting adventure. | 179 |
| Winthrop, Elizabeth | Tough Eddie | 2.4 | 0.5 | Although Eddie appears to be a tough kid, he also plays with a dollhouse, a secret he feels he cannot reveal even to his closest friends. | 30 |
| Wiseman, Bernard | Morris the Moose | 1.6 | 0.5 | Determined to prove that the cow he meets is really a moose, Morris the moose enlists the help of a rather confused deer and horse. | 32 |
| Wisler, G. Clifton | Mr. Lincoln's Drummer | 5.3 | 5 | This story recounts the courageous exploits of Willie Johnston, an eleven-year-old Civil War drummer who became the youngest recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor. | 129 |
| Wisniewski, David | Golem | 4.3 | 0.5 | A saintly rabbi miraculously brings to life a clay giant who helps him watch over the Jews of sixteenth-century Prague. | 34 |
| Wisniewski, David | Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups, The | 5.5 | 0.5 | This book is a humorous revelation of the real reasons why adults tell children to do things such as "Eat your vegetables," "Comb your hair," and "Don't blow bubbles in your milk." | 45 |
| Wisniewski, David | Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups: The Second File, The | 5.2 | 1 | Within these forbidden pages lurk the real reasons why grown-ups want you to brush your teeth, eat your breakfast, and clean under your bed. | 46 |
| Wisniewski, David | Tough Cookie | 1.8 | 0.5 | When his friend Chips is snatched and chewed, Tough Cookie sets out to stop Fingers. | 32 |
| Wittman, Sally | Stepbrother Sabotage | 4.1 | 1 | Nine-year-old Josh finds it impossible to get along with his rambunctious eight-year-old stepbrother Jake until an impending change in their family unites them on a common front. | 71 |
| Wojciechowska, Maia | Shadow of a Bull | 5.2 | 5 | The son of a famous bullfighter resists the pressures that try to force him to become a bullfighter like his hero father. | 141 |
| Wojciechowski, Susan | Beany and the Dreaded Wedding | 4.6 | 2 | Beany loves her cousin, Amy, but is worried about something going wrong if she agrees to be the flower girl in Amy's wedding. | 127 |
| Wojciechowski, Susan | Best Halloween of All, The | 3.7 | 0.5 | A young boy recalls all the Halloween costume agonies he's been through, until, at last, he gets to do things his own way. | 25 |
| Wojciechowski, Susan | Don't Call Me Beanhead! | 4.2 | 1 | Five stories about a girl who's a worrywart. | 75 |
| Wolff, Virginia Euwer | Bat Six | 5.1 | 8 | In small-town post-World War II Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface. | 230 |
| Wolkstein, Diane | White Wave: A Chinese Tale | 3.9 | 0.5 | Kuo Ming's discovery of a moon goddess inside a snail shell changes his lonely life. | 30 |
| Wood, Audrey | Bunyans, The | 5.1 | 0.5 | Paul Bunyan, his wife, and their three children do some ordinary things which result in the formation of Niagara Falls, Bryce Canyon, and other natural monuments. | 29 |
| Wood, Audrey | Napping House, The | 2.8 | 0.5 | In this cumulative tale, a wakeful flea atop a number of sleeping creatures causes a commotion with just one bite. | 26 |
| Wood, Audrey | Quick as a Cricket | 1.7 | 0.5 | This book depicts a small boy as he compares himself to a wide range of animals. He is quick as a cricket, tender as a lamb, and fragile as a kitten. | 32 |
| Wood, Audrey | Sweet Dream Pie | 4.6 | 0.5 | Ma Brindle's incredibly delicious Sweet Dream Pie brings a dessert adventure to the neighborhood. | 30 |
| Wood, Don/Audrey | Merry Christmas, Big Hungry Bear! | 1.6 | 0.5 | A little mouse shares the Christmas spirit with the big, hungry, bear he once feared, after realizing the bear will have no presents. | 40 |
