| Author | Title | AR BL | AR Pts | Description | No.of Pages | Have Book |
| Macaulay, David | Castle | 7.9 | 1 | A description with drawings and humor of how castles and surrounding towns were built. | 74 | Y |
| Macaulay, David | Ship | 7.9 | 1 | Underwater archaeologists search for an ancient ship in the reefs of the Caribbean. | 93 | Y |
| Macaulay, David | Shortcut | 2.8 | 0.5 | Visual clues provide answers to the mysterious interrelationship of a series of brief stories. | 58 | Y |
| MacBride, Roger Lea | Little House on Rocky Ridge | 4.2 | 8 | A continuation of the Little House On The Prairie series as the Wilders move out on their own. | 353 | Y |
| Maccarone, Grace | Itchy, Itchy Chicken Pox | 0.7 | 0.5 | Spunky rhythm and peppy rhymes in a lively story that shows how to deal with chicken pox. | 30 | Y |
| Maccarone, Grace | My Tooth Is About to Fall Out | 1.6 | 0.5 | An easy-to-read book concerning a young girl about to lose her first tooth. | 30 | Y |
| MacDonald, Betty | Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle | 5.2 | 4 | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle cures a show-off, crybaby, bully, whisperer, and slowpoke. | 125 | Y |
| MacDonald, Betty | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle | 5.2 | 3 | Eight funny and instructive stories in which the magical Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle helps teach children how to behave. | 119 | Y |
| MacDonald, Fiona | 16th Century Mosque, A | 7.7 | 1 | A look inside an Islamic mosque of the Ottoman empire. | 43 | |
| MacDonald, Fiona | Greek Temple, A | 7.4 | 1 | The building of the Parthenon is re-created in a series of drawings that illustrate the steps of classical Greek design. | 45 | |
| MacDonald, Fiona | Medieval Castle, A | 7.8 | 1 | Everyday life in a medieval castle is revealed in a series of fascinating cutaway architectural drawings. | 48 | Y |
| MacDonald, Fiona | Medieval Cathedral, A | 8.5 | 1 | The building of a medieval cathedral is revealed in a series of cutaway architectural illustrations. | 45 | Y |
| MacDonald, Fiona | Roman Fort, A | 7.6 | 1 | Follow the ancient Romans across the world as they erect their forts. | 44 | Y |
| Macdonald, Maryann | No Room for Francie | 2.8 | 1 | There are six children in the O'Leary family, and when her Comics Club needs a place to meet, Francie seems to be the only one with no special place of her very own. | 61 | Y |
| Macklin, John | World's Most Bone-Chilling "True" Ghost Stories | 7 | 3 | Tales of terrifying curses and haunted houses. | 96 | |
| MacLachlan, Patricia | All the Places to Love | 3.9 | 0.5 | A young boy describes the favorite places that he shares with his family on his grandparents' farm and in the nearby countryside. | 28 | Y |
| MacLachlan, Patricia | Arthur, for the Very First Time | 4.2 | 3 | Arthur spends a summer with his unconventional aunt and uncle and begins to look at life, his family, and himself differently. | 117 | Y |
| MacLachlan, Patricia | Baby | 4 | 2 | A girl and her family find an abandoned baby in their driveway. The time they spend with her helps them come to terms with the loss of their own infant son. | 132 | Y |
| MacLachlan, Patricia | Cassie Binegar | 4.3 | 3 | While yearning for sameness and ordinariness, Cassie learns from eccentric relatives that some things cannot and should not remain the same forever. | 120 | Y |
| MacLachlan, Patricia | Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt, The | 5.7 | 4 | Story of an endearing, clever girl and the relationships she encounters on her way to growing up. | 136 | Y |
| MacLachlan, Patricia | Journey | 3.8 | 2 | When Journey and Cat's mother goes off, leaving them with their grandparents, the two children feel as if their past has been erased until Grandfather finds a way to restore it to them. | 83 | Y |
