| Title | Author | Level | Pts. | Description | Pages |
| I Am Not Going to Get Up Today! | Seuss, Dr. | 2.1 | 0.5 | Chronicles a family's attempts to get one brother out of bed. | 40 |
| I Am Regina | Keehn, Sally M. | 4.4 | 8 | In 1755, as the French and Indian War begins, ten-year-old Regina is kidnapped by Indians in western Pennsylvania, and she must struggle to hold onto memories of her earlier life as she grows up as an Indian. | 240 |
| I Am the Ice Worm | Easley, MaryAnn | 4.5 | 4 | While traveling to visit her mother in the Arctic, a California girl learns the meaning of hardship and survival when she is taken in by an Inupiat family. | 127 |
| I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today | Seuss, Dr. | 2.9 | 0.5 | Three stories in verse: I Can Lick Thirty Tigers Today!, King Looie Katz, and the Glunk That Got Thunk. | 59 |
| I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! | Seuss, Dr. | 2.2 | 0.5 | The Cat in the Hat takes Young Cat in tow to show him the fun he can get out of reading. | 40 |
| I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew | Seuss, Dr. | 3.6 | 0.5 | Walking while not looking is the beginning of a young boy's problems. | 59 |
| I Have Heard of a Land | Thomas, Joyce Carol | 3.1 | 0.5 | Describes the hardships and joys experienced by an African-American pioneer woman who staked a claim for free land in the Oklahoma Territory. | 28 |
| I Left My Sneakers in Dimension X | Coville, Bruce | 5.5 | 5 | Rod's summer vacation is already ruined when his bratty cousin Elspeth comes to stay. But when aliens capture him and take him to Dimension X, he is forced to make the most terrifying decision of his life. | 180 |
| I Lost My Bear | Feiffer, Jules | 2.1 | 0.5 | When she cannot find her favorite stuffed toy, a young girl asks her mother, father, and older sister for help. | 36 |
| I Love to Sneeze | Schecter, Ellen | 2.2 | 0.5 | A lover of sneezes describes the havoc wrought by such nasal explosions, which have the power to blow the whiskers off the cat and make freckles jump noses. | 32 |
| I Love You with All My Heart | Kern, Noris | 2.7 | 0.5 | Polo asks all his friends how their mothers love them. | 24 |
| I Stink! | McMullan, Kate | 1.6 | 0.5 | A big city garbage truck makes its rounds, consuming everything from apple cores and banana peels to leftover ziti with zucchini. | 33 |
| I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Slave | Hansen, Joyce | 5 | 5 | The young, former slave Patsy keeps a diary of the confusing time following the end of the Civil War. | 197 |
| I Want to Be a Chef | Maze/O'Neill Grace | 7 | 1 | This book describes some of the careers in the culinary arts including: master chef, executive chef, pastry chef, prep chef, and more. It also discusses the training, vocabulary, competitions, and possibilities in this field. | 48 |
| I Want to Be a Firefighter | Maze/O'Neill Grace | 7.2 | 1 | This book describes the different jobs done by people working in the fire-fighting profession and some people who have made important contributions in this field. | 47 |
| I Was a Sixth Grade Alien | Coville, Bruce | 4.7 | 4 | Tim comes upon an alien in his sixth grade class and is invited back to his embassy, where he discovers a plan to sabotage the alien mission. | 168 |
| I Wish I Was Sick, Too! | Brandenberg, Franz | 2.3 | 0.5 | Elizabeth envies her brother the pampered treatment he gets when he is sick in bed. Then she gets sick, too. | 29 |
| I Wish I Were a Butterfly | Howe, James | 3.4 | 0.5 | A wise spider helps a despondent cricket realize that he is special in his own way. | 35 |
| I Wonder What It's Like to Be a Grasshopper | Hovanec, Erin M. | 4.4 | 0.5 | This book introduces the physical characteristics, habits, and behavior of grasshoppers. | 24 |
| I, Amber Brown | Danziger, Paula | 3.7 | 2 | Because her divorced parents share joint custody of her, nine-year-old Amber suffers from lack of self-esteem and feels that she is a piece of jointly-owned property. | 140 |
| I, Crocodile | Marcellino, Fred | 2.9 | 0.5 | While plundering Egypt's mummies, sphinxes, and palm trees, Napoleon can't resist a souvenir crocodile. Paris is enchanted by this creature; but for a crocodile with an appetite as big as his ego, being the toast of the town has its downside, too. | 30 |
| I, Houdini | Banks, Lynne Reid | 6.2 | 5 | A boastful hamster with exceptional talent as an escape artist, recounts his experiences chewing, wriggling, or squeezing his way out of various closed areas in his quest for the great outside. | 127 |
| I, Juan de Pareja | Borton de Treviñer with exceptional talent as an escape artist, recounts his experiences chewing, wriggling, or squeezing his way out of various closed areas in his quest for the great outside. | 6.5 | 7 | After the slave Juan de Pareja is willed to the great Spanish painter Veláis experiences chewing, wriggling, or squeezing his way out of various closed areas in his quest for the great outside. | 180 |
| Iceberg Hermit, The | Roth, Arthur | 6.4 | 8 | Shipwrecked in 1757 on an iceberg in the Arctic seas with only an orphaned polar bear cub for companionship, seventeen-year-old Allan begins a seemingly hopeless struggle for survival. | 219 |
| Ida Early Comes over the Mountain | Burch, Robert | 4.8 | 4 | Tough times in rural Georgia during the Depression take a lively turn when spirited Ida Early arrives to keep house for the Suttons. | 145 |
| Idaho (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 4.4 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, important people, and interesting sites of the Gem State. | 59 |
| If I Forget, You Remember | Williams, Carol Lynch | 3.9 | 6 | Twelve-year-old Elyse plans to write an award-winning novel during the summer, but is interrupted when her grandmother, who has Alzheimer's disease, moves in with the family. | 201 |
| If I Had a Tail | Warrick, Karen Clemens | 2.4 | 0.5 | The reader is asked to guess what a creature is from a description of the appearance and use of its tail. | 33 |
| If I Ran the Circus | Seuss, Dr. | 3.9 | 0.5 | Young Morris McGurk has big plans for starting a circus in the vacant lot behind Snellocks' Store. | 58 |
| If I Ran the Zoo | Seuss, Dr. | 4.1 | 0.5 | Young Gerald McGrew imagines the animal he'd have in the zoo if he were in charge. | 54 |
| If the Dinosaurs Came Back | Most, Bernard | 2.9 | 0.5 | A small boy imagines a world in which dinosaurs perform beneficial public services. | 24 |
| If the Shoe Fits | Jackson, Alison | 3.7 | 0.5 | The old woman who lives in a shoe sets out to find a larger home for her many children, and gets mixed up in other nursery rhymes along the way. | 25 |
| If You Didn't Have Me | Nilsson, Ulf | 4.2 | 3 | A small Swedish boy spends the summer on his grandmother's farm while his parents build a new house. | 113 |
| If You Give a Moose a Muffin | Numeroff, Laura | 2.4 | 0.5 | Chaos can ensue if you give a moose a muffin and start him on a cycle of urgent requests. | 29 |
| If You Give a Mouse a Cookie | Numeroff, Laura | 2.7 | 0.5 | Relating the cycle of requests a mouse is likely to make after you give him a cookie takes the reader through a young boy's day. | 28 |
| If You Give a Pig a Pancake | Numeroff, Laura | 2.5 | 0.5 | One thing leads to another when you give a pig a pancake. | 30 |
| If You Hopped Like a Frog | Schwartz, David M. | 3.4 | 0.5 | This book introduces the concept of ratio by comparing what humans would be able to do if they had bodies like different animals. | 30 |
| If You Made a Million | Schwartz, David M. | 4.1 | 0.5 | Describes the various forms which money can take, including coins, paper money, and personal checks, and how it can be used to make purchases, pay off loans, or build interest in the bank. | 33 |
| If You Take a Mouse to the Movies | Numeroff, Laura | 2.1 | 0.5 | This book tells the story that if you take a mouse to a movie, you will have to buy him popcorn. Then he will want to string it together to hang on the Christmas tree. | 28 |
| Iggie's House | Blume, Judy | 3.5 | 3 | When Grove Street gets its first black family, Winnie is a welcoming party of one. | 117 |
| I'll Always Be Your Friend | McBratney, Sam | 2.6 | 0.5 | A little fox gets angry and tell his mother that he will not be her friend anymore when she tells him it is time to stop playing. | 25 |
| I'll Fix Anthony | Viorst, Judith | 3.2 | 0.5 | A little brother thinks of the ways he will some day get revenge on his older brother | 32 |
| I'll Meet You at the Cucumbers | Moore, Lilian | 3.5 | 1 | Adam and Junius, two country mice, go for a visit to the city, where Adam despairs when his dear friend admits he might like to stay. | 63 |
| Illinois (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 5 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, important people, and interesting sites of Illinois. | 59 |
| Illusion, The | Applegate, K.A. | 3.6 | 3 | The Yeerks possess a weapon that could be the biggest threat to the Animorphs yet. The anti-morphing ray transforms a person in a morph back to natural form. | 156 |
| Illyrian Adventure, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 5.5 | 5 | Vesper Holly sails to the tiny country of Illyria to search for the treasure and magical army of King Vartan by the author of the Prydain Chronicles. | 132 |
| I'm a Caterpillar | Marzolla, Jean | 0.9 | 0.5 | This book follows the life cycle of a caterpillar through the changing seasons. | 32 |
| I'm a Seed | Marzollo, Jean | 1 | 0.5 | This story follows the life cycle of a seed to a plant through the changing seasons. | 32 |
| I'm in Charge of Celebrations | Baylor, Byrd | 3.9 | 0.5 | A dweller in the desert celebrates a triple rainbow, a chance encounter with a coyote, and other wonders of the wilderness. | 32 |
| I'm Not Who You Think I Am | Kehret, Peg | 4.6 | 4 | Thirteen-year-old Ginger becomes the target of a disturbed woman who believes that Ginger is her dead daughter. | 154 |
| Imogene's Antlers | Small, David | 2.6 | 0.5 | One Thursday, Imogene wakes up with a pair of antlers growing out of her head and causes a sensation wherever she goes. | 26 |
| In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories | Schwartz, Alvin | 2.5 | 0.5 | Seven scary stories to tell at night in front of a fire or in the dark, based on traditional stories and folktales from various countries. | 63 |
| In Care of Cassie Tucker | Ruckman, Ivy | 4.7 | 5 | When her teenage cousin moves in with her family on their Nebraska farm in 1899, eleven-year-old Cassie learns a lot, including the meaning of "heathen" and "bigot." | 166 |
| In the Blink of an Eye | Wiesmünk of an Eye | 3.9 | 0.5 | In this book, an eye on each page and clues in the text, challenge readers to figure out what living thing is watching them. | 32 |
| In the Dinosaur's Paw | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 2.5 | 1 | Richard "Beast" Best finds a magic ruler in his desk at school, and his wishes start coming true. | 72 |
| In the Forest with the Elephants | Smith/Schmidt | 5.9 | 1 | Describes how elephants are trained to help in the timber camps of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, and their important contribution to the selective and sustainable harvesting of teak there. | 56 |
| In the Huddle with...Steve Young | Christopher, Matt | 6.3 | 4 | This book reviews the life and career of Steve Young, quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers. | 131 |
| In the Rain with Baby Duck | Hest, Amy | 1.8 | 0.5 | Although her parents love walking in the rain, Baby Duck does not--until Grampa shares a secret with her. | 24 |
| In the Small, Small Pond | Fleming, Denise | 2 | 0.5 | Illustrations and rhyming text describe the activities of animals living in and near a small pond as spring progresses to autumn. | 29 |
| In the Tall, Tall Grass | Fleming, Denise | 1.6 | 0.5 | Rhymed test (crunch, munch, caterpillars lunch) presents a toddler's view of creatures found in the grass from lunchtime till nightfall, such as bees, ants, and moles. | 22 |
| In the Time of Dinosaurs | Applegate, K.A. | 4 | 6 | After an explosion blows everyone millions of years back in time the animorphs must search for a way back. | 229 |
