| Author | Title | Level | Points | Description | # of Pages | Book in Library |
| Aardema, Verna | Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears | 3.2 | 0.5 | A mosquito tells a tall tale that sets off a chain reaction. Charming picture book lavishly illustrated in full color. | 26 | Y |
| Abbott, Tony | Golden Wasp, The | 3.1 | 1 | Julie made a big mistake when she brought a bracelet home from Droon. Now she has upset the balance between worlds and strange things are beginning to happen. | 101 | |
| Abbott, Tony | Into the Land of the Lost | 3.3 | 1 | Lord Sparr has put Princess Keeah under a magic spell. Eric, Julie, and Neal can help her if they go to the Land of the Lost, but only ghosts live there. If they do not get out soon, the kids will turn into ghosts themselves. | 95 | |
| Abbott, Tony | Tower of the Elf King, The | 3.1 | 1 | Somebody has robbed the village, and it cannot be Lord Sparr because he has mysteriously disappeared. The rumor is that a terrible beast is behind the crime. | 100 | |
| Abbott, Tony | Quest for the Queen | 3.3 | 1 | It seems like all of Droon is competing in the Quest, and Princess Keeah wants to win the prize, since it might break the magic spell on her mother. Some people are not playing fair. | 104 | |
| Abbott, Tony | Great Ice Battle, The | 3 | 1 | Jaffa City is under a spell of ice and snow. Eric, Julie, Neal, and Princess Keeah have to figure out a way to break the curse or they might get frozen, too. | 87 | |
| Abbott, Tony | Danger Guys | 2.9 | 1 | While attending the grand opening of Danger Guy, an adventure store, Noodle and Zeek become involved with thieves who are looting an ancient temple and stealing artifacts. | 69 | Y |
| Abbott, Tony | Trapped in Transylvania: Dracula | 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 | |
| Abbott, Tony | Knights of Silversnow, The | 3.8 | 2 | Snow in the summer? Eric, Neal, and Julie are headed back to Droon to fix the mess they made with the Wand of Urik. In a hidden castle, they must wake Droon's last hope against evil Lord Sparr, the famous Knights of Silversnow. | 122 | |
| Abbott, Tony | Hidden Stairs and the Magic Carpet, The | 2.9 | 1 | Eric, Julie, and Neal discover a magic staircase to another world. | 80 | |
| Abbott, Tony | Journey to the Volcano Palace | 3.1 | 1 | Eric, Julie, and Neal enter a volcano to recover a magic jewel Lord Sparr has stolen from Princess Keeah. | 85 | |
| Abbott, Tony | Voyage of the Jaffa Wind, The | 3.8 | 2 | Max is missing! The furry spider troll has been mysteriously captured and no one knows where he is. All aboard the Jaffa Wind as Eric, Julie, Neal, and their crew of friends set sail to Max's rescue. | 133 | |
| Abbott, Tony | Moon Scroll, The | 3.7 | 2 | Galen's gone to Goll, Lord Sparr's evil underworld. To defend himself, he needs the powerful wand of Urik, a magic tool that's been hidden for years. Keeah and her friends want to help, but the only way to find the wand is to follow the Moon Scroll. | 129 | |
| Abbott, Tony | Mysterious Island, The | 3 | 1 | While sailing with Princess Keeah, Eric, Julie, and Neal are caught in the middle of a magical ocean storm, and shipwrecked on an island that belongs to Lord Sparr's witches. | 85 | |
| Abbott, Tony | Sitcom School | 3.6 | 3 | What happens when a bigwig television producer buys your school? Ask Spencer Babbitt. He has just become the star of his own real-life situation comedy! | 146 | |
| Abbott, Tony | City in the Clouds | 3.2 | 1 | When Neal turns into a bug, Eric, Julie, and Princess Keeah go to the City in the Clouds in search of a cure. | 88 | |
| Abbott, Tony | Mask of Maliban, The | 3.7 | 2 | Prince Maliban is the creepy ruler of Turtle City. Mailban's mysterious mask maker, Hob, is crafting an awesome new mask. The mask is very powerful so Julie, Neal, and Eric have to make sure the mask does not fall into the wrong hands. | 120 | |
| Abbott, Tony | Fake Teacher, The | 3.6 | 3 | Everyone gets way more action than they bargained for when Jay and Danny sign up to visit a local nursing home. | 151 | |
| Abbott, Tony | Hawk Bandits of Tarkoom, The | 3.5 | 2 | An earthquake has brought a wicked city called Tarkoom back to life. It is a place full of sneaky bandits with a plan to upset present-day Droon. | 116 | |
| Abbott, Tony | Sleeping Giant of Goll, The | 3 | 1 | Lord Sparr has woken up a mean old giant to use as a weapon against the city of Droon. It's up to Eric, Julie, and Neal to rescue the city. | 91 | |
| Abbott, Tony | Under the Serpent Sea | 3.6 | 2 | The sea witch Demither is stirring up a storm in Droon. This mission could make or break Keeah's wizard training, and Eric, Neal, and Julie think they can help their friend. | 113 | |
| Acheson, Alison | Thunder Ice | 4.3 | 4 | Oliver Tate and his cousin Bert have always been best friends, but now they're not speaking and Oliver doesn't even know why they've quarrelled. Now Oliver's father is gone away on a dangerous job and may not make it back alive. | 143 | |
| Ackerman, Karen | Song and Dance Man | 3.8 | 0.5 | Grandpa demonstrates for his visiting grandchildren some of the songs, dances, and jokes he performed when he was a vaudevillian. | 21 | Y |
| Ada, Alma Flor | Gold Coin, The | 3.9 | 0.5 | Determined to steal an old woman's gold coin, a young thief follows her all around the countryside and finds himself involved in a series of unexpected activities. | 28 | |
| Adamson, Joy | Born Free | 7.3 | 9 | A husband-and-wife team work in Kenya to rehabilitate captured lions and re-release them to the wilds. | 220 | |
| Adler, C.S. | Eddie's Blue-Winged Dragon | 5.2 | 3 | A sixth-grader with cerebral palsy becomes the owner of a brass dragon, which helps him out in some of the battles he faces due to his handicap. | 144 | Y |
| Adler, C.S. | Magic of the Glits, The | 5.5 | 2 | Twelve-year-old Jeremy, spending the summer on Cape Cod, befriends an eight-year-old girl whose mother has just died. | 90 | |
| Adler, David A. | Picture Book of Patrick Henry, A | 5 | 0.5 | The life and accomplishments of the American patriot Patrick Henry are accounted in this book. | 28 | Y |
| Adler, David A. | Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr., A | 3.8 | 0.5 | A brief, illustrated, biography of the Baptist minister and civil rights leader whose philosophy and practice of nonviolent civil disobedience helped American blacks win many battles for equal rights. | 30 | Y |
| Adler, David A. | Picture Book of Eleanor Roosevelt, A | 4.1 | 0.5 | This book is a brief account of the life and accomplishments of Eleanor Roosevelt. | 30 | Y |
| Adler, David A. | Many Troubles of Andy Russell, The | 3.7 | 3 | When some of his gerbils escape and he gets in trouble for not paying attention in class, fourth-grader Andy Russell worries about asking if a friend can move in with his family, especially when he learns that his mother is going to have another baby. | 133 | |
| Adler, David A. | Picture Book of Harriet Tubman, A | 4.3 | 0.5 | An illustrated biography of the escaped slave who led other slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad. | 30 | Y |
| Adler, David A. | Young Cam Jansen and the Lost Tooth | 2.4 | 0.5 | Cam uses her photographic memory to help a classmate find the tooth she lost at school. | 32 | |
| Adler, David A. | Picture Book of Louis Braille, A | 4.8 | 0.5 | Presents the life of the frenchman who was accidentally blinded as a child who originated the raised dot system of reading and writing. | 30 | Y |
| Adler, David A. | Picture Book of Helen Keller, A | 3.5 | 0.5 | This is a brief biography of the woman who overcame her handicaps of being both blind and deaf. | 29 | Y |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the Triceratops Pops Mystery | 3.7 | 1 | When Cam Jansen and her friend Eric go to the music store at the mall for the latest CD by the Triceratops Pops band, Cam uses her photographic memory to foil a crime. | 56 | |
| Adler, David A. | Picture Book of John F. Kennedy, A | 4.6 | 0.5 | This book depicts the life and career of John F. Kennedy. | 27 | Y |
| Adler, David A. | Picture Book of Jackie Robinson, A | 5.2 | 0.5 | A brief biography of the baseball legend Jackie Robinson. | 30 | Y |
| Adler, David A. | Picture Book of Jesse Owens, A | 5 | 0.5 | This is a simple biography of the noted black track star who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. | 32 | Y |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the Birthday Mystery | 3.6 | 1 | When Cam's grandparents are robbed on their way to her parents' surprise birthday party, Cam uses her photographic memory to solve the mystery. | 58 | |
| Adler, David A. | Picture Book of Benjamin Franklin, A | 4.3 | 0.5 | This book surveys the life of Benjamin Franklin, and highlights his work as an inventor and statesman. | 27 | Y |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the School Play Mystery | 3.4 | 1 | It is time for Cam Jansen's friend Eric to star as Honest Abe Lincoln, but first, Cam has a mystery to solve. The clues are in the story. Will you find them before Cam does? | 54 | |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the Scary Snake Mystery | 3.5 | 1 | Cam investigates when a thief steals her mother's video camera and a tape containing footage of a big, scary snake. | 58 | |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the U.F.O. | 3.4 | 1 | Ten-year-old Cam, possessor of a photographic memory, and her friend Eric investigate what seems to be a brief appearance of U.F.O.s. | 58 | |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Television Dog | 3.4 | 1 | Fifth-grader Cam uses her photographic memory, with help from her friend Eric and his twin sisters, to solve the mystery of Poochie, a famous canine television star. | 58 | |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the Barking Treasure Mystery | 3.5 | 1 | When a woman's poodle disappears during a boat ride around the city, Cam uses her photographic memory to solve the mystery. | 55 | |
| Adler, David A. | Fourth Floor Twins and the Skyscraper Parade, The | 3 | 1 | When a famous sculpture is stolen from the museum, two sets of twins team up to track down the thief. | 60 | |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds | 2.5 | 1 | A fifth-grader with a photographic memory and her friend Eric help solve the mystery of the stolen diamonds. | 58 | Y |
| Adler, David A. | Picture Book of Anne Frank, A | 4.7 | 0.5 | This traces the life of the young Jewish girl whose diary chronicles the years she and her family hid from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic. | 26 | Y |
| Adler, David A. | Picture Book of Amelia Earhart, A | 5 | 0.5 | Discusses the life of the pilot who was the first woman to cross the Atlantic. | 30 | Y |
| Adler, David A. | Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln, A | 3.8 | 0.5 | This book follows the life of the popular president, from his childhood on the frontier to his assassination after the end of the Civil War. | 30 | Y |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the Chocolate Fudge Mystery | 3.7 | 1 | When Cam Jansen and her friend Eric uncover a mystery while selling fudge door to door to raise money for the local library, Cam uses her photographic memory to foil the crime. | 58 | |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Corn Popper | 3.8 | 1 | Fifth-grade sleuth Cam Jansen uses her photographic memory to catch a thief during a department store sale. | 58 | |
| Adler, David A. | Picture Book of Thomas Jefferson, A | 4.5 | 0.5 | This book traces the life and achievements of the architect, bibliophile, president, and author of the Declaration of Independence. | 27 | Y |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Monster Movie | 3.9 | 1 | When Cam goes to see the new monster movie, someone steals the last half of it--but can she find out who it was? | 57 | Y |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Gold Coins | 3.7 | 1 | Fifth grader Cam Jansen puts her mental camera to work when her box camera disappears from the school science fair. | 57 | Y |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Dinosaur Bones | 3.8 | 1 | When she notices some bones missing from a dinosaur skeleton exhibited in the museum, a young girl with a photographic memory tries to discover who has been taking them and why. | 56 | |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Circus Clown | 3.9 | 1 | Pickpockets disguised as clowns are no match for Cam Jansen, the girl with the photographic memory. | 57 | |
| Adler, David A. | Picture Book of Rosa Parks, A | 5.1 | 0.5 | Biography of the Alabama black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus helped establish the civil rights movement. | 27 | Y |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Carnival Prize | 3.7 | 1 | At the school carnival, Cam Jansen thinks something funny is going on when only two people can win the prizes at the dime toss. | 57 | |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Babe Ruth Baseball | 3.8 | 1 | Cam Jansen has the perfect chance to show off her amazing mental camera at the community hobby show. When a prized baseball is stolen, Cam's memory is put to the test. | 57 | |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the Mystery of Flight 54 | 3.4 | 1 | Cam Jansen and her friend Eric go to the airport to meet Cam's Aunt Molly who has just arrived from France; but before they can say bonjour, a young French girl has disappeared. | 56 | |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the Mystery at the Monkey House | 3.7 | 1 | The fifth-grade sleuth uses her photographic memory to catch the monkey kidnappers at the city zoo. | 56 | |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the Mystery at the Haunted House | 3.5 | 1 | Cam traces the thief who stole her aunt's wallet. | 58 | |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the Ghostly Mystery | 3.4 | 1 | Cam uses her photographic memory to catch a thief disguised as a ghost. | 58 | |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the First Day of School Mystery | 3.3 | 1 | On her first day of fifth grade, Cam Jansen uses her photographic memory to help the police find a car thief. | 50 | |
| Adler, David A. | Picture Book of George Washington Carver, A | 5.2 | 0.5 | This is a brief biography of the African-American scientist, George Washington Carver, who overcame tremendous hardship to make unusual and important discoveries in the field of agriculture. | 28 | Y |
| Adler, David A. | Picture Book of Florence Nightingale, A | 4.6 | 0.5 | This book traces the life of the nineteenth-century English woman who followed her calling to work in hospitals and improve the conditions under which the sick were treated. | 32 | Y |
| Adler, David A. | Cam Jansen and the Catnapping Mystery | 3.4 | 1 | While visiting Aunt Molly at a fancy downtown hotel, Cam uses her photographic memory to help one of the guests find her stolen luggage, pet cat, and to catch the thief. | 56 | Y |
| Adler, David A. | Picture Book of Thurgood Marshall, A | 5.6 | 0.5 | Follows the life of the first African-American to serve as a judge on the United States Supreme Court. | 30 | Y |
| Adler, David A. | Picture Book of Sojourner Truth, A | 5.4 | 0.5 | An introduction to the life of the woman born into slavery who became a well known abolitionist and crusaders for the rights of African Americans. | 30 | Y |
| Adler, David A. | Picture Book of Robert E. Lee, A | 5.7 | 0.5 | This book is an introduction to the life of the Commander in Chief of the Confederate Army during the Civil War. | 32 | Y |
| Adler, David A. | Picture Book of Frederick Douglass, A | 4.6 | 0.5 | A biography of the man who, after escaping slavery, became an orator, writer, and leader in the abolitionist movement in the nineteenth century. | 28 | Y |
| Adler, David A. | Parachuting Hamsters and Andy Russell | 4 | 2 | When Andy and his friend, Tamika, spend the weekend in the city, he tries hard to follow all the rules of etiquette during outings, while using his detective skills to solve a mystery involving parachuting hamsters. | 112 | |
| Adler, David A. | Picture Book of Paul Revere, A | 5.3 | 0.5 | This is a brief account of the life and accomplishments of the famous silversmith who rode to Lexington, Massachusetts yelling "the British are coming!" | 28 | Y |
| Adler, David A. | Picture Book of George Washington, A | 4.1 | 0.5 | This book gives a story and pictures of the life of George Washington, "Father of Our Country." | 32 | Y |
| Adler, David A. | Wacky Jacks | 2.8 | 1 | Super-sleuths Herman and Janet discover a mystery at school. | 73 | |
| Adler, David A. | Picture Book of Christopher Columbus, A | 3.9 | 0.5 | This is a brief account of the life and accomplishments of Christopher Columbus. | 29 | Y |
| Adler, David A. | School Trouble for Andy Russell | 3.7 | 2 | When their regular teacher is sick, Andy's fourth-grade class gets a substitute teacher, providing lots of opportunities for Andy and his friends to get in trouble. | 118 | |
| Adler, David A. | Picture Book of Davy Crockett, A | 4.5 | 0.5 | This is a brief account of the life of the legendary frontiersman, Davy Crockett. | 28 | Y |
| Adler, David A. | Picture Book of Thomas Alva Edison, A | 4.3 | 0.5 | This book is an introduction to Thomas Edison, the genius with a curious mind who loved to experiment. | 27 | Y |
| Adler, Susan S. | Samantha Learns a Lesson | 3.5 | 1 | Samantha is determined to help nine-year-old Nellie, attending school for the first time, with her school work and learns a great deal herself about what it is like to be a poor child and work in a factory. | 61 | Y |
| Adler, Susan S. | Meet Samantha | 3.9 | 1 | In 1904, Samantha and her servant friend try to learn what happened to the seamstress who suddenly left her job. | 61 | Y |
| Agee, Jon | Milo's Hat Trick | 2.4 | 0.5 | All Milo has to do is whistle and the bear will jump out of his hat, astonishing the crowd at the Rialto Theater. | 32 | |
| Aiken, Joan | Wolves of Willoughby Chase, The | 6.8 | 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 | Y |
| Albert, Shirley | Doll Party | 1.6 | 0.5 | Becky gets a surprise new doll from Grandma. Becky plans a doll party, but she and her doll get dirty. | 32 | |
| Alcott, Louisa May | Little Men | 8.1 | 19 | Relates the story of Plumfield School, established by Jo and her husband to provide a secure, homelike environment for boys and girls. | 369 | |
| Alcott, Louisa May | Little Women (Book I and II) (Unabridged) | 7.9 | 33 | This story is based on the family life of the author and her sisters and their diverse personalities as they grew up. This complete edition contains both Book 1 "Little Women," and Book 2 "Good Wives." | 475 | |
| Alexander, Lloyd | Illyrian Adventure, The | 5.5 | 5 | Vesper Holly sails to the tiny country of Illyria to search for the treasure and magical army of King Vartan by the author of the Prydain Chronicles. | 132 | Y |
| Alexander, Lloyd | Westmark | 5.6 | 7 | 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 | Y |
| Alexander, Lloyd | High King, The | 6 | 11 | When the sword of Dyrnwyn falls into the hands of Arawn Death-Lord, Taran and his friends raise an army to march against him. | 248 | Y |
| Alexander, Lloyd | Taran Wanderer | 6.2 | 9 | Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper, who wants to be a hero, goes questing for his parentage. | 222 | Y |
| Alexander, Lloyd | Black Cauldron, The | 6 | 7 | In Prydain, a young Assistant Pig-Keeper achieves honor in a quest to destroy the evil Black Cauldron. | 182 | Y |
| Alexander, Martha | Even That Moose Won't Listen to Me | 2.2 | 0.5 | A little girl discovers a moose eating the family's garden. She tells everyone in the family, and no one will believe her. She uses many methods to try to scare the moose to make it leave the garden. | 26 | |
| Alexander, Martha | Nobody Asked Me If I Wanted a Baby Sister | 1.4 | 0.5 | Perfect story for every child with a new baby in the family. A charming book with a perceptive story and expressive pictures. | 28 | |
| Alexander, Sue | Lila on the Landing | 3.8 | 1 | Lila, always the last to be chosen for games by the other children, earns their interest and acceptance by creating her own imaginative activities on the landing of her apartment house. | 55 | |
| Aliki | Fossils Tell of Long Ago | 3.6 | 0.5 | Explains how fossils are formed and what they tell us about the past. | 32 | |
| Aliki | My Visit to the Dinosaurs | 1.9 | 0.5 | A young boy learns much about dinosaurs on his first trip to the museum. | 32 | Y |
| Allard, Harry | Miss Nelson Is Back | 2.6 | 0.5 | While Miss Nelson is recuperating from her tonsillectomy, her class dreads the arrival of Miss Swamp, the substitute teacher. | 32 | Y |
| Alphin, Elaine Marie | Ghost Cadet | 5.5 | 6 | Twelve-year-old Benjy, in Virginia visiting the grandmother he has never met, meets the ghost of a Virginia Military Institute cadet who was killed in the Battle of New Market in 1864 and helps him recover his family's treasured gold watch. | 182 | Y |
| Alter, Judy | Great Women of the Old West (We the People) | 5.7 | 0.5 | This book is about some of the women who were important in settling the west. It explains what life was like for women and what important things they accomplished. | 48 | Y |
| Altman, Linda Jacobs | Amelia's Road | 4.1 | 0.5 | Tired of moving around so much, Amelia, the daughter of migrant farm workers, dreams of a stable home. | 30 | Y |
| Altman, Suzanne | My Worst Days Diary | 3.2 | 0.5 | Mighty Mo reveals in her diary some of the most embarrassing moments of her first year at a new school. | 48 | |
| Alvarez, Julia | How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay | 4.8 | 4 | Ten-year-old Miguel learns to love his colorful aunt, Tísing moments of her first year at a new school. | 147 | |
| Amato, Mary | Word Eater, The | 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 | Y |
| Andersen, Hans Christian | Emperor and the Nightingale, The | 3.6 | 0.5 | The Emperor of China learns a very important lesson from a nightingale in the forest. | 30 | |
| Andersen, Hans Christian | Princess and the Pea, The | 3.4 | 0.5 | A young girl feels a pea through 20 mattresses and 20 feather beds and proves she is a real princess. | 21 | |
| Andersen, Hans Christian | Emperor's New Clothes | 5.5 | 0.5 | Timeless children's classic. An emperor is convinced he is wearing beautiful clothes made by greedy tailors. | 44 | |
| Anderson, Mary | Catnapping Caper, The | 5 | 2 | Melvin, the famous Talking Cat, has been catnapped! Luckily, Katie and her best friend Ben are right at the scene of the crime; and with Katie's younger brother Hector as a crime expert, the three are hot on the trail of the thief. | 116 | |
| Anton, Tina | Sharks Sharks Sharks | 2.8 | 0.5 | Discusses the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of sharks. | 30 | |
| Applegate, K.A. | Capture, The | 3.6 | 4 | Jake finds out his brother is one of them. Tobias stays in his morph too long. Jake and friends find out where the Yeerk base is. | 154 | Y |
