| Title | Author | Level | Pts. | Description | Pages |
| Face in the Bessledorf Funeral Parlor, The | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 5.4 | 4 | Convinced that the strange things happening at the funeral parlor next door to his family's hotel are somehow connected to a recent robbery, Bernie determines to become famous by proving his theory and catching the thief. | 144 |
| Face-to-Face with the Ant: Energetic Worker | Gomel/Laird | 4.6 | 0.5 | This book discusses the physical characteristics, behavior, habitats, and life cycles of ants. | 25 |
| Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt, The | MacLachlan, Patricia | 5.7 | 4 | Story of an endearing, clever girl and the relationships she encounters on her way to growing up. | 136 |
| Fair Weather | Peck, Richard | 4.7 | 4 | In 1893, thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her family travel from their Illinois farm to Chicago to visit Aunt Euterpe, and attend the World's Columbian Exposition. | 139 |
| Fairy Rebel, The | Banks, Lynne Reid | 4.2 | 3 | A rebellious fairy named Tiki, already in trouble for breaking the rule against wearing jeans, risks the further wrath of the fairy queen by trying to fulfill a human's special request for help. | 118 |
| Fairy's Mistake, The | Levine, Gail Carson | 4 | 1 | In this humorous retelling of a Perrault tale, the fairy Ethelinda rewards one twin sister for good behavior and punishes the other for bad, only to discover that her punishment is more pleasing than her reward. | 84 |
| Fairy's Return, The | Levine, Gail Carson | 3.8 | 1 | In a retelling of the Grimm Brothers' THE GOLDEN GOOSE, the good-natured son of a baker wins the heart of a princess with the help of a fairy and a magic goose. | 104 |
| Faithful Friend, The | San Souci, Robert D. | 5.2 | 0.5 | A retelling of the traditional tale from the French West Indies in which two friends, Clement and Hippolyte, encounter love, zombies, and danger on the island of Martinique in the West Indies. | 33 |
| Falcon's Feathers, The | Roy, Ron | 3.3 | 1 | Josh and his two friends look for the person who stole a peregrine falcon from its nest. | 87 |
| Family from Vietnam, The | Reiff, Tana | 2.8 | 0.5 | A family gets separated when fleeing Saigon for the United States. | 57 |
| Family Under the Bridge, The | Carlson, Natalie Savage | 4.7 | 3 | An old tramp, adopted by three fatherless children when their mother hides them under a bridge on the Seine, finds a home for mother and children and a job for himself. | 97 |
| Fanny's Dream | Buehner, Caralyn | 3.7 | 0.5 | Fanny Agnes is a sturdy farm girl who dreams of marrying a prince; but when her fairy Godmother doesn't show up, she decides on a local farmer instead. | 30 |
| Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them | Rowling, J.K. | 8.8 | 2 | This is the complete A to Z listing of magical beasts and their classifications. | 42 |
| Fantastic Mr. Fox | Dahl, Roald | 4.1 | 1 | Mr. Fox saves his family and his animal friends when he outsmarts three farmers who are hunting him. | 90 |
| Farewell to Shady Glade | Peet, Bill | 5.2 | 0.5 | Sixteen animal tenants of treehouse have their home demolished by glowering bulldozers. | 38 |
| Farm Flu | Bateman, Teresa | 3.1 | 0.5 | When the farm animals seem to catch the flu one after another, a young boy does his best to take care of them. | 32 |
| Farmer Boy | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 5.2 | 9 | Almanzo Wilder's boyhood on his father's farm in upper New York state, a century ago. | 372 |
| Farmer Brown Goes Round and Round | Sloat, Teri | 3.2 | 0.5 | A twister strikes Farmer Brown's farm and mixes the animals all up, so that the cows oinked, sheep clucked, hens brayed, and his hound neighed. | 28 |
| Farmer Duck | Waddell, Martin | 2.2 | 0.5 | When a kind and hardworking duck nearly collapses from overwork while taking care of a farm because the owner is too lazy to do so, the rest of the animals get together and chase the farmer out of town. | 32 |
| Farthest Shore, The | Le Guin, Ursula K. | 6.1 | 10 | Book Three of prize-winning Earthsea Trilogy, in which Ged sets out to see if magic still exists in Enlad. | 223 |
| Fastest Friend in the West, The | Grove, Vicki | 5.6 | 6 | When her best friend dumps her to be with the popular kids, overweight Lori shares an unusual but brief friendship with a homeless girl. | 174 |
| Fat Cat Sat on the Mat, The | Karlin, Nurit | 1.9 | 0.5 | Rat tries to get the fat cat off the mat and back to his usual resting place in the vat. | 32 |
| Father Bear Comes Home | Minarik, Else Holmelund | 2.1 | 0.5 | When Father Bear returns from a fishing trip, Little Bear and his friends are on hand to welcome him. | 62 |
| Favorite Greek Myths | Osborne, Mary Pope | 6.1 | 2 | This book retells twelve tales from Greek mythology, including the stories of King Midas, Echo and Narcissus, the Golden Apples, and Cupid and Psyche. | 81 |
| Fear on Ice | Rice, Earle | 3.7 | 1 | SporTeller novel about hockey, fighting, and becoming successful. | 60 |
| Fear Place, The | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 5.4 | 5 | Despite the strained relationship between them, Doug must overcome his fear in order to search for his missing brother. | 118 |
| Fear the Condor | Blair, David Nelson | 4.3 | 5 | The story of an Aymara Indian of Bolivia who finds the strength within herself to learn to read and write despite the landowner's effort to instill fear against new ways in her people. | 137 |
| Feather Fin (Original Text) | Cosgrove, Stephen | 4.9 | 0.5 | Feather Fin, the eel, realizes there's no place like home. | 28 |
| Feathers and Fools | Fox, Mem | 4.1 | 0.5 | A modern fable about some peacocks and swans who allow the fear of their differences to become so great that they end up destroying each other. | 29 |
| Feelings | Aliki | 2 | 0.5 | Depicts a wide range of emotions--guilt, fear, sadness, anger, nervousness, etc.--for the youngest readers. | 32 |
| Felicity Saves the Day | Tripp, Valerie | 4.5 | 1 | During a visit to her grandfather's plantation in Virginia during the summer of 1775, Felicity's loyalty is torn between her father and Ben, her father's apprentice. Ben needs her help as he runs away to join George Washington's army of Patriots. | 67 |
| Felita | Mohr, Nicholasa | 3.6 | 2 | The everyday experiences of an eight-year-old Puerto Rican girl growing up in a close-knit, urban community. | 112 |
| Fellowship of the Ring, The | Tolkien, J.R.R. | 6.1 | 29 | It is up to Frodo and his faithful servant Sam with a small band of companions to carry the Ring of Power to the one place it could be destroyed, while avoiding the Ringwraiths. | 423 |
| Fever, 1793 | Anderson, Laurie Halse | 4.4 | 7 | In 1793 Philadelphia, fourteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic. | 251 |
| Fifth Grade: Here Comes Trouble | McKenna, Colleen O'Shaughnessy | 4.4 | 3 | Unlike the other girls in her class, Collette Murphy becomes worried and embarrassed when she is invited to her first boy/girl party. | 137 |
| Fifth-Grade Crush | Shahan, Sherry | 3.9 | 2 | Tracy would never forget the first time she spotted the new teacher, Mr. Arnold. He was the cutest guy she had ever seen. She just had to make sure that she was assigned to his classroom. Then she would make sure that he noticed her. But how? | 123 |
| Fig Pudding | Fletcher, Ralph | 3.9 | 4 | The Abernathys, who do everything in a big way, have an eventful year. | 136 |
| Fighting Tackle | Christopher, Matt | 4.7 | 3 | Until his growth spurt, Terry McFee was the fastest defensive safety on the Clippers football team. But now he's lagging behind. | 147 |
| Finders Keepers for Franklin | Bourgeois, Paulette | 2.8 | 0.5 | Someone lost a camera. Should Franklin try to find the owner after finding it? | 32 |
| Finding Buck McHenry | Slote, Alfred | 3.5 | 6 | Eleven-year-old Jason, believing the school custodian Mack Henry to be Buck McHenry, a famous pitcher from the old Negro League, tries to enlist him as a coach for his Little League team by revealing his identity to the world. | 250 |
| Finding the Titanic | Ballard, Robert D. | 4 | 0.5 | This book describes the voyage of the Titanic, the accident that caused it to sink, the rescue of those who survived, and discovery of the wreck. | 48 |
| Fine White Dust, A | Rylant, Cynthia | 4.2 | 3 | Pete is a boy who needs to know where he stands with God, his parents, and his best friend, a confirmed atheist. | 106 |
| Fine, Fine School, A | Creech, Sharon | 3.3 | 0.5 | The principal tells the students and the teachers that he would like to have school on Saturday. It is up to Tillie to convince him that it is not a good idea. | 32 |
| Finn MacCoul and His Fearless Wife | Byrd, Robert | 4.6 | 0.5 | With the help of his brave and clever wife, Finn MacCoul bests the fearsome giant Cucullin. | 30 |
| Fire Children: A West African Creation Tale, The | Maddern, Eric | 3.8 | 0.5 | A West African creation myth sheds light on why people come in so many colors. | 26 |
| Fire Dreams | Loehr, Mallory | 4 | 2 | While visiting their grandparents' farm, Joe, Polly, and Sam are called by the magic of fire to go to Mount Olympus to repay a debt to Prometheus. | 111 |
| Fire Fighters (New True Books) | Broekel, Ray | 2.5 | 0.5 | Briefly discusses the work, uniform, and tools of fire fighters and describes a variety of fire trucks. | 45 |
| Fire in Their Eyes | Beil, Karen Magnuson | 6.3 | 1 | This book depicts in text and photographs the training, equipment, and real-life experiences of people who risk their lives to battle wildfires. It also details people who use fire for ecological reasons. | 64 |
| Fire into Ice | Houston, James | 5.4 | 0.5 | This book is a fascinating introduction to glass making, one of the world's most ancient and most beautiful arts, through the experiences of the author who left his home in the Arctic to learn glass-making skills in New York City. | 32 |
| Fire: Friend or Foe | Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw | 7.2 | 1 | Discusses forest forest and the effect that they have on both people and the natural world. | 80 |
| Firefighting: Behind the Scenes | Ruth, Maria Mudd | 6.9 | 2 | This book explains the challenging and dangerous work performed by firefighters, the clothing they wear, and the special gear they use. | 61 |
| Fires of Merlin, The | Barron, T.A. | 5 | 9 | Having voyaged to the Otherworld in his quest to find himself, the young wizard must face fire in many different forms and deal with the possibility of losing his own magical power. | 261 |
| Firetalking | Polacco, Patricia | 4.3 | 0.5 | This book discusses a popular author and illustrator of children's books. | 32 |
| First Dog, The | Brett, Jan | 3.9 | 0.5 | Kip and Palewolf each face hunger and danger on a journey in Paleolithic times. They decide to join forces and help one another; Palewolf becomes the first dog. | 30 |
| First Flight: The Story of the Wright Brothers | Jenner, Caryn | 6 | 1 | Growing up in rural Ohio, Orville and Wilbur Wright were fascinated by all kinds of vehicles -- a toy helicopter, bicycles, and the first motorized cars, but what they dreamed of was flight. | 48 |
| First Four Years, The | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 5.8 | 4 | Frontier homesteading is a rough but rewarding experience, as the hardy Wilder family can testify. | 135 |
| First King of Shannara | Brooks, Terry | 6.9 | 30 | The Druids come across a plot to destroy their world and need to use their own knowledge of magic to prevent a tragedy. | 439 |
| First Night of Hanukkah, The | Weiss, Nicki | 2.5 | 0.5 | As a family gets ready to celebrate Hanukkah, a young girl learns how the holiday began. | 48 |
| First Strawberries, The | Bruchac, Joseph | 3.5 | 0.5 | A Native American legend about how strawberries came into the world. | 30 |
| First to Fly: How Wilbur & Orville Wright Invented the Airplane | Busby, Peter | 6.4 | 1 | With an inspiring text, original paintings, period photographs, and detailed diagrams, this book recreates the story of the Wright Brothers, from their earliest challenges to their final triumph. | 32 |
| First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 5.2 | 7 | After paying a silver penny to encourage a magician to perform in the town square, a carpenter's helper is conjured to a strange place where the people call him King of Abadan. | 213 |
| Fish (Eyewitness) | Parker, Steve | 7.6 | 1 | Photographs and text explore the characteristics, habitats, and varieties of fishes and other undersea life. An Eyewitness book. | 63 |
| Fish (Nature's Friends) | Heinrichs, Ann | 3.4 | 0.5 | This book introduces physical characteristics, methods of movement, habitats, feeding habits, life cycles, and different types of fish. | 32 |
| Fish Face | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 2.7 | 1 | Emily's new schoolmate, who has displaced her as fastest runner in her class, is also a thief. Nobody knows but Emily, and she's not sure that anyone will believe her. | 75 |
| Five Children and It (Unabridged) | Nesbit, E. | 5.7 | 8 | It is an ancient, ugly, and irritable sand fairy that grants the children a wish a day. Magic, the children find, can be as awkward as it is enticing. | 237 |
| Five Goofy Ghosts | Stamper, Judith Bauer | 3.1 | 0.5 | Five ghost stories blend spookiness and humor by taking young readers into the world of quirky ghosts and complementing each tale with funny twists. | 46 |
| Five Little Peppers and How They Grew | Sidney, Margaret | 7.9 | 13 | For the five poor Pepper children, life is very hard until Jasper King tumbles into their lives. | 290 |
| Five Silly Fishermen | Edwards, Roberta | 1.5 | 0.5 | A retelling of the traditional tale in which five silly fishermen, unable to count properly, are convinced that one of their group has drowned. | 32 |
| Five Smooth Stones: Hope's Diary | Gregory, Kristiana | 4.4 | 2 | A young girl writes about her life and the events surrounding the beginning of the American Revolution in Philadelphia in 1776. | 103 |
| Fix-It | McPhail, David | 1.1 | 0.5 | Emma is upset when the television is broken, until her mother reads a book to her. | 24 |
| Flash Fire | Cooney, Caroline B. | 5.8 | 6 | It was California. People were used to mud slides, earthquakes, sinkholes, and even brushfires. But this fire had a life of its own, and it had no intention of being put out. | 195 |
| Flat Stanley | Brown, Jeff | 4 | 1 | After a bulletin board falls on Stanley while he's sleeping, he finds that being flat has its advantages. | 57 |
| Flea Circus Summer | Ware, Cheryl | 5.7 | 2 | Venola spends most of the summer writing letters, and she never gives up, whether she is begging for a job, nit-picking with a friend, or straightening out a flea company. | 135 |
| Fledgling, The | Langton, Jane | 5 | 6 | Georgie's fondest hope, to be able to fly, is fleetingly fulfilled when she is befriended by a Canada goose. | 182 |
| Flight (Nature Company Discoveries Library) | Lopez, Donald | 7.2 | 1 | Explores the field of aeronautics and flight, from birds to space crafts. | 61 |
| Flight to Fear | Belina, Tom | 3.2 | 1 | A young woman's trip to Jamaica becomes a nightmare when Flight 136 is hijacked by three terrorists. | 59 |
| Flimflam Man, The | Beard, Darleen Bailey | 3.7 | 1 | In the summer of 1950, a con man comes to Wetumka, Oklahoma, about his fabulous circus, and although he swindles the townspeople, two young girls grow from the experience. | 85 |
| Flip-Flop Girl | Paterson, Katherine | 4.6 | 5 | A nine-year-old girl comes to terms with death and shattered dreams after her father's illness. | 120 |
