| Title | Author | Level | Points | Description | # pages | Book in Library |
| Pacific Ocean, The | Taylor, Leighton | 5.4 | 1 | In text and photographs, presents some of what is known about the Pacific Ocean, its islands, its people, and its exotic creatures. | 48 | Y |
| Pain and the Great One, The | Blume, Judy | 3.1 | 0.5 | The Pain" and "The Great One" are a brother and sister, and each thinks the other is the most loved by their parents in these two short stories. | 28 | Y |
| Paints and Pintos | Gentle/Perry | 4.8 | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics of both paint and pinto horses and what differentiates these two breeds. | 24 | Y |
| Palomino Horses (Checkerboard) | Gammie, Janet L. | 3.7 | 0.5 | Discover the Palomino horse; learn important facts about these beautiful animals and how to care for them. | 21 | |
| Palomino Horses: Austria's Haflingers | Schrenk, Hans-Jorg | 4.9 | 0.5 | An in-depth look at the beautiful Palomino horses. | 48 | |
| Palominos | Gentle/Perry | 4.7 | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics and appearance that a palomino horse has, how these horses are bred, and some famous palominos. | 24 | Y |
| Pandas for Kids/Panda Magic for Kids | Feeney, Kathy | 4.7 | 0.5 | Ten-year-old May learns about the appearance and behavior of the giant panda, a symbol for China and a member of an endangered species. | 48 | |
| Papa Lucky's Shadow | Daly, Niki | 3.5 | 0.5 | With his granddaughter's help, Papa Lucky takes his love of dancing onto the street and makes some extra money. | 22 | Y |
| Paper Bag Princess, The | Munsch, Robert N. | 3.8 | 0.5 | Elizabeth, a princess, outwits a dragon to rescue Ronald, the prince she intends to marry. But when she discovers that Ronald, who looks like a prince and acts like a bum, she decides not to marry him after all. | 24 | Y |
| Paperboy, The | Pilkey, Dav | 2.9 | 0.5 | A paperboy and his dog enjoy the quiet of the early morning as they go about their rounds. | 26 | Y |
| Paradox of Jamestown: 1585 - 1700, The | Collier, James/Christopher | 8.3 | 3 | Discusses the circumstances surrounding English colonization of Virginia and the evolution of slavery in that colony. | 93 | |
| Parents in the Pigpen, Pigs in the Tub | Ehrlich, Amy | 3.3 | 0.5 | When the pasture gate is left open, the farm animals get a glimpse of the good life inside the farm house. | 36 | Y |
| Parrots (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 4.7 | 0.5 | This book is an introduction to the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environments of various species of parrots. | 24 | Y |
| Parrots and Parakeets as Pets (A True Book) | Landau, Elaine | 4.6 | 0.5 | Suggests what to consider when selecting a parrot or parakeet for a pet, and explains its housing, food, and health care needs. | 48 | Y |
| Parts | Arnold, Tedd | 2.8 | 0.5 | A five-year-old boy thinks his body is falling apart until he learns new teeth grow, and hair and skin replace themselves. | 28 | Y |
| Passenger Trains | Lassieur, Allison | 3.2 | 0.5 | This book discusses passenger trains, how they work, their history and inventors, how modern trains compare to early models, and what it is like to travel on them. | 24 | Y |
| Patchwork Quilt, The | Flournoy, Valerie | 3.7 | 0.5 | Using scraps cut from the family's old clothing, Tanya helps her grandmother make a beautiful quilt that tells the story of her family's life. | 28 | Y |
| Patrick's Dinosaurs | Carrick, Carol | 3.3 | 0.5 | Patrick sees dinosaurs everywhere until his brother tells him how long they've been gone. | 32 | Y |
| Paul Bunyan | Kellogg, Steven | 5.7 | 0.5 | Recounts the life of the extraordinary lumberjack whose unusual size and strength brought him many fantastic adventures. | 30 | Y |
| Pawloined Paper, The | Litowinsky, Olga | 4.2 | 3 | Joe and Wishbone must make sure a top secret note doesn't fall into the wrong hands. | 130 | |
| Pawnee Nation (Native Peoples), The | Walters, Anna Lee | 4.1 | 0.5 | This book gives an overview of the past and present lives of the Pawnee Nation. | 24 | Y |
| Peace and Bread: The Story of Jane Addams | McPherson, Stephanie Sammartino | 6.5 | 3 | A biography of the woman who founded Hull-House, one of the first settlement houses in the United States, and who later became involved in the international peace movement. | 89 | Y |
| Pecos Bill | Kellogg, Steven | 5.7 | 0.5 | A read-aloud winner depicting some of the legends of Pecos Bill. | 36 | Y |
| Pedro's Journal | Conrad, Pam | 5.8 | 2 | The cabin boy on the 'Santa Maria' keeps a diary which records his experiences when he sails with Columbus on his first voyage to the New World in 1492. | 80 | Y |
| Pegasus, the Flying Horse | Yolen, Jane | 4.3 | 0.5 | This book retells how, with the help of the goddess Athena, the handsome and overly proud Bellerophon tames the winged horse Pegasus and conquers the monstrous Chimaera. | 37 | Y |
| Penguin Pete and Pat | Pfister, Marcus | 3.7 | 0.5 | Upon returning from his travels, Penguin Pete is captivated by a girl penguin with a blue beak, cultivates her friendship, and wins her flipper in marriage. | 23 | Y |
| Penguin Pete's New Friends | Pfister, Marcus | 2.6 | 0.5 | A little penguin is angry he can't go fishing with his bigger friends. | 24 | Y |
| Penguins (Bird Discovery) | Stone, Lynn M. | 4.6 | 0.5 | Describes the appearance, habits, habitat, daily life, infancy, and enemies of the bird that travels on land and in the water but not in the air. | 24 | Y |
| Penguins (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 5.3 | 0.5 | This book provides information on the physical characteristics and behavior of different species of penguins. | 24 | Y |
| Pennsylvania | Kent, Deborah | 8.5 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Pennsylvania's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 143 | Y |
| Penrod's Pants | Christian, Mary Blount | 1.8 | 0.5 | Despite Penrod Porcupine's sometimes exasperating behavior, he and Griswold Bear remain good friends. | 56 | Y |
| People of the Rain Forest | Woods, Mae | 4.1 | 0.5 | This book describes how different groups of peoples live in rain forests in Central and South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. | 24 | |
| Perfect Pair, The | Lowell, Melissa | 4 | 4 | Nikki and Alex are a perfect pair on the ice, but Alex thinks that relationship is more serious than just skating pairs. | 136 | |
| Perloo the Bold | Avi | 4.9 | 7 | In this wild adventure Perloo, a rabbit-like Montmer, travels over snowy mountains, through underground tunnels, and into enemy territory and alters the future of Montmers everywhere. | 225 | Y |
| Persian Cats (Checkerboard) | Kallen, Stuart A. | 3.7 | 0.5 | Discover the Persian cat; learn how to feed and care for them and about their special habits. | 21 | |
| Peter Pan | Barrie, James M. | 7.2 | 8 | The adventures of Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up, have delighted readers for nearly a century. | 242 | Y |
| Pet-Sitting Peril, The | Roberts, Willo Davis | 5.8 | 7 | When Nick took on his pet-sitting job, he had no idea of the mysterious adventures that would come his way. | 167 | Y |
| Phantom Falcon, The | Schraff, Anne | 4.2 | 1 | Kevin learns it is okay just to play the game of soccer despite pressure from his father. | 51 | Y |
| Phantom of the Auditorium | Stine, R.L. | 3.4 | 3 | Really scary things start happening at the play "The Phantom." Is there really a phantom living under the stage? | 126 | Y |
| Phantom Tollbooth, The | Juster, Norton | 6.7 | 7 | In this wise and witty fantasy, a boy travels through time and space to the Lands Beyond. | 256 | Y |
| Phantoms Don't Drive Sports Cars | Dadey/Jones | 4 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. Could the strange man who plays in the orchestra, wears a cape and always has one side of his face shaded really be a phantom haunting the opera? | 75 | |
| Philip Hall Likes Me. I Reckon Maybe. | Greene, Bette | 5 | 4 | Young Beth loves Philip, but that doesn't mean she is averse to competing with him. | 135 | Y |
| Piano Lessons Can Be Murder | Stine, R.L. | 3.5 | 3 | Jerry hears stories about his piano teacher. Terrifying stories about other students. Students who went in and never came out. | 124 | Y |
| Piggie Pie! | Palatini, Margie | 2.5 | 0.5 | Gritch the witch flies to Old MacDonald's farm for some pigs to make a piggie pie; but when she arrives, she can't find a single porker. | 28 | Y |
| Pigs | Munsch, Robert N. | 2.6 | 0.5 | Megan leaves a gate open, and the pigs run wild. | 24 | Y |
| Pigs in the Mud in the Middle of the Rud | Plourde, Lynn | 1.3 | 0.5 | A feisty grandmother and her family struggle to get an assortment of farm animals out of the road so the family can pass in their Model T Ford. | 30 | Y |
| Pigs Will Be Pigs: Fun with Math and Money | Axelrod, Amy | 2.7 | 0.5 | The hungry Pig family learns about money and buying power as they turn the house upside down looking for enough money to buy dinner at the local restaurant. | 30 | Y |
| Pinballs, The | Byars, Betsy | 3.8 | 3 | Three lonely foster children learn to care about themselves and each other. | 136 | Y |