| In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson | Lord, Bette Bao | 4.6 | 4 | In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn, where she starts to feel at home and makes friends when she discovers baseball and the Brooklyn Dodgers. | 169 |
| In-Between Days, The | Bunting, Eve | 3.9 | 3 | A child confronts the death of his mother and his father's remarriage. | 119 |
| Incident at Hawk's Hill | Eckert, Allan | 7.2 | 9 | Set in 1870, this story about a boy and a badger is based on an actual incident. | 191 |
| Incredible Journey, The | Burnford, Sheila | 7.6 | 5 | Three house pets migrate through the wilderness to find their family. | 145 |
| India (Let's Investigate) | Richardson, Adele | 5.6 | 0.5 | This book examines the history, landscape, wildlife, people, and weather of the nation of India. | 31 |
| Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison | Lenski, Lois | 5.4 | 10 | Authentic reconstruction of Mary Jemison's capture and life with the Seneca Indians. | 298 |
| Indian in the Cupboard, The | Banks, Lynne Reid | 4.6 | 6 | A young boy discovers that his magic cupboard and key can turn toys into live people and animals. | 229 |
| Indiana (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis/Judith | 4.4 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, important people, and interesting sites of the Hoosier State. | 59 |
| Indonesia (A Ticket To) | Lim, Robin | 3.9 | 0.5 | This book discusses the people, geography, religion, language, customs, daily life, and culture of Indonesia. | 48 |
| Ink-Keeper's Apprentice, The | Say, Allen | 4.8 | 7 | Master Noro will pass on more than a nickname to Kiyoi in Tokyo after World War II. His apprenticeship is an awakening, full of unusual sights, sounds, and people. | 149 |
| In-Line Skating (Fantastic Book Of) | Chalmers, Aldie | 6.2 | 0.5 | This book discusses the history, techniques, and safety measures for in-line skating, with fold-out pages on skating events. | 40 |
| Insectlopedia: Poems and Paintings | Florian, Douglas | 3.3 | 0.5 | This book presents twenty-one short poems about such insects as the inchworm, termite, cricket, and mayfly. | 48 |
| Insects (Make It Work!) | Haslam/Wyse | 6.1 | 1 | This book provides information about the physical characteristics and habits of a variety of insects with instructions for related projects. | 48 |
| Inspector Hopper | Cushman, Doug | 2.5 | 0.5 | Inspector Hopper and his perpetually hungry assistant, McBugg, solve three mysteries for their insect friends. | 64 |
| Into the Ice: The Story of Arctic Exploration | Curlee, Lynn | 7.8 | 1 | The ice cap above the northernmost shores of Asia, North America, and Greenland, and the expeditions that crisscrossd it in search of the North Pole are described. | 40 |
| Into the Land of the Unicorns | Coville, Bruce | 6 | 5 | In a fantastic adventure, a young girl leaps into the land of unicorns. | 159 |
| Into the Mummy's Tomb | Reeves, Nicholas | 6.9 | 2 | An account of Howard Carter's discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamun, descriptions of the artifacts inside and their importance, the discovery in 1988 of more artifacts, and theories about the curse associated with the tomb. | 64 |
| Invaders from Outer Space | Brooks, Philip | 5.2 | 0.5 | This book examines the phenomenon of unidentified flying objects and encounters with alien beings. | 48 |
| Invasion of the Mind Swappers from Asteroid 6! | Howe, James | 4.5 | 1 | In his new book, Howie, the wire-haired dachshund, writes all about how the Mind Swappers from Asteroid 6 invade Earth and how he and his friend Delilah save the day. | 89 |
| Invasion, The | Applegate, K.A. | 3.7 | 5 | Jake and his friends take a shortcut one night and meet an alien after his ship crashes. | 184 |
| Invincible Louisa | Meigs, Cornelia | 8 | 10 | The true story of Louisa May Alcott, the author of "Little Women." | 241 |
| Invisible Dog, The | King-Smith, Dick | 3.5 | 1 | When Janie can't afford the Great Dane puppy she wants, she invents an invisible dog as her pet. | 73 |
| Invisible Island, The | Roy, Ron | 3.6 | 1 | While picnicking on Squaw Island, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose find a hundred-dollar bill, and when they return to explore further they find an entire cave full of money. | 87 |
| Invisible Man (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Wells/Vogel | 5.5 | 3 | This is the story of a suspicious-looking man who keeps his face hidden and his back to everyone. When he finally faces the townspeople, there are more questions than answers. | 238 |
| Iowa (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 4.3 | 1 | Introduces the history, geography, industries, notable sights, and famous people of the Hawkeye State. | 62 |
| Ira Sleeps Over | Waber, Bernard | 2.2 | 0.5 | Invited to spend the night at a friend's house, Ira wants to bring his teddy bear but is afraid of being teased. | 48 |
| Ireland (Many Cultures, One World) | Olson, Kay Melchisedech | 4.6 | 0.5 | This book is an introduction to the geography, culture, and people of Ireland. Includes a map, legend, recipe, craft, and game. | 32 |
| Iron Dragon Never Sleeps, The | Krensky, Stephen | 3.2 | 2 | A story about the building of the transcontinental railroad in the California mountains in 1867. | 90 |
| Iron Hans | Grimm, Brothers | 5 | 0.5 | With the help of Iron Hans, the wild man of the forest, a young prince makes his own way in the world. | 26 |
| Iron John | Kimmel, Eric A. | 4.1 | 0.5 | With the help of Iron John, the wild man of the forest who is under a curse, a young prince makes his way in the world and finds true love. Adapted from the Brothers Grimm. | 27 |
| Iron Ring, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 4.8 | 10 | Driven by his sense of dharma or honor, young King Tamar sets off on a perilous journey, with a significance greater than he can imagine during which he meets talking animals. | 280 |
| Iroquois (Watts Library), The | Sonneborn, Liz | 7 | 1 | This book explores the culture and history of the Iroquois--their foods, their homes, and their ceremonies and traditions. | 64 |
| Is Anybody There? | Bunting, Eve | 3.9 | 4 | After discovering the disappearance of several household items, Marcus, a thirteen-year-old latchkey child, suspects that a stranger may be prowling around inside his house while he's at school and his mother is at work. | 170 |
| Is That You, Winter? | Gammell, Stephen | 1.6 | 0.5 | Though Old Man Winter starts off the day feeling grumpy, his mood improves when he is reminded of how special he really is. | 29 |
| Is Your Mama a Llama? | Guarino, Deborah | 1.6 | 0.5 | A young llama asks his friends if their mamas are llamas and finds out, in rhyme, that their mothers are other types of animals. | 27 |
| Isabel: Jewel of Castilla | Meyer, Carolyn | 6.6 | 5 | While waiting anxiously for others to choose a husband for her, Isabel, the future Queen of Spain, keeps a diary account of her life as a member of the royal family. | 204 |
| Island Baby | Keller, Holly | 3.8 | 0.5 | Simon helps out Pops at a bird hospital on a Caribbean island, but he hates to see his cured patients fly away. | 29 |
| Island of the Aunts | Ibbotson, Eva | 5.9 | 9 | As caretakers of the Island, the three aunts tend to an amazing assortment of creatures, including mermaids, selkies, and a couple of ghosts. However, they are getting old and they must kidnap some children who can take over the Island. | 281 |
| Island of the Blue Dolphins | O'Dell, Scott | 5.4 | 6 | An Indian girl is left alone on an island for ten years. | 181 |
| Island of the Giant Pokemon | West, Tracey | 3.4 | 1 | Ash, Misty, Brock, and Pikachu are invited to a party on a cruise ship. It's a Team Rocket trap to steal their Pokemon. Things get worse when the ship sinks and everyone is trapped on an island with unfriendly giant Pokemon. | 85 |
| Island of the Skog, The | Kellogg, Steven | 3.5 | 0.5 | To escape the dangers of urban life, Jenny and her friends sail away to an island, only to be faced with a new problem--its single inhabitant--the Skog. | 24 |
| Island on Bird Street, The | Orlev, Uri | 4.6 | 7 | During World War II, a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constant life-threatening conditions. | 162 |
| Island Stallion, The | Farley, Walter | 5.8 | 8 | A boy and his archeologist friend spend two weeks on a desolate Caribbean island where they discover a hidden valley, underground tunnels built by Spanish Conquistadors, and a wild flame-colored stallion. | 212 |
| Island, The | Paulsen, Gary | 5.7 | 8 | Fifteen-year-old Wil discovers himself and the wonders of nature when he leaves home to live on an Island in northern Wisconsin. | 201 |
| Islander, The | Rylant, Cynthia | 5.3 | 1 | Living with his grandfather on an island off British Columbia, ten-year-old Daniel feels deep loneliness until the night he meets a mermaid whose identity he tries to learn. | 97 |
| Islands (World Habitats) | Pipes, Rose | 4.1 | 0.5 | Some notable islands around the world, including Madagascar, Hawaii, and South Georgia are introduced. | 32 |
| It Came from Beneath the Bed! | Howe, James | 4.1 | 1 | With help from his Uncle Harold, who wrote books about Bunnicula, Howie, the wire-haired dachshund, writes a story in which he saves the world from a science experiment gone awry. | 90 |
| It Came from Beneath the Sink! | Stine, R.L. | 3.1 | 2 | Kat and Daniel find something really evil living in their new house. Something that comes from beneath the kitchen sink. | 112 |
| It Came from Ohio! My Life as a Writer | Stine, R.L. | 4.6 | 3 | This is an autobiography of the best-selling author who reveals what he was like when he was young and what his scary life is like now. | 140 |
| It Could Have Been Worse | Benjamin, A.H. | 2.7 | 0.5 | While walking home an unlucky mouse suffers minor mishaps which repeatedly save him from being eaten by various animals. | 26 |
| Itchy, Itchy Chicken Pox | Maccarone, Grace | 0.7 | 0.5 | Spunky rhythm and peppy rhymes in a lively story that shows how to deal with chicken pox. | 30 |
| It's a Fair Day, Amber Brown | Danziger, Paula | 2.8 | 0.5 | Upset with her parents for arguing on what she hoped would be a perfect day, Amber gets lost at a county fair when she tries to follow her best friend Justin and his family through the crowd. | 48 |
| It's All Greek to Me | Scieszka, Jon | 3.7 | 1 | As they are about to go on stage, Joe, Fred, and Sam are transported back to the time of Zeus and the other gods in Greek mythology, who, strangely enough, behave much as the characters in the trio's class play. | 73 |
| It's Justin Time, Amber Brown | Danziger, Paula | 2.8 | 0.5 | Amber Brown loves to measure time and hopes to receive a watch on her seventh birthday. | 48 |
| It's Like This, Cat | Neville, Emily Cheney | 4.7 | 5 | A teenage boy in New York City gets a cat instead of a dog simply to annoy his father, then begins to learn that his father is a caring human being, not just a strict parent. | 180 |
| It's Mine! | Lionni, Leo | 2.7 | 0.5 | Three selfish frogs quarrel over who owns their pond and island, until a storm makes them value the benefits of sharing. | 30 |
| It's Too Windy! | Wilhelm, Hans | 0.5 | 0.5 | The family dog finds a clever way to stop Baby's stroller from rolling away. | 32 |
| Itse Selu: Cherokee Harvest Festival | Pennington, Daniel | 4 | 0.5 | A story of Cherokee life in pre-Columbian North America as a young boy witnesses the harvest feast. | 28 |
| Itsy Bitsy Spider, The | Trapani, Iza | 2.7 | 0.5 | The itsy bitsy spider encounters a fan, a mouse, a cat, and a rocking chair as she makes her way to the top of a tree to spin her web. | 32 |
| Ivanhoe (Great Illustrated Classics) | Scott/Vogel | 5.9 | 3 | Invanhoe returns home, finding his name dishonored. He fights for his name, rights, people, and the woman he loves. | 238 |
| Izzy, Willy-Nilly | Voigt, Cynthia | 4.9 | 12 | Izzy had everything going for her until she accepted a date with Marco and ended up crippled for life. | 262 |
| Jabuti the Tortoise: A Trickster Tale from the Amazon | McDermott, Gerald | 3.8 | 0.5 | All the birds enjoy the songlike flute music of Jabuti, except Vulture, who is jealous because he cannot sing. | 32 |
