| Level | Title | Author | Pts. | Description | Pages |
| 5 | Adventures of King Midas, The | Banks, Lynne Reid | 4 | King Midas travels far and wide to reverse the spell that turns everything into gold. | 153 |
| 5 | Afternoon of the Elves | Lisle, Janet Taylor | 4 | As Hillary works in the miniature village allegedly built by elves in Sara-Kate's backyard, she becomes more and more curious about Sara-Kate's real life inside her big, gloomy house with her mysterious, silent mother. | 122 |
| 5 | Against the Rules | Pascal/Suzanne | 4 | Elizabeth decides to have a secret birthday party for her friend even though her parents have told her to stay away from the girl. | 104 |
| 5 | Alejandro's Gift | Albert, Richard E. | 0.5 | Lonely in his house beside a road in the desert, Alejandro builds an oasis to attract the many animals around him. | 21 |
| 5 | Animals Nobody Loves | Simon, Seymour | 0.5 | Text and striking photographs reveal the truth about some of nature's most misunderstood animals. | 46 |
| 5 | Anne of Green Gables (Great Illustrated Classics) | Montgomery/Warren | 3 | This much-loved classic tells the story of Anne Shirley, an orphan who turns life into an adventure for the farm couple that takes her in. | 236 |
| 5 | Around the World in 80 Days (Great Illustrated Classics) | Verne/Leighton | 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 |
| 5 | Art of Keeping Cool, The | Lisle, Janet Taylor | 7 | In 1942, Robert and his cousin, Elliot, uncover long-hidden family secrets while staying in their grandparents' Rhode Island town, where they also become involved with a German artist who is suspected of being a spy. | 207 |
| 5 | Artemis Fowl | Colfer, Eoin | 9 | Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a brilliant criminal mastermind, but even he does not know what he has taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These fairies are armed and they are dangerous. | 277 |
| 5 | Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident | Colfer, Eoin | 9 | As Artemis rushes to his kidnapped father's rescue, he is stopped by a familiar nemesis, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police. This time, however, he is going to have to join forces with them if he wants to save his father. | 277 |
| 5 | Black Beauty (Great Illustrated Classics) | Sewell/Laiken | 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 |
| 5 | Borning Room, The | Fleischman, Paul | 3 | Lying at the end of her life in the room where she was born in 1851, Georgina remembers what it was like to grow up on the Ohio frontier. | 101 |
| 5 | Boston Jane: Wilderness Days | Holm, Jennifer L. | 8 | Far from her native Philadelphia, Miss Jane Peck continues to prove that she's more than an etiquette-schooled graduate of Miss Hepplewhite's Young Ladies Academy as she braves the untamed wilderness of Washington Territory in the mid 1850s. | 242 |
| 5 | Boys Against Girls | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 4 | The Hatford brothers cannot imagine spending Thanksgiving dinner with the Malloy sisters as the practical jokes and rivalries between the two families continue. Sequel to "The Girls Get Even." | 147 |
| 5 | Broken Bridge, The | Pullman, Philip | 9 | Sixteen-year-old Ginny, the mixed-race, artist daughter of an English father and a Haitian mother, learns that she has a half-brother from her father's earlier marriage and that her own mother may still be alive. | 218 |
| 5 | Bronze Bow, The | Speare, Elizabeth George | 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 |
| 5 | Bud, Not Buddy | Curtis, Christopher Paul | 8 | Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. | 245 |
| 5 | Bugs | Parker/Wright | 0.5 | Includes general information, jokes, and brief descriptions of the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of a variety of common insects. | 40 |
| 5 | Cat Who Wished to Be a Man, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 3 | When he begins dealing with humanity, Lionel the cat begins to understand why his wizard master was reluctant to change him into a man. | 107 |
| 5 | Caught in the Act | Nixon, Joan Lowery | 6 | Eleven-year-old Michael Patrick Kelly from New York City is sent to a foster home, a Missouri farm with a sadistic owner, a bullying son, and a number of secrets, one of which may be murder. | 150 |
| 5 | Chasing Redbird | Creech, Sharon | 7 | Thirteen-year-old Zinnia Taylor uncovers family secrets and self-truths while clearing a mysterious settler trail that begins on her family's farm in Kentucky. | 261 |
| 5 | Cindy Ellen: A Wild Western Cinderella | Lowell, Susan | 0.5 | Cindy Ellen loses one of her diamonds spurs at the sqare dance in this wild western retelling of the classic Cinderella story. | 36 |
| 5 | Cookcamp, The | Paulsen, Gary | 3 | During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness. | 115 |
| 5 | Crispin: The Cross of Lead | Avi | 7 | Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret. | 262 |
| 5 | Dancing Carl | Paulsen, Gary | 3 | As winter progresses, the strange man in the worn flight jacket dances frequently on the ice of the rink, expressing more with his movements than most people do with words. | 105 |
| 5 | David Copperfield (Great Illustrated Classics) | Dickens/Vogel | 3 | Young David Copperfield, orphaned as a child and abandoned by a vicious stepfather, must learn to make a life for himself. | 238 |
| 5 | Dicey's Song | Voigt, Cynthia | 11 | Left without their mother, Dicey shepherds her young siblings from Provincetown to Chesapeake Bay for a new beginning with their grandmother. | 359 |
| 5 | Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins, The | Kerley, Barbara | 0.5 | The unforgettable story of Waterhouse Hawkins and his dinosaurs has something to teach all of us about the importance of believing in oneself, and following a dream. | 42 |
| 5 | Disappearing Alphabet, The | Wilbur, Richard | 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 |
| 5 | Dragolin (Original Text) | Cosgrove, Stephen | 0.5 | A friendly armadillo proves to little Dragolin that you can do anything if you just believe in yourself. | 28 |
| 5 | Duke Ellington | Pinkney, Andrea Davis | 0.5 | This book gives a brief acount of the career of this jazz musician and composer, who along with his orchestra, created music that was beyond category. | 30 |
| 5 | Dynamite Dinah | Mills, Claudia | 4 | Mischievous Dinah struggles to remain the center of attention when her baby brother comes home from the hospital and her best friend gets a lead role in the class play. | 120 |
| 5 | Electricity and Magnetism (Discovering Science) | Hunter, Rebecca | 0.5 | This book explains how electricity and magnetism are related, how they can be harnessed, and how they are useful. | 32 |
| 5 | Enchanted Horse, The | Nabb, Magdalen | 2 | A lonely young girl living on a remote farm with her work-obsessed parents cares for an old and battered wooden horse with such devotion that it comes to life. | 89 |
| 5 | Enormous Egg, The | Butterworth, Oliver | 6 | Twelve-year-old Nate Twitchell's hen lays an egg the size of a melon, and the creature that hatches makes world news. | 188 |
| 5 | Escape from Slavery | Rappaport, Doreen | 3 | Five accounts of black slaves who managed to escape to freedom during the period preceding the Civil War. | 104 |
| 5 | Eyes of the Amaryllis, The | Babbitt, Natalie | 3 | An eerie tale of an old grandmother and her granddaughter who watch for a sign from the sea concerning a lost grandfather. | 128 |
| 5 | Fires of Merlin, The | Barron, T.A. | 9 | Having voyaged to the Otherworld in his quest to find himself, the young wizard must face fire in many different forms and deal with the possibility of losing his own magical power. | 261 |
| 5 | Fledgling, The | Langton, Jane | 6 | Georgie's fondest hope, to be able to fly, is fleetingly fulfilled when she is befriended by a Canada goose. | 182 |
| 5 | Forests of Silence, The | Rodda, Emily | 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 |
| 5 | Forgotten Door, The | Key, Alexander | 5 | Jon must find the secret passage to his own peaceful world, through which he fell into this one. | 140 |
| 5 | Funny Frank | King-Smith, Dick | 1 | The hen Gertie is appalled when her son Frank wants to swim with the ducks, but Jemima and her mother, the farmer's wife, make him a special outfit so that his dream can come true. | 108 |
| 5 | Gathering Blue | Lowry, Lois | 7 | Lamed and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians. | 215 |
| 5 | Genius of Leonardo, The | Visconti, Guido | 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 |
| 5 | George Washington's Socks | Woodruff, Elvira | 6 | Five kids on a lakeside camp-out are transported back to the time of George Washington. | 166 |
| 5 | Gift Horse | Bryant, Bonnie | 5 | Will Stevie have to give up her dream horse? | 150 |
| 5 | Grand Escape, The | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 4 | After years of being strictly house cats, Marco and Polo escape into the wonderful but dangerous outside world and are sent on three challenging adventures by a group of cats known as the Club of Mysteries. | 148 |
| 5 | Great Brain Does It Again, The | Fitzgerald, John D. | 5 | Tom's many business ventures include operating a carnival ride, and helping a fat boy reduce. | 129 |
| 5 | Half Magic | Eager, Edward | 5 | Four children spending their summer in a city apartment enjoy a series of fantastic adventures by double-wishing on an ancient coin. | 217 |
| 5 | Houdini Box, The | Selznick, Brian | 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 |
| 5 | How I Survived Being a Girl | Van Draanen, Wendelin | 5 | Twelve-year-old Carolyn struggles with being a girl when she really wants to be a boy. | 163 |
| 5 | Hurry Home, Candy | De Jong, Meindert | 7 | Lost and nameless, a stray dog exhibits courage and finds a home at last. | 244 |
| 5 | I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed | Hansen, Joyce | 5 | The young, former slave Patsy keeps a diary of the confusing time following the end of the Civil War. | 197 |
| 5 | Illinois (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, important people, and interesting sites of Illinois. | 59 |
| 5 | Iron Hans | Grimm, Brothers | 0.5 | With the help of Iron Hans, the wild man of the forest, a young prince makes his own way in the world. | 26 |
| 5 | Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A World War II Soldier, The | Myers, Walter Dean | 4 | A seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France. | 139 |
| 5 | Journey from Peppermint Street | De Jong, Meindert | 8 | Siebren goes on a journey with his grandfather and learns about people, about fear, and about love. | 242 |
| 5 | Julie | George, Jean Craighead | 6 | Julie returns to live with her father and finds she must make choices between the old and the new in this sequel to Julie of the Wolves. | 226 |
| 5 | Land, The | Taylor, Mildred D. | 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 |
| 5 | Legend of Jimmy Spoon, The | Gregory, Kristiana | 5 | In the middle of the nineteenth century, twelve-year-old Jimmy leaves his Mormon family in Utah and ends up living with the Shoshoni Indians as the younger brother of Chief Washakie. | 196 |
| 5 | Legend of Scarface | San Souci, Robert D. | 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 |
| 5 | Little Prince, The | Saint-Exupery, Antoine de | 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 |
| 5 | Long Live Music! | Peles, Les Chats | 0.5 | Presents a history of musical instruments beginning with the flute in about 40,000 B. C. and including mention of pipes, trumpets, drums, opera, and jazz. | 38 |
| 5 | Long Way from Chicago, A | Peck, Richard | 5 | A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother. | 148 |
| 5 | Mariah Delany Lending Library Disaster, The | Greenwald, Sheila | 2 | An eleven-year-old girl sets up her own lending library in competition with the New York Public Library and finds herself involved in more than she bargained for. | 123 |
| 5 | Matilda | Dahl, Roald | 6 | Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and to restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security. | 240 |
| 5 | Maze, The | Hobbs, Will | 7 | Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah, where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild. | 198 |
| 5 | Megan's Island | Roberts, Willo Davis | 7 | When eleven-year-old Megan, her younger brother, and her mother go up to the lake cottage, a mysterious stranger follows them. | 187 |
| 5 | Michigan (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 1 | An introduction to the Wolverine State, its history, economy, cities, and people. | 59 |
| 5 | Moffat Museum, The | Estes, Eleanor | 8 | This book is about the adventures of the Moffat children living in Cranberry, Connecticut, in the early twentieth century. | 232 |
| 5 | Monkey Island | Fox, Paula | 5 | Forced to live on the streets of New York after his mother disappears from their hotel room, eleven-year-old Clay is befriended by two men who help him survive. | 151 |
| 5 | Mr. Tucket | Paulsen, Gary | 4 | A young boy is captured on the Oregon Trail by Pawnee Indians. | 166 |
| 5 | Murder for Her Majesty, A | Hilgartner, Beth | 8 | Eleven-year-old Alice disguises herself as a choirboy in the Yorkshire Cathedral to hide from her father's murderers. | 241 |
| 5 | My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. | Farris, Christine King | 0.5 | This biography looks at the early life of Martin Luther King, Jr., as seen through the eyes of his older sister. | 40 |
| 5 | My Teacher Flunked the Planet | Coville, Bruce | 5 | Peter Thompson's hilarious tour of Earth with disguised aliens continues as he searches for a way to save the planet. | 162 |
| 5 | North Carolina (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 1 | Introduces the Tar Heel State, its geography, history, interesting sights, and people. | 59 |
| 5 | Odysseus in the Serpent Maze | Yolen/Harris | 7 | Thirteen-year-old Odysseus, who longs to be a hero, has many opportunities to prove himself during an adventure. | 248 |
| 5 | Old Yeller | Gipson, Fred | 5 | This is the heartwarming story of a boy and his dog and their many adventures in the Texas wilderness. | 158 |
| 5 | One More River | Banks, Lynne Reid | 9 | Lesley is in shock when her father moves the family to a kibbutz in Israel. | 248 |
| 5 | Owls in the Family | Mowat, Farley | 3 | Two owls, Wol and Weeps, join Billy and his dog Mutt to shake up the whole neighborhood. | 91 |
| 5 | Paul Revere's Midnight Ride | Krensky, Stephen | 0.5 | This book captures the thrill and the danger of a country on the verge of revolution, and the dramatic account of the night Paul Revere galloped into history. | 32 |
| 5 | Philip Hall Likes Me. I Reckon Maybe. | Greene, Bette | 4 | Young Beth loves Philip, but that doesn't mean she is averse to competing with him. | 135 |
| 5 | Polar the Titanic Bear | Spedden, Daisy | 0.5 | Story about the Titanic as seen through the eyes of a young boy's teddy bear. | 63 |
| 5 | Prince and the Pauper (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Twain/Bogart | 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 |
| 5 | Reluctantly Alice | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 6 | Alice experiences the joys and embarrassments of seventh grade while advising her father and older brother on their love lives. | 182 |
| 5 | Ribsy | Cleary, Beverly | 4 | A wonderful week spent as the mascot for a second grade class is just one of the adventures Henry Huggins' dog Ribsy experiences during the month he is separated from his home. | 136 |
| 5 | Rookie of the Year | Tunis, John R. | 6 | The seeming irresponsibility of a brilliant rookie pitcher becomes a threat to the team's chances for the pennant. | 220 |
| 5 | Search for Grissi, The | Shura, Mary Francis | 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 |
| 5 | Secrets of Tut's Tomb and the Pyramids | Reiff, Stephanie | 1 | Discusses the building of the Egyptian pyramids, strange stories associated with them, and possible powers possessed by pyramids. | 48 |
| 5 | Slavery Time: When I Was Chillun | Hurmence, Belinda | 3 | Twelve oral histories of former slaves selected from the more than 2000 interviewed as part of the Slave Narratives of the Library of Congress for the Works Progress Administration in 1936. | 98 |
| 5 | Sound the Jubilee | Forrester, Sandra | 6 | A slave and her family find refuge on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, during the Civil War. | 183 |
