| Title | Author | Level | Pts. | Description | Pages |
| M Is for Mayflower: A Massachusetts Alphabet | Raven, Margot Theis | 6.7 | 1 | This book presents information about the state of Massachusetts in an alphabetical arrangement. | 40 |
| M.C. Higgins, the Great | Hamilton, Virginia | 4.4 | 10 | Thirteen-year-old M.C. hopes his mother will be offered a recording contract so his family can leave their home before a sliding slag heap destroys it. | 278 |
| Madeline | Bemelmans, Ludwig | 3.1 | 0.5 | Madeline, smallest and naughtiest of the 12 little charges of Miss Clavel, wakes up one night with an attack of appendicitis. | 43 |
| Madeline's Christmas | Bemelmans, Ludwig | 3.2 | 0.5 | With everyone else sick in bed with a cold on Christmas Eve, it is up to Madeline to run the school, and she finds a remarkable helper in a rug-selling magician. | 26 |
| Madeline's Rescue | Bemelmans, Ludwig | 3.2 | 0.5 | A hound rescues a schoolgirl from the Seine, becomes a beloved school pet, is chased away by the trustees, and returns with a surprise. Caldecott Medal winner. | 52 |
| Magellan: First Around the World | Syme, Ronald | 5.2 | 1 | This book tells the historic story of Magellan's trip around the world. | 71 |
| Magic Finger, The | Dahl, Roald | 3.1 | 0.5 | A duck-hunting family learns a lesson when an eight-year-old girl turns her magic finger on them. | 63 |
| Magic Hat of Mortimer Wintergreen, The | Levoy, Myron | 4.2 | 5 | In 1893, thirteen-year-old Joshua and his eleven-year-old sister Amy travel from South Dakota to New York City with the help of the mysterious Mortimer Wintergreen and his unpredictable magic hat. | 211 |
| Magic Hat, The | Fox, Mem | 2.8 | 0.5 | A wizard's hat blows into town changing people into different animals when it lands on their heads. | 32 |
| Magic Nesting Doll, The | Ogburn, Jacqueline K. | 4.3 | 0.5 | After her grandmother dies, Katya finds herself in a kingdom where the Tsarevitch has been turned into living ice, and she uses the magic nesting dolls her grandmother had given her to try to break the spell. | 32 |
| Magic of the Glits, The | Adler, C.S. | 5.5 | 3 | Twelve-year-old Jeremy, spending the summer on Cape Cod, befriends an eight-year-old girl whose mother has just died. | 90 |
| Magic Paper, The | Reiff, Tana | 2.7 | 1 | A young Mexican couple struggle to become U. S. citizens while as illegal aliens they live in constant fear of being caught and sent back to Mexico. | 76 |
| Magic School Bus Inside a Beehive, The | Cole, Joanna | 3.9 | 0.5 | Ms. Frizzle takes her class on a field trip to a beehive in her magic school bus. | 47 |
| Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane, The | Cole, Joanna | 4.3 | 0.5 | Ms. Frizzle's class takes a whirlwind field trip into the middle of a hurricane. | 42 |
| Magician's Nephew, The | Lewis, C.S. | 5.4 | 6 | When Digory and Polly try to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic is mixed up; they all land in Narnia where they witness Aslan blessing the animals with human speech. | 221 |
| Magnificent Mummy Maker, The | Woodruff, Elvira | 4.9 | 4 | A contemporary fantasy set in a museum where a boy receives a strange power. | 149 |
| Mailing May | Tunnell, Michael O. | 3.6 | 0.5 | In 1914, because her family cannot afford a train ticket to her grandmother's town, May is mailed and rides the mail car on the train to see her grandmother. | 32 |
| Maine (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 4.3 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, important people, and interesting sites of the Pine Tree State. | 59 |
| Make a Wish, Molly | Cohen, Barbara | 3.4 | 1 | Being different is not always bad, Molly learns after going to a birthday party. | 36 |
| Make Way for Ducklings | McCloskey, Robert | 4.1 | 0.5 | A merry picture book; very few words; a gravity that underscores the delightful comedy of the pictures. | 61 |
| Mallory and the Mystery Diary | Martin, Ann M. | 4.2 | 4 | A locked trunk and a secret diary add up to a mystery for the Baby-Sitters. | 144 |
| Mallory and the Trouble with Twins | Martin, Ann M. | 4.2 | 4 | As Mallory gains insight into the Arnold Twins and that they want to be treated as individuals, her job gets easier. | 141 |
| Mallory on Strike | Martin, Ann M. | 4.7 | 4 | The pressures on Mallory build up to a point where she decides to stop baby-sitting. | 152 |
| Mama Don't Allow | Hurd, Thacher | 2.2 | 0.5 | Miles and the Swamp Band are a big hit at the Alligator Ball, but is it the music or the band that the alligators find interesting? | 38 |
| Mama, Don't Go! | Wells, Rosemary | 2.6 | 0.5 | Yoko loves kindergarten, but she doesn't want her mother to leave, until her new friend helps her realize that mothers always come back. | 31 |
| Mama's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird | Little, Jean | 4.5 | 8 | When Jeremy meets Tess, he learns to come to terms with his father's imminent death, as he discovers the gifts his father will leave behind forever. | 213 |
| Mammal Misfits (Watts Library) | Miller, Sara Swan | 5.6 | 1 | This book describes several species of mammals that have unusual appearances, habitats, or behaviors. | 63 |
| Man in the Woods, The | Wells, Rosemary | 5.2 | 8 | Helen knows when the police make the arrest that they have the wrong man, and she also knows that the criminal is aware of her. | 231 |
| Man Who Caught Fish, The | Krudop, Walter Lyon | 4.2 | 0.5 | A stranger with a pole magically catches fish and hands them out to villagers, saying "One person, one fish," but the king will not be content until he receives a whole basket of fish. | 28 |
| Man Who Tricked a Ghost, The | Yep, Laurence | 3.9 | 0.5 | Sung, a brave man who is not afraid of ghosts, meets one on a dark road and tricks it into revealing its secret weakness. | 30 |
| Manatee Winter | Zoehfeld, Kathleen Weidner | 3.8 | 0.5 | A mother manatee and her little calf travel from the Gulf of Mexico through dangerous water full of speeding boats. | 31 |
| Mandie and the Charleston Phantom | Leppard, Lois Gladys | 5.7 | 5 | Mandie travels to Charleston with her family and finds herself in the middle of another mystery when she visits the seashore. | 136 |
| Mandie and the Midnight Journey | Leppard, Lois Gladys | 4.8 | 5 | Her mother's new baby is so disturbing to Mandie that she runs away from home to live with her Cherokee relatives. | 159 |
| Mandy | Edwards, Julie | 4.8 | 7 | Lonely for a place of her own, a ten-year-old orphan creates a secret home in a deserted cottage. | 279 |
| Maniac Magee | Spinelli, Jerry | 4.7 | 5 | After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries. | 184 |
| Many Moons | Thurber, James | 4.5 | 0.5 | Story of a princess who wears the moon like a necklace. | 30 |
| Many Thousand Gone | Hamilton, Virginia | 6.9 | 3 | The companion volume to People Could Fly traces the history of slavery in the U. S. and chronicles the route of the underground railroad that led many African Americans to freedom. | 151 |
| Mapping Our World (Social Studies) | Scott, Janine | 2.6 | 0.5 | This book is a brief introduction to making and using maps. | 24 |
| Maps (Make It Work!) | Haslam/Taylor | 6.6 | 1 | This book explains what maps are, and how they help us investigate the world we live in. It is also accompanied by a variety of related craft projects. | 48 |
| Maps and Globes (New True Books) | Broekel, Ray | 3.8 | 0.5 | Briefly discusses different types of maps and globes and explains such map-related terms as symbol, key, direction, and scale. | 45 |
| Mare for Young Wolf, A | Shefelman, Janice | 2.6 | 0.5 | Teased for choosing a mare for his first horse, Young Wolf learns how to ride like a warrior. | 48 |
| Maria: A Christmas Story | Taylor, Theodore | 4.4 | 2 | Maria Gonzaga organizes the Mexican-Americans in the San Joaquin Valley to create a float for the annual Christmas parade. | 84 |
| Mariah Delany Lending Library Disaster, The | Greenwald, Sheila | 5 | 2 | An eleven-year-old girl sets up her own lending library in competition with the New York Public Library and finds herself involved in more than she bargained for. | 123 |
| Marianthe's Story: Painted Words & Spoken Memories | Aliki | 3.5 | 0.5 | Of the two stories in this book , one tells of Mari starting school in a new land; the other describes her life in her old country. | 26 |
| Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles | Lasky, Kathryn | 6.2 | 7 | In 1769, thirteen-year-old Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, begins a journal chronicling her life at the Austrian court and her preparations for her future role as queen of France. | 236 |
| Marie: An Invitation to Dance | Kudlinski, Kathleen V. | 4 | 1 | Marie dreams of becoming a ballerina; but without a wealthy sponsor, she faces a more mundane future dictated by her family's position in pre-Revolutionary Parisian society. | 67 |
| Mariel of Redwall | Jacques, Brian | 5.7 | 16 | The mousemaid Mariel achieves victory at sea for the animals of Redwall Abbey, fighting the savage pirate rat Gabool the Wild, warlord of rodent corsairs. | 387 |
| Market Day | Bunting, Eve | 3.3 | 0.5 | Tess and Wee Boy observe the farm animals, wonder at the sword swallower, hear playing of pipes, and experience all the excitement of a country fair in Ireland. | 28 |
| Marlfox | Jacques, Brian | 5.7 | 17 | When three young residents of Redwall Abbey go on a quest to recover a tapestry stolen by the Marlfoxes, their bravery removes the curse of these evil animals on a lost island. | 386 |
| Mars (Our Universe) | Vogt, Gregory | 4.8 | 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 |
| Martha Calling | Meddaugh, Susan | 3 | 0.5 | Martha the talking dog wins a vacation for her family and manages to change the "no dogs allowed policy." | 30 |
| Martha Speaks | Meddaugh, Susan | 3.1 | 0.5 | Martha, the dog, eats some alphabet soup and starts to speak, to everyone's amazement and eventual annoyance. | 31 |
| Martha Walks the Dog | Meddaugh, Susan | 2.6 | 0.5 | Martha the talking dog rescues the neighborhood from a bully dog with the help of a parrott. | 32 |
| Martians Don't Take Temperatures | Dadey/Jones | 3.6 | 1 | Some of the students at Bailey School think the new school nurse is a Martian. | 67 |
| Martin the Warrior | Jacques, Brian | 5.5 | 14 | Magical saga of a mouse warrior who embarks on a series of adventurous battles. | 376 |
| Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 6.5 | 8 | When fourth fiddler Sebastian loses his place in the Baron's orchestra, he takes to the highway and soon finds himself dealing with disaster after disaster. | 204 |
| Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! | Seuss, Dr. | 1.1 | 0.5 | Suggests in rhyme a number of ways Marvin K. Mooney can travel as long as he gets going. | 26 |
| Marvin Redpost: A Flying Birthday Cake? | Sachar, Louis | 3.2 | 1 | Two days after Marvin sees a glowing green thing that looks like a flying birthday cake in the night sky, his third-grade class is joined by a mysterious new boy with peculiar behavior. | 76 |
| Marvin Redpost: Alone in His Teacher's House | Sachar, Louis | 2.9 | 1 | Marvin dog-sits his teacher's pet. | 83 |
| Marvin Redpost: Class President | Sachar, Louis | 3.4 | 1 | Even though they have all come to school in holey clothes, Marvin and his third grade class manage to impress their surprise visitor, the President of the United States. | 67 |
| Marvin Redpost: Why Pick on Me? | Sachar, Louis | 2.7 | 1 | Marvin is picked on by the class bully--and everyone else as well. | 64 |
| Mary Anne and the Great Romance | Martin, Ann M. | 4.4 | 4 | Dawn's mother and Mary Anne's father decide to marry. | 147 |
| Mary Anne and the Search for Tigger | Martin, Ann M. | 3.7 | 4 | Mary Anne and the other Club members go to great lengths to find the missing kitten Tigger. | 142 |
| Mary Anne and Too Many Boys | Martin, Ann M. | 4.4 | 4 | When Mary Anne and Stacey get baby-sitting jobs in Sea City, they learn very quickly there are too many boys. | 140 |
| Mary Anne Misses Logan | Martin, Ann M. | 4.3 | 4 | Mary Anne thinks it might be time to reconcile with Logan, but Cokie will try to prevent it. | 138 |
| Mary Anne Saves the Day | Martin, Ann M. | 3.7 | 4 | By handling an emergency responsibly, Mary Anne impresses her over-protective father and the other Club members. | 167 |
| Mary Anne vs. Logan | Martin, Ann M. | 4 | 4 | A decision to see less of Logan, could leave Mary Anne with no boyfriend at all. | 137 |
| Mary Anne's Bad-Luck Mystery | Martin, Ann M. | 4.1 | 4 | After throwing away a chain letter, Mary Anne's bad luck doesn't seem to end. | 137 |
| Mary Poppins | Travers, P.L. | 6.1 | 6 | A young boy and girl embark on a wonderful adventure with their nanny. | 206 |
| Maryland (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 4.4 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, important people, and interesting sites of the Old Line State. | 59 |
| Massachusetts (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 5.4 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, important people, and interesting sites of Massachusetts. | 59 |
| Master Puppeteer, The | Paterson, Katherine | 5.4 | 7 | Set in feudal Japan, this is the story of a young boy who is drawn into the magical and mysterious world of the puppet-theater. | 179 |