| Wood, Douglas | Old Turtle | 3.8 | 0.5 | Moving fable that promotes a deeper understanding of the Earth and its inhabitants. | 43 |
| Wood, Douglas | Quiet Place, A | 4.1 | 0.5 | This book describes some of the special places that one can go to be quiet and alone and to imagine. | 32 |
| Wood, Richard | Great Inventions (Nature Company Discoveries Library) | 7.3 | 1 | Provides information about some of the greatest inventions in various fields such as computers, electricity, medical procedures, and musical instruments. | 61 |
| Woodford, Chris | Criminal Investigation (Science Fact Files) | 8.8 | 1 | This book provides up-to-date information, facts, and figures on criminal investigations. | 47 |
| Woodruff, Elvira | Christmas Doll, The | 5.8 | 5 | As Christmas approaches, Lucy, an orphan living on the streets of London, is overjoyed to be given the job of sewing hearts on the dolls in Thimblebee's Doll Shop. | 151 |
| Woodruff, Elvira | Dear Napoleon, I Know You're Dead, But... | 4.9 | 5 | A boy's correspondence with great historical figures is speeded by his grandfather's courier service. | 220 |
| Woodruff, Elvira | Disappearing Bike Shop, The | 4.8 | 4 | Tyler and Freckle are amazed when they see a building rise up and disappear before their eyes. When the building reappears, they take their chances and enter Quigley's Bike Shop. | 169 |
| Woodruff, Elvira | George Washington's Socks | 5 | 6 | Five kids on a lakeside camp-out are transported back to the time of George Washington. | 166 |
| Woodruff, Elvira | Ghost of Lizard Light, The | 5.3 | 5 | Moving from Iowa to a lighthouse cottage in Maine, ten-year-old Jack struggles to live up to his father's high standards and encounters a young ghost who presents Jack with a 150-year-old unsolved sea mystery. | 176 |
| Woodruff, Elvira | Magnificent Mummy Maker, The | 4.9 | 4 | A contemporary fantasy set in a museum where a boy receives a strange power. | 149 |
| Woodruff, Elvira | Secret Funeral of Slim Jim the Snake, The | 4.8 | 4 | Nick devises an unusual plan in order to pursue his dream of becoming a trucker just like his dad. | 166 |
| Woodruff, Elvira | Summer I Shrank My Grandmother, The | 4.7 | 4 | When aspiring scientist Nelly Brown uses a magic chemistry set to make her grandmother young again but is unable to stop the alteration, the 70-year-old woman becomes a baby and Nelly fears that she may shrink into nothing. | 153 |
| Woodson, Jacqueline | Other Side, The | 2.7 | 0.5 | Two girls, one white and one black, gradually get to know each other as they sit on the fence that divides their town. | 30 |
| Wooldridge, Connie Nordhielm | Legend of Strap Buckner: A Texas Tale, The | 5.6 | 0.5 | When pride gets the better of Strap Buckner, a man known throughout Texas for his prodigious strength, he rashly challenges the devil to a contest. | 31 |
| Worth, Bonnie | Pigs and Robbers | 2.5 | 0.5 | Babe the pig is left in charge of the farm when the Hoggetts go at night. | 62 |
| Wrede, Patricia C. | Dealing with Dragons | 5.5 | 8 | Bored with traditional palace life, a princess goes off to live with a group of dragons and soon becomes involved with fighting against some disreputable wizards who want to steal away the dragons' kingdom. | 212 |
| Wright, Betty Ren | Christina's Ghost | 4.1 | 3 | Christina's summer in a spooky, isolated Victorian house with her grumpy uncle turns into a ghostly adventure. | 105 |
| Wright, Betty Ren | Ghost in Room 11, The | 4 | 2 | When his family moves to a small town near Milwaukee, Matt's efforts to fit into his new fourth-grade class are complicated by his poor spelling and his encounter with the ghost of one of the school's former teachers. | 112 |