| Pink and Say | Polacco, Patricia | 3.8 | 1 | Sheldon Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, and their capture by Southern troops during the Civil War. | 41 | Y |
| Pinto Horses (Checkerboard) | Gammie, Janet L. | 3.8 | 0.5 | Discover the Pinto horse; learn important facts about these beautiful animals and how to care for them. | 21 | |
| Pippi Longstocking | Lindgren, Astrid | 5.2 | 4 | A lucky little girl who lives with a horse and a monkey--but without any parents--at the edge of a Swedish village is involved in many escapades. | 160 | Y |
| Piranhas | McAuliffe, Emily | 4.3 | 0.5 | This book details the physical characteristics, behavior, natural habitat, and life cycle of this commonly-feared fish found in South American rivers. | 48 | |
| Piranhas (A True Book) | Landau, Elaine | 5.1 | 0.5 | This book is an introduction to the various species of fish called piranhas, discussing their reputation as killers, their physical characteristics and habits, and their suitability as pets. | 47 | Y |
| Piranhas (Naturebooks) | Berendes, Mary | 3.8 | 0.5 | Discusses the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, and life cycle of piranhas. | 32 | Y |
| Pirates Don't Wear Pink Sunglasses | Dadey/Jones | 3.9 | 1 | Humorous adventures with the Bailey kids at summer camp. | 78 | |
| Pirates Past Noon | Osborne, Mary Pope | 2.8 | 1 | Jack and Annie travel back in time to the age of pirates and buried treasure. | 67 | Y |
| Pish, Posh, said Hieronymus Bosch | Willard, Nancy | 4 | 0.5 | An imaginative poem about the fifteenth-century painter filled with medieval beasts and other images from Bosch's world. | 28 | Y |
| Pitcher Plants: Slippery Pits of No Escape | Gentle, Victor | 4.9 | 0.5 | Introduces these carnivorous plants by describing their traps, plant types, diets, and nutrient-poor habitats with the consequent benefit of carnivory. | 24 | Y |
| Place to Belong, A | Nixon, Joan Lowery | 4.9 | 6 | In 1856, having traveled with his young sister from New York to a foster home on a farm in Missouri, ten-year-old Danny plots to get his foster father to send for and marry his mother. | 147 | Y |
| Place to Hide (Strange Matter), A | Barnes, Johnny Ray | 4.3 | 3 | While searching the Dark Woods for a lost fort, twelve-year-old Trey and his friends encounter horrible scaly monsters that seem intent on stopping them. | 126 | |
| Planes (On the Move) | Stickland, Paul | 2.3 | 0.5 | This book introduces, in brief text and illustrations, various types of airplanes and their uses. | 16 | Y |
| Planet Earth (Our Universe) | Murray, Peter | 4.4 | 0.5 | Describes the Earth's physical characteristics, discussing interactions of climate, geology, and ecology. | 32 | Y |
| Planet of Junior Brown, The | Hamilton, Virginia | 5.1 | 7 | Story of friendship between a troubled teenage pianist, a street-wise classmate, and a janitor who constructs a LO-planet revolving solar system. | 217 | Y |
| Planet Plague | Whitman, John | 5.1 | 4 | Tash and Hoole decide to visit the planet Gobindi to study the ancient ruins, but Tash thinks she has discovered an imperial plot to spread a terrible virus across the galaxy. | 124 | Y |
| Planets (Space Observer), The | Tesar, Jenny | 3.2 | 0.5 | Describes the planets within the solar system in a brief introduction. | 24 | Y |
| Planets (Universe), The | Welsbacher, Anne | 3.3 | 0.5 | This book is a simple description of the nine planets that make up our solar system. | 24 | |
| Plant That Ate Dirty Socks Goes up in Space, The | McArthur, Nancy | 4.5 | 4 | The boys' school gets involved in the mission to build a mock spaceship, trying space food, and counting down to blastoff. | 140 | Y |
| Plant That Ate Dirty Socks, The | McArthur, Nancy | 4.1 | 4 | Michael 's side of the room was a mess. Brother Norman was a neatness nut. They got a plant, and the problem was gone--and so were their socks. | 119 | Y |
| Plants of the Rain Forest | Woods, Mae | 4.7 | 0.5 | This book introduces the plants of the rain forest, discussing both the forest floor and the treetops and examining how plants interact with the animals and provide food and other products. | 24 | |
| Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia | Parish, Peggy | 2.3 | 0.5 | When Amelia, who follows all directions literally, plays baseball, the results are predictably funny. | 64 | Y |
| Please Don't Ask Me to Love You | Schraff, Anne | 3.3 | 2 | Where do you find love when you're alone, broke, and homeless? | 115 | |
| Pluto (A True Book) | Brimner, Larry Dane | 4.9 | 0.5 | This book discusses the smallest, most distant, and most mysterious planet in our solar system, its discovery, and its peculiar orbit. | 47 | |
| Pocket For Corduroy, A | Freeman, Don | 3.7 | 0.5 | When Lisa's toy bear Corduroy discovers that he doesn't have a pocket, he goes in search of one. | 28 | Y |
| Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? | Martin Jr., Bill | 2.1 | 0.5 | Zoo animals from polar bear to walrus make their distinctive sounds for each other, while children imitate the sounds for the zookeeper. | 24 | Y |
| Polar Bears (Creative Ed.) | Biel, Timothy Levi | 5.1 | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, infancy, and future of the polar bear. | 24 | Y |
| Polar Bears Past Bedtime | Osborne, Mary Pope | 3.3 | 1 | The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to the Arctic, where a polar bear leads them onto very thin ice. | 74 | Y |
| Polar Express, The | Van Allsburg, Chris | 3.8 | 0.5 | An incredible children's story, beautifully illustrated, about a young boy's Christmas adventure. | 29 | Y |
| Police Station (Field Trips), The | Kallen, Stuart A. | 4.2 | 0.5 | This book describes the work done by various people at a police station. | 24 | |
| Polka-Dot Puppy | Moncure, Jane Belk | 2.2 | 0.5 | After a long and unsuccessful search, Polka-dot Puppy finally finds a home. | 31 | Y |
| Polly Panic | Shura, Mary Francis | 4.7 | 4 | When disastrous things happen as Polly enters sixth grade, she finds that in dealing with untrustworthy friends, bullies, and family problems, she has overcome her natural fearfulness. | 127 | |
| Poodles (Dogs) | Kallen, Stuart A. | 3.5 | 0.5 | Discover the Poodle; learn how to feed and care for them and about their special habits and needs. | 21 | |
| Popcorn Book, The | De Paola, Tomie | 4.3 | 0.5 | Presents a variety of facts about popcorn and includes two recipes. | 28 | Y |
| Powder Puff Puzzle, The | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 2.1 | 1 | When Dawn Bosco's cat jumps into a car as it speeds away, there are only a few clues to track it down. | 75 | Y |
| Power of the Rose, The | Schraff, Anne | 4.4 | 2 | Valerie's never been able to forget her first love. But can she live on memories? Sequel to The Haunting of Hawthorne. | 94 | |
| Powhatan People (Native Peoples), The | Covert, Kim | 3.7 | 0.5 | Provides an overview of the past and present lives of the Powhatan people, covering their daily activities, customes, family life, religion, government and history. | 24 | Y |
| Prairie School | Lenski, Lois | 4 | 7 | Story of things that did or could have happened in a one-room rural school on the prairie of South Dakota. | 196 | |
| Prairies (Biomes of Nature) | Murray, Peter | 4.4 | 0.5 | Describes where prairies are found, the plants and animals that exist there, and the role of fire in the ecosystem. | 32 | Y |
| Predator, The | Applegate, K.A. | 3.6 | 4 | Marco is worried about his father, but the Yeerks have a surprise waiting for him. | 150 | Y |
| Prehistoric Pinkerton | Kellogg, Steven | 3.8 | 0.5 | Pinkerton's natural canine urge to chew on things while teething coincides with a chaotic visit to the museum's collection of dinosaur bones. | 29 | |
| Pressure Play | Hughes, Dean | 3.6 | 1 | When the Angel Park Dodgers get so rattled by the Reds that they can hardly play baseball, rookie Jacob attempts to relax them with meditation exercises he finds in a psychology book. | 82 | |
| Pretty Lady of Saratoga | Felder, Deborah | 5.3 | 3 | ALthough her temperamental horse Pretty Lady is about to be retired, Polly longs to see her in the winner's circle and pursues plans to retrain her in time for the prestigious Travers Stakes. | 122 | |
| Pride of the Green Mountains | Baker, Carin Greenberg | 5 | 3 | With her father away fighting in the Civil War and her mother struggling to keep their Vermont dairy farm, ten year old Rosaline tries to come up with a plan that will save their home without selling her beloved Morgan horse, Major. | 122 | |
| Prince and the Pauper (Abridged), The | Twain, Mark | 9.3 | 12 | A prince and pauper, who are identical in appearance, trade places in life. | 267 | Y |
| Prince and the Pauper (Bloomsbury), The | Twain, Mark | 9.6 | 14 | The story of two boys: Edward Tudor, heir to the throne of England, and Tom Canty, beggar, heir to empty bowls. The two boys are oddly similar in appearance and swap clothes for a prank. A riot of courtly confusion follows. | 256 | |
| Prince and the Pooch, The | Leavitt, Caroline | 4 | 4 | When Joe fills in as a coach for a local baseball team, he finds out that it is not as simple as it seems. | 139 | Y |
| Prince Caspian | Lewis, C.S. | 5.7 | 7 | Prince Caspian and his army of Talking Beasts conquer the Telmarines. | 238 | Y |