| Matchlock Gun, The | Edmonds, Walter D. | 5.1 | 1 | In 1756, during the French and Indian War in upper New York state, ten-year-old Edward is determined to protect his home and family with the ancient, and much too heavy, Spanish gun that his father had given him before leaving home to fight the enemy. | 62 |
| Math Curse | Scieszka, Jon | 3.7 | 0.5 | When the teacher tells her class that they can think of almost everything as a math problem, one student acquires a math anxiety which becomes a real curse. | 29 |
| Math for All Seasons: Mind-Stretching Math Riddles | Tang, Greg | 3.5 | 0.5 | In this book, rhyming riddles introduce strategies for solving a variety of math problems. | 40 |
| Math in the Bath (and Other Fun Places, Too!) | Atherlay, Sara | 1.7 | 0.5 | Helps children look for math in unexpected places. | 30 |
| Math Wiz, The | Duffey, Betsy | 3.9 | 1 | Harry is in love and his best friend, Doug, is disgusted. Harry won't even throw snowballs at girls anymore. Will Harry ever go back to being his horrible self? | 67 |
| Matilda | Dahl, Roald | 5 | 6 | Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and to restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security. | 240 |
| Matilda Bone | Cushman, Karen | 5.7 | 5 | Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and practitioner of medicine in a village in medieval England, tries to reconcile the various aspects of her life, both spiritual and practical. | 167 |
| Matter (Discovering Science) | Hunter, Rebecca | 5.1 | 0.5 | This book defines matter and includes instructions for simple experiments that explain the properties of its three principal forms. | 32 |
| Matter of Pride, A | Bledsoe, Lucy Jane | 3.9 | 2 | Frances Roberts leaves her home in Stonesbury to marry Morris Dunford, a southerner. Frances becomes determined to turn a neglected rice plantation into a thriving enterprise once again. | 72 |
| Mattimeo | Jacques, Brian | 5.2 | 18 | The evil fox Slagar ventures into Redwall Abbey and kidnaps the Woodland children. Sequel to: Redwall and Mossflower. | 446 |
| Max | Graham, Bob | 3.1 | 0.5 | Max, the young son of superheroes, is a late bloomer when it comes to flying, until he is inspired by the plight of a falling baby bird. | 28 |
| Max and Me and the Time Machine | Greer/Ruddick | 6.6 | 4 | Steve buys a time machine at a garage sale and takes his friend Max to the year 1250 and the middle of a jousting match. An SLJ Best Book of the Year. | 114 |
| Max and the Secret Skunk | Bloss, Janet Adele | 3.6 | 2 | Gershwin thinks he has everything: a swimming pool, ski trips, an exotic rock collection, and his prize-winning dog. Gershwin and Mr. Mighty versus Max and the Secret Skunk sounds like a wrestling match, but it's the final showdown. | 127 |
| Max's Dragon Shirt | Wells, Rosemary | 2.5 | 0.5 | Max and Ruby go shopping for pants for Max. | 22 |
| May I Bring a Friend? | deRegniers, Beatrice Schenk | 2.7 | 0.5 | A boy visits the Royal Family and brings all his animal friends. | 41 |
| Mayfield Crossing | Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux | 4.3 | 2 | The kids of Mayfield school are transferred to Parkview Elementary, where they begin to experience the sting of racial prejudice. | 88 |
| Mayor for a Day | Sommer, Carl | 3.4 | 0.5 | When he gets to be mayor of his small, peaceful town for a day, Davy decides to abolish all rules, which turns out to be a big mistake. | 48 |
| Maze, The | Hobbs, Will | 5 | 7 | Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah, where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild. | 198 |
| McBroom's Ghost | Fleischman, Sid | 4 | 0.5 | The McBroom family is plagued by a mysterious ghost that visits their amazing one acre farm after every prolonged freezing spell. | 62 |
| McElligot's Pool | Seuss, Dr. | 3.6 | 0.5 | A boy imagines the rare and wonderful fish he might catch in McElligot's pool. | 52 |
| McKendree | Belton, Sandra | 4.9 | 7 | In 1948, while spending the summer with her aunt in West Virginia to find her family roots, Tilara Haynes finds new beginnings and self-love in an unexpected place: an old folks' home called McKendree. | 260 |
| Me and My Amazing Body | Sweeney, Joan | 3.7 | 0.5 | A girl describes how her skin, bones, muscles, brain, blood, heart, lungs, and stomach receive energy and function as part of her body. | 29 |
| Me Two | Ryan, Mary C. | 4.8 | 6 | Lazy thirteen-year-old Wilf accidentally clones himself when a science experiment goes awry, and the clone proves to be more of a help than a hindrance. | 179 |
| Me, Mop, and the Moondance Kid | Myers, Walter Dean | 3.9 | 5 | After they are adopted, eleven-year-old T.J. and his younger brother Moondance, remain involved with their friend Mop's relentless attempts to become adopted herself and to wreak revenge on their baseball rivals, the obnoxious Eagles. | 154 |
| Me, My Goat, and My Sister's Wedding | Pevsner, Stella | 3.7 | 6 | Doug and his friends keep their pet goat a secret from their families; but before long, sightings of the high-spirited animal occur at very inappropriate places. | 180 |
| Mean Margaret | Seidler, Tor | 4.7 | 4 | Will Margaret ever realize that there's more to life than being mean? | 165 |
| Meanest Thing to Say, The | Cosby, Bill | 2.2 | 0.5 | When a new boy in his second grade class tries to get the other students to play a game that involves saying the meanest thing possible to one another, Little Bill shows him a better way to make friends. | 29 |
| Meanwhile Back at the Ranch | Noble, Trinka Hakes | 3.5 | 0.5 | Rancher Hicks drives to Sleepy Gulch for some excitement, but it's his wife back at the ranch who has the really exciting day. | 27 |
| Meet Addy | Porter, Connie | 4 | 1 | Nine-year-old Addy Walker escapes from a cruel life of slavery to freedom during the Civil War. | 69 |
| Meet Felicity | Tripp, Valerie | 4.2 | 1 | In Williamsburg in 1774, nine-year-old Felicity rescues a beautiful horse that is being beaten and starved by its cruel owner. | 69 |
| Meet Josefina | Tripp, Valerie | 4.1 | 2 | Nine-year-old Josefina, the youngest of four sisters living in New Mexico in 1824, tries to help run the household after her mother's death. | 83 |
| Meet Kirsten | Shaw, Janet | 3.8 | 1 | Nine-year-old Kirsten and her family endure many hardships as they travel from Sweden to their new home in America in 1854. | 61 |
| Meet M & M | Ross, Pat | 3.2 | 0.5 | Best friends Mandy and Mimi do everything together until they have a falling out. | 41 |
| Meet Molly | Tripp, Valerie | 4.2 | 1 | During World War II, Molly eats terrible vegetables from the victory garden and plans revenge on her brother for spoiling her Halloween. | 59 |
| Meet Samantha | Adler, Susan S. | 3.8 | 1 | In 1904, Samantha and her servant friend try to learn what happened to the seamstress who suddenly left her job. | 61 |
| Megan the Klutz | Young, Alida E. | 4.1 | 3 | Do you ever have days when you feel like you have three feet and seven extra fingers? Your mother bawls you out again for daydreaming, and your sister gives you a hard time because you left gum in the pocket of her favorite jeans. | 126 |
| Megan's Island | Roberts, Willo Davis | 5 | 7 | When eleven-year-old Megan, her younger brother, and her mother go up to the lake cottage, a mysterious stranger follows them. | 187 |
| Mercury (Watts Library) | Spangenburg/Moser | 7.5 | 1 | This book describes the orbit, temperature, surface formations, composition, and theories of formation of the planet Mercury, and the probe that took pictures of it in 1974 and 1975. | 63 |
| Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars (Our Universe) | Vogt, Gregory | 4.8 | 1 | This book examines the characteristics of the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. | 48 |
| Merlin Effect, The | Barron, T.A. | 5.3 | 9 | When she joins her father and several others investigating a strange whirlpool and possible sunken treasure ship off the coast of Baja California, thirteen-year-old Kate is drawn into a centuries-old conflict between Merlin and the evil Nimue. | 254 |
| Mermaid Summer, The | Hunter, Mollie | 6.1 | 5 | With the help of her brother, Jon, nine-year-old Anna daringly seeks to discover the secret means to undo a mermaid's curse upon their grandfather. | 118 |
| Mermaids Don't Run Track | Dadey/Jones | 3.8 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the beautiful singing track coach with long hair really be a magical mermaid? | 72 |
| Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Pyle/Kestel | 5.7 | 3 | The brave and bold outlaw, Robin Hood, and his merry band of followers roam through Sherwood Forest robbing the rich and aiding the poor. | 238 |
| Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, The | Pyle, Howard | 8.6 | 21 | Unabridged and unaltered republication of the 1st (1883) edition containing 22 stories of Robin Hood and his adventures in Sherwood Forest. | 285 |
| Merry Christmas from Betsy | Haywood, Carolyn | 3.9 | 2 | Another Christmas adventure finds Betsy and her friends on a sleigh ride with a mysterious driver who claims to be Santa Claus' twin brother. | 187 |
| Merry Christmas Mom and Dad | Mayer, Mercer | 2.4 | 0.5 | Little Critter approaches Christmas with the intention of being a good helper, but trying to be good without bungling everything up is difficult. | 24 |
| Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia | Parish, Peggy | 2.1 | 0.5 | Everyone's favorite maid adds her literal-minded efforts to the Christmas festivities with predictable and humorous results. | 63 |
| Merry Christmas, Big Hungry Bear! | Wood, Don/Audrey | 1.6 | 0.5 | A little mouse shares the Christmas spirit with the big, hungry, bear he once feared, after realizing the bear will have no presents. | 40 |
| Merry Christmas, Miss McConnell! | McKenna, Colleen O'Shaughnessy | 5.6 | 5 | A fifth-grade girl with a tough new teacher and problems at home expects a terrible Christmas, only to have it turn out to be one of the best. | 155 |
| Merry Christmas, Strega Nona | De Paola, Tomie | 3.7 | 0.5 | Big Anthony plans a surprise Christmas party for Strega Nona. | 32 |
| Message, The | Applegate, K.A. | 3.9 | 4 | The Animorphs have to figure out if the strange dreams they have all been having are a message or a trap. | 151 |
| Mice and Beans | Ryan, Pam Muń have to figure out if the strange dreams they have all been having are a message or a trap. | 3.6 | 0.5 | Rosa Maria, a Spanish-speaking grandmother, spends all week getting ready for her granddaughter's birthday party, and each day items keep disappearing, along with the mousetraps she sets to ensure the celebration isn't ruined by uninvited guests. | 32 |
| Michelangelo | Stanley, Diane | 7.3 | 1 | This book is a biography of the Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet well-known for his work on the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome. | 48 |
| Michigan (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 5 | 1 | An introduction to the Wolverine State, its history, economy, cities, and people. | 59 |
| Midas Mouse | Ellwand, David/Ruth | 3.8 | 0.5 | Midas Mouse becomes so enthralled with sunlight that he is given the power to turn anything he touches into gold. | 29 |
| Middle Moffat, The | Estes, Eleanor | 4.6 | 6 | Jane is always in the middle of all the fun, whether it's a fast and furious card game with the oldest inhabitant of Cranbury, playing the old pump organ and blowing out moths instead of music; or losing her head in the middle of the school play. | 234 |
| Midnight Fox, The | Byars, Betsy | 4.9 | 4 | Tom, a city boy forced to spend the summer on his aunt's farm, is afraid of animals -- until he learns to love a black fox. | 157 |
| Midnight Fridge, The | Glassman, Bruce S. | 4.5 | 0.5 | Late one night, all the foods in the refrigerator start arguing about which one is the best. | 30 |
| Midnight Horse, The | Fleischman, Sid | 4.2 | 1 | Touch enlists the help of The Great Chaffalo, a ghostly magician, to thwart his great-uncle's plans to put Touch into the orphan house and swindle The Red Raven Inn away from Miss Sally. | 84 |
| Midnight Magic | Avi | 4.7 | 6 | In the Kingdom of Pergamontio in 1491, Mangus the Magician and his apprentice are summoned to the castle of King Claudio to determine if his daughter is indeed being haunted by a ghost. | 247 |
| Midnight on the Moon | Osborne, Mary Pope | 2.8 | 1 | The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to a moon base in the future where they continue to search for the fourth thing they need to free their friend Morgan from the magic spell. | 70 |
| Midwife's Apprentice, The | Cushman, Karen | 6 | 3 | In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world. | 122 |
| Mieko and the Fifth Treasure | Coerr, Eleanor | 4.3 | 2 | Staying with her grandparents after the atomic bomb has been dropped on Nagasaki, ten-year-old Mieko feels that the happiness in her heart has departed forever and she will no longer be able to produce a beautiful drawing for the contest at school. | 77 |
| Mike Fink | Kellogg, Steven | 4.9 | 0.5 | The story of the folk hero who ran away from home at two days old and grew up to be King of the Keelboatmen. | 32 |
| Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel | Burton, Virginia Lee | 4.4 | 0.5 | Mike prefers his steam shovel to the new gas and diesel-engine contraptions and digs his way to a happy ending. | 44 |
| Mike's Mystery | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3 | 2 | Benny and Mike get into trouble when they get curious about a uranium mine. | 128 |
| Military Helicopters (Military Machines at Work) | Budd, E.S. | 2.5 | 0.5 | This book describes what a military helicopter does and what is found in the cockpit. | 24 |
| Milk and Cookies | Asch, Frank | 2.4 | 0.5 | While spending the night at Grandfather's house, Baby Bear dreams of feeding milk and cookies to a dragon. | 48 |
| Milky Way and Other Galaxies (Our Universe), The | Vogt, Gregory | 5.5 | 1 | This book examines the Milky Way and other galaxies. | 48 |
| Millions of Cats | Ga'g, Wanda | 3.5 | 0.5 | How can an old man and his wife select one cat from a choice of millions and trillions? Universally recognized as the first American 'picture book.' | 30 |
| Milly and the Macy's Parade | Corey, Shana | 3.6 | 0.5 | Concerned that the immigrant employees of New York City's Macy's department store are homesick at Christmas, a young girl inspires the store's head to hold the first Macy's Parade. | 40 |
| Ming Lo Moves the Mountain | Lobel, Arnold | 3.6 | 0.5 | A wise man tells Ming Lo how to move the mountain away from his house. | 29 |
| Miniature Cars (Cool Collectibles) | Beyer, Julie | 5.4 | 1 | This book discusses the history of die-cast toy car manufacturing, values, and how to start a collection. | 48 |
| Minikin (Original Text) | Cosgrove, Stephen | 4.6 | 0.5 | Minikin, the lamb, decides not to be in such a hurry to grow up. | 28 |
| Minnesota (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis/Judith | 4.3 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, famous people, and interesting sites of Minnesota. | 59 |
| Minnie and Moo Go Dancing | Cazet, Denys | 2 | 0.5 | Cow friends Minnie and Moo decide to dress up and attend a party at the farmer's house. | 48 |
| Minnie and Moo Go to Paris | Cazet, Denys | 2 | 0.5 | Two cow friends, Minnie and Moo, find a bus and try to drive to Paris to see the Eiffel Tower. | 48 |
| Minnie and Moo Go to the Moon | Cazet, Denys | 2 | 0.5 | Two cow friends, Minnie and Moo, have an adventure when they drive the farmer's tractor. | 48 |
| Minnie and Moo Save the Earth | Cazet, Denys | 2 | 0.5 | While relaxing in the farmer's hot tub, two cow friends unknowingly thwart an alien invasion and save the planet. | 48 |
| Minstrel in the Tower, The | Skurzynski, Gloria | 4.2 | 1 | In the year 1195, eleven-year-old Roger and his eight-year-old sister Alice travel the French countryside in search of their ailing mother's estranged brother, a wealthy baron. | 62 |
| Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman | Schroeder, Alan | 3.6 | 0.5 | Young Harriet Tubman, whose childhood name was Minty, dreams of escaping slavery on the Brodas plantation in the late 1820s. | 35 |
| Miracles on Maple Hill | Sorensen, Virginia | 4.9 | 7 | Marly and her family discover the miracle of maple syrup time and share many adventures when they move from the city to a farmhouse on Maple Hill. | 180 |
| Mirandy and Brother Wind | McKissack, Patricia C. | 3.6 | 0.5 | To win first prize in the Junior Cakewalk, Mirandy tries to capture the wind for her partner. | 29 |
| Mirette on the High Wire | McCully, Emily Arnold | 3.6 | 0.5 | Mirette learns to become a tightrope walker and also discovers a valuable lesson about courage and faith from her instructor. | 30 |
| Mirror of Merlin, The | Barron, T.A. | 5.4 | 9 | Through adventures involving a haunted marsh, talking trees, and the creature called the ballymag, the young wizard Merlin continues to experience both his growing powers and his essential humanity. | 245 |
| Miserable Mill, The | Snicket, Lemony | 6.2 | 5 | Accidents, evil plots, and general misfortune abound when, in their continuing search for a home, the Baudelaire orphans are sent to live and work in a sinister lumbermill. | 194 |
| Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten | Slate, Joseph | 1.5 | 0.5 | Miss Bindergarten gets her students ready for kindergarten by teaching them the alphabet. | 37 |
| Miss Bindergarten Plans a Circus with Kindergarten | Slate, Joseph | 1.9 | 0.5 | Miss Bindergarten plans a circus with her kindergarten class. | 40 |
| Miss Bindergarten Takes a Field Trip with Kindergarten | Slate, Joseph | 1.7 | 0.5 | Miss Bindergarten and her kindergarten take a field trip to businesses around their town. | 40 |
| Miss Hickory | Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin | 5.9 | 4 | When a country doll is left outside for the winter, she must depend on her own resources to survive. | 123 |
| Miss Malarkey Won't Be in Today | Finchler, Judy | 2.1 | 0.5 | Miss Malarkey, the teacher, imagines the chaos that takes place when she stay home from school one day because she is ill. | 32 |
| Miss Nelson Has a Field Day | Allard, Harry | 3 | 0.5 | The notorious Miss Swamp reappears at the Horace B. Smedley School, this time to shape up the football team and make them win at least one game. | 32 |
| Miss Nelson Is Back | Allard, Harry | 2.7 | 0.5 | While Miss Nelson is recuperating from her tonsillectomy, her class dreads the arrival of Miss Swamp, the substitute teacher. | 32 |
| Miss Nelson Is Missing! | Allard, Harry | 2.7 | 0.5 | Miss Nelson has the worst-behaved class in school; then Miss Swamp turns up to straighten things out. Who is Miss Swamp? That's the mystery. | 32 |
| Miss Rumphius | Cooney, Barbara | 3.8 | 0.5 | Alice Rumphius wants to travel the world and do the one thing her grandfather told her to do--make the world more beautiful. | 28 |
| Miss Spider's New Car | Kirk, David | 2.9 | 0.5 | Miss Spider and her husband go shopping for a car. | 30 |
| Miss Spider's Tea Party | Kirk, David | 3.9 | 0.5 | When lonely Miss Spider tries to host a tea party, the other bugs refuse to come for fear of being eaten. | 32 |
| Miss Spider's Wedding | Kirk, David | 4.3 | 0.5 | Miss Spider proves that her heart knows best when it comes to choosing a husband. | 37 |
| Miss Switch Online | Wallace, Barbara Brooks | 5.1 | 5 | Miss Switch, the witch, returns to save Rupert and the entire sixth grade from evil Saturna, who is operating a sinister Web site and has installed her brother as principal of the school. | 175 |
| Missing Chums, The | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5.2 | 5 | Frank and Joe investigate numerous crimes in their town that may or may not be related. | 175 |
| Missing 'Gator of Gumbo Limbo, The | George, Jean Craighead | 4.6 | 4 | Fascinating ecological issues are raised in this story of homeless people living in the Florida Everglades. | 148 |
| Missing May | Rylant, Cynthia | 5.3 | 3 | After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her Uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living. | 89 |
| Missing Piece, The | Reiff, Tana | 2.7 | 0.5 | Is marriage the solution to a young woman's dilemma? | 60 |
| Mission from Mount Yoda | Davids, Paul/Hollace | 6.5 | 3 | The struggle for control of the Empire continues as Luke must choose a side. | 87 |
| Mississippi (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis/Judith | 4.5 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, famous people, and interesting sites of the Magnolia State. | 59 |
| Mississippi Bridge | Taylor, Mildred D. | 4.2 | 1 | During a heavy rainstorm in 1930s rural Mississippi, a ten-year-old white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers off a crowded bus to make room for late-arriving white passengers and then set off across the raging Rosa Lee Creek. | 62 |
| Mississippi River Blues: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Abbott, Tony | 3.8 | 3 | When Mrs. Figglehopper's autographed page of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" falls between the library's zapper gates, Devin and Frankie have no choice but to dive in after it. Through the crack, they are transported right into Mark Twain's book. | 127 |
| Missouri (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis/Judith | 4.1 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, famous people, and interesting sites of the "Show Me State." | 59 |
| Missouri Homestead | Tedrow, T.L. | 5.3 | 7 | Laura and her husband establish a farm in Missouri and confront a timber baron. | 213 |
| Misty of Chincoteague | Henry, Marguerite | 5.3 | 4 | A breed of wild horses inhabit an island, and one is befriended and tamed by the love of two children. | 173 |
| Mitch and Amy | Cleary, Beverly | 6.2 | 6 | Nine-year-old twins Mitch and Amy have a special gift for infuriating each other. | 222 |
| Mitten, The | Brett, Jan | 3.9 | 0.5 | Several animals sleep snugly in Nicki's lost mitten until the bear sneezes. | 27 |
| Moby Dick (Great Illustrated Classics) | Melville/Bogart | 5.3 | 2 | Ishmael, a young school teacher, signs up on a whaling ship to seek adventure. With his unexpected friend, Queequeg, he joins the Pequod, captained by the mysterious Ahab, who is only interested in seeking revenge upon the great white whale, Moby Dick. | 238 |
| Moby Dog | Steele, Alexander | 5.1 | 5 | Wishbone imagines himself as a sailor on board a great whaling ship under the command of peg-legged Captain Ahab. | 140 |
| Moccasin Trail | McGraw, Eloise Jarvis | 5.8 | 12 | Jim Keath attempts to re-orient himself to life as a white man, after living for six years as a Crow Indian. | 247 |
| Moe the Dog in Tropical Paradise | Stanley, Diane | 2.8 | 0.5 | The dog Moe and his friend Arlene cannot afford to spend their winter vacation in Tahiti, so they create their own tropical paradise. | 32 |
| Moffat Museum, The | Estes, Eleanor | 5 | 8 | This book is about the adventures of the Moffat children living in Cranberry, Connecticut, in the early twentieth century. | 232 |
| Moffats, The | Estes, Eleanor | 5.2 | 6 | Living in Cranbury on New Dollar Street, having a mother who could make both ends just meet and have fun doing it, and being one of a family of four children is a rich, adventurous existence for the Moffat children. | 211 |
| Mole Music | McPhail, David | 2.7 | 0.5 | Feeling that something is missing in his simple life, Mole acquires a violin and learns to make beautiful, joyful music. | 28 |
| Molly the Brave and Me | O'Connor, Jane | 2 | 0.5 | Beth admires her friend Molly's courage; but on a visit to Molly's country home, Beth surprises herself with her own bravery when the two become lost within the maze of a cornfield. | 48 |
| Molly's Surprise | Tripp, Valerie | 3.6 | 1 | Even though he is away serving in an English hospital during World War II, Molly's father finds a way to make the family Christmas very special. | 64 |
| Momo's Kitten | Yashima, Mitsu | 3.8 | 0.5 | Momo finds a scraggly kitten, takes her home as a pet, and nurtures her into a beautiful mother cat. | 31 |
| Money Game, The | Ericson, David | 2.7 | 1 | A young man who works in senior citizen centers tricking old people out of their savings finds the table turned on him. | 44 |
| Monkey Island | Fox, Paula | 5 | 5 | Forced to live on the streets of New York after his mother disappears from their hotel room, eleven-year-old Clay is befriended by two men who help him survive. | 151 |
| Monkey See. Monkey Do. | DeClements, Barthe | 4.1 | 5 | A rhyming story about a band of fun-loving, silly monkeys. | 146 |
| Monster Blood | Stine, R.L. | 4.1 | 3 | Evan buys a dusty can of monster blood. It's fun to play with until it starts growing and it has an appetite. | 128 |
| Monster Blood II | Stine, R.L. | 3.6 | 3 | Andy has a present for Evan; it's green and it's growing. Now, Evan's fears about Monster Blood coming back are real. | 121 |
| Monster Blood III | Stine, R.L. | 3.2 | 3 | Andy tries to teach Evan's genius cousin Kermit a lesson with a new batch of Monster Blood. | 126 |
| Monster from the Sea, The | Hooks, William | 2.9 | 0.5 | A determined princess, whose father's policy of keeping strangers off their island kingdom has made her curious about the outside world, finally gets her wish to meet someone new. | 32 |
| Monster Garden, The | Alcock, Vivien | 4.2 | 5 | Using a tissue sample she believes is from one of her father's experiments in genetic engineering, Frankie accidentally creates a baby monster, which begins to grow at an alarming rate. | 164 |
| Monster Goose | Sierra, Judy | 4 | 0.5 | This book is a collection of nursery rhymes, rewritten to feature vampires, ghouls, mummies, the Loch Ness monster, and other fearsome creatures. | 53 |
| Monster Rabbit Runs Amuck! | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 2.8 | 1 | Beast has a big problem when he accidentally breaks off the head of the big Easter rabbit for the school's assembly. | 67 |
| Monsters Don't Scuba Dive | Dadey/Jones | 3.6 | 1 | The Bailey School kids go to summer camp. | 69 |
| Monster's Ring, The | Coville, Bruce | 3.9 | 2 | A timid boy, eager to frighten the school bully on Halloween, acquires a magic ring and the power to change himself into a monster. | 87 |
| Montana (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis/Judith | 4.6 | 1 | Discusses the geography, history, industries, and famous citizens of the "Treasure State." | 59 |
