| Title | Author | Level | Pts. | Description | Pages |
| Cabin Faced West, The | Fritz, Jean | 5.1 | 3 | A young girl misses the life she had before her family moved into the wilderness, until she gets a very special visitor. | 124 |
| Caboose Mystery | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.2 | 2 | A trip in a caboose leads to an old clown and a search. | 128 |
| Caddie Woodlawn | Brink, Carol Ryrie | 6 | 8 | This is a story of a spirited pioneer girl's adventures on the Wisconsin frontier. | 242 |
| Cages | Kehret, Peg | 4.5 | 5 | After losing an acting role and fighting with her alcoholic stepfather, Kit is arrested for shoplifting and ordered to work as part of her sentence at an animal shelter. | 150 |
| Cajun Home | Bial, Raymond | 7.8 | 1 | This book discusses the history and culture of the Cajuns, French-speaking people who settled deep in the woods and bayous of Louisiana. | 48 |
| Cal Ripken, Jr.: My Story | Ripken/Bryan | 5.5 | 4 | Baltimore Orioles' star Cal Ripken tells, in his own words, the story of his personal life and baseball career. | 113 |
| Caleb's Story | MacLachlan, Patricia | 2.9 | 2 | The stranger lurking on the Witting family's prairie farm turns out to be their long-lost grandfather, whose presence, plus prodding from Caleb, forces Jacob to deal with his past. | 116 |
| Calico Captive | Speare, Elizabeth George | 6 | 9 | In 1754, an Indian raid on her small New Hampshire town leaves Miriam Willard a prisoner of the Indians, forced to take part in a harrowing march north. | 274 |
| California (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 4.2 | 1 | An introduction to the "Golden State," our most-populated state and our top farming and manufacturing state. | 59 |
| Call It Courage | Sperry, Armstrong | 6.2 | 3 | This is the inspiring story of a youth who overcomes his fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his tribe. | 95 |
| Call Me Francis Tucket | Paulsen, Gary | 5.5 | 3 | Tucket now feels more confident that he can handle anything. A year ago on a wagon train, he was kidnapped by a Pawnee hunting party. He escaped with the help of a mountain man. Now he is alone. | 97 |
| Call of the Wild (Great Illustrated Classics), The | London/Yamamoto | 5.5 | 2 | Buck, a powerful young dog, is snatched away from an easy life in California and transported to the Far North where he becomes a sled dog and must learn cunning and toughness to survive. | 238 |
| Call of the Wild, The | London, Jack | 8 | 7 | Rugged outdoor story of the sled dog, Buck, who was mistreated by his master and broke free to roam the Alaskan wilderness. | 201 |
| Callender Papers, The | Voigt, Cynthia | 4.8 | 8 | In nineteenth century Massachusetts, orphan Jean, employed to sort out the family papers of a reclusive artist, becomes curious about the mysterious, long-ago death of his wife and the subsequent disappearance of their young child. | 261 |
| Calling All Creeps! | Stine, R.L. | 3.3 | 3 | Ricky decides to play a joke on Tasha, but the joke's on him. | 116 |
| Cam Jansen and the Barking Treasure Mystery | Adler, David A. | 3.5 | 1 | When a woman's poodle disappears during a boat ride around the city, Cam uses her photographic memory to solve the mystery. | 55 |
| Cam Jansen and the Catnapping Mystery | Adler, David A. | 3.4 | 1 | While visiting Aunt Molly at a fancy downtown hotel, Cam uses her photographic memory to help one of the guests find her stolen luggage, pet cat, and to catch the thief. | 56 |
| Cam Jansen and the Ghostly Mystery | Adler, David A. | 3.4 | 1 | Cam uses her photographic memory to catch a thief disguised as a ghost. | 58 |
| Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Circus Clown | Adler, David A. | 3.9 | 1 | Pickpockets disguised as clowns are no match for Cam Jansen, the girl with the photographic memory. | 57 |
| Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Dinosaur Bones | Adler, David A. | 3.8 | 1 | When she notices some bones missing from a dinosaur skeleton exhibited in the museum, a young girl with a photographic memory tries to discover who has been taking them and why. | 56 |
| Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Gold Coins | Adler, David A. | 3.7 | 1 | Fifth grader Cam Jansen puts her mental camera to work when her box camera disappears from the school science fair. | 57 |
| Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds | Adler, David A. | 3.2 | 1 | A fifth-grader with a photographic memory and her friend Eric help solve the mystery of the stolen diamonds. | 58 |
| Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the U.F.O. | Adler, David A. | 3.4 | 1 | Ten-year-old Cam, possessor of a photographic memory, and her friend Eric investigate what seems to be a brief appearance of U.F.O.s. | 58 |
| Camp Ghost-Away | Delton, Judy | 3.1 | 1 | When the Pee Wee Scouts go camping, they don't expect any scary ghosts. | 80 |
| Camp Sink or Swim | Davis, Gibbs | 3.5 | 1 | In trouble at camp because he has bragged about his non-existent swimming abilities, Danny finds himself forming an unexpected alliance with the bully "Two Ton" Tonya. | 79 |
| Camp-Out Mystery, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.3 | 2 | While on a camping trip with their grandfather, the Alden children try to find out about the loud music and missing food that threaten to scare away other campers. | 120 |
| Can I Keep Him? | Kellogg, Steven | 2.7 | 0.5 | Arnold wants to have something to play with and brings home a variety of pets. | 30 |
| Can You Do This, Old Badger? | Bunting, Eve | 2.9 | 0.5 | Although Old Badger cannot do some things as easily as he used to, he can still teach Little Badger the many things he knows about finding good things to eat and staying safe and happy. | 28 |
| Can You Keep a Secret? | Petersen, P.J. | 2.9 | 2 | Mike has a reputation for not being able to keep a secret and he worries that he may reveal things that his classmates do not want known. | 106 |
| Canada Geese Quilt, The | Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie | 4.1 | 1 | Worried that the coming of a new baby and her grandmother's serious illness will change the warm, familiar life on her family's Vermont farm, ten-year-old Ariel combines her artistic talent with her grandmother's knowledge to make a very special quilt. | 60 |
| Canary Caper, The | Roy, Ron | 3.4 | 1 | Dink and his friends investigate why pets are mysteriously disappearing all over town. | 87 |
| Candy Corn Contest, The | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 2.5 | 1 | Richard has been dipping into the jar of candy corn that is the object of Ms. Rooney's contest. What is Ms. Rooney going to do when she finds out? | 76 |
| Candy Man, The | Bradley, Steve | 2.6 | 1 | When Peg first meets a fellow traveling to New York, she has no idea he is about to involve her in a deadly game of smuggling. | 60 |
| Cannibals of Sunset Drive, The | Carlsruh, Dan K. | 4.2 | 4 | Ten-year-old Mike is convinced that the old monastery in his town is inhabited by a group of cannibal monks, until he meets the sole occupant of the building. | 143 |
| Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? | Fritz, Jean | 5.6 | 1 | A biography of George the Third, King of Great Britain at the time of the American Revolution. | 48 |
| Canyons | Paulsen, Gary | 5.5 | 5 | Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800s. | 184 |
| Caps for Sale | Slobodkina, Esphyr | 3.1 | 0.5 | Charming folktale as a peddler of caps runs into trouble when monkeys steal his wares. | 21 |
| Captain's Command | Myers, Anna | 4.6 | 4 | Even as Christmas approaches and Gail longs to hear that her soldier father has not been killed in World War II, the sixth grader helps bring her handicapped uncle back to life. | 134 |
| Captains Courageous | Kipling, Rudyard | 8 | 9 | A spoiled boy falls from an ocean liner, is rescued and matures in the harsh environment of the sea. | 169 |
| Captains Courageous (Great Illustrated Classics) | Kipling/Vogel | 5.3 | 3 | When Harvey, the son of a millionaire, is swept overboard and is rescued by a small fishing boat, he learns a new way of life. | 238 |
| Captain's Dog, The | Smith, Roland | 5.8 | 8 | Captain Meriwether Lewis's dog Seaman describes his experiences as he accompanies his master on the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore the uncharted western wilderness. | 287 |
| Capture, The | Applegate, K.A. | 3.6 | 4 | Jake finds out his brother is one of them. Tobias stays in his morph too long. Jake and friends find out where the Yeerk base is. | 154 |
| Carlota | O'Dell, Scott | 5.4 | 4 | A young girl relates her feelings and experiences as a participant in the battle of San Pasqual during the last days of the war between the Californians and Americans. A Laurel-Leaf book. | 141 |
| Carlotta's Kittens and the Club of Mysteries | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 5.5 | 4 | This continues the adventures of Marco, Polo, and the other members of the Club of Mysteries as they care for Carlotta's kittens and search for a home for them. | 131 |
| Carnivorous Carnival, The | Snicket, Lemony | 6.6 | 7 | On the run as suspected murderers, the unlucky Baudelaire orphans find themselves trapped in the Caligari Carnival, where they must masquerade as freaks in order to hide from the evil Count Olaf. | 286 |
| Carousel, The | Rosenberg, Liz | 3.9 | 0.5 | Two sisters find that the horses of a broken carousel have come alive in the rain. | 29 |
| Carrot Seed, The | Krauss, Ruth | 1.9 | 0.5 | A little boy plants and tends a carrot seed in spite of the pessimism of his family. | 25 |
| Carry on, Mr. Bowditch | Latham, Jean | 4.1 | 8 | This fictionalized biography tells the story of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain. | 251 |
| Cars and How They Work | Cruickshank, Gordon | 6.6 | 1 | Presents a history of car design and development. | 64 |
| Cartoonist, The | Byars, Betsy | 4.2 | 3 | In his private attic hideaway, Alfie has a place all his own--a world of cartoons and a dream of someday becoming a famous cartoonist. | 119 |
| Carver: A Life in Poems | Nelson, Marilyn | 5.9 | 1 | This is a collection of poems depicting the life of George Washington Carver. | 103 |
| Case of the Baker Street Irregular, The | Newman, Robert | 4.5 | 6 | When Andrew's guardian is kidnapped, he turns to a girl named Screamer and Sherlock Holmes. | 216 |
| Case of the Black-Hooded Hangmans, The | Erickson, John R. | 4.2 | 3 | When he gets blamed after one of Eddy the raccoon's tricks backfires, Hank's search for the missing Eddy leads him and his sidekick Drover to a haunted house. | 115 |
| Case of the Car-Barkaholic Dog, The | Erickson, John R. | 4.8 | 3 | Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, finds himself stranded in town and drawn into a dangerous situation involving his sister Maggie and a terrible bully named Rambo. | 116 |
| Case of the Detective in Disguise, The | Preller, James | 3.2 | 1 | Someone is stealing brownies from the sandwich shop, and Jigsaw goes undercover to catch the brownie bandit. | 72 |
| Case of the Elevator Duck, The | Berends, Polly | 4 | 1 | This book tells the story of an eleven-year-old detective and his adventures after finding a duck in the elevator of his apartment building. | 54 |
| Case of the Marshmallow Monster, The | Preller, James | 2.8 | 1 | Jigsaw and his friends are on a camping trip, and Danika is sure a Marshmallow Monster is haunting the lake. | 74 |
| Case of the Mixed-Up Monsters, The | Maifair, Linda Lee | 3.4 | 1 | When neighbors claim to have seen her brother Allen dressed in his Halloween monster costume committing acts of vandalism, Darcy Doyle vows to find out who's framing him. | 63 |
| Case of the Secret Santa, The | Pascal/Stewart | 3.3 | 1 | Sweet Valley Elementary School has a new custodian named Christopher Kringle, and Elizabeth thinks he looks just like Santa Claus. A Sweet Valley Kids Super Snooper. | 88 |
| Case of the Stinky Science Project, The | Preller, James | 2.9 | 1 | Bobby Solofsky fooled Sally-Ann with a phony magic trick. Now something smelly is spoiling science time in Ms. Gleason's class. Could Bobby be the culprit? Jigsaw and Mila are hot on the case. | 74 |
| Case of the Stolen Baseball Cards, The | Preller, James | 3.1 | 1 | Eddie brought his baseball cards to school and now they are missing. It's time for Jigsaw Jones to step up to the plate and solve this mystery. | 73 |
| Case of the Two Masked Robbers, The | Hoban, Lillian | 2.5 | 0.5 | This book tells the story of raccoon twins, Arabella and Albert, who track down the robbers who stole Mrs. Turtle's eggs. | 62 |
| Castaways of the Flying Dutchman | Jacques, Brian | 5.4 | 12 | In 1602, a boy and his dog are rescued from the doomed ship, Flying Dutchman, by an angel who guides them in traveling the world, eternally helping those in need. | 327 |
| Castle | Macaulay, David | 7.9 | 1 | A description with drawings and humor of how castles and surrounding towns were built. | 74 |
| Castle (Eyewitness) | Gravett, Christopher | 7.7 | 1 | Discover the Medieval world of castles, how they were built, and what life was like inside them. | 63 |
| Castle (Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections) | Platt, Richard | 6 | 0.5 | Illustrated look inside a medieval fortress, describes types of weapons, lifestyle inside the castle walls, and elaborate possessions. | 27 |
| Castle in the Attic, The | Winthrop, Elizabeth | 4.9 | 6 | William has a fantastic present in the attic that is able to transport him to another land and another time for a challenging and exciting adventure. | 179 |
| Castle of Llyr, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 5.4 | 7 | While undergoing training to be a princess, Eilonwy learns about magic for evil purposes. | 174 |
| Cat (Eyewitness) | Clutton-Brock, Juliet | 7.3 | 1 | Discover the world of cats in close-up, their evolution, behavior, and secret lives. | 63 |
| Cat in the Hat Comes Back, The | Seuss, Dr. | 2.1 | 0.5 | Two children are left with chores to do and get unexpected help from the Cat in the Hat. | 63 |
