| Title | Author | Level | Pts. | Description | Pages |
| Table where rich people sit, The | Baylor, Byrd | 4.3 | 0.5 | A girl discovers that her impoverished family is rich in things that matter in life, especially being outdoors and experiencing nature. | 30 |
| Tacky and the Emperor | Lester, Helen | 3.9 | 0.5 | While awaiting a visit from the Emperor, a group of penguins fail to recognize their friend, Tacky, in the Emperor's clothes. | 32 |
| Taggerung | Jacques, Brian | 5.2 | 19 | A young otter, kidnapped in his infancy and raised as a warrior-thief by a band of vermin, leaves the tribe and goes off to seek adventures on his own. | 438 |
| Taking Care of Mom | Mayer, Gina/Mercer | 2 | 0.5 | Little Critter's mother is in bed with a cold, so it's up to him and his sister to take care of her. | 24 |
| Taking Care of Terrific | Lowry, Lois | 5.3 | 5 | Fourteen-year old Enid Crowley does not like her name. When she takes a baby-sitting job for Joshua W. Cameron IV, she decides it is time for a change. Enid becomes Cynthia, Joshua becomes Tom Terrific, and then it is off to summer excitement. | 168 |
| Taking Flight: The Story of the Wright Brothers | Krensky, Stephen | 5.3 | 0.5 | This book describes how the Wright Brothers came to build and fly the first powered aircraft. | 43 |
| Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The | Potter, Beatrix | 4.4 | 0.5 | Peter's cousin Benjamin helps Peter get his clothes back from Mr. McGregor. | 59 |
| Tale of Despereaux, The | DiCamillo, Kate | 4.7 | 5 | This is the adventures of Despereaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin. | 267 |
| Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, The | Potter, Beatrix | 4.7 | 0.5 | The story of a not-so-bright duck and the fox who befriended her. | 59 |
| Tale of Peter Rabbit, The | Potter, Beatrix | 4.2 | 0.5 | The classic tale of the little rabbit that didn't listen to his mother. | 59 |
| Tale of Two Cities (Great Illustrated Classics), A | Dickens/Leighton | 5.8 | 3 | In this book, Lucie and her family become involved in the events of the bloody and dangerous French Revolution. | 238 |
| Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing | Blume, Judy | 3.3 | 3 | Peter Hatcher has a terrible problem--his two-year-old little brother. | 120 |
| Tales of Amanda Pig | Van Leeuwen, Jean | 2.2 | 0.5 | Amanda Pig, her brother Oliver, and their parents share a busy day, working and playing together from breakfast to bedtime. | 56 |
| Tales of Ancient Egypt | Green, Roger Lancelyn | 7.2 | 8 | These stories include the great myths: of Amen-Ra who created all the creatures in the world; of Isis, searching the water for her dead husband Osiris; of the Bennu Bird and the Book of Thoth. | 221 |
| Tales of Mystery and Terror (Great Illustrated Classics) | Poe/Katz | 5.4 | 3 | This book contains four famous short stories of mystery and suspense written by Edgar Allen Poe. | 238 |
| Talking Earth, The | George, Jean Craighead | 5.2 | 6 | Billie Wind ventures out alone into the Florida Everglades to test the legends of their Indian ancestors and learn the importance of listening to the earth's vital messages. | 151 |
| Talking with Artists | Cummings, Pat | 5.9 | 3 | Fourteen distinguished picture book artists talk about their early art experiences, answer questions most frequently asked by children, and offer encouragement to those who would like to become artists. | 96 |
| Talking with Tebe | Lyons, Mary E. | 4 | 1 | The story of Clementine Hunter who spent 75 years on a Louisiana plantation and tells her story through her art. | 48 |
| Tallahassee Higgins | Hahn, Mary Downing | 4.6 | 6 | When a twelve-year-old who has lived for fun goes to live with her aunt, she must learn to live by the rules. | 180 |
| Tangle Box, The | Brooks, Terry | 6.1 | 17 | Ben finds himself imprisoned within the gloom of the Tangle Box, lost in its mists, along with a despairing lady, who might once have been the Witch Nightshade, and an unhappy gargoyle, that might once have been the dragon Strabo. | 334 |
| Tanya's Reunion | Flournoy, Valerie | 4.1 | 0.5 | When she and her grandmother go to help with preparations for a big family reunion, Tanya learns about the history of the farm in Virginia where Grandma grew up. | 36 |
| Tar Pit, The | Seidler, Tor | 5.8 | 5 | Edward seeks refuge from his problems at school and at home by visiting his special spot at a nearby tar pit, and daydreaming of being a hero with a dinosaur friend. | 168 |
| Taran Wanderer | Alexander, Lloyd | 6.2 | 9 | Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper, who wants to be a hero, goes questing for his parentage. | 222 |
| Tarantula in My Purse and 172 Other Wild Pets, The | George, Jean Craighead | 5.4 | 3 | A collection of autobiographical stories about raising a houseful of children and wild pets, including crows, skunks, and raccoons. | 134 |
| Tarantula Shoes | Birdseye, Tom | 4.3 | 4 | Ryan and his family are moving from Arizona to Kentucky, and he is worried about having to go to a new school, make new friends, and fit in with a new crowd. | 131 |
| Taste of Blackberries, A | Smith, Doris Buchanan | 4 | 2 | A little boy confronts grief and wrestles with the pain of loss when his best friend dies. | 85 |
| Tasting (Rookie Read-About Health) | Gordon, Sharon | 2 | 0.5 | This book is a brief introduction to the concept of taste. | 32 |
| Teach Us, Amelia Bedelia | Parish, Peggy | 1.9 | 0.5 | That hapless, literal-minded maid Amelia Bedelia is plagued by hilarious misunderstandings. | 56 |
| Teacher from the Black Lagoon, The | Thaler, Mike | 2.4 | 0.5 | A young boy dreads meeting his new teacher and imagines nightmarish things about her. | 29 |
| Teacher's Pet | Hurwitz, Johanna | 4.7 | 3 | Nine-year-old Cricket's expectations of being, as always, the teacher's favorite student are dashed by the arrival of an unusual new girl in her fourth-grade class. | 116 |
| Ted | DiTerlizzi, Tony | 2.6 | 0.5 | A young boy manages to get his busy father's attention with the help of a special imaginary friend. | 40 |
| Teeny Tiny Woman, The | O'Connor, Jane | 2.2 | 0.5 | A teeny-tiny woman who puts a teeny-tiny bone she finds in a churchyard away in a cupboard before she goes to sleep is awakened by a voice demanding the return of the bone. | 32 |
| Teeny Weeny Zucchinis | Delton, Judy | 3.5 | 1 | It's time for the harvest fest, and all the Pee Wees are planning to pitch in. | 88 |
| Telephone | Gambrell, Jamey | 2.1 | 0.5 | A Russian nonsense poem whose hero is at his wits' end | 22 |
| Telephones (Household History) | Alphin, Elaine Marie | 7 | 1 | This book presents the technological development of the telephone through a description of the various inventions that led up to it, then examines the role of the phone in popular culture. | 48 |
| Tell Me Something Happy Before I Go to Sleep | Dunbar, Joyce | 2.2 | 0.5 | Willa has trouble falling asleep until her brother reminds her of all the happy things that await her in the morning. | 24 |
| Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust | Bachrach, Susan | 8.7 | 2 | An informative book about the holocaust based on exhibits at the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. | 87 |
| Ten, Nine, Eight | Bang, Molly | 1.3 | 0.5 | This is a counting book which is also the story of a young girl getting ready for bed. | 20 |
| Tennessee (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 4.4 | 1 | Introducing the history, geography, industries, sites of interest, and famous people of the Volunteer State. | 59 |
| Tenth Good Thing About Barney, The | Viorst, Judith | 2.8 | 0.5 | In an attempt to overcome his grief, a boy tries to think of the ten best things about his dead cat. | 25 |
| Terror at the Zoo | Kehret, Peg | 4.6 | 5 | A camp-out at a deserted zoo turns scary for Corey and her little brother. | 131 |
| Test of Loyalty, A | Jones, S.D. | 3.7 | 2 | Harry Dunford Drewes travels to Oregon to learn about his family's business. He is torn between sympathy for the oppressed workers and loyalty to the management people who take orders from his own parents. | 73 |
| Texas (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 4.4 | 1 | Introduces the geography, climate, history, industries, prominent cities, and famous people of Texas. | 59 |
| Thank You, Amelia Bedelia | Parish, Peggy | 2.6 | 0.5 | Preparing for the arrival of an important visitor, a wacky housekeeper follows her employer's instructions with humorous results. | 64 |
| Thank You, Mr. Falker | Polacco, Patricia | 4.1 | 0.5 | At first, Trisha loves school, but her difficulty learning to read makes her feel dumb, until, in the fifth grade, a new teacher helps her understand and overcome her problem. | 35 |
| Thank You, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving | Anderson, Laurie Halse | 3.7 | 0.5 | This book relates how Sarah Hale, a magazine editor and author, persuaded President Lincoln to transform Thanksgiving Day into a national holiday. | 40 |
| Thanksgiving Is Here! | Goode, Diane | 1.6 | 0.5 | A family gathers to celebrate Thanksgiving at Grandma's house. | 32 |
| Thanksgiving on Thursday | Osborne, Mary Pope | 3.3 | 1 | Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house to the year 1621, where they celebrate the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians in the New Plymouth Colony. | 73 |
| Thanksgiving Treasure, The | Rock, Gail | 5 | 3 | Addie thinks her newfound friendship will go on forever even though her father is furious when he hears about her friendship with his archenemy, old man Rehnquist. | 91 |
| That Mushy Stuff | Delton, Judy | 3.2 | 1 | Everyone in the Pee Wee Scouts knows that Roger likes Patty, and they get teased during the scout meeting. | 63 |
| Thatcher Payne-in-the-Neck | Bates, Betty | 4.6 | 3 | Kib and Thatcher are long-time friends who enjoy the summers spent together at Trout Lake. They also share a sadness--Kib's mother and Thatcher's father were killed in a plane crash. Can they get their parents to marry each other? | 130 |
| That's Good! That's Bad! | Cuyler, Margery | 2.3 | 0.5 | A little boy has a series of adventures and misadventures with a bunch of wild animals at the zoo. | 32 |
| Thee, Hannah! | De Angeli, Marguerite | 4.8 | 2 | Nine-year-old Hannah, a Quaker living in Philadelphia just before the Civil War, longs to have some fashionable dresses like other girls, but comes to appreciate her heritage and its plain dressing when her family saves the life of a runaway slave. | 99 |
| Then Again, Maybe I Won't | Blume, Judy | 3.6 | 5 | Tony Miglione's father's invention makes the family rich, but wealth causes more problems than Tony has expected. | 164 |
| Theo Zephyr | Hughes, Dean | 3.9 | 4 | Brad's fantasies in which an imaginary friend humiliates the bright athletic boy of whom Brad is extremely jealous start coming true in a way he cannot control. | 122 |
| There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom | Sachar, Louis | 3.4 | 5 | An eleven-year-old misfit learns to believe in himself when he gets to know the new school counselor, who is a sort of misfit, too. | 195 |
| There's a Dragon in My Sleeping Bag | Howe, James | 2.1 | 0.5 | Alex is intimidated by his older brother Simon's imaginary dragon until he is able to create his own friend--a camel named Calvin. | 26 |
| There's a Nightmare in My Closet | Mayer, Mercer | 2.3 | 0.5 | A humorous bedtime story to chase away fears of the dark. | 23 |
| There's a Wocket in My Pocket! | Seuss, Dr. | 2.1 | 0.5 | A household of unusual creatures help beginning readers recognize common "household" words. | 26 |
| There's an Alligator Under My Bed | Mayer, Mercer | 2.1 | 0.5 | The alligator under his bed makes a boy's bedtime a hazardous operation, until he lures it out of the house and into the garage. | 29 |
| There's an Owl in the Shower | George, Jean Craighead | 4.3 | 3 | Because protecting spotted owls has cost Borden's father his job as a logger in the old growth forest of northern California, Borden intends to kill any spotted owl he sees until he and his father find themselves taking care of a young owlet. | 134 |
| There's No Such Thing as a Dragon | Kent, Jack | 3.3 | 0.5 | Billy Bixbee is rather surprised when he wakes up one morning and finds a dragon in his room. | 27 |
| These Happy Golden Years | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 5.6 | 10 | Fifteen-year-old Laura begins teaching and is courted by her future husband, Almanzo. | 289 |
| They Followed a Bright Star | Alavedra/Wensell | 3.8 | 0.5 | This book retells the story of how an angel led the shepherds and kings to Bethlehem when Jesus was born. | 36 |
| Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose | Seuss, Dr. | 3.4 | 0.5 | The story of what happened to the big-hearted moose whose kindness would tolerate others riding on his antlers. | 38 |
| Thief in the Brown Van, The | Wright, Bob | 2.1 | 0.5 | Sergeant Collins gets Tom and Ricky to help him find out what's happending to all the dogs in town. | 44 |
| Thief Lord, The | Funke/Latsch | 4.8 | 13 | Prosper and Bo are orphans on the run from their cruel aunt and uncle. The brothers decide to hide out in Venice, where they meet a mysterious thirteen-year-old boy who calls himself the "Thief Lord." | 349 |
| Thief, The | Turner, Megan Whalen | 6 | 11 | Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone. | 219 |
| Thimble Summer | Enright, Elizabeth | 5.7 | 5 | Nine-year-old Garnet Linden believes the silver thimble she found by the river has brought luck to her whole family. | 136 |
| Thimbleberry Stories | Rylant, Cynthia | 4.8 | 1 | Nigel Chipmunk shares a pleasant life with his friends Dipper the hummingbird, Little Owl, Copper the butterfly, Claudius the garter snake, and Mudpuppy the salamander. | 56 |
| Things with Wings (Nature Company Young Discoveries Library) | Creagh, Carson | 4.8 | 0.5 | Introduces and explores the lives of various creatures that have wings, such as butterflies, birds, and penguins. | 30 |
| Thirteen Colonies (A True Book), The | January, Brendan | 5 | 0.5 | This book examines the creation of the original thirteen colonies in the United States. | 48 |
| Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub | Gilson, Jamie | 5.2 | 4 | The boys and girls in the fourth grade devise a contest to "sink" their substitute teacher by making her cry. | 140 |
| This Is My Body | Mayer, Gina/Mercer | 2.2 | 0.5 | Little Critter takes young readers on a friendly tour of his own body. | 24 |
| This Is the Way We Go to School | Baer, Edith | 2.2 | 0.5 | This book describes, in text and illustrations, the many different modes of transportation children all over the world use to get to school. | 35 |
| This Island Isn't Big Enough for the Four of Us! | Greer, Gery | 4.6 | 4 | Peter and Scott excitedly plan a camping trip to a deserted island, only to arrive and discover that two girls with zany senses of humor are already in residence. | 151 |
| Thomas A. Edison: Young Inventor | Guthridge, Sue | 4.1 | 3 | A biography focusing on the childhood of the inventor who patented more than 1,100 inventions in 60 years. | 192 |
| Thomas: 1778-Patriots on the Run | Pryor, Bonnie | 4.8 | 4 | Thomas believes the Revolutionary War will never come to his peaceful Pennsylvania valley. All to soon, he and his family are running for their lives. | 150 |
| Threat, The | Applegate, K.A. | 4.1 | 4 | Part two of a trilogy: When David, a new Animorph, begins to break the rules and taking risks that put the group in jeopardy. | 158 |
| Three and Many Wishes of Jason Reid, The | Hutchins, Hazel | 4.2 | 2 | Eleven-year-old Jason is granted three wishes which land him and his friends in some amazing scrapes. | 88 |
| Three Billy Goats Gruff, The | Galdone, Paul | 3 | 0.5 | To reach a fine meadow of grass and daisies, three hungry billy goats must first cross a bridge over the troll's home. | 32 |
| Three by the Sea | Marshall, Edward | 1.8 | 0.5 | Three friends relax after their picnic lunch by each telling his or her best story. | 48 |
| Three Cheers for Tacky | Lester, Helen | 2.8 | 0.5 | Tacky the Penguin competes in an iceberg-wide cheering contest. | 32 |
| Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe | Williams, Vera B. | 3.5 | 0.5 | Mother, Aunt Rosie, and two children make a three-day camping trip by canoe. | 30 |
| Three Hat Day, A | Geringer, Laura | 3.2 | 0.5 | A hat collector is having a very bad day untils he meets his true love in the hat section of the department store. | 30 |
| Three in a Balloon | Wilson, Sarah | 3.3 | 0.5 | This book is based upon the true story of the world's first air passenger - a sheep, a duck, and a rooster - who flew over France in a new invention, a Montgolfier hot air balloon, on September 19, 1783. | 34 |
| Three Little Javelinas, The | Lowell, Susan | 3.7 | 0.5 | A southwestern-flavored version of the three little pigs, here represented by wild javelinas who are running from a hungry coyote. | 28 |
| Three Little Pigs, The | Galdone, Paul | 3.2 | 0.5 | This is the classic tale of the three little pigs and the wolf who tries to get them. | 38 |
| Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig, The | Trivizas, Eugene | 4.6 | 0.5 | A hilarious retelling in reverse of the traditional story of the villainous monster who destroys homes. | 28 |
| Three Mile House | McAuliffe, Jim | 2.6 | 1 | Mystery in the streets of San Francisco as innocent people become involved in a crime that took place years before. | 60 |
| Three More Stories You Can Read to Your Dog | Miller, Sara Swan | 2.4 | 0.5 | This book contains three stories addressed to dogs and written from a dog's point of view, featuring such topics as going to the vet, making friends with a rocklike creature, and getting a bath. | 46 |
| Three Musketeers (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Dumas/Vogel | 5.1 | 2 | This is a classic tale of adventure and romance historically set in the time of Louis the XIII of France. | 236 |
| Three Names | MacLachlan, Patricia | 4.1 | 0.5 | Great-grandfather reminisces about going to school on the prairie with his dog, Three Names. | 31 |
| Three Terrible Trins | King-Smith, Dick | 5.1 | 2 | An animal fantasy in which three young mice make life miserable for some house cats. | 105 |
| Three up a Tree | Marshall, James | 2.1 | 0.5 | Sam and Spider build a tree house and go there with Lolly to trade stories. | 48 |
| Three Wishes | Ziefert, Harriet | 1.8 | 0.5 | A child describes what he would wish for if he had three wishes. | 28 |
| Three Wishes | Clifton, Lucille | 3.3 | 0.5 | When a young girl finds a good luck penny and makes three wishes on it, she learns that friendship is her most-valued possession. | 29 |
| Through Grandpa's Eyes | MacLachlan, Patricia | 3.2 | 0.5 | A young boy learns a different way of seeing the world from his blind grandfather. Featured in Reading Rainbow. NCTE Adventuring with Books. | 36 |
| Through My Eyes | Bridges, Ruby | 5.9 | 2 | Ruby Bridges recounts the story of her involvement, as a six-year-old, in the integration of her school in New Orleans in 1960. | 64 |
| Throwing Shadows | Konigsburg, E.L. | 5.6 | 5 | Five short stories in which young people gain a sense of self. | 151 |
| Thump and Plunk | Udry, Janice May | 1.3 | 0.5 | When Thump finds Plunk's doll Plunkit, an arguement starts that their mother resolves. | 24 |
| Thunder Cake | Polacco, Patricia | 3.5 | 0.5 | Grandma finds a way to dispel her grandchild's fear of thunderstorms. | 30 |
| Thunder Cave | Smith, Roland | 4.2 | 9 | Determined after his mother's accidental death to foil his stepfather's plans for his future, fourteen-year-old Jacob travels alone to Africa in search of his father, a biologist studying elephants in a remote area of Kenya. | 249 |
| Thunder Rolling in the Mountains | O'Dell, Scott | 4.6 | 4 | In the late nineteenth century, a young Nez Perce girl relates how her people were driven off their land by the U. S. Army and forced to retreat north until their eventual surrender. | 128 |
| Tiger Math: Learning to Graph From a Baby Tiger | Nagda/Bickel | 4.9 | 0.5 | This book decribes the growth of an orphan Siberian tiger cub using both words and graphs. | 30 |
| Tiger, Lion, Hawk | Rice, Earle | 4 | 1 | Story about the Flying Tigers in air warfare in World War II. | 60 |
| Tigers at Twilight | Osborne, Mary Pope | 3 | 1 | Having used their magic tree house to travel to India, where they must get a gift to help free the dog Teddy from a spell, Jack and Annie have adventures involving a tiger and other endangered jungle animals. | 72 |
| Tight End | Christopher, Matt | 4.3 | 4 | Jim's school football career is jeopardized by someone who wants to make an issue of his father's being an ex-con. Mystery and plenty of football action as Jim fights against prejudice. | 137 |
| Tight Times | Hazen, Barbara Shook | 2.4 | 0.5 | Tight times are intensified when a small boy's father loses his job. | 31 |
| Tikki Tikki Tembo | Mosel, Arlene | 4.2 | 0.5 | This book is the re-creation of an ancient Chinese folktale about the boy with the long name who fell down the well. | 38 |
| Time Bike, The | Langton, Jane | 5.8 | 5 | Eddy Hall receives a mysterious gift from India, an old-fashioned bike that transports its rider through time. | 176 |
| Time Cat | Alexander, Lloyd | 4.7 | 5 | Jason and his magic cat Gareth travel through time to visit countries all over the world during different periods of history. | 206 |
| Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story | Hahn, Mary Downing | 4.5 | 6 | When Drew goes to spend the summer with his great-aunt in the family's old house, he is drawn 80 years into the past to trade places with his great-great-uncle, a boy who is deathly ill with diphtheria. | 165 |
| Time for Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, A | Lasky, Kathryn | 5.9 | 6 | This is a diary account of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage, the war in Europe, and her own school work and family. | 217 |
| Time Machine (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Wells/Bogart | 5.4 | 3 | A young scientist perfects a machine that allows him to travel in time. | 238 |
| Time Machine (Unabridged), The | Wells, H.G. | 7.4 | 6 | An incredible invention enables the Time Traveller to reach year 802701. | 120 |
| Time of Wonder | McCloskey, Robert | 5.1 | 0.5 | A family on an island off the coast of Maine experiences a hurricane. | 62 |
| Time to Choose, A | Reiff, Tana | 2.8 | 0.5 | A man must choose between his family and a career as a race car driver. | 58 |
| Time to Sleep | Fleming, Denise | 2.1 | 0.5 | When Bear notices winter is nearly here, she hurries to tell snail; after each animal tells another, soon they are all sleeping. | 28 |
| Time Train | Fleischman, Paul | 2.3 | 0.5 | A class takes a field trip back through time to observe living dinosaurs in their natural habitat. | 28 |
| Time Trap, The | Kelley, Leo P. | 2.7 | 1 | Two Earthlings travel back in time to investigate the annihilation of Planet X-12. | 59 |
| Timothy of the Cay | Taylor, Theodore | 5 | 5 | In a prequel to The Cay, Timothy finds himself afloat on a life raft with a white boy. | 161 |
| Tin Princess, The | Pullman, Philip | 6.5 | 14 | In 1882, Becky applies for a tutoring job in London and becomes embroiled in assassination, intrigue, and dangerous politics in the small European kingdom of Razkavia. | 299 |
| Tiny Seed, The | Carle, Eric | 2.7 | 0.5 | This story describes seeds' travels throughout the seasons. | 32 |
| Titanic Crossing | Williams, Barbara | 4.3 | 5 | In 1912, thirteen-year-old Albert considers his younger sister a pest, but things change when they travel with their mother and uncle aboard the "Titanic" and are caught up in its tragic sinking. | 163 |
| Titanic Sinks!, The | Conklin, Thomas | 6.1 | 3 | This book recounts the story of how the world's biggest, safest ship sank on its first trip. | 115 |
| Titanic: A Nonfiction Companion to "Tonight on the Titanic" | Osborne, Will/Mary | 5.1 | 1 | Join Jack and Annie as they research the Titanic and find out the facts behind the fiction. | 135 |
| To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers | Old, Wendie | 5.4 | 1 | This book traces the work that the two Wright brothers did together to develop the first machine-powered aircraft. | 48 |
| To Market, To Market | Miranda, Anne | 1.7 | 0.5 | Starting with the nursery rhyme about buying a fat pig at market, this tale goes on to describe a series of unruly animals that run amok, evading capture and preventing the narrator from cooking lunch. | 32 |
| To Walk the Sky Path | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 5.4 | 5 | The story of a young Seminole Indian, who because of his education, finds himself caught between the traditional world of his ancestors and the modern world of his schoolmates. | 144 |
| Toad for Tuesday, A | Erickson, Russell | 4.4 | 1 | Can Warton persuade a hungry owl not to eat him for dinner? | 64 |
| Toby, What Are You? | Steig, William | 2.1 | 0.5 | Toby is making mischief as a boy of many disguises when he turns himself into a doormat, a flyswatter, and a plate of spaghetti. | 30 |
| Toliver's Secret | Brady, Esther Wood | 4.7 | 4 | During the Revolutionary War, a ten-year-old girl crosses enemy lines to deliver a loaf of bread containing a message for the patriots. | 166 |
| Tomas and the Library Lady | Mora, Pat | 2.7 | 0.5 | While helping his family in their work as migrant laborers far from their home, Tomas finds an entire world to explore in the books at the local public library. | 27 |
| Tomboy of the Air: Daredevil Pilot Blanche Stuart Scott | Cummins, Julie | 7.5 | 2 | This is the story of Blanche Stuart Scott, the first woman pilot in America. | 80 |
| Tom's Midnight Garden | Pearce, Philippa | 6.1 | 9 | Late at night, when the clock strikes 13, Tom tiptoes downstairs to find a lush garden which is not there during the day. | 229 |
| Tonight on the Titanic | Osborne, Mary Pope | 3.1 | 1 | The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie to the deck of the Titanic to find a mysterious gift that will free their puppy from a terrible magic spell. | 71 |
| Too Many Kangaroo Things to Do! | Murphy, Stuart J. | 2 | 0.5 | A surprise birthday party, planned for a kangaroo by his friends, provides many opportunities for the reader to add and multiply various things. | 33 |
| Too Many Monsters | Bunting, Eve | 2.3 | 0.5 | A young boy is frightened by the monsters that show up in his room at bedtime, until his parents show him how to get rid of them. | 32 |
| Too Many Ponies | Betancourt, Jeanne | 3.8 | 1 | When Pam takes a job training two new ponies, the other girls feel left out because she doesn't have the time to spend with them. | 86 |
| Too Many Tamales | Soto, Gary | 3.4 | 0.5 | Maria tries on her mother's wedding ring while helping make tamales for a Christmas family get-together, but panic ensues when hours later, she realizes the ring is missing. | 31 |
| Too Much Garbage | Testa, Fulvio | 2 | 0.5 | Two boys discover garbage everywhere, mountains and mountains of garbage. | 25 |
| Too Much Noise | McGovern, Ann | 1.5 | 0.5 | An old man seeks advice when he tries to find a way to make his noisy house quiet. | 44 |
| Tooth Book, The | Seuss, Dr. | 2.1 | 0.5 | This book points out what animals have teeth, their uses, and how to care for them. | 40 |
| Toothpaste Millionaire, The | Merrill, Jean | 5 | 3 | Rufus Mayflower learns about making toothpaste, forming a corporation, and earning lots of money. | 89 |
| Top Cat | Ehlert, Lois | 1.1 | 0.5 | The top cat in a household is reluctant to accept the arrival od a new kitten but decides to share various survival secrets with it. | 32 |
| Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest, The | Jenkins, Steve | 5.6 | 0.5 | This book describes the conditions and terrain of Mount Everest, attempts that have been made to scale this peak, and general information about the equipment and techniques of mountain climbing. | 30 |
| Top Secret | Gardiner, John Reynolds | 4 | 2 | Allen Brewster, an inquisitive fourth grade student, turns himself into a human plant as part of a project for the Science Fair. | 108 |
| Tops & Bottoms | Stevens, Janet | 3.2 | 0.5 | Hare turns his bad luck around by striking a clever deal with the rich and lazy bear down the road. | 31 |