| Jack and the Beanstalk | Kellogg, Steven | 4.1 | 0.5 | The author/illustrator brings this timeless tale to life with the zest and energy that are his trademarks. | 36 |
| Jack and the Giant | Harris, Jim | 4 | 0.5 | A western take on a Jack and the Beanstalk. | 28 |
| Jack Black and the Ship of Thieves | Hughes, Carol | 5.2 | 7 | Having fallen from his father's airship, Jack blunders into a feud between a pirate ship and a deadly ocean-going war machine and encounters danger, intrigue, and treachery. | 231 |
| Jack, the Seal and the Sea | Fink, Joanne | 4.4 | 0.5 | Jack spends his days sailing the seas and taking in nets full of half-dead fish, ignoring the polluted condition of the water, until he finds an ailing seal and receives a message from the sea itself about its sorry state. | 26 |
| Jackson Jones and the Puddle of Thorns | Quattlebaum, Mary | 3.2 | 2 | Jackson wants a basketball for his birthday, but his mother gives him a garden plot near their inner-city apartment. | 113 |
| Jacob Have I Loved | Paterson, Katherine | 5.7 | 8 | Sibling rivalry divides twin sisters living on an island in Chesapeake Bay. | 175 |
| Jacob's Rescue: A Holocaust Story | Drucker, Malka | 4.5 | 3 | A powerful Holocaust story based on real events about a Jewish boy rescued from Nazis. | 117 |
| Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet: Explorers of the Mississippi | Larkin, Tanya | 7.3 | 2 | This book is a brief biography of the seventeenth-century French explorers who were the first Europeans to locate and chart the Mississippi River. | 112 |
| Jaguar | Smith, Roland | 4.5 | 8 | While accompanying his father on an expedition up the Amazon River, Jacob must contend with dangerous animals and fortune-hunters. | 247 |
| Jaguar's Jewel, The | Roy, Ron | 3.5 | 1 | Dink and his friends use their detective skills to locate a giant emerald missing from a statue delivered to Uncle Warren's museum in New York City. | 86 |
| Jahanara: Princess of Princesses | Lasky, Kathryn | 6 | 5 | Beginning in 1627, Princess Jahanara, first daughter of Shah Jahan of India's Moghul Dynasty, writes in her diary about political intrigues, weddings, battles, and other experiences of her life. | 186 |
| Jake Drake, Bully Buster | Clements, Andrew | 3.5 | 1 | Jake Drake takes matters into his own hands when Link Baxter, SuperBully, moves into the neighborhood. Link's reign of terror must be stopped. | 73 |
| Jake Drake, Know-It-All | Clements, Andrew | 4.1 | 2 | Jake Drake wants to win the grand prize in the school's first science fair. He wants to beat the know-it-alls Marsha and Kevin, but to beat them means he has to become a know-it-all himself. | 88 |
| Jake's Orphan | Brooke, Peggy | 5.4 | 8 | When taken from an orphanage to work on a farm in North Dakota in 1926, twelve-year-old Tree searches for a home not only for himself but also for his irrepressible younger brother. | 261 |
| James and the Giant Peach | Dahl, Roald | 4.8 | 4 | Madcap adventures take place as young James enters a peach as big as a house and encounters wonderful new friends. | 126 |
| Janet's Thingamajigs | Cleary, Beverly | 3.2 | 0.5 | Janet won't share her thingamajigs with her twin brother Jimmy. Now Jimmy and Janet are shoving and shouting at each other. Their mother is at her wit's end until a big surprise for the twins saves the day! | 30 |
| Janitor's Boy, The | Clements, Andrew | 5.4 | 4 | Fifth grader, Jack, finds himself the target of ridicule at school when it becomes known that his father is one of the janitors, and he turns his anger onto his father. | 140 |
| Jason's Gold | Hobbs, Will | 5.5 | 8 | When news of the discovery of gold in Canada's Yukon in 1897 reaches fifteen-year-old Jason, he embarks on a 5000-mile journey to strike it rich. | 221 |
| Jazz: An American Saga | Collier, James Lincoln | 8 | 4 | This book examines the origins of jazz, its variety, greatness, and individual artists. | 101 |
| Jean and Johnny | Cleary, Beverly | 5.6 | 8 | Johnny, the most popular boy in school, asks Jean to dance; it should be the happiest moment of her life, but instead it is the most embarrassing. | 219 |
| Jedi Quest | Watson, Jude | 5.2 | 5 | Krayn's evil has grown to a dangerous degree. Anakin and Obi-Wan must stop Krayn. Can Obi-Wan also stop Anakin from seeking vengeance against an old enemy? The path to truth is a clear one. Anakin's path is not. | 170 |
| Jelly Belly | Smith, Robert Kimmel | 4.1 | 4 | It's tough for eleven-year-old Ned to stop eating. At 4 feet 8 inches tall, he weighs 109 pounds and keeps growing wider. | 155 |
| Jennifer Murdley's Toad | Coville, Bruce | 4.6 | 4 | When an ordinary looking fifth-grader purchases a talking toad, she embarks on a series of extraordinary adventures. | 156 |
| Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth | Konigsburg, E.L. | 4.5 | 3 | Lonely Elizabeth decides to be an apprentice witch to Jennifer, and that's when the fun starts. | 117 |
| Jenny Archer to the Rescue | Conford, Ellen | 3.1 | 1 | After perfecting her first aid skills, Jenny is disappointed in not finding anyone to rescue and decides to invent her own emergencies. | 56 |
| Jenny Archer, Author | Conford, Ellen | 3.6 | 1 | Stymied by an assignment to write her autobiography, Jenny decides to enhance her life story by using her considerable imagination. | 61 |
| Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher | Coville, Bruce | 4.9 | 4 | Small for his age but artistically talented, twelve-year-old Jeremy Thatcher unknowingly buys a dragon's egg. | 148 |
| Jessi and the Dance School Phantom | Martin, Ann M. | 4.4 | 5 | When Jessi gets the lead in her school's latest ballet production, someone tries to sabotage her efforts. | 166 |
| Jessi and the Superbrat | Martin, Ann M. | 4.1 | 4 | Jessi begins baby-sitting for a young TV star, who is also a spoiled brat. | 135 |
| Jessi Ramsey, Pet-Sitter | Martin, Ann M. | 4 | 4 | When the Mancusis go on vacation, the Club is called to watch their pets. | 141 |
| Jessica the Baby-Sitter | Pascal/Stewart | 3.1 | 1 | The twins think that they are getting a baby brother or sister when their mother begins acting strangely. | 71 |
| Jessi's Baby-sitter | Martin, Ann M. | 4.1 | 4 | Jessi is mortified to learn that her parents are getting a baby-sitter--for her. | 137 |
| Jessi's Secret Language | Martin, Ann M. | 4.3 | 4 | Jessi is learning sign language for a very special child. | 145 |
| Jessi's Wish | Martin, Ann M. | 4 | 4 | Jessi meets a special child when she volunteers to be a supervisor at the Kids Can Do Anything Club. | 140 |
| Jim Ugly | Fleischman, Sid | 4.3 | 3 | This story tells of the adventures of twelve-year-old Jake Bannock and Jim Ugly, his father's part-mongrel, part-wolf dog, as they travel through the Old West trying to find out what really happened to Jake's actor father. | 130 |
| Jimmy's Boa and the Big Splash Birthday Bash | Noble, Trinka Hakes | 2.7 | 0.5 | Jimmy's birthday at SeaLand turns out to be a big splash when everyone ends up in the big tank. | 27 |
| Jimmy's Boa Bounces Back | Noble, Trinka Hakes | 2.7 | 0.5 | A pet boa constrictor wreaks havoc on a posh garden party. Sequel to The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate The Wash. | 27 |
| Jip: His Story | Paterson, Katherine | 5.3 | 7 | While living on a Vermont poor farm during 1855 and 1856, Jip learns his identity and that of his mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this place. | 178 |
| Joan of Arc | Stanley, Diane | 6.9 | 1 | This is a biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English and was burned at the stake for witchcraft. | 42 |
| Joan of Arc | Poole, Josephine | 4.8 | 0.5 | This is a biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English, witnessed the crowning of Charles VII, and was later burned at the stake for heresy. | 30 |
| Joey Pigza Loses Control | Gantos, Jack | 4.9 | 7 | Joey, who is taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the father he has never known. Dad insists that Joey stop taking his medication, and Joey loses control as he tries to help his baseball team. | 195 |
| Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key | Gantos, Jack | 4.9 | 5 | To the constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey has trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings when his prescription meds wear off and he starts getting worked up and acting wired. | 154 |
| John and the Fiddler | Foley, Patricia | 4.7 | 1 | A young boy befriends an old violin maker who teaches him the beauty of music and friendship. | 63 |
| John Blair and the Great Hinckley Fire | Nobisso, Josephine | 5.4 | 0.5 | This book tells how a brave African American porter helped save many lives when the train on which he was working was caught up in the horrendous firestorm near Hinckley, Minnesota, in 1894. | 31 |
| John Henry | Lester, Julius | 4 | 0.5 | Retelling of the legend of the African American folk hero. | 36 |
| John Henry (Tall Tales) | Balcziak, Bill | 3.8 | 0.5 | This book presents the life story of John Henry, the African American railroad legend known as the "Steel Driving Man." | 32 |
| John Muir: Wilderness Prophet | Anderson, Peter | 6.3 | 1 | John Muir blazed a trail for other Americans who would go on to defend the value of national parks and wildlands. | 62 |
| Johnny Appleseed | Kellogg, Steven | 4.4 | 0.5 | Presents the life of John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, describing his love of nature, his kindness to animals, and his physical fortitude. | 36 |
| Johnny Tremain | Forbes, Esther | 5.9 | 13 | This book follows a young apprentice from a tragic accident in a silversmith's shop to his dramatic involvement as a patriot in the days just before the American Revolution. | 293 |
| JoJo's Flying Side Kick | Pinkney, Brian | 3.2 | 0.5 | Everyone gives JoJo advice on how to perform in order to earn her yellow belt in tae kwon do class; but in the end, she figures it out for herself. | 28 |
| Joke War, The | Namovicz, Gene | 4 | 3 | John gives his cousin Charlie gum that turns his teeth black and soap that turns his face green. He soaks Charlie's towel with vinegar and goops up his comb with Vaseline. It's time for...the joke war. | 103 |
| Joke's on George, The | Tunnell, Michael O. | 5.1 | 0.5 | This story tells of an incident when George Washington visited the American portrait painter Charles Willson Peale's natural history museum and was fooled by a lifelike painting. | 30 |
| Jo's Boys (Unabridged) | Alcott, Louisa May | 8.8 | 18 | The story of a teacher's struggle to unlock the mystery of a child's pain and rediscover the child who has been lost to a world far more sinister than anyone could suspect. | 350 |
| Josefina Learns a Lesson | Tripp, Valerie | 4.5 | 2 | Josefina and her sisters distrust learning to read and write as well as other changes their Tia Delores is bringing to the household. | 67 |
| Josefina Saves the Day | Tripp, Valerie | 4.2 | 1 | In 1825 when Josefina trusts a trader in Santa Fe with an important deal, she makes a surprising discovery about this young American who leaves town without paying her. | 67 |
| Josefina Story Quilt, The | Coerr, Eleanor | 2.7 | 0.5 | While traveling west with her family in 1850, a young girl makes a patchwork quilt chronicling the experiences of the journey and reserves two special patches for her hen Josefina. | 64 |
| Josefina's Surprise | Tripp, Valerie | 4.6 | 1 | The second Christmas after their mother has died, Josefina and her three sisters find that participating in the traditions of Las Posadas helps keep memories of Mama alive. | 60 |
| Joseph Had a Little Overcoat | Taback, Simms | 1.7 | 0.5 | A very old overcoat is recycled numerous times into a variety of garments. | 33 |
| Journal of Augustus Pelletier: The Lewis & Clark Expedition, The | Lasky, Kathryn | 5.6 | 5 | This is a fictional journal kept by twelve-year-old Augustus Pelletier, the youngest member of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery. | 171 |
| Journal of Ben Uchida, Citizen 13559: Mirror Lake Internment C, Th | Denenberg, Barry | 5.2 | 4 | Twelve-year-old Ben Uchida keeps a journal of his experiences as a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp in Mirror Lake, California, during World War II. | 151 |
| Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds: The Donner Party Expedition, The | Philbrick, Rodman | 5.7 | 4 | Douglas Deeds, a fifteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his travels by wagon train as a member of the ill-fated Donner Party, which became stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-1847. | 155 |
| Journal of James Edmond Pease: A Civil War Union Soldier, The | Murphy, Jim | 5.7 | 6 | James Edmond Pease, a sixteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his experiences and those of "G" Company, which he joined as a volunteer in the Union Army during the Civil War. | 173 |
| Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce: A Pilgrim Boy, The | Rinaldi, Ann | 4.9 | 5 | A fourteen-year-old indentured servant keeps a journal of his experiences on the Mayflower and during the building of Plymouth in 1620 and 1621. | 155 |
| Journal of Jesse Smoke: A Cherokee Boy, The | Bruchac, Joseph | 6.2 | 6 | Jesse Smoke, a sixteen-year-old Cherokee, begins a journal in 1837 to record stories of his people and their difficulties as they face removal along the Trail of Tears. | 202 |
| Journal of Rufus Rowe: A Witness to the Battle of Fredericksbu, Th | Hite, Sid | 5.9 | 3 | In 1862, sixteen-year-old Rufus Rowe runs away from home and settles in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he documents in his journal the battle he watches unfold there. | 132 |
| Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A World War II Soldier, The | Myers, Walter Dean | 5 | 4 | A seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France. | 139 |
| Journal of Sean Sullivan: A Transcontinental Railroad Worker, The | Durbin, William | 5.9 | 5 | In 1867, fifteen-year-old Sean experiences both hardships and rewards when he joins his father in working on the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. | 181 |
| Journal of William Thomas Emerson: A Revolutionary War Patriot, Th | Denenberg, Barry | 5.6 | 4 | Will, a twelve-year-old orphan, writes of his experiences in pre-Revolutionary War Boston where he joins the cause of the patriots who are opposed to British rule. | 156 |
| Journey | MacLachlan, Patricia | 3.8 | 2 | When Journey and Cat's mother goes off, leaving them with their grandparents, the two children feel as if their past has been erased until Grandfather finds a way to restore it to them. | 83 |
| Journey from Peppermint Street | De Jong, Meindert | 5 | 8 | Siebren goes on a journey with his grandfather and learns about people, about fear, and about love. | 242 |
| Journey Home, The | Bledsoe, Lucy Jane | 4.1 | 2 | Nineteen-year-old Nicole Roberts has spent nearly her entire life in a St. Louis orphanage. When trapper Wilson Wilder arrives, the two set out on a long journey back to Nicole's birthplace--the Crow Indian territory. | 72 |
| Journey Through Japan | Tames, Richard | 5.9 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, culture, and people of Japan. | 32 |
| Journey to America | Levitin, Sonia | 4.7 | 5 | Lisa and her family try to escape from Nazi Germany to join her father in America. | 150 |
| Journey to an 800 Number | Konigsburg, E.L. | 4.7 | 5 | Bo learns about kindness, love, loyalty, appearances, and pretense from the unusual characters he meets when he is sent to stay briefly with his father after his mother's second marriage. | 138 |
| Journey to Nowhere | Auch, Mary Jane | 4.6 | 7 | In 1815, while traveling by covered wagon to settle in the wilderness of western New York, eleven-year-old Mem experiences a flood and separation from her family. | 202 |
| Journey to the Center of the Earth (Great Illustrated Classics), A | Verne/Schwach | 5.1 | 3 | Guided by an ancient parchment filled with a mysterious Runic code, three explorers encounter tumultuous storms, wild pre-historic animals, vast underground seas, and fierce cavemen in their daring quest down a volcano toward the center of the earth. | 238 |
| Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, | Lasky, Kathryn | 6 | 4 | Twelve-year-old Mem presents a diary account of the trip she and her family made on the "Mayflower" in 1620 and their first year in the New World. | 171 |
| Journey to the River Sea | Ibbotson, Eva | 5.6 | 12 | Sent with her governess to live with the dreadful Carter family in exotic Brazil in 1910, Maia endures many hardships before fulfilling her dream of exploring the Amazon River. | 298 |
| Journey to Topaz | Uchida, Yoshiko | 6 | 5 | This is the story of 11-year-old Yuki and her family who, after Pearl Harbor, are forced from their home and made to live in Topaz, a concentration camp in the desert. | 149 |
| Journeys with Elijah | Goldin, Barbara Diamond | 5.4 | 2 | This book presents eight stories about the Old Testament prophet Elijah, set in a variety of time periods and in places all over the world where Jews have lived. | 75 |
| Judy Blume (Young at Heart) | Wheeler, Jill C. | 4.3 | 0.5 | Biography of the American writer who remembers so well what it was like to be young and who has written for young people for over 25 years. | 31 |
| Judy Moody | McDonald, Megan | 3.5 | 1 | Judy Moody is in a first day of school bad mood until she gets an assignment to create a collage all about herself. | 160 |
| Judy Moody Gets Famous! | McDonald, Megan | 3.5 | 1 | Judy Moody is jealous of Jessica Finch, who gets her picture on the front page of the newspaper. | 126 |
| Judy Moody Saves the World | McDonald, Megan | 3.6 | 1 | When Judy Moody gets serious about protecting the environment, her little brother, Stink, thinks she is overdoing it, but she manages to inspire her third-grade class to undertake an award-winning, environment-saving project. | 144 |
| Julian, Dream Doctor | Cameron, Ann | 2.9 | 1 | Julian and Huey try to find the perfect birthday gift for Dad with amusing results. | 62 |
| Julian's Glorious Summer | Cameron, Ann | 3.1 | 1 | When his best friend, Gloria, receives a new bike, seven-year-old Julian makes up a story about why he can't take the time to learn to ride rather than face his fears. | 62 |
| Julie | George, Jean Craighead | 5 | 6 | Julie returns to live with her father and finds she must make choices between the old and the new in this sequel to Julie of the Wolves. | 226 |
| Julie of the Wolves | George, Jean Craighead | 5.8 | 6 | Common sense and courage enable a young Eskimo girl to survive when she becomes lost in the Arctic wild. | 170 |
| Julie's Wolf Pack | George, Jean Craighead | 5.7 | 6 | Continues the story of Julie and her wolves, in which Kapu protects his pack from famine and disease while uniting it under his new leadership. | 192 |
| Julius | Hoff, Syd | 2.1 | 0.5 | Julius arrives in America and soon becomes the star attraction of the circus. A job he truly loves. | 64 |
| Julius, the Baby of the World | Henkes, Kevin | 3 | 0.5 | Lilly is convinced that the arrival of her new baby brother is the worst thing that has happened in their house until Cousin Garland comes to visit. | 28 |
| Jumanji | Van Allsburg, Chris | 3.9 | 0.5 | Two children play a dice game, Jumanji, that must be played to the very end. | 27 |
| Jump at de Sun: The Story of Zora Neale Hurston | Porter, A.P. | 5.9 | 2 | A biography of the African American novelist. | 95 |
| Jump Ship to Freedom | Collier, James/Christopher | 5.3 | 7 | In this sequel to War Comes to Willy Freeman, Daniel Arabus must escape from a ship to avoid certain slavery in the West Indies. | 198 |
| Jungle Book (Book I) (Unabridged), The | Kipling, Rudyard | 7.5 | 9 | This is the story of Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves in the jungle. | 173 |
| Jungle Book (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Kipling/Vogel | 4.9 | 3 | Reared by wolves deep in the jungle, Mowgli sometimes hunts with the animals and sometimes is hunted by them! He must face unfriendly ones on his own, even his own kind, Man, and learn to live by the law of the jungle. | 238 |
| Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business | Park, Barbara | 2.9 | 1 | Junie is pretty upset about her new baby brother; but when she finally sees him, she goes ape. | 68 |
| Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth | Park, Barbara | 3 | 1 | Junie creates the strangest job description for career day at school. | 69 |
| Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky Peeky Spying | Park, Barbara | 2.9 | 1 | Junie spies on her teacher and gets into real trouble. | 66 |
| Junie B. Jones and That Meanie Jim's Birthday | Park, Barbara | 2.8 | 1 | Junie B. is very upset when a boy in her class plans to invite everyone except her to his birthday party, but her grandfather helps her deal with the situation. | 85 |
| Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentime | Park, Barbara | 2.9 | 1 | When Junie B. Jones receives a mushy gushy "valentime" on Valentine's Day, she tries to find out who her secret admirer is. | 69 |
| Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus | Park, Barbara | 2.9 | 1 | Junie goes off to kindergarten and gets locked in the school. | 69 |
| Junie B. Jones and the Yucky Blucky Fruitcake | Park, Barbara | 2.7 | 1 | Junie, a spunky, sometimes exasperating, kindergartner, looks forward to winning lots of prizes at the school carnival; but a fruitcake was not exactly what she had in mind. | 71 |
| Junie B. Jones Has a Monster Under Her Bed | Park, Barbara | 2.7 | 1 | After hearing from a classmate at kindergarten that people have monsters under their beds, Junie B. Jones is afraid to go to sleep. | 69 |
| Junie B. Jones Has a Peep in Her Pocket | Park, Barbara | 2.9 | 1 | When Junie B. learns that her kindergarten class is going on a field trip to a farm, she worries about being attacked by a rooster. | 67 |
| Junie B. Jones Is a Beauty Shop Guy | Park, Barbara | 2.8 | 1 | After her first trip to a beauty parlor Junie decides she wants to work there, and she practices on her bunny slippers, her dog, and herself with disastrous results. | 67 |
| Junie B. Jones Is a Graduation Girl | Park, Barbara | 3 | 1 | Junie B. Jones has just turned six and is looking forward to her kindergarten graduation, but when grape juice stains the white gown, she is afraid graduation is ruined. | 69 |
| Junie B. Jones Is a Party Animal | Park, Barbara | 2.8 | 1 | Lucille invites Junie B. and her friend Grace to sleep over at her rich nanna's house, where everything is beautiful and breakable. | 71 |
| Junie B. Jones Is Almost a Flower Girl | Park, Barbara | 2.7 | 1 | Six-year-old Junie B. is disappointed to find out that her aunt has asked someone else to be the flower girl at her wedding. | 68 |
| Junie B. Jones Is Captain Field Day | Park, Barbara | 2.8 | 1 | As captain of Room Nine's field day team, Junie B. Jones tries to rally her troops after they lose several events. | 66 |
| Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook | Park, Barbara | 3 | 1 | Junie B. Jones experiences glee while showing off her new, furry mittens in kindergarten, but disaster strikes when her mittens disappear. | 67 |
| Junie B. Jones Loves Handsome Warren | Park, Barbara | 2.7 | 1 | Unable to compete with her friends' fancy clothes and running ability, irrepressible six-year-old Junie B. finds her own way to make the new boy at school like her. | 71 |
| Junie B., First Grader (at last!) | Park, Barbara | 2.6 | 1 | Junie B. thinks first grade is a flop when her kindergarten friend Lucille prefers the company of twins Camille and Chenille and Junie B. needs glasses. | 76 |
| Junie B., First Grader: Boss of Lunch | Park, Barbara | 2.8 | 1 | Junie, an outspoken, sometimes exasperating, first grader, is thrilled when she is told she can help out in the school cafeteria. | 77 |
| Junior Thunder Lord, The | Yep, Laurence | 4.2 | 0.5 | This book is a retelling of a seventeenth century legend about people at the top helping those on the bottom. | 30 |
| Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune (Our Universe) | Vogt, Gregory | 5.1 | 1 | This book examines the characteristics of the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. | 48 |