| Floating Jellyfish | Martin-James, Kathleen | 2.6 | 0.5 | This book introduces the jellyfish by describing its habitat, behaviors, and physical characteristics. | 32 |
| Flood Disaster, The | Kehret, Peg | 4.9 | 4 | Warren Spalding and Betsy Tyler have been assigned to do a paper on the Johnstown Flood of 1889. They decide to use their Instant Commuter time-travel device when they interview old Doc Keaton, who lost a daughter in the flood. | 146 |
| Flood: Wrestling with the Mississippi | Lauber, Patricia | 5.8 | 1 | This book describes the history of flooding of the Mississippi River, focusing on the 1927 and 1993 floods, the effects on people near the river, and efforts to avoid flooding and manage the river. | 63 |
| Flora the Frog | Isherwood, Shirley | 3.3 | 0.5 | Flora is afraid that everyone will laugh at her if she is the frog in the class play, but at the pond by her house she makes a remarkable discovery and decides that being a frog in the play might not be so bad. | 26 |
| Florida (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 4.8 | 1 | An introduction to the Sunshine State, its history, people, and sites of interest. | 59 |
| Flower Garden | Bunting, Eve | 2.2 | 0.5 | Helped by her father, a young girl prepares a flower garden as a birthday surprise for her mother. | 29 |
| Flowers for Algernon | Keyes, Daniel | 5.8 | 13 | Is superior intelligence the answer to all of Charlie's problems? If so, he gains more than he had bargained for. | 216 |
| Fluffy and the Firefighters | McMullan, Kate | 2.4 | 0.5 | After firefighters visit Ms. Day's classroom, Fluffy gets a chance to see what they do firsthand. | 40 |
| Fluffy Grows a Garden | McMullan, Kate | 2.2 | 0.5 | Fluffy, the guinea pig, learns all about growing vegetables when Ms. Day's class plants seeds. | 40 |
| Flunking of Joshua T. Bates, The | Shreve, Susan | 5.1 | 2 | Joshua thinks he will be in the third grade forever, until he meets Mrs. Goodwin, a very surprising teacher. | 90 |
| Flutterby (Original Text) | Cosgrove, Stephen | 4.3 | 0.5 | In a tale of being proud of who you are, Flutterby discovers it's great being a tiny horse with wings. | 28 |
| Fly Away Home | Bunting, Eve | 2.7 | 0.5 | A homeless boy who lives in an airport with his father, moving from terminal to terminal and trying not to be noticed, is given hope when he sees a trapped bird find its freedom. | 32 |
| Flying Solo | Fletcher, Ralph | 3.9 | 3 | Rachel, having chosen to be mute following the sudden death of a classmate, shares responsibility with the other sixth-graders who decide not to report that the substitute teacher failed to show up. | 138 |
| Flying with the Eagle, Racing the Great Bear | Bruchac, Joseph | 5.3 | 5 | This is a collection of traditional tales which present the heritage of various Indian nations, including the Wampanoag, Cherokee, Osage, Lakota, and Tlingit. | 128 |
| Fog Magic | Sauer, Julia | 6.1 | 4 | Story of a Nova Scotia girl for whom the fog blowing in from the sea had the power to transport her to her own secret world. | 107 |
| Foghorn | Hanson, Mary Elizabeth | 3.8 | 0.5 | One summer day at the beach, Emma makes a cat out of sand. But Emma gets in trouble when the sand cat mysteriously follows her home. | 30 |
| Folks Call Me Appleseed John | Glass, Andrew | 4.9 | 0.5 | This is one of the tall tales Johnny Appleseed liked to tell about the time his half brother, Nathaniel, came to live with him on French Creek in northwestern Pennsylvania. | 42 |
| Follow the Drinking Gourd | Winter, Jeanette | 4.3 | 0.5 | By following the directions in a song taught them by an old sailor, runaway slaves journey north along the Underground Railway to freedom in Canada. | 42 |
| Follow the Monsters! | Lerner, Sharon | 1.4 | 0.5 | A band of silly monsters march all the way to Sesame Street in this concept book about opposites. A Sesame Street book. | 32 |
| Food Rules! The Stuff You Munch, Its Crunch, Its Punch, and Why Yo | Haduch, Bill | 6.1 | 3 | This comprehensive book on food and nutrition includes a supermarket of fascinating facts and information, plus zany pictures that explore food concepts and add to the fun. | 106 |
| Fool of the World and the Flying Ship: A Russian Tale, The | Ransome, Arthur | 4.7 | 1 | The fool, a peasant despised by his parents, wins the hand of the Czar's daughter after overcoming many obstacles in this story. A Caldecott Medal book. | 40 |
| Fool's Gold | Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | 5.6 | 8 | A suspense-filled adventure in an abandoned gold mine may cost three boys their lives. | 214 |
| Foot Book, The | Seuss, Dr. | 0.6 | 0.5 | Text and pictures tell about many kinds of feet--front feet, back feet, red feet, black feet, slow feet, quick feet, trick feet, sick feet. | 27 |
| Football Fugitive | Christopher, Matt | 4.5 | 2 | Representing a pro football player whom his son admires brings a lawyer closer to his young son. | 119 |
| Footprints at the Window | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 6 | 7 | Beset by too many uncertainties, Dan tries to settle his affairs with his gypsy friends only to find himself in medieval York, England, in the middle of the Black Death. | 175 |
| For Biddle's Sake | Levine, Gail Carson | 4.4 | 2 | In this humorous retelling of Andrew Lang's PUDDOCKY, a young maiden, who has been transformed into a toad by a jealous fairy, relies on her newly honed magical abilities to charm a prince into marriage. | 104 |
| For Gold and Blood | Reiff, Tana | 2.9 | 1 | Two Chinese brothers become prospectors during the California Gold Rush. | 76 |
| For Mike | Sykes, Shelley | 3.9 | 6 | When Jeff's best friend Mike disappears in the fall of their senior year in high school, Jeff has disturbing dreams in which Mike urges him to come get him, and a secret begins to unfold. | 197 |
| For the Love of the Game: Michael Jordan and Me | Greenfield, Eloise | 3.5 | 0.5 | Two children discover the importance of the human spirit and recognize their similarity to basketball star Michael Jordan. | 28 |
| For Your Eyes Only | Rocklin, Joanne | 4.3 | 2 | The entries in the journal of several sixth grade students reveal much about their personal feelings, family lives, and a growing interest in poetry sparked by their new substitute teacher. | 136 |
| Forbidden City | Bell, William | 6.3 | 9 | A seventeen-year-old boy accompanies his reporter father to China during the student uprising. | 199 |
| Forests (Biomes) | Nelson, Julie | 4.6 | 0.5 | This book explains how forest biomes are formed, how plants and animals adapt in the forest, and how the forest relates to other biomes. | 32 |
| Forests and Woodlands (World Habitats) | Pipes, Rose | 4.4 | 0.5 | The book introduces some notable forests and woodlands around the world, including the taiga in Russia, the eucalyptus woodlands in Australia, and the mangrove forests of Central and South America. | 32 |
| Forests of Silence, The | Rodda, Emily | 5 | 4 | With only a hand-drawn map to guide them, Lief and his two companions set out on a dangerous quest to find the lost stones stolen from the magic Belt of Deltora and to rid their land of the Shadow Lord. | 131 |
| Forever Amber Brown | Danziger, Paula | 3.8 | 1 | Amber Brown is learning that sometimes when things change, the most important thing stays the same. | 101 |
| Forgotten Door, The | Key, Alexander | 5 | 5 | Jon must find the secret passage to his own peaceful world, through which he fell into this one. | 140 |
| Forgotten Helper: A Christmas Story, The | Moore, Lorrie | 5.1 | 1 | When he is left behind at the house of a very bad little girl, Santa's grouchiest elf must find a way to improve her behavior so that Santa will return the following Christmas and take him back to the North Pole. | 82 |
| Forgotten, The | Applegate, K.A. | 3.8 | 4 | Jake, the other Animorphs, and Ax find themselves in another place and another time. | 162 |
| Fortune in Men's Eyes | Jones, S.D. | 3.8 | 2 | Gold-seeker Matthew Wilder and runaway slave Zeke Rutlidge face some hard choices as they get caught in the government's plan to forcibly 'resettle' Indian tribes in the Colorado territory. | 69 |
| Fortune-Tellers, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 4.6 | 0.5 | A carpenter goes to a fortune teller and finds the predictions about his future coming true in an unusual way. | 27 |
| Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule | Robinet, Harriette Gillem | 4.3 | 5 | Born with a withered leg and hand, Pascal, who is about twelve years old, joins other former slaves in a search for a farm and the freedom that it promises. | 131 |
| Fossil (Eyewitness) | Taylor, Paul D. | 8.2 | 1 | A photo essay about different types of fossils, from bacteria and algae to birds and mammals. An Eyewitness book. | 63 |
| Foster's War | Reeder, Carolyn | 5.9 | 9 | When his older brother joins the army during World War II in order to escape the rages of an authoritarian father, eleven-year-old Foster fights his battles on the home front. | 267 |
| Fourth Grade Rats | Spinelli, Jerry | 2.6 | 2 | Suds learns that his best friend is wrong. You don't have to be a tough guy, a 'rat,' to be a grown-up fourth-grader. | 84 |
| Fourth-Grade Celebrity | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 5.6 | 3 | Casey Valentine resents being compared to her popular older sister and decides that she will make herself over. | 117 |
| Fox Be Nimble | Marshall, James | 2 | 0.5 | Fox babysits for the miserable Ling children, makes a big scene when he slips on a skate and hurts himself, and gets to lead the band in the big parade. | 48 |
| Fox Busters, The | King-Smith, Dick | 7 | 4 | The story of three chicken sisters that could out-smart the foxes that came to attack at Foxearth Farm. | 117 |
| Fox in Love | Marshall, Edward | 1.8 | 0.5 | Fox isn't happy when Mom makes him take his little sister to the park. But when he spies a pretty, white fox sitting all alone, he changes his mind. | 48 |
| Fox in Socks | Seuss, Dr. | 2.1 | 0.5 | A series of tongue-twisting verses beginning with fox in socks. | 61 |
| Fox on the Job | Marshall, James | 2 | 0.5 | Fox tries to earn the money for a new bicycle from several different jobs. | 48 |
| Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night, The | Spier, Peter | 2.7 | 0.5 | A timeless folksong provides inspiration for some of Spier's finest illustrations. | 42 |
| Fox with Cold Feet, The | Singer, Bill | 1.9 | 0.5 | Wanting to protect his feet from the snow, Fox collects an odd assortment of make-shift boots from his animal friends in return for doing them favors, but just who benefits most is questionable. | 47 |
| Francesca Vigilucci | Duey, Kathleen | 5.2 | 4 | In 1913, the Washington Post is full of headlines about the suffragists. Francesca does not want the life her family plans for her of privilege, good works, and a wife of a successful man. She dreams of becoming a reporter. | 128 |
| Frankenbug | Cousins, Steven | 5.1 | 4 | Inspired by the movie Frankenstein, bug-lover Adam Cricklestein decides to create a monster bug that will protect him from the school bully, Jeb McCallister. | 151 |
| Frankenstein | Shelley/Weinberg | 2.8 | 1 | This easy-to-read version of the classic tale tells the story of a monster, assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies, who develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and his creator. | 94 |
| Frankenstein (Great Illustrated Classics) | Shelley/Vogel | 6.1 | 3 | While trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control and sets into motion a long and tragic chain of events. | 238 |
| Frankenstein and Other Stories of Man-made Monsters | Kudalis, Eric | 4.1 | 0.5 | Dr. Frankenstein creates a monster which escapes and comes to an unhappy end. Includes information about the original story, different movie versions, and the scientific aspects behind the story. | 48 |
| Frankenstein Doesn't Plant Petunias | Dadey/Jones | 3.7 | 1 | A fun-filled horror adventure story. | 57 |
| Frankenstein Doesn't Slam Hockey Pucks | Dadey/Jones | 4 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the large man coaching the new hockey team really be Frankenstein's monster? | 76 |
| Frankenstein Moved in on the Fourth Floor | Levy, Elizabeth | 3.4 | 1 | Sam and Robert are convinced that their new neighbor is the real Frankenstein. | 57 |
| Franklin and Harriet | Bourgeois, Paulette | 2.5 | 0.5 | Franklin learns to share with his little sister. | 24 |
| Franklin and the Thunderstorm | Bourgeois, Paulette | 2.5 | 0.5 | Franklin decides to learn more about the weather because he is afraid of storms. | 32 |
| Franklin and the Tooth Fairy | Bourgeois, Paulette | 2.6 | 0.5 | Franklin's friends are being visited by the tooth fairy. He feels bad that he has no teeth to lose. | 32 |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Freedman, Russell | 8.1 | 6 | Photographs and text trace the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt from his birth in 1882 through his youth, early political career, presidency, and to his death in Warm Springs, Georgia, in 1945. | 200 |
| Franklin Fibs | Bourgeois, Paulette | 2.7 | 0.5 | Jealous of what his friends can do, Franklin fibs about his own abilities. | 29 |
| Franklin Goes to School | Bourgeois, Paulette | 2.9 | 0.5 | It is the first day of school for Franklin, but his teacher knows how to make it a wonderful day. | 32 |
| Franklin Goes to the Hospital | Bourgeois/Jennings | 3.4 | 0.5 | This book describes Franklin's experience when he gets hurt while playing soccer with his friends and needs an operation. | 28 |
| Franklin Has a Sleepover | Bourgeois, Paulette | 2.6 | 0.5 | Franklin can't wait for his best friend Bear to arrive for their first sleepover. | 29 |
| Franklin in the Dark | Bourgeois, Paulette | 2.5 | 0.5 | Franklin, a turtle afraid of crawling into his dark shell, learns a lesson about fear from his mother. | 32 |
| Franklin Is Bossy | Bourgeois, Paulette | 2.2 | 0.5 | Franklin the Turtle learns that no one likes a bossy friend. | 29 |
| Franklin Is Lost | Bourgeois, Paulette | 2.6 | 0.5 | A turtle's story of wandering too far is a lesson in safety and security. | 32 |
| Franklin Is Messy | Bourgeois, Paulette | 2.8 | 0.5 | Franklin learns to be neat and organized in this story about being messy. | 29 |
| Franklin Plays the Game | Bourgeois, Paulette | 2.8 | 0.5 | Franklin can count forwards and backwards. He can zip zippers and button buttons. He can slide down a riverbank by himself. He can even sleep alone is his small, dark shell. And he's trying very hard to be the best player on his soccer team. | 29 |
| Franklin Rides a Bike | Bourgeois, Paulette | 2.6 | 0.5 | Franklin has a hard time learning to ride a bike. | 28 |
| Franklin Wants a Pet | Bourgeois, Paulette | 2.5 | 0.5 | Franklin proves he's ready to care for a pet. | 29 |
| Franklin's Bad Day | Bourgeois, Paulette | 2.5 | 0.5 | Franklin has a bad day, and it doesn't get better until he realizes how to fix the problem. | 29 |
| Franklin's Blanket | Bourgeois, Paulette | 3 | 0.5 | Franklin's favorite blanket is missing. He searches everywhere because he can't sleep without it. | 29 |
| Franklin's Canoe Trip | Bourgeois/Jennings | 3 | 0.5 | Franklin and Bear are thrilled to be heading out on a canoe trip with their fathers. They’out it. | 32 |
| Franklin's Class Trip | Bourgeois, Paulette | 2.5 | 0.5 | Franklin and his classmates go on a filed trip to the museum, but Franklin is worried is going to run into a "real" dinosaur. | 29 |
| Franklin's Neighborhood | Bourgeois, Paulette | 2.9 | 0.5 | Franklin ventures out and meets his surrounding neighbors. | 29 |