| Tornado | Byars, Betsy | 3.2 | 1 | As they wait out a tornado in their storm cellar, a family listens to their farmhand tell stories about the dog that was blown into his life by another tornado when he was a boy. | 49 |
| Tortoise and the Hare, The | Stevens, Janet | 3.3 | 0.5 | Recounts the race between the boastful hare and the persevering tortoise. | 28 |
| Totally Disgusting! | Wallace, Bill | 3.7 | 2 | Despite his uncourageous name, Mewkiss proves to be a strong and brave kitten during a crisis in which his mistress' life is threatened. | 111 |
| Touching (Rookie Read-About Health) | Gordon, Sharon | 2 | 0.5 | This book uses simple text and photographs to explain your sense of touch. | 32 |
| Tough Boris | Fox, Mem | 1.7 | 0.5 | A rollicking adventure about a tough pirate with a heart of gold. | 29 |
| Tough Cookie | Wisniewski, David | 1.8 | 0.5 | When his friend Chips is snatched and chewed, Tough Cookie sets out to stop Fingers. | 32 |
| Tough Eddie | Winthrop, Elizabeth | 2.4 | 0.5 | Although Eddie appears to be a tough kid, he also plays with a dollhouse, a secret he feels he cannot reveal even to his closest friends. | 30 |
| Tough to Tackle | Christopher, Matt | 4.2 | 2 | A young football player learns some important lessons about life when he must play a position he does not like or quit the team. | 152 |
| Tower Treasure, The | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5.4 | 6 | What did the speeding motorist have to do with the mystery of the Tower Treasure? | 180 |
| Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, The | Schecter, Ellen | 3.9 | 0.5 | When the town mouse and the country mouse visit each other, they find they prefer very different ways of life. | 47 |
| Town Mouse, Country Mouse | Brett, Jan | 4 | 0.5 | After trading houses, the country mice and the town mice discover there's no place like home. | 29 |
| Toys! Amazing Stories Behind Some Great Inventions | Wulffson, Don L. | 6.8 | 3 | This book describes the creation of a variety of toys and games, from seesaws to Silly Putty and toy soldiers to Trivial Pursuit. | 137 |
| Tracker | Paulsen, Gary | 5.3 | 2 | A thirteen-year-old boy must come to terms with the approaching death of his beloved grandfather, with whom he shares a very special relationship. | 90 |
| Trading Game, The | Slote, Alfred | 3.3 | 5 | During a summer of baseball and baseball-card trading, eleven-year-old Andy makes discoveries about his father and grandfather, who played professional baseball, along with discovering himself. | 200 |
| Traditional Crafts from the Caribbean | Temko, Florence | 6.1 | 1 | This book provides instructions for making traditional Caribbean crafts. | 62 |
| Trail of the Screaming Teenager, The | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 2.6 | 1 | When someone steals a teenager's necklace while she is at the beach, Dawn Bosco trails the culprit. | 74 |
| Train to Somewhere | Bunting, Eve | 2.8 | 0.5 | In the late 1800s, Marianne travels westward on the Orphan Train in hopes of being placed with a caring family. | 32 |
| Traitor Among Us, A | Van Steenwyk, Elizabeth | 4.3 | 4 | In occupied Holland in 1944, thirteen-year-old Pieter becomes increasingly involved in the work of the Dutch Resistance even though he knows the risk of being discovered by the Nazi informer who lives in his village. | 131 |
| Trapped in Death Cave | Wallace, Bill | 4.2 | 5 | A posthumous letter referring to buried treasure convinces Gary that his grandfather did not die a natural death and, with his friend Brian, he sets out to find both the treasure and his grandfather's killer. | 151 |
| Trapped in Transylvania: Dracula | Abbott, Tony | 3.8 | 4 | When Devin and Francine do poorly on a book report on "Dracula", the teacher sends them to work in the library. When they accidentally drop a copy of the book behind an old security gate, the sixth graders find themselves in Transylvania. | 128 |
| Trash Bash | Delton, Judy | 3.4 | 1 | Molly is determined to recycle whether anyone else does or not. | 86 |
| Treasure Island | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 8.3 | 12 | This classic presents a tale of piracy on the tropical seas, of treachery and greed combined with romance, treasure, and adventure. | 187 |
| Treasure Island (Great Illustrated Classics) | Stevenson/Laiken | 5.5 | 2 | Young Jim Hawkins and his friends set sail for Treasure Island, hoping to find the buried loot of Captain Flint. Jim and his friends must find the treasure and escape before the pirates capture them. | 232 |
| Treasure Nap | Havill, Juanita | 3.2 | 0.5 | On an afternoon when it is too hot to sleep, a young girl asks to hear the story about how her great-great-grandmother came to the United States from Mexico, bringing a special treasure. | 32 |
| Treasure of Skeleton Reef, The | Strickland/Fuller | 4.5 | 5 | Joe and Wishbone are on hand to help restore an old building. | 139 |
| Tree (Eyewitness) | Burnie, David | 7.4 | 1 | Photographs and text explore the anatomy and life cycle of trees, examining the different kinds of bark, seeds, and leaves; the commercial processing of trees to make lumber; the creatures that live in trees; and other aspects. | 63 |
| Tree Castle Island | George, Jean Craighead | 4 | 7 | After building his own canoe, fourteen-year-old Jack Hawkins goes to try it out in his beloved Okefenokee Swamp, where an accident tests his survival skills and leads him to a shocking discovery. | 242 |
| Tree House Mystery | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.3 | 2 | From a high perch, Benny discovers a clue to a hidden room with contents that surprise everyone. | 127 |
| Tree House Mystery, The | Wright, Bob | 2.1 | 0.5 | Tom and Ricky build a tree house next to the creek. What a great place to use when they go fishing. But the fun changes when they find their tree house filled with things. And who are that man and woman? Could they be the ones using it? | 44 |
| Tree Is Nice, A | Udry, Janice May | 2.2 | 0.5 | Explains some of the reasons why trees are nice. | 26 |
| Tree of Cranes | Say, Allen | 2.6 | 0.5 | A Japanese boy learns of Christmas when his mother decorates a pine tree with paper cranes. | 32 |
| Tree that Grew to the Moon, The | Fernandes, Eugenie | 2.9 | 0.5 | A little girl and her mother discuss the tree seedling that the little girl finds wilting on a hot summer day in Brooklyn. | 32 |
| Trees and Plants in the Rain Forest | Pirotta, Saviour | 4.2 | 0.5 | This book describes the different types of trees and plants that grow in layers of the rain forest, the fruits, nuts, and vegetables they provide, and what threatens their survival. | 32 |
| Trees of the Dancing Goats, The | Polacco, Patricia | 4.2 | 0.5 | During a scarlet-fever epidemic one winter in Michigan, a Jewish family helps make Christmas special for their sick neighbors. | 29 |
| Trek, The | Jonas, Ann | 1.5 | 0.5 | A child describes her trip through a jungle and across a desert - right on the way to school. | 32 |
| Trevor's Wiggly-Wobbly Tooth | Laminack, Lester L. | 3.6 | 0.5 | Although he is happy about having a loose tooth, Trevor worries when his classmates tell him some of the ways others might try to pull out the tooth. | 30 |
| Trial by Journal | Klise, Kate | 6 | 7 | Lily finds herself on the jury of a murder trial while conducting her own undercover investigation of the case. | 234 |
| Trick or Treat, Little Critter | Mayer, Gina/Mercer | 2.5 | 0.5 | Little Critter describes all the fun Halloween brings. | 22 |
| Trip, The | Mayer, Mercer | 0.8 | 0.5 | Little Critter and his family have an eventful trip to their summer vacation cabin. | 32 |
| Trip, The | Keats, Ezra Jack | 1.6 | 0.5 | Playing alone, Louie creates a scene out of a shoebox that has a magical effect, calling his imagination back to his old friends and old times. | 35 |
| Triple Trouble | Pellowski, Michael J. | 3.6 | 2 | Sandi and Randi Daniels are identical twins. They've learned that switching places with each other can be fun, but it can also lead to disaster. Then their cousin Mandy comes to visit, and she looks just like Sandi and Randi! | 111 |
| Triss | Jacques, Brian | 5.8 | 17 | Triss, Shogg, and Welfo escape from slavery at Riftgard and are pursued across the sea toward Redwall by Princess Kurda, Prince Bladd, and a band of freebooters who seek the rumored treasure of Brockhall. | 389 |
| Trojan Horse | Clement-Davies, David | 5.1 | 1 | This is a retelling of how the Greeks used a wooden horse to win the ten-year-long Trojan War. | 48 |
| Trolls Don't Ride Roller Coasters | Dadey/Jones | 3.8 | 1 | Could the small woman selling T-shirts at the carnival really be an evil troll? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out! | 68 |
| Trouble for Lucy | Stevens, Carla | 3.8 | 1 | Based on actual journals of the pioneer's journey to Oregon, the story combines with Ronald Himler's striking illustrations, to bring an exciting time in American history warmly to life. | 77 |
| Trouble River | Byars, Betsy | 4.9 | 3 | When he builds his raft, a twelve-year-old boy never dreams that it will serve as the sole means of escape for him and his grandmother when hostile Indians threaten their prairie cabin. | 158 |
| Trouble with Trolls | Brett, Jan | 3.1 | 0.5 | While climbing Mt. Baldy, Treva outwits some trolls who want to steal her dog. | 30 |
| Trouble with Tuck, The | Taylor, Theodore | 5.5 | 4 | From an award-winning author comes a compelling story of a young girl who works against all odds to provide her blind dog with a guide dog of his own. | 110 |
| Tru Confessions | Tashjian, Janet | 5.4 | 3 | When the local cable channel announces a teen video competition, Tru knows that this is her chance to show the world who Eddie really is and to prove her TV talent. | 167 |
| True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, The | Avi | 5.3 | 8 | As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious. | 215 |
| True Story of the 3 Little Pigs, The | Scieszka, Jon | 3 | 0.5 | The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs. | 26 |
| True-Life Treasure Hunts | Donnelly, Judy | 3.7 | 1 | Incredible true stories of real treasure hunters. | 48 |
| Trumpet of the Swan, The | White, E.B. | 4.9 | 6 | Louis, the Trumpeter Swan, lacks a voice, but his father hits on a bold alternative so that Louis might win his love, Serena. | 252 |
| Trumpeter of Krakow, The | Kelly, Eric | 7.1 | 10 | The legend of the Trumpeter of Krakow endures as a fifteenth-century Ukrainian family maintains a vow to keep Poland free from invasion. | 242 |
| Truth About Stacey, The | Martin, Ann M. | 3.8 | 4 | Stacey's parents want to drag her off to another specialist in the hope of curing her diabetes, but she worries about losing her new friends in the Club. | 167 |
| Truth Is a Bright Star | Price, Joan | 4.5 | 6 | Understanding and finally friendship develop between a Hopi Indian boy and the fur trapper who bought him from Spanish soldiers in 1832. | 150 |
| Tub-boo-boo | Palatini, Margie | 2.6 | 0.5 | Henry gets his toe stuck in the tub spout while taking a bath, and almost everyone who tries to free him gets stuck as well. | 32 |
| Tuck Everlasting | Babbitt, Natalie | 5 | 4 | Winnie Foster discovers a magic spring that has given the Tuck family eternal life. She is faced with the difficult decision of whether or not to drink from it, and whether to tell all when a stranger wants to know the secret in order to sell the water. | 139 |
| Tuck Triumphant | Taylor, Theodore | 5.1 | 5 | Fourteen-year-old Helen, her blind dog Friar Tuck, and her family face some dramatic challenges when they discover that the Korean boy they have adopted is deaf. Sequel to The Trouble with Tuck. | 150 |
| Tucket's Gold | Paulsen, Gary | 5.2 | 3 | Fifteen-year-old Francis and the two children he has adopted travel across the Old West, evade Comancheros, discover a treasure, and wind up rich beyond their wildest dreams. | 97 |
| Tucket's Home | Paulsen, Gary | 5.2 | 2 | Francis, Lottie, and Billy survive a series of hair-raising adventures while on their way west to the Oregon Trail, where they hope to find the Tucket family. | 93 |
| Tumble Bumble | Bond, Felicia | 2.1 | 0.5 | A tiny bug goes for a walk, but it's no ordinary stroll. Along the way he bumps into a cat, a crocodile, even a baby pig. More creatures join them until they tippy-toe into a house that belongs to a young boy who happily tumble bumbles with them. | 30 |
| Tundra (Biomes) | Nelson, Julie | 4.4 | 0.5 | This book explains how tundra biomes are formed, how plants and animals adapt to a tundra, and how the tundra relates to other biomes. | 32 |
| Tundra and Cold Deserts (World Habitats) | Pipes, Rose | 4.1 | 0.5 | This book introduces some notable tundras and cold deserts around the world, including Antarctica, the Canadian tundra, and Lapland. | 32 |
| Turkey for Thanksgiving, A | Bunting, Eve | 2.5 | 0.5 | Mr. and Mrs. Moose try to invite a turkey to their Thanksgiving feast. | 32 |
| Turkey Girl: A Zuni Cinderella Story, The | Pollock, Penny | 4.8 | 0.5 | In this Indian variant of a familiar story, some turkeys make a doeskin dress for the poor girl who tends them so that she can participate in a sacred dance, but they desert her when she fails to return as promised. | 32 |
| Turn of the Century | Jackson, Ellen | 5.4 | 1 | Children living in Great Britain and the United States at the beginning of each century between 1000 and 2000 A.D. describe their lifestyle at the time. | 29 |
| Turtle and Snake at Work | Spohn, Kate | 0.6 | 0.5 | Turtle and Snake go off to work. Turtle directs traffic and Snake makes pizzas, and they both realize the importance of paying attention to what they are doing. | 32 |
| Tut, Tut | Scieszka, Jon | 4.2 | 2 | Because of a magical time travel book, the kids are dodging crocodiles and trying to outwit the evil high priest. | 73 |
| Tutankhamen's Gift | Sabuda, Robert | 5.4 | 0.5 | The story of a boy pharaoh in ancient Egypt. | 29 |
| TV Kid, The | Byars, Betsy | 4.3 | 3 | Television is Lennie's only escape from loneliness and boredom, until a snake bite jolts him into reality. | 123 |
| Twelfth Angel, The | Mandino, Og | 6.5 | 7 | A special story of old friendships, life changes, love and courage, that help John recover from the loss of his wife and son. | 164 |