| 5 | Stars and Constellations (Our Universe) | Vogt, Gregory | 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 |
| 5 | Summer of the Bonepile Monster, The | Henderson, Aileen | 4 | When he and his sister Lou are sent to spend the summer with their blind great-grandmother in the tiny town of Dolliver, Hollis encounters some dark family secrets and vows to uncover them. | 138 |
| 5 | Swamp Angel | Isaacs, Anne | 0.5 | A Tennessee tall tale about a good-natured heroine. | 34 |
| 5 | Thanksgiving Treasure, The | Rock, Gail | 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 |
| 5 | Thirteen Colonies (A True Book), The | January, Brendan | 0.5 | This book examines the creation of the original thirteen colonies in the United States. | 48 |
| 5 | Timothy of the Cay | Taylor, Theodore | 5 | In a prequel to The Cay, Timothy finds himself afloat on a life raft with a white boy. | 161 |
| 5 | Toothpaste Millionaire, The | Merrill, Jean | 3 | Rufus Mayflower learns about making toothpaste, forming a corporation, and earning lots of money. | 89 |
| 5 | Tuck Everlasting | Babbitt, Natalie | 4 | Winnie Foster discovers a magic spring that has given the Tuck family eternal life. She is faced with the difficult decision of whether or not to drink from it, and whether to tell all when a stranger wants to know the secret in order to sell the water. | 139 |
| 5 | Underwater Animals (Nature Company Young Discoveries Library) | Cooney, Helen | 0.5 | Explores the intriguing lives of various marine and aquatic animals. | 30 |
| 5 | User Unfriendly | Vande Velde, Vivian | 10 | A pirated computer role-playing game provides an adventure for several teenagers and one adult. | 244 |
| 5 | Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963, The | Curtis, Christopher Paul | 8 | The ordinary routines of the Watsons, an African-American family from Michigan, are drastically changed when they visit Alabama. | 210 |
| 5 | Weasel | DeFelice, Cynthia | 4 | Alone in the frontier wilderness in the winter of 1839 while his father is recovering from an injury, eleven-year-old Nathan runs afoul of the renegade killer known as Weasel and makes a surprising discovery about the concept of revenge. | 119 |
| 5 | Wind in the Door, A | L'Engle, Madeleine | 7 | Suffering from a rare blood disease, a boy regains his health through the intervention of a space creature. | 211 |
| 5 | Wind Is Not a River, The | Griese, Arnold A. | 3 | Two children on a Pacific island during World War II discover an injured Japanese soldier. | 108 |
| 5 | Winter Room, The | Paulsen, Gary | 3 | A young boy growing up on a northern Minnesota farm describes the scenes around him and recounts his old Norwegian uncle's tales of an almost mythological logging past. | 103 |
| 5 | Witch Week | Jones, Diana Wynne | 10 | When a teacher at an English boarding school finds a note on his desk accusing someone in the class of being a witch, magical things begin to happen and an Inquisitor is summoned. | 270 |
| 5 | Wizard's Hall | Yolen, Jane | 4 | A young apprentice wizard saves the wizard's training hall by trusting and believing in himself. | 133 |
| 5 | Words of Stone | Henkes, Kevin | 5 | Busy trying to deal with his many fears and his troubled feelings for his dead mother, ten-year-old Blaze has his life changed when he meets the boisterous and irresistible Joselle. | 152 |
| 5 | Yearling, The | Rawlings, Marjorie | 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 |
| 5.1 | Ancient Greeks (Understanding People in the Past), The | Rees, Rosemary | 1 | This book shows how people lived in ancient Greece. | 64 |
| 5.1 | Banner in the Sky | Ullman, James Ramsey | 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 |
| 5.1 | Baseball in April and Other Stories | Soto, Gary | 4 | A collection of 11 short stories focusing on the everyday adventures of Hispanic young people growing up in Fresno, California. | 134 |
| 5.1 | Bat Six | Wolff, Virginia Euwer | 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 |
| 5.1 | Best Christmas Pageant Ever, The | Robinson, Barbara | 2 | The Herdman children, given to horrible pranks, take over the Sunday school Christmas pageant but eventually learn the true meaning of Christmas. | 80 |
| 5.1 | Big Wander, The | Hobbs, Will | 8 | As he searches for his uncle through the rugged Southwest canyon country, fourteen-year-old Clay becomes involved with a group of Navajo Indians who are trying to save some of the last wild mustangs. | 181 |
| 5.1 | Bunyans, The | Wood, Audrey | 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 |
| 5.1 | By the Great Horn Spoon! | Fleischman, Sid | 6 | The book follows the adventures of young Jack and his aunt's butler Praiseworthy, as they stow away on a ship and head for their place in the Gold Rush of 1849. | 193 |
| 5.1 | Cabin Faced West, The | Fritz, Jean | 3 | A young girl misses the life she had before her family moved into the wilderness, until she gets a very special visitor. | 124 |
| 5.1 | Christmas with Ida Early | Burch, Robert | 5 | Ida's knack for show business turns Christmas into an unconventional celebration. | 157 |
| 5.1 | Cinderella | Brown, Marcia | 0.5 | Brown's illustrated translation of Perrault's tale in which Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper in her haste to flee the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect won the 1955 Caldecot medal. | 28 |
| 5.1 | Curse of the Blue Figurine, The | Bellairs, John | 8 | Johnny Dixon likes scary programs and reading about the curses of the pharaoh's tombs, but he never believed in evil spirits until he mistakenly removes a blue figurine from the basement of the town church. | 200 |
| 5.1 | Dancing in Cadillac Light | Holt, Kimberly Willis | 6 | In 1968, eleven-year-old Jaynell's life in the town of Moon, Texas, is enlivened when her eccentric Grandpap comes to live with her family. | 167 |
| 5.1 | Danger on Vampire Trail | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5 | The Hardy boys and two friends take a camping trip to the Rocky Mountains in an attempt to locate a gang of credit-card counterfeiters. | 175 |
| 5.1 | Deep Trouble | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5 | In a world of mystery and silence, terror always strikes without warning! | 153 |
| 5.1 | Detectives in Togas | Winterfeld/Winston | 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 |
| 5.1 | Energy (Discovering Science) | Hunter, Rebecca | 0.5 | This book gives a simple explanation of energy and its many forms and sources. | 32 |
| 5.1 | Everest Book One: The Contest | Korman, Gordon | 4 | Mount Everest has claimed the lives of many adults. Now, kids are going to compete to break the record. Some are not ready for what they will face and some will stop at nothing to get to the top. | 137 |
| 5.1 | Flunking of Joshua T. Bates, The | Shreve, Susan | 2 | Joshua thinks he will be in the third grade forever, until he meets Mrs. Goodwin, a very surprising teacher. | 90 |
| 5.1 | Forgotten Helper: A Christmas Story, The | Moore, Lorrie | 1 | When he is left behind at the house of a very bad little girl, Santa's grouchiest elf must find a way to improve her behavior so that Santa will return the following Christmas and take him back to the North Pole. | 82 |
| 5.1 | Frankenbug | Cousins, Steven | 4 | Inspired by the movie Frankenstein, bug-lover Adam Cricklestein decides to create a monster bug that will protect him from the school bully, Jeb McCallister. | 151 |
| 5.1 | Girl Named Disaster, A | Farmer, Nancy | 14 | While journeying to Zimbabwe, eleven-year-old Nhamo struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits. | 293 |
| 5.1 | Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, The | Turner, Ann | 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 |
| 5.1 | Great Brain Reforms, The | Fitzgerald, John D. | 6 | Great Brain is home for the summer and is ready to reform, and that's how the trial between the kids of Adenville and the Great Brain takes place on a summer afternoon. | 165 |
| 5.1 | Harvey Angell | Hendry, Diana | 5 | When Harvey Angell zaps into Ballantyre Road, he brightens up Henry's life. Henry, no ordinary electrician, gets the residents of the house to make connections and overcome their sadness. | 143 |
| 5.1 | Heidi (Great Illustrated Classics) | Spyri/Laiken | 2 | Heidi finds beauty and simple wisdom in nature, but her life suddenly changes when she must live in the city. | 236 |
| 5.1 | Henry and the Clubhouse | Cleary, Beverly | 4 | Collecting from his newspaper customers to buy lumber for a clubhouse, Henry Huggins runs into some funny complications. | 192 |
| 5.1 | Henry Reed's Baby-Sitting Service | Robertson, Keith | 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 |
| 5.1 | Homesick, My Own Story | Fritz, Jean | 6 | Autobiography of Jean Fritz, illustrated with drawings and photographs, covering her life from her birth in China to the present. | 163 |
| 5.1 | Hope Was Here | Bauer, Joan | 6 | When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved in the political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor. | 186 |
| 5.1 | How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning | Schanzer, Rosalyn | 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 |
| 5.1 | Joke's on George, The | Tunnell, Michael O. | 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 |
| 5.1 | Journey to the Center of the Earth (Great Illustrated Classics), A | Verne/Schwach | 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 |
| 5.1 | Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune (Our Universe) | Vogt, Gregory | 1 | This book examines the characteristics of the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. | 48 |
| 5.1 | Kermit the Hermit | Peet, Bill | 0.5 | After a mean, selfish crab is rescued by a boy, the crab searches for a way to repay the kindness. | 48 |
| 5.1 | Kiss the Dust | Laird, Elizabeth | 10 | Follows the terrifying journey of a young Kurdish girl who flees the Iraqi Secret Police with her family and takes temporary shelter in the mountains of Kurdistan. | 279 |
| 5.1 | Land and Resources of Ancient Egypt | Kaplan, Leslie C. | 0.5 | This book describes the land and resources available to the ancient Egyptians. | 24 |
| 5.1 | Lost Years of Merlin, The | Barron, T.A. | 12 | A young boy who has no identity nor memory of his past washes ashore on the coast of Wales and find his true name after a series of fantastic adventures. | 326 |
| 5.1 | Lucy Dove | Negro, Janice Del | 0.5 | While sewing the laird's trousers by moonlight in a haunted churchyard in return for a sackful of gold, an aging seamstress outwits a terrible monster. | 30 |
| 5.1 | Matchlock Gun, The | Edmonds, Walter D. | 1 | In 1756, during the French and Indian War in upper New York state, ten-year-old Edward is determined to protect his home and family with the ancient, and much too heavy, Spanish gun that his father had given him before leaving home to fight the enemy. | 62 |
| 5.1 | Matter (Discovering Science) | Hunter, Rebecca | 0.5 | This book defines matter and includes instructions for simple experiments that explain the properties of its three principal forms. | 32 |
| 5.1 | Miss Switch Online | Wallace, Barbara Brooks | 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 |
| 5.1 | Moby Dog | Steele, Alexander | 5 | Wishbone imagines himself as a sailor on board a great whaling ship under the command of peg-legged Captain Ahab. | 140 |
| 5.1 | Mossflower | Jacques, Brian | 17 | Martin the warrior mouse and Gonff the mousethief set out to find the missing ruler of Mossflower, while the other animal inhabitants of the woodland prepare to rebel against the evil wildcat who has seized power. The triumphant prequel to Redwall. | 431 |
| 5.1 | Mouse and the Motorcycle, The | Cleary, Beverly | 3 | A boy and a mouse share a common love -- motorcycles. | 158 |
| 5.1 | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (The Secret of NIMH) | O'Brien, Robert C. | 8 | When Timothy, youngest of a family of field mice, becomes ill, his mother, Mrs. Frisby, enlists the aid of the Rats of NIMH to move their home from the path of the farmer's plow. | 233 |
| 5.1 | Muffin Muncher (Original Text), The | Cosgrove, Stephen | 0.5 | Industrious villagers and a very hungry dragon realize that by working together everyone can be happy. | 28 |
| 5.1 | Mystery of Smugglers Cove | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5 | A valuable painting is stolen en route to Florida, and the Hardy Boys are suspects. | 168 |
| 5.1 | Mystery of the Green Ghost, The | Arthur, Robert | 6 | The Three Investigators become entangled in the theft of a string of rare pearls and a fraudulent scheme involving a family inheritance when they try to solve the mystery of a ghost's appearance in the old Green mansion. | 179 |
| 5.1 | Mystery of the Headless Horse, The | Arden, William | 6 | Suspense with Alfred Hitchcock & the Three Investigators. | 144 |
| 5.1 | Mystery of the Whispering Mummy, The | Arthur, Robert | 6 | Three young detectives undertake a case involving an Egyptian mummy that whispers, but only to one man. | 180 |
| 5.1 | Orangutan: Forest Acrobat, The | Sourd, Christine | 0.5 | This book is about the orangutan, a close cousin to human beings. | 27 |
| 5.1 | Outside and Inside Snakes | Markle, Sandra | 0.5 | This book describes the external and internal physical characteristics of snakes, and how they find their food, mate, and raise their young. | 40 |
| 5.1 | Pair of Wings, A | Singer, Marilyn | 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 |
| 5.1 | Planet of Junior Brown, The | Hamilton, Virginia | 7 | Story of friendship between a troubled teenage pianist, a street-wise classmate, and a janitor who constructs a LO-planet revolving solar system. | 210 |
| 5.1 | Question of Trust, A | Bauer, Marion Dane | 4 | After his mother leaves the family, Brad copes with his feelings of rejection by secretly taking care of a stray cat and her two newborn kittens. | 130 |
| 5.1 | Quicksand Pony, The | Lester, Alison | 4 | Biddy is forced to go on without her pony when the pony becomes trapped, and so the mystery of what happened to the pony begins. | 135 |
| 5.1 | Ralph S. Mouse | Cleary, Beverly | 3 | Ralph, the motorcycle-riding mouse, is off on another adventure and acquires a new sports car to replace his broken motorcycle. | 160 |
| 5.1 | Ramona the Pest | Cleary, Beverly | 4 | A lovable five-year-old girl starts kindergarten with a hilarious series of misdeeds. | 192 |
| 5.1 | Raptor | Zindel, Paul | 5 | Zack and his Ute Indian friend find themselves trapped in a cave with a living dinosaur, the deadly Utahraptor. | 170 |
| 5.1 | Searching for Laura Ingalls: A Reader's Journey | Lasky/Knight | 1 | A young girl's fascination with Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" books leads her family on a trip to see some of the places featured in them. | 45 |
| 5.1 | Shaman's Apprentice: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest, The | Cherry/Plotkin | 0.5 | Kamanya believes in the shaman's wisdom about the healing properties of plants found in the Amazon rain forest and hopes one day to be a healer for his people. | 30 |
| 5.1 | Snow Wife, The | San Souci, Robert D. | 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 |
| 5.1 | Soup's Uncle | Peck, Robert Newton | 3 | Soup's uncle comes roaring into town, along with his rowdy gang of motorcycle pals, the Hardboilers. Uncle Vi is a tough-riding carefree spirit, until he meets a special lady, the member of another motorcycle gang called the Leatherettes. | 123 |
| 5.1 | Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan | Osborne, Mary Pope | 4 | A Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763. | 184 |
| 5.1 | Stinker from Space | Service, Pamela F. | 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 |
| 5.1 | Story of the Liberty Bell, The | Miller, Natalie | 0.5 | Learn how the Liberty Bell became one of our most-treasured symbol. | 30 |
| 5.1 | Story of the Lincoln Memorial, The | Miller, Natalie | 0.5 | Recounts the fund-raising, the choosing of the site, and the actual building of the Lincoln Memorial. | 31 |
| 5.1 | Three Musketeers (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Dumas/Vogel | 2 | This is a classic tale of adventure and romance historically set in the time of Louis the XIII of France. | 236 |
| 5.1 | Three Terrible Trins | King-Smith, Dick | 2 | An animal fantasy in which three young mice make life miserable for some house cats. | 105 |