| Monument, The | Paulsen, Gary | 4.9 | 3 | An artist commissioned by a Kansas town to create a war memorial turns the town upside down in his attempt to give the townspeople a memorial that will be most meaningful to them. | 151 |
| Moon (Spinning Through Space), The | Furniss, Tim | 5.5 | 0.5 | For millions of years, humans have gazed up at the glowing surface of the Moon. Less than a lifetime ago, the first person stepped on the Moon's dusty surface and looked back at our planet. | 32 |
| Moongame | Asch, Frank | 2.6 | 0.5 | During a game of hide-and-seek, Moon hides behind a cloud, leaving his friend Bear very worried. | 30 |
| Moons (Our Universe) | Vogt, Gregory | 4.5 | 1 | The book examines the characteristics of some of the moons in our solar system. | 48 |
| Mooseltoe | Palatini, Margie | 2.5 | 0.5 | Moose thinks he has all his Christmas preparations taken care of, but at the last minute he must come up with a substitute for the Christmas tree. | 30 |
| More More More, Said the Baby | Williams, Vera B. | 2.5 | 0.5 | Three babies are caught up in the air and given loving attention by a father, a grandmother, and a mother. | 32 |
| More Parts | Arnold, Tedd | 2.6 | 0.5 | A young boy is worried about what will happen to his body when he hears such expressions as "give him a hand" and "hold your tongue." | 32 |
| More Rootabagas | Sandburg, Carl | 5.2 | 2 | Recently discovered tales by the American poet. | 94 |
| More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark | Schwartz, Alvin | 4.7 | 1 | Retellings of over two dozen tales about abandoned graveyards and ghastly deeds. | 80 |
| More Stories Julian Tells | Cameron, Ann | 2.9 | 1 | More episodes in the life of Julian including a bet with his best friend Gloria, a secret project, and what happens when his brother Huey decides to be Superboy. | 82 |
| More Tales of Amanda Pig | Van Leeuwen, Jean | 2.3 | 0.5 | This book includes five more adventures of Amanda Pig and her family, in which noisy cousins come to visit and Father gets a stuffed toy for his birthday. | 56 |
| More Than Anything Else | Bradby, Marie | 3.3 | 0.5 | Nine-year-old Booker works with his father and brother at the saltworks but dreams of the day when he'll be able to read. | 31 |
| Morgan and Me (Original Text) | Cosgrove, Stephen | 4.3 | 0.5 | When he is transformed into a unicorn, Morgan learns that life comes with sacrifice and change. | 27 |
| Morgan and Yew (Original Text) | Cosgrove, Stephen | 4.7 | 0.5 | Through the example of his friend Morgan, Yew the sheep discovers that the most precious possession in life is friendship. | 24 |
| Morgy Makes His Move | Lewis, Maggie | 3.8 | 2 | When third-grader Morgy MacDougal-MacDuff moves from California to Massachusetts with his parents, he has a lot of new things to get used to before he feels comfortable. | 74 |
| Morning Girl | Dorris, Michael | 4.9 | 2 | A young Taino girl goes swimming off her Bahamian island and meets Christopher Columbus' landing party in this vivid portrait of a Native American family and their culture. | 74 |
| Morris the Moose | Wiseman, Bernard | 1.6 | 0.5 | Determined to prove that the cow he meets is really a moose, Morris the moose enlists the help of a rather confused deer and horse. | 32 |
| Mossflower | Jacques, Brian | 5.1 | 17 | Martin the warrior mouse and Gonff the mousethief set out to find the missing ruler of Mossflower, while the other animal inhabitants of the woodland prepare to rebel against the evil wildcat who has seized power. The triumphant prequel to Redwall. | 431 |
| Most Beautiful Roof in the World: Exploring the Rainforest Can, Th | Lasky, Kathryn | 6.7 | 1 | Describes the work of Meg Lowman in the rainforest canopy, an area unexplored until the last ten years and home to previously unknown species of plants and animals. | 44 |
| Most Wonderful Egg in the World, The | Heine, Helme | 3.4 | 0.5 | To settle a quarrel between three hens, the king must choose which one lays the most beautiful egg. | 25 |
| Mother Holly | Grimm/Stewig | 4.6 | 0.5 | Two sisters, kind, industrious Rose and vain, lazy Blanche, experience two very different adventures when each tumbles down a well and into the magical world of Mother Holly. | 32 |
| Mother's Day Mice, The | Bunting, Eve | 3 | 0.5 | Three little mouse brothers go into the meadow to find a present for their mother, but it is the littlest mouse that comes up with the most unusual gift of all. | 28 |
| Motorcycle Race Mystery, The | Wright, Bob | 2 | 0.5 | There's a motorcycle race at the town track, and the boys want Red Miller to win. But when he doesn't, Tom and Ricky put two and two together. Maybe Rocky Slag did put water in Red's gas can to slow his motorcycle down. | 43 |
| Mountain Biking (Fantastic Book Of) | Richards, Brant | 5.8 | 0.5 | This book provides step-by-step instructions for both basic techniques and more advanced tricks to be used in mountain biking. | 40 |
| Mountain Born | Yates, Elizabeth | 5.6 | 4 | A boy in a family of sheep farmers raises a black lamb to be the leader of the flock. | 106 |
| Mountain that Loved a Bird, The | McLerran, Alice | 4.5 | 0.5 | A beautiful bird brings life to a lonely, barren mountain. | 21 |
| Mountain Top Mystery | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.6 | 2 | Marooned on a mountain, the Aldens survive a landslide and find an Indian secret. | 128 |
| Mountains and Volcanoes (World Habitats) | Pipes, Rose | 4.2 | 0.5 | The book introduces some famous mountains and volcanoes around the world, including the Andes, the Rocky Mountains, and the Alps. | 32 |
| Mouse and His Child, The | Hoban, Russell | 6.6 | 8 | Once they are bought and leave the safety of the toy shop, the clockwork mouse and his child begin their search for the beautiful doll's house they had once known. Except, always on their track, determined to destroy them, is the evil Manny Rat. | 244 |
| Mouse and the Motorcycle, The | Cleary, Beverly | 5.1 | 3 | A boy and a mouse share a common love -- motorcycles. | 158 |
| Mouse Count | Walsh, Ellen Stoll | 2 | 0.5 | Ten mice outsmart a hungry snake. | 30 |
| Mouse Rap, The | Myers, Walter Dean | 5.3 | 5 | During an eventful summer in Harlem, fourteen-year-old Mouse and his friends fall in and out of love and search for a hidden treasure from the days of Al Capone. | 186 |
| Mouse Soup | Lobel, Arnold | 2.4 | 0.5 | A little mouse tells a weasel four different stories in a way that enables him to avoid the weasel's stewpot. | 64 |
| Mouse Tales | Lobel, Arnold | 3 | 0.5 | Papa Mouse tells one Mouse Tale to each of the mouse children to help them to fall asleep. | 61 |
| Mouse Told His Mother, A | Roberts, Bethany | 2 | 0.5 | A little mouse's imagination makes his bedtime an exciting adventure, as he takes a fantasy trip to catch crocodiles, ride bucking broncos, and sail where the wind blows. | 26 |
| Mouse TV | Novak, Matt | 2 | 0.5 | The mouse family argues about what to watch on the television. | 27 |
| Mouse Who Wanted to Marry, The | Orgel, Doris | 2.3 | 0.5 | A young mouse searches for the perfect husband, who turns out to be right under her whiskers. | 32 |
| Mouse's First Christmas | Thompson, Lauren | 2.1 | 0.5 | This book is about a mouse experiencing his first Christmas. | 30 |
| Movie Magic: A Star Is Born! | Cottringer, Anne | 4.9 | 0.5 | This book follows a girl as she auditions for a part in a science fiction movie, spends a day filming at a movie studio, meets all the people involved in the making of a film, and attends the gala opening to see the results. | 48 |
| Movie Star Mystery, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.7 | 2 | While Tate Radison was filming his last movie, a lot of odd things happened. Now he wants to keep his presence in Greenfield a secret to avoid any more mishaps, but a note arrives in his mailbox and the troubles start again. | 119 |
| Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? | Seuss, Dr. | 1.8 | 0.5 | Mr. Brown is an expert at imitating all sorts of noises. | 28 |
| Mr. Griggs' Work | Rylant, Cynthia | 4 | 0.5 | Mr. Griggs so loves his work at the post office that he thinks of it all the time and everything reminds him of it. | 25 |
| Mr. Gumpy's Outing | Burningham, John | 1.7 | 0.5 | This book tells the story of what happens when Mr. Gumpy lets too many animals ride in his boat. | 30 |
| Mr. Lincoln's Drummer | Wisler, G. Clifton | 5.3 | 5 | This story recounts the courageous exploits of Willie Johnston, an eleven-year-old Civil War drummer who became the youngest recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor. | 129 |
| Mr. Lincoln's Way | Polacco, Patricia | 3.7 | 0.5 | When Mr. Lincoln discovers that Eugene, the school bully, knows a lot about birds, he uses this interest to help Eugene overcome his intolerance. | 40 |
| Mr. Popper's Penguins | Atwater, Richard/Florence | 5.6 | 3 | Mr. Popper trains his band of penguins to star in a vaudeville tour. | 139 |
| Mr. Putter & Tabby Bake the Cake | Rylant, Cynthia | 2.8 | 0.5 | Mr. Putter and Tabby decide to bake a Christmas cake for their strange neighbor, Mrs. Teaberry. | 36 |
| Mr. Putter & Tabby Pour the Tea | Rylant, Cynthia | 2.8 | 0.5 | Mr. Putter is lonely and wants someone to share his stories. | 37 |
| Mr. Revere and I | Lawson, Robert | 7.5 | 5 | Timeless American Classic about Sherry, Paul Revere's faithful steed, and the Revolution as seen through this noble animal's eyes. | 152 |
| Mr. Tucket | Paulsen, Gary | 5 | 4 | A young boy is captured on the Oregon Trail by Pawnee Indians. | 166 |
| Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree | Barry, Robert | 3.5 | 0.5 | Mr. Willowby's Christmas tree is too tall, but what will happen to the tree's top once it's cut off? | 32 |
| Mrs. Brice's Mice | Hoff, Syd | 2.3 | 0.5 | Mrs. Brice has 25 mice, and they all do everything together. | 32 |
| Mrs. Claus Doesn't Climb Telephone Poles | Dadey/Jones | 3.5 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. Could the jolly woman fixing the phone lines after a big blizzard really be Mrs. Claus? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out! | 90 |
| Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (The Secret of NIMH) | O'Brien, Robert C. | 5.1 | 8 | When Timothy, youngest of a family of field mice, becomes ill, his mother, Mrs. Frisby, enlists the aid of the Rats of NIMH to move their home from the path of the farmer's plow. | 233 |
| Mrs. Hen's Big Surprise | Desmoinaux, Christel | 2.7 | 0.5 | When Mrs. Hen finds a strange egg in her garden, she sits on it and is surprised by its contents when it hatches. | 29 |
| Mrs. Jeepers in Outer Space | Dadey/Jones | 4.1 | 2 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But what happens when Mrs. Jeepers takes the third grade to space camp? Could she really turn all of the scientists into vampires? | 124 |
| Mrs. Katz and Tush | Polacco, Patricia | 3.1 | 0.5 | A long-lasting friendship develops between Larnel, a young African-American, and Mrs. Katz, a lonely Jewish widow, when Larnel presents Mrs. Katz with a scrawny kitten without a tail. | 29 |
| Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle | MacDonald, Betty | 5.2 | 3 | Eight funny and instructive stories in which the magical Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle helps teach children how to behave. | 119 |
| Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Farm | MacDonald, Betty | 4.9 | 4 | Wise, funny tales about untruthfulness, forgetfulness, destructiveness, and other lapses children (and grown-ups) are prone to. | 127 |
| Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic | MacDonald, Betty | 5.5 | 5 | Seven families are helped out by Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's magic cures when they are faced with thought-you-saiders, tattletales, bad table manners, interrupters, heedless breakers, never-want-to-go-to-schoolers, and waddle-doers. | 126 |
| Mrs. Spitzer's Garden | Pattou, Edith | 3 | 0.5 | With her loving, gardener's touch, Mrs. Spitzer nurtures the students in her classroom each year. | 32 |
| Ms. Frizzle's Adventures: Medieval Castle | Cole, Joanna | 3.6 | 0.5 | When Ms. Frizzle and her student Arnold follow an underground passage beneath Craig's Castle Shop and find themselves in the middle of a siege of a 12th century English castle, they learn a great deal about both castles and the Middle Ages. | 40 |
| Much Bigger Than Martin | Kellogg, Steven | 2.5 | 0.5 | Henry imagines what life would really be like if he were much bigger than Martin. | 26 |
| Mud Is Cake | Ryan, Pam Muńs what life would really be like if he were much bigger than Martin. | 2.5 | 0.5 | A brother and sister find that when they use their imagination mud can become cake and they themselves can become almost anything. | 32 |
| Mud Pony, The | Cohen, Caron Lee | 3.7 | 0.5 | A poor boy becomes a powerful leader when Mother Earth turns his mud pony into a real one; but after the pony turns back to mud, he must find his own strength. | 28 |
| Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters | Steptoe, John | 4.3 | 0.5 | Mufaro's two beautiful daughters, one bad-tempered, one kind and sweet, go before the king, who is choosing a bride. | 25 |
| Muffin Muncher (Original Text), The | Cosgrove, Stephen | 5.1 | 0.5 | Industrious villagers and a very hungry dragon realize that by working together everyone can be happy. | 28 |