| Wright, Betty Ren | Ghosts of Mercy Manor, The | 4.8 | 5 | Twelve-year-old Gwen, an orphan who comes to live with the Mercy family, discovers that the house is haunted by the ghost of a sad-looking young girl and is determined to solve the mystery behind her appearances. | 172 |
| Wright, Betty Ren | Haunted Summer | 4 | 2 | Nine-year-old Abby surprises herself, her equally timid baby-sitter, and her older brother when they are haunted by a ghost that is trying to reclaim a stolen music box. | 99 |
| Wright, Bob | Motorcycle Race Mystery, The | 2 | 0.5 | There's a motorcycle race at the town track, and the boys want Red Miller to win. But when he doesn't, Tom and Ricky put two and two together. Maybe Rocky Slag did put water in Red's gas can to slow his motorcycle down. | 43 |
| Wright, Bob | Silver Skateboard, The | 2.5 | 0.5 | There's going to be a skateboard contest in town. To get everyone's interest, Mrs. Rose has a solid silver skateboard at her Gift Shop. On the day of the big contest, the skateboard is stolen. Will a trick by Tom and Ricky catch the thieves? | 44 |
| Wright, Bob | Thief in the Brown Van, The | 2.1 | 0.5 | Sergeant Collins gets Tom and Ricky to help him find out what's happending to all the dogs in town. | 44 |
| Wright, Bob | Tree House Mystery, The | 2.1 | 0.5 | Tom and Ricky build a tree house next to the creek. What a great place to use when they go fishing. But the fun changes when they find their tree house filled with things. And who are that man and woman? Could they be the ones using it? | 44 |
| Wright, Bob | Video Game Spy, The | 2.4 | 0.5 | Tom and Ricky chip in to buy a new video game. But it doesn't work right. Slowly the facts unravel - the game contains a code which has been used to send information from the video factory to a competitor. | 43 |
| Wulffson, Don L. | Toys! Amazing Stories Behind Some Great Inventions | 6.8 | 3 | This book describes the creation of a variety of toys and games, from seesaws to Silly Putty and toy soldiers to Trivial Pursuit. | 137 |
| Wyeth, Sharon Dennis | Freedom's Wings: Corey's Underground Railroad Diary | 3 | 1 | A nine-year-old slave keeps a diary of his journey to freedom along the Underground Railroad in 1857. | 108 |
| Wyeth, Sharon Dennis | Ginger Brown: The Nobody Boy | 2.5 | 1 | Ginger's summer at her grandparents' home in the country is enlivened by the appearance of a sad little boy who calls himself Nobody. | 71 |
| Wyss, Johann | Swiss Family Robinson (Unabridged), The | 9.7 | 23 | A terrible storm strands a Swiss pastor with his wife and four sons on a tropical island. The Robinsons are optimistic and inventive, and with what they salvage from the wrecked ship and the island's resources, they adapt to their new life. | 408 |
| Wyss/Warren | Swiss Family Robinson (Great Illustrated Classics), The | 5.5 | 3 | The Robinson family, shipwrecked on an island, must discover hidden strength in themselves to survive. As time passes, they grow to love the wild beauty of their island home. | 238 |
| Yaccarino, Dan | Octopus Followed Me Home, An | 2.1 | 0.5 | When a girl brings home an octopus and wants to keep him as a pet, her daddy reminds her of the crocodile, seals, and other inappropriate animals she has already brought into the house to create chaos. | 32 |
| Yanuck, Debbie L. | White House (American Symbols), The | 3.1 | 0.5 | This book is a simple introduction to the White House, including its history, designer, construction, location, and importance as a symbol of the United States. | 24 |
| Yashima, Mitsu | Momo's Kitten | 3.8 | 0.5 | Momo finds a scraggly kitten, takes her home as a pet, and nurtures her into a beautiful mother cat. | 31 |