| Cat in the Hat, The | Seuss, Dr. | 2.1 | 0.5 | Two children sitting at home on a rainy day are visited by the Cat in the Hat who shows them some tricks and games. | 61 |
| Cat Running | Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | 5.6 | 7 | When eleven-year-old Cat Kinsey builds a secret hideout to escape her unhappy homelife, she slowly gets to know a poor family who have come to California after losing their home in Texas to the dust storms of the 1930's. | 168 |
| Cat That Was Left Behind, The | Adler, C.S. | 4.3 | 4 | Chad doesn't believe his new foster family will be any better than the others, but after getting to know them, he starts to change his mind. | 146 |
| Cat Who Went to Heaven, The | Coatsworth, Elizabeth | 5.9 | 2 | A magical cat inspires a Japanese artist to paint the greatest picture of his life. | 64 |
| Cat Who Wished to Be a Man, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 5 | 3 | When he begins dealing with humanity, Lionel the cat begins to understand why his wizard master was reluctant to change him into a man. | 107 |
| Catch the Sun | Cowen, Eve | 3.3 | 1 | Deena, a young runner, learns about dedication and working for a goal when she enters a marathon. | 60 |
| Catcher with a Glass Arm | Christopher, Matt | 3.7 | 2 | Jody is a catcher who does not throw well, and after he is hit by a ball, is afraid of pitched balls; but he is able to overcome his fear and humiliation. | 137 |
| Caterpillow Fight, The | McBratney, Sam | 4.1 | 0.5 | A rowdy pillow fight among young caterpillars causes the Big Caterpillar to step in and take action. | 24 |
| Catherine, Called Birdy | Cushman, Karen | 6.4 | 8 | The daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off. | 169 |
| Cat's Quizzer, The | Seuss, Dr. | 2.7 | 0.5 | The Cat in the Hat plays quizmaster by challenging the reader with both entertaining and educational questions such as "Are freckles catching?" and "How old do you have to be to drive a car?" | 62 |
| Catundra (Original Text) | Cosgrove, Stephen | 4.5 | 0.5 | Through exercise and a healthy diet, fat cat Catundra becomes a trim and terrific tabby. | 28 |
| Catwings | Le Guin, Ursula K. | 4.3 | 0.5 | Four young cats with wings leave the city slums in search of a safe place to live, finally meeting two children with kind hands. | 39 |
| Caught in the Act | Nixon, Joan Lowery | 5 | 6 | Eleven-year-old Michael Patrick Kelly from New York City is sent to a foster home, a Missouri farm with a sadistic owner, a bullying son, and a number of secrets, one of which may be murder. | 150 |
| Cave Boy | Dubowski, Cathy East | 1.2 | 0.5 | Harry the cave boy has invented the wheel, but no one can figure out what it does. | 32 |
| Cay, The | Taylor, Theodore | 5.3 | 4 | A fine portrayal of how a boy makes his separate peace with racial prejudice. | 144 |
| Cecil Bunions and the Midnight Train | Paraskevas, Betty | 3.5 | 0.5 | A young boy has a dreamlike adventure on the Midnight Super Train where he meets Cecil Bunions, a private eye. | 29 |
| Celery Stalks at Midnight, The | Howe, James | 4 | 2 | Chester the cat is more than ever convinced that Bunnicula is a vampire when there is a harvest of white vegetables on the morning after the night that Bunnicula was probably wandering through the neighborhood. | 111 |
| Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella | San Souci, Robert D. | 3.7 | 0.5 | A Creole variant of the familiar Cinderella tale set in the Caribbean and narrated by the godmother who helps Cendrillon find true love. | 36 |
| Centerburg Tales | McCloskey, Robert | 6 | 5 | The further adventures of Homer Price, including those in which a jukebox sets the whole town singing against its will and in which a mad scientist develops weeds that overrun the town. | 191 |
| Cereal Box Mystery, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.7 | 2 | While the Boxcar Children are trying to find stolen jewels, someone breaks into their home and steals a box of Benny's favorite cereal. | 111 |
| Certain Small Shepherd, A | Caudill, Rebecca | 4 | 1 | An unexpected snowstorm cancels the school Christmas show, but mute Jamie still gets a chance to wear his costume on a special Christmas Eve. | 48 |
| Chair for My Mother, A | Williams, Vera B. | 3.4 | 0.5 | A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire. | 29 |
| Chalk Box Kid, The | Bulla, Clyde Robert | 2.7 | 1 | Nine-year-old Gregory's house does not have room for a garden, so he creates one in a surprising place. | 56 |
| Change, The | Applegate, K.A. | 3.8 | 4 | Tobias is about to make a very special choice. It could mean the difference between being a hawk or a human. | 162 |
| Changes for Felicity | Tripp, Valerie | 4.1 | 1 | The outbreak of the Revolutionary War in 1775 brings drastic changes to Felicity's life in Williamsburg, affecting both her family and her friendship with Elizabeth. | 69 |
| Changes for Samantha | Tripp, Valerie | 3.9 | 1 | When Samantha moves to New York, she plans a daring rescue to free a servant friend from an orphanage. | 67 |
| Chanukah Lights Everywhere | Rosen, Michael J. | 3.3 | 0.5 | A young boy counts the candles on the family menorah and the lights he sees in the world around him on each night of Hanukkah. | 25 |
| Charles Dickens: The Man Who Had Great Expectations | Stanley/Vennema | 6.3 | 1 | Illustrated biography of the English novelist Charles Dickens. | 43 |
| Charley Skedaddle | Beatty, Patricia | 5.2 | 7 | During the Civil War, a twelve-year-old Bowery Boy from New York City joins the Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle in Virginia, and encounters an old mountain woman. | 186 |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Dahl, Roald | 4.8 | 5 | Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way. | 155 |
| Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | Dahl, Roald | 4.4 | 5 | Charlie Bucket and his family share a fantastic journey as they attempt to return to the Chocolate Factory. | 161 |
| Charlotte's Rose | Cannon, A.E. | 4.1 | 6 | As a twelve-year-old Welsh immigrant carries a motherless baby along the Mormon Trail in 1856, she comes to love the baby as her own and fear the day the baby's father will reclaim her. | 246 |
| Charlotte's Web | White, E.B. | 4.4 | 5 | In this endearing story, a little girl and Charlotte, a beautiful grey spider, struggle to save Wilbur the pig from being butchered. | 184 |
| Chasing Redbird | Creech, Sharon | 5 | 7 | Thirteen-year-old Zinnia Taylor uncovers family secrets and self-truths while clearing a mysterious settler trail that begins on her family's farm in Kentucky. | 261 |
| Cheaper by the Dozen | Gilbreth, Ernestine/Frank | 6 | 10 | This true-life story chronicles the adventures of twelve wonderful redheaded rascals. | 180 |
| Check It Out! The Book About Libraries | Gibbons, Gail | 4.8 | 0.5 | This book discusses what is found in the library and how different libraries serve their communities. | 31 |
| Chester | Hoff, Syd | 1.9 | 0.5 | Looking for love, a wild horse comes to the city to find a home. | 64 |
| Chester Cricket's New Home | Selden, George | 4.6 | 3 | One glorious spring day, Chester Cricket finds himself buried in rubble when two overweight picnickers sit on the old stump in which he lives. Though rescued by his friend Simon Turtle, Chester is forlorn without his own home. | 142 |
| Chester's Way | Henkes, Kevin | 3.4 | 0.5 | Chester and Wilson share the exact way of doing things until Lilly moves into the neighborhood and shows them that new ways can be just as good. | 32 |
| Chick That Wouldn't Hatch, The | Daniel, Claire | 1 | 0.5 | Before she hatches from her egg, a baby chick takes quite a trip around the farm, with her mother and other animals in pursuit. | 16 |
| Chicken Chicken | Stine, R.L. | 3.2 | 2 | You can't believe everything you hear, but then why are Crystal's lips turning hard like a bird's beak? | 112 |
| Chicken Little | Kellogg, Steven | 3.8 | 0.5 | Chicken Little and his feathered friends, alarmed that the sky seems to be falling, are easy prey to hungry Foxy Loxy when he poses as a police officer in hopes of luring them into his truck. | 28 |
| Chicken or the Egg?, The | Fowler, Allan | 2.7 | 0.5 | A brief look at the physical characteristics, breeds, and habits of chickens. | 31 |
| Chicken Sunday | Polacco, Patricia | 3.7 | 0.5 | To thank old Eula for her wonderful Sunday chicken dinners, the children sell decorated eggs and buy her a beautiful Easter hat. | 29 |
| Chickens Aren't the Only Ones | Heller, Ruth | 3.6 | 0.5 | Bright, colorful illustrations depict for young readers all types of animals that lay eggs. | 40 |
| Child of the Owl | Yep, Laurence | 5.5 | 10 | A savvy street kid finds her roots in the maze of San Francisco's Chinatown. | 278 |
| Children of Promise | Tedrow, T.L. | 4.9 | 6 | A community battle ensues when Laura raises the issue of education for the children of immigrant farm workers. | 209 |
| Children of the River | Crew, Linda | 4.3 | 8 | Having fled Cambodia four years earlier to escape the Khmer Rouge army, seventeen-year-old Sundara is torn between remaining faithful to her own people and enjoying life in her Oregon high school as a "regular" American. | 213 |
| Children of Topaz: The Story of a Japanese-American Internment, Th | Tunnell/Chilcoat | 7.6 | 3 | The diary of a third-grade class of Japanese-American children being held with their families in an internment camp during World War II. | 74 |
| China (Many Cultures, One World) | Olson, Kay Melchisedech | 4.3 | 0.5 | This book is an introduction to the geography, history, economy, culture, and people of China. | 32 |
| Chinese Mirror, The | Ginsburg, Mirra | 3.4 | 0.5 | A retelling of a traditional Korean tale in which a mirror brought from China causes confusion within a family as each member looks in it and sees a different stranger. | 25 |
| Chita's Christmas Tree | Howard, Elizabeth Fitzgerald | 2.5 | 0.5 | Papa and Chita leave downtown Baltimore in a buggy to find a Christmas tree in the deep woods. | 15 |
| Chocolate Fever | Smith, Robert Kimmel | 4.2 | 1 | Henry eats so much chocolate that he makes medical history by getting the first recorded case of Chocolate Fever. | 93 |
| Chocolate Sundae Mystery, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 4.3 | 2 | The Aldens solve the mystery of the missing ice cream. | 120 |
| Chocolate Touch, The | Catling, Patrick | 4.7 | 2 | Instead of gold, everything John Midas touched turns to precious chocolate. | 87 |
| Choosing Up Sides | Ritter, John H. | 4.2 | 5 | In 1921, thirteen-year-old Luke finds himself torn between accepting his left handedness or conforming to the belief of his preacher-father that such a condition is evil and must be overcome. | 166 |
| Christina's Ghost | Wright, Betty Ren | 4.1 | 3 | Christina's summer in a spooky, isolated Victorian house with her grumpy uncle turns into a ghostly adventure. | 105 |
| Christmas After All: The Diary of Minnie Swift | Lasky, Kathryn | 5.4 | 5 | In her fictionalized journal, eleven-year-old Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932. | 185 |
| Christmas Box, The | Evans, Richard Paul | 5.4 | 2 | A young family moves in with a widow, discovers the first gift of Christmas, and learns what Christmas is really all about. | 125 |
| Christmas Candle, The | Evans, Richard Paul | 3.8 | 0.5 | On Christmas Eve, Thomas buys a magical candle that changes the way he views his fellow human beings and helps him feel charity for those less fortunate than he. | 25 |
| Christmas Carol (Unabridged), A | Dickens, Charles | 6.7 | 5 | In this classic story, Ebenezer Scrooge learns the true meaning of Christmas after being visited by three ghosts. | 102 |
| Christmas Crocodile, The | Becker, Bonny | 3.6 | 0.5 | A very hungry crocodile is mistakenly delivered to the wrong address and thoroughly disrupts the Christmas celebrations of Alice Jayne and her family. | 28 |
| Christmas Day in the Morning | Buck, Pearl S. | 3.9 | 0.5 | A boy surprises his father on Christmas morning by getting up early and milking the cows on their farm. | 36 |
| Christmas Day Kitten, The | Herriot, James | 4.3 | 0.5 | An irresistible kitten finds a new home on Christmas morning. | 30 |
| Christmas Doll, The | Woodruff, Elvira | 5.8 | 5 | As Christmas approaches, Lucy, an orphan living on the streets of London, is overjoyed to be given the job of sewing hearts on the dolls in Thimblebee's Doll Shop. | 151 |
| Christmas Rat, The | Avi | 3.7 | 3 | Alone in his apartment during Christmas vacation, eleven-year-old Eric finds himself caught in a battle between a strange exterminator and the rat he wants to kill. | 135 |
| Christmas Ship, The | Morrissey, Dean | 3.3 | 0.5 | Joey and Sam, the toymaker, board a magical ship to help Father Christmas distribute gifts on Christmas Eve. | 26 |
| Christmas Sonata, A | Paulsen, Gary | 4.4 | 1 | A young boy, who no longer believes in Santa Claus, and his mother spend the holiday in Minnesota with his cousin who is dying. A Christmas miracle restores both children's faith in the spirit of the season. | 76 |
| Christmas Stocking Story, A | Knight, Hilary | 3.3 | 0.5 | When their stockings get mixed up while being washed one Christmas Eve, a group of animal friends manage to sort out the gifts left by Santa Claus. | 48 |
| Christmas Tapestry | Polacco, Patricia | 4.2 | 0.5 | A tapestry that is being used to cover a hole in a church wall at Christmas brings together an elderly couple who were separated during World War II. | 48 |
| Christmas Teddy Bear, The | Gantschev, Ivan | 3.6 | 0.5 | When a grandfather walking through the woods on Christmas Eve becomes lost in a snowstorm, the brightly dressed teddy bear he is bringing home for his granddaughter becomes instrumental in his rescue. | 23 |
| Christmas Witch, The | Kellogg, Steven | 4.6 | 0.5 | Gloria must prove that she has what it takes to become a Christmas Witch by bringing peace to a planet occupied by two feuding factions. | 37 |