| Muggie Maggie | Cleary, Beverly | 4.5 | 1 | Maggie resists learning cursive writing in the third grade, until she discovers that knowing how to read and write cursive promises to open up an entirely new world of knowledge for her. | 70 |
| Muldoon | Edwards, Pamela Duncan | 3 | 0.5 | Muldoon works hard for the West family. Each day, he wakes everyone up on time, brings the children to school, and does all his chores. The text tells one story -- while the illustrations show the hilarious reality. | 32 |
| Mummies | Milton, Joyce | 3.5 | 0.5 | This book explains the Egyptian pharaohs' beliefs about life after death, details the technique of mummification, and describes pyramids as burial places. | 48 |
| Mummies Don't Coach Softball | Dadey/Jones | 3.8 | 1 | The Bailey School Kids have their doubts about the new softball coach who keeps wrapping up his injuries in bandages. | 70 |
| Mummies in the Morning | Osborne, Mary Pope | 2.7 | 1 | Jack and his younger sister take a trip in their tree house back to ancient Egypt, where they help a queen's mummy continue her voyage to the Next Life. | 65 |
| Mummies Made in Egypt | Aliki | 5.2 | 0.5 | Unravels the secret of the ancient Egyptian art of mummy-making. | 27 |
| Mummy (Eyewitness) | Putnam, James | 7.4 | 1 | Documents the history and significance of mummies, both natural and man-made, and describes the principles and ceremonies associated with them. | 63 |
| Murder for Her Majesty, A | Hilgartner, Beth | 5 | 8 | Eleven-year-old Alice disguises herself as a choirboy in the Yorkshire Cathedral to hide from her father's murderers. | 241 |
| Music of Dolphins, The | Hesse, Karen | 3.4 | 3 | After rescuing an adolescent girl from the sea, researchers learn she has been raised by dolphins and attempt to rehabilitate her to the human world. | 181 |
| Mutation, The | Applegate, K.A. | 4.1 | 3 | Morphing into killer whales, the animorphs discover a whole new world where humans with gills exist in the deep waters below. | 142 |
| Mutiny on Board HMS Bounty (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Bligh/Kestel | 6.1 | 3 | Captain William Bligh recorded the most famous mutiny in sea history when a group of his men, led by Fletcher Christian, forced him from his ship onto a small launch and cast him adrift into the sea. | 236 |
| Muttketeer! | Crider, Bill | 4.6 | 4 | Wishbone clashes with an evil official and his sinister sidekicks, who are trying to take over the French government. | 133 |
| My America: A Poetry Atlas of the United States | Hopkins, Lee Bennett | 4.9 | 1 | This is a collection of poems evocative of seven geographical regions of the United States, including the Northeast, Southeast, Great Lakes, Plains, Mountain, Southwest, and Pacific Coast States. | 83 |
| My Angelica | Williams, Carol Lynch | 3.9 | 5 | Sage is enthusiastic about submitting her historical romance novel to the school creative writing contest, but her would be boyfriend George thinks that it is awful and tries to stop her. | 149 |
| My Backpack | Bunting, Eve | 2 | 0.5 | A boy discovers how many wonderful things he can fit in his backpack. | 32 |
| My Best Friend Is Invisible | Stine, R.L. | 2.8 | 2 | Sammy Jacobs is into ghosts and science fiction, but now Sammy has met someone totally unreal, an invisible friend. Sammy now needs to find a way to get rid of his new friend. | 114 |
| My Brother Loved Snowflakes: The Story of Wilson A. Bentley, the S | Bahr, Mary | 3.4 | 0.5 | In this imaginary reminiscence, Charles Bentley recalls the life and times of his brother, Wilson A. Bentley, who made the study of snow his life's work. | 28 |
| My Brother Made Me Do It | Kehret, Peg | 5.4 | 4 | In letters to an elderly pen pal, eleven-year-old Julie describes dealing with her younger brother, painful juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, and struggling to finish a fund-raising race on crutches. | 130 |
| My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. | Farris, Christine King | 5 | 0.5 | This biography looks at the early life of Martin Luther King, Jr., as seen through the eyes of his older sister. | 40 |
| My Brother Sam Is Dead | Collier, James/Christopher | 4.9 | 7 | In this novel of the American Revolution, a young man is torn between his brother's patriotism and his father's Tory sympathies. | 216 |
| My Brother Stevie | Clymer, Eleanor | 4.1 | 3 | An unmanageable younger brother makes life difficult for his sister, until a sympathetic school teacher befriends and helps them both. | 73 |
| My Brother, Ant | Byars, Betsy | 1.7 | 0.5 | In four separate stories, Ant's older brother gets rid of the monster under Ant's bed, forgives Ant for drawing on his homework, tries to read a story, and helps Ant write a letter to Santa. | 32 |
| My Brothers' Flying Machine: Wilbur, Orville, and Me | Yolen, Jane | 4.5 | 0.5 | This book provides a look at the lives of Orville and Wilbur Wright, as seen through the eyes of their younger sister, Katharine, who provided support and encouragement while they worked on their many inventions. | 32 |
| My Brother's Keeper: Virginia's Diary | Osborne, Mary Pope | 4.3 | 2 | During the days leading to the Battle of Gettysburg, Virginia Dickens begins a diary. Gettysburg soon comes the center of the biggest battle of the Civil War; and Ginny wonders if her father and brother will make it home. | 109 |
| My Daniel | Conrad, Pam | 4.7 | 5 | Ellie and Stevie learn about a family legacy when their grandmother tells them stories of her brother's historical quest for dinosaur bones on their Nebraska farm. | 137 |
| My Dog, My Hero | Byars/Duffey/Myers | 4.1 | 1 | A panel of three judges has to decide which dog out of eight finalists deserves to win the title of My Hero. | 47 |
| My Duck | Linch, Tanya | 3.2 | 0.5 | A little girl writes a story about a duck who wears shoes, and a little girl with only one wing. | 26 |
| My Face to the Wind: The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teac | Murphy, Jim | 5.6 | 6 | Following her father's death from a disease that swept through her Nebraska town in 1881, teenaged Sarah Jane must find work to support herself. In her diary, she records her experiences as a young schoolteacher. | 182 |
| My Father's Dragon | Gannett, Ruth Stiles | 5.6 | 1 | A young boy determines to rescue a poor baby dragon who is being used by a group of lazy wild animals to ferry them across the river on Wild Island. | 87 |
| My Five Senses | Aliki | 2 | 0.5 | Simple words and sparkling pictures develop the child's understanding of his senses - what they are and what he learns through them about the world. | 32 |
| My Great-Aunt Arizona | Houston, Gloria | 4 | 0.5 | An Appalachian girl, Arizona Houston Hughes, grows up to become a teacher who influences generations of schoolchildren. | 29 |
| My Hairiest Adventure | Stine, R.L. | 3.5 | 3 | Larry Boyd and his friends start growing really gross, shiny hair all over--hair that keeps growing back even after it is shaved off. | 122 |
| My Life in Dog Years | Paulsen, Gary | 5.6 | 3 | The author describes some of the dogs that have had special places in his life, including his first dog, Snowball. | 137 |
| My Life with the Wave | Cowan, Catherine | 4.2 | 0.5 | A child befriends a wave at the seashore and brings her home. | 28 |
| My Little Island | Lessac, Frane | 3.6 | 0.5 | A young boy rediscovers the beauties of a small Caribbean island while on a visit with his best friend. | 39 |
| My Little Sister Ate One Hare | Grossman, Bill | 2.1 | 0.5 | Little sister has no problem eating one hare, two snakes, and three ants, but when she gets to ten peas, she throws up quite a mess. | 25 |
| My Louisiana Sky | Holt, Kimberly Willis | 4.6 | 5 | Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, in the 1950's, twelve-year-old Tiger Ann struggles with her feelings about her stern but loving grandmother, her mentally slow parents, and her good friend and neighbor, Jesse. | 200 |
| My Mama Had a Dancing Heart | Gray, Libba Moore | 3.8 | 0.5 | A ballet dancer recalls how she and her mother would welcome each season with a dance outdoors. | 30 |
| My Monster Mama Loves Me So | Leuck, Laura | 3 | 0.5 | A young monster describes all the things its mother does to show she loves it. | 24 |
| My Name Is Not Angelica | O'Dell, Scott | 4.8 | 4 | Relates the experiences of a young Senegalese girl brought as a slave to the Danish-owned Caribbean island of St. John, as she participates in the slave revolt of 1733-1734. | 130 |
| My Name is Sus5an Smith. The 5 is Silent. | Plummer, Louise | 4.5 | 9 | After years spent idolizing and championing her long-absent and much-reviled Uncle Willy, 17-year-old Susan, a promising artist, meets him by chance in Boston and determines against all advice to prove her love and devotion. | 217 |
| My New Boy | Phillips, Joan | 1 | 0.5 | A little puppy acquires a boy, teaches him some tricks, and finds him when he is lost. | 32 |
| My Robot Buddy | Slote, Alfred | 3.6 | 1 | When an evil robotnapper starts lurking around the neighborhood, Jack needs all the help he can get from his look-alike robot friend, Danny One. | 70 |
| My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother | Polacco, Patricia | 3.3 | 0.5 | Patricia shows her brother that there's one thing she can do better than him. | 29 |
| My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck | Osborne, Mary Pope | 5.5 | 4 | Thirteen-year-old Madeline's diaries for 1941 and 1942 reveal her experiences living on Long Island during World War II, while her father is away in the navy. | 186 |
| My Shadow | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 2.6 | 0.5 | An illustrated version of the poem in which a child describes her relationship with her shadow. | 26 |
| My Side of the Mountain | George, Jean Craighead | 5.2 | 6 | Written in the form of a diary, this story relates the days of a young boy in the Catskill Mountains. | 177 |
| My Teacher Flunked the Planet | Coville, Bruce | 5 | 5 | Peter Thompson's hilarious tour of Earth with disguised aliens continues as he searches for a way to save the planet. | 162 |
| My Teacher Fried My Brains | Coville, Bruce | 4.8 | 4 | Bill tries to figure out which new teacher at his school is an alien in the hilarious sequel to 'My Teacher Is An Alien.' | 136 |
| My Teacher Glows in the Dark | Coville, Bruce | 4.9 | 4 | Peter follows his alien teacher onto his spaceship, where he learns the alien's real reason for visiting Earth. | 137 |
| My Teacher Is an Alien | Coville, Bruce | 5.3 | 3 | Susan Simmons must prevent her alien teacher from taking selected classmates to another planet. | 123 |
| My Tooth Is About to Fall Out | Maccarone, Grace | 1.6 | 0.5 | An easy-to-read book concerning a young girl about to lose her first tooth. | 30 |
| My Trip to Alpha I | Slote, Alfred | 4.3 | 1 | Voya-code is the most sophisticated form of interplanetary travel, but a young boy finds it is not without dangers. | 96 |
| My Underrated Year | Powell, Randy | 4.6 | 6 | The new twins at school pose threats to Roger's chances of playing varsity football and making the tennis team. | 182 |
| My Visit to the Dinosaurs | Aliki | 3.2 | 0.5 | A young boy learns much about dinosaurs on his first trip to the museum. | 32 |
| My World | Brown, Margaret Wise | 0.8 | 0.5 | A little bunny delights in all the familiar things in his daily life. | 32 |
| Mysterious Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The | Doyle, Arthur Conan | 7.9 | 11 | Eight intriguing and mysterious adventures from the world's most-famous detective. | 246 |
| Mysterious Tadpole, The | Kellogg, Steven | 3.6 | 0.5 | It soon becomes clear that a pet tadpole is not turning into an ordinary frog. NCTE Adventuring with Books. | 30 |
| Mystery at Lilac Inn, The | Keene, Carolyn | 5.3 | 6 | Nancy solves another exciting mystery involving stolen electronic parts and stolen diamonds. | 180 |
| Mystery at Skeleton Point, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 4.2 | 2 | When Grandfather's friend Charlotte buys a mysterious mansion, she invites the Alden children to help her fix it up. Then the mansion's valuable statutes begin to disappear. Could it be the Skeleton Point ghost? | 120 |
| Mystery at the Crooked House, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 4.3 | 2 | The Boxcar Children help their housekeeper, Mrs. McGregor, try to solve the riddle of her home, the Crooked House, which could lead to a treasure. | 112 |
| Mystery at the Dog Show, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 4 | 2 | Strange things start happening at Greenfield's first dog show. | 121 |
| Mystery Behind the Wall | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.5 | 2 | A young Canadian visitor helps the Alden family solve a mystery involving a lost coin collection. | 127 |
| Mystery Bookstore, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 4 | 2 | The Boxcar Children solve a mystery about a bookstore. | 120 |
| Mystery Cruise, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.9 | 2 | Someone tries to delay the cruise ship the Boxcar Children are on so that Max Greene won't be in time to inherit his great aunt's estate. | 118 |