| 5.1 | Time of Wonder | McCloskey, Robert | 0.5 | A family on an island off the coast of Maine experiences a hurricane. | 62 |
| 5.1 | Titanic: A Nonfiction Companion to "Tonight on the Titanic" | Osborne, Will/Mary | 1 | Join Jack and Annie as they research the Titanic and find out the facts behind the fiction. | 135 |
| 5.1 | Trojan Horse | Clement-Davies, David | 1 | This is a retelling of how the Greeks used a wooden horse to win the ten-year-long Trojan War. | 48 |
| 5.1 | Tuck Triumphant | Taylor, Theodore | 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 |
| 5.1 | Volcanoes | Simon, Seymour | 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 |
| 5.1 | Washington, D.C. (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 1 | An introduction to the nation's capital city, its history, people, and sites of interest. | 59 |
| 5.1 | Weather (Discovering Science) | Hunter, Rebecca | 0.5 | This book gives a simple explanation of weather and its many forms and sources. | 32 |
| 5.1 | Wheeling and Whirling-Around Book, The | Hindley, Judy | 0.5 | A lively celebration of circles, disks, spheres, and all sorts of things that roll and spin. | 25 |
| 5.1 | Wizard of Oz (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Baum/Laiken | 2 | Dorothy is whisked away by a cyclone to a magical land called Oz. There she meets unforgettable friends. | 235 |
| 5.1 | Wolf Stalker | Skurzynski/Ferguson | 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 |
| 5.1 | Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China | Louie, Ai-Ling | 0.5 | A young Chinese girl overcomes the wickedness of her stepsister and stepmother to become the bride of a prince. | 31 |
| 5.1 | Zia | O'Dell, Scott | 5 | Poignant sequel to 'The Island Of The Blue Dolphins,' in which Zia and her Aunt Karana are reunited, but not for long. | 144 |
| 5.2 | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Great Illustrated Classics) | Verne/Vogel | 3 | Professor Aronnax meets with Captain Nemo, the inventor of the submarine, Nautilus, and goes on an incredible underwater journey. | 236 |
| 5.2 | Abraham Lincoln | D'Aulaire, Ingri/Edgar Parin | 1 | An inspiring story of one of our most-beloved presidents, from his childhood in Kentucky in 1809 to his life in Washington and the end of the Civil War. | 55 |
| 5.2 | Across the Solar System | Theodorou, Rod | 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 |
| 5.2 | Aenir | Nix, Garth | 6 | The dream world Aenir is not a safe place. One wrong step can lead to danger, entrapment, or death. | 233 |
| 5.2 | Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker, The | DeFelice, Cynthia | 5 | After his family dies of consumption in 1849, twelve-year-old Lucas becomes a doctor's apprentice. | 151 |
| 5.2 | Armageddon Summer | Yolen/Coville | 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 |
| 5.2 | Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors (Our Universe) | Vogt, Gregory | 1 | This book examines the characteristics of asteroids, comets, and meteors in our solar system. | 48 |
| 5.2 | Big Wave, The | Buck, Pearl S. | 2 | A Japanese boy learns the joy of living after surviving a tidal wave that tragically destroys his family and his village. | 57 |
| 5.2 | Black Cauldron, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 7 | In Prydain, a young Assistant Pig-Keeper achieves honor in a quest to destroy the evil Black Cauldron. | 182 |
| 5.2 | Black Stallion, The | Farley, Walter | 7 | Story of the wildest of all wild creatures--a stallion unbroken, untamed! | 196 |
| 5.2 | Bloomability | Creech, Sharon | 7 | When her aunt and uncle take her from New Mexico to Lugano, Switzerland, to attend an international school, thirteen-year-old Dinnie discovers an expanding world and her place in it. | 273 |
| 5.2 | Charley Skedaddle | Beatty, Patricia | 7 | During the Civil War, a twelve-year-old Bowery Boy from New York City joins the Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle in Virginia, and encounters an old mountain woman. | 186 |
| 5.2 | Cinderella Skeleton | San Souci, Robert D. | 0.5 | In this book, the famous story is retold of a young woman who finds her prince at a Halloween ball. | 32 |
| 5.2 | Doctor and You, The | Swanson, Diane | 0.5 | This book will show you how different tools are used and why, when you visit the doctor. | 32 |
| 5.2 | Dogsong | Paulsen, Gary | 5 | A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy, who feels assailed by the modernity of his life, takes a 1,400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own "song" of himself. | 177 |
| 5.2 | Everest Book Three: The Summit | Korman, Gordon | 4 | Four kids are prepared to go into thin air in order to become the youngest person ever to climb Everest. However, they are not prepared for the challenges that await them as they get closer to the summit. | 154 |
| 5.2 | Everest Book Two: The Climb | Korman, Gordon | 4 | Four kids are on a quest to reach the top of Mount Everest. The unexpected happens and the climbing contest becomes a life-or-death rescue mission. No one is guaranteed to survive. | 151 |
| 5.2 | Everywhere | Brooks, Bruce | 2 | Afraid that his beloved grandfather will die after suffering a heart attack, a nine-year-old boy agrees to join ten-year-old Dooley in performing a mysterious ritual called soul switching. | 70 |
| 5.2 | Exploring Space (Our Universe) | Vogt, Gregory | 1 | This book discusses past, present, and future space travel. | 48 |
| 5.2 | Faithful Friend, The | San Souci, Robert D. | 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 |
| 5.2 | Farewell to Shady Glade | Peet, Bill | 0.5 | Sixteen animal tenants of treehouse have their home demolished by glowering bulldozers. | 38 |
| 5.2 | Farmer Boy | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 9 | Almanzo Wilder's boyhood on his father's farm in upper New York state, a century ago. | 372 |
| 5.2 | First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 7 | After paying a silver penny to encourage a magician to perform in the town square, a carpenter's helper is conjured to a strange place where the people call him King of Abadan. | 213 |
| 5.2 | Francesca Vigilucci | Duey, Kathleen | 4 | In 1913, the Washington Post is full of headlines about the suffragists. Francesca does not want the life her family plans for her of privilege, good works, and a wife of a successful man. She dreams of becoming a reporter. | 128 |
| 5.2 | Good-Bye, My Wishing Star | Grove, Vicki | 4 | Twelve-year-old Jens, who adores the farm where she has lived all her life, is devastated when severe financial problems may force her family to sell out and move to the city. | 128 |
| 5.2 | Great Brain, The | Fitzgerald, John D. | 7 | A boy genius has scheming adventures. | 175 |
| 5.2 | Guests | Dorris, Michael | 3 | A native American boy discovers the inevitability of change as he grows up. | 119 |
| 5.2 | Gypsy Game, The | Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | 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 |
| 5.2 | Hans Brinker (Great Illustrated Classics) | Dodge/Vogel | 3 | This is the story of a poor boy who wants to prove his own worth and to help his terribly sick father. It is also the story of Hans' little sister, Gretel,who dreams of winning the skating race whose prize is the silver skates. | 240 |
| 5.2 | Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle | MacDonald, Betty | 4 | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle cures a show-off, crybaby, bully, whisperer, and slowpoke. | 125 |
| 5.2 | Horror at the Haunted House | Kehret, Peg | 5 | A fast-paced ghost story as two kids try to solve the mystery of a haunted mansion. | 132 |
| 5.2 | How I Survived the Oregon Trail: The Journal of Jesse Adams | Wilson, Laura | 1 | A young boy keeps a journal describing his family's five-month journey across country in a covered wagon in 1852. | 38 |
| 5.2 | Invaders from Outer Space | Brooks, Philip | 0.5 | This book examines the phenomenon of unidentified flying objects and encounters with alien beings. | 48 |
| 5.2 | Jack Black and the Ship of Thieves | Hughes, Carol | 7 | Having fallen from his father's airship, Jack blunders into a feud between a pirate ship and a deadly ocean-going war machine and encounters danger, intrigue, and treachery. | 231 |
| 5.2 | Jedi Quest | Watson, Jude | 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 |
| 5.2 | Journal of Ben Uchida, Citizen 13559: Mirror Lake Internment C, Th | Denenberg, Barry | 4 | Twelve-year-old Ben Uchida keeps a journal of his experiences as a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp in Mirror Lake, California, during World War II. | 151 |
| 5.2 | Kestrel, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 9 | With war in Westmark and the assumption of the throne by Mickie, all Theo's talents are needed, as well as those of his former companions. | 244 |
| 5.2 | Last Safe House: A Story of the Underground Railroad, The | Greenwood, Barbara | 3 | Eleven-year-old Eliza appears at the home of the Reid family, the last stop on the Underground Railroad. Twelve-year-old Johanna Reid develops a deep admiration and respect for her new friend when she hears of the horrors Eliza has had to endure. | 119 |
| 5.2 | Magellan: First Around the World | Syme, Ronald | 1 | This book tells the historic story of Magellan's trip around the world. | 71 |
| 5.2 | Man in the Woods, The | Wells, Rosemary | 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 |
| 5.2 | Mattimeo | Jacques, Brian | 18 | The evil fox Slagar ventures into Redwall Abbey and kidnaps the Woodland children. Sequel to: Redwall and Mossflower. | 446 |
| 5.2 | Missing Chums, The | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5 | Frank and Joe investigate numerous crimes in their town that may or may not be related. | 175 |
| 5.2 | Moffats, The | Estes, Eleanor | 6 | Living in Cranbury on New Dollar Street, having a mother who could make both ends just meet and have fun doing it, and being one of a family of four children is a rich, adventurous existence for the Moffat children. | 211 |
| 5.2 | More Rootabagas | Sandburg, Carl | 2 | Recently discovered tales by the American poet. | 94 |
| 5.2 | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle | MacDonald, Betty | 3 | Eight funny and instructive stories in which the magical Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle helps teach children how to behave. | 119 |
| 5.2 | Mummies Made in Egypt | Aliki | 0.5 | Unravels the secret of the ancient Egyptian art of mummy-making. | 27 |
| 5.2 | My Side of the Mountain | George, Jean Craighead | 6 | Written in the form of a diary, this story relates the days of a young boy in the Catskill Mountains. | 177 |
| 5.2 | Mystery of Cabin Island, The | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5 | The Hardy boys are invited to spend Christmas on a wealthy man's island where they learn of and solve a kidnapping and theft mystery. | 178 |
| 5.2 | Old Mother West Wind | Burgess, Thornton | 3 | All the favorite old Burgess characters and stories in a new illustrated edition. | 140 |
| 5.2 | Outside and Inside Sharks | Markle, Sandra | 0.5 | This book describes the inner and outer workings of sharks, including their diet, anatomy, and reproduction. | 40 |
| 5.2 | Pippi Longstocking | Lindgren, Astrid | 4 | A lucky little girl who lives with a horse and a monkey--but without any parents--at the edge of a Swedish village is involved in many escapades. | 160 |
| 5.2 | Preacher's Boy | Paterson, Katherine | 7 | In 1899, ten-year-old Robbie, son of a preacher in a small Vermont town, gets himself into all kinds of trouble when he decides to give up being Christian in order to make the most of his life before the end of the world. | 168 |
| 5.2 | Ramona and Her Father | Cleary, Beverly | 3 | In this adventure with Beezus and Ramona, two of the best-loved characters in children's literature, Mr. Quimby loses his job, and the entire family learns to cope with hardship. | 186 |
| 5.2 | Ring of Endless Light, A | L'Engle, Madeleine | 11 | Life is changing on Seven Bay Island for Vicky Austin, with Commander Rodney dead, her grandfather dying, and three boys who devote their attention to her. | 332 |
| 5.2 | Rookie Arrives, The | Dygard, Thomas J. | 6 | Cocky Ted Bell moves from being star of his high school baseball team directly into playing in the major leagues and finds that he has a lot to learn before becoming the world's greatest third-baseman. | 197 |
| 5.2 | Root Cellar, The | Lunn, Janet | 10 | For twelve-year-old Rose, the root cellar was a passage through which she could escape the present and travel back in time to the 1860s and the Civil War. | 229 |
| 5.2 | Santa Paws, Come Home | Edwards, Nicholas | 6 | Before Santa Paws knew what was happening he was being driven far away from his home in a stranger's car. Will Santa Paws find his way back home to the Callahans in time for Christmas? | 199 |
| 5.2 | School Story, The | Clements, Andrew | 5 | After Natalie writes a novel, Zoe helps her devise a scheme to get it accepted at the publishing house where Natalie's mother works as an editor. | 196 |
| 5.2 | Sea Chest, The | Buzzeo, Toni | 0.5 | A young girl listens as her great-great-aunt, a lighthouse keeper's daughter, tells of her childhood living on a Maine island, and of the infant that washed ashore after a storm. | 32 |
| 5.2 | Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups: The Second File, The | Wisniewski, David | 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 |
| 5.2 | Secret of the Caves, The | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5 | Triggered by the disappearance of a brilliant young professor, this mystery takes the Hardy boys first to Kenworthy College, where they find a puzzling message on an examination paper. | 175 |
| 5.2 | Secret of the Forgotten City, The | Keene, Carolyn | 5 | There are rumors that long ago a treasure was hidden in a city now buried under the Nevada desert. | 180 |
| 5.2 | Secret of the Indian, The | Banks, Lynne Reid | 5 | In this third book about Omri and his magic cupboard, Omri and his friend Patrick must risk grown-ups discovering their secret when they find themselves in need of a friend whose toy plastic doctors can be brought to life to save wounded people. | 147 |
| 5.2 | Sees Behind Trees | Dorris, Michael | 4 | A Native-American boy with a special gift to "see" beyond his poor eyesight journeys with an old warrior to a land of mystery and beauty. | 104 |
| 5.2 | Seven Songs of Merlin, The | Barron, T.A. | 12 | Having stumbled upon his hidden powers, the young wizard Merlin voyages to the Otherworld in his quest to find himself and the way to the realm of the spirit. Volume Two of "The Lost Years of Merlin." | 306 |
| 5.2 | Shadow of a Bull | Wojciechowska, Maia | 5 | The son of a famous bullfighter resists the pressures that try to force him to become a bullfighter like his hero father. | 141 |
| 5.2 | Shakespeare Stealer, The | Blackwood, Gary L. | 7 | A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to transcribe the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty, after becoming part of the acting troupe. | 216 |
| 5.2 | Skunks Do More Than Stink! | Souza, D.M. | 0.5 | This book provides information about the physical characteristics and habits of the striped, spotted, and hog-nosed skunk. | 32 |
| 5.2 | Snowbird, The | Calvert, Patricia | 7 | Willie and her brother TJ are orphaned and must journey to the Dakota Territory to live with their uncle and aunt they do not even know. | 135 |
| 5.2 | Socks | Cleary, Beverly | 2 | A comfortable cat's life for tabby Socks is disrupted by the arrival of a new baby in the owner's home. | 156 |
| 5.2 | Space (Discovering Science) | Hunter, Rebecca | 0.5 | This book gives a simple explanation of space and the solar system. | 32 |
| 5.2 | Star Fisher, The | Yep, Laurence | 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 |
| 5.2 | Story of Benjamin Franklin: Amazing American, The | Davidson, Margaret | 2 | Describes the life and many notable accomplishments of the American printer, businessman, inventor, community leader, and statesman. | 102 |
| 5.2 | Story of the Statue of Liberty, The | Miller, Natalie | 0.5 | Describes Auguste Bartholdi's conception of the Statue of Liberty, its construction in France, and its eventual erection and dedication in New York Harbor. | 30 |