| Franklin's New Friend | Bourgeois, Paulette | 2.7 | 0.5 | Franklin learns that even if people are different, they can still be a friend. | 29 |
| Franklin's Secret Club | Bourgeois, Paulette | 3.2 | 0.5 | Franklin discovers a hideaway and decides to start a secret club. | 30 |
| Franklin's Valentines | Bourgeois, Paulette | 2.9 | 0.5 | Franklin learns what friendship is all about. | 29 |
| Franny B. Kranny, There's a Bird in Your Hair! | Lerner/Goldhor | 3.5 | 0.5 | Franny B. Kranny refuses to cut her wild hair, despite her family's insistence, and wears a bird in her hair to a family reunion. | 33 |
| Freaky Friday | Rodgers, Mary | 4.4 | 4 | A day of revelations and fresh insights as Annabel Andrews, thirteen, wakes up to discover she has turned into her mother. | 145 |
| Freckle Juice | Blume, Judy | 3.1 | 0.5 | Andrew wants freckles more than anything else and uses a "freckle juice" recipe with hilarious results. | 47 |
| Frederick | Lionni, Leo | 3.1 | 0.5 | Frederick, an apparently lazy mouse, has a special surprise for the mice who thought he should have been storing up supplies for the winter. | 27 |
| Freedom's Wings: Corey's Underground Railroad Diary | Wyeth, Sharon Dennis | 3 | 1 | A nine-year-old slave keeps a diary of his journey to freedom along the Underground Railroad in 1857. | 108 |
| Friendship Tree, The | Caple, Kathy | 2.2 | 0.5 | Blanche and Otis, two friends who are sheep, enjoy each other's company from the autumn through the winter to the spring. | 48 |
| Friendship, The | Taylor, Mildred D. | 4.1 | 1 | Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly black man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s. | 53 |
| Frightful's Mountain | George, Jean Craighead | 4.7 | 8 | As she grows through the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of New York, a peregrine falcon called Frightful interacts with various humans. | 258 |
| Frindle | Clements, Andrew | 5.4 | 2 | When Nick Allen decides to turn his fifth-grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, he cleverly invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control. | 105 |
| Fritz and the Beautiful Horses | Brett, Jan | 3.4 | 0.5 | Fritz, a pony excluded from the group of beautiful horses within the walled city, becomes a hero when he rescues the children of the city. | 31 |
| Frog and Toad All Year | Lobel, Arnold | 2.6 | 0.5 | Five stories of Frog and Toad, one per season, and a Christmas story. | 64 |
| Frog and Toad Are Friends | Lobel, Arnold | 2.9 | 0.5 | Follow the friendship of Frog and Toad and their adventures in the woods. | 64 |
| Frog and Toad Together | Lobel, Arnold | 2.9 | 0.5 | Five further adventures of two best friends, Frog and Toad, as they share cookies, plant a garden, and test their bravery. | 64 |
| Frog in the Bog, A | Wilson, Karma | 3.1 | 0.5 | A frog in the bog grows larger and larger as he eats more and more bugs, until he attracts the attention of an alligator who puts an end to his eating. | 32 |
| Frog Prince Continued, The | Scieszka, Jon | 3.2 | 0.5 | After the frog turns into a prince, he and the Princess do not live happily ever after and the Prince decides to look for a witch to help him remedy the situation. | 28 |
| Frog Prince, The | Tarcov, Edith | 2.8 | 0.5 | Rebuffed by the princess after retrieving her golden ball, a noble frog sets out to find a more suitable mate. | 32 |
| Frog Princess of Pelham, The | Conford, Ellen | 3.8 | 3 | When a kiss from Danny turns Chandler, a wealthy but lonely orphan, into a frog, Danny's humorous attempts to change her back into a human land the pair on a television talk show. | 106 |
| Frog Went A-Courtin' | Langstaff, John | 2.7 | 0.5 | This story is the well-known American folk song about the courtship and marriage of the frog and the mouse. | 32 |
| Froggy Goes to Bed | London, Jonathan | 2 | 0.5 | There are so many ways of postponing going to bed and Froggy knows them all. | 30 |
| Froggy Plays Soccer | London, Jonathan | 2.2 | 0.5 | Although Froggy is very excited when his Dream Team plays for the city soccer championships, he makes a mistake on the field that almost costs the team the game. | 28 |
| From Anna | Little, Jean | 4 | 5 | When the family moves from Germany to Canada in the 1930s, a nine-year-old girl discovers the reason for her awkwardness and apparent inability to do anything right. | 201 |
| From Caterpillar to Butterfly | Heiligman, Deborah | 2.9 | 0.5 | Explains the different life cycles of a butterfly. | 32 |
| From Egg to Chicken (Lifecycles) | Legg, Gerald | 2.6 | 0.5 | Large illustrations and simple text describe what an egg is made of and how it hatches into a chicken. | 29 |
| From Miss Ida's Porch | Belton, Sandra | 4.4 | 1 | In the evening, the residents of Church Street gather on Miss Ida's porch to share memories and hear stories about events in the past, events significant to them as black people. | 37 |
| From the Bellybutton of the Moon and Other Summer Poems | Alarcóellybutton of the Moon and Other Summer Poems | 4.7 | 0.5 | This book is a collection of poems which celebrates the childhood memories of summer in the city. | 32 |
| From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | Konigsburg, E.L. | 4.7 | 5 | Claudia and her brother Jamie run away from home and take up residence in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. | 162 |
| Front Porch Stories at the One-Room School | Tate, Eleanora E. | 4.2 | 2 | Twelve-year-old Margie and her seven-year-old cousin are treated to tall tales from Margie's father while sitting on the front porch of the one-room school he attended as a boy. | 92 |
| Frozen Fire | Houston, James | 4.9 | 5 | Determined to find his father who has been lost in a storm, a young boy and his Eskimo friend brave wind storms, starvation, wild animals, and wild men during their search in the Canadian Arctic. | 149 |
| Fudge-a-Mania | Blume, Judy | 3.3 | 3 | Pete describes the family vacation in Maine with the Tubmans, highlighted by the antics of his younger brother Fudge. | 147 |
| Funnie Family Vacation | Jinkins/Ryan | 3.6 | 0.5 | The last thing Doug wants to do on his summer vacation is go camping with his family, especially when it means missing Beebe's annual swim party. The camping trip has a few surprises in store for Doug and turns out to be more fun than anybody expected. | 55 |
| Funny Fishes (Watts Library) | Miller, Sara Swan | 6.2 | 1 | This book portrays several species of fishes that have unusual appearances, habitats, or behaviors. | 63 |
| Funny Frank | King-Smith, Dick | 5 | 1 | The hen Gertie is appalled when her son Frank wants to swim with the ducks, but Jemima and her mother, the farmer's wife, make him a special outfit so that his dream can come true. | 108 |
| Funny Little Woman, The | Mosel, Arlene | 3.6 | 0.5 | Delightful retelling of Japanese tale in which a woman goes underground, finds a magic rice-paddle, and grows exceedingly rich. | 36 |
| Fur Traders (Discovering Canada), The | Livesey, Robert | 6.9 | 2 | This book describes the world of Indians and fur traders when the quest for beaver pelts was opening up the Canadian frontier. | 92 |
| Future (Eyewitness) | Tambini, Michael | 8.7 | 1 | Provides a look ahead to the technological, environmental, and biological developments of the twenty-first century. | 60 |
| G Is for Grand Canyon: An Arizona Alphabet | Gowan, Barbara | 6.7 | 1 | People, places, animals, and characteristic things of Arizona are represented by the letters of the alphabet, with information about them presented in rhyme and explanatory notes. | 40 |
| Gammage Cup, The | Kendall, Carol | 5.9 | 8 | Fantasy about a new race of little people. | 283 |
| Garbage Juice for Breakfast | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 2.4 | 1 | Dawn and Lizzie must face their hidden terrors to find the hidden loot at camp. | 69 |
| Garden of Abdul Gasazi, The | Van Allsburg, Chris | 4 | 0.5 | When the dog he is caring for runs away from Alan into the forbidden garden of a dog-hating magician, a spell seems to be cast over the dog. | 32 |
| Gardener, The | Stewart, Sarah | 3.9 | 0.5 | A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her uncle in the city but takes her love for gardening with her. | 30 |
| Gargoyles Don't Drive School Buses | Dadey/Jones | 3.6 | 1 | Could the new bus driver who looks just like a statue on top of the old library really be a living gargoyle? | 66 |
| Gathering Blue | Lowry, Lois | 5 | 7 | Lamed and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians. | 215 |
| Gathering of Days, A | Blos, Joan W. | 6.7 | 5 | When Catherine's mother dies in childbirth and her father decides to remarry, Catherine must face painful changes. | 144 |
| Gathering the Sun | Ada, Alma Flor | 4.7 | 0.5 | This is a book of poems about working in the fields and nature's bounty, one for each letter of the Spanish alphabet. | 40 |
| Gawgon and The Boy, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 5.5 | 7 | In Depression-era Philadelphia, when eleven-year-old David is too ill to attend school, he is tutored by the unique and adventurous Aunt Annie, whose teaching combines with his imagination to greatly enrich his life. | 199 |
| Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon | Mukerji, Dhan Gopal | 6.5 | 6 | Gay-Neck, a carrier pigeon, is trained by his owner and has many courageous and spirited adventures over the housetops of an Indian village, in the Himalayas, and finally on the French battlefield on World War I. | 191 |
| Genies Don't Ride Bicycles | Dadey/Jones | 3.6 | 1 | The Bailey School students are on the trail of a real genie. | 69 |
| Genius of Leonardo, The | Visconti, Guido | 5 | 0.5 | This is a biography of the work, dreams, and wild inventions of Leonardo da Vinci, as seen through the eyes of his mischievous assistant. | 41 |
| Gentle Ben | Morey, Walt | 4.8 | 8 | Danger and excitement as young Mark Andersen struggles to save his friend, Ben, the big brown bear. | 191 |
| Geoffrey Groundhog Predicts the Weather | Koscielniak, Bruce | 2.9 | 0.5 | When Geoffrey Groundhog pops out of his hole to predict the weather, he is blinded by television cameras and lights and is unable to see if he has a shadow. | 32 |
| George and Martha | Marshall, James | 2.7 | 0.5 | Two hippos teach each other how to behave with grace under pressure. | 46 |
| George and Martha Encore | Marshall, James | 2.4 | 0.5 | This book contains five stories about two great friends in which the dignity and the bulk of the hippos are in contrast with the ludicrousness of their situations. | 46 |
| George and Martha Rise and Shine | Marshall, James | 2.1 | 0.5 | Five brief episodes about two friends, George and Martha, who happen to be hippopotamuses. | 47 |
| George and Martha Round and Round | Marshall, James | 2.6 | 0.5 | This book's five episodes chronicle the ups and downs of a special friendship. | 46 |
| George and Martha Tons of Fun | Marshall, James | 2.4 | 0.5 | This book's five episodes chronicle the ups and downs of a special friendship. | 46 |
| George and Martha, One Fine Day | Marshall, James | 2.4 | 0.5 | This book includes five episodes in the friendship of two hippopotamuses. | 44 |
| George Washington's Breakfast | Fritz, Jean | 4.1 | 0.5 | George W. Allen, namesake of George Washington, wants to learn everything about the first president, especially what he ate for breakfast. | 40 |
| George Washington's Mother | Fritz, Jean | 2.5 | 0.5 | Describes the life of the mother of our first President and her relationship with her children. | 48 |
| George Washington's Socks | Woodruff, Elvira | 5 | 6 | Five kids on a lakeside camp-out are transported back to the time of George Washington. | 166 |
| George's Marvelous Medicine | Dahl, Roald | 4 | 2 | What's the only cure for the meanest grandmother in the world? George creates a fierce and fantastic bubbling brew, the perfect cure. | 89 |
| Georgia (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 5.3 | 1 | An introduction of the Empire State of the South, introducing its history, geography, industries, sites of interest, and famous people. | 59 |
| Germany (First Reports) | Gray, Shirley W. | 4 | 0.5 | This book introduces the history, geography, people, and culture of Germany. | 48 |
| Get Out of Bed! | Munsch, Robert | 2.7 | 0.5 | Amy loves to sleep, so it’istory, geography, people, and culture of Germany. | 30 |
| Get the Picture, Jenny Archer? | Conford, Ellen | 2.9 | 1 | Jenny lets her imagination run away with her when she decides to enter a photography contest and starts taking candid pictures around her neighborhood. | 64 |
| Getting Something on Maggie Marmelstein | Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman | 4.2 | 2 | After Thad embarrasses Maggie and she retaliates by embarrassing him even more, he plots revenge. | 101 |
| Geysers (Wonders of the World) | Boekhoff/Kallen | 7.4 | 1 | This book discusses what geysers are, where they are located, why they erupt, how different kinds of geysers behave, and their interactions with their environments. | 48 |
| Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs, The | DeFelice, Cynthia | 4.9 | 5 | Hindered by a fight with her friend Dub and a series of mysterious fires, eleven-year-old Allie investigates a fire that happened seventeen years earlier. | 180 |
| Ghost at Dawn's House, The | Martin, Ann M. | 3.8 | 4 | When Dawn hears creaking stairs and spooky noises, then finds a secret passage to her own room, she's sure her house is haunted. | 148 |
| Ghost Beach | Stine, R.L. | 3.4 | 3 | Jerry can't wait to explore a dark, spooky cave he has found. There is a story about a ghost who lives deep inside the cave. It IS just a story, right? | 119 |
| Ghost Cadet | Alphin, Elaine Marie | 5.5 | 6 | Twelve-year-old Benjy, in Virginia visiting the grandmother he has never met, meets the ghost of a Virginia Military Institute cadet who was killed in the Battle of New Market in 1864 and helps him recover his family's treasured gold watch. | 182 |
| Ghost Camp | Stine, R.L. | 3.1 | 3 | Harry and Alex are dying to fit in at Camp Spirit Moon. | 118 |
| Ghost Horses | Skurzynski/Ferguson | 5.5 | 5 | Visiting Zion National Park with his family, twelve-year-old Jack encounters two mysteries; the strange behavior of a band of wild mustangs and the possibly sinister actions of his new foster brother, a Shoshone boy. | 145 |
| Ghost in Dobbs Diner, The | Alley, Robert | 2.7 | 0.5 | The ghost that pops out of the old green bottle Mr. Dobbs finds is very helpful in the diner, but the rest of the help and the customers are too frightened to find out what a nice ghost he really is. | 48 |
| Ghost in Room 11, The | Wright, Betty Ren | 4 | 2 | When his family moves to a small town near Milwaukee, Matt's efforts to fit into his new fourth-grade class are complicated by his poor spelling and his encounter with the ghost of one of the school's former teachers. | 112 |
| Ghost Named Fred, A | Benchley, Nathaniel | 2.4 | 0.5 | Seeking shelter from the rain, a small boy enters an old house where he meets a ghost. | 59 |
| Ghost Next Door, The | Stine, R.L. | 3.7 | 3 | Hannah's new neighbor keeps disappearing in the oddest ways. Is Hannah being haunted by the ghost next door? | 124 |
| Ghost of Fossil Glen, The | DeFelice, Cynthia | 4.9 | 5 | Allie knows it's not her imagination when she hears a voice and sees in her mind's eye the face of a girl who seems to be seeking Allie's help. | 167 |
| Ghost of Lizard Light, The | Woodruff, Elvira | 5.3 | 5 | Moving from Iowa to a lighthouse cottage in Maine, ten-year-old Jack struggles to live up to his father's high standards and encounters a young ghost who presents Jack with a 150-year-old unsolved sea mystery. | 176 |