| Christmas with Ida Early | Burch, Robert | 5.1 | 5 | Ida's knack for show business turns Christmas into an unconventional celebration. | 157 |
| Christmas with Teddy Bear | McQuade, Jacqueline | 2.5 | 0.5 | From writing to Santa and decorating the tree to caroling with Mom and Dad, Teddy Bear's holiday season is filled with tradition and warmth. | 28 |
| Christopher Columbus (In Their Own Words) | Roop, Peter/Connie | 4.8 | 2 | This is a biography of Christopher Columbus, using the journals he kept while traveling to the New World. | 128 |
| Chrysanthemum | Henkes, Kevin | 3.3 | 0.5 | Chrysanthemum loves her name until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it. | 29 |
| Cinder Edna | Jackson, Ellen | 4.5 | 0.5 | Cinderella and Cinder Edna, who live with cruel stepmothers and stepsisters, have different approaches to life; and, although each ends up with the prince of her dreams, one is a great deal happier than the other. | 29 |
| Cinderella | Brown, Marcia | 5.1 | 0.5 | Brown's illustrated translation of Perrault's tale in which Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper in her haste to flee the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect won the 1955 Caldecot medal. | 28 |
| Cinderella Skeleton | San Souci, Robert D. | 5.2 | 0.5 | In this book, the famous story is retold of a young woman who finds her prince at a Halloween ball. | 32 |
| Cinderellis and the Glass Hill | Levine, Gail Carson | 4.3 | 2 | In this humorous retelling of a Perrault tale, a lonely young farm lad uses his unusual inventive ability to pass a nearly impossible test and win the hand of the neighboring princess. | 104 |
| Cindy Ellen: A Wild Western Cinderella | Lowell, Susan | 5 | 0.5 | Cindy Ellen loses one of her diamonds spurs at the sqare dance in this wild western retelling of the classic Cinderella story. | 36 |
| Circle of Gold | Boyd, Candy Dawson | 4 | 3 | Mattie Benson knows just what to get her mother for Mother's Day until she loses her best job and is accused of stealing. She thinks that she can still get the present, but maybe she is expecting miracles again. | 124 |
| Circus (New True Books), The | Harmer, Mabel | 2.5 | 0.5 | A brief account of circus life, as the circus moves from town to town to prepare for the next show. | 45 |
| Circus: An Album | Granfield, Linda | 7.3 | 2 | This book traces the history of circuses from the time of ancient Egypt and Greece to the spectacles created by P.T. Barnum and other modern-day showmen. | 96 |
| City of Gold and Lead, The | Christopher, John | 6.5 | 8 | Three teenage boys compete to gain entry to an extraterrestrial city. | 218 |
| Civil War on Sunday | Osborne, Mary Pope | 3.4 | 1 | Jack and Annie are transported by their magic tree house to the time of the Civil War, where they meet Clara Barton. | 74 |
| Class Clown | Hurwitz, Johanna | 4.6 | 2 | Lucas Cott, the class clown, wants to become the perfect student but finds it hard to change his ways. | 98 |
| Claudia and Mean Janine | Martin, Ann M. | 3.8 | 4 | Along with responsibilities to the club, Claudia deals with a very mean sister and a beloved grandmother's stroke. | 145 |
| Claudia and the Bad Joke | Martin, Ann M. | 3.9 | 4 | While baby-sitting for Betsy, one of Betsy's pranks causes Claudia to fall and break her leg. | 141 |
| Claudia and the Genius of Elm Street | Martin, Ann M. | 4.1 | 4 | Baby-sitting for a nine-year-old genius may be too much for Claudia to handle. | 140 |
| Claudia and the Great Search | Martin, Ann M. | 4.4 | 4 | Claudia is sure that she was adopted and sets out to prove it. | 144 |
| Claudia and the Middle School Mystery | Martin, Ann M. | 4.3 | 4 | Claudia is thrilled with the A she got on her math test until her teacher accuses her of cheating. | 150 |
| Claudia and the New Girl | Martin, Ann M. | 4.1 | 4 | There's a new girl in town, and she's pulling Claudia away from her friends in the Club. | 142 |
| Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls | Martin, Ann M. | 3.8 | 4 | Claudia keeps getting calls while baby-sitting that make her certain that the house she's staying in is the next target for the Phantom Jewel Thief. | 153 |
| Claudia and the Sad Good-bye | Martin, Ann M. | 4.7 | 4 | Claudia's sad farewell is to her beloved grandmother, who has been suffering the results of a stroke. | 147 |
| Clay | Rodowsky, Colby | 4.9 | 5 | After their parents divorce, Elsie and her younger brother, Tommy, who is mentally "different," must deal with a terrible secret that causes them and their mother to move from place to place and stay in hiding. | 165 |
| Clever Tortoise: A Traditional African Tale | Martin, Francesca | 2.7 | 0.5 | Clever Tortoise leads the other jungle animals in teaching bullying Elephant and Hippopotamus a lesson by tricking them into engaging in a tug of war with each other. | 33 |
| Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type | Cronin, Doreen | 2.3 | 0.5 | When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn, they start making demands and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want. | 29 |
| Clifford and the Big Parade | Bridwell, Norman | 2.4 | 0.5 | Clifford helps celebrate the town's 100th birthday with a big parade. | 30 |
| Clifford and the Big Storm | Bridwell, Norman | 2.1 | 0.5 | Clifford comes to the rescue when a hurricane strikes. | 30 |
| Clifford and the Grouchy Neighbors | Bridwell, Norman | 2 | 0.5 | Clifford the Big Red Dog seems to be unable to do anything that does not displease the new neighbors. | 30 |
| Clifford and the Halloween Parade | Bridwell, Norman | 0.9 | 0.5 | Clifford, the big red dog, joins the Halloween parade disguised as a fire engine. | 32 |
| Clifford at the Circus | Bridwell, Norman | 2.1 | 0.5 | Clifford the Big Red Dog and Emily Elizabeth have a day at the circus they will always remember. | 30 |
| Clifford Gets a Job | Bridwell, Norman | 1.8 | 0.5 | Emily has a dog named Clifford that is too expensive to feed. Clifford must find work to pay for his dog food. Clifford stumbles onto the perfect job for him. | 30 |
| Clifford Goes to Hollywood | Bridwell, Norman | 2 | 0.5 | Clifford goes to Hollywood and becomes a famous star. He has everything but he is lonely. | 30 |
| Clifford Grows Up | Bridwell, Norman | 1.9 | 0.5 | This book is about the different experiences in the life of Clifford, the dog, as he grows up. | 29 |
| Clifford Keeps Cool | Bridwell, Norman | 2 | 0.5 | This is a story about how Clifford, the dog, keeps cool in the heat of the summer. | 30 |
| Clifford Makes a Friend | Bridwell, Norman | 0.4 | 0.5 | Because Clifford, the big red dog, imitates everything the boy does, he quickly makes a friend. | 29 |
| Clifford Takes a Trip | Bridwell, Norman | 2 | 0.5 | Clifford gets left behind when the family goes on vacation and strange things happen. | 28 |
| Clifford the Big Red Dog | Bridwell, Norman | 1.2 | 0.5 | Emily Elizabeth tells the reader about the dilemmas and delights of having a really big, red dog. | 30 |
| Clifford the Firehouse Dog | Bridwell, Norman | 2 | 0.5 | Clifford helps the firefighters put out a fire. | 30 |
| Clifford the Small Red Puppy | Bridwell, Norman | 2.1 | 0.5 | Clifford's owner tells the amazingly funny story of how Clifford got to be so BIG. | 30 |
| Clifford Visits the Hospital | Bridwell, Norman | 2.5 | 0.5 | When he was a puppy, Clifford accidentally went on a visit to the hospital. | 32 |
| Clifford, We Love You | Bridwell, Norman | 1.6 | 0.5 | When Clifford starts feeling blue, Emily writes a song to cheer him up. | 30 |
| Clifford's Best Friend: A Story About Emily Elizabeth | Bridwell, Norman | 1.9 | 0.5 | Emily Elizabeth describes her typical day, from getting up in the morning, to going to school, playing with Clifford after she does her homework, and going to bed. | 32 |
| Clifford's Birthday Party | Bridwell, Norman | 2.5 | 0.5 | Clifford's birthday is a special treat when his entire family shows up at the party. | 30 |
| Clifford's Christmas | Bridwell, Norman | 1.9 | 0.5 | Good intentions turn into disaster when Clifford helps Santa Claus. | 30 |
| Clifford's First Autumn | Bridwell, Norman | 1.8 | 0.5 | Clifford discovers that autumn has a lot to offer as well as summer. | 28 |
| Clifford's First Halloween | Bridwell, Norman | 1.9 | 0.5 | Clifford celebrates his first Halloween. | 30 |
| Clifford's First Snow Day | Bridwell, Norman | 1.7 | 0.5 | Emily Elizabeth thinks back to when Clifford was a puppy and experienced his first snowfall. | 30 |
| Clifford's First Valentine's Day | Bridwell, Norman | 2.1 | 0.5 | Emily Elizabeth and Clifford make valentines and go to the post office. | 29 |
| Clifford's Good Deeds | Bridwell, Norman | 2.2 | 0.5 | When the big red dog sets out to do good deeds, trouble follows quickly. | 30 |
| Clifford's Halloween | Bridwell, Norman | 1.8 | 0.5 | A giant ghost (Clifford in costume), joins the fun at a Halloween party. | 30 |
| Clifford's Happy Easter | Bridwell, Norman | 1.9 | 0.5 | A funny story about Clifford's Easter. | 30 |
| Clifford's Happy Mother's Day | Bridwell, Norman | 1.9 | 0.5 | When he was a puppy, Clifford helped Emily Elizabeth get something special for her mother on Mother's Day. | 32 |
| Clifford's Hiccups | Bridwell/Wehn | 1.6 | 0.5 | Clifford's friends try to cure his hiccups. | 24 |
| Clifford's Kitten | Bridwell, Norman | 1.9 | 0.5 | More about the big red dog Clifford, and now he even has a kitten. | 30 |
| Clifford's Manners | Bridwell, Norman | 1.9 | 0.5 | Young readers can learn their manners by emulating their big, red friend. | 26 |
| Clifford's Pals | Bridwell, Norman | 2.4 | 0.5 | Clifford spends the day with his dog buddies causing trouble at a construction site. | 30 |
| Clifford's Puppy Days | Bridwell, Norman | 1.9 | 0.5 | The story of Clifford the big red dog's days as a small, small puppy. | 31 |
| Clifford's Riddles | Bridwell, Norman | 1.4 | 0.5 | This is a book of riddles made up by Clifford, the dog. | 30 |
| Clifford's Sports Day | Bridwell, Norman | 1.8 | 0.5 | Sports day at school with Clifford along can be quite interesting. | 30 |
| Clifford's Spring Clean-Up | Bridwell, Norman | 2.3 | 0.5 | It's time for spring cleaning, and everyone is chipping in to get the job done, including Clifford. | 30 |
| Clifford's Thanksgiving Visit | Bridwell, Norman | 2.1 | 0.5 | Clifford discovers how lucky he is on Thanksgiving Day. | 30 |
| Clifford's Tricks | Bridwell, Norman | 1.8 | 0.5 | Clifford and the new dog on the block have a contest to see who is smartest. | 30 |
| Climbing the Wall | Reiff, Tana | 2.9 | 0.5 | A hyperactive child's parents seek ways to solve his problem. | 58 |
| Clocks and More Clocks | Hutchins, Pat | 2.3 | 0.5 | Mr. Higgins checks all the clocks in his house for the correct time. | 30 |
| Clouds (Weather) | Saunders-Smith, Gail | 2 | 0.5 | Simple text and photographs describe different kinds of clouds and the types of weather they indicate. | 24 |
| Cloudy Day Sunny Day | Crews, Donald | 0.7 | 0.5 | Whether the day is cloudy or sunny, it provides lots of opportunities for fun and entertainment. | 19 |
| Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | Barrett, Judi | 4.3 | 0.5 | Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow, where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers--until the weather takes a turn for the worse. | 28 |
| Clue at the Zoo, The | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 2.5 | 1 | Dawn tries to track down a possibly poisonous notebook that she found in the zoo, while keeping an eye on Arno, "the killer kindergarten kid." | 74 |
| Clue of the Broken Locket, The | Keene, Carolyn | 5.4 | 5 | Nancy tackles two interesting mysteries this time, both for Cecily a friend she just met, one involving Cecily's fiance, the other a family treasure. | 178 |
| Clues in the Woods | Parish, Peggy | 3.4 | 2 | Introducing Liza, Bill, and Jed, young detectives on a case at Grandma's. | 154 |
| Clyde Monster | Crowe, Robert L. | 2.7 | 0.5 | Young Clyde Monster worries about people lurking in his darkened cave bedroom. | 28 |
| Coaching Ms. Parker | Heymsfeld, Carla | 3.8 | 2 | Mike and his friends try to help their fourth-grade teacher learn how to play baseball before the annual teacher-student game. | 85 |
| Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska, A | Bartoletti, Susan Campbell | 5.5 | 6 | This book is a diary account of thirteen-year-old Anetka, life in Poland in 1896, immigration to America, marriage to a coal miner, widowhood, and happiness in finally finding her true love. | 219 |
| Coast to Coast | Byars, Betsy | 3.8 | 4 | A girl and her grandfather fly across the country in an antique plane. | 164 |
| Coasts and Shores (World Habitats) | Pipes, Rose | 4.2 | 0.5 | This book introduces some notable coasts and shores around the world, including the Great Barrier Reef, the Orinoco delta, and the sandy coasts of the British Isles. | 32 |
| Cockroaches (Creepy Crawler Discovery) | Stone, Lynn M. | 4.1 | 0.5 | Describes what cockroaches look like, what they eat, where and how they live, who their relatives are, and how their antennas serve as senses. | 24 |
| Cockroaches (Insects) | Rustad, Martha E. H. | 0.8 | 0.5 | This book uses simple text and photographs to present the features and behavior of cockroaches. | 24 |
| Coffin on a Case | Bunting, Eve | 3.7 | 2 | Twelve-year-old Henry Coffin, the son of a private investigator, helps a gorgeous high school girl in her dangerous attempt to find her kidnapped mother. | 105 |
| Coffin Quilt, The | Rinaldi, Ann | 4 | 7 | In the 1880s, young Fanny McCoy witnesses the growth of a terrible and violent feud between her Kentucky family and the West Virginia Hatfields, complicated by her older sister Roseanna's romance with a Hatfield. | 226 |
| Colony of Fear | Bledsoe, Lucy Jane | 4 | 1 | When young Samuel Roberts arrives in Stonesbury, Massachusetts, he doesn't know that before long he will be a shoemaker's apprentice in love with the Reverend's daughter. . . and on trial for witchcraft. | 72 |
| Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love | McKissack, Patricia C. | 4.9 | 5 | Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind. | 214 |
| Colorado (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 4.4 | 1 | An overview of the Centennial State, introducing its history, geography, industries, sites of interest, and famous people. | 59 |
| Colorado (This Land Is Your Land) | Heinrichs, Ann | 4.1 | 0.5 | This book introduces the geography, history, government, people, culture, and attractions of Colorado. | 48 |
| Come Sing, Jimmy Jo | Paterson, Katherine | 4.7 | 8 | Young James is a singing star on stage, but his offstage world is coming apart. | 178 |
| Comeback Dog, The | Thomas, Jane Resh | 4.9 | 1 | The heartwarming story of a special dog, a very special boy, and how they learn to live with each other. | 62 |
| Comets and Asteroids (Spinning Through Space) | Hans, E. M. | 5.9 | 0.5 | This book is about comets and asteroids and their encounters with Earth. | 32 |
| Comet's Nine Lives | Brett, Jan | 4 | 0.5 | Comet the cat uses up eight of his nine lives trying to find the right place to live on Nantucket Island. | 30 |
| Coming to America | Maestro, Betsy | 5.9 | 0.5 | This book explores the evolving history of immigration to the United States. | 39 |
| Commander Toad and the Planet of the Grapes | Yolen, Jane | 3.8 | 0.5 | In search of new worlds, Commander Toad and his crew land their spaceship on the strange planet of Grapes. | 64 |
| Competition, The | Lowell, Melissa | 4.3 | 3 | Tori is looking forward to going to Lake Placid for a competition but is having some family problems that may affect her competition. | 116 |
| Confucius: The Golden Rule | Freedman, Russell | 7.6 | 1 | This book is an introduction to the life and teachings of Confucius. | 48 |
| Connecticut (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis/Judith | 4.5 | 1 | An overview of the Constitution State, introducing its history, geography, industries, sites of interest, and famous people. | 59 |
| Conspiracy, The | Applegate, K.A. | 3.9 | 3 | Jake's dad and brother, Tom, have left for a meeting of The Sharing, where Tom may force their dad into involuntary Yeerk infestation. Jake must save his father. | 139 |
| Constellations (Spinning Through Space) | Hans, E. M. | 5.5 | 0.5 | This book shows some of the patterns of constellations and lets the reader in on the secret life of the stars. | 32 |
| Cook-a-doodle-doo! | Stevens/Crummel | 2.7 | 0.5 | With the questionable help of his friends, Big Brown Rooster manages to bake a strawberry shortcake which would have pleased his great-grandmother, Little Red Hen. | 48 |
| Cookcamp, The | Paulsen, Gary | 5 | 3 | During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness. | 115 |
| Cookies and Crutches | Delton, Judy | 3 | 1 | Molly must decide to try for a skating badge or a cookie badge. | 69 |
| Cool Melons Turn to Frogs | Gollub, Matthew | 4.4 | 0.5 | A biography and introduction to the work of the Japanese haiku poet whose love for nature finds expression in the more than thirty poems included in this book. | 34 |
| Coolies | Yin | 4.8 | 0.5 | A young boy hears the story of this great-great-great-grandfather and his brother who came to the United States to make a better life for themselves, helping to build the transcontinental railroad. | 39 |
| Corduroy | Freeman, Don | 3.5 | 0.5 | A little girl wants a stuffed bear, but her mother refuses to buy it for her. | 28 |
| Corn Grows Ripe, The | Rhoads, Dorothy | 4.7 | 2 | A young Mayan boy struggles to support his family. | 88 |
| Cornelius | Lionni, Leo | 2.2 | 0.5 | An animal fable about a crocodile who sees things in a special way. | 27 |
| Costa Rica (Let's Investigate) | Frisch, Joy | 5.9 | 0.5 | This book examines the history, landscape, wildlife, people, and weather of the nation of Costa Rica. | 30 |
| Costume (Eyewitness) | Rowland-Warne, L. | 8.4 | 1 | Photographs and text document the history and meaning of clothing, from loincloths to modern children's clothes. | 64 |
| Count of Monte Cristo (Abridged), The | Dumas, Alexandre | 8.8 | 34 | Sentenced to life for a crime he did not commit, the hero escapes, determined to exact revenge from his enemies. | 441 |
| Count of Monte Cristo (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Dumas/Yamamoto | 5.6 | 3 | After being unjustly imprisoned for fourteen years, Edmond Dantes escapes and seeks revenge against his enemies. | 236 |
| Count on Clifford | Bridwell, Norman | 1.5 | 0.5 | Young readers learn to count with Clifford--the biggest, reddest, most lovable dog around. | 26 |
| Counting on Calico | Tildes, Phyllis Limbacher | 3.8 | 0.5 | This book describes the calico cat, its characteristics, and behavior. | 30 |
| Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes, The | Heyward, Du Bose | 4.5 | 0.5 | All the other rabbits scoff when Country Bunny claims to be the Easter Bunny, but she shows them. | 42 |
| Courage of Sarah Noble, The | Dalgliesh, Alice | 3.9 | 1 | A charming and brave eight-year-old girl accompanies her father into the wilderness of Connecticut in 1707 to cook for him while he builds a new home for his family. | 54 |
| Court of the Stone Children, The | Cameron, Eleanor | 6.1 | 8 | Aided by the journal of a young woman who lived in nineteenth-century France, Nina solves a murder mystery dormant since the time of Napoleon. | 191 |
| Cow Buzzed, The | Zimmerman, Andrea | 2.7 | 0.5 | The farm animals give one another a cold, passing along their distinctive voices as well as the coughs, sniffles, and sneezes. | 29 |
| Cow That Went Oink, The | Most, Bernard | 2 | 0.5 | A cow that oinks and a pig that moos are ridiculed by the other barnyard animals until each teaches the other a new sound. | 34 |
| Cowboy (Eyewitness) | Murdoch, David H. | 7.7 | 1 | Discover the real-life world of working cowboys, how they live on the trails, care for their horses, and work the range. | 64 |
| Cowboy Up! | Brimner, Larry Dane | 0.6 | 0.5 | Presents a rhyming look at a cowboy's day at the rodeo. | 31 |
| Coyote Steals the Blanket | Stevens, Janet | 2.8 | 0.5 | Coyote takes a blanket that does not belong to him, but Hummingbird rescues Coyote from the angry desert. | 28 |
| Coyote: A Trickster Tale from the American Southwest | McDermott, Gerald | 2.6 | 0.5 | A story of Coyote, the Native American trickster, brought to life and inspired by Zuni folklore and southwestern design. Illus. by Gerald McDermott. | 28 |
| Cracker Jackson | Byars, Betsy | 4.2 | 4 | After attempting to save his ex-babysitter from wife abuse, Cracker Jackson gains an adult insight into the sadness of failed heroics. | 146 |
| Cranberry Christmas | Devlin, Wende/Harry | 4 | 0.5 | Mr. Whiskers faces a gloomy Christmas until Maggie and her grandmother help him straighten out his house and find the deed to the nearby pond. | 30 |
| Cranberry Thanksgiving | Devlin, Wende/Harry | 3.7 | 0.5 | Grandmother almost loses her secret recipe for cranberry bread to one of the guests she and Maggie invite for Thanksgiving dinner. Includes the secret recipe. | 30 |
| Cranberry Valentine | Devlin, Wende/Harry | 3 | 0.5 | Maggie, her grandmother, and the sewing circle make Cranberryport a brighter place for Mr. Whiskers when they send him secret valentines. | 27 |
| Crane Wife, The | Bodkin, Odds | 3.2 | 0.5 | This book is a retelling of the traditional Japanese tale about a poor sail maker who gains a beautiful but mysterious wife skilled at weaving magical sails. | 27 |
| Crane's Rebound | Jackson, Alison | 4.3 | 3 | Eleven-year-old Les sets out for basketball camp to discover a whole load of predicaments. | 122 |
| Crash | Spinelli, Jerry | 3.6 | 4 | Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan is comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with a Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family. | 162 |
| Crash Dive | Frederick, Lee | 3.4 | 1 | A German U-boat and an American destroyer fight to the finish in the English channel during World War II. | 59 |
| Crazy Lady! | Conly, Jane Leslie | 3.8 | 5 | Although Vernon joins his friends in ridiculing the neighborhood outcasts, he develops a social conscience after all. | 180 |
| Creoléthough Vernon joins his friends in ridiculing the neighborhood outcasts, he develops a social conscience after all. | Cosgrove, Stephen | 4.6 | 0.5 | Creole makes the other swamp kids look beyond her appearance to see her inner beauty. | 28 |
| Cricket and the Crackerbox Kid | Ferguson, Alane | 4.1 | 4 | Eleven-year-old rich kid Cricket thinks she has finally found a friend in Dominic, who lives in the low-income houses called crackerboxes, until they quarrel over ownership of a dog and their classroom becomes a courtroom to decide who is right. | 179 |
| Cricket in Times Square, The | Selden, George | 4.9 | 4 | Chester the cricket resides in a newsstand in Times Square. He has many adventures, climaxing with the rescue of the newsstand owner from financial disaster. | 151 |
| Crickwing | Cannon, Janell | 4.2 | 0.5 | A lonely cockroach named Crickwing has a creative idea that saves the day for the leaf-cutting ants when their fierce forest enemies attack them. | 46 |
| Criminal Investigation (Science Fact Files) | Woodford, Chris | 8.8 | 1 | This book provides up-to-date information, facts, and figures on criminal investigations. | 47 |
| Crispin: The Cross of Lead | Avi | 5 | 7 | Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret. | 262 |
| Crooked Banister, The | Keene, Carolyn | 5.3 | 5 | While helping the police find the owner of a mysterious house with a crooked staircase and an unpredictable robot, Nancy finds time to capture a swindler. | 179 |
| Cross-Country Cat | Calhoun, Mary | 3.9 | 0.5 | When he becomes lost in the mountains, a cat with the unusual ability of walking on two legs finds his way home on cross-country skis. | 40 |
| Crow Boy | Yashima, Taro | 3.9 | 0.5 | A shy mountain boy in Japan leaves his home at dawn to go to the village school and returns at sunset. | 35 |
| Cuckoo Child, The | King-Smith, Dick | 5.7 | 3 | With the unknowing help of his pet geese, eight-year-old Jack Daw decides to raise an ostrich on his father's farm. | 127 |
| Cuckoo Clock of Doom, The | Stine, R.L. | 2.9 | 2 | Poor Michael--he should have listened to his dad. Someone has put a dangerous spell on the clock, and now Michael's life will never be the same. | 118 |
| Culpepper's Cannon | Paulsen, Gary | 3.7 | 2 | Dunc and Amos go back to the time of the Civil War where they are mistaken for Northern spies. | 90 |
| Cupid Doesn't Flip Hamburgers | Dadey/Jones | 3.6 | 1 | The kids of Bailey School find out if the new cook in the cafeteria is really Cupid. | 76 |
| Curious George | Rey, H.A. | 2.6 | 0.5 | Curiosity gets George the monkey into trouble, until he learns to put it to good use. | 54 |
| Curious George Flies a Kite | Rey, Margret | 2.7 | 0.5 | Another delightful adventure with George, the curious monkey. | 80 |
| Curious George Gets a Medal | Rey, H.A. | 4.1 | 0.5 | Following a day of misadventures, Curious George becomes the first space monkey. | 47 |
| Curious George Goes to a Movie | Rey, Margret/ H.A. | 3.4 | 0.5 | When his curiosity leads him to investigate how the movie gets onto the screen, George, an inquisitive monkey, disrupts the show. | 24 |
| Curious George Goes to the Beach | Rey, Margret/H.A. | 2.9 | 0.5 | Curious George has fun feeding the sea gulls at the beach and then saves the day when he rescues a picnic basket and helps his friend overcome her fear of the water. | 24 |
| Curious George Goes to the Hospital | Rey, Margret/H.A. | 3.4 | 0.5 | Curious George eats a puzzle piece and goes to the hospital, while there he meets all kinds of new friends. | 45 |
| Curious George Learns the Alphabet | Rey, H.A. | 3.2 | 0.5 | Readers learn the alphabet along with George as the man in the yellow hat teaches the curious monkey how to read. | 72 |
| Curious George Rides a Bike | Rey, H.A. | 4.1 | 0.5 | George the curious monkey borrows a bike, delivers newspapers, joins a circus, saves a bear from a tree, goes home a hero. | 45 |
| Curious George Takes a Job | Rey, H.A. | 3.6 | 0.5 | Curious George takes a job washing windows and ends up a movie star. | 47 |
| Curious George Visits the Zoo | Rey, Margret | 2.6 | 0.5 | George's trip begins with his being a pest but ends with his being helpful. Adapted from the Curious George film series. | 30 |
| Curse of Camp Cold Lake, The | Stine, R.L. | 2.9 | 2 | Camp is not what Sarah had expected. She comes up with a plan to drown so that everyone will feel sorry for her, but something by the lake is watching her, stalking her. | 114 |
| Curse of the Blue Figurine, The | Bellairs, John | 5.1 | 8 | Johnny Dixon likes scary programs and reading about the curses of the pharaoh's tombs, but he never believed in evil spirits until he mistakenly removes a blue figurine from the basement of the town church. | 200 |
| Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, The | Stine, R.L. | 4 | 3 | Gabe doesn't believe in the curse of the mummy's tomb. But that doesn't mean that the curse isn't real. | 132 |
| Cut from the Same Cloth | San Souci, Robert D. | 6.2 | 5 | Stories about the women of the United States who typify the strength, bravery, and humor of many regions and cultures in these folk pieces. | 128 |
| Cyclops Doesn't Roller-Skate | Dadey/Jones | 3.7 | 1 | Could the doctor who has come to check everyone's eyes really be a cyclops? Liza is determined to find out. | 65 |
| D.W. the Picky Eater | Brown, Marc | 2.9 | 0.5 | Because her eating habits cause some problems, Arthur the Aardvark's younger sister has to stay home when the family eats out. | 22 |
| Daddy Fixed the Vacuum Cleaner | Scotellaro, Robert | 3.2 | 0.5 | One day Daddy decides to fix the vacuum cleaner. It seemed like a good idea. The only thing is, now it works so well that nothing is safe when it's turned on...not even the baby's diaper! | 22 |