| Project Apollo (A True Book) | Sipiera, Paul/Diane | 6.1 | 0.5 | Provides a history of the space project to study the moon. | 48 | Y |
| Project Gemini (A True Book) | Sipiera, Paul/Diane | 6.6 | 0.5 | Highlights the accomplishments of the twelve missions of the gemini Program, including the first manned space flight and the first extravehicular activity or walk in space. | 48 | Y |
| Project Mercury (A True Book) | Sipiera, Paul/Diane | 6.6 | 0.5 | Describes early space exploration and the six missions of Project Mercury that constituted America's first step towards the moon. | 48 | Y |
| Promises to the Dead | Hahn, Mary Downing | 5.5 | 8 | In the early days of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Jesse leaves his home on Maryland's Eastern Shore to help a young runaway slave find a safe haven. | 202 | Y |
| Prophets of the Dark Side | Davids, Paul/Hollace | 6.6 | 3 | Luke and Ken are captured and forced to reveal the location of the Lost City of the Jedi. Illus. by June Brigman and Karl Kesel. | 95 | Y |
| Protecting Marie | Henkes, Kevin | 5.1 | 6 | Relates twelve-year-old Fanny's love-hate relationship with her father, a temperamental artist who has given Fanny a new dog. | 195 | |
| Protecting the Rain Forest | Woods, Mae | 4.9 | 0.5 | This book describes the characteristics of rain forests, their importance to the world's environment, and what can be done to preserve them from the further destruction. | 24 | |
| Pterodactyls (A True Book) | Landau, Elaine | 4.7 | 0.5 | This book describes the characteristics and behavior of the extinct flying reptiles that lived on the Earth during the Mesozoic era. | 47 | Y |
| Pueblo Indians (Native Peoples), The | Ross, Pamela | 3.9 | 0.5 | Provides an overview of the past and present lives of the Pueblo Indians, covering their daily activities, customs, family life, religion, government, history and interaction with the United States government. | 24 | Y |
| Puerto Rico | Kent, Deborah | 8.3 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to the island's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | Y |
| Pulleys and Gears (Simple Machines) | Glover, David | 4.4 | 0.5 | Introduces the principles of pulleys and gears as simple machines, using examples from everyday life. | 24 | Y |
| Pumas (Wild Cats) | Welsbacher, Anne | 3.7 | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics, behaviors, and habitats of this wild cat found in many places throughout the world. | 24 | Y |
| Pup in King Arthur's Court, A | Barkan, Joanne | 4.4 | 5 | Using a computer, Joe and David decide to publish a sports newsletter that will put the school's existing one to shame. That reminds Wishbone of "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," and he is transported back to medieval England. | 164 | |
| Purple Climbing Days | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 2.4 | 1 | Richard 'Beast' Best must stay after school with Mrs. Miller--Miller the Killer--and he does not know what is in store for him. | 70 | Y |
| Pyramid (Eyewitness) | Putnam, James | 7.4 | 1 | An Eyewitness book that studies the mysterious monuments of the ancient Egyptian world. | 63 | Y |
| Pythons (Checkerboard) | Gerholdt, James E. | 4 | 0.5 | Discover more about the Python Snake. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves from dangers. | 21 | Y |
| Pythons (Snake Discovery) | Bargar/Johnson | 5.5 | 0.5 | Introduces the nonpoisonous python--one of the world's largest snakes, which may grow to a length of 33 feet. | 24 | |
| Quarter Horses | Gentle/Perry | 5.1 | 0.5 | Describes the physical features and other characteristics that have made the quarter horse one of the most popular breeds in America. | 24 | Y |
| Queen of the Empire | Davids, Paul/Hollace | 6.4 | 3 | Princess Leia's kidnapping is foiled by Zorba the Hutt. | 94 | |
| Queenie Peavy | Burch, Robert | 5.6 | 5 | Story of what happens when the biggest troublemaker in school tries to behave for just one day. | 151 | Y |
| Quentin Corn | Stolz, Mary | 4.8 | 4 | Quentin Corn's life on the farm goes from dull to terrifying when poor Quentin learns that he's about to be barbecued. So the quick-witted pig runs away disguised as a boy! | 122 | Y |
| Quest for Queenie, The | Ball, Brian | 4.1 | 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 | |
| Rabbit Hill | Lawson, Robert | 6.4 | 3 | The Animals of the Hill prepare for the "new Folk" moving into the Big House. | 128 | Y |
| Rabble Starkey | Lowry, Lois | 5.3 | 7 | Many things change for twelve-year-old Rabble Starkey, her mother, and her best friend Veronica Bigelow, when Veronica's mother becomes incapacitated and the Starkeys move in with the Bigelows. | 192 | Y |
| Raccoons for Kids/Raccoon Magic for Kids | Fair, Jeff | 4.9 | 1 | Relates the author's childhood story about an orphan raccoon that came to live with him and presents information about this intelligent, masked animal. | 48 | |
| Racing the Sun | Pitts, Paul | 4.4 | 5 | When twelve-year-old Brandon's Navajo grandfather comes to live with him, Brandon is forced to consider his heritage and his father's rejection of the old ways. | 148 | Y |
| Racso and the Rats of NIMH | Conly, Jane Leslie | 5 | 8 | 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 |
| Radio Fifth Grade | Korman, Gordon | 4.7 | 5 | Mayhem breaks out in the fifthgrade when the Venice Menace bullies his classmates into letting him become a regular guest on "Kidsview," the school's radio program. | 177 | |
| Rag Coat, The | Mills, Lauren | 3.9 | 0.5 | Minna proudly wears her new coat made of clothing scraps to school, where the other children laugh at her until she tells them the stories behind the scraps. | 29 | Y |
| Rage of the Tiger | Schraff, Anne | 3.9 | 3 | A trip to an animal sanctuary results in terror for Connie and her friends. | 124 | |
| Rain Player | Wisniewski, David | 3.8 | 0.5 | To bring rain to his thirsty village, Pik challenges the rain god to a game of pok-a-tok. | 28 | Y |
| Rainbow Fish to the Rescue! | Pfister/James | 3.7 | 0.5 | Rainbow Fish learns the lesson of standing up for others even when peer pressure to do the opposite is placed against someone who is different. | 24 | |
| Rainbow Fish, The | Pfister/James | 3.3 | 0.5 | The most beautiful fish in the ocean learns the value of friendship. Illustrated with holographic foil images. | 24 | Y |
| Rainforests (Biomes of Nature) | Murray, Peter | 4.5 | 0.5 | Briefly describes rainforests, telling where they are found and what lives there, particularly in the upper levels known as the canopy. | 32 | Y |
| Ralph S. Mouse | Cleary, Beverly | 5.1 | 3 | Ralph, the motorcycle-riding mouse, is off on another adventure and acquires a new sports car to replace his broken motorcycle. | 160 | Y |
| Ramona and Her Father | Cleary, Beverly | 5.2 | 3 | In this adventure with Beezus and Ramona, two of the best-loved characters in children's literature, Mr. Quimby loses his job, and the entire family learns to cope with hardship. | 186 | Y |
| Ramona and Her Mother | Cleary, Beverly | 4.8 | 4 | Now that her daddy has a job, Ramona hopes that her mother will stop working. If Mrs. Quimby stays home again, Ramona won't have to stay with Howie's grandmother after school, and her parents won't be so tired and irritable. | 182 | Y |
| Ramona Forever | Cleary, Beverly | 4.8 | 4 | Ramona is back and funnier than ever as she prepares for her aunt's wedding and the move her family might make. | 182 | Y |
| Ramona Quimby, Age 8 | Cleary, Beverly | 5.6 | 3 | Now in third grade, Ramona rides the school bus alone and helps around the house while her mother works and her father attends college. | 190 | Y |
| Ramona the Brave | Cleary, Beverly | 4.9 | 3 | Irrepressible Ramona bravely struggles to cope with the assorted trials of growing up. | 190 | Y |
| Ramona the Pest | Cleary, Beverly | 5.1 | 4 | A lovable five-year-old girl starts kindergarten with a hilarious series of misdeeds. | 192 | Y |
| Ramps and Wedges (Simple Machines) | Glover, David | 3.9 | 0.5 | Uses a variety of examples, from scissors and axes to zippers and hairpin turns, to demonstrate the power of the inclined plane and show how ramps and wedges make work and play easier. | 24 | Y |
| Rapunzel | Zelinsky, Paul O. | 4.6 | 0.5 | The story recounts the German folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress. | 35 | Y |
| Rascal | North, Sterling | 7.1 | 7 | The author recalls his carefree life in a small midwestern town at the close of World War I, and his adventures with his pet raccoon, Rascal. | 189 | Y |
| Rat Snakes (Snake Discovery) | Bargar/Johnson | 4.8 | 0.5 | Discusses the harmless rat snake, which benefits farmers by devouring thousands of rats each year. | 24 | Y |
| Rattlebang Picnic, The | Mahy, Margaret | 4.5 | 0.5 | The McTavishes, their seven children, and Granny McTavish take their old rattlebang of a car on a picnic up Mt. Fogg and have an exciting adventure. | 29 | Y |
| Rattlesnakes | Ethan, Eric | 4.3 | 0.5 | Describes what rattlesnakes look like, what they eat, where they can be found, how they defend themselves, the danger from their bites, and the outlook for their future. | 24 | |
