| Title | Author | Level | Pts. | Description | Pages |
| 29-Jun-99 | Wiesner, David | 3.6 | 0.5 | Holly launches her vegetable seedlings into the sky and gets surprising results. | 29 |
| 100th Day of School, The | Medearis, Angela Shelf | 1.4 | 0.5 | The children learn 100 spelling words, plant 100 seeds, bake 100 cookies, and "do everything the 100 way" to celebrate this special day. | 30 |
| 100th Day Worries | Cuyler, Margery | 3 | 0.5 | Jessica worries about collecting 100 objects to take to class for the 100th day of school. | 30 |
| 101 Ways to Bug Your Parents | Wardlaw, Lee | 3.9 | 5 | When his parents call off the family vacation and enroll their son in a creative writing class instead, twelve-year-old Steve comes up with a wacky money-making project. | 204 |
| 13th Floor: A Ghost Story, The | Fleischman, Sid | 4.4 | 4 | When his older sister disappears, Buddy Stebbins follows her back in time and finds himself aboard a seventeenth-century pirate ship captained by a distant relative. | 131 |
| 20,000 Baseball Cards Under the Sea | Buller, Jon | 2.5 | 0.5 | Roger's friend Kenneth uses an unusual sea vehicle of his own design to take them to an underwater cave, where a cache of old loot gathered by the mermaids turns out to contain a lot of very valuable, old baseball cards. | 48 |
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Great Illustrated Classics) | Verne/Vogel | 5.2 | 3 | Professor Aronnax meets with Captain Nemo, the inventor of the submarine, Nautilus, and goes on an incredible underwater journey. | 236 |
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Unabridged) | Verne, Jules | 10 | 28 | Captain Nemo takes the first submarine on exciting adventures. | 389 |
| 213 Valentines | Cohen, Barbara | 4 | 1 | Wade has trouble adjusting when he is transferred to a special fourth-grade class for the gifted and talented, so he plans to send himself 213 valentines signed by celebrities. | 55 |
| 26 Fairmount Avenue | De Paola, Tomie | 4.4 | 1 | Children's author-illustrator Tomie De Paola describes his experiences at home and in school when he was a boy. | 58 |
| 4B Goes Wild | Gilson, Jamie | 4.6 | 4 | Fourth-graders on a three-day camping trip with their teachers experience frights and delights. | 147 |
| 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, The | Seuss, Dr. | 4 | 1 | Bartholomew provokes the king when hats magically appear on his head every time he removes one. | 48 |
| A Is for Annabelle: A Doll's Alphabet | Tudor, Tasha | 2.1 | 0.5 | Learn the alphabet from A to Z with the help of the doll Annabelle. | 56 |
| Abbie Against the Storm | Vaughan, Marcia | 4.4 | 0.5 | This is a fictionalized account of an incident in the life of a seventeen-year-old girl who tends her family's lighthouse during a fierce storm on the coast of Maine in the winter of 1856. | 30 |
| Abe Lincoln and the Muddy Pig | Krensky, Stephen | 3.7 | 0.5 | Abe Lincoln is on his way to give an important speech when he comes across a pig stuck in the mud. Abe helps the pig and makes his speech in a dirty suit. | 29 |
| Abe Lincoln Remembers | Turner, Ann | 4.1 | 0.5 | This is a simple description of the life of Abraham Lincoln, presented from his point of view. | 30 |
| Abel's Island | Steig, William | 5.9 | 3 | Stranded on a deserted island, a lovable young mouse discovers inner resources he did not know he possessed. | 117 |
| Abominable Snowman of Pasadena, The | Stine, R.L. | 3 | 3 | They just wanted to see snow. But now they're being chased by a monstrous creature. | 127 |
| Above the Veil | Nix, Garth | 5.3 | 7 | The Underfolk are restless. For a long time, they have kept quiet, occupying the lower levels of the Castle. Now they are ready to be heard. | 248 |
| Abraham Lincoln | D'Aulaire, Ingri/Edgar Parin | 5.2 | 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 |
| Abraham Lincoln (America in the Time Of) | Isaacs, Sally Senzell | 5.7 | 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 |
| Abraham's Battle | Banks, Sara Harrell | 5.3 | 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 |
| Absent Author, The | Roy, Ron | 3.4 | 1 | Dink and his two friends investigate the apparent kidnapping of famous mystery author Wallis Wallace. | 87 |
| Across America on an Emigrant Train | Murphy, Jim | 7.8 | 3 | A documentary history of railroad travel in the nineteenth-century American West. | 150 |
| Across Five Aprils | Hunt, Irene | 6.6 | 10 | A moving story of the Civil War and one boy who grew up at home. | 190 |
| Across the Solar System | Theodorou, Rod | 5.2 | 0.5 | This book takes the reader on a journey through the solar system, describing comets, asteroids, and the planets, including their average temperature, length of day, distance from the sun, and more. | 32 |
| Across the Stream | Ginsburg, Mirra | 1.7 | 0.5 | A duck and her three ducklings carry a hen and her three chicks across a wide, deep stream to safety in this exceptional picture book. | 24 |
| Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Ha | Gregory, Kristiana | 5.5 | 4 | In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hatti chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail. | 159 |
| Adaline Falling Star | Osborne, Mary Pope | 4.6 | 4 | After her mother dies, Adaline is sent to live in St. Louis while her father, the famous scout Kit Carson, explores the West. | 170 |
| Adam of the Road | Gray, Elizabeth Janet | 6.5 | 9 | This story, set in thirteenth-century England, is about a boy's search for his father and lost dog. | 317 |
| Addie Across the Prairie | Lawlor, Laurie | 4.9 | 4 | Unhappy to leave her home and friends, Addie reluctantly accompanies her family to the Dakota Territory and slowly begins to adjust to life on the prairie. | 128 |
| Addy Learns a Lesson | Porter, Connie | 3.9 | 1 | After escaping from a plantation in North Carolina, Addy and her mother arrive in Philadelphia, where Addy goes to school and learns a lesson in true friendship. | 68 |
| Adopted by the Eagles | Goble, Paul | 3.9 | 0.5 | Two friends go out hunting for horses, but only one returns, in this story based in the Lakota Indian tradition. | 25 |
| Adventures of Ali Baba Bernstein, The | Hurwitz, Johanna | 4.6 | 2 | Eight-year-old David Bernstein's life changes drastically when he changes his name to Ali Baba, after seeing 17 listings for his name in the New York phone book. | 82 |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Twain/Laiken | 4.9 | 3 | Huckleberry Finn escapes from his evil, drunken father who is trying to steal his treasure. Huck befriends Jim, a runaway slave and together they float towards freedom on a raft down the Mississippi river. | 238 |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Unabridged), The | Twain, Mark | 6.6 | 18 | Huck and Jim encounter life on the Mississippi in one of the great works of American Literature. | 279 |
| Adventures of King Midas, The | Banks, Lynne Reid | 5 | 4 | King Midas travels far and wide to reverse the spell that turns everything into gold. | 153 |
| Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Defoe/Vogel | 5.9 | 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 |
| Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Claremont), The | Doyle, Arthur Conan | 8.8 | 16 | Ten short stories from the popular Sherlock Holmes adventures. | 255 |
| Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Doyle/Vogel | 5.7 | 3 | This book contains three of the most celebrated cases of Sherlock Holmes, the mastermind detective of the ages. | 238 |
| Adventures of Snail at School, The | Stadler, John | 2.5 | 0.5 | Snail goes on three errands for his teacher and has amazing adventures. | 64 |
| Adventures of the Greek Heroes | McLean/Wiseman | 6.2 | 4 | A collection of stories that the poets told the people at Olympia. | 174 |
| Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Twain/Laiken | 5.3 | 2 | Join Tom Sawyer and his friends in a series of fantastic adventures: forming secret societies, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funerals, and even solving a murder. | 238 |
| Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Unabridged), The | Twain, Mark | 8.1 | 12 | This timeless story of small town boyhood adventures ranks as one of the great American classics. | 256 |
| Aenir | Nix, Garth | 5.2 | 6 | The dream world Aenir is not a safe place. One wrong step can lead to danger, entrapment, or death. | 233 |
| Africa Brothers and Sisters | Kroll, Virginia | 3.1 | 0.5 | At lunchtime, Daddy and Jesse play their favorite game; a question and answer game about people who live in Africa and the ways in which they are connected to Jesse. | 26 |
| After the Goat Man | Byars, Betsy | 4.5 | 3 | Impending highway construction force Figgy and his grandfather to leave their home in the woods, but Figgy's grandfather, the "Goat Man," rejects city life and returns to the woods. | 126 |
| After the Spill: The Exxon Valdez Disaster, Then and Now | Markle, Sandra | 6.5 | 0.5 | This book examines the impact of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill on the environment and people of Prince William Sound. | 32 |
| Afternoon of the Elves | Lisle, Janet Taylor | 5 | 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 |
| Afternoon on the Amazon | Osborne, Mary Pope | 2.6 | 1 | Eight-year-old Jack, his seven-year-old sister Annie, and Peanut the mouse ride in a tree house to the Amazon rain forest, where they encounter flesh-eating piranhas, hungry crocodiles, and wild jaguars. | 67 |
| Against the Rules | Pascal/Suzanne | 5 | 4 | Elizabeth decides to have a secret birthday party for her friend even though her parents have told her to stay away from the girl. | 104 |
| Agapanthus Hum and the Eyeglasses | Cowley, Joy | 3.5 | 0.5 | Agapanthus struggles to do handstands and other acrobatic tricks while wearing her eyeglasses. | 44 |
| Aggie's Home | Nixon, Joan Lowery | 4.2 | 2 | Aggie is sure no one will want to adopt her when she rides the orphan train out west. But when she meets the eccentric Bradon family she begins to have some hope. | 117 |
| Agony of Alice, The | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 5.3 | 5 | Eleven-year-old, motherless Alice, decides she needs a gorgeous role model until she discovers what really makes someone beautiful. | 131 |
| Ahoy There, Little Polar Bear | de Beer, Hans | 3.3 | 0.5 | Lars, a little polar bear, is accidentally scooped up in a fishnet and ends up on a ship, when he meets Nemo the cat who has a plan to help Lars find a way home. | 23 |
| A-Hunting We Will Go! | Kellogg, Steven | 1.6 | 0.5 | This is a modern version of the children's song. | 43 |
| Ahyoka and the Talking Leaves | Roop, Peter/Connie | 3.5 | 1 | In 1818, a Native-American girl and her father work to create a written language out of their Cherokee tongue. | 58 |
| Air Shows: From Barnstormers to Blue Angels | Van Steenwyk, Elizabeth | 7.8 | 1 | Describes the history of air shows from the first air races to modern events. | 64 |
| Airborne: A Photobiography of Wilbur and Orville Wright | Collins, Mary | 7.2 | 2 | This book examines the lives of the Wright brothers and discusses their experiments and triumphs in the field of flight. | 64 |
| Alabama (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 4.8 | 1 | Discusses the geography, history, industries, and famous people of Alabama. | 59 |
| Alaska (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 4.2 | 1 | Introduces the history, geography, industry, and people of the state known as the Last Frontier. | 59 |
| Albert | Napoli, Donna Jo | 3.2 | 0.5 | When Albert is at his window, two cardinals come to build a nest in his hand, an event that changes his life. | 32 |
| Albert's Field Trip | Tryon, Leslie | 3.4 | 0.5 | Albert leads the third-grade class on a memorable field trip to an apple farm. | 32 |
| Albert's Thanksgiving | Tryon, Leslie | 3.3 | 0.5 | Albert, the duck, works very hard to make sure this is the best Thanksgiving feast since 1621! | 28 |
| Aldo Ice Cream | Hurwitz, Johanna | 4.8 | 2 | Nine-year-old Aldo discovers the pleasures of doing volunteer work to help the older citizens of the community and the satisfactions of earning his first money on his own for unselfish reasons. | 124 |
| Alejandro's Gift | Albert, Richard E. | 5 | 0.5 | Lonely in his house beside a road in the desert, Alejandro builds an oasis to attract the many animals around him. | 21 |
| Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day | Viorst, Judith | 3.7 | 0.5 | One day when everything goes wrong for him, Alexander is consoled by the thought that other people have bad days, too. | 21 |
| Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday | Viorst, Judith | 3.4 | 0.5 | Alexander has problems holding on to his money. A charming book that demonstrates how easy it is to spend and how difficult it is to save. | 28 |
| Alexander, Who's Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going To Move | Viorst, Judith | 3.5 | 0.5 | Angry Alexander refuses to move away if it means having to leave his favorite friends and special places. | 28 |
| Alice and the Birthday Giant | Green, John | 2.9 | 0.5 | It's Alice's birthday and she has wished for something really big! Her wish is granted, but what she gets is a lost one-eyed giant who loves hot dogs, ice cream, and cake! | 38 |
| Alice in April | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 4.5 | 5 | Alice's attempts to take care of her family and their home are disasters, but she learns a lot from her failures. | 164 |
| Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass | Carroll, Lewis | 7.8 | 10 | By falling down a rabbit hole and stepping through a mirror, Alice experiences unusual adventures with a variety of nonsensical characters. | 253 |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Unabridged) | Carroll, Lewis | 7.4 | 5 | Alice lives an ordinary life, until the day she finds herself in the wonderful world of mad tea parties and remarkable characters. | 181 |
| Alida's Song | Paulsen, Gary | 5.3 | 2 | A fourteen-year-old boy who has been neglected by irresponsible parents spends a wonderful summer on a farm where his grandmother cooks for two elderly brothers. | 88 |