| 5.2 | String in the Harp, A | Bond, Nancy | 17 | When Peter and his sisters are forced to move to Wales, he finds a harp-tuning key that transports him back to the sixth century. | 370 |
| 5.2 | Swiftly Tilting Planet, A | L'Engle, Madeleine | 10 | Third volume of classic trilogy in which 15-year-old Charles and the unicorn Gaudior thwart Madog Branzillo's plan to destroy the world. | 256 |
| 5.2 | Taggerung | Jacques, Brian | 19 | A young otter, kidnapped in his infancy and raised as a warrior-thief by a band of vermin, leaves the tribe and goes off to seek adventures on his own. | 438 |
| 5.2 | Talking Earth, The | George, Jean Craighead | 6 | Billie Wind ventures out alone into the Florida Everglades to test the legends of their Indian ancestors and learn the importance of listening to the earth's vital messages. | 151 |
| 5.2 | Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub | Gilson, Jamie | 4 | The boys and girls in the fourth grade devise a contest to "sink" their substitute teacher by making her cry. | 140 |
| 5.2 | Tucket's Gold | Paulsen, Gary | 3 | Fifteen-year-old Francis and the two children he has adopted travel across the Old West, evade Comancheros, discover a treasure, and wind up rich beyond their wildest dreams. | 97 |
| 5.2 | Tucket's Home | Paulsen, Gary | 2 | Francis, Lottie, and Billy survive a series of hair-raising adventures while on their way west to the Oregon Trail, where they hope to find the Tucket family. | 93 |
| 5.2 | Very Young Skater, A | Krementz, Jill | 1 | Story of a young ice skater and her training. | 103 |
| 5.2 | View from the Cherry Tree, The | Roberts, Willo Davis | 7 | Rob admits having seen a murder, but no one believes him--except the murderer. | 181 |
| 5.2 | Wanderer, The | Creech, Sharon | 6 | Thirteen-year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their transatlantic crossing aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five-foot sailboat. | 305 |
| 5.2 | West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi | Murphy, Jim | 6 | While traveling in 1883 with her Italian-American family and other immigrant pioneers to Idaho, Theresa keeps a diary of her experiences. | 204 |
| 5.2 | Where the Lilies Bloom | Cleaver, Vera/Bill | 6 | This is a tough and tender novel about an orphaned mountain family and the courageous fourteen-year-old, Mary Call, who keeps them together and alive. | 210 |
| 5.2 | Wright Brothers, The | Edwards, Pamela Duncan | 0.5 | This book describes the series of events that led to the Wright Brothers' historic flight. | 32 |
| 5.2 | You're Only Old Once! | Seuss, Dr. | 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 |
| 5.3 | Above the Veil | Nix, Garth | 7 | The Underfolk are restless. For a long time, they have kept quiet, occupying the lower levels of the Castle. Now they are ready to be heard. | 248 |
| 5.3 | Abraham's Battle | Banks, Sara Harrell | 2 | In 1863, as the Civil War approaches his home in Gettysburg and he realizes that a big battle is about to begin, a freed slave named Abraham decides to join the ambulance corps of the Union Army. | 88 |
| 5.3 | Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Twain/Laiken | 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 |
| 5.3 | Agony of Alice, The | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 5 | Eleven-year-old, motherless Alice, decides she needs a gorgeous role model until she discovers what really makes someone beautiful. | 131 |
| 5.3 | Alida's Song | Paulsen, Gary | 2 | A fourteen-year-old boy who has been neglected by irresponsible parents spends a wonderful summer on a farm where his grandmother cooks for two elderly brothers. | 88 |
| 5.3 | And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? | Fritz, Jean | 1 | A humorous biography of Paul Revere, covering more than his famous ride, like life in Boston in the 1700s. | 48 |
| 5.3 | Angels in Disguise | Dean, Lou | 4 | The story of Lou Dean Williams who later in life, was rescued from a life threatening accident by her beloved dog Jake. | 115 |
| 5.3 | Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave | Mayer, Marianna | 1 | Russian folktale about a beleaguered stepchild who is sent on an errand to a fearsome witch. | 37 |
| 5.3 | Baby-sitting Is a Dangerous Job | Roberts, Willo Davis | 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 |
| 5.3 | Beauty and the Beast | Brett, Jan | 0.5 | Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast. | 32 |
| 5.3 | Beggar Queen, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 9 | In this continuation of Westmark and The Kestrel, Mickle, once a common street urchin, now rules Westmark as the wise Queen Augusta. | 237 |
| 5.3 | Black Stallion Revolts, The | Farley, Walter | 10 | The plane taking Alec and the Black to a much-needed vacation crashes, leaving Alec with a concussion and amnesia and the Black running wild. Fate brings them together, and Alec regains his memory during a climactic race. | 257 |
| 5.3 | Blair's Nightmare | Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | 8 | David tries to help Blair find his "imaginary" dog before they are all found by criminals hiding in their neighborhood. | 192 |
| 5.3 | Book of Three, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 7 | Taran sets out with some strangely assorted companions to save his beloved land. | 190 |
| 5.3 | Borrowers Avenged, The | Norton, Mary | 10 | Escaping from an attic where they had been held captive over the long, dark winter, a family of tiny people set up house in an old rectory. | 297 |
| 5.3 | Borrowers, The | Norton, Mary | 5 | There are not many Borrowers left, as they like to live in quiet places. This is the story of the mysterious tiny people who live in old houses everywhere,... | 180 |
| 5.3 | Bound for Oregon | Van Leeuwen, Jean | 6 | Historical novel about a family's tumultuous journey along the Oregon Trail in 1852. | 167 |
| 5.3 | By the Shores of Silver Lake | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 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 |
| 5.3 | Captains Courageous (Great Illustrated Classics) | Kipling/Vogel | 3 | When Harvey, the son of a millionaire, is swept overboard and is rescued by a small fishing boat, he learns a new way of life. | 238 |
| 5.3 | Cay, The | Taylor, Theodore | 4 | A fine portrayal of how a boy makes his separate peace with racial prejudice. | 144 |
| 5.3 | Crooked Banister, The | Keene, Carolyn | 5 | While helping the police find the owner of a mysterious house with a crooked staircase and an unpredictable robot, Nancy finds time to capture a swindler. | 179 |
| 5.3 | Death at Devil's Bridge | DeFelice, Cynthia | 6 | Despite a great summer job as a first mate on a fishing boat out of Martha's vineyard, thirteen-year-old Ben gets caught up with illegal drugs and possible murder. | 181 |
| 5.3 | Dirt Bike Runaway | Christopher, Matt | 5 | A shy, unhappy sixteen-year-old with a talent for working with motorcycles runs away from his foster home and gets involved with a variety of people, both bad and good. | 149 |
| 5.3 | Dragon's Gate | Yep, Laurence | 10 | A young immigrant boy from China joins his father and uncle in helping to build the transcontinental railroad. | 272 |
| 5.3 | Dragonwings | Yep, Laurence | 10 | This beautiful story is of Moon Shadow and his father Windrider, a Chinese immigrant who makes a flying machine in 1909. | 248 |
| 5.3 | Esperanza Rising | Ryan, Pam Muñl story is of Moon Shadow and his father Windrider, a Chinese immigrant who makes a flying machine in 1909. | 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 |
| 5.3 | Flying with the Eagle, Racing the Great Bear | Bruchac, Joseph | 5 | This is a collection of traditional tales which present the heritage of various Indian nations, including the Wampanoag, Cherokee, Osage, Lakota, and Tlingit. | 128 |
| 5.3 | Georgia (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 1 | An introduction of the Empire State of the South, introducing its history, geography, industries, sites of interest, and famous people. | 59 |
| 5.3 | Ghost of Lizard Light, The | Woodruff, Elvira | 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 |
| 5.3 | Girl with the Silver Eyes, The | Roberts, Willo Davis | 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 |
| 5.3 | Grandpa's Mountain | Reeder, Carolyn | 7 | Carrie loves her grandparents' store in the Blue Ridge mountains, but a new national park threatens their home. | 171 |
| 5.3 | Greenwitch | Cooper, Susan | 6 | Simon, Jane, and Barney discover the whereabouts of a priceless golden grail, possessed by a dreadful, vengeful power. | 131 |
| 5.3 | Headless Cupid, The | Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | 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 |
| 5.3 | Helen Keller (In Their Own Words) | Sullivan, George | 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 |
| 5.3 | Henry and the Paper Route | Cleary, Beverly | 4 | His heart set on having a paper route, Henry Huggins is sidetracked by various interesting and funny distractions. | 192 |
| 5.3 | Homeless Bird | Whelan, Gloria | 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 |
| 5.3 | Islander, The | Rylant, Cynthia | 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 |
| 5.3 | Jip: His Story | Paterson, Katherine | 7 | While living on a Vermont poor farm during 1855 and 1856, Jip learns his identity and that of his mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this place. | 178 |
| 5.3 | Jump Ship to Freedom | Collier, James/Christopher | 7 | In this sequel to War Comes to Willy Freeman, Daniel Arabus must escape from a ship to avoid certain slavery in the West Indies. | 198 |
| 5.3 | Kokopelli's Flute | Hobbs, Will | 6 | Thirteen-year-old Tepary discovers an old flute in a cliff dwelling in New Mexico, and through its power he learns about ancient Native American Magic. | 148 |
| 5.3 | Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, A | Hesse, Karen | 4 | In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state. | 167 |
| 5.3 | Little House in the Big Woods | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 5 | The Ingalls family is snug in their Wisconsin house in spite of blizzards, wolves, and the lonely forest. | 238 |
| 5.3 | Loner, The | Wier, Ester | 5 | A lonely boy with no name and no memory wanders the southwest until he finds a home with a sheep rancher. | 151 |
| 5.3 | Long Winter, The | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 10 | Almanzo Wilder makes a dangerous trip to save the village from starvation. | 335 |
| 5.3 | Lost Flower Children, The | Lisle, Janet Taylor | 3 | After their mother's death, Olivia and Nellie go to live with their great aunt, where they slowly bring her overgrown and weedy old garden back to life, enabling them to adjust to a new life as well. | 122 |
| 5.3 | Merlin Effect, The | Barron, T.A. | 9 | When she joins her father and several others investigating a strange whirlpool and possible sunken treasure ship off the coast of Baja California, thirteen-year-old Kate is drawn into a centuries-old conflict between Merlin and the evil Nimue. | 254 |
| 5.3 | Missing May | Rylant, Cynthia | 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 |
| 5.3 | Missouri Homestead | Tedrow, T.L. | 7 | Laura and her husband establish a farm in Missouri and confront a timber baron. | 213 |
| 5.3 | Misty of Chincoteague | Henry, Marguerite | 4 | A breed of wild horses inhabit an island, and one is befriended and tamed by the love of two children. | 173 |
| 5.3 | Moby Dick (Great Illustrated Classics) | Melville/Bogart | 2 | Ishmael, a young school teacher, signs up on a whaling ship to seek adventure. With his unexpected friend, Queequeg, he joins the Pequod, captained by the mysterious Ahab, who is only interested in seeking revenge upon the great white whale, Moby Dick. | 238 |
| 5.3 | Mouse Rap, The | Myers, Walter Dean | 5 | During an eventful summer in Harlem, fourteen-year-old Mouse and his friends fall in and out of love and search for a hidden treasure from the days of Al Capone. | 186 |
| 5.3 | Mr. Lincoln's Drummer | Wisler, G. Clifton | 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 |
| 5.3 | My Teacher Is an Alien | Coville, Bruce | 3 | Susan Simmons must prevent her alien teacher from taking selected classmates to another planet. | 123 |
| 5.3 | Mystery at Lilac Inn, The | Keene, Carolyn | 6 | Nancy solves another exciting mystery involving stolen electronic parts and stolen diamonds. | 180 |
| 5.3 | Night Crossing, The | Ackerman, Karen | 1 | When the Nazis invade Austria, Clara's Jewish family flees to Switzerland. | 56 |
| 5.3 | Night Journey, The | Lasky, Kathryn | 5 | A young girl ignores her parents' wishes and persuades her great-grandmother to relate the story of her escape from Czarist Russia. | 150 |
| 5.3 | Night the Whole Class Slept Over, The | Pevsner, Stella | 5 | Eleven-year-old Dan, whose artist parents have kept him moving around all his life, fears he will lose the friends he has made at his new school until the class sleepover coincides with a bad winter storm. | 162 |
| 5.3 | Nowhere to Call Home | DeFelice, Cynthia | 7 | When her father kills himself after losing his money in the stock market crash, twelve-year-old Frances, now a penniless orphan, decides to hop aboard a freight train and live the life of a hobo. | 200 |
| 5.3 | On the Way Home | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 3 | The diary of a trip from South Dakota to Missouri in 1894. | 101 |
| 5.3 | Out of the Dust | Hesse, Karen | 3 | In a series of poems, fourteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm. | 227 |
| 5.3 | Paul Revere: Son of Liberty | Brandt, Keith | 1 | Remembering his boyhood, Paul Revere knows that the steeple of North Church will make an excellent watchtower in his brave plan to warn countryside that the British are coming. | 48 |
| 5.3 | Peeling the Onion | Orr, Wendy | 7 | Following an automobile accident in which her neck is broken, a teenage karate champion begins a long and painful recovery with the help of her family. | 166 |
| 5.3 | Pippi Goes on Board | Lindgren, Astrid | 4 | Pippi Longstocking is going on a ship to the South Seas and gets unexpected company. | 140 |
| 5.3 | Pluto and the Search for New Planets (Our Universe) | Vogt, Gregory | 1 | This book examines the characteristics of the planet Pluto and the search for new planets in our solar system. | 48 |
| 5.3 | Prairie Songs | Conrad, Pam | 5 | Louisa's life in a loving pioneer family on the Nebraska prairie is altered by the arrival of a new doctor and his beautiful but tragically frail wife. | 167 |
| 5.3 | Runaway Ralph | Cleary, Beverly | 4 | Wanting excitement, adventure, and his independence, the cycling mouse runs away from home on his shiny red motorcycle. | 175 |
| 5.3 | Shades of Gray | Reeder, Carolyn | 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 |
| 5.3 | Snow Skiing (Radsports Guides) | Maurer, Tracy Nelson | 1 | This book surveys the history, equipment, techniques, and safety factors of snow skiing. | 48 |
| 5.3 | Snow Treasure | McSwigan, Marie | 5 | Brave children help save Norway's gold from the invading Nazis during World War II. | 156 |
| 5.3 | Sounder | Armstrong, William H. | 3 | Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read with the help of a devoted dog, Sounder. | 116 |
| 5.3 | Spacecraft (Monster Machines) | Jefferis, David | 0.5 | This book describes the various vehicles and machines used in the space program, including rockets, space shuttles and rovers. | 32 |
| 5.3 | Sport Climbing (Extreme Sports) | Nichols, John | 1 | This book explains how the sport works and describes sport climbing safety, training, professionals, and competition. | 48 |
| 5.3 | Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder: Pioneer Girl, The | Stine, Megan | 2 | A biography of the writer whose pioneer life on the prairie became the basis for her "Little House" books. | 102 |
| 5.3 | Taking Care of Terrific | Lowry, Lois | 5 | Fourteen-year old Enid Crowley does not like her name. When she takes a baby-sitting job for Joshua W. Cameron IV, she decides it is time for a change. Enid becomes Cynthia, Joshua becomes Tom Terrific, and then it is off to summer excitement. | 168 |
| 5.3 | Taking Flight: The Story of the Wright Brothers | Krensky, Stephen | 0.5 | This book describes how the Wright Brothers came to build and fly the first powered aircraft. | 43 |
| 5.3 | Tracker | Paulsen, Gary | 2 | A thirteen-year-old boy must come to terms with the approaching death of his beloved grandfather, with whom he shares a very special relationship. | 90 |