| Rattlesnakes (Creative Ed.) | Brust/Dorn | 5.2 | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics and behavior of the rattlesnake and presents rattlesnake-related activities. | 24 | Y |
| Raven | McDermott, Gerald | 2.5 | 0.5 | A retelling of the story of Raven, the Native American trickster, with illustrations based on traditional designs from the Pacific Northwest. | 24 | Y |
| Real Ghosts | Cohen, Daniel | 5.6 | 2 | Accounts of "real" ghost sightings--some of which have since been proven fraudulent and some of which have never been satisfactorily explained. | 125 | Y |
| Real Thief, The | Steig, William | 6.1 | 1 | Gawain the Goose is guard to the Royal Treasury, and only he and the king have keys. When money and jewels start disappearing, he is fired. Eventually he is exonerated and welcomed back by the king. | 58 | Y |
| Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | Wiggin, Kate Douglas | 8.1 | 13 | Talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, with whom she spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up. | 276 | Y |
| Recalling Past Lives | Green, Carl | 5 | 1 | A discussion of reincarnation and related phenomena, featuring reports of people who claimed to have lived past lives. | 48 | |
| Rechenka's Eggs | Polacco, Patricia | 4 | 0.5 | An injured goose rescued by Babushka, having broken the painted eggs intended for the Easter Festival in Moscva, lays 13 marvelously colored eggs to replace them, then leaves behind one final miracle in egg form before returning to her own kind. | 30 | Y |
| Red Badge of Courage (Bloomsbury), The | Crane, Stephen | 8 | 8 | This is the story of Henry Fleming, a young, inexperienced soldier in the American Civil War who has romantic notions of the hero he will be when he enters his first battle. Amidst the brutal realities of warfare, however, his illusions are shattered. | 160 | |
| Red Sails to Capri | Weil, Ann | 3.4 | 4 | When three strangers arrive on Capri and discover the secret of the Blue Grotto, it could change the way of life for the entire island. | 156 | |
| Red Sea, The | Taylor, Leighton | 5.1 | 1 | Examines various aspects of the Red Sea, including its physical features, sea life, and human inhabitants. | 48 | Y |
| Red Shoes, The | Andersen/Bazilian | 4.3 | 0.5 | This book is a retelling of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale in which a girl's desire for a pair of red dancing shoes almost dooms her to dance forever. | 30 | |
| Red-Hot Hightops | Christopher, Matt | 4.2 | 3 | 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 | |
| Redwall | Jacques, Brian | 5.6 | 16 | The peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes. Matthias determines to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior which, he is convinced, will help destroy the enemy. | 351 | Y |
| Redwood Trees (Trees) | Prevost, John F. | 4 | 0.5 | This book provides basic information about the redwood, including its structure, econmic uses, and the pests and diseases that affect it. | 24 | |
| Regular Flood of Mishap, A | Birdseye, Tom | 3.3 | 0.5 | Six-year-old Ima Bean sets off such a "flood of mishaps" when she tries to help her grandpa that she begins to worry whether she will ever be forgiven. | 30 | Y |
| Relatives Came, The | Rylant, Cynthia | 4.1 | 0.5 | The relatives come to visit from Virginia, and everyone has a wonderful time. | 26 | |
| Reluctant Dragon, The | Grahame, Kenneth | 6.5 | 1 | A young boy and St. George find a way to calm frightened townspeople and spare the life of a harmless dragon. | 55 | Y |
| Remarkable Rain Forest, The | Woods, Mae | 4.8 | 0.5 | This book surveys the location, weather, products, plants, and animals of rain forest. | 24 | |
| Remembering Box, The | Clifford, Eth | 4.1 | 1 | 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 | Y |
| Reptile Room, The | Snicket, Lemony | 6.3 | 5 | After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetologist with whom they live happily for an all-too-brief time. | 190 | Y |
| Rescuers, The | Sharp, Margery | 6.3 | 4 | A pet mouse is recruited to rescue a poet from a grim castle. | 149 | |
| Respiratory System (A True Book), The | Stille, Darlene R. | 5.3 | 0.5 | Describes the various parts of the human respiratory system and then explains how that system brings fresh oxygen into the body and carries carbon dioxide to the lungs to be expelled. | 48 | Y |
| Return of the Eagle, The | Buchanan, Paul | 4.5 | 1 | Jack and some friends hear a train at night even though there are no trains running through their town. | 54 | Y |
| Return of the Great Brain, The | Fitzgerald, John D. | 5.5 | 6 | The shrewdest young con artist west of the Mississippi rides again, and along with his brother attempt to solve a train robbery. | 150 | Y |
| Return of the Indian, The | Banks, Lynne Reid | 4.6 | 5 | In this sequel to Indian In The Cupboard, Omri brings Little Bear to life again and begins a spellbinding adventure. | 189 | Y |
| Return of the King, The | Tolkien, J.R.R. | 6.2 | 22 | Sam and Frodo must make their way deep into Mordor to destroy the Ring of Power in the fires of Mount Doom. | 507 | Y |
| Return of the Mummy | Stine, R.L. | 3.8 | 3 | Gabe learns a secret chant that is supposed to bring mummies back to life. Something starts moving. Words can't make the dead, can they? | 118 | Y |
| Return to Howliday Inn | Howe, James | 5.8 | 3 | In this sequel to "Howliday Inn," the Monroe family pets are again boarded at Chateau Bow-Wow, where some spooky goings-on serve as a distraction from the kennel's poor food. | 156 | Y |
| Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes | Stine, R.L. | 2.9 | 3 | Two lawn gnomes terrorize the neighborhood. | 119 | Y |
| Revolutionary War on Wednesday | Osborne, Mary Pope | 3.5 | 1 | Using their magic tree house, Jack and Annie travel back to the time of the American Revolution and help General George Washington during his famous crossing of the Delaware River. | 69 | Y |
| Rhinos (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 5.5 | 0.5 | This book provides an introduction to the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of various species of rhinoceros. | 24 | Y |
| Rhode Island | Heinrichs, Ann | 8.7 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Rhode Island's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | Y |
| Rich Mitch | Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman | 3.5 | 2 | Mitchell thought winning the sweepstakes would make all his dreams come true. But so far, it's only made one thing--trouble! | 136 | |
| Richard Nixon | Lillegard, Dee | 7.4 | 2 | Follows the life and career of the first American President to resign from office. | 89 | Y |
| Riddle of Penncroft Farm, The | Jensen, Dorothea | 5.4 | 7 | Lars Olafson's move to a farm near Valley Forge brings him friendship with the ghost of an eighteenth-century ancestor who recounts for him his adventures in that part of Pennsylvania during the American Revolution. | 244 | Y |
| Riddle of the Red Purse, The | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 2.2 | 1 | When Dawn finds a purse and several kids claim it, she must use her detective skills to find out who it belongs to. | 68 | Y |
| Riddle of the Wayward Books | Strickland/Fuller | 4.6 | 5 | Joe realizes there is something strange going on when he narrowly escapes from a burglar one night at the store. | 139 | |
| Ride into Morning, A | Rinaldi, Ann | 4.8 | 10 | When unrest spreads at the Revolutionary War camp in Morristown, New Jersey, under the command of General Anthony Wayne, a young woman cleverly hides her horse from the mutinous soldiers who have need of it. | 353 | Y |
| Ride of Courage | Felder, Deborah | 5.1 | 3 | In 1781, twelve year old Molly Randall finds her courage tested when she must ride a powerful Arabian horse to warn her uncle and his Patriot troops of British plans to capture them. | 128 | |
| Riding Camp | Bryant, Bonnie | 4.9 | 4 | The girls are thrilled when they get to go to a sleep over riding camp; but when an emergency takes place at the camp, everyone must pull together. | 133 | |
| Riding Freedom | Ryan, Pam Munoz | 4.5 | 3 | Charlotte (Charley) Parkhurst runs away from an orphanage, poses as a boy, moves to California, and fools everyone by her appearance. | 138 | Y |
| Riding School Rivals | Saunders, Susan | 4.7 | 3 | Cassie and Hillary vie with each other for the privilege of riding Birchwood Stable's new Lipizzan horse in an important horse show. | 120 | |
| Rifles for Watie | Keith, Harold | 6.1 | 14 | Sixteen-year-old Jeff cannot wait to join the Union army and fight against Stand Watie, leader of the Cherokee Indian rebels. | 332 | Y |
| Ring of Endless Light, A | L'Engle, Madeleine | 5.2 | 11 | Life is changing on Seven Bay Island for Vicky Austin, with Commander Rodney dead, her grandfather dying, and three boys who devote their attention to her. | 332 | Y |
| Riptide | Weller, Frances | 4 | 0.5 | Zach's dog Riptide loves the sea and proves himself worthy of being the 19th lifeguard on Cape Cod's Nauset Beach. | 28 | Y |
| River, The | Paulsen, Gary | 5.5 | 4 | Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for 54 days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival. | 129 | Y |
