| Author | Title | AR BL | AR Pts | Description | No.of Pages | Have Book |
| Inseth, Zachary | Tundra (Biomes of Nature), The | 4.2 | 0.5 | Questions and answers introduce the appearance, location, importance, and life of the tundra. | 32 | Y |
| Irving, Washington | Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The | 11 | 3 | This is the rollicking tale of Ichabod Crane, a schoolmaster, who challenges his rival, Brom Bones, for the love and fortune of Katrina Van Tassel. | 104 | Y |
| Isadora, Rachel | At the Crossroads | 1.9 | 0.5 | South African children gather to welcome home their fathers, who have been away for several months working in the mines. | 22 | |
| Jablonski, Carla | Homer Sweet Homer | 4.5 | 4 | Wishbone gets kidnapped and his favorite tree is in danger of being bulldozed. He imagines himself as Odysseus as he struggles to return to his homeland. | 143 | |
| Jacobs, W.W. | Monkey's Paw (Creative Education), The | 6.5 | 1 | A mummified monkey's paw carrying a spell receives three wishes from a family and proceeds to fulfill them in unexpected and horrible ways. | 32 | |
| Jacques, Brian | Bellmaker, The | 5.7 | 14 | Worried about his daughter Mariel, Joseph the Bellmaker is led by a dream from Redwall Abbey to Southsward, where he is caught up in the battle between Squirrelking Gael and the vicious Foxwolf Nagru. | 336 | Y |
| Jacques, Brian | Legend of Luke, The | 5.7 | 16 | When Martin the Warrior leaves Redwall Abbey and embarks upon a journey to the place of his birth, he learns about the brave and noble deeds of his father Luke, a real Warrior Chieftain. | 374 | Y |
| Jacques, Brian | Marlfox | 5.7 | 17 | When three young residents of Redwall Abbey go on a quest to recover a tapestry stolen by the Marlfoxes, their bravery removes the curse of these evil animals on a lost island. | 386 | Y |
| Jacques, Brian | Outcast of Redwall | 6.3 | 15 | The destinies of the badger lord dubbed Sunflash and his mortal enemy, the ferret warlord Swartt Sixclaw, are entwined with those of many creatures, particularly the inhabitants of Redwall Abbey. | 356 | |
| Jacques, Brian | Redwall | 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 |
| Jacques, Brian | Salamandastron | 5.7 | 16 | The defense of the badger citadel occupies this entry in the Redwall chronicles. | 356 | |
| James, Mary | Shoebag | 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 |
| James, Simon | Ancient Rome (Eyewitness) | 8.1 | 2 | A photo essay documenting ancient Rome and the people who lived there as revealed through the many artifacts they left behind, including shields, swords, tools, toys, cosmetics, and jewelry. An Eyewitness book. | 62 | Y |
| James, Will | Smoky the Cow Horse | 6.5 | 13 | This is the story of the cow horse Smoky, and Clint, the man who trained and loved him. | 310 | Y |
| Jarrell, Randall | Animal Family, The | 5.4 | 3 | This is the story of how a man finds a family. | 180 | Y |
| Jenkins, Martin | Chameleons Are Cool | 4.3 | 0.5 | Describes different kinds of chameleons, examining their physical features, their behavior, and their ability to change color. | 29 | Y |
| Jensen, Dorothea | Riddle of Penncroft Farm, The | 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 |
| Johnson, Angela | One of Three | 2.4 | 0.5 | A series of candid reflections by the youngest of three sisters on her daily relationships with her older sisters and family. | 30 | Y |
| Johnson, D.B. | Henry Hikes to Fitchburg | 2.1 | 0.5 | While his friend works hard to earn the train fare to Fitchburg, young Henry Thoreau walks the thirty miles through woods and fields, enjoying nature. | 29 | Y |
| Johnston, Marianne | Big Cats Past and Present | 4.6 | 0.5 | This book describes the prehistoric ancestors, evolution, and modern-day members of the cat family. | 24 | Y |
| Johnston, Tony | Amber on the Mountain | 3 | 0.5 | With the help of a girl from the city, a country girl learns how to read and write. | 30 | Y |
| Jones/Dadey | Monsters Next Door, The | 3.8 | 1 | Bailey City is full of some pretty weird grown-ups. It is the perfect place for the spooky Hauntly Manor Inn. Could Dracula, a mad scientist, and Frankenstein's monster be living there? | 71 | |
| Jones/Dadey | Snow Monster Mystery | 3.9 | 1 | Kilmer's Uncle Yetta , who looks like the Abominable Snowman, comes for a visit. | 75 | |
| Jones/Dadey | Vampire Baby | 3.8 | 1 | Kilmer's baby cousin Bathilda stays at Hauntly Manor. | 69 | |
| Jones/Dadey | Vampire Trouble | 3.9 | 1 | Bailey City is full of some pretty weird grown-ups. It is the perfect place for the spooky Hauntly Manor Inn. Could Kilmer's grandmother be a vampire planning to hang around? | 70 | |
| Joosse, Barbara M. | Mama, Do You Love Me? | 2.3 | 0.5 | A child living in the Arctic learns that a mother's love is unconditional. | 24 | Y |
| Joseph, Paul | Utah | 4.9 | 0.5 | Surveys the people, geography, and history of this western state. | 32 | Y |
| Jukes, Mavis | Blackberries in the Dark | 3.6 | 1 | Nine-year-old Austin visits his grandmother the summer after his grandfather dies, and together they try to come to terms with their loss. | 43 | Y |
| Juster, Norton | Phantom Tollbooth, The | 6.7 | 7 | In this wise and witty fantasy, a boy travels through time and space to the Lands Beyond. | 256 | Y |
| Kallen, Stuart A. | Abyssinian Cats (Checkerboard) | 3.5 | 0.5 | Discover the Abyssinian cat; learn how to feed and care for them and about their special habits. | 21 | |
| Kallen, Stuart A. | Airport (Field Trips), The | 4.3 | 0.5 | This book describes the organization of the airport and the work which is performed there. | 24 | |
| Kallen, Stuart A. | Cocker Spaniels (Dogs) | 3.7 | 0.5 | Discover the Cocker Spaniel; learn how to feed and care for them and about their special habits and needs. | 21 | |
| Kallen, Stuart A. | Dalmatians (Dogs) | 3.5 | 0.5 | Discover the Dalmatian; learn how to feed and care for them and about their special habits and needs. | 21 | |
| Kallen, Stuart A. | Farm (Field Trips), The | 3.6 | 0.5 | This book describes the crops, animals, equipment, and routine life on a family farm. | 24 | |
| Kallen, Stuart A. | Fire Station (Field Trips), The | 3.8 | 0.5 | This book briefly describes what goes on at a fire station and the work of fire fighters. | 24 | |
| Kallen, Stuart A. | German Shepherds (Dogs) | 3.7 | 0.5 | Discover the German Shepherd; learn how to feed and care for them and about their special habits and needs. | 21 | |
| Kallen, Stuart A. | Labrador Retrievers (Dogs) | 3.5 | 0.5 | Discover the Labrador Retriever; learn how to feed and care for them and about their special habits and needs. | 21 | |
| Kallen, Stuart A. | Maine Coon Cats (Checkerboard) | 3.9 | 0.5 | Discover the Maine coon cat; learn how to feed and care for them and about their special habits. | 21 | |