| Twenty and Ten | Bishop, Claire Huchet | 4 | 2 | A nun and 20 French children contrive to hide ten Jewish refugee children. This is their exciting tale of courage and kindness. | 76 |
| Twenty-Five Mixtec Cats, The | Gollub, Matthew | 4.3 | 0.5 | The inhabitants of a mountain village are suspicious of the twenty-five cats who come to live with their healer, until the cats are able to help lift a curse placed on their butcher. | 32 |
| Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas, The | L'Engle, Madeleine | 4 | 1 | To Vicky, the twenty-four days before Christmas are the most wonderful days of the year, but what if the new baby comes during Christmas and Mother has go to the hospital? | 71 |
| Twenty-One Balloons, The | du Bois, William Pée | 6.8 | 6 | This tale relates the incredible adventures of Professor William Waterman Sherman, who in 1883 journeys in a balloon across the Pacific Ocean, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, and is eventually rescued in the Atlantic Ocean. | 180 |
| Twin in the Tavern, The | Wallace, Barbara Brooks | 5.5 | 7 | A young orphan, afraid of being sent to the workhouse, finds himself at the mercy of the unsavory owner of a tavern in Alexandria, Virginia, while he tries to solve the mystery surrounding his past and a missing twin. | 179 |
| Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bug | Ross, Katharine | 1.9 | 0.5 | After catching a lightning bug in a jar, it takes awhile for Big Bird to figure out how to get it twinkling again. | 32 |
| Twinnies | Bunting, Eve | 2.4 | 0.5 | A little girl gradually becomes reconciled to her new twin sisters. | 28 |
| Twister on Tuesday | Osborne, Mary Pope | 3.2 | 1 | When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado. | 70 |
| Twits, The | Dahl, Roald | 4.4 | 1 | Meet Mr. and Mrs. Twit, the world's most horrible couple, who just love to be mean. | 76 |
| Two Bad Ants | Van Allsburg, Chris | 4.7 | 0.5 | Superb illustrations complement a text concerning two naughty ants and a kitchen adventure. | 31 |
| Two Cool Cows | Speed, Toby | 2.8 | 0.5 | Millie and Maude are two cool cows who fly to the moon and back in a night wearing the Huckabuck children's new black boots. | 29 |
| Two Kinds of Patriots | Bledsoe, Lucy Jane | 4.4 | 1 | Hank Roberts and Samuel Dunford are cousins as well as fellow soldiers in Washington's army. Neither is aware of the traitor in their midst. | 68 |
| Two of Everything | Hong, Lily Toy | 3.5 | 0.5 | A humorous Chinese tale about a couple who meet up with their doubles. | 28 |
| Two Princesses of Bamarre, The | Levine, Gail Carson | 4.5 | 8 | With her adventurous sister, Meryl, suffering from Gray Death, meek and timid Princess Addie sets out to find a cure. | 241 |
| Two Towers, The | Tolkien, J.R.R. | 6.3 | 23 | The Fellowship was scattered. Some were bracing hopelessly for war against the ancient evil of Sauron. | 447 |
| Ty's One-man Band | Walter, Mildred Pitts | 3 | 0.5 | A young black child while playing by the pond meets a one-legged one-man band who brings music to the community. | 18 |
| Ugly Duckling, The | Andersen/Pinkney | 4.5 | 0.5 | An ugly duckling spends an unhappy year ostracized by the other animals before he grows into a beautiful swan. | 30 |
| Umbrella | Yashima, Taro | 4 | 0.5 | Momo eagerly waits for a rainy day so she can use the red boots and umbrella she received on her birthday. | 32 |
| Unbroken | Haas, Jessie | 4.1 | 7 | Following her mother's death in the early 1900s, thirteen-year-old Harry lives on Aunt Sarah's farm, where an accident with her spirited colt leaves her a changed young woman. | 185 |
| Uncle Elephant | Lobel, Arnold | 2.6 | 0.5 | When Little Elephant's parents don't return from a trip, he is comforted by Uncle Elephant until they arrive. | 64 |
| Uncle Jed's Barbershop | Mitchell, Margaree King | 3.8 | 0.5 | Despite serious obstacles and setbacks, Sarah Jean's Uncle Jed, the only black barber in the county, pursues his dream of saving enough money to open his own barbershop. | 28 |
| Uncle Vova's Tree | Polacco, Patricia | 4.6 | 0.5 | In this book, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and children gather at a farm house to celebrate Christmas in the Russian tradition. | 32 |
| Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen | DiSalvo-Ryan, DyAnne | 3.3 | 0.5 | A boy spends the day with Uncle Willie in the soup kitchen where he works preparing and serving food for the hungry. | 32 |
| Under the Blood-Red Sun | Salisbury, Graham | 4 | 8 | Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a local bully until life with his Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941. | 246 |
| Under the Royal Palms | Ada, Alma Flor | 6.6 | 3 | In this book, the author recalls her life and impressions of growing up in Cuba. | 88 |
| Under the Sea (Nature Company Discoveries Library) | Talbot, Frank H. | 7.3 | 1 | Provides information about ocean life and covers such questions as why the ocean is blue and what is the oldest living marine animal. | 61 |
| Underground Train | Quattlebaum, Mary | 3 | 0.5 | As an underground train rushes beneath the city streets taking a little girl to visit her Nana, many things are happening above ground. | 28 |
| Underground, The | Applegate, K.A. | 3.9 | 4 | The Yeerks are getting a little crazy after eating oatmeal. | 167 |
| Understanding Buddy | Kornblatt, Marc | 4.3 | 2 | When a new classmate stops speaking because of the sudden death of his mother, fifth-grader Sam tries to befriend him and risks destroying his relationship with his best friend, Alex. | 113 |
| Understood Betsy | Fisher, Dorothy Canfield | 5.9 | 8 | Sent to live with country relatives, Betsy does not care to return to the city when her aunt gets well. | 211 |
| Underwater Animals (Nature Company Young Discoveries Library) | Cooney, Helen | 5 | 0.5 | Explores the intriguing lives of various marine and aquatic animals. | 30 |
| Unicorns Don't Give Sleigh Rides | Dadey/Jones | 3.6 | 1 | The Bailey school kids are investigating whether a horse is a unicorn or just a regular horse. | 69 |
| Uninvited Guest and Other Jewish Holiday Tales, The | Jaffe, Nina | 6 | 2 | Includes background information and retellings of traditional tales from Jewish folklore and legend related to major holidays, such as Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Hanukkah, and Purim. | 72 |
| Unknown, The | Applegate, K.A. | 4 | 4 | The Animorphs decide to pay Zone 91 and the Yeerks a visit, but discover it is not at all what they expect. | 166 |
| Up a Road Slowly | Hunt, Irene | 6.6 | 8 | Julie lives with Aunt Cordelia and forms an attachment with both her aunt and her new home. | 186 |
| Up the Hill (Sound Out) | Sims, Matt | 2 | 0.5 | Kim and Jan race to the top of the hill where a "fortunate" mishap gives Jan the pep she needs for the race down. | 27 |
| Upchuck and the Rotten Willy | Wallace, Bill | 3.7 | 3 | Chuck the cat enjoys adventures with his best friend Tom until Tom moves away. | 101 |
| Upon the Head of the Goat | Siegal, Aranka | 5.5 | 10 | The fictionalized story of one Hungarian Jewish family's struggle to retain their ties, traditions, and self-respect during the Holocaust. | 183 |
| Ups and Downs of Simpson Snail, The | Himmelman, John | 2.1 | 0.5 | This book contains four adventures of Simpson Snail as he visits a friend, gets a new shell, tries to fly, and makes a statue. | 47 |
| Upstairs Room, The | Reiss, Johanna | 2.9 | 6 | During World War II, a young Jewish girl and her sister in Holland hide from the Nazis in the home of a Gentile family. | 165 |
| User Unfriendly | Vande Velde, Vivian | 5 | 10 | A pirated computer role-playing game provides an adventure for several teenagers and one adult. | 244 |
| USS Arizona, The | Stein, R. Conrad | 6.3 | 1 | Discusses the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, with an emphasis on the fate of the USS Arizona. | 29 |
| Utah (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 4.5 | 1 | An overview of the Beehive State, introducing its history, geography, sites of interest, and famous people. | 59 |
| Vacation Under the Volcano | Osborne, Mary Pope | 3.3 | 1 | Their magic tree house takes Annie and Jack to Pompeii just as Vesuvius is about to erupt, and they must find a Roman scroll before everything is covered with burning ash. | 74 |
| Valentine Bears | Bunting, Eve | 2.8 | 0.5 | Mr. and Mrs. Bear always missed Valentine's Day because they were hibernating, but this year they share a wonderful surprise. | 28 |
| Valentine Star, The | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 2.5 | 1 | Emily is made Class Monitor, and she feels very important until she is threatened for reporting a fellow student. | 72 |
| Vampire Breath | Stine, R.L. | 3.2 | 2 | Freddy and Cara should not have opened the bottle of Vampire Breath. | 114 |
| Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots | Dadey/Jones | 3.8 | 1 | The rowdy third-grade class at Bailey Elementary is given a new teacher--the formidable Mrs. Jeepers. | 78 |
| Velveteen Rabbit, The | Williams, Margery | 4.9 | 1 | Magical fable of the toy rabbit who becomes a real rabbit with the help of the boy who loves him. | 30 |
| Verdi | Cannon, Janell | 3.4 | 0.5 | A young python does not want to grow slow and boring like the older snakes he sees in the tropical jungle where he lives. | 40 |
| Verlaine Crossing, The | Otfinoski, Steven | 3 | 1 | Roger Morgan determines to foil the spies that are after a world-famous scientist and his secret papers. | 44 |
| Vermont (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 4.4 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, important people, and interesting sites of Vermont. | 59 |
| Very Best Hanukkah Gift, The | Rocklin, Joanne | 3.3 | 2 | During his family's eight-day celebration of Hanukkah, eight-year-old Daniel learns the pleasure of giving and overcomes his fear of dogs. | 114 |
| Very Busy Spider, The | Carle, Eric | 1.3 | 0.5 | A spider is too busy spinning her web to do anything with her friends. | 22 |
| Very Hungry Caterpillar, The | Carle, Eric | 2.9 | 0.5 | Follow the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a large quantity of food (right through the pages), then wraps a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep. | 14 |
| Very Last First Time | Andrews, Jan | 3.7 | 0.5 | When the tide recedes, a young Eskimo girl living in northern Canada journeys alone for the first time under the ice, walking on the seabed floor to gather mussels. | 28 |
| Very Lonely Firefly, The | Carle, Eric | 2.4 | 0.5 | A lonely firefly goes out into the night searching for other fireflies. | 25 |
| Very Quiet Cricket, The | Carle, Eric | 3 | 0.5 | A very quiet cricket who wants to rub his wings together and make a sound as do so many other animals finally achieves his wish. | 22 |
| Very Small, The | Dunbar, Joyce | 3.5 | 0.5 | When Giant Baby Bear finds a very small something in the woods, he takes it home to share in his day. | 25 |
| Very Young Gymnast, A | Krementz, Jill | 5.4 | 1 | Follows a young gymnast through her schedule of hard work and training. | 119 |
| Very Young Skater, A | Krementz, Jill | 5.2 | 1 | Story of a young ice skater and her training. | 103 |
| Victoria: May Blossom of Britannia | Kirwan, Anna | 6.2 | 6 | This is a fictionalized account of young Queen Victoria's life in the early nineteenth century. | 219 |
| Video Game Spy, The | Wright, Bob | 2.4 | 0.5 | Tom and Ricky chip in to buy a new video game. But it doesn't work right. Slowly the facts unravel - the game contains a code which has been used to send information from the video factory to a competitor. | 43 |
| View from Saturday, The | Konigsburg, E.L. | 5.9 | 7 | For the first time in the history of Epiphany Middle School, there is a chance that a sixth-grade team will beat the seventh grade in the Academic Bowl, putting them on the path to the state finals. | 163 |
| View from the Cherry Tree, The | Roberts, Willo Davis | 5.2 | 7 | Rob admits having seen a murder, but no one believes him--except the murderer. | 181 |
| Viking Ships at Sunrise | Osborne, Mary Pope | 3.3 | 1 | Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to a monastery in medieval Ireland, where they try to retrieve a lost book while being menaced by Viking raiders. | 71 |
| Vikings (Discovering Canada), The | Livesey, Robert | 6.6 | 1 | This book discusses the lives of the daring men and women who first discovered Canada. | 90 |
| Vikings Don't Wear Wrestling Belts | Dadey/Jones | 4.1 | 1 | Could the professional wrestler in town for WrestleBaileyLive be a real-life Viking? | 75 |
| Vile Village, The | Snicket, Lemony | 6.7 | 7 | Under a new government program based on the saying "It takes a village to raise a child," the Baudelaire orphans are adopted by an entire town, with disastrous results. | 256 |
| Village of Vampires | Otfinoski, Steven | 3.2 | 1 | Story of the undead as two scientists battle vampires in a remote Mexican town. | 59 |
| Virginia (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 4.5 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, famous people, and interesting sites of Virginia. | 59 |
| Visit to William Blake's Inn, A | Willard, Nancy | 4.5 | 0.5 | A collection of poems describing the curious menagerie of guests who arrive at William Blake's inn. | 30 |
| Visitor, The | Applegate, K.A. | 3.7 | 4 | Rachel and her friends knew morphing wouldn't always be great, but can they save the earth? | 175 |
| Visser | Applegate, K.A. | 4.9 | 5 | On trial for treason, Edriss 562 explains how she infested a series of human hosts in order to spearhead the invasion of Earth by her people, the ruthless, parasitic Yeerks. | 192 |
| Voices in the Park | Browne, Anthony | 2.8 | 0.5 | Lives briefly intertwine when two youngsters meet in the park. | 30 |
| Volcano! When a Mountain Explodes | Barr, Linda | 3.8 | 0.5 | This book discusses what causes volcanic eruptions, the three main types of volcanoes, early myths about volcanoes, and the environmental impact of eruptions, and takes a comprehensive look at the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington State. | 48 |
| Volcanoes | Simon, Seymour | 5.1 | 0.5 | This book looks at how volcanoes are formed, and some of the famous and destructive eruptions that have occurred around the world | 28 |