| MacLachlan, Patricia | Sarah, Plain and Tall | 3.4 | 1 | In this loving story of a motherless family, a tall, plain woman comes to stay with them. | 58 | Y |
| MacLachlan, Patricia | Seven Kisses in a Row | 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 | |
| MacLachlan, Patricia | Skylark | 3.2 | 1 | In the sequel to Sarah, Plain and Tall, Sarah's new family experiences some doubts about their future. | 87 | Y |
| MacLachlan, Patricia | Through Grandpa's Eyes | 3.2 | 0.5 | A young boy learns a different way of seeing the world from his blind grandfather. Featured in Reading Rainbow. NCTE Adventuring with Books. | 36 | Y |
| MacPherson, Winnie | Cheetahs for Kids/Cheetah Magic for Kids | 4.4 | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of this swift African cat through the viewpoint of Beth, an eleven-year-old daughter of wildlife photographer. | 48 | |
| Maestro, Betsy | Why Do Leaves Change Color? | 3.7 | 0.5 | Children will learn in simple terms the concept of photosynthesis, pigments, and chlorophyll. Also includes activities and a list of places to visit. | 32 | Y |
| Maguire, Gregory | Seven Spiders Spinning | 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 |
| Mahy, Margaret | Great White Man-Eating Shark, The | 4.8 | 0.5 | Greedy to have the cove where he swims all to himself, Norvin, who looks a bit like a shark, pretends to be one, scaring off the other swimmers and leaving him in happy aquatic solitude--until he is discovered by an amorous female shark. | 24 | |
| Mahy, Margaret | Rattlebang Picnic, The | 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 |
| Maitland, Barbara | Bookstore Ghost, The | 1.9 | 0.5 | Mr. Brown has mice in his bookstore, so he asks his cat, who likes mice, to chase them away. | 31 | Y |
| Malcolm, Jahnna N. | Spirit of the West | 4.7 | 3 | In 1911, when her family leaves the reservation to live and work on a large Oregon ranch, ten-year-old Jessie decides to forget her Nez Perce upbringing, but later realizes its true value. | 122 | |
| Malcolm, Jahnna N. | Stallion of Box Canyon, The | 4.5 | 2 | Convinced that she is wanted only as a servant in her new home with relatives on a Wyoming ranch, orphaned, eleven year old Abby is unhappy until she finds and befriends an injured mustang and determines to try to save it. | 122 | |
| Manes, Stephen | Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days! | 4.2 | 1 | Milo, tired of problems with his sister, parents, and classmates, finds a book in the library which promises to make him perfect in just three days. | 76 | Y |
| Manes, Stephen | Chocolate-Covered Ants | 3.1 | 3 | Max and his little brother Adam make a bet about eating chocolate-covered ants. | 103 | Y |
| Manes, Stephen | Hooples' Horrible Holiday, The | 4.2 | 4 | Alvin Hoople travels with his family to spend Thanksgiving at his grandparents' house, where a power failure and the most unusual turkey ever create a memorable holiday visit. | 121 | |
| Marshall, Edward | Fox at School | 2.2 | 0.5 | Fox just couldn't believe his ears. He was going to be the handsome prince in the school play. | 48 | Y |
| Marshall, Edward | Three by the Sea | 1.8 | 0.5 | Three friends relax after their picnic lunch by each telling his or her best story. | 48 | Y |
| Marshall, Edward | Troll Country | 2.4 | 0.5 | Elsie Fay ventures into the deep, dark woods, meets a troll, and attempts to outsmart him. | 56 | Y |
| Marshall, James | Fox on Stage | 2.1 | 0.5 | Fox makes a film for Grannie, takes part in a magic show, and puts on a play. | 48 | Y |
| Marshall, James | Fox on the Job | 2 | 0.5 | Fox tries to earn the money for a new bicycle from several different jobs. | 48 | Y |