| Kallen, Stuart A. | Manx Cats (Checkerboard) | 3.6 | 0.5 | Discover the Manx cat; learn how to feed and care for them and about their special habits. | 21 | |
| Kallen, Stuart A. | Museum (Field Trips), The | 4.1 | 0.5 | This book describes different kinds of museums and what one can expect to find in each. | 24 | |
| Kallen, Stuart A. | Mutts (Dogs) | 3.4 | 0.5 | Discover the Mutt; learn how to feed and care for them and about their special habits and needs. | 21 | |
| Kallen, Stuart A. | Persian Cats (Checkerboard) | 3.7 | 0.5 | Discover the Persian cat; learn how to feed and care for them and about their special habits. | 21 | |
| Kallen, Stuart A. | Police Station (Field Trips), The | 4.2 | 0.5 | This book describes the work done by various people at a police station. | 24 | |
| Kallen, Stuart A. | Poodles (Dogs) | 3.5 | 0.5 | Discover the Poodle; learn how to feed and care for them and about their special habits and needs. | 21 | |
| Kallen, Stuart A. | Siamese Cats (Checkerboard) | 3.4 | 0.5 | Discover the Siamese cat; learn how to feed and care for them and about their special habits. | 21 | |
| Kallen, Stuart A. | Tabby Cats (Checkerboard) | 3.3 | 0.5 | Discover the Tabby cat; learn how to feed and care for them and about their special habits. | 21 | |
| Kallen, Stuart A. | Zoo (Field Trips), The | 3.5 | 0.5 | This book discusses zoos, their purposes, the people who work there, and the animals who may be found there. | 24 | |
| Kalman/Everts | Bugs and Other Insects (Crabapples) | 3.8 | 0.5 | This book looks at the bodies and habits of insects as well as different members of the insect family. | 32 | Y |
| Kalman/Everts | Little Cats (Crabapples) | 3.4 | 0.5 | This book examines various species of little cats, with attention to their appearance, behavior, habitat, and breeding. | 32 | Y |
| Kantor, MacKinlay | Gettysburg | 7.4 | 5 | Describes the bloodiest engagement of the Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg, and its impact on the people in that part of Pennsylvania. | 149 | Y |
| Karlin, Nurit | Fat Cat Sat on the Mat, The | 1.9 | 0.5 | Rat tries to get the fat cat off the mat and back to his usual resting place in the vat. | 32 | Y |
| Karr, Kathleen | Spy in the Sky | 3.1 | 1 | When Northerner Thaddeus Lowe lands his huge balloon in South Carolina at the beginning of the Civil War, ten-year-old orphan Ridley Jones joins up with him to help the North. | 59 | Y |
| Keats, Ezra Jack | John Henry: An American Legend | 3.4 | 0.5 | Handsome book about the American folk hero who challenged the modern steam drill to a contest of strength. | 28 | Y |
| Keats, Ezra Jack | Snowy Day, The | 2.5 | 0.5 | A small boy experiences the joys of a snowy day. | 28 | Y |
| Keats, Ezra Jack | Whistle for Willie | 2.5 | 0.5 | A child and his city world are captured in colorful illustrations. | 28 | Y |
| Keene, Carolyn | Clue of the Tapping Heels, The | 4.9 | 5 | Nancy Drew tries to find a clue to the strange tapping sounds in the house of a retired actress. | 176 | Y |
| Keene, Carolyn | Hidden Staircase, The | 5.5 | 6 | Nancy is off to solve another case, this time in a haunted house. | 182 | Y |
| Keene, Carolyn | Secret of the Old Clock, The | 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 |
| Keene, Carolyn | Tall, Dark and Deadly | 4.3 | 5 | Nancy looks into a computer dating service--and ends up on a date with danger! | 153 | |
| Keene, Carolyn | Win, Place or Die | 4.8 | 4 | Nancy must work quickly to prevent a ruthless killer from striking at the Kentucky Derby. | 152 | Y |
| Kehret, Peg | Cages | 4.5 | 5 | After losing an acting role and fighting with her alcoholic stepfather, Kit is arrested for shoplifting and ordered to work as part of her sentence at an animal shelter. | 150 | Y |
| Kehret, Peg | Danger at the Fair | 4.7 | 5 | Ellen receives a spirit message during a seance at the county fair, warning that her brother Corey is in danger and that she must rescue him. | 133 | Y |
| Kehret, Peg | Deadly Stranger | 4.8 | 5 | Katie is concerned that she won't fit in at her new school, and when one of her new friends is missing Katie searches for answers. | 174 | Y |
| Kehret, Peg | Earthquake Terror | 4.6 | 4 | When an earthquake hits the isolated island in northern California where his family had been camping, Jonathan must find a way to keep himself, his sister, and their dog alive until help arrives. | 132 | Y |
| Kehret, Peg | I'm Not Who You Think I Am | 4.6 | 4 | Thirteen-year-old Ginger becomes the target of a disturbed woman who believes that Ginger is her dead daughter. | 154 | Y |
| Kehret, Peg | Nightmare Mountain | 4.6 | 5 | Twelve-year-old Molly's visit to her aunt and uncle's llama ranch in the state of Washington leads her into unexpected danger and suspense. | 164 | Y |
| Kehret, Peg | Sisters, Long Ago | 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 | |
| Kehret, Peg | Terror at the Zoo | 4.6 | 5 | A camp-out at a deserted zoo turns scary for Corey and her little brother. | 131 | Y |
| Kehret, Peg | Volcano Disaster, The | 5.1 | 3 | When an Instant Commuter transports him to Mount Saint Helens during an eruption, Warren cannot get himself back to his own home in his own time. | 136 | |
| Keith, Harold | Rifles for Watie | 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 |
| Kellogg, Steven | Can I Keep Him? | 2.7 | 0.5 | Arnold wants to have something to play with and brings home a variety of pets. | 30 | |
| Kellogg, Steven | Chicken Little | 3.8 | 0.5 | Chicken Little and his feathered friends, alarmed that the sky seems to be falling, are easy prey to hungry Foxy Loxy when he poses as a police officer in hopes of luring them into his truck. | 28 | Y |
| Kellogg, Steven | Christmas Witch, The | 4.6 | 0.5 | Gloria must prove that she has what it takes to become a Christmas Witch by bringing peace to a planet occupied by two feuding factions. | 37 | |
| Kellogg, Steven | Island of the Skog, The | 3.5 | 0.5 | To escape the dangers of urban life, Jenny and her friends sail away to an island, only to be faced with a new problem--its single inhabitant--the Skog. | 24 | Y |
| Kellogg, Steven | Jack and the Beanstalk | 4.1 | 0.5 | The author/illustrator brings this timeless tale to life with the zest and energy that are his trademarks. | 36 | Y |
| Kellogg, Steven | Johnny Appleseed | 4.4 | 0.5 | Presents the life of John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, describing his love of nature, his kindness to animals, and his physical fortitude. | 36 | |
| Kellogg, Steven | Mike Fink | 4.9 | 0.5 | The story of the folk hero who ran away from home at two days old and grew up to be King of the Keelboatmen. | 37 | |
| Kellogg, Steven | Mysterious Tadpole, The | 3.6 | 0.5 | It soon becomes clear that a pet tadpole is not turning into an ordinary frog. NCTE Adventuring with Books. | 30 | Y |