| Volcanoes and Earthquakes (Discovering Science) | Hunter, Rebecca | 6.2 | 0.5 | This book gives a simple explanation of volcanoes and earthquakes. | 32 |
| Voyage of the "Dawn Treader", The | Lewis, C.S. | 5.9 | 9 | King Caspian and his crew sail through magic waters to the World's End. | 271 |
| Voyage of the Frog, The | Paulsen, Gary | 6 | 5 | When David goes out on his sailboat to scatter his recently deceased uncle's ashes to the wind, he is caught in a fierce storm and must survive many days on his own as he works out his feelings about life and his uncle. | 141 |
| Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, The | Lofting, Hugh | 5.7 | 11 | This fictional classic presents the story of the good doctor who learns the language of animals and made adventurous voyages. | 355 |
| Wacky Wedding: A Book of Alphabet Antics, The | Edwards, Pamela Duncan | 3 | 0.5 | An alphabetical ant wedding, attended by the other animals, is beset by various disasters. | 30 |
| Wacky Wednesday | LeSieg, Theo. | 1.3 | 0.5 | This book points out the many things that are wrong one wacky Wednesday. | 38 |
| Wagon Wheels | Brenner, Barbara | 2.6 | 0.5 | Shortly after the Civil War, a Black family travels to Kansas to take advantage of the free land offered through the Homestead Act. A Reading Rainbow book. | 64 |
| Wainscott Weasel, The | Seidler, Tor | 4.6 | 5 | The lonely weasel Bagley Brown falls in love with Bridget the fish and saves her from certain death in this animal fantasy. | 193 |
| Wait Till Helen Comes | Hahn, Mary Downing | 4.6 | 5 | Molly must put aside her feelings for her spooky step-sister, when she realizes that the girl is being influenced by a ghost. | 184 |
| Wait! No Paint! | Whatley, Bruce | 3.2 | 0.5 | The three little pigs are in their usual trouble with the big bad wolf, until a mysterious Voice gets involved and mixes things up. | 32 |
| Waiting for the Rain | Gordon, Sheila | 5.8 | 9 | Chronicles nine years in the lives of two South African youths--one black, one white--as their friendship ends in a violent confrontation between student and soldier. | 214 |
| Waiting for Wings | Ehlert, Lois | 2.8 | 0.5 | This book tells how a caterpillar turns into a beautiful butterfly. | 33 |
| Wake Up, Sun | Harrison, David | 1.2 | 0.5 | Upon waking and seeing no sign of the sun, a dog enlists the aid of his friends in finding it. | 32 |
| Walk Across the Sea | Fletcher, Susan | 4.3 | 5 | In late nineteenth-century California, when Chinese immigrants are being driven out or even killed for fear they will take jobs from whites, Eliza defies the townspeople and her father to help a Chinese boy. | 214 |
| Walk Two Moons | Creech, Sharon | 4.9 | 9 | Sal hopes that her missing mother will soon return home. | 280 |
| Walking the Road to Freedom | Ferris, Jeri | 5.9 | 1 | This book traces the life of the Black woman orator who spoke out against slavery throughout New England and the Midwest. | 64 |
| Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues | Robinet, Harriette Gillem | 4.1 | 4 | Twelve-year old Alfa Merryfield, his older sister, and their great-grandmother struggle for rent money, food, and their dignity as they participate in the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott in the summer of 1956. | 146 |
| Walking Up a Rainbow | Taylor, Theodore | 5.8 | 12 | Orphaned at 14, Susan is suddenly the owner of an Iowa home, 2,000 sheep, and a debt that puts her at the mercy of a man that wants to take it all away. | 282 |
| Wall, The | Bunting, Eve | 2.4 | 0.5 | A boy and his father come from far away to visit the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington and find the name of the boy's grandfather, who was killed in the conflict. | 29 |
| Wander | Lindquist, Susan Hart | 4 | 4 | Grieving for their dead mother, twelve-year-old James and his younger sister Sary find healing in their affection for a stray dog. | 133 |
| Wanderer, The | Creech, Sharon | 5.2 | 6 | Thirteen-year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their transatlantic crossing aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five-foot sailboat. | 305 |
| Wanted...Mud Blossom | Byars, Betsy | 4.2 | 4 | Convinced that Mud is responsible for the disappearance of the school hamster that he was taking care of for the weekend, Junior Blossom is determined that the dog should be tried for his "crime." | 148 |
| Wanted: Best Friend | Monson, A.M. | 2.4 | 0.5 | Cat advertises for a new playmate when his best friend Mouse refuses to play checkers. | 30 |
| War Between the Twins, The | Pascal/Suzanne | 4.6 | 3 | Jessica and her friends start a newspaper to compete with Elizabeth's. | 133 |
| War of the Worlds, The | Wells, H.G. | 9.1 | 11 | A daring portrayal of aliens landing on English soil. The survival of mankind in the face of scientific powers spinning out of control. | 194 |
| War with Grandpa, The | Smith, Robert Kimmel | 3.9 | 3 | Peter is thrilled to hear that Grandpa is coming to live with him, until he finds out that he will have to give up his room. Peter decides that it will take a war to regain his room, but Grandpa has ideas of his own for retaining the room. | 140 |
| Warning, The | Applegate, K.A. | 3.9 | 4 | Jake finds that there are other people out there who know about the Yeerks. Maybe. | 146 |
| Warthogs in the Kitchen | Edwards, Pamela Duncan | 1.4 | 0.5 | Warthogs count various objects as they bake cupcakes. | 20 |
| Washing My Hands (Clean and Healthy All Day Long) | Vogel, Elizabeth | 1.6 | 0.5 | A girl describes how she washes her hands and gives examples of times when hand washing is important. | 24 |
| Washington (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis/Judith | 4.5 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, famous people, and interesting sites of the Evergreen State. | 59 |
| Washington, D.C. (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 5.1 | 1 | An introduction to the nation's capital city, its history, people, and sites of interest. | 59 |
| Watch Out for the Chicken Feet in Your Soup | De Paola, Tomie | 1.3 | 0.5 | Embarrassed to introduce a friend to his old-fashioned Italian grandmother, a young boy gains a new appreciation of her when he finds how well she and his friend get along. | 32 |
| Watch Out! Big Bro's Coming | Alborough, Jez | 2 | 0.5 | Terror spreads through the jungle as animals hear the news that rough, tough Big Bro is coming. | 24 |
| Watch Out! Man-Eating Snake | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 2 | 0.5 | When Stacey's first day at school does not go well, she sets out to win a best friend with a plan that just can't go wrong. | 79 |
| Watch Out, Ronald Morgan! | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 2.4 | 0.5 | Ronald has many humorous mishaps until he gets a pair of eyeglasses. Includes a note for adults about children's eye problems. | 24 |
| Watchdog and the Coyotes | Wallace, Bill | 3.7 | 2 | Sweetie the great dane could not afford to bark or bite. After three little nips, she would go to the pound. But when her friends and home are threatened, she must find a way to outfox the coyotes. | 104 |
| Water Buffalo Days: Growing Up in Vietnam | Nhuong, Huynh Quang | 6.4 | 3 | The author describes his close relationship to two water buffalo that were part of his family when he was growing up in a village of the central highlands of Vietnam. | 117 |
| Water Dance | Locker, Thomas | 1.9 | 0.5 | Water speaks of its existence in such forms as storm clouds, mist, rainbows, and rivers. | 25 |
| Water Hole, The | Base, Graeme | 1.4 | 0.5 | As ever-growing numbers of animals visit a watering hole, introducing the numbers from one to ten, the water dwindles. | 32 |
| Water Horse, The | King-Smith, Dick | 5.4 | 2 | In 1930, on the coast of Scotland, eight-year-old Kirstie finds a large egg which hatches into an unusual sea creature, and as he grows her family must decide what to do with him. | 120 |
| Water Sky | George, Jean Craighead | 4.7 | 7 | While searching for his uncle in Barrow, Alaska, a young boy joins the crew of an Eskimo whaling captain and learns the importance of whaling to the Eskimo culture. | 208 |
| Water Wishes | Loehr, Mallory | 3.5 | 2 | While staying at the beach for the summer, ten-year-old Polly and her younger brother Sam find a message in a bottle, providing them and their thirteen-year-old brother with exciting and scary adventures. | 117 |
| Watership Down | Adams, Richard | 6.2 | 25 | Picaresque saga of a maverick band of rabbits who set out against all odds on a quest for a new society. | 478 |
| Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963, The | Curtis, Christopher Paul | 5 | 8 | The ordinary routines of the Watsons, an African-American family from Michigan, are drastically changed when they visit Alabama. | 210 |
| Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger | Sachar, Louis | 3.3 | 3 | Unusual things continue to happen in the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story. | 168 |
| Wayside School Is Falling Down | Sachar, Louis | 3.4 | 4 | More humorous episodes from the classroom on the 13th floor of Wayside School, where students learn to tango, face the cafeteria's dreaded Mushroom Surprise, and study a hobo during Show and Tell. Sequel to Sideways Stories from Wayside School. | 179 |
| We All Scream for Ice Cream! The Scoop on America's...Dessert | Wardlaw, Lee | 7.8 | 8 | This history of ice cream begins in ancient Greece and travels all the way to modern-day America. | 198 |
| We Gather Together...Now Please Get Lost! | De Groat, Diane | 3.3 | 0.5 | Gilbert is determined to have fun on the class trip to Pilgrim Town. Now, if only his tattle-tale partner, Philip, would just get lost! | 32 |
| We Share Everything! | Munsch, Robert | 2.4 | 0.5 | It is the first day of kindergarten, and Amanda and Jeremiah have a problem. They want to play with the same toys, and the teacher wants them to share everything. | 32 |
| We Wanted You | Rosenberg, Liz | 2 | 0.5 | Parents tell how they waited and prepared for the baby that they wanted so much. | 26 |
| Weakness, The | Applegate, K.A. | 4 | 3 | When Jake has to leave town, the other Animorphs and Ax figure life will pretty much be normal until he gets back. But when Tobias discovers Visser Three's newest feeding place, the kids decide they have to check it out. | 129 |
| Weasel | DeFelice, Cynthia | 5 | 4 | Alone in the frontier wilderness in the winter of 1839 while his father is recovering from an injury, eleven-year-old Nathan runs afoul of the renegade killer known as Weasel and makes a surprising discovery about the concept of revenge. | 119 |
| Weather (Discovering Science) | Hunter, Rebecca | 5.1 | 0.5 | This book gives a simple explanation of weather and its many forms and sources. | 32 |
| Weather (Eyewitness) | Cosgrove, Brian | 7.6 | 1 | Photographs and text depict different aspects of weather and how it is forecast. | 63 |
| Weave of Words, A | San Souci, Robert D. | 4.7 | 0.5 | A reworking of an Armenian folktales in which a lazy prince learns to read, write, and weave his love only to have these very talents later save him from a three headed monster. | 30 |
| Weaving of a Dream, The | Heyer, Marilee | 4.7 | 0.5 | When the beautiful tapestry woven by a poor woman is stolen by fairies, her three sons set out on a magical journey to retrieve it. An NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Book in the Field of Social Studies. | 30 |
| Web Files, The | Palatini, Margie | 2.5 | 0.5 | Ducktective Web and his partner try to quack the case of the pilfered peck of perfect purple almost-pickled peppers. | 32 |
| Wedding Day Mystery, The | Keene, Carolyn | 4.7 | 4 | Danger's walking down the aisle, and Nancy has vowed to stop it. | 149 |
| Wednesday Surprise, The | Bunting, Eve | 2.8 | 0.5 | On Wednesday nights, Grandma brings her big bag of books to share with Anna. | 32 |
| Week in the Woods, A | Clements, Andrew | 5.5 | 7 | The fifth grade's annual camping trip in the woods tests Mark's survival skills and his ability to relate to a teacher who seems out to get him. | 190 |
| Weekend with Wendell, A | Henkes, Kevin | 2.7 | 0.5 | Sophie does not enjoy energetic, assertive Wendell's weekend visit until the very end, when she learns to assert herself and finds out Wendell can be fun to play with after all. | 30 |
| Weird Stories from the Lonesome Cafe | Cox, Judy | 3 | 1 | Sam moves to Nevada with his uncle to run a cafe in the middle of nowhere, and although Uncle Clem insists that nothing ever happens there, his clientele consists of a number of strange characters, including Dorothy and Toto, Elvis, and Bigfoot. | 72 |
| Welcome Back, Stacey! | Martin, Ann M. | 4.2 | 4 | When Stacey's parents decide to divorce, Stacey must decide whether to remain in New York with her father or return to Stoneybrook with her mother. | 144 |
| Welcome Comfort | Polacco, Patricia | 4.5 | 0.5 | Welcome Comfort, a lonely foster child, is assured by his friend, the school custodian, that there is a Santa Claus, but he does not discover the truth until one wondrous and surprising Christmas Eve. | 32 |
| Welcome to Camp Nightmare | Stine, R.L. | 3.9 | 3 | Billy's fellow campers start disappearing. Camp Nightmoon is turning into Camp Nightmare. Is Billy next? | 136 |
| Welcome to Dead House | Stine, R.L. | 3.7 | 3 | Amanda and Josh make some new friends in their new town, Dark Falls. These friends want to stay friends. . .forever. | 123 |
| Well Wished | Billingsley, Franny | 5.8 | 6 | In a time of dire need, Nuria tries to outwit the magical wishing well in her mysterious mountain village. | 170 |
| Well: David's Story, The | Taylor, Mildred D. | 4.3 | 3 | In Mississippi in the early 1900s, ten-year-old David Logan's family generously share their well water with both white and black neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence. | 92 |
| Wemberly Worried | Henkes, Kevin | 2.7 | 0.5 | Wemberly, the mouse, who worries about everything, finds that she has a whole list of things to worry about when she faces the first day of nursery school. | 30 |