| Yashima, Taro | Crow Boy | 3.9 | 0.5 | A shy mountain boy in Japan leaves his home at dawn to go to the village school and returns at sunset. | 35 |
| Yashima, Taro | Umbrella | 4 | 0.5 | Momo eagerly waits for a rainy day so she can use the red boots and umbrella she received on her birthday. | 32 |
| Yates, Elizabeth | Amos Fortune, Free Man | 6.5 | 5 | This true story details the life of an African prince who was captured by slave traders at age fifteen and brought to America. At age sixty, he bought his freedom, then married and started his own tannery business. | 181 |
| Yates, Elizabeth | Mountain Born | 5.6 | 4 | A boy in a family of sheep farmers raises a black lamb to be the leader of the flock. | 106 |
| Yee, Patrick | Winter Rabbit | 1.1 | 0.5 | The snow is piling up, so Bear and Squirrel make a rabbit out of snow to play with them. | 26 |
| Yep, Laurence | Child of the Owl | 5.5 | 10 | A savvy street kid finds her roots in the maze of San Francisco's Chinatown. | 278 |
| Yep, Laurence | Dragon Cauldron | 5.5 | 10 | A dragon named Shimmer, a monkey wizard, a reformed witch, and two humans go on a quest to mend the magic cauldron needed to repair the dragons' home. | 312 |
| Yep, Laurence | Dragon War | 5.9 | 11 | The dragon princess Shimmer and her companions fight a war against the evil Boneless King in order to rescue their friend Thorn and restore the dragons' underwater home. | 313 |
| Yep, Laurence | Dragon's Gate | 5.3 | 10 | A young immigrant boy from China joins his father and uncle in helping to build the transcontinental railroad. | 272 |
| Yep, Laurence | Dragonwings | 5.3 | 10 | This beautiful story is of Moon Shadow and his father Windrider, a Chinese immigrant who makes a flying machine in 1909. | 248 |
| Yep, Laurence | Junior Thunder Lord, The | 4.2 | 0.5 | This book is a retelling of a seventeenth century legend about people at the top helping those on the bottom. | 30 |
| Yep, Laurence | Later, Gator | 4 | 3 | Teddy finds that his imagination has gotten him into trouble once more, when he buys his younger brother, Bobby, an alligator for his birthday. | 121 |
| Yep, Laurence | Man Who Tricked a Ghost, The | 3.9 | 0.5 | Sung, a brave man who is not afraid of ghosts, meets one on a dark road and tricks it into revealing its secret weakness. | 30 |
| Yep, Laurence | Rainbow People, The | 4.8 | 6 | This book contains a collection of twenty Chinese folk tales that were passed on by word of mouth for generations, as told by some old-timers newly settled in the United States. | 194 |
| Yep, Laurence | Star Fisher, The | 5.2 | 6 | Fifteen-year-old Joan Lee and her family find the adjustment hard when they move from Ohio to West Virginia in the 1920s. | 147 |
| Yep, Laurence | When the Circus Came to Town | 4 | 3 | An Asian cook and a Chinese New Year celebration help a ten-year-old girl at a Montana stage coach station to regain her confidence after smallpox scars her face. | 113 |
| Yin | Coolies | 4.8 | 0.5 | A young boy hears the story of this great-great-great-grandfather and his brother who came to the United States to make a better life for themselves, helping to build the transcontinental railroad. | 39 |
| Yolen, Jane | Commander Toad and the Planet of the Grapes | 3.8 | 0.5 | In search of new worlds, Commander Toad and his crew land their spaceship on the strange planet of Grapes. | 64 |
| Yolen, Jane | Devil's Arithmetic, The | 4.6 | 6 | Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage, until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland. | 170 |
| Yolen, Jane | Dragon's Boy, The | 5.8 | 3 | Young Arthur meets a dragon and comes to accept him as a friend and mentor. | 120 |