| Daily Life in a Covered Wagon | Erickson, Paul | 7 | 2 | This book explores what life was really like on the wagon trail in the mid-1800s, drawing on diaries and letters, and illustrated with photographs of actual objects from the past. | 48 |
| Daily Life on a Southern Plantation 1853 | Erickson, Paul | 7 | 1 | This book portrays the daily life of people living on a cotton plantation in the Deep South before the Civil War. | 48 |
| Daisy Comes Home | Brett, Jan | 3.8 | 0.5 | Daisy, an unhappy hen in China, floats down the river in a basket and has an adventure. | 32 |
| Dance at Grandpa's | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 3.7 | 0.5 | A young pioneer girl and her family attend a wintertime party at her grandparents' house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. | 29 |
| Dancing Carl | Paulsen, Gary | 5 | 3 | As winter progresses, the strange man in the worn flight jacket dances frequently on the ice of the rink, expressing more with his movements than most people do with words. | 105 |
| Dancing in Cadillac Light | Holt, Kimberly Willis | 5.1 | 6 | In 1968, eleven-year-old Jaynell's life in the town of Moon, Texas, is enlivened when her eccentric Grandpap comes to live with her family. | 167 |
| Dancing in the Wings | Allen, Debbie | 3.5 | 0.5 | Sassy tries out for a summer dance festival in Washington, D.C., despite the other girls' taunts that she is much too tall. | 29 |
| Dandelions | Bunting, Eve | 3.5 | 0.5 | Zoe and her family find strength in each other as they make a new home in the Nebraska territory. | 43 |
| Dandelions: Stars in the Grass | Posada, Mia | 2.6 | 0.5 | In this story, rhyming text presents the dandelion, not as a weed, but as a flower of great beauty. | 32 |
| Danger on Vampire Trail | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5.1 | 5 | The Hardy boys and two friends take a camping trip to the Rocky Mountains in an attempt to locate a gang of credit-card counterfeiters. | 175 |
| Dangerous Animals (Nature Company Discoveries Library) | Seidensticker/Lumpkin | 7 | 1 | Provides information on various dangerous animals and their natural weapons. | 61 |
| Dangerous Ground | Skurzynski, Gloria | 4.6 | 5 | Before moving out of state, eleven-year-old Angela accompanies her beloved seventy-eight-year-old great-aunt Hil to Yellowstone National Park, where Hil's strange behavior suggests she may be losing her sanity. | 152 |
| Dangerous Promise, A | Nixon, Joan Lowery | 6 | 7 | Two teenage boys join a Civil War regiment. | 148 |
| Daniel Boone | Daugherty, James | 7.7 | 4 | Life on the frontier with Daniel Boone, includes exploring the wilderness and many adventures along the way. | 95 |
| Daniel's Duck | Bulla, Clyde Robert | 2 | 0.5 | A picture story set in rural Tennessee when people lived in log cabins. Young Daniel carves a wooden duck. When he exhibits his duck at the town fair, people laugh and Daniel is heartbroken. | 64 |
| Daniel's Mystery Egg | Ada, Alma Flor | 1.6 | 0.5 | When he finds an egg, Daniel and his friends try to guess what is inside. | 23 |
| Daniel's Story | Matas, Carol | 4.9 | 5 | Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation. | 136 |
| Danny and the Dinosaur | Hoff, Syd | 2.3 | 0.5 | Danny spends an unforgettable day in the city with his friend, the museum dinosaur. | 64 |
| Danny, the Champion of the World | Dahl, Roald | 4.7 | 6 | A light-hearted tale of Danny and his Dad and the numerous brave and zany adventures they share. | 196 |
| Danny's Desert Rats | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 4.4 | 4 | T.R. and Danny join their friends in forming a group called the Desert Rats, and their major mission for the summer is helping Paul keep his beloved cat despite their town house development's rule against pets. | 134 |
| Daphne's Book | Hahn, Mary Downing | 4.2 | 6 | While she denies it to her friends, Jessica comes to like the outcast Daphne as they work on their class project. | 183 |
| Darcy and Gran Don't Like Babies | Cutler, Jane | 2.4 | 0.5 | Darcy and Gran are not happy about the idea of a new baby coming, but they change their minds after the birth. | 25 |
| Dark Frigate, The | Hawes, Charles Boardman | 6.7 | 12 | A terrible accident forces orphaned Phillip to flee London in fear for his life. | 246 |
| Dark Is Rising, The | Cooper, Susan | 6.2 | 13 | On his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs that will enable the Old Ones to triumph over the evil forces of the Dark. | 244 |
| Dark Lord of Derkholm | Jones, Diana Wynne | 5.5 | 18 | Derk, an unconventional wizard, and his magical family, become involved in a plan to put a stop to the devastating tours of their world arranged by the tyrannical Mr. Chesney. | 345 |
| Dark Side of Nowhere, The | Shusterman, Neal | 5.8 | 8 | Fourteen year-old Jason faces an identity crisis after discovering that he is the son of aliens who stayed on Earth following a botched invasion mission. | 185 |
| Dark Stairs, The | Byars, Betsy | 3.9 | 3 | Young detective Herculeah Jones solves a mysterious situation on a forbidding estate. | 130 |
| Darkest Knight | Anderson/Moesta | 7.9 | 6 | The dark Jedi student Zekk has been given a chance to lead a raid on the great Wookie computer center, but to do so he must first face his old friends Jacen and Jaina. | 216 |
| Dave at Night | Levine, Gail Carson | 3.6 | 8 | When orphaned Dave is sent to the Hebrew Home for Boys where he is treated cruelly, he sneaks out at night and is welcomed into the music- and culture-filled world of the Harlem Renaissance. | 281 |
| David Copperfield (Great Illustrated Classics) | Dickens/Vogel | 5 | 3 | Young David Copperfield, orphaned as a child and abandoned by a vicious stepfather, must learn to make a life for himself. | 238 |
| David Goes to School | Shannon, David | 0.9 | 0.5 | David's teacher has her hands full. From running in the halls to chewing gum in class, David's high-energy antics fill each school day with trouble. | 30 |
| Dawn and the Big Sleepover | Martin, Ann M. | 4.3 | 4 | The Baby-Sitters organize fund-raising projects for a Native American school that has been destroyed in a fire. | 138 |
| Dawn and the Impossible Three | Martin, Ann M. | 3.9 | 4 | Dawn not only has to show the Barrett kids that she's the boss, she must prove herself to Kristy too. | 155 |
| Dawn and the Older Boy | Martin, Ann M. | 4.2 | 4 | The Baby-Sitters must tell Dawn when they see her boyfriend with another girl. | 138 |
| Dawn on the Coast | Martin, Ann M. | 4 | 4 | Dawn must choose between life in California with her father and life in Connecticut with her mother and the Club. | 142 |
| Dawn's Big Date | Martin, Ann M. | 3.8 | 4 | Dawn decides that the only way to impress Mary Anne's cousin is with an entirely new image. | 159 |
| Dawn's Wicked Stepsister | Martin, Ann M. | 4.3 | 4 | When Dawn's mother marries Mary Anne's father, their friendship is jeopardized. | 146 |
| Day I Had to Play with My Sister, The | Bonsall, Crosby | 0.5 | 0.5 | A young boy becomes very frustrated when he tries to teach his little sister to play hide-and-seek. | 32 |
| Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash, The | Noble, Trinka Hakes | 2.2 | 0.5 | Class trip to the farm turns into a riotous afternoon. | 25 |
| Day of the Dragon King | Osborne, Mary Pope | 3.3 | 1 | The magic treehouse takes Jack and Annie back 2000 years to ancient China, where they must find the original copy of an old legend before the Imperial Library is burned down by the evil Dragon King. | 68 |
| Day the Teacher Went Bananas, The | Howe, James | 1.8 | 0.5 | With the new teacher, there are also new lessons. | 27 |
| Days with Frog and Toad | Lobel, Arnold | 2.5 | 0.5 | Frog and Toad spend their days together but find sometimes it's nice to be alone. | 64 |
| Dead Man in Indian Creek, The | Hahn, Mary Downing | 4.9 | 4 | When Matt and Parker learn the body they found in Indian Creek is a drug-related death, they fear Parker's mother may be involved. | 130 |
| Deadly Dungeon, The | Roy, Ron | 3.4 | 1 | While visiting Wallis' castle, Dink and his friends investigate strange noises that lead them to a dangerous secret. | 86 |
| Dealing with Dragons | Wrede, Patricia C. | 5.5 | 8 | Bored with traditional palace life, a princess goes off to live with a group of dragons and soon becomes involved with fighting against some disreputable wizards who want to steal away the dragons' kingdom. | 212 |
| Dear Benjamin Banneker | Pinkney, Andrea Davis | 6.4 | 0.5 | The story of Benjamin Banneker, the first African American scientist. | 29 |
| Dear Dr. Bell, Your Friend, Helen Keller | St. George, Judith | 7.6 | 3 | The meeting in 1886 between Helen Keller and Alexander Graham Bell. | 89 |
| Dear Dr. King | Colbert/Harms | 4.5 | 1 | This book is a collection of letters written from children to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 63 |
| Dear Mom, Get Me Out of Here! | Conford, Ellen | 4 | 4 | Trapped in a dreadful boarding school, Paul joins his classmates in attempting to uncover the shocking past of their headmaster, Mr. Pickles. | 160 |
| Dear Mr. Henshaw | Cleary, Beverly | 4.9 | 3 | A series of letters from Leigh Botts to the author, Mr. Henshaw, dealing with Leigh's aspirations of being an author, as well as excerpts from Leigh's diary showing the concerns of this bright young boy. | 134 |
| Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School | Teague, Mark | 3.6 | 0.5 | Gertrude LaRue receives funny typewritten and paw-written letters from her dog Ike entreating her to let him leave the Igor Brotweiler Canine Academy and come back home. | 32 |
| Dear Napoleon, I Know You're Dead, But... | Woodruff, Elvira | 4.9 | 5 | A boy's correspondence with great historical figures is speeded by his grandfather's courier service. | 220 |
| Dear Whiskers | Nagda, Ann Whitehead | 3.3 | 1 | Jenny is discouraged when her pen pal turns out to be a new student from Saudi Arabia who does not speak English very well. | 75 |
| Death at Devil's Bridge | DeFelice, Cynthia | 5.3 | 6 | Despite a great summer job as a first mate on a fishing boat out of Martha's vineyard, thirteen-year-old Ben gets caught up with illegal drugs and possible murder. | 181 |
| Debt, The | Jones, S.D. | 3.8 | 1 | Reconstruction, carpetbaggers, and the Ku Klux Klan form the backdrop for Miles Pryce's one-man war against his cousin Jefferson Dunford. At stake: Economic survival. | 68 |
| December | Bunting, Eve | 2.9 | 0.5 | A homeless family's luck changes after they help an old woman who has even less than they do at Christmas. | 36 |
| December Secrets | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 2.7 | 1 | Everyone in Ms. Rooney's room has chosen a special person to be kind to. Almost everyone is happy except Emily who must be nice to the fat, class crybaby. Just before Christmas, the secrets are told; and Emily learns what a special friend really means. | 75 |
| Decision, The | Applegate, K.A. | 4.5 | 4 | When Ax and the Animorphs decide to morph mosquitoes, they end up stuck in Zero-space with no oxygen. | 168 |
| Deep Trouble | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5.1 | 5 | In a world of mystery and silence, terror always strikes without warning! | 153 |
| Deep Trouble | Stine, R.L. | 3.5 | 3 | Billy and his sister Shenna are visiting their uncle, Dr. Deep, on a Caribbean island. But something is lurking below the surface, something that is half-human, half-fish.... | 117 |
| Deep Trouble II | Stine, R.L. | 2.9 | 2 | Billy and Sheena are spending another summer in the Caribbean on their uncle's floating lab. This year there is something really scary going on under the sea! | 113 |
| Defenders (Discovering Canada), The | Livesey, Robert | 8.3 | 2 | Although outnumbered ten to one, Canadian volunteers in the War of 1812 successfully defended their homes and towns from the skilled American armies that had attacked them. | 90 |
| Defenders of the Universe | Kelleher, D.V. | 3.9 | 2 | Rachel joins the Defenders of the Universe--her neighborhood super heroes--and her first adventures put her in great peril. | 121 |
| Delaware (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis/Judith | 4.4 | 1 | An introduction to the First State, its geography, history, places to visit, and famous people. | 59 |
| Delusions of Grandeur | Anderson/Moesta | 7 | 7 | As the search for Raynar Thul's father continues, the young Jedi Knights turn for help to a most unusual and dangerous source. | 229 |
| Demeter Star, The | Oreshnik, A.F. | 3.6 | 1 | On his first ocean dive, Mike discovers a sunken cargo ship that he later learns may be carrying treasure in silver. | 60 |
| Denver Broncos (NFL Today) | Nichols, John | 7 | 1 | This book traces the history of the Denver Broncos football team from its beginnings through the 1999 season. | 32 |
| Departure, The | Applegate, K.A. | 3.8 | 4 | When Cassie decides to leave the Animorphs, she is unaware that her last mission left unsolved business and someone is out to finish her. | 159 |
| Deserted Library Mystery | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.7 | 2 | At an old library, the Alden children discover a boy who needs their help and a stranger who is after a valuable object they found in the library. | 121 |
| Deserts (Biomes) | Steele, Christy | 4 | 0.5 | This book explains how desert biomes are formed, how plants and animals adapt to the desert, and how the desert relates to other biomes. | 32 |
| Destination: Antarctica | Swan, Robert | 6.1 | 1 | This book follows the British adventurer Robert Swan and two other explorers on an exciting and dangerous 900-mile trek to the South Pole. | 38 |
| Detective Pony | Betancourt, Jeanne | 3.4 | 1 | The Pony Pals notice that a stray cat who was staying at the clinic is missing. | 79 |
| Detectives in Togas | Winterfeld/Winston | 5.1 | 7 | In an effort to save a boy wrongly accused, a group of young friends living in ancient Rome search for the culprit who scrawled graffiti on the temple wall. | 249 |