| Mystery Girl, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.5 | 2 | The Boxcar Children notice some peculiar things about the girl who works in Jerry Taylor's general store. | 121 |
| Mystery Horse, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 4.2 | 3 | The Boxcar Children spend the summer on a working farm. | 121 |
| Mystery in the Old Attic, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 4.2 | 2 | When the Alden children arrive at the mansion, they can't wait to start looking through all the rooms; they find a diary with a riddle in it to find a diamond ring. | 135 |
| Mystery in the Sand | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.7 | 3 | Living in a seaside mobile home, the Aldens unravel the secret of two secluded women. | 127 |
| Mystery in the Snow, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.3 | 2 | Who's responsible for the missing skiis, the knocked-over snow sculptures, and the melting ice rink at the winter carnival? The Boxcar Children will find out. | 121 |
| Mystery of Cabin Island, The | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5.2 | 5 | The Hardy boys are invited to spend Christmas on a wealthy man's island where they learn of and solve a kidnapping and theft mystery. | 178 |
| Mystery of Pony Hollow, The | Hall, Lynn | 4.2 | 1 | While exploring her family's new farm on her pony, Sarah stumbles upon a skeleton and a supernatural mystery involving the ponies who lived there 40 years ago. | 56 |
| Mystery of Smugglers Cove | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5.1 | 5 | A valuable painting is stolen en route to Florida, and the Hardy Boys are suspects. | 168 |
| Mystery of Stonehenge, The | Lyon, Nancy | 5.5 | 1 | Discusses the theories and superstitions that have arisen throughout the years to explain the existence of the circle of stones at Stonehenge. | 48 |
| Mystery of the Cupboard, The | Banks, Lynne Reid | 4.9 | 7 | Omri unearths an old journal that reveals the mystery of the Indian in the cupboard. | 246 |
| Mystery of the Flying Orange Pumpkin, The | Kellogg, Steven | 2.6 | 0.5 | When a new owner takes over the garden where they have been growing a pumpkin, the neighborhood children find their Halloween plans for the pumpkin in jeopardy. | 26 |
| Mystery of the Green Ghost, The | Arthur, Robert | 5.1 | 6 | The Three Investigators become entangled in the theft of a string of rare pearls and a fraudulent scheme involving a family inheritance when they try to solve the mystery of a ghost's appearance in the old Green mansion. | 179 |
| Mystery of the Headless Horse, The | Arden, William | 5.1 | 6 | Suspense with Alfred Hitchcock & the Three Investigators. | 144 |
| Mystery of the Hidden Painting, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.8 | 2 | Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny spot what looks like a necklace that was given to their grandmother when she was married, but later was stolen. | 117 |
| Mystery of the Hot Air Balloon, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.5 | 2 | The Aldens solve a mystery at a hot air balloon rally. | 119 |
| Mystery of the Lost Village, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 4.1 | 2 | The Aldens investigate the legend of an ancient Navajo village. | 121 |
| Mystery of the Mammoth Bones, The | Giblin, James Cross | 8 | 3 | This book describes the efforts of the artist, museum curator, and self-taught paleontologist, Charles Willson Peale, to excavate, study, and display the bones of a prehistoric creature that is later named "mastodon." | 97 |
| Mystery of the Missing Dog, The | Levy, Elizabeth | 3 | 0.5 | The invisible boy Chip intends to enter his invisible dog Max in the dog show; but when Max is lost, Chip and his Invisible Inc. friends suspect foul play. | 45 |
| Mystery of the Missing Red Mitten, The | Kellogg, Steven | 1.8 | 0.5 | The story of a little boy's search for a lost mitten and where he finds it. | 32 |
| Mystery of the Mixed-up Zoo | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 4.1 | 2 | The Boxcar Children must find out who's responsible for the trouble at the zoo, or it will be closed down. | 120 |
| Mystery of the Purple Pool, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 4 | 2 | On a visit to New York City, the Aldens solve a mystery in their hotel. | 122 |
| Mystery of the Screaming Clock, The | Arthur, Robert | 4.4 | 4 | A retired actor is missing, and the only sign of his life is the gift of a screaming alarm clock sent to a friend. The Three Investigators take the case. | 177 |
| Mystery of the Stolen Blue Paint, The | Kellogg, Steven | 1.9 | 0.5 | When Belinda's paint for the fence is stolen, she suspects the younger children; but the real thief may have only been hungry and four-legged. | 26 |
| Mystery of the Talking Skull, The | Arthur, Robert | 4.7 | 4 | It all started with a dollar paid at auction by Jupiter for an old trunk that once belonged to a magician, who vanished as mysteriously as one of his tricks. The trunk attracts a host of bizarre characters. | 164 |
| Mystery of the Vanishing Treasure, The | Arthur, Robert | 4.8 | 5 | Three young detectives become involved in mysteries related to the disappearance of an ancient Japanese jeweled belt from a museum exhibit, and the strange antics of a group of gnomes around an elderly woman's house. | 152 |
| Mystery of the Whispering Mummy, The | Arthur, Robert | 5.1 | 6 | Three young detectives undertake a case involving an Egyptian mummy that whispers, but only to one man. | 180 |
| Mystery of the Wild Ponies, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.9 | 3 | Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny have promised Grandfather a vacation from mysteries during their island visit. However, the promise proves hard to keep when things start to go missing. | 135 |
| Mystery on October Road | Herzig, Alison Cragin | 3 | 1 | Two best friends try to learn more about a mysterious new neighbor. | 57 |
| Mystery on Stage, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 4.2 | 2 | The Boxcar children save the opening-night performance. | 121 |
| Mystery on the Docks | Hurd, Thacher | 2.4 | 0.5 | Ralph, a short-order cook, rescues a kidnapped opera singer from Big Al and his gang of nasty rats. | 29 |
| Mystery on the Ice, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.9 | 2 | The Aldens find several promising suspects for the theft of precious jewels. | 117 |
| Mystery Ranch | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.3 | 2 | When an eccentric old aunt needs help on her ranch, the Aldens overturn a plot against her. | 127 |
| Myth Maker: J.R.R. Tolkien | Neimark, Anne E. | 7.5 | 4 | Follows the life and work of the renowned fantasy writer, creator of hobbits and Middle Earth, and "The Lord of the Rings." | 99 |
| Name Jar, The | Choi, Yangsook | 3.1 | 0.5 | After Unhei moves from Korea to the United States, her new classmates help her decide what her name should be. | 32 |
| Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs | De Paola, Tomie | 3.4 | 0.5 | A small boy enjoys his relationship with his grandmother and his great-grandmother, but he learns to face their inevitable death. | 24 |
| Napping House, The | Wood, Audrey | 2.8 | 0.5 | In this cumulative tale, a wakeful flea atop a number of sleeping creatures causes a commotion with just one bite. | 26 |
| Nasty, Stinky Sneakers | Bunting, Eve | 3.3 | 2 | Will ten-year-old Colin find his missing stinky sneakers in time to enter The Stinkiest Sneakers in the World contest? | 105 |
| Nate the Great | Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman | 2 | 0.5 | Super-detective Nate tracks down Annie's missing picture and finds a lost cat in the bargain. | 50 |
| Nate the Great and the Missing Key | Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman | 2.9 | 0.5 | Nate must solve the riddle of Rosamond's strange poem in order to find Annie's missing house key. | 47 |
| Nate the Great and the Stolen Base | Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman | 2.9 | 0.5 | Nate searches for a purple octopus who's needed as a base on the ball field. | 47 |
| Nate the Great and the Tardy Tortoise | Sharmat, Marjorie/Craig | 2.5 | 0.5 | As more and more of his flowers display the bite marks of a tortoise, Nate sets out to uncover the mystery of the reptile's origin. | 42 |
| Nate the Great Goes down in the Dumps | Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman | 2.6 | 0.5 | When Rosamond looks into her crystal ball to read Nate the Great's future, she sees a new case for him to solve--her money box is missing and she wants him to find it. | 48 |
| Nate the Great Stalks Stupidweed | Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman | 2.7 | 0.5 | Nate the Great searches for a missing weed after it disappears from a pot on Oliver's porch. | 42 |
| Nate the Great, San Francisco Detective | Sharmat, Marjorie/Mitchell | 2.6 | 0.5 | Nate the Great goes to San Francisco where he solves a mystery for his cousin Olivia Sharp, who is also a detective. | 48 |
| National Velvet | Bagnold, Enid | 5.5 | 11 | In this beloved tale, a fourteen-year-old girl rides her piebald horse in the Grand National. | 314 |
| Native Peoples (Discovering Canada) | Livesey, Robert | 6.8 | 1 | This book provides information about the life of the original native peoples who lived in Canada before the white European settlers "discovered" it. | 90 |
| Natural, The | Malamud, Bernard | 6.3 | 12 | Roy Hobbs returns to the Major Leagues at age 34. Still a tremendous player, he carries his team into the race for the National League pennant. However, he is plagued with romantic indecision and the temptation to fix games. | 223 |
| Nature's Green Umbrella: Tropical Rain Forests | Gibbons, Gail | 5.4 | 0.5 | This book describes the climatic conditions of the rain forest, as well as the different layers of plants and animals that comprise the ecosystem. | 30 |
| Naya Nuki | Thomasma, Kenneth | 5.6 | 4 | A beautiful story of Naya Nuki, an eleven-year-old Indian girl, who was taken captive by a rival Indian tribe and forced into slavery by a cruel, old squaw. She is determined to escape and return to her own people a thousand miles away. | 175 |
| Nebraska (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 4.3 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, famous people, and interesting sites of the "Cornhusker State." | 59 |
| Nebulas (Our Universe) | Vogt, Gregory | 4.7 | 1 | Interstellar space is full of these clouds of dust and gas. This book reveals their origin and their effects. | 48 |
| Neptune (Isaac Asimov's 21st Century Library...Solar System) | Asimov/Hantula | 6.1 | 0.5 | This book introduces the fourth largest known planet in the solar system. | 32 |
| Netherlands (First Reports) | De Capua, Sarah E. | 4.4 | 0.5 | This book introduces the geography, history, culture, and people of the Netherlands, a small country in northern Europe. | 48 |
| Nevada (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis/Judith | 4.4 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, famous people, and interesting sites of the "Silver State." | 62 |
| Never Spit on Your Shoes | Cazet, Denys | 2 | 0.5 | First-grader Arnie tells his mother about his tiring first day at school, while the illustrations reveal the mayhem he is leaving out of his account. | 27 |
| New Baby, The | Mayer, Mercer | 1.9 | 0.5 | The new baby takes some getting used to, but she's worth it. | 24 |
| New France (Discovering Canada) | Livesey, Robert | 7.3 | 1 | This book describes the lives of the brave men and women who first settled the New World and helped found the colony of New France. | 90 |
| New Hampshire (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 4.7 | 1 | An introduction of the Granite State, introducing its history, geography, industries, sites of interest, and famous people. | 59 |
| New Jersey (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 4.4 | 1 | Introduces the geography, history, industries, notable sights, and famous people of the Garden State. | 59 |
| New Mexico (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis/Judith | 4.2 | 1 | An introduction to the geography, history, people, cities, and famous sites of the large southwestern state known as "The Land of Enchantment." | 62 |
| New Neighbors for Nora | Hurwitz, Johanna | 4.3 | 1 | This story continues the adventures of an inquisitive seven-year-old who lives in a New York City apartment building. | 95 |
| New York (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 4.2 | 1 | An overview of the Empire State, introducing its history, geography, industries, sites of interest, and famous people. | 59 |
| New York's Bravest | Osborne, Mary Pope | 2.8 | 0.5 | This book tells of the heroic deeds of the legendary New York firefighter Mose Humphreys. | 32 |
| Newfangled Fairy Tales (Book #1) | Lansky, Bruce | 4.7 | 3 | This collection of ten contemporary fairy tales puts a delightful new spin on classic stories and themes. | 110 |
| News About Dinosaurs, The | Lauber, Patricia | 4.8 | 0.5 | Over 40 illustrations, including renderings of the five newly discovered dinosaurs, are used to explain how scientists have refuted earlier assumptions about dinosaurs. | 48 |