| Just a Daydream | Mayer, Mercer | 2.5 | 0.5 | Little Critter daydreams about what he would do to the local bully if he were Super Critter. | 23 |
| Just a Dream | Van Allsburg, Chris | 3.6 | 0.5 | When he has a dream about a future Earth devastated by pollution, Walter begins to understand the importance of taking care of the environment. | 44 |
| Just a Little Bit | Tompert, Ann | 2.7 | 0.5 | When Mouse and Elephant decide to go on the seesaw, Mouse needs a lot of help from the other animals before they can go up and down. | 30 |
| Just as Long as We're Together | Blume, Judy | 3.7 | 7 | A humorous story of how three girls' friendship is tested as they enter their first year of junior high school. | 296 |
| Just Call Me Stupid | Birdseye, Tom | 4.5 | 5 | A teacher and a classmate help a troubled boy learn how to read. | 181 |
| Just for You | Mayer, Mercer | 2 | 0.5 | A little creature tries and tries to do something special for his mother, but something always seems to go wrong. | 23 |
| Just Going to the Dentist | Mayer, Mercer | 2.4 | 0.5 | Little Critter goes to the dentist for a checkup and finds that going to the dentist isn't so bad. | 23 |
| Just Juice | Hesse, Karen | 3.8 | 3 | Realizing that her father's lack of work has endangered her family, nine-year-old Juice decides that she must return to school and learn to read in order to help their chances of surviving and keeping their house. | 138 |
| Just Like Dad | Mayer, Gina/Mercer | 2.3 | 0.5 | Little Critter wants to be just like his dad when he grows up. | 24 |
| Just Me | Ets, Marie Hall | 2.6 | 0.5 | A little boy mimes the walk of the animals he sees. | 32 |
| Just Me and My Babysitter | Mayer, Mercer | 1.3 | 0.5 | A little critter thinks he's the most helpful person in the world to his baby-sitter. | 23 |
| Just Me and My Dad | Mayer, Mercer | 1.4 | 0.5 | Exciting adventures as a little animal and his father encounter a bear and other diversions while camping. | 23 |
| Just Me and My Little Brother | Mayer, Mercer | 2.5 | 0.5 | A little critter story about brothers and sisters. | 23 |
| Just Me and My Mom | Mayer, Mercer | 2.2 | 0.5 | Little Critter and his mother take a trip to the city to explore the department stores and museums. | 22 |
| Just Say Please | Mayer, Gina/Mercer | 2.6 | 0.5 | Little Critter's class is learning about manners and using them in their daily lives. | 24 |
| Just So Stories (Unabridged) | Kipling, Rudyard | 6.4 | 5 | This book creates the magical enchantment of the dawn of the world, when animals could talk and think like people. | 180 |
| Just Tell Me When We're Dead | Clifford, Eth | 4.3 | 3 | Jo Beth and Mary Rose follow their runaway cousin to a deserted amusement park where they hide in a train that whisks them toward the Tunnel of Terror. | 130 |
| Just the Way You Are | Pfister/Martens | 2.6 | 0.5 | The animals are having a party, and, tired of their normal appearances, they all want to look special for the big event. | 27 |
| Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World | Walter, Mildred Pitts | 3.9 | 3 | Suffering in a family full of females, Justin learns real lessons in what "women's work" is, when he spends time on his beloved grandfather's ranch. | 122 |
| Justin Morgan Had a Horse | Henry, Marguerite | 5.8 | 5 | A remarkable little work horse that could walk faster, trot faster, run faster, and pull heavier logs than any other horse in all Vermont, sires a famous family of American horses. | 169 |
| Kansas (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis/Judith | 4.3 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, important people, and interesting sites of the Sunflower State. | 59 |
| Karen's Bully | Martin, Ann M. | 2.7 | 1 | The bully from Karen's class moves right down the street from her. | 107 |
| Karen's Carnival | Martin, Ann M. | 2.8 | 1 | Karen's plan to hold a neighborhood carnival becomes more of a problem than she expected. | 99 |
| Karen's in Love | Martin, Ann M. | 3 | 1 | Ricky could be Karen's Valentine if they could get along long enough. | 105 |
| Karen's New Teacher | Martin, Ann M. | 3 | 1 | Karen's favorite teacher is out sick, and she thinks the substitute is the meanest teacher ever. | 103 |
| Karen's Roller Skates | Martin, Ann M. | 2.7 | 1 | While showing off on her skates, Karen falls and breaks her wrist. | 107 |
| Karen's Snow Day | Martin, Ann M. | 2.9 | 1 | Karen gets a day off from school because of the snow, so she goes into the shoveling business. | 101 |
| Karen's Worst Day | Martin, Ann M. | 2.7 | 1 | From the moment Karen fell out of bed, her day went downhill. | 100 |
| Kartusch (Original Text) | Cosgrove, Stephen | 4.4 | 0.5 | The sleepless Fuzzy Eyefulls learn that there are as many beautiful things to behold in their dreams as there are when they are awake. | 28 |
| Kate and the Beanstalk | Osborne, Mary Pope | 3.6 | 0.5 | A girl climbs to the top of a giant beanstalk, where she uses her quick wits to outsmart a giant and make her and her mother's fortune. | 31 |
| Katie John | Calhoun, Mary | 4.2 | 4 | Katie John and her family move into an inherited house in order to sell it, but find they don't want to part with it. | 134 |
| Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie | Roop, Peter/Connie | 2.2 | 0.5 | In the winter of 1856, a storm delays the lighthouse keeper's return to an island off the coast of Maine, and his daughter Abbie must keep the lights burning by herself. | 40 |
| Keep Your Distance! | Herman, Gail | 1.9 | 0.5 | Jen learns about closeness and the measurement of distance in inches, feet, yards, and miles when she has to share a room with her little sister Lucy. | 32 |
| Keeper of the Doves | Byars, Betsy | 4 | 3 | In the late 1800s in Kentucky, Amen McBee and her four sisters both fear and torment the reclusive and seemingly sinister Mr. Tominski, but their father continues to provide for his needs. | 121 |
| Keeping Quilt (Revised Edition), The | Polacco, Patricia | 4.4 | 0.5 | A homemade quilt ties together the lives of four generations of an immigrant Jewish family, remaining a symbol of their enduring love and faith. | 37 |
| Ken Griffey Jr. (Sports Heroes) | Schaefer, A.R. | 4.6 | 0.5 | This book is a biography of the All-Star outfielder who, at the age of thirty, became the youngest player in baseball history to hit 400 career home runs, shortly after the Seattle Mariners traded him the Cincinnati Reds. | 48 |
| Kentucky (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 4.5 | 1 | An overview of the Bluegrass State, introducing its history, geography, industries, sites of interest, and famous people. | 59 |
| Kermit the Hermit | Peet, Bill | 5.1 | 0.5 | After a mean, selfish crab is rescued by a boy, the crab searches for a way to repay the kindness. | 48 |
| Kerplunk! (Life Science) | Hammersmith, Craig | 2.5 | 0.5 | This book explores life in a pond. | 24 |
| Kestrel, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 5.2 | 9 | With war in Westmark and the assumption of the throne by Mickie, all Theo's talents are needed, as well as those of his former companions. | 244 |
| Kettles Get New Clothes, The | Dodds, Dayle Ann | 2.8 | 0.5 | When the small store where they usually buy their clothes changes hands, the Kettles are in for a surprise on their annual shopping trip. | 24 |
| Key to the Indian, The | Banks, Lynne Reid | 4.8 | 8 | In this fifth volume of <I>The Indian in the Cupboard</I> series, Omri and his father try to go back 200 years to the time of their friend, Little Bear, whose tribe is in grave danger. | 228 |
| Kid in the Red Jacket, The | Park, Barbara | 3.9 | 3 | When ten-year-old Howard has to move with his family to a distant state, he is forced to live on a street named Chester Pewe, adjust to a new school, and get used to being shadowed by the little girl in a nearby house. | 113 |
| Kid Power Strikes Back | Pfeffer, Susan Beth | 4.6 | 4 | Janie is the head of Kid Power, and her hometown is hit with the worst snowstorms anyone can remember. Mr. Rotten, the senior citizen Janie got stuck with, really lives up to his name. Worst of all, a sixth-grade bully is trying to take Janie's business. | 116 |
| Kid Who Only Hit Homers, The | Christopher, Matt | 3.9 | 2 | A boy becomes a phenomenal baseball player one summer when a mysterious player resembling Babe Ruth befriends him. | 151 |
| Kidnapped | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 7.6 | 14 | David Balfour's uncle has him kidnapped to prevent David from discovering that Shaws, the uncle's estate, is rightfully his own. David meets Alan Breck, and their adventures and narrow escapes from death make Kidnapped an exciting story. | 278 |
| Kidnapped (Great Illustrated Classics) | Stevenson/Kestel | 4.8 | 2 | David Balfour is tricked out of his inheritance by his greedy uncle. Betrayed and kidnapped aboard a ship, young David must endure the dangers of the high seas. He escapes to the Scottish highlands only to find himself wrongly accused of murder. | 236 |
| Kidnappers: A Mystery, The | Roberts, Willo Davis | 4.8 | 5 | No one believes eleven-year-old Joey, who has a reputation for telling tall tales, when he claims to have witnessed the kidnapping of the class bully outside their expensive private school. | 137 |
| Kindle Me a Riddle: A Pioneer Story | Karim, Roberta | 2.5 | 0.5 | The riddles that a pioneer family share explain the origin of such things in their lives as their log cabin, johnnycakes, the broom, a cloak, candles, and more. | 40 |
| King and the Tortoise, The | Mollel, Tololwa M. | 4.3 | 0.5 | The king challenges the animals in his kingdom to prove their wisdom by making him a robe of smoke, but only the tortoise is able to satisfy him. | 28 |
| King Arthur and His Knights of The Round Table | Green, Roger Lancelyn | 7.7 | 11 | The exciting and age-old legends of King Arthur and the knights of his court at Camelot are among the best-loved stories in the English language. In this version, you can read the tales of Sir Launcelot, Sir Gareth, Sir Tristram, and Sir Galahad. | 330 |
| King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (Great Illustrated | Pyle/Hanft | 6.2 | 3 | With King Arthur at the head of the Round Table, the most gallant men of the realm fought to bring peace, to perform outstanding deeds of strength and bravery, and to win honor. | 238 |
| King of the Wind | Henry, Marguerite | 5.4 | 5 | An Arab stable boy's love for a Sultan's horse begins the line from which Man o' War was sired. | 174 |
| King's Stilts, The | Seuss, Dr. | 4.1 | 0.5 | When the King's stilts are stolen and hidden and he can no longer enjoy his play hour, the whole kingdom is threatened with destruction until a page boy bravely saves the day. | 44 |
| Kipper | Inkpen, Mick | 2 | 0.5 | Kipper's basket is old and worn, and his blanket is smelly and disgusting. But can he find a better place to sleep? | 26 |
| Kipper's Snowy Day | Inkpen, Mick | 3.1 | 0.5 | Kipper the dog spends the day enjoying the snow with his best friend Tiger. | 24 |
| Kirsten's Surprise | Shaw, Janet | 3.9 | 1 | Kirsten and her family celebrate their first Christmas in their new home on Uncle Olav's farm, in mid-nineteenth-century Minnesota. | 62 |
| Kiss for Little Bear, A | Minarik, Else Holmelund | 1.4 | 0.5 | When Grandma Bear sends a kiss to Little Bear, it travels a peculiar route through many animals until it finally reaches him. | 32 |
| Kiss the Dust | Laird, Elizabeth | 5.1 | 10 | Follows the terrifying journey of a young Kurdish girl who flees the Iraqi Secret Police with her family and takes temporary shelter in the mountains of Kurdistan. | 279 |
| Kissing Hand, The | Penn, Audrey | 2.7 | 0.5 | When Chester the raccoon is reluctant to go to kindergarten for the first time, his mother teaches him a secret way to carry her love with him. | 28 |
| Kitten Called Moonlight, A | Waddell, Martin | 2.7 | 0.5 | A little girl and her mother recall how a special kitten came into their lives one dark and stormy night. | 31 |
| Klutz Strikes Again, The | Young, Alida E. | 4.7 | 4 | All my life I've been a klutz, Megan the Klutz. But then I started getting some confidence. After a while, I even found the courage to enter a big-deal modeling competition. Can you believe it! | 158 |