| Road from Home, The | Kherdian, David | 5.7 | 9 | A true story of courage, survival, and hope as a young Armenian woman is deported and comes to the United States as a mail-order bride. | 238 | |
| Robinhound Crusoe | Leavitt, Caroline | 4 | 4 | When the power goes out in Oakdale, Wishbone must use his imagination to survive without food and water. | 137 | |
| Robinson Crusoe | Defoe, Daniel | 12.3 | 27 | A young seaman is cast ashore on an uninhabited tropical island. | 482 | Y |
| Rockets (Explore Space!) | Vogt, Gregory L. | 3 | 0.5 | Describes different types of rockets, how they work, and what they carry, including delta rockets, Saturn V, and the space shuttle. | 24 | Y |
| Rocks and Minerals | Podendorf, Illa | 3.5 | 0.5 | An introduction to the formation and identification of a variety of rocks and minerals. | 45 | |
| Rocks and Minerals (From This Earth) | Russell, William | 4.6 | 0.5 | Discover the many uses for minerals. | 24 | Y |
| Rodeo Rider | Bryant, Bonnie | 4.7 | 4 | The members of the Saddle Club enter a rodeo to try to earn enough money to save the Bar None Ranch. | 132 | |
| Rodomonte's Revenge | Paulsen, Gary | 3.7 | 1 | Brett and Tom play a virtual reality game until a computer infiltrates their minds. | 76 | Y |
| Roe v. Wade: : The Abortion Question | Herda, D.J. | 9.2 | 3 | Fascinating drama behind the Supreme Court's decision to legalize abortion. | 96 | Y |
| Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Taylor, Mildred D. | 5.7 | 10 | Warmth, humor and hard times prevail as a black family struggles to maintain dignity and independence in Depression-era Mississippi. | 276 | Y |
| Roller Skates | Sawyer, Ruth | 6.3 | 8 | Ten-year-old Lucinda makes friends of all social classes in New York City while her wealthy parents spend the year in Europe. | 186 | Y |
| Roman Fort, A | MacDonald, Fiona | 7.6 | 1 | Follow the ancient Romans across the world as they erect their forts. | 44 | Y |
| Roman Villa, A | Morley, Jacqueline | 6.8 | 1 | Daily life in a Roman villa is illustrated in a series of fascinating architectural drawings. | 45 | Y |
| Romeo and Juliet | Shakespeare/Coville | 6.7 | 1 | This is a simplified prose retelling of Shakespeare's play about two young people who defy their warring families' prejudices and dare to fall in love. | 38 | Y |
| Romeo and Juliet Together (and Alive) at Last | Avi | 5.4 | 3 | 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 |
| Ronald Reagan | Kent, Zachary | 7.7 | 2 | A biography of the former motion-picture actor who served two terms as the fortieth President of the United States. | 89 | Y |
| Rookie Star | Hughes, Dean | 3.9 | 2 | Called "rookie star" by the town paper, third-grader Kenny Sandoval, talented first baseman for the Angel Park Dodgers, is determined to prove that the name has not gone to his head. | 80 | |
| Root Cellar, The | Lunn, Janet | 5.2 | 10 | For twelve-year-old Rose, the root cellar was a passage through which she could escape the present and travel back in time to the 1860s and the Civil War. | 229 | Y |
| Roses (Flowers) | Prevost, John F. | 4.4 | 0.5 | This book describes the variety of colors, various parts, growing conditions, and other aspects of one of the most popular flowers in the world. | 24 | |
| Roses are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink | De Groat, Diane | 3.4 | 0.5 | On Valentine's Day, Gilbert brings a tin of homemade cookies and his original nice or nasty poems to school. | 28 | Y |
| Rosie and Michael | Viorst, Judith | 3.3 | 0.5 | Two friends tell what they like about each other--even the bad things. | 36 | Y |
| Rosy's Romance | Greenwald, Sheila | 3.8 | 1 | Rosy and her friend Hermione attempt to help Rosy's teenage sisters live out the romantic fantasies they have been reading about in paperback. | 106 | |
| Rough Waters | Rottman, S.L. | 4.2 | 10 | After their parents' death in an automobile accident, two teenage brothers are sent to Colorado to live with an estranged uncle, owner of a white water rafting outfit. | 179 | Y |
| Rough-Face Girl, The | Martin, Rafe | 4 | 0.5 | In this Algonquin Indian version of the Cinderella story, the Rough-Face Girl and her two beautiful but heartless sisters compete for the affections of the Invisible Being. | 30 | Y |
| Ruby Mae Has Something to Say | Small, David | 5 | 0.5 | Tongue-tied Ruby Mae Foote fulfills her dream of speaking for world peace at the United Nations when her nephew Billy Bob invents a device to solve her speech problem. | 30 | Y |
| Rumors at the Rink | Lowell, Melissa | 3.8 | 3 | Haley is upset when she learns that her favorite coach Kathy is leaving Silver Blades, and Haley is sure that it is her fault. | 121 | |
| Runaway Ralph | Cleary, Beverly | 5.3 | 4 | Wanting excitement, adventure, and his independence, the cycling mouse runs away from home on his shiny red motorcycle. | 175 | Y |
| Running out of Time | Haddix, Margaret Peterson | 4.8 | 7 | When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840s village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1996 tourist site under the observation of heartless scientists, and it is up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of dying children. | 184 | Y |
| Rush for Gold | Hubbard, Coleen | 4.8 | 3 | In need of two hundred dollars, the entry fee for competing in the Palomino Parade, Landy hears a local legend about hidden gold and becomes determined to find the treasure. | 127 | |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | Kent, Zachary | 7.3 | 2 | Examines the life and career of the Civil War general and Ohio politician, who became the nineteenth president of the United States. | 89 | Y |
| Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes | Coerr, Eleanor | 4.1 | 1 | Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy. | 63 | Y |
| Sail Away | McNeil, Florence | 4.8 | 0.5 | In this book the captain gets his boat shipshape and ready to sail. | 27 | Y |
| Saint George and the Dragon | Hodges, Margaret | 5.6 | 0.5 | Retells the segment from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings peace and joy to the land. | 32 | Y |
| Salamandastron | Jacques, Brian | 5.7 | 16 | The defense of the badger citadel occupies this entry in the Redwall chronicles. | 356 | |
| Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett | Kellogg, Steven | 5 | 0.5 | Sally Ann, wife of Davy Crockett, fears nothing--and proves it when braggart Mike Fink tries to scare her. | 37 | Y |
| Sally Ride: First American Woman in Space | Camp, Carole Ann | 8.1 | 3 | A biography of Sally Ride, who became the first American woman to travel in space. | 104 | Y |
| Salty Dog | Strickland, Brad | 4.9 | 4 | There's a treasure in Oakdale, and Wishbone sets out to find it. | 135 | Y |
| Sam and the Tigers | Lester, Julius | 3.1 | 0.5 | Relates what happens when a little boy named Sam matches wits with several tigers that want to eat him. | 33 | Y |
| Sam, Bangs & Moonshine | Ness, Evaline | 3.6 | 0.5 | Sam is a fisherman's daughter who dreams rich and lovely dreams. After a near disaster involving Thomas her friend and Bangs her cat Sam is forced to draw a line between dreams and reality. | 34 | |
| Samantha Learns a Lesson | Adler, Susan S. | 4.3 | 1 | Samantha is determined to help nine-year-old Nellie, attending school for the first time, with her school work and learns a great deal herself about what it is like to be a poor child and work in a factory. | 61 | Y |
| Samantha Saves the Day | Tripp, Valerie | 3.8 | 1 | When Samantha and the twins head off to find Teardrop Island, their exploration puts them in the middle of a dangerous storm. | 65 | Y |
| Samantha the Snob | Cristaldi, Kathryn | 1.8 | 0.5 | Samantha may look like a snob, but her glitzy appearance is deceiving. | 48 | Y |
| Samantha's Surprise | Schur, Maxine Rose | 3.9 | 1 | In 1904, Samantha finishes her homemade Christmas presents and makes preparations for visiting relatives. | 66 | Y |
| Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief | Van Draanen, Wendelin | 4.6 | 6 | Sammy's penchant for speaking her mind gets her into trouble when she involves herself in the investigation of a robbery. | 163 | Y |
| Sand Sharks (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 4.2 | 0.5 | Discover more about the Sand Shark. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves against dangers. | 24 | Y |
| Santa Claus Doesn't Mop Floors | Dadey/Jones | 3.6 | 1 | The Bailey School Kids want to find out if the jolly new janitor could really be St. Nick. | 71 | |
| Santa's Book of Names | McPhail, David | 3.6 | 0.5 | A young boy who has trouble reading helps Santa with his yearly rounds and receives a special present. | 28 | Y |
| Sarah, Plain and Tall | MacLachlan, Patricia | 3.4 | 1 | In this loving story of a motherless family, a tall, plain woman comes to stay with them. | 58 | Y |
| Sasquatch | Smith, Roland | 4.5 | 5 | In an attempt to protect the resident Sasquatch from ruthless hunters, thirteen-year-old Dylan follows his father into the woods on the slopes of Mount Saint Helens, which is on the brink of another eruption, | 188 | Y |
| Saturn (A True Book) | Brimner, Larry Dane | 4.8 | 0.5 | This book examines the physical characteristics and conditions of Saturn, describing its position in relation to the sun and other planets and surveying humanity's attempts to penetrate its mysteries. | 47 | |