| We're Going on a Bear Hunt | Rosen, Michael J. | 1.3 | 0.5 | Brave bear hunters go through grass, a river, mud, and other obstacles before the inevitable encounter with the bear forces a headlong retreat. | 32 |
| Werewolf of Fever Swamp, The | Stine, R.L. | 3.5 | 3 | There's something horrible happening in Fever Swamp. Something really horrible. Is Grady's new dog to blame? | 123 |
| Werewolf Skin | Stine, R.L. | 3.2 | 3 | Strange things happen when Alex goes to visit Uncle Colin and Aunt Marta in Wolf Creek. | 125 |
| Weslandia | Fleischman, Paul | 4.8 | 0.5 | Wesley's garden produces a crop of huge, strange plants which provide him with clothing, shelter, food, and drink, thus helping him create his own civilization and changing his life. | 32 |
| West from Home | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 5.7 | 4 | A selection of letters by Laura Ingalls Wilder to her husband, in which she describes the highlights of her visit to the west coast in 1915. | 124 |
| West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi | Murphy, Jim | 5.2 | 6 | While traveling in 1883 with her Italian-American family and other immigrant pioneers to Idaho, Theresa keeps a diary of her experiences. | 204 |
| West Virginia (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis/Judith | 4.5 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, famous people, and interesting sites of the Mountain State. | 59 |
| Westing Game, The | Raskin, Ellen | 5.3 | 8 | Sixteen game players, heirs to Sam Westing's fabulous fortune, are all suspected of his murder. This book is part mystery story, part play-along game, and part do-it-yourself puzzle. | 216 |
| Westmark | Alexander, Lloyd | 5.3 | 6 | Falling in with a roguish doctor, his dwarf attendant, and an urchin girl, Theo embarks on an unforgettable adventure in the kingdom of Westmark. | 184 |
| Westward to Home: Joshua's Diary | Hermes, Patricia | 3.1 | 1 | Joshua writes a journal of his family's journey from Missouri to Oregon in a covered wagon. | 108 |
| Wet Fire | Wheeler, W.H. | 3.2 | 1 | Angry gods wiped out the people who had made them. Were they still on the mountain? | 60 |
| Wetlands (World Habitats) | Pipes, Rose | 4.3 | 0.5 | The book introduces some notable wetlands around the world, including the Pantanal in Brazil, the Florida Everglades, and the Kakadu National Park in Australia. | 32 |
| Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises | Carwardine, Mark | 7.1 | 1 | Describes where these creatures live, what they eat, and how they care for their young. | 63 |
| What a Scare, Jesse Bear | Carlstrom, Nancy White | 2.6 | 0.5 | At Halloween Jesse Bear picks out a pumpkin, helps make a jack-o-lantern, works on a costume, and has fun trick-or-treating. | 26 |
| What a Trip! Around the World in Eighty Days | Abbott, Tony | 4.2 | 4 | Frankie and Devin are transported into "Around the World in Eighty Days" when they get near Mrs. Figglehopper's library zapper gates. | 141 |
| What a Trip, Amber Brown | Danziger, Paula | 2.6 | 0.5 | Amber Brown and her parents go to the Poconos for two weeks with Amber's best friend and his family. | 48 |
| What Can You Do with a Shoe? | de Regniers, Beatrice Schenk | 2.7 | 0.5 | This book explores creative uses for common things. | 29 |
| What Do We Know About the Aztecs? | Defrates, Joanna | 6.4 | 0.5 | The day-to-day life of the Aztecs in ancient Mexico. | 43 |
| What Do We Know About the Egyptians? | Defrates, Joanna | 6.4 | 1 | Everyday life in ancient Egypt is described in annotated photographs and drawings. | 43 |
| What Do We Know About the Greeks? | Pearson, Anne | 5.7 | 0.5 | Everyday life among the Greeks is detailed in drawings and photographs. | 43 |
| What Do We Know About the Romans? | Corbishley, Mike | 5.8 | 0.5 | Daily life among the Romans is detailed in drawings and photographs. | 45 |
| What Do You Do with a Grumpy Kangaroo? | Moncure, Jane Belk | 2.2 | 0.5 | Tony tries to cheer up Grumpy Kangaroo by taking him to the circus and the playground. | 31 |
| What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? | Jenkins/Page | 3 | 0.5 | This book looks at the ways in which different animals use their ears, eyes, mouths, noses, feet, and tails. | 32 |
| What Do You Say When a Monkey Acts This Way? | Moncure, Jane Belk | 1.9 | 0.5 | Each day of the week, Little Monkey learns appropriate behavior for a variety of situations. | 31 |
| What Eric Knew | Howe, James | 3.9 | 3 | After Eric moves away, he sends cryptic notes to Sebastian and David, who follow them to investigate a mysterious death. | 138 |
| What Have You Lost? | Nye, Naomi Shihab | 6.1 | 3 | This is a collection of poems that explores all kinds of loss. | 205 |
| What Is a Teacher? | Lehn, Barbara | 3.1 | 0.5 | This book depicts people engaged in activities that embody the qualities of a teacher. | 30 |
| What is That? Said the Cat | Maccarone, Grace | 1.4 | 0.5 | The animals try different ways to get a big box open, only to be very surprised by what is inside. | 29 |
| What Is the Sun? | Lindbergh, Reeve | 1.3 | 0.5 | As a grandmother tucks her grandson to bed, she quietly answers his questions about nature in rhyme. | 28 |
| What Jamie Saw | Coman, Carolyn | 5.4 | 3 | Having fled to a family friend's hillside trailer after his mother's boyfriend tried to throw his baby sister against a wall, Jamie finds himself living an existence full of uncertainty and fear. | 126 |
| What Time Is It? | Smith, A.G. | 7.6 | 2 | This book explains how calendars were invented, how people kept track of time before clocks were used, what time is, and more. | 85 |
| What You Never Knew About Fingers, Forks, & Chopsticks | Lauber, Patricia | 4.4 | 0.5 | This book describes changes in eating customs throughout the centuries and the origins of table manners. | 28 |
| What! Cried Granny | Lum, Kate | 2.9 | 0.5 | This is the story of a young boy's first overnight visit to his granny's. | 25 |
| Whatever Happened to Janie? | Cooney, Caroline B. | 4.7 | 7 | The members of two families have their lives disrupted when a teenage girl who had been kidnapped 12 years earlier discovers that the people who raised her are not her biological parents. | 199 |
| Whatever Happened to the Dinosaurs? | Most, Bernard | 2.7 | 0.5 | This is a humorous speculation of what really happened to make the dinosaurs disappear. | 30 |
| What's Next, Nina? | Kassirer, Sue | 2.3 | 0.5 | When the string of a borrowed necklace breaks, Nina must quickly get the beads back in order and restrung before her sister finds out. | 32 |
| What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? | Fritz, Jean | 5.5 | 1 | A brief biography of the eighteenth-century printer, inventor, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States. | 48 |
| What's the Matter with Herbie Jones? | Kline, Suzy | 3.3 | 2 | When Herbie Jones gets the dreaded "girl disease" and becomes lovesick for Annabelle Hodgekiss, it threatens his friendship with his good pal Ray. | 111 |
| What's the Time, Grandma Wolf? | Brown, Ken | 3 | 0.5 | When the little animals hear there's a big, bad wolf in the woods, their curiosity gets the best of them. | 25 |
| What's Under My Bed? | Stevenson, James | 2.6 | 0.5 | Grandpa tells his two young houseguests a story about his own childhood when he was scared at bedtime. | 32 |
| Wheedle on the Needle (Original Text) | Cosgrove, Stephen | 4.4 | 0.5 | The Wheedle and the citizens of Seattle reap the benefits of compromise and ingenuity. | 28 |
| Wheel on the School, The | De Jong, Meindert | 4.7 | 10 | Storks no longer come to the little Dutch fishing village of Shora to nest. Lina devises a plan to bring them back. | 298 |
| Wheel Wizards | Christopher/Hirschfeld | 4.3 | 3 | Angry and unhappy because he is now in a wheelchair and apparently no longer able to play basketball, twelve-year-old Seth is amazed to discover wheelchair basketball and find that his life is not over after all. | 120 |
| Wheeling and Whirling-Around Book, The | Hindley, Judy | 5.1 | 0.5 | A lively celebration of circles, disks, spheres, and all sorts of things that roll and spin. | 25 |
| When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit | Kerr, Judith | 5.7 | 9 | For nine-year-old Anna, being a German Jew in 1933 did not mean anything until her father disappeared and the rest of her family had to flee the country. | 191 |
| When I Am Old with You | Johnson, Angela | 2.7 | 0.5 | A child imagines being old with Grandaddy and joining him in such activities as playing cards all day, visiting the ocean, and eating bacon on the porch. | 26 |
| When I Get Bigger | Mayer, Mercer | 2.2 | 0.5 | Little Critter imagines the things he will do when he gets bigger. | 23 |
| When I Was Young in the Mountains | Rylant, Cynthia | 3.6 | 0.5 | The story of an Appalachian childhood which evokes a love of a place, a family, and a way of life. | 29 |
| When Jessie Came Across the Sea | Hest, Amy | 3.2 | 0.5 | A thirteen-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and immigrates to the United States where she works for three years sewing lace and earning money to bring her grandmother to the United States. | 36 |
| When Mammoths Walked the Earth | Arnold, Caroline | 7.9 | 1 | This book describes the physical characteristics, known habits, and fossil sites of mammoths, prehistoric animals closely related to the elephant. | 40 |
| When My Name Was Keoko | Park, Linda Sue | 4.6 | 8 | With national pride and occasional fear, a brother and sister face the increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War II, which threatens to suppress Korean culture entirely. | 199 |
| When the Circus Came to Town | Yep, Laurence | 4 | 3 | An Asian cook and a Chinese New Year celebration help a ten-year-old girl at a Montana stage coach station to regain her confidence after smallpox scars her face. | 113 |
| When the Road Ends | Thesman, Jean | 4.2 | 6 | Sent to spend the summer in the country, three foster children and an older woman recovering from a serious accident are abandoned by their slovenly caretaker and must try to survive on their own. | 184 |
| When the Soldiers Were Gone | Propp, Vera W. | 3.5 | 2 | After the German occupation of the Netherlands, Benjamin leaves the Christian family with whom he had been living and reunites with his real parents who returned from hiding. | 101 |
| When We Married Gary | Hines, Anna Grossnickle | 2.9 | 0.5 | Beth still remembers the daddy who went away, although her younger sibling does not, but both of them accept Gary and call him Papa. | 24 |
| When Will I Read? | Cohen, Miriam | 2.3 | 0.5 | Impatient to begin reading, a first-grader doesn't realize that there is more to reading than books. | 28 |
| When Will This Cruel War Be Over? The Civil War Diary of Emma Simp | Denenberg, Barry | 6.6 | 3 | The diary of a fictional fourteen-year-old girl living in Virginia, in which she describes the hardships endured by her family and friends during one year of the Civil War. | 152 |
| When You Take a Pig to a Party | McLarey, Kristina/Myra | 4.2 | 0.5 | Havoc ensues when Adelaide takes her usually well-behaved pet pig to a friend's birthday party. | 32 |
| When Zachary Beaver Came to Town | Holt, Kimberly Willis | 4.5 | 6 | During the summer of 1971 in a small Texas town, thirteen-year-old Toby and his best friend, Cal, meet the star of the sideshow act, 600-pound Zachary, the fattest boy in the world. | 227 |
| Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus? | Fritz, Jean | 5.8 | 2 | With a few humorous touches, this biographer brings the great explorer and his voyages to life. | 80 |
| Where Does the Butterfly Go When It Rains? | Garelick, May | 2 | 0.5 | With illustrations and simple text, this book describes what different animals do when it rains. | 28 |
| Where Does the Teacher Live? | Feder, Paula Kurzband | 2.3 | 0.5 | Three children try to discover where their teacher lives. | 46 |
| Where the Buffaloes Begin | Baker, Olaf | 5.7 | 0.5 | Little Wolf goes to the fabled lake where buffaloes rise up out of the mist. A Caldecott Honor book. | 42 |
| Where the Forest Meets the Sea | Baker, Jeannie | 3 | 0.5 | On a camping trip in an Australian rain forest with his father, a young boy thinks about the history of the plant and animal life around him and wonders about their future. | 28 |
| Where the Lilies Bloom | Cleaver, Vera/Bill | 5.2 | 6 | This is a tough and tender novel about an orphaned mountain family and the courageous fourteen-year-old, Mary Call, who keeps them together and alive. | 210 |
| Where the Red Fern Grows | Rawls, Wilson | 4.9 | 11 | This is a simply written, moving story of the love between a young boy and his two dogs. | 249 |
| Where the Wild Things Are | Sendak, Maurice | 3.4 | 0.5 | A naughty little boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails to the land of the wild things where he becomes their king. | 21 |
| Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May? | Fritz, Jean | 5.9 | 1 | A brief biography of Patrick Henry, tracing his progress from planter to statesman. | 48 |
| Which Way Freedom? | Hansen, Joyce | 4.5 | 5 | Obi escapes from slavery during the Civil War, joins a black Union regiment, and soon becomes involved in the bloody fighting at Fort Pillow, Tennessee. | 120 |
| Which Witch? | Ibbotson, Eva | 6.2 | 7 | Deciding that he must sire a child to carry on his tradition of Loathing Light and Blighting the Beautiful, the Great Wizard Arriman announces a competition among the witches of Todcaster, one of whom will marry him. | 249 |
| While a Tree Was Growing | Bosveld, Jane | 5.8 | 1 | Traces the growth, from seed to maturity, of a 3500-year-old giant sequoia, juxtaposing its development with a chronology of world events from the Trojan War to the present day. | 44 |
| Whingdingdilly, The | Peet, Bill | 4.9 | 1 | Tired of a dog's life, Scamp visits the wicked little witch in the woods and becomes a whingdingdilly. | 60 |
| Whipping Boy, The | Fleischman, Sid | 3.9 | 2 | A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places. | 90 |
| Whistle for Willie | Keats, Ezra Jack | 2.5 | 0.5 | A child and his city world are captured in colorful illustrations. | 28 |
| White Fang (Great Illustrated Classics) | London/Vogel | 6.1 | 3 | White Fang is an orphan cub of part wolf and part dog whose inborn instincts teach him to hunt, fight, and win. | 240 |