| Kneeknock Rise | Babbitt, Natalie | 4.4 | 2 | Egan goes to visit relatives in Instep, where he encounters an unusual moan that comes from the top of Kneeknock Rise. | 118 |
| Knight (Eyewitness) | Gravett, Christopher | 7.7 | 1 | Origins, rise, and decline of the system of knighthood, chivalry, and the feudal system. | 63 |
| Knight at Dawn, The | Osborne, Mary Pope | 2.9 | 1 | Jack and Annie time travel back to medieval England via a magic tree house. | 65 |
| Knights Don't Teach Piano | Dadey/Jones | 3.9 | 1 | The kids wonder if the new piano teacher is a knight planning to take over Bailey City. | 66 |
| Knights of the Kitchen Table | Scieszka, Jon | 3.8 | 1 | When Joe, Fred, and Sam are sent back in time by a magic book, they find themselves face to face with giants, dragons, wizards, King Arthur, and the Knights of the Round Table. | 55 |
| Knots on a Counting Rope | Martin Jr., Bill | 2.8 | 0.5 | Warm, beautifully told story of a young boy and his grandfather, who relates the story of the boy's birth and tries to help the boy face his blindness. | 29 |
| Koala Lou | Fox, Mem | 3.2 | 0.5 | Koala Lou is feeling unhappy because her mother is too busy to pay attention to her. She decides if she can win the tree climbing contest, maybe her mother will notice. | 32 |
| Kokopelli's Flute | Hobbs, Will | 5.3 | 6 | Thirteen-year-old Tepary discovers an old flute in a cliff dwelling in New Mexico, and through its power he learns about ancient Native American Magic. | 148 |
| Komodo Dragons: Giant Lizards of Indonesia | Martin, James | 5.4 | 0.5 | Giant lizards of Indonesia. | 48 |
| Kristi Yamaguchi: Artist on Ice | Donohue, Shiobhan | 6.6 | 1 | A biography of the figure skater who won the National, Olympic, and World Championships in 1992. | 60 |
| Kristy and the Baby Parade | Martin, Ann M. | 4.5 | 4 | The Club decides to enter a float covered with babies in a parade. | 137 |
| Kristy and the Mother's Day Surprise | Martin, Ann M. | 3.9 | 4 | The Baby-Sitters Club decide to give their moms the day off on Mother's Day. | 141 |
| Kristy and the Secret of Susan | Martin, Ann M. | 4.2 | 4 | Kristy comes to understand that the autistic girl that she baby-sits for will never be able to attend a "regular" school. | 145 |
| Kristy and the Snobs | Martin, Ann M. | 4.1 | 4 | The snobby kids in Kristy's new neighborhood are making fun of her, the club, and her ailing collie, but she'll get the last laugh. | 145 |
| Kristy and the Walking Disaster | Martin, Ann M. | 3.9 | 4 | It's not until after the Baby-Sitters form a softball team that they realize they are all klutzes. | 141 |
| Kristy's Big Day | Martin, Ann M. | 4 | 4 | Kristy has her hands full being a bridesmaid and a baby-sitter for 14 children, all on the same day. | 153 |
| Kristy's Great Idea | Martin, Ann M. | 3.6 | 4 | Four unsuspecting girls start a baby-sitting club without considering things like twin St. Bernards or two children turning into five. | 153 |
| Kristy's Mystery Admirer | Martin, Ann M. | 4.1 | 4 | Kristy hopes the mysterious love letters that she's been receiving are not practical jokes. | 144 |
| Lacrosse: The National Game of the Iroquois | Hoyt-Goldsmith, Diane | 6.2 | 1 | In this book, the author describes the sport of lacrosse, its origins, and connections to the Iroquois, or Haudenosaunee, peoples. | 32 |
| Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back | Silverstein, Shel | 4.9 | 1 | After leaving the jungle for the circus and a life of fame and wealth, a lion who taught himself to be the best shot in the world discovers he's not really a lion anymore, and not really a man, either. | 110 |
| Lampfish of Twill, The | Lisle, Janet Taylor | 5.8 | 6 | An old fisherman leads Eric down a whirlpool to an ancient and beautiful world in the core of the Earth. | 161 |
| Land and Resources of Ancient Egypt | Kaplan, Leslie C. | 5.1 | 0.5 | This book describes the land and resources available to the ancient Egyptians. | 24 |
| Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam, The | Nhuong, Huynh Quang | 6.1 | 4 | Fifteen true stories of the author's childhood in Vietnam. | 127 |
| Land of the Dead, The | Osborne, Mary Pope | 4.9 | 1 | Odysseus and his men have defeated the one-eyed giant, but his curse follows them at every turn. | 105 |
| Land, The | Taylor, Mildred D. | 5 | 18 | Paul-Edward, son of a white plantation owner and a slave mother of African-Indian heritage, follows his dream of owning his own land through hard work and determination. | 375 |
| Landing of the Pilgrims, The | Daugherty, James | 7 | 4 | The author draws on the Pilgrims' own journals to give a fresh and moving account of those precarious first years. | 151 |
| Landry News, The | Clements, Andrew | 6 | 4 | A fifth-grader starts a newspaper with an editorial that prompts her burnt-out classroom teacher to really begin teaching again, but he is later threatened with disciplinary action as a result. | 123 |
| Lassie Come-Home | Knight, Eric | 5.4 | 9 | After being sold because of hard times, Lassie time and again escapes and returns to her beloved Joe. | 230 |
| Last Battle, The | Lewis, C.S. | 5.6 | 7 | Aslan leads his people to a glorious new paradise after defeating the evil that had infested Narnia. | 228 |
| Last Lobo, The | Smith, Roland | 4.7 | 5 | When Jake, a teenager, follows his grandfather on a visit to their Hopi tribal homeland in Arizona, he finds himself fighting to save an endangered Mexican wolf. | 178 |
| Last Man's Reward, The | Patneaude, David | 4.2 | 5 | In hopes of winning the valuable baseball card that he and his new friends have hidden in a remote cave outside Granite Falls, Washington, Albert asks the gruff P. E. teacher at his middle school to help him become a long-jumper. | 192 |
| Last of the Mohicans (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Cooper/Warren | 5.9 | 3 | Hawkeye, the colonial scout, and Chingachkook, the Mohican warrior, are brought together by their love of the New World forests and their desire for peace between their races. | 238 |
| Last One in Is a Rotten Egg | Kessler, Leonard | 2 | 0.5 | After Freddy is pushed into deep water by a couple of toughs, he decides to learn to swim. | 64 |
| Last Safe House: A Story of the Underground Railroad, The | Greenwood, Barbara | 5.2 | 3 | Eleven-year-old Eliza appears at the home of the Reid family, the last stop on the Underground Railroad. Twelve-year-old Johanna Reid develops a deep admiration and respect for her new friend when she hears of the horrors Eliza has had to endure. | 119 |
| Later, Gator | Yep, Laurence | 4 | 3 | Teddy finds that his imagination has gotten him into trouble once more, when he buys his younger brother, Bobby, an alligator for his birthday. | 121 |
| Laura Ingalls Wilder (Young at Heart) | Wheeler, Jill C. | 4.6 | 1 | Discusses the life and works of the woman whose many moves with her family in her childhood provided the material to create her famous "Little House" books. | 32 |
| Laura's Star | Baumgart, Klaus | 3.9 | 0.5 | In this magical story, a lonesome girl learns that friendship sometimes means giving away the brightest treasures. | 28 |
| Lazy Lions, Lucky Lambs | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 2.7 | 1 | For Richard "Beast" Best, March is the worst time of the year, with report cards and the fear of being held back again. | 73 |
| Leaves in October, The | Ackerman, Karen | 5.4 | 3 | After her mother leaves them, nine-year-old Livvy struggles to understand and forgive as her father loses his job and takes her and her younger brother to live in a shelter for homeless people. | 117 |
| Legend of Jimmy Spoon, The | Gregory, Kristiana | 5 | 5 | In the middle of the nineteenth century, twelve-year-old Jimmy leaves his Mormon family in Utah and ends up living with the Shoshoni Indians as the younger brother of Chief Washakie. | 196 |
| Legend of Luke, The | Jacques, Brian | 5.7 | 16 | When Martin the Warrior leaves Redwall Abbey and embarks upon a journey to the place of his birth, he learns about the brave and noble deeds of his father Luke, a real Warrior Chieftain. | 374 |
| Legend of Old Befana, The | De Paola, Tomie | 2.9 | 0.5 | Because Befana's household chores kept her from finding the Baby King, she searches to this day, leaving gifts for children on the Feast of the Three Kings. | 29 |
| Legend of Scarface | San Souci, Robert D. | 5 | 0.5 | A retelling of the Blackfeet Indian tale about a noble but scarred young warrior who must persuade Father Sun to release Singing Rains from her vow to never marry. | 33 |
| Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle (Great Illustrated, The | Irving/Kelly | 4.8 | 3 | The folks of the valley are a superstitious lot, believing in witches and goblins and ghosts and things they can't see, as much as they believe in the real world around them. | 236 |
| Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The | Irving/Rackham | 11 | 3 | This is the rollicking tale of Ichabod Crane, a schoolmaster, who challenges his rival, Brom Bones, for the love and fortune of Katrina Van Tassel. | 105 |
| Legend of Strap Buckner: A Texas Tale, The | Wooldridge, Connie Nordhielm | 5.6 | 0.5 | When pride gets the better of Strap Buckner, a man known throughout Texas for his prodigious strength, he rashly challenges the devil to a contest. | 31 |
| Legend of the Bluebonnet, The | De Paola, Tomie | 4.2 | 0.5 | Luminous paintings capture the essence of a favorite Indian tale of a courageous small girl in the land now called Texas. | 28 |
| Legend of the Indian Paintbrush, The | De Paola, Tomie | 4.4 | 0.5 | Little Gopher follows his destiny as revealed in a Dream-Vision of becoming an artist for his people and eventually is able to bring the colors of the sunset down to earth. | 35 |
| Legend of the Lost Legend | Stine, R.L. | 3.1 | 3 | The woods of Brovania are filled with the strangest creatures. | 122 |
| Legend of the Poinsettia, The | De Paola, Tomie | 3.6 | 0.5 | Retelling of the Mexican legend of how the poinsettia came to be. | 28 |
| Leo the Late Bloomer | Kraus, Robert | 1.2 | 0.5 | Leo, a young tiger, finally blooms under the eyes of very anxious parents. | 27 |
| Leo the Lop: Tail Three (Original Text) | Cosgrove, Stephen | 4.1 | 0.5 | Leo discovers that there are wonderful adventures he can enjoy all by himself. | 28 |
| Leo the Lop: Tail Two (Original Text) | Cosgrove, Stephen | 4.9 | 0.5 | Leo proves to all that he is not just a cuddly bunny but a heroic one too. | 26 |
| Leo, Zack, and Emmie | Ehrlich, Amy | 2.8 | 0.5 | The new girl in Zack and Leo's class affects the boys' friendship. | 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Stanley, Diane | 6.8 | 1 | The biography of the artist and scientist Leonardo daVinci. | 45 |
| Leprechauns Don't Play Basketball | Dadey/Jones | 3.8 | 1 | The students at Bailey Elementary School think their gym teacher is a leprechaun. | 71 |
| Let's Get Invisible! | Stine, R.L. | 3.3 | 3 | Max finds a magic mirror in the attic that can make him invisible. Getting invisible is turning into a dangerous game when Max has trouble coming back. | 139 |
| Let's Go Home, Little Bear | Waddell, Martin | 3.1 | 0.5 | Little Bear becomes scared, but Big Bear comforts him during a long walk in the big woods. | 29 |
| Let's Go, Froggy! | London, Jonathan | 1.9 | 0.5 | Froggy and his father search the house for the mislaid items they will need on their bike trip. | 28 |
| Letter to Amy, A | Keats, Ezra Jack | 2.4 | 0.5 | Peter wants to invite Amy to his birthday party but he wants it to be a surprise. | 32 |
| Letters from Rifka | Hesse, Karen | 4.2 | 4 | Rifka and her family flee the pogroms in Russia in 1919 and cross the Atlantic to land on Ellis Island. | 148 |
| Letters Home from Peru | Halvorsen, Lisa | 5.5 | 0.5 | This book describes some of the sights and experiences on a trip through Peru, including visits to Lima, the walled city of Cuzco, and Machu Picchu. | 32 |
| Letters Home from Turkey | Halvorsen, Lisa | 4.9 | 0.5 | This book describes some of the sights and experiences on a trip through Turkey. | 32 |
| Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire | Korman, Gordon | 3.2 | 1 | Zoe, an imaginative third grader, thinks that she has to make things up to be interesting, until a good friend and an eagle convince her that she does not have to lie to be special. | 84 |
| Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire! | Cohen, Miriam | 2.7 | 0.5 | Alex tries to impress his new first-grade class by having everything better than they do, according to him. | 28 |
| Libby on Wednesday | Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | 6.3 | 8 | Having been put ahead in an accelerated eighth-grade program by her bizarre and creative family, precocious eleven-year-old Libby hates her "socialization" process until she makes some highly original friends in a writing workshop. | 196 |
| Liberty | Curlee, Lynn | 8.5 | 1 | This book discusses all the planning and efforts that went into the construction of one of the most famous symbols of the United States, the Statue of Liberty. | 41 |
| Librarian from the Black Lagoon, The | Thaler, Mike | 3.2 | 0.5 | Sometimes things "they" say are not always true, as in the case of the school librarian. | 30 |
| Librarian Who Measured the Earth, The | Lasky, Kathryn | 5.8 | 0.5 | Describes the life and work of Eratosthenes, the Greek geographer and astronomer who accurately measured the circumference of the earth. | 48 |
| Library Card, The | Spinelli, Jerry | 4.3 | 4 | The lives of four young people in different circumstances are changed by their encounters with books. | 148 |
| Library Dragon, The | Deedy, Carmen Agra | 4.8 | 0.5 | Miss Lotta Scales is a dragon who believes her job is to protect the school's library books from the children, but when she finally realizes that books are meant to be read, the dragon turns into Miss Lotty, librarian and storyteller. | 28 |
| Library Lil | Williams, Suzanne | 4 | 0.5 | A formidable librarian makes readers not only out of the once-resistant residents of her small town, but out of a tough-talking, television-watching motorcycle gang as well. | 30 |
| Library, The | Stewart, Sarah | 3.3 | 0.5 | Elizabeth never liked to play with dolls, or skate. What she liked best was reading books. And when Elizabeth becomes a grown up she has a problem with all the books she has collected. | 28 |
| Life and Times of the Peanut, The | Micucci, Charles | 5.4 | 0.5 | Examines the history and statistics of peanuts, their agriculture and influence. | 32 |
| Life Cycle of a Chicken (Life Cycles), The | Trumbauer, Lisa | 1.5 | 0.5 | Simple text and photographs present a brief description of the life cycle of chickens. | 24 |
| Life in the Antarctic (Antarctica) | Stone, Lynn M. | 4.4 | 0.5 | This book briefly describes the different types of life found in the Antarctic. | 24 |
| Light and Dark (Discovering Science) | Hunter, Rebecca | 4.9 | 0.5 | This book defines light, demonstrates its properties, explains how plants and animals use light, and describes artificial lighting. | 32 |
| Light in the Forest, The | Richter, Conrad | 5.5 | 5 | A four-year-old white boy is adopted into an Indian warrior tribe. | 120 |
| Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, A | Hesse, Karen | 5.3 | 4 | In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state. | 167 |
| Light on Hogback Hill, The | DeFelice, Cynthia | 4.6 | 4 | A girl befriends and learns the truth about the deformed recluse she had previously feared. | 139 |
| Lighthouse Mystery, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.2 | 2 | Renting a lighthouse is unusual, but even more so is an unfriendly boy's peculiar behavior. | 128 |
| Lightsabers | Anderson/Moesta | 7.8 | 7 | At last it is time for the young Jedi knights to build their light sabers, but first they must learn about the mysterious bond between the Jedi and the light saber. | 232 |
| Lila's Secret Valentine | Pascal/Suzanne | 4.5 | 5 | Lila invents a boyfriend for Valentine's Day. A Sweet Valley Twins Super Edition book. | 181 |
| Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse | Henkes, Kevin | 3.1 | 0.5 | Lily loves everything about school, especially her teacher; but when he asks her to wait awhile before showing her new purse, she does something she is very sorry for later. | 28 |
| Lily's Crossing | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 4.6 | 5 | During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently. | 180 |
| Lincoln: A Photobiography | Freedman, Russell | 7.7 | 5 | Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President. | 150 |
| Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The | Lewis, C.S. | 5.7 | 6 | Aslan, the noble lion, frees Narnia from the spell of the White Witch. | 206 |
| Lionel in the Winter | Krensky, Stephen | 2.6 | 0.5 | Lionel's winter adventures include pretending to be an Arctic explorer, building a snowman, and making some New Year's resolutions. | 48 |
| Lions at Lunchtime | Osborne, Mary Pope | 3 | 1 | The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to Africa, where they meet up with some wonderful animals and where they even solve a mystery. | 70 |
| Listen Buddy | Lester, Helen | 2.7 | 0.5 | A lop-eared rabbit named Buddy finds himself in trouble with the Scruffy Varmint because he never listens. | 32 |
| Listen for Rachel | Kassem, Lou | 4.3 | 6 | Moving up into the mountains of Tennessee introduces Rachel to a possible calling, as she learns about folk medicine from a local healer, until the Civil War divides the family loyalities and brings romance into her life. | 164 |
| Little Ant, The | Novak, David | 3.2 | 0.5 | When the little ant slips on a snowflake on his way home, he's sure the snowflake did it on purpose. But the snowflake blames someone else. Pretty soon, everyone is blaming someone else! | 29 |
| Little Bear | Minarik, Else Holmelund | 2.4 | 0.5 | All about little Bear's trip to the moon, his birthday party, his wishes and adventures. | 63 |
| Little Bear's Friend | Minarik, Else Holmelund | 2.2 | 0.5 | Little Bear enjoys the summer he spends with Lucy; but when summer is over, the friends must part. | 63 |
| Little Bear's Visit | Minarik, Else Holmelund | 2.3 | 0.5 | Charmingly depicts Little Bear's delight in visiting his grandparents. | 64 |
| Little Brother | Baillie, Allan | 4.8 | 5 | A boy escapes from Cambodia into Thailand fleeing from the Khmer Rouge soldiers. | 144 |
| Little Critter's Christmas Book | Mayer, Mercer | 3.1 | 0.5 | Little Critter is doing all he can to get ready for Christmas. He celebrates the holiday season with his family in a way only Little Critter can! | 44 |
| Little Elephant Runs Away | Hanel, Wolfram | 3.1 | 0.5 | Little Elephant is angry because his big sister took all his bananas and his big brother called him a crybaby and kicked him. | 25 |
| Little Engine That Could, The | Piper, Watty | 3.5 | 0.5 | The story of the little blue engine that thought she could pull the heavy train and did. | 37 |
| Little Family, The | Lenski, Lois | 1.8 | 0.5 | Mr. and Mrs. Little and their two children, live in a little house with a cat, a dog, a garden, chickens, and a car that takes them on picnics. | 48 |
| Little Gorilla | Bornstein, Ruth | 2.6 | 0.5 | A simple, rhythmic text about a gorilla who grows and grows and grows. | 28 |
| Little Grunt and the Big Egg | De Paola, Tomie | 2.9 | 0.5 | When a dinosaur hatches from the egg that Little Grunt brought home for dinner, Mama and Papa Grunt let him keep it as a pet until it grows too big for their cave. | 30 |
| Little House in the Big Woods | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 5.3 | 5 | The Ingalls family is snug in their Wisconsin house in spite of blizzards, wolves, and the lonely forest. | 238 |
| Little House on Rocky Ridge | MacBride, Roger Lea | 4.2 | 8 | A continuation of the Little House On The Prairie series as the Wilders move out on their own. | 353 |
| Little House on the Prairie | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 4.9 | 8 | Laura and her family journey by covered wagon into Indian territory, and start a farm. | 335 |
| Little House, The | Burton, Virginia Lee | 4.2 | 0.5 | Beautifully illustrated story of a little house threatened by progress when tall buildings envelop the countryside. | 40 |
| Little Island, The | MacDonald, Golden | 3.6 | 0.5 | Depicts the changes that occur on a small island as the seasons come and go, as day changes to night, and as a storm approaches. | 40 |
| Little Italy | Reiff, Tana | 2.7 | 1 | A newly arrived Italian family finds back-breaking labor in the new world. | 76 |
| Little Lord Fauntleroy (Unabridged) | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | 8.1 | 11 | A seven-year-old boy is whisked away to live with a crotchety, selfish grandfather, and told he is to inherit a title and a fortune. | 237 |
| Little Match Girl, The | Andersen/San Josée | 3.5 | 0.5 | The wares of the poor little match girl illuminate her cold world, bringing some beauty to her brief, tragic life. | 32 |
| Little Men | Alcott, Louisa May | 8.1 | 19 | Relates the story of Plumfield School, established by Jo and her husband to provide a secure, homelike environment for boys and girls. | 369 |
| Little Miss Spider: A Christmas Wish | Kirk, David | 3.1 | 0.5 | Just when Little Miss Spider is wishing her hardest for a friend, she gets whopped with a snowball and discovers Asparagus Beetle. | 32 |
| Little Miss Stoneybrook...and Dawn | Martin, Ann M. | 4 | 4 | When members of the Club are asked to help rivals in the Little Miss Stoneybrook contest, trouble and humor are sure to follow. | 144 |
| Little Mouse on the Prairie (Original Text) | Cosgrove, Stephen | 4.2 | 0.5 | Hard-working Tweezle Dee teaches the other mice how to stay warm in winter while they teach her how to have fun. | 28 |
| Little Nino's Pizzeria | Barbour, Karen | 2.3 | 0.5 | Tony likes to help his father at their small family restaurant, but everything changes when Little Nino's Pizzeria becomes a fancier place. | 29 |
| Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything, The | Williams, Linda | 3.5 | 0.5 | A little old lady who is not afraid of anything must deal with a pumpkin head, a tall black hat, and other spooky objects that follow her through the dark woods trying to scare her. | 29 |
| Little Polar Bear | de Beer, Hans | 3.4 | 0.5 | While hunting with his father, a young polar bear drifts out to sea and ends up in a jungle where a friendly hippopotamus helps him return home. | 23 |
| Little Polar Bear and the Brave Little Hare | de Beer, Hans | 2.2 | 0.5 | A polar bear comes to the rescue of a snow rabbit. | 45 |
| Little Polar Bear and the Husky Pup | de Beer, Hans | 3.1 | 0.5 | Lars, the Little Polar Bear, rescues a husky puppy trapped in a deep crack in the ice. Instead of thanking Lars, the puppy snarls and yaps at him, then finds herself in trouble and needs to depend on Lars once more. | 25 |
| Little Polar Bear, Take Me Home! | de Beer, Hans | 3.2 | 0.5 | In his earlier adventures, Lars, the little polar bear, was often lost far from home; and each time, someone helped him get back safely. Now it's Lars' turn to help, when a little Siberian tiger named Sasha finds himself lost at the North Pole. | 24 |
| Little Porcupine's Christmas | Slate, Joseph | 2.5 | 0.5 | Even though the other animals exclude him from the Christmas play because of his quills, Little Porcupine still ends up in a starring role. | 32 |
| Little Prince, The | Saint-Exupery, Antoine de | 5 | 2 | This enchanting fable tells the story of a pilot downed in the Sahara and a boy from outer space who teaches him the meaning of life. | 111 |
| Little Princess (Unabridged), A | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | 6 | 11 | In this children's classic novel, the wealthy and gifted little girl Sara Crewe must adjust to a different life when her father dies penniless. | 312 |
| Little Red Ant and the Great Big Crumb, The | Climo, Shirley | 2.8 | 0.5 | A small red ant finds a crumb in a Mexican cornfield, but she is afraid that she lacks the strength to move it herself and goes off to find an animal that can. | 40 |
| Little Red Hen, The | Galdone, Paul | 2.9 | 0.5 | The little red hen teaches her friends a lesson when they will not help her make a cake. | 36 |
| Little Riders, The | Shemin, Margaretha | 5.4 | 2 | An American girl living in Nazi-occupied Holland resents the presence of a German soldier quartered in her grandparents' home, until the night she tries to hide part of the town's treasured clock mechanism. | 76 |