| Saturn (Galaxy) | Vogt, Gregory L. | 4.2 | 0.5 | This book discusses the orbit, atmosphere, rings, moons, surface features, exploration, and other aspects of the planet Saturn. | 24 | Y |
| Saturn (Our Universes) | Murray, Peter | 4.2 | 0.5 | Describes what is known about the second-largest planet in the solar system and its rings and moons. | 32 | Y |
| Saucepan Journey | Unnerstad, Edith | 5.6 | 8 | This is the story of a family that grew too big for its apartment, and decided to go off and take to the road. Also of an invention that really was simply marvelous. | 195 | |
| Savage Sam | Gipson, Fred | 5.7 | 8 | The thrilling story of the son of Old Yeller, filled with brutality and heroism and written with a sense of young wonder. | 151 | Y |
| Saving Shiloh | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 4.9 | 6 | Sixth-grade Marty and his family try to help their rough neighbor Judd Travers change his mean ways even though their West Virginia community continues to expect the worst from him. | 137 | Y |
| Say "Cheese" | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 2.4 | 1 | Everyone is excited that the school year is almost over, but Emily gets lost on the class picnic. | 79 | Y |
| Say Cheese and Die! | Stine, R.L. | 3.9 | 3 | Greg knows there is something wrong with the camera he found. Each picture is worth a thousand screams. Who will take the next fall for the evil camera? | 132 | Y |
| Scarecrow Walks at Midnight, The | Stine, R.L. | 3.5 | 3 | Jodi loves visiting her grandparents' farm until one night she sees something odd. The scarecrows seem to be moving, twitching on their stakes. | 122 | Y |
| Scared Stiff | Roberts, Willo Davis | 5 | 7 | When their mother disappears, two brothers go to stay with a great uncle in a mobile home park next to an abandoned amusement park and begin a search which puts them in danger. | 188 | Y |
| Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones | Schwartz, Alvin | 4.3 | 2 | More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, haunts, superstitions, monsters, and horrible, scary things. | 108 | |
| Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark | Schwartz, Alvin | 4.1 | 1 | Stories of ghosts and witches gathered from American folklore. | 87 | Y |
| School Bus Driver from the Black Lagoon, The | Thaler, Mike | 3 | 0.5 | Rumors have been spreading about the new school bus driver, and a young boy's imagination runs wild while he waits for the bus to pick him up. | 30 | Y |
| School Nurse from the Black Lagoon, The | Thaler, Mike | 3.1 | 0.5 | Is Miss Hearse the Nurse real, or have the students just imagined her? | 30 | Y |
| School Trouble for Andy Russell | Adler, David A. | 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 | Y |
| Schoolhouse Mystery | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.3 | 3 | Benny's curiosity while staying in a fishing village leads to the capture of a swindler. | 128 | Y |
| Scooter | Williams, Vera B. | 4.6 | 3 | A child's silver blue scooter helps her adjust to her new home. | 147 | Y |
| Scrambled Eggs Super! | Seuss, Dr. | 4.4 | 0.5 | Tired of scrambled eggs always tasting the same, Peter T. Hooper goes on a great egg hunt for his new recipe. | 52 | Y |
| Screws (Simple Machines) | Glover, David | 4.4 | 0.5 | Introduces the principles of screws as simple machines, using examples from everyday life. | 24 | Y |
| Sea Horses (A True Book) | Landau, Elaine | 4.5 | 0.5 | This is an introduction to sea horses, describing their physical characteristics and habits, as well as their suitability as pets. | 47 | |
| Sea Horses (Ocean Life) | Schaefer, Lola M. | 1.6 | 0.5 | Simple text and illustrations describe the sea horse. | 24 | Y |
| Sea Monsters Don't Ride Motorcycles | Dadey/Jones | 4 | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. Is the winning rider at the motorcycle races really a sea monster? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out! | 74 | |
| Sea Otters (Creative Ed.) | Brust, Beth Wagner | 5.3 | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics, habitat, life cycle, and daily activities of this member of the weasel family. | 24 | Y |
| Sea Stars (Ocean Life) | Schaefer, Lola M. | 1.3 | 0.5 | Simple text and photographs introduce sea stars, their appearance, and behavior. | 24 | Y |
| Sea Turtles (A True Book) | Lepthien, Emilie U. | 4.5 | 0.5 | An introduction to sea turtles: where they live, what they eat, how they breed and nest. | 48 | Y |
| Seabirds (Creative Ed.) | Brust, Beth Wagner | 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 | Y |
| Seal Killers, The | Brin, Susannah | 4.1 | 1 | Andy and Colleen try to catch the people responsible for killing the seals near where they live. | 50 | Y |
| Seal Oil Lamp, The | DeArmond, Dale | 4.6 | 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 |
| Seals, Sea Lions & Walruses (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 5.1 | 0.5 | This book provides information as to physical characteristics, behavior, and differences between seals, sea lions, and walruses. | 24 | Y |
| Seance, The | Nixon, Joan Lowery | 4.7 | 5 | It started as a game, but the seance led to murder and terror for the people of a small Texas community. | 172 | Y |
| Search for Delicious, The | Babbitt, Natalie | 5.4 | 4 | The Prime Minister is compiling a dictionary; and when no one at court can agree on the meaning of delicious, the King sends his twelve-year-old messenger to poll the country. | 167 | Y |
| Search for Grissi, The | Shura, Mary Francis | 5 | 4 | Eleven-year-old Peter feels uncomfortable at home and school after his family moves to Brooklyn, until his search for his sister's missing cat opens up a new life for him. | 126 | Y |
| Searching for Dragons | Wrede, Patricia C. | 5.3 | 9 | With the aid of King Mandanbar, princess Cimorene rescues the dragon Kazul and saves the Enchanted Forest from a band of wicked wizards. | 242 | |
| Seasons (A True Book) | Sipiera, Paul/Diane | 4.1 | 0.5 | Explains how and why the four seasons occur and examines the weather they bring. | 48 | Y |
| Seasons on the Farm (Farm) | Hansen, Ann Larkin | 3.8 | 0.5 | This book describes how each season of the year affects farmers and the work they do. | 32 | |
| Sea-Wolf (Unabridged), The | London, Jack | 8.1 | 18 | This violent adventure in the wild Pacific Ocean takes place on board the "Ghost" with Captain Wolf Larsen. | 281 | Y |
| Secret Agent on Flight 101, The | Dixon, Franklin W. | 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 |
| Secret at the Polk Street School, The | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 2.3 | 1 | After she gets a threatening message and finds pointy teeth marks in her loaf of bread just before she appears as Little Red Riding Hood in the school play, Dawn gets a terrible case of stage fright. | 72 | Y |
| Secret Funeral of Slim Jim the Snake, The | Woodruff, Elvira | 4.8 | 4 | Nick devises an unusual plan in order to pursue his dream of becoming a trucker just like his dad. | 166 | Y |
| Secret Garden, The | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | 6.3 | 13 | Mary moves to a huge estate to live with her mysterious uncle, his ailing son, the servants--and a secret garden. | 343 | Y |
| Secret Moose, The | Rogers, Jean | 5.4 | 1 | A young boy living in Alaska develops an interest in moose and their habits after he sees a moose in his backyard and decides to follow it. | 64 | |
| Secret of Gumbo Grove, The | Tate, Eleanora E. | 4.6 | 7 | While helping restore the cemetery of the old Baptist church, eleven-year-old Raisin solves the mystery surrounding the founding of her home town and gains pride in her family's past. | 199 | Y |
| Secret of the Andes | Clark, Ann Nolan | 4.7 | 5 | An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors. | 120 | Y |
| Secret of the Indian, The | Banks, Lynne Reid | 5.2 | 5 | In this third book about Omri and his magic cupboard, Omri and his friend Patrick must risk grown-ups discovering their secret when they find themselves in need of a friend whose toy plastic doctors can be brought to life to save wounded people. | 147 | Y |
| Secret of the Old Clock, The | Keene, Carolyn | 5.4 | 5 | Nancy's decided that Mr. Crowley must have left a second will, so she proceeds to find out the mystery of the old clock. | 180 | Y |
| Secret Path, The | Pike, Christopher | 4 | 3 | After Adam moves to Springville and meets Sally, he finds out that the town is really called Spooksville because of all the strange occurrences that take place there. | 129 | Y |
| Secret Place | Bunting, Eve | 3 | 0.5 | A young boy finds a patch of wilderness in the city. | 26 | Y |
| Secret Window, The | Wright, Betty Ren | 4.4 | 4 | Meg has a secret that she does not tell anyone--she has weird dreams and they come true. After a series of traumatic events, Meg feels more different than ever. Following a near tragedy, Meg realizes that sometimes being different is a good thing. | 149 | |
| Secrets of Tut's Tomb and the Pyramids | Reiff, Stephanie | 5 | 1 | Discusses the building of the Egyptian pyramids, strange stories associated with them, and possible powers possessed by pyramids. | 48 | |