| Kellogg, Steven | Mystery of the Flying Orange Pumpkin, The | 2.6 | 0.5 | When a new owner takes over the garden where they have been growing a pumpkin, the neighborhood children find their Halloween plans for the pumpkin in jeopardy. | 26 | Y |
| Kellogg, Steven | Mystery of the Missing Red Mitten, The | 1.8 | 0.5 | The story of a little boy's search for a lost mitten and where he finds it. | 32 | |
| Kellogg, Steven | Paul Bunyan | 5.7 | 0.5 | Recounts the life of the extraordinary lumberjack whose unusual size and strength brought him many fantastic adventures. | 30 | Y |
| Kellogg, Steven | Pecos Bill | 5.7 | 0.5 | A read-aloud winner depicting some of the legends of Pecos Bill. | 36 | Y |
| Kellogg, Steven | Prehistoric Pinkerton | 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 | |
| Kellogg, Steven | Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett | 5 | 0.5 | Sally Ann, wife of Davy Crockett, fears nothing--and proves it when braggart Mike Fink tries to scare her. | 37 | Y |
| Kellogg, Steven | Three Little Pigs, The | 4.5 | 0.5 | In this retelling of a well-known tale, Serafina Sow starts her own waffle selling business in order to enable her three offspring to prepare for the future, which includes an encounter with a surly wolf. | 30 | Y |
| Kelly, Eric | Trumpeter of Krakow, The | 7.1 | 10 | The legend of the Trumpeter of Krakow endures as a fifteenth-century Ukrainian family maintains a vow to keep Poland free from invasion. | 242 | Y |
| Kendall, Carol | Gammage Cup, The | 5.9 | 8 | Fantasy about a new race of little people. | 283 | Y |
| Kent, Deborah | Colorado | 8.7 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Colorado's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| Kent, Deborah | Connecticut | 8.6 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Connecticut's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| Kent, Deborah | Delaware | 8.7 | 2 | Illustrated introduction to Delaware's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | Y |
| Kent, Deborah | Iowa | 8.3 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Iowa's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| Kent, Deborah | Louisiana | 8.4 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Louisiana's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| Kent, Deborah | Maryland | 8.6 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Maryland's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | Y |
| Kent, Deborah | Massachusetts | 8.7 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Massachusetts' geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| Kent, Deborah | New Jersey | 8.4 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to New Jersey's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| Kent, Deborah | Ohio | 8.5 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Ohio's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| Kent, Deborah | Pennsylvania | 8.5 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Pennsylvania's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 143 | Y |
| Kent, Deborah | Puerto Rico | 8.3 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to the island's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | Y |
| Kent, Deborah | South Carolina | 8.4 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to South Carolina's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| Kent, Deborah | Washington, D.C. | 9 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to the capital's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 142 | |
| Kent, Zachary | Andrew Johnson | 7.6 | 2 | Follows the life and career of the statesman who became the seventeenth President of the United States after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. | 89 | Y |
| Kent, Zachary | Calvin Coolidge | 7.3 | 2 | Describes the early life, education, and political career of the President who earned the nickname "Silent Cal." | 89 | Y |
| Kent, Zachary | George Washington | 7.5 | 2 | Traces the life of the Virginia surveyor, soldier, and plantation owner who became the first president of the United States. | 89 | Y |
| Kent, Zachary | Georgia | 8.5 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Georgia's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| Kent, Zachary | Grover Cleveland | 7.6 | 2 | Follows the life of the minister's son, who rose from being an honest city lawyer to serve two terms as American President. | 89 | Y |
| Kent, Zachary | Idaho | 8.2 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Idaho's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 142 | |
| Kent, Zachary | John F. Kennedy | 7.4 | 2 | Chronicles the life and tragic death of the man who championed foreign relations, civil rights, and space exploration as the thirty-fifth President of the United States. | 89 | Y |
| Kent, Zachary | John Quincy Adams | 7.7 | 2 | A biography of the sixth President who continued the family dedication to public service begun by his father, the second President of the United States. | 89 | Y |
| Kent, Zachary | Kansas | 8.5 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Kansas' geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| Kent, Zachary | Ronald Reagan | 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 |
| Kent, Zachary | Rutherford B. Hayes | 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 |
| Kent, Zachary | Theodore Roosevelt | 7.6 | 2 | Examines the personality, early life, family, and career of the twenty-sixth President of the United States. | 89 | Y |
| Kent, Zachary | Ulysses S. Grant | 7.4 | 2 | Follows the military and political career of the general who became the "Hero of Appomattox" and the eighteenth President of the United States. | 89 | Y |
| Kent, Zachary | William McKinley | 7.5 | 2 | Presents the early life, military career, and political life of the President who was assassinated in 1901 during his second term in office. | 89 | Y |
| Kent, Zachary | Zachary Taylor | 8 | 2 | A biography of "Old Rough and Ready," hero of the Mexican War, who became the twelfth President of the United States. | 89 | Y |
| Key, Alexander | Forgotten Door, The | 5 | 5 | Jon must find the secret passage to his own peaceful world, through which he fell into this one. | 140 | Y |
| Kherdian, David | Road from Home, The | 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 | |
| Kim, Kenneth H. | Half and Half | 3.7 | 1 | Nicky doesn't feel like he fits in at school but learns a lot about himself and his family after joining an all-Chinese team. | 51 | Y |
| Kimmel, Eric A. | Anansi and the Talking Melon | 2.6 | 0.5 | A tricky spider outwits all the other animals in this African folk tale. | 30 | Y |
| Kimmel, Eric A. | I Took My Frog to the Library | 2.5 | 0.5 | A young girl brings her pets to the library--with predictably disastrous results. | 25 | Y |
