| Title | Author | Level | Pts. | Description | Pages |
| P.S. Longer Letter Later | Danziger/Martin | 4.5 | 5 | Twelve-year-old best friends Elizabeth and Tara continue their friendship through letter-writing after Tara's family moves to another state. | 234 |
| Pacific Crossing | Soto, Gary | 4.6 | 4 | Fourteen-year-old Mexican American Lincoln Mendoza spends a summer with a host family in Japan, encountering new experiences and making new friends. | 134 |
| Paddington at Work (Revised Edition) | Bond, Michael | 6.2 | 4 | In this book, Paddington dabbles a bit in the stock market, takes a stab at barbering, and even has a fling at the ballet. | 134 |
| Paddington Bear and the Busy Bee Carnival | Bond, Michael | 4 | 0.5 | Bears love adventures, especially Paddington Bear! So when Paddington's friend Mr. Gruber takes him to the carnival, their first stop is the Busy Bee Adventure Trail. | 30 |
| Paddington Bear at the Circus | Bond, Michael | 3.8 | 0.5 | Paddington Bear and the Browns have front-row seats at the circus. When Paddington sees a man hanging from a rope above his head, he rushes off to save the trapeze artist. | 32 |
| Paddington Bear Goes to the Hospital | Bond/Jankel | 3.7 | 0.5 | Paddington Bear has hurt his arm, and he's having trouble remembering just how it happened. The Browns are worried enough to take Paddington on his first trip to the hospital. | 30 |
| Pagemaster, The | Kirschner/Contreras | 4.4 | 3 | Ten-year-old Richard has no use for books until he meets the Pagemaster and literature is like real life. | 94 |
| Pain and the Great One, The | Blume, Judy | 3.1 | 0.5 | "The Pain" and "The Great One" are a brother and sister, and each thinks the other is the most loved by their parents in these two short stories. | 28 |
| Pair of Wings, A | Singer, Marilyn | 5.1 | 0.5 | This book looks at the variety of wings, as well as how they are used and how they make their owners unlike any other creatures. | 32 |
| Panda Puzzle, The | Roy, Ron | 3.5 | 1 | Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate the kidnapping of the new baby panda at the petting zoo. | 84 |
| Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me | Carle, Eric | 2.2 | 0.5 | Monica's father fulfills her request for the moon by taking it down after it is small enough to carry, but it continues to change in size. | 28 |
| Paper Crane, The | Bang, Molly | 3.6 | 0.5 | A mysterious man enters a restaurant and pays for his dinner with a paper crane that magically comes alive and dances. | 27 |
| Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball! | Zindel, Paul | 6 | 11 | Compassionate and funny story of a troubled fifteen-year-old boy and the girl who helps him find himself. | 199 |
| Parts | Arnold, Tedd | 2.8 | 0.5 | A five-year-old boy thinks his body is falling apart until he learns new teeth grow, and hair and skin replace themselves. | 28 |
| Parzival: The Quest of the Grail Knight | Paterson, Katherine | 6 | 3 | A retelling of the Arthurian legend in which Parzival, unaware of his noble birth, comes of age through his quest for the Holy Grail. | 127 |
| Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story | Mochizuki, Ken | 4.1 | 0.5 | The story of one man's courage and the respect between father and son who shared the weight of an amazing act of humanity during World War II. | 30 |
| Patchwork Quilt, The | Flournoy, Valerie | 3.7 | 0.5 | Using scraps cut from the family's old clothing, Tanya helps her grandmother make a beautiful quilt that tells the story of her family's life. | 28 |
| Patrick's Dinosaurs | Carrick, Carol | 3.3 | 0.5 | Patrick sees dinosaurs everywhere until his brother tells him how long they've been gone. | 32 |
| Paul Bunyan | Kellogg, Steven | 5.7 | 0.5 | This story recounts the life of the extraordinary lumberjack whose unusual size and strength brought him many fantastic adventures. | 30 |
| Paul Revere: Son of Liberty | Brandt, Keith | 5.3 | 1 | Remembering his boyhood, Paul Revere knows that the steeple of North Church will make an excellent watchtower in his brave plan to warn countryside that the British are coming. | 48 |
| Paul Revere's Midnight Ride | Krensky, Stephen | 5 | 0.5 | This book captures the thrill and the danger of a country on the verge of revolution, and the dramatic account of the night Paul Revere galloped into history. | 32 |
| Peanut-Butter Pilgrims | Delton, Judy | 3.2 | 1 | Molly is determined that the show will go on when the Pee Wee Scouts put on a Thanksgiving play. | 74 |
| Pearls of Lutra | Jacques, Brian | 6.1 | 18 | Tansy, a young hedgehog living at Redwall Abbey, attempts to solve the riddle of the missing pearls, while at the same time the evil marten Mad Eyes desires them for himself. | 405 |
| Pecos Bill | Kellogg, Steven | 5.7 | 0.5 | A read-aloud winner depicting some of the legends of Pecos Bill. | 36 |
| Pedro's Journal | Conrad, Pam | 5.8 | 2 | The cabin boy on the 'Santa Maria' keeps a diary which records his experiences when he sails with Columbus on his first voyage to the New World in 1492. | 80 |
| Pee Wee Christmas, A | Delton, Judy | 3.1 | 1 | The Pee Wee Scouts' plans for the holiday must wait when they rescue their scout leader, who is snowed in and whose baby is due. | 90 |
| Pee Wee Jubilee, The | Delton, Judy | 3.2 | 1 | The Pee Wee Scouts head for a big Jubilee in Atlanta, but one scout is afraid of airplanes. | 86 |
| Pee Wees on Parade | Delton, Judy | 3.5 | 1 | When the Pee Wee Scouts are asked to participate in the Fourth of July parade, only Molly doesn't know how to ride a horse. | 90 |
| Peeling the Onion | Orr, Wendy | 5.3 | 7 | Following an automobile accident in which her neck is broken, a teenage karate champion begins a long and painful recovery with the help of her family. | 166 |
| Peeping Beauty | Auch, Mary Jane | 3.1 | 0.5 | Poulette the dancing hen falls into the clutches of a hungry fox who exploits her desire to become a great ballerina. | 29 |
| Pennsylvania (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 4.3 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, famous people, and interesting sites of the Keystone State. | 59 |
| People and Places (Geography for Fun) | Robson, Pam | 5.4 | 1 | This book uses interactive projects to look at where and how people live and work. | 32 |
| People in the Rain Forest | Pirotta, Saviour | 4.4 | 0.5 | The people who live in the rain forests around the world, how they hunt, farm, their religions, festivals, food and medicine are described. | 32 |
| Peppe the Lamplighter | Bartone, Elisa | 3.3 | 0.5 | Peppe's father is upset when he learns that Peppe has taken a job lighting the gas street lamps in his New York City neighborhood. | 30 |
| Percy to the Rescue | Simmons, Steven J. | 3.3 | 0.5 | A pigeon, who loves flying around London enjoying the sights, finds a way to help two boys who are stranded on an island in Hyde Park. | 28 |
| Perilous Journey of the Donner Party, The | Calabro, Marian | 7.2 | 6 | This book uses materials from letters and diaries written by survivors of the Donner Party to relate the experiences of that ill-fated group as they endured horrific circumstances on their way to California in 1846-47. | 192 |
| Perloo the Bold | Avi | 4.9 | 7 | In this wild adventure Perloo, a rabbit-like Montmer, travels over snowy mountains, through underground tunnels, and into enemy territory and alters the future of Montmers everywhere. | 225 |
| Pet Parade | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 3 | 1 | Pet Week is going to be a disaster for Richard "Beast" Best. How can he bring his dog Kissie Poo to school? She's a great dog, but she's fat and has only three teeth left. His friends will laugh. | 103 |
| Pet Show! | Keats, Ezra Jack | 2.2 | 0.5 | When he can't find his cat to enter in the neighborhood pet show, Archie must do some fast thinking to win a prize. | 34 |
| Pet Stories You Don't Have to Walk | Brown et al., Laurie Krasny | 2.4 | 0.5 | This book is a collection of stories about the antics of different types of pets. | 64 |
| Peter Pan | Barrie, James M. | 7.2 | 8 | The adventures of Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up, have delighted readers for nearly a century. | 242 |
| Peter Pan (Great Illustrated Classics) | Barrie/Leighton | 4.6 | 2 | In one of the most beloved fantasy stories ever written, children learn to fly, mermaids frolic, and little lost boys find their home at last. All sorts of adventures can be had on the wonderful island of Neverland. | 238 |
| Peter's Chair | Keats, Ezra Jack | 1.8 | 0.5 | Peter is not happy when he sees all of his things being painted pink for his new sister. | 28 |
| Phantom of the Auditorium | Stine, R.L. | 3.4 | 3 | Really scary things start happening at the play "The Phantom." Is there really a phantom living under the stage? | 126 |
| Phantom Tollbooth, The | Juster, Norton | 6.7 | 7 | In this wise and witty fantasy, a boy travels through time and space to the Lands Beyond. | 256 |
| Phantoms Don't Drive Sports Cars | Dadey/Jones | 4 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. Could the strange man who plays in the orchestra, wears a cape and always has one side of his face shaded really be a phantom haunting the opera? | 75 |
| Philip Hall Likes Me. I Reckon Maybe. | Greene, Bette | 5 | 4 | Young Beth loves Philip, but that doesn't mean she is averse to competing with him. | 135 |
| Phoenix Rising | Hesse, Karen | 4 | 6 | Thirteen-year-old Nyle learns about relationships and death when fifteen-year-old Ezra, who was exposed to radiation leaked from a nearby nuclear plant, comes to stay at her grandmother's Vermont farmhouse. | 182 |
| Piano Lessons Can Be Murder | Stine, R.L. | 3.5 | 3 | Jerry hears stories about his piano teacher. Terrifying stories about other students. Students who went in and never came out. | 124 |
| Picnic, The | Brown, Ruth | 2.6 | 0.5 | A group of humans on a picnic invade a field full of small animals. | 26 |
| Picture Book of Christopher Columbus, A | Adler, David A. | 3.9 | 0.5 | This is a brief account of the life and accomplishments of Christopher Columbus. | 29 |
| Picture for Harold's Room, A | Johnson, Crockett | 2.3 | 0.5 | When the hero of Harold and the Purple Crayon realizes that his room needs a picture, he draws one and it becomes real. | 64 |
| Picture of Dorian Gray (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Wilde/Siegel | 4.8 | 3 | Dorian Gray makes an impossible wish to stay as young as the portrait of himself appears. But all of his evil deeds become etched on the portrait as well. | 240 |
| Pictures of Hollis Woods | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 4.4 | 5 | A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her. | 166 |
| Pie Rats Ahoy! | Scarry, Richard | 2.1 | 0.5 | Uncle Willy uses a clever disguise to save his boat from a gang of pirates and make Busytown Bay safe again. | 32 |
| Piggie Pie! | Palatini, Margie | 2.5 | 0.5 | Gritch the witch flies to Old MacDonald's farm for some pigs to make a piggie pie; but when she arrives, she can't find a single porker. | 28 |
| Piggle | Bonsall, Crosby | 1.8 | 0.5 | Nobody will play with Homer until Bear comes along and teaches him a new game. | 64 |
| Piggy in the Puddle, The | Pomerantz, Charlotte | 2.7 | 0.5 | A rhymed, tongue-twisting romp about a stubborn pig who finally gets her way. | 26 |
| Pigs and Robbers | Worth, Bonnie | 2.5 | 0.5 | Babe the pig is left in charge of the farm when the Hoggetts go at night. | 62 |
| Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore! | McPhail, David | 2 | 0.5 | Pigs galore invade a house and have a wonderful party. | 26 |
| Pig's Eggs | Partridge, Elizabeth | 2.1 | 0.5 | Pig and Hen love painting pictures together, until one day Hen doesn't join Pig because she is sitting on her eggs. Pig misses his painting partner, but gets a colorful idea while waiting. | 26 |
| Pigs in the Mud in the Middle of the Rud | Plourde, Lynn | 1.3 | 0.5 | A feisty grandmother and her family struggle to get an assortment of farm animals out of the road so the family can pass in their Model T Ford. | 30 |
| Pilgrim Village Mystery, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 4.2 | 2 | The Boxcar Children solve a mystery at a restored historical village. | 121 |
| Pinballs, The | Byars, Betsy | 3.8 | 3 | Three lonely foster children learn to care about themselves and each other. | 136 |
| Pink and Say | Polacco, Patricia | 3.8 | 1 | Sheldon Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, and their capture by Southern troops during the Civil War. | 41 |
| Pinkerton, Behave! | Kellogg, Steven | 1.5 | 0.5 | Pinkerton goes to obedience school and later catches a burglar. | 32 |
| Pinky and Rex | Howe, James | 3.1 | 0.5 | Rex and her best friend Pinky, each the proud possessor of twenty-seven stuffed animals, find their visit to the museum and it's gift shop complicated by Pinky's little sister. | 40 |
| Pinky and Rex and the Perfect Pumpkin | Howe, James | 3.2 | 0.5 | When Rex accompanies Pinky and his relatives on their traditional trip to pick and carve pumpkins, she feels left out because of the jealous behavior of Pinky's cousin Abby. | 40 |
| Pioneer Cat | Hooks, William | 3.3 | 1 | When a young girl smuggles a cat aboard the wagon train taking her family from Missouri to Oregon, it turns out to be the best thing she could have done. | 63 |
| Pioneer Sampler: The Daily Life of a Pioneer Family In 1840, A | Greenwood, Barbara | 5.5 | 7 | Explores the life of a Canadian family in 1840. | 240 |
| Pippi Goes on Board | Lindgren, Astrid | 5.3 | 4 | Pippi Longstocking is going on a ship to the South Seas and gets unexpected company. | 140 |
| Pippi in the South Seas | Lindgren, Astrid | 5.4 | 3 | Christmas is coming, and Pippi and her friends want to celebrate. Can Pippi have Christmas on the island in the South Seas. | 125 |
| Pippi Longstocking | Lindgren, Astrid | 5.2 | 4 | A lucky little girl who lives with a horse and a monkey--but without any parents--at the edge of a Swedish village is involved in many escapades. | 160 |
| Pip's Magic | Walsh, Ellen Stoll | 2.5 | 0.5 | The salamander Pip is afraid of the dark, so he sets out in search of a wizard who will help him overcome his fear. | 32 |
| Pirates Don't Wear Pink Sunglasses | Dadey/Jones | 3.9 | 1 | Humorous adventures with the Bailey kids at summer camp. | 78 |
| Pirates Past Noon | Osborne, Mary Pope | 2.8 | 1 | Jack and Annie travel back in time to the age of pirates and buried treasure. | 67 |
| Pirates: A Nonfiction Companion to Pirates Past Noon | Osborne, Will/Mary | 4.9 | 1 | Jack and Annie research the world of pirates and find out the facts behind the fiction. | 117 |
| Pistachio Prescription, The | Danziger, Paula | 3.8 | 5 | Teenage novel in which thirteen-year-old Cassandra runs for class president and tries to cope with explosive conditions at home. | 154 |
| Place to Belong, A | Nixon, Joan Lowery | 4.9 | 6 | In 1856, having traveled with his young sister from New York to a foster home on a farm in Missouri, ten-year-old Danny plots to get his foster father to send for and marry his mother. | 147 |
| Plain City | Hamilton, Virginia | 3.5 | 6 | Buhlaire, a "mixed" child who feels out of place in her community, struggles to unearth her past and her family history as she gradually discovers more and more about her long-missing father. | 194 |
| Plain Girl | Sorensen, Virginia | 4.8 | 4 | Despite her father's objections, a young Amish girl secretly looks forward to attending public school where she makes a best friend and gains a new perspective on her family's way of life. | 151 |
| Planet of Junior Brown, The | Hamilton, Virginia | 5.1 | 7 | Story of friendship between a troubled teenage pianist, a street-wise classmate, and a janitor who constructs a LO-planet revolving solar system. | 210 |
| Plant That Ate Dirty Socks, The | McArthur, Nancy | 4.1 | 4 | Michael 's side of the room was a mess. Brother Norman was a neatness nut. They got a plant, and the problem was gone--and so were their socks. | 119 |
| Planting a Rainbow | Ehlert, Lois | 2.6 | 0.5 | A mother and child plant a rainbow of flowers in the family garden. | 32 |
| Play Ball! (Scrappers) | Hughes, Dean | 4.2 | 3 | Having failed to get their applications in for the middle school summer baseball league, Robbie and Trent scramble to find a sponsor, a coach, and enough players to form their own team. | 123 |
| Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia | Parish, Peggy | 2.3 | 0.5 | When Amelia, who follows all directions literally, plays baseball, the results are predictably funny. | 64 |
| Play Money | Reiff, Tana | 2.7 | 0.5 | A young woman gets heavily in debt by overusing her credit cards. | 60 |
| Pleasing the Ghost | Creech, Sharon | 3 | 2 | Nine-year-old Dennis, whose uncle and father died within a year of one another, is visited by the ghost of his uncle, and together they settle some unfinished business. | 89 |
| Plum Tree War, The | Pryor, Bonnie | 4.6 | 4 | When Robert's irritating cousin Harriet comes to stay for a whole school year, it's war until the quarrelsome fourth-grade cousins discover how much alike they really are. | 115 |
| Pluto (Exploring the Galaxy) | Adamson, Thomas K. | 2.1 | 0.5 | In this book, readers will learn about Pluto's conditions and what makes it unique in the solar system. | 24 |
| Pluto and the Search for New Planets (Our Universe) | Vogt, Gregory | 5.3 | 1 | This book examines the characteristics of the planet Pluto and the search for new planets in our solar system. | 48 |
| Pocket For Corduroy, A | Freeman, Don | 3.7 | 0.5 | When Lisa's toy bear Corduroy discovers that he doesn't have a pocket, he goes in search of one. | 28 |
| Poky Little Puppy, The | Lowrey, Janette | 4 | 0.5 | A puppy who is always late coming home one night finds there is no dessert for him. | 27 |
| Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? | Martin Jr., Bill | 2.1 | 0.5 | Zoo animals from polar bear to walrus make their distinctive sounds for each other, while children imitate the sounds for the zookeeper. | 24 |
| Polar Bears Past Bedtime | Osborne, Mary Pope | 3.3 | 1 | The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to the Arctic, where a polar bear leads them onto very thin ice. | 74 |
| Polar Express, The | Van Allsburg, Chris | 3.8 | 0.5 | An incredible children's story, beautifully illustrated, about a young boy's Christmas adventure. | 29 |
| Polar the Titanic Bear | Spedden, Daisy | 5 | 0.5 | Story about the Titanic as seen through the eyes of a young boy's teddy bear. | 63 |
| Pollyanna (Great Illustrated Classics) | Porter/Leighton | 3.8 | 2 | When Pollyanna's father dies, she is all alone in the world except for her cold and demanding aunt. She struggles to adjust to life in a new place with new people. To help her cope, she plays "the Glad Game." | 236 |
| Pond & River (Eyewitness) | Parker, Steve | 7.6 | 1 | Discover in close-up the ecology of the plants and animals that make freshwater habitats their home. | 63 |
| Pool of Fire, The | Christopher, John | 7 | 8 | Will and a small group of free people plan to destroy the three great cities of the Tripods before the arrival of a space ship destined to doom the planet. | 218 |
| Pooped Troop, The | Delton, Judy | 2.8 | 1 | The Pee Wee Scouts wear themselves out getting ready for the physical fitness festival. | 88 |
| Poor Mallory! | Martin, Ann M. | 4 | 4 | The Baby-Sitters Club tries to help Mallory out after her father loses his job. | 142 |
| Popcorn Book, The | De Paola, Tomie | 4.3 | 0.5 | Presents a variety of facts about popcorn and includes two recipes. | 28 |
| Poppleton Everyday | Rylant, Cynthia | 2 | 0.5 | Poppleton and his friends go look at the stars, go shopping and go sailing. | 48 |
| Poppleton in Fall | Rylant, Cynthia | 2.4 | 0.5 | Poppleton invites some geese in for cookies, shops for a new coat, and enjoys a pancake breakfast. | 48 |
| Poppleton in Spring | Rylant, Cynthia | 2.5 | 0.5 | This book describes some of the adventures Poppleton enjoys during the spring. | 48 |
| Poppy | Avi | 4.5 | 4 | A brave young mouse challenges the owl that rules over the territory and saves her family from starvation. | 147 |
| Porcupine Named Fluffy, A | Lester, Helen | 2.4 | 0.5 | A porcupine named Fluffy is happier with his name after he meets a similarly misnamed rhinoceros. | 32 |
| Possum Magic | Fox, Mem | 3 | 0.5 | When Grandma Poss's magic turns Hush invisible, the two possums take a culinary tour of Australia to find the food that will make her visible once more. | 30 |
| Powder Puff Puzzle, The | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 2.1 | 1 | When Dawn Bosco's cat jumps into a car as it speeds away, there are only a few clues to track it down. | 75 |
| Power of UN, The | Etchemendy, Nancy | 4.8 | 5 | When he is given a device that will allow him to "undo" what has happened in the past, Gib Finney is not sure what event from the worst day in his life he should change in order to keep his sister from being hit by a truck. | 148 |
| Prairie School | Lenski, Lois | 4 | 7 | Story of things that did or could have happened in a one-room rural school on the prairie of South Dakota. | 196 |
| Prairie Songs | Conrad, Pam | 5.3 | 5 | Louisa's life in a loving pioneer family on the Nebraska prairie is altered by the arrival of a new doctor and his beautiful but tragically frail wife. | 167 |
| Preacher's Boy | Paterson, Katherine | 5.2 | 7 | In 1899, ten-year-old Robbie, son of a preacher in a small Vermont town, gets himself into all kinds of trouble when he decides to give up being Christian in order to make the most of his life before the end of the world. | 168 |
| Predator, The | Applegate, K.A. | 3.6 | 4 | Marco is worried about his father, but the Yeerks have a surprise waiting for him. | 150 |
| Predators in the Rain Forest | Pirotta, Saviour | 4.1 | 0.5 | This book describes the different types of predatory animals that inhabit the rain forests of the world as well as their habits, hunting methods, and survival techniques. | 32 |
| Prehistoric Pinkerton | Kellogg, Steven | 3.8 | 0.5 | Pinkerton's natural canine urge to chew on things while teething coincides with a chaotic visit to the museum's collection of dinosaur bones. | 29 |
| Pretender, The | Applegate, K.A. | 4 | 4 | Tobias's long-lost cousin claims a lawyer has discovered Tobias's father's last will and testament, and she offers to go with him to the reading. But something doesn't seem right with this situation, so the Animorphs decide to check it out. | 154 |
| Prince and the Pauper (Abridged), The | Twain, Mark | 9.3 | 12 | A prince and pauper, who are identical in appearance, trade places in life. | 267 |
| Prince and the Pauper (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Twain/Bogart | 5 | 3 | Edward, the Prince of Wales, and Tom, a beggar boy, switch clothes and face adventures when they are accidentally thrust into each other's worlds. | 238 |
| Prince and the Pauper (Unabridged), The | Twain, Mark | 9.5 | 13 | This is the classic story of two boys, identical except for their clothes and stations in life, who switch identities. | 224 |
| Prince and the Pooch, The | Leavitt, Caroline | 4 | 4 | When Joe fills in as a coach for a local baseball team, he finds out that it is not as simple as it seems. | 139 |
| Prince Caspian | Lewis, C.S. | 5.7 | 7 | Prince Caspian and his army of Talking Beasts conquer the Telmarines. | 238 |
| Princess and the Goblin (Unabridged), The | MacDonald, George | 6.1 | 8 | A little princess is protected by her friend Curdie from the goblin miners who live beneath the castle. | 241 |
| Princess Diaries, The | Cabot, Meg | 5.7 | 9 | Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne. | 238 |
| Princess Dinosaur | Kastner, Jill | 1.9 | 0.5 | Princess Dinosaur has fun playing with the rest of the toys until Spots comes and carries her off. | 32 |
| Princess Furball | Huck, Charlotte | 4.7 | 0.5 | A princess in a coat of a thousand furs hides her identity from a king who falls in love with her. | 40 |
| Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep | Levine, Gail Carson | 4.1 | 2 | In this retelling of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, Princess Sonora, who is ten times smarter than anyone else, vows to choose for herself the best time to be pricked by the spindle. | 107 |
| Principal from the Black Lagoon, The | Thaler, Mike | 2.4 | 0.5 | A humorous story about every child's fear of a visit with the school principal. | 30 |
| Printer's Apprentice, The | Krensky, Stephen | 4.3 | 2 | In 1735 in New York City, a young printer's apprentice learns about the importance of freedom of speech when the printer Peter Zenger is arrested and tried for writing articles criticizing the government. | 103 |
| Private Notebook of Katie Roberts, Age 11, The | Hest, Amy | 3.5 | 1 | In a series of journal entries and letters to a pen pal, Katie relates her feelings about her father's death in World War II, her mother's remarriage, and the family's move from New York City to Texas. | 75 |
| Programmed for Terror | Behrman, Carol H. | 4.3 | 3 | Not everyone's a whiz at computers. And Judi's no exception. But when someone or something changes what Judi writes in her computer and adds terrifying threats, Judi is scared stiff! | 125 |
| Promise Is a Promise, A | Munsch, Robert N. | 4 | 0.5 | A retelling of an Inuit story about how a mother saves her children from the Qallupillut who live below the ice-covered ocean. | 29 |
| Prophecy, The | Applegate, K.A. | 4.2 | 3 | Cassie is losing her mind, but she is gaining the mind of Aldrea. Aldrea's persona, her memory, and a valuable bit of information now belong to Cassie. | 141 |
| Proposal, The | Applegate, K.A. | 3.7 | 3 | The Yeerks are stepping up their invasion tactics. Marco has problems of his own. His dad is starting to date, but Marco knows his mother might still be alive. | 147 |
| Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver, A | Konigsburg, E.L. | 5.4 | 5 | The story of Eleanor of Aquitane as she reflects on her life while waiting on a cloud in heaven for her husband King Henry II. | 201 |
| Puddle's ABC | Hobbie, Holly | 2 | 0.5 | Puddle teaches his friend Otto the letters of the alphabet so that Otto can write his name. | 46 |
| Puerto Rico (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis/Judith | 4.3 | 1 | Presents a history and description of this popular vacationland located 1,050 miles southeast of Miami, Florida. | 59 |
| Pumpkin Pumpkin | Titherington, Jeanne | 2.4 | 0.5 | Jamie plants a pumpkin seed and, after watching it grow, carves it and saves some seeds to plant in the spring. | 24 |
| Pumpkin Soup | Cooper, Helen | 3.1 | 0.5 | Duck, Squirrel and Cat live peacefully until Duck wants to stir the pumpkin soup. | 32 |
| Puppies, Dogs and Blue Northers | Paulsen, Gary | 6 | 2 | Dog-musher Gary Paulsen reflects on the growth--both his own and the puppies'--as man and animal discover the world. | 81 |
| Puppy in a Puddle | Baglio, Ben M. | 4.1 | 3 | Mandy Hope and her friend James become concerned that a local breeder may be mistreating puppies when two sheepdogs turn up at the Animal Ark clinic. | 129 |
| Pure Dead Magic | Gliori, Debi | 5.9 | 6 | When their father is kidnapped and danger looms, the Strega-Borgia children, their mysterious new nanny, and a large talking spider use magic and actual trips through the Internet to bring peace to their Scottish castle. | 182 |
| Purebred | Bryant, Bonnie | 4.6 | 4 | Carole is trapped by a fierce winter blizzard. | 131 |
| Purple Climbing Days | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 2.4 | 1 | Richard 'Beast' Best must stay after school with Mrs. Miller--Miller the Killer--and he does not know what is in store for him. | 70 |
| Purple Coat, The | Hest, Amy | 3.4 | 0.5 | Despite her mother's reminder that 'navy blue is what you always have,' Gabby begs her tailor grandfather to make her a beautiful purple fall coat. | 28 |
| Purple Mountain Majesties | Younger, Barbara | 5.8 | 0.5 | This is an engaging picture-book account of Katherine Lee Bates and the trip that gave rise to "America the Beautiful." | 28 |
| Purple Pickle Juice | Mayer/Farber/Sansevere | 2.9 | 0.5 | Thistle Howl desperately wants to grow, but drinking purple pickle juice doesn't help; and her aunt's magic makes Thistle think that maybe she's content just as she is. | 43 |
| Purple, Green and Yellow | Munsch, Robert N. | 3.2 | 0.5 | Bridget is a budding artist who loves magic markers. | 29 |
| Push to the West | Reiff, Tana | 2.8 | 1 | A Norwegian couple cross the Great Plains in a wagon train to establish a claim of their own. | 76 |
| Pushcart War, The | Merrill, Jean | 6.5 | 6 | This is the laugh-out-loud saga of the fierce war waged by pushcart peddlers and the city's children against the menacing bully trucks. | 222 |
| Puss in Boots | Perrault/Arthur | 4.6 | 0.5 | In this version of the French fairy tale, a clever cat wins for his master a castle and the hand of a princess. | 30 |
| Pyramid | Macaulay, David | 7.5 | 1 | Describes in detail the painful and complicated occupation of building a pyramid. Black-and-white illustrations reveal the process of pyramid-building step by step. | 80 |
| Quarter from the Tooth Fairy, A | Holtzman, Caren | 2.4 | 0.5 | A boy has trouble deciding how to spend the quarter he gets from the Tooth Fairy. | 30 |
| Queen of the Sixth Grade | Cooper, Ilene | 4.9 | 4 | After helping her supposed best friend Veronica found the sixth grade's secret club, the Awesome Kennedy Girls, Robin accidently gets on her wrong side and discovers how bossy and cruel Veronica really is. | 163 |
| Queenie Peavy | Burch, Robert | 5.6 | 5 | Story of what happens when the biggest troublemaker in school tries to behave for just one day. | 151 |
| Quentin Corn | Stolz, Mary | 4.8 | 4 | Quentin Corn's life on the farm goes from dull to terrifying when poor Quentin learns that he's about to be barbecued. So the quick-witted pig runs away disguised as a boy! | 122 |
| Question of Trust, A | Bauer, Marion Dane | 5.1 | 4 | After his mother leaves the family, Brad copes with his feelings of rejection by secretly taking care of a stray cat and her two newborn kittens. | 130 |
| Quick as a Cricket | Wood, Audrey | 1.7 | 0.5 | This book depicts a small boy as he compares himself to a wide range of animals. He is quick as a cricket, tender as a lamb, and fragile as a kitten. | 32 |
| Quicksand Pony, The | Lester, Alison | 5.1 | 4 | Biddy is forced to go on without her pony when the pony becomes trapped, and so the mystery of what happened to the pony begins. | 135 |
| Quicksand Question, The | Roy, Ron | 3.7 | 1 | When someone steals the money the town has been collecting to help the ducks, Josh and his friends try to find the thief. | 80 |
| Quidditch Through the Ages | Rowling, J.K. | 8.2 | 2 | This book is a copy from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, explaining the history of broomsticks, describing the evolution of Quidditch through the generations, and includes the rules of the game. | 56 |
| Quiet Night In, A | Murphy, Jill | 2.4 | 0.5 | Mr. and Mrs. Large's attempt to put the children to bed early and have a quiet night on their own has an unexpected ending. | 32 |
| Quiet Place, A | Wood, Douglas | 4.1 | 0.5 | This book describes some of the special places that one can go to be quiet and alone and to imagine. | 32 |
| Quillworker: A Cheyenne Legend | Cohlene, Terri | 4.1 | 0.5 | This Cheyenne legend explains the origins of the stars and describes some of the history and culture of the Cheyenne Indians. | 47 |
| Quiltmaker's Gift, The | Brumbeau, Jeff | 4.6 | 0.5 | When a generous quiltmaker finally agrees to make a quilt for a greedy king but only under certain conditions, she causes him to undergo a change of heart. | 45 |
| Quinceanera: Celebrating Fifteen | King, Elizabeth | 6.4 | 1 | This book describes the Quinceanera, a rite of passage, of two Latina girls. | 40 |
| Rabbit and Hare Divide an Apple | Ziefert, Harriet | 1.8 | 0.5 | Because both Rabbit and Hare insist on having the larger piece of apple, they lose the whole thing to a sly raccoon but learn an important lesson in the process. | 29 |
| Rabbit Hill | Lawson, Robert | 6.4 | 3 | The Animals of the Hill prepare for the "new Folk" moving into the Big House. | 128 |
| Race to Win | Cowen, Eve | 3.2 | 1 | SporTeller novel about drag-racing. | 60 |
| Racing the Sun | Pitts, Paul | 4.4 | 5 | When twelve-year-old Brandon's Navajo grandfather comes to live with him, Brandon is forced to consider his heritage and his father's rejection of the old ways. | 148 |
| Rag Coat, The | Mills, Lauren | 3.9 | 0.5 | Minna proudly wears her new coat made of clothing scraps to school, where the other children laugh at her until she tells them the stories behind the scraps. | 29 |
| Railways (Discovering Canada), The | Livesey, Robert | 8.2 | 2 | This book discusses how the advent of the railway system changed the face of Canada. | 90 |
| Rain (Weather) | Saunders-Smith, Gail | 2 | 0.5 | Text and photographs simply describe what rain is and the cycle that repeatedly brings water to the earth. | 24 |
| Rain Came Down, The | Shannon, David | 3.2 | 0.5 | Once upon a sunny day, the sky clouded over, and the rain came down. The chickens squawked, the dog barked, the baby cried, and still, the rain came down. | 32 |
| Rain Forest | Cowcher, Helen | 2.5 | 0.5 | Something powerful threatens the beautiful world and the creatures of the rain forest. | 31 |
| Rain Forests (World Habitats) | Pipes, Rose | 4.2 | 0.5 | The book introduces some notable rain forests around the world, including those of South America, Congo, and Central America. | 32 |
| Rain Forests: A Nonfiction Companion to Afternoon on the Amazon | Osborne, Will/Mary | 4.8 | 1 | Join Jack and Annie as they research rain forests and find out the facts behind the fiction. | 119 |
| Rain Makes Applesauce | Scheer, Julian | 2.5 | 0.5 | Nonsense book with incredibly detailed illustrations. A Caldecott Honor book. | 31 |
| Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale | Pfister/James | 3.6 | 0.5 | Rainbow fish must help his friends from a whale that lashes out at them. | 24 |
| Rainbow Fish to the Rescue! | Pfister/James | 3.7 | 0.5 | Rainbow Fish learns the lesson of standing up for others even when peer pressure to do the opposite is placed against someone who is different. | 24 |
| Rainbow Fish, The | Pfister/James | 3.3 | 0.5 | The most beautiful fish in the ocean learns the value of friendship. Illustrated with holographic foil images. | 24 |
| Rainbow of Friends, A | Hallinan, P.K. | 3.1 | 0.5 | This is a story in verse about how all friends are special and valuable regardless of differences or difficulties. | 22 |
| Rainbow People, The | Yep, Laurence | 4.8 | 6 | This book contains a collection of twenty Chinese folk tales that were passed on by word of mouth for generations, as told by some old-timers newly settled in the United States. | 194 |
| Rainbow Valley | Montgomery, L.M. | 7.6 | 14 | Rainbow Valley was the perfect spot for Anne's children to play, dream, and to make the most unusual new friends. Book 7 in the Anne of Green Gables series. | 225 |
| Raising Dragons | Nolen, Jerdine | 4.2 | 0.5 | A farmer's young daughter shares numerous adventures with the dragon that she raises from infancy. | 28 |
| Raising Sweetness | Stanley, Diane | 4 | 0.5 | Sweetness, one of eight orphans living with a man who is an unconventional housekeeper, learns to read and writes a letter to improve their situation. | 30 |
| Ralph S. Mouse | Cleary, Beverly | 5.1 | 3 | Ralph, the motorcycle-riding mouse, is off on another adventure and acquires a new sports car to replace his broken motorcycle. | 160 |