| Devil's Arithmetic, The | Yolen, Jane | 4.6 | 6 | Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage, until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland. | 170 |
| Devil's Bridge | DeFelice, Cynthia | 4.7 | 3 | Twelve-year-old Ben must cope with the loss of his father, who died the year before, and his mother's overprotectiveness when he enters the annual Striped Bass Derby on Martha's Vineyard. | 95 |
| Devil's Other Storybook, The | Babbitt, Natalie | 5.6 | 1 | The Devil is back, just as full of vanity and other human failings as he was in the first collection of stories. | 81 |
| Devil's Storybook, The | Babbitt, Natalie | 5.5 | 2 | This is a book of stories about the Devil, who is full of vanity and other human failings. | 101 |
| Dew Drop Dead | Howe, James | 4.3 | 4 | While setting up a homeless shelter at the church, Sebastian and his friends Corrie and David solve the mystery of a dead man found in an abandoned inn. | 138 |
| Dial-a-Ghost | Ibbotson, Eva | 5.8 | 6 | A family of nice ghosts protect a British orphan from the diabolical plans of his evil guardians. | 195 |
| Diamond in the Window, The | Langton, Jane | 5.8 | 8 | In the prequel to The Fledgling, Eleanor and Eddy are drawn into a dream realm. | 256 |
| Diary of a Young Girl, The | Frank, Anne | 6.5 | 14 | A precocious young girl is obliged by encroaching Nazi regime to live in enforced seclusion with family and friends. | 285 |
| Dicey's Song | Voigt, Cynthia | 5 | 11 | Left without their mother, Dicey shepherds her young siblings from Provincetown to Chesapeake Bay for a new beginning with their grandmother. | 359 |
| Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? | Seuss, Dr. | 3.5 | 0.5 | Compared to the problems of some of the creatures the old man describes, the boy is really quite lucky. | 48 |
| Different Dragons | Little, Jean | 3.7 | 3 | Timid Ben learns how to deal with his fears when he spends the weekend with Aunt Rose and meets a big Labrador retriever named Gully. | 123 |
| Different Home, A | Reiff, Tana | 2.9 | 1 | After fleeing Castro's Cuba, a man is able to reconcile his success in America with his Cuban roots. | 76 |
| Digby | Hazen, Barbara Shook | 1.2 | 0.5 | Learning about the family dog Digby helps a young child understand aging. | 32 |
| Ding Dong Ding Dong | Palatini, Margie | 2.4 | 0.5 | Despite repeated difficulties, a large ape tries various approaches to selling Ape-On Cosmetics and his persistence pays off in an unexpected way. | 32 |
| Dingoes at Dinnertime | Osborne, Mary Pope | 3.2 | 1 | The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to Australia, where they must save some animals from a wildfire. | 75 |
| Dinorella: A Prehistoric Fairy Tale | Edwards, Pamela Duncan | 3.5 | 0.5 | In this story, loosely based on that of Cinderella but featuring dinosaurs, the duke falls in love with Dinorella when she rescues him from the dreaded deinonychus at the Dinosaur Dance. | 30 |
| Dino-Roars | Hopkins, Lee Bennett | 3.4 | 0.5 | Hold onto your belly! This book of silly dinosaur poems will make you roar...with laughter! | 48 |
| Dinosaur Babies | Penner, Lucille Recht | 2.1 | 0.5 | Describes what scientists know or speculate about the characteristics and behavior of baby dinosaurs and how they may have been cared for by the adults of their species. | 32 |
| Dinosaur Bones | Barner, Bob | 3.6 | 0.5 | This book is filled with fun facts and rhyming text about dinosaurs that may have lived in your neighborhood millions of years ago. | 31 |
| Dinosaur Days | Milton, Joyce | 2.6 | 0.5 | Fact-filled book about dinosaurs made easy to read with phonics. | 47 |
| Dinosaur Dream | Nolan, Dennis | 4.3 | 0.5 | Late one night, Wilbur hears a tapping at his window. There, standing in the yard outside his window, is a baby dinosaur. Knowing that the dinosaur can't stay, Wilbur begins the long journey back through time to take him home. | 28 |
| Dinosaur Ghosts: The Mystery of Coelophysis | Gillette, J. Lynett | 6.3 | 0.5 | Explores the different scenarios put forth by scientists to explain the remarkable Coelophysis. | 32 |
| Dinosaur Mystery, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 4.2 | 3 | Someone is sabotaging a new dinosaur exhibit at the museum. | 121 |
| Dinosaurs Before Dark | Osborne, Mary Pope | 2.6 | 1 | A time-travel fantasy in which two children encounter dinosaurs in their tree house. | 68 |
| Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins, The | Kerley, Barbara | 5 | 0.5 | The unforgettable story of Waterhouse Hawkins and his dinosaurs has something to teach all of us about the importance of believing in oneself, and following a dream. | 42 |
| Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs | Barton, Byron | 2.9 | 0.5 | In prehistoric days, there were many different kinds of dinosaurs, big and small, those with spikes and those with long, sharp teeth. | 33 |
| Dinosaurumpus! | Mitton, Tony | 2 | 0.5 | A group of dinosaurs converge upon the swamp where they proceed to romp and stomp until they all fall asleep. | 32 |
| Dinotopia Lost | Foster, Alan Dean | 6.2 | 17 | When a storm-swollen breaker hurls the pirate ship "Condor" ashore, the peace of the Land Apart from Time will be shattered. | 326 |
| Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time | Gurney, James | 6.9 | 3 | A biologist and his young son are shipwrecked on the lost island of Dinotopia, where dinosaurs and humans live together in peaceful interdependence. | 159 |
| Dirt Bike Runaway | Christopher, Matt | 5.3 | 5 | A shy, unhappy sixteen-year-old with a talent for working with motorcycles runs away from his foster home and gets involved with a variety of people, both bad and good. | 149 |
| Disappearing Alphabet, The | Wilbur, Richard | 5 | 0.5 | This is a collection of poems pondering what the world would be like if any of the letters of the alphabet should disappear. | 31 |
| Disappearing Bike Shop, The | Woodruff, Elvira | 4.8 | 4 | Tyler and Freckle are amazed when they see a building rise up and disappear before their eyes. When the building reappears, they take their chances and enter Quigley's Bike Shop. | 169 |
| Discovery, The | Applegate, K.A. | 3.8 | 4 | Part one of a trilogy: The blue box Elfangor is found by a kid named David who discovers its power. Now the choices left are to turn David over to the Yeerks or make him the sixth Animorph. | 153 |
| Disney's Animation Magic | Hahn, Don | 8 | 2 | This book discusses the techniques and people involved in creating Disney's animated films, from the first story idea to opening night. | 96 |
| Dive Through the Wave | Towne, Mary | 6.2 | 4 | During her family's visits to the beach on Long Island, Ruth makes friends with a lifeguard who helps her handle her worries about the war, an outbreak of polio, and being the youngest girl in sixth grade. | 124 |
| Do Bananas Chew Gum? | Gilson, Jamie | 4.2 | 5 | Sam, a sixth-grader who's a math whiz, has trouble learning to read and spell. | 158 |
| Doctor and You, The | Swanson, Diane | 5.2 | 0.5 | This book will show you how different tools are used and why, when you visit the doctor. | 32 |
| Doctor De Soto | Steig, William | 3.6 | 0.5 | Dr. De Soto, a dentist mouse, and his wife, who is also his assistant, were not in the habit of treating animals that could be threatening to mice; so when a fox with a very painful toothache showed up at their office, they had quite a decision to make. | 28 |
| Doctor De Soto Goes to Africa | Steig, William | 4.1 | 0.5 | While en route to Africa to tend to a suffering elephant, Dr. DeSoto is kidnapped by a rhesus monkey. | 28 |
| Doctor Me Di Cin | Piumini, Roberto | 3.1 | 0.5 | The emperor's son has grown pale and thin. Doctor Me Di Cin tells him to go outside and get some fresh air, but the boy refuses. | 24 |
| Dog at the Door | Baglio, Ben M. | 4.5 | 4 | Mandy finds a distressed golden retriever tied up outside Animal Ark with no sign of her owner. The dog is expecting puppies, and it doesn't look like there's long to wait! | 145 |
| Dog Breath: The Horrible Trouble with Hally Tosis | Pilkey, Dav | 3.4 | 0.5 | Hally, the Tosis family dog, has such bad breath that Mr. and Mrs. Tosis plan to give her away, until she proves to be an invaluable watchdog. | 30 |
| Dog Called Kitty, A | Wallace, Bill | 4.2 | 4 | Through a relationship with an abandoned puppy on an Oklahoma farm, Ricky overcomes his fear of dogs that he acquired as a toddler when he was attacked by a rabid canine. | 137 |
| Dog on Barkham Street, A | Stolz, Mary | 4.6 | 5 | For Edward Frost, getting a dog and getting rid of the bully, Martin Hastings, seem equally unlikely. | 184 |
| Dog Overboard! | Sathre, Vivian | 4.2 | 5 | Wishbone imagines himself as a young Scottish lowlander bound for adventure and is kidnapped and forced to work as a cabin boy. | 139 |
| Dog That Called the Pitch, The | Christopher, Matt | 3.3 | 0.5 | Mike and his dog, Harry, the Airedale with ESP, are shocked to discover that the new umpire for Mike's baseball games can hear their mental conversations. | 38 |
| Dog Who Had Kittens, The | Robertus, Polly | 3.3 | 0.5 | Baxter the Basset Hound comes to the aid of some kittens when their mother disappears one afternoon. | 28 |
| Dog Who Wouldn't Be, The | Mowat, Farley | 7.9 | 10 | The adventures of Mutt--canine character whose extraordinary exploits are 'doggone' funny. | 195 |
| Dog Years | Warner, Sally | 3.9 | 3 | After his father is imprisoned, twelve-year-old Case switches to a new school, where he makes some important discoveries about friendship and honesty. | 154 |
| Dogs Don't Tell Jokes | Sachar, Louis | 3.8 | 5 | Twelve-year-old Gary, known as Goon because of his constant clowning and joke-telling, tries to change his image and make new friends at school. | 209 |
| Dogsong | Paulsen, Gary | 5.2 | 5 | A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy, who feels assailed by the modernity of his life, takes a 1,400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own "song" of himself. | 177 |
| Doll in the Garden, The | Hahn, Mary Downing | 4.8 | 4 | After Ashley and Kristi find an antique doll buried in old Miss Cooper's garden, they discover that they can enter a ghostly turn-of-the century world by going through a hole in the hedge. | 128 |
| Dolphins at Daybreak | Osborne, Mary Pope | 3.1 | 1 | The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie deep into the sea where they meet up with dolphins, sharks, and octopi as they search for the answer to an ancient riddle. | 67 |
| Dolphins! | Bokoske, Sharon | 2.8 | 0.5 | Introduces dolphins and their physical characteristics, behavior, social structure, intelligence, and interaction with humans. | 48 |
| Dolphins: What They Can Teach Us | Cerullo, Mary M. | 7.8 | 1 | This book describes the behavior of dolphins, their interactions with humans, and ways in which dolphins and people can benefit each other. | 42 |
| Dominican Republic (Countries and Cultures) | Haberle, Susan E. | 6.1 | 1 | This book discusses the geography, history, economy, and culture of the Dominican Republic. | 64 |
| Donkey Trouble | Young, Ed | 3.1 | 0.5 | In this retelling of the traditional fable, a kind but simple man and his grandson, on their way to market with their donkey, find it impossible to please everyone they meet. | 30 |
| Don't Be Afraid, Amanda | Moore, Lilian | 3.6 | 1 | Having entertained her country pen pal Adam in the city, city mouse Amanda overcomes her fear of the country to visit him among the pleasures of nature. | 64 |
| Don't Call Me Beanhead! | Wojciechowski, Susan | 4.2 | 1 | Five stories about a girl who's a worrywart. | 75 |
| Don't Get Caught Driving the School Bus | Strasser, Todd | 3.9 | 3 | Sarge, the new driver on the bus route, used to work at a prison, and he treats all the kids like they're criminals. Wilson, Dusty, and Kyle decide they'll show Sarge who's in charge! | 117 |
| Don't Go to Sleep! | Stine, R.L. | 2.7 | 2 | Matt hates his bedroom. He wants to sleep in the guest room, but Mom won't let him. He sneaks into the guest room one night and wishes he would have listened to his mother. | 118 |
| Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! | Willems, Mo | 0.9 | 0.5 | A pigeon that longs to drive a bus sees a chance to make its dream come true when the bus driver takes a short break. | 36 |
| Don't Need Friends | Crimi, Carolyn | 2.6 | 0.5 | After his best friend moves away, Rat rudely rebuffs the efforts of the other residents of the junkyard to be friendly, until he and a grouchy old dog decide that they need each other. | 32 |
| Don't You Know There's a War On? | Avi | 3.6 | 4 | In wartime Brooklyn in 1943, eleven-year-old Howie Crispers mounts a campaign to save his favorite teacher from being fired. | 200 |
| Door in the Wall, The | De Angeli, Marguerite | 6.2 | 4 | A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the king. | 121 |
| Door Is Open, The | Reiff, Tana | 2.7 | 0.5 | A middle-aged housewife is determined to earn her high school diploma. | 58 |
| Doorbell Rang, The | Hutchins, Pat | 1.9 | 0.5 | Each time the door bell rings, there are more people who have come to share Ma's wonderful cookies. | 22 |
| Dora's Eggs | Sykes, Julie | 2.8 | 0.5 | Dora the hen is proud of her batch of eggs until she sees all her friends with their young and thinks their babies are so much nicer than her plain, brown eggs. | 32 |
| Dorothy & Mikey | Kasza, Keiko | 2.7 | 0.5 | This book includes three stories featuring Mikey and Dorothy, two friends who play and compete with one another. | 30 |
| Dot, The | Reynolds, Peter H. | 1.9 | 0.5 | Vashti can't draw -- she's no artist. To prove her point, Vashti jabs at a blank sheet of paper, leaving an unremarkable, angry dot. | 32 |
| Double Fudge | Blume, Judy | 3.6 | 5 | His younger brother's obsession with money and the discovery of long-lost cousins Flora and Fauna provide many embarrassing moments for twelve-year-old Peter. | 213 |
| Double Life of Pocahontas, The | Fritz, Jean | 5.9 | 4 | The story of the young Indian girl and her role in American history. | 96 |