| Kimmel, Eric A. | Old Woman and Her Pig, The | 2.4 | 0.5 | When her newly bought pig won't go over the stile, an old woman tries to enlist the aid of some reluctant helpers so that she can get home that night. | 28 | Y |
| King, Susan | Grandpa Snored | 0.7 | 0.5 | Noise all over the house and Grandpa Snored. | 12 | |
| King-Smith, Dick | Babe, the Gallant Pig | 5.6 | 3 | Babe, the piglet won by Farmer Hogget at a fair, learns to be a sheep-pig. | 118 | Y |
| King-Smith, Dick | Cuckoo Child, The | 5.7 | 3 | With the unknowing help of his pet geese, eight-year-old Jack Daw decides to raise an ostrich on his father's farm. | 127 | Y |
| King-Smith, Dick | Jenius: The Amazing Guinea Pig | 4.8 | 1 | Eight-year-old Judy tries to convince her parents and classmates that her brilliant guinea pig can do all the tricks she says. | 52 | Y |
| King-Smith, Dick | Martin's Mice | 4.5 | 3 | A farm cat who doesn't want to catch mice keeps a family of them as pets in the barn; but then he is given away to a townswoman and acquires a new perspective. | 122 | Y |
| King-Smith, Dick | Mr. Ape | 5.5 | 3 | A wealthy old man living alone in his enormous home meets a gypsy father and son, adopts many animals, and finally learns the true meaning of family. | 128 | Y |
| King-Smith, Dick | Stray, The | 4.5 | 3 | When seventy-five-year-old Henny Hickathrift runs away from the old people's home, she meets five children and their parents, who welcome her into their family. | 139 | Y |
| Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie | Canada Geese Quilt, The | 4.1 | 1 | Worried that the coming of a new baby and her grandmother's serious illness will change the warm, familiar life on her family's Vermont farm, ten-year-old Ariel combines her artistic talent with her grandmother's knowledge to make a very special quilt. | 60 | Y |
| Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie | Night the Bells Rang, The | 4.8 | 1 | The last year of World War I is an eventful one for Vermont farm boy mason as he helps with the chores, tries to get along with his little brother, and sees an older bully go off to the war. | 79 | Y |
| Kipling, Rudyard | Jungle Book (Books 1 & 2), The | 7.4 | 20 | A baby boy is abandoned deep in the jungle and is taken in by a she-wolf to be raised as one of her own. | 380 | Y |
| Kipp, Steven L. | Earth (Galaxy) | 3.7 | 0.5 | Describes the surface features, interior, atmosphere, magnetic field, and single satellite of the earth. | 24 | Y |
| Kipp, Steven L. | Mars (Galaxy) | 4 | 0.5 | Discusses the surface features, atmosphere, exploration, and other aspects of the planet Mars. | 24 | Y |
| Kipp, Steven L. | Mercury (Galaxy) | 4.4 | 0.5 | Discusses the orbit, surface features, exploration, and other aspects of the planet Mercury. | 24 | Y |
| Kipp, Steven L. | Venus (Galaxy) | 3.8 | 0.5 | Discusses the orbit, atmosphere, surface features, exploration, and other aspects of the planet Venus. | 24 | Y |
| Kirk, David | Miss Spider's New Car | 2.9 | 0.5 | Miss Spider and her husband go shopping for a car. | 30 | Y |
| Kirk, David | Miss Spider's Wedding | 4.3 | 0.5 | Miss Spider proves that her heart knows best when it comes to choosing a husband. | 37 | Y |
| Kite, Lorien | Lemurs (Nature's Children) | 6.1 | 0.5 | This book discusses the physical characteristics, diet, habitat, and behavior of the Lemur. | 48 | |
| Kjelgaard, Jim | Big Red | 5.6 | 9 | This famous wilderness adventure portrays the story of a boy and his dog and their feud with Old Majesty, the legendary bear. | 218 | Y |
| Kjelgaard, Jim | Irish Red | 5.8 | 7 | A boy and his dog face a killing snowstorm and a murderous puma. | 182 | Y |
| Kjelgaard, Jim | Stormy | 6.9 | 6 | Story of loyalty and determination as a boy and his dog weather several different kinds of storms. | 150 | Y |
| Klausner, Janet | Sequoyah's Gift | 6.6 | 3 | A biography of the legendary statesman of the Cherokees. | 94 | Y |
| Kleven, Elisa | Monster in the House, A | 2.2 | 0.5 | A boy listens to his new neighbor describe the monster that lives in her house, who screams when awakened, yells for food, spits up on everything, and sucks his toes. | 28 | Y |
| Kline, Suzy | Herbie Jones | 3.5 | 2 | Herbie is elated at being promoted from the lowest reading group in his third- grade class, but it means leaving his best friend behind. | 95 | Y |
| Kline, Suzy | Horrible Harry and the Christmas Surprise | 2.9 | 0.5 | When their teacher ends up in the hospital, the members of class 2B find a way to include her in their holiday celebration. | 54 | Y |
| Kline, Suzy | Horrible Harry and the Drop of Doom | 2.8 | 1 | On the last day of second grade, Song Lee's party at the local amusement park forces Harry to face his fear of elevators when he is expected to ride the Drop of Doom. | 58 | Y |
| Kline, Suzy | Horrible Harry and the Dungeon | 3.1 | 1 | It's almost summer vacation and the students in room 2B are having trouble concentrating on their butterfly project until a frightening-looking new teacher comes to supervise the suspension room. | 58 | Y |
| Kline, Suzy | Horrible Harry and the Kickball Wedding | 2.9 | 0.5 | As Valentine's Day approaches, the students in room 2B are preoccupied with the kickball and a possible wedding between Horrible Harry and Song Lee. | 52 | Y |
| Kline, Suzy | Horrible Harry and the Purple People | 2.9 | 0.5 | Horrible Harry returns to the spotlight with the purple people, mysterious beings that only he can see. | 53 | Y |
| Kline, Suzy | Song Lee and the Hamster Hunt | 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 |
| Kline, Suzy | What's the Matter with Herbie Jones? | 3.3 | 2 | When Herbie Jones gets the dreaded "girl disease" and becomes lovesick for Annabelle Hodgekiss, it threatens his friendship with his good pal Ray. | 111 | Y |
| Knight, Eric | Lassie Come-Home | 5.4 | 9 | After being sold because of hard times, Lassie time and again escapes and returns to her beloved Joe. | 230 | |
| Koller, Jackie French | Dragonling, The | 4 | 1 | Finding a baby dragon accidentally left alive after his older brother's dragonquest, Darek risks death and the anger of his people in trying to return it to the Valley of the Dragons. | 60 | Y |
| Koller, Jackie French | Impy for Always | 3.5 | 1 | Eight-year-old Impy, dismayed at the changes she sees in her rapidly maturing twelve-year-old cousin Christina, stubbornly tries to continue their former sharing of dolls and funny nicknames, but Christina persists in growing up. | 57 | |
| Koller, Jackie French | One Monkey Too Many | 2.7 | 0.5 | Adventurous monkeys have a series of mishaps and escapades involving a bike, a canoe, a restaurant, and a hotel. | 28 | Y |
| Konigsburg, E.L. | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | 4.7 | 5 | Claudia and her brother Jamie run away from home and take up residence in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. | 162 | Y |