| White House (American Symbols), The | Yanuck, Debbie L. | 3.1 | 0.5 | This book is a simple introduction to the White House, including its history, designer, construction, location, and importance as a symbol of the United States. | 24 |
| White Lilacs | Meyer, Carolyn | 5.5 | 8 | Historical novel about a young black girl's response to the forced relocation of her family in 1921 Texas. | 242 |
| White Mountains, The | Christopher, John | 6.2 | 7 | Giant Tripods control men's minds and rule the future world. | 214 |
| White Snow Bright Snow | Tresselt, Alvin | 4.2 | 0.5 | When it begins to look, feel, and smell like snow, everyone prepares for a winter blizzard. | 28 |
| White Stag, The | Seredy, Kate | 6.6 | 2 | The Huns and Magyars migrate from Asia to Europe, where they hope to find a permanent home. | 94 |
| White Stallion of Lipizza | Henry, Marguerite | 5.5 | 5 | A young boy dreams of someday working with the magnificent Lipizzan horses. | 112 |
| White Stallion, The | Shub, Elizabeth | 3 | 0.5 | Gretchen would never forget her wonderful friend, a proud white stallion that roamed the plains of Texas. | 54 |
| White Wave: A Chinese Tale | Wolkstein, Diane | 3.9 | 0.5 | Kuo Ming's discovery of a moon goddess inside a snail shell changes his lonely life. | 30 |
| Whitefish Will Rides Again! | Yorinks, Arthur | 2.6 | 0.5 | A wild west tale of Whitefish Will and how he made the town safe from the outlaws. | 28 |
| Who Stole the Cookies? | Moffatt, Judith | 0.8 | 0.5 | Each in a series of animals denies taking the cookies from the cookie jar. | 32 |
| Who Stole the Wizard of Oz? | Avi | 3.6 | 2 | Becky and her brother use some ingenious clues to identify the person who stole five children's books from the town's library. | 116 |
| Who Took the Farmer's Hat? | Nodset, Joan L. | 1.7 | 0.5 | All the farm animals help the farmer search for his old brown hat that the wind has blown away. | 27 |
| Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros? | Silverstein, Shel | 2.8 | 0.5 | There are lots of things a rhino can do around one's house, including eating bad report cards before one's parents see them, tiptoeing downstairs for a midnight snack, and collecting extra allowance. | 56 |
| Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway? | Avi | 2.7 | 3 | In the mid-1940s, when nearly everyone else is thinking about World War II, sixth-grader Frankie Wattleson gets in trouble at home and at school because of his preoccupation with his favorite radio programs. | 170 |
| Who Will Be My Friends? | Hoff, Syd | 1.4 | 0.5 | Freddy learns that while it takes some time, there are friends for him in his new neighborhood. | 32 |
| Whooo's Haunting the Teeny Tiny Ghost? | Winters, Kay | 3 | 0.5 | The teeny, tiny, very timid ghost tries to be brave when he suspects that his house is haunted. | 30 |
| Whose Mouse Are You? | Kraus, Robert | 0.8 | 0.5 | A mouse transforms himself into the beloved hero of his mother, father, sister, and brand-new baby brother. | 32 |
| Why a Disguise? | Numeroff, Laura | 2.3 | 0.5 | This book shows us many different ways a young boy can assume a new identity. It also reminds the readers that at the end of the day, it's still nice to know we are still ourselves. | 22 |
| Why Are You Fighting, Davy? | Weninger, Brigitte | 2.6 | 0.5 | Davy and his friend Eddie quarrel. But Davy soon discovers that playing alone isn't all that much fun. There must be some way to end the quarrel. | 26 |
| Why Do You Love Me? | Schlessinger/Lambert | 2.9 | 0.5 | A young boy asks his mother why she loves him and learns that her love is unconditional. | 35 |
| Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams? | Fritz, Jean | 5.7 | 0.5 | A brief biography of Sam Adams, with some American History in the humorous vein added. | 47 |
| Why I'm Afraid of Bees | Stine, R.L. | 3.5 | 3 | Gary's dream is about to come true. Gary can't wait to get his new body. Except his new body isn't exactly human. | 117 |
| Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears | Aardema, Verna | 4 | 0.5 | A mosquito tells a tall tale that sets off a chain reaction. Charming picture book lavishly illustrated in full color. | 26 |
| Wide Window, The | Snicket, Lemony | 6.3 | 5 | Catastrophes and misfortune continue to plague the Baudelaire orphans after they are sent to live with fearful Aunt Josephine, who offers little protection against Count Olaf's treachery. | 214 |
| Widow's Broom, The | Van Allsburg, Chris | 4.7 | 0.5 | A witch's worn-out broom serves a widow well until her neighbors decide the thing is wicked and dangerous. | 28 |
| Wild Christmas Reindeer, The | Brett, Jan | 4.1 | 0.5 | After a few false starts, Teeka discovers the best way to get Santa's reindeer ready for Christmas Eve. | 29 |
| Wild Heart | Neimark, Anne E. | 7.7 | 5 | This book is the biography of Joy Adamson, best known for her relationship with Elsa, the lion, and her book "Born Free." | 118 |
| Wild, Wild Wolves | Milton, Joyce | 3.3 | 0.5 | Introduces the natural history of wolves, examining their social structure, hunting tactics, growth, and development. Explores myths and legends about them. | 48 |
| Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge | Fox, Mem | 3.5 | 0.5 | A Small boy tries to discover the meaning of memory so he can restore that of an elderly friend. | 30 |
| Will and Orv | Schulz, Walter | 2.9 | 0.5 | On a windy day in Kitty Hawk, N. C., in 1903, the Wright Brothers attempt to make history as they prepare the 'Flyer' for the world's first engine-powered flight. | 48 |
| Will I Have a Friend? | Cohen, Miriam | 2.1 | 0.5 | Every child has a first day at school and this is the story of Jim's. His day begins with a lot of worries and wonders about his first day. | 28 |
| Will You Sign Here, John Hancock? | Fritz, Jean | 5.8 | 1 | A biography of the first signer of the Declaration of Independence, outlining all that he did for himself as well as what he did for Massachusetts and his new nation. | 48 |
| William Shakespeare and the Globe | Aliki | 5.5 | 0.5 | Tells the story of the well known playwright William Shakespeare and the famous Globe Theatre in which many of his plays were performed. | 48 |
| William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream | Coville, Bruce | 7.1 | 1 | A simplified prose retelling of Shakespeare's play about the strange events that take place in a forest inhabited by fairies who magically transform the romantic fate of two young couples. | 40 |
| William's Doll | Zolotow, Charlotte | 3.6 | 0.5 | William wants a doll, but his father and brother are against it. | 32 |
| Willie Bea and the Time the Martians Landed | Hamilton, Virginia | 4.1 | 8 | In October of 1938, on their farm homestead in Ohio, a black family is caught up in the fear generated by the Orson Welles "Martians have landed" broadcast. | 208 |
| Willis | Marshall, James | 3.5 | 0.5 | Snake, Bird, and Lobster use their imagination to earn twenty-nine cents to buy sunglasses for Willis. | 47 |
| Willows and Beyond, The | Horwood, William | 7.6 | 11 | This book continues the adventures of Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger as they reminisce about their past escapades and prepare to turn over the River Bank to the next generation. | 290 |
| Wind in the Door, A | L'Engle, Madeleine | 5 | 7 | Suffering from a rare blood disease, a boy regains his health through the intervention of a space creature. | 211 |
| Wind in the Willows (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Grahame/Vogel | 5.3 | 3 | Join Mole, Otter, and Water Rat as they get into and out of the mischief that vain, self-centered Toad creates. | 240 |
| Wind in the Willows (Unabridged), The | Grahame, Kenneth | 8.2 | 11 | Rat, Mole, and Badger love their friend Toad even when he becomes involved in crime. | 305 |
| Wind Is Not a River, The | Griese, Arnold A. | 5 | 3 | Two children on a Pacific island during World War II discover an injured Japanese soldier. | 108 |
| Wind over Stonehenge | Dorre, Pamela | 3.2 | 1 | Archaeologists' excavation near Stonehenge unleash an evil power from the ancient past. | 59 |
| Wind Spell | Loehr, Mallory | 3.9 | 2 | Three feathers fall out of the sky into the hands of Joe, Polly, and Sam, promising them the ability to fly. | 117 |
| Windcatcher | Avi | 4 | 3 | During a summer visit to his grandmother's home in Connecticut, a young boy learns to sail, discovers a sunken treasure, and wards off greedy treasure hunters. | 124 |
| Windchaser | Ciencin, Scott | 4.5 | 4 | Raymond and Hugh help a wounded dinosaur in this prehistoric fantasy. | 148 |
| Windhover, The | Brown, Alan | 3.1 | 0.5 | A baby falcon is stolen from its nest in the school yard wall by a lonely boy, who returns it when it will not eat and watches it take its first flight. | 27 |
| Windy Day, The | Bridwell/Fry | 1.8 | 0.5 | It's so windy that Emily Elizabeth's painting blows away. Clifford gets it back for her, but he causes some big trouble along the way! | 20 |
| Winged Colt of Casa Mia, The | Byars, Betsy | 4.6 | 4 | Charles was a serious, bookish kid whose mother had sent him out to his uncle's ranch for the summer. Uncle Coot was tired and bitter. The two just had nothing in common--until an amazing colt that can fly brings them together. | 128 |
| Wings | Yolen, Jane | 4.8 | 0.5 | This book is a retelling of the story of Daedalus, the Greek master craftsman, who murdered his nephew because of envy, fled to Crete, and then, with his son, tried to fly away from Crete like a bird. | 32 |
| Wings of Merlin, The | Barron, T.A. | 5.8 | 14 | Merlin's fragile home on the isle of Fincayra is threatened by the attack of a mysterious warrior with swords for arms, and by the escape of Stangmar from his imprisonment. | 352 |
| Wingwalker | Wells, Rosemary | 4.3 | 1 | During the Depression, Reuben and his out-of-work parents move from Oklahoma to Minnesota, where his father gets a job as a carnival wingwalker and Reuben has a chance to overcome his terror of flying. | 63 |
| Winners and Losers | Hoffius, Stephen | 4.3 | 5 | A sports story about rivalry and obsession between two track stars who are best friends. | 164 |
| Winnie-The-Pooh | Milne, A.A. | 4.6 | 3 | Winnie-the-Pooh and all his friends delight readers with their adventurous exploits. | 161 |
| Winter Days in the Big Woods | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 4 | 0.5 | A young pioneer girl and her family spend the winter in their log cabin in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. | 27 |
| Winter Gift, The | Zagwyn, Deborah Turney | 4 | 0.5 | At Christmas while she is moving to an apartment, Gramma tries to sell the old family piano, but changes her mind when she sees how much her grandchildren love it and the memories it holds. | 32 |
| Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jan, Th | Gregory, Kristiana | 5.5 | 4 | Eleven-year-old Abigail presents a diary account of life in Valley Forge from December 1777 to July 1778 as General Washington prepares his troops to fight the British. | 167 |
| Winter Rabbit | Yee, Patrick | 1.1 | 0.5 | The snow is piling up, so Bear and Squirrel make a rabbit out of snow to play with them. | 26 |
| Winter Room, The | Paulsen, Gary | 5 | 3 | A young boy growing up on a northern Minnesota farm describes the scenes around him and recounts his old Norwegian uncle's tales of an almost mythological logging past. | 103 |
| Wintering | Durbin, William | 6.1 | 7 | In 1801, fourteen-year-old Pierre returns to work for the North West Company and makes the long and difficult journey to a winter camp, where he learns both from the other voyageurs and from the Ojibwa Indians whose land they share. | 191 |
| Wisconsin (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis B. | 4.7 | 1 | An overview of the Badger State, introducing its history, geography, industries, sites of interest, and famous people. | 59 |
| Wish Giver, The | Brittain, Bill | 4.4 | 4 | When a strange little man comes to the Coven Tree Church Social promising he can give people exactly what they ask for, three young believers-in-magic each make a wish that comes true in the most unexpected way. | 181 |
| Wishsong of Shannara, The | Brooks, Terry | 6.1 | 29 | The conclusion to the bestselling fantasy trilogy in which Allanon and Brin confront the ultimate evil. | 504 |
| Witch Family, The | Estes, Eleanor | 5.4 | 6 | Two little girls who love to draw witches build an elaborate world around the imaginary Old Witch and her family. | 223 |
| Witch of Blackbird Pond, The | Speare, Elizabeth George | 5.7 | 9 | Puritan neighbors regard Kit Tyler with suspicion, fear, and anger when she befriends an old woman accused of witchcraft. | 249 |
| Witch Week | Jones, Diana Wynne | 5 | 10 | When a teacher at an English boarding school finds a note on his desk accusing someone in the class of being a witch, magical things begin to happen and an Inquisitor is summoned. | 270 |
| Witches of Worm, The | Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | 5.7 | 6 | Jessica has taken care of the cat, Worm, but the cat may be making her do things against her own wishes. | 183 |
| Witches, The | Dahl, Roald | 4.7 | 5 | In spite of everything his grandmother has taught him about witches, a young boy gets turned into a mouse but does manage to interrupt their plans. | 208 |
| Witch's Brew | Hitchcock, Alfred | 6.3 | 8 | An anthology of eleven short stories about magic, witchcraft, and the supernatural. | 183 |
| Wizard of Oz (Great Illustrated Classics), The | Baum/Laiken | 5.1 | 2 | Dorothy is whisked away by a cyclone to a magical land called Oz. There she meets unforgettable friends. | 235 |
| Wizards Don't Wear Graduation Gowns | Dadey/Jones | 3.8 | 1 | Could the new assistant principal really be a wizard who wants to turn everyone at graduation into an animal? | 74 |
| Wizard's Hall | Yolen, Jane | 5 | 4 | A young apprentice wizard saves the wizard's training hall by trusting and believing in himself. | 133 |
| Wolf Is Coming!, The | MacDonald, Elizabeth | 3.8 | 0.5 | The wolf is on the farm, and the animals must get away. | 24 |