| Ghost of Lost Island, The | Murrow, Liza Ketchum | 4.5 | 5 | While helping his grandfather herd and shear his flock of sheep on a small island off the coast of Maine, twelve-year-old Gabe encounters a mysterious woman who may be the ghost of a drowned milkmaid. | 162 |
| Ghost of the Southern Belle: A Sea Tale | Bodkin, Odds | 3.9 | 0.5 | The young son of a ship's captain finds a way to end the curse of a ghost ship whose daring Confederate captain once gave him a lucky ball. | 32 |
| Ghost Ship Mystery, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 4 | 3 | The Aldens investigate the mysterious case of a ship lost at sea. | 121 |
| Ghost Town at Sundown | Osborne, Mary Pope | 3 | 1 | Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to the wild west, where they experience excitement and danger and try to solve a riddle. | 73 |
| Ghost Town Mystery, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.9 | 2 | Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny solve the mystery behind their grandfather's haunted land in the Rocky Mountains. | 121 |
| Ghosts Don't Eat Potato Chips | Dadey/Jones | 3.4 | 1 | When potato chips begin forming secret messages on the floor of Aunt Matilda's house, there must be a ghost behind this spooky business. | 67 |
| Ghosts Don't Ride Wild Horses | Dadey/Jones | 4.1 | 1 | Could the mysterious man that the Bailey School Kids meet on a class trip really be the ghost of Coyote Pete, the roughest, toughest cowboy in the Wild West? | 69 |
| Ghosts of Mercy Manor, The | Wright, Betty Ren | 4.8 | 5 | Twelve-year-old Gwen, an orphan who comes to live with the Mercy family, discovers that the house is haunted by the ghost of a sad-looking young girl and is determined to solve the mystery behind her appearances. | 172 |
| Ghosts' Trip to Loch Ness, The | Duquennoy, Jacques | 2.7 | 0.5 | Four friends take a ghostly trip to Loch Ness to try and spot the monster. | 45 |
| Ghosts! Ghostly Tales from Folklore | Schwartz, Alvin | 2.7 | 0.5 | This book contains ghostly tales from folklore. | 63 |
| Ghosts, Hauntings and Mysterious Happenings | Emert, Phyllis | 6.3 | 3 | Contains dozens of true tales whose unanswered questions have baffled people for years. | 117 |
| Ghouls Don't Scoop Ice Cream | Dadey/Jones | 3.7 | 1 | The Bailey School Kids think the new worker at Burger Doodle is a ghoul spying for vampires. | 66 |
| Giants Don't Go Snowboarding | Dadey/Jones | 3.8 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the large man giving snowboarding lessons really be a giant lurking on Ruby Mountain? | 76 |
| Gib and the Gray Ghost | Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | 6.4 | 9 | In 1909, after spending several months back at the Lovell House Home for Orphaned and Abandoned Boys, eleven-year-old Gib returns to live on the Thornton ranch, where his natural way with horses helps to make him feel at home. | 230 |
| Gib Rides Home | Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | 6.3 | 9 | Despite the harsh treatment he has endured at the Lovell House orphanage, ten-year-old Gib Whittaker manages to maintain his hopeful outlook when he is "farmed out" to help with the horses of a wealthy banker in 1908. | 246 |
| Gift Horse | Levin, Betty | 4.7 | 5 | Matt finds it easy to believe that his great uncle will give him a horse; caring for it after it arrives proves to be the greater challenge. | 168 |
| Gift Horse | Bryant, Bonnie | 5 | 5 | Will Stevie have to give up her dream horse? | 150 |
| Gift of the Girl Who Couldn't Hear, The | Shreve, Susan | 4.9 | 2 | Two friends, one of whom is deaf, help each other when tryouts are held for a seventh-grade production of Annie. | 79 |
| Gift of the Magi (Creative Education), The | Henry, O. | 6.2 | 0.5 | A husband and wife sacrifice treasured possessions in order to buy each other Christmas presents. | 32 |
| Gift of the Sacred Dog, The | Goble, Paul | 4.2 | 0.5 | The Great Spirit gives the sacred dog to an Indian boy seeking relief for his hungry people. | 26 |
| Giggler Treatment, The | Doyle, Roddy | 3.7 | 1 | A talking dog, the Mack children, and the small elf-like Gigglers themselves must try to stop the prank that the Gigglers have mistakenly set in motion to punish Mr. Mack for being mean to his children. | 112 |
| Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport | Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman | 2.8 | 0.5 | A small boy's reluctance to move west from his home in New York City is increased by his wild imaginings. | 28 |
| Gilberto and the Wind | Ets, Marie Hall | 2.8 | 0.5 | Gilberto's playmate the wind can sail boats, fly kites, and turn umbrellas inside out. | 28 |
| Ginger Brown: The Nobody Boy | Wyeth, Sharon Dennis | 2.5 | 1 | Ginger's summer at her grandparents' home in the country is enlivened by the appearance of a sad little boy who calls himself Nobody. | 71 |
| Ginger Pye | Estes, Eleanor | 6 | 9 | The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children. | 306 |
| Gingerbread Baby | Brett, Jan | 3.5 | 0.5 | A young boy and his mother bake a gingerbread baby that escapes from their oven and leads a crowd on a chase similar to the one in the familiar not-so-clever gingerbread man. | 31 |
| Giraffes Can't Dance | Andreae, Giles | 3.8 | 0.5 | The giraffe Gerald is too clumsy to dance with all the other animals at the Jungle Dance, until he finds the right music. | 30 |
| Girl Named Disaster, A | Farmer, Nancy | 5.1 | 14 | While journeying to Zimbabwe, eleven-year-old Nhamo struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits. | 293 |
| Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, The | Turner, Ann | 5.1 | 5 | This is a journal of a young Navajo girl who, with her people, is forced by American soldiers to leave her home and traditions behind. | 191 |
| Girl Who Cried Monster, The | Stine, R.L. | 3.6 | 3 | Lucy likes to tell monster stories, and everyone she knows is tired of them. Then she discovers a real monster, and no one believes her. | 137 |
| Girl Who Loved Wild Horses, The | Goble, Paul | 4.1 | 0.5 | Though she is fond of her people, a girl prefers to live among the wild horses where she is truly happy and free. | 27 |
| Girl Who Married the Moon, The | Bruchac/Ross | 5.7 | 4 | This is a collection of Native American stories, focusing on the important roles women play in traditional Native American societies. | 127 |
| Girl with 500 Middle Names, The | Haddix, Margaret Peterson | 3.8 | 2 | Janie's parents move to the suburbs so she can go to a better school, but when she discovers that all the other students are richer than she is, she feels out of place. | 81 |
| Girl with the Silver Eyes, The | Roberts, Willo Davis | 5.3 | 7 | Katie's silver-colored eyes and her ability to communicate with animals start a suspense-filled search for others like herself. Excellent, believable science fiction. | 198 |
| Girl, a Goat, and a Goose, A | McPhail, David | 1.7 | 0.5 | In this book four stories relate the adventures of three good friends. | 32 |
| Girls Think of Everything: Stories of...Inventions by Women | Thimmesh, Catherine | 7.4 | 2 | This book tells the story of how women through the ages have responded to situations confronting them in daily life by inventing items such as correction fluid, space helmets, and disposable diapers. | 57 |
| Give Me Half! | Murphy, Stuart J. | 2.2 | 0.5 | Introduces the concept of halves using a simple rhyming story about a brother and sister who do not want to share their food. | 34 |
| Give Me Liberty! The Story of the Declaration of Independence | Freedman, Russell | 8.5 | 3 | This book describes the events leading up to the Declaration of Independence, as well as the personalities and politics behind its framing. | 90 |
| Give Us a Great Big Smile, Rosy Cole | Greenwald, Sheila | 3.8 | 1 | Rosy's tenth birthday is a disaster when she learns that she is going to be the unwilling star of her uncle's next book. | 76 |
| Giver, The | Lowry, Lois | 5.7 | 7 | The Elders of the Committee choose Jonas to be the person responsible for receiving and keeping all the memories of the past--a huge task for this exceptional boy. | 180 |
| Giving Bear, The | Gaines, Isabel | 2.3 | 0.5 | Christopher Robin, Piglet, and Tigger explain the importance of sharing to Pooh. | 38 |
| Giving Tree, The | Silverstein, Shel | 2.6 | 0.5 | An apple tree shares all it has with a boy from the time he is very young until he is very old. | 35 |
| Gladiator | Watkins, Richard | 8.7 | 2 | This book describes the history of gladiators, including types of armor, use of animals, amphitheaters, and how the practice fit into Roman society for almost 700 years. | 85 |
| Glass Slippers Give You Blisters | Auch, Mary Jane | 4.4 | 5 | Kelly's involvement in helping design a production of her junior high school's drama club, spurred on by encouragement from her artistic grandmother, helps her discover her own artistic identity. | 169 |
| Gleam and Glow | Bunting, Eve | 3.3 | 0.5 | After his home is destroyed by war, Viktor finds hope in the survival of two very special fish. | 32 |
| Glory of Unicorns, A | Coville, Bruce | 5.4 | 6 | This is a collection of stories about unicorns, spanning from Kabustan to the Far East and from an English village to the suburbs of America. | 198 |
| Gnome from Nome (Original Text), The | Cosgrove, Stephen | 4.7 | 0.5 | The gnome and an otter find that love and friendship can keep you warm. | 28 |
| Go Eat Worms | Stine, R.L. | 3.7 | 3 | Todd is obsessed with worms, and he even keeps a worm farm in his basement. Suddenly, worms show up in the worst places: In bed, in homework, and in food. | 119 |
| Go Fish | Stolz, Mary | 4.4 | 1 | After spending the day fishing in the Gulf of Mexico with Grandfather, eight-year-old Thomas has a quiet evening on the porch hearing more about his African heritage. | 73 |
| Go Free or Die: A Story About Harriet Tubman | Ferris, Jeri | 4.6 | 1 | A biography of the black woman whose cruel experiences as a slave in the South led her to seek freedom in the North for herself and for others through the Underground Railroad. | 53 |
| Go, Dog. Go! | Eastman, P.D. | 1.2 | 0.5 | This is a book about all varieties of dogs and the many adventures they experience. | 64 |
| Goblins Don't Play Video Games | Dadey/Jones | 4.2 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the new computer teacher really be the Master Goblin from Melody's video game? | 82 |
| Goblins in the Castle | Coville, Bruce | 4.5 | 5 | William uncovers the secret of the castle where he grew up. | 164 |
| Goggles! | Keats, Ezra Jack | 1.8 | 0.5 | Two boys must outsmart the neighborhood bullies before they can enjoy their new treasure, a pair of motorcycle goggles. | 37 |
| Goin' Someplace Special | McKissack, Patricia C. | 4.3 | 0.5 | In segregated 1950s Nashville, a young African American girl braves a series of indignities and obstacles to get to one of the few integrated places in town, the public library. | 32 |
| Going for Great | Brockmann, Carolee | 4.1 | 3 | Feeling abandoned by her parents and her best friend, sixth grader Jenna worries that her severe stage fright will spoil her performance at a flute competition--until she gets to know a class misfit who is a good musician and an even better friend. | 119 |
| Going Home | Bunting, Eve | 2.7 | 0.5 | Although a Mexican family comes to the United States to work as farm laborers so that their children will have opportunities, the parents still consider Mexico their home. | 29 |
| Going Home | Mohr, Nicholasa | 4.4 | 6 | Feeling like an outsider when she visits her relatives in Puerto Rico, eleven-year-old Felita tries to come to terms with the heritage she always took for granted. | 192 |
| Going Solo | Dahl, Roald | 6.1 | 9 | A marvelous evocation of Roald Dahl's wartime exploits. | 210 |
| Gold Cadillac, The | Taylor, Mildred D. | 4.1 | 1 | Two Black girls living in the North are proud of their family's beautiful new Cadillac, until they take it on a visit to the South and encounter racial prejudice for the first time. | 43 |
| Gold Dust | Lynch, Chris | 4.6 | 7 | In 1975, twelve-year-old Richard befriends Napoleon, a Caribbean newcomer to his Catholic school. He is hoping that Napoleon will learn to love baseball and the Red Sox, and will win acceptance in the racially polarized Boston school. | 196 |
| Golden Bird, The | Stolp, Hans | 4 | 1 | Engaged in a losing battle with cancer, ten-year-old Daniel is comforted by many people but finds his greatest solace in the visits of a phoenix-like golden bird and its vision on rebirth and renewal. | 55 |
| Golden Compass, The | Pullman, Philip | 7.1 | 19 | Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subjects of gruesome experiments in the Far North. | 399 |
| Golden Goblet, The | McGraw, Eloise Jarvis | 6.3 | 11 | A young Egyptian boy struggles to reveal a hideous crime and reshape his own destiny. | 248 |
| Golden Goose, The | McDermott, Dennis | 3.4 | 0.5 | Hans's generosity helps him gain a princess for his bride. | 30 |
| Golden Road, The | Montgomery, L.M. | 6.4 | 12 | Fun-loving Sara spends the winter with the King family, and together they work on publishing a magazine. | 213 |
| Goldilocks and the Three Bears | Brett, Jan | 4.4 | 0.5 | Lost in the woods, a tired and hungry girl finds the house of the three bears where she helps herself to food and goes to sleep. | 30 |
| Golem | Wisniewski, David | 4.3 | 0.5 | A saintly rabbi miraculously brings to life a clay giant who helps him watch over the Jews of sixteenth-century Prague. | 34 |
| Golly Sisters Go West, The | Byars, Betsy | 2.1 | 0.5 | May-May and Rose, the singing, dancing Golly Sisters, have several adventures while traveling west by covered wagon, entertaining people along the way. | 64 |
| Good Dog, The | Avi | 3.7 | 5 | McKinley, a malamute, is torn between the domestic world of his human family and the wild world of Lupin, a wolf that is trying to recruit dogs to replenish the dwindling wolf pack. | 243 |
| Good Fight: How World War II Was Won, The | Ambrose, Stephen E. | 8.2 | 2 | This book chronicles the major events of World War II, and includes personal anecdotes from soldiers, photographs, and key campaign and battlefield maps. | 96 |
| Good Grief...Third Grade | McKenna, Colleen O'Shaughnessy | 3.6 | 3 | Marsha Cessano, Collette Murphy's neighbor, is determined to be good in third grade--no messy desk, no tricks, no temper--but Roger Friday is making it difficult. | 152 |
| Good Luck Pony, The | Koda-Callan, Elizabeth | 4.7 | 0.5 | A little girl finds the courage to ride when her mother gives her a tiny golden pony that radiates self-confidence. | 33 |
| Good Luck, Mrs. K.! | Borden, Louise | 3.5 | 0.5 | All the students in the third grade are affected when their beloved teacher, Mrs. Kempczinski, is suddenly hospitalized with cancer. | 29 |
| Good Master, The | Seredy, Kate | 4.4 | 5 | Two cousins spend an adventurous year on a ranch in the Hungarian plains. | 196 |
| Good Morning, Gorillas | Osborne, Mary Pope | 3.3 | 1 | The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to an African rain forest, where the siblings encounter gorillas and learn to communicate with them. | 71 |
| Good Night, Good Knight | Thomas, Shelley Moore | 2.1 | 0.5 | The Good Knight discovers three little dragons who can't fall asleep. There is no one to read to them or tuck them in. Is this a job for the Good Knight? Read this sweet, funny book and find out. | 48 |