| 5.3 | True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, The | Avi | 8 | As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious. | 215 |
| 5.3 | Westing Game, The | Raskin, Ellen | 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 |
| 5.3 | Westmark | Alexander, Lloyd | 6 | Falling in with a roguish doctor, his dwarf attendant, and an urchin girl, Theo embarks on an unforgettable adventure in the kingdom of Westmark. | 184 |
| 5.3 | Wind in the Willows (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Grahame/Vogel | 3 | Join Mole, Otter, and Water Rat as they get into and out of the mischief that vain, self-centered Toad creates. | 240 |
| 5.3 | Wump World, The | Peet, Bill | 0.5 | The Wump World is an unspoiled place until huge monsters bring hordes of tiny creatures from the planet Pollutus. | 44 |
| 5.4 | Benjamin Franklin (In Their Own Words) | Roop, Peter/Connie | 2 | This is a biography of Benjamin Franklin, using his newspaper articles and personal recollections. | 125 |
| 5.4 | Best School Year Ever, The | Robinson, Barbara | 3 | The terrible kids at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School return with more wild behavior and outrageous lies. | 117 |
| 5.4 | Black Pearl, The | O'Dell, Scott | 4 | In claiming as his own the magnificent black pearl he finds, a sixteen-year-old youth enrages the sea devil that legend says is its owner. | 96 |
| 5.4 | Carlota | O'Dell, Scott | 4 | A young girl relates her feelings and experiences as a participant in the battle of San Pasqual during the last days of the war between the Californians and Americans. A Laurel-Leaf book. | 141 |
| 5.4 | Castaways of the Flying Dutchman | Jacques, Brian | 12 | In 1602, a boy and his dog are rescued from the doomed ship, Flying Dutchman, by an angel who guides them in traveling the world, eternally helping those in need. | 327 |
| 5.4 | Castle of Llyr, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 7 | While undergoing training to be a princess, Eilonwy learns about magic for evil purposes. | 174 |
| 5.4 | Christmas After All: The Diary of Minnie Swift | Lasky, Kathryn | 5 | In her fictionalized journal, eleven-year-old Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932. | 185 |
| 5.4 | Christmas Box, The | Evans, Richard Paul | 2 | A young family moves in with a widow, discovers the first gift of Christmas, and learns what Christmas is really all about. | 125 |
| 5.4 | Clue of the Broken Locket, The | Keene, Carolyn | 5 | Nancy tackles two interesting mysteries this time, both for Cecily a friend she just met, one involving Cecily's fiance, the other a family treasure. | 178 |
| 5.4 | Dovey Coe | Dowell, Frances O'Roark | 6 | When accused of murder in her North Carolina mountain town in 1928, Dovey Coe, a strong-willed twelve-year-old girl, comes to a new understanding of others, including her deaf brother. | 181 |
| 5.4 | Down the Yukon | Hobbs, Will | 7 | In the wake of Dawson City's Great Fire of 1899, sixteen-year-old Jason and his girlfriend, Jamie, canoe the Yukon River across Alaska in an epic race from Canada's Klondike to the new gold fields at Cape Nome. | 193 |
| 5.4 | Evil, Inc. | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5 | The Hardy boys are off to Paris to get the goods on a French businessman who may be the head of an international crime empire. | 153 |
| 5.4 | Face in the Bessledorf Funeral Parlor, The | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 4 | Convinced that the strange things happening at the funeral parlor next door to his family's hotel are somehow connected to a recent robbery, Bernie determines to become famous by proving his theory and catching the thief. | 144 |
| 5.4 | Fear Place, The | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 5 | Despite the strained relationship between them, Doug must overcome his fear in order to search for his missing brother. | 118 |
| 5.4 | Fire into Ice | Houston, James | 0.5 | This book is a fascinating introduction to glass making, one of the world's most ancient and most beautiful arts, through the experiences of the author who left his home in the Arctic to learn glass-making skills in New York City. | 32 |
| 5.4 | Frindle | Clements, Andrew | 2 | When Nick Allen decides to turn his fifth-grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, he cleverly invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control. | 105 |
| 5.4 | Glory of Unicorns, A | Coville, Bruce | 6 | This is a collection of stories about unicorns, spanning from Kabustan to the Far East and from an English village to the suburbs of America. | 198 |
| 5.4 | Gypsy Rizka | Alexander, Lloyd | 6 | Living alone in her wagon while waiting for her father's return, Rizka, a Gypsy and a trickster, exposes the ridiculous foibles of some of the townspeople. | 195 |
| 5.4 | Haymeadow, The | Paulsen, Gary | 6 | Fourteen-year-old John comes of age and gains self-reliance during the summer he spends up in the Wyoming mountains tending his father's herd of sheep. | 195 |
| 5.4 | Heartlight | Barron, T.A. | 8 | An astronomer and a woman are hurled into a dazzling cross-galactic adventure. | 272 |
| 5.4 | Hidden Magic, A | Vande Velde, Vivian | 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 |
| 5.4 | House on the Cliff, The | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5 | Frank and Joe manage to escape from a hostage situation with a band of smugglers and, of course, solve another mystery. | 180 |
| 5.4 | Hundred and One Dalmatians, The | Smith, Dodie | 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 |
| 5.4 | Hundred Dresses, The | Estes, Eleanor | 1 | In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson. | 80 |
| 5.4 | Hunted, The | Skurzynski/Ferguson | 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 |
| 5.4 | Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison | Lenski, Lois | 10 | Authentic reconstruction of Mary Jemison's capture and life with the Seneca Indians. | 298 |
| 5.4 | Island of the Blue Dolphins | O'Dell, Scott | 6 | An Indian girl is left alone on an island for ten years. | 181 |
| 5.4 | Jake's Orphan | Brooke, Peggy | 8 | When taken from an orphanage to work on a farm in North Dakota in 1926, twelve-year-old Tree searches for a home not only for himself but also for his irrepressible younger brother. | 261 |
| 5.4 | Janitor's Boy, The | Clements, Andrew | 4 | Fifth grader, Jack, finds himself the target of ridicule at school when it becomes known that his father is one of the janitors, and he turns his anger onto his father. | 140 |
| 5.4 | John Blair and the Great Hinckley Fire | Nobisso, Josephine | 0.5 | This book tells how a brave African American porter helped save many lives when the train on which he was working was caught up in the horrendous firestorm near Hinckley, Minnesota, in 1894. | 31 |
| 5.4 | Journeys with Elijah | Goldin, Barbara Diamond | 2 | This book presents eight stories about the Old Testament prophet Elijah, set in a variety of time periods and in places all over the world where Jews have lived. | 75 |
| 5.4 | King of the Wind | Henry, Marguerite | 5 | An Arab stable boy's love for a Sultan's horse begins the line from which Man o' War was sired. | 174 |
| 5.4 | Komodo Dragons: Giant Lizards of Indonesia | Martin, James | 0.5 | Giant lizards of Indonesia. | 48 |
| 5.4 | Lassie Come-Home | Knight, Eric | 9 | After being sold because of hard times, Lassie time and again escapes and returns to her beloved Joe. | 230 |
| 5.4 | Leaves in October, The | Ackerman, Karen | 3 | After her mother leaves them, nine-year-old Livvy struggles to understand and forgive as her father loses his job and takes her and her younger brother to live in a shelter for homeless people. | 117 |
| 5.4 | Life and Times of the Peanut, The | Micucci, Charles | 0.5 | Examines the history and statistics of peanuts, their agriculture and influence. | 32 |
| 5.4 | Little Riders, The | Shemin, Margaretha | 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 |
| 5.4 | Little Town on the Prairie | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 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 |
| 5.4 | Lostman's River | DeFelice, Cynthia | 6 | Tyler hides from the law in the Florida swamps where he learns about that imperiled environment. | 160 |
| 5.4 | Magician's Nephew, The | Lewis, C.S. | 6 | When Digory and Polly try to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic is mixed up; they all land in Narnia where they witness Aslan blessing the animals with human speech. | 221 |
| 5.4 | Massachusetts (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, important people, and interesting sites of Massachusetts. | 59 |
| 5.4 | Master Puppeteer, The | Paterson, Katherine | 7 | Set in feudal Japan, this is the story of a young boy who is drawn into the magical and mysterious world of the puppet-theater. | 179 |
| 5.4 | Miniature Cars (Cool Collectibles) | Beyer, Julie | 1 | This book discusses the history of die-cast toy car manufacturing, values, and how to start a collection. | 48 |
| 5.4 | Mirror of Merlin, The | Barron, T.A. | 9 | Through adventures involving a haunted marsh, talking trees, and the creature called the ballymag, the young wizard Merlin continues to experience both his growing powers and his essential humanity. | 245 |
| 5.4 | My Brother Made Me Do It | Kehret, Peg | 4 | In letters to an elderly pen pal, eleven-year-old Julie describes dealing with her younger brother, painful juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, and struggling to finish a fund-raising race on crutches. | 130 |
| 5.4 | Nature's Green Umbrella: Tropical Rain Forests | Gibbons, Gail | 0.5 | This book describes the climatic conditions of the rain forest, as well as the different layers of plants and animals that comprise the ecosystem. | 30 |
| 5.4 | Night Cry | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 6 | Ellen is awakened at night by horrible cries that may be human. | 154 |
| 5.4 | Over Sea, Under Stone | Cooper, Susan | 12 | Three children on a holiday in Cornwall find an ancient manuscript which sends them on a dangerous quest for a grail that would reveal the true story of King Arthur. | 252 |
| 5.4 | People and Places (Geography for Fun) | Robson, Pam | 1 | This book uses interactive projects to look at where and how people live and work. | 32 |
| 5.4 | Pippi in the South Seas | Lindgren, Astrid | 3 | Christmas is coming, and Pippi and her friends want to celebrate. Can Pippi have Christmas on the island in the South Seas. | 125 |
| 5.4 | Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver, A | Konigsburg, E.L. | 5 | The story of Eleanor of Aquitane as she reflects on her life while waiting on a cloud in heaven for her husband King Henry II. | 201 |
| 5.4 | Rat's Tale, A | Seidler, Tor | 5 | Montague Mad-Rat learns about life and love after meeting his namesake. | 186 |
| 5.4 | Red Badge of Courage (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Crane/Vogel | 3 | Henry Fleming, a Union soldier undergoes change from a boy to a man. He undergoes many trials of war. | 238 |
| 5.4 | Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 9 | Bearing six unusual gifts, young Prince Jen embarks on a perilous quest and emerges triumphantly into manhood. | 273 |
| 5.4 | Search for Delicious, The | Babbitt, Natalie | 4 | The Prime Minister is compiling a dictionary; and when no one at court can agree on the meaning of delicious, the King sends his twelve-year-old messenger to poll the country. | 167 |
| 5.4 | Secret of the Old Clock, The | Keene, Carolyn | 5 | Nancy's decided that Mr. Crowley must have left a second will, so she proceeds to find out the mystery of the old clock. | 180 |
| 5.4 | Silent Thunder: A Civil War Story | Pinkney, Andrea Davis | 7 | In 1862, eleven-year-old Summer and her thirteen-year-old brother Rosco take turns describing how life on the quiet Virginia plantation where they are slaves is affected by the Civil War. | 218 |
| 5.4 | Stowaway: A Tale of California Pirates, The | Gregory, Kristiana | 3 | After witnessing the murder of his father by pirates, eleven-year-old Carlito climbs aboard their ship looking for revenge. When the ship sets sail, Carlito is trapped. Will he suffer his father's fate or will he bring his father's murderers to justice? | 126 |
| 5.4 | Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Great Illustrated Cla, Th | Stevenson/Yamamoto | 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 |
| 5.4 | Tales of Mystery and Terror (Great Illustrated Classics) | Poe/Katz | 3 | This book contains four famous short stories of mystery and suspense written by Edgar Allen Poe. | 238 |
| 5.4 | Tarantula in My Purse and 172 Other Wild Pets, The | George, Jean Craighead | 3 | A collection of autobiographical stories about raising a houseful of children and wild pets, including crows, skunks, and raccoons. | 134 |
| 5.4 | Time Machine (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Wells/Bogart | 3 | A young scientist perfects a machine that allows him to travel in time. | 238 |
| 5.4 | To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers | Old, Wendie | 1 | This book traces the work that the two Wright brothers did together to develop the first machine-powered aircraft. | 48 |
| 5.4 | To Walk the Sky Path | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 5 | The story of a young Seminole Indian, who because of his education, finds himself caught between the traditional world of his ancestors and the modern world of his schoolmates. | 144 |
| 5.4 | Tower Treasure, The | Dixon, Franklin W. | 6 | What did the speeding motorist have to do with the mystery of the Tower Treasure? | 180 |
| 5.4 | Tru Confessions | Tashjian, Janet | 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 |
| 5.4 | Turn of the Century | Jackson, Ellen | 1 | Children living in Great Britain and the United States at the beginning of each century between 1000 and 2000 A.D. describe their lifestyle at the time. | 29 |
| 5.4 | Tutankhamen's Gift | Sabuda, Robert | 0.5 | The story of a boy pharaoh in ancient Egypt. | 29 |
| 5.4 | Very Young Gymnast, A | Krementz, Jill | 1 | Follows a young gymnast through her schedule of hard work and training. | 119 |
| 5.4 | Water Horse, The | King-Smith, Dick | 2 | In 1930, on the coast of Scotland, eight-year-old Kirstie finds a large egg which hatches into an unusual sea creature, and as he grows her family must decide what to do with him. | 120 |
| 5.4 | What Jamie Saw | Coman, Carolyn | 3 | Having fled to a family friend's hillside trailer after his mother's boyfriend tried to throw his baby sister against a wall, Jamie finds himself living an existence full of uncertainty and fear. | 126 |
| 5.4 | Witch Family, The | Estes, Eleanor | 6 | Two little girls who love to draw witches build an elaborate world around the imaginary Old Witch and her family. | 223 |
| 5.4 | Write Me If You Dare! | Johnson, Emily Rhoads | 6 | Three years after the death of her mother, eleven-year-old Maddie finds a note attached to a popped balloon, leading to a correspondence with a mysterious fourteen-year-old girl, who helps Maddie understand that life must go on. | 194 |
| 5.5 | Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Ha | Gregory, Kristiana | 4 | In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hatti chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail. | 159 |
| 5.5 | Black Stallion Mystery, The | Farley, Walter | 8 | When Alec Ramsay saw the three handsome foreign-born colts, he couldn't believe his eyes. The colts were almost exact models of the Black Stallion, but the official Arabian records said the Black's sire was dead. | 199 |
| 5.5 | Bodies in the Bessledorf Hotel, The | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 4 | Dead bodies which appear and disappear mysteriously are threatening to lose Sam's father his job as the manager of the Bessledorf Hotel. | 132 |
| 5.5 | Boy Who Owned the School, The | Paulsen, Gary | 2 | Jacob Freisten, often in a fog, tries to ease through high school unnoticed; but a beautiful classmate takes notice of him and his life begins to change. | 85 |
| 5.5 | Brian's Return | Paulsen, Gary | 4 | After living alone in the wilderness on the edge of death, Brian dreams of returning to the woods where he is more comfortable than in civilization. | 115 |
| 5.5 | Cal Ripken, Jr.: My Story | Ripken/Bryan | 4 | Baltimore Orioles' star Cal Ripken tells, in his own words, the story of his personal life and baseball career. | 113 |