| Konigsburg, E.L. | Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth | 4.5 | 3 | Lonely Elizabeth decides to be an apprentice witch to Jennifer, and that's when the fun starts. | 117 | Y |
| Konigsburg, E.L. | Up from Jericho Tel | 5.7 | 7 | The spirit of a dead actress turns two children invisible and sends them out among a group of colorful street performers to search for a missing necklace. | 178 | Y |
| Konigsburg, E.L. | View from Saturday, The | 5.9 | 7 | For the first time in the history of Epiphany Middle School, there is a chance that a sixth-grade team will beat the seventh grade in the Academic Bowl, putting them on the path to the state finals. | 163 | Y |
| Korman, Gordon | I Want to Go Home! | 4.3 | 6 | Nobody hates camp more than Rudy Miller does. | 182 | |
| Korman, Gordon | Radio Fifth Grade | 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 | |
| Korman, Gordon | Zucchini Warriors, The | 5 | 7 | The funniest Bruno & Boots story yet, in which they must hide the fact that their school's best football player is a girl from another school. | 197 | Y |
| Koss, Larry | Could UFOs Be Real? | 6.7 | 1 | Cites reports from around the world of possible UFO sightings, mostly from the 1950s through 1970s. Also mentions studies and research projects on this topic. | 48 | Y |
| Koss, Larry | If UFOs Are Real | 5.6 | 1 | Examines sightings, studies, and projects related to unidentified flying objects and discusses the search for life in space. | 48 | Y |
| Kraus, Robert | Leo the Late Bloomer | 1.2 | 0.5 | Leo, a young tiger, finally blooms under the eyes of very anxious parents. | 27 | Y |
| Krementz, Jill | Very Young Gymnast, A | 5.4 | 1 | Follows a young gymnast through her schedule of hard work and training. | 119 | Y |
| Krensky, Stephen | We Just Moved! | 1.5 | 0.5 | When a boy moves with his family to a bigger castle, he finds that some things about life in the new place are different and some things are the same. | 30 | Y |
| Kroll, Steven | Biggest Pumpkin Ever, The | 3.5 | 0.5 | Two mice grow the biggest pumpkin ever. | 28 | Y |
| Krull, Kathleen | Alex Fitzgerald, TV Star | 3.5 | 1 | Fourth-grader Alex's new friendships in California are endangered when her chance to appear in a music video brings her glamour and an inflated ego. | 60 | Y |
| Krumgold, Joseph | And Now Miguel | 4.8 | 8 | The secret wish of Miguel Chavez, to go to the mountains with the men of his family, comes true. | 245 | Y |
| Krumgold, Joseph | Onion John | 4.5 | 8 | An old man teaches his young friends the value of friendship. | 248 | Y |
| Kudalis, Eric | Dracula and Other Vampire Stories | 4.5 | 0.5 | The vampire Dracula pursues his hunger for human blood, both in Transylvania and London. Includes information about vampire stories in books and films and the historical background of Dracula. | 48 | Y |
| Kudalis, Eric | Frankenstein and Other Stories of Man-made Monsters | 4.1 | 0.5 | Dr. Frankenstein creates a monster which escapes and comes to an unhappy end. Includes information about the original story, different movie versions, and the scientific aspects behind the story. | 48 | Y |
| Kudalis, Eric | Stories of Mummies and the Living Dead | 4.3 | 0.5 | When its casket is opened, an Egyptian mummy comes to life and tries to raise a princess from the dead. Includes information about other mummy stories and about how mummies were made in ancient Egypt. | 48 | Y |
| Kudalis, Eric | Werewolves and Stories About Them | 4 | 0.5 | A look at the imaginary world of werewolves and how wolves and humans live together today. | 48 | Y |
| L.Gammie, Janet | Thoroughbred Horses (Checkerboard) | 4 | 0.5 | Discover the Thoroughbred horse; learn important facts about these beautiful animals and how to properly care for them. | 21 | |
| Landau, Elaine | Apatosaurus (A True Book) | 5 | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the huge plant-eating Apatosaurus and discusses theories on why it became extinct. | 47 | Y |
| Landau, Elaine | Desert Mammals (A True Book) | 5.7 | 0.5 | Describes such animals as camels and how they adapt to life in various deserts around the world. | 48 | Y |
| Landau, Elaine | Grassland Mammals (A True Book) | 6 | 0.5 | Briefly describes such animals as giraffes, prairie dogs, and elephants that live on grasslands. | 48 | Y |
| Landau, Elaine | Jellyfish (A True Book) | 5.4 | 0.5 | This book introduces the size, shape, colors, and stinging tentacles of jellyfish, and examines their survival in the world's waters since before the age of the dinosaurs. | 47 | Y |
| Landau, Elaine | Mountain Mammals (A True Book) | 5.4 | 0.5 | Briefly describes such animals as pikas, yaks, giant pandas, and vicunas. | 48 | Y |
| Landau, Elaine | Ocean Mammals (A True Book) | 5.2 | 0.5 | Discusses several different marine mammals, including dolphins, manatees, and whales. | 48 | Y |
| Landau, Elaine | Parrots and Parakeets as Pets (A True Book) | 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 |
| Landau, Elaine | Piranhas (A True Book) | 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 |
| Landau, Elaine | Pterodactyls (A True Book) | 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 |
| Landau, Elaine | Sea Horses (A True Book) | 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 | |
| Landau, Elaine | Stegosaurus (A True Book) | 5.2 | 0.5 | This book describes the characteristics and habits of the plant-eating dinosaur, stegosauras, as well as theories about why dinosaurs became extinct. | 47 | Y |
| Landau, Elaine | Triceratops (A True Book) | 5.2 | 0.5 | This book describes the characteristics and probable behavior of this three-horned dinosaur, as well as the theories about its extinction. | 47 | Y |
| Landau, Elaine | Tyrannosaurus Rex (A True Book) | 5.5 | 0.5 | This book describes the characteristics and habits of the massive flesh-eating dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus Rex, as well as theories about why it became extinct. | 47 | Y |
| Landau, Elaine | Velociraptor (A True Book) | 5 | 0.5 | This book describes the characteristics and habits of the small but fierce meat-eating dinosaur, Velociraptor, that lived in prehistoric times. | 47 | Y |
| Landau, Elaine | Your Pet Gerbil (A True Book) | 4.9 | 0.5 | A brief introduction to gerbils as a pet. | 48 | |
| Landau, Elaine | Your Pet Hamster (A True Book) | 4.6 | 0.5 | A simple introduction to having a hamster as a pet. | 48 | |
| Langton, Jane | Fledgling, The | 5 | 6 | Georgie's fondest hope, to be able to fly, is fleetingly fulfilled when she is befriended by a Canada goose. | 182 | Y |
| Lasky, Kathryn | Night Journey, The | 5.3 | 5 | A young girl ignores her parents' wishes and persuades her great-grandmother to relate the story of her escape from Czarist Russia. | 150 | |