| Good Night, Maman | Mazer, Norma Fox | 3.5 | 4 | After spending years fleeing from the Nazis in war-torn Europe, twelve-year-old Karin Levi and her older brother, Marc, find a new home in a refugee camp in Oswego, New York. | 185 |
| Good Night, Mr. Tom | Magorian, Michelle | 4.8 | 12 | A young boy is sent to the English countryside during World War II to avoid the horrors of war and a disturbed mother. | 318 |
| Good Night, Sleep Tight, Don't Let the Bedbugs Bite! | De Groat, Diane | 2.9 | 0.5 | Gilbert never thought his first night at overnight camp would result in a run-in with the Camp Hi-Dee-Ho ghost. Now he has no choice but to confront his fears face-to-face. | 29 |
| Good Work, Amelia Bedelia | Parish, Peggy | 2.1 | 0.5 | Mr. and Mrs. Rogers leave a list of chores for Amelia to do while they are gone for the day. | 52 |
| Good, the Bad, and the Goofy, The | Scieszka, Jon | 3.8 | 1 | Joe, Sam, and Fred are cowboys who find the Wild West just a bit too wild. | 70 |
| Good-Bye Book, The | Viorst, Judith | 1.9 | 0.5 | A child on the verge of being left behind by parents who are going out for the evening comes up with a variety of pleas and excuses. | 29 |
| Good-bye Pony | Betancourt, Jeanne | 3.4 | 1 | Pam and Lulu help Anna, who is upset when her old horse Winston becomes ill. | 86 |
| Good-bye Stacey, Good-bye | Martin, Ann M. | 4.1 | 4 | The club must figure out how to say goodbye to one of its principal members. | 142 |
| Good-Bye, My Wishing Star | Grove, Vicki | 5.2 | 4 | Twelve-year-old Jens, who adores the farm where she has lived all her life, is devastated when severe financial problems may force her family to sell out and move to the city. | 128 |
| Goodnight Moon | Brown, Margaret Wise | 1.8 | 0.5 | Goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room; goodnight chairs, goodnight comb, goodnight air. | 30 |
| Goofy Glasses | Hodgson, Mona Gansberg | 2.4 | 0.5 | Taylor the tortoise tries to prove that he doesn't need glasses because he thinks he looks silly in them. | 48 |
| Goofy, Goony Guy, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 2.7 | 1 | The new cub in Sister Bear's second-grade class looks and acts so strange that Sister avoids him when he tries to make friends. | 90 |
| Gooney Bird Greene | Lowry, Lois | 3.9 | 2 | A most unusual new student, who loves to be the center of attention, entertains her teacher and fellow second-graders by telling absolutely true stories about herself, including how she got her name. | 88 |
| Goose's Gold, The | Roy, Ron | 3.3 | 1 | When Ruth Rose and her friends, vacationing in Florida, discover that her grandmother is about to invest in a project to recover sunken treasure, they stumble upon evidence that the entire plan may be a fraud. | 86 |
| Grab Hands and Run | Temple, Frances | 4 | 4 | After his father disappears, twelve-year-old Felipe, his mother, and his younger sister set out on a difficult and dangerous journey, trying to make their way from their home in El Salvador to Canada. | 165 |
| Grampa-Lop (Original Text) | Cosgrove, Stephen | 4.9 | 0.5 | Grampa-Lop makes even the cranky older rabbits believe in magic. | 26 |
| Grand Canyon: Exploring a Natural Wonder | Minor, Wendell | 6 | 0.5 | Through personal observations and beautiful illustrations, the author celebrates nature and introduces readers to one of the world's greatest wonders. | 30 |
| Grand Escape, The | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 5 | 4 | After years of being strictly house cats, Marco and Polo escape into the wonderful but dangerous outside world and are sent on three challenging adventures by a group of cats known as the Club of Mysteries. | 148 |
| Grandad Bill's Song | Yolen, Jane | 2.4 | 0.5 | A boy asks others how they felt when his grandfather died and then shares his own feelings. | 29 |
| Grandfather's Journey | Say, Allen | 3.6 | 0.5 | A Japanese American man recounts his grandfather's journey to America, which he later also undertakes, and the feelings of being torn by a love for two different countries. | 32 |
| Grandmas at Bat | McCully, Emily Arnold | 2.6 | 0.5 | Pip's two grandmothers who cannot agree on anything take over coaching her baseball team and create chaos. | 64 |
| Grandmas at the Lake | McCully, Emily Arnold | 2.6 | 0.5 | Pip and Ski have a hard time enjoying themselves at the lake with Pip's two grandmothers, who cannot agree on anything. | 62 |
| Grandmother for the Orphelines, A | Carlson, Natalie | 4.7 | 2 | The children from the orphanage set out to find the right grandmother, but go about it the wrong way. | 91 |
| Grandmother Winter | Root, Phyllis | 3.7 | 0.5 | When Grandmother Winter shakes out her feather quilt, birds, bats, bears, and other creatures prepare themselves for the cold. | 30 |
| Grandpa's Mountain | Reeder, Carolyn | 5.3 | 7 | Carrie loves her grandparents' store in the Blue Ridge mountains, but a new national park threatens their home. | 171 |
| Grasshopper Summer | Turner, Ann | 3.6 | 4 | In 1874, eleven-year-old Sam and his family move from Kentucky to the southern Dakota Territory, where harsh conditions and a plague of hungry grasshoppers threaten their chances for survival. | 149 |
| Grasslands (Biomes) | Doeden/Scheff | 4.3 | 0.5 | This book explains how grassland biomes are formed, and how plants and animals adapt to grasslands. | 32 |
| Grasslands (World Habitats) | Pipes, Rose | 4.1 | 0.5 | This book introduces some notable grasslands around the world, including the Argentinian pampas, the North American prairie,, and the Australian grasslands. | 32 |
| Graveyards Of The Dinosaurs: What It's Like To Discover Prehistori | Tanaka, Shelley | 6.6 | 1 | This book discusses the work of paleontologists who have found dinosaur bones and fossils in Canada, Argentina, and the Gobi Desert. | 48 |
| Great Airport Mystery, The | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5.8 | 5 | The Hardy boys are called on to assist their father in solving a case involving platinum shipments that are being stolen from cargo planes. | 175 |
| Great Apes (First Book), The | Saign, Geoffrey C. | 6 | 1 | Describes and compares the four great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and gorillas through a discussion of their physical, intellectual, emotional, and social characteristics. | 63 |
| Great Brain at the Academy, The | Fitzgerald, John D. | 5.8 | 6 | In the strict atmosphere of a Catholic boarding school, Tom Fitzgerald's fertile brain concocts hilarious trouble. | 164 |
| Great Brain Does It Again, The | Fitzgerald, John D. | 5 | 5 | Tom's many business ventures include operating a carnival ride, and helping a fat boy reduce. | 129 |
| Great Brain Reforms, The | Fitzgerald, John D. | 5.1 | 6 | Great Brain is home for the summer and is ready to reform, and that's how the trial between the kids of Adenville and the Great Brain takes place on a summer afternoon. | 165 |
| Great Brain, The | Fitzgerald, John D. | 5.2 | 7 | A boy genius has scheming adventures. | 175 |
| Great Day for Up! | Seuss, Dr. | 0.8 | 0.5 | Rhymed text and illustrations introduce the many meanings of "up." | 26 |
| Great Expectations (Great Illustrated Classics) | Dickens/Yamamoto | 5.6 | 3 | Pip, an orphan boy, yearns to be a gentleman. His life changes when a fortune is left to him. | 238 |
| Great Fire, The | Murphy, Jim | 7.6 | 4 | Thirty-one hours of terror, over 100,000 people were forced to flee the flames. You will meet some of the people who were there and learn more about the Great Fire of Chicago on October 8, 1871. | 138 |
| Great Genghis Khan Look-Alike Contest, The | Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman | 2.5 | 1 | Fred grooms his dog to become a Hollywood star. | 73 |
| Great Gilly Hopkins, The | Paterson, Katherine | 4.6 | 5 | An eleven-year-old foster child tries to cope with her longings and fears as she schemes against everyone who tries to be friendly. | 148 |
| Great Good Thing, The | Townley, Roderick | 4.4 | 4 | Twelve-year-old Princess Sylvie's storybook kingdom really is a storybook, where nothing ever changes, even the characters' mad scramble to reach their places whenever the book is opened. | 216 |
| Great Gracie Chase: Stop That Dog!, The | Rylant, Cynthia | 3.1 | 0.5 | Gracie Rose is out of her yard and no one in town can catch her. | 32 |
| Great Inventions (Nature Company Discoveries Library) | Wood, Richard | 7.3 | 1 | Provides information about some of the greatest inventions in various fields such as computers, electricity, medical procedures, and musical instruments. | 61 |
| Great Kapok Tree, The | Cherry, Lynne | 3.8 | 0.5 | The many different animals that live in a great kapok tree in the Brazilian rainforest try to convince a man with an ax of the importance of not cutting down their home. | 30 |
| Great Molasses Flood, The | Brust, Beth Wagner | 2.4 | 0.5 | When the huge molasses tank bursts, nobody in Boston believes Maggie because of all the tall tales she has told. | 46 |
| Great Ocean (Social Studies), The | Waters, Jennifer | 2.8 | 0.5 | This book is a brief introduction the Earth's oceans. | 24 |
| Great Pony Hassle, The | Springer, Nancy | 4.2 | 2 | When the mother of twin girls marries the father of twin girls, the rivalry and jealousy are worsened by one girl's demand for a pony as a reward for accepting the new family. | 76 |
| Great Pyramid, The | Mann, Elizabeth | 5.6 | 0.5 | This book is a history of the construction of the Great Pyramid at Giza and the civilization that produced it. | 48 |
| Great Quarterback Switch, The | Christopher, Matt | 4.2 | 2 | Twelve-year-old Michael, confined to a wheelchair after an accident, uses mental telepathy to communicate football plays to his quarterback twin brother Tom, then suddenly finds himself on the field in his brother's place. | 97 |
| Great Turkey Walk, The | Karr, Kathleen | 4.5 | 6 | In 1860, a somewhat simple-minded fifteen-year-old boy attempts to herd one thousand turkeys from Missouri to Denver, Colorado, in hopes of selling them at a profit. | 199 |
| Great Wall of China, The | Fisher, Leonard Everett | 3.8 | 0.5 | This book is a brief history of the Great Wall of China, begun about 2,200 years ago to keep out Mongol invaders. | 30 |
| Great Wall, The | Mann, Elizabeth | 6.4 | 1 | This book examines the centuries of conflict with the Mongols that led to the building of the Great Wall of China as a means of defense. | 48 |
| Greatest Treasure, The | Demi | 3.4 | 0.5 | In this traditional Chinese tale, a poor man receives a treasure of gold and discovers the true value of simple pleasures. | 28 |
| Greedy Man in the Moon, The | Rossiter, Rick | 3.9 | 0.5 | When a poor boy rescues a wounded bird, he is rewarded for his kindness. Soon, the boy's neighbor tries to copy him, but in a much different way. | 28 |
| Greek Theater (Look Inside), A | Chrisp, Peter | 6 | 1 | This book describes typical features of theaters in Ancient Greece and many of the common objects used in them including armor, comic masks, papyrus rolls, and aulos. | 32 |
| Green Book, The | Paton Walsh, Jill | 5.5 | 2 | When a group of Britons depart a dying Earth, it is the children who do not give up hope when they arrive at a new planet. | 69 |
| Green Eggs and Ham | Seuss, Dr. | 1.5 | 0.5 | It takes much effort before Sam-I-am can convince another person to try green eggs and ham. | 62 |
| Green Rider | Britain, Kristen | 5.9 | 23 | On her journey home from school through the immense forest called Green Cloak, Karigan comes across a dying man who convinces her to carry on his mission. Her promise changes her life forever. | 471 |
| Green Wilma | Arnold, Tedd | 2.8 | 0.5 | Has Wilma turned into a frog overnight, or is her new green skin (and appetite for flies) just a passing phase? A fresh, hilarious story with a surprise ending. | 28 |
| Greenwitch | Cooper, Susan | 5.3 | 6 | Simon, Jane, and Barney discover the whereabouts of a priceless golden grail, possessed by a dreadful, vengeful power. | 131 |
| Gregory, the Terrible Eater | Sharmat, Mitchell | 2.8 | 0.5 | A very picky eater, Gregory the goat refuses the usual goat diet staples of shoes and tin cans in favor of fruits, vegetables, eggs, and orange juice. | 28 |
| Gremlins Don't Chew Bubble Gum | Dadey/Jones | 3.7 | 1 | The electrical appliances of the new secretary at Bailey School blow up. | 80 |
| Grey King, The | Cooper, Susan | 6.2 | 9 | Will Stanton is swept into a quest to find the golden harp and wake the Sleepers. | 165 |
| Grimms' Fairy Tales (Unabridged) | Grimm, Jacob/Wilhelm | 9.9 | 19 | The Brothers Grimm gather a treasury of folk and fairy stories full of giants, dwarfs, witches, princesses, magical beasts and cunning children. | 342 |
| Grizzwold | Hoff, Syd | 2 | 0.5 | Grizzwold must find a new home now that loggers have cut down the forest. | 64 |
| Grouchy Ladybug, The | Carle, Eric | 2.8 | 0.5 | A braggart becomes a better-behaved bug as it learns something about getting along with others. | 39 |
| Groundhog Day (The Library of Holidays) | Margaret, Amy | 4.5 | 0.5 | This book explains the origins of Groundhog Day and how people celebrate this holiday. | 24 |
| Growing Up Is Hard | Schlessinger, Laura | 3.3 | 0.5 | When a young boy has a day where nothing goes right, his father helps him deal with his feelings. | 31 |
| Growing-Up Feet, The | Cleary, Beverly | 3 | 0.5 | The twins' feet haven't 'grown up' enough for new shoes, so they get bright red boots instead. | 30 |
| Grumpy Pumpkins | Delton, Judy | 3.1 | 1 | Molly worries when she learns that the Pee Wee Scouts' Halloween Party will be held in the nursing home where her grumpy grandfather lives. | 71 |
| Guess What? | Fox, Mem | 0.6 | 0.5 | Through a series of questions to which the reader must answer yes or no, the personality and occupation of a lady called Daisy O'Grady are revealed. | 32 |
| Guests | Dorris, Michael | 5.2 | 3 | A native American boy discovers the inevitability of change as he grows up. | 119 |
| Guinea Pig Gang | Baglio, Ben M. | 3.3 | 2 | Mandy's friends have started a club for their guinea pigs -- the guinea pig gang. Lisa, a girl in Mandy's class, loves guinea pigs but won't join the club. Is something wrong with her guinea pig? | 100 |
| Guinea Pig in the Garage | Baglio, Ben M. | 4.4 | 3 | When Mandy asks Rachel Farmer to look after a neighbor's guinea pigs, Rachel is thrilled. When Rachel loses one of the babies, she is worried she will never be allowed to have a pet of her own. | 125 |
| Gulliver's Travels (Great Illustrated Classics) | Swift/Vogel | 6.1 | 3 | Lemuel Gulliver, a doctor who longs for adventure, signs on board a sailing ship. Before he returns home, he experiences some of the most amazing adventures ever. | 240 |
| Gutenberg | Fisher, Leonard Everett | 6 | 0.5 | A biography of the fifteenth-century German printer who revolutionized printing with the invention of movable type. | 32 |
| Gym Teacher from the Black Lagoon, The | Thaler, Mike | 2.2 | 0.5 | There's a new gym teacher at our school this year. We hear he's a real monster. | 30 |
| Gymnastics Mystery, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.9 | 2 | A young Russian gymnast, Katya, has come to visit the Boxcar Children. Someone is trying to ruin Katya's chances of winning the big competition and Katya has been acting strange. Can the Boxcar Children solve both mysteries? | 132 |
| Gypsy | Nussbaum, Al | 3.1 | 1 | When you race motorcycles, you race to win. No matter what the circumstances. | 60 |
| Gypsy Game, The | Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | 5.2 | 8 | The game is great fun at first. Then Toby starts acting very strange and disappears on New Year's morning. Soon the new "Gypsies" are involved in a crisis no one could have imagined. | 217 |