| Double Trouble | Pellowski, Michael J. | 3.7 | 2 | Sandi and Randi Daniels are identical twins. Sandi is an "A" student, loves romance novels and hates sports. Randi is an average student, hates to read and is the star of her soccer team. Imagine the trouble they can get into if they switch roles! | 121 |
| Double Trouble in Walla Walla | Clements, Andrew | 3.8 | 0.5 | It's am ordinary morning in Walla Walla until LuLu, her teacher, the school nurse, and the principal are all infected by a word warp which makes them reduplicate everything they say. | 29 |
| Dovey Coe | Dowell, Frances O'Roark | 5.4 | 6 | When accused of murder in her North Carolina mountain town in 1928, Dovey Coe, a strong-willed twelve-year-old girl, comes to a new understanding of others, including her deaf brother. | 181 |
| Down on the Farm | Lascaro, Rita | 0.5 | 0.5 | A child imitates the animals on the farm. | 17 |
| Down the Dragon's Tongue | Mahy, Margaret | 3 | 0.5 | When twins Harry and Miranda bring their buttoned-down father to the playground, he discovers that he does not want to stop sliding down the dragon's-tongue slide. | 28 |
| Down the Road | Schertle, Alice | 3.4 | 0.5 | Hetty is very careful with the eggs she has bought on her very first trip to the store, but she runs into trouble when she stops to pick apples. | 33 |
| Down the Yukon | Hobbs, Will | 5.4 | 7 | In the wake of Dawson City's Great Fire of 1899, sixteen-year-old Jason and his girlfriend, Jamie, canoe the Yukon River across Alaska in an epic race from Canada's Klondike to the new gold fields at Cape Nome. | 193 |
| Dozen Dogs, A | Ziefert, Harriet | 1 | 0.5 | Dogs doing all sorts of things in this read-and-count book. | 32 |
| Dr. Dredd's Wagon of Wonders | Brittain, Bill | 4.6 | 4 | In agreeing to make a deal with Dr. Dredd for the services of Bufu the Rainmaker, the drought-stricken town of Coven Tree enters into a devastating struggle with the forces of evil. | 179 |
| Dr. Seuss's ABC | Seuss, Dr. | 2.1 | 0.5 | A fun introduction to the alphabet by the creator of "The Cat in the Hat." | 63 |
| Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book | Seuss, Dr. | 4 | 0.5 | A story in rhyme about how a yawning bug sets off a chain reaction of yawns until everyone finally goes to sleep. | 54 |
| Dracula and Other Vampire Stories | Kudalis, Eric | 4.5 | 0.5 | The vampire Dracula pursues his hunger for human blood, both in Transylvania and London. Includes information about vampire stories in books and films and the historical background of Dracula. | 48 |
| Dracula Doesn't Drink Lemonade | Dadey/Jones | 3.6 | 1 | Is the new counselor at Bailey School a vampire? | 71 |
| Dracula Doesn't Rock and Roll | Dadey/Jones | 3.8 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could Mr. Drake, the old school counselor, really be in a rock band full of vampires? | 67 |
| Dragolin (Original Text) | Cosgrove, Stephen | 5 | 0.5 | A friendly armadillo proves to little Dragolin that you can do anything if you just believe in yourself. | 28 |
| Dragon Breath | O'Connor, Jane | 2.6 | 0.5 | While visiting a town in Wales, a boy encounters a legend of a sleeping dragon that wakes up to ravage the countryside every fifty years, a story that seems about to come true once more. | 48 |
| Dragon Cauldron | Yep, Laurence | 5.5 | 10 | A dragon named Shimmer, a monkey wizard, a reformed witch, and two humans go on a quest to mend the magic cauldron needed to repair the dragons' home. | 312 |
| Dragon Scales and Willow Leaves | Givens, Terryl | 3.7 | 0.5 | Although they are twins, Jonathan and Rachel neither look the same, nor do they see things the same way - especially in the forest. | 30 |
| Dragon War | Yep, Laurence | 5.9 | 11 | The dragon princess Shimmer and her companions fight a war against the evil Boneless King in order to rescue their friend Thorn and restore the dragons' underwater home. | 313 |
| Dragonfly's Tale | Rodanas, Kristina | 4.5 | 0.5 | After a poor harvest, two children regain the Corn Maidens' blessings for their people with the aid of a cornstalk toy, the dragonfly. | 29 |
| Dragons Are Singing Tonight, The | Prelutsky, Jack | 5.8 | 0.5 | A collection of poems about dragons, including "I'm an Amiable Dragon," "If you Don't Believe in Dragons," and "A Dragon Is in My Computer." | 40 |
| Dragon's Boy, The | Yolen, Jane | 5.8 | 3 | Young Arthur meets a dragon and comes to accept him as a friend and mentor. | 120 |
| Dragons Don't Cook Pizza | Dadey/Jones | 3.6 | 1 | Could the new pizza place with a man dressed as a knight really have a fire-breathing dragon as a cook? Eddie's going to find out. | 58 |
| Dragon's Gate | Yep, Laurence | 5.3 | 10 | A young immigrant boy from China joins his father and uncle in helping to build the transcontinental railroad. | 272 |
| Dragonslayers, The | Coville, Bruce | 4.6 | 3 | Princess Wilhelmina slays a dragon with the help of Brian, a castle page boy. She then gains her independence and the right to rule half the kingdom. | 119 |
| Dragonsong | McCaffrey, Anne | 6.8 | 9 | Enchanting fantasy-adventure as the girl Menolly becomes the first female Harper, rediscovers the legendary fire lizards, and teaches her friends the fire lizards how to sing. | 176 |
| Dragonwings | Yep, Laurence | 5.3 | 10 | This beautiful story is of Moon Shadow and his father Windrider, a Chinese immigrant who makes a flying machine in 1909. | 248 |
| Drawing Lessons from a Bear | McPhail, David | 3.3 | 0.5 | A bear explains how he becomes an artist, first experimenting with simple drawings, then continuing to draw both things around him and things in his imagination. Includes tips for drawing. | 29 |
| Dream of the Dead | Seth, Marie | 2.7 | 1 | A young woman visiting her childhood friend in Scotland is pursued by the restless spirit of a 200-year-old girl. | 59 |
| Dream Tree (Original Text), The | Cosgrove, Stephen | 4.3 | 0.5 | Patti Caterpillar resolves to tell her caterpillar friends what it's like to be a beautiful butterfly when she becomes one herself. | 16 |
| Dreaming of America: An Ellis Island Story | Bunting, Eve | 3.6 | 1 | A girl and her two smaller brothers immigrate to America in 1892. | 16 |
| Drinking Gourd, The | Monjo, F.N. | 3 | 0.5 | A suspenseful story of a young boy who helps a slave family escape to Canada and to freedom. | 62 |
| Drop of Water, A | Wick, Walter | 5.8 | 0.5 | Describes the characteristics of water. | 34 |
| Dropping in on Germany | Allison, Amy | 4.9 | 0.5 | This book describes the country of Germany, including main cities and regions, and gives information about the history, geography, and people of the country. | 32 |
| Drummer Hoff | Emberley, Barbara | 4.7 | 0.5 | A cumulative folk song in which seven soldiers build a magnificent cannon, but Drummer Hoff fires it off. | 26 |
| Duck in the Truck | Alborough, Jez | 2.5 | 0.5 | Duck's truck is stuck in the muck. Can anyone help him get his truck out of the muck? Or is duck out of luck? | 29 |
| Duck on a Bike | Shannon, David | 2 | 0.5 | When Duck gets the zany idea to ride a bike one day, each animal on the farm has a reaction. | 30 |
| Duffy and the Devil | Zemach, Harve/Margot | 4.9 | 0.5 | This book is a Cornish version of the old Rumplestiltskin folktale. A Caldecott Medal Book. | 36 |
| Duke Ellington | Pinkney, Andrea Davis | 5 | 0.5 | This book gives a brief acount of the career of this jazz musician and composer, who along with his orchestra, created music that was beyond category. | 30 |
| Dunc and Amos Hit the Big Top | Paulsen, Gary | 4.6 | 2 | To impress Melissa, Amos decides to perform on the trapeze at a visiting circus. | 84 |
| Dunc Gets Tweaked | Paulsen, Gary | 3.5 | 2 | Dunc and Amos search for a stolen prototype skateboard. | 89 |
| Duncan and Dolores | Samuels, Barbara | 2.1 | 0.5 | Faye teaches Dolores a method for training her new kitten Duncan. | 29 |
| Dynamite Dinah | Mills, Claudia | 5 | 4 | Mischievous Dinah struggles to remain the center of attention when her baby brother comes home from the hospital and her best friend gets a lead role in the class play. | 120 |
| Early Sunday Morning: The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows | Denenberg, Barry | 5.6 | 3 | Amber Billows keeps a journal of the days leading up to and following the Pearl Harbor attack in Hawaii. | 156 |
| Earrings! | Viorst, Judith | 2.8 | 0.5 | A young girl uses various arguments to convince her parents to let her have her ears pierced. | 27 |
| Earth (Solar System) | Sorensen, Lynda | 4.5 | 0.5 | Describes the physical nature, land section, layers, and lifeforms of the Earth. | 24 |
| Earth (Spinning Through Space), The | Furniss, Tim | 5.7 | 0.5 | The Earth is just a small part of the universe and is one of the unique wonders of space. Humans, animals, plants and many other beings can breathe freely in Earth's atmosphere. There is no other planet in the explored universe capable of this. | 32 |
| Earth Magic | Loehr, Mallory | 3.5 | 2 | Polly and Sam encounter strange magical objects as they walk through the woods. | 117 |
| Earth to Matthew | Danziger, Paula | 4.1 | 4 | Matthew Martin finds himself on the threshold of becoming a teenager in suburban America and experiences conflicting emotions regarding his future. | 148 |
| Earthquack! | Palatini, Margie | 3.7 | 0.5 | When Chucky Ducky feels the earth beneath him grumble and rumble, he runs to alert the other barnyard animals to the coming earthquake. Just as a wily weasel is about to take advantage of their fears, the true source of the rumbling is revealed. | 32 |
| Earthquake in the Early Morning | Osborne, Mary Pope | 3.3 | 1 | The Magic Tree House takes Jack and Annie to San Francisco in 1906, in time for them to experience one of the biggest earthquakes the United States had ever known. | 72 |
| Earthquake Terror | Kehret, Peg | 4.6 | 4 | When an earthquake hits the isolated island in northern California where his family had been camping, Jonathan must find a way to keep himself, his sister, and their dog alive until help arrives. | 132 |
| Earthquakes | Branley, Franklyn M. | 4.2 | 0.5 | Discusses why earthquakes happen, what their sometimes-devastating effects can be, where the danger zones are, and what measures people can take to safeguard themselves. | 32 |
| Eat Your Peas | Gray, Kes | 3.7 | 0.5 | Mom tries to get Daisy to eat her peas by offering her many different bribes, but Daisy turns the tables on Mom in the end. | 25 |
| Eat Your Peas, Louise! | Snow, Pegeen | 0.7 | 0.5 | Louise is given all sorts of reasons for eating her peas. | 31 |
| Eat Your Poison, Dear | Howe, James | 4 | 3 | Young sleuth Sebastian and three friends probe the mystery of a poisoning in their school cafeteria. | 139 |
| Eating the Plates | Penner, Lucille Recht | 4.9 | 1 | This book gives information about the eating habits, customs, and manners of the Pilgrims in the colony of New Plymouth. | 117 |
| Ed & Fred Flea | Edwards, Pamela Duncan | 2.5 | 0.5 | As his brother prepares to leave the dog they share, Fred the greedy flea pretends to have the flu in order to stay behind and have the whole dog, unaware of the fate that awaits him. | 30 |
| Eddie's Blue-Winged Dragon | Adler, C.S. | 4.4 | 4 | A sixth-grader with cerebral palsy becomes the owner of a brass dragon, which helps him out in some of the battles he faces due to his handicap. | 144 |
| Edith Herself | Howard, Ellen | 4.4 | 3 | Orphaned by her mother's death, Edith goes to live with her older sister and her dour husband in their stern farming household, where the strain of adjusting seems to aggravate her epileptic seizures. | 131 |
| Edward and the Pirates | McPhail, David | 4 | 0.5 | Once Edward has learned to read, books and his vivid imagination provide him with great adventures. | 28 |
| Edward the Emu | Knowles, Sheena | 3.6 | 0.5 | Edward is sick of the zoo because there is nothing to do. He decides to go on an adventure to see what is happening. | 27 |
| Edwina the Emu | Knowles, Sheena | 3.4 | 0.5 | Edwina the Emu looks for a job, hoping to help support her family. | 30 |
| EEK! Stories to Make You Shriek | O'Connor, Jane | 2 | 0.5 | Three easy-to-read scary stories about a talking doll, a dog picture that barks, and a Halloween monster. | 48 |
| Egg Monsters from Mars | Stine, R.L. | 3 | 2 | Dana's little sister wants an egg hunt for her birthday, and Dana finds just the right kind of egg. | 115 |
| Egg, The | Robertson, M.P. | 3 | 0.5 | When George finds a gigantic egg in his mother's chicken house, he knows that it is his responsibility to keep it warm and read it stories until it hatches. | 25 |
| Eggs with Legs | Delton, Judy | 3.8 | 1 | The Pee Wees are planning fun activities for springtime holidays. | 87 |
| Egypt Game, The | Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | 6.4 | 7 | It is only a game for six children, until an oracle tells the truth and a murderer appears. | 215 |
| Egyptian Tomb (Look Inside), An | Moses, Brian | 6.8 | 0.5 | This book describes the amazing life and beliefs of the ancient Egyptians through the mysterious treasures that were buried in a pharaoh's tomb. | 32 |
| Eight Cousins | Alcott, Louisa May | 8.2 | 13 | Left an orphan after her father's death, Rose Campbell is sent to live at the "Aunt Hill" with her six aunts and seven rowdy boy cousins. | 299 |
| Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery | Freedman, Russell | 7.8 | 6 | A detailed portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt's political career, personal causes, and private life. | 198 |
| Eleanor: Crown Jewel of Aquitaine | Gregory, Kristiana | 5.7 | 5 | This is the diary of Eleanor, first daughter of the Duke of Aquitaine, from 1136 until 1137, when at age fifteen she becomes Queen of France. | 187 |
| Electricity and Magnetism (Discovering Science) | Hunter, Rebecca | 5 | 0.5 | This book explains how electricity and magnetism are related, how they can be harnessed, and how they are useful. | 32 |
| Elements, Compounds and Mixtures (Let's Wonder About Science) | Patten, J.M. | 4.3 | 0.5 | Discusses elements, compounds, and mixtures and what all things are made of. | 24 |