| Yolen, Jane | Encounter | 4.2 | 0.5 | A Taino Indian boy on the island of San Salvador recounts the landing of Columbus and his men in 1492. | 27 |
| Yolen, Jane | Grandad Bill's Song | 2.4 | 0.5 | A boy asks others how they felt when his grandfather died and then shares his own feelings. | 29 |
| Yolen, Jane | How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon? | 1.7 | 0.5 | This book describes what a young dinosaur should do in order to quickly get over being sick. | 32 |
| Yolen, Jane | How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? | 1.6 | 0.5 | This book is brimming with humor and familiar goodnight antics. Here is a playful peek into the homes of dinosaur children and their parents at bedtime. | 29 |
| Yolen, Jane | My Brothers' Flying Machine: Wilbur, Orville, and Me | 4.5 | 0.5 | This book provides a look at the lives of Orville and Wilbur Wright, as seen through the eyes of their younger sister, Katharine, who provided support and encouragement while they worked on their many inventions. | 32 |
| Yolen, Jane | Owl Moon | 3.2 | 0.5 | On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl. | 28 |
| Yolen, Jane | Wings | 4.8 | 0.5 | This book is a retelling of the story of Daedalus, the Greek master craftsman, who murdered his nephew because of envy, fled to Crete, and then, with his son, tried to fly away from Crete like a bird. | 32 |
| Yolen, Jane | Wizard's Hall | 5 | 4 | A young apprentice wizard saves the wizard's training hall by trusting and believing in himself. | 133 |
| Yolen/Coville | Armageddon Summer | 5.2 | 9 | Fourteen-year-old Marina and sixteen-year-old Jed accompany their parents' religious cult, the Believers, to await the end of the world atop a remote mountain, where they try to decide what they themselves believe. | 266 |
| Yolen/Harris | Odysseus in the Serpent Maze | 5 | 7 | Thirteen-year-old Odysseus, who longs to be a hero, has many opportunities to prove himself during an adventure. | 248 |
| Yorinks, Arthur | Hey, Al | 2.1 | 0.5 | Al and his dog, tired of life in their one-room apartment, are taken to bird paradise by a big purple bird. | 26 |
| Yorinks, Arthur | Louis the Fish | 2.4 | 0.5 | Louis, the butcher, turns into a salmon. | 32 |
| Yorinks, Arthur | Whitefish Will Rides Again! | 2.6 | 0.5 | A wild west tale of Whitefish Will and how he made the town safe from the outlaws. | 28 |
| Young, Alida E. | Klutz Strikes Again, The | 4.7 | 4 | All my life I've been a klutz, Megan the Klutz. But then I started getting some confidence. After a while, I even found the courage to enter a big-deal modeling competition. Can you believe it! | 158 |
| Young, Alida E. | Megan the Klutz | 4.1 | 3 | Do you ever have days when you feel like you have three feet and seven extra fingers? Your mother bawls you out again for daydreaming, and your sister gives you a hard time because you left gum in the pocket of her favorite jeans. | 126 |
| Young, Ed | Donkey Trouble | 3.1 | 0.5 | In this retelling of the traditional fable, a kind but simple man and his grandson, on their way to market with their donkey, find it impossible to please everyone they meet. | 30 |
| Young, Ed | Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China | 3.5 | 0.5 | Three sisters staying home alone are endangered by a hungry wolf who is disguised as their grandmother. | 27 |
| Young, Ed | Seven Blind Mice | 1.9 | 0.5 | Retells in verse the Indian fable of blind men discovering different parts of an elephant and arguing about its appearance. The illustrations depict the blind arguers as mice. | 36 |
| Younger, Barbara | Purple Mountain Majesties | 5.8 | 0.5 | This is an engaging picture-book account of Katherine Lee Bates and the trip that gave rise to "America the Beautiful." | 28 |