| Lassieur, Allison | Buses | 2.9 | 0.5 | This book discusses the inventors, history, early models, major parts, and workings of buses. | 24 | Y |
| Lassieur, Allison | Inuit (Native Peoples), The | 4 | 0.5 | This book gives an overview of the Inuit. | 24 | Y |
| Lassieur, Allison | Nez Perce Tribe (Native Peoples), The | 4.1 | 0.5 | This book gives an overview of the past and present lives of the Nez Perce tribe. | 24 | Y |
| Lassieur, Allison | Passenger Trains | 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 |
| Latham, Jean | Carry on, Mr. Bowditch | 4.1 | 8 | This fictionalized biography tells the story of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain. | 251 | Y |
| Lawless, Joann | Mysteries of the Mind | 6 | 1 | An inquiry into such phenomena as telepathic communication, healing through touch or mental powers, telekinesis, and foretelling the future. | 48 | |
| Lawless, Joann | Strange Stories of Life | 5.3 | 1 | Curious tales, supposedly true, of people, animals, and natural phenomena. | 48 | |
| Lawlor, Laurie | Addie Across the Prairie | 4.9 | 4 | Unhappy to leave her home and friends, Addie reluctantly accompanies her family to the Dakota Territory and slowly begins to adjust to life on the prairie. | 128 | Y |
| Lawrence, Iain | Smugglers, The | 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 |
| Lawson, Robert | Ben and Me | 6.9 | 3 | Amos the mouse observes and records the life of his great friend, Benjamin Franklin. | 113 | Y |
| Lawson, Robert | Mr. Revere and I | 7.5 | 5 | Timeless American Classic about Sherry, Paul Revere's faithful steed, and the Revolution as seen through this noble animal's eyes. | 152 | |
| Lawson, Robert | Rabbit Hill | 6.4 | 3 | The Animals of the Hill prepare for the "new Folk" moving into the Big House. | 128 | Y |
| Lawson, Robert | Tough Winter, The | 6.2 | 4 | The animals of Rabbit Hill survive the cold and ice of a Connecticut winter with loving good humor in this sequel to Rabbit Hill. | 128 | |
| Le Guin, Ursula K. | Catwings | 4.3 | 0.5 | Four young cats with wings leave the city slums in search of a safe place to live, finally meeting two children with kind hands. | 39 | Y |
| Le Guin, Ursula K. | Tombs of Atuan, The | 5.9 | 7 | Book Two of Earthsea Trilogy, in which Arha becomes high priestess to the ancient powers of the earth. | 163 | Y |
| Leaf, Munro | Story of Ferdinand, The | 3.7 | 0.5 | Ferdinand is a little bull who would rather just sit and smell the flowers than fight. | 35 | Y |
| Lear, Edward | Owl and the Pussycat, The | 2.5 | 0.5 | After a courtship voyage of a year and a day, Owl and Pussy finally buy a ring from Piggy and are blissfully married. | 25 | Y |
| Leavitt, Caroline | Haunted Clubhouse, The | 4 | 4 | Wishbone, Joe, Samantha, and David set out to prove that the clubhouse is not haunted that someone is just trying to scare them away. | 142 | |
| Leavitt, Caroline | Prince and the Pooch, The | 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 |
| Leavitt, Caroline | Robinhound Crusoe | 4 | 4 | When the power goes out in Oakdale, Wishbone must use his imagination to survive without food and water. | 137 | |
| Lehne, Judith Logan | Kangaroos for Kids/Kangaroo Magic for Kids | 5.1 | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics and behavior of different varieties of kangaroos. | 48 | |
| L'Engle, Madeleine | Many Waters | 4.7 | 10 | This continuation of the Time Trilogy finds Sandy and Denny thrown back in time to the days of Noah and the Ark. | 310 | Y |
| L'Engle, Madeleine | Ring of Endless Light, A | 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 |
| L'Engle, Madeleine | Swiftly Tilting Planet, A | 5.2 | 10 | Third volume of classic trilogy in which 15-year-old Charles and the unicorn Gaudior thwart Madog Branzillo's plan to destroy the world. | 256 | Y |
| L'Engle, Madeleine | Wind in the Door, A | 5 | 7 | Suffering from a rare blood disease, a boy regains his health through the intervention of a space creature. | 211 | Y |
| L'Engle, Madeleine | Wrinkle in Time, A | 4.7 | 7 | Meg Murry and her family receive a surprise visit from an unearthly stranger out of another dimension in time. | 211 | Y |
| Lenski, Lois | Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison | 5.4 | 10 | Authentic reconstruction of Mary Jemison's capture and life with the Seneca Indians. | 298 | Y |
| Lenski, Lois | Prairie School | 4 | 7 | Story of things that did or could have happened in a one-room rural school on the prairie of South Dakota. | 196 | |
| Lenski, Lois | Strawberry Girl | 4.8 | 6 | This is the story of Birdie Boyer and how she battles nature, animals, and feuding neighbors in the backwoods of Florida to become a "strawberry girl." | 194 | Y |
| Lepthien, Emilie U. | Giraffes (A True Book) | 5.4 | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics and habits of these long-necked African animals. | 48 | Y |
| Lepthien, Emilie U. | Grizzlies (A True Book) | 4.5 | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics and habits of the North American brown bear known as the grizzly. | 48 | Y |
| Lepthien, Emilie U. | Llamas (A True Book) | 5.4 | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics and habits of llamas and their relatives. | 48 | Y |
| Lepthien, Emilie U. | Sea Turtles (A True Book) | 4.5 | 0.5 | An introduction to sea turtles: where they live, what they eat, how they breed and nest. | 48 | Y |
| Lepthien, Emilie U. | South Dakota | 8.7 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to South Dakota's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| Lepthien, Emilie U. | Walruses (A True Book) | 4.8 | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics and habits of Atlantic and Pacific whales. | 48 | Y |
| Lesser, Rika | Hansel and Gretel | 4.3 | 0.5 | A poor woodcutter's children, lost in the forest, come upon a house made of bread, cakes, and candy, occupied by a wicked witch who likes to have children for dinner. | 32 | Y |
| Lester, Helen | Hooway for Wodney Wat | 3.1 | 0.5 | All his classmates make fun of Rodney because he can't pronounce his name, but it is Rodney's speech impediment that drives away the class bully. | 32 | Y |
| Lester, Helen | Me First | 3 | 0.5 | Pinkerton the pig always manages to be first until he rushes for a sandwich, and it turns out to be not the edible kind. | 32 | Y |
| Lester, Helen | Tacky in Trouble | 3.7 | 0.5 | Tacky the exuberant penguin accidentally goes sailboarding and winds up on a tropical island, where he meets an elephant who demands proof of Tacky's identity. | 32 | |
| Lester, Helen | Three Cheers for Tacky | 2.8 | 0.5 | Tacky the Penguin competes in an iceberg-wide cheering contest. | 32 | Y |
| Lester, Julius | John Henry | 4 | 0.5 | Retelling of the legend of the African American folk hero. | 36 | Y |
| Lester, Julius | Sam and the Tigers | 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 |