| Little Runner of the Longhouse | Baker, Betty | 2.7 | 0.5 | A young Iroquois tries to participate in the New Year activities reserved for the older boys. | 63 |
| Little Tiger's Big Surprise! | Sykes, Julie | 3.3 | 0.5 | Little Tiger isn't pleased when he learns that he is to have a new brother or sister, and Daddy Tiger has to get him to change his mind. | 25 |
| Little Toot | Gramatky, Hardie | 4.7 | 0.5 | A tugboat conquers his fear of rough seas when he single-handedly rescues an ocean liner during a storm. | 86 |
| Little Town on the Prairie | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 5.4 | 9 | Pa's homestead thrives, Laura gets her first job in town, blackbirds eat the crops, Mary goes to college, and Laura gets into trouble at school but becomes a certified schoolteacher. | 307 |
| Little Women (Book I and II) (Unabridged) | Alcott, Louisa May | 7.9 | 33 | This story is based on the family life of the author and her sisters and their diverse personalities as they grew up. This complete edition contains both Book 1 "Little Women," and Book 2 "Good Wives." | 475 |
| Little Women (Great Illustrated Classics) | Alcott/Monfried | 4.7 | 2 | This is the story of the four March sisters growing up in 19th century America. Their happy family life is disturbed when their father leaves for the Civil War and by all of the changes that take place as the sisters become grown women. | 238 |
| Littles and the Big Blizzard, The | Peterson/Slater | 2.5 | 0.5 | One of the Littles is lost in the snow! Can Tom find her? | 32 |
| Littles and the Big Storm, The | Peterson, John | 3.6 | 1 | As the Littles prepare for a storm, they have a few adventures and even solve a mystery. | 80 |
| Littles and the Lost Children, The | Peterson, John | 4.2 | 2 | An exciting adventure about people who are no more than six inches tall. | 112 |
| Littles Get Trapped!, The | Peterson/Slater | 2.3 | 0.5 | Tom and Lucy are trapped inside a cold, dark place. How will they get out? | 32 |
| Littles Go Exploring, The | Peterson, John | 3.5 | 1 | The Littles venture into the unknown land beyond the Dark Woods. | 94 |
| Littles to the Rescue, The | Peterson, John | 3.6 | 1 | There was a surprise for the Littles and Stubby Speck when they finally got to the end of the trail. | 94 |
| Littles, The | Peterson, John | 3.3 | 1 | The Littles, tiny people who live within the walls of the Biggs' house, fear mice. | 80 |
| Littlest Angel, The | Tazewell, Charles | 6.3 | 0.5 | An earth-sick little angel newly arrived in the celestial kingdom finds his recent transition from boy to cherub a difficult one. | 27 |
| Lives of Christopher Chant, The | Jones, Diana Wynne | 5.8 | 13 | Young Christopher Chant, in training to become the next Chrestomanci or head controller of magic in the world, becomes a key figure in a battle with renegade sorcerers because he has nine lives. | 330 |
| Lives of Extraordinary Women | Krull, Kathleen | 8.5 | 3 | This book highlights twenty of the most influential women in history. | 95 |
| Lives of the Athletes | Krull, Kathleen | 7.9 | 3 | Presents 20 true stories of athletes whose physical accomplishments create a world of thrills and spills. | 96 |
| Lives of the Musicians | Krull, Kathleen | 6.9 | 3 | The inside stories of 20 famous musicians are presented in fascinating and humorous detail. | 96 |
| Lives of the Presidents | Krull, Kathleen | 8.2 | 4 | Focuses on the Lives of the Presidents as parents, husbands, pet owners, and neighbors while also including humorous anecdotes about hairstyles, attitudes, diets, and sleep patterns. | 96 |
| Lives of the Writers | Krull, Kathleen | 7.2 | 3 | The lives of 20 writers, ranging from Dickens, the Brontes, and Poe to Twain, Sandburg, and Langston Hughes, are profiled in this eclectic, humorous, and informative collection. | 93 |
| Living on Other Worlds (Our Universe) | Vogt, Gregory | 4.7 | 1 | This book explains how humans began their queries with nothing but the naked eye, yet have advanced their searches among the stars using mathematics, science, space probes, powerful telescopes, and spacecraft. | 48 |
| Lizard Man of Crabtree County, The | Nolan, Lucy | 3.3 | 0.5 | James becomes the unwitting source of wild rumors that a Lizard Man has appeared in his quiet rural community. | 29 |
| Locked in the Library! | Brown, Marc | 3.1 | 1 | Arthur gets locked in the library with Francine. They need to set aside their differences and work together to find a way out. | 58 |
| Log Cabin Christmas, The | Howard, Ellen | 3 | 0.5 | Elvirey decides that her family really needs to celebrate Christmas, even though it will not be the same since her mother died. | 29 |
| Logan Likes Mary Anne! | Martin, Ann M. | 3.8 | 4 | Logan becomes an associate member of the Baby-Sitters Club, but his interest in Mary Anne is other than professional. | 139 |
| Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China | Young, Ed | 3.5 | 0.5 | Three sisters staying home alone are endangered by a hungry wolf who is disguised as their grandmother. | 27 |
| Lone Wolf | Franklin, Kristine L. | 4.2 | 6 | When a large family moves into the house near where he and his father live in the woods, Perry's friendship with the oldest girl helps him come to terms with his sister's death and his parents' divorce. | 220 |
| Lonely Scarecrow, The | Preston, Tim | 3.6 | 0.5 | A lonely scarecrow with a scary face has trouble making friends with the animals who surround him, until a heavy snowfall transforms him into a jolly snowman. | 24 |
| Loner, The | Wier, Ester | 5.3 | 5 | A lonely boy with no name and no memory wanders the southwest until he finds a home with a sheep rancher. | 151 |
| Long Live Music! | Peles, Les Chats | 5 | 0.5 | Presents a history of musical instruments beginning with the flute in about 40,000 B. C. and including mention of pipes, trumpets, drums, opera, and jazz. | 38 |
| Long Patrol, The | Jacques, Brian | 6 | 15 | Tammo, a daring young hare hungry for adventure, is sent to join the Long Patrol and defend Salamandastron against the Rapscallion hordes. | 358 |
| Long Way from Chicago, A | Peck, Richard | 5 | 5 | A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother. | 148 |
| Long Winter, The | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 5.3 | 10 | Almanzo Wilder makes a dangerous trip to save the village from starvation. | 335 |
| Longest Hair in the World, The | Duncan, Lois | 3.2 | 0.5 | On her sixth birthday, Emily wishes for the longest hair in the world, and as it continues to grow and grow it creates terrible problems for her and everyone around her. | 26 |
| Loop the Loop | Dugan, Barbara | 3.7 | 0.5 | Anne thinks that Mrs. Simpson, who travels in a wheelchair and performs fabulous yo-yo tricks, is just great. | 28 |
| Lorax, The | Seuss, Dr. | 3.1 | 0.5 | The Once-ler describes the results of the local pollution problem. | 61 |
| Lord Brocktree | Jacques, Brian | 5.5 | 16 | The mountain of Salamandastron needs the help of Brocktree the Badger Lord when evil comes in the form of the Blue Hordes of Ungatt Trunn, the Earth Shaker. | 379 |
| Lord of the Deep | Salisbury, Graham | 4 | 5 | Working for his stepfather on a charter fishing boat in Hawaii teaches Mikey about fishing, taking risks, and making sacrifices. | 182 |
| Loser | Spinelli, Jerry | 4.3 | 5 | Even though his classmates from first grade on have considered him strange and a loser, Donald Zinkoff's optimism and exuberance and the support of his loving family do not allow him to feel that way about himself. | 218 |
| Lost and Found, The | Teague, Mark | 2.7 | 0.5 | Three adventurous friends search for a lucky hat in the mysterious hidden world of the lost and found. | 30 |
| Lost Flower Children, The | Lisle, Janet Taylor | 5.3 | 3 | After their mother's death, Olivia and Nellie go to live with their great aunt, where they slowly bring her overgrown and weedy old garden back to life, enabling them to adjust to a new life as well. | 122 |
| Lost in the Museum | Cohen, Miriam | 2.3 | 0.5 | Jim and his friends follow Danny to the dinosaur exhibit and the teacher and the rest of the class get lost. | 29 |
| Lost Ones, The | Anderson/Moesta | 7 | 6 | Jacen and Jaina are reunited with their old friend Zekk; he feels, compared to them, he is a lost boy. | 232 |
| Lost Years of Merlin, The | Barron, T.A. | 5.1 | 12 | A young boy who has no identity nor memory of his past washes ashore on the coast of Wales and find his true name after a series of fantastic adventures. | 326 |
| Lostman's River | DeFelice, Cynthia | 5.4 | 6 | Tyler hides from the law in the Florida swamps where he learns about that imperiled environment. | 160 |
| Lottie's Princess Dress | Dorrie, Doris | 3.1 | 0.5 | Lottie wants to wear her princess dress to school, but her mother doesn't want her to wear it. The authors offer a resolution that will surprise and delight every mother-daughter duo whose outlooks or outfits occasionally clash. | 30 |
| Lotus Seed, The | Garland, Sherry | 4 | 0.5 | A young Vietnamese girl saves a lotus seed and carries it with her everywhere to remember a brave emperor and the homeland that she has to flee. | 26 |
| Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man | Adler, David A. | 4.6 | 0.5 | Traces the life of the Yankees' star ballplayer, focusing on his character and his struggle with the terminal disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. | 28 |
| Loudmouth George and the Sixth-Grade Bully | Carlson, Nancy | 3.1 | 0.5 | After having his lunch repeatedly stolen by a bully twice his size, Loudmouth George and his friend Harriet teach him a lesson he'll never forget. | 28 |
| Louis Braille | Davidson, Margaret | 3.8 | 2 | This book is a biography of the French man who created a way for the blind to read. | 80 |
| Louis the Fish | Yorinks, Arthur | 2.4 | 0.5 | Louis, the butcher, turns into a salmon. | 32 |
| Louisa May Alcott (Young at Heart) | Wheeler, Jill C. | 3.8 | 0.5 | A biography of the well-known nineteenth-century American author whose popular novels "Little Women" and "Little Men" were based on her own family experiences. | 32 |
| Louisa May Alcott: Her Girlhood Diary | Ryan, Cary | 5.6 | 1 | Excerpts from the author's diaries, letters, and early poetic efforts, written between the ages of ten and fourteen, reveal her thoughts and feelings. | 42 |
| Louisiana (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis/Judith | 4.3 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, important people, and interesting sites of the Pelican State. | 59 |
| Love That Dog | Creech, Sharon | 4.5 | 1 | A young student surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem. | 86 |
| Love You Forever | Munsch, Robert N. | 3.4 | 0.5 | A young woman tells her son, throughout his childhood, how she loves him, until a time when the son has a daughter of his own and passes on the same message of love. | 28 |
| Love, Ruby Lavender | Wiles, Deborah | 4.2 | 4 | When her quirky grandmother goes to Hawaii for the summer, Ruby learns to survive on her own in Mississippi. | 188 |
| Lowriders (Wild Rides!) | Parr, Danny | 4.5 | 0.5 | This book discusses these customized vehicles, their history, parts, and the artwork with which owners decorate them. | 32 |
| Lucky Dog Days | Delton, Judy | 2.9 | 1 | August is Help-a-Pet month, so the scouts head for the local pound to help out. | 69 |
| Lucky Star | McDonald, Megan | 2.6 | 0.5 | Star cannot wait to share her library book with her best friend Blister, but when the book gets ruined, they get into a fight over it. | 48 |
| Lucky Stone, The | Clifton, Lucille | 4.4 | 1 | Young Tee loved to hear the stories of good-luck that accompany her grandmother's lucky stone, but she needs some good luck herself, and the stone doesn't belong to her. | 62 |
| Lucy Dove | Negro, Janice Del | 5.1 | 0.5 | While sewing the laird's trousers by moonlight in a haunted churchyard in return for a sackful of gold, an aging seamstress outwits a terrible monster. | 30 |
| Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile | Waber, Bernard | 4.6 | 0.5 | A lovable crocodile causes a neighborhood feud. | 48 |