| Alien for Rent | Duffey, Betsy | 2.6 | 1 | When a small fuzzy alien appears at their school, third-graders J.P. and Lexie accidentally direct his powers against the bully Bruce and things get out of control. | 71 |
| Alien Secrets | Klause, Annette Curtis | 6.6 | 8 | On her journey to the distant planet where her parents are working, twelve-year-old Puck befriends a troubled alien and becomes involved in a dangerous mystery involving a precious artifact. | 227 |
| Alien, The | Applegate, K.A. | 3.7 | 4 | Ax and his friends know they have to stop the Yeerks. | 159 |
| Aliens Ate My Homework | Coville, Bruce | 4.8 | 5 | Rod has enough troubles, but a tiny spaceship adds more problems to his life. | 179 |
| Aliens Don't Wear Braces | Dadey/Jones | 3.7 | 1 | Strange doings erupt when a substitute teacher walks into Bailey School. | 74 |
| Aliens for Dinner | Spinner, Stephanie | 3.4 | 1 | Aric the alien returns to Earth to help Richard Bickerstaff save the world from an invasion of Dwilbs, pollution-loving aliens who want to turn the planet into a toxic theme park. | 79 |
| Aliens for Lunch | Etra/Spinner | 3.7 | 1 | When their bag of microwave popcorn explodes and a space alien emerges, Richard and Henry join him on a top secret interstellar mission to save the desserts of the universe. | 64 |
| All About Frogs | Arnosky, Jim | 4.5 | 0.5 | This book is an introduction to frogs. | 26 |
| All About Sam | Lowry, Lois | 4 | 3 | The adventures of Sam, Anastasia Krupnik's younger brother, from his first day as a newborn through his mischievous times as a toddler. | 135 |
| All by Myself | Mayer, Mercer | 1.3 | 0.5 | Little Critter thinks about all the things he can do all by himself and the one thing he cannot do. | 23 |
| All Creatures Great and Small | Herriot, James | 6.8 | 26 | Recounting the problems and joys of the life of a countryside veterinary surgeon. | 437 |
| All the Places to Love | MacLachlan, Patricia | 3.9 | 0.5 | A young boy describes the favorite places that he shares with his family on his grandparents' farm and in the nearby countryside. | 28 |
| All Tutus Should Be Pink | Brownrigg, Sheri | 1.8 | 0.5 | Two little girls attend ballet class and eat strawberry ice cream afterwards. | 29 |
| Alligator Baby | Munsch, Robert N. | 3.3 | 0.5 | A little girl takes matters into her own hands after her brother is accidentally born in a zoo, and her parents repeatedly bring home the wrong baby. | 30 |
| All-of-a-Kind Family | Taylor, Sydney | 4.9 | 5 | Five girls have simple but happy times, with parents rich in kindness but poor in money. | 189 |
| Along Came a Dog | De Jong, Meindert | 5.7 | 5 | A moving story about a dog, a hen, and a man and about the strange and wonderful friendship that grew between them. | 172 |
| Always Room for One More | Leodhas, Sorche Nic | 4.3 | 0.5 | In this Scottish folk song, a generous family always has room for another person and invites in everyone who passes by. A Caldecott Medal Book. | 22 |
| Amanda Pig and Her Big Brother Oliver | Van Leeuwen, Jean | 2.3 | 0.5 | This book contains five stories about Oliver and Amanda, who are sometimes called Mighty Pig, and Amazing Baby Pig. | 56 |
| Amanda Pig on Her Own | Van Leeuwen, Jean | 2.4 | 0.5 | Amanda's big brother Oliver leaves for school, and Amanda tries to play by herself. She discovers the troubles and joys of being alone. | 48 |
| Amanda Pig, Schoolgirl | Van Leeuwen, Jean | 2.5 | 0.5 | Amanda Pig's first day of school is every bit as wonderful as she always hoped it would be. | 48 |
| Amazing Bone, The | Steig, William | 3.9 | 0.5 | Pearl, a pig, is saved from a band of highwaymen by a small bone, who can talk in any language and imitate any sound. | 28 |
| Amazing Gracie | Cannon, A.E. | 3.8 | 6 | The daughter of a depressive mother finds strength and maturity. | 214 |
| Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin, The | Giblin, James Cross | 6.6 | 1 | This book is a biography of the eighteenth-century printer, inventer, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States. | 48 |
| Amber Brown Goes Fourth | Danziger, Paula | 3.7 | 1 | Amber is all ready for the fourth grade, except she needs to find a new best friend. | 101 |
| Amber Brown Is Feeling Blue | Danziger, Paula | 4 | 2 | Nine-year-old Amber Brown faces further complications because of her parent's divorce when her father plans to move back from Paris, and she must decide with which parent she will spend the holiday. | 133 |
| Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon | Danziger, Paula | 3.7 | 1 | Amber learns her best friend is moving to Alabama. | 80 |
| Amber Brown Sees Red | Danziger, Paula | 3.7 | 2 | Amber is upset and angry when her parents argue over who she should live with. | 116 |
| Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit | Danziger, Paula | 3.7 | 2 | Amber Brown is in deep trouble. No matter what she does, it isn't enough. Her room is a mess, her homework late, and her mom is dating someone. | 120 |
| Amber Cat, The | McKay, Hilary | 4.6 | 4 | While recovering from chicken pox, Robin and his friends are drawn into his mother's story about the adventures she and her friends had years ago with an unusual girl. | 134 |
| Amber on the Mountain | Johnston, Tony | 3 | 0.5 | With the help of a girl from the city, a country girl learns how to read and write. | 30 |
| Amber Spyglass, The | Pullman, Philip | 6.7 | 26 | Lyra and Will find themselves at the center of a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by Lyra's father, Lord Asriel. | 518 |
| Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart | Williams, Vera B. | 4.2 | 0.5 | Two sisters help each other deal with life while their mother is working and their father has been sent to jail. | 57 |
| Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride | Ryan, Pam Muñr Go for a Ride | 4.2 | 0.5 | This is a fictionalized account of the night Amelia Earhart flew Eleanor Roosevelt over Washington, D.C., in an airplane. | 36 |
| Amelia Bedelia | Parish, Peggy | 2.5 | 0.5 | Wacky misadventures as that hapless maid Amelia Bedelia interprets her instructions very literally. | 23 |
| Amelia Bedelia and the Surprise Shower | Parish, Peggy | 2.3 | 0.5 | Mad-cap misadventures of a very literal-minded housekeeper during a wedding shower. | 64 |
| Amelia Bedelia Goes Camping | Parish, Peggy | 1.8 | 0.5 | When Amelia goes camping, all sorts of amusing things happen. | 59 |
| Amelia's Notebook | Moss, Marissa | 3.7 | 0.5 | The hand-lettered contents of a nine-year-old girl's notebook in which she records her thoughts and feelings about moving, starting school, and dealing with her older sister, as well as keeping her old best friend and making a new one. | 30 |
| American Indian Festivals (A True Book) | Miller, Jay | 4.4 | 0.5 | Briefly describes some of the customs and practices related to festivals celebrated in various North American Indian cultures. | 48 |
| American Indian Games (A True Book) | Miller, Jay | 4.4 | 0.5 | Briefly describes some of the toys and games used by various North American Indian cultures to amuse their children and teach lessons about life. | 48 |
| Among the Barons | Haddix, Margaret Peterson | 4.8 | 6 | In a future world of false identities, government lies, and death threats, Luke feels drawn to the younger brother of the boy whose name Luke has taken. | 182 |
| Among the Betrayed | Haddix, Margaret Peterson | 4.9 | 5 | Thirteen-year-old Nina is imprisoned by the Population Police, who give her the option of helping them identify illegal "third-born" children, or facing death. | 156 |
| Among the Hidden | Haddix, Margaret Peterson | 4.8 | 5 | In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong. | 152 |
| Among the Impostors | Haddix, Margaret Peterson | 4.9 | 5 | In the future, where the law limits a family to only two children, third-born Luke has been hiding for the entire twelve years of his life. When he enters boarding school under an assumed name, he is forced to face his fears and his fellow humans. | 172 |
| Amos & Boris | Steig, William | 4.7 | 0.5 | After being saved from drowning by a whale, a mouse gets a chance to repay the favor years later. | 28 |
| Amos Fortune, Free Man | Yates, Elizabeth | 6.5 | 5 | This true story details the life of an African prince who was captured by slave traders at age fifteen and brought to America. At age sixty, he bought his freedom, then married and started his own tannery business. | 181 |
| Amusement Park Mystery, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.8 | 2 | The Boxcar Children investigate the theft of antique carousel horses from the amusement park. | 119 |
| Amy Moves In | Pascal/Suzanne | 4.3 | 4 | Amy stays with the Wakefields while her house is being repaired, but best friends don't always make good roommates. | 132 |
| Anansi and the Talking Melon | Kimmel, Eric A. | 2.6 | 0.5 | A tricky spider outwits all the other animals in this African folk tale. | 30 |
| Anastasia at This Address | Lowry, Lois | 4.6 | 4 | Ready for romance, thirteen-year-old Anastasia answers an ad in the personals with an exaggerated description of herself but soon runs into trouble when the unknown man turns up at a friend's wedding. | 129 |
| Anastasia at Your Service | Lowry, Lois | 4.3 | 5 | Twelve-year-old Anastasia has a series of disastrous experiences when, expecting to get a job as a lady's companion, she is hired instead to be a maid. | 149 |
| Anastasia Has the Answers | Lowry, Lois | 4.9 | 4 | Thirteen-year-old Anastasia is looking for the answers to some of life's big questions. | 123 |
| Anastasia Krupnik | Lowry, Lois | 4.5 | 3 | For ten-year-old Anastasia, life is full of problems like teachers, boys, a grandmother who does not remember her name, and the arrival of a new baby brother. | 113 |
| Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst | Lowry, Lois | 4.2 | 3 | Anastasia, feeling she is misunderstood by everyone, buys a bust of Freud and starts having "sessions" with it. | 119 |
| Anastasia's Album | Brewster, Hugh | 6.4 | 1 | The last Tsar's youngest daughter tells her own story. | 64 |
| Anastasia's Chosen Career | Lowry, Lois | 4.5 | 4 | Thirteen-year-old Anastasia acquires poise and self-confidence, a new friend, and advice on becoming a bookstore owner when she commutes to Boston to take a modeling course. | 142 |
| Ancient Egypt (Eyewitness) | Hart, George | 8 | 1 | A photo essay on ancient Egypt and the people who lived there, documented through the mummies, pottery, weapons, and other objects they left behind. Describes their society, religion, obsession with the afterlife, and methods of mummification. | 63 |
| Ancient Egyptians (History Starts Here!), The | Shuter, Jane | 4.6 | 0.5 | This book examines many different aspects of ancient Egyptian society, including religion, leisure, medicine, art, and technology. | 32 |
| Ancient Greeks (History Starts Here!), The | Malam, John | 4.5 | 0.5 | This book introduces the history, culture, and people of ancient Greece and examines its many contributions to the development of Western society. | 32 |
| Ancient Greeks (Understanding People in the Past), The | Rees, Rosemary | 5.1 | 1 | This book shows how people lived in ancient Greece. | 64 |
| Ancient One, The | Barron, T.A. | 6.1 | 14 | While helping her Great-Aunt Melanie try to protect an Oregon redwood forest from loggers, thirteen-year-old Kate goes back five centuries through a time tunnel and faces the evil creature Gashra, who is bent on destroying the same forest. | 367 |
| Ancient Romans (History Starts Here!), The | Ganeri, Anita | 4.4 | 0.5 | This book introduces the history, culture, and people of ancient Rome and examines its many contributions to Western society. | 32 |
| And Condors Danced | Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | 6.1 | 9 | The year Carly turns eleven, 1907, is filled with playing detective, watching condors, observing a fierce feud involving her family's Southern California ranch, and coping with unexpected tragedies. | 211 |
| And I Mean It, Stanley | Bonsall, Crosby | 0.9 | 0.5 | A little girl plays alone until her dog arrives. | 32 |
| And Now Miguel | Krumgold, Joseph | 4.8 | 8 | The secret wish of Miguel Chavez, to go to the mountains with the men of his family, comes true. | 245 |
| And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon | Stevens/Crummel | 2.6 | 0.5 | When Dish and Spoon run away, their nursery rhyme friends Cat, Cow, and Dog set out to rescue them in time for the next reading of their rhyme. | 48 |
| And Then There Was One | Facklam, Margery | 7.2 | 2 | Examines the many reasons for the extinction and near-extinction of animal species. Discusses how some near-extinctions have been reversed through special breeding programs and legislation to save endangered species. | 53 |
| And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? | Fritz, Jean | 5.3 | 1 | A humorous biography of Paul Revere, covering more than his famous ride, like life in Boston in the 1700s. | 48 |
| And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street | Seuss, Dr. | 3.6 | 0.5 | A boy imagines a series of incredible sights on his way home from school so that he will have an interesting report to give his father. | 30 |
| Andalite Chronicles, The | Applegate, K.A. | 4.5 | 9 | His name is Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul, an Andalite war-prince. The one who gave five young humans the ability to morph into any animal they touch. | 326 |
| Andalite's Gift, The | Applegate, K.A. | 3.6 | 5 | After the Animorphs take some time off to relax, Rachel turns up missing; and it's up to them to find out what has happened. | 227 |
| Android, The | Applegate, K.A. | 4 | 4 | Marco and friends morph so they can check Erek out to make sure he is not a human-Controller. | 170 |
| Andy and the Lion | Daugherty, James | 3.6 | 0.5 | In this retelling of Androcles and the Lion, Andy meets lion on the way to school and wins his friendship for life by removing a thorn from his paw. | 68 |