| Applegate, K.A. | Secret, The | 3.9 | 4 | Something strange is happening in the woods behind Cassie's house, and the Animorphs have to stop a bogus logging camp. | 158 | Y |
| Applegate, K.A. | Forgotten, The | 3.8 | 4 | Jake, the other Animorphs, and Ax find themselves in another place and another time. | 162 | Y |
| Applegate, K.A. | Visitor, The | 3.7 | 4 | Rachel and her friends knew morphing wouldn't always be great, but can they save the earth? | 175 | Y |
| Applegate, K.A. | Invasion, The | 3.7 | 5 | Jake and his friends take a shortcut one night and meet an alien after his ship crashes. | 184 | Y |
| Applegate, K.A. | Alien, The | 3.7 | 4 | Ax and his friends know they have to stop the Yeerks. | 159 | Y |
| Applegate, K.A. | Pretender, The | 4 | 4 | Tobias's long-lost cousin claims a lawyer has discovered Tobias's father's last will and testament, and she offers to go with him to the reading. But something doesn't seem right with this situation, so the Animorphs decide to check it out. | 154 | |
| Applegate, K.A. | Encounter, The | 3.8 | 4 | It is four kids and a hawk against a force that is determined to destroy them. | 154 | Y |
| Applegate, K.A. | Warning, The | 3.9 | 4 | Jake finds that there are other people out there who know about the Yeerks. Maybe. | 146 | |
| Arden, William | Mystery of the Moaning Cave, The | 4.9 | 5 | While vacationing on a California ranch, three boys decide to investigate strange wails that come from a mysterious cave where a famous outlaw disappeared. | 160 | |
| Arkin, Alan | Lemming Condition, The | 4.1 | 1 | A young lemming is haunted by doubts about the purpose of the great march westward to the sea. | 58 | Y |
| Armstrong, William H. | Sounder | 6.9 | 5 | Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read with the help of a devoted dog, Sounder. | 116 | Y |
| Arnold, Marsha | Quick, Quack, Quick! | 1.5 | 0.5 | A duckling saves his family during a crisis. | 28 | |
| Arnold, Tedd | Parts | 2.8 | 0.5 | A five-year-old boy thinks his body is falling apart until he learns new teeth grow, and hair and skin replace themselves. | 28 | |
| Arnold, Tedd | More Parts | 2.6 | 0.5 | A young boy is worried about what will happen to his body when he hears such expressions as "give him a hand" and "hold your tongue." | 32 | Y |
| Arnold, Tedd | No Jumping on the Bed! | 4.5 | 0.5 | Walter's father told him no more jumping on the bed, and Walter finds out why. | 26 | |
| Arrigg, Fred | Baseball Star, The | 3.2 | 0.5 | The Mudville Bad Guys challenge the Andover All-Stars to a baseball game. The loser has to give the winner all of their bats, gloves, and balls. | 30 | |
| Arthur, Robert | Mystery of the Vanishing Treasure, The | 4.8 | 5 | Three young detectives become involved in mysteries related to the disappearance of an ancient Japanese jeweled belt from a museum exhibit, and the strange antics of a group of gnomes around an elderly woman's house. | 152 | |
| Asch, Frank | Happy Birthday, Moon | 1.8 | 0.5 | When a bear discovers that the moon shares his birthday, he buys the moon a beautiful hat as a present. | 26 | Y |
| Asch, Frank | Popcorn | 2.9 | 0.5 | Sam Bear's Halloween guests go overboard as they prepare a holiday popcorn treat. | 36 | |
| Ashrose, Cara | Very First Americans, The | 2.5 | 0.5 | Briefly describes some of the hundreds of Indian tribes that lived across America. | 18 | Y |
| Atwater, Richard/Florence | Mr. Popper's Penguins | 6.6 | 3 | Mr. Popper trains his band of penguins to star in a vaudeville tour. | 139 | Y |
| Auch, Mary Jane | Kidnapping Kevin Kowalski | 5.2 | 4 | When a terrible accident partially disables Kevin and makes his mother overprotective of him, his best friends Ryan and Mooch decide that the only way to liberate him is to kidnap him. | 124 | |
| Auch, Mary Jane | Peeping Beauty | 3.1 | 0.5 | Poulette the dancing hen falls into the clutches of a hungry fox who exploits her desire to become a great ballerina. | 29 | Y |
| Austen, Jane | Pride and Prejudice (Unabridged) | 12 | 27 | This classic story about eighteenth-century England features a glamorous, proud heroine and a dashing, prejudiced hero, whose worth is slowly discovered. | 281 | |
| Avery, Kristin | Crazy Quilt, The | 2.5 | 0.5 | Tanya asks questions about the materials in her mother's crazy quilt and decides to make a crazy quilt of her own. | 16 | Y |
| Avi | Perloo the Bold | 4.9 | 7 | In this wild adventure Perloo, a rabbit-like Montmer, travels over snowy mountains, through underground tunnels, and into enemy territory and alters the future of Montmers everywhere. | 225 | Y |
| Avi | Romeo and Juliet Together (and Alive) at Last | 5.7 | 2 | In this sequel to S. O. R. Losers, Ed masterminds a plan to bring Saltz and the girl of his dreams together on stage. | 122 | Y |
| Avi | Windcatcher | 5.3 | 4 | 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 | Y |
| Avi | True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, The | 7.2 | 10 | As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious. | 215 | Y |
| Avi | Nothing But the Truth | 3.6 | 4 | A ninth-grader's suspension for humming "The Star-Spangled Banner" during homeroom becomes a national news story. | 177 | |
| Avi | Finding Providence: The Story of Roger Williams | 3.3 | 0.5 | After being forced to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Roger Williams travels south and, with the help of the Narragansett Indians, founds Providence, Rhode Island. | 46 | |
| Avi | Poppy | 4.5 | 4 | A brave young mouse challenges the owl that rules over the territory and saves her family from starvation. | 147 | Y |
| Avi | Who Stole the Wizard of Oz? | 4.3 | 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 | Y |
| Avi | Barn, The | 3.9 | 2 | Ben is called back from school to his family's Oregon farm when his father becomes ill. | 106 | Y |
| Avi | Secret School, The | 4.1 | 3 | In 1925, Ida Bidson secretly takes over as the teacher when the one-room schoolhouse in her remote Colorado area closes unexpectedly. | 153 | |
| Avi | Crispin: The Cross of Lead | 5 | 7 | Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret. | 262 | |
| Avi | S.O.R. Losers | 3.8 | 2 | Everyone at South Orange River Middle School is expected to participate in one sport each year. This is the story of a soccer team that would rather be doing something else. | 90 | Y |
| Avi | Midnight Magic | 4.7 | 6 | In the Kingdom of Pergamontio in 1491, Mangus the Magician and his apprentice are summoned to the castle of King Claudio to determine if his daughter is indeed being haunted by a ghost. | 247 | Y |
| Awdry, W. | Catch Me, Catch Me! | 1.2 | 0.5 | Thomas the tank engine has a race with another train, one pulled by an engine larger than he is. | 21 | |
| Awdry, W. | Happy Birthday, Thomas! | 1.3 | 0.5 | Thomas the train engine thinks that all the other engines are too busy to help him celebrate his birthday, but he is in for a surprise. | 29 | Y |
| Awdry, W. | Thomas and the School Trip | 1.3 | 0.5 | The cheeky little blue engine takes schoolchildren home after a visit to the railyard. | 29 | Y |
| Aylesworth, Jim | Old Black Fly | 1.4 | 0.5 | Rhyming text and illustrations follow a mischievous old black fly through the alphabet as he has a very busy bad day landing where he should not be. | 30 | Y |
| Babbitt, Natalie | Kneeknock Rise | 5.8 | 3 | Egan goes to visit relatives in Instep, where he encounters an unusual moan that comes from the top of Kneeknock Rise. | 118 | Y |
| Babbitt, Natalie | Tuck Everlasting | 6.3 | 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 wate | 139 | Y |
| Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin | Miss Hickory | 5.6 | 4 | When a country doll is left outside for the winter, she must depend on her own resources to survive. | 123 | Y |
| Bair/Wright | Bear Watching | 4 | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics and habits of different species of bears, and how to safely observe them. | 48 | Y |
| Bair/Wright | Butterfly Watching | 4.7 | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics and habits of butterflies and discusses how to go about observing them. | 48 | Y |
| Baker, Barbara | Third Grade Is Terrible | 2 | 2 | Liza is convinced third grade is going to be great, until she gets to school that first day and everything starts going wrong. | 106 | Y |
| Baker, Betty | Little Runner of the Longhouse | 1.8 | 0.5 | A young Iroquois tries to participate in the New Year activities reserved for the older boys. | 63 | |
| Baker, Bonnie | Pear by Itself, A | 2.2 | 0.5 | Rhyming text and illustrations present the concept of twoness, or what does and does not make up a pair. Includes a word list. | 30 | |
| Baker, Keith | Magic Fan, The | 3.7 | 0.5 | Despite the laughter of his fellow villagers, Yoshi uses his building skills to make a boat to catch the moon, a kite to reach the clouds, and a bridge that mimics the rainbow and saves the villagers from a tidal wave. | 15 | Y |
| Ball, Brian | Quest for Queenie, The | 3.8 | 1 | Harry and Jill are chosen by a magic talking sword to rescue a damsel from the Bad Wizard in Mandragora, but the damsel is Harry's complacent fat spaniel, and she decides she wants to stay in Mandragora. | 78 | |
| Banks, Kate | Baboon | 2 | 0.5 | A young baboon's view of the world changes as his mother shows him various parts of his environment. | 23 | |
| Banks, Lynne Reid | Key to the Indian, The | 4.8 | 8 | In this fifth volume of <I>The Indian in the Cupboard</I> series, Omri and his father try to go back 200 years to the time of their friend, Little Bear, whose tribe is in grave danger. | 228 | Y |
| Banks, Lynne Reid | Indian in the Cupboard, The | 6.1 | 8 | A young boy discovers that his magic cupboard and key can turn toys into live people and animals. | 229 | Y |
| Banks, Lynne Reid | I, Houdini | 5.8 | 3 | A boastful hamster with exceptional talent as an escape artist, recounts his experiences chewing, wriggling, or squeezing his way out of various closed areas in his quest for the great outside. | 127 | Y |
| Banks, Lynne Reid | Secret of the Indian, The | 5.2 | 5 | In this third book about Omri and his magic cupboard, Omri and his friend Patrick must risk grown-ups discovering their secret when they find themselves in need of a friend whose toy plastic doctors can be brought to life to save wounded people. | 147 | Y |
| Banks, Lynne Reid | Return of the Indian, The | 5.3 | 6 | In this sequel to Indian In The Cupboard, Omri brings Little Bear to life again and begins a spellbinding adventure. | 189 | Y |
| Banks, Lynne Reid | Mystery of the Cupboard, The | 4.9 | 7 | Omri unearths an old journal that reveals the mystery of the Indian in the cupboard. | 246 | Y |
| Banks, Sara Harrell | Abraham's Battle | 4.6 | 2 | In 1863, as the Civil War approaches his home in Gettysburg and he realizes that a big battle is about to begin, a freed slave named Abraham decides to join the ambulance corps of the Union Army. | 88 | |
| Barbour, Karen | Little Nino's Pizzeria | 2.3 | 0.5 | Tony likes to help his father at their small family restaurant, but everything changes when Little Nino's Pizzeria becomes a fancier place. | 29 | Y |
| Barr, Linda | Volcano! When a Mountain Explodes | 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 | |
| Barrett, Judi | Things That Are Most in the World | 2.8 | 0.5 | The reader who wants to know what are the quietest, silliest, smelliest, wiggliest things in the world finds imaginative answers to these and other questions about superlatives. | 27 | Y |
| Barrett, Judi | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | 3.6 | 0.5 | Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow, where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers--until the weather takes a turn for the worse. | 28 | Y |
| Barrie, James M. | Peter Pan | 7.2 | 8 | The adventures of Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up, have delighted readers for nearly a century. | 242 | |
| Barry, Robert | Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree | 3 | 0.5 | Mr. Willowby's Christmas tree is too tall, but what will happen to the tree's top once it's cut off? | 32 | Y |
| Barton, Byron | Wee Little Woman, The | 1.5 | 0.5 | Repetitive story about a little woman who loses her little cat. | 31 | Y |
| Barton, Byron | Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs | 1.9 | 0.5 | In prehistoric days, there were many different kinds of dinosaurs, big and small, those with spikes and those with long, sharp teeth. | 33 | Y |
| Bates, Betty | Thatcher Payne-in-the-Neck | 5.5 | 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 | |
| Bauer, Joan | Hope Was Here | 5.1 | 6 | When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved in the political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor. | 186 | Y |
| Bauer, Joan | Stand Tall | 3.9 | 5 | Tree, a six-foot-three-inch twelve-year-old, copes with his parents' recent divorce and his failure as an athlete by helping his grandfather, a Vietnam vet and recent amputee, and Sophie, a new girl at school. | 182 | |
| Bauer, Marion Dane | On My Honor | 5.3 | 2 | A twelve-year-old boy must learn to live with his fear and grief when his swimming partner drowns. | 90 | Y |
| Baum, L. Frank | Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Unabridged), The | 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 | |
| Baylor, Byrd | Amigo | 2.4 | 0.5 | Desperately wanting a pet to love, a boy decides to tame a prairie dog who has already decided to tame the boy for his own pet. | 41 | Y |
| Baylor, Byrd | Hawk, I'm Your Brother | 3.6 | 0.5 | Lyrical storybook with spacious illustrations and poetic text. | 42 | |
| Beatty, Patricia | Coach That Never Came, The | 5.3 | 7 | While spending the summer with his grandmother in Colorado, thirteen-year-old Paul becomes involved in a dangerous adventure when he tries to trace the history of a family heirloom. | 164 | Y |
| Beatty, Patricia | Charley Skedaddle | 5.2 | 7 | During the Civil War, a twelve-year-old Bowery Boy from New York City joins the Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle in Virginia, and encounters an old mountain woman. | 186 | Y |
| Bellairs, John | Eyes of the Killer Robot | 5.9 | 6 | A scientist creates a baseball-playing robot and sets his sights on Johnny Dixon as the robot's eye donor. | 167 | |
| Bemelmans, Ludwig | Madeline and the Gypsies | 3.5 | 0.5 | Pepito, son of the Spanish ambassador, and Madeline, rescued by gypsies during a storm, travel and perform with their wandering friends until they again find Miss Clavel. | 52 | Y |
| Bemelmans, Ludwig | Madeline | 3.8 | 0.5 | Madeline, smallest and naughtiest of the 12 little charges of Miss Clavel, wakes up one night with an attack of appendicitis. | 43 | Y |
| Bemelmans, Ludwig | Madeline in London | 3.5 | 0.5 | Madeline and the other girls travel to London to visit their former neighbor on his birthday. | 52 | Y |
| Bemelmans, Ludwig | Madeline's Christmas | 2.7 | 0.5 | With everyone else sick in bed with a cold on Christmas Eve, it is up to Madeline to run the school, and she finds a remarkable helper in a rug-selling magician. | 26 | Y |
| Benchley, Nathaniel | Ghost Named Fred, A | 2 | 0.5 | Seeking shelter from the rain, a small boy enters an old house where he meets a ghost. | 59 | Y |
| Benchley, Nathaniel | Oscar Otter | 1.6 | 0.5 | The sly fox watches Oscar Otter building his secluded home, not knowing that he also is being watched. | 64 | Y |
| Benchley, Nathaniel | Sam the Minuteman | 2.9 | 0.5 | The American Revolution is about to begin, and Sam, a young Minuteman, must overcome his fears in order to help his countrymen fight for freedom. | 62 | Y |
| Benchley, Nathaniel | Small Wolf | 2.4 | 0.5 | A young Native American boy sets out to hunt on Manhattan Island and discovers some strange people with very different ideas about land. | 64 | Y |
| Benchley, Nathaniel | Red Fox and His Canoe | 2.6 | 0.5 | An Indian boy's canoe capsizes after taking on too many animal passengers. The ending is a surprise in this "I Can Read Book." | 62 | Y |
| Benitez, Mirna | How Spider Tricked Snake | 2.8 | 0.5 | An easy-to-read Jamaican folk tale featuring Anansi the spider. | 30 | |
| Benitez, Mirna | George Washington Carver Plant Doctor | 2.6 | 0.5 | A biography of the agriculturist for beginning readers, chronicling his struggle to get an education, his work at the Tuskegee Institute, and how he helped popularize peanuts as a cash crop in the South. | 30 | |
| Benitez, Mirna | Super Parrot | 1.6 | 0.5 | Polly the Parrot hitches a ride on Carmen's hat with surprising results. | 22 | |
| Berends, Polly | Case of the Elevator Duck, The | 4 | 1 | This book tells the story of an eleven-year-old detective and his adventures after finding a duck in the elevator of his apartment building. | 54 | |
| Berenstain, Michael | Biggest Dinosaurs, The | 2.9 | 0.5 | Introduces various big beasts that lived during the time of the dinosaurs. | 23 | |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Ghost of the Forest, The | 2.4 | 0.5 | Papa Bear's attempt to scare a band of young campers by telling them about ghosts in the woods comes to an unexpected conclusion with a double ghost lesson. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears Get the Gimmies, The | 3.5 | 0.5 | Gran and Gramps come up with a plan to help selfish Brother and Sister Bear get rid of a bad case of the galloping greedy gimmies. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food, The | 2.4 | 0.5 | Mama Bear lays down the law when she notices her family is getting chubby. | 30 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and Too Much Pressure, The | 3.8 | 0.5 | The Bears' lives grew more and more hectic, and there's no time left for family fun. | 29 | |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears' New Neighbors, The | 3.4 | 0.5 | A panda family moves next door and teaches the bears a lesson about acceptance of differences. | 29 | |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears Go Out for the Team, The | 3 | 0.5 | Mama bear helps Brother and Sister Bear (and young readers) prepare sensibly for team sports. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Bears' Vacation, The | 2.5 | 0.5 | Papa Bear demonstrates his seaside safety rules when the Bears take a vacation. | 63 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Sitter, The | 2.5 | 0.5 | Mom and Dad are going out. Gramps and Gran are, too. Who will stay home with the cubs? Just anyone won't do. . . . | 29 | |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears Trick or Treat, The | 2.5 | 0.5 | The Berenstain Bear cubs have an adventure on Halloween night that proves Mother's adage, 'appearances can be deceiving.' | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears Get Stage Fright, The | 3.3 | 0.5 | After relentless teasing of Sister Bear, it is Brother Bear who ends up with opening night stage fright. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Friends, The | 3.7 | 0.5 | Sister Bear and Lizzy Bruin learn one can't always have their way if they want to have friends. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears Get in a Fight, The | 2.7 | 0.5 | When two small bears don't get along, the grown-ups worry--what went wrong? | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears Forget Their Manners, The | 3.1 | 0.5 | Mama Bear decides to start a Bear Family Politeness Plan with a set of simple rules and penalties. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears on the Job, The | 2 | 0.5 | Brother and Sister Bear meet a doctor, a fireman, a police officer, and others while trying to decide what to be when they grow up. | 29 | |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears Ready, Get Set, Go!, The | 1.7 | 0.5 | The Berenstain family engage in competitive sports events while demonstrating to the reader the comparison of adjectives. | 28 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears Don't Pollute (Anymore), The | 3.8 | 0.5 | Brother and Sister Bear create Earthsavers Club to deal with pollution in Bear Country. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Bike Lesson, The | 2.3 | 0.5 | Papa Bear teaches junior to ride his bike. | 61 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the School Scandal Sheet, The | 3.9 | 2 | Frustrated by their lack of artistic freedom on the staff of the school newspaper, Brother Bear and his friends start an underground paper and discover some basic truths about freedom of the press and responsibility. | 104 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears Go to the Doctor, The | 3.1 | 0.5 | Take a deep breath. Stick out your tongue. The young Bears see Doctor Grizzly for a checkup. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Red-Handed Thief, The | 3.9 | 2 | Brother and Sister find out who is breaking into the lockers at school. | 102 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Prize Pumpkin, The | 3.7 | 0.5 | Mama Bear's reminders about the true meaning of Thanksgiving are left in the dust as the spirit of competition takes over and Papa Bear and the cubs begin a campaign to win first prize in the Thanksgiving Pumpkin contest. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears Count Their Blessing, The | 3.2 | 0.5 | During a frightful thunderstorm, Brother and Sister bear learn that Mama's and Papa's love and protection are better blessings than Bearbie dolls and video games. | 30 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears Blaze a Trail, The | 2.6 | 0.5 | While the Bear Scouts know they should follow the guidebook, Papa Bear has his own ideas for winning a merit badge. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Perfect Crime (Almost), The | 4.7 | 1 | The bear detectives investigate the theft of a valuable historical document on the eve of the Bear County's Bicentennial. | 93 | |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Big Honey Hunt, The | 2.3 | 0.5 | Humorous story of the Bear family's search for honey. | 64 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the New Girl in Town, The | 3.9 | 2 | Brother falls in love with a girl, but their relationship is thwarted by feuding families. | 102 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears at Camp Crush, The | 4.2 | 1 | The coach tries to keep the boys and girls separated at summer camp. | 105 | |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears' New Baby, The | 2.3 | 0.5 | All about the new bear in the family and how the other young bears learn to accept and love it. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Nerdy Nephew, The | 3.9 | 2 | Professor Factual's nerdy nephew has a special talent. | 102 | |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Missing Honey, The | 2 | 0.5 | Papa Bear's favorite blackberry honey disappears, and the Bear Detectives set out to find the culprit. A First Time Reader. | 29 | |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and Too Much Vacation, The | 3.8 | 0.5 | The Bear family experiences one mishap after another when they vacation in the Great Grizzly Mountains. | 29 | |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears' Moving Day, The | 2.8 | 0.5 | Their stuff is all packed. Here comes the truck. Let's move with the Bears and wish them good luck. | 29 | |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and Too Much TV, The | 2.8 | 1 | Mama Bear decides her family spends too much time in front of the TV, so she bans it for a week. The Bears find other ways to keep busy; and when the week is up, they watch less TV without missing it. | 29 | |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears: No Girls Allowed, The | 3.4 | 0.5 | When Brother Bear and his friends build a clubhouse for boys only, Sister Bear comes up with a plan. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and Too Much Teasing, The | 3.4 | 0.5 | Brother Bear likes to tease his sister, but when he's the one who is being taunted at school, he understands why his sister gets so mad. | 29 | |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears Go to Camp, The | 3 | 0.5 | It's vacation time, and the young Bears learn what it's like to live at camp. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears Go to School, The | 3.2 | 0.5 | The bear children have a wonderful time learning, playing, and making things in school. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the In-Crowd, The | 2.8 | 0.5 | A rich new cub named Queenie McBear teases Sister Bear and steals her Double-Dutch partners away before the big tournament. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears Visit the Dentist, The | 2.8 | 0.5 | Taking good care of their teeth is something all bears do. That's why Sis and Brother brush--and go to the dentist, too. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears' Trouble with Pets, The | 2.9 | 0.5 | Brother and Sister Bear learn that a new puppy is not a plaything but a responsibility. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and Too Much Birthday, The | 2.8 | 0.5 | Papa Bear and the cubs learn there can be too much birthday when they go overboard in planning Sister's sixth birthday party. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Bear Detectives, The | 2.5 | 0.5 | The Bear family don their detective gear and try to solve the mystery of the missing prize pumpkin. | 37 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Bear Scouts, The | 2.4 | 0.5 | Papa Bear shows the cubs the ins and outs of camping. | 62 | |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears' Trouble with Money, The | 2.7 | 0.5 | Brother and Sister Bear learn some important lessons about earning and spending money. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears' Trouble at School, The | 3.6 | 0.5 | When Brother Bear ignores make-up work after being out sick with a cold, he learns the consequences of neglecting responsibilities. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears in the Dark, The | 3.5 | 0.5 | When Brother Bear brings a spooky book from the library, bedtime and the dark become ominous and threatening to Sister Bear. | 29 | |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Drug Free Zone, The | 3.9 | 2 | Brother and Sister Bear just say no to drugs. | 102 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Bears' Christmas, The | 2.5 | 0.5 | Papa Bear tries to show his son how to use the sled, skates, and skis Santa brought for Christmas. | 59 | |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Truth, The | 2.9 | 0.5 | Brother and Sister Bear learn how important it is to tell the truth after they accidentally break Mama's favorite lamp. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Bears' Picnic, The | 2.5 | 0.5 | The Bears try to find the right spot for their picnic. | 64 | |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Missing Dinosaur Bone, The | 2.3 | 0.5 | The three Bear Detectives search for a dinosaur bone that is missing from the Bear Museum. | 36 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree, The | 2.2 | 0.5 | One by one, three brave little bears have second thoughts about exploring the interior of a spooky old tree. | 38 | |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Messy Room, The | 3.5 | 0.5 | The entire Bear family becomes involved in an attempt to clean and organize the cubs' messy room. A First Time Book. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears Gotta Dance!, The | 3.9 | 2 | Brother's new girlfriend makes him a quick study as a dance student. | 102 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Galloping Ghost, The | 4.4 | 1 | The Bears enroll at a haunted riding academy. | 104 | |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Slumber Party, The | 3.5 | 0.5 | Lizzy Bruin's slumber party becomes even wilder when Too-Tall Grizzly and his friends decide to attend uninvited. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears Meet Santa Bear, The | 3.6 | 0.5 | Sister Bear enjoys Christmas preparations, especially getting her list ready--but on Christmas morning she realizes what Christmas is really all about. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears' Media Madness, The | 3 | 2 | The bear cubs set up a school television station. | 104 | |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Wheelchair Commando, The | 3.9 | 2 | Harry, a new student at Bear Country School who is disabled and uses a wheelchair, has trouble making friends until the others discover that he is really very much like them. | 104 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Week at Grandma's, The | 3.6 | 0.5 | Brother and Sister Bear are reluctant to spend a week with their grandparents, but they learn much from them; and the older bears learn how wonderful it is to be grandparents. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears Learn About Strangers, The | 3.5 | 0.5 | When Papa Bear tells the children why they should never talk to strangers, Mama Bear brings reassuring sense to the problem. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bear Scouts and the Humongous Pumpkin, The | 4 | 1 | Papa planted a special pumpkin seed guaranteed to grow the biggest pumpkin ever, but the seed is part of a plot of the evil Weasel McGreed. | 96 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bear Scouts in Giant Bat Cave, The | 4.4 | 1 | Ralph Ripoff wants to turn the cave, home to Bear Country's bats, into an underground theme park! | 96 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Dress Code, The | 3.1 | 2 | The new principal sets up a strict dress code for the school. | 104 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Female Fullback, The | 3.9 | 2 | Sexual stereotyping in Bear Country when a girl signs up for the football team. | 102 | |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears Accept No Substitutes, The | 3.9 | 2 | Brother heads for trouble when he tortures the substitute teacher. | 102 | |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Double Dare, The | 3.1 | 0.5 | When Brother Bear is caught stealing watermelons on a dare, Farmer Ben gives him advice about standing up for what is right. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Grownups, The | 3.6 | 0.5 | The squabbling in the Bear household between parents and cubs subsides after Mama and Papa Bear and Brother and Sister Bear perform humorous role-playing skits. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and Mama's New Job, The | 3.5 | 0.5 | Mama Bear goes into the quilt-making business, and the Bear family is worried that she will not have time for them. By pitching in and helping, the Bears learn things are not really so different with Mama working. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race, The | 2.3 | 0.5 | Brother Bear in his little car slowly but surely beats out the other cars in this tortoise-and-hare story. | 29 | |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Bully, The | 3.3 | 0.5 | The Berenstain Bears try to set a bully straight. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Bad Habit, The | 2.6 | 0.5 | With the help of her family, Sister Bear breaks her habit of biting her nails. | 29 | Y |
| Berenstain, Stan/Jan | Berenstain Bears and the Bad Dream, The | 2.7 | 0.5 | After watching a scary movie, both Brother and Sister Bear are troubled by nightmares until Mama and Papa explain what causes bad dreams. | 29 | Y |
| Betancourt, Jeanne | My Name Is Brain Brian | 4.8 | 4 | Brian is discovered to be dyslexic, and his teacher teams him up with the smartest student in the sixth grade in this realistic look at learning disabilities. | 128 | Y |
| Betancourt, Jeanne | Pony-Sitters | 3.3 | 1 | The Pony Pals try to teach Mimi how to care for her pony as well as riding safety tips. | 79 | |
| Biel, Timothy Levi | Polar Bears (Creative Ed.) | 5.1 | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, infancy, and future of the polar bear. | 24 | |
| Biel, Timothy Levi | Turtles (Creative Ed.) | 5.4 | 0.5 | This book identifies many types of turtles, describing physical characteristics, habits, and habitats. | 24 | |
| Biel, Timothy Levi | Hummingbirds (Creative Ed.) | 4.9 | 0.5 | Text and photos introduce the incredible and beautiful hummingbird. | 24 | |
| Biel, Timothy Levi | Tigers (Creative Ed.) | 5.1 | 0.5 | This book provides information on the physical characteristics, behavior, and lifestyle of tigers. | 24 | |
| Biel, Timothy Levi | Spiders (Creative Ed.) | 5.2 | 0.5 | This book identifies different types of spiders, describing physical characteristics, habits, and habitats. | 24 | |
| Biel, Timothy Levi | Owls (Creative Ed.) | 4.9 | 0.5 | This book provides information on the physical characteristics and behavior of different species of owls. | 24 | |
| Birdseye, Tom | Just Call Me Stupid | 4.7 | 5 | A teacher and a classmate help a troubled boy learn how to read. | 181 | Y |
| Birdseye, Tom | Tarantula Shoes | 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 | Y |
| Birdseye, Tom | I'm Going to Be Famous | 4.9 | 4 | Determined to achieve fame by breaking several oddball world records in an upcoming contest, Arlo Moore and his friends practice fiendishly under the disapproval of parents and the school principal. | 160 | Y |
| Birdseye, Tom | Tucker | 7.2 | 4 | Eleven-year-old Tucker likes his life with his divorced father until the nine-year-old sister he has not seen in years moves back in with them and claims that their mother wants them to become one family again. | 112 | Y |
| Birnbaum, Bette | Jane Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees | 2.1 | 0.5 | A biography of the English zoologist describing her early experiences in Gombe studying the wild chimpanzees. | 30 | |
| Bishop, Claire | Five Chinese Brothers, The | 3.5 | 0.5 | Five Chinese brothers take turns saving each other's lives when one is accused unjustly of a crime. | 44 | Y |
| Bishop, Claire Huchet | Twenty and Ten | 5.5 | 2 | A nun and 20 French children contrive to hide ten Jewish refugee children. This is their exciting tale of courage and kindness. | 76 | Y |
| Bitton-Jackson, Livia | I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust | 4.8 | 8 | Detailed accounts with personal narratives of life during the Holocaust. | 216 | |
| Blackwood, Gary L. | Shakespeare Stealer, The | 5.2 | 7 | A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to transcribe the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty, after becoming part of the acting troupe. | 216 | |
| Blashfield, Jean F. | Oregon Trail (We the People), The | 5.7 | 0.5 | This book is an introductory history of the Oregon Trail and its significance in opening the west to settlers. | 48 | Y |
| Blashfield, Jean F. | Transcontinental Railroad (We the People), The | 6.2 | 1 | This book describes how the transcontinental railroad united the nation and made the United States one of the most powerful countries in the world. | 48 | Y |
| Blashfield, Jean F. | Santa Fe Trail (We the People), The | 5.7 | 0.5 | This book introduces the history and economic purpose of the Santa Fe Trail and the resulting settlement of the Southwest. | 48 | Y |
| Blashfield, Jean F. | California Gold Rush (We the People), The | 5.5 | 0.5 | This book describes adventures and disasters in the lives of people who rushed to the gold mines of California in 1848 and explains how this event sparked the state's development. | 48 | Y |
| Bliss, Corinne Demas | Shortest Kid in the World, The | 2.7 | 0.5 | Emily learns that being short can be an asset. | 48 | |
| Blos, Joan W. | Gathering of Days, A | 5.1 | 5 | When Catherine's mother dies in childbirth and her father decides to remarry, Catherine must face painful changes. | 144 | Y |
| Blos, Joan W. | Brothers of the Heart | 7 | 6 | Fourteen-year-old Shem, spends six months in the Michigan wilderness alone with a dying Indian woman, who helps him not only to survive but to mature to the point where he can return to his family and the difficulties of life as a cripple. | 161 | Y |
| Bloss, Janet Adele | Fifth-Grade Secrets | 4 | 2 | Yuck! My mom loves health foods, and I hate them. I was so embarrassed to eat bean sprout sandwiches for my school lunch that I began to eat under the gym bleachers. And you'd never guess who found me one day...the one and only Tim Kurtz. | 111 | |
| Blume, Judy | Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing | 3 | 4 | Peter Hatcher has a terrible problem--his two-year-old little brother. | 120 | Y |
| Blume, Judy | Just as Long as We're Together | 3.7 | 7 | A humorous story of how three girls' friendship is tested as they enter their first year of junior high school. | 296 | Y |
| Blume, Judy | Fudge-a-Mania | 3.3 | 3 | Pete describes the family vacation in Maine with the Tubmans, highlighted by the antics of his younger brother Fudge. | 147 | Y |
| Blume, Judy | One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo, The | 1.5 | 0.5 | Freddy Dissel is tired of being nothing more than the middle child. Then the school play gives him the chance to be recognized for himself. | 39 | Y |
| Blume, Judy | Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great | 3.5 | 3 | A new friend shows Sheila that you have to admit your fears before you can overcome them. | 118 | Y |
| Blume, Judy | Double Fudge | 3.6 | 5 | His younger brother's obsession with money and the discovery of long-lost cousins Flora and Fauna provide many embarrassing moments for twelve-year-old Peter. | 213 | Y |
| Blume, Judy | Freckle Juice | 2 | 0.5 | Andrew wants freckles more than anything else and uses a "freckle juice" recipe with hilarious results. | 47 | Y |
| Blume, Judy | Then Again, Maybe I Won't | 3.6 | 5 | Tony Miglione's father's invention makes the family rich, but wealth causes more problems than Tony has expected. | 164 | |
| Blume, Judy | Superfudge | 3.5 | 4 | In a sequel to Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, twelve-year-old Peter relates his life with his troublesome little brother, Fudge. | 166 | Y |
| Blume, Judy | Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. | 4.9 | 4 | Margaret approaches adolescence with trepidation, but with the help of God and nature, she makes a successful transition. | 149 | Y |
| Blume, Judy | Pain and the Great One, The | 1.7 | 0.5 | "The Pain" and "The Great One" are a brother and sister, and each thinks the other is the most loved by their parents in these two short stories. | 28 | |
| Bogacki, Tomek | Story of a Blue Bird, The | 2.2 | 0.5 | A baby bird discovers the joy of flying despite his initial fears. | 24 | |
| Bogart, Jo Ellen | Daniel's Dog | 1.9 | 0.5 | A young black boy adjusts to the arrival of his new baby sister with the help of his imaginary dog Lucy. | 30 | |
| Bohner, Charles | Bold Journey: West with Lewis and Clark | 5.5 | 6 | Private Hugh McNeal relates his experiences accompanying Captains Lewis and Clark on their search for a northwest passage to the Pacific Ocean. | 171 | |
| Boivin, Kelly | Where Is Mittens? | 1.6 | 0.5 | A child's lost cat turns up accompanied by four new kittens. | 29 | |
| Boivin, Kelly | What's in a Box? | 1.5 | 0.5 | Describes in verse different types of boxes and what they may hold. | 31 | Y |
| Bokoske, Sharon | Dolphins! | 2.4 | 0.5 | Introduces dolphins and their physical characteristics, behavior, social structure, intelligence, and interaction with humans. | 48 | Y |
| Bond, Michael | Bear Called Paddington, A | 4.5 | 4 | A bear from darkest Peru goes to live with a family in London. | 128 | Y |
| Bond, Nancy | String in the Harp, A | 7.1 | 19 | When Peter and his sisters are forced to move to Wales, he finds a harp-tuning key that transports him back to the sixth century. | 370 | Y |
| Bonsall, Crosby | Case of the Scaredy Cats, The | 2.2 | 0.5 | Chronicles the series of events occuring after the girls take over the boy's club house. | 64 | Y |
| Bonsall, Crosby | Case of the Double Cross, The | 2.3 | 0.5 | Wizard's private eyes don't want any girls in their club, but Marigold and her friends dream of joining. When a funny little man double-crosses the private eyes with a message in code, the girls get their chance to prove themselves. | 64 | Y |
| Bonsall, Crosby | And I Mean It, Stanley | 1.2 | 0.5 | A little girl plays alone until her dog arrives. | 32 | Y |
| Bonsall, Crosby | Case of the Hungry Stranger, The | 2.3 | 0.5 | Mrs. Meech reports a missing blueberry pie, so Wizard and his friends try to solve the mystery and give the hungry stranger his just desserts. | 64 | Y |
| Bornstein, Ruth | Little Gorilla | 2.5 | 0.5 | A simple, rhythmic text about a gorilla who grows and grows and grows. | 28 | Y |
| Borton de Trevińic text about a gorilla who grows and grows and grows. | I, Juan de Pareja | 7.9 | 8 | After the slave Juan de Pareja is willed to the great Spanish painter Veláto solve the mystery and give the hungry stranger his just desserts. | 180 | |
| Bos/James | Meet the Molesons | 4 | 1 | Eight short, short stories about the adventures of a mole family. | 46 | Y |
| Boston, L.M. | Children of Green Knowe, The | 5.6 | 6 | Tolly comes to live with his great-grandmother at the ancient house of Green Knowe and becomes friends with three children who lived there in the seventeenth century. | 183 | Y |
| Boston, L.M. | Stranger at Green Knowe, A | 6.5 | 7 | Story of Ping, a Chinese boy, and his friendship with a gorilla who escapes from the London Zoo. | 199 | Y |
| Bourgeois, Paulette | Franklin Rides a Bike | 2.6 | 0.5 | Franklin has a hard time learning to ride a bike. | 28 | |
| Boyd, Candy Dawson | Circle of Gold | 3.6 | 4 | Mattie Benson knows just what to get her mother for Mother's Day until she loses her best job and is accused of stealing. She thinks that she can still get the present, but maybe she is expecting miracles again. | 124 | Y |
| Brady, Esther Wood | Toliver's Secret | 3.8 | 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 | Y |
| Brandenberg, Franz | I Wish I Was Sick, Too! | 2.3 | 0.5 | Elizabeth envies her brother the pampered treatment he gets when he is sick in bed. Then she gets sick, too. | 29 | |
| Branley, Franklyn M. | What Makes Day and Night | 2.8 | 0.5 | Revised and newly illustrated edition which explains the basic principles of the earth's rotation with easily understandable language. | 32 | Y |
| Brenner, Barbara | Beef Stew | 1.5 | 0.5 | When his friends decline to come over for a beef stew dinner, Nicky feels bad until a surprise visitor shows up. | 32 | Y |
| Brenner, Martha | Abe Lincoln's Hat | 2.6 | 0.5 | How Lincoln used his hat as a filing cabinet. | 48 | Y |
| Brett, Jan | Wild Christmas Reindeer, The | 4.5 | 0.5 | After a few false starts, Teeka discovers the best way to get Santa's reindeer ready for Christmas Eve. | 29 | Y |
| Brett, Jan | Christmas Trolls | 3.2 | 0.5 | When Treva investigates the disappearance of her family's Christmas things, she finds two mischievous trolls who have never had a Christmas of their own. | 32 | Y |
| Brett, Jan | Mitten, The | 3 | 0.5 | Several animals sleep snugly in Nicki's lost mitten until the bear sneezes. | 27 | Y |
| Brett, Jan | Berlioz the Bear | 3.9 | 0.5 | Berlioz the bear and his fellow musicians are due to play for the town ball when their bandwagon becomes stuck in a hole in the road. A strange buzzing in Berlioz's double bass turns into a surprise that saves the day. | 30 | |
| Brett, Jan | Trouble with Trolls | 3.8 | 0.5 | While climbing Mt. Baldy, Treva outwits some trolls who want to steal her dog. | 30 | Y |
| Brett, Jan | Gingerbread Baby | 3.5 | 0.5 | A young boy and his mother bake a gingerbread baby that escapes from their oven and leads a crowd on a chase similar to the one in the familiar not-so-clever gingerbread man. | 31 | Y |
| Brett, Jan | Annie and the Wild Animals | 2.5 | 0.5 | When Annie's cat disappears, she attempts friendship with a variety of unsuitable woodland animals, but with the emergence of spring, everything comes right. | 28 | |
| Brett, Jan | Armadillo Rodeo | 3.9 | 0.5 | A near-sighted armadillo follows a little girl to a rodeo and has the time of his life. | 30 | Y |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford and the Big Storm | 2.1 | 0.5 | Clifford comes to the rescue when a hurricane strikes. | 30 | Y |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's Thanksgiving Visit | 1.5 | 0.5 | Clifford discovers how lucky he is on Thanksgiving Day. | 30 | Y |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's Good Deeds | 2.2 | 0.5 | When the big red dog sets out to do good deeds, trouble follows quickly. | 30 | Y |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's Christmas | 1.4 | 0.5 | Good intentions turn into disaster when Clifford helps Santa Claus. | 30 | Y |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's Birthday Party | 2.5 | 0.5 | Clifford's birthday is a special treat when his entire family shows up at the party. | 30 | Y |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's Halloween | 1.8 | 0.5 | A giant ghost (Clifford in costume), joins the fun at a Halloween party. | 30 | Y |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's Happy Easter | 1.9 | 0.5 | A funny story about Clifford's Easter. | 30 | |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's Kitten | 1.4 | 0.5 | More about the big red dog Clifford, and now he even has a kitten. | 30 | |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's Pals | 2.4 | 0.5 | Clifford spends the day with his dog buddies causing trouble at a construction site. | 30 | Y |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's Puppy Days | 1.4 | 0.5 | The story of Clifford the big red dog's days as a small, small puppy. | 31 | Y |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford the Big Red Dog | 1.3 | 0.5 | Emily Elizabeth tells the reader about the dilemmas and delights of having a really big, red dog. | 30 | Y |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford's Sports Day | 1.8 | 0.5 | Sports day at school with Clifford along can be quite interesting. | 30 | Y |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford, We Love You | 1.6 | 0.5 | When Clifford starts feeling blue, Emily writes a song to cheer him up. | 30 | |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford the Firehouse Dog | 2 | 0.5 | Clifford helps the firefighters put out a fire. | 30 | Y |