| Gypsy Rizka | Alexander, Lloyd | 5.4 | 6 | Living alone in her wagon while waiting for her father's return, Rizka, a Gypsy and a trickster, exposes the ridiculous foibles of some of the townspeople. | 195 |
| Hades (World Mythology) | Richardson, Adele D. | 4.2 | 0.5 | This book relates the exploits of Hades and his importance in Greek mythology and includes some of the stories about him. | 24 |
| Hail to the Chief: The American Presidency | Robb, Don | 6.7 | 0.5 | This book explains and describes the powers and duties of the presidency, including highlights of the accomplishments of individual presidents. | 31 |
| Half Magic | Eager, Edward | 5 | 5 | Four children spending their summer in a city apartment enjoy a series of fantastic adventures by double-wishing on an ancient coin. | 217 |
| Half-A-Moon Inn, The | Fleischman, Paul | 5.7 | 3 | A mute boy is held captive by the strange proprietress of an inn. | 88 |
| Half-Mile Hat, The | Lodge, Bernard | 4.5 | 0.5 | When a fierce wind blows away a shepherd boy's cap, he not only manages to get it back, but also wins the hand of the Princess Yolanda and outwits the giant with the half-mile wide hat. | 32 |
| Halloween Helpers | Delton, Judy | 4 | 2 | Mrs. Peters is out of town, and the Scouts need a leader to help them plan their Halloween party. | 115 |
| Halloween Joker, The | Capeci, Anne | 4.4 | 6 | With the whole town preparing for a Halloween party, a practical joker is targeting kids and the jokes are getting out of hand. Wishbone and his friends are on the case, determined to stop the joker before he or she strikes again. | 255 |
| Halloween Mice! | Roberts, Bethany | 1.6 | 0.5 | Mice whirling and skipping on Halloween night are threatened by an approaching cat, until they come up with a scary trick to defend themselves. | 32 |
| Hallo-wiener, The | Pilkey, Dav | 3.2 | 0.5 | All the other dogs make fun of Oscar the dachshund until one Halloween when, dressed as a hot dog, Oscar bravely rescues the others. | 30 |
| Hamster in a Handbasket | Baglio, Ben M. | 4.3 | 4 | When James is chosen to look after the school hamster during the summer, he and Mandy are thrilled. Then someone vandalizes James's garden and steals the hamster. | 145 |
| Hand of Dinotopia, The | Foster, Alan Dean | 7 | 18 | Will and Sylvia search for the mysterious Hand of Dinotopia, which will supposedly lead to a safe sea route to and from the hidden island where people and dinosaurs live together peacefully. | 409 |
| Hands (Human Body Discovery) | James, Robert | 4.1 | 0.5 | Describes the anatomy of the human hand, how it differs from the "hands" and "paws" of animals, and its susceptibility to injury. | 24 |
| Hannah | Whelan, Gloria | 4.3 | 1 | Hannah, a blind girl living in Michigan in the late nineteenth century, doesn't go to school until a new teacher comes to board at their house. | 63 |
| Hans Brinker (Great Illustrated Classics) | Dodge/Vogel | 5.2 | 3 | This is the story of a poor boy who wants to prove his own worth and to help his terribly sick father. It is also the story of Hans' little sister, Gretel,who dreams of winning the skating race whose prize is the silver skates. | 240 |
| Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates | Dodge, Mary Mapes | 8.2 | 14 | A Dutch boy and girl work toward two goals--finding the doctor who can restore their father's memory and winning the competition for the silver skates. Includes a brief biography of the author and a history of ice skating. | 284 |
| Hansel and Gretel | Montresor, Beni | 3.6 | 0.5 | This is a retelling of the well-known tale in which two children are lost in the woods and find their way home despite an encounter with a wicked witch. | 28 |
| Happily After All | Stevenson, Laura | 4.1 | 9 | When her father dies, ten-year-old Rebecca is sent to live with the mother she's been brought up to believe had abandoned her and, through a growing relationship with a troubled foster child, begins to accept her mother. | 252 |
| Happy Birthday to You! | Seuss, Dr. | 3.1 | 0.5 | Describes a birthday celebration in Katroo presided over by the Birthday Bird. | 51 |
| Happy Birthday, Addy | Porter, Connie | 4.3 | 1 | Addy makes a new friend, who encourages her to claim a birthday and helps her face prejudice. | 61 |
| Happy Birthday, Cookie Monster! | Haus, Felice | 1.1 | 0.5 | Unable to help himself, Cookie Monster eats the cake he'd baked for his birthday party, but his friends come through with lunch. | 29 |
| Happy Birthday, Kirsten! | Shaw, Janet | 4 | 1 | On a Minnesota farm in the mid-1800s, the hard-working members of the Larson family find time to celebrate Kirsten's tenth birthday. | 52 |
| Happy Birthday, Little Witch | Hautzig, Deborah | 2.7 | 0.5 | Little Witch wants three special friends at her birthday party in this sequel to Little Witch's Big Night. | 48 |
| Happy Birthday, Molly! | Tripp, Valerie | 3.5 | 1 | When an English girl comes to stay at Molly's during World War II, she and Molly learn to bridge their differences and ultimately enjoy a wonderful, mutual birthday party. | 57 |
| Happy Birthday, Moon | Asch, Frank | 2.6 | 0.5 | When a bear discovers that the moon shares his birthday, he buys the moon a beautiful hat as a present. | 26 |
| Happy Birthday, Pooh! | Talkington, Bruce | 3.4 | 0.5 | Pooh's friends forget his birthday and must hurry to throw him a party before it is too late. | 29 |
| Happy Birthday, Sam | Hutchins, Pat | 2.8 | 0.5 | Sam's birthday brings a solution to several of his problems. | 28 |
| Happy Birthday, Samantha! | Tripp, Valerie | 3.7 | 1 | A ten-year-old girl discovers the modern delights of turn-of-the-century New York City when she travels there with her grandmother. | 56 |
| Happy Birthday, Thomas! | Awdry, W. | 1.1 | 0.5 | Thomas the train engine thinks that all the other engines are too busy to help him celebrate his birthday, but he is in for a surprise. | 29 |
| Happy Easter, Dear Dragon | Hillert, Margaret | 0.9 | 0.5 | A boy and his dragon celebrate Easter by enjoying spring flowers, coloring eggs, hunting for Easter eggs, and going to Church. | 31 |
| Happy Easter, Little Critter | Mayer, Mercer | 2.3 | 0.5 | Little Critter experiences all the joys of Easter, getting his basket, going to church, dying eggs and finding them during an egg hunt. | 24 |
| Happy Hocky Family, The | Smith, Lane | 2 | 0.5 | A whimsical tribute to family life seen through a baby's eyes. | 61 |
| Harlem | Myers, Walter Dean | 3.6 | 0.5 | Words and pictures convey to readers the spirit of Harlem in its music, art, literature. | 32 |
| Harper & Moon | Ross, Ramon | 4.6 | 6 | Although twelve-year-old Harper has always liked Moon, an abused, orphaned older boy, their friendship is tested by a discovery Harper makes when Moon joins the army in 1943. | 181 |
| Harriet the Spy | Fitzhugh, Louise | 4.5 | 8 | Harriet's notebook of her feelings about classmates and neighbors is found by her classmates. | 298 |
| Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad | Petry, Ann | 6.6 | 9 | Courageous Black woman leads slaves to Freedom. | 221 |
| Harriet's Hare | King-Smith, Dick | 4.1 | 2 | A fantasy about the friendship between a young English girl and an extraterrestrial disguised as a rabbit. | 87 |
| Harry and the Lady Next Door | Zion, Gene | 2.6 | 0.5 | Harry, the dog, goes to fantastic lengths to make his neighbor stop singing. | 62 |
| Harry by the Sea | Zion, Gene | 2.9 | 0.5 | A wave covers Harry the dog with seaweed and everybody at the beach thinks he's a sea monster. | 28 |
| Harry in Trouble | Porte, Barbara Ann | 2.7 | 0.5 | Harry is upset about losing his library card three times in a row, but feels better when he learns that his father and his friend Dorcas sometimes lose things. | 46 |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Rowling, J.K. | 6.7 | 14 | When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school. | 341 |
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Rowling, J.K. | 6.8 | 32 | In this fourth novel of Harry Potter's training as a wizard and his coming of age, Harry wants to be a normal, fourteen-year-old wizard. Unfortunately, he is not normal -- even by wizardry standards. In his case, different can be deadly. | 734 |
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Rowling, J.K. | 7.2 | 44 | Fifteen-year-old wizard Harry Potter struggles with a threatening teacher, a problematic house-elf, the dread of upcoming final exams, and haunting dreams that hint toward his mysterious past. | 870 |
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Rowling, J.K. | 6.7 | 18 | When Harry and his best friends go back for their third year at Hogwarts, an escaped mass murderer is on the loose, and the sinister prison guards of Azkaban have been called in to guard the school. | 433 |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Rowling, J.K. | 5.5 | 12 | Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. | 309 |
| Harry the Dirty Dog | Zion, Gene | 3.1 | 0.5 | Harry gets so dirty playing that the family doesn't recognize him until he takes a bath. | 28 |
| Harry's Mad | King-Smith, Dick | 4.8 | 3 | Harry's legacy from his great-uncle, a talking parrot, proves to be a much more exciting gift than he ever imagined. | 123 |
| Harvey Angell | Hendry, Diana | 5.1 | 5 | When Harvey Angell zaps into Ballantyre Road, he brightens up Henry's life. Henry, no ordinary electrician, gets the residents of the house to make connections and overcome their sadness. | 143 |
| Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm | Nolen, Jerdine | 3.8 | 0.5 | A child ventures out in the middle of the night to see how Harvey Potter grows his wonderful balloons. | 29 |
| Harvey's Horrible Snake Disaster | Clifford, Eth | 4.4 | 3 | When Harvey's cousin brings a snake to his house for the weekend, Harvey knows he's headed for disaster. | 108 |
| Harvey's Wacky Parrot Adventure | Clifford, Eth | 4.3 | 3 | Harvey and his least favorite cousin Nora become embroiled in the search for a hidden treasure somewhere in Uncle Buck's house, with the only clue to its location held by a loudmouthed parrot. | 112 |
| Hat, The | Brett, Jan | 2.6 | 0.5 | When Lisa hangs her woolen clothes in the sun to air them out for winter, the hedgehog, to the amusement of the other animals, ends up wearing a stocking on his head. | 28 |
| Hatchet | Paulsen, Gary | 5.7 | 7 | After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends 54 days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given to him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. | 195 |
| Hattie and the Fox | Fox, Mem | 1.8 | 0.5 | Hattie, a big black hen, discovers a fox in the bushes, which creates varying reactions in the other barnyard animals. | 32 |
| Haunted Cabin Mystery, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 4 | 2 | The Alden children travel on a Mississippi paddle wheel steamer to visit an old family friend in his cabin near Hannibal, Missouri, and try to discover who is responsible for the mysterious activities near the house. | 121 |
| Haunted Hotel, The | Roy, Ron | 3.4 | 1 | When the guests of the Shangri-la Hotel are scared away by a white-haired female ghost, Dink and his friends investigate the mystery. | 87 |
| Haunted Lighthouse, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 3.1 | 1 | When the Berenstain bears vacation in an abandoned lighthouse, mysterious things start to happen. | 88 |
| Haunted Mask II, The | Stine, R.L. | 3.3 | 3 | Steve Boswell will never forget Carly Beth's Halloween mask. It was so gross, so terrifying. | 124 |
| Haunted Mask, The | Stine, R.L. | 3.8 | 3 | It's the best Halloween mask ever. Halloween is nearly over, and Carly Beth is still wearing that special mask... | 121 |
| Haunted School, The | Stine, R.L. | 3 | 3 | A boy moves to a new school and everyone is strangely grey. | 117 |
| Haunted Summer | Wright, Betty Ren | 4 | 2 | Nine-year-old Abby surprises herself, her equally timid baby-sitter, and her older brother when they are haunted by a ghost that is trying to reclaim a stolen music box. | 99 |
| Have You Seen Hyacinth Macaw? | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 3.6 | 3 | Junior detective Abby Jones and her pal Potsie become involved in a series of lighthearted adventures. A great story for all those young readers who love a mystery. | 134 |
| Hawaii (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 4.2 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, important people, and interesting sites of the Aloha State. | 59 |
| Hawk, I'm Your Brother | Baylor, Byrd | 3.6 | 0.5 | Lyrical storybook with spacious illustrations and poetic text. | 42 |
| Haymeadow, The | Paulsen, Gary | 5.4 | 6 | Fourteen-year-old John comes of age and gains self-reliance during the summer he spends up in the Wyoming mountains tending his father's herd of sheep. | 195 |
| Hayride | Bryant, Bonnie | 4.7 | 4 | The Saddle Club plans a hayride for Carole's birthday. | 150 |
| Headless Cupid, The | Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | 5.3 | 8 | The four Stanley children are amazed and enchanted when Amanda and her crow come to live with them . . . but is she really a witch? | 203 |
| Headless Ghost, The | Stine, R.L. | 3.2 | 2 | Everyone knows that Hill House is haunted by a boy with no head. | 113 |
| Headless Horseman, The | Standiford, Natalie | 2.8 | 0.5 | A superstitious schoolmaster in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman. | 48 |
| Heads, I Win | Hermes, Patricia | 3.7 | 4 | In this sequel to 'Kevin Corbett Eats Flies,' Bailey runs for class president hoping that popularity will secure her place in her current foster home. | 132 |
| Heartlight | Barron, T.A. | 5.4 | 8 | An astronomer and a woman are hurled into a dazzling cross-galactic adventure. | 272 |
| Heaven | Johnson, Angela | 4.7 | 3 | Fourteen-year-old Marley's seemingly perfect life in the small town of Heaven is disrupted when she discovers that her father and mother are not her biological parents. | 138 |
| Hedgehog Bakes a Cake | Macdonald, Maryann | 2.2 | 0.5 | As Hedgehog starts to make a cake, his friends stop by, one by one; and each has advice for the project. | 28 |
| Hedgehogs in the Closet | Carris, Joan | 4.2 | 4 | Unhappy with his family's move to England, eleven-year-old Nick slowly begins to thrive in the very British setting of his new home and school. | 186 |
| Hedgie's Surprise | Brett, Jan | 3.5 | 0.5 | Hedgie, the hedgehog, helps Henny, the speckled hen, trick the Tomten who has been eating all of Henny's eggs for breakfast. | 30 |
| Heidi (Great Illustrated Classics) | Spyri/Laiken | 5.1 | 2 | Heidi finds beauty and simple wisdom in nature, but her life suddenly changes when she must live in the city. | 236 |
| Heidi (Unabridged) | Spyri, Johanna | 8.2 | 16 | An orphan sent to live with her grandfather learns to love both the old man and the Swiss Alps and becomes homesick when she goes to the city to be a companion to an invalid. | 295 |
| Heirs of the Force | Anderson/Moesta | 6.7 | 7 | While exploring the jungle outside the academy, the twins make a startling discovery, the remains of a TIE fighter that had crashed years ago. | 217 |
| Helen Keller | Graff, Stewart | 4.1 | 1 | A biography of the young Helen Keller who overcame incredible physical difficulties and became an author and lectureer. | 58 |
| Helen Keller (In Their Own Words) | Sullivan, George | 5.3 | 2 | This is a biography, told using excerpts from her own writings, of the woman who successfully dealt with her own disabilities while trying to better the lives of other deaf and blind people. | 128 |