| Ramona and Her Father | Cleary, Beverly | 5.2 | 3 | In this adventure with Beezus and Ramona, two of the best-loved characters in children's literature, Mr. Quimby loses his job, and the entire family learns to cope with hardship. | 186 |
| Ramona and Her Mother | Cleary, Beverly | 4.8 | 4 | Now that her daddy has a job, Ramona hopes that her mother will stop working. If Mrs. Quimby stays home again, Ramona won't have to stay with Howie's grandmother after school, and her parents won't be so tired and irritable. | 182 |
| Ramona Forever | Cleary, Beverly | 4.8 | 4 | Ramona is back and funnier than ever as she prepares for her aunt's wedding and the move her family might make. | 182 |
| Ramona Quimby, Age 8 | Cleary, Beverly | 5.6 | 3 | Now in third grade, Ramona rides the school bus alone and helps around the house while her mother works and her father attends college. | 190 |
| Ramona the Brave | Cleary, Beverly | 4.9 | 3 | Irrepressible Ramona bravely struggles to cope with the assorted trials of growing up. | 190 |
| Ramona the Pest | Cleary, Beverly | 5.1 | 4 | A lovable five-year-old girl starts kindergarten with a hilarious series of misdeeds. | 192 |
| Ramona's World | Cleary, Beverly | 4.8 | 4 | This story follows the adventures of nine-year-old Ramona...at home with big sister Beezus and baby sister Roberta, and at school in Mrs. Meacham's fourth grade class. | 192 |
| Randy's Dandy Lions | Peet, Bill | 4.9 | 0.5 | Five talented lions suffer from stage fright and are unable to perform their circus act. A new lion-tamer is hired. | 48 |
| Raptor | Zindel, Paul | 5.1 | 5 | Zack and his Ute Indian friend find themselves trapped in a cave with a living dinosaur, the deadly Utahraptor. | 170 |
| Rapunzel | Zelinsky, Paul O. | 4.6 | 0.5 | The story recounts the German folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress. | 35 |
| Rapunzel | Grimm, Brothers | 4.9 | 0.5 | Retells the tale of the beautiful girl imprisoned in a lonely tower by a witch. | 26 |
| Rascal | North, Sterling | 7.1 | 7 | The author recalls his carefree life in a small midwestern town at the close of World War I, and his adventures with his pet raccoon, Rascal. | 189 |
| Rat's Tale, A | Seidler, Tor | 5.4 | 5 | Montague Mad-Rat learns about life and love after meeting his namesake. | 186 |
| Rattlebang Picnic, The | Mahy, Margaret | 4.5 | 0.5 | The McTavishes, their seven children, and Granny McTavish take their old rattlebang of a car on a picnic up Mt. Fogg and have an exciting adventure. | 29 |
| Rattletrap Car | Root, Phyllis | 2.5 | 0.5 | Various disasters threaten to stop Poppa and the children from getting to the lake in their rattletrap car, but they manage to come up with an ingenious solution to each problem. | 40 |
| Raven | McDermott, Gerald | 2.5 | 0.5 | A retelling of the story of Raven, the Native American trickster, with illustrations based on traditional designs from the Pacific Northwest. | 24 |
| Raz-Ma-Taz (Original Text) | Cosgrove, Stephen | 4.6 | 0.5 | Nobody pays attention to the smart-alec Raz-Ma-Taz, until his friends come to his rescue in a lightning storm. | 28 |
| Reaction, The | Applegate, K.A. | 3.8 | 4 | Rachel's morphing is out of control. She and the other Animorphs have to find out what is happening very quickly. | 130 |
| Read Me a Story | Wells, Rosemary | 2.7 | 0.5 | Yoko pretends she cannot read because she thinks that if her mother finds out she can, no one will read her a bedtime story. | 31 |
| Ready, Set, Hop! | Murphy, Stuart J. | 2.4 | 0.5 | Explains equation-building as two frogs count their hops to a rock, a log, and a pond. | 31 |
| Real Christmas This Year, A | Williams, Karen Lynn | 4.2 | 5 | Megan's efforts to provide a real Christmas for her multiple-handicapped brother and the rest of the family cause problems with her best friend and some other schoolmates. | 164 |
| Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | Wiggin, Kate Douglas | 8.1 | 13 | Talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, with whom she spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up. | 276 |
| Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Great Illustrated Classics) | Wiggin/Warren | 5.5 | 3 | Rebecca leaves her beloved Sunnybrook Farm to live with her two aunts. With courage, intelligence, and her own special charm, she wins the hearts of everyone who gets to know her. | 240 |
| Recess Queen, The | O'Neill, Alexis | 3 | 0.5 | Mean Jean is the biggest bully on the school playground until a new girl arrives and challenges Jean's status as the Recess Queen. | 32 |
| Rechenka's Eggs | Polacco, Patricia | 4 | 0.5 | An injured goose rescued by Babushka, having broken the painted eggs intended for the Easter Festival in Moscva, lays 13 marvelously colored eggs to replace them, then leaves behind one final miracle in egg form before returning to her own kind. | 30 |
| Red Badge of Courage (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Crane/Vogel | 5.4 | 3 | Henry Fleming, a Union soldier undergoes change from a boy to a man. He undergoes many trials of war. | 238 |
| Red Badge of Courage (Unabridged), The | Crane, Stephen | 8 | 8 | This stirring tale of action in the American Civil War captures the immediacies and experiences of actual battle and army life. | 278 |
| Red Balloon, The | Lamorisse, Albert | 4 | 0.5 | The story of Pascal, a lonely French boy befriended by a wondrous red balloon. | 32 |
| Red Dog | Wallace, Bill | 4.4 | 5 | Lost in the wilderness, Adam and the red pup face the greatest danger of their lives. | 167 |
| Red Fox and His Canoe | Benchley, Nathaniel | 2.2 | 0.5 | An Indian boy's canoe capsizes after taking on too many animal passengers. The ending is a surprise in this "I Can Read Book." | 62 |
| Red Gem Mine (Sound Out), The | Sims, Matt | 2.1 | 0.5 | Each day Pete digs and digs but has not yet found one red gem. Jake, his mule, turns out to be quite a miner. | 27 |
| Red Pony, The | Steinbeck, John | 6.1 | 6 | Moving and beautiful story of a boy and his sorrel colt, and the sun-drenched California earth. | 120 |
| Red, White, and Blue: The Story of the American Flag | Herman, John | 3.2 | 0.5 | This book describes how the American flag came into being, how it has changed over the years, and its importance as the symbol of our country. | 48 |
| Red, White, Blue, and Uncle Who? The Stories Behind Some of Americ | Bateman, Teresa | 7.5 | 2 | This book looks at seventeen well-loved patriotic symbols and examines how they came to represent America. | 64 |
| Redwall | Jacques, Brian | 5.6 | 16 | The peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes. Matthias determines to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior which, he is convinced, will help destroy the enemy. | 351 |
| Regarding the Fountain: A Tale in Letters, of Liars, and Leaks | Klise, Kate | 5.8 | 2 | When the principal asks a fifth grader to write a letter regarding the purchase of a new drinking fountain for their school, he finds that all sorts of chaos results. | 138 |
| Regular Flood of Mishap, A | Birdseye, Tom | 3.3 | 0.5 | Six-year-old Ima Bean sets off such a "flood of mishaps" when she tries to help her grandpa that she begins to worry whether she will ever be forgiven. | 30 |
| Relatives Came, The | Rylant, Cynthia | 4.1 | 0.5 | The relatives come to visit from Virginia, and everyone has a wonderful time. | 26 |
| Reluctant Dragon, The | Grahame, Kenneth | 6.5 | 1 | A young boy and St. George find a way to calm frightened townspeople and spare the life of a harmless dragon. | 55 |
| Reluctant God, The | Service, Pamela F. | 6.3 | 9 | He is a pharaoh's young son in ancient Egypt. She is the daughter of a modern archaeologist. Their worlds collide when Lorna walks in the hills near her father's digs. | 182 |
| Reluctant Pitcher, The | Christopher, Matt | 3.9 | 2 | Wally Morris likes playing right field, but his coach wants him to pitch. He finds a friend who convinces him that being true to oneself is sometimes more important than fulfilling another's dreams. | 85 |
| Reluctantly Alice | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 5 | 6 | Alice experiences the joys and embarrassments of seventh grade while advising her father and older brother on their love lives. | 182 |
| Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 5.4 | 9 | Bearing six unusual gifts, young Prince Jen embarks on a perilous quest and emerges triumphantly into manhood. | 273 |
| Reptile Room, The | Snicket, Lemony | 6.3 | 5 | After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetologist with whom they live happily for an all-too-brief time. | 190 |
| Return of Santa Paws, The | Edwards, Nicholas | 4.7 | 5 | Santa Paws, the lovable dog, is involved in a plane crash with Gregory, Patricia, and their Uncle Steve. | 168 |
| Return of the Great Brain, The | Fitzgerald, John D. | 5.5 | 6 | The shrewdest young con artist west of the Mississippi rides again, and along with his brother attempt to solve a train robbery. | 150 |
| Return of the Indian, The | Banks, Lynne Reid | 4.6 | 5 | In this sequel to Indian In The Cupboard, Omri brings Little Bear to life again and begins a spellbinding adventure. | 189 |
| Return of the King, The | Tolkien, J.R.R. | 6.2 | 22 | Sam and Frodo must make their way deep into Mordor to destroy the Ring of Power in the fires of Mount Doom. | 507 |
| Return of the Mummy | Stine, R.L. | 3.8 | 3 | Gabe learns a secret chant that is supposed to bring mummies back to life. Something starts moving. Words can't make the dead, can they? | 118 |
| Return to Hawk's Hill | Eckert, Allan W. | 7.4 | 7 | Running away from a vicious trapper, seven-year-old Ben MacDonald is separated from his family and eventually ends up on the shores of Lake Winnipeg, where he is taken in by a tribe of Metis Indians. Sequel to "Hawk's Hill." | 192 |
| Return to Howliday Inn | Howe, James | 5.8 | 3 | In this sequel to "Howliday Inn," the Monroe family pets are again boarded at Chateau Bow-Wow, where some spooky goings-on serve as a distraction from the kennel's poor food. | 156 |
| Return with Honor | O'Grady, Scott | 7.3 | 10 | An American fighter pilot's heroic tale of survival behind enemy lines in Bosnia. | 188 |
| Reunion, The | Applegate, K.A. | 4 | 3 | Marco is stressed over getting his mom back. He is trying to determine if she is still a Controller. The situation with Marco's mom could jeopardize everything. Will Marco give away the secret of the Animorphs? | 156 |
| Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes | Stine, R.L. | 2.9 | 3 | Two lawn gnomes terrorize the neighborhood. | 119 |
| Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost, The | Bellairs, John | 5.8 | 5 | When Johnny Dixon, hero of The Curse of the Blue Figurine, is supernaturally possessed, it is up to the eccentric Professor Childermass to rescue him. | 147 |
| Revolutionary War on Wednesday | Osborne, Mary Pope | 3.5 | 1 | Using their magic tree house, Jack and Annie travel back to the time of the American Revolution and help General George Washington during his famous crossing of the Delaware River. | 69 |
| Rhode Island (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis/Judith | 4.2 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, famous people, and interesting sites of the Ocean State. | 59 |
| Ribbon Rescue | Munsch, Robert | 3 | 0.5 | Jillian helps many people who are late for a wedding by using the ribbons on her dress. | 30 |
| Ribsy | Cleary, Beverly | 5 | 4 | A wonderful week spent as the mascot for a second grade class is just one of the adventures Henry Huggins' dog Ribsy experiences during the month he is separated from his home. | 136 |
| Richard Scarry (Young at Heart) | Berg, Julie | 5.6 | 0.5 | This book examines the life and career of Richard Scarry, illustrator and author of popular children's literature. | 32 |
| Ricky Ricotta's Giant (Mighty) Robot | Pilkey, Dav | 2.9 | 0.5 | Getting picked on by creeps at your school? Wish you had a special friend? Meet Ricky Ricotta, a small mouse, and his giant flying robot. | 111 |
| Riddle of the Red Purse, The | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 2.2 | 1 | When Dawn finds a purse and several kids claim it, she must use her detective skills to find out who it belongs to. | 68 |
| Riddle of the Rosetta Stone: Key to Ancient Egypt, The | Giblin, James Cross | 7.7 | 1 | Describes how the discovery and deciphering of the Rosetta Stone unlocked the secret of Egyptian hieroglyphs. | 85 |
| Ride into Morning, A | Rinaldi, Ann | 4.8 | 10 | When unrest spreads at the Revolutionary War camp in Morristown, New Jersey, under the command of General Anthony Wayne, a young woman cleverly hides her horse from the mutinous soldiers who have need of it. | 353 |
| Riding Freedom | Ryan, Pam Muñpreads at the Revolutionary War camp in Morristown, New Jersey, under the command of General Anthony Wayne, a young woman cleverly hides her horse from the mutinous soldiers who have need of it. | 4.5 | 3 | Charlotte (Charley) Parkhurst runs away from an orphanage, poses as a boy, moves to California, and fools everyone by her appearance. | 138 |
| Rifle, The | Paulsen, Gary | 6.8 | 3 | A priceless, handcrafted rifle carried throughout the American Revolution is passed down through the years until it fires on a fateful Christmas Eve of 1994. | 105 |
| Rifles for Watie | Keith, Harold | 6.1 | 14 | Sixteen-year-old Jeff cannot wait to join the Union army and fight against Stand Watie, leader of the Cherokee Indian rebels. | 332 |
| Rikki-Tikki-Tavi | Kipling/Pinkney | 4.4 | 1 | A courageous mongoose thwarts the evil plans of Nag and Nagaina, two big cobras who live in the garden. | 46 |
| Rilla of Ingleside | Montgomery, L.M. | 7.9 | 16 | Anne's youngest daughter, pretty and high-spirited Rilla, joins her family in a dramatic struggle as she comes of age. | 277 |
| Ring of Endless Light, A | L'Engle, Madeleine | 5.2 | 11 | Life is changing on Seven Bay Island for Vicky Austin, with Commander Rodney dead, her grandfather dying, and three boys who devote their attention to her. | 332 |
| Rip Van Winkle | Irving/Moses | 6.6 | 1 | This is a retelling of the tale in which a man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world. | 40 |
| River, The | Paulsen, Gary | 5.5 | 4 | Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for 54 days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival. | 129 |
| Rivers and Lakes (World Habitats) | Pipes, Rose | 4.3 | 0.5 | This book introduces some famous rivers and lakes around the world, including the Nile River, Lake Titicaca, and the Ganges River. | 32 |
| Rivers in the Rain Forest | Pirotta, Saviour | 4 | 0.5 | This book introduces aspects of rivers in the rain forest including their plants and animals, the water cycle, flooding, and mining. | 32 |
| Road to Home, The | Auch, Mary Jane | 4.9 | 7 | In 1817, after her mother had died and her father abandoned his children, thirteen-year-old Mem searches for a new home for Joshua, herself, and their little sister. | 213 |
| Robert the Rose Horse | Heilbroner, Joan | 1.8 | 0.5 | Robert, the horse, is allergic to roses. | 64 |
| Robinhound Crusoe | Leavitt, Caroline | 4 | 4 | When the power goes out in Oakdale, Wishbone must use his imagination to survive without food and water. | 137 |
| Robinson Crusoe | Defoe, Daniel | 12.3 | 27 | A young seaman is cast ashore on an uninhabited tropical island. | 482 |
| Robots Don't Catch Chicken Pox | Dadey/Jones | 4.2 | 1 | Could the drama teacher directing the class play really be a robot that is trying to take over the school? | 73 |
| Rodomonte's Revenge | Paulsen, Gary | 3.7 | 1 | Brett and Tom play a virtual reality game until a computer infiltrates their minds. | 76 |
| Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Taylor, Mildred D. | 5.7 | 10 | Warmth, humor and hard times prevail as a black family struggles to maintain dignity and independence in Depression-era Mississippi. | 276 |
| Roller Skates | Sawyer, Ruth | 6.3 | 8 | Ten-year-old Lucinda makes friends of all social classes in New York City while her wealthy parents spend the year in Europe. | 186 |
| Roller Skates! | Calmenson, Stephanie | 2.5 | 0.5 | When the town store has a big sale on roller skates, everyone from the mailman to Pete the pizza boy ends up on wheels. | 28 |
| Roman Empire (Make It Work!), The | Chrisp/Haslam | 7 | 2 | This book provides information about clothing, transportation, food, religion, and many other aspects of life in ancient Rome. It is also accompanied by a variety of related craft projects. | 64 |
| Roman Villa (Look Inside), A | Dargie, Richard | 5.9 | 1 | This book depicts life in ancient Rome by examining everyday objects that were found in Roman villas and describing how they were used. | 32 |
| Romans (Look into the Past), The | Hicks, Peter | 6.2 | 0.5 | Illustrates the culture and history of ancient Rome. | 32 |
| Ronald Morgan Goes to Bat | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 1.9 | 0.5 | Although he can't hit or catch, Ronald Morgan loves to play baseball. | 32 |
| Rookie Arrives, The | Dygard, Thomas J. | 5.2 | 6 | Cocky Ted Bell moves from being star of his high school baseball team directly into playing in the major leagues and finds that he has a lot to learn before becoming the world's greatest third-baseman. | 197 |
| Rookie of the Year | Tunis, John R. | 5 | 6 | The seeming irresponsibility of a brilliant rookie pitcher becomes a threat to the team's chances for the pennant. | 220 |
| Rooster's Gift, The | Conrad, Pam | 3.7 | 0.5 | Young Rooster thinks his gift is making the sun rise, until one morning when the sun rises without him. | 36 |
| Root Cellar, The | Lunn, Janet | 5.2 | 10 | For twelve-year-old Rose, the root cellar was a passage through which she could escape the present and travel back in time to the 1860s and the Civil War. | 229 |