| Marshall, James | George and Martha | 2.7 | 0.5 | Two hippos teach each other how to behave with grace under pressure. | 46 | Y |
| Marshall, James | George and Martha Back in Town | 2.1 | 0.5 | Though their friendship is often tested, George and Martha survive with a sense of humor. | 46 | Y |
| Marshall, James | George and Martha Rise and Shine | 2.1 | 0.5 | Five brief episodes about two friends, George and Martha, who happen to be hippopotamuses. | 47 | Y |
| Marshall, James | Mother Goose | 4.1 | 0.5 | All the Mother Goose favorites made especially amusing with Marshall's illustrations. An ALA Notable book. | 33 | |
| Marshall, James | Three Little Pigs, The | 3.3 | 0.5 | This is a retelling of the famous story about the three little pigs and the adventures they have with the mischievous wolf. | 29 | Y |
| Martell, Hazel | What Do We Know About the Celts? | 6.1 | 1 | The day-to-day life of the Celtic people in ancient times. | 43 | Y |
| Martell, Hazel | What Do We Know About the Vikings? | 5.2 | 1 | The age of the Vikings is described with annotated photographs and drawings. | 45 | Y |
| Martin Jr., Bill | Knots on a Counting Rope | 2.8 | 0.5 | Warm, beautifully told story of a young boy and his grandfather, who relates the story of the boy's birth and tries to help the boy face his blindness. | 29 | Y |
| Martin Jr., Bill | Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? | 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 |
| Martin, Ann M. | Jessi and the Bad Baby-sitter | 4.1 | 4 | The club welcomes a new member, Wendy, who is a friend of Jessi's; but is she Baby-Sitters Club material? | 138 | |
| Martin, Ann M. | Karen's Brothers | 2.8 | 1 | Karen, tired of being "treated like a girl," takes it out on all of the males she encounters. | 95 | Y |
| Martin, Ann M. | Karen's Ghost | 3.1 | 1 | Karen believes her attic is haunted by her great-grandfather's ghost. | 101 | |
| Martin, Ann M. | Karen's Goldfish | 3 | 1 | Karen mourns the passing of her pet goldfish. | 98 | Y |
| Martin, Ann M. | Karen's Grandmothers | 3.2 | 1 | Karen and her friends adopt grandparents from Stoneybrook Manor, a local retirement home. | 102 | Y |
| Martin, Ann M. | Karen's Home Run | 2.9 | 1 | Just when the team begins to count on Karen's baseball abilities, she seems to lose them. | 99 | |
| Martin, Ann M. | Karen's in Love | 3 | 1 | Ricky could be Karen's Valentine if they could get along long enough. | 105 | Y |
| Martin, Ann M. | Karen's Leprechaun | 2.8 | 1 | Karen and Andrew are going to be in the St. Patrick's Day parade. | 93 | Y |
| Martin, Ann M. | Karen's Little Sister | 3 | 1 | When Karen's family adopt a little girl, Karen is no longer the littlest sister. | 101 | Y |
| Martin, Ann M. | Karen's New Year | 2.8 | 1 | Karen has a hard time living up to her New Year's resolutions. | 90 | Y |
| Martin, Ann M. | Karen's Prize | 2.9 | 1 | Karen tries for the Junior Spelling Bee Championship of the world. | 105 | Y |
| Martin, Ann M. | Karen's Roller Skates | 2.7 | 1 | While showing off on her skates, Karen falls and breaks her wrist. | 107 | Y |
| Martin, Ann M. | Karen's School Trip | 2.9 | 1 | Karen's class goes to the zoo as part of their study of wild animals. | 97 | Y |
| Martin, Ann M. | Karen's Surprise | 3.2 | 1 | When Karen gets stuck with the role of the Thanksgiving Turkey in the school play, Karen plans a surprise. | 102 | Y |
| Martin, Ann M. | Karen's Tattletale | 3 | 2 | Andrew tattles on Karen for teasing him. | 100 | Y |
| Martin, Ann M. | Karen's Toys | 3.3 | 1 | Karen and Andrew come up with a plan to get a space game toy after their mother tells them no. | 95 | Y |
| Martin, Ann M. | Karen's Witch | 2.7 | 1 | Kristy Thomas, the Baby-Sitters Club President, has a younger sister who is positive that the neighbor is a witch. | 97 | Y |