| Next Spring an Oriole | Whelan, Gloria | 4.5 | 1 | In 1837 ten-year-old Libby and her parents journey by covered wagon to the Michigan frontier, where they make themselves a new home near friendly Indians and other pioneers. | 60 |
| Nice Try, Tooth Fairy | Olson, Mary W. | 1.7 | 0.5 | Hoping to get back her lost tooth, Emma writes a series of letters to the Tooth Fairy, but when the wrong teeth keep getting returned, the mistakes create complications. | 25 |
| Night Crossing, The | Ackerman, Karen | 5.3 | 1 | When the Nazis invade Austria, Clara's Jewish family flees to Switzerland. | 56 |
| Night Cry | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 5.4 | 6 | Ellen is awakened at night by horrible cries that may be human. | 154 |
| Night in Terror Tower, A | Stine, R.L. | 3.5 | 3 | Sue and Eddie get locked in a gloomy prison tower with a strange, dark figure who wants them dead. | 129 |
| Night Journey, The | Lasky, Kathryn | 5.3 | 5 | A young girl ignores her parents' wishes and persuades her great-grandmother to relate the story of her escape from Czarist Russia. | 150 |
| Night Noises | Fox, Mem | 2.5 | 0.5 | Old Lily Laceby dozes by the fire with her faithful dog at her feet as strange night noises herald a surprising awakening. | 29 |
| Night of the Full Moon | Whelan, Gloria | 4.2 | 1 | A novel based on true accounts of the Potawatomi Indians' forced migration from Michigan territory in 1840. | 63 |
| Night of the Kachina | Salas, Nichole | 2.7 | 1 | Ray's visit to his great-grandfather in New Mexico results in a dangerous adventure in the ruins of a pueblo. | 44 |
| Night of the Living Dummy | Stine, R.L. | 3.7 | 3 | Kris is jealous of his sister Lindy and gets his own ventriloquist's dummy. Then weird things begin to happen. Can the dummy be the cause? | 134 |
| Night of the Living Dummy II | Stine, R.L. | 3.1 | 3 | An evil ventriloquist's dummy comes to life again. | 120 |
| Night of the Living Dummy III | Stine, R.L. | 3.2 | 3 | There are voices in the attic, and dummies keep showing up in the strangest places. | 125 |
| Night of the Ninjas | Osborne, Mary Pope | 2.7 | 1 | Jack and Annie travel back to ancient Japan in search of an enchantress. | 69 |
| Night of the Twisters | Ruckman, Ivy | 4.7 | 4 | A twelve-year-old relates an account of the night that freakish and devastating tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska. | 153 |
| Night Swimmers, The | Byars, Betsy | 4.3 | 3 | With their mother dead and their father working nights, Retta tries to be mother to her two younger brothers. | 131 |
| Night the Whole Class Slept Over, The | Pevsner, Stella | 5.3 | 5 | Eleven-year-old Dan, whose artist parents have kept him moving around all his life, fears he will lose the friends he has made at his new school until the class sleepover coincides with a bad winter storm. | 162 |
| Night Tree | Bunting, Eve | 3.3 | 0.5 | A family makes its annual pilgrimage to decorate an evergreen tree with food for the forest animals at Christmastime. | 28 |
| Nightjohn | Paulsen, Gary | 3.8 | 1 | Sarny is a slave who wants to read and write, and Nightjohn is a slave who returned from freedom in the North to educate his friends. | 92 |
| Nightmare Mountain | Kehret, Peg | 4.6 | 5 | Twelve-year-old Molly's visit to her aunt and uncle's llama ranch in the state of Washington leads her into unexpected danger and suspense. | 164 |
| Nighty-Nightmare | Howe, James | 4.2 | 2 | When scary strangers appear at the Monroes' overnight campsite, Chester the cat tries to convince the family's two dogs that foul play is intended. | 121 |
| Nina, Nina Ballerina | O'Connor, Jane | 1.9 | 0.5 | An accident becomes an opportunity for Nina to stand out in a group of dancing butterflies at the dance show. | 32 |
| Ninjas Don't Bake Pumpkin Pies | Dadey/Jones | 4.1 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the new baker who makes the best pumpkin pies really be a ninja in town to steal some valuable Japanese art? | 70 |
| Ninth Nugget, The | Roy, Ron | 3.7 | 1 | When Dick, Josh, and Ruth Rose visit a dude ranch in Montana, they find themselves with another mystery to solve. | 86 |
| No Boys Allowed | Levinson, Marilyn | 4.3 | 5 | When her father leaves the family to marry a younger woman, Cassie refuses to trust any male, including her best friend, until her great-uncle helps her put the changes in her life in perspective. | 124 |
| No Fighting, No Biting! | Minarik, Else Holmelund | 2.6 | 0.5 | The merry adventures of two scrapping alligator children--and Rosa and Willy, their human counterparts. | 62 |
| No Good in Art | Cohen, Miriam | 2.8 | 0.5 | First-grader Jim can't paint a picture of himself as an adult because he's no good in art, but when he is encouraged to paint what he likes to do, he surprises everyone. | 29 |
| No Jumping on the Bed! | Arnold, Tedd | 4.5 | 0.5 | Walter's father told him no more jumping on the bed, and Walter finds out why. | 26 |
| No Matter What | Gliori, Debi | 2.1 | 0.5 | Small, a little fox, seeks reassurance that Large will always provide love, no matter what. | 25 |
| No More TV, Sleepy Dog | Ziefert, Harriet | 0.9 | 0.5 | Sleepy Dog thinks of many excuses why he cannot go to sleep at bedtime, but finally he does become sleepy enough to slip into slumber. | 21 |
| No Roses for Harry! | Zion, Gene | 3.2 | 0.5 | Harry the dog dislikes his birthday sweater with roses on it and finds an ingenious way of getting rid of it. | 28 |
| No Way Out | Ruckman, Ivy | 4.8 | 6 | Hiking along the Virgin River in Utah, nineteen-year-old Amy, her brother, and five friends battle a flash flood. | 212 |
| Noah's Ark | Pinkney, Jerry | 3.3 | 0.5 | This book retells the biblical story of the great flood and how Noah and his family faithfully responded to God's call to save life on Earth. | 34 |
| Nobodies & Somebodies | Orgel, Doris | 3.6 | 4 | Laura is the new girl at school, and she desperately wants to become part of an exclusive clique. | 152 |
| Nobody Knows | Reiff, Tana | 2.7 | 1 | After migrating from the South to Chicago, a young African-American woman must find work when her husband is killed in an accident. | 76 |
| Noonday Friends, The | Stolz, Mary | 4.8 | 6 | Two young friends stop speaking to each other, even though they can't remember why they argued in the first place. This is just one more thing on top of the other problems that each has with her own family. | 182 |
| North Carolina (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 5 | 1 | Introduces the Tar Heel State, its geography, history, interesting sights, and people. | 59 |
| North Dakota (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis/Judith | 4.4 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, famous people, and interesting sites of the Flickertail State. | 59 |
| North to Oak Island | Bromley, Dudley | 3.4 | 1 | Robbed of all his money and desperate to get to the New World, Will becomes a stowaway on a pirate ship captained by a woman. | 59 |
| Nory Ryan's Song | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 4.3 | 5 | When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive. | 148 |
| Nose Book, The | Perkins, Al | 1.4 | 0.5 | Noses are interesting and serve many purposes, including the one of holding up glasses. | 28 |
| Nose Like a Hose, A | Samuels, Jenny | 1.9 | 0.5 | This book is a colorful, rhyming exploration of the many things an elephant can do with its unique nose. | 28 |
| Not My Dog | Rodowsky, Colby | 4.3 | 1 | Eight-year-old Ellie has to give up her life-long dream of getting a puppy after her parents agree to take in the dog that Great-aunt Margaret can no longer keep. | 69 |
| Nothing But the Truth | Avi | 3.6 | 4 | A ninth-grader's suspension for humming "The Star-Spangled Banner" during homeroom becomes a national news story. | 177 |
| Nothing Is Impossible, Said Nellie Bly | Carlson, Judy | 3.1 | 0.5 | The biography of Nellie Bly and her trip around the world in less than 80 days. Her philosophy was "Nothing is impossible." | 30 |
| Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade | DeClements, Barthe | 3.7 | 4 | Jenny and her friends discover that although Elsie is fat, she is really a good friend. | 137 |
| Not-Just-Anybody Family, The | Byars, Betsy | 4.6 | 4 | A warm comedy demonstrates how both good and bad times help to unite a family, even one as strange as the unforgettable Blossom family. | 149 |
| Not-So-Jolly Roger, The | Scieszka, Jon | 3.8 | 1 | Joe receives a mysterious book from his uncle, and soon Joe and his friends travel back in time to a pirate adventure on the high seas. | 57 |
| Nowhere to Call Home | DeFelice, Cynthia | 5.3 | 7 | When her father kills himself after losing his money in the stock market crash, twelve-year-old Frances, now a penniless orphan, decides to hop aboard a freight train and live the life of a hobo. | 200 |
| Number the Stars | Lowry, Lois | 4.5 | 4 | In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis. | 137 |
| Numbering All the Bones | Rinaldi, Ann | 4.2 | 5 | Eulinda is left behind to deal with a cruel mistress, and a master who will not acknowledge that Eulinda is his daughter. | 170 |
| Nutcracker Ballet, The | Hautzig, Deborah | 2.8 | 0.5 | A little girl helps break the spell on her toy nutcracker and changes him into a handsome prince. | 48 |
| Nutty for President | Hughes, Dean | 4.8 | 4 | One look at the new kid eating in the school cafeteria, and everyone agrees-- William Bilks is a nerd. But Nutty and his friends are in for a big surprise, because William is really a genius in disguise. | 117 |
| Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba | McKissack, Patricia C. | 5.6 | 3 | This book presents the diary of thirteen-year-old Nzingha, a sixteenth-century West African princess who loves to hunt and hopes to lead her kingdom one day against the invasion of the Portuguese slave traders. | 136 |
| O Little Town | Reiff, Tana | 2.6 | 1 | When WWI breaks out, a German American realizes that America is really his home. | 76 |
| Oceans | Simon, Seymour | 5.8 | 0.5 | This book explores the physical characteristics, life forms, and fragility of the world's oceans. | 32 |
| Oceans (Biomes) | Steele, Christy | 4.2 | 0.5 | This book explains how ocean biomes are formed, how plants and animals adapt to the ocean, and how the ocean relates to other biomes. | 32 |
| Oceans (Make It Work!) | Haslam/Taylor | 6.7 | 2 | This book explains the characteristics of oceans and the forces and principles which act upon them, demonstrating with experiments and models. | 48 |
| Oceans Atlas, The | Ganeri, Anita | 7.3 | 1 | An exciting atlas that explores the earth's oceans, including physical features, wildlife, and threats to their future. | 63 |
| Octopus Followed Me Home, An | Yaccarino, Dan | 2.1 | 0.5 | When a girl brings home an octopus and wants to keep him as a pet, her daddy reminds her of the crocodile, seals, and other inappropriate animals she has already brought into the house to create chaos. | 32 |
| Odysseus in the Serpent Maze | Yolen/Harris | 5 | 7 | Thirteen-year-old Odysseus, who longs to be a hero, has many opportunities to prove himself during an adventure. | 248 |
| Off to School, Baby Duck! | Hest, Amy | 2 | 0.5 | Baby Duck experiences the fear of the first day of school, but with a little help from Grampa, everything turns out okay in the end. | 24 |
| Officer Buckle and Gloria | Rathmann, Peggy | 3.4 | 0.5 | The children at Napville Elementary School always ignore Officer Buckle's safety tips until a police dog named Gloria accompanies him when he gives his safety speeches. | 30 |
| Oh Boy, Amelia! | Moss, Marissa | 4.1 | 1 | Ten-year-old Amelia watches her older sister Cleo change when she gets her first boyfriend, while Amelia takes a class in "life skills." | 40 |
| Oh My Baby, Little One | Appelt, Kathi | 2.8 | 0.5 | A mother explains to her child all the ways her love remains even while she's away. | 27 |
| Oh Say Can You Say? | Seuss, Dr. | 4 | 0.5 | A collection of silly verse tongue-twisters. | 38 |
| Oh, the Places You'll Go! | Seuss, Dr. | 3.3 | 0.5 | Advice in rhyme for proceeding in life; weathering fear, loneliness, confusion, and being in charge of your actions. | 44 |
| Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! | Seuss, Dr. | 1.8 | 0.5 | Relates in verse some of the unusual thinks you can think if only you try. | 39 |
| Ohio (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 4.4 | 1 | Introduces the history, geography, industries, notable sights, and famous people of the Buckeye State. | 59 |
| Oklahoma (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis/Judith | 4.3 | 1 | Introduces the history, geography, industries, notable sights, and famous people of the Sooner State. | 59 |
| Old Black Fly | Aylesworth, Jim | 1.4 | 0.5 | Rhyming text and illustrations follow a mischievous old black fly through the alphabet as he has a very busy bad day landing where he should not be. | 30 |
| Old Motel Mystery, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 4 | 2 | The Boxcar Children help Aunt Jane fix a dilapidated motel, but someone sabotages their work. | 121 |
| Old Mother West Wind | Burgess, Thornton | 5.2 | 3 | All the favorite old Burgess characters and stories in a new illustrated edition. | 140 |
| Old Ramon | Schaefer, Jack | 4.9 | 3 | A timeless story about an old shepherd, a young boy, and two brave dogs. | 102 |