| 5.5 | Call Me Francis Tucket | Paulsen, Gary | 3 | Tucket now feels more confident that he can handle anything. A year ago on a wagon train, he was kidnapped by a Pawnee hunting party. He escaped with the help of a mountain man. Now he is alone. | 97 |
| 5.5 | Call of the Wild (Great Illustrated Classics), The | London/Yamamoto | 2 | Buck, a powerful young dog, is snatched away from an easy life in California and transported to the Far North where he becomes a sled dog and must learn cunning and toughness to survive. | 238 |
| 5.5 | Canyons | Paulsen, Gary | 5 | Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800s. | 184 |
| 5.5 | Carlotta's Kittens and the Club of Mysteries | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 4 | This continues the adventures of Marco, Polo, and the other members of the Club of Mysteries as they care for Carlotta's kittens and search for a home for them. | 131 |
| 5.5 | Child of the Owl | Yep, Laurence | 10 | A savvy street kid finds her roots in the maze of San Francisco's Chinatown. | 278 |
| 5.5 | Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska, A | Bartoletti, Susan Campbell | 6 | This book is a diary account of thirteen-year-old Anetka, life in Poland in 1896, immigration to America, marriage to a coal miner, widowhood, and happiness in finally finding her true love. | 219 |
| 5.5 | Constellations (Spinning Through Space) | Hans, E. M. | 0.5 | This book shows some of the patterns of constellations and lets the reader in on the secret life of the stars. | 32 |
| 5.5 | Dark Lord of Derkholm | Jones, Diana Wynne | 18 | Derk, an unconventional wizard, and his magical family, become involved in a plan to put a stop to the devastating tours of their world arranged by the tyrannical Mr. Chesney. | 345 |
| 5.5 | Dealing with Dragons | Wrede, Patricia C. | 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 |
| 5.5 | Devil's Storybook, The | Babbitt, Natalie | 2 | This is a book of stories about the Devil, who is full of vanity and other human failings. | 101 |
| 5.5 | Dragon Cauldron | Yep, Laurence | 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 |
| 5.5 | Ender's Game | Card, Orson Scott | 16 | Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer games. But in reality he is being trained to be the military genius that the planet needs in its all-out war with an alien enemy. | 324 |
| 5.5 | Gawgon and The Boy, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 7 | In Depression-era Philadelphia, when eleven-year-old David is too ill to attend school, he is tutored by the unique and adventurous Aunt Annie, whose teaching combines with his imagination to greatly enrich his life. | 199 |
| 5.5 | Ghost Cadet | Alphin, Elaine Marie | 6 | Twelve-year-old Benjy, in Virginia visiting the grandmother he has never met, meets the ghost of a Virginia Military Institute cadet who was killed in the Battle of New Market in 1864 and helps him recover his family's treasured gold watch. | 182 |
| 5.5 | Ghost Horses | Skurzynski/Ferguson | 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 |
| 5.5 | Green Book, The | Paton Walsh, Jill | 2 | When a group of Britons depart a dying Earth, it is the children who do not give up hope when they arrive at a new planet. | 69 |
| 5.5 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Rowling, J.K. | 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 |
| 5.5 | Henry Reed, Inc. | Robertson, Keith | 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 |
| 5.5 | Hidden Staircase, The | Keene, Carolyn | 6 | Nancy finds the hidden staircase in the "haunted" house and also rescues her kidnapped father. | 182 |
| 5.5 | House of Sixty Fathers, The | De Jong, Meindert | 6 | A young Chinese boy and his pet pig are separated from his parents when Japanese soldiers invade his country. | 189 |
| 5.5 | How Lazy Can You Get? | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 1 | Miss Brasscoat continually asks the Megglethorp children whose peculiarities she doesn't understand how lazy and dirty can they be. They decide to show her. | 50 |
| 5.5 | I Left My Sneakers in Dimension X | Coville, Bruce | 5 | Rod's summer vacation is already ruined when his bratty cousin Elspeth comes to stay. But when aliens capture him and take him to Dimension X, he is forced to make the most terrifying decision of his life. | 180 |
| 5.5 | Illyrian Adventure, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 5 | Vesper Holly sails to the tiny country of Illyria to search for the treasure and magical army of King Vartan by the author of the Prydain Chronicles. | 132 |
| 5.5 | Invisible Man (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Wells/Vogel | 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 |
| 5.5 | Jason's Gold | Hobbs, Will | 8 | When news of the discovery of gold in Canada's Yukon in 1897 reaches fifteen-year-old Jason, he embarks on a 5000-mile journey to strike it rich. | 221 |
| 5.5 | Letters Home from Peru | Halvorsen, Lisa | 0.5 | This book describes some of the sights and experiences on a trip through Peru, including visits to Lima, the walled city of Cuzco, and Machu Picchu. | 32 |
| 5.5 | Light in the Forest, The | Richter, Conrad | 5 | A four-year-old white boy is adopted into an Indian warrior tribe. | 120 |
| 5.5 | Lord Brocktree | Jacques, Brian | 16 | The mountain of Salamandastron needs the help of Brocktree the Badger Lord when evil comes in the form of the Blue Hordes of Ungatt Trunn, the Earth Shaker. | 379 |
| 5.5 | Magic of the Glits, The | Adler, C.S. | 3 | Twelve-year-old Jeremy, spending the summer on Cape Cod, befriends an eight-year-old girl whose mother has just died. | 90 |
| 5.5 | Martin the Warrior | Jacques, Brian | 14 | Magical saga of a mouse warrior who embarks on a series of adventurous battles. | 376 |
| 5.5 | Milky Way and Other Galaxies (Our Universe), The | Vogt, Gregory | 1 | This book examines the Milky Way and other galaxies. | 48 |
| 5.5 | Moon (Spinning Through Space), The | Furniss, Tim | 0.5 | For millions of years, humans have gazed up at the glowing surface of the Moon. Less than a lifetime ago, the first person stepped on the Moon's dusty surface and looked back at our planet. | 32 |
| 5.5 | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic | MacDonald, Betty | 5 | Seven families are helped out by Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's magic cures when they are faced with thought-you-saiders, tattletales, bad table manners, interrupters, heedless breakers, never-want-to-go-to-schoolers, and waddle-doers. | 126 |
| 5.5 | My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck | Osborne, Mary Pope | 4 | Thirteen-year-old Madeline's diaries for 1941 and 1942 reveal her experiences living on Long Island during World War II, while her father is away in the navy. | 186 |
| 5.5 | Mystery of Stonehenge, The | Lyon, Nancy | 1 | Discusses the theories and superstitions that have arisen throughout the years to explain the existence of the circle of stones at Stonehenge. | 48 |
| 5.5 | National Velvet | Bagnold, Enid | 11 | In this beloved tale, a fourteen-year-old girl rides her piebald horse in the Grand National. | 314 |
| 5.5 | Pioneer Sampler: The Daily Life of a Pioneer Family In 1840, A | Greenwood, Barbara | 7 | Explores the life of a Canadian family in 1840. | 240 |
| 5.5 | Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Great Illustrated Classics) | Wiggin/Warren | 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 |
| 5.5 | Return of the Great Brain, The | Fitzgerald, John D. | 6 | The shrewdest young con artist west of the Mississippi rides again, and along with his brother attempt to solve a train robbery. | 150 |
| 5.5 | River, The | Paulsen, Gary | 4 | Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for 54 days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival. | 129 |
| 5.5 | Say You Are My Sister | Brady, Laurel Stowe | 9 | In rural Georgia during World War II, Ramona Louise determines to do everything to help her older sister keep the family together after the death of their parents, even to keeping a secret, which could destroy their close relationship. | 208 |
| 5.5 | Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups, The | Wisniewski, David | 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 |
| 5.5 | Secret of the Old Mill, The | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5 | "Drop case or else danger for you and your family." This warning addressed to Fenton Hardy not only alarms the famous investigator and his detective sons, but also puzzles them because Mr. Hardy is working on more than one case. | 174 |
| 5.5 | Seven Spiders Spinning | Maguire, Gregory | 4 | Seven prehistoric spiders that had been trapped in ice for thousands of years bring excitement to rural Vermont and briefly unite two rival clubs at a local elementary school. | 132 |
| 5.5 | Shark Callers, The | Campbell, Eric | 6 | Two teenage boys, one on a shark hunt and the other traveling with his family, face the challenge of their lives when a volcano erupts, causing a massive tidal wave in the South Seas. | 230 |
| 5.5 | Silent Storm, The | Garland, Sherry | 9 | Alyssa is forced to confront the unspeakable memory of a tragic accident at sea. | 240 |
| 5.5 | Smart Dog | Vande Velde, Vivian | 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 |
| 5.5 | Solar System (Spinning Through Space), The | Furniss, Tim | 0.5 | This book describes the family of nine planets and moons called the solar system. | 32 |
| 5.5 | Story of Muhammad Ali: Heavyweight Champion of the World, The | Denenberg, Barry | 2 | Describes the life of the controversial heavyweight fighter, both in and out of the ring. | 104 |
| 5.5 | Surviving the Applewhites | Tolan, Stephanie S. | 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 |
| 5.5 | Swiss Family Robinson (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Wyss/Warren | 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 |
| 5.5 | Treasure Island (Great Illustrated Classics) | Stevenson/Laiken | 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 |
| 5.5 | Trouble with Tuck, The | Taylor, Theodore | 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 |
| 5.5 | Twin in the Tavern, The | Wallace, Barbara Brooks | 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 |
| 5.5 | Upon the Head of the Goat | Siegal, Aranka | 10 | The fictionalized story of one Hungarian Jewish family's struggle to retain their ties, traditions, and self-respect during the Holocaust. | 183 |
| 5.5 | Week in the Woods, A | Clements, Andrew | 7 | The fifth grade's annual camping trip in the woods tests Mark's survival skills and his ability to relate to a teacher who seems out to get him. | 190 |
| 5.5 | What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? | Fritz, Jean | 1 | A brief biography of the eighteenth-century printer, inventor, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States. | 48 |
| 5.5 | White Lilacs | Meyer, Carolyn | 8 | Historical novel about a young black girl's response to the forced relocation of her family in 1921 Texas. | 242 |
| 5.5 | White Stallion of Lipizza | Henry, Marguerite | 5 | A young boy dreams of someday working with the magnificent Lipizzan horses. | 112 |
| 5.5 | William Shakespeare and the Globe | Aliki | 0.5 | Tells the story of the well known playwright William Shakespeare and the famous Globe Theatre in which many of his plays were performed. | 48 |
| 5.5 | Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jan, Th | Gregory, Kristiana | 4 | Eleven-year-old Abigail presents a diary account of life in Valley Forge from December 1777 to July 1778 as General Washington prepares his troops to fight the British. | 167 |
| 5.6 | Angel on the Square | Whelan, Gloria | 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 |
| 5.6 | Babe, the Gallant Pig | King-Smith, Dick | 3 | Babe, the piglet won by Farmer Hogget at a fair, learns to be a sheep-pig. | 118 |
| 5.6 | Beowulf: A New Telling | Nye, Robert | 3 | Not a literal translation, but a retelling of the old epic that captures the spirit of the original in language accessible to young readers. | 94 |
| 5.6 | Bernie Magruder & the Drive-Thru Funeral Parlor | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 4 | Bernie thinks the strange happenings at the funeral parlor next door to his family's hotel are connected to a recent robbery, Bernie determines to become famous by catching the thief. Previously released as FACE IN THE BESSLEDORF FUNERAL PARLOR. | 144 |
| 5.6 | Big Red | Kjelgaard, Jim | 9 | This famous wilderness adventure portrays the story of a boy and his dog and their feud with Old Majesty, the legendary bear. | 218 |
| 5.6 | Boy Who Could Fly Without a Motor, The | Taylor, Theodore | 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 |
| 5.6 | Brighty of the Grand Canyon | Henry, Marguerite | 7 | In this story, a lone burro creates friendships with a number of men in the Grand Canyon and helps to capture a murderer. | 222 |
| 5.6 | Bungalow Mystery, The | Keene, Carolyn | 5 | After a near disaster, when the boat Nancy and her two friends were in gets caught in a horrible storm, a mystery unravels in a bungalow that they have found. | 180 |
| 5.6 | Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? | Fritz, Jean | 1 | A biography of George the Third, King of Great Britain at the time of the American Revolution. | 48 |
| 5.6 | Cat Running | Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | 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 |
| 5.6 | Count of Monte Cristo (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Dumas/Yamamoto | 3 | After being unjustly imprisoned for fourteen years, Edmond Dantes escapes and seeks revenge against his enemies. | 236 |
| 5.6 | Devil's Other Storybook, The | Babbitt, Natalie | 1 | The Devil is back, just as full of vanity and other human failings as he was in the first collection of stories. | 81 |
| 5.6 | Early Sunday Morning: The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows | Denenberg, Barry | 3 | Amber Billows keeps a journal of the days leading up to and following the Pearl Harbor attack in Hawaii. | 156 |
| 5.6 | Fastest Friend in the West, The | Grove, Vicki | 6 | When her best friend dumps her to be with the popular kids, overweight Lori shares an unusual but brief friendship with a homeless girl. | 174 |
| 5.6 | Fool's Gold | Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | 8 | A suspense-filled adventure in an abandoned gold mine may cost three boys their lives. | 214 |
| 5.6 | Fourth-Grade Celebrity | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 3 | Casey Valentine resents being compared to her popular older sister and decides that she will make herself over. | 117 |
| 5.6 | Great Expectations (Great Illustrated Classics) | Dickens/Yamamoto | 3 | Pip, an orphan boy, yearns to be a gentleman. His life changes when a fortune is left to him. | 238 |
| 5.6 | Great Pyramid, The | Mann, Elizabeth | 0.5 | This book is a history of the construction of the Great Pyramid at Giza and the civilization that produced it. | 48 |
| 5.6 | India (Let's Investigate) | Richardson, Adele | 0.5 | This book examines the history, landscape, wildlife, people, and weather of the nation of India. | 31 |
| 5.6 | Jean and Johnny | Cleary, Beverly | 8 | Johnny, the most popular boy in school, asks Jean to dance; it should be the happiest moment of her life, but instead it is the most embarrassing. | 219 |
| 5.6 | Journal of Augustus Pelletier: The Lewis & Clark Expedition, The | Lasky, Kathryn | 5 | This is a fictional journal kept by twelve-year-old Augustus Pelletier, the youngest member of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery. | 171 |
| 5.6 | Journal of William Thomas Emerson: A Revolutionary War Patriot, Th | Denenberg, Barry | 4 | Will, a twelve-year-old orphan, writes of his experiences in pre-Revolutionary War Boston where he joins the cause of the patriots who are opposed to British rule. | 156 |
| 5.6 | Journey to the River Sea | Ibbotson, Eva | 12 | Sent with her governess to live with the dreadful Carter family in exotic Brazil in 1910, Maia endures many hardships before fulfilling her dream of exploring the Amazon River. | 298 |
| 5.6 | Last Battle, The | Lewis, C.S. | 7 | Aslan leads his people to a glorious new paradise after defeating the evil that had infested Narnia. | 228 |
| 5.6 | Legend of Strap Buckner: A Texas Tale, The | Wooldridge, Connie Nordhielm | 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 |