| Martin, Ann M. | Karen's Worst Day | 2.7 | 1 | From the moment Karen fell out of bed, her day went downhill. | 100 | |
| Martin, Ann M. | Kristy and Mr. Mom | 4.3 | 4 | Watson becomes the housekeeper in order to reduce his stress. | 154 | |
| Martin, C.L.G. | Three Brave Women | 3.4 | 0.5 | Mama and Grammy's humorous childhood anecdotes help Caitlin come to terms with her fear of spiders. | 29 | Y |
| Martin, James | Great White Sharks: The Ocean's Most Deadly Killers | 5.1 | 0.5 | The most fearsome hunter in the ocean--the great white shark. | 47 | Y |
| Martin, James | Komodo Dragons: Giant Lizards of Indonesia | 5.4 | 0.5 | Giant lizards of Indonesia. | 48 | Y |
| Martin, James | Lemurs and Other Animals of the Madagascar Rain Forest | 4.8 | 0.5 | Lemurs are like humans in many ways. They are curious and very careful when something new appears in the forest. | 47 | Y |
| Martin, James | Spitting Cobras of Africa, The | 5.1 | 0.5 | Learn about the Spitting Cobras that live in the hot regions along the earth's equator and how they defend themselves. | 48 | Y |
| Martin, Louise | Black Widow Spiders (Spiders Discovery) | 4.7 | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the shy but poisonous ( female only ) black widow spider. | 24 | Y |
| Martin, Louise | Fishing Spiders (Spiders Discovery) | 4.6 | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of two kinds of fishing spiders, the North American Dolomedes Triton and the European Argyroneta. | 24 | Y |
| Martin, Louise | Tarantulas (Spiders Discovery) | 4.7 | 0.5 | Describes characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the large, hairy spiders whose bite is not as deadly as was once believed. | 24 | Y |
| Martin, Louise | Trapdoor Spiders (Spiders Discovery) | 4.7 | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the large, hairy spiders that build hinged trapdoors at the entrance of their burrows. | 24 | Y |
| Martin, Rafe | Rough-Face Girl, The | 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 |
| Martin/Marx | Now Everybody Really Hates Me | 3.5 | 0.5 | Confined to her room for punishment, a child muses about staying there forever. | 30 | Y |
| Marx, Doug | Mythical Beasts | 5.4 | 1 | Describes some of the mythical beasts that have existed in the imaginations of people of all cultures throughout history. Includes Scylla, Minotaur, griffin, phoenix, unicorn, and Bigfoot. | 48 | Y |
| Masters, Nancy Robinson | Airplanes of World War II | 5 | 0.5 | An introduction to the different kinds of airplanes used in World War II, including information about airplane parts and pilots' codes. | 48 | Y |
| Masters, Nancy Robinson | Bombers of World War II | 5 | 0.5 | Introduces the different kinds of bombers used during World War II, their capabilities, the kinds of missions on which they were sent, and any special characteristics. | 48 | Y |
| Matas, Carol | Daniel's Story | 4.9 | 5 | Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation. | 136 | Y |
| Mathis, Sharon Bell | Sidewalk Story | 3.3 | 1 | Lilly Etta tries to keep her friend's family from being evicted. | 58 | Y |
| Mattern, Joanne | Bighorn Sheep, The | 4.5 | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and life cycle of the bighorn sheep. | 48 | Y |
| Mattern, Joanne | Coyote, The | 4.3 | 0.5 | Details the characteristics, habitats, and life cycle of the coyote. | 48 | Y |
| Matteson, Sumner | Hawks for Kids/Hawk Magic for Kids | 5.4 | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of hawks in general, and of the Cooper's Hawk in particular. | 48 | |
| Mayer, Gina/Mercer | Just Lost! | 2.6 | 0.5 | Little Critter gets lost in the shopping mall. | 23 | Y |