| Zach, Cheryl | Here Comes Martian Mushroom | 3.7 | 2 | Tennessee was never like this! My first few days as a fourth-grader in Los Angeles were the most horrible, rotten, embarrassing days in my life. | 127 |
| Zagwyn, Deborah Turney | Winter Gift, The | 4 | 0.5 | At Christmas while she is moving to an apartment, Gramma tries to sell the old family piano, but changes her mind when she sees how much her grandchildren love it and the memories it holds. | 32 |
| Zelinsky, Paul | Rumpelstiltskin | 4 | 0.5 | Classic story retold and highlighted with outstanding illustrations. A poor miller's daughter is forced into a pact with Rumpelstiltskin and can only redeem herself by guessing his name. | 30 |
| Zelinsky, Paul O. | Rapunzel | 4.6 | 0.5 | The story recounts the German folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress. | 35 |
| Zemach, Harve/Margot | Duffy and the Devil | 4.9 | 0.5 | This book is a Cornish version of the old Rumplestiltskin folktale. A Caldecott Medal Book. | 36 |
| Ziefert, Harriet | Bugs, Beetles, and Butterflies | 1.5 | 0.5 | Simple, rhymed text and illustrations introduce many different kinds of bugs, beetles, and butterflies, including the earwig, zebra butterfly, and water strider. | 32 |
| Ziefert, Harriet | Dozen Dogs, A | 1 | 0.5 | Dogs doing all sorts of things in this read-and-count book. | 32 |
| Ziefert, Harriet | No More TV, Sleepy Dog | 0.9 | 0.5 | Sleepy Dog thinks of many excuses why he cannot go to sleep at bedtime, but finally he does become sleepy enough to slip into slumber. | 21 |
| Ziefert, Harriet | Rabbit and Hare Divide an Apple | 1.8 | 0.5 | Because both Rabbit and Hare insist on having the larger piece of apple, they lose the whole thing to a sly raccoon but learn an important lesson in the process. | 29 |
| Ziefert, Harriet | Sleepy Dog | 0.8 | 0.5 | A cuddly dog and his pet cat share goodnight kisses and playful dreams in this well-illustrated bedtime story. | 32 |
| Ziefert, Harriet | Three Wishes | 1.8 | 0.5 | A child describes what he would wish for if he had three wishes. | 28 |
| Zimmerman, Andrea | Cow Buzzed, The | 2.7 | 0.5 | The farm animals give one another a cold, passing along their distinctive voices as well as the coughs, sniffles, and sneezes. | 29 |
| Zindel, Paul | Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball! | 6 | 11 | Compassionate and funny story of a troubled fifteen-year-old boy and the girl who helps him find himself. | 199 |
| Zindel, Paul | Raptor | 5.1 | 5 | Zack and his Ute Indian friend find themselves trapped in a cave with a living dinosaur, the deadly Utahraptor. | 170 |
| Zion, Gene | Harry and the Lady Next Door | 2.6 | 0.5 | Harry, the dog, goes to fantastic lengths to make his neighbor stop singing. | 62 |
| Zion, Gene | Harry by the Sea | 2.9 | 0.5 | A wave covers Harry the dog with seaweed and everybody at the beach thinks he's a sea monster. | 28 |
| Zion, Gene | Harry the Dirty Dog | 3.1 | 0.5 | Harry gets so dirty playing that the family doesn't recognize him until he takes a bath. | 28 |
| Zion, Gene | No Roses for Harry! | 3.2 | 0.5 | Harry the dog dislikes his birthday sweater with roses on it and finds an ingenious way of getting rid of it. | 28 |
| Zoehfeld, Kathleen Weidner | Manatee Winter | 3.8 | 0.5 | A mother manatee and her little calf travel from the Gulf of Mexico through dangerous water full of speeding boats. | 31 |
| Zolotow, Charlotte | William's Doll | 3.6 | 0.5 | William wants a doll, but his father and brother are against it. | 32 |
| Zuchora-Walske, Christine | Spiny Sea Stars | 2.4 | 0.5 | This book introduces the sea star by describing its habitat, behaviors, and physical characteristics. | 32 |