| Brill, Marlene Targ | James Buchanan (Encyclopedia of Presidents) | 9.3 | 4 | Describes the early life and political career of the man who served as President in the years just before the Civil War. | 89 | Y |
| Brill, Marlene Targ | John Adams (Encyclopedia of Presidents) | 9.5 | 4 | A biography of the outspoken, decisive man who served the United States in many ways, including as its President. | 89 | Y |
| Brimner, Larry Dane | Cory Coleman, Grade 2 | 2.8 | 1 | Seven-year-old Cory Coleman's birthday party is ruined by the class bully, who turns out not to be such a bully in the end. | 66 | Y |
| Brinckloe, Julie | Fireflies! | 2.5 | 0.5 | A young boy is proud of having caught a jar full of fireflies, which seems to him like owning a piece of moonlight. But as the light begins to dim, he realizes he must set the insects free or they will die. | 28 | Y |
| Brink, Carol Ryrie | Caddie Woodlawn | 5.6 | 8 | This is a story of a spirited pioneer girl's adventures on the Wisconsin frontier. | 242 | Y |
| Brittain, Bill | Wish Giver, The | 4.2 | 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 | Y |
| Brontë 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. | Jane Eyre (Unabridged) | 7.9 | 33 | In this stormy, intense, introspective novel of the mid-nineteenth century. Jane Eyre is a plain, yet spirited, governess whose virtuous integrity, keen intellect, and perseverance break through class barriers to reach the man she loves. | 682 | |
| Brown, Don | Ruth Law Thrills a Nation | 4 | 0.5 | A true story of a young woman's attempt to fly from Chicago to New York in one day in 1916. | 29 | |
| Brown, Ken | What's the Time, Grandma Wolf? | 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 | Y |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's Tooth | 1.7 | 0.5 | Arthur, tired of being the only one in his class who still has all his baby teeth, waits impatiently for his loose tooth to fall out. | 30 | Y |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's Thanksgiving | 3.1 | 0.5 | Arthur finds his role as director of the Thanksgiving play a difficult one, especially since no one will agree to play the turkey. | 30 | Y |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur Babysits | 2.1 | 0.5 | Arthur's experience baby-sitting for the terrible Tibble Twins is as challenging as he expected, but he finally gets control by telling them a spooky story. | 29 | Y |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's Baby | 2.2 | 0.5 | Arthur isn't sure he is happy about the new baby in the family; but when his sister asks for his help in handling the baby, Arthur feels much better. | 30 | Y |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's Teacher Moves In | 2.4 | 0.5 | Arthur thinks that having his teacher stay at his house will be a horrible experience. | 32 | Y |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's TV Trouble | 2.6 | 0.5 | When Arthur sees an advertisement for the amazing doggy treat timer, he decides to earn enough money to buy it for his dog. | 30 | Y |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur Writes a Story | 2.6 | 0.5 | Arthur has to write a story as a homework assignment and keeps changing his idea of what to write as he talks to his friends. | 30 | |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur Lost and Found | 2.6 | 0.5 | When Arthur and Buster try to take the bus to Arthur's swimming lesson, they fall asleep and end up in a strange part of town. | 30 | Y |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's Pet Business | 2.4 | 0.5 | Arthur embarks on a pet-sitting business with hilarious results. | 30 | |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's Eyes | 2.2 | 0.5 | Glasses meant being teased until Arthur discovers that four eyes are better and more fun than two. | 32 | Y |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's Birthday | 2.3 | 0.5 | Their friends must decide which party to attend when Muffy schedules her birthday party for the same day as Arthur's. | 29 | |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's New Puppy | 2.4 | 0.5 | Arthur's new puppy causes problems when it tears the living room apart, wets on everything, and refuses to wear a leash. | 30 | Y |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur Meets the President | 2.6 | 0.5 | Arthur's essay wins a contest and he has to read it to the President in a special ceremony at the White House. | 30 | Y |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's Teacher Trouble | 2.7 | 0.5 | Third-grader Arthur is amazed when he is chosen to be in the school spellathon. | 30 | |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's Chicken Pox | 2.1 | 0.5 | Arthur hopes he'll recover from the chicken pox in time to go to the circus. | 30 | Y |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's First Sleepover | 2.7 | 0.5 | Rumors about sightings of an alien spaceship create excitement when Arthur's friends come to spend the night. | 30 | Y |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's Family Vacation | 2.9 | 0.5 | Arthur makes his family's potentially disastrous family vacation into a success. | 19 | Y |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur in a Pickle | 2.1 | 0.5 | After lying about what happened to his homework, Arthur has such a bad dream about being "in a pickle" that he decides to tell the truth. | 24 | Y |
| Brown, Marc | Bionic Bunny Show, The | 3.8 | 0.5 | The reader gets to see all the production efforts that enable an ordinary rabbit to become Bionic Bunny on his television series. | 31 | Y |
| Brown, Marcia | Stone Soup | 2.4 | 0.5 | When hungry soldiers get a chilly reception in the village, they use a trick to get a meal. | 33 | Y |
| Brown, Margaret Wise | Runaway Bunny, The | 2.9 | 0.5 | A young bunny plays an imaginary game of hide-and-seek with his lovingly steadfast mother, who finds her child every time. | 40 | Y |
| Brown, Margaret Wise | Old Mill, The | 2.5 | 0.5 | A wicked storm batters a mill that shelters frightened animals. | 17 | |
| Brown, Margaret Wise | Goodnight Moon | 1 | 0.5 | Goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room; goodnight chairs, goodnight comb, goodnight air. | 30 | Y |
| Brown, Ruth | Picnic, The | 2.9 | 0.5 | A group of humans on a picnic invade a field full of small animals. | 26 | Y |
| Brown/Krensky | Buster's New Friend | 3.3 | 1 | Arthur's feelings are hurt when Buster begins to spend all of his time with his new friend, Mike. | 54 | |
| Brown/Krensky | Arthur Rocks with BINKY | 3.4 | 1 | Arthur daydreams different ways to meet his favorite rock star. | 61 | Y |
| Brown/Krensky | Arthur and the Big Blow-Up | 3.3 | 1 | Arthur and his teammates are headed for the playoffs when their best players get into an argument. Will Arthur and Buster be able to help their friends settle their differences and make it to the playoffs? | 54 | Y |
| Brown/Krensky | Arthur and the Crunch Cereal Contest | 3 | 1 | Arthur can't come up with a catch jingle until he hears D. W. and wonders if he could use it. | 61 | Y |
| Brown/Krensky | Arthur and the Popularity Test | 3.5 | 1 | When the gang takes a popularity test, something strange happens to Fern and Sue Ellen. | 58 | Y |
| Brown/Krensky | Francine, Believe It or Not | 3.2 | 1 | Muffy is so sure that Francine can't be nice for a whole week that she bets her Princess Peach watch on it. Francine struggles to keep her cool while Arthur and his friends push her to the limit. | 58 | Y |
| Brownrigg, Sheri | All Tutus Should Be Pink | 1.8 | 0.5 | Two little girls attend ballet class and eat strawberry ice cream afterwards. | 29 | Y |
| Bruchac, Joseph | Great Ball Game: A Muskogee Story, The | 3.1 | 0.5 | Bat, who has both wings and teeth, plays an important part in a game between the Birds and the Animals to decide which group is better. | 28 | Y |
| Brust, Beth Wagner | Hippos (Creative Ed.) | 4.4 | 0.5 | This book describes the two different types of hippos, how they swim, what they eat, and how they live in herds. | 24 | |
| Brust, Beth Wagner | Dolphins & Porpoises (Creative Ed.) | 5.5 | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and enemies of dolphins and porpoises. | 24 | |
| Brust, Beth Wagner | Sea Otters (Creative Ed.) | 5.3 | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics, habitat, life cycle, and daily activities of this member of the weasel family. | 24 | |
| Brust, Beth Wagner | Kangaroos (Creative Ed.) | 5.3 | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the kangaroo, the largest hopping animal in the world. | 24 | |
| Brust, Beth Wagner | Butterflies (Creative Ed.) | 5.7 | 0.5 | This book discusses butterflies, their metamorphosis and migration, and presents some butterfly-related activities. | 24 | |
| Brust, Beth Wagner | Seabirds (Creative Ed.) | 5.3 | 0.5 | This book is a basic introduction to seabirds, of which there are more than 260 species distributed all over the world. | 24 | |
| Brust/Dorn | Rattlesnakes (Creative Ed.) | 5.2 | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics and behavior of the rattlesnake and presents rattlesnake-related activities. | 24 | |
| Buck, Pearl S. | Big Wave, The | 5.2 | 2 | A Japanese boy learns the joy of living after surviving a tidal wave that tragically destroys his family and his village. | 57 | Y |
| Buehner, Caralyn | Fanny's Dream | 3.7 | 0.5 | Fanny Agnes is a sturdy farm girl who dreams of marrying a prince; but when her fairy Godmother doesn't show up, she decides on a local farmer instead. | 30 | Y |
| Buehner, Caralyn | Snowmen at Night | 3 | 0.5 | This book is about snowmen playing games at night when no one is watching. | 28 | Y |
| Buehner, Caralyn/Mark | Escape of Marvin the Ape, The | 2 | 0.5 | When no one is looking, Marvin, an overly friendly ape, slips out of the zoo and begins an adventure that introduces him to life in the big city. | 32 | Y |
| Buff, Mary/Conrad | Apple and the Arrow: The Legend of William Tell, The | 4.8 | 2 | The Legend of William Tell and his brave son Walter. Together they fought in a dangerous time to bring freedom to their land. | 75 | |
| Bulla, Clyde Robert | Singing Sam | 2.1 | 0.5 | Tired of caring for his new dog, a spoiled boy gives him to a young girl who discovers that he can sing. | 46 | Y |
| Bulla, Clyde Robert | Lion to Guard Us, A | 3.1 | 2 | Left on their own in London, three impoverished children draw upon their resources to stay together and make their way to the Virginia colony in search of their father. | 115 | Y |
| Bulla, Clyde Robert | Shoeshine Girl | 2.3 | 1 | Determined to earn some money, ten-year-old Sarah Ida gets a job at a shoeshine stand and learns a great many things besides shining shoes. | 84 | Y |
| Bulla, Clyde Robert | Daniel's Duck | 1.8 | 0.5 | A picture story set in rural Tennessee when people lived in log cabins. Young Daniel carves a wooden duck. When he exhibits his duck at the town fair, people laugh and Daniel is heartbroken. | 64 | Y |
| Bulla, Clyde Robert | Chalk Box Kid, The | 2 | 1 | Nine-year-old Gregory's house does not have room for a garden, so he creates one in a surprising place. | 56 | Y |
| Buller, Jon | Video Kids, The | 2.6 | 0.5 | The Machine that Jerome and Curtis have made in the garage causes them to be sucked into their new video game, where they try to perform impossible tasks while avoiding the Four Evil Frogs. | 48 | |
| Buller, Jon | 20,000 Baseball Cards Under the Sea | 2.6 | 0.5 | Roger's friend Kenneth uses an unusual sea vehicle of his own design to take them to an underwater cave, where a cache of old loot gathered by the mermaids turns out to contain a lot of very valuable, old baseball cards. | 48 | Y |
| Bunting, Eve | Gleam and Glow | 3.3 | 0.5 | After his home is destroyed by war, Viktor finds hope in the survival of two very special fish. | 32 | Y |
| Bunting, Eve | Our Sixth-Grade Sugar Babies | 3.9 | 4 | Vicki and her best friend fear that their sixth-grade project, carrying around five-pound bags of sugar to learn about parental responsibility, will make them look ridiculous in the eyes of the seventh-grade boy they both love. | 146 | Y |
| Bunting, Eve | Sixth-Grade Sleepover | 4.2 | 4 | Janet worries that the sixth-grade Rabbit Reading Club's all-night sleepover will expose her fear of the dark, but it turns out that she is not the only member with a secret. | 96 | Y |
| Bunting, Eve | Fly Away Home | 3.5 | 0.5 | A homeless boy who lives in an airport with his father, moving from terminal to terminal and trying not to be noticed, is given hope when he sees a trapped bird find its freedom. | 32 | Y |
| Bunting, Eve | Night Tree | 2.9 | 0.5 | A family makes its annual pilgrimage to decorate an evergreen tree with food for the forest animals at Christmastime. | 28 | Y |
| Bunting, Eve | Our Teacher's Having a Baby | 3.9 | 0.5 | As the months pass during first-grade teacher Mrs. Neal's pregnancy, her class gets involved writing letters to the baby, thinking up possible names for it, and designing a baby room on the bulletin board. | 32 | Y |
| Bunting, Eve | Smoky Night | 2.4 | 0.5 | A child's eye view of urban violence in a riot-torn city. | 28 | Y |
| Bunting, Eve | In-Between Days, The | 3.9 | 3 | A child confronts the death of his mother and his father's remarriage. | 119 | |
| Bunting, Eve | Turkey for Thanksgiving, A | 3.5 | 0.5 | Mr. and Mrs. Moose try to invite a turkey to their Thanksgiving feast. | 32 | Y |
| Burch, Robert | Queenie Peavy | 7.2 | 6 | Story of what happens when the biggest troublemaker in school tries to behave for just one day. | 151 | Y |
| Burch, Robert | Ida Early Comes over the Mountain | 4.4 | 3 | Tough times in rural Georgia during the Depression take a lively turn when spirited Ida Early arrives to keep house for the Suttons. | 145 | Y |
| Burgan, Michael | Trail of Tears (We the People), The | 6 | 0.5 | This book describes the Trail of Tears, which was the route the Cherokee people took as they were forced west by U.S. settlement. | 48 | Y |
| Burgan, Michael | Battle of Gettysburg (We the People), The | 6.2 | 0.5 | This book describes the Battle of Gettysburg, why it was important, and famous people who were involved. | 48 | Y |
| Burgan, Michael | Great Depression (We the People), The | 6.3 | 0.5 | This book describes the Great Depression and the nation's response that forever changed how the U.S. Government works. | 48 | Y |
| Burgan, Michael | Bill of Rights (We the People), The | 7.5 | 1 | This book describes the United States Bill of Rights, a list of freedoms that the government cannot take away from any citizens. | 48 | Y |
| Burgan, Michael | Boston Tea Party (We the People), The | 5.4 | 0.5 | This book recounts the events leading up to the colonists' defiant act against the British known and the Boston Tea Party, which ultimately climaxed in the American Revolution. | 48 | Y |
| Burgan, Michael | Alamo (We the People), The | 5.5 | 0.5 | This book describes the battle of the Alamo, including information about famous people who fought in the battle and why it was fought. | 48 | Y |
| Burgan, Michael | Declaration of Independence (We the People), The | 5.9 | 0.5 | This book examines the political situation in America at the time of the troubles between England and her colonies there and describes how the Declaration of Independence was written and accepted. | 48 | Y |
| Burgess, Thornton | Old Mother West Wind | 4 | 2 | All the favorite old Burgess characters and stories in a new illustrated edition. | 140 | Y |
| Burke, Rick | Mia Hamm (Sports Files) | 4.6 | 0.5 | This book is a short biography of Mia Hamm. | 32 | Y |
| Burke, Rick | Sammy Sosa (Sports Files) | 4 | 0.5 | This book is a short biography of Sammy Sosa. | 32 | Y |
| Burnett, Frances Hodgson | Little Princess (Unabridged), A | 7.6 | 12 | In this children's classic novel, the wealthy and gifted little girl Sara Crewe must adjust to a different life when her father dies penniless. | 312 | Y |
| Burnett, Frances Hodgson | Secret Garden, The | 7.5 | 14 | Mary moves to a huge estate to live with her mysterious uncle, his ailing son, the servants--and a secret garden. | 343 | Y |
| Burnford, Sheila | Incredible Journey, The | 8.5 | 6 | Three house pets migrate through the wilderness to find their family. | 145 | Y |
| Burningham, John | Hey! Get Off Our Train | 1.9 | 0.5 | At bedtime, a young boy takes a trip on his toy train and rescues several endangered animals. | 43 | Y |
| Burningham, John | Mr. Gumpy's Outing | 1.7 | 0.5 | This book tells the story of what happens when Mr. Gumpy lets too many animals ride in his boat. | 30 | Y |
| Burns, Marilyn | Greedy Triangle, The | 3.9 | 0.5 | A bored triangle transforms himself into different shapes until an accident teaches him a lesson. | 30 | Y |
| Burton, Virginia Lee | Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel | 2.8 | 0.5 | Mike prefers his steam shovel to the new gas and diesel-engine contraptions and digs his way to a happy ending. | 44 | |
| Burton, Virginia Lee | Katy and the Big Snow | 2.9 | 0.5 | Katy the huge snow plow saves the people of Geopolis, when winter threatens to shut the entire city down. Reading Rainbow Book. | 36 | Y |
| Butler, Andrea | Mr. Sun and Mr. Sea | 2.3 | 0.5 | African folktale about the sun and the sea. Mr. Sun invites Mr. Sea to visit. | 16 | Y |
| Butterworth, Oliver | Enormous Egg, The | 5.4 | 6 | Twelve-year-old Nate Twitchell's hen lays an egg the size of a melon, and the creature that hatches makes world news. | 188 | Y |
| Byars, Betsy | Blossoms Meet the Vulture Lady, The | 4.6 | 4 | In this sequel to The Not-Just-Anybody Family, Junior Blossom meets Mad Mary, the vulture lady, and gets kidnapped. | 134 | Y |
| Byars, Betsy | Animal, the Vegetable and John D Jones, The | 5.6 | 3 | Clara and Deanie can't stand John D. Jones, the son of their divorced father's girlfriend. The feeling is mutual, and John D. dubs the girls the Animal and the Vegetable. It takes a near tragedy to bring them together. | 150 | |
| Byars, Betsy | Blossoms and the Green Phantom, The | 5.5 | 5 | While Junior puts the finishing touches on his new invention, the Green Phantom, his grandfather disappears. | 146 | Y |
| Byars, Betsy | Blossom Promise, A | 4 | 5 | In the aftermath of a big flood in Alderson County, the Blossom family continues coping with adventure and adversity in their rare family style. | 145 | Y |
| Byars, Betsy | Midnight Fox, The | 6.4 | 3 | Tom, a city boy forced to spend the summer on his aunt's farm, is afraid of animals -- until he learns to love a black fox. | 157 | |
| Byars, Betsy | Summer of the Swans, The | 5.2 | 4 | A fourteen-year-old girl finds maturity while searching for her younger brother lost in the woods. | 142 | Y |
| Byars, Betsy | Winged Colt of Casa Mia, The | 3 | 3 | 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 | |
| Byars, Betsy | Wanted...Mud Blossom | 5.2 | 5 | 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 | Y |
| Byars, Betsy | 18th Emergency, The | 4.1 | 3 | Benjie is adept in coping with 17 kinds of emergencies, but the 18th is a big bully named Hammerman, who waits for him after school. | 120 | Y |
| Byars, Betsy | Dark Stairs, The | 4.9 | 4 | Young detective Herculeah Jones solves a mysterious situation on a forbidding estate. | 130 | Y |
| Byars, Betsy | TV Kid, The | 5 | 4 | Television is Lennie's only escape from loneliness and boredom, until a snake bite jolts him into reality. | 123 | Y |
| Byars, Betsy | Cybil War, The | 4.9 | 3 | Simon learns some hard lessons about good and bad friendships when his good friend Tony's stories involve him in some very troublesome and complicated situations. | 126 | |
| Byars, Betsy | Burning Questions of Bingo Brown, The | 4.5 | 5 | A boy is puzzled by the comic and confusing questions of youth and worried by disturbing insights into adult conflicts. | 166 | Y |
| Byars, Betsy | Cracker Jackson | 5 | 4 | After attempting to save his ex-babysitter from wife abuse, Cracker Jackson gains an adult insight into the sadness of failed heroics. | 146 | Y |
| Byars, Betsy | Night Swimmers, The | 4.3 | 3 | With their mother dead and their father working nights, Retta tries to be mother to her two younger brothers. | 131 | Y |
| Byars, Betsy | Bingo Brown, Gypsy Lover | 4 | 3 | A sixth-grade boy deals with the prospect of a new baby brother and a long-distance love relationship. | 122 | |
| Byars, Betsy | Pinballs, The | 4.2 | 3 | Three lonely foster children learn to care about themselves and each other. | 136 | Y |
| Byars, Betsy | Computer Nut, The | 4.2 | 4 | Ten-year-old Kate begins a communication exchange on a computer with someone purporting to be from outer space. | 153 | Y |
| Byars, Betsy | Hooray for the Golly Sisters! | 1.8 | 0.5 | In continued adventures, May-May and Rose take their traveling road show to more audiences. | 64 | Y |
| Byars, Betsy | My Brother, Ant | 1.7 | 0.5 | In four separate stories, Ant's older brother gets rid of the monster under Ant's bed, forgives Ant for drawing on his homework, tries to read a story, and helps Ant write a letter to Santa. | 32 | |
| Byars, Betsy | Not-Just-Anybody Family, The | 5 | 5 | A warm comedy demonstrates how both good and bad times help to unite a family, even one as strange as the unforgettable Blossom family. | 149 | Y |
| Cabral, Len | Anansi's Narrow Waist | 2.4 | 0.5 | African folktale that describes why spiders have eight legs and a narrow waist. | 16 | |
| Calhoun, Mary | Katie John | 5.6 | 5 | Katie John and her family move into an inherited house in order to sell it, but find they don't want to part with it. | 134 | |
| Calmenson, Stephanie | Marigold and Grandma on the Town | 2.5 | 0.5 | When they go out on the town together, two bunnies, Marigold and Grandma, buy a special hat, eat lunch, and make funny faces in the photo booth. | 64 | |
| Calvert, Patricia | Snowbird, The | 7.7 | 8 | Willie and her brother TJ are orphaned and must journey to the Dakota Territory to live with their uncle and aunt they do not even know. | 135 | |
| Calvert, Patricia | Bigger | 5.4 | 6 | A boy fails to persuade his Confederate father to return home to a life of peace -- and defeat. | 137 | Y |
| Cameron, Ann | Stories Julian Tells, The | 3.4 | 1 | The imaginative Julian transforms everyday family activities into extraordinary, heartwarming childhood experiences. | 71 | |
| Cameron, Ann | Julian, Secret Agent | 3.1 | 1 | When Julian, his little brother Huey, and their friend Gloria decide to be "crime busters," they find themselves in one adventure after another. | 63 | |
| Cameron, Ann | Julian, Dream Doctor | 2.9 | 1 | Julian and Huey try to find the perfect birthday gift for Dad with amusing results. | 62 | Y |
| Cameron, Ann | Julian's Glorious Summer | 2.3 | 1 | When his best friend, Gloria, receives a new bike, seven-year-old Julian makes up a story about why he can't take the time to learn to ride rather than face his fears. | 62 | Y |