| Mayer, Mercer | There's a Nightmare in My Closet | 2.3 | 0.5 | A humorous bedtime story to chase away fears of the dark. | 23 | Y |
| Mayer/Farber/Sansevere | Ooey Gooey | 2 | 0.5 | When Captain Bob, the pirate king, cooks up a dish of bubble gum and tuna fish, he loses his gold tooth to a sea beast. | 30 | |
| Maynard, Thane | Komodo Dragons | 3.9 | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, and life cycle of the Komodo Dragon found in Indonesia. | 31 | |
| McArthur, Nancy | Plant That Ate Dirty Socks Goes up in Space, The | 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 |
| McArthur, Nancy | Plant That Ate Dirty Socks, The | 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 |
| McAuliffe, Emily | Piranhas | 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 | |
| McBratney, Sam | Guess How Much I Love You | 2.8 | 0.5 | During a bedtime game, every time Little Nutbrown Hare demonstrates how much he loves his father, Big Nutbrown Hare gently shows him that the love is returned even more. | 28 | Y |
| McCarthy, Betty | Utah | 8.4 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Utah's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 143 | Y |
| McCloskey, Robert | Blueberries for Sal | 4.1 | 0.5 | A bear cub and a little girl each mistakes the other's mother for its own. | 28 | Y |
| McCloskey, Robert | Centerburg Tales | 6 | 5 | The further adventures of Homer Price, including those in which a jukebox sets the whole town singing against its will and in which a mad scientist develops weeds that overrun the town. | 191 | |
| McCloskey, Robert | Homer Price | 6.6 | 4 | Ingenious young Homer Price captures thieves, solves mysteries, and helps people in trouble. | 149 | Y |
| McClung, Robert M. | Hugh Glass, Mountain Man | 6.2 | 6 | A fictionalized biography of the legendary hero of the Old West, who, as a fur trapper in 1823, survived an attack by a grizzly bear. | 157 | Y |
| McCully, Emily Arnold | Mirette on the High Wire | 3.6 | 0.5 | Mirette learns to become a tightrope walker and also discovers a valuable lesson about courage and faith from her instructor. | 30 | Y |
| McDermott, Gerald | Anansi the Spider | 2.8 | 0.5 | The six sons of Anansi, the spider-hero of many African tales, combine their special talents to save their father's life. | 36 | Y |
| McDermott, Gerald | Arrow to the Sun | 2.7 | 0.5 | Indian myth in which the Lord of the Sun sends the spark of life to earth, and it becomes a Boy. | 14 | Y |
| McDermott, Gerald | Fox and the Stork, The | 1.8 | 0.5 | This story is a retelling of the La Fontaine fable in which a stork finds a way to outwit the fox that tricked him. | 16 | Y |
| McDermott, Gerald | Raven | 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 |
| McDermott, Gerald | Stonecutter, The | 3.2 | 0.5 | A retelling of the Japanese tale of a stonecutter's foolish longing for power. | 28 | Y |
| McDermott, Gerald | Zomo the Rabbit | 2.3 | 0.5 | Three zoo animals learn there is more satisfaction in making music together than in performing separately. | 27 | |
| McDonald, Mary Ann | Jupiter (Our Universe) | 4.2 | 0.5 | Describes the location, movements, surface and moons of the planet Jupiter. | 32 | Y |
| McDonald, Mary Ann | Manatees (Naturebooks) | 3.6 | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of manatees, as well as the danger of extinction they face. | 32 | Y |
| McDonnell, Janet | Animal Camouflage (Naturebooks) | 3.6 | 0.5 | Describes forms, methods, and purposes of camouflage as used by different members of the animal kingdom. | 31 | Y |
| McDonnell, Janet | Animal Migration (Naturebooks) | 3.9 | 0.5 | Examines, in question-and-answer format, the migration habits of such animals as the caribou, red crab, Arctic tern, and the California gray whale. | 31 | Y |