| Rosa Parks | Greenfield, Eloise | 4 | 0.5 | When Rosa Parks was growing up, she hated the unfair rules that black people had to live by. Years later, she changed the lives of African-Americans with one courageous act. | 41 |
| Rosa Parks, My Story | Parks/Haskins | 6.2 | 6 | Biography of the woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus sparked a nationwide civil rights movement. | 192 |
| Rose for Pinkerton, A | Kellogg, Steven | 2.2 | 0.5 | Pinkerton's owner buys a cat at the pet store so he will not be lonely anymore. | 32 |
| Rosie and Michael | Viorst, Judith | 3.3 | 0.5 | Two friends tell what they like about each other--even the bad things. | 36 |
| Rosie's Nutcracker Dreams | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 3.2 | 1 | A clash with her rival may end Rosie's dream of playing the leading role in her ballet class' production of "The Nutcracker." | 78 |
| Rosie's Walk | Hutchins, Pat | 0.6 | 0.5 | Rosie the hen leaves the chicken coop and sets out for a little walk. | 32 |
| Rosy Noses, Freezing Toes | Delton, Judy | 3.5 | 1 | Sonny is terrified of playing his violin in front of an audience. | 87 |
| Rotten Ralph | Gantos, Jack | 3 | 0.5 | Although Ralph is a rotten cat, Sarah loves him anyway. | 46 |
| Rough Waters | Rottman, S.L. | 4.2 | 10 | After their parents' death in an automobile accident, two teenage brothers are sent to Colorado to live with an estranged uncle, owner of a white water rafting outfit. | 179 |
| Rough-Face Girl, The | Martin, Rafe | 4 | 0.5 | In this Algonquin Indian version of the Cinderella story, the Rough-Face Girl and her two beautiful but heartless sisters compete for the affections of the Invisible Being. | 30 |
| Row, Row, Row Your Boat | Oppenheim, Joanne | 2.2 | 0.5 | A classic children's song is expanded to include almost every kind of boat. | 32 |
| Rowan of Rin | Rodda, Emily | 4.7 | 5 | Because only he can read the magical map, young, weak, and timid Rowan joins six other villagers to climb a mountain and try to restore their water supply, as fears of a dragon and other horrors threaten to drive them back. | 151 |
| Roxaboxen | McLerran, Alice | 4 | 0.5 | A hill covered with rocks and wooden boxes becomes an imaginary town for Marian, her sisters, and their friends. | 28 |
| R-T, Margaret & the Rats of NIMH | Conly, Jane Leslie | 4.2 | 7 | The further adventures of the intelligent young rat Racso and his friends Christopher and Isabella as they try to ensure the survival of their secret community in Thorn Valley after its accidental discovery by two human children. | 260 |
| Rub a Dub Dub | Eagle, Kin | 4.3 | 0.5 | This story is a retold version of the classic, "Rub a Dub Dub." | 32 |
| Ruby Holler | Creech, Sharon | 4.3 | 6 | Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage, but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called Ruby Holler | 310 |
| Rumpelstiltskin | Zelinsky, Paul | 4 | 0.5 | Classic story retold and highlighted with outstanding illustrations. A poor miller's daughter is forced into a pact with Rumpelstiltskin and can only redeem herself by guessing his name. | 30 |
| Rumpelstiltskin Problem, The | Vande Velde, Vivian | 5.7 | 4 | This book is a collection of variations on the familiar story of a boastful miller and the daughter he claims can spin straw into gold. | 116 |
| Run for Your Life | Levy, Marilyn | 4.1 | 6 | While living in a housing project in Oakland, California, thirteen-year-old Kisha joins a track team which helps her discover that she can be a winner. | 217 |
| Run, Billy, Run | Christopher, Matt | 4.6 | 4 | When fourteen-year-old Billy joins the track team, he improves his running and other areas of his life, too. | 145 |
| Runaway Bunny, The | Brown, Margaret Wise | 2.7 | 0.5 | A young bunny plays an imaginary game of hide-and-seek with his lovingly steadfast mother, who finds her child every time. | 40 |
| Runaway Hamster | Pascal/Stewart | 2.8 | 1 | While the twins are in charge of the class hamster, he escapes. | 73 |
| Runaway Racehorse, The | Roy, Ron | 3.6 | 1 | Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose investigate the disappearance of a valuable racehorse that Dink's uncle and his friend, Forest Evans, have just bought and entered in a race at Saratoga. | 84 |
| Runaway Ralph | Cleary, Beverly | 5.3 | 4 | Wanting excitement, adventure, and his independence, the cycling mouse runs away from home on his shiny red motorcycle. | 175 |
| Running Out of Time | Haddix, Margaret Peterson | 4.8 | 7 | When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840s village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1996 tourist site under the observation of heartless scientists, and it is up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of dying children. | 184 |
| Rushmore | Curlee, Lynn | 8 | 1 | This book describes how this patriotic shrine and tourist attraction was conceived, designed and created by the dedicated artist Gutzon Borglum. | 48 |
| Russell Rides Again | Hurwitz, Johanna | 3.8 | 2 | This book is about Russell, his family, and friends, as he gets ready to celebrate his sixth birthday. | 86 |
| Russell Sprouts | Hurwitz, Johanna | 4.2 | 1 | Russell, age six and growing up fast, has some home and school adventures. | 95 |
| Ruth Law Thrills a Nation | Brown, Don | 4 | 0.5 | A true story of a young woman's attempt to fly from Chicago to New York in one day in 1916. | 29 |
| S.O.R. Losers | Avi | 3.6 | 2 | Everyone at South Orange River Middle School is expected to participate in one sport each year. This is the story of a soccer team that would rather be doing something else. | 90 |
| Sable | Hesse, Karen | 3.8 | 1 | Tate is determined to keep a stray dog despite her mother's protests. | 81 |
| Sacred Animals | Waldherr, Kris | 7.6 | 1 | Over the centuries thousands of stories have sprung up around animals, many based in truth, others the products of pure imagination, but all of them celebrating the magic and mystery of the natural world. | 48 |
| Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes | Coerr, Eleanor | 4.1 | 1 | Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy. | 63 |
| Safe at Second | Johnson, Scott | 4.3 | 8 | Paulie Lockwood's best friend Todd Bannister is destined for the major leagues until a line drive to the head causes him to lose an eye and they both must help each other find a new future for themselves. | 245 |
| Saint George and the Dragon | Hodges, Margaret | 5.6 | 0.5 | Retells the segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings peace and joy to the land. | 32 |
| Salamandastron | Jacques, Brian | 5.7 | 16 | The defense of the badger citadel occupies this entry in the Redwall chronicles. | 356 |
| Salamander Room, The | Mazer, Anne | 3 | 0.5 | A young boy finds a salamander and thinks of the many things he can do to make a perfect home for it. | 20 |
| Salamanders (Creepy Crawlers Discovery) | Stone, Lynn M. | 4.2 | 0.5 | Presents information about this amphibian most commonly found in North and South America, describes how it looks, how it lives, and how it relates with people. | 24 |
| Sally's Room | Brown, M.K. | 3.4 | 0.5 | Sally's messy room fights back. | 30 |
| Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream | Jordan, Deloris/Roslyn | 3.6 | 0.5 | Young Michael Jordan, who is smaller than the other players, learns that determination and hard work are more important than size when playing the game of basketball. | 32 |
| Salty Dog | Strickland, Brad | 4.9 | 4 | There's a treasure in Oakdale, and Wishbone sets out to find it. | 135 |
| Sam and the Firefly | Eastman, P.D. | 1.7 | 0.5 | Sam, the owl, spends the night with a mischievous firefly. | 62 |
| Sam and the Lucky Money | Chinn, Karen | 3.6 | 0.5 | Sam must decide how to spend the lucky money he's received for Chinese New Year. | 28 |
| Sam and the Moon Queen | Herzig, Alison Cragin | 3.3 | 5 | Sympathetic to a homeless girl's plight, Sam tries to help her find food for herself and medical aid for her dog. | 168 |
| Sam and the Tigers | Lester, Julius | 3.1 | 0.5 | Relates what happens when a little boy named Sam matches wits with several tigers that want to eat him. | 33 |
| Sam Johnson and the Blue Ribbon Quilt | Ernst, Lisa Campbell | 4.2 | 0.5 | While mending the awning over the pig pen, Sam discovers that he enjoys sewing the various patches together but meets with scorn and ridicule when he asks his wife if he could join her quilting club. | 32 |
| Sam, Bangs & Moonshine | Ness, Evaline | 3.6 | 0.5 | Sam is a fisherman's daughter who dreams rich and lovely dreams. After a near disaster involving Thomas her friend and Bangs her cat Sam is forced to draw a line between dreams and reality. | 34 |
| Samantha Learns a Lesson | Adler, Susan S. | 4.3 | 1 | Samantha is determined to help nine-year-old Nellie, attending school for the first time, with her school work and learns a great deal herself about what it is like to be a poor child and work in a factory. | 61 |
| Samantha Saves the Day | Tripp, Valerie | 3.8 | 1 | When Samantha and the twins head off to find Teardrop Island, their exploration puts them in the middle of a dangerous storm. | 65 |
| Samantha the Snob | Cristaldi, Kathryn | 1.8 | 0.5 | Samantha may look like a snob, but her glitzy appearance is deceiving. | 48 |
| Same Stuff as Stars, The | Paterson, Katherine | 4.3 | 8 | When Angel's mother leaves her and her younger brother with their great-grandmother, the eleven-year-old girl worries about her family and the frail old woman, but also about a mysterious man who begins sharing with her the wonder of the stars. | 242 |
| Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief | Van Draanen, Wendelin | 4.6 | 6 | Sammy's penchant for speaking her mind gets her into trouble when she involves herself in the investigation of a robbery. | 163 |
| Sammy the Seal | Hoff, Syd | 2 | 0.5 | Sammy leaves the zoo to go exploring and learns to read while visiting a class of first-graders. | 64 |
| Samurai's Tale, The | Haugaard, Erik Christian | 6.3 | 10 | In turbulent sixteenth-century Japan, orphaned Taro is taken in by a general serving the great warlord Takeda Shingen, and grows up to become a samurai fighting for the enemies of his dead family. | 234 |
| San Francisco 49ers (NFL Today) | Nelson, Julie | 7.1 | 1 | This book traces the history of the San Francisco 49ers football team from its beginnings through the 1999 season. | 32 |
| Sand and Fog: Adventures in Southern Africa | Brandenburg, Jim | 7.3 | 1 | A photoessay on the Namib desert in South Africa. | 44 |
| Sand Cake | Asch, Frank | 2.7 | 0.5 | Papa Bear uses his culinary skills and a little imagination to concoct a sand cake. | 45 |
| Santa Calls | Joyce, William | 4 | 0.5 | Art Aimesworth receives a mysterious summons from Santa Claus, and he shares a Christmas adventure with his sister that brings them closer together. | 35 |
| Santa Claus Doesn't Mop Floors | Dadey/Jones | 3.6 | 1 | The Bailey School Kids want to find out if the jolly new janitor could really be St. Nick. | 71 |
| Santa Claustrophobia | Reiss, Mike | 3.6 | 0.5 | Holiday characters ranging from the Easter Bunny to the April Fool try to take over Christmas responsibilities so that stressed Saint Nick can take a vacation. | 32 |
| Santa Paws | Edwards, Nicholas | 4.3 | 5 | While searching for a place to stay, a homeless puppy helps others who are in need. | 151 |
| Santa Paws, Come Home | Edwards, Nicholas | 5.2 | 6 | Before Santa Paws knew what was happening he was being driven far away from his home in a stranger's car. Will Santa Paws find his way back home to the Callahans in time for Christmas? | 199 |
| Santa's Snow Cat | Stainton, Sue | 4.4 | 0.5 | Santa and his favorite cat search for each other after she falls out of his sleigh and lands in New York City on Christmas Eve. | 32 |
| Sarah Bishop | O'Dell, Scott | 4.9 | 7 | With the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, Sarah, a young New Yorker, finds herself fugitive from the British Army, living outside the law. | 230 |
| Sarah, Plain and Tall | MacLachlan, Patricia | 3.4 | 1 | In this loving story of a motherless family, a tall, plain woman comes to stay with them. | 58 |
| Sasquatch | Smith, Roland | 4.5 | 5 | In an attempt to protect the resident Sasquatch from ruthless hunters, thirteen-year-old Dylan follows his father into the woods on the slopes of Mount Saint Helens, which is on the brink of another eruption. | 188 |
| Satellites (Explore Space!) | Deady, Kathleen W. | 4.1 | 0.5 | This book is an introduction to the history and various uses of artificial satellites. | 24 |
| Saturn (Exploring the Galaxy) | Adamson, Thomas K. | 1.8 | 0.5 | In this book, readers will learn about Saturn's conditions and what makes it unique in the solar system. | 24 |
| Save Queen of Sheba | Moeri, Louise | 5.8 | 4 | Twelve-year-old King David and his little sister Queen of Sheba are the only survivors of an Indian attack on their wagon train. A story of courage and survival on the American Frontier. | 92 |
| Saving Shiloh | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 4.9 | 6 | Sixth-grade Marty and his family try to help their rough neighbor Judd Travers change his mean ways even though their West Virginia community continues to expect the worst from him. | 137 |
| Saving Sweetness | Stanley, Diane | 3.9 | 0.5 | The sheriff of a dusty western town rescues Sweetness, an unusually resourceful orphan, from nasty old Mrs. Sump and her terrible orphanage. | 30 |
| Say "Cheese" | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 2.4 | 1 | Everyone is excited that the school year is almost over, but Emily gets lost on the class picnic. | 79 |
| Say Cheese and Die - Again! | Stine, R.L. | 3.2 | 3 | Mr. Saur gave Greg an "F" on his oral report. He didn't believe the story of the camera and the pictures it took. | 115 |
| Say Cheese and Die! | Stine, R.L. | 3.9 | 3 | Greg knows there is something wrong with the camera he found. Each picture is worth a thousand screams. Who will take the next fall for the evil camera? | 132 |
| Say You Are My Sister | Brady, Laurel Stowe | 5.5 | 9 | In rural Georgia during World War II, Ramona Louise determines to do everything to help her older sister keep the family together after the death of their parents, even to keeping a secret, which could destroy their close relationship. | 208 |
| Scarecrow | Rylant, Cynthia | 3.3 | 0.5 | Although made of straw and borrowed clothes, a scarecrow appreciates his peaceful, gentle life and the privilege of watching nature at work. | 30 |
| Scarecrow Walks at Midnight, The | Stine, R.L. | 3.5 | 3 | Jodi loves visiting her grandparents' farm until one night she sees something odd. The scarecrows seem to be moving, twitching on their stakes. | 122 |
| Scarecrow's Hat, The | Brown, Ken | 3.2 | 0.5 | Chicken admires Scarecrow's straw hat and he wants to swap it for a walking stick. | 25 |
| Scaredy Cat | Rankin, Joan | 3 | 0.5 | A little kitten fearfully faces scary things such as a huge figure on the wall, but when he encounters a tiny spider, he discovers a bravery deep inside himself. | 29 |
| Scaredy Dog | Thomas, Jane Resh | 3.7 | 0.5 | With patience and love, a young girl helps the dog she has chosen from the Humane Society grow from a frightened puppy into a happy pet. | 44 |
| Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark | Schwartz, Alvin | 4.1 | 1 | Stories of ghosts and witches gathered from American folklore. | 87 |
| Scary, Scary Halloween | Bunting, Eve | 2.6 | 0.5 | A band of trick-or-treaters and a mother cat and her kittens spend a very scary Halloween. | 30 |
| Scatterbrain Sam | Jackson, Ellen | 3.5 | 0.5 | Scatterbrain Sam finds true love while gathering ingredients for the mysterious glue stew that is supposed to make him smarter. | 32 |
| Schernoff Discoveries, The | Paulsen, Gary | 5.6 | 3 | Harold and his best friend, both hopeless geeks and social misfits, try to survive unusual science experiments and other dangers of junior high. | 99 |
| School Bus Driver from the Black Lagoon, The | Thaler, Mike | 3 | 0.5 | Rumors have been spreading about the new school bus driver, and a young boy's imagination runs wild while he waits for the bus to pick him up. | 30 |
| School Picture Day | Plourde, Lynn | 3.8 | 0.5 | It is school picture day, and everyone, except Josephina, starts out clean, shiny, and all dressed up. She creates dirt and confusion as she figures out how things work, but in the end is the only one who can fix the camera. | 32 |
| School Play, The | Mayer, Gina/Mercer | 2.2 | 0.5 | When Little Critter gets a part in his school play, he's proud and excited. On the night of the play, however, he gets stage fright. | 21 |
| School Spirits | Tunnell, Michael O. | 4.8 | 4 | When Patrick moves to a new town, he is confronted by a ghostly boy who seeks his help. | 201 |
| School Story, The | Clements, Andrew | 5.2 | 5 | After Natalie writes a novel, Zoe helps her devise a scheme to get it accepted at the publishing house where Natalie's mother works as an editor. | 196 |
| Schoolhouse Mystery | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.3 | 3 | Benny's curiosity while staying in a fishing village leads to the capture of a swindler. | 128 |
| Scooter | Williams, Vera B. | 4.6 | 3 | A child's silver blue scooter helps her adjust to her new home. | 147 |
| Scrambled Eggs Super! | Seuss, Dr. | 4.4 | 0.5 | Tired of scrambled eggs always tasting the same, Peter T. Hooper goes on a great egg hunt for his new recipe. | 52 |
| Sea Chest, The | Buzzeo, Toni | 5.2 | 0.5 | A young girl listens as her great-great-aunt, a lighthouse keeper's daughter, tells of her childhood living on a Maine island, and of the infant that washed ashore after a storm. | 32 |