| Cameron, Ann | Most Beautiful Place in the World, The | 4.6 | 1 | Growing up with his grandmother in a small Guatemalan town, seven-year-old Juan discovers the value of hard work, the joy of learning, and the location of the most beautiful place in the world. | 57 | Y |
| Cameron, Eleanor | Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, The | 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 | Y |
| Cannon, A.E. | Charlotte's Rose | 4.1 | 6 | As a twelve-year-old Welsh immigrant carries a motherless baby along the Mormon Trail in 1856, she comes to love the baby as her own and fear the day the baby's father will reclaim her. | 246 | Y |
| Cannon, Janell | Stellaluna | 3.5 | 0.5 | After she falls headfirst into a bird's nest, a baby bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her mother. | 45 | Y |
| Cannon, Janell | Verdi | 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 | Y |
| Card, Orson Scott | Xenocide | 6.3 | 29 | On Lusitania, Ender found a world where three very different species can live together, or so he thought. It also harbors the virus which kills all humans it infects, so the Starways Congress is out to destroy the planet. | 592 | |
| Card, Orson Scott | Earthborn | 6.4 | 22 | Shedemei descends from the starship "Basilica" to Earth to help achieve a peace between the humans, diggers,and angels. | 430 | |
| Card, Orson Scott | Children of the Mind | 6.2 | 18 | Once again, the Starways Congress has assembled a fleet to destroy Lusitania, the home of three sentient species. The children of Ender must save Jane if they are to save themselves. The conclusion to the Ender Quartet. | 370 | |
| Card, Orson Scott | Speaker for the Dead | 6.1 | 21 | In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeares and a powerful voice arises. It is only the Speaker for the Dead who has the courage to confront the mystery and the truth. | 382 | |
| Card, Orson Scott | Earthfall | 6.2 | 19 | The Oversoul of the colony planet Harmony is ready to be carried back to long-lost Earth. Despite a bitter dispute within the party, the Oversoul is truly in control of the journey. | 370 | |
| Card, Orson Scott | Ships of Earth, The | 6.6 | 20 | The City of Basilica has fallen. Now a band of refugees cross wide continents to where Harmony's hidden spaceport lies silent, waiting for the command to make the great interstellar ships ready for flight again. | 362 | |
| Card, Orson Scott | Ender's Game | 5.5 | 16 | Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer games. But in reality he is being trained to be the military genius that the planet needs in its all-out war with an alien enemy. | 324 | |
| Card, Orson Scott | Ender's Shadow | 5.9 | 22 | This is a chilling race between Earth and the "Buggers," an insect-like alien race. | 379 | |
| Card, Orson Scott | Memory of Earth, The | 6.1 | 15 | High above the planet Harmony, the Oversoul watches. Its task is to protect the human settlement from all threats and from themselves. | 332 | |
| Card, Orson Scott | Call of Earth, The | 6.6 | 16 | As Harmony's Oversoul grows weaker, a great warrior has arisen to challenge its bans. | 332 | |
| Carle, Eric | Grouchy Ladybug, The | 2.5 | 0.5 | A braggart becomes a better-behaved bug as it learns something about getting along with others. | 39 | Y |
| Carle, Eric | House for Hermit Crab, A | 3.7 | 0.5 | A hermit crab who has outgrown his old shell moves into a new one, which he decorates and enhances with the various sea creatures he meets in his travels. | 26 | |
| Carle, Eric | Mixed-Up Chameleon, The | 1.8 | 0.5 | A bored chameleon wishes it could be more like all the other animals it sees, but soon decides it would rather be itself. | 31 | Y |
| Carle, Eric | Very Hungry Caterpillar, The | 2.6 | 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 | Y |
| Carlson, Judy | Life with Max | 2 | 0.5 | A big sister has trouble coping with her young brother. | 30 | |
| Carlson, Judy | Nothing Is Impossible, Said Nellie Bly | 2.6 | 0.5 | The biography of Nellie Bly and her trip around the world in less than 80 days. Her philosophy was "Nothing is impossible." | 30 | |
| Carlson, Judy | Here Comes Kate! | 1.6 | 0.5 | A girl in a wheelchair learns when to go fast and when to slow down. | 30 | |
| Carlson, Nancy | Smile a Lot! | 2.6 | 0.5 | A frog explains how smiling is a great way to get through life's ups and downs. | 32 | Y |
| Carlson, Natalie | Grandmother for the Orphelines, A | 3.8 | 2 | The children from the orphanage set out to find the right grandmother, but go about it the wrong way. | 91 | |
| Carlson, Natalie Savage | Family Under the Bridge, The | 5.2 | 2 | An old tramp, adopted by three fatherless children when their mother hides them under a bridge on the Seine, finds a home for mother and children and a job for himself. | 97 | Y |
| Carlson, Natalie Savage | Happy Orpheline, The | 5.2 | 2 | Brigitte is part of the biggest, happiest family in France. She is an orpheline with 19 other sisters who are cared for by the loving Madame Flattot and Genevieve. Life is exciting until Brigitte gets left at a dog cemetery. | 96 | Y |
| Carlstrom, Nancy White | Blow Me a Kiss, Miss Lilly | 1.8 | 0.5 | When her best friend, an old lady named Miss Lilly, passes away, Sara learns that the memory of a loved one never dies. | 28 | Y |
| Carrick, Carol | Patrick's Dinosaurs | 3.9 | 0.5 | Patrick sees dinosaurs everywhere until his brother tells him how long they've been gone. | 32 | |
| Carrick, Carol | What Happened to Patrick's Dinosaurs? | 2.8 | 0.5 | Fascinated with dinosaurs, Patrick invents an imaginary explanation of why they became extinct. | 14 | Y |
| Carrick, Carol | Stay Away from Simon! | 3.8 | 1 | Lucy and her younger brother examine their feelings about a mentally handicapped boy they both fear when he follows them home one snowy day. | 63 | Y |
| Carris, Joan | Hedgehogs in the Closet | 5.5 | 3 | Unhappy with his family's move to England, eleven-year-old Nick slowly begins to thrive in the very British setting of his new home and school. | 186 | |
| Carroll, Lewis | Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass | 7.8 | 10 | By falling down a rabbit hole and stepping through a mirror, Alice experiences unusual adventures with a variety of nonsensical characters. | 253 | |
| Carroll, Lewis | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Bl | 7.7 | 10 | This abridged edition tells of the amazing adventures of Alice and the array of odd characters with whom she has to deal in a magical world, where time does not matter. | 253 | |
| Carson, Jo | You Hold Me and I'll Hold You | 3.5 | 0.5 | When a great-aunt dies, a young child finds comfort in being held and in holding, too. | 28 | Y |
| Carson, Robert | Mississippi (America the Beautiful) | 5.4 | 4 | Illustrated introduction to Mississippi's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | Y |
| Carter, Forrest | Education of Little Tree, The | 5.5 | 11 | The inspirational and autobiographical remembrances of the author's Indian boyhood, with his Eastern Cherokee Hill Country grandparents in the 1930s Depression era. | 216 | |
| Casey, Jane Clark | William Howard Taft (Encyclopedia of Presidents) | 8.8 | 4 | Examines the life and career of the lawyer whose relatively unsuccessful presidency was followed by a happy term as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. | 89 | Y |
| Casey, Jane Clark | Millard Fillmore (Encyclopedia of Presidents) | 7.5 | 4 | Examines the life of the President who helped postpone the Civil War with the Compromise of 1850 and who was considered to have destroyed his political career in order to preserve the Union. | 89 | Y |
| Casta±es the life of the President who helped postpone the Civil War with the Compromise of 1850 and who was considered to have destroyed his political career in order to preserve the Union. | Abuela's Weave | 5.2 | 0.5 | A little Guatemalan girl sells her grandmother's weavings at a public market. | 29 | Y |
| Catling, Patrick | Chocolate Touch, The | 3.5 | 2 | Instead of gold, everything John Midas touched turns to precious chocolate. | 87 | Y |
| Caudill, Rebecca | Did You Carry the Flag Today, Charley? | 4 | 2 | Charley Cornett longs to carry the flag for his school--a sign of the most helpful student. | 94 | Y |
| Caudill, Rebecca | Tree of Freedom | 5.7 | 10 | Thirteen-year-old Stephanie and her family move from Carolina to Kentucky in 1780, full of promise and full of hardships. | 279 | |
| Cazet, Denys | Never Spit on Your Shoes | 1.9 | 0.5 | First-grader Arnie tells his mother about his tiring first day at school, while the illustrations reveal the mayhem he is leaving out of his account. | 27 | Y |
| Cazet, Denys | Minnie and Moo Meet Frankenswine | 2.3 | 0.5 | During a thunderstorm, the farm animals are frightened out of the barn by a monster, and only cow friends Minnie and Moo are brave enough to investigate. | 46 | |
| Celsi, Teresa | Squanto and the First Thanksgiving | 2.9 | 0.5 | A simple biography of the Patuxet Indian who helped the Pilgrims survive in their early days in the Plymouth colony. | 30 | |
| Cerullo, Mary M. | Sharks: Challengers of the Deep | 7.5 | 1 | Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and varieties of sharks and dispels common myths about these unusual fish. | 57 | Y |
| Cha, Dia | Dia's Story Cloth: The Hmong People's Journey of Freedom | 4.7 | 0.5 | The story cloth made for the author by her aunt and uncle chronicles the life of the Hmong people in their native Laos and their emigration to the United States. | 22 | |
| Chaikin, Miriam | I Should Worry, I Should Care | 3 | 3 | A young Jewish girl and her family adjust to a new neighborhood and new friends at a time when the radio is telling of Hitler's rise to power in Europe. | 103 | |
| Chaikin, Miriam | How Yossi Beat the Evil Urge | 3 | 1 | Yossi, a young Chassidic Jew, sings his way to triumph when the Evil Urge lands him in trouble. | 42 | |
| Chall, Marsha | Up North at the Cabin | 2.5 | 0.5 | Summer vacation up north at the cabin provides memorable experiences with the water, the animals, and the other faces of nature. | 28 | Y |
| Chandler, Gil | Roller Coasters (Cruisin') | 5 | 0.5 | A look at the thrills of roller coasters. | 42 | Y |
| Cherry, Lynne | River Ran Wild, A | 4.7 | 0.5 | An environmental history of the Nashua River, from its discovery by Indians through the polluting years of the Industrial Revolution to the ambitious clean-up that revitalized it. | 26 | Y |
| Chinn, Karen | Sam and the Lucky Money | 3.6 | 0.5 | Sam must decide how to spend the lucky money he's received for Chinese New Year. | 28 | Y |
| Choi, Sook Nyul | Echoes of the White Giraffe | 5.9 | 6 | Fifteen-year-old Sookan adjusts to life in the refugee village in Pusan but continues to hope that the civil war will end and her family will be reunited in Seoul. | 137 | |
| Choi, Yangsook | Sun Girl and the Moon Boy: A Korean Folktale, The | 3.1 | 0.5 | A hungry tiger tries to trick a brother and sister into opening their door by pretending to be their absent mother. | 30 | |
| Choi, Yangsook | Name Jar, The | 3.1 | 0.5 | After Unhei moves from Korea to the United States, her new classmates help her decide what her name should be. | 32 | Y |
| Christelow, Eileen | Robbery at The Diamond Dog Diner, The | 3.4 | 0.5 | Lola Dog doesn't wear her usual diamonds at the Diamond Dog Diner after she hears there are jewel thieves in town, but she doesn't take into account Glenda Feathers' loud talk about where Lola has hidden her jewels. | 30 | |
| Christian, Mary Blount | Toady and Dr. Miracle, The | 2.5 | 0.5 | Dr. Miracle comes to a small town to sell his cure-all and enlists a young boy to be his toady, or assistant. | 40 | |
| Christian, Mary Blount | Penrod Again | 1.3 | 0.5 | The adventures of two friends who sometimes argue but really love and support each other. | 56 | |
| Christian, Mary Blount | Sebastian Stars-in-His-Eyes Mystery | 4.2 | 1 | Mysterious attacks on Chummy the Wonder Dog lead canine detective Sebastian to go undercover as a stunt performer in the making of Chummy's new movie. | 57 | |
| Christian, Mary Blount | Go West, Swamp Monsters! | 2.1 | 0.5 | Four young swamp monsters put on cowboy clothes and go in search of the wild, wild west. | 48 | |
| Christian, Mary Blount | Penrod's Pants | 1.2 | 0.5 | Despite Penrod Porcupine's sometimes exasperating behavior, he and Griswold Bear remain good friends. | 56 | |
| Christopher, John | White Mountains, The | 7.2 | 8 | Giant Tripods control men's minds and rule the future world. | 214 | Y |
| Christopher, Matt | Tight End | 3.9 | 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 | Y |
| Christopher, Matt | Tough to Tackle | 3.6 | 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 | Y |
| Christopher, Matt | Baseball Flyhawk | 3.3 | 2 | Chico tries to prove he's an asset to his baseball team. | 94 | Y |
| Christopher, Matt | Ice Magic | 4 | 2 | A young hockey player finds a game in the attic that seems to predict the success or failure of his team. | 151 | |
| Christopher, Matt | Face-Off | 4.3 | 2 | Although he loves the game, a young hockey player discovers he is handicapped for his fear of the puck. | 131 | |
| Christopher, Matt | Fox Steals Home, The | 5.1 | 4 | Already troubled by his parents' divorce, Bobby Canfield is further distressed when he learns that his father, who coached him in running bases, intends to move away. | 178 | Y |
| Christopher, Matt | Dog That Pitched a No-Hitter, The | 2.5 | 0.5 | Harry the dog solves his owner's pitching problems. | 42 | Y |
| Christopher, Matt | Year Mom Won the Pennant, The | 3.1 | 2 | At first Nick is humiliated when his mother begins coaching the Thunderballs, but when the winning streak begins, he must change his tune. | 147 | Y |
| Christopher, Matt | Red-Hot Hightops | 4 | 2 | Normally fearful to play basketball in front of a crowd, Kelly becomes a confident and aggressive player when she dons a mysterious pair of red sneakers that she finds. | 148 | Y |
| Christopher, Matt | Dirt Bike Racer | 3.5 | 4 | Ron finds a dirt bike which he fixes up with the help of an old man who raced bikes himself, and a challenge to race the old man's nephew provides a special excitement. | 149 | Y |
| Christopher, Matt | Johnny Long Legs | 3.7 | 2 | Even though he is the tallest member of the basketball team, a young boy finds he is far from being the best player. | 133 | |
| Christopher, Matt | Challenge at Second Base | 3.8 | 2 | Stan works for an opportunity to play second base against what seems incredible odds. | 111 | |
| Clapp, Patricia | Tamarack Tree, The | 4.9 | 7 | An eighteen-year-old English girl finds her loyalties divided as she experiences the hardships of the siege of Vicksburg in the spring of 1863. | 211 | Y |
| Clark, Ann Nolan | Secret of the Andes | 5.5 | 6 | An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors. | 120 | Y |
| Clark, Margaret Goff | Freedom Crossing | 4.4 | 4 | Laura, who has been living with relatives in the South, finds her loyalties challenged when she returns home and learns that her family has been helping runaway slaves. | 148 | |
| Cleary, Beverly | Ramona and Her Mother | 5.1 | 4 | Now that her daddy has a job, Ramona hopes that her mother will stop working. If Mrs. Quimby stays home again, Ramona won't have to stay with Howie's grandmother after school, and her parents won't be so tired and irritable. | 182 | Y |
| Cleary, Beverly | Ramona and Her Father | 4.1 | 3 | In this adventure with Beezus and Ramona, two of the best-loved characters in children's literature, Mr. Quimby loses his job, and the entire family learns to cope with hardship. | 186 | Y |
| Cleary, Beverly | Ralph S. Mouse | 5.4 | 3 | Ralph, the motorcycle-riding mouse, is off on another adventure and acquires a new sports car to replace his broken motorcycle. | 160 | Y |
| Cleary, Beverly | Ramona Forever | 4.1 | 4 | Ramona is back and funnier than ever as she prepares for her aunt's wedding and the move her family might make. | 182 | Y |
| Cleary, Beverly | Ramona the Pest | 5.5 | 5 | A lovable five-year-old girl starts kindergarten with a hilarious series of misdeeds. | 192 | Y |
| Cleary, Beverly | Ramona Quimby, Age 8 | 4.5 | 4 | Now in third grade, Ramona rides the school bus alone and helps around the house while her mother works and her father attends college. | 190 | Y |
| Cleary, Beverly | Henry and the Paper Route | 4.3 | 4 | His heart set on having a paper route, Henry Huggins is sidetracked by various interesting and funny distractions. | 192 | |
| Cleary, Beverly | Muggie Maggie | 4 | 1 | Maggie resists learning cursive writing in the third grade, until she discovers that knowing how to read and write cursive promises to open up an entirely new world of knowledge for her. | 70 | Y |
| Cleary, Beverly | Henry and the Clubhouse | 5 | 4 | Collecting from his newspaper customers to buy lumber for a clubhouse, Henry Huggins runs into some funny complications. | 192 | Y |
| Cleary, Beverly | Beezus and Ramona | 4.5 | 3 | Nine-year-old Beezus finds it difficult to love her troublesome younger sister all the time, but her mother explains why that is all right. | 159 | Y |
| Cleary, Beverly | Ramona the Brave | 3 | 4 | Irrepressible Ramona bravely struggles to cope with the assorted trials of growing up. | 190 | Y |
| Cleary, Beverly | Henry and Beezus | 3 | 4 | Accompanied by friend Beezus, bubble-gum tycoon Henry schemes to get a bike of his own. | 192 | |
| Cleary, Beverly | Runaway Ralph | 5.3 | 4 | Wanting excitement, adventure, and his independence, the cycling mouse runs away from home on his shiny red motorcycle. | 175 | Y |
| Cleary, Beverly | Jean and Johnny | 5.6 | 8 | Johnny, the most popular boy in school, asks Jean to dance; it should be the happiest moment of her life, but instead it is the most embarrassing. | 219 | |
| Cleary, Beverly | Henry Huggins | 4.3 | 3 | Third grader Henry Huggins acquires a flea-bitten but charming dog named Ribsy. | 155 | Y |
| Cleary, Beverly | Henry and Ribsy | 4.4 | 4 | Henry Huggins and his dog, Ribsy, go fishing and end up as wet as the huge salmon they try to catch. | 192 | Y |
| Cleary, Beverly | Emily's Runaway Imagination | 6.1 | 6 | Emily Bartlett is a fourth-grader growing up in the small town of Pitchfork, Oregon, in the days before cars and TV. | 221 | Y |
| Cleary, Beverly | Socks | 4.2 | 2 | A comfortable cat's life for tabby Socks is disrupted by the arrival of a new baby in the owner's home. | 156 | Y |
| Cleary, Beverly | Otis Spofford | 4.6 | 4 | Otis Spofford stirs up a little excitement, and big trouble follows. | 191 | Y |
| Cleary, Beverly | Mouse and the Motorcycle, The | 4.4 | 3 | A boy and a mouse share a common love -- motorcycles. | 158 | Y |
| Cleary, Beverly | Mitch and Amy | 6.2 | 6 | Nine-year-old twins Mitch and Amy have a special gift for infuriating each other. | 222 | |
| Cleary, Beverly | Strider | 5.8 | 2 | In a series of diary entries, Leigh tells how he comes to terms with his parents' divorce, acquires joint custody of an abandoned dog, and joins the track team at school. | 179 | Y |
| Cleary, Beverly | Dear Mr. Henshaw | 4 | 3 | A series of letters from Leigh Botts to the author, Mr. Henshaw, dealing with Leigh's aspirations of being an author, as well as excerpts from Leigh's diary showing the concerns of this bright young boy. | 134 | Y |
| Cleary, Beverly | Ellen Tebbits | 4.9 | 3 | Through many humorous adventures, Ellen learns the true value of friendship. | 160 | Y |
| Cleaver, Vera/Bill | Where the Lilies Bloom | 7.4 | 7 | 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 | Y |
| Clements, Andrew | Jake Drake, Know-It-All | 4.1 | 2 | Jake Drake wants to win the grand prize in the school's first science fair. He wants to beat the know-it-alls Marsha and Kevin, but to beat them means he has to become a know-it-all himself. | 88 | |
| Clements, Andrew | Landry News, The | 6 | 4 | A fifth-grader starts a newspaper with an editorial that prompts her burnt-out classroom teacher to really begin teaching again, but he is later threatened with disciplinary action as a result. | 123 | |
| Clements, Andrew | School Story, The | 5.2 | 5 | After Natalie writes a novel, Zoe helps her devise a scheme to get it accepted at the publishing house where Natalie's mother works as an editor. | 196 | Y |
| Clements, Andrew | Jake Drake, Class Clown | 3.4 | 1 | Miss Bruce is the new student teacher in Jake's second-grade class, and she never smiles. Jake has a new mission in life, to be so funny that even Miss Bruce will laugh, but then things get out of hand. | 72 | |
| Clements, Andrew | Week in the Woods, A | 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 | Y |
| Clements, Andrew | Jake Drake, Teacher's Pet | 4.3 | 2 | How does a kid get rid of a goody-goody reputation? Well, Jake has a plan, but when he gets called into the principal's office he worries that he just might have gone too far. | 76 | |
| Clements, Andrew | Frindle | 5.4 | 2 | When Nick Allen decides to turn his fifth-grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, he cleverly invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control. | 105 | Y |
| Clements, Andrew | Janitor's Boy, The | 5.4 | 4 | Fifth grader, Jack, finds himself the target of ridicule at school when it becomes known that his father is one of the janitors, and he turns his anger onto his father. | 140 | Y |
| Clifford, Eth | Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library | 4.7 | 2 | Rose and Jo-Beth are trapped in an old library during a blizzard and there are strange noises coming from upstairs. | 96 | Y |
| Clifford, Eth | Harvey's Horrible Snake Disaster | 4 | 3 | When Harvey's cousin brings a snake to his house for the weekend, Harvey knows he's headed for disaster. | 108 | Y |
| Clifford, Eth | Remembering Box, The | 4.2 | 2 | Nine-year-old Joshua's weekly visits to his beloved grandmother on the Jewish Sabbath give him an understanding of love, family, and tradition, which helps him accept her death. | 70 | |
| Clifford, Gale | Squirrels | 1.4 | 0.5 | The little boy is seeing squirrels everywhere. | 16 | |
| Clifton, Lucille | Lucky Stone, The | 3.8 | 1 | Young Tee loved to hear the stories of good-luck that accompany her grandmother's lucky stone, but she needs some good luck herself, and the stone doesn't belong to her. | 62 | |
| Clinton, Susan | Benjamin Harrison (Encyclopedia of Presidents) | 7.8 | 4 | Examines the military and political career of the only grandson of a President to become President himself. | 89 | Y |
| Clinton, Susan | James Madison (Encyclopedia of Presidents) | 8.5 | 4 | Recounts the story of America's fourth President, known as the Father of the Constitution, describing his early life in Virginia and his many years of service in public office. | 89 | Y |
| Clinton, Susan | Herbert Hoover (Encyclopedia of Presidents) | 8.7 | 4 | A biography of Herbert Hoover, mining engineer, millionaire businessman, director of food relief in Europe after World War I, Secretary of Commerce, and thirty-first President of the United States. | 89 | Y |