| Old Shell, New Shell: A Coral Reef Tale | Ward, Helen | 3 | 0.5 | A hermit crab who has outgrown his shell searches for a new one among the creatures of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. | 38 |
| Old Turtle | Wood, Douglas | 3.8 | 0.5 | Moving fable that promotes a deeper understanding of the Earth and its inhabitants. | 43 |
| Old Ways, New Ways | Reiff, Tana | 2.5 | 1 | A Russian-Jewish family in New York is thrown into emotional turmoil when the son rejects his father's traditional lifestyle. | 76 |
| Old Yeller | Gipson, Fred | 5 | 5 | This is the heartwarming story of a boy and his dog and their many adventures in the Texas wilderness. | 158 |
| Old-Fashioned Girl (Unabridged), An | Alcott, Louisa May | 8.2 | 18 | Polly's friendship with the wealthy Shaws of Boston helps them to build a new life and teaches her the truth about the relationship between happiness and riches. | 345 |
| Oliver & Amanda and the Big Snow | Van Leeuwen, Jean | 2.2 | 0.5 | Four stories about Amanda and Oliver Pig and their parents, who go outside to play after a big snowstorm. | 48 |
| Oliver Dibbs and the Dinosaur Cause | Steiner, Barbara | 4.3 | 5 | Immersed in studying his favorite topic, dinosaurs, Oliver involves his fifth grade in a campaign to make the stegosaurus the Colorado state fossil and runs afoul with an interesting bully. | 156 |
| Oliver Pig at School | Van Leeuwen, Jean | 2.5 | 0.5 | Oliver Pig goes to school. | 48 |
| Oliver Twist (Great Illustrated Classics) | Dickens/Leighton | 4.6 | 2 | Oliver Twist runs away to London only to fall into the clutches of a gang of thieves. Befriended by a man, Oliver ultimately learns his true identity and gains a home, a fortune, and a family. | 238 |
| Olivia | Falconer, Ian | 2 | 0.5 | Whether at home getting ready for the day, enjoying the beach, or at bedtime, Olivia is a feisty pig who has too much energy for her own good. | 32 |
| Olivia Saves the Circus | Falconer, Ian | 1.9 | 0.5 | At school, Olivia tells about her summer vacation and how she saved the day at the circus. | 38 |
| On Beyond Zebra | Seuss, Dr. | 4.2 | 0.5 | A fun way to learn and remember the alphabet. | 54 |
| On Christmas Eve | Rosenberg, Liz | 2.7 | 0.5 | Unable to reach Aunt Cleo's house on Christmas Eve because of a wild snowstorm, a young boy worries that Santa Claus won't be able to find his family at the motel where they are stranded. | 32 |
| On Christmas Eve | Brown, Margaret Wise | 3.6 | 0.5 | The children creep downstairs to see the glorious tree and to make a Christmas wish. This book captures all the wonder and mystery of a child's Christmas Eve. | 29 |
| On My Honor | Bauer, Marion Dane | 4.7 | 2 | A twelve-year-old boy must learn to live with his fear and grief when his swimming partner drowns. | 90 |
| On the Banks of Plum Creek | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 4.6 | 8 | After moving to Minnesota, the Ingalls family encounters a terrible blizzard and a grasshopper plague. | 339 |
| On the Far Side of the Mountain | George, Jean Craighead | 4.5 | 6 | Sam's peaceful existence in his wilderness home is disrupted when his sister runs away and his pet falcon is confiscated by a conservation officer. | 170 |
| On the Way Home | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 5.3 | 3 | The diary of a trip from South Dakota to Missouri in 1894. | 101 |
| Once a Mouse... | Brown, Marcia | 3.2 | 0.5 | As it changes from mouse to cat to dog to tiger, a hermit's pet also becomes increasingly vain. | 30 |
| Once There Was a Bull...(frog) | Walton, Rick | 1.7 | 0.5 | A bullfrog in the Old West loses his hop in this lively tale where each page must be turned to complete the previous image. | 28 |
| One Day at HorrorLand | Stine, R.L. | 3.4 | 3 | There is something weird about the rides at Horrorland. Something a little too creepy. A little too real. | 123 |
| One Fine Day | Hogrogian, Nonny | 3.5 | 0.5 | Catchy verses and ebullient illustrations combine to make this saga of a greedy fox irresistible. | 14 |
| One Fine Day: A Radio Play | Van Steenwyk, Elizabeth | 4.1 | 0.5 | In the form of a radio play, this book portrays the Wright Brothers' first successful flight. | 32 |
| One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish | Seuss, Dr. | 1.7 | 0.5 | Another story in rhyme from Dr. Seuss. | 63 |
| One Giant Leap: The Story of Neil Armstrong | Brown, Don | 4.6 | 0.5 | Discusses the life and accomplishments of astronaut Neil Armstrong, from his childhood in Ohio to his famous moon landing. | 28 |
| One Hundredth Thing About Caroline, The | Lowry, Lois | 4.6 | 4 | Caroline and her brother believe their mother's new boyfriend has a plan to eliminate them. | 150 |
| One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo, The | Blume, Judy | 2.5 | 0.5 | Freddy Dissel is tired of being nothing more than the middle child. Then the school play gives him the chance to be recognized for himself. | 39 |
| One More River | Banks, Lynne Reid | 5 | 9 | Lesley is in shock when her father moves the family to a kibbutz in Israel. | 248 |
| One Morning in Maine | McCloskey, Robert | 4.4 | 0.5 | Sal loses a tooth in this story of a family which lives on an island. | 64 |
| One Saturday Morning | Baker, Barbara | 2.2 | 0.5 | One Saturday, a family enjoys such activities as getting up one by one, going to the park, and eating spaghetti for lunch. | 48 |
| One-Eyed Giant, The | Osborne, Mary Pope | 4.8 | 1 | When Odysseus must leave his home to fight in the Trojan War, he never imagines that he will be away from his family for so many years. | 105 |
| Onion John | Krumgold, Joseph | 4.5 | 8 | An old man teaches his young friends the value of friendship. | 248 |
| Only Alien on the Planet, The | Randle, Kristen D. | 4.6 | 8 | A young girl in a new school is drawn to a severely troubled boy. | 222 |
| Only One Woof | Herriot, James | 4.5 | 0.5 | Gyp, a cheerful but always silent sheep dog, startles everyone with uncharacteristic behavior during the championship sheep dog trials. | 31 |
| Oops, Clifford! | Bridwell, Norman | 1.9 | 0.5 | This book is about the adventures of Clifford, the big red dog. He gets into trouble because he doesn't realize there are some things he cannot do because he is too big. | 28 |
| Open Wide: Tooth School Inside | Keller, Laurie | 4.3 | 0.5 | Through a classroom setting in which teeth are the students, this book presents information about the structure and care of teeth and the services provided by dentists. | 36 |
| Orangutan: Forest Acrobat, The | Sourd, Christine | 5.1 | 0.5 | This book is about the orangutan, a close cousin to human beings. | 27 |
| Orca Song | Armour, Michael C. | 3.7 | 0.5 | Orca Pup is trapped in an abandoned net and separated from his family until he hears the song that they sing while looking for him. | 31 |
| Ordinary Princess, The | Kaye, M.M. | 6.4 | 4 | Princess Amy runs away to a neighboring kingdom, where she meets and falls in love with her own special prince--someone just like herself. | 112 |
| Oregon (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis/Judith | 4.4 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, famous people, and interesting sites of the Beaver State. | 59 |
| Orp Goes to the Hoop | Kline, Suzy | 3.5 | 2 | All-star baseball pitcher Orp goes out for basketball in the seventh grade and finds that the skills he has developed in his old sport can be effectively transferred to his new one. | 109 |
| Orwell's Luck | Jennings, Richard | 6 | 5 | While caring for an injured rabbit which becomes her confidant, horoscope writer, and source of good luck, a thoughtful seventh grade girl learns to see things in more ways than one. | 146 |
| Oscar Otter | Benchley, Nathaniel | 2.6 | 0.5 | The sly fox watches Oscar Otter building his secluded home, not knowing that he also is being watched. | 64 |
| Oscar, Cat-About-Town | Herriot, James | 4 | 0.5 | Nobody knows why a stray cat keeps sneaking away from his new home until he begins turning up at social events all over the village. | 30 |
| Oscar's Rotten Birthday | Elliott, Dan | 2 | 0.5 | Everyone on Sesame Street helps Oscar to have the rottenest birthday ever. | 30 |
| Other Side of Dark, The | Nixon, Joan Lowery | 4 | 6 | After a year in a coma, a girl is stalked by the man who shot her and murdered her mother. | 185 |
| Other Side, The | Woodson, Jacqueline | 2.7 | 0.5 | Two girls, one white and one black, gradually get to know each other as they sit on the fence that divides their town. | 30 |
| Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great | Blume, Judy | 3.5 | 4 | A new friend shows Sheila that you have to admit your fears before you can overcome them. | 118 |
| Otis Spofford | Cleary, Beverly | 4.6 | 4 | Otis Spofford stirs up a little excitement, and big trouble follows. | 191 |
| Our Only May Amelia | Holm, Jennifer L. | 4.8 | 7 | As the only girl in a Finnish American family of seven brothers, May Amelia Jackson resents being expected to act like a lady while growing up in Washington state in 1899. | 253 |
| Our Sixth-Grade Sugar Babies | Bunting, Eve | 3.9 | 4 | Vicki and her best friend fear that their sixth-grade project, carrying around five-pound bags of sugar to learn about parental responsibility, will make them look ridiculous in the eyes of the seventh-grade boy they both love. | 146 |
| Our Strange New Land: Elizabeth's Diary, Jamestown, Virginia, 1609 | Hermes, Patricia | 3.2 | 2 | Nine-year-old Elizabeth kept a journal of her experiences in the New World as she encountered Indians, suffered hunger and the death of friends, and helped her father build their first home. | 109 |
| Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille | Freedman, Russell | 6.7 | 2 | A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchmen who, having been blind himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper which enabled the blind to read. | 79 |
| Out of the Dust | Hesse, Karen | 5.3 | 3 | In a series of poems, fourteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm. | 227 |
| Outcast of Redwall | Jacques, Brian | 6.3 | 15 | The destinies of the badger lord dubbed Sunflash and his mortal enemy, the ferret warlord Swartt Sixclaw, are entwined with those of many creatures, particularly the inhabitants of Redwall Abbey. | 356 |
| Outnumbered: Davy Crockett's Final Battle at the Alamo | Fein, Eric | 4.1 | 0.5 | Davy Crockett joins the defenders of the Alamo and his life ends there. | 32 |
| Outside and Inside Alligators | Markle, Sandra | 5.8 | 0.5 | This book describes the external and internal physical characteristics of alligators and how they find their food, mate, and raise their young. | 40 |
| Outside and Inside Bats | Markle, Sandra | 5.6 | 1 | This is an introduction to the inner and outer workings of bats; their diet, anatomy, and reproduction. | 40 |
| Outside and Inside Birds | Markle, Sandra | 4.9 | 0.5 | Full color photgraphs show birds inside and out. Includes activities. | 40 |
| Outside and Inside Sharks | Markle, Sandra | 5.2 | 0.5 | This book describes the inner and outer workings of sharks, including their diet, anatomy, and reproduction. | 40 |
| Outside and Inside Snakes | Markle, Sandra | 5.1 | 0.5 | This book describes the external and internal physical characteristics of snakes, and how they find their food, mate, and raise their young. | 40 |
| Outside and Inside Spiders | Markle, Sandra | 4.9 | 0.5 | This book, with its striking photos, describes the characteristics of spiders and how they live, eat, protect themselves and reproduce. | 40 |
| Outside Dog, The | Pomerantz, Charlotte | 2.5 | 0.5 | A little Puerto Rican girl befriends a stray dog in this story that incorporates Spanish words in the English story. | 62 |
| Outside Shooter | Dygard, Thomas J. | 5.8 | 5 | A high school basketball star's personality problems threaten not only his own career but the success of the whole team. | 189 |
| Outstanding Outsides | Machotka, Hana | 4.9 | 0.5 | Explores how the outside coverings of animals protect them from enemies, the elements, germs, and drying out. | 29 |
| Over in the Meadow | Wadsworth, Olive A. | 2.5 | 0.5 | This is an old counting rhyme told by a succession of mother animals to their babies; and each mother has a progressively larger number of offspring. | 23 |
| Over Sea, Under Stone | Cooper, Susan | 5.4 | 12 | Three children on a holiday in Cornwall find an ancient manuscript which sends them on a dangerous quest for a grail that would reveal the true story of King Arthur. | 252 |
| Owen | Henkes, Kevin | 2.4 | 0.5 | Owen the mouse has grown too big for his blanket. | 22 |
| Owl and the Pussycat, The | Lear, Edward | 2.5 | 0.5 | After a courtship voyage of a year and a day, Owl and Pussy finally buy a ring from Piggy and are blissfully married. | 25 |
| Owl at Home | Lobel, Arnold | 2.7 | 0.5 | Five humorous tales about Owl and his house. | 64 |
| Owl Moon | Yolen, Jane | 3.2 | 0.5 | On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl. | 28 |
| Owls in the Family | Mowat, Farley | 5 | 3 | Two owls, Wol and Weeps, join Billy and his dog Mutt to shake up the whole neighborhood. | 91 |
| Ox-Cart Man | Hall, Donald | 4.5 | 0.5 | Describes the day-to-day life of an early nineteenth century New England family throughout the changing seasons. | 37 |