| Angel on the Square | Whelan, Gloria | 5.6 | 8 | In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya eagerly anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home, to join her mother, a lady-in-waiting in the household of Tsar Nicholas II. The ensuing years bring world war, revolution, and undreamed of changes to her life. | 293 |
| Angel Pig & the Hidden Christmas | Waldron, Jan L. | 3.9 | 0.5 | A group of pigs discovers the meaning of Christmas. | 20 |
| Angelina on Stage | Holabird, Katharine | 4.6 | 0.5 | Cousin Henry gets all the attention in the grown-up musical, and Angelina becomes jealous. | 26 |
| Angelina's Christmas | Holabird, Katharine | 4 | 0.5 | Angelina and her cousin, Henry, help bring Christmas to a lonely old postman. | 26 |
| Angels Don't Know Karate | Dadey/Jones | 3.6 | 1 | Could the new karate teacher who is guarding the kids and granting wishes really be an angel? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out. | 65 |
| Angels in Disguise | Dean, Lou | 5.3 | 4 | The story of Lou Dean Williams who later in life, was rescued from a life threatening accident by her beloved dog Jake. | 115 |
| Angus and the Cat | Flack, Marjorie | 2.7 | 0.5 | Angus the terrier has to share his home with a new cat who eats Angus's food and sits in his favorite places. How will they ever get along? | 30 |
| Angus and the Ducks | Flack, Marjorie | 2.5 | 0.5 | When Angus, a very curious young terrier, sees that the door is open one day, he decides to go exploring. Little does he know what neighbors await him. | 30 |
| Animal Babies (A True Book) | Squire, Ann O. | 4.8 | 0.5 | This book is an introduction to animal babies, including their behavior and physical traits. | 48 |
| Animal Rescue Club, The | Himmelman, John | 2.5 | 0.5 | Members of the Animal Rescue Club save wild animals in trouble, nurse them back to health, and return them to the wild. | 46 |
| Animal Shelter Mystery, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 4.2 | 3 | The Alden children save an old woman's house, land, and all the animals in her animal shelter from greedy contractors. | 121 |
| Animal, the Vegetable and John D Jones, The | Byars, Betsy | 4.6 | 4 | Clara and Deanie can't stand John D. Jones, the son of their divorced father's girlfriend. The feeling is mutual, and John D. dubs the girls the Animal and the Vegetable. It takes a near tragedy to bring them together. | 150 |
| Animals Eating: How Animals Chomp, Chew, Slurp and Swallow | Hickman, Pamela | 5.9 | 1 | Whether their diets include plants, insects or other creatures, animals eat in some weird and fascinating ways. | 40 |
| Animals Nobody Loves | Simon, Seymour | 5 | 0.5 | Text and striking photographs reveal the truth about some of nature's most misunderstood animals. | 46 |
| Animals Should Definitely Not Act Like People | Barrett, Judi | 2.2 | 0.5 | Pictures and text depict the inconveniences animals would be burdened with if they behaved like people. | 31 |
| Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing | Barrett, Judi | 2 | 0.5 | Pictures of animals wearing clothes show why this would be a ridiculous custom for them to adopt. | 29 |
| Animals That Fight (Things Animals Do) | Carter, Kyle | 4.2 | 0.5 | Discusses why and how some animals fight. | 24 |
| Animals That Survive (Things Animals Do) | Carter, Kyle | 4.2 | 0.5 | Discusses how some animals use their defenses to survive. | 24 |
| Animals, The | Rice, Earle | 3.8 | 1 | World War II tale of a downed pilot and his valiant effort to thwart a German plan to kill the Prime Minister of England. | 58 |
| Anna All Year Round | Hahn, Mary Downing | 3.8 | 3 | Eight-year-old Anna experiences a series of episodes, some that are funny, others sad, involving friends and family during a year in Baltimore just before World War I. | 133 |
| Anna and the King | Landon, Margaret | 7.2 | 7 | Anna travels to Siam to teach the royal children and falls in love with the king. | 195 |
| Annabelle Swift, Kindergartner | Schwartz, Amy | 2.8 | 0.5 | Although some of the things her older sister taught her at home seem a little unusual at school, other lessons help make Annabelle's first day in kindergarten a success. | 28 |
| Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary | VanDerRol/Verhoeven | 6.8 | 3 | Photographs, illustrations, and maps accompany historical essays, diary excerpts, and interviews, providing an insight ot Anne Frank and the massive upheaval which tore apart her world. | 113 |
| Anne of Avonlea (Unabridged) | Montgomery, L.M. | 8.6 | 16 | In this second volume of the beloved trilogy about Anne Shirley, sixteen-year-old Anne teaches at the Avonlea school. | 323 |
| Anne of Green Gables (Great Illustrated Classics) | Montgomery/Warren | 5 | 3 | This much-loved classic tells the story of Anne Shirley, an orphan who turns life into an adventure for the farm couple that takes her in. | 236 |
| Anne of Green Gables (Unabridged) | Montgomery, L.M. | 7.3 | 17 | This is the first novel in the Anne series that has delighted millions of young readers since its publication in 1908. Eleven-year-old Anne Shirley wins the heart of her foster mother. | 446 |
| Anne of the Island (Unabridged) | Montgomery, L.M. | 6.3 | 12 | Eighteen-year-old Anne leaves Prince Edward Island to attend Redmond College instead of getting married as some of her friends have done. | 298 |
| Anne of Windy Poplars | Montgomery, L.M. | 5.9 | 14 | Anne takes a position as principal in a town led by the head-strong Pringles. She quickly becomes the whole town's champion and confidant. | 258 |
| Annie and the Wild Animals | Brett, Jan | 2.7 | 0.5 | When Annie's cat disappears, she attempts friendship with a variety of unsuitable woodland animals, but with the emergence of spring, everything comes right. | 28 |
| Annie Pitts, Swamp Monster | De Groat, Diane | 4.3 | 2 | As usual, things do not work out as planned when Annie lands the part of the swamp monster in a high school student's low-budget horror movie. | 98 |
| Another Important Book | Brown, Margaret Wise | 2.3 | 0.5 | This book describes how a child grows from ages one through six. | 28 |
| Antarctica | Cowcher, Helen | 3.2 | 0.5 | A brief introduction to the Antarctic and the animals that make this their home. | 34 |
| Anteater Named Arthur, An | Waber, Bernard | 2.4 | 0.5 | This is a story of the worrisome and lovable antics of a boy anteater, as seen through the eyes of his doting mother. | 48 |
| Apeman's Secret, The | Dixon, Franklin W. | 6.7 | 6 | What started out as a prank is now something much more sinister. | 178 |
| Appelemando's Dreams | Polacco, Patricia | 3.8 | 0.5 | Because he spends his time dreaming, the villagers are convinced that Appelemando will never amount to much, but in time his dreams change the village and all the people in it. | 30 |
| Apple Pie Tree, The | Hall, Zoe | 1.9 | 0.5 | An apple tree grows leaves and flowers and then produces fruit, while in its branches robins make a nest, lay eggs, and raise a family. | 30 |
| Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker, The | DeFelice, Cynthia | 5.2 | 5 | After his family dies of consumption in 1849, twelve-year-old Lucas becomes a doctor's apprentice. | 151 |
| Arctic Animals | Kalman, Bobbie | 6.8 | 2 | Describes the land, climate, and the animals that make the Arctic their home. | 56 |
| Arctic Son | George, Jean Craighead | 3.4 | 0.5 | A baby boy is given an Inupiat name to go with his English one and grows up learning the traditional ways of the Eskimo people living in the Arctic. | 32 |
| Are You in the House Alone? | Peck, Richard | 4.9 | 6 | Timely and disturbing novel as a teenage rapist goes free because he's the son of an influential family, and authorities won't bring charges. | 172 |
| Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. | Blume, Judy | 3.6 | 4 | Margaret approaches adolescence with trepidation, but with the help of God and nature, she makes a successful transition. | 149 |
| Arilla Sun Down | Hamilton, Virginia | 3.8 | 10 | Arilla learns that she will not always be in her older brother's shadow. | 296 |
| Arizona (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 4.4 | 1 | Introduces the geography, history, industries, notable sights, and famous people of the Grand Canyon State. | 59 |
| Arkansas (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis/Judith | 4.4 | 1 | Discusses the geography, history, industries, and famous people of Arkansas. | 59 |
| Armadillo from Amarillo, The | Cherry, Lynne | 4.2 | 0.5 | A wandering armadillo sees some of the cities, historic sites, geographic features, and wildlife of Texas. | 30 |
| Armageddon Summer | Yolen/Coville | 5.2 | 9 | Fourteen-year-old Marina and sixteen-year-old Jed accompany their parents' religious cult, the Believers, to await the end of the world atop a remote mountain, where they try to decide what they themselves believe. | 266 |
| Around the World in 80 Days (Great Illustrated Classics) | Verne/Leighton | 5 | 2 | Phileas Fogg has many fantastic adventures as he races to win the bet that he can travel around the world in 80 days. | 236 |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Verne, Jules | 9.6 | 12 | Phileas Fogg and his servant make a breathless world tour, overcoming wild misadventures and rescuing a beautiful Indian maharani. | 297 |
| Arrival, The | Applegate, K.A. | 4.2 | 3 | Andalites have arrived on Earth to help the Animorphs and Ax fight against the Yeerk invasion. | 148 |
| Arrow to the Sun | McDermott, Gerald | 2.7 | 0.5 | Indian myth in which the Lord of the Sun sends the spark of life to earth, and it becomes a Boy. | 14 |
| Art Lesson, The | De Paola, Tomie | 3.6 | 0.5 | Tommy wants to be an artist and can't wait to take art lessons in school. | 32 |
| Art of Keeping Cool, The | Lisle, Janet Taylor | 5 | 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 |
| Artemis Fowl | Colfer, Eoin | 5 | 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 |
| Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident | Colfer, Eoin | 5 | 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 |
| Arthur Accused! | Brown/Krensky | 3.1 | 1 | Buster tries to help Arthur prove his innocence when the quarters for the charity drive disappear. | 58 |
| Arthur and the Best Coach Ever | Brown/Krensky | 3.3 | 1 | When Arthur's soccer team gets a new coach who gives them new uniforms and lots of ice cream, it takes them a while to realize that he doesn't know how to coach. | 58 |
| Arthur and the Big Blow-Up | Brown/Krensky | 3.3 | 1 | Arthur and his teammates are headed for the playoffs when their best players get into an argument. Will Arthur and Buster be able to help their friends settle their differences and make it to the playoffs? | 54 |
| Arthur and the Cootie-Catcher | Brown/Krensky | 3.1 | 1 | At Prunella's half-birthday party, her sister unveils a fortune-telling cootie-catcher that seems to be able to predict the future. | 61 |
| Arthur and the Crunch Cereal Contest | Brown/Krensky | 3 | 1 | Arthur can't come up with a catch jingle until he hears D. W. and wonders if he could use it. | 61 |
| Arthur and the Lost Diary | Brown/Krensky | 3.2 | 1 | When Sue Ellen loses her diary at the library, Arthur and his friends worry about what will happen if the diary falls into the wrong hands. Arthur is the one who finds it. Will he do the right thing and return it unread? | 55 |
| Arthur and the Race to Read | Brown/Krensky | 3.4 | 1 | To raise money for a literacy drive, everyone at Arthur's school is going to run a race together. | 58 |
| Arthur and the Scare-Your-Pants-Off Club | Brown, Marc | 3.1 | 1 | Arthur and his friends find out their favorite book series has been banned. | 58 |
| Arthur and the Seventh-Inning Stretcher | Brown/Krensky | 3.3 | 1 | Binky refuses to join his teammates in pre-game warm-ups, until he injures himself while running the bases in a game. | 52 |
| Arthur and the True Francine | Brown, Marc | 2.3 | 0.5 | Francine and Muffy are good friends until Muffy lets Francine take the blame for cheating on a test. | 27 |
| Arthur Babysits | Brown, Marc | 2.4 | 0.5 | Arthur's experience baby-sitting for the terrible Tibble Twins is as challenging as he expected, but he finally gets control by telling them a spooky story. | 29 |
| Arthur Goes to Camp | Brown, Marc | 2.9 | 0.5 | Arthur is not looking forward to Camp Meadowcroak; and when mysterious things start happening there, he decides to run away. | 30 |
| Arthur in a Pickle | Brown, Marc | 2.1 | 0.5 | After lying about what happened to his homework, Arthur has such a bad dream about being "in a pickle" that he decides to tell the truth. | 24 |
| Arthur Lost and Found | Brown, Marc | 2.6 | 0.5 | When Arthur and Buster try to take the bus to Arthur's swimming lesson, they fall asleep and end up in a strange part of town. | 30 |
| Arthur Makes the Team | Brown, Marc | 2.9 | 1 | Arthur makes the Little League team but is afraid he won't be able to play as well as his friends. | 61 |
| Arthur Meets the President | Brown, Marc | 3.2 | 0.5 | Arthur's essay wins a contest and he has to read it to the President in a special ceremony at the White House. | 30 |
| Arthur Writes a Story | Brown, Marc | 2.6 | 0.5 | Arthur has to write a story as a homework assignment and keeps changing his idea of what to write as he talks to his friends. | 30 |
| Arthur, It's Only Rock 'n' Roll | Brown, Marc | 2.8 | 0.5 | Francine starts a rock band, hoping it will focus on music rather than money and fame. | 32 |
| Arthur's April Fool | Brown, Marc | 2.7 | 0.5 | Arthur worries about remembering his magic tricks for the April Fool's Day assembly and Binky's threats to pulverize him. | 32 |
| Arthur's Baby | Brown, Marc | 2.2 | 0.5 | Arthur isn't sure he is happy about the new baby in the family; but when his sister asks for his help in handling the baby, Arthur feels much better. | 30 |
| Arthur's Back to School Day | Hoban, Lillian | 2.7 | 0.5 | While hurrying to get on the school bus, Arthur and his friend unknowingly switch their lunch boxes; later Arthur finds out what surprise his sister had put into hers. | 47 |
| Arthur's Birthday | Brown, Marc | 2.3 | 0.5 | Their friends must decide which party to attend when Muffy schedules her birthday party for the same day as Arthur's. | 29 |