| Clymer, Eleanor | Santiago's Silver Mine | 3.9 | 2 | Andreas and Santiago live in a tiny Mexican village. When their fathers must go away to the city to find work, the boys decide to help their families. They look for treasure and together they find something more valuable than gold or silver. | 74 | |
| Clymer, Eleanor | Luke Was There | 3 | 2 | To Julius, all adults are the same--they can't be trusted. They make believe they like you, then go away. He meets Luke, an adult who is different, but Luke has to leave too. Julius is alone, but Luke hasn't forgotten him... | 72 | |
| Clymer, Eleanor | My Brother Stevie | 4.2 | 3 | An unmanageable younger brother makes life difficult for his sister, until a sympathetic school teacher befriends and helps them both. | 73 | Y |
| Coatsworth, Elizabeth | Cat Who Went to Heaven, The | 5.8 | 1 | A magical cat inspires a Japanese artist to paint the greatest picture of his life. | 64 | Y |
| Coburn/Lee | Jouanah: A Hmong Cinderella | 4.8 | 0.5 | Despite a cruel stepmother's schemes, a young Hmong girl finds true love and happiness with the aid of her dead mother's spirit and a pair of special shoes. | 28 | |
| Cocca-Leffler, Maryann | Ice-Cold Birthday | 1.5 | 0.5 | A big snowstorm threatens to spoil a birthday party but also creates some unforeseen opportunities for special fun. | 32 | |
| Coerr, Eleanor | Mieko and the Fifth Treasure | 4.3 | 2 | Staying with her grandparents after the atomic bomb has been dropped on Nagasaki, ten-year-old Mieko feels that the happiness in her heart has departed forever and she will no longer be able to produce a beautiful drawing for the contest at school. | 77 | Y |
| Coerr, Eleanor | Josefina Story Quilt, The | 2.7 | 0.5 | While traveling west with her family in 1850, a young girl makes a patchwork quilt chronicling the experiences of the journey and reserves two special patches for her hen Josefina. | 64 | |
| Coerr, Eleanor | Big Balloon Race, The | 2.5 | 0.5 | Ariel almost causes her famous mother to lose a balloon race and then helps her to win it. | 62 | Y |
| Coerr, Eleanor | Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes | 4.7 | 1 | Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy. | 63 | Y |
| Cohen, Barbara | Carp in the Bathtub, The | 4.2 | 1 | Two children try to rescue the carp their mother plans to make into gefilte fish, for the Seder. | 48 | |
| Cohen, Caron Lee | Mud Pony, The | 3.7 | 0.5 | A poor boy becomes a powerful leader when Mother Earth turns his mud pony into a real one; but after the pony turns back to mud, he must find his own strength. | 28 | Y |
| Cohen, Caron Lee | Digger Pig and the Turnip | 1.4 | 0.5 | In this adaptation of a traditional folktale, a dog, a duck, and a chick refuse to help a pig prepare a turnip pie, but, nevertheless, expect to eat it when it is ready. | 16 | |
| Cohen, Miriam | When Will I Read? | 2.6 | 0.5 | Impatient to begin reading, a first-grader doesn't realize that there is more to reading than books. | 28 | Y |
| Cohen, Miriam | No Good in Art | 2.4 | 0.5 | First-grader Jim can't paint a picture of himself as an adult because he's no good in art, but when he is encouraged to paint what he likes to do, he surprises everyone. | 29 | |
| Cole, Joanna | Magic School Bus in the Time of Dinosaurs, The | 3.8 | 0.5 | The Magic School bus takes a field trip to the era of the dinosaurs. | 44 | Y |
| Cole, Joanna | Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System, The | 3.6 | 0.5 | On a special field trip in the magic school bus, Ms. Frizzle's class goes into outer space and visits each planet in the solar system. | 38 | Y |
| Cole, Joanna | Who Put the Pepper in the Pot? | 2.3 | 0.5 | Mama Sue, Papa Joe, and the kids prepare a fiery pot of stew for visiting Aunt Tootie. | 38 | Y |
| Cole, Joanna | You Can't Smell a Flower with Your Ear! | 2 | 0.5 | Experiments to test and trick the five senses. | 48 | |
| Cole, Joanna | Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body, The | 3.8 | 0.5 | When Ms. Frizzle takes their third field trip, it is inside Arnold's body. | 36 | Y |
| Cole, Joanna | Norma Jean, Jumping Bean | 2.4 | 0.5 | A happy-go-lucky kangaroo loves to jump but doesn't know when to stop. | 48 | |
| Cole, Joanna | Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor, The | 3.9 | 0.5 | On another special field trip on the magic school bus, Ms.Frizzle's class learns about the ocean and the different creatures that live there. | 40 | Y |
| Cole, Joanna | Spider's Lunch: All About Garden Spiders | 1.8 | 0.5 | A hungry garden spider builds a web to catch lunch. | 31 | |
| Cole, Joanna | Magic School Bus Inside the Earth, The | 3.7 | 0.5 | On a special field trip in the magic school bus, Ms. Frizzle's class learns first hand about different kinds of rocks and the formation of the earth. | 40 | Y |
| Cole, Joanna | Bully Trouble | 2.4 | 0.5 | Arlo and Robby, finding themselves the victims of a neighborhood bully, work out a red-hot scheme for discouraging him. | 48 | Y |
| Cole, Joanna | Magic School Bus at the Waterworks, The | 3.9 | 0.5 | Blends fiction and nonfiction to convey facts about water supply while telling an amusing story about a wacky field trip. | 39 | Y |
| Cole, Joanna | Missing Tooth, The | 2.9 | 0.5 | Nearly identical best friends jeopardize their friendship when they bet on who will lose the next tooth. | 48 | Y |
| Cole/Beech | Magic School Bus in the Haunted Museum, The | 3.3 | 0.5 | Ms. Frizzle's class learns about how sound is made when they spend the night in a haunted sound museum. | 30 | |
| Colfer, Eoin | Artemis Fowl | 5 | 9 | Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a brilliant criminal mastermind, but even he does not know what he has taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These fairies are armed and they are dangerous. | 277 | Y |
| Colfer, Eoin | Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident | 5 | 9 | As Artemis rushes to his kidnapped father's rescue, he is stopped by a familiar nemesis, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police. This time, however, he is going to have to join forces with them if he wants to save his father. | 277 | |
| Collier, James/Christopher | My Brother Sam Is Dead | 6.2 | 8 | In this novel of the American Revolution, a young man is torn between his brother's patriotism and his father's Tory sympathies. | 216 | Y |
| Colum, Padraic | Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles, The | 7.3 | 13 | Describes the cycle of myths about the Argonauts and the quest for the Golden Fleece, as well as the tales of the creation of Heaven and Earth, the labors of Hercules, Theseus, and the Minotaur, etc. | 316 | |
| Compton, Patricia | Terrible EEK, The | 3.8 | 0.5 | A father's fear of the terrible leak ultimately saves him from a thief and wolf. | 26 | |
| Cone, Molly | Mishmash | 4 | 3 | Pete finally gets to have a dog of his own, but Mishmash believes he's a person. | 114 | Y |
| Conford, Ellen | Crush | 4.6 | 3 | This is a series of nine romantic episodes in the lives of B.J. and other students at Cutter's Forge High as they plan for the Valentine's Day Sweetheart Stomp. | 138 | |
| Conford, Ellen | Me and the Terrible Two | 4.4 | 3 | Dorrie can't stand her tormentors, Conrad and Haskell, but then something happens that leads to friendship. | 101 | |
| Conford, Ellen | Royal Pain, A | 6.2 | 6 | Abby, misplaced as an infant, becomes a real princess and begins to learn what that really means. | 171 | Y |
| Conford, Ellen | Case for Jenny Archer, A | 3 | 1 | After reading three mysteries in a row, Jenny becomes convinced that the neighbors across the street are up to no good and decides to investigate. | 61 | Y |
| Conly, Jane Leslie | Crazy Lady! | 3.8 | 5 | Although Vernon joins his friends in ridiculing the neighborhood outcasts, he develops a social conscience after all. | 180 | Y |
| Conly, Jane Leslie | Trout Summer | 4.3 | 7 | A sister and brother spend a summer in a cabin near a river, where they befriend an elderly man and where they try to come to terms with their parents' failing marriage. | 232 | |
| Conly, Jane Leslie | Racso and the Rats of NIMH | 5.5 | 10 | Timothy Frisby, a field mouse, teams up with the adventurous young rat Racso. Together they try to prevent the destruction of a secret community of rats that can read and write. | 278 | Y |
| Conrad, Pam | Pedro's Journal | 5.8 | 2 | The cabin boy on the 'Santa Maria' keeps a diary which records his experiences when he sails with Columbus on his first voyage to the New World in 1492. | 80 | |
| Conrad, Pam | Tub People, The | 3.1 | 0.5 | Evening bath-time play for the tub people--a family of wooden toys--is disrupted when water rushes down the drain and the tub child disappears with the soap suds. | 26 | Y |
| Conrad, Pam | Prairie Songs | 6.2 | 5 | Louisa's life in a loving pioneer family on the Nebraska prairie is altered by the arrival of a new doctor and his beautiful but tragically frail wife. | 167 | |
| Conway, Lisa | I Like Ketchup Sandwiches | 1.2 | 0.5 | While bored on a long car trip, a child tries to think of all the things she likes. Before she knows it, they have arrived at their destination. | 23 | |
| Cooney, Caroline B. | Face on the Milk Carton, The | 4.8 | 6 | A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity. | 184 | |
| Cooper, Susan | Over Sea, Under Stone | 7 | 13 | Three children on a holiday in Cornwall find an ancient manuscript which sends them on a dangerous quest for a grail that would reveal the true story of King Arthur. | 252 | |
| Cooper, Susan | Dark Is Rising, The | 6.9 | 15 | On his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs that will enable the Old Ones to triumph over the evil forces of the Dark. | 244 | Y |
| Cooper, Susan | Grey King, The | 7.1 | 10 | Will Stanton is swept into a quest to find the golden harp and wake the Sleepers. | 165 | |
| Cooper, Susan | Boggart, The | 6.1 | 8 | After visiting her family's castle in Scotland and returning home to Canada, twelve-year-old Emily finds that she has accidentally brought back with her a boggart, an invisible and mischievous spirit with a fondness for practical jokes. | 196 | Y |
| Cooper, Susan | Silver Cow, The | 3.7 | 0.5 | The father of a young Welsh boy gifted with a magic cow manages to destroy all the good things the cow has brought to their lives. | 29 | |
| Corcoran, Barbara | Wolf at the Door | 5.3 | 8 | For the conservation-minded, here is a novel that gives wolves their due. | 194 | Y |
| Corcoran, Barbara | Sky Is Falling, The | 6.8 | 8 | In Boston during the early days of the Great Depression, Annah's affluent lifestyle comes to an abrupt end when her father loses his banking job. Annah is sent to live with her aunt, where she meets a destitute but spunky girl named Dodie. | 185 | |
| Có Boston during the early days of the Great Depression, Annah's affluent lifestyle comes to an abrupt end when her father loses his banking job. Annah is sent to live with her aunt, where she meets a destitute but spunky girl named Dodie. | Abuelita's Heart | 4 | 0.5 | Before returning to the city with her parents, a young girl walks with her grandmother, learning about the special feelings, places, and plants that are a part of their heritage. | 28 | |
| Corey, Shana | You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer! | 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 | Y |
| Cornelissen, Cornelia | Soft Rain | 4.3 | 3 | Soft Rain, a nine-year-old Cherokee girl, is forced to relocate along with her family from North Carolina to the West. | 115 | |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Sniffles (Original Text) | 3.8 | 0.5 | Sniffles, the ostrich, spins so many tales that soon she cannot remember what's really true. | 28 | Y |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Glitterby Baby (Original Text) | 3.8 | 0.5 | Flutterby must make a very difficult decision that will affect her newborn foal. | 28 | |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Mumkin (Original Text) | 3.7 | 0.5 | Mumkin, the pony, realizes that bountiful things are meant to be shared. | 28 | |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Buttermilk (Original Text) | 3.5 | 0.5 | An adorable bunny learns that what seems scary at night is often quite ordinary in the light of day. | 28 | |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Trapper (Original Text) | 3.7 | 0.5 | Trapper, the baby seal, shows the big furry Muttsok that beauty can best be enjoyed when it is shared. | 26 | Y |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Grumpling (Original Text), The | 4 | 0.5 | Thanks to Buttermilk's expert tutelage, the terribly uncivilized Grumpling becomes well-mannered. | 28 | |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Muffin Muncher (Original Text), The | 3.6 | 0.5 | Industrious villagers and a very hungry dragon realize that by working together everyone can be happy. | 28 | Y |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Morgan and Yew (Original Text) | 3.7 | 0.5 | Through the example of his friend Morgan, Yew the sheep discovers that the most precious possession in life is friendship. | 24 | |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Morgan and Me (Original Text) | 3.9 | 0.5 | When he is transformed into a unicorn, Morgan learns that life comes with sacrifice and change. | 27 | Y |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Catundra (Original Text) | 3.7 | 0.5 | Through exercise and a healthy diet, fat cat Catundra becomes a trim and terrific tabby. | 28 | |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Wheedle on the Needle (Original Text) | 3.9 | 0.5 | The Wheedle and the citizens of Seattle reap the benefits of compromise and ingenuity. | 28 | Y |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Grampa-Lop (Original Text) | 3.5 | 0.5 | Grampa-Lop makes even the cranky older rabbits believe in magic. | 26 | |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Gnome from Nome (Original Text), The | 3.9 | 0.5 | The gnome and an otter find that love and friendship can keep you warm. | 28 | Y |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Zippity Zoom (Original Text) | 3.7 | 0.5 | A story of Zippity Zoom, a possum that insisted on running through life, always racing from place to place. Zippity Zoom found out you can learn more about life, if you slow down and look at the world you are in. | 28 | Y |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Ming Ling (Original Text) | 3.9 | 0.5 | A panda who wishes for peace and quiet changes her mind when all the birds leave her forest. | 28 | |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Minikin (Original Text) | 4.1 | 0.5 | Minikin, the lamb, decides not to be in such a hurry to grow up. | 28 | Y |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Dragolin (Original Text) | 4.1 | 0.5 | A friendly armadillo proves to little Dragolin that you can do anything if you just believe in yourself. | 28 | |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Feather Fin (Original Text) | 3.6 | 0.5 | Feather Fin, the eel, realizes there's no place like home. | 28 | |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Kartusch (Original Text) | 4.2 | 0.5 | The sleepless Fuzzy Eyefulls learn that there are as many beautiful things to behold in their dreams as there are when they are awake. | 28 | Y |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Jingle Bear (Original Text) | 3.6 | 0.5 | Young Jingle Bear discovers that Father Snow will come only once all the little animals are asleep. | 26 | |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Flutterby (Original Text) | 3.9 | 0.5 | In a tale of being proud of who you are, Flutterby discovers it's great being a tiny horse with wings. | 28 | Y |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Sassafras (Original Text) | 4.1 | 0.5 | Sassafras, the elephant, discovers that kindness is appreciated more than sarcasm. | 28 | Y |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Kiyomi (Original Text) | 4.2 | 0.5 | Kiyomi, the deer, and Sumi, the fire lizard, discover that beauty takes on countless different forms. | 28 | |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Serendipity (Original Text) | 3.5 | 0.5 | Tiny Serendipity and her friends embark on a fantastic adventure to discover who she really is. | 28 | Y |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Lady Rose (Original Text) | 3.6 | 0.5 | Lady Rose travels to a new land, then must let her family know that she has found a new home. | 28 | Y |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Raz-Ma-Taz (Original Text) | 3.8 | 0.5 | Nobody pays attention to the smart-alec Raz-Ma-Taz, until his friends come to his rescue in a lightning storm. | 28 | |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Read on Rita | 4.9 | 0.5 | Rita, a young raccoon, discovers that all the books in the land are being bought by a sly hedgehog who firmly believes a picture is worth a thousand words. | 30 | |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Rhubarb (Original Text) | 4 | 0.5 | Fuzzy puppy Rhubarb and all his pals learn the secret of friendship from a wise old possum. | 28 | Y |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Leo the Lop (Original Text) | 3.5 | 0.5 | Leo, the rabbit whose ears are different from all the other rabbits, learns that 'normal is whatever you are.' | 26 | Y |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Leo the Lop: Tail Three (Original Text) | 3.5 | 0.5 | Leo discovers that there are wonderful adventures he can enjoy all by himself. | 28 | Y |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Leo the Lop: Tail Two (Original Text) | 3.5 | 0.5 | Leo proves to all that he is not just a cuddly bunny but a heroic one too. | 26 | Y |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Tickle's Tale (Original Text) | 3.5 | 0.5 | As Tickle, the cat, discovers, curiosity may not always kill the cat, but too much of it can be harmful. | 28 | Y |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Squabbles (Original Text) | 3.9 | 0.5 | Story of the Squabble family and domestic abuse and how their forest neighbors intervened so the abuse would stop. | 28 | |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Fanny (Original Text) | 3.5 | 0.5 | To three-legged Fanny, the cat, being handicapped is only a state of mind. | 28 | |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Persnickity (Original Text) | 4.2 | 0.5 | Persnickity, a very tidy dragon, realizes that hard work and dedication mean nothing unless there is someone to share the rewards with. | 28 | |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Squeakers (Original Text) | 3.6 | 0.5 | Squeakers, the squirrel, draws courage from his parents to say 'no' to uncomfortable situations. | 28 | Y |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Hucklebug (Original Text) | 3.6 | 0.5 | Hucklebug discovers that life in bug village isn't so bad after all. | 28 | Y |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Crabby Gabby (Original Text) | 3.5 | 0.5 | Gabby, one of the Furry Eyefuls, learns how to get along with rather than dominate others. | 28 | Y |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Creolésgrove, Stephen | 3.9 | 0.5 | Creole makes the other swamp kids look beyond her appearance to see her inner beauty. | 28 | |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Gabby (Original Text) | 3.6 | 0.5 | Chatterbox Gabby is taught that listening can be just as much fun as talking. | 28 | |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Little Mouse on the Prairie (Original Text) | 3.8 | 0.5 | Hard-working Tweezle Dee teaches the other mice how to stay warm in winter while they teach her how to have fun. | 28 | Y |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Crickle-Crack (Original Text) | 4.1 | 0.5 | Squeakers, the squirrel, learns a valuable lesson in resisting temptation. | 28 | Y |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Maui-Maui (Original Text) | 4 | 0.5 | Maui-Maui, the whale, teaches the Amomonies, who fish for a living, to respect the balance of nature and to take only what they need from the sea. | 28 | Y |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Bangalee (Original Text) | 4 | 0.5 | Tidy Bangalee teaches his friends that neatness is admirable. | 28 | Y |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Frazzle (Original Text) | 3.7 | 0.5 | Irresponsible Frazzle, the bird, discovers the importance of prenatal care. | 28 | Y |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Poppyseed (Original Text) | 3.9 | 0.5 | Poppyseed, the calf, discovers how special it is to be a big brother or sister. | 28 | Y |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Jalopy (Original Text) | 3.5 | 0.5 | Jalopy is ostracized by a group of pigs because he speaks a different language. | 28 | |
| Cottonwood, Joe | Adventures of Boone Barnaby, The | 4.7 | 8 | Boone Barnaby and his two best friends learn about the adult version of truth and justice through their adventures in a small California town. | 227 | |
| Cousins, Steven | Frankenbug | 5.1 | 4 | Inspired by the movie Frankenstein, bug-lover Adam Cricklestein decides to create a monster bug that will protect him from the school bully, Jeb McCallister. | 151 | Y |
| Coville, Bruce | Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher | 4.9 | 4 | Small for his age but artistically talented, twelve-year-old Jeremy Thatcher unknowingly buys a dragon's egg. | 148 | Y |
| Coville, Bruce | Goblins in the Castle | 3.5 | 5 | William uncovers the secret of the castle where he grew up. | 164 | Y |
| Coville, Bruce | My Teacher Is an Alien | 3.7 | 2 | Susan Simmons must prevent her alien teacher from taking selected classmates to another planet. | 123 | |
| Coville, Bruce | Song of the Wanderer | 5.8 | 9 | Having jumped into Luster, the land of unicorns, Cara makes a perilous journey to bring back her grandmother, the Wanderer, in order to release the Queen of the unicorns and allow her to die. | 330 | Y |
| Coville, Bruce | Monster's Ring, The | 3.9 | 2 | A timid boy, eager to frighten the school bully on Halloween, acquires a magic ring and the power to change himself into a monster. | 87 | |
| Coxe, Molly | Great Snake Escape, The | 2.3 | 0.5 | Mirabel, a goose, and her friend, Maxie, a frog, get a scare one day when a king cobra escapes from the zoo. | 48 | |
| Creech, Sharon | Walk Two Moons | 5.4 | 10 | Sal hopes that her missing mother will soon return home. | 280 | Y |
| Creech, Sharon | Wanderer, The | 5.2 | 6 | Thirteen-year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their transatlantic crossing aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five-foot sailboat. | 305 | Y |
| Creech, Sharon | Ruby Holler | 4.3 | 6 | Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage, but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called Ruby Hol | 310 | Y |