| Sea Monsters Don't Ride Motorcycles | Dadey/Jones | 4 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. Is the winning rider at the motorcycle races really a sea monster? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out! | 74 |
| Sea Otter (Endangered in America), The | Silverstein, Alvin | 7.2 | 2 | This book presents a wealth of information about the sea otters and efforts to save them. | 64 |
| Sea Star Orphan of Chincoteague | Henry, Marguerite | 4.8 | 4 | Enthralling story as the wild ponies of Chincoteague struggle to save Sea Star. | 173 |
| Search for Delicious, The | Babbitt, Natalie | 5.4 | 4 | The Prime Minister is compiling a dictionary; and when no one at court can agree on the meaning of delicious, the King sends his twelve-year-old messenger to poll the country. | 167 |
| Search for Grissi, The | Shura, Mary Francis | 5 | 4 | Eleven-year-old Peter feels uncomfortable at home and school after his family moves to Brooklyn, until his search for his sister's missing cat opens up a new life for him. | 126 |
| Search for the Shadowman | Nixon, Joan Lowery | 4.9 | 4 | While working on a genealogy project for his seventh-grade history class, Andy Thomas becomes determined to solve the mystery surrounding a distant relative who was accused of stealing the family fortune. | 149 |
| Searching for Laura Ingalls: A Reader's Journey | Lasky/Knight | 5.1 | 1 | A young girl's fascination with Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" books leads her family on a trip to see some of the places featured in them. | 45 |
| Season of Promise: Elizabeth's Jamestown Colony Diary | Hermes, Patricia | 3.6 | 2 | In 1610, ten-year-old Elizabeth continues a journal of her experiences living in Jamestown, as her brother Caleb rejoins the family, a new, strict governor comes to the colony, and her father considers remarriage. | 108 |
| Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree, The | Gibbons, Gail | 2.6 | 0.5 | As the seasons pass, Arnold enjoys a variety of activities as a result of his apple tree. | 30 |
| Second Stringer | Dygard, Thomas J. | 5.8 | 6 | When Kevin replaces the quarterback and football hero who suffers a knee injury, the high school second stringer needs to prove that he can do the job and is not just a substitute. | 174 |
| Secret Funeral of Slim Jim the Snake, The | Woodruff, Elvira | 4.8 | 4 | Nick devises an unusual plan in order to pursue his dream of becoming a trucker just like his dad. | 166 |
| Secret Garden (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Burnett/Vogel | 4.9 | 3 | Mary and Colin find an old key that opens a hidden garden. The mystery and beauty of nature help them to overcome their problems. | 238 |
| Secret Garden, The | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | 6.3 | 13 | Mary moves to a huge estate to live with her mysterious uncle, his ailing son, the servants--and a secret garden. | 343 |
| Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups, The | Wisniewski, David | 5.5 | 0.5 | This book is a humorous revelation of the real reasons why adults tell children to do things such as "Eat your vegetables," "Comb your hair," and "Don't blow bubbles in your milk." | 45 |
| Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups: The Second File, The | Wisniewski, David | 5.2 | 1 | Within these forbidden pages lurk the real reasons why grown-ups want you to brush your teeth, eat your breakfast, and clean under your bed. | 46 |
| Secret Life of the Underwear Champ, The | Miles, Betty | 3.7 | 2 | Being famous is one problem after another (if you modeled underwear like Larry, you'd try to keep your TV career a secret, too). | 117 |
| Secret of Platform 13, The | Ibbotson, Eva | 5.8 | 7 | Odge and an old wizard travel through a magical tunnel from their island to London to rescue the son of the King and Queen who was stolen as an infant. | 231 |
| Secret of Red Gate Farm, The | Keene, Carolyn | 5.7 | 5 | Nancy Drew uncovers a counterfeiting ring and in the process has a run-in with a hood-wearing cult. | 178 |
| Secret of Skeleton Island, The | Arthur, Robert | 4.8 | 5 | The Three Investigators are assisted by a Greek youth as they search for clues to a mysterious thief on an island once inhabited by pirates. | 152 |
| Secret of the Andes | Clark, Ann Nolan | 4.7 | 5 | An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors. | 120 |
| Secret of the Caves, The | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5.2 | 5 | Triggered by the disappearance of a brilliant young professor, this mystery takes the Hardy boys first to Kenworthy College, where they find a puzzling message on an examination paper. | 175 |
| Secret of the Forgotten City, The | Keene, Carolyn | 5.2 | 5 | There are rumors that long ago a treasure was hidden in a city now buried under the Nevada desert. | 180 |
| Secret of the Indian, The | Banks, Lynne Reid | 5.2 | 5 | In this third book about Omri and his magic cupboard, Omri and his friend Patrick must risk grown-ups discovering their secret when they find themselves in need of a friend whose toy plastic doctors can be brought to life to save wounded people. | 147 |
| Secret of the Old Clock, The | Keene, Carolyn | 5.4 | 5 | Nancy's decided that Mr. Crowley must have left a second will, so she proceeds to find out the mystery of the old clock. | 180 |
| Secret of the Old Mill, The | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5.5 | 5 | "Drop case or else danger for you and your family." This warning addressed to Fenton Hardy not only alarms the famous investigator and his detective sons, but also puzzles them because Mr. Hardy is working on more than one case. | 174 |
| Secret of the Stallion, The | Bryant, Bonnie | 4.9 | 6 | Join the Saddle Club as they try to uncover the secret of the stallion and the Duke who once lived in this English castle where tragedy struck many years ago. | 195 |
| Secret School, The | Avi | 4.1 | 3 | In 1925, Ida Bidson secretly takes over as the teacher when the one-room schoolhouse in her remote Colorado area closes unexpectedly. | 153 |
| Secret Shortcut, The | Teague, Mark | 3.4 | 0.5 | BEcause Wendell and Floyd have trouble getting to school on time, they decide to take a shortcut which leads to unexpected adventure. | 30 |
| Secret Soldier, The | McGovern, Ann | 4.1 | 1 | This is the exciting, true story of a woman who became a soldier during the Revolutionary War by dressing and acting like a man. | 63 |
| Secret, The | Applegate, K.A. | 3.9 | 4 | Something strange is happening in the woods behind Cassie's house, and the Animorphs have to stop a bogus logging camp. | 158 |
| Secrets of Animal Flight, The | Bishop, Nic | 5.6 | 1 | In text and photographs, this book presents birds, insects, bats, and other flying animals. | 32 |
| Secrets of the Mummies | Tanaka, Shelley | 7 | 1 | This book describes the ancient Egyptian practice of preserving the dead through the process of mummification and explains what scientists have learned from unwrapping and examining mummies. | 48 |
| Secrets of the Mummies | Griffey, Harriet | 5.6 | 1 | This book describes the Egyptian preservation of dead bodies, stories associated with mummies, and mummies from different cultures, including Incan and Sicilian. | 48 |
| Secrets of Tut's Tomb and the Pyramids | Reiff, Stephanie | 5 | 1 | Discusses the building of the Egyptian pyramids, strange stories associated with them, and possible powers possessed by pyramids. | 48 |
| See You Around, Sam! | Lowry, Lois | 4.4 | 3 | Sam Krupnik decides to run away to Alaska because his mother will not let him wear his plastic fangs in the house. | 113 |
| See You Later, Gladiator | Scieszka, Jon | 4.2 | 2 | Joe, Fred, and Sam demonstrate some of their professional wrestling moves, when they're transported to ancient Rome and forced to fight as gladiators in the Colosseum. | 87 |
| Seed Bunny, The | Selby, Jennifer | 2.9 | 0.5 | When Sam discovers a loose front tooth, his mother explains that after it falls out, the Seed Bunny will take it away and leave carrot seeds in its place. | 12 |
| Seedfolks | Fleischman, Paul | 4.3 | 2 | One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden. | 69 |
| Sees Behind Trees | Dorris, Michael | 5.2 | 4 | A Native-American boy with a special gift to "see" beyond his poor eyesight journeys with an old warrior to a land of mystery and beauty. | 104 |
| Seesaw Girl | Park, Linda Sue | 5.7 | 3 | Impatient with the constraints put on her as an aristocratic girl living in Korea during the seventeenth century, twelve-year-old Jade Blossom determines to see beyond her small world. | 90 |
| Separation, The | Applegate, K.A. | 3.3 | 3 | Rachel demorphs and now there are two of her with completely opposite personalities. Now the Animorphs have to figure out a way to put Rachel back together again. | 158 |
| Serendipity (Original Text) | Cosgrove, Stephen | 4.7 | 0.5 | Tiny Serendipity and her friends embark on a fantastic adventure to discover who she really is. | 28 |
| Serpent's Tooth Mystery, The | Dixon, Franklin W. | 4.7 | 4 | A poisonous plot endangers the safety of the Hardy boys' hometown. | 152 |
| Seven Blind Mice | Young, Ed | 1.9 | 0.5 | Retells in verse the Indian fable of blind men discovering different parts of an elephant and arguing about its appearance. The illustrations depict the blind arguers as mice. | 36 |
| Seven Brave Women | Hearne, Betsy | 4.4 | 0.5 | A young girl recounts the brave exploits of her female ancestors, including her great-great-great-grandmother who came to America in a wooden sailboat. | 16 |
| Seven Candles for Kwanzaa | Pinkney, Andrea Davis | 4.6 | 0.5 | Describes the origins and the practices of Kwanzaa, the seven-day festival during which people of African descent rejoice in their ancestral values. | 28 |
| Seven Kisses in a Row | MacLachlan, Patricia | 3.4 | 1 | Emma learns to accept "different strokes for different folks" when her aunt and uncle come to take care of her and her brother. | 56 |
| Seven Seas: Exploring the World Ocean, The | Vieira, Linda | 7 | 0.5 | This book presents an illustrated introduction to the world of the oceans and the history of ocean exploration. | 32 |
| Seven Silly Eaters, The | Hoberman, Mary Ann | 4.5 | 0.5 | Seven fussy eaters find a way to surprise their mother. | 38 |
| Seven Songs of Merlin, The | Barron, T.A. | 5.2 | 12 | Having stumbled upon his hidden powers, the young wizard Merlin voyages to the Otherworld in his quest to find himself and the way to the realm of the spirit. Volume Two of "The Lost Years of Merlin." | 306 |
| Seven Spiders Spinning | Maguire, Gregory | 5.5 | 4 | Seven prehistoric spiders that had been trapped in ice for thousands of years bring excitement to rural Vermont and briefly unite two rival clubs at a local elementary school. | 132 |
| Shades of Gray | Reeder, Carolyn | 5.3 | 6 | At the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his immediate family, reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia countryside with his aunt and uncle he considers "traitors" because they refused to take part in the war. | 152 |
| Shadow | Cendrars/Brown | 3.2 | 0.5 | Shadow lives in the forest; it goes forth at night to prowl around the fires. In the African experience, Shadow is much more, an eerie image that shifts between the beliefs of the present and the spirits of the past. | 36 |
| Shadow Academy | Anderson/Moesta | 6.5 | 7 | Brakiss has been given a great task to undertake, he must kidnap the heirs to the skywalker bloodline, and turn them to the dark side of the force. | 225 |
| Shadow of a Bull | Wojciechowska, Maia | 5.2 | 5 | The son of a famous bullfighter resists the pressures that try to force him to become a bullfighter like his hero father. | 141 |
| Shadow over Second | Christopher, Matt | 3.8 | 1 | Nicky is on his way to breaking the record for most runs batted in, but first he must overcome his superstitions, and someone who doesn't want to see the old record broken. | 62 |
| Shadow Spinner | Fletcher, Susan | 4.6 | 8 | When Marjan, a thirteen-year-old crippled girl, joins the Sultan's harem in ancient Persia, she gathers for Shahrazad the stories which will save the queen's life. | 217 |
| Shadows on the Wall | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 5.7 | 6 | While visiting York, England, a young American, already troubled by family problems, is assailed by strange feelings of dread whenever he approaches some of the ancient landmarks of the city. | 174 |
| Shadrach | De Jong, Meindert | 4.9 | 5 | This beautiful story of a boy and his very special pet rabbit is told with a childlike perception and a sensitive understanding of a child's emotions. | 182 |
| Shakespeare Stealer, The | Blackwood, Gary L. | 5.2 | 7 | A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to transcribe the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty, after becoming part of the acting troupe. | 216 |
| Shakespeare's Scribe | Blackwood, Gary L. | 6.1 | 10 | In plague-ridden 1602 England, a fifteen-year-old orphan boy, who has become an apprentice actor, goes on the road with Shakespeare's troupe and finds out more about his parent's along the way. | 265 |
| Shaman's Apprentice: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest, The | Cherry/Plotkin | 5.1 | 0.5 | Kamanya believes in the shaman's wisdom about the healing properties of plants found in the Amazon rain forest and hopes one day to be a healer for his people. | 30 |
| Shape of Me and Other Stuff | Seuss, Dr. | 1.7 | 0.5 | Rhyme and silhouette drawings introduce the shape of bugs, balloons, peanuts, camels, spider webs, and many other familiar objects. | 26 |
| Sharing Susan | Bunting, Eve | 3.7 | 3 | Twelve-year-old Susan is shocked to find that she was switched with another baby in the hospital and that the parents who have raised her may have to give her up to her true biological parents. | 122 |
| Shark Callers, The | Campbell, Eric | 5.5 | 6 | Two teenage boys, one on a shark hunt and the other traveling with his family, face the challenge of their lives when a volcano erupts, causing a massive tidal wave in the South Seas. | 230 |
| Shark in School | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 3.5 | 2 | Matthew is concerned about starting over in a new school, after he forgot to read some books over the summer. | 103 |
| Sharks Sharks Sharks | Anton, Tina | 3 | 0.5 | Discusses the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of sharks. | 30 |
| Shawnee (Tribes of Native America) | Ryan/Schmittroth | 5.6 | 1 | This book discusses the history, native religious beliefs, language, government, art, culture, customs, and daily life of the Shawnee. | 32 |
| Sheep in a Jeep | Shaw, Nancy | 1 | 0.5 | Records the misadventures of a group of sheep that go riding in a jeep. | 32 |
| Sheep out to Eat | Shaw, Nancy | 1.2 | 0.5 | Five hungry sheep discover that a tea shop may not be the best place to eat. | 31 |
| Sheila Rae, the Brave | Henkes, Kevin | 2.5 | 0.5 | When brave Sheila Rae, who usually looks out for her sister, Louise, becomes lost and scared one day, Louise comes to the rescue. | 28 |
| Shell (Eyewitness) | Arthur, Alex | 8.7 | 1 | Photographs and text examine different types of shells, including seashells, eggshells, and fossil shells, focusing on such aspects as how shells camouflage themselves and how they may be collected. An Eyewitness book. | 62 |
| She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain | Coplon, Emily | 2.9 | 0.5 | This new version of the song "She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain" depicts a boisterous family celebration. | 32 |
| She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head! | Lasky, Kathryn | 4.9 | 0.5 | A fictionalized account of the activities of Harriet Hemenway and Minna Hall, founders of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, that would have an impact on the bird-protection movement. | 35 |
| Shh! We're Writing the Constitution | Fritz, Jean | 7.1 | 1 | Describes how the constitution came to be written and ratified. Also includes the full text of the document produced by the Constitutional Convention of 1787. | 64 |
| Shiloh | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 4.4 | 4 | When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner. The owner is a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs. | 144 |
| Shiniest Rock of All, The | Patterson, Nancy Ruth | 4.4 | 2 | Fourth-grader Robert Morris Reynolds, who cannot say his name properly because he has trouble pronouncing his Rs, works hard with a speech therapist to overcome his problem. | 72 |
| Shipwreck (Eyewitness) | Platt, Richard | 7.7 | 1 | Discover the mysterious world of shipwrecks and lost treasures, and how they are recovered and preserved. | 59 |
| Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World | Armstrong, Jennifer | 7.3 | 6 | During the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, the ship, "Endurance," was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey. | 131 |
| Shipwrecked! The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy | Blumberg, Rhoda | 7.4 | 2 | In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro learns new laws and customs, as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the U.S. | 80 |
| Shocker on Shock Street, A | Stine, R.L. | 3.2 | 3 | Two friends love horror movies, and they know they aren't real. Right? | 117 |
| Shoe Town | Stevens/Crummel | 1.7 | 0.5 | Mama mouse wants to take a hot bath and a long nap in her show. When friends come by to share, what will she do? | 23 |
| Shoes from Grandpa | Fox, Mem | 4.3 | 0.5 | In a cumulative rhyme, family members describe the clothes they intend to give Jessie to go with her shoes from Grandpa. | 29 |
| Shore Road Mystery, The | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5.6 | 5 | An offer to help a friend pits the Hardys against a ruthless gang of criminals. | 178 |