| Arthur's Chicken Pox | Brown, Marc | 2.9 | 0.5 | Arthur hopes he'll recover from the chicken pox in time to go to the circus. | 30 |
| Arthur's Christmas | Brown, Marc | 3 | 0.5 | With only two days left till Christmas, Arthur must decide what to give Santa, the most important person on his list. | 32 |
| Arthur's Computer Disaster | Brown, Marc | 2.4 | 0.5 | Arthur disobeys his Mother by playing a game on her computer which leads to a lesson in responsibility for one's actions. | 30 |
| Arthur's Eyes | Brown, Marc | 2.2 | 0.5 | Glasses meant being teased until Arthur discovers that four eyes are better and more fun than two. | 32 |
| Arthur's Family Vacation | Brown, Marc | 2.7 | 0.5 | Arthur makes his family's potentially disastrous family vacation into a success. | 19 |
| Arthur's Funny Money | Hoban, Lillian | 3.1 | 0.5 | When Violet has a numbers problem and Arthur is penniless, they go into business and solve both problems. | 64 |
| Arthur's Halloween | Brown, Marc | 2.8 | 0.5 | Arthur finds everything about Halloween scary, including his little sister's costume, his morning snack, and the big house on the corner. | 30 |
| Arthur's Honey Bear | Hoban, Lillian | 2.9 | 0.5 | Arthur decides to sell his old toys but is reluctant to part with his old bear. An Arthur the Chimpanzee Book. | 64 |
| Arthur's Loose Tooth | Hoban, Lillian | 2.9 | 0.5 | Arthur the chimp is a little worried about losing his loose tooth until his sister and their baby-sitter show him the real meaning of bravery. | 64 |
| Arthur's Lost Puppy | Brown, Marc | 1.9 | 0.5 | Arthur and D.W. do not know what is wrong with Baby Kate when they take her to the neighborhood fair, but Pal the puppy does. | 24 |
| Arthur's Mystery Envelope | Brown/Krensky | 3 | 1 | Arthur has to take an envelope home to his parents from the principal. | 58 |
| Arthur's New Puppy | Brown, Marc | 2.7 | 0.5 | Arthur's new puppy causes problems when it tears the living room apart, wets on everything, and refuses to wear a leash. | 30 |
| Arthur's Nose | Brown, Marc | 1.6 | 0.5 | Unsatisfied with his nose, Arthur goes shopping for another. A Snuggle and Read Story Book. | 28 |
| Arthur's Pen Pal | Hoban, Lillian | 3.1 | 0.5 | Arthur views his little sister in a different light after receiving a revealing letter from his pen pal. | 62 |
| Arthur's Perfect Christmas | Brown, Marc | 2.4 | 0.5 | Even without snow, turkey dinner, and a perfect tree, Arthur and his family and friends have a wonderful Christmas and Hanukkah celebration. | 40 |
| Arthur's Pet Business | Brown, Marc | 2.4 | 0.5 | Arthur embarks on a pet-sitting business with hilarious results. | 30 |
| Arthur's Prize Reader | Hoban, Lillian | 2.9 | 0.5 | Although Arthur loses the Super Chimp Club contest, his pupil, sister Violet, wins the first-grade reading competition and a prize for them both. | 64 |
| Arthur's Teacher Moves In | Brown, Marc | 2.4 | 0.5 | Arthur thinks that having his teacher stay at his house will be a horrible experience. | 32 |
| Arthur's Teacher Trouble | Brown, Marc | 2.7 | 0.5 | Third-grader Arthur is amazed when he is chosen to be in the school spellathon. | 30 |
| Arthur's Thanksgiving | Brown, Marc | 3.1 | 0.5 | Arthur finds his role as director of the Thanksgiving play a difficult one, especially since no one will agree to play the turkey. | 30 |
| Arthur's Tooth | Brown, Marc | 2.8 | 0.5 | Arthur, tired of being the only one in his class who still has all his baby teeth, waits impatiently for his loose tooth to fall out. | 30 |
| Arthur's TV Trouble | Brown, Marc | 2.6 | 0.5 | When Arthur sees an advertisement for the amazing doggy treat timer, he decides to earn enough money to buy it for his dog. | 30 |
| Arthur's Underwear | Brown, Marc | 2.9 | 0.5 | It takes a really embarrassing moment in the school cafeteria to cure Arthur of his fear of being caught in his underwear. | 32 |
| Arthur's Valentine | Brown, Marc | 2.5 | 0.5 | Arthur has a secret admirer, so he decides to use a trick to find out who she is. | 30 |
| Asian Holidays (Read and Discover) | Winchester, Faith | 3.7 | 0.5 | Briefly describes eight festivals celebrated by Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese, including various New Year's festivals, Ch'ing Ming, and Buddha's birthday. | 22 |
| Ask Mr. Bear | Flack, Marjorie | 2.3 | 0.5 | Danny solves the problem of what to give his mother for her birthday. | 34 |
| Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors (Our Universe) | Vogt, Gregory | 5.2 | 1 | This book examines the characteristics of asteroids, comets, and meteors in our solar system. | 48 |
| At Her Majesty's Request | Myers, Walter Dean | 7.1 | 3 | This is a biography of the African princess saved from execution and taken to England, where Queen Victoria oversaw her upbringing and where she lived for a time before marrying an African missionary. | 140 |
| At the Sound of the Beep | Sachs, Marilyn | 4.5 | 5 | Distraught at the thought of their parents divorcing, a brother and sister run away from home and take up residence in Golden Gate Park, where they encounter many homeless people and hear there is a murderer loose among them. | 154 |
| Atalanta's Race: A Greek Myth | Climo, Shirley | 4.3 | 0.5 | This book retells the myth of the Greek princess, rejected by her father, raised by bears, won in marriage in a race by Melanion, and then changed into a lioness by an angry Aphrodite. | 31 |
| Attaboy, Sam! | Lowry, Lois | 4.6 | 3 | Sam is able to help his sister Anastasia with the poem she is writing for their mother's birthday, but his own efforts to create a special perfume are disastrous. | 116 |
| Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns | Stine, R.L. | 3.3 | 2 | Drew and Walker have a plan for revenge involving two scary pumpkin heads. | 113 |
| Attack of the Mutant | Stine, R.L. | 3.5 | 3 | Skipper has an awesome comic-book collection, and his favorite is The Masked Mutant. Skipper finds a building that looks like the Mutant's secret headquarters. A building that appears and disappears. | 117 |
| Attack of the Two-Inch Teacher, The | Coville, Bruce | 4.9 | 3 | Pleskit and his friend Tim decide to shrink Jordan Lynch, a school bully. Unfortunately, things don't work out as planned and Tim and their teacher Ms. Weintraub are the ones small enough to hide in a desk drawer. | 165 |
| Attack on Pearl Harbor | Tanaka, Shelley | 5.7 | 1 | Through vivid eyewitness account, this book re-creates the dramatic moments of the unforgettable day that American entered World War II. | 64 |
| Attack, The | Applegate, K.A. | 4.2 | 4 | In the battle for ultimate power, the Ellimist will choose the Animorphs and Erek the Chee, the Crayak will choose his army of Howluns, and the loser will be erased from the universe. | 145 |
| Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair | Polacco, Patricia | 4.2 | 0.5 | Aunt Chip saves the town of Triple Creek, where everyone has forgotten how to read because of the invasion of television. | 36 |
| Aunt Eater Loves a Mystery | Cushman, Doug | 2.4 | 0.5 | Aunt Eater loves mystery stories so much that she sees mysterious adventures wherever she looks. | 64 |
| Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Later) | Howard, Elizabeth Fitzgerald | 2.4 | 0.5 | Sara and Susan share tea, cookies, crab cakes, and stories about hats when they visit their favorite relative, Aunt Flossie. | 31 |
| Aunt Nancy and Cousin Lazybones | Root, Phyllis | 4 | 0.5 | When Cousin Lazybones comes to visit Aunt Nancy but refuses to help with any of the work around the house, she must figure out a way to get rid of him. | 24 |
| Aunt Nancy and Old Man Trouble | Root, Phyllis | 4.2 | 0.5 | When Old Man Trouble calls on Aunt Nancy, he tries very hard to perform a trick that will bother her; however, she knows just how to handle him. | 24 |
| Auroras: Light Shows in the Night Sky | Shepherd, Donna Walsh | 7 | 1 | Discusses the phenomenon of auroras, where they are found, the different types, and what forms them. | 63 |
| Austere Academy, The | Snicket, Lemony | 6.7 | 6 | As their outrageous misfortune continues, the Baudelaire orphans are shipped off to a miserable boarding school, and find that they have been followed by the dreaded Count Olaf. | 221 |
| Aztecs (History Starts Here!), The | Ganeri, Anita | 4.4 | 0.5 | This book describes the history and civilization of the Aztecs, covering such aspects as religion, art, culture, medicine, and technology. | 32 |
| B Is for Betsy | Haywood, Carolyn | 4.3 | 2 | Betsy experiences an interesting first year in school and looks forward to summer vacation at her grandfather's farm. | 159 |
| Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave | Mayer, Marianna | 5.3 | 1 | Russian folktale about a beleaguered stepchild who is sent on an errand to a fearsome witch. | 37 |
| Babar's Battle | De Brunhoff, Laurent | 3.9 | 0.5 | Discord between the elephants and the rhinoceroses threatens to lead to war, but King Babar has a plan of his own. | 32 |
| Babar's Birthday Surprise | De Brunhoff, Laurent | 3.2 | 0.5 | Queen Celeste decides to surprise King Babar with a statue of himself for his birthday, but has a difficult time keeping it a secret. | 32 |
| Babar's Little Circus Star | De Brunhoff, Laurent | 1.5 | 0.5 | Babar's new daughter becomes the star of the big top, showing that there are huge advantages to being small. | 32 |
| Babe & Me | Gutman, Dan | 4.3 | 4 | Joe and his father travel back in time to discover whether Babe Ruth really did call the shot before his most-famous home run. | 161 |
| Babe, the Gallant Pig | King-Smith, Dick | 5.6 | 3 | Babe, the piglet won by Farmer Hogget at a fair, learns to be a sheep-pig. | 118 |
| Babushka's Doll | Polacco, Patricia | 2.4 | 0.5 | A little girl gets a doll that turns out to be twice as rambunctious as her owner. | 28 |
| Baby | MacLachlan, Patricia | 4 | 2 | A girl and her family find an abandoned baby in their driveway. The time they spend with her helps them come to terms with the loss of their own infant son. | 132 |
| Baby Sister Says No | Mayer, Mercer | 1.8 | 0.5 | Baby sister says no to everything. Especially when Mama said, "NAP!" | 23 |
| Baby-sitting Is a Dangerous Job | Roberts, Willo Davis | 5.3 | 6 | Thirteen-year-old Darcy thought she was being followed for some strange reason, and then the children she baby-sat for were kidnapped. | 139 |
| Back to School with Betsy | Haywood, Carolyn | 3.7 | 2 | Third-grader Betsy and her friend Billy seem to be always getting into scrapes both inside and outside of school. | 135 |
| Back Yard Angel | Delton, Judy | 4.3 | 2 | Although ten-year-old Angel loves her little brother Rags dearly, the constant responsibility of taking care of him weighs heavily on her young shoulders. | 111 |
| Backward Bird Dog, The | Wallace, Bill | 3.8 | 3 | J. C. the bird dog is having all kinds of problems with accidents and injuries to his nose, which he is to use for hunting. | 101 |
| Backyard Dragon | Sterman, Betsy/Samuel | 4.4 | 5 | Owen finds a dragon in his backyard, but no one believes him. | 189 |
| Bad Beginning, The | Snicket, Lemony | 6.4 | 4 | After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune. | 162 |
| Bad Case of Stripes, A | Shannon, David | 3.8 | 0.5 | Camilla Cream worries so much about what other people think of her that she's about to break out in a bad case of stripes. | 30 |
| Bad Day at Riverbend | Van Allsburg, Chris | 4.2 | 0.5 | Why had the stagecoach stopped in town when it never had before? | 30 |
| Bad Hare Day | Stine, R.L. | 2.9 | 3 | Tim Swanson loves magic tricks and wants to be a real magician. | 117 |
| Bald Bandit, The | Roy, Ron | 3.2 | 1 | Dink and his detective friends hope to receive a big reward by finding the person whose video recorder picked up a picture of the local bank robber. | 71 |
| Ball Game, The | Packard, David | 0.4 | 0.5 | A young player steps up to bat at a crucial point in a baseball game and succeeds in making the play that wins the game. | 23 |
| Ballad of Lucy Whipple, The | Cushman, Karen | 5.8 | 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 |
| Baloney (Henry P.) | Scieszka, Jon | 2.7 | 0.5 | A transmission received from outer space in a combination of different Earth languages tells of an alien schoolboy's fantastic excuse for being late to school again. | 34 |
| Balto and the Great Race | Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody | 6.3 | 2 | This is the story of Balto, the sled dog that saved Nome, Alaska, in 1925 from a diptheria epidemic by delivering medicine through a raging snowstorm. | 94 |
| Bambi | Salten, Felix | 4.9 | 6 | Bambi learns much about life and about people as he grows into a beautiful stag. | 190 |
| Bandit's Moon | Fleischman, Sid | 4.2 | 3 | Twelve-year-old Annyrose relates her adventures with Joaquínto a beautiful stag. | 136 |
| Bangalee (Original Text) | Cosgrove, Stephen | 4.9 | 0.5 | Tidy Bangalee teaches his friends that neatness is admirable. | 28 |
| Banner in the Sky | Ullman, James Ramsey | 5.1 | 11 | Rudi's father had been killed trying to climb the Citadel, a dangerous Swiss mountain. Now it is Rudi's dream to make that climb. | 285 |
| Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare | Stanley/Vennema | 6.2 | 1 | A brief biography of the world's most famous playwright, using only historically correct information. | 45 |
| Barefoot: Escape on the Underground Railroad | Edwards, Pamela Duncan | 4 | 0.5 | A group of animals helps a runaway slave escape his pursuers. | 30 |
| Bargain for Frances, A | Hoban, Russell | 2.8 | 0.5 | Thelma usually outsmarts Frances until Frances decides to teach her a lesson about friendship. | 62 |
| Barking Ghost, The | Stine, R.L. | 2.9 | 2 | Two evil-looking dogs cast a spell on two best friends. | 117 |
| Barn Dance | Martin Jr., Bill | 3.4 | 0.5 | A young boy climbs through his window and follows a voice to the barn, where he learns there is really magic in the air. | 29 |
| Bartholomew and the Oobleck | Seuss, Dr. | 3.2 | 0.5 | The King, tired of rain, snow, sun, and fog, commands his magicians to make something else come down from the sky; but when oobleck falls in sticky greenish droplets, Bartholomew Cubbins shames the King and saves the kingdom. | 46 |