| Creech, Sharon | Chasing Redbird | 5 | 7 | Thirteen-year-old Zinnia Taylor uncovers family secrets and self-truths while clearing a mysterious settler trail that begins on her family's farm in Kentucky. | 261 | Y |
| Creech, Sharon | Love That Dog | 4.5 | 1 | A young student surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem. | 86 | |
| Cresswell, Helen | Ordinary Jack | 7.5 | 9 | The first book in the Bagthorpe series about an eccentric English family and an eleven-year-old boy who is seemingly talentless. | 218 | Y |
| Cresswell, Helen | Time Out | 4.7 | 2 | Twelve-year-old Tweeny and her parents, servants in a London house in 1887, use a book of magic spells to travel forward in time 100 years and find the England of 1987 to be an astonishing place. | 74 | |
| Crew, Linda | Children of the River | 7.8 | 10 | Having fled Cambodia four years earlier to escape the Khmer Rouge army, seventeen-year-old Sundara is torn between remaining faithful to her own people and enjoying life in her Oregon high school as a "regular" American. | 213 | Y |
| Crew, Linda | Someday I'll Laugh About This | 5 | 6 | Spending the summer at her family's beach house off the Oregon coast, twelve-year-old Shelby struggles to accept her older cousin's new interests, her favorite uncle's marriage plans, and her own growing up. | 165 | |
| Crews, Donald | Shortcut | 1.5 | 0.5 | When the kids visit Bigmama's house in Florida, they're told to stay away from the railroad tracks that run by, but the tracks are a tempting shortcut. | 28 | Y |
| Crews, Donald | Bigmama's | 1.6 | 0.5 | Visiting Bigmama's house in the country, young Donald Crews finds his relatives full of news and the old place and its surroundings just the same as the year before. | 30 | |
| Crimi, Carolyn | Don't Need Friends | 2.6 | 0.5 | After his best friend moves away, Rat rudely rebuffs the efforts of the other residents of the junkyard to be friendly, until he and a grouchy old dog decide that they need each other. | 32 | Y |
| Cristaldi, Kathryn | Baseball Ballerina | 2.4 | 0.5 | A baseball-loving girl worries that the ballet class her mother forces her to take will ruin her reputation with the other members of her baseball team. | 48 | Y |
| Cristaldi, Kathryn | Princess Lulu Goes to Camp | 2.6 | 0.5 | Princess Lulu has no friends because she is not very nice, so the king and queen send her to Camp Ruff 'n' Tuff, where they hope she will learn to get along. | 48 | |
| Cristaldi, Kathryn | Samantha the Snob | 1.8 | 0.5 | Samantha may look like a snob, but her glitzy appearance is deceiving. | 48 | |
| Croll, Carolyn | Too Many Babas | 2.7 | 0.5 | Four peasant ladies discover that too many cooks without a plan can spoil the broth. | 63 | Y |
| Croll, Carolyn | Three Brothers, The | 3.5 | 0.5 | Unable to decide which of his three sons should inherit the family farm, a farmer comes up with a way to help him choose his heir. | 28 | |
| Cronin, Doreen | Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type | 2.3 | 0.5 | When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn, they start making demands and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want. | 29 | Y |
| Cronin, Doreen | Giggle, Giggle, Quack | 2.3 | 0.5 | Duck makes trouble by changing the instructions Farmer Brown leaves for his brother, Bob, while he is on vacation. | 31 | Y |
| Crossley-Holland, Kevin | Seeing Stone, The | 4.3 | 10 | In late twelfth-century England, a thirteen-year-old boy named Arthur recounts how Merlin gives him a magical seeing stone which shows him images of the legendary King Arthur, the events of whose life seem to have many parallels to his own. | 341 | |
| Crossley-Holland, Kevin | World of King Arthur and His Court, The | 7.5 | 3 | This book discusses the different aspects of King Arthur's chivalrous world. | 125 | |
| Crowe, Robert L. | Clyde Monster | 2.7 | 0.5 | Young Clyde Monster worries about people lurking in his darkened cave bedroom. | 28 | |
| Crummel, Susan Stevens | Tumbleweed Stew | 2.5 | 0.5 | Jack Rabbit tricks the other animals into helping him make a pot of tumbleweed stew. | 23 | |
| Curlee, Lynn | Liberty | 8.5 | 1 | This book discusses all the planning and efforts that went into the construction of one of the most famous symbols of the United States, the Statue of Liberty. | 41 | Y |
| Curtis, Christopher Paul | Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963, The | 5 | 8 | The ordinary routines of the Watsons, an African-American family from Michigan, are drastically changed when they visit Alabama. | 210 | Y |
| Curtis, Christopher Paul | Bud, Not Buddy | 5 | 8 | Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids. | 245 | Y |
| Cushman, Doug | Aunt Eater Loves a Mystery | 2.4 | 0.5 | Aunt Eater loves mystery stories so much that she sees mysterious adventures wherever she looks. | 64 | Y |
| Cushman, Doug | Uncle Foster's Hat Tree | 2 | 0.5 | Merle hears four entertaining stories about the hats on Uncle Foster's hat tree and then gets to try on the hats. | 48 | |
| Cushman, Karen | Midwife's Apprentice, The | 6 | 3 | In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world. | 122 | Y |
| Cushman, Karen | Catherine, Called Birdy | 6.4 | 8 | The daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off. | 169 | Y |
| Cushman, Karen | Matilda Bone | 5.7 | 5 | Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and practitioner of medicine in a village in medieval England, tries to reconcile the various aspects of her life, both spiritual and practical. | 167 | Y |
| Cushman, Karen | Ballad of Lucy Whipple, The | 5.8 | 7 | In 1849, twelve-year-old Lucy is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a small California mining town. Lucy helps run a rough boarding house and looks for comfort in books while trying to find a way to get "home". | 187 | Y |
| Cutler, Jane | Rats! | 3.9 | 3 | The Fraser brothers are growing up with new problems and solutions that will make you smile. | 114 | |
| Cutler, Jane | Darcy and Gran Don't Like Babies | 2.5 | 0.5 | Darcy and Gran are not happy about the idea of a new baby coming, but they change their minds after the birth. | 25 | Y |
| Cutler, Jane | No Dogs Allowed | 4 | 2 | The Fraser brothers are featured in five stories that feature their crazy predicaments. | 101 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Gargoyles Don't Drive School Buses | 3.6 | 1 | Could the new bus driver who looks just like a statue on top of the old library really be a living gargoyle? | 66 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Trolls Don't Ride Roller Coasters | 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 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Elves Don't Wear Hard Hats | 3.6 | 1 | Could the short construction workers building the school playground really be elves working on a secret present? | 70 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Santa Claus Doesn't Mop Floors | 3.6 | 1 | The Bailey School Kids want to find out if the jolly new janitor could really be St. Nick. | 71 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Gremlins Don't Chew Bubble Gum | 3.1 | 1 | The electrical appliances of the new secretary at Bailey School blow up. | 80 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Mummies Don't Coach Softball | 3.8 | 1 | The Bailey School Kids have their doubts about the new softball coach who keeps wrapping up his injuries in bandages. | 70 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Pirates Don't Wear Pink Sunglasses | 3 | 1 | Humorous adventures with the Bailey kids at summer camp. | 78 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Frankenstein Doesn't Plant Petunias | 3.3 | 1 | A fun-filled horror adventure story. | 57 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Knights Don't Teach Piano | 3.9 | 1 | The kids wonder if the new piano teacher is a knight planning to take over Bailey City. | 66 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Genies Don't Ride Bicycles | 3 | 1 | The Bailey School students are on the trail of a real genie. | 69 | Y |
| Dadey/Jones | Unicorns Don't Give Sleigh Rides | 3.6 | 1 | The Bailey school kids are investigating whether a horse is a unicorn or just a regular horse. | 69 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Werewolves Don't Go to Summer Camp | 3.2 | 1 | The Bailey Elementary third-graders are in for a hairy adventure when they meet Mr. Jenkins, camp director, who is as strange as a wolf...or a werewolf. | 93 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Cupid Doesn't Flip Hamburgers | 3.1 | 1 | The kids of Bailey School find out if the new cook in the cafeteria is really Cupid. | 76 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Frankenstein Doesn't Slam Hockey Pucks | 4 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the large man coaching the new hockey team really be Frankenstein's monster? | 76 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Martians Don't Take Temperatures | 3.6 | 1 | Some of the students at Bailey School think the new school nurse is a Martian. | 67 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Cyclops Doesn't Roller-Skate | 3.7 | 1 | Could the doctor who has come to check everyone's eyes really be a cyclops? Liza is determined to find out. | 65 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Aliens Don't Wear Braces | 3.1 | 1 | Strange doings erupt when a substitute teacher walks into Bailey School. | 74 | Y |
| Dadey/Jones | Dracula Doesn't Drink Lemonade | 3 | 1 | Is the new counselor at Bailey School a vampire? | 71 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Dracula Doesn't Rock and Roll | 3.8 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could Mr. Drake, the old school counselor, really be in a rock band full of vampires? | 67 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Vikings Don't Wear Wrestling Belts | 4.1 | 1 | Could the professional wrestler in town for WrestleBaileyLive be a real-life Viking? | 75 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Sea Monsters Don't Ride Motorcycles | 4 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. Is the winning rider at the motorcycle races really a sea monster? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out! | 74 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots | 3.3 | 1 | The rowdy third-grade class at Bailey Elementary is given a new teacher--the formidable Mrs. Jeepers. | 78 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Ghosts Don't Eat Potato Chips | 3.5 | 1 | When potato chips begin forming secret messages on the floor of Aunt Matilda's house, there must be a ghost behind this spooky business. | 67 | Y |
| Dadey/Jones | Ghosts Don't Ride Wild Horses | 4.1 | 1 | Could the mysterious man that the Bailey School Kids meet on a class trip really be the ghost of Coyote Pete, the roughest, toughest cowboy in the Wild West? | 69 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Dragons Don't Cook Pizza | 3.6 | 1 | Could the new pizza place with a man dressed as a knight really have a fire-breathing dragon as a cook? Eddie's going to find out. | 58 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Phantoms Don't Drive Sports Cars | 4 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. Could the strange man who plays in the orchestra, wears a cape and always has one side of his face shaded really be a phantom haunting the opera? | 75 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Bigfoot Doesn't Square Dance | 3.7 | 1 | The Bailey School kids are investigating the strange adult that lives in Bailey City, for he may be the legendary Bigfoot. | 67 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Bride of Frankenstein Doesn't Bake Cookies, The | 4.2 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City, but is the strange new cookie chef at the ice rink really the Bride of Frankenstein? | 75 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Zombies Don't Play Soccer | 3.5 | 1 | The Bailey School Kids are going to find out what is wrong with the new Soccer Coach. | 70 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Ghouls Don't Scoop Ice Cream | 3.7 | 1 | The Bailey School Kids think the new worker at Burger Doodle is a ghoul spying for vampires. | 66 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Leprechauns Don't Play Basketball | 3.5 | 1 | The students at Bailey Elementary School think their gym teacher is a leprechaun. | 71 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Mermaids Don't Run Track | 3.8 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the beautiful singing track coach with long hair really be a magical mermaid? | 72 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Ninjas Don't Bake Pumpkin Pies | 4.1 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the new baker who makes the best pumpkin pies really be a ninja in town to steal some valuable Japanese art? | 70 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Hercules Doesn't Pull Teeth | 3.7 | 1 | Could the dentist really be Hercules, the strongest man in the world? | 70 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Wolfmen Don't Hula Dance | 4.1 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the hairy, fire-eating hula dancer for the Bailey School Luau really be a wolfman? | 71 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Robots Don't Catch Chicken Pox | 4.2 | 1 | Could the drama teacher directing the class play really be a robot that is trying to take over the school? | 73 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Giants Don't Go Snowboarding | 3.8 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the large man giving snowboarding lessons really be a giant lurking on Ruby Mountain? | 76 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Skeletons Don't Play Tubas | 3.6 | 1 | The new band instructor at Bailey School teaches everyone to play instruments, even a skeleton! | 73 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Monsters Don't Scuba Dive | 3.7 | 1 | The Bailey School kids go to summer camp. | 69 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Angels Don't Know Karate | 3.6 | 1 | Could the new karate teacher who is guarding the kids and granting wishes really be an angel? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out. | 65 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Bogeymen Don't Play Football | 3.4 | 1 | The Bailey School Kids investigate the new student teacher who they believe may be out to get them. | 70 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Wizards Don't Wear Graduation Gowns | 3.8 | 1 | Could the new assistant principal really be a wizard who wants to turn everyone at graduation into an animal? | 74 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Goblins Don't Play Video Games | 4.2 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the new computer teacher really be the Master Goblin from Melody's video game? | 82 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Wizards Don't Need Computers | 3.6 | 1 | The new librarian has a long, white beard and a magic wand. Could he be Merlin? | 63 | |
| Dadey/Jones | Witches Don't Do Backflips | 3.2 | 1 | Is the new gym teacher at Bailey School really a witch? | 85 | |
| Dahl, Roald | James and the Giant Peach | 7.1 | 4 | Madcap adventures take place as young James enters a peach as big as a house and encounters wonderful new friends. | 126 | Y |
| Dahl, Roald | Boy | 6.7 | 8 | Tales of his childhood by the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. | 176 | Y |
| Dahl, Roald | Matilda | 5.7 | 4 | Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and to restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security. | 240 | Y |
| Dahl, Roald | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | 6.7 | 5 | Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way. | 155 | Y |
| Dahl, Roald | BFG, The | 5.6 | 6 | Luckily for Sophie, the BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who carries her off is nothing like his giant neighbors who are headed for England to gobble children and must be stopped. | 208 | Y |
| Dahl, Roald | Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | 5.8 | 5 | Charlie Bucket and his family share a fantastic journey as they attempt to return to the Chocolate Factory. | 161 | Y |
| Dahl, Roald | Witches, The | 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 | Y |
| Dale, Nora | Nan and the Sea Monster | 2.9 | 0.5 | When Nan the mermaid looks at her friend Dolphin and thinks she sees a sea monster, her friends realize that she needs glasses. | 30 | |
| Dale, Nora | Best Trick of All, The | 1.4 | 0.5 | Four clowns have a contest to see who can do the best trick. | 22 | |
| Dalgliesh, Alice | Courage of Sarah Noble, The | 4.2 | 1 | A charming and brave eight-year-old girl accompanies her father into the wilderness of Connecticut in 1707 to cook for him while he builds a new home for his family. | 54 | Y |
| Daly, Niki | Papa Lucky's Shadow | 2.8 | 0.5 | With his granddaughter's help, Papa Lucky takes his love of dancing onto the street and makes some extra money. | 22 | Y |
| Dana, Barbara | Zucchini | 4.8 | 3 | Zucchini, a ferret, escapes from the zoo and after riding the subway across town, meets Billy, a shy boy, and their friendship begins. | 148 | Y |
| Daniel, Claire | Sparky's Bone | 1.2 | 0.5 | Sparky hides her bone but can't find it when she wants it. | 16 | |
| Daniel, Claire | Winter's Song | 1.2 | 0.5 | The boys learn what Dad means by the phrase "winter's song." | 24 | |
| Danziger, Paula | You Can't Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown | 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 | Y |
| Danziger, Paula | Cat Ate My Gymsuit, The | 4 | 3 | Marcy defends a controversial teacher and incurs the wrath of her school and her father. | 147 | |
| Danziger, Paula | Remember Me to Harold Square | 6.2 | 5 | Kendra and her cousin Frank take part in a scavenger hunt in New York City, and the summer becomes filled with fun and discoveries. | 139 | |
| Danziger, Paula | There's a Bat in Bunk Five | 5.5 | 5 | On her own for the first time, fourteen-year-old Marcy tries to cope with the new people and situations she encounters while working as a counselor at an arts camp. | 150 | Y |
| Darian, Shea | Grandpa's Garden | 4.1 | 0.5 | A young girl deepens her relationship with her grandfather as they work and share their feelings together in a special garden. | 26 | |
| Daugherty, James | Daniel Boone | 7.6 | 4 | Life on the frontier with Daniel Boone, includes exploring the wilderness and many adventures along the way. | 95 | Y |
| Daugherty, James | Andy and the Lion | 3.6 | 0.5 | In this retelling of Androcles and the Lion, Andy meets lion on the way to school and wins his friendship for life by removing a thorn from his paw. | 68 | Y |
| Davidson, Margaret | Helen Keller | 3.9 | 1 | This is the biography of Helen Keller, who overcame many obstacles related to her blindness and deafness. | 95 | |
| De Angeli, Marguerite | Door in the Wall, The | 7 | 4 | A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the king. | 121 | Y |
| de Beer, Hans | Little Polar Bear | 3.4 | 0.5 | While hunting with his father, a young polar bear drifts out to sea and ends up in a jungle where a friendly hippopotamus helps him return home. | 23 | |
| de Beer, Hans | Little Polar Bear and the Brave Little Hare | 2.6 | 0.5 | A polar bear comes to the rescue of a snow rabbit. | 45 | |
| De Brunhoff, Laurent | Isabelle's New Friend | 2.5 | 0.5 | Isabelle the elephant and Vic the rhino persist in their controversial friendship, despite the bad feelings between their respective species. A Pictureback book. | 29 | |
| De Brunhoff, Laurent | Meet Babar and His Family | 3.3 | 0.5 | Babar and his family enjoy a variety of activities during each of the year's seasons. | 28 | Y |
| De Brunhoff, Laurent | Babar and the Ghost (Easy-to-Read) | 1.4 | 0.5 | An easy-to-read version of the story in which the ghost of the Black Castle follows Babar and his family and friends back to Celesteville. | 48 | Y |
| De Brunhoff, Laurent | Babar's Picnic | 2.9 | 0.5 | Babar, the little king elephant, goes on a picnic with his friends. | 21 | |
| De Brunhoff, Laurent | Babar's Little Circus Star | 1.8 | 0.5 | Babar's new daughter becomes the star of the big top, showing that there are huge advantages to being small. | 32 | |
| De Brunhoff, Laurent | Babar Learns to Cook | 3.9 | 0.5 | After Babar and Celeste watch him on television, Truffles, the most famous chef in Celesteville, comes to the palace to give cooking lessons. | 29 | |
| De Jong, Meindert | Journey from Peppermint Street | 5.6 | 9 | Siebren goes on a journey with his grandfather and learns about people, about fear, and about love. | 242 | Y |
| De Jong, Meindert | Shadrach | 4.3 | 6 | This beautiful story of a boy and his very special pet rabbit is told with a childlike perception and a sensitive understanding of a child's emotions. | 182 | Y |
| De Jong, Meindert | Hurry Home, Candy | 6 | 7 | Lost and nameless, a stray dog exhibits courage and finds a home at last. | 244 | |
| De Jong, Meindert | Easter Cat, The | 3.7 | 2 | Although she always wanted a cat, Millie was never allowed to keep one until she found one next to her Easter basket. | 110 | Y |
| De Jong, Meindert | Wheel on the School, The | 6.3 | 11 | Storks no longer come to the little Dutch fishing village of Shora to nest. Lina devises a plan to bring them back. | 298 | Y |
| De Jong, Meindert | Along Came a Dog | 5.7 | 5 | A moving story about a dog, a hen, and a man and about the strange and wonderful friendship that grew between them. | 172 | Y |
| De Jong, Meindert | House of Sixty Fathers, The | 4.9 | 6 | A young Chinese boy and his pet pig are separated from his parents when Japanese soldiers invade his country. | 189 | Y |
| De Paola, Tomie | Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs | 3.7 | 0.5 | A small boy enjoys his relationship with his grandmother and his great-grandmother, but he learns to face their inevitable death. | 24 | |
| De Paola, Tomie | Strega Nona | 3.8 | 0.5 | When Strega Nona leaves him alone with her magic pasta pot, Big Anthony is determined to show the townspeople how it works. | 30 | Y |
| De Paola, Tomie | Legend of the Bluebonnet, The | 3.9 | 0.5 | Luminous paintings capture the essence of a favorite Indian tale of a courageous small girl in the land now called Texas. | 28 | Y |
| De Paola, Tomie | Kit and Kat | 1.4 | 0.5 | The adventures of a brother and sister kitten duo. | 32 | |
| De Paola, Tomie | Tom | 3.1 | 0.5 | Aside from having the same name, Tommy and his grandfather Tom share a sense of humor. | 30 | Y |
| De Paola, Tomie | Legend of the Indian Paintbrush, The | 3.9 | 0.5 | Little Gopher follows his destiny as revealed in a Dream-Vision of becoming an artist for his people and eventually is able to bring the colors of the sunset down to earth. | 35 | Y |
| DeArmond, Dale | Seal Oil Lamp, The | 4.3 | 1 | A retelling of a traditional Eskimo tale of how a seven-year-old blind boy is saved from death by the kindly little mouse people. | 32 | Y |