| 5.6 | Louisa May Alcott: Her Girlhood Diary | Ryan, Cary | 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 |
| 5.6 | Mammal Misfits (Watts Library) | Miller, Sara Swan | 1 | This book describes several species of mammals that have unusual appearances, habitats, or behaviors. | 63 |
| 5.6 | Merry Christmas, Miss McConnell! | McKenna, Colleen O'Shaughnessy | 5 | A fifth-grade girl with a tough new teacher and problems at home expects a terrible Christmas, only to have it turn out to be one of the best. | 155 |
| 5.6 | Mountain Born | Yates, Elizabeth | 4 | A boy in a family of sheep farmers raises a black lamb to be the leader of the flock. | 106 |
| 5.6 | Mr. Popper's Penguins | Atwater, Richard/Florence | 3 | Mr. Popper trains his band of penguins to star in a vaudeville tour. | 139 |
| 5.6 | My Face to the Wind: The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teac | Murphy, Jim | 6 | Following her father's death from a disease that swept through her Nebraska town in 1881, teenaged Sarah Jane must find work to support herself. In her diary, she records her experiences as a young schoolteacher. | 182 |
| 5.6 | My Father's Dragon | Gannett, Ruth Stiles | 1 | A young boy determines to rescue a poor baby dragon who is being used by a group of lazy wild animals to ferry them across the river on Wild Island. | 87 |
| 5.6 | My Life in Dog Years | Paulsen, Gary | 3 | The author describes some of the dogs that have had special places in his life, including his first dog, Snowball. | 137 |
| 5.6 | Naya Nuki | Thomasma, Kenneth | 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 |
| 5.6 | Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba | McKissack, Patricia C. | 3 | This book presents the diary of thirteen-year-old Nzingha, a sixteenth-century West African princess who loves to hunt and hopes to lead her kingdom one day against the invasion of the Portuguese slave traders. | 136 |
| 5.6 | Outside and Inside Bats | Markle, Sandra | 1 | This is an introduction to the inner and outer workings of bats; their diet, anatomy, and reproduction. | 40 |
| 5.6 | Queenie Peavy | Burch, Robert | 5 | Story of what happens when the biggest troublemaker in school tries to behave for just one day. | 151 |
| 5.6 | Ramona Quimby, Age 8 | Cleary, Beverly | 3 | Now in third grade, Ramona rides the school bus alone and helps around the house while her mother works and her father attends college. | 190 |
| 5.6 | Redwall | Jacques, Brian | 16 | The peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes. Matthias determines to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior which, he is convinced, will help destroy the enemy. | 351 |
| 5.6 | Richard Scarry (Young at Heart) | Berg, Julie | 0.5 | This book examines the life and career of Richard Scarry, illustrator and author of popular children's literature. | 32 |
| 5.6 | Saint George and the Dragon | Hodges, Margaret | 0.5 | Retells the segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings peace and joy to the land. | 32 |
| 5.6 | Schernoff Discoveries, The | Paulsen, Gary | 3 | Harold and his best friend, both hopeless geeks and social misfits, try to survive unusual science experiments and other dangers of junior high. | 99 |
| 5.6 | Secrets of Animal Flight, The | Bishop, Nic | 1 | In text and photographs, this book presents birds, insects, bats, and other flying animals. | 32 |
| 5.6 | Secrets of the Mummies | Griffey, Harriet | 1 | This book describes the Egyptian preservation of dead bodies, stories associated with mummies, and mummies from different cultures, including Incan and Sicilian. | 48 |
| 5.6 | Shawnee (Tribes of Native America) | Ryan/Schmittroth | 1 | This book discusses the history, native religious beliefs, language, government, art, culture, customs, and daily life of the Shawnee. | 32 |
| 5.6 | Shore Road Mystery, The | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5 | An offer to help a friend pits the Hardys against a ruthless gang of criminals. | 178 |
| 5.6 | Stealing Freedom | Carbone, Elisa | 10 | A novel based on the events in the life of a young slave girl from Maryland who endures all kinds of mistreatment and cruelty, including being separated from her family, but who eventually escapes to freedom in Canada. | 258 |
| 5.6 | Sun (Spinning Through Space), The | Furniss, Tim | 0.5 | This book describes the composition and behavior of the Sun, our nearest star. | 32 |
| 5.6 | These Happy Golden Years | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 10 | Fifteen-year-old Laura begins teaching and is courted by her future husband, Almanzo. | 289 |
| 5.6 | Throwing Shadows | Konigsburg, E.L. | 5 | Five short stories in which young people gain a sense of self. | 151 |
| 5.6 | Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest, The | Jenkins, Steve | 0.5 | This book describes the conditions and terrain of Mount Everest, attempts that have been made to scale this peak, and general information about the equipment and techniques of mountain climbing. | 30 |
| 5.6 | Year of Impossible Good-byes | Choi, Sook Nyul | 7 | A young Korean girl survives the oppressive Japanese and Russian occupation of North Korea during the 1940s, to later escape to freedom in South Korea. | 169 |
| 5.6 | Z for Zachariah | O'Brien, Robert C. | 9 | This novel by the Newberry Award-winning author of Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH is about the aftermath of nuclear devastation. | 249 |
| 5.7 | Abraham Lincoln (America in the Time Of) | Isaacs, Sally Senzell | 1 | This book uses the life of Abraham Lincoln as a reference to examine the history of the United States from 1815 to 1869. | 48 |
| 5.7 | Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Doyle/Vogel | 3 | This book contains three of the most celebrated cases of Sherlock Holmes, the mastermind detective of the ages. | 238 |
| 5.7 | Along Came a Dog | De Jong, Meindert | 5 | A moving story about a dog, a hen, and a man and about the strange and wonderful friendship that grew between them. | 172 |
| 5.7 | Attack on Pearl Harbor | Tanaka, Shelley | 1 | Through vivid eyewitness account, this book re-creates the dramatic moments of the unforgettable day that American entered World War II. | 64 |
| 5.7 | Beardance | Hobbs, Will | 8 | While accompanying an elderly rancher on a trip into the San Juan Mountains, Cloyd, a Ute Indian boy, tries to help two orphaned grizzly cubs survive the winter and, at the same time, completes his spirit mission. | 197 |
| 5.7 | Beetles, Lightly Toasted | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 5 | Andy competes with his know-it-all cousin in the fifth-grade essay contest when he cooks some unusual foods and tests them on unaware friends and family. | 134 |
| 5.7 | Bellmaker, The | Jacques, Brian | 14 | Worried about his daughter Mariel, Joseph the Bellmaker is led by a dream from Redwall Abbey to Southsward, where he is caught up in the battle between Squirrelking Gael and the vicious Foxwolf Nagru. | 336 |
| 5.7 | Bigger | Calvert, Patricia | 6 | A boy fails to persuade his Confederate father to return home to a life of peace -- and defeat. | 137 |
| 5.7 | Cuckoo Child, The | King-Smith, Dick | 3 | With the unknowing help of his pet geese, eight-year-old Jack Daw decides to raise an ostrich on his father's farm. | 127 |
| 5.7 | Earth (Spinning Through Space), The | Furniss, Tim | 0.5 | The Earth is just a small part of the universe and is one of the unique wonders of space. Humans, animals, plants and many other beings can breathe freely in Earth's atmosphere. There is no other planet in the explored universe capable of this. | 32 |
| 5.7 | Eleanor: Crown Jewel of Aquitaine | Gregory, Kristiana | 5 | This is the diary of Eleanor, first daughter of the Duke of Aquitaine, from 1136 until 1137, when at age fifteen she becomes Queen of France. | 187 |
| 5.7 | Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt, The | MacLachlan, Patricia | 4 | Story of an endearing, clever girl and the relationships she encounters on her way to growing up. | 136 |
| 5.7 | Five Children and It (Unabridged) | Nesbit, E. | 8 | It is an ancient, ugly, and irritable sand fairy that grants the children a wish a day. Magic, the children find, can be as awkward as it is enticing. | 237 |
| 5.7 | Flea Circus Summer | Ware, Cheryl | 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 |
| 5.7 | Girl Who Married the Moon, The | Bruchac/Ross | 4 | This is a collection of Native American stories, focusing on the important roles women play in traditional Native American societies. | 127 |
| 5.7 | Giver, The | Lowry, Lois | 7 | The Elders of the Committee choose Jonas to be the person responsible for receiving and keeping all the memories of the past--a huge task for this exceptional boy. | 180 |
| 5.7 | Half-A-Moon Inn, The | Fleischman, Paul | 3 | A mute boy is held captive by the strange proprietress of an inn. | 88 |
| 5.7 | Hatchet | Paulsen, Gary | 7 | After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends 54 days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given to him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. | 195 |
| 5.7 | Horse Heroes:True Stories of Amazing Horses | Petty, Kate | 1 | This book tells seven stories of heroic and amazing horses. | 48 |
| 5.7 | Island, The | Paulsen, Gary | 8 | Fifteen-year-old Wil discovers himself and the wonders of nature when he leaves home to live on an Island in northern Wisconsin. | 201 |
| 5.7 | Jacob Have I Loved | Paterson, Katherine | 8 | Sibling rivalry divides twin sisters living on an island in Chesapeake Bay. | 175 |
| 5.7 | Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds: The Donner Party Expedition, The | Philbrick, Rodman | 4 | Douglas Deeds, a fifteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his travels by wagon train as a member of the ill-fated Donner Party, which became stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-1847. | 155 |
| 5.7 | Journal of James Edmond Pease: A Civil War Union Soldier, The | Murphy, Jim | 6 | James Edmond Pease, a sixteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his experiences and those of "G" Company, which he joined as a volunteer in the Union Army during the Civil War. | 173 |
| 5.7 | Julie's Wolf Pack | George, Jean Craighead | 6 | Continues the story of Julie and her wolves, in which Kapu protects his pack from famine and disease while uniting it under his new leadership. | 192 |
| 5.7 | Legend of Luke, The | Jacques, Brian | 16 | When Martin the Warrior leaves Redwall Abbey and embarks upon a journey to the place of his birth, he learns about the brave and noble deeds of his father Luke, a real Warrior Chieftain. | 374 |
| 5.7 | Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The | Lewis, C.S. | 6 | Aslan, the noble lion, frees Narnia from the spell of the White Witch. | 206 |
| 5.7 | Mandie and the Charleston Phantom | Leppard, Lois Gladys | 5 | Mandie travels to Charleston with her family and finds herself in the middle of another mystery when she visits the seashore. | 136 |
| 5.7 | Mariel of Redwall | Jacques, Brian | 16 | The mousemaid Mariel achieves victory at sea for the animals of Redwall Abbey, fighting the savage pirate rat Gabool the Wild, warlord of rodent corsairs. | 387 |
| 5.7 | Marlfox | Jacques, Brian | 17 | When three young residents of Redwall Abbey go on a quest to recover a tapestry stolen by the Marlfoxes, their bravery removes the curse of these evil animals on a lost island. | 386 |
| 5.7 | Matilda Bone | Cushman, Karen | 5 | Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and practitioner of medicine in a village in medieval England, tries to reconcile the various aspects of her life, both spiritual and practical. | 167 |
| 5.7 | Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Pyle/Kestel | 3 | The brave and bold outlaw, Robin Hood, and his merry band of followers roam through Sherwood Forest robbing the rich and aiding the poor. | 238 |
| 5.7 | Paul Bunyan | Kellogg, Steven | 0.5 | This story recounts the life of the extraordinary lumberjack whose unusual size and strength brought him many fantastic adventures. | 30 |
| 5.7 | Pecos Bill | Kellogg, Steven | 0.5 | A read-aloud winner depicting some of the legends of Pecos Bill. | 36 |
| 5.7 | Prince Caspian | Lewis, C.S. | 7 | Prince Caspian and his army of Talking Beasts conquer the Telmarines. | 238 |
| 5.7 | Princess Diaries, The | Cabot, Meg | 9 | Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne. | 238 |
| 5.7 | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Taylor, Mildred D. | 10 | Warmth, humor and hard times prevail as a black family struggles to maintain dignity and independence in Depression-era Mississippi. | 276 |
| 5.7 | Rumpelstiltskin Problem, The | Vande Velde, Vivian | 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 |
| 5.7 | Salamandastron | Jacques, Brian | 16 | The defense of the badger citadel occupies this entry in the Redwall chronicles. | 356 |
| 5.7 | Secret of Red Gate Farm, The | Keene, Carolyn | 5 | Nancy Drew uncovers a counterfeiting ring and in the process has a run-in with a hood-wearing cult. | 178 |
| 5.7 | Seesaw Girl | Park, Linda Sue | 3 | Impatient with the constraints put on her as an aristocratic girl living in Korea during the seventeenth century, twelve-year-old Jade Blossom determines to see beyond her small world. | 90 |
| 5.7 | Shadows on the Wall | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 6 | While visiting York, England, a young American, already troubled by family problems, is assailed by strange feelings of dread whenever he approaches some of the ancient landmarks of the city. | 174 |
| 5.7 | Silver Chair, The | Lewis, C.S. | 8 | Prince Rilian escapes from the Emerald Witch's underground kingdom. | 257 |
| 5.7 | Soldier's Heart | Paulsen, Gary | 2 | Eager to enlist, fifteen-year-old Charley has a change of heart after experiencing both the physical horrors and mental anguish of Civil War combat. | 104 |
| 5.7 | Star-Spangled Secret, The | Kimball, K.M. | 6 | In 1814, as the War of 1812 threatens her Maryland home, Caroline sets out to discover the truth about the disappearance of her older brother. | 234 |
| 5.7 | Thimble Summer | Enright, Elizabeth | 5 | Nine-year-old Garnet Linden believes the silver thimble she found by the river has brought luck to her whole family. | 136 |
| 5.7 | Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, The | Lofting, Hugh | 11 | This fictional classic presents the story of the good doctor who learns the language of animals and made adventurous voyages. | 355 |
| 5.7 | West from Home | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 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 |
| 5.7 | What Do We Know About the Greeks? | Pearson, Anne | 0.5 | Everyday life among the Greeks is detailed in drawings and photographs. | 43 |
| 5.7 | When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit | Kerr, Judith | 9 | For nine-year-old Anna, being a German Jew in 1933 did not mean anything until her father disappeared and the rest of her family had to flee the country. | 191 |
| 5.7 | Where the Buffaloes Begin | Baker, Olaf | 0.5 | Little Wolf goes to the fabled lake where buffaloes rise up out of the mist. A Caldecott Honor book. | 42 |
| 5.7 | Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams? | Fritz, Jean | 0.5 | A brief biography of Sam Adams, with some American History in the humorous vein added. | 47 |
| 5.7 | Witch of Blackbird Pond, The | Speare, Elizabeth George | 9 | Puritan neighbors regard Kit Tyler with suspicion, fear, and anger when she befriends an old woman accused of witchcraft. | 249 |
| 5.7 | Witches of Worm, The | Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | 6 | Jessica has taken care of the cat, Worm, but the cat may be making her do things against her own wishes. | 183 |
| 5.7 | Worf's First Adventure | David, Peter | 4 | Commander Benjamin Sisko and Security Chief Odo have a killer on their hands who strikes without motive, endangering the space station itself. | 119 |
| 5.8 | Ballad of Lucy Whipple, The | Cushman, Karen | 7 | In 1849, twelve-year-old Lucy is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a small California mining town. Lucy helps run a rough boarding house and looks for comfort in books while trying to find a way to get "home". | 187 |
| 5.8 | Captain's Dog, The | Smith, Roland | 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 |
| 5.8 | Christmas Doll, The | Woodruff, Elvira | 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 |