| Baseball Ballerina | Cristaldi, Kathryn | 2.2 | 0.5 | A baseball-loving girl worries that the ballet class her mother forces her to take will ruin her reputation with the other members of her baseball team. | 48 |
| Baseball for Breakfast: The Story of a Boy Who Hated to Wait | Myers, Bill | 4.2 | 0.5 | When Jimmy finds an unusual pocket watch that lets him skip ahead in time, he does only the things he thinks are fun, but he soon discovers the wisdom of God's plan for us to experience both the good times and the bad. | 29 |
| Baseball in April and Other Stories | Soto, Gary | 5.1 | 4 | A collection of 11 short stories focusing on the everyday adventures of Hispanic young people growing up in Fresno, California. | 134 |
| Baseball Saved Us | Mochizuki, Ken | 3.9 | 0.5 | A Japanese-American boy learns to play baseball when he and his family are forced to live in internment camps during World War II. | 30 |
| Basket Counts, The | Christopher, Matt | 4.3 | 2 | Long practice improves Mel's value as a basketball player, but how does he surmount the prejudice of a teammate? | 125 |
| Basketball Mystery, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.9 | 3 | The Aldens investigate when the new coach of their community basketball league has her Most Valuable Player trophy stolen. | 135 |
| Bat Jamboree | Appelt, Kathi | 3.3 | 0.5 | At an abandoned outdoor movie theater, fifty-five bats perform in a toe-tapping, wing-flapping revue-and await the grand finale. | 22 |
| Bat Six | Wolff, Virginia Euwer | 5.1 | 8 | In small-town post-World War II Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface. | 230 |
| Bats: Creatures of the Night | Milton, Joyce | 2.9 | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitats of different kinds of bats. | 48 |
| Battle for the Castle, The | Winthrop, Elizabeth | 4.4 | 6 | Twelve-year-old William uses the magic token to return through the toy castle in his attic to the medieval land of Sir Simon, which is now menaced by a skeleton ship bearing a plague of evil. | 211 |
| Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days! | Manes, Stephen | 4.2 | 1 | Milo, tired of problems with his sister, parents, and classmates, finds a book in the library which promises to make him perfect in just three days. | 76 |
| Be a Wolf! | Strickland, Brad | 4.9 | 4 | When Jo's backpack is confiscated, Wishbone and Jo must confront a scary neighbor who owns a big, mean dog. | 137 |
| Be Careful What You Wish For | Stine, R.L. | 3.7 | 3 | Sam meets someone who can grant her three wishes. Her wishes come true and turn her life into a nightmare. | 121 |
| Beach Ride | Bryant, Bonnie | 4.7 | 4 | A pony saves Carole from drowning on a Florida vacation. | 136 |
| Beans on the Roof | Byars, Betsy | 2.4 | 1 | As each of the five members of the Bean family tries to write a "roof" poem, they come to realize just how nice it is to be a Bean. | 63 |
| Beany and the Dreaded Wedding | Wojciechowski, Susan | 4.6 | 2 | Beany loves her cousin, Amy, but is worried about something going wrong if she agrees to be the flower girl in Amy's wedding. | 127 |
| Bear Called Paddington, A | Bond, Michael | 4.7 | 4 | A bear from darkest Peru goes to live with a family in London. | 128 |
| Bear Detectives, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 2.2 | 0.5 | The Bear family don their detective gear and try to solve the mystery of the missing prize pumpkin. | 37 |
| Bear Scouts, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 2.3 | 0.5 | Papa Bear shows the cubs the ins and outs of camping. | 62 |
| Beardance | Hobbs, Will | 5.7 | 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 |
| Beardream | Hobbs, Will | 3.6 | 0.5 | When Short Tail climbs into the mountains to find the Great Bear, he tires and slips into a dream in which the Great One reveals a marvelous secret. | 27 |
| Bear's Christmas Surprise | Winthrop, Elizabeth | 2.5 | 0.5 | Bear is remorseful after he peeks at his Christmas packages while playing hide-and-seek, but Nora forgives him, he learns a lesson, and they have a happy holiday. | 30 |
| Bears' Christmas, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 1.9 | 0.5 | Papa Bear tries to show his son how to use the sled, skates, and skis Santa brought for Christmas. | 59 |
| Bears' Picnic, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 1.9 | 0.5 | The Bears try to find the right spot for their picnic. | 64 |
| Bears' Vacation, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 2 | 0.5 | Papa Bear demonstrates his seaside safety rules when the Bears take a vacation. | 63 |
| Bearymore | Freeman, Don | 4.2 | 0.5 | A circus bear has trouble hibernating and dreaming up a new act at the same time. | 36 |
| Beast and the Halloween Horror | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 2.7 | 1 | Beast writes an author telling him how much he liked his book (which he really hadn't read), and the author decides to visit him. | 73 |
| Beast from the East, The | Stine, R.L. | 2.7 | 2 | There's something odd about this part of the woods. | 118 |
| Beast in Ms. Rooney's Room, The | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 2.9 | 1 | Richard "Beast" Best has been held back in school and even had to take a special reading class with the "babies." But with the help of a reading teacher, Beast starts to enjoy reading and may even be able to help the second grade win a reading prize. | 76 |
| Beast in the Bathtub, The | Stevens, Kathleen | 3.1 | 0.5 | Lewis gets into mischief with an imaginary beast in the bathtub while his parents are watching television. | 31 |
| Beasty Story, A | Martin/Kellogg | 1.6 | 0.5 | A group of mice venture into a dark, dark wood, where they find a dark brown house with a dark red stair leading past other dark colors to a spooky surprise. | 34 |
| Beauty | McKinley, Robin | 6.2 | 11 | A daughter gives her life to save her father and is doomed to live in a monster's castle. | 247 |
| Beauty and the Beast | Brett, Jan | 5.3 | 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 |
| Because I Love You | Lucado, Max | 3.4 | 0.5 | Shaddai, a wise and loving man, builds a wonderful village for his children, but when one of them chooses to go out into the dangerous wilderness, Shaddai does not abandon him. | 32 |
| Because of Winn-Dixie | DiCamillo, Kate | 3.9 | 3 | Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie. | 182 |
| Bedhead | Palatini, Margie | 2.1 | 0.5 | After many unsuccessful attempts to control his unruly hair one morning, Oliver and his family think that they have solved the problem, until he gets to school and finds that it is school picture day. | 36 |
| Bedtime for Frances | Hoban, Russell | 2.7 | 0.5 | Frances employs every ruse she can think of to put off bedtime, until the thought of a spanking makes her sleepy. | 28 |
| Beef Stew | Brenner, Barbara | 1.8 | 0.5 | When his friends decline to come over for a beef stew dinner, Nicky feels bad until a surprise visitor shows up. | 32 |
| Beethoven Lives Upstairs | Nichol, Barbara | 4.6 | 1 | The letters that ten-year-old Christoph and his uncle exchange show how Christoph's feelings for Mr. Beethoven, the eccentric boarder that shares his house, change from anger and embarrassment to compassion and admiration. | 40 |
| Beetles, Lightly Toasted | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 5.7 | 5 | Andy competes with his know-it-all cousin in the fifth-grade essay contest when he cooks some unusual foods and tests them on unaware friends and family. | 134 |
| Beezus and Ramona | Cleary, Beverly | 4.8 | 3 | Nine-year-old Beezus finds it difficult to love her troublesome younger sister all the time, but her mother explains why that is all right. | 159 |
| Beezy at Bat | McDonald, Megan | 2 | 0.5 | This book includes three stories in which Beezy cracks nuts and riddles, picks berries, and plays baseball. | 48 |
| Beezy Magic | McDonald, Megan | 2.3 | 0.5 | This book includes three stories about Beezy, who lives in Florida with her best friend Merlin, Gran, and Funnybone. | 48 |
| Beggar Queen, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 5.3 | 9 | In this continuation of Westmark and The Kestrel, Mickle, once a common street urchin, now rules Westmark as the wise Queen Augusta. | 237 |
| Behind the Attic Wall | Cassedy, Sylvia | 4.9 | 9 | Maggie, a "problem child," is passed from boarding schools to relatives and ends up living with aunts in a mysterious house with strange noises. | 315 |
| Behind the Bedroom Wall | Williams, Laura E. | 4.4 | 4 | Korinna must decide whether to report her parents to her Hitler youth group when she discovers that they are hiding Jews in a secret space behind Korinna's bedroom wall. | 169 |
| Behind the Lines | Holland, Isabelle | 4.9 | 6 | Katie works as a live-in maid for the wealthy Lacey family in order to supplement the family income. She also realizes that friendship can transcend race and class. | 194 |
| Belle Prater's Boy | White, Ruth | 4.4 | 5 | Gypsy is puzzled by Woodrow's calm acceptance of his mother's disappearance. When Woodrow finally reveals a secret about his mother, Gypsy begins to understand. | 196 |
| Bellmaker, The | Jacques, Brian | 5.7 | 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 |
| Ben and Me | Lawson, Robert | 6.9 | 3 | Amos the mouse observes and records the life of his great friend, Benjamin Franklin. | 113 |
| Benjamin Franklin (In Their Own Words) | Roop, Peter/Connie | 5.4 | 2 | This is a biography of Benjamin Franklin, using his newspaper articles and personal recollections. | 125 |
| Benny Uncovers a Mystery | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.8 | 2 | Two brothers take summer jobs at a department store, where a series of peculiar events brings them under suspicion. | 128 |
| Ben's Trumpet | Isadora, Rachel | 2.2 | 0.5 | Ben wants to be a trumpeter, but plays only an imaginary instrument until one of the musicians in a neighborhood night club discovers his ambition. | 36 |
| Beowulf: A New Telling | Nye, Robert | 5.6 | 3 | Not a literal translation, but a retelling of the old epic that captures the spirit of the original in language accessible to young readers. | 94 |
| Berenstain Bear Scouts and the Humongous Pumpkin, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 4 | 1 | Papa planted a special pumpkin seed guaranteed to grow the biggest pumpkin ever, but the seed is part of a plot of the evil Weasel McGreed. | 96 |
| Berenstain Bear Scouts and the Sci-Fi Pizza, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 3.9 | 1 | Evil Weasel McGreed has cooked up something to destroy the Scouts. The monstrous flying pizza is getting ready to attack. | 98 |
| Berenstain Bear Scouts in Giant Bat Cave, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 4.4 | 1 | Ralph Ripoff wants to turn the cave, home to Bear Country's bats, into an underground theme park! | 96 |
| Berenstain Bear Scouts Meet Bigpaw, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 4.4 | 1 | The grown-ups of Bear Country want to attack Bigpaw, but is he really dangerous? | 96 |
| Berenstain Bears Accept No Substitutes, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 3.7 | 1 | Brother heads for trouble when he tortures the substitute teacher. | 102 |
| Berenstain Bears and the Bad Habit, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 3.9 | 0.5 | With the help of her family, Sister Bear breaks her habit of biting her nails. | 29 |
| Berenstain Bears and the Bully, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 3.4 | 0.5 | The Berenstain Bears try to set a bully straight. | 29 |
| Berenstain Bears and the Drug Free Zone, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 4.4 | 1 | Brother and Sister Bear just say no to drugs. | 102 |
| Berenstain Bears and the Female Fullback, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 4.1 | 1 | Sexual stereotyping in Bear Country when a girl signs up for the football team. | 102 |
| Berenstain Bears and the Ghost of the Forest, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 2.8 | 0.5 | Papa Bear's attempt to scare a band of young campers by telling them about ghosts in the woods comes to an unexpected conclusion with a double ghost lesson. | 29 |
| Berenstain Bears and the Messy Room, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 4.1 | 0.5 | The entire Bear family becomes involved in an attempt to clean and organize the cubs' messy room. A First Time Book. | 29 |
| Berenstain Bears and the Missing Dinosaur Bone, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 1.8 | 0.5 | The three Bear Detectives search for a dinosaur bone that is missing from the Bear Museum. | 36 |
| Berenstain Bears and the Nerdy Nephew, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 3.9 | 1 | Professor Factual's nerdy nephew has a special talent. | 102 |
| Berenstain Bears and the New Girl in Town, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 3.8 | 1 | Brother falls in love with a girl, but their relationship is thwarted by feuding families. | 102 |
| Berenstain Bears and the Prize Pumpkin, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 4.2 | 0.5 | Mama Bear's reminders about the true meaning of Thanksgiving are left in the dust as the spirit of competition takes over and Papa Bear and the cubs begin a campaign to win first prize in the Thanksgiving Pumpkin contest. | 29 |
| Berenstain Bears and the Red-Handed Thief, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 3.7 | 1 | Brother and Sister find out who is breaking into the lockers at school. | 102 |
| Berenstain Bears and the School Scandal Sheet, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 4.4 | 1 | Frustrated by their lack of artistic freedom on the staff of the school newspaper, Brother Bear and his friends start an underground paper and discover some basic truths about freedom of the press and responsibility. | 104 |
| Berenstain Bears and the Sitter, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 3.4 | 0.5 | Mom and Dad are going out. Gramps and Gran are, too. Who will stay home with the cubs? Just anyone won't do. . . . | 29 |
| Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 1.1 | 0.5 | One by one, three brave little bears have second thoughts about exploring the interior of a spooky old tree. | 38 |
| Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Friends, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 3.5 | 0.5 | Sister Bear and Lizzy Bruin learn one can't always have their way if they want to have friends. | 29 |
| Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Grownups, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 3.9 | 0.5 | The squabbling in the Bear household between parents and cubs subsides after Mama and Papa Bear and Brother and Sister Bear perform humorous role-playing skits. | 29 |
| Berenstain Bears and the Truth, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 3.6 | 0.5 | Brother and Sister Bear learn how important it is to tell the truth after they accidentally break Mama's favorite lamp. | 29 |
| Berenstain Bears and the Week at Grandma's, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 3.8 | 0.5 | Brother and Sister Bear are reluctant to spend a week with their grandparents, but they learn much from them; and the older bears learn how wonderful it is to be grandparents. | 29 |
| Berenstain Bears and the Wheelchair Commando, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 3.8 | 1 | Harry, a new student at Bear Country School who is disabled and uses a wheelchair, has trouble making friends until the others discover that he is really very much like them. | 104 |
| Berenstain Bears and Too Much Birthday, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 3.6 | 0.5 | Papa Bear and the cubs learn there can be too much birthday when they go overboard in planning Sister's sixth birthday party. | 29 |
| Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 4 | 0.5 | Mama Bear lays down the law when she notices her family is getting chubby. | 30 |
| Berenstain Bears and Too Much Pressure, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 3.9 | 0.5 | The Bears' lives grew more and more hectic, and there's no time left for family fun. | 29 |
| Berenstain Bears and Too Much TV, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 3.8 | 0.5 | Mama Bear decides her family spends too much time in front of the TV, so she bans it for a week. The Bears find other ways to keep busy; and when the week is up, they watch less TV without missing it. | 29 |
| Berenstain Bears at the Super-Duper Market, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 1.8 | 0.5 | In this story, the family goes to the market to shop. | 24 |
| Berenstain Bears Don't Pollute (Anymore), The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 4.5 | 0.5 | Brother and Sister Bear create Earthsavers Club to deal with pollution in Bear Country. | 29 |
| Berenstain Bears Forget Their Manners, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 4.3 | 0.5 | Mama Bear decides to start a Bear Family Politeness Plan with a set of simple rules and penalties. | 29 |
| Berenstain Bears Get Stage Fright, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 3.8 | 0.5 | After relentless teasing of Sister Bear, it is Brother Bear who ends up with opening night stage fright. | 29 |
| Berenstain Bears Go to the Doctor, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 3.2 | 0.5 | Take a deep breath. Stick out your tongue. The young Bears see Doctor Grizzly for a checkup. | 29 |
| Berenstain Bears Gotta Dance!, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 3.6 | 1 | Brother's new girlfriend makes him a quick study as a dance student. | 102 |
| Berenstain Bears in the Dark, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 3.8 | 0.5 | When Brother Bear brings a spooky book from the library, bedtime and the dark become ominous and threatening to Sister Bear. | 29 |
| Berenstain Bears Learn About Strangers, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 3.6 | 0.5 | When Papa Bear tells the children why they should never talk to strangers, Mama Bear brings reassuring sense to the problem. | 29 |
| Berenstain Bears' Mad, Mad, Mad Toy Craze, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 3.9 | 0.5 | Brother and Sister Bear, and even Papa, get caught up buying as many of the popular new Beary Bubbies as they can. | 29 |
| Berenstain Bears Meet Santa Bear, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 4.1 | 0.5 | Sister Bear enjoys Christmas preparations, especially getting her list ready--but on Christmas morning she realizes what Christmas is really all about. | 29 |
| Berenstain Bears' New Neighbors, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 3.4 | 0.5 | A panda family moves next door and teaches the bears a lesson about acceptance of differences. | 29 |
| Berenstain Bears on the Moon, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 1.9 | 0.5 | Two Berenstain Bears and their pup take a rocket ship to the moon. | 38 |
| Berenstain Bears Ready, Get Set, Go!, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 1.2 | 0.5 | The Berenstain family engage in competitive sports events while demonstrating to the reader the comparison of adjectives. | 28 |
| Berenstain Bears Think of Those in Need, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 3.9 | 0.5 | When Mama Bear decides that the family has accumulated too many old toys, books, and games, they sort through all their extra stuff and take it to the Old Bears' Home, the Beartown Young Cubs Hospital, and the Bears Who Care store. | 30 |
| Berenstain Bears Trick or Treat, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 4 | 0.5 | The Berenstain Bear cubs have an adventure on Halloween night that proves Mother's adage, 'appearances can be deceiving.' | 29 |
| Berenstain Bears' Trouble at School, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 4 | 0.5 | When Brother Bear ignores make-up work after being out sick with a cold, he learns the consequences of neglecting responsibilities. | 29 |
| Berenstain Bears' Trouble with Money, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 4 | 0.5 | Brother and Sister Bear learn some important lessons about earning and spending money. | 29 |
| Berenstain Bears' Trouble with Pets, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 3.6 | 0.5 | Brother and Sister Bear learn that a new puppy is not a plaything but a responsibility. | 29 |
| Berlioz the Bear | Brett, Jan | 3 | 0.5 | Berlioz the bear and his fellow musicians are due to play for the town ball when their bandwagon becomes stuck in a hole in the road. A strange buzzing in Berlioz's double bass turns into a surprise that saves the day. | 30 |
| Bernie Magruder & the Drive-Thru Funeral Parlor | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 5.6 | 4 | Bernie thinks the strange happenings at the funeral parlor next door to his family's hotel are connected to a recent robbery, Bernie determines to become famous by catching the thief. Previously released as FACE IN THE BESSLEDORF FUNERAL PARLOR. | 144 |
| Bertie Was a Watchdog | Walton, Rick | 2.1 | 0.5 | Bertie, a dog as small as a watch, outsmarts an overconfident robber. | 50 |
| Best Christmas Pageant Ever, The | Robinson, Barbara | 5.1 | 2 | The Herdman children, given to horrible pranks, take over the Sunday school Christmas pageant but eventually learn the true meaning of Christmas. | 80 |
| Best Friends | Kellogg, Steven | 3.4 | 0.5 | Kathy feels lonely and betrayed when her best friend goes away for the summer and has a wonderful time. | 29 |
| Best Halloween of All, The | Wojciechowski, Susan | 3.7 | 0.5 | A young boy recalls all the Halloween costume agonies he's been through, until, at last, he gets to do things his own way. | 25 |
| Best of the Best in Basketball, The | Rutledge, Rachel | 7.1 | 2 | The author discusses the past and future of women's basketball and presents biographies of eight of the sport's most famous players: Cynthia Cooper, Teresa Edwards, Lisa Leslie, Rebecca Lobo, Nikki McCray, Dawn Staley, Kate Starbird, and Sheryl Swoopes. | 64 |
| Best of the Best in Figure Skating, The | Rutledge, Rachel | 7.5 | 2 | This book discusses the past and future of women's figure skating. It also presents biographies of eight famous skaters: Oksana Baiul, Surya Bonaly, Nancy Kerrigan, Michelle Kwan, Tara Lipinski, Chen Lu, Katarina Witt, and Kristi Yamaguchi. | 64 |
| Best of the Best in Soccer, The | Rutledge, Rachel | 7.5 | 2 | The author discusses the past and future of women's soccer and presents biographies of eight of the sport's most famous players: Michelle Akers, Joy Fawcett, Julie Foudy, Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly, Shannon MacMillan, Carla Overbeck, and Brianna Scurry. | 64 |
| Best School Year Ever, The | Robinson, Barbara | 5.4 | 3 | The terrible kids at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School return with more wild behavior and outrageous lies. | 117 |
| Best Vacation Ever, The | Murphy, Stuart J. | 1.8 | 0.5 | A girl uses data-collecting and problem-solving skills to determine where her family should go for a vacation. | 33 |
| Betsy and Billy | Haywood, Carolyn | 4.2 | 2 | Betsy, Billy, and their friends enjoy and learn from the many activities in the second grade. | 119 |
| Betsy Ross: Designer of Our Flag | Weil, Ann | 3.8 | 3 | Recreates the childhood of the woman traditionally remembered as the maker of the first American flag. | 192 |
| Betsy's Busy Summer | Haywood, Carolyn | 3.7 | 3 | Betsy and her friends have a splendid summer having watermelon parties, selling lemonade, and having fun. | 163 |
| Betsy-Tacy | Lovelace, Maud Hart | 4 | 3 | Two young girls become inseparable friends. | 113 |
| Betsy-Tacy and Tib | Lovelace, Maud Hart | 4.2 | 3 | The adventures of young girls growing up in Deep Valley, Minnesota. | 127 |
| Betty Doll | Polacco, Patricia | 4.3 | 0.5 | Whenever Mary Ellen needed Betty Doll, she was there. Mary Ellen's daughter opens a package and rediscovers the old doll, along with a letter written by her mother right before she died. | 40 |
| Beware of Kissing Lizard Lips | Shalant, Phyllis | 4.2 | 5 | Zach is tired of being the shortest, scrawniest boy in sixth grade, and when he discovers girls he aims to change his image. | 183 |
| Beware of the Bears! | MacDonald, Alan | 3 | 0.5 | The three bears seek revenge on Goldilocks for ransacking their house, but find they have made a dreadful mistake. | 32 |
| Beware of the Storybook Wolves | Child, Lauren | 4.5 | 0.5 | Herb loves Mom to read scary stories to him at bedtime as long as the books are taken out of his room at night. One night Mom forgets, the book stays open on the bedside table, and the storybook wolves come around for a most unwanted visit. | 32 |
| Beware, the Snowman | Stine, R.L. | 3.2 | 2 | Jaclyn lives in a tiny village on the edge of the Arctic Circle where the snowmen are really creepy. | 113 |
| BFG, The | Dahl, Roald | 4.8 | 6 | Luckily for Sophie, the BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who carries her off is nothing like his giant neighbors who are headed for England to gobble children and must be stopped. | 208 |
| Bicycle Man, The | Say, Allen | 3.8 | 0.5 | The amazing tricks two American soldiers do on a borrowed bicycle are a fitting finale for the school sports-day festivities in a small village in occupied Japan. | 38 |
| Bicycle Mystery | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.2 | 2 | Many complications follow when a dog attaches himself to the Aldens on a bicycle trip. | 127 |
| Big Anthony | De Paola, Tomie | 3 | 0.5 | Big Anthony, well meaning but inattentive, journeys around Italy causing one problem after another before meeting Strega Nona. | 29 |
| Big Anthony and the Magic Ring | De Paola, Tomie | 3.3 | 0.5 | When Big Anthony borrows Strega Nona's magic ring to turn himself into a handsome man, he gets more trouble than fun. | 32 |
| Big Balloon Race, The | Coerr, Eleanor | 2.6 | 0.5 | Ariel almost causes her famous mother to lose a balloon race and then helps her to win it. | 62 |
| Big Bird's Copycat Day | Lerner, Sharon | 1.7 | 0.5 | Big Bird barks like a dog, buzzes like a bee, and mimics everything else he sees in this Sesame Street rhyme. | 29 |
| Big Blue | Gill, Shelley | 4.1 | 0.5 | A young girl's dream to swim with a blue whale may finally come true when her mother, a writer, arranges for them to accompany her friends, who are marine biologists, on a research trip to Mexico. | 32 |
| Big Bob and the Magic Valentine's Day Potato | Pinkwater, Daniel | 2.5 | 0.5 | To liven up Valentine's Day in Mr. Salami's second grade class, Big Gloria describes the imminent arrival of the Magic Valentine Potato. | 28 |
| Big Bob and the Thanksgiving Potatoes | Pinkwater, Daniel | 2.3 | 0.5 | Big Bob and Big Gloria, who are friends because they are both large for their age, start a new trend when their second-grade class is supposed to make turkey decorations for Thanksgiving. | 28 |
| Big Boy | Mollel, Tololwa M. | 3.3 | 0.5 | Little Oli wants to be big enough to go bird hunting with his brother Mbachu, but has to take a nap instead. | 27 |
| Big Brother's in Love | Pascal/Suzanne | 3.9 | 3 | The Wakefield twins try to end their brother's lovesickness. | 133 |
| Big Egg | Coxe, Molly | 0.4 | 0.5 | A mother hen wakes up one morning to find a gigantic egg among the others in her nest and goes in search of the egg's origin. | 32 |
| Big Honey Hunt, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 1.7 | 0.5 | Humorous story of the Bear family's search for honey. | 64 |
| Big Mile Race, The | Kessler, Leonard | 1.7 | 0.5 | A story of animal friends preparing for a big race and how they got through the big event. | 47 |
| Big Pumpkin | Silverman, Erica | 2.8 | 0.5 | A Halloween tale about a witch who plants a pumpkin seed in hopes of a tasty pie. | 27 |
| Big Red | Kjelgaard, Jim | 5.6 | 9 | This famous wilderness adventure portrays the story of a boy and his dog and their feud with Old Majesty, the legendary bear. | 218 |
| Big Snow, The | Hader, Berta/Elmer | 4.3 | 0.5 | Forest animals survive a cold winter with the help of kind people in the stone house. | 43 |
| Big Wander, The | Hobbs, Will | 5.1 | 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 |
| Big Wave, The | Buck, Pearl S. | 5.2 | 2 | A Japanese boy learns the joy of living after surviving a tidal wave that tragically destroys his family and his village. | 57 |
| Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella | Johnston, Tony | 3.3 | 0.5 | Tis version of the familiar story in which a mistreated step-child finds happiness with the "man" of her dreams is set in the old-growth forest and features Bigfoot characters. | 29 |
| Bigfoot Doesn't Square Dance | Dadey/Jones | 3.7 | 1 | The Bailey School kids are investigating the strange adult that lives in Bailey City, for he may be the legendary Bigfoot. | 67 |
| Bigger | Calvert, Patricia | 5.7 | 6 | A boy fails to persuade his Confederate father to return home to a life of peace -- and defeat. | 137 |
| Biggest Bear, The | Ward, Lynd | 3.9 | 0.5 | Johnny sets out to kill a big bear and insteads befriends him. Caldecott Medal Winner. NCTE Adventuring with Books. | 84 |
| Biggest Klutz in Fifth Grade, The | Wallace, Bill | 4.1 | 4 | This is a humorous story about the trials and tribulations of boys growing up. | 148 |
| Biggest, Best Snowman, The | Cuyler, Margery | 3.6 | 0.5 | Since Little Nell is always being told she is too little to help, she thinks she is too small to build a snowman. With help and encouragement from her forest friends, she builds the biggest, best snowman ever. | 30 |
| Bike Lesson, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 1.6 | 0.5 | Papa Bear teaches junior to ride his bike. | 61 |
| Billy and Blaze | Anderson, C.W. | 3.7 | 0.5 | A young boy who loves horses gets a pony of his own. | 48 |
| Billy Lazroe and the King of the Sea: A Tale of the Northwest | Kimmel, Eric A. | 4.4 | 0.5 | Billy Lazroe, a sailor from Oregon, jumps into the ocean at the command of Davy Jones and falls in love with one of Davy's daughters. | 35 |
| Billy the Ghost and Me | Greer/Ruddick | 2.3 | 0.5 | Young Sarah, with the help of friend Billy the Ghost, proves herself as a deputy by planning the perfect capture of two bank robbers in her western town of Cactus Junction. | 48 |
| Bionic Bunny Show, The | Brown, Marc | 2.8 | 0.5 | The reader gets to see all the production efforts that enable an ordinary rabbit to become Bionic Bunny on his television series. | 31 |
| Birds' Christmas Carol, The | Wiggin, Kate Douglas | 7.3 | 2 | Story of a young girl who has everything she could ever want, and wants to share her wonderful things with a family that does not have as much as she does. | 69 |
| Birds of Antarctica (Antarctica) | Stone, Lynn M. | 4.1 | 0.5 | This book briefly describes the birds of the Antarctica region. | 24 |
| Birds of Killingworth, The | San Souci, Robert D. | 4.9 | 0.5 | When her father persuades their colony to kill all the birds because they are eating the crops, Almira joins the schoolmaster in proving that the birds are not only beautiful, but, like all creatures, serve a larger purpose. | 32 |
| Birthday Present for Mama, A | Lorian, Nicole | 2.4 | 0.5 | Little Rabbit wants to give his mama a present, but none of his animal friends can make a good suggestion, until he talks to a fox. A Step Into Reading Book--Step 2. | 48 |
| Biscuit Finds a Friend | Capucilli, Alyssa Satin | 0.8 | 0.5 | A puppy helps a little duck find its way home to the pond. | 24 |
| Black and White | Macaulay, David | 3.4 | 0.5 | Four brief "stories" about parents, cows, and trains, or is it really all one story? | 32 |
| Black Arrow, The | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 9 | 14 | During the War of the Roses, Richard Shelton's cross-bow and stout heart are pitted against the ambitious and wily Sir Daniel. | 327 |
| Black Beauty (Great Illustrated Classics) | Sewell/Laiken | 5 | 2 | This classic tale, told from a horse's point of view, is about a life filled with meanness and cruelty, but also love and tenderness. | 232 |
| Black Beauty (Unabridged) | Sewell, Anna | 7.7 | 11 | A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters. | 240 |
| Black Cauldron, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 5.2 | 7 | In Prydain, a young Assistant Pig-Keeper achieves honor in a quest to destroy the evil Black Cauldron. | 182 |
| Black Horses for the King | McCaffrey, Anne | 6.9 | 8 | Galwyn, son of a Roman Celt, escapes from his tyrannical uncle and joins Lord Artos, later known as King Arthur. He uses his talent with languages and way with horses to help secure and care for the Libyan horses that Artos hopes to use in battle. | 217 |
| Black Pearl Mystery, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 4.1 | 2 | While the Boxcar Children are visiting Hawaii with their grandfather, they uncover the legend of the black pearl and the mysteries that surround it. | 121 |
| Black Pearl, The | O'Dell, Scott | 5.4 | 4 | In claiming as his own the magnificent black pearl he finds, a sixteen-year-old youth enrages the sea devil that legend says is its owner. | 96 |
| Black Stallion Mystery, The | Farley, Walter | 5.5 | 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 |
| Black Stallion Returns, The | Farley, Walter | 6.1 | 8 | When his rightful owner repossesses the Black Stallion, eighteen-year-old Alec travels across the deserts of Arabia to find the great stallion and helps to solve a tribal feud. | 199 |
| Black Stallion Revolts, The | Farley, Walter | 5.3 | 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 |
| Black Stallion, The | Farley, Walter | 5.2 | 7 | Story of the wildest of all wild creatures--a stallion unbroken, untamed! | 196 |
| Black Stallion's Blood Bay Colt, The | Farley, Walter | 6 | 12 | A young driver trains Bonfire with the hope of becoming a harness-racing champion. | 278 |
| Black Star, Bright Dawn | O'Dell, Scott | 4.3 | 4 | A thrilling story of a teenage girl's first running in the Iditarod--the challenging long-distance dog sled race held every year in Alaska. | 134 |
| Blackwater Swamp | Wallace, Bill | 4.2 | 5 | Ted and his sister find peril when they move to the Louisiana bayou. | 185 |
| Blair's Nightmare | Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | 5.3 | 8 | David tries to help Blair find his "imaginary" dog before they are all found by criminals hiding in their neighborhood. | 192 |
| Blaze and the Lost Quarry | Anderson, C.W. | 3.4 | 0.5 | Billy and his pony, Blaze, discover the way to an abandoned quarry where they perform a brave deed. | 46 |
| Blaze Finds the Trail | Anderson, C.W. | 3.9 | 0.5 | Billy and his pony, Blaze, explore on an old woodland road. Their adventures soon lead them off the trail and deep into the woods. Before they know it, the sky grows dark with a coming storm, and Billy cannot find the way out of the woods. | 44 |
| Blind Men and the Elephant, The | Backstein, Karen | 2.6 | 0.5 | A retelling of the fable from India about six blind men who each get a limited understanding of what an elephant is by feeling only one part of it. | 30 |
| Blizzard! | Murphy, Jim | 7.6 | 4 | This book presents a history, based on personal accounts and newspaper articles, of the massive snowstorm that hit the Northeast in 1888, focusing on the events in New York City. | 136 |
| Blob That Ate Everyone, The | Stine, R.L. | 3 | 2 | Zackie finds a typewriter in a burned-out Antique Store, but when he takes it home and starts writing, everything he write starts coming true. | 114 |
| Bloomability | Creech, Sharon | 5.2 | 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 |
| Blossoms and the Green Phantom, The | Byars, Betsy | 4.6 | 4 | While Junior puts the finishing touches on his new invention, the Green Phantom, his grandfather disappears. | 146 |
| Blow Me a Kiss, Miss Lilly | Carlstrom, Nancy White | 3.6 | 0.5 | When her best friend, an old lady named Miss Lilly, passes away, Sara learns that the memory of a loved one never dies. | 28 |
| Blue Bay Mystery | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 2.9 | 2 | The Aldens find a castaway on a South Sea Island. | 157 |
| Blue Heron | Avi | 4 | 5 | While spending the month of August on the Massachusetts shore with her father, stepmother, and their new baby, almost thirteen-year-old Maggie finds beauty in and draws strength from a great blue heron, even as the family around her unravels. | 186 |
| Blue Lightning | Russell, Barbara Timberlake | 4.7 | 4 | When a bolt of lightning provides twelve-year-old Calvin with an out-of-body experience, he meets the spirit of the father he never knew and brings a troubled ghost named Rory back to the living. | 122 |
| Blue Moose | Pinkwater, Daniel | 4.4 | 0.5 | The adventures of a talking blue moose who moves in with Mr. Breton and helps him run his restaurant on the edge of the big north woods. | 47 |
| Blue Ribbon Blues | Spinelli, Jerry | 2.7 | 1 | When Tooter Pepperday and her family move to her aunt's farm, she decides to show everyone and win a blue ribbon at the country fair. | 69 |
| Blue Skies, French Fries | Delton, Judy | 3.1 | 1 | Just before school starts, the Pee Wee Scouts have a big Labor Day Pee Wee Weenie Roast. | 87 |
| Blue Sword, The | McKinley, Robin | 6.8 | 17 | Harry, bored with her sheltered life on the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers. | 272 |
| Blue Willow | Gates, Doris | 6.5 | 6 | A family forced to become migratory workers finally finds a permanent home again. | 172 |
| Blueberries for Sal | McCloskey, Robert | 4.1 | 0.5 | A bear cub and a little girl each mistakes the other's mother for its own. | 28 |
| Blue-Eyed Daisy, A | Rylant, Cynthia | 4.6 | 2 | Twelve-year-old Ellie wonders if her age is hard for everyone as she deals with growing up, her father's drinking, and her sisters' infatuation with boys. | 99 |
| Boat People | Reiff, Tana | 2.7 | 1 | After narrowly escaping their homeland, a Vietnamese family runs into problems with American fishermen. | 75 |
| Bobby Baseball | Smith, Robert Kimmel | 3.9 | 5 | Ten-year-old Bobby is passionate about baseball and convinced that he is a great player. The only problem is getting the chance to prove his skill, especially to his father. | 165 |
| Bodies in the Bessledorf Hotel, The | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 5.5 | 4 | Dead bodies which appear and disappear mysteriously are threatening to lose Sam's father his job as the manager of the Bessledorf Hotel. | 132 |
| Body Cycles (Cycles) | Ross, Michael Elsohn | 4.7 | 0.5 | This book discusses body cycles, how the body repairs and renews itself again and again. | 30 |
| Bogeymen Don't Play Football | Dadey/Jones | 3.4 | 1 | The Bailey School Kids investigate the new student teacher who they believe may be out to get them. | 70 |
| Boggart and the Monster, The | Cooper, Susan | 6.2 | 7 | The invisible and mischievous spirit living in the Scottish Castle Keep sets out to help save Nessie the Loch Ness Monster, one of his few remaining friends. | 185 |
| Boggart, The | Cooper, Susan | 6.1 | 8 | After visiting her family's castle in Scotland and returning home to Canada, twelve-year-old Emily finds that she has accidentally brought back with her a boggart, an invisible and mischievous spirit with a fondness for practical jokes. | 196 |
| Bone Collector, The | Deaver, Jeffrey | 4.6 | 17 | Lincoln Rhyme is dragged into the case of a diabolical killer known as the Bone Collector, who is stalking prey on the streets of New York City. | 423 |
| Bone Detectives: How Forensic Anthropologists Solve Crimes and, Th | Jackson, Donna M. | 7.8 | 2 | Explores the world of forensic anthropology and its applications in solving crimes. | 45 |
| Bones of Fred McFee, The | Bunting, Eve | 3.1 | 0.5 | A toy skeleton at Halloween provides menace and mystery. | 32 |
| Bony-Legs | Cole, Joanna | 2.5 | 0.5 | This is the story of young Sasha's encounter with the witch, Bony-legs. | 46 |
| Boo to a Goose | Fox, Mem | 2.3 | 0.5 | A boy relates a long list of things he would do before he would say boo to a goose. | 33 |
| Book About Your Skeleton, A | Gross, Ruth B. | 3.9 | 0.5 | Easy-to-read introduction to the human skeletal system. | 38 |
| Book of Pirates, The | Hague, Michael | 8.9 | 6 | It is glorious to be a pirate king, especially in this collection of eleven classic stories and poems. | 153 |
| Book of the Lion, The | Cadnum, Michael | 6.9 | 8 | In twelfth-century England, seventeen-year-old Edmund finds himself traveling to the Holy Land as squire to a knight crusader on his way to join the forces of Richard Lionheart. | 204 |
| Book of Three, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 5.3 | 7 | Taran sets out with some strangely assorted companions to save his beloved land. | 190 |
| Book! Book! Book! | Bruss, Deborah | 2.2 | 0.5 | When the children go back to school, the animals on the farm are bored, so they go into the library in town trying to find something to do. | 32 |
| Born to Be a Butterfly | Wallace, Karen | 2.5 | 0.5 | Simple text and photographs describes the stages by which a butterfly develops from an egg. | 32 |
| Borning Room, The | Fleischman, Paul | 5 | 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 |
| Borreguita and the Coyote | Aardema, Verna | 3.1 | 0.5 | A little lamb uses her clever wiles to keep a coyote from eating her up. | 24 |
| Borrowers Afield, The | Norton, Mary | 6.4 | 7 | These are the further adventures of the family of miniature people who, after losing their home under the kitchen floor of an old English house, are forced to move out to the fields. | 238 |
| Borrowers Afloat, The | Norton, Mary | 6 | 6 | Mary Norton's beloved family of miniature people set out on a voyage in a tea kettle in search of a new home. | 191 |
| Borrowers Avenged, The | Norton, Mary | 5.3 | 10 | Escaping from an attic where they had been held captive over the long, dark winter, a family of tiny people set up house in an old rectory. | 297 |
| Borrowers, The | Norton, Mary | 5.3 | 5 | There are not many Borrowers left, as they like to live in quiet places. This is the story of the mysterious tiny people who live in old houses everywhere,... | 180 |
| Boston Jane: An Adventure | Holm, Jennifer L. | 4.9 | 8 | Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and in the rugged life she lives there. | 273 |
| Boston Jane: Wilderness Days | Holm, Jennifer L. | 5 | 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 |