| McGuire, Leslie | Miss Mopp's Lucky Day | 2.6 | 0.5 | While walking through the woods to deliver her cakes, the unobservant Miss Mopp avoids disaster when the threat of rain makes her remember something she forgot. | 48 | |
| McGuire, Leslie | Terrible Truth About Third Grade, The | 3.8 | 2 | Bored with school, Jane, a precocious reader, neglects her homework and alienates her classmates by making up incredible stories about herself until her teacher, Ms. Sims, finds a creative solution. | 94 | Y |
| McKenzie, Ellen | Stargone John | 4.4 | 2 | Six-year-old John, emotionally withdrawn and resistant to traditional teaching methods, experiences ridicule and punishment until an old retired teacher reaches out from her blindness to share with him the world of reading and writing. | 67 | Y |
| McKinley, Robin | Blue Sword, The | 6.8 | 17 | Harry, bored with her sheltered life on the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers. | 272 | Y |
| McKinley, Robin | Hero and the Crown, The | 7 | 15 | A return to the kingdom of Damar where the girl-warrior, Arien, wields the power of the Blue Sword. | 227 | Y |
| McKissack, Patricia C. | Dark-Thirty, The | 4.6 | 4 | A collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed to be told during the dark thirty--the half hour before sunset--ghosts seem all too believable. | 122 | Y |
| McKissack, Patricia C. | Flossie and the Fox | 3.2 | 0.5 | A wily fox, notorious for stealing eggs, meets his match when he encounters a bold little girl in the woods who insists upon proof that he is a fox before she will be frightened. | 29 | Y |
| McKissack, Patricia C. | Mirandy and Brother Wind | 3.6 | 0.5 | To win first prize in the Junior Cakewalk, Mirandy tries to capture the wind for her partner. | 29 | Y |
| McMullan, Kate | Fluffy Saves Christmas | 2.5 | 0.5 | Fluffy the class guinea pig shares the Christmas party at school, goes home for the holiday with Jasmine, and meets Santa twice. | 30 | Y |
| McMullan, Kate | Great Ideas of Lila Fenwick, The | 4.8 | 4 | Fifth-grader Lila has some truly amazing "Great Ideas" that get her out of and into all kinds of trouble. | 118 | |
| McMullen, David | Atlantis: The Missing Continent | 5 | 1 | Discusses Atlantis, the mysterious missing continent believed to be located off the western coast of Africa. | 48 | |
| McMullen, David | Mystery in Peru: The Lines of Nazca | 4.8 | 1 | Discusses a series of carved lines and pictures found in the Peruvian desert believed to have been used by the Incas for balloon ascensions. | 48 | |
| McNair, Sylvia | Alabama | 8.8 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Alabama's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| McNair, Sylvia | Hawaii | 8.5 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Hawaii's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| McNair, Sylvia | Kentucky | 8.8 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Kentucky's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | |
| McNair, Sylvia | New Hampshire | 8.6 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to New Hampshire's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | Y |
| McNair, Sylvia | Tennessee | 8.7 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Tennessee's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 143 | Y |
| McNair, Sylvia | Vermont | 8.4 | 4 | Illustrated introduction to Vermont's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 143 | Y |
| McNair, Sylvia | Virginia | 8.2 | 3 | Illustrated introduction to Virginia's geography, history, culture, and famous residents. | 144 | Y |
| McNeil, Florence | Sail Away | 4.8 | 0.5 | In this book the captain gets his boat shipshape and ready to sail. | 27 | Y |