| Helen Keller's Teacher | Davidson, Margaret | 4.3 | 4 | This is the true, inspiring story of Annie Sullivan, who helped Helen Keller realize her genius for living. | 153 |
| Hello, Mallory | Martin, Ann M. | 3.7 | 3 | Mallory seems like a natural for the Club, but the Baby-Sitters are doing all they can to keep her from joining. | 136 |
| Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle | MacDonald, Betty | 5.2 | 4 | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle cures a show-off, crybaby, bully, whisperer, and slowpoke. | 125 |
| Hello, My Name Is Scrambled Eggs | Gilson, Jamie | 4 | 4 | In this sequel to Harvey, the Beer Can King, Harvey attempts to Americanize the son of a Vietnamese family who has moved to his town. | 159 |
| Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library | Clifford, Eth | 4 | 2 | Rose and Jo-Beth are trapped in an old library during a blizzard and there are strange noises coming from upstairs. | 96 |
| Help! I'm Trapped in a Professional Wrestler's Body | Strasser, Todd | 3.8 | 3 | At WrestleInsanity, Jake suddenly realizes Andy is in the match, wrestling in the body of Bruce "Brainiac" Bloom, and he is getting beaten up! Suddenly wrestling doesn't look so fake. | 124 |
| Help! I'm Trapped In My Principal's Body | Strasser, Todd | 3.9 | 3 | Jake makes his buddy Josh switch bodies with the principal. Principals can do anything. They can hang out in their offices. They can play computer games all day. They can expel kids like Barry Dunn.... | 117 |
| Help! I'm Trapped in Obedience School | Strasser, Todd | 3.3 | 3 | Jake accidentally turns his buddy Andy into the Sherman family dog. Now Andy is chasing squirrels, stealing the ball at baseball games, and bringing squeeze toys for show-and-tell. | 126 |
| Help! I'm Trapped in Obedience School Again | Strasser, Todd | 3.5 | 2 | When Jake switches bodies with his sister's dog, Lance, he roots through the garbage, devours dog food, and has to put up with the affections of a little dog named Foo-Foo. | 118 |
| Help! I'm Trapped in Santa's Body | Strasser, Todd | 3.4 | 3 | Jake somehow switches bodies with Santa Claus and now must find a way to get out of this situation. | 121 |
| Henny Penny | Galdone, Paul | 3.2 | 0.5 | Henny Penny and her friends travel to see the King, but are outwitted by the fox. | 30 |
| Henry and Beezus | Cleary, Beverly | 4.6 | 4 | Accompanied by friend Beezus, bubble-gum tycoon Henry schemes to get a bike of his own. | 192 |
| Henry and Mudge and Annie's Perfect Pet | Rylant, Cynthia | 2.3 | 0.5 | Although Henry's cousin Annie likes his dog Mudge, when she gets her own pet she decides that a bunny will be perfect for her. | 40 |
| Henry and Mudge and the Bedtime Thumps | Rylant, Cynthia | 2.6 | 0.5 | Henry worries about what will happen to his big dog Mudge during their visit to his grandmother's house in the country. | 40 |
| Henry and Mudge and the Careful Cousin | Rylant, Cynthia | 2.1 | 0.5 | At first Henry's very neat cousin doesn't like the cookies from under his bed or Mudge's slobbery kisses, but when they all play Frisby, she begins to enjoy her visit. | 48 |
| Henry and Mudge and the Forever Sea | Rylant, Cynthia | 2.5 | 0.5 | Henry and his dog Mudge spend the day at the beach. | 46 |
| Henry and Mudge and the Long Weekend | Rylant, Cynthia | 2.4 | 0.5 | A wet weekend is transformed by a family project. | 40 |
| Henry and Mudge and the Wild Wind | Rylant, Cynthia | 2.3 | 0.5 | A big storm frightens Mudge the dog, and Henry comes to the rescue. | 40 |
| Henry and Mudge Get the Cold Shivers | Rylant, Cynthia | 2.7 | 0.5 | When Mudge gets sick unexpectedly, Henry does all he can to make him feel better. | 48 |
| Henry and Mudge in Puddle Trouble | Rylant, Cynthia | 2.5 | 0.5 | For Henry and his big dog Mudge, spring means admiring the first snow glory, playing in puddles, and watching the new kittens next door. | 48 |
| Henry and Mudge in the Green Time | Rylant, Cynthia | 2.4 | 0.5 | For Henry and his big dog Mudge, summer means going on a picnic in the park, taking a bath under the garden hose, and going to the top of the big, green hill. | 48 |
| Henry and Mudge Take the Big Test | Rylant, Cynthia | 2.4 | 0.5 | After eight weeks at Papp's Dog School, Henry's dog Mudge earns a certificate and lots of liver treats. | 40 |
| Henry and Mudge Under the Yellow Moon | Rylant, Cynthia | 2.3 | 0.5 | In the autumn, Henry and his big dog Mudge watch the leaves turn, meet with some Halloween spooks and share Thanksgiving dinner. | 48 |
| Henry and Mudge, The First Book | Rylant, Cynthia | 2.7 | 0.5 | Henry, feeling lonely on a street without any other children, finds companionship and love in a big dog named Mudge. | 40 |
| Henry and Ribsy | Cleary, Beverly | 4.6 | 3 | Henry Huggins and his dog, Ribsy, go fishing and end up as wet as the huge salmon they try to catch. | 192 |
| Henry and the Clubhouse | Cleary, Beverly | 5.1 | 4 | Collecting from his newspaper customers to buy lumber for a clubhouse, Henry Huggins runs into some funny complications. | 192 |
| Henry and the Paper Route | Cleary, Beverly | 5.3 | 4 | His heart set on having a paper route, Henry Huggins is sidetracked by various interesting and funny distractions. | 192 |
| Henry Hikes to Fitchburg | Johnson, D.B. | 2.1 | 0.5 | While his friend works hard to earn the train fare to Fitchburg, young Henry Thoreau walks the thirty miles through woods and fields, enjoying nature. | 29 |
| Henry Huggins | Cleary, Beverly | 4.7 | 3 | Third grader Henry Huggins acquires a flea-bitten but charming dog named Ribsy. | 155 |
| Henry Reed, Inc. | Robertson, Keith | 5.5 | 8 | Fourteen-year-old Henry Reed and his friend Midge Glass turn Grover's Corner, New Jersey, upside down when they open a research business. | 239 |
| Henry Reed's Baby-Sitting Service | Robertson, Keith | 5.1 | 6 | Back in Grover's Corners, N.J. for the summer, Henry and his partner Midge establish a baby sitting service and find a disappearing child and a peacock among their charges. | 204 |
| Henry the Fourth | Murphy, Stuart J. | 1.5 | 0.5 | This is a simple story about four dogs at a dog show introduces the ordinal numbers: first, second, third, and fourth. | 29 |
| Henry's Awful Mistake | Quackenbush, Robert | 2.4 | 0.5 | Henry the Duck tries all sorts of methods to rid his kitchen of an ant before his guest comes to supper. | 42 |
| Henry's Baby | Hoffman, Mary | 3.4 | 0.5 | Henry feels both family and peer pressure when his brother is born. | 32 |
| Henry's Important Date | Quackenbush, Robert | 2.8 | 0.5 | Due to circumstances beyond his control, Henry arrives at Clara's birthday party just before he thinks it will end. | 48 |
| Her Seven Brothers | Goble, Paul | 4.3 | 0.5 | Retells the Cheyenne legend in which a girl and her seven chosen brothers become the Big Dipper. | 23 |
| Herbie Hummerston Homework Haters' Club, The | Erlbach, Arlene | 3.9 | 2 | Homework stinks! It should be illegal. That's why I came up with my radically awesome idea, a movement to stamp out homework for good. | 111 |
| Herbie Jones | Kline, Suzy | 3.5 | 2 | Herbie is elated at being promoted from the lowest reading group in his third- grade class, but it means leaving his best friend behind. | 95 |
| Hercules (World Mythology) | Richardson, Adele D. | 4.1 | 0.5 | This book relates the exploits of Hercules and his importance in Roman mythology, including his connection to such figures as King Augeas and Queen Hippolyte, and describes the role of myths in the modern world. | 24 |
| Hercules Doesn't Pull Teeth | Dadey/Jones | 3.7 | 1 | Could the dentist really be Hercules, the strongest man in the world? | 70 |
| Here Comes Martian Mushroom | Zach, Cheryl | 3.7 | 2 | Tennessee was never like this! My first few days as a fourth-grader in Los Angeles were the most horrible, rotten, embarrassing days in my life. | 127 |
| Here's to You, Rachel Robinson | Blume, Judy | 4.3 | 6 | A trip to Ellis Island shifts a child prodigy's perspective in this humorous story about real friendship. | 196 |
| Hero and the Crown, The | McKinley, Robin | 7 | 15 | A return to the kingdom of Damar where the girl-warrior, Arien, wields the power of the Blue Sword. | 227 |
| Hey Little Ant | Hoose, Phillip/Hannah | 2.5 | 0.5 | This is a song in which an ant pleads with the kid who is tempted to squish it. | 24 |
| Hey, Al | Yorinks, Arthur | 2.1 | 0.5 | Al and his dog, tired of life in their one-room apartment, are taken to bird paradise by a big purple bird. | 26 |
| Hiawatha and Megissogwon | Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | 8.2 | 0.5 | In this selection from the classic poem, Hiawatha, grown to manhood, is a powerful figure righting wrongs, vanquishing demons, and finally confronting the mighty Megissogwon. | 32 |
| Hiccups for Elephant | Preller, James | 1.1 | 0.5 | How will Elephant get rid of his hiccups? | 28 |
| Hidden Magic, A | Vande Velde, Vivian | 5.4 | 4 | Lost in a magic forest and separated from her prince, Princes Jennifer seeks help from a kindly young sorcerer in battling an evil witch. | 176 |
| Hidden Staircase, The | Keene, Carolyn | 5.5 | 6 | Nancy finds the hidden staircase in the "haunted" house and also rescues her kidnapped father. | 182 |
| Hidden Worlds: Looking Through a Scientist's Microscope | Kramer, Stephen | 7 | 1 | Text and photographs provide a fascinating look at the work of a microscopist and the remarkable worlds he explores. | 57 |
| Hidden, The | Applegate, K.A. | 4.6 | 3 | The Yeerks have discovered and repaired a damaged Helmacron ship. They know of its morph-seeking capabilities, and they plan to use the ship to capture the "Andalite bandits." | 121 |
| Hide and Seek Fog | Tresselt, Alvin | 4.3 | 0.5 | A fog takes over a small village for three days. | 28 |
| Hide-and-Seek All Week | De Paola, Tomie | 2.3 | 0.5 | Morgie, Moffie, and their kindergarten friends squander their recess time trying to decide how to play Hide-and-Seek. | 31 |
| Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or There Must Be More to Life | Sendak, Maurice | 3.6 | 1 | Jennie, a terrier who has everything, decides that there must be more to life. She leaves her loving master and sets out on a quest to find the answer. | 69 |
| High Escape | Cowen, Eve | 3.4 | 1 | Irina has a bad fall while skiing, and it is up to Dory to help her. | 60 |
| High King, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 6.1 | 11 | When the sword of Dyrnwyn falls into the hands of Arawn Death-Lord, Taran and his friends raise an army to march against him. | 248 |
| High Rise Glorious Skittle Skat...Angel Food Cake, The | Willard, Nancy | 4.2 | 1 | As she is preparing a special angelfood cake for her mother's birthday, a girl is surprised by three angels who have dropped in for a taste. | 52 |
| Hill of Fire | Lewis, Thomas P. | 2.9 | 0.5 | An easy-to-read account of the birth of Paricutin volcano in the field of a poor Mexican farmer. | 63 |
| History of Counting, The | Schmandt-Besserat, Denise | 6.6 | 1 | This book describes the evolution of counting and the many ways to count and write numbers. | 45 |
| History of the Denver Nuggets, The | Frisch, Aaron | 6.6 | 0.5 | This book is about the history of the Denver Nuggets. | 32 |
| Hit-Away Kid, The | Christopher, Matt | 3.8 | 1 | Barry McGee, hit-away batter for the Peach Street Mudders, enjoys winning so much that he has a tendency to bend the rules; then the dirty tactics of the pitcher on a rival team give him a new perspective on sports ethics. | 60 |
| Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The | Adams, Douglas | 6.6 | 8 | The insanely funny, satiric bestseller about the end of the world and the days that follow it. Authur Dent must find a new home after the world is destroyed, to make way for the new hyperspatial express route. | 215 |
| Hitty: Her First Hundred Years | Field, Rachel | 7.1 | 11 | Hitty is a doll of great charm and real character whose memoirs are full of her thrilling adventures on land and sea. | 235 |
| Hobbit, The | Tolkien, J.R.R. | 6.6 | 16 | This stirring adventure is a fantasy that introduces the far-wandering hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. | 330 |
| Hoboken Chicken Emergency, The | Pinkwater, Daniel | 4.9 | 2 | Help! Henrietta--a 15-feet-tall, 266-pound chicken--is lost. She roams the streets hungry and frightened as the fire and police departments look for her. Great Fantasy. | 83 |
| Hog Music | Helldorfer, M. C. | 4.6 | 0.5 | Travelers along the National Road help make sure that the birthday gift that Lucy's great aunt has sent makes it all the way from Maryland to her family's farm in Illinois. | 29 |
| Holes | Sachar, Louis | 4.6 | 7 | As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert. | 233 |
| Holiday Mischief | Pascal/Suzanne | 4.6 | 4 | On a trip to Washington, D.C., Elizabeth and Jessica come up with a plan to reunite their friend Anna with her long-lost sister Leslie. A Super Edition. | 133 |
| Home at Last | DeVries, David | 4.7 | 6 | Billy, a streetwise kid from New York City, is sent to Nebraska and is taken in by a Swedish farm family, the Andersons. Initially fearful and resentful, Billy doesn't fit in, and he clashes with his new family and adoptive father. | 151 |
| Home Run: The Story of Babe Ruth | Burleigh, Robert | 2 | 0.5 | A poetic account of the legendary Babe Ruth as he prepares to hit a home run. | 30 |
| Home to the Prairie | Tedrow, T.L. | 4.4 | 7 | Laura and Pa Ingalls drive out to find their original little house on the prairie while reminiscing about their lives. | 222 |
| Homecoming | Voigt, Cynthia | 4.4 | 16 | Young Dicey fights to keep her brothers and sister together and out of foster homes. | 402 |
| Homeless Bird | Whelan, Gloria | 5.3 | 5 | When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it. | 216 |
| Homer Price | McCloskey, Robert | 6.6 | 4 | Ingenious young Homer Price captures thieves, solves mysteries, and helps people in trouble. | 149 |
| Homesick, My Own Story | Fritz, Jean | 5.1 | 6 | Autobiography of Jean Fritz, illustrated with drawings and photographs, covering her life from her birth in China to the present. | 163 |
| Hondo and Fabian | McCarty, Peter | 1.2 | 0.5 | Hondo, the dog, gets to go to the beach and play with his friend Fred, while Fabian, the cat, spends the day at home. | 32 |
| Honey Makers, The | Gibbons, Gail | 4.8 | 0.5 | Covers the physical structure of honeybees and how they live in colonies, as well as how they produce honey and are managed by beekeepers. | 28 |
| Honk! The Story of a Prima Swanerina | Edwards, Pamela Duncan | 2.5 | 0.5 | A ballet-loving swan wins acclaim when she manages to join the other dancers in a performance of Swan Lake. | 30 |
| Honus and Me | Gutman, Dan | 4.3 | 3 | A baseball fan discovers a special baseball card worth more than just money. | 138 |
| Hoodwinked | Howard, Arthur | 2.9 | 0.5 | A young witch searches for a creepy pet. | 28 |
| Hooray for the Golly Sisters! | Byars, Betsy | 2.4 | 0.5 | In continued adventures, May-May and Rose take their traveling road show to more audiences. | 64 |
| Hooway for Wodney Wat | Lester, Helen | 3.1 | 0.5 | All his classmates make fun of Rodney because he can't pronounce his name, but it is Rodney's speech impediment that drives away the class bully. | 32 |
| Hop on Pop | Seuss, Dr. | 1.5 | 0.5 | Pairs of rhyming words are introduced and used in simple sentences, such as "Day, Play. We play all day. Night. Fight. We fight all night.'" | 64 |
| Hope Was Here | Bauer, Joan | 5.1 | 6 | When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved in the political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor. | 186 |