| Levine, Gail Carson | Ella Enchanted | 4.6 | 8 | In this novel based on Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given. | 229 | Y |
| Levitin, Sonia | Nine for California | 2.9 | 0.5 | Amanda travels by stagecoach with her four siblings and her mother from Missouri to California to join her father. | 29 | Y |
| Levy, Elizabeth | Frankenstein Moved in on the Fourth Floor | 3.4 | 1 | Sam and Robert are convinced that their new neighbor is the real Frankenstein. | 57 | Y |
| Levy, Elizabeth | Something Queer at the Haunted School | 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 | |
| Levy, Elizabeth | Something Queer at the Library | 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 | |
| Levy, Elizabeth | Something Queer Is Going On | 2.9 | 0.5 | Jill and Gwen do some sleuthing when Jill's basset hound disappears. | 46 | |
| Lewington, Anna | What Do We Know About the Amazonian Indians? | 6.2 | 1 | Introduction to the native peoples of the endangered rain forests of South America. | 43 | Y |
| Lewis, C.S. | Horse and His Boy, The | 5.8 | 8 | A Talking Horse and a boy prince save Narnia from invasion. | 241 | Y |
| Lewis, C.S. | Last Battle, The | 5.6 | 7 | Aslan leads his people to a glorious new paradise after defeating the evil that had infested Narnia. | 228 | Y |
| Lewis, C.S. | Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The | 5.7 | 6 | Aslan, the noble lion, frees Narnia from the spell of the White Witch. | 206 | Y |
| Lewis, C.S. | Magician's Nephew, The | 5.4 | 6 | When Digory and Polly try to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic is mixed up; they all land in Narnia where they witness Aslan blessing the animals with human speech. | 221 | Y |
| Lewis, C.S. | Prince Caspian | 5.7 | 7 | Prince Caspian and his army of Talking Beasts conquer the Telmarines. | 238 | Y |
| Lewis, C.S. | Silver Chair, The | 5.7 | 8 | Prince Rilian escapes from the Emerald Witch's underground kingdom. | 257 | Y |
| Lewis, C.S. | Voyage of the "Dawn Treader", The | 5.9 | 9 | King Caspian and his crew sail through magic waters to the World's End. | 271 | Y |
| Lewis, Elizabeth | Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze | 6.4 | 10 | The story of a young Chinese boy's life begins during the turmoil after the empress of China dies. | 267 | |
| Lexau, Joan | Striped Ice Cream | 3.5 | 2 | A seven-year-old black girl is resigned to the fact that her mother cannot afford anything special for her birthday, but she does not understand why her older sisters and brother seem to turn against her--until the big day finally arrives. | 125 | Y |
| Lillegard, Dee | James A. Garfield | 7.4 | 1 | A biography of the twentieth President of the United States, the last President to be born in a log cabin. | 89 | Y |
| Lillegard, Dee | James K. Polk | 7.6 | 2 | A biography of the eleventh American President, whose term in office saw great expansion of the western frontier. | 89 | Y |
| Lillegard, Dee | John Tyler | 7.5 | 1 | A biography of the Virginian who became tenth President of the United States, upon the death of William Henry Harrison. | 89 | Y |
| Lillegard, Dee | Nevada | 8.7 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Nevada's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | Y |
| Lillegard, Dee | Richard Nixon | 7.4 | 2 | Follows the life and career of the first American President to resign from office. | 89 | Y |
| Lindgren, Astrid | Pippi Longstocking | 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 |
| Lionni, Leo | Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse | 3 | 0.5 | Alexander the mouse makes friends with Willy, a toy mouse, and wants to be just like him until he discovers that Willy is to be thrown away. | 29 | Y |
| Lionni, Leo | Extraordinary Egg, An | 3.4 | 0.5 | A little frog discovers an extraordinary egg on Pebble Island. | 30 | Y |
| Lionni, Leo | Frederick | 3.1 | 0.5 | Frederick, an apparently lazy mouse, has a special surprise for the mice who thought he should have been storing up supplies for the winter. | 27 | Y |
| Lionni, Leo | Inch by Inch | 1.8 | 0.5 | An inchworm teaches the birds how he measures. | 32 | |
| Lisker, Tom | Terror in the Tropics: The Army Ants | 5.5 | 1 | An introduction to army ants, their habits, homes, the social aspects of their lives, and how they affect human beings. | 48 | |
| Lisle, Janet Taylor | Afternoon of the Elves | 5 | 4 | As Hillary works in the miniature village allegedly built by elves in Sara-Kate's backyard, she becomes more and more curious about Sara-Kate's real life inside her big, gloomy house with her mysterious, silent mother. | 122 | Y |
| Litowinsky, Olga | Pawloined Paper, The | 4.2 | 3 | Joe and Wishbone must make sure a top secret note doesn't fall into the wrong hands. | 130 | |
| Little, Jean | Different Dragons | 3.7 | 3 | Timid Ben learns how to deal with his fears when he spends the weekend with Aunt Rose and meets a big Labrador retriever named Gully. | 123 | |
| Lobel, Arnold | Days with Frog and Toad | 2.5 | 0.5 | Frog and Toad spend their days together but find sometimes it's nice to be alone. | 64 | Y |
| Lobel, Arnold | Frog and Toad Are Friends | 2.9 | 0.5 | Follow the friendship of Frog and Toad and their adventures in the woods. | 64 | |
| Lobel, Arnold | Frog and Toad Together | 2.9 | 0.5 | Five further adventures of two best friends, Frog and Toad, as they share cookies, plant a garden, and test their bravery. | 64 | Y |
| Lobel, Arnold | Mouse Soup | 2.4 | 0.5 | A little mouse tells a weasel four different stories in a way that enables him to avoid the weasel's stewpot. | 64 | |
| Locker, Thomas | Water Dance | 1.9 | 0.5 | Water speaks of its existence in such forms as storm clouds, mist, rainbows, and rivers. | 25 | Y |
| Lofting, Hugh | Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, The | 5.7 | 11 | This fictional classic presents the story of the good doctor who learns the language of animals and made adventurous voyages. | 316 | Y |
| Loh, Morag | Tucking Mommy In | 2 | 0.5 | Two sisters tuck their mother into bed one evening when she is especially tired. | 32 | Y |
| London, Jack | Call of the Wild, The | 8 | 7 | Rugged outdoor story of the sled dog, Buck, who was mistreated by his master and broke free to roam the Alaskan wilderness. | 126 | Y |
| London, Jack | Sea-Wolf (Unabridged), The | 8.1 | 18 | This violent adventure in the wild Pacific Ocean takes place on board the "Ghost" with Captain Wolf Larsen. | 281 | Y |
| London, Jack | White Fang (Unabridged) | 8.4 | 19 | This classic tale tells of a savage dog's transformation through love. | 187 | Y |
| Lord, Bette Bao | In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson | 4.6 | 4 | In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn, where she starts to feel at home and makes friends when she discovers baseball and the Brooklyn Dodgers. | 169 | Y |