| Wolf Stalker | Skurzynski/Ferguson | 5.1 | 5 | Twelve-year-old Jack, his younger sister, and the family's teenage foster child Troy go to Yellowstone National Park, where Jack's mother, a wildlife veterinarian, is investigating the report that wolves reintroduced to the Park have killed a dog there. | 147 |
| Wolf Watch | Winters, Kay | 2.3 | 0.5 | After spending their first few weeks being cared for in the safety of their den, four wolf pups emerge to face a world full of wonder and danger. | 23 |
| Wolves of Willoughby Chase, The | Aiken, Joan | 6.5 | 7 | After two children are chased by wolves and their parents are lost at sea, they escape and travel four hundred miles to London. | 168 |
| Woman Who Flummoxed the Fairies, The | Forest, Heather | 4.4 | 0.5 | Asked to make a cake for the fairies, a clever bakerwoman must figure out a way to prevent the fairies from wanting to keep her with them always to bake delicious cakes. | 26 |
| Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, The | Cameron, Eleanor | 6.3 | 6 | Two boys and the mysterious Tyco Bass, a mushroom grower, collaborate in the making of a space ship and plans for a wonderful space adventure. | 214 |
| Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Unabridged), The | Baum, L. Frank | 7 | 7 | Lifted from Kansas to the magical Land of Oz, Dorothy Gale meets a Scarecrow, a Tin Woodman, and a cowardly Lion, all of whom set off to find the Wizard and defeat the Wicked Witch of the West. | 260 |
| Wondrous Whirligig: The Wright Brothers' First Flying Machine, The | Glass, Andrew | 4 | 0.5 | Inspired by a model helicopter and encouraged by their parents and sister, young Orville and Wilbur Wright attempt to build a life-size helicopter from scrap. | 32 |
| Woodshed Mystery, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 4.3 | 5 | A double puzzle involves an old friend of Aunt Jane's, romance, discovering the truth behind rumors about the house Grandfather and Aunt Jane lived in as children. | 159 |
| Word Eater, The | Amato, Mary | 4.5 | 4 | Lerner Chanse, a new student at Cleveland Park Middle School, finds a worm that magically makes things disappear, and she hopes it will help her fit in, or get revenge, at her hated school. | 151 |
| Words of Stone | Henkes, Kevin | 5 | 5 | Busy trying to deal with his many fears and his troubled feelings for his dead mother, ten-year-old Blaze has his life changed when he meets the boisterous and irresistible Joselle. | 152 |
| Worf's First Adventure | David, Peter | 5.7 | 4 | Commander Benjamin Sisko and Security Chief Odo have a killer on their hands who strikes without motive, endangering the space station itself. | 119 |
| Working Cotton | Williams, Sherley Anne | 2.8 | 0.5 | A young girl relates the daily events of her family's migrant life in the cotton fields of central California. | 28 |
| Working Machines (Energy and Action) | Marshall, John | 4.2 | 0.5 | Describes simple machines and how they work, including the inclined plane, levers, wheels and axles, the wedge, screws, and pulleys. | 24 |
| Worksong | Paulsen, Gary | 3.1 | 0.5 | Illustrations and rhyming text depict people doing all kinds of work. | 26 |
| Worrywarts, The | Edwards, Pamela Duncan | 3.3 | 0.5 | Wombat, Weasel, and Woodchuck take a weird and wonderful walk. | 32 |
| Wreck of the Zephyr, The | Van Allsburg, Chris | 3.7 | 0.5 | A boy's ambition to be the greatest sailor in the world brings him to ruin when he misuses his new ability to sail his boat in the air. | 28 |
| Wreckers, The | Lawrence, Iain | 4.2 | 6 | Shipwrecked after a vicious storm, John attempts to save his father and himself while also dealing with an evil secret about the English coastal town where they are stranded. | 191 |
| Wretched Stone, The | Van Allsburg, Chris | 4.3 | 0.5 | A strange glowing stone picked up on a sea voyage captivates a ship's crew and has a terrible transforming effect on them. | 27 |
| Wright Brothers (Famous People in Transportation), The | Schaefer, Lola M. | 2.2 | 0.5 | This book is about the lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright and their pioneering efforts in the development of the airplane. | 24 |
| Wright Brothers (In Their Own Words), The | Sullivan, George | 5.9 | 2 | This is a biography of the brothers responsible for developing the first airplane, featuring excerpts from their journal entries, letters, and drawings. | 127 |
| Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, The | Sobol, Donald J. | 4.5 | 3 | A lively account of an exciting chapter in the history of flying by the author of the Encyclopedia Brown books. | 128 |
| Wright Brothers, The | Edwards, Pamela Duncan | 5.2 | 0.5 | This book describes the series of events that led to the Wright Brothers' historic flight. | 32 |
| Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane, The | Freedman, Russell | 7.7 | 4 | This book follows the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they developed the first airplane. | 117 |
| Wringer | Spinelli, Jerry | 4.5 | 5 | As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it. | 228 |
| Wrinkle in Time, A | L'Engle, Madeleine | 4.7 | 7 | Meg Murry and her family receive a surprise visit from an unearthly stranger out of another dimension in time. | 211 |
| Write Me If You Dare! | Johnson, Emily Rhoads | 5.4 | 6 | Three years after the death of her mother, eleven-year-old Maddie finds a note attached to a popped balloon, leading to a correspondence with a mysterious fourteen-year-old girl, who helps Maddie understand that life must go on. | 194 |
| Wump World, The | Peet, Bill | 5.3 | 0.5 | The Wump World is an unspoiled place until huge monsters bring hordes of tiny creatures from the planet Pollutus. | 44 |
| Wyoming (From Sea to Shining Sea) | Fradin, Dennis/Judith | 4.3 | 1 | An introduction to the history, geography, famous people, and interesting sites of the Equality State. | 59 |
| X Marks the Spot: Treasure Island | Abbott, Tony | 4 | 4 | Frankie and Devin set sail for a pirate adventure when they are transported to the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, TREASURE ISLAND. | 136 |
| Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear | Namioka, Lensey | 4.6 | 3 | Newly arrived in Seattle from Shanghai, Yingtao is an outsider in his musical family because he's tone-deaf. | 134 |
| Year Down Yonder, A | Peck, Richard | 4.5 | 4 | During the recession of 1937, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her feisty, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois and comes to a better understanding of this fearsome woman. | 130 |
| Year of Impossible Good-byes | Choi, Sook Nyul | 5.6 | 7 | A young Korean girl survives the oppressive Japanese and Russian occupation of North Korea during the 1940s, to later escape to freedom in South Korea. | 169 |
| Year of Miss Agnes, The | Hill, Kirkpatrick | 4.5 | 3 | Ten-year-old Fred (short for Frederika) narrates the story of school and village life among the Athabascans in Alaska during 1948 when Miss Agnes arrived as the new teacher. | 115 |
| Year of the Panda, The | Schlein, Miriam | 3.4 | 1 | A Chinese boy rescues a starving baby panda, and in the process learns why pandas are endangered and what the government is doing to save them. | 83 |
| Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree, The | Houston, Gloria | 4.2 | 0.5 | Ruthie and her mother wonder how they will fulfill their obligation of getting the perfect Christmas tree to the town for the holiday celebration, since Papa has left the Appalachian area to go to war. | 28 |
| Year with Grandma Moses, The | Nikola-Lisa, W. | 4.6 | 0.5 | This book is a collection of paintings and memoirs by the American folk artist describing the seasons and their related activities in rural upstate New York. | 31 |
| Yearling, The | Rawlings, Marjorie | 5 | 19 | A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet. | 509 |
| Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China | Louie, Ai-Ling | 5.1 | 0.5 | A young Chinese girl overcomes the wickedness of her stepsister and stepmother to become the bride of a prince. | 31 |
| Yellow House Mystery, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.2 | 3 | A spooky old house on Surprise Island intrigues Benny. | 191 |
| Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories | Seuss, Dr. | 3.3 | 0.5 | Includes three humorous stories in verse: Yertle the Turtle, Gertrude McFuzz, and The Big Brag. | 75 |
| Yes, No, Little Hippo | Moncure, Jane Belk | 2.1 | 0.5 | After experiencing several falls and bumps, Little Hippo discovers how to play safely and have fun without the danger of accidents. | 31 |
| Yolonda's Genius | Fenner, Carol | 4.8 | 6 | After moving from Chicago to Grand River, Michigan, fifth-grader Yolonda, big and strong for her age, determines to prove that her younger brother is not a slow learner but a true musical genius. | 208 |
| You Are Special | Lucado, Max | 3 | 0.5 | Punchinello's opinion of himself changes after talking to his creator. | 31 |
| You Can't Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown | Danziger, Paula | 3.5 | 1 | Amber Brown is one very excited third-grader. She is going to visit her Aunt Pam in London! Amber is all set for the best vacation ever, until she gets the chicken pox! | 101 |
| You Can't Scare Me | Stine, R.L. | 3.6 | 3 | Eddie knows Courtney believes that silly rumor about Mud Monsters in Muddy Creek. Too bad Eddie doesn't believe because it might be true. | 120 |
| You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer! | Corey, Shana | 3.5 | 0.5 | This is the story of Amelia Bloomer, an early women's rights activist, who wore baggy pantaloons with a short skirt over them, and liberated women from the dangerous and oppressive clothing of the mid-nineteenth century. | 30 |
| You Look Ridiculous Said the Rhinoceros to the Hippopotamus | Waber, Bernard | 3.8 | 0.5 | A worried hippopotamus walks through the forest, growing increasingly depressed as one animal after another confesses that she look ridiculous. | 32 |
| You Silly Goose | Walsh, Ellen Stoll | 2.3 | 0.5 | A silly goose mistakes a mouse for a fox until the real fox arrives and sets her straight. | 34 |
| You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? | Fritz, Jean | 6.4 | 3 | The story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her fight for voting rights for women as well as equality for all. | 76 |
| Young Cam Jansen and the Pizza Shop Mystery | Adler, David A. | 2.8 | 0.5 | Cam, her friend Eric, and her father go shopping at the mall. Cam must rely on her photographic memory to locate her missing jacket. | 32 |
| Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze | Lewis, Elizabeth | 6.4 | 10 | The story of a young Chinese boy's life begins during the turmoil after the empress of China dies. | 267 |
| Your Mother Was a Neanderthal | Scieszka, Jon | 3.7 | 1 | The Time Warp Trio find themselves in the middle of an adventure in prehistoric times, where cave art is a form of graffiti and "rock" music takes on a whole new meaning. | 76 |
| Your Move, J.P.! | Lowry, Lois | 4.9 | 4 | Lovestruck J. P. finds himself doing all sorts of weird things to impress his new interest, but his life becomes very complicated when a simple lie gets out of control. | 122 |
| You're Only Old Once! | Seuss, Dr. | 5.2 | 0.5 | In Dr. Seuss' first book for older people, this tale in the familiar Seuss format depicts aging and what life is like for "obsolete children." | 42 |
| Z for Zachariah | O'Brien, Robert C. | 5.6 | 9 | This novel by the Newberry Award-winning author of Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH is about the aftermath of nuclear devastation. | 249 |
| Zachary's Ball | Tavares, Matt | 3.6 | 0.5 | Dad takes Zachary for his first Boston Red Sox game, where they catch a ball and something magical happens. | 30 |
| Zach's Lie | Smith, Roland | 4.3 | 7 | When Jack Osborne is befriended by his school's custodian and a Basque girl, he begins to adjust to his family's sudden move to Nevada, after entering the Witness Security Program. However, the drug cartel is determined to track them down. | 211 |
| Zack's Alligator | Mozelle, Shirley | 2.3 | 0.5 | A big box comes in the mail for Zack from his Uncle in Florida with a special surprise. | 63 |
| Zathura: A Space Adventure | Van Allsburg, Chris | 3.8 | 0.5 | Left on their own for an evening, two boisterous brothers find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical space adventure board game. | 32 |
| Zeely | Hamilton, Virginia | 4.6 | 4 | Geeder's summer at her uncle's farm is made special because of her friendship with a very tall, composed woman who raises hogs and who closely resembles the magazine photograph of a Watutsi queen. | 122 |
| Zella, Zack, and Zodiac | Peet, Bill | 4.5 | 0.5 | Zella the zebra helps Zack the ostrich when he is young and helpless; and when he grows up, Zack returns the favor by saving Zella's young offspring from a lion. | 32 |
| Zia | O'Dell, Scott | 5.1 | 5 | Poignant sequel to 'The Island Of The Blue Dolphins,' in which Zia and her Aunt Karana are reunited, but not for long. | 144 |
| Zin! Zin! Zin!: A Violin | Moss, Lloyd | 3.3 | 0.5 | Ten instruments take their parts one by one in a musical performance. | 27 |
| Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats | Earle, Anne | 3.9 | 0.5 | This text provides basic facts about the behavior of bats and describes how they benefit the environment. | 32 |
| Zlata's Diary | Filipovic, Zlata | 4.3 | 5 | A young girl's diary records the destruction of her city during the war in Yugoslavia. | 200 |
| Zombies Don't Play Soccer | Dadey/Jones | 3.5 | 1 | The Bailey School Kids are going to find out what is wrong with the new Soccer Coach. | 70 |
| Zomo the Rabbit | McDermott, Gerald | 2.3 | 0.5 | Three zoo animals learn there is more satisfaction in making music together than in performing separately. | 27 |
| Zoo-Looking | Fox, Mem | 2.2 | 0.5 | While Flora visits the zoo with her father, not only does she look at the animals but some of them turn to look at her. | 28 |
| Zoom Broom | Palatini, Margie | 2.4 | 0.5 | When her broom breaks down, Gritch the Witch visits a foxy salesman in search of a new Zoom Broom but ends up with something unexpected. | 29 |