| Elevator Family, The | Evans, Douglas | 4 | 1 | The four members of the Wilson family decide to spend their holiday in one of the elevators at the San Francisco Hotel. | 87 |
| Elf for Christmas, An | Garland, Michael | 4.2 | 0.5 | After falling asleep and being delivered along with a toy airplane for Christmas, a hard-working elf tries to make his way back to the North Pole. | 32 |
| Elfstones of Shannara, The | Brooks, Terry | 6.4 | 31 | The sequel to The Sword of Shannara, in which the elves Wil Ohmsford and Amberle must share a long and fantastic journey while trying to avoid the Reaper. | 564 |
| Elisabeth: The Princess Bride | Denenberg, Barry | 7.4 | 3 | This is the diary of Princess Elisabeth, written in 1853-1854, describing her engagement and marriage to her cousin Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria. | 151 |
| Elizabeth Meets her Hero | Pascal/Stewart | 4 | 1 | Elizabeth is excited about seeing the taping of her favorite show until she hears the host yelling at his dog. | 73 |
| Elizabeth's Video Fever | Pascal/Stewart | 3.4 | 1 | Jessica helps her twin snap out of a video game mania. | 70 |
| Ella Enchanted | Levine, Gail Carson | 4.6 | 8 | In this novel based on Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given. | 229 |
| Ella Sarah Gets Dressed | Chodos-Irvine, Margaret | 2.6 | 0.5 | Despite the advice of others in her family, Ella Sarah persists in wearing the striking and unusual outfit of her own choosing. | 32 |
| Eloise in Moscow | Thompson, Kay | 4.6 | 1 | There is hardly a creature on earth more likely to confound early cold war Soviet society than Eloise, and here she runs roughshod over guides, interpreters, spies, and everyone else whose job it is to see her safely around and out of Moscow. | 68 |
| Elves Don't Wear Hard Hats | Dadey/Jones | 3.6 | 1 | Could the short construction workers building the school playground really be elves working on a secret present? | 70 |
| Emily | Bedard, Michael | 3.1 | 0.5 | When a mother and child pay a visit to their reclusive neighbor Emily, who stays in her house writing poems, there is an exchange of special gifts. | 40 |
| Emily Arrow Promises to Do Better This Year | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 2.6 | 1 | After resolving to do everything better, Emily's good intentions are jeopardized by her best friend. | 71 |
| Emily's Runaway Imagination | Cleary, Beverly | 6.1 | 6 | Emily Bartlett is a fourth-grader growing up in the small town of Pitchfork, Oregon, in the days before cars and TV. | 221 |
| Empty Envelope, The | Roy, Ron | 3.5 | 1 | Dink and his friends unearth the mysterious truth behind the envelopes incorrectly delivered to his house. | 79 |
| Empty Pot, The | Demi | 3.8 | 0.5 | When Ping admits that he is the only child in China unable to grow a flower from the seeds distributed by the Emperor, he is rewarded for his honesty. | 30 |
| Enchanted Horse, The | Nabb, Magdalen | 5 | 2 | A lonely young girl living on a remote farm with her work-obsessed parents cares for an old and battered wooden horse with such devotion that it comes to life. | 89 |
| Encounter | Yolen, Jane | 4.2 | 0.5 | A Taino Indian boy on the island of San Salvador recounts the landing of Columbus and his men in 1492. | 27 |
| Encounter, The | Applegate, K.A. | 3.8 | 4 | It is four kids and a hawk against a force that is determined to destroy them. | 154 |
| Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of Pablo's Nose | Sobol, Donald J. | 4.1 | 1 | Encyclopedia Brown is faced with solving the mystery of the missing professor, a missing monkey, and a thief in a thunderstorm. | 73 |
| Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Mysterious Handprints | Sobol, Donald J. | 4.5 | 1 | Ten all-new mysteries from the world's greatest boy sleuth's casebooks with solutions. | 91 |
| Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Sleeping Dog | Sobol, Donald J. | 4.2 | 1 | Encyclopedia Brown continues his war on crime with ten more cases. | 72 |
| Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Treasure Hunt | Sobol, Donald J. | 4.4 | 1 | This text offers ten brain-twisting mysteries that Encyclopedia Brown must solve by using his famous computer-like brain. | 91 |
| Encyclopedia Brown Boy Detective | Sobol, Donald J. | 4.1 | 1 | Presents ten baffling mysteries for the boy detective and the reader, with Encyclopedia's solutions included at the end of the book. | 111 |
| Encyclopedia Brown Gets His Man | Sobol, Donald J. | 4.4 | 1 | Encyclopedia Brown solves ten more mysteries, including the cases of a ghost who whistles and an Idaville boy who has literally lost his marbles. | 112 |
| Encyclopedia Brown Keeps the Peace | Sobol, Donald J. | 4.2 | 1 | Ten new mysteries from the casebooks of Leroy 'Encyclopedia' Brown, the ten-year-old detective. | 110 |
| Encyclopedia Brown Lends a Hand | Sobol, Donald J. | 4.2 | 1 | The solutions to ten mysteries solved by Leroy 'Encyclopedia' Brown are given in a separate section challenging the reader to match wits with the ten-year-old mastermind of Idaville's war on crime. | 96 |
| Encyclopedia Brown Shows the Way | Sobol, Donald J. | 3.9 | 1 | Encyclopedia Brown, brilliant fifth-grade amateur detective, solves ten crimes. The reader may match solutions with those at the end of the book. | 110 |
| Encyclopedia Brown Solves Them All | Sobol, Donald J. | 4.2 | 1 | Leroy 'Encyclopedia' Brown invites the reader to solve ten mysteries. Answers are provided at the back of the book. | 96 |
| Ender's Game | Card, Orson Scott | 5.5 | 16 | Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer games. But in reality he is being trained to be the military genius that the planet needs in its all-out war with an alien enemy. | 324 |
| Endless Steppe, The | Hautzig, Esther | 6.3 | 10 | A true story of courage about a family exiled to Siberia. | 243 |
| Enemy Pie | Munson, Derek | 3.2 | 0.5 | Hoping that the enemy pie which his father makes will help him get rid of his enemy, a little boy finds that it helps make a new friend. | 32 |
| Energy (Discovering Science) | Hunter, Rebecca | 5.1 | 0.5 | This book gives a simple explanation of energy and its many forms and sources. | 32 |
| Engelbert Joins the Circus | Paxton, Tom | 3.4 | 0.5 | After traveling from the jungle to America to visit his cousin in the circus, Engelbert accidentally ends up in the spotlight and steals the show. | 28 |
| Enormous Crocodile, The | Dahl, Roald | 4 | 0.5 | The enormous crocodile devises secret plans and a few clever tricks to secure his lunch only to have them foiled by his neighbors. | 42 |
| Enormous Egg, The | Butterworth, Oliver | 5 | 6 | Twelve-year-old Nate Twitchell's hen lays an egg the size of a melon, and the creature that hatches makes world news. | 188 |
| Epossumondas | Salley, Coleen | 3.9 | 0.5 | This is a retelling of a classic tale in which a well-intentioned young possum continually takes his mother's instructions much too literally. | 33 |
| Ernie's Little Lie | Elliott, Dan | 2.3 | 0.5 | Ernie enters a painting by his cousin Fred in a contest in order to win a box of paints. | 30 |
| Ersatz Elevator, The | Snicket, Lemony | 6.6 | 7 | The woeful saga of the Baudelaire orphans continues as evil Count Olaf discovers their whereabouts at Esmér's instructions much too literally. | 259 |
| Escape from Slavery | Rappaport, Doreen | 5 | 3 | Five accounts of black slaves who managed to escape to freedom during the period preceding the Civil War. | 104 |
| Escape from Tomorrow | Lanning, Sereta | 2.6 | 1 | A simple experiment goes wrong. Soon every living thing will be dead. | 60 |
| Escape of Marvin the Ape, The | Buehner, Caralyn/Mark | 2 | 0.5 | When no one is looking, Marvin, an overly friendly ape, slips out of the zoo and begins an adventure that introduces him to life in the big city. | 32 |
| Escape, The | Applegate, K.A. | 4 | 4 | Marco's mother is taken over by the Yeerk in her brain, and now she is overseeing a secret underwater project. | 163 |
| Esio Trot | Dahl, Roald | 4.4 | 1 | Shy Mr. Hoppy devises a plan to win the heart of his true love by teaching her a spell to make her tortoise grow bigger. | 62 |
| Esperanza Rising | Ryan, Pam Muñ devises a plan to win the heart of his true love by teaching her a spell to make her tortoise grow bigger. | 5.3 | 6 | Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California on the eve of the Great Depression. | 262 |
| Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito, The | Garrigue, Shelia | 4.2 | 5 | Sara forms a special friendship with the gardener, Mr. Ito, at a time when other Japanese-Canadians were being interned for the duration of World War II. | 163 |
| Everest Book One: The Contest | Korman, Gordon | 5.1 | 4 | Mount Everest has claimed the lives of many adults. Now, kids are going to compete to break the record. Some are not ready for what they will face and some will stop at nothing to get to the top. | 137 |
| Everest Book Three: The Summit | Korman, Gordon | 5.2 | 4 | Four kids are prepared to go into thin air in order to become the youngest person ever to climb Everest. However, they are not prepared for the challenges that await them as they get closer to the summit. | 154 |
| Everest Book Two: The Climb | Korman, Gordon | 5.2 | 4 | Four kids are on a quest to reach the top of Mount Everest. The unexpected happens and the climbing contest becomes a life-or-death rescue mission. No one is guaranteed to survive. | 151 |
| Everett Anderson's Friend | Clifton, Lucille | 2.9 | 0.5 | Having eagerly anticipated the new neighbors, Everett Anderson is disappointed to get a whole family of girls. | 26 |
| Everett Anderson's Goodbye | Clifton, Lucille | 2.5 | 0.5 | Everett Anderson has a difficult time coming to terms with his grief after his father dies. | 20 |
| Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like | Williams, Jay | 3.8 | 0.5 | Because of the road sweeper's belief in him, a dragon saves the city of Wu from the Wild Horsemen of the north. | 24 |
| Everything on a Waffle | Horvath, Polly | 5.8 | 5 | Eleven-year-old Primrose, living in a small fishing village in British Columbia, recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea. | 149 |
| Everything to Spend the Night from A to Z | Paul, Ann Whitford | 1.7 | 0.5 | While showing her grandfather all the things that she has brought with her to spend the night, a little girl suddenly realizes she forgot one important item. | 32 |
| Everywhere | Brooks, Bruce | 5.2 | 2 | Afraid that his beloved grandfather will die after suffering a heart attack, a nine-year-old boy agrees to join ten-year-old Dooley in performing a mysterious ritual called soul switching. | 70 |
| Evil, Inc. | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5.4 | 5 | The Hardy boys are off to Paris to get the goods on a French businessman who may be the head of an international crime empire. | 153 |
| Exhibition of Evil | Keene, Carolyn | 4.8 | 6 | Nancy and the Hardy Boys team up to solve two murders in Williamsburg, Virginia, where colonial America comes alive. | 216 |
| Experiment, The | Applegate, K.A. | 4.1 | 3 | The Yeerks are trying to take away the human ability to make decisions in order to speed up the invasion of Earth. Now the Animorphs and Ax must try to slow down the invasion and stop the genetic testing being done on a small group of humans. | 139 |
| Exploding Ants: Amazing Facts About How Animals Adapt | Settel, Joanne | 6.4 | 1 | This book describes examples of animal behavior that may strike humans as disgusting, including the "gross" ways animals find food, shelter, and safety in the natural world. | 39 |
| Exploration and Conquest: The Americas After Columbus, 1500-1620 | Maestro, Betsy | 7.2 | 1 | Christopher Columbus's voyages led to European exploration of the New World. The Americas were irresistible to gold-hungry conquistadors, and exploration soon came to signify conquest. The lives of its inhabitants would be changed forever. | 48 |
| Exploring Space (Our Universe) | Vogt, Gregory | 5.2 | 1 | This book discusses past, present, and future space travel. | 48 |
| Exposed, The | Applegate, K.A. | 3.7 | 3 | When the Animorphs try to help their only true ally, the Chee, they discover that the Chee's problem is deeper than they could have imagined. And the Animorphs realize what will happen if Visser Three discovers the valuable secrets of the Chee. | 154 |
| Extraordinary Life: The Story of a Monarch Butterfly, An | Pringle, Laurence | 7.2 | 2 | The life cycle, feeding habits, migration, predators, and mating of the monarch butterfly are introduced through the observation of one particular monarch named Danaus. | 64 |
| Extreme Machines on Land | Armentrout, Patricia | 4.7 | 0.5 | This book briefly describes some unusual land vehicles, such as all-terrain vehicles, Indy cars, jet cars, dragsters, tanks, and solar cars. | 24 |
| Extreme, The | Applegate, K.A. | 4.1 | 3 | Marco, Ax, and the other Animorphs launch a plan to defend Earth from the Yeerks. | 146 |
| Eye Book, The | Seuss, Dr. | 0.8 | 0.5 | A boy and rabbit both have two eyes that see all kinds of things, from blue and red to a bird and a bed. | 32 |
| Eye of the Great Bear | Wallace, Bill | 4.3 | 5 | After moving to Montana, Bailey Trumbull's whole life changes and he must face his fears head on. | 161 |
| Eyes of Gray Wolf, The | London, Jonathan | 3.1 | 0.5 | Gray Wolf searches for a new mate in the Alaskan wilderness. | 22 |
| Eyes of the Amaryllis, The | Babbitt, Natalie | 5 | 3 | An eerie tale of an old grandmother and her granddaughter who watch for a sign from the sea concerning a lost grandfather. | 128 |
| Eyewitness Science: Light | Burnie, David | 7.3 | 1 | Illustrated guide presents the principles, personalities, and historical scientific achievements of the science of light. | 64 |
| Eyewitness Science: Matter | Cooper, Christopher | 8.3 | 1 | Illustrated guide presents the principles, personalities, and historical scientific achievements of physics. | 64 |