| Sickness, The | Applegate, K.A. | 3.7 | 3 | Ax is dying and the Animorphs do not know what to do about it. Cassie and the other Animorphs come up with a plan involving finding a new way into the Yeerk pool. | 152 |
| Sidewalk Games Around the World | Erlbach, Arlene | 5.9 | 1 | This details the different types of sidewalk games played around the world. | 62 |
| Sideways Stories from Wayside School | Sachar, Louis | 3.3 | 3 | Humorous episodes take place in the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story. | 124 |
| Sign of the Beaver, The | Speare, Elizabeth George | 4.9 | 5 | A young boy in Maine, when rescued by an Indian chief and his grandson, must decide whether to spend the winter alone in the woods waiting for his family to return or move on to a new life with his new friends. | 135 |
| Sign on Rosie's Door, The | Sendak, Maurice | 2.4 | 0.5 | Rosie changes into a lovely lady singer, Alinda. Magic Man turns Alinda back into Rosie at the Fourth of July party, but she soon finds something else nice to be. | 47 |
| Sign Painter's Secret: The Story of a Revolutionary Girl, The | Hoobler, Dorothy/Thomas | 4.1 | 1 | When the Redcoats occupy her house in Philadelphia, young Annie finds a way to help General Washington's troops at Valley Forge. | 48 |
| Signers: The 56 Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence, Th | Fradin, Dennis Brindell | 7.7 | 3 | This book profiles each of the fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence, giving historical information about the colonies they represented. | 164 |
| Silent Storm, The | Garland, Sherry | 5.5 | 9 | Alyssa is forced to confront the unspeakable memory of a tragic accident at sea. | 240 |
| Silent Thunder: A Civil War Story | Pinkney, Andrea Davis | 5.4 | 7 | In 1862, eleven-year-old Summer and her thirteen-year-old brother Rosco take turns describing how life on the quiet Virginia plantation where they are slaves is affected by the Civil War. | 218 |
| Silly Sadie, Silly Samuel | Paul, Ann Whitford | 2.3 | 0.5 | Although their actions sometimes seem silly to their sensible neighbor, Sadie and Samuel enjoy their nonsensical lives. | 40 |
| Silly Tilly and the Easter Bunny | Hoban, Lillian | 2.4 | 0.5 | Silly Tilly Mole is so forgetful and silly on Easter morning that she cannot find her bonnet and nearly fails to let the Easter Bunny into the house. | 31 |
| Silly Tilly's Thanksgiving Dinner | Hoban, Lillian | 2.6 | 0.5 | Forgetful Silly Tilly Mole nearly succeeds in ruining her Thanksgiving dinner, but her animal friends come to the rescue with tasty treats. | 63 |
| Silly Tilly's Valentine | Hoban, Lillian | 2.5 | 0.5 | This is a story about Silly Tilly, a mole who forgot it was Valentine's Day. | 48 |
| Silvabamba | D'Amelio, Dan | 3 | 1 | Two explorers discover a lost civilization in the Peruvian jungle. | 60 |
| Silver Chair, The | Lewis, C.S. | 5.7 | 8 | Prince Rilian escapes from the Emerald Witch's underground kingdom. | 257 |
| Silver Cow, The | Cooper, Susan | 4.1 | 0.5 | The father of a young Welsh boy gifted with a magic cow manages to destroy all the good things the cow has brought to their lives. | 29 |
| Silver on the Tree | Cooper, Susan | 6 | 14 | In this conclusion of the tale begun in "Over Sea, Under Stone," Will Stanton, the Welsh boy Bran, and the Drew children try to locate the crystal sword that alone can vanquish the strong forces of Dark. | 274 |
| Silver Skateboard, The | Wright, Bob | 2.5 | 0.5 | There's going to be a skateboard contest in town. To get everyone's interest, Mrs. Rose has a solid silver skateboard at her Gift Shop. On the day of the big contest, the skateboard is stolen. Will a trick by Tom and Ricky catch the thieves? | 44 |
| Simon's Book | Drescher, Henrick | 3.8 | 0.5 | Late one night, a boy at a drawing table starts to draw a story about Simon and the monster. He tires soon, however, and goes to bed, leaving the drawing of Simon and the monster to take on a life of its own. | 28 |
| Sing a Song of Circus | Schumaker, Ward | 2.5 | 0.5 | Two balloons escape from their bunch and join the circus, bringing water to the elephants, serving popcorn and soft drinks, and playing with the seals. | 29 |
| Sing down the Moon | O'Dell, Scott | 4.9 | 4 | The forced migration of Navahos from their homeland, is described from the Native American point of view. | 121 |
| Single Shard, A | Park, Linda Sue | 6.6 | 6 | Tree-ear, an orphan in Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the celadon ceramics himself. | 152 |
| Sir Small and the Dragonfly | O'Connor, Jane | 1.7 | 0.5 | When a dragonfly swoops over the town of Pee Wee and carries Lady Teena away, brave Sir Small rides off on his trusty ant, vowing to rescue her. | 32 |
| Sitting Ducks | Bedard, Michael | 4.6 | 0.5 | A sympathetic alligator befriends a lonely duck and becomes alienated from the rest of the town's alligators who think of ducks only as food. | 40 |
| Sixth-Grade Crush | Shahan, Sherry | 4.2 | 2 | Tracy has a formula for love that she's sure will win the heart of her school's new softball coach. First, she has to get on the team. But before she can even do that, she has to bring her math grade up...or make sure no one finds out how bad it is! | 141 |
| Skates of Uncle Richard, The | Fenner, Carol | 4.3 | 1 | With her Uncle's encouragement, a nine-year-old takes the first step toward realizing her dream of becoming a figure skater. | 46 |
| Skeleton Man | Bruchac, Joseph | 4.8 | 3 | After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange "great-uncle," Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk story for her safety, and maybe even for her life. | 114 |
| Skeletons Don't Play Tubas | Dadey/Jones | 3.8 | 1 | The new band instructor at Bailey School teaches everyone to play instruments, even a skeleton! | 73 |
| Skellig | Almond, David | 3.5 | 4 | An unusual being called Skellig enters the life of Michael, a boy whose family has moved into a new house and whose baby sister is gravely ill. Michael's sadness and isolation lead to a special friendship with Skellig and with a neighbor girl. | 182 |
| Skinnybones | Park, Barbara | 4.1 | 3 | Life looks hopeless when Alex's losing team has to play baseball against T.J.'s winning team. But Alex has a hidden talent that could save the day -- unless it ruins his life first. | 111 |
| Skirt, The | Soto, Gary | 3.7 | 1 | Maita loses her folklorico shirt on the bus just before an important dance in the warm-hearted tale of a Mexican American family. | 74 |
| Skull Alphabet Book, The | Pallotta, Jerry | 3.8 | 0.5 | This book identifies the alphabet by the functions of facial bones and teeth. The skull of an animal is used for each letter of the alphabet. | 32 |
| Skull of Truth, The | Coville, Bruce | 4.7 | 6 | Charlie, a sixth-grader with a compulsion to tell lies, acquires a mysterious skull that forces its owner to tell only the truth, causing some awkward moments. | 195 |
| Skunks Do More Than Stink! | Souza, D.M. | 5.2 | 0.5 | This book provides information about the physical characteristics and habits of the striped, spotted, and hog-nosed skunk. | 32 |
| Sky Tree: Seeing Science Through Art | Locker, Thomas | 2.9 | 0.5 | The lyrical text records the changes in the tree's world just as simply as a child might observe them. | 28 |
| Skylark | MacLachlan, Patricia | 3.2 | 1 | In the sequel to Sarah, Plain and Tall, Sarah's new family experiences some doubts about their future. | 87 |
| Skyrockets and Snickerdoodles | Van Nutt, Julia | 3.6 | 0.5 | In 1845, with the Fourth of July only days away, Lucy Hart can barely contain her excitement. The anticipation fizzles, however, when Cobtown is told that it no longer exists. | 32 |
| Slave Dancer, The | Fox, Paula | 6 | 6 | In this spellbinding novel of suspense and survival, young Jessie, a musician, is hired to play for the slaves aboard a ship bound for America. | 127 |
| Slavery Time: When I Was Chillun | Hurmence, Belinda | 5 | 3 | Twelve oral histories of former slaves selected from the more than 2000 interviewed as part of the Slave Narratives of the Library of Congress for the Works Progress Administration in 1936. | 98 |
| Sleep Tight, Pete | Schecter, Ellen | 2.3 | 0.5 | Pete's mother tells him three bedtime stories in which he is the hero. | 32 |
| Sleepy Dog | Ziefert, Harriet | 0.8 | 0.5 | A cuddly dog and his pet cat share goodnight kisses and playful dreams in this well-illustrated bedtime story. | 32 |
| Sleepy Time Olie | Joyce, William | 2.8 | 0.5 | When Pappy bumps his head before bedtime, Olie cheers him up by inventing a silly ray, and then they both become happy, sleepy robots. | 40 |
| Slippery Slope, The | Snicket, Lemony | 7.1 | 9 | In the perilous Mortmain Mountains, Klaus and Violet Baudelaire meet another well-read person, who helps them try to rescue Sunny from the villainous Count Olaf and his henchmen as they all near "the last safe place." | 337 |
| Slugs and Snails (Looking at Minibeasts) | Morgan, Sally | 4.1 | 0.5 | This book describes slugs and snails in their natural habitats, with information on how to observe these creatures without harming them or their environment. | 32 |
| Smart Dog | Vande Velde, Vivian | 5.5 | 4 | Fifth grader Amy finds her life growing complicated when she meets and tries to hide an intelligent, talking dog who has escaped from a university lab. | 146 |
| Smile a Lot! | Carlson, Nancy | 2.6 | 0.5 | A frog explains how smiling is a great way to get through life's ups and downs. | 32 |
| Smoky Mountain Rose: An Appalachian Cinderella | Schroeder, Alan | 4.1 | 0.5 | In this variation on the Cinderella story, based on the Charles Perrault version set in the Smoky Mountains, Rose loses her glass slipper. | 29 |
| Smoky Night | Bunting, Eve | 2.4 | 0.5 | A child's eye view of urban violence in a riot-torn city. | 28 |
| Smoky the Cow Horse | James, Will | 6.5 | 13 | This is the story of the cow horse Smoky, and Clint, the man who trained and loved him. | 310 |
| Smugglers, The | Lawrence, Iain | 4.7 | 6 | In eighteenth-century England, after his father buys a schooner called the Dragon, sixteen-year-old John sets out to sail it from Kent to London and becomes involved in a dangerous smuggling scheme. | 183 |
| Snake Scientist, The | Montgomery, Sy | 6.4 | 1 | This book discusses the work of Bob Mason and his efforts to study and protect snakes, particularly red-sided garter snakes. | 48 |
| Snakes (New True Books) | Broekel, Ray | 2.8 | 0.5 | Describes the physiology, habits, and behavior of snakes. | 45 |
| Snakes Are Hunters | Lauber, Patricia | 3.4 | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics of a variety of snakes and how they hunt, catch, and eat their prey. | 32 |
| Sneetches and Other Stories, The | Seuss, Dr. | 3.4 | 0.5 | Four short stories including: The Sneetches, The Zax, Too Many Daves, and What Was I Scared Of? | 65 |
| Snow | McKie/Eastman | 1.6 | 0.5 | A little girl plays in the snow. | 61 |
| Snow | Shulevitz, Uri | 1.6 | 0.5 | As Snowflakes slowly come down, one by one people in the city ignore them, and only a boy and his dog think the snow fall will amount to anything. | 28 |
| Snow | Wallace, Nancy Elizabeth | 3.2 | 0.5 | When Grandpa Rabbit was a boy, he loved playing in the snow with his little brother. Now, he enjoys telling his grandson all about the fun they used to have. | 26 |
| Snow Dog | Kjelgaard, Jim | 7.4 | 8 | Orphaned by a huge black wolf, a Husky puppy learns to survive in the northern wilderness. A thrilling adventure story of a great dog who avenges himself against his enemy and reaffirms his loyalty to men. | 163 |
| Snow Pony, The | Crompton, Anne Eliot | 3.3 | 3 | Janet's afraid she will lose the beautiful pony she's helped train. | 117 |
| Snow Skiing (Radsports Guides) | Maurer, Tracy Nelson | 5.3 | 1 | This book surveys the history, equipment, techniques, and safety factors of snow skiing. | 48 |
| Snow Treasure | McSwigan, Marie | 5.3 | 5 | Brave children help save Norway's gold from the invading Nazis during World War II. | 156 |
| Snow Tree, The | Repchuk, Caroline | 3.5 | 0.5 | A bear cub wakes up to see snow for the first time and, with the help of other animals, searches for the colors of the forest and creates a magical symbol of the Christmas season. | 22 |
| Snow Wife, The | San Souci, Robert D. | 5.1 | 0.5 | When a Japanese woodcutter breaks his promise and describes his encounter with a terrifying snow woman, he loses his wife and must make a dangerous journey to win her back. | 29 |
| Snowballs | Ehlert, Lois | 1.3 | 0.5 | Some children create a family out of snow. | 28 |
| Snowbird, The | Calvert, Patricia | 5.2 | 7 | Willie and her brother TJ are orphaned and must journey to the Dakota Territory to live with their uncle and aunt they do not even know. | 135 |
| Snowbound Mystery | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.4 | 3 | A freak snowstorm traps the Aldens in a cabin, where they find a coded message. | 128 |
| Snowbound with Betsy | Haywood, Carolyn | 3.7 | 3 | It's one week before Christmas and due to an enormous snowstorm, Betsy and her sister, Star, are snowbound--they couldn't be happier. Betsy turns this snowbound holiday week into one merry adventure after another. | 188 |
| Snowflake Bentley | Martin, Jacqueline Briggs | 4.4 | 0.5 | William Bentley discovers a way to photograph snowflakes. | 28 |
| Snowman Storybook, The | Briggs, Raymond | 2.5 | 0.5 | When his snowman comes to life, a little boy invites him into his home and in return is taken on a flight high above the countryside. | 19 |
| Snowmen at Night | Buehner, Caralyn | 3 | 0.5 | This book is about snowmen playing games at night when no one is watching. | 28 |
| Snowy Day, The | Keats, Ezra Jack | 2.5 | 0.5 | A small boy experiences the joys of a snowy day. | 28 |
| So Far from Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl | Denenberg, Barry | 4.4 | 3 | In the diary account of her journey from Ireland in 1847 and of her work in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Mary reveals a great longing for her family. | 164 |
| So Long, Snowman | Reiff, Tana | 2.5 | 0.5 | A young drug addict fights desperately to kick his habit. | 58 |
| So Wild a Dream | Florentz, Christopher | 3.3 | 1 | Seventeen-year-old Beth's seemingly simple mission to deliver a letter for General Washington ends in a British camp where she is sentenced to hang as a spy. | 59 |
| So You Want to Be an Inventor? | St. George, Judith | 4.9 | 0.5 | This book presents some of the characteristics of inventors by describing the inventions of people such as Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and Eli Whitney. | 53 |
| So You Want to Be President? | St. George, Judith | 4.8 | 0.5 | This book presents an assortment of facts about the qualifications and characteristics of U.S. presidents, from George Washington to Bill Clinton. | 52 |
| Soap! Soap! Don't Forget the Soap! | Birdseye, Tom | 3.6 | 0.5 | Plug has such a bad memory that all the folks in Sassafras Hollow think he could forget his own name. | 28 |
| Soccer for Fun! | Goin, Kenn | 4.8 | 0.5 | This book describes the basic rules, skills, and important people and events in the sport of soccer. | 48 |
| Soccer Halfback | Christopher, Matt | 4.6 | 4 | A young boy is pressured by his family to abandon his promising soccer career for football. | 182 |
| Soccer Mania! | Tamar, Erika | 3 | 1 | Nine-year-old Pete and his friends, who enjoy playing pick-up soccer, get registered as an official team and discover the negative aspects of competition. | 63 |
| Soccer Sam | Marzollo, Jean | 2.6 | 0.5 | Sam's cousin from Mexico comes for an extended visit and teaches Sam and all the second-graders to play soccer. | 48 |
| Socks | Cleary, Beverly | 5.2 | 2 | A comfortable cat's life for tabby Socks is disrupted by the arrival of a new baby in the owner's home. | 156 |
| Soft Rain | Cornelissen, Cornelia | 4.3 | 3 | Soft Rain, a nine-year-old Cherokee girl, is forced to relocate along with her family from North Carolina to the West. | 115 |
| Solar System (Spinning Through Space), The | Furniss, Tim | 5.5 | 0.5 | This book describes the family of nine planets and moons called the solar system. | 32 |
| Soldier's Heart | Paulsen, Gary | 5.7 | 2 | Eager to enlist, fifteen-year-old Charley has a change of heart after experiencing both the physical horrors and mental anguish of Civil War combat. | 104 |
| Solution, The | Applegate, K.A. | 3.9 | 4 | Part three of a trilogy: David the new Animorph is trouble and no one knows what to do about him. | 152 |
| Some Bugs Glow in the Dark | Llewellyn, Claire | 3.7 | 0.5 | This book provides information about various insects and their physical characteristics, homes, feeding habits, and defenses. | 32 |
| Some of My Best Friends Are Monsters | Coville, Bruce | 4.8 | 3 | A camp director, who also directs movies, tries out his special effects on the Camp Haunted Hills. | 108 |
| Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch | Spinelli, Eileen | 3.9 | 0.5 | A scout admirer sends the unsmiling Mr. Hatch a valentine. | 17 |
| Someone Was Watching | Patneaude, David | 4.5 | 6 | Chris has a hard time adjusting to his younger sister's disappearance and decides to seek out her kidnappers. | 220 |
| Something from Nothing | Gilman, Phoebe | 3.3 | 0.5 | In this retelling of a traditional Jewish folktale, Joseph's baby blanket is transformed into ever smaller items as he grows until there is nothing left--but then Joseph has an idea. | 27 |
| Something Is Growing | Krudop, Walter Lyon | 3.1 | 0.5 | Little Peter finds and plants a seed in the dirt of a city street, gently helping it grow until is starts to take over the whole city, forcing a snoopy neighbor and a professor to investigate the situation. | 28 |
| Sometimes I'm Bombaloo | Vail, Rachel | 2.8 | 0.5 | When Katie Honors feels angry and out of control, her mother helps her to be herself again. | 32 |