| See You Around, Sam! | Lowry, Lois | 4.4 | 3 | Sam Krupnik decides to run away to Alaska because his mother will not let him wear his plastic fangs in the house. | 113 | Y |
| Seeing the Unseen | Green, Carl | 4.8 | 1 | Using real reported experiences, the authors explore precognition and clairvoyance--two of the mind's mysteries. | 48 | |
| Seminole Indians (Native Peoples), The | Lund, Bill | 3.2 | 0.5 | Provides an overview of the past and present lives of the Seminoles, covering their daily life, customs, relations with government and others, and more. | 23 | Y |
| Sentries | Paulsen, Gary | 5.4 | 5 | The common theme of nuclear disaster and human vulnerability interweaves the lives of four young people, an Ojibway Indian, an illegal Mexican migrant worker, a rock musician, and a sheep rancher's daughter with the lives of three veterans of past wars. | 168 | |
| Separate Battle, A | Chang, Ina | 7.8 | 3 | Vivid stories of women at the time of the Civil War who were inspired to join the war effort and take on surprising new roles. | 103 | Y |
| Sequoyah's Gift | Klausner, Janet | 6.6 | 3 | A biography of the legendary statesman of the Cherokees. | 94 | Y |
| Seven Kisses in a Row | MacLachlan, Patricia | 3.4 | 1 | Emma learns to accept "different strokes for different folks" when her aunt and uncle come to take care of her and her brother. | 56 | |
| Seven Spiders Spinning | Maguire, Gregory | 5.5 | 4 | Seven prehistoric spiders that had been trapped in ice for thousands of years bring excitement to rural Vermont and briefly unite two rival clubs at a local elementary school. | 132 | Y |
| Shabanu | Staples, Suzanne Fisher | 5.9 | 9 | When eleven-year-old Shabanu is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, she must either accept the customary decision or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes. | 240 | Y |
| Shades of Gray | Reeder, Carolyn | 5.3 | 6 | At the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his immediate family, reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia countryside with his aunt and uncle he considers a "traitor" because they refused to take part in the war. | 152 | Y |
| Shadow Man, The | Schraff, Anne | 3.7 | 3 | Who is the strange shadow man who keeps following Damien? | 134 | |
| Shadow of a Bull | Wojciechowska, Maia | 5.2 | 5 | The son of a famous bullfighter resists the pressures that try to force him to become a bullfighter like his hero father. | 141 | Y |
| Shadowmaker, The | Hansen, Ron | 5.1 | 1 | A cunning little girl named Drizzle rescues her town from the bedlam created by the mysterious Shadowmaker, a wizard who makes new shadows for people. | 66 | Y |
| Shadrach | De Jong, Meindert | 4.9 | 5 | This beautiful story of a boy and his very special pet rabbit is told with a childlike perception and a sensitive understanding of a child's emotions. | 182 | |
| Shakespeare's Theater | Morley, Jacqueline | 7 | 1 | A look at the Globe Theater in London where many of Shakespeare's plays were first produced. | 43 | Y |
| Shape of Me and Other Stuff | Seuss, Dr. | 1.7 | 0.5 | Rhyme and silhouette drawings introduce the shape of bugs, balloons, peanuts, camels, spider webs, and many other familiar objects. | 26 | |
| Sharks (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 5.2 | 0.5 | This book provides information on the physical characteristics and behavior of different species of sharks. | 24 | Y |
| Sharks for Kids/Shark Magic for Kids | Corrigan, Patricia | 4.9 | 0.5 | This book provides information including what sharks eat, how they find their food, and what their skin feels like. | 47 | |
| Shattered Helmet, The | Dixon, Franklin W. | 4.8 | 5 | Danger is the name of the game when the Hardys agree to help their pen pal from Greece, Evan Pandropolos, search for a priceless, ancient Greek helmet. | 180 | Y |
| Sheep in a Jeep | Shaw, Nancy | 1 | 0.5 | Records the misadventures of a group of sheep that go riding in a jeep. | 32 | Y |
| Shetland Ponies (Checkerboard) | Gammie, Janet L. | 3.9 | 0.5 | Discover the Shetland horse; learn important facts about these beautiful animals and how to care for them. | 21 | |
| Shh! We're Writing the Constitution | Fritz, Jean | 7.1 | 1 | Describes how the constitution came to be written and ratified. Also includes the full text of the document produced by the Constitutional Convention of 1787. | 64 | Y |
| Shiloh | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 4.4 | 4 | When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner. The owner is a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs. | 144 | Y |
| Shiloh Season | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 4.8 | 5 | When mean and angry Judd, who has never known kindness, takes to drinking and mistreats his dogs, Marty discovers how deep a hurt can go and how long it takes to heal. | 120 | Y |
| Shining Mark, The | Schraff, Anne | 4.2 | 3 | Last year, Tony's best friend was shot and killed. Now Tony faces the possibility of another tragic loss. Sequel to When a Hero Dies. | 109 | |
| Ship | Macaulay, David | 7.9 | 1 | Underwater archaeologists search for an ancient ship in the reefs of the Caribbean. | 93 | Y |
| Shocker on Shock Street, A | Stine, R.L. | 3.2 | 3 | Two friends love horror movies, and they know they aren't real. Right? | 117 | Y |
| Shoebag | James, Mary | 4.7 | 4 | Shoebag, a happy, young cockroach who finds himself suddenly changed into a little boy, changes the lives of those around him before returning to his former life as an insect. | 135 | Y |
| Shoes from Grandpa | Fox, Mem | 4.3 | 0.5 | In a cumulative rhyme, family members describe the clothes they intend to give Jessie to go with her shoes from Grandpa. | 29 | Y |
| Shortcut | Macaulay, David | 2.8 | 0.5 | Visual clues provide answers to the mysterious interrelationship of a series of brief stories. | 58 | Y |
| Siamese Cats (Checkerboard) | Kallen, Stuart A. | 3.4 | 0.5 | Discover the Siamese cat; learn how to feed and care for them and about their special habits. | 21 | |
| Sidewalk Story | Mathis, Sharon Bell | 3.3 | 1 | Lilly Etta tries to keep her friend's family from being evicted. | 58 | Y |
| Sideways Stories from Wayside School | Sachar, Louis | 3.3 | 3 | Humorous episodes take place in the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story. | 124 | Y |
| Sign of the Beaver, The | Speare, Elizabeth George | 4.9 | 5 | A young boy in Maine, when rescued by an Indian chief and his grandson, must decide whether to spend the winter alone in the woods waiting for his family to return or move on to a new life with his new friends. | 135 | Y |
| Silver Chair, The | Lewis, C.S. | 5.7 | 8 | Prince Rilian escapes from the Emerald Witch's underground kingdom. | 257 | Y |
| Sing down the Moon | O'Dell, Scott | 4.9 | 4 | The forced migration of Navahos from their homeland, is described from the Native American point of view. | 121 | Y |
| Sioux Indians (Native Peoples), The | Lund, Bill | 3.7 | 0.5 | Provides an overview of the past and present lives of the Sioux, or Dakota, Indians, covering their daily life, customs, relations with the government and others, and more. | 23 | Y |
| Sir Small and the Dragonfly | O'Connor, Jane | 1.7 | 0.5 | When a dragonfly swoops over the town of Pee Wee and carries Lady Teena away, brave Sir Small rides off on his trusty ant, vowing to rescue her. | 32 | Y |
| Sister | Greenfield, Eloise | 3.8 | 2 | A young girl's diary of four years in her life that gives her the courage and strength to be herself. | 82 | |
| Sisters, Long Ago | Kehret, Peg | 4.6 | 5 | When Willow Paige nearly drowns, she envisions scenes from a past life which lead to an exploration of reincarnation and mental telepathy and set her on a quest to help give hope and strength to her sister who has leukemia. | 149 | |
| Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You | DeClements, Barthe | 4.3 | 4 | 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 | |
| Skates of Uncle Richard, The | Fenner, Carol | 4.3 | 1 | With her Uncle's encouragement, a nine-year-old takes the first step toward realizing her dream of becoming a figure skater. | 46 | |
| Skating Camp | Lowell, Melissa | 4.2 | 4 | Jill is looking forward to going to summer skating camp with the Silver Blades; but since she has been gone, things have changed and Jill is not ready to accept all those changes. | 132 | |
| Skeletons Don't Play Tubas | Dadey/Jones | 3.8 | 1 | The new band instructor at Bailey School teaches everyone to play instruments, even a skeleton! | 73 | |
| Skellig | Almond, David | 3.5 | 4 | An unusual being enters the life of Michael, a boy whose family has moved into a new house and whose baby sister is gravely ill. Michael's loneliness and isolation lead to a special friendship with the being called Skellig. | 182 | Y |
| Skinnybones | Park, Barbara | 4.1 | 3 | Life looks hopeless when Alex's losing team has to play baseball against T.J.'s winning team. But Alex has a hidden talent that could save the day -- unless it ruins his life first. | 111 | Y |
| Skylark | MacLachlan, Patricia | 3.2 | 1 | In the sequel to Sarah, Plain and Tall, Sarah's new family experiences some doubts about their future. | 87 | Y |