| Horace and Morris but Mostly Dolores | Howe, James | 2.6 | 0.5 | Three mice friends learn that the best clubs include everyone. | 29 |
| Hork-Bajir Chronicles, The | Applegate, K.A. | 4.3 | 5 | Aldrea, a young member of the outpost the Andalite race has placed on the planet of the Hork-Bajir, must help her native friend Dak when the ruthless, parasitic Yeerks try to enslave his people. | 202 |
| Horrible Harry and the Ant Invasion | Kline, Suzy | 3.1 | 1 | Horrible Harry of classroom 2B cuts back on his mischievous pranks after falling for Song Lee. | 56 |
| Horrible Harry and the Christmas Surprise | Kline, Suzy | 2.9 | 0.5 | When their teacher ends up in the hospital, the members of class 2B find a way to include her in their holiday celebration. | 54 |
| Horrible Harry and the Dungeon | Kline, Suzy | 3.1 | 1 | It's almost summer vacation and the students in room 2B are having trouble concentrating on their butterfly project until a frightening-looking new teacher comes to supervise the suspension room. | 58 |
| Horrible Harry Goes to Sea | Kline, Suzy | 3.3 | 1 | The students in Miss Mackle's class enjoy a boat trip on the Connecticut River after a class discussion of ancestors reveals that Sidney and Ida both have connections to the sea. | 58 |
| Horrible Harry in Room 2B | Kline, Suzy | 3.2 | 0.5 | Doug discovers that though being Harry's best friend in Miss Mackle's second- grade class isn't always easy, as Harry likes to do horrible things, it is often a lot of fun. | 56 |
| Horrible Harry Moves up to Third Grade | Kline, Suzy | 3.2 | 1 | Horrible Harry and friends start off third grade with a new room and a field trip to an old copper mine to study rocks. | 58 |
| Horror at Camp Jellyjam, The | Stine, R.L. | 3.2 | 3 | Two kids end up at a weird sports camps. | 128 |
| Horror at the Haunted House | Kehret, Peg | 5.2 | 5 | A fast-paced ghost story as two kids try to solve the mystery of a haunted mansion. | 132 |
| Horse and His Boy, The | Lewis, C.S. | 5.8 | 8 | A Talking Horse and a boy prince save Narnia from invasion. | 241 |
| Horse Heroes:True Stories of Amazing Horses | Petty, Kate | 5.7 | 1 | This book tells seven stories of heroic and amazing horses. | 48 |
| Horse in Harry's Room, The | Hoff, Syd | 2.3 | 0.5 | Harry gives his imaginary horse its freedom, but it chooses to remain with him. | 32 |
| Horse Sense | Bryant, Bonnie | 4.8 | 5 | The Saddle Club is in trouble; the girls are all too busy to spend much time on club business. | 134 |
| Horseshoe | Bryant, Bonnie | 4.6 | 4 | The Saddle Club decides to set up a fortune-telling stand to raise money for the animal shelter. | 133 |
| Horton Hatches the Egg | Seuss, Dr. | 3.1 | 0.5 | When a lazy bird hatching an egg wants a vacation, she asks Horton, the elephant, to sit on her egg. He goes through all sorts of hazards until he is rewarded for doing what he said he would. | 30 |
| Horton Hears a Who! | Seuss, Dr. | 3.3 | 0.5 | A city of Whos on a speck of dust are threatened with destruction until the smallest Who of all helps convince Horton's friends that Whos really exist. | 60 |
| Hostile Hospital, The | Snicket, Lemony | 6.9 | 6 | On the run after being falsely accused of murder, the three Baudelaire orphans find themselves in Heimlich Hospital, with the evil Count Olaf in close pursuit. | 255 |
| Hot Deserts (World Habitats) | Pipes, Rose | 4 | 0.5 | Some notable deserts around the world, including the Sahara Desert in Africa, the Sonoran Desert in North America, and the Simpson Desert in Australia are introduced. | 32 |
| Hot-Air Henry | Calhoun, Mary | 3.6 | 0.5 | A sassy Siamese cat stows away on a hot air balloon and ends up taking a fur-raising flight across the mountains. | 38 |
| Houdini Box, The | Selznick, Brian | 5 | 0.5 | A chance encounter with Harry Houdini leaves a small boy in possession of a mysterious box--one that might hold the secrets to the greatest magic tricks ever performed. | 52 |
| Hound of the Baskervilles (Unabridged), The | Doyle, Arthur Conan | 8.3 | 11 | Sherlock Holmes and Watson set out to solve the mystery that had haunted the Baskerville family for years and had recently occurred again. | 246 |
| Hour of the Olympics | Osborne, Mary Pope | 3.3 | 1 | The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to retrieve a lost story in ancient Greece, where they witness the original Olympic games. | 70 |
| House at Pooh Corner, The | Milne, A.A. | 4.8 | 4 | Pooh and his friends make their escapades the funniest reading anywhere. | 180 |
| House for Hermit Crab, A | Carle, Eric | 3.7 | 0.5 | A hermit crab who has outgrown his old shell moves into a new one, which he decorates and enhances with the various sea creatures he meets in his travels. | 26 |
| House in the Snow, The | Engh, M.J. | 4.6 | 4 | Benjamin and Mackie try to help seven boys that have been kidnapped and held inside a haunted house by invisible robbers who appear to have invisible powers. | 132 |
| House Is a House for Me, A | Hoberman, Mary Ann | 2.6 | 0.5 | This book lists in rhyme the dwellings of various animals and things. | 48 |
| House of Dies Drear, The | Hamilton, Virginia | 4.8 | 9 | This mystery concerns an African-American boy's move to Drear House, which had once played a part in the Underground Railroad. | 279 |
| House of Sixty Fathers, The | De Jong, Meindert | 5.5 | 6 | A young Chinese boy and his pet pig are separated from his parents when Japanese soldiers invade his country. | 189 |
| House on Hackman's Hill, The | Nixon, Joan Lowery | 4.6 | 4 | Jeff and Debbie make their way to the old Hackman mansion to look for a stolen Egyptian mummy that old Mr. Karsten has told them about--and for which they could get a $10,000 reward. They are soon trapped in the house with a mummy that lives! | 126 |
| House on the Cliff, The | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5.4 | 5 | Frank and Joe manage to escape from a hostage situation with a band of smugglers and, of course, solve another mystery. | 180 |
| House Without a Christmas Tree, The | Rock, Gail | 4.9 | 3 | Ten-year old Addie Mills feels cheated, since year after year her father hasn't let her have a Christmas tree. What's worse, he refuses to give her a reason. Addie finds a way to make her dream come true. But what will her father say? | 87 |
| Houseboat Mystery | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.4 | 3 | Floating down a lazy river, Benny finds a blackmail scheme in progress. | 128 |
| How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning | Schanzer, Rosalyn | 5.1 | 0.5 | This book focuses on Benjamin Franklin's role as an inventor of whimsical gadgets and practical contraptions, with an emphasis on his experiment of flying a kite during a rainstorm. | 32 |
| How Big Is a Foot? | Myller, Rolf | 4 | 0.5 | Thrown in jail because the bed he made for the Queen is too small, an apprentice comes up with a more accurate way of measuring size. | 31 |
| How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon? | Yolen, Jane | 1.7 | 0.5 | This book describes what a young dinosaur should do in order to quickly get over being sick. | 32 |
| How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? | Yolen, Jane | 1.6 | 0.5 | This book is brimming with humor and familiar goodnight antics. Here is a playful peek into the homes of dinosaur children and their parents at bedtime. | 29 |
| How Droofus the Dragon Lost His Head | Peet, Bill | 4.6 | 0.5 | Although he comes from a fierce family, Droofus is a good dragon undeserving of the price the king puts on his head. | 46 |
| How I Came to Be a Writer | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 6.4 | 3 | This story details the career of one writer from stories composed in grade school through first published pieces to novels written to date. | 121 |
| How I Got My Shrunken Head | Stine, R.L. | 3.2 | 3 | Mark can't wait to show the kids at school his shrunken head. | 119 |
| How I Learned to Fly | Stine, R.L. | 2.9 | 3 | Jack wanted to get back at Wilson, but things are getting scary on earth. | 123 |
| How I Saved Hanukkah | Koss, Amy Goldman | 4.6 | 2 | Marla, the only Jewish student in her fourth-grade class, wishes she celebrated Christmas like her best friend, Lucy, until one year when she decides to learn all about Hanukkah and to teach her family about it too. | 88 |
| How I Survived Being a Girl | Van Draanen, Wendelin | 5 | 5 | Twelve-year-old Carolyn struggles with being a girl when she really wants to be a boy. | 163 |
| How I Survived the Oregon Trail: The Journal of Jesse Adams | Wilson, Laura | 5.2 | 1 | A young boy keeps a journal describing his family's five-month journey across country in a covered wagon in 1852. | 38 |
| How It Was with Dooms | Hopcraft, Xan/Carol | 4.8 | 1 | This true story of a cheetah cub who comes to live with the Hopcraft family when he is separated from his mother is told in the words of a twelve-year-old boy | 64 |
| How Lazy Can You Get? | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 5.5 | 1 | Miss Brasscoat continually asks the Megglethorp children whose peculiarities she doesn't understand how lazy and dirty can they be. They decide to show her. | 50 |
| How Many Days to America? A Thanksgiving Story | Bunting, Eve | 3.1 | 0.5 | Refugees from a Caribbean island embark on a dangerous boat trip to America, where they have a special reason to celebrate Thanksgiving. | 30 |
| How Much Is a Million? | Schwartz, David M. | 3.4 | 0.5 | Examples from Marvelosissimo the Magician explain the concepts a million, a billion, and a trillion. | 34 |
| How My Parents Learned to Eat | Friedman, Ina | 2.9 | 0.5 | A young girl tells the story of her parents' courtship when the father was an American sailor and the mother was a Japanese schoolgirl. | 32 |
| How the Grinch Stole Christmas | Seuss, Dr. | 3 | 0.5 | The Grinch tries to stop Christmas from arriving by stealing all the presents and food from the village; but much to his surprise, it comes anyway. Could Christmas be more than presents? | 50 |
| How to Eat Fried Worms | Rockwell, Thomas | 3.5 | 2 | Billy accepts the challenge to eat fifteen worms in fifteen days when his friend bets fifty dollars that he cannot do it. | 115 |
| How to Fight a Girl | Rockwell, Thomas | 4.6 | 2 | Joe and Alan's plan to get revenge on Billy backfires when their secret weapon, the prettiest girl in their fifth-grade class, becomes Billy's friend instead. Sequel to How to Eat Fried Worms. | 112 |
| How to Get Fabulously Rich | Rockwell, Thomas | 4.5 | 3 | After Billy wins $410,000 in the lottery, his friends claim that he owes them a share for helping him play, creating a tangle of lies, memory, and money. | 134 |
| How to Hide a Butterfly | Heller, Ruth | 3.6 | 0.5 | Rhyming text describes how various insects camouflage themselves to protect against predators. | 29 |
| How to Kill a Monster | Stine, R.L. | 2.9 | 2 | Gretchen and Clark don't think things could get much worse while they are staying at Grandma and Grandpa's house. | 112 |
| How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World | Priceman, Marjorie | 3.1 | 0.5 | Since the market is closed, the reader is led around the world to gather the ingredients for making an apple pie. | 30 |
| How We Crossed the West: The Adventures of Lewis & Clark | Schanzer, Rosalyn | 6 | 1 | Describes the Lewis and Clark expedition across the west. | 40 |
| How We Saw the World: Nine Native Stories of the Way Things Began | Taylor, C.J. | 4.5 | 1 | Native American creation myths retold in nine stories. | 32 |
| Howliday Inn | Howe, James | 4 | 4 | While investigating the horrible howling that emanates from Chateau Bow Wow, Chester the Cat and Harold the Dog stumble on a mystery involving some suspicious disappearances and maybe murder. | 195 |
| Howling at the Hauntlys' | Jones/Dadey | 3.6 | 1 | After hearing strange howling sounds, Annie and Jane begin to think that Kilmer's cousin fromTransylvania is a werewolf. | 71 |
| Hucklebug (Original Text) | Cosgrove, Stephen | 3.8 | 0.5 | Hucklebug discovers that life in bug village isn't so bad after all. | 28 |
| Huge Harold | Peet, Bill | 4.5 | 0.5 | Harold the rabbit grows to such proportions that he gets to do something no other rabbit has done. | 46 |
| Humbug Holiday: A Christmas Carol | Abbott, Tony | 3.9 | 4 | The library zapper gates have transported the class misfits again, this time into Dickens's own Christmas classic. Frankie and Devin find themselves on a wacky, ghost-guided tour that just might turn around this humbug holiday. | 135 |
| Humbug Mountain | Fleischman, Sid | 4.2 | 4 | Wiley sets out on a search for his grandfather and ends up having to outwit some villains who plan to ambush his Grandfather's boat of gold. | 133 |
| Hunchback of Notre Dame (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Hugo/Vogel | 5.8 | 3 | Quasimodo lives in a Paris cathedral and is tormented by the people because of his physical deformities. They don't realize he has human feelings and emotions until he risks his life for a young dancer. | 238 |
| Hunches in Bunches | Seuss, Dr. | 2.9 | 0.5 | A boy has a difficult time making decisions even though there is a vocal bunch of Hunches to help him. | 38 |
| Hundred and One Dalmatians, The | Smith, Dodie | 5.4 | 7 | All over England, Dalmatian puppies are disappearing. It is up to Pongo and Missis, "a young married couple of Dalmatians," to save their own missing puppies. Fortunately, they have Mr. and Mrs. Dearly and all the country's dogs to aid their search. | 199 |
| Hundred Dresses, The | Estes, Eleanor | 5.4 | 1 | In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson. | 80 |
| Hundred Penny Box, The | Mathis, Sharon Bell | 3.9 | 1 | The Box contains a penny for each year of Aunt Dew's life, and each penny symbolizes a memory which she shares ritually with her great-great-nephew Michael. | 47 |
| Hungry Hen | Waring, Richard | 2.3 | 0.5 | A greedy fox watches a hungry hen growing bigger every day, knowing that the longer he waits to eat her, the bigger she will be. | 26 |
| Hungry No More | Reiff, Tana | 2.4 | 0.5 | A nineteenth-century Irish family escapes the potato famine only to find they must endure new hardships in America. | 76 |
| Hunt for Spring, The | O'Halloran, Susan | 3.3 | 0.5 | When Winter holds Spring prisoner in the coldest part of the world, the land remains cold and coated with ice. The people long to feel the warm sunshine again. So a brave girl named Ursula decides to go north to set Spring free. | 31 |
| Hunted, The | Skurzynski/Ferguson | 5.4 | 5 | At Glacier National Park to investigate why grizzly bear cubs are disappearing, the Landon family becomes involved with a ten-year-old Mexican runaway boy. | 147 |
| Hunting for Hidden Gold | Dixon, Franklin W. | 6.3 | 6 | Frank and Joe uncover the clues in this case that they seem to have been led to by mysterious happenings. | 177 |
| Hurricane | Wiesner, David | 3.1 | 0.5 | The morning after a hurricane, two brothers find an uprooted tree which becomes a magical place, transporting them on adventures limited only by their imaginations. | 29 |
| Hurricane Mystery, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.8 | 2 | The children are in North Carolina during hurricane season, looking for a pirate's gold. | 118 |
| Hurry Home, Candy | De Jong, Meindert | 5 | 7 | Lost and nameless, a stray dog exhibits courage and finds a home at last. | 244 |
| Hurry Up, Franklin | Bourgeois, Paulette | 2.8 | 0.5 | Even though he is very slow and has many distractions on the way, Franklin the turtle manages to get to Bear's house just in time for a special event. | 29 |