| DeClements, Barthe | Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade | 3.5 | 4 | Jenny and her friends discover that although Elsie is fat, she is really a good friend. | 137 | Y |
| DeClements, Barthe | Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You | 5.5 | 5 | After being sent to special education classes because of her reading problem, "Bad Helen" meets a sympathetic teacher who helps her achieve her dream of going to junior high. | 146 | Y |
| DeFelice, Cynthia | Weasel | 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 | |
| Defoe, Daniel | Robinson Crusoe | 12.3 | 27 | A young seaman is cast ashore on an uninhabited tropical island. | 482 | Y |
| Delton, Judy | Camp Ghost-Away | 2.4 | 1 | When the Pee Wee Scouts go camping, they don't expect any scary ghosts. | 80 | Y |
| Delton, Judy | Pee Wees on First | 3.5 | 1 | The Pee Wees begin the spring baseball season. | 85 | Y |
| Delton, Judy | Angel Spreads Her Wings | 4.6 | 3 | Angel, whose active imagination always causes her to expect the worst, is given many new things to worry about when her stepfather plans to take the family to Greece for the summer. | 143 | |
| Delton, Judy | Angel Bites the Bullet | 4.1 | 2 | Angel and her best friend try to find a way to get rid of the well-meaning, but, disaster-prone family friend who has moved into Angel's bedroom. | 130 | |
| Delton, Judy | Angel in Charge | 4.8 | 3 | Ten-year-old Angel and her little brother Rags are left to fend for themselves when their Mom is on vacation and the babysitter is rushed to the hospital with a broken leg. | 147 | |
| Delton, Judy | Blue Skies, French Fries | 2.3 | 1 | Just before school starts, the Pee Wee Scouts have a big Labor Day Pee Wee Weenie Roast. | 87 | |
| Delton, Judy | Angel's Mother's Baby | 4 | 3 | Twelve-year-old Angel has adjusted to her mother's remarriage and believes that she and her younger brother Rags now live in the perfect family, until she discovers that her mother is going to have another baby. | 133 | |
| Delton, Judy | Back Yard Angel | 4.6 | 3 | Although ten-year-old Angel loves her little brother Rags dearly, the constant responsibility of taking care of him weighs heavily on her young shoulders. | 111 | Y |
| Delton, Judy | Cookies and Crutches | 2.4 | 1 | Molly must decide to try for a skating badge or a cookie badge. | 69 | |
| Delton, Judy | Angel's Mother's Boyfriend | 3.5 | 4 | Ten-year-old Angel finds plenty to worry about when she learns that her mother's new boyfriend is a clown. | 163 | Y |
| Delton, Judy | Angel's Mother's Wedding | 3.7 | 3 | Angel is worried because her mother does not seem to be making any preparations for her upcoming wedding. | 166 | Y |
| Delton, Judy | Lucky Dog Days | 2.2 | 1 | August is Help-a-Pet month, so the scouts head for the local pound to help out. | 69 | Y |
| Delton, Judy | Kitty in the Middle | 3 | 3 | First love, a madcap mix-up at a stranger's wedding, and exploring a mysterious old house are some of the experiences that make fourth grade exciting for three friends. | 135 | |
| Delton, Judy | Kitty from the Start | 4.4 | 3 | Kitty moves to a new neighborhood and eventually makes a successful transition into her new third grade. | 141 | |
| Delton, Judy | Sky Babies | 2.6 | 1 | When the Pee Wee Scouts decide to give the gift of baby-sitting for Christmas, there are not enough babies to go around. | 88 | Y |
| Demuth, Patricia | Gorillas | 2.6 | 0.5 | Information on how gorillas act, live, and travel. | 48 | Y |
| Dennis, Wesley | Flip | 2.9 | 0.5 | A colt realizes his desire to jump across the brook following a dream in which he sprouts silvery wings. | 58 | |
| deRegniers, Beatrice Schenk | May I Bring a Friend? | 2.2 | 0.5 | A boy visits the Royal Family and brings all his animal friends. | 41 | Y |
| DiCamillo, Kate | Because of Winn-Dixie | 3.9 | 3 | Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie. | 182 | |
| Dickens, Charles | Christmas Carol (Unabridged), A | 6.7 | 5 | In this classic story, Ebenezer Scrooge learns the true meaning of Christmas after being visited by three ghosts. | 102 | Y |
| Dickinson, Peter | Bone from a Dry Sea, A | 7.9 | 12 | A little girl visiting an archaeological dig makes a discovery that could alter the story of human evolution. | 199 | |
| Dickinson, Peter | Kin: Po's Story, The | 4.8 | 6 | As a member of the Kin, a band of people living in prehistoric times, young Po wants to prove his bravery but finds that doing so requires overcoming great obstacles. | 152 | |
| Dickinson, Peter | Kin: Mana's Story, The | 4.1 | 6 | Mana and the other Kin, a band of people living in prehistoric times, search for food on the edge of a great marsh and fight a new enemy, the dangerous killers whom they name the demon men. | 152 | |
| DiSalvo-Ryan, DyAnne | City Green | 3.5 | 0.5 | Children and community members get together to turn an empty lot into a garden. | 30 | |
| DiTerlizzi, Tony | Ted | 2.6 | 0.5 | A young boy manages to get his busy father's attention with the help of a special imaginary friend. | 40 | Y |
| Dixon, Dougal | Hunting the Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals | 4.4 | 0.5 | Examines how paleontologists discover, study, classify, reconstruct, and restore the fossil remains of many kinds of dinosaurs. | 32 | Y |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Clue of the Screeching Owl, The | 5.8 | 5 | When dogs and men suddenly disappear and strange screams fill the night, fantastic stories of vengeful ghosts are almost believable. | 177 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Mystery of the Whale Tattoo | 5.4 | 5 | One exciting event follows another when Frank and Joe Hardy are hired to apprehend the pickpockets who have been plaguing Solo's Super Carnival. | 174 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Danger on Vampire Trail | 5.1 | 5 | The Hardy boys and two friends take a camping trip to the Rocky Mountains in an attempt to locate a gang of credit-card counterfeiters. | 175 | Y |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Wailing Siren Mystery, The | 5.2 | 5 | The Hardy boys piece together a mystery from two apparently unrelated clues. | 177 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Clue of the Broken Blade, The | 5.3 | 5 | While searching for the guard end of a broken saber that will solve one mystery, the Hardys become involved in another. | 178 | Y |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Arctic Patrol Mystery, The | 5.4 | 5 | Private investigator Fenton Hardy enlists the aid of his teen-age detective sons in a search for a missing man being sought by an insurance company. | 176 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Crisscross Shadow, The | 5.2 | 5 | The Hardy boys find the missing deed to an Indian's land, prevent a phony salesman from carrying through a reckless scheme, and help their father solve a top-secret case. | 177 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Mystery of the Flying Express | 5.1 | 5 | After the new hydrofoil they are guarding is stolen, the Hardy boys face frequent danger in solving a mystery involving criminals who operate by signs of the zodiac. | 177 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Mystery of Cabin Island, The | 5.2 | 5 | The Hardy boys are invited to spend Christmas on a wealthy man's island where they learn of and solve a kidnapping and theft mystery. | 178 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Clue in the Embers, The | 5.6 | 5 | In solving the mystery of two medallions missing from an inherited curio collection, the Hardys wind up in a desolate area of Guatemala at the mercy of dangerous thugs. | 177 | Y |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Mystery at Devil's Paw | 5.4 | 5 | The Hardy boys are off to Alaska to help a friend not realizing the threat to their lives. | 180 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Mystery of the Desert Giant | 5.3 | 6 | Who is the mysterious man that the caller said to beware of? | 182 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Mystery of the Aztec Warrior, The | 5.8 | 6 | After finding a mysterious will, the Hardy boys set out to fulfill its request to find a treasure and the owner of the treasure. | 178 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Missing Chums, The | 5.2 | 5 | Frank and Joe investigate numerous crimes in their town that may or may not be related. | 175 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | What Happened at Midnight | 5.8 | 5 | While protecting a secret invention, the Hardy boys encounter a dangerous gang of jewel thieves. | 173 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Yellow Feather Mystery, The | 5.6 | 5 | In trying to trace a missing will, detectives Frank and Joe Hardy trap a dangerous criminal who is willing to risk all--including murder--for money. | 181 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | While the Clock Ticked | 5.7 | 5 | Frank and Joe's hike on the Willow River Road turns up some interesting clues and the beginning of another mystery. | 174 | Y |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Mystery of the Spiral Bridge, The | 5.5 | 5 | The Hardy boys involve themselves in finding the men who kidnapped their father, and along with the clues their father gives them after his escape, Frank and Joe easily solve another mystery. | 177 | Y |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Bombay Boomerang, The | 5.7 | 6 | The Hardy boys dial a wrong number, get the Pentagon, and suddenly find themselves in a dangerous adventure involving national security. | 180 | Y |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Mystery of the Chinese Junk, The | 5.7 | 6 | The boys and a few friends pool their resources to buy an old Chinese junk, but soon learn they have purchased a ship that others are desperate to have. | 184 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Twisted Claw, The | 5 | 5 | The Hardy boys embark on another puzzling mystery when they try to discover who is stealing rare collections of ancient pirate treasure. | 177 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Tower Treasure, The | 5.4 | 6 | What did the speeding motorist have to do with the mystery of the Tower Treasure? | 180 | Y |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Viking Symbol Mystery, The | 5.7 | 5 | The Hardy boys chase after a gang of robbers hiding out in the Canadian Northwest in order to stop them from deciphering symbols that will lead them to a buried treasure. | 175 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Hidden Harbor Mystery, The | 5.6 | 5 | This mystery centers around the Blackstone family, their means of aquiring their wealth, and a disputed will. | 177 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Secret Warning, The | 5.6 | 5 | Frank and Joe investigate this mystery of a sunken ship by scuba-diving the wreckage. | 176 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Secret of the Old Mill, The | 5.5 | 5 | "Drop case or else danger for you and your family." This warning addressed to Fenton Hardy not only alarms the famous investigator and his detective sons, but also puzzles them because Mr. Hardy is working on more than one case. | 174 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Footprints Under the Window | 6.1 | 5 | A spine-chilling mystery that has the Hardy boys searching for their father along with the mastermind of a spy ring. | 177 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | House on the Cliff, The | 5.4 | 5 | Frank and Joe manage to escape from a hostage situation with a band of smugglers and, of course, solve another mystery. | 180 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Great Airport Mystery, The | 5.8 | 5 | The Hardy boys are called on to assist their father in solving a case involving platinum shipments that are being stolen from cargo planes. | 175 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Melted Coins, The | 4.9 | 5 | Suspecting that their friend has been swindled, the Hardy brothers investigate and find themselves on the trail of a much larger criminal operation. | 180 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Secret of the Caves, The | 5.2 | 5 | Triggered by the disappearance of a brilliant young professor, this mystery takes the Hardy boys first to Kenworthy College, where they find a puzzling message on an examination paper. | 175 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Gross Ghost Mystery, The | 3.3 | 1 | A bully throws Chet's baseball mitt into a spooky old house. | 73 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Disappearing Floor, The | 5.6 | 5 | Frank and Joe solve another mystery involving notorious jewel thieves. | 176 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Phantom Freighter, The | 5.1 | 5 | The Hardy brothers embark on a freighter trip under mysterious circumstances and find themselves involved with a smuggling ring. | 181 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Flickering Torch Mystery, The | 5 | 5 | When two suspicious plane accidents occur near an eastern airport, the two Hardy brothers investigate the case and find themselves in greater danger than they anticipated. | 181 | Y |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Secret Agent on Flight 101, The | 5.5 | 5 | Rarely do magicians reveal their professional secrets. Consequently, Frank and Joe Hardy are amazed when a well-known magician, the Incredible Hexton, offers to reveal the secret of his "Vanishing Man Act" and invites Mr. Hardy to be the subject. | 176 | Y |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Secret of Pirates' Hill, The | 5.4 | 5 | Hired to locate an old Spanish cannon, the Hardy brothers uncover an even greater treasure after perilous underwater adventures. | 178 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Secret Panel, The | 5.1 | 5 | A chance meeting with a stranger on the road provides the Hardy brothers with a clue to a gang of local burglars. | 178 | Y |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Sinister Signpost, The | 5.1 | 5 | A vanishing signpost has Frank and Joe baffled in this case involving an experimental race car. | 175 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Haunted Fort, The | 5.6 | 5 | A long-distance telephone call from Chet Morton's uncle summons Frank and Joe Hardy and their staunch pal Chet to a summer art school located near old Fort Senandaga, which is reputed to be inhabited by a ghost. | 176 | Y |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Sign of the Crooked Arrow, The | 5.2 | 5 | The Hardy brothers interrupt their investigations of jewelry-store holdups to answer a plea from their cousin on a New Mexico cattle ranch. | 178 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Figure in Hiding, A | 5.3 | 5 | Frank and Joe are led through an interesting case involving smugglers and a mystery house. | 176 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Hooded Hawk Mystery, The | 6.1 | 6 | When their peregrine falcon brings down a homing pigeon carrying rubies, the Hardy brothers find themselves involved with kidnappers. | 180 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Short-Wave Mystery, The | 5.2 | 5 | Frank and Joe begin with a mystery that develops over hijacked stuffed animals from a country auction, but end up entangled in their father's latest mystery involving an industrial spy ring. | 176 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Hunting for Hidden Gold | 6.3 | 6 | Frank and Joe uncover the clues in this case that they seem to have been led to by mysterious happenings. | 177 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Mark on the Door, The | 5.3 | 5 | In this adventurous case, the Hardy boys travel to many places in connection with a missing boat. | 175 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Shore Road Mystery, The | 5.6 | 5 | An offer to help a friend pits the Hardys against a ruthless gang of criminals. | 178 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Ghost at Skeleton Rock, The | 5.8 | 6 | As a final step in solving a mystery, Frank and Joe face the ghost at Skeleton Rock. | 177 | Y |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Secret of the Lost Tunnel, The | 5.6 | 5 | Difficult assignments are nothing new to the Hardy boys, and this one that takes them to the Deep South is particularly challenging. | 174 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Secret of Skull Mountain, The | 5.6 | 5 | There is a crisis in Bayport! Soon the city will be without water! Every night water strangely disappears from the new reservoir near Skull Mountain. | 177 | |
| Dixon, Franklin W. | Secret of Wildcat Swamp | 5.7 | 6 | On an archeological dig located near the place an escaped convict is suspected to be hiding becomes a dangerous place for Frank and Joe. | 178 | |
| Dobeck, Maryann | Six Fine Fish | 2 | 0.5 | This book tells about angelfish, stingray, porcupine fish, moray eel, shark, and sea horse. | 16 | |
| Dobeck, Maryann | Cat That Broke the Rules, The | 1.4 | 0.5 | A cat visits the library and gets his own card. | 16 | |
| Dobeck, Maryann | Save That Trash! | 1.1 | 0.5 | A book that tells how to make things from items you would normally throw out. | 16 | |
| Dobkin, Bonnie | Go-with Words | 1.4 | 0.5 | Rhyming text presents related words, such as short and long, page and book, and night and moon. | 32 | |
| Dobkin, Bonnie | I Love Fishing | 1.6 | 0.5 | A young fisherman expresses enthusiasm for the sport while acknowledging the many potential distractions surrounding it. | 29 | |
| Dobkin, Bonnie | Everybody Says | 2 | 0.5 | A boy proud of his individuality proclaims his love of raw carrots, rainy days, and his pet iguana. | 30 | |
| Dobkin, Bonnie | Collecting | 2.1 | 0.5 | An avid collector enumerates all the things that have been collected, from 23 keychains and 51 shells to a ball of tin foil five feet wide. | 30 | |
| Dobkin, Bonnie | Great Bug Hunt, The | 1.6 | 0.5 | Children set out looking for insects, and they find all kinds. | 30 | |
| Dodds, Dayle Ann | Ghost and Pete | 2.4 | 0.5 | Pete and his new friend Ghost go trick-or-treating on Halloween, but Ghost can't remember what to say. | 48 | |
| Dodge, Mary Mapes | Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates | 8.2 | 14 | A Dutch boy and girl work toward two goals--finding the doctor who can restore their father's memory and winning the competition for the silver skates. Includes a brief biography of the author and a history of ice skating. | 284 | |
| Donehower, Bruce | Miko | 5.2 | 2 | Miko, a young Laplander, decides to find out for himself why this year's winter seems so much longer, darker, and colder. | 89 | |
| Donnelly, Elfie | Package for Miss Marshwater, A | 2.7 | 1 | Miss Marshwater's life is changed for the better by the arrival of two talking platypuses. | 64 | |
| Donnelly, Liza | Dinosaur Garden | 2.2 | 0.5 | When Rex plants a dinosaur garden to attract dinosaurs, an unexpected guest comes to dinner. | 30 | |
| Dorion, Betty Fitzpatrick | Melanie Bluelake's Dream | 5 | 6 | Melanie, a ten year old Cree girl, misses her old home, her friends, and especially, her grandmother, when she and her mother move to the city, so that her mother can finish high school. | 209 | |
| Dorros, Arthur | Tonight Is Carnaval | 3.8 | 0.5 | The story of a young boy's eager preparations for Carnaval. | 24 | |
| Dorros, Arthur | Abuela | 2.5 | 0.5 | While at the park with her grandmother, Rosalba imagines that they can fly and they travel far above the city. | 36 | |
| Dowd, Nancy | Rainbow Somewhere, A | 1.7 | 0.5 | Grandpa keeps Jenny busy while waiting for a rainbow. | 16 | |
| Doyle, Charlotte | Freddie's Spaghetti | 1.3 | 0.5 | Freddie learns patience in this easy reader. | 23 | |
| Dragonwagon, Crescent | Home Place | 3.4 | 0.5 | While out hiking, a family comes upon the site of an old house and finds some clues about the people who once lived there. | 28 | Y |
| Drescher, Henrick | Down by the Bay | 2.2 | 0.5 | A traditional song of nonsense rhymes. With lyrics such as: " Did you ever see a moose kissing a goose down by the bay?" | 16 | |
| Drummond, Allan | Willow Pattern Story, The | 5 | 0.5 | The author retells a story heard as a child, invented to explain the landscape on willow pattern china. Two young Chinese lovers are punished by one's cruel mandarin father. | 24 | |
| du Bois, William P?ne | Twenty-One Balloons, The | 7.9 | 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 | Y |
| Dubanevich, Arlene | Calico Cows | 2.7 | 0.5 | The misadventures of a group of cows who must learn to think for themselves when their leader is taken to the county fair. | 26 | |
| Dubowski, Cathy East | Cave Boy | 1.6 | 0.5 | Harry the cave boy has invented the wheel, but no one can figure out what it does. | 32 | Y |
| Dubowski, Cathy East | Snug Bug | 1.1 | 0.5 | Snug Bug goes to bed in the dark. | 32 | |
| Dubowski, Cathy/Mark | Pretty Good Magic | 1.5 | 0.5 | Presto's attempt to impress the town of Forty Winks with a really special trick produces more rabbits than anyone expected. | 48 | Y |
| Dueck, Adele | Anywhere But Here | 4.5 | 4 | Eleven year old Marjorie finds farm life in the summer is no life at all, with all the work and her best friend gone to Vancouver, until she discovers stolen pesticides in the family's barn. | 111 | |
| Duey, Kathleen | Amelina Carrett | 5 | 4 | Amelina's Cajun community has been uninvolved in the war, but her farm may be lost if Yankees sweep through the area. Everything Amelina has heard about the Yankees is challenged and she is forced to make her own decisions about right and wrong. | 137 | |
| Duey/Bale | Swamp: Bayou Teche, Louisiana, 1851 | 4.2 | 4 | When Paul Courville, the wealthy plantation owner's son, is lost in the bayou, Lily refuses to turn her back on him. | 159 | |
| Duffey, Betsy | Alien for Rent | 2.6 | 1 | When a small fuzzy alien appears at their school, third-graders J.P. and Lexie accidentally direct his powers against the bully Bruce and things get out of control. | 71 | Y |
| Duffy, James | Radical Red | 4.1 | 6 | A twelve-year-old girl and her mother, victims of abuse, join Susan B. Anthony's crusade for women's right to vote. | 152 | Y |
| Duncan, Lois | Locked in Time | 6.6 | 9 | When Nore Robbins arrives at her stepmother's Louisiana plantation, she becomes convinced that her stepmother considers her a threat to a well-guarded family secret. | 210 | Y |
| Dunlop, Eileen | House on the Hill, The | 6.6 | 7 | Cousins visiting proud, unfriendly Great-Aunt Jane in her spooky Victorian house come upon a fifty-year-old mystery, which is frightening in its investigation and which reveals a tragic story in Jane's past. | 147 | |
| Dunn, Judy | Little Rabbit, The | 2.9 | 0.5 | Sarah finds a little rabbit in her Easter basket and learns what delightful pets rabbits can be. A picture book illustrated with full-color photographs. | 29 | Y |
| Dygard, Thomas J. | Halfback Tough | 7.2 | 5 | New at Graham High, Joe joins the football team and begins to change his tough-guy outlook. | 210 |