| Slave Dancer, The | Fox, Paula | 6 | 6 | In this spellbinding novel of suspense and survival, young Jessie, a musician, is hired to play for the slaves aboard a ship bound for America. | 127 | Y |
| Sleeping Ugly | Yolen, Jane | 3.5 | 0.5 | When beautiful Princess Miserella, Plain Jane, and a fairy fall under a sleeping spell, a prince undoes the spell in a surprising way. | 64 | Y |
| Slime Time | O'Connor, Jim/Jane | 3.3 | 1 | Danny and Jed become contestants on the children's television show "Slime Time," where wrong answers mean getting sprayed with whipped cream, but right answers could lead to new skateboards. | 63 | |
| Smokey | Peet, Bill | 4.3 | 0.5 | The story of Smokey, a locomotive, who runs away after hearing of his coming retirement. | 38 | Y |
| Smoky Night | Bunting, Eve | 2.4 | 0.5 | A child's eye view of urban violence in a riot-torn city. | 28 | Y |
| Smoky the Cow Horse | James, Will | 6.5 | 13 | This is the story of the cow horse Smoky, and Clint, the man who trained and loved him. | 310 | Y |
| Smugglers' Island | Avi | 4 | 5 | Pete, a lonely and timid eleven-year-old who has just made friends with an adventurous girl named Rootie, hides on Cutlass Island with his alcoholic father, waiting for the gunman his father fears will kill him. | 178 | Y |
| Smugglers, The | Lawrence, Iain | 4.7 | 6 | In eighteenth-century England, after his father buys a schooner called the Dragon, sixteen-year-old John sets out to sail it from Kent to London and becomes involved in a dangerous smuggling scheme. | 183 | Y |
| Snaggle Doodles | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 2.6 | 1 | Emily is worried that her ''invention group'' will not pull together soon enough to finish an invention. | 68 | Y |
| Snail Started It! | Reider, Katja | 3.3 | 0.5 | This story demonstrates how cruel words can damage self-esteem and kind words can restore it. | 23 | Y |
| Snakes (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 5.7 | 0.5 | This book discusses the bodies, locomotion, feeding habits, and behavior of snakes. | 24 | Y |
| Snakes (Remarkable Reptiles) | Gerholdt, James E. | 4.1 | 0.5 | Examines a variety of snakes within their habitats. | 23 | Y |
| Sneetches and Other Stories, The | Seuss, Dr. | 3.4 | 0.5 | Four short stories including: The Sneetches, The Zax, Too Many Daves, and What Was I Scared Of? | 65 | Y |
| Snot Stew | Wallace, Bill | 3.2 | 2 | Brother and sister cats are taken in by a family and learn the pleasures and dangers of living alongside humans. | 81 | |
| Snow | Shulevitz, Uri | 1.6 | 0.5 | As Snowflakes slowly come down, one by one people in the city ignore them, and only a boy and his dog think the snow fall will amount to anything. | 28 | Y |
| Snow Angels | Hood, Susan | 0.7 | 0.5 | This book is about a little bunny that is missing and found making angels in the snow. | 32 | |
| Snow Monster Mystery | Jones/Dadey | 3.9 | 1 | Kilmer's Uncle Yetta , who looks like the Abominable Snowman, comes for a visit. | 75 | |
| Snow Treasure | McSwigan, Marie | 5.3 | 5 | Brave children help save Norway's gold from the invading Nazis during World War II. | 156 | Y |
| Snowbird, The | Calvert, Patricia | 5.2 | 7 | Willie and her brother TJ are orphaned and must journey to the Dakota Territory to live with their uncle and aunt they do not even know. | 135 | |
| Snowbound Mystery | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3.4 | 3 | A freak snowstorm traps the Aldens in a cabin, where they find a coded message. | 128 | Y |
| Snowy Day, The | Keats, Ezra Jack | 2.5 | 0.5 | A small boy experiences the joys of a snowy day. | 28 | Y |
| Snug Bug | Dubowski, Cathy East | 1.1 | 0.5 | Snug Bug goes to bed in the dark. | 32 | |
| So Sick! | Ziefert, Harriet | 1.1 | 0.5 | The eventful day of Lewis the lion cub as he is 'sick, so sick' and then gets well. | 32 | |
| Soap! Soap! Don't Forget the Soap! | Birdseye, Tom | 3.6 | 0.5 | Plug has such a bad memory that all the folks in Sassafras Hollow think he could forget his own name. | 28 | Y |
| Socks | Cleary, Beverly | 5.2 | 2 | A comfortable cat's life for tabby Socks is disrupted by the arrival of a new baby in the owner's home. | 156 | Y |
| Solar System (A True Book), The | Sipiera, Paul P. | 4.6 | 0.5 | Describes the sun, the planets, and the asteroids that make up our solar system. | 48 | Y |
| Solar System (Universe), The | Welsbacher, Anne | 4.4 | 0.5 | This book gives a simple introduction to our solar system and its many components, including the sun, planets, satellites, asteroids, and comets. | 24 | |
| Somebody and the Three Blairs | Tolhurst, Marilyn | 2.2 | 0.5 | In a reversal of the Goldilocks story, a bear explores the home of the three Blairs while they are out. | 26 | Y |
| Someday the Sun Will Shine Again | Schraff, Anne | 4.5 | 3 | Josephine Thorpe has survived harsh working conditions, a tyrannical boss, and an unsympathetic aunt. But now she has lost her job and once again must struggle to survive. | 124 | |
| Someone Was Watching | Patneaude, David | 4.5 | 6 | Chris has a hard time adjusting to his younger sister's disappearance and decides to seek out the kidnappers. | 220 | Y |
| Something from Nothing | Gilman, Phoebe | 3.3 | 0.5 | In this retelling of a traditional Jewish folktale, Joseph's baby blanket is transformed into ever smaller items as he grows until there is nothing left--but then Joseph has an idea. | 27 | Y |
| Something Queer at the Haunted School | Levy, Elizabeth | 3.6 | 0.5 | Two amateur detectives investigate a haunting of their school that starts around Halloween. Jill and Gwen, the heroines in this popular series, are faced with their spookiest case ever. | 42 | |
| Something Queer at the Library | Levy, Elizabeth | 3 | 0.5 | Jill and Gwen need to find out who has been defacing the library books, including the ones they have checked out, before they are accused of the damage. | 42 | |
| Something Queer Is Going On | Levy, Elizabeth | 2.9 | 0.5 | Jill and Gwen do some sleuthing when Jill's basset hound disappears. | 46 | |
| Something Upstairs | Avi | 4.1 | 3 | When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his murder by slave traders. | 116 | Y |
| Son of the Black Stallion | Farley, Walter | 6.1 | 11 | The story of a spirited colt with a savage, killer instinct. | 282 | Y |
| Song and Dance Man | Ackerman, Karen | 4 | 0.5 | Grandpa demonstrates for his visiting grandchildren some of the songs, dances, and jokes he performed when he was a vaudevillian. | 21 | Y |
| Song Lee and the Hamster Hunt | Kline, Suzy | 2.9 | 0.5 | When Song Lee's hamster escapes from its cage in Room 2B, the class members and other students in South School become involved in the search for him. | 52 | Y |
| Song of the Trees | Taylor, Mildred D. | 3.8 | 1 | Every day when Cassie opened her windows, the trees would greet her; now her mother has been forced to sell the trees. This story begins the chronicle of the Logan family that is continued in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and Let the Circle Be Unbroken. | 52 | Y |
| Song of the Wanderer | Coville, Bruce | 5.8 | 9 | Having jumped into Luster, the land of unicorns, Cara makes a perilous journey to bring back her grandmother, the Wanderer, in order to release the Queen of the unicorns and allow her to die. | 330 | Y |
| Song to Sing, A | Schraff, Anne | 3.9 | 3 | Reina knows winning isn't everything, but does her friend Efren? | 131 | |
| SOS Titanic | Bunting, Eve | 4.5 | 6 | Fifteen-year-old Barry O'Neill, traveling from Ireland to America on the maiden voyage of the Titanic, finds his life endangered when the ship hits an iceberg and begins to sink. | 243 | Y |
| Sounder | Armstrong, William H. | 5.3 | 3 | Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read with the help of a devoted dog, Sounder. | 116 | Y |
| Soup | Peck, Robert Newton | 4.4 | 2 | Rural Vermont during the 1920s is the setting of this nostalgic account of episodes in the lives of young Rob Peck and his pal, Soup. | 96 | Y |
| Soup and Me | Peck, Robert Newton | 4.3 | 3 | From their crisp Vermont spring to the chill of winter, Soup and Rob learn about many things: Untended clothes, runaway pumpkins, marigolds, fighting turkeys, and Miss Kelly's Christmas. | 115 | |
| Soup for President | Peck, Robert Newton | 4 | 3 | Soup is running against Rob's girlfriend for class president, and with Rob as his campaign manager, life for Soup and Rob gets pretty interesting. | 107 | Y |
| Soup on Ice | Peck, Robert Newton | 4.7 | 3 | Rob and Soup engineer an incredible appearance by Santa and his sleigh in their small Vermont town. | 112 | Y |
| Soup on Wheels | Peck, Robert Newton | 3.9 | 2 | Rob and Soup vie for the prize in their town's "Vermont Mardy Grah." | 101 | Y |
| South Carolina | Kent, Deborah | 8.4 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to South Carolina's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| South Dakota | Lepthien, Emilie U. | 8.7 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to South Dakota's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| Southern 500 | Ethan, Eric | 5.1 | 0.5 | This book describes the Southern 500, one of the oldest |