| 5.8 | Dark Side of Nowhere, The | Shusterman, Neal | 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 |
| 5.8 | Dial-a-Ghost | Ibbotson, Eva | 6 | A family of nice ghosts protect a British orphan from the diabolical plans of his evil guardians. | 195 |
| 5.8 | Diamond in the Window, The | Langton, Jane | 8 | In the prequel to The Fledgling, Eleanor and Eddy are drawn into a dream realm. | 256 |
| 5.8 | Dragons Are Singing Tonight, The | Prelutsky, Jack | 0.5 | A collection of poems about dragons, including "I'm an Amiable Dragon," "If you Don't Believe in Dragons," and "A Dragon Is in My Computer." | 40 |
| 5.8 | Dragon's Boy, The | Yolen, Jane | 3 | Young Arthur meets a dragon and comes to accept him as a friend and mentor. | 120 |
| 5.8 | Drop of Water, A | Wick, Walter | 0.5 | Describes the characteristics of water. | 34 |
| 5.8 | Everything on a Waffle | Horvath, Polly | 5 | Eleven-year-old Primrose, living in a small fishing village in British Columbia, recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea. | 149 |
| 5.8 | First Four Years, The | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 4 | Frontier homesteading is a rough but rewarding experience, as the hardy Wilder family can testify. | 135 |
| 5.8 | Flash Fire | Cooney, Caroline B. | 6 | It was California. People were used to mud slides, earthquakes, sinkholes, and even brushfires. But this fire had a life of its own, and it had no intention of being put out. | 195 |
| 5.8 | Flood: Wrestling with the Mississippi | Lauber, Patricia | 1 | This book describes the history of flooding of the Mississippi River, focusing on the 1927 and 1993 floods, the effects on people near the river, and efforts to avoid flooding and manage the river. | 63 |
| 5.8 | Flowers for Algernon | Keyes, Daniel | 13 | Is superior intelligence the answer to all of Charlie's problems? If so, he gains more than he had bargained for. | 216 |
| 5.8 | Great Airport Mystery, The | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5 | The Hardy boys are called on to assist their father in solving a case involving platinum shipments that are being stolen from cargo planes. | 175 |
| 5.8 | Great Brain at the Academy, The | Fitzgerald, John D. | 6 | In the strict atmosphere of a Catholic boarding school, Tom Fitzgerald's fertile brain concocts hilarious trouble. | 164 |
| 5.8 | Horse and His Boy, The | Lewis, C.S. | 8 | A Talking Horse and a boy prince save Narnia from invasion. | 241 |
| 5.8 | Hunchback of Notre Dame (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Hugo/Vogel | 3 | Quasimodo lives in a Paris cathedral and is tormented by the people because of his physical deformities. They don't realize he has human feelings and emotions until he risks his life for a young dancer. | 238 |
| 5.8 | Island Stallion, The | Farley, Walter | 8 | A boy and his archeologist friend spend two weeks on a desolate Caribbean island where they discover a hidden valley, underground tunnels built by Spanish Conquistadors, and a wild flame-colored stallion. | 212 |
| 5.8 | Julie of the Wolves | George, Jean Craighead | 6 | Common sense and courage enable a young Eskimo girl to survive when she becomes lost in the Arctic wild. | 170 |
| 5.8 | Justin Morgan Had a Horse | Henry, Marguerite | 5 | A remarkable little work horse that could walk faster, trot faster, run faster, and pull heavier logs than any other horse in all Vermont, sires a famous family of American horses. | 169 |
| 5.8 | Lampfish of Twill, The | Lisle, Janet Taylor | 6 | An old fisherman leads Eric down a whirlpool to an ancient and beautiful world in the core of the Earth. | 161 |
| 5.8 | Librarian Who Measured the Earth, The | Lasky, Kathryn | 0.5 | Describes the life and work of Eratosthenes, the Greek geographer and astronomer who accurately measured the circumference of the earth. | 48 |
| 5.8 | Lives of Christopher Chant, The | Jones, Diana Wynne | 13 | Young Christopher Chant, in training to become the next Chrestomanci or head controller of magic in the world, becomes a key figure in a battle with renegade sorcerers because he has nine lives. | 330 |
| 5.8 | Moccasin Trail | McGraw, Eloise Jarvis | 12 | Jim Keath attempts to re-orient himself to life as a white man, after living for six years as a Crow Indian. | 247 |
| 5.8 | Mountain Biking (Fantastic Book Of) | Richards, Brant | 0.5 | This book provides step-by-step instructions for both basic techniques and more advanced tricks to be used in mountain biking. | 40 |
| 5.8 | Oceans | Simon, Seymour | 0.5 | This book explores the physical characteristics, life forms, and fragility of the world's oceans. | 32 |
| 5.8 | Outside and Inside Alligators | Markle, Sandra | 0.5 | This book describes the external and internal physical characteristics of alligators and how they find their food, mate, and raise their young. | 40 |
| 5.8 | Outside Shooter | Dygard, Thomas J. | 5 | A high school basketball star's personality problems threaten not only his own career but the success of the whole team. | 189 |
| 5.8 | Pedro's Journal | Conrad, Pam | 2 | The cabin boy on the 'Santa Maria' keeps a diary which records his experiences when he sails with Columbus on his first voyage to the New World in 1492. | 80 |
| 5.8 | Purple Mountain Majesties | Younger, Barbara | 0.5 | This is an engaging picture-book account of Katherine Lee Bates and the trip that gave rise to "America the Beautiful." | 28 |
| 5.8 | Regarding the Fountain: A Tale in Letters, of Liars, and Leaks | Klise, Kate | 2 | When the principal asks a fifth grader to write a letter regarding the purchase of a new drinking fountain for their school, he finds that all sorts of chaos results. | 138 |
| 5.8 | Return to Howliday Inn | Howe, James | 3 | In this sequel to "Howliday Inn," the Monroe family pets are again boarded at Chateau Bow-Wow, where some spooky goings-on serve as a distraction from the kennel's poor food. | 156 |
| 5.8 | Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost, The | Bellairs, John | 5 | When Johnny Dixon, hero of The Curse of the Blue Figurine, is supernaturally possessed, it is up to the eccentric Professor Childermass to rescue him. | 147 |
| 5.8 | Save Queen of Sheba | Moeri, Louise | 4 | Twelve-year-old King David and his little sister Queen of Sheba are the only survivors of an Indian attack on their wagon train. A story of courage and survival on the American Frontier. | 92 |
| 5.8 | Second Stringer | Dygard, Thomas J. | 6 | When Kevin replaces the quarterback and football hero who suffers a knee injury, the high school second stringer needs to prove that he can do the job and is not just a substitute. | 174 |
| 5.8 | Secret of Platform 13, The | Ibbotson, Eva | 7 | Odge and an old wizard travel through a magical tunnel from their island to London to rescue the son of the King and Queen who was stolen as an infant. | 231 |
| 5.8 | Song of the Wanderer | Coville, Bruce | 9 | Having jumped into Luster, the land of unicorns, Cara makes a perilous journey to bring back her grandmother, the Wanderer, in order to release the Queen of the unicorns and allow her to die. | 330 |
| 5.8 | Tale of Two Cities (Great Illustrated Classics), A | Dickens/Leighton | 3 | In this book, Lucie and her family become involved in the events of the bloody and dangerous French Revolution. | 238 |
| 5.8 | Tar Pit, The | Seidler, Tor | 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 |
| 5.8 | Time Bike, The | Langton, Jane | 5 | Eddy Hall receives a mysterious gift from India, an old-fashioned bike that transports its rider through time. | 176 |
| 5.8 | Triss | Jacques, Brian | 17 | Triss, Shogg, and Welfo escape from slavery at Riftgard and are pursued across the sea toward Redwall by Princess Kurda, Prince Bladd, and a band of freebooters who seek the rumored treasure of Brockhall. | 389 |
| 5.8 | Waiting for the Rain | Gordon, Sheila | 9 | Chronicles nine years in the lives of two South African youths--one black, one white--as their friendship ends in a violent confrontation between student and soldier. | 214 |
| 5.8 | Walking Up a Rainbow | Taylor, Theodore | 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 |
| 5.8 | Well Wished | Billingsley, Franny | 6 | In a time of dire need, Nuria tries to outwit the magical wishing well in her mysterious mountain village. | 170 |
| 5.8 | What Do We Know About the Romans? | Corbishley, Mike | 0.5 | Daily life among the Romans is detailed in drawings and photographs. | 45 |
| 5.8 | Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus? | Fritz, Jean | 2 | With a few humorous touches, this biographer brings the great explorer and his voyages to life. | 80 |
| 5.8 | While a Tree Was Growing | Bosveld, Jane | 1 | Traces the growth, from seed to maturity, of a 3500-year-old giant sequoia, juxtaposing its development with a chronology of world events from the Trojan War to the present day. | 44 |
| 5.8 | Will You Sign Here, John Hancock? | Fritz, Jean | 1 | A biography of the first signer of the Declaration of Independence, outlining all that he did for himself as well as what he did for Massachusetts and his new nation. | 48 |
| 5.8 | Wings of Merlin, The | Barron, T.A. | 14 | Merlin's fragile home on the isle of Fincayra is threatened by the attack of a mysterious warrior with swords for arms, and by the escape of Stangmar from his imprisonment. | 352 |
| 5.9 | Abel's Island | Steig, William | 3 | Stranded on a deserted island, a lovable young mouse discovers inner resources he did not know he possessed. | 117 |
| 5.9 | Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Defoe/Vogel | 3 | A violent storm at sea destroys Robinson Crusoe's ship. He alone survives and is cast ashore on a deserted island where, for twenty-four years, he struggles to stay alive. | 233 |
| 5.9 | Animals Eating: How Animals Chomp, Chew, Slurp and Swallow | Hickman, Pamela | 1 | Whether their diets include plants, insects or other creatures, animals eat in some weird and fascinating ways. | 40 |
| 5.9 | Anne of Windy Poplars | Montgomery, L.M. | 14 | Anne takes a position as principal in a town led by the head-strong Pringles. She quickly becomes the whole town's champion and confidant. | 258 |
| 5.9 | Brian's Winter | Paulsen, Gary | 5 | Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet. | 133 |
| 5.9 | Carver: A Life in Poems | Nelson, Marilyn | 1 | This is a collection of poems depicting the life of George Washington Carver. | 103 |
| 5.9 | Cat Who Went to Heaven, The | Coatsworth, Elizabeth | 2 | A magical cat inspires a Japanese artist to paint the greatest picture of his life. | 64 |
| 5.9 | Comets and Asteroids (Spinning Through Space) | Hans, E. M. | 0.5 | This book is about comets and asteroids and their encounters with Earth. | 32 |
| 5.9 | Coming to America | Maestro, Betsy | 0.5 | This book explores the evolving history of immigration to the United States. | 39 |
| 5.9 | Costa Rica (Let's Investigate) | Frisch, Joy | 0.5 | This book examines the history, landscape, wildlife, people, and weather of the nation of Costa Rica. | 30 |
| 5.9 | Double Life of Pocahontas, The | Fritz, Jean | 4 | The story of the young Indian girl and her role in American history. | 96 |
| 5.9 | Dragon War | Yep, Laurence | 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 |
| 5.9 | Foster's War | Reeder, Carolyn | 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 |
| 5.9 | Gammage Cup, The | Kendall, Carol | 8 | Fantasy about a new race of little people. | 283 |
| 5.9 | Green Rider | Britain, Kristen | 23 | On her journey home from school through the immense forest called Green Cloak, Karigan comes across a dying man who convinces her to carry on his mission. Her promise changes her life forever. | 471 |
| 5.9 | In the Forest with the Elephants | Smith/Schmidt | 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 |
| 5.9 | Island of the Aunts | Ibbotson, Eva | 9 | As caretakers of the Island, the three aunts tend to an amazing assortment of creatures, including mermaids, selkies, and a couple of ghosts. However, they are getting old and they must kidnap some children who can take over the Island. | 281 |
| 5.9 | Ivanhoe (Great Illustrated Classics) | Scott/Vogel | 3 | Invanhoe returns home, finding his name dishonored. He fights for his name, rights, people, and the woman he loves. | 238 |
| 5.9 | Johnny Tremain | Forbes, Esther | 13 | This book follows a young apprentice from a tragic accident in a silversmith's shop to his dramatic involvement as a patriot in the days just before the American Revolution. | 293 |
| 5.9 | Journal of Rufus Rowe: A Witness to the Battle of Fredericksbu, Th | Hite, Sid | 3 | In 1862, sixteen-year-old Rufus Rowe runs away from home and settles in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he documents in his journal the battle he watches unfold there. | 132 |
| 5.9 | Journal of Sean Sullivan: A Transcontinental Railroad Worker, The | Durbin, William | 5 | In 1867, fifteen-year-old Sean experiences both hardships and rewards when he joins his father in working on the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. | 181 |
| 5.9 | Journey Through Japan | Tames, Richard | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, culture, and people of Japan. | 32 |
| 5.9 | Jump at de Sun: The Story of Zora Neale Hurston | Porter, A.P. | 2 | A biography of the African American novelist. | 95 |
| 5.9 | Last of the Mohicans (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Cooper/Warren | 3 | Hawkeye, the colonial scout, and Chingachkook, the Mohican warrior, are brought together by their love of the New World forests and their desire for peace between their races. | 238 |
| 5.9 | Miss Hickory | Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin | 4 | When a country doll is left outside for the winter, she must depend on her own resources to survive. | 123 |
| 5.9 | Pure Dead Magic | Gliori, Debi | 6 | When their father is kidnapped and danger looms, the Strega-Borgia children, their mysterious new nanny, and a large talking spider use magic and actual trips through the Internet to bring peace to their Scottish castle. | 182 |
| 5.9 | Roman Villa (Look Inside), A | Dargie, Richard | 1 | This book depicts life in ancient Rome by examining everyday objects that were found in Roman villas and describing how they were used. | 32 |
| 5.9 | Sidewalk Games Around the World | Erlbach, Arlene | 1 | This details the different types of sidewalk games played around the world. | 62 |
| 5.9 | Sting of the Scorpion, The | Dixon, Franklin W. | 6 | During Mr. Hardy's investigation of a ruthless gang of terrorists, Frank and Joe witness an explosion in the sky near an airborne dirigible owned by Quinn Air Fleet. | 180 |
| 5.9 | Talking with Artists | Cummings, Pat | 3 | Fourteen distinguished picture book artists talk about their early art experiences, answer questions most frequently asked by children, and offer encouragement to those who would like to become artists. | 96 |
| 5.9 | Through My Eyes | Bridges, Ruby | 2 | Ruby Bridges recounts the story of her involvement, as a six-year-old, in the integration of her school in New Orleans in 1960. | 64 |
| 5.9 | Time for Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, A | Lasky, Kathryn | 6 | This is a diary account of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage, the war in Europe, and her own school work and family. | 217 |
| 5.9 | Understood Betsy | Fisher, Dorothy Canfield | 8 | Sent to live with country relatives, Betsy does not care to return to the city when her aunt gets well. | 211 |
| 5.9 | View from Saturday, The | Konigsburg, E.L. | 7 | For the first time in the history of Epiphany Middle School, there is a chance that a sixth-grade team will beat the seventh grade in the Academic Bowl, putting them on the path to the state finals. | 163 |
| 5.9 | Voyage of the "Dawn Treader", The | Lewis, C.S. | 9 | King Caspian and his crew sail through magic waters to the World's End. | 271 |
| 5.9 | Walking the Road to Freedom | Ferris, Jeri | 1 | This book traces the life of the Black woman orator who spoke out against slavery throughout New England and the Midwest. | 64 |
| 5.9 | Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May? | Fritz, Jean | 1 | A brief biography of Patrick Henry, tracing his progress from planter to statesman. | 48 |
| 5.9 | Wright Brothers (In Their Own Words), The | Sullivan, George | 2 | This is a biography of the brothers responsible for developing the first airplane, featuring excerpts from their journal entries, letters, and drawings. | 127 |