| Lord, John Vernon | Giant Jam Sandwich, The | 3.8 | 0.5 | When Itching Down is invaded by wasps, the townspeople figure out an ingenious way to deal with the problem. | 32 | Y |
| Lovelace, Maud Hart | Betsy-Tacy | 4 | 3 | Two young girls become inseparable friends. | 113 | Y |
| Lowell, Melissa | Breaking the Ice | 4.5 | 4 | Nikki soon realizes that being a member of the Silver Blades skating club is going to be tougher than she thought, and she will have to work twice as hard to stay on top. | 135 | Y |
| Lowell, Melissa | Center Ice | 4.8 | 4 | Tori is sure she will win a medal in the next major skating competition if only her mother will get her this new skating dress, but her mother seems to have lost interest in Tori's skating. | 132 | |
| Lowell, Melissa | Competition, The | 4.3 | 3 | Tori is looking forward to going to Lake Placid for a competition but is having some family problems that may affect her competition. | 116 | |
| Lowell, Melissa | Going for the Gold | 4.1 | 3 | Jill is going to a famous figure-skating training center in Colorado, but the training is much tougher than Jill had expected. | 118 | Y |
| Lowell, Melissa | Ice Princess, The | 4.3 | 3 | Tori's favorite skating star is in town, and Tori soon realizes she is not the sweet champion everyone thinks. | 115 | |
| Lowell, Melissa | In the Spotlight | 4.9 | 4 | Danielle has just won the lead role in the Silver Blades Ice Show and feels her hard work has finally paid off, but is the pressure more than she can handle? | 131 | |
| Lowell, Melissa | Perfect Pair, The | 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 | |
| Lowell, Melissa | Rumors at the Rink | 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 | |
| Lowell, Melissa | Skating Camp | 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 | |
| Lowell, Melissa | Spring Break | 4.1 | 4 | Jill is finding it difficult to balance her time between training for the Olympics and dating. | 135 | |
| Lowry, Lois | All About Sam | 4 | 3 | The adventures of Sam, Anastasia Krupnik's younger brother, from his first day as a newborn through his mischievous times as a toddler. | 135 | Y |
| Lowry, Lois | Anastasia Again! | 4.5 | 5 | Anastasia can't see how her parents can even think of moving to the suburbs and enlists her two-year-old brother to prevent the move. | 145 | |
| Lowry, Lois | Anastasia at This Address | 4.6 | 4 | Ready for romance, thirteen-year-old Anastasia answers an ad in the personals with an exaggerated description of herself but soon runs into trouble when the unknown man turns up at a friend's wedding. | 129 | Y |
| Lowry, Lois | Anastasia at Your Service | 4.3 | 5 | Twelve-year-old Anastasia has a series of disastrous experiences when, expecting to get a job as a lady's companion, she is hired instead to be a maid. | 149 | |
| Lowry, Lois | Anastasia Krupnik | 4.5 | 3 | For ten-year-old Anastasia, life is full of problems like teachers, boys, a grandmother who does not remember her name, and the arrival of a new baby brother. | 113 | Y |
| Lowry, Lois | Anastasia on Her Own | 4.4 | 4 | Anastasia is left in charge when Mrs. Krupnik goes away--but will her system work? | 131 | Y |
| Lowry, Lois | Anastasia, Absolutely | 4.7 | 4 | Thirteen-year-old Anatasia Krupnick has more adventures as she tries to deal with a new dog, her school values class, and a personal moral dilemma. | 119 | Y |
| Lowry, Lois | Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst | 4.2 | 3 | Anastasia, feeling she is misunderstood by everyone, buys a bust of Freud and starts having "sessions" with it. | 119 | Y |
| Lowry, Lois | Attaboy, Sam! | 4.6 | 3 | Sam is able to help his sister Anastasia with the poem she is writing for their mother's birthday, but his own efforts to create a special perfume are disastrous. | 116 | Y |
| Lowry, Lois | Giver, The | 5.7 | 7 | The Elders of the Committee choose Jonas to be the person responsible for receiving and keeping all the memories of the past--a huge task for this exceptional boy. | 180 | Y |
| Lowry, Lois | Number the Stars | 4.5 | 4 | In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis. | 137 | Y |
| Lowry, Lois | Rabble Starkey | 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 |
| Lowry, Lois | See You Around, Sam! | 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 |
| Lowry, Lois | Switcharound | 4.6 | 3 | Forced to spend a summer with their father and his "new" family, Caroline and P.J. are determined to get revenge in this sequel to The One Hundred Things About Caroline. | 118 | Y |
| Lowry, Lois | Your Move, J.P.! | 4.9 | 4 | Lovestruck J. P. finds himself doing all sorts of weird things to impress his new interest, but his life becomes very complicated when a simple lie gets out of control. | 122 | Y |
| Lund, Bill | Apache Indians (Native Peoples), The | 3.6 | 0.5 | Provides an overview of the past and present lives of the Apache people, covering their daily life, customs, relations with the government and others, and more. | 23 | Y |
| Lund, Bill | Cherokee Indians (Native Peoples), The | 3.2 | 0.5 | Provides an overview of the past and present lives of the Cherokee people, covering their daily life, customs, and relations with the government and others. | 23 | Y |
| Lund, Bill | Comanche Indians (Native Peoples), The | 3.1 | 0.5 | Provides an overview of the past and present lives of the Comanches, covering their daily life, customs, relations with the government and others, and more. | 23 | Y |
| Lund, Bill | Iroquois Indians (Native Peoples), The | 3.6 | 0.5 | Discusses the Iroquois as a modern group with a unique history and its own special practices and customs. | 23 | Y |
| Lund, Bill | Ojibwa Indians (Native Peoples), The | 3.4 | 0.5 | Provides an overview of the past and present lives of the Ojibwa people, covering their life, customs, relations with government and others, and more. | 23 | Y |
| Lund, Bill | Seminole Indians (Native Peoples), The | 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 |
| Lund, Bill | Sioux Indians (Native Peoples), The | 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 |
| Lund, Bill | Wampanoag Indians (Native Peoples), The | 3.7 | 0.5 | Provides an overview of the past and present lives of the Wampanoag Indians, covering their daily life, customs, relations with the government and others, and more. | 23 | Y |
| Lunn, Janet | Root Cellar, The | 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 |
| Luttrell, Ida | Milo's Toothache | 2.2 | 0.5 | Milo Pig plans to visit the dentist about his toothache, but his friends overreact and make the outing into a big problem. | 40 | Y |
| Lyon, Nancy | Mystery of Stonehenge, The | 5.5 | 1 | Discusses the theories and superstitions that have arisen throughout the years to explain the existence of the circle of stones at Stonehenge. | 48 |