| Somewhere in the Darkness | Myers, Walter Dean | 4.4 | 6 | A teenage boy accompanies his father, who has recently escaped from prison, on a trip that turns out to be a time of discovery, often painful, for them both. | 168 |
| Son of the Black Stallion | Farley, Walter | 6.1 | 11 | The story of a spirited colt with a savage, killer instinct. | 282 |
| Sondok: Princess of the Moon and Stars | Holman, Sheri | 6.6 | 5 | In a series of messages placed in her grandmother's ancestral jar, a sixth-century princess and future ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla vents her frustration at not being permitted to study astronomy because she is a girl. | 187 |
| Song and Dance Man | Ackerman, Karen | 4 | 0.5 | Grandpa demonstrates for his visiting grandchildren some of the songs, dances, and jokes he performed when he was a vaudevillian. | 21 |
| Song Lee and the "I Hate You" Notes | Kline, Suzy | 3.3 | 0.5 | Song Lee is upset when she receives hateful notes in class, but she finds an appropriate and positive way to deal with them. | 51 |
| Song of the Swallows | Politi, Leo | 4.6 | 0.5 | Juan plants a garden for the swallows to nest in his yard, and gets his wish on St. Joseph's Day. | 30 |
| Song of the Trees | Taylor, Mildred D. | 3.8 | 1 | Every day when Cassie opened her windows, the trees would greet her; now her mother has been forced to sell the trees. This story begins the chronicle of the Logan family that is continued in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and Let the Circle Be Unbroken. | 48 |
| Song of the Wanderer | Coville, Bruce | 5.8 | 9 | Having jumped into Luster, the land of unicorns, Cara makes a perilous journey to bring back her grandmother, the Wanderer, in order to release the Queen of the unicorns and allow her to die. | 330 |
| Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella Story | San Souci, Robert D. | 4.4 | 0.5 | This is the Native American version of Cinderella. | 32 |
| Sophie | Fox, Mem | 2.1 | 0.5 | As Sophie grows bigger and her grandfather gets smaller, they continue to love each other very much. | 30 |
| Sophie and Lou | Mathers, Petra | 3.1 | 0.5 | Shy Sophie, enticed by the dancing that she sees in the studio across the street, sets out to learn on her own. | 30 |
| Sophie Hits Six | King-Smith, Dick | 4.3 | 2 | The year that Sophie turns six, she sees her cat give birth to kittens, gets a pet rabbit, and pursues her dream of acquiring a dog. | 127 |
| Sophie in the Saddle | King-Smith, Dick | 4.5 | 1 | Sophie, who wants to be a lady farmer, gets a dog, goes on a holiday to the seaside, and has her first ride on a pony. | 92 |
| Sophie's Masterpiece: A Spider's Tale | Spinelli, Eileen | 3.2 | 0.5 | Sophie the spider makes wondrous webs, but the residents of Beekman's Boardinghouse do not appreciate her until at last, old and tired, she weaves her final masterpiece. | 26 |
| Sophie's Snail | King-Smith, Dick | 3.9 | 1 | Sophie is only four years old and knows she wants to be a lady farmer. She's fond of all creatures, but gets fed up with her twin brothers and the new girl Dawn. | 95 |
| SOS Titanic | Bunting, Eve | 4.5 | 6 | Fifteen-year-old Barry O'Neill, traveling from Ireland to America on the maiden voyage of the Titanic, finds his life endangered when the ship hits an iceberg and begins to sink. | 243 |
| Sound (Discovering Science) | Hunter, Rebecca | 4.8 | 0.5 | This book describes sound and its influence on our lives. | 32 |
| Sound All Around | Robinson, Fay | 2.5 | 0.5 | Discusses sound how we hear it and how it travels. | 31 |
| Sound the Jubilee | Forrester, Sandra | 5 | 6 | A slave and her family find refuge on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, during the Civil War. | 183 |
| Sounder | Armstrong, William H. | 5.3 | 3 | Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read with the help of a devoted dog, Sounder. | 116 |
| Soup | Peck, Robert Newton | 4.4 | 2 | Rural Vermont during the 1920s is the setting of this nostalgic account of episodes in the lives of young Rob Peck and his pal, Soup. | 96 |
| Soup in Love | Peck, Robert Newton | 4.2 | 3 | As Valentine's Day approaches their Vermont town of Learning, Soup and Rob experience several forms of love. | 114 |
| Soup in the Saddle | Peck, Robert Newton | 4 | 2 | Anticipating the celebration of Miss Kelly Day in honor of the teacher of their one-room school, Soup and Rob save the day from certain catastrophe at the hands of Dr. Elsa Pinkerton Uppit. | 110 |
| Soup on Ice | Peck, Robert Newton | 4.7 | 3 | Rob and Soup engineer an incredible appearance by Santa and his sleigh in their small Vermont town. | 112 |
| Soup on Wheels | Peck, Robert Newton | 3.9 | 2 | Rob and Soup vie for the prize in their town's "Vermont Mardy Grah." | 101 |
| Soup's Drum | Peck, Robert Newton | 4.6 | 3 | Rob totes Soup's huge drum through the Fourth of July parade before he realizes Soup hasn't carried his share. Before the close of the celebration, Rob gets even. | 112 |
| Soup's Goat | Peck, Robert Newton | 4.1 | 2 | Clean and tidy cousin Sexton lends his unusual talent to Soup and Rob as they engage in the town's goat-cart race. | 97 |
| Soup's Hoop | Peck, Robert Newton | 4.4 | 3 | Soup's crazy plan to help his town's basketball team to victory includes constructing a musical instrument called a spitzentootle and snaring the evil Janice Riker in an unpleasant trap. | 130 |
| Soup's Uncle | Peck, Robert Newton | 5.1 | 3 | Soup's uncle comes roaring into town, along with his rowdy gang of motorcycle pals, the Hardboilers. Uncle Vi is a tough-riding carefree spirit, until he meets a special lady, the member of another motorcycle gang called the Leatherettes. | 123 |
| South Carolina (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 4.9 | 1 | An introduction to the Palmetto State, its geography, history, places to visit, and people. | 59 |
| South Dakota (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis/Judith | 4.5 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, famous people, and interesting sites of South Dakota. | 59 |
| Space (Discovering Science) | Hunter, Rebecca | 5.2 | 0.5 | This book gives a simple explanation of space and the solar system. | 32 |
| Space Mall | Buller/Schade | 3.4 | 1 | Ten-year-old Ron is at the mall when it is hijacked and flown into space by small but horrible extraterrestrials. | 63 |
| Space Missions (Explore Space!) | Shearer, Deborah A. | 4.3 | 0.5 | This book describes past space missions and explains the types of missions scientists and astronauts perform during space travel, remotely by robot, and on the international space station. | 24 |
| Space Mysteries (Spinning Through Space) | Goldsmith, Mike | 6.6 | 0.5 | This book is about some of the solved and unsolved mysteries of space. | 32 |
| Space Travel (Spinning Through Space) | Goldsmith, Mike | 6.5 | 0.5 | This book is an introduction to space travel. | 32 |
| Spacecraft (Monster Machines) | Jefferis, David | 5.3 | 0.5 | This book describes the various vehicles and machines used in the space program, including rockets, space shuttles and rovers. | 32 |
| Speaking to Miranda | Macdonald, Caroline | 4.6 | 7 | An eighteen-year-old Australian girl begins searching for clues to the identity of the mother she never knew and uncovers startling things about herself. | 251 |
| Spider and the Fly, The | Howitt/DiTerlizzi | 4.8 | 0.5 | The spider uses sweet words to hide his not-so-sweet intentions. | 36 |
| Spider Kane and the Mystery Under the May-Apple | Osborne, Mary Pope | 4.1 | 2 | Lieutenant Leon Leafwing and Detective Spider Kane investigate a mysterious kidnapping and suspect an evil force is behind it. | 117 |
| Spider Weaver: A Legend of Kente Cloth, The | Musgrove, Margaret | 4.4 | 0.5 | It is said that long ago, a beautiful spider created a web so intricate and magnificent that the weavers of Ghana still tell the story. This is the legend of that master spider weaver and the remarkable gift she gave to people everywhere. | 34 |
| Spiders and Their Web Sites | Facklam, Margery | 6.2 | 1 | This book provides a close-up look at the physical characteristics and habits of twelve different spiders and of daddy longlegs. | 32 |
| Spiders Spin Silk (How & Why?) | Pascoe, Elaine | 3.5 | 0.5 | This book explains how spiders make silk and use it in various ways. | 24 |
| Spiders Spin Webs | Winer, Yvonne | 2.9 | 0.5 | This book uses elaborate illustration to examine the beauty of spiders and their webs. | 32 |
| Spinning Spiders | Berger, Melvin | 3.7 | 0.5 | This book describes the characteristics of spiders and the methods they use to trap their prey in webs. | 28 |
| Spiny Sea Stars | Zuchora-Walske, Christine | 2.4 | 0.5 | This book introduces the sea star by describing its habitat, behaviors, and physical characteristics. | 32 |
| Splash! | Jonas, Ann | 0.9 | 0.5 | A little girl's turtle, frogs, dog, and cat jump in and out of a backyard pond, constantly changing the answer to the question "How many are in my pond?" | 20 |
| Splendid Little War, A | Jones, S.D. | 3.5 | 2 | Olive Dunford is horrified when she learns how her newspaper articles have influenced a member of her own family. | 69 |
| Spooky Tail of Prewitt Peacock, The | Peet, Bill | 3.8 | 0.5 | When Prewitt's shamefully scraggly tail develops the appearance of a scary green-eyed monster, the other peacocks decide it has to go. | 30 |
| Sport Climbing (Extreme Sports) | Nichols, John | 5.3 | 1 | This book explains how the sport works and describes sport climbing safety, training, professionals, and competition. | 48 |
| Spring Sprouts | Delton, Judy | 2.8 | 1 | The Pee Wee Scouts observe the rights of spring as Molly charts the progress of her radish and the troop visits a farm. | 72 |
| Spy Among the Girls, A | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 4.9 | 4 | Are Beth and Josh really in love or just pretending to be in order to spy and continue the feud between the Malloy sisters and the Hatford brothers? | 134 |
| Spying on Miss Muller | Bunting, Eve | 4.4 | 6 | At Alveara boarding school in Belfast at the start of World War II, thirteen-year-old Jessie must deal with her suspicions about a teacher whose father was German and with her worries about her own father's drinking problem. | 179 |
| Squanto's Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving | Bruchac, Joseph | 4.2 | 0.5 | Squanto recounts how in 1614 he was captured by the British, sold into slavery in Spain, and ultimately returned to the New World to become a guide and friend for the colonists. | 29 |
| Squash It! | Kimmel, Eric A. | 4.2 | 0.5 | The king of Spain's fondness for a louse that bit him leads to good fortune for a clever peasant. | 24 |
| Squids Will Be Squids | Scieszka, Jon | 3.8 | 0.5 | Contemporary fables with tongue-in-cheek morals address such topics as homework, curfews, and television commercials. | 42 |
| St. Patrick's Day in the Morning | Bunting, Eve | 2.7 | 0.5 | Jamie seeks a way to prove he is not too young to march in the big St. Patrick's Day parade. | 28 |
| Stacey and the Mystery of Stoneybrook | Martin, Ann M. | 4.7 | 4 | When Stacey sees a mysterious face in the window of a supposedly haunted house, she begins to believe the rumors. | 139 |
| Stacey's Emergency | Martin, Ann M. | 4 | 4 | The girls in the Baby-Sitters Club provide emotional support for an overpressured Stacey when she is hospitalized for diabetes. | 139 |
| Stacey's Mistake | Martin, Ann M. | 4.3 | 4 | When the Baby-Sitters visit Stacey in New York City, they have no idea how out of place they will feel. | 145 |
| Stage Fright on a Summer Night | Osborne, Mary Pope | 3.3 | 1 | Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house to Elizabethan London, where they become actors in a production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and try to rescue a tame bear. | 70 |
| Stallion in the Storm | Baglio, Ben M. | 4.9 | 4 | Mandy's father promised to take Mandy and James to visit Folan's Racing Stables. When they arrive, they discover that Folan's is in trouble and some of the jockeys believe the stables are haunted by a stallion who died in a race. | 127 |
| Stand Tall | Bauer, Joan | 3.9 | 5 | Tree, a six-foot-three-inch twelve-year-old, copes with his parents' recent divorce and his failure as an athlete by helping his grandfather, a Vietnam vet and recent amputee, and Sophie, a new girl at school. | 182 |
| Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon | Lovell, Patty | 3.5 | 0.5 | When the class bully at her new school makes fun of her, Molly remembers what her grandmother told her. | 32 |
| Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan | Osborne, Mary Pope | 5.1 | 4 | A Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763. | 184 |
| Stanley and Rhoda | Wells, Rosemary | 2 | 0.5 | Three different adventures with Stanley and Rhoda. | 40 |
| Stanley, Flat Again! | Brown, Jeff | 3.3 | 1 | After Stanley Lambchop goes flat once again, he uses his flatness to help win a sailboat race and to rescue a classmate from a collapsed building. | 87 |
| Star Fisher, The | Yep, Laurence | 5.2 | 6 | Fifteen-year-old Joan Lee and her family find the adjustment hard when they move from Ohio to West Virginia in the 1920s. | 147 |
| Star in the Storm | Harlow, Joan Hiatt | 4.4 | 4 | In 1912, fearing for the safety of her beloved Newfoundland dog Sirius because of a new law outlawing non-sheepherding dogs in her Newfoundland village, twelve-year-old Maggie tries to save him by keeping him hidden. | 150 |
| Star Maiden, The | Esbensen, Barbara Juster | 3 | 0.5 | Tired of wandering in the sky, the star maiden searches for the perfect home on earth. | 29 |
| Star Tree, The | Colle, Gisela | 4.1 | 0.5 | Memory and the Christmas spirit can be powerful and miraculous, as an old man with his basket full of stars proves. | 24 |
| Stardust | Ferguson, Alane | 3.9 | 4 | When her acting career comes to an end, eleven-year-old Haley has trouble adjusting, so she assumes the personality of the popular television character she had portrayed so that her new classmates will like her. | 155 |
| Stargone John | McKenzie, Ellen | 4.4 | 2 | Six-year-old John, emotionally withdrawn and resistant to traditional teaching methods, experiences ridicule and punishment until an old retired teacher reaches out from her blindness to share with him the world of reading and writing. | 67 |
| Stars (Solar System) | Sorensen, Lynda | 4.3 | 0.5 | Discusses different kinds of stars, including dwarfs and giants; red, white, and blue stars; shooting stars; the North Star; and our sun. | 24 |
| Stars and Constellations (Our Universe) | Vogt, Gregory | 5 | 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 |
| Stars and Stripes: The Story of the American Flag | Thomson, Sarah L. | 4.5 | 0.5 | This book is an introduction to the history of the American flag, from colonial times to the present. | 32 |
| Star-Spangled Secret, The | Kimball, K.M. | 5.7 | 6 | In 1814, as the War of 1812 threatens her Maryland home, Caroline sets out to discover the truth about the disappearance of her older brother. | 234 |
| Starting School with an Enemy | Carbone, Elisa | 4.8 | 3 | Worried about finding friends when she moves from Maine to Maryland, Sarah gets off to a bad start by making an enemy of a boy. | 103 |
| Starving Time: Elizabeth's Diary, Book Two, The | Hermes, Patricia | 3.2 | 2 | Nine-year-old Elizabeth continues keeping a journal of her experiences in the New World . | 109 |
| Statue of Liberty, The | Penner, Lucille Recht | 2.3 | 0.5 | Describes the construction and symbolism of the Statue of Liberty. | 32 |
| Stay Out of the Basement | Stine, R.L. | 3.9 | 3 | Dr. Brewer is doing some plant-testing in his basement. Margaret and Casey are worried about their father. Has their basement turned into another little shop of horrors? | 122 |
| Steal Away | Armstrong, Jennifer | 4.5 | 6 | In 1855 two thirteen-year-old girls, one white and one black, run away from a southern farm and make the difficult journey north to freedom, living to recount their story 41 years later to two similar young girls. | 206 |
| Stealing Freedom | Carbone, Elisa | 5.6 | 10 | A novel based on the events in the life of a young slave girl from Maryland who endures all kinds of mistreatment and cruelty, including being separated from her family, but who eventually escapes to freedom in Canada. | 258 |
| Stellaluna | Cannon, Janell | 3.5 | 0.5 | After she falls headfirst into a bird's nest, a baby bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her mother. | 45 |
| Stepbrother Sabotage | Wittman, Sally | 4.1 | 1 | Nine-year-old Josh finds it impossible to get along with his rambunctious eight-year-old stepbrother Jake until an impending change in their family unites them on a common front. | 71 |
| Stepping on the Cracks | Hahn, Mary Downing | 4.7 | 8 | In 1944, while her brother is overseas fighting in World War II, eleven-year-old Margaret gets a new view of the school bully Gordy when she finds him hiding his own brother, an army deserter, and decides to help him. | 216 |
| Sting of the Scorpion, The | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5.9 | 6 | During Mr. Hardy's investigation of a ruthless gang of terrorists, Frank and Joe witness an explosion in the sky near an airborne dirigible owned by Quinn Air Fleet. | 180 |
| Stinker from Space | Service, Pamela F. | 5.1 | 2 | An agent of the Sylon Confederacy fleeing from enemy ships crash-lands on Earth, transfers his mind to the body of a skunk, and enlists the aid of two children in getting back to his home planet. | 84 |
| Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, The | Scieszka, Jon | 3.4 | 0.5 | Madcap revisions of familiar fairy tales, including 'Jack and the Bean Soup,' 'Goldilocks and the Three Elephants,' and 'Cinderumplestilskin.' | 49 |