| Boston Red Sox Baseball Team, The | Grabowski, John | 6.5 | 1 | This book surveys the history of the legendary Boston Red Sox, covering some of the key players and coaches and some of the best games the team has played. | 48 |
| Bound for America | Haskins/Benson | 8.4 | 2 | Discusses the European enslavement of Africans, including their capture, branding, conditions on slave ships, shipboard mutinies, and arrival in the Americas. | 48 |
| Bound for Oregon | Van Leeuwen, Jean | 5.3 | 6 | Historical novel about a family's tumultuous journey along the Oregon Trail in 1852. | 167 |
| Boundless Grace | Hoffman, Mary | 3.8 | 0.5 | Grace is invited for a visit with her father and his new family in Africa. | 24 |
| Boxcar Children, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.9 | 2 | The resourceful Alden children survive without adult supervision and make a home for themselves in an abandoned boxcar. | 154 |
| Boy | Dahl, Roald | 6 | 6 | Tales of his childhood by the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. | 176 |
| Boy Named Boomer, A | Esiason, Boomer | 2.9 | 0.5 | The author describes some childhood memories: Valentine's Day at school, fishing with his father, building a fort, letting frogs loose in his class, and Thanksgiving with his grandmother. | 44 |
| Boy of a Thousand Faces, The | Selznick, Brian | 4.8 | 0.5 | Obsessed with horror films, ten-year-old Alonzo dreams of transforming himself into "The Boy of a Thousand Faces" and gets his wish in an unexpected way. | 35 |
| Boy of the Three-Year Nap, The | Snyder, Dianne | 3.7 | 0.5 | A poor Japanese woman maneuvers events to change the lazy habits of her son. | 32 |
| Boy Trap, The | Matson, Nancy | 4.8 | 3 | Girls are naturally smarter and more polite in class and Emma Adams sets out to prove it scientifically. Emma is sure her experiments will be a success, but the boys are out to prove her wrong! | 108 |
| Boy Who Could Fly Without a Motor, The | Taylor, Theodore | 5.6 | 2 | In 1935, living at a lighthouse near San Francisco, a lonely nine-year-old boy inadvertently summons a magician who teaches him the secret of flying. | 138 |
| Boy Who Cried "Wolf!", The | Schecter, Ellen | 2.8 | 0.5 | Uses rebuses to retell the Aesop fable about a young boy whose false cries for help bring him to an unfortunate end. | 32 |
| Boy Who Owned the School, The | Paulsen, Gary | 5.5 | 2 | Jacob Freisten, often in a fog, tries to ease through high school unnoticed; but a beautiful classmate takes notice of him and his life begins to change. | 85 |
| Boy with the Helium Head, The | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 3.8 | 0.5 | Jonathan is going to the doctor for a flu shot and knows that this will be a terrible day. | 62 |
| Boy-Crazy Stacey | Martin, Ann M. | 3.9 | 3 | While Stacey devotes all her energies to a lifeguard, and Mary Anne tends to seven children, their friendship is really put to the test. | 138 |
| Boys Against Girls | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 5 | 4 | The Hatford brothers cannot imagine spending Thanksgiving dinner with the Malloy sisters as the practical jokes and rivalries between the two families continue. Sequel to "The Girls Get Even." | 147 |
| Boys at Work | Soto, Gary | 4.5 | 3 | Rudy Herrera is in major trouble when he accidentally breaks an expensive Discman belonging to a neighborhood tough guy. | 134 |
| Boys Start the War, The | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 4.6 | 4 | A rollicking family feud escalates into a war of wits and pranks. | 133 |
| Brand New Kid, The | Couric, Katie | 3.8 | 0.5 | Ellie and Carrie are nervous about the first day of school. Ellie makes a new friend and teaches the other classmates an important lesson about accepting people who are different. | 29 |
| Brass Button | Dragonwagon, Crescent | 4.7 | 0.5 | When a brass button falls off Mrs Moffatt's coat, it begins a journey around the neighborhood and eventually ends up back where it started. | 36 |
| Brave Irene | Steig, William | 3.9 | 0.5 | Plucky Irene, a dressmaker's daughter, braves a fierce snowstorm to deliver a new gown to the duchess in time for the ball. | 28 |
| Brave Margaret | San Souci, Robert D. | 4.6 | 0.5 | In this retelling of an Irish folktale, a brave young woman battles a sea serpent and rescues her true love from a giant. | 36 |
| Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story of Balto, The | Standiford, Natalie | 2.5 | 0.5 | Recounts the life of Balto, the sled dog who saved Nome, Alaska, in 1925 from a diphtheria epidemic by delivering medicine through a raging snowstorm. | 48 |
| Bravo, Amelia Bedelia! | Parish, Herman | 2.5 | 0.5 | When Mrs. Rogers sends Amelia Bedelia to the station to pick up the conductor for the school concert, she doesn't expect her to bring back the train conductor. As usual, Amelia Bedelia has gotten things all mixed up in her latest hilarious adventure. | 40 |
| Bread and Honey | Asch, Frank | 2.1 | 0.5 | Ben paints a picture of his mother, with a little help from Owl, Rabbit, Alligator, Elephant, Lion, and Giraffe. | 48 |
| Bread and Jam for Frances | Hoban, Russell | 3.4 | 0.5 | Frances decides she likes to eat only bread and jam at every meal until, to her surprise, her parents grant her wish. | 31 |
| Break with Charity, A | Rinaldi, Ann | 4.7 | 8 | While waiting for a church meeting in 1706, Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy Salem merchant, recalls the malice, fear, and accusations of witchcraft that tore her village apart in 1692. | 299 |
| Bremen-town Musicians, The | Gross, Ruth B. | 2.2 | 0.5 | Four animal friends encounter cowardly robbers on their way to Bremen-town. | 32 |
| Brian's Return | Paulsen, Gary | 5.5 | 4 | After living alone in the wilderness on the edge of death, Brian dreams of returning to the woods where he is more comfortable than in civilization. | 115 |
| Brian's Winter | Paulsen, Gary | 5.9 | 5 | Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet. | 133 |
| Bride of Frankenstein Doesn't Bake Cookies, The | Dadey/Jones | 4.2 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City, but is the strange new cookie chef at the ice rink really the Bride of Frankenstein? | 75 |
| Bridge to Terabithia | Paterson, Katherine | 4.6 | 5 | The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer, who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm. | 128 |
| Bridges Are to Cross | Sturges, Philemon | 4.7 | 0.5 | This book discusses different kinds of bridges, from train bridges to fortified castle bridges, and provides an example of each. | 30 |
| Brighty of the Grand Canyon | Henry, Marguerite | 5.6 | 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 |
| Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain | Aardema, Verna | 4.6 | 0.5 | A cumulative rhyme relating how Ki-pat brought rain to the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain. | 14 |
| Broccoli Tapes, The | Slepian, Jan | 4 | 6 | During a stay in Hawaii with her family, Sara reports her experiences by tape back to her sixth-grade class in Boston, detailing her 'adoption' of a wild cat, a friendship with a Hawaiian boy, and the death of a beloved grandmother. | 157 |
| Broken Bridge | Banks, Lynne Reid | 4.6 | 11 | As two teenagers walked through the streets, there was an attack, and one was dead, the other left with tough choices as the only witness. | 301 |
| Broken Bridge, The | Pullman, Philip | 5 | 9 | Sixteen-year-old Ginny, the mixed-race, artist daughter of an English father and a Haitian mother, learns that she has a half-brother from her father's earlier marriage and that her own mother may still be alive. | 218 |
| Bronze Bow, The | Speare, Elizabeth George | 5 | 10 | Eighteen-year-old Daniel, an Israeli, is consumed by hatred of the Romans who killed his father, until he learns from listening to Jesus that love is the answer. | 254 |
| Brooklyn Bridge | Curlee, Lynn | 8.2 | 1 | This book describes the planning, construction, and history of the Brooklyn Bridge. | 35 |
| Brooms Are for Flying! | Rex, Michael | 1.2 | 0.5 | A group of young trick-or-treaters demonstrate that "feet are for stomping," "eyes are for peeking," "mouths are for moaning," and "tummies are for treating." | 30 |
| Brother Eagle, Sister Sky: A Message from Chief Seattle | Jeffers (Illus.), Susan | 4.4 | 0.5 | A Suquamish Indian chief describes his people's respect and love for the earth and concern for its destruction. | 32 |
| Brothers of the Heart | Blos, Joan W. | 6 | 6 | Fourteen-year-old Shem, spends six months in the Michigan wilderness alone with a dying Indian woman, who helps him not only to survive but to mature to the point where he can return to his family and the difficulties of life as a cripple. | 161 |
| Bruh Rabbit and the Tar Baby Girl | Hamilton, Virginia | 3.2 | 0.5 | In this retelling of a familiar story, using Gullah speech, the wily Brer Rabbit outwits Brer Fox, who has set out to trap him. | 36 |
| Bud, Not Buddy | Curtis, Christopher Paul | 5 | 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 |
| Buffalo Before Breakfast | Osborne, Mary Pope | 3.3 | 1 | The magic tree house takes Jack and his sister Annie to the Great Plains, where they learn about the life of the Lakota Indians. | 72 |
| Buffalo Gal | Wallace, Bill | 4.8 | 6 | Although she'd rather stay in San Francisco, Amanda agrees to go to Texas to save a herd of buffalo. | 185 |
| Buffalo Soldiers | Willard, Tom | 6.3 | 13 | This book depicts the trials and tribulations that African-American soldiers endured while fighting for the freedom of white settlers. | 331 |
| Bug, a Bear, and a Boy Go to School, A | McPhail, David | 1.6 | 0.5 | A bug, a bear, and a boy enjoy themselves as they go to school, take a ride in a wagon, fly a kite, and paint a picture. | 28 |
| Bug, a Bear, and a Boy, A | McPhail, David | 1.3 | 0.5 | Three friends learn, love, and play together. | 28 |
| Bugs | Parker/Wright | 5 | 0.5 | Includes general information, jokes, and brief descriptions of the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of a variety of common insects. | 40 |
| Bugs, Beetles, and Butterflies | Ziefert, Harriet | 1.5 | 0.5 | Simple, rhymed text and illustrations introduce many different kinds of bugs, beetles, and butterflies, including the earwig, zebra butterfly, and water strider. | 32 |
| Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt! | Fritz, Jean | 6.8 | 4 | Follows the life of the dynamic twenty-sixth President, discussing his conservation work, hunting expeditions, family life, and political career. | 121 |
| Bungalow Mystery, The | Keene, Carolyn | 5.6 | 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 |
| Bunnicula | Howe, Deborah/James | 4.2 | 2 | Chester, the Monroe family's cat, resorts to hilarious antics to alert his owners and Harold, their dog, that the newly adopted bunny may actually be a vegetable vampire. | 98 |
| Bunnicula Strikes Again! | Howe, James | 4.8 | 3 | When Bunnicula the rabbit starts acting strangely, the Monroe dogs and cat renew their suspicions that he is a vampire. | 116 |
| Bunnies in the Bathroom | Baglio, Ben M. | 4.1 | 4 | Mandy's new friend John has his heart set on buying two baby rabbits in the local pet shop. Before he has a chance to buy the rabbits, Barney and Button are gone. | 135 |
| Bunny & the Beast | Coxe, Molly | 3.9 | 0.5 | Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful rabbit maid releases a handsome rabbit prince from the spell that has made him an ugly beast. | 33 |
| Bunyans, The | Wood, Audrey | 5.1 | 0.5 | Paul Bunyan, his wife, and their three children do some ordinary things which result in the formation of Niagara Falls, Bryce Canyon, and other natural monuments. | 29 |
| Burning Questions of Bingo Brown, The | Byars, Betsy | 4.1 | 4 | A boy is puzzled by the comic and confusing questions of youth and worried by disturbing insights into adult conflicts. | 166 |
| Burnt Toast on Davenport Street | Egan, Tim | 3.5 | 0.5 | Arthur and Stella Crandall, two dogs, are for the most part content with their lives until a fly gets mixed up while granting Arthur three wishes. | 30 |
| Bus Station Mystery | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.6 | 2 | The Alden children, isolated in a storm at a small bus station, are led into a mystery centering on a polluted river. | 127 |
| Busybody Nora | Hurwitz, Johanna | 4.1 | 1 | Relates the adventures of an inquisitive little girl who lives in a large apartment building in New York with her parents and little brother Teddy. | 63 |
| Butter Battle Book, The | Seuss, Dr. | 3.9 | 0.5 | Engaged in a long running battle, the Yooks and the Zooks develop more and more sophisticated weaponry as they attempt to outdo each other. | 42 |
| Butterflies Fly | Winer, Yvonne | 3 | 0.5 | This book describes the poetics surrounding butterflies from around the world and identifies them. | 32 |
| Butterfly House | Bunting, Eve | 3.4 | 0.5 | With the help of her grandfather, a little girl makes a house for a larva and watches it develop before setting it free. Every spring after that butterflies come to visit her. | 28 |
| Butterfly Lion, The | Morpurgo, Michael | 4.6 | 2 | Bertie rescues an orphaned lion cub and then is separated from the white cub when he is sent off to boarding school in England. | 128 |
| Butterfly, The | Polacco, Patricia | 3.8 | 0.5 | During the Nazi occupation of France, Monique's mother hides a Jewish family in her basement and tries to help them escape to freedom. | 48 |
| Buzby to the Rescue | Hoban, Julia | 2.4 | 0.5 | Buzby the hotel cat does his best to help visiting movie star Serena Lovejoy keep track of her jewels and enjoy her stay at the hotel. | 64 |
| By the Dawn's Early Light | Ackerman, Karen | 4 | 0.5 | A young girl and her brother stay with their grandmother while their mother works at night. | 32 |
| By the Great Horn Spoon! | Fleischman, Sid | 5.1 | 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 |
| By the Shores of Silver Lake | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 5.3 | 9 | The Ingalls family leaves Minnesota, travels to the Dakota Territory, and lives at a railroad camp until Pa can file their claim to a homestead near Silver Lake. | 290 |