| Stone Bench in an Empty Park | Janeczko, Paul B. | 3.2 | 0.5 | This is an anthology of haiku reflecting nature in the city. | 36 |
| Stone Fox | Gardiner, John Reynolds | 4 | 1 | Little Willy hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dogsled race he enters. | 81 |
| Stone Soup | Brown, Marcia | 3.3 | 0.5 | When hungry soldiers get a chilly reception in the village, they use a trick to get a meal. | 33 |
| Stone Soup | Muth, Jon J. | 3.6 | 0.5 | Three wise monks trick a frightened community into finding happiness by teaching them the magic of generosity. | 32 |
| Stones in Water | Napoli, Donna Jo | 4.2 | 7 | Roberto is forced to work for the German war effort until he escapes into the Ukrainian winter, desperately trying to get home to Venice. | 208 |
| Stop, Drop, and Roll | Cuyler, Margery | 3.2 | 0.5 | Jessica, who worries about everything from her spelling homework to remembering to fill her dog's water dish, learns that fire safety begins with extinguishing her fears. | 32 |
| Stories Julian Tells, The | Cameron, Ann | 3.4 | 1 | The imaginative Julian transforms everyday family activities into extraordinary, heartwarming childhood experiences. | 71 |
| Stories of Mummies and the Living Dead | Kudalis, Eric | 4.3 | 0.5 | When its casket is opened, an Egyptian mummy comes to life and tries to raise a princess from the dead. Includes information about other mummy stories and about how mummies were made in ancient Egypt. | 48 |
| Storm in the Night | Stolz, Mary | 3.2 | 0.5 | During a thunderstorm, Grandfather's gentle voice carries Thomas off to a time when Grandfather was a boy. | 28 |
| Stormy, Misty's Foal | Henry, Marguerite | 4.7 | 6 | A foal, born in the aftermath of a great storm, and her mother raise money to repair the damage on Chincoteague Island and restore the herds of wild ponies. | 223 |
| Story for Bear, A | Haseley, Dennis | 4.2 | 0.5 | A young bear who is fascinated by the mysterious marks he sees on paper finds a friend when a kind woman reads to him. | 32 |
| Story Girl, The | Montgomery, L.M. | 6.4 | 14 | In the old-fashioned town of Carlisle, children and adults come from miles around to hear Sara, the Story Girl, weave her spellbinding tales. | 258 |
| Story of Benjamin Franklin: Amazing American, The | Davidson, Margaret | 5.2 | 2 | Describes the life and many notable accomplishments of the American printer, businessman, inventor, community leader, and statesman. | 102 |
| Story of Ferdinand, The | Leaf, Munro | 3.7 | 0.5 | Ferdinand is a little bull who would rather just sit and smell the flowers than fight. | 35 |
| Story of Harriet Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad, Th | McMullan, Kate | 4.7 | 3 | A biography of the African-American woman who escaped from slavery and led other slaves to freedom on the underground railroad. | 108 |
| Story of Jumping Mouse, The | Steptoe, John | 3.8 | 0.5 | The gifts of Magic Frog and his own hopeful and unselfish spirit bring Jumping Mouse to the Far-Off Land where no mouse goes hungry. | 36 |
| Story of King Arthur and His Knights, The | Pyle, Howard | 9.4 | 21 | Stories describe the perilous and thrilling adventures of King Arthur and his knights in that glorious age of chivalry and honor. | 313 |
| Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder: Pioneer Girl, The | Stine, Megan | 5.3 | 2 | A biography of the writer whose pioneer life on the prairie became the basis for her "Little House" books. | 102 |
| Story of Muhammad Ali: Heavyweight Champion of the World, The | Denenberg, Barry | 5.5 | 2 | Describes the life of the controversial heavyweight fighter, both in and out of the ring. | 104 |
| Story of My Life, The | Keller, Helen | 6.8 | 12 | This is the story of Helen Keller's triumph over deafness and blindness. | 225 |
| Story of Ruby Bridges, The | Coles, Robert | 4.4 | 0.5 | For months, six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of segregationists when she becomes the first African-American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960. | 22 |
| Story of the Incredible Orchestra, The | Koscielniak, Bruce | 7.9 | 0.5 | This book describes the orchestra, the families of instruments of which it is made, and the individual instruments in each family. | 28 |
| Story of the Liberty Bell, The | Miller, Natalie | 5.1 | 0.5 | Learn how the Liberty Bell became one of our most-treasured symbol. | 30 |
| Story of the Lincoln Memorial, The | Miller, Natalie | 5.1 | 0.5 | Recounts the fund-raising, the choosing of the site, and the actual building of the Lincoln Memorial. | 31 |
| Story of the Statue of Liberty, The | Miller, Natalie | 5.2 | 0.5 | Describes Auguste Bartholdi's conception of the Statue of Liberty, its construction in France, and its eventual erection and dedication in New York Harbor. | 30 |
| Story, A Story, A | Haley, Gail E. | 4.2 | 0.5 | This book recounts how most African folk tales come to be called "Spider Stories." | 32 |
| Storytelling Princess, The | Martin, Rafe | 4 | 0.5 | Having survived a shipwreck, a princess tries to tell a prince a story whose ending he does not know and thus qualify for his hand in marriage. | 32 |
| Stowaway | Hesse, Karen | 6.1 | 11 | This book relates in journal form, the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771, aboard the "Endeavour," which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook. | 319 |
| Stowaway: A Tale of California Pirates, The | Gregory, Kristiana | 5.4 | 3 | After witnessing the murder of his father by pirates, eleven-year-old Carlito climbs aboard their ship looking for revenge. When the ship sets sail, Carlito is trapped. Will he suffer his father's fate or will he bring his father's murderers to justice? | 126 |
| Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Great Illustrated Cla, Th | Stevenson/Yamamoto | 5.4 | 3 | Dr. Jekyll is convinced that all men have two personalities lurking within them. When he discovers a drug and tests it on himself, his altered self becomes Mr. Hyde. | 238 |
| Stranger in Right Field | Christopher, Matt | 4 | 1 | Who is the new player on the Peach Street Mudders, and how can Alfie Maples help him improve his game? | 61 |
| Stranger in the Woods: A Photographic Fantasy | Sams/Stoick | 2.9 | 0.5 | The resident birds and animals react to a snowman appearing in their woods after a winter storm. | 46 |
| Stranger, The | Applegate, K.A. | 3.7 | 4 | Rachel and the other Animorphs have found the new entrance to the Yeerk pool. Some guy is also giving them the choice of living on a different planet or staying on Earth to fight the Yeerks. | 163 |
| Strawberry Girl | Lenski, Lois | 4.8 | 6 | This is the story of Birdie Boyer and how she battles nature, animals, and feuding neighbors in the backwoods of Florida to become a "strawberry girl." | 194 |
| Stray Dog, The | Sassa/Simont | 1.7 | 0.5 | A family befriends a stray dog, names him Willy, and decides to keep him. | 30 |
| Stray, The | King-Smith, Dick | 4.5 | 3 | When seventy-five-year-old Henny Hickathrift runs away from the old people's home, she meets five children and their parents, who welcome her into their family. | 139 |
| Streams to the River, River to the Sea | O'Dell, Scott | 4.8 | 7 | A fictionalized version of the life of Sacagawea, the Shoshone guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition. | 163 |
| Strega Nona | De Paola, Tomie | 3.9 | 0.5 | When Strega Nona leaves him alone with her magic pasta pot, Big Anthony is determined to show the townspeople how it works. | 30 |
| Strega Nona's Magic Lessons | De Paola, Tomie | 2.8 | 0.5 | Big Anthony disguises himself as a girl in order to take magic lessons from Strega Nona. | 32 |
| Strider | Cleary, Beverly | 4.8 | 3 | In a series of diary entries, Leigh tells how he comes to terms with his parents' divorce, acquires joint custody of an abandoned dog, and joins the track team at school. | 179 |
| Strike Two | Shea, George | 3.4 | 1 | Al has a chance to become a member of the St. Louis baseball team if they will overlook his past and give him a try. | 60 |
| String in the Harp, A | Bond, Nancy | 5.2 | 17 | When Peter and his sisters are forced to move to Wales, he finds a harp-tuning key that transports him back to the sixth century. | 370 |
| Striped Ice Cream | Lexau, Joan | 3.5 | 2 | A seven-year-old black girl is resigned to the fact that her mother cannot afford anything special for her birthday, but she does not understand why her older sisters and brother seem to turn against her--until the big day finally arrives. | 125 |
| Strudel Stories | Rocklin, Joanne | 4 | 2 | Seven generations of a Jewish family hear stories of their family history, all told while making apple strudel. | 131 |
| Stuart Little | White, E.B. | 6 | 3 | Stuart, an inventive and debonair mouse, has a great adventure. | 131 |
| Stuffed Bear Mystery, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 4 | 2 | Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather, and they're going to a teddy bear jamboree! | 118 |
| Stuttgart Nanny Mafia, The | Fletcher, Susan | 3.8 | 5 | In an effort to gain more time alone with her mother, Aurora schemes to get rid of Tanja, a nineteen-year-old au pair from Germany. | 166 |
| Subtle Knife, The | Pullman, Philip | 6.2 | 16 | As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife. | 326 |
| Summer I Shrank My Grandmother, The | Woodruff, Elvira | 4.7 | 4 | When aspiring scientist Nelly Brown uses a magic chemistry set to make her grandmother young again but is unable to stop the alteration, the 70-year-old woman becomes a baby and Nelly fears that she may shrink into nothing. | 153 |
| Summer in the South, A | Marshall, James | 4.5 | 2 | A great detective, Eleanor Owl, is drawn into a mystery while vacationing at a beachside hotel. | 97 |
| Summer of Riley, The | Bunting, Eve | 3.8 | 4 | Shortly after he gets the perfect dog, Riley, eleven-year-old William must fight for his dog's life after Riley chases the neighbor's horse. | 170 |
| Summer of the Bonepile Monster, The | Henderson, Aileen | 5 | 4 | When he and his sister Lou are sent to spend the summer with their blind great-grandmother in the tiny town of Dolliver, Hollis encounters some dark family secrets and vows to uncover them. | 138 |
| Summer of the Monkeys | Rawls, Wilson | 4.8 | 13 | A fourteen-year-old Ozark Mountain boy attempts to recapture monkeys escaped from a traveling circus. | 283 |
| Summer of the Swans, The | Byars, Betsy | 4.9 | 4 | A fourteen-year-old girl finds maturity while searching for her younger brother lost in the woods. | 142 |
| Summer Reading Is Killing Me! | Scieszka, Jon | 3.9 | 1 | At the beginning of summer vacation Joe, Sam, and Fred find themselves trapped inside their summer reading list, involved in a battle between good and evil characters from well-known children's books. | 69 |
| Sun (Our Universe), The | Vogt, Gregory | 4.6 | 1 | The book examines the characteristics of the sun. | 48 |
| Sun (Spinning Through Space), The | Furniss, Tim | 5.6 | 0.5 | This book describes the composition and behavior of the Sun, our nearest star. | 32 |
| Sun (Watts Library), The | Spangenburg/Moser | 7.2 | 1 | This book describes what scientists have learned about the Sun through their observations on Earth and in space. | 63 |
| Sunken Treasure | Gibbons, Gail | 4.2 | 0.5 | Describes the many-years-long search for the treasure that went down with the Atocha, a Spanish galleon sunk off Florida in a hurricane in 1622. Includes facts about four other famous shipwrecks. | 32 |
| Sunny-Side Up | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 2.3 | 1 | "Beast" Best knows his summer hasn't been ruined by Summer School because he can still go swimming in the afternoon, but those plans could be changed. | 74 |
| Sunset of the Sabertooth | Osborne, Mary Pope | 3 | 1 | The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie on a mission to the Ice Age where they encounter Cro-Magnons, cave bears, sabertooth tigers, and woolly mammoths. | 68 |
| Sunshine (Weather) | Saunders-Smith, Gail | 2.3 | 0.5 | Simple text and photographs describe the effects of light from the sun on earth and how it causes temperature changes, the seasons, winds, and clouds. | 24 |
| Super Duper Pee Wee! | Delton, Judy | 3.7 | 2 | Yikes! Molly's newly divorced aunt is coming to town, and she's taking over Molly's dresser, Molly's closet, and Molly's life. It's up to Molly and Mary Beth to see if they can marry her off. Meanwhile, Molly is worried about her own parents. | 135 |
| Super-Completely and Totally the Messiest | Viorst, Judith | 3.9 | 0.5 | Olivia, who is very neat and practically perfect, despairs because her sister, Sophie, is super-completely and totally the messiest person, no matter where she goes or what she does. | 32 |
| Superfudge | Blume, Judy | 3.4 | 4 | In a sequel to Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, twelve-year-old Peter relates his life with his troublesome little brother, Fudge. | 166 |
| Supernatural Tales...Terror...Suspense | Hitchcock, Alfred | 7.2 | 9 | Chilling tales by Muriel Spark, Raymond Chandler, Dorothy B. Bennett, and other outstanding authors are included among these spine-tingling stories selected by the master of suspense. | 213 |
| Surprise Island | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 4.2 | 3 | Summer vacation on an almost-private island gives the Aldens a challenge. | 178 |
| Surprise Party, The | Prager, Annabelle | 2.2 | 0.5 | A little boy tries to plan his own surprise birthday party. | 48 |
| Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards | Janke, Katelan | 6.4 | 6 | A twelve-year-old girl keeps a journal of her family's and friends' difficult experiences in the Texas Panhandle, part of the "Dust Bowl," during the Great Depression. | 189 |
| Survival! In the Mountains | McMurty, Ken | 6.6 | 4 | A true story of how three young people in southern California survived a raging blizzard while mountain climbing. Plus survival tips and techniques. | 118 |
| Surviving Brick Johnson | Myers, Laurie | 3.5 | 1 | Afraid of getting maimed for making fun of Brick, the new kid in his fifth-grade class, Alex decides that even his baseball collection will not protect him, so he signs up for karate class despite his brother's reassurances that Brick is not a bully. | 74 |
| Surviving the Applewhites | Tolan, Stephanie S. | 5.5 | 7 | Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had. | 216 |
| Survivors: The Night the Titanic Sank | Jenner, Caryn | 3 | 0.5 | Will and Lucy sail on the Titanic and are separated from their father when the ship hits an iceberg and begins to sink. | 32 |
| Suspicion, The | Applegate, K.A. | 4.2 | 3 | Animorph Cassie and Ax have to find a way to to keep the Helmacrons from shrinking other beings down to an inch. | 155 |
| Swamp Angel | Isaacs, Anne | 5 | 0.5 | A Tennessee tall tale about a good-natured heroine. | 34 |
| Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt | Hopkinson, Deborah | 3.8 | 0.5 | Drawn from a true incident in African American history, this is the story of a young slave who uses a quilt as a map to the underground railroad. | 30 |
| Sweet Dream Pie | Wood, Audrey | 4.6 | 0.5 | Ma Brindle's incredibly delicious Sweet Dream Pie brings a dessert adventure to the neighborhood. | 30 |
| Sweet Valley Cleanup Team, The | Pascal/Stewart | 4 | 1 | Elizabeth and Jessica try to get the help of a business man's snobby grandson to try to talk his grandfather into not building a parking lot. | 68 |
| Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush | Hamilton, Virginia | 3.8 | 8 | Drawn into a fascinating exploration of her family's recent past by a handsome stranger who calls himself Brother Rush, fourteen-year-old Tree uncovers a web of dark and frightening secrets. | 215 |
| Sweetest Fig, The | Van Allsburg, Chris | 3.7 | 0.5 | A dentist receives two magic figs for an extracted tooth, but the dentist's dog has his own plan for the mysterious fruits. | 28 |
| Swift Rivers | Meigs, Cornelia | 7 | 11 | After being turned out by his mean-spirited uncle, Chris Dahlberg decides to harvest some of the giant logs down the Mississippi River to market in St. Louis. | 270 |
| Swiftly Tilting Planet, A | L'Engle, Madeleine | 5.2 | 10 | Third volume of classic trilogy in which 15-year-old Charles and the unicorn Gaudior thwart Madog Branzillo's plan to destroy the world. | 256 |
| Swimmy | Lionni, Leo | 2.9 | 0.5 | A little fish makes the most of his smallness in a big way. | 28 |
| Swiss Family Robinson (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Wyss/Warren | 5.5 | 3 | The Robinson family, shipwrecked on an island, must discover hidden strength in themselves to survive. As time passes, they grow to love the wild beauty of their island home. | 238 |
| Swiss Family Robinson (Unabridged), The | Wyss, Johann | 9.7 | 23 | A terrible storm strands a Swiss pastor with his wife and four sons on a tropical island. The Robinsons are optimistic and inventive, and with what they salvage from the wrecked ship and the island's resources, they adapt to their new life. | 408 |
| Switcharound | Lowry, Lois | 4.6 | 3 | Forced to spend a summer with their father and his "new" family, Caroline and P.J. are determined to get revenge in this sequel to The One Hundred Things About Caroline. | 118 |
| Sword in the Stone, The | White, T.H. | 7.5 | 16 | Humor, fantasy, and satire are evident in the adventures of the Wart, the medieval boy who becomes King Arthur. | 288 |
| Sword of Shannara, The | Brooks, Terry | 8.7 | 42 | In this renowned fantasy in the Tolkien manner, half-elfin Shea Ohlmsford, along with Allanon, recover the Sword of Shannara to battle the Warlock Lord.. | 726 |
| Sylvester and the Magic Pebble | Steig, William | 4 | 0.5 | In a moment of fright, Sylvester the donkey asks his magic pebble to turn him into a rock but then cannot hold the pebble to wish himself back to normal again. | 32 |