| McNulty, Faith | Lady and the Spider, The | 3.6 | 0.5 | A spider who lives in a head of lettuce is saved when the lady who finds her puts her back into the garden. A Reading Rainbow book. | 42 | Y |
| McPhail, David | Bear's Toothache, The | 2.3 | 0.5 | A boy helps a bear with a toothache while everyone is asleep. | 25 | |
| McPhail, David | Big Brown Bear | 0.4 | 0.5 | A big brown bear turns blue with paint when a little bear accidentally knocks over his ladder with her baseball bat. | 18 | Y |
| McPhail, David | Bug, a Bear, and a Boy Go to School, A | 1.6 | 0.5 | A bug, a bear, and a boy enjoy themselves as they go to school, take a ride in a wagon, fly a kite, and paint a picture. | 28 | Y |
| McPhail, David | Bug, a Bear, and a Boy, A | 1.3 | 0.5 | Three friends learn, love, and play together. | 28 | |
| McPhail, David | Day the Dog Said, "Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!", The | 1.8 | 0.5 | A strong wind blew through the barnyard and sent the animals tumbling through the air. They began to talk like each other and not like themselves. | 29 | Y |
| McPhail, David | Day the Sheep Showed Up, The | 1.7 | 0.5 | When a new animal comes to the barnyard, the animals try to decide what it is. | 29 | Y |
| McPhail, David | Ed and Me | 3.1 | 0.5 | A small girl and her father buy an old pick-up truck named Ed, and build a garage to store it in. | 28 | |
| McPhail, David | Edward and the Pirates | 4 | 0.5 | Once Edward has learned to read, books and his vivid imagination provide him with great adventures. | 28 | Y |
| McPhail, David | Mole Music | 2.7 | 0.5 | Feeling that something is missing in his simple life, Mole acquires a violin and learns to make beautiful, joyful music. | 28 | Y |
| McPhail, David | Santa's Book of Names | 3.6 | 0.5 | A young boy who has trouble reading helps Santa with his yearly rounds and receives a special present. | 28 | Y |
| McPherson, Stephanie Sammartino | Peace and Bread: The Story of Jane Addams | 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 |
| McSwigan, Marie | Snow Treasure | 5.3 | 5 | Brave children help save Norway's gold from the invading Nazis during World War II. | 156 | Y |
| Meddaugh, Susan | Martha Speaks | 3.1 | 0.5 | Martha, the dog, eats some alphabet soup and starts to speak, to everyone's amazement and eventual annoyance. | 31 | Y |
| Meier, Gisela | Ghosts and Poltergeists | 5.2 | 1 | Examines evidence supporting the existence of ghosts and poltergeists. | 48 | Y |
| Meigs, Cornelia | Willow Whistle, The | 6.8 | 5 | Tale of the American West and the adventures of Mary Ann, Eric, and their Indian friend Gray Eagle. | 144 | |
| Meister, Cari | Blizzards (Nature's Fury) | 5 | 1 | This book discusses the nature, causes, and dangers of blizzards, blizzards of the past, and ways to survive them. | 32 | |
| Meister, Cari | Canada (Going Places) | 4 | 0.5 | This book describes a variety of tourist attractions found in one of the largest countries in the world, including mountains, lakes, national parks, cities, festivals, and outdoor activities, such as tobogganing, mushing, and panning for gold. | 24 | |
| Meister, Cari | Disney World (Going Places) | 3.3 | 0.5 | This book describes some of the things to see and do at the various parts of Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida-the Magic Kingdom, Epcot Center, MGM Studios, and Disney's Animal Kingdom. | 24 | |
| Meister, Cari | Earthquakes (Nature's Fury) | 4.8 | 0.5 | This book discusses the nature and measurement of earthquakes and the devastation that they can cause of land and sea, including the giant seismic waves known as tsunamis. | 32 | |
| Meister, Cari | Floods (Nature's Fury) | 4.5 | 0.5 | This book discusses the nature, causes, and dangers of floods, floods of the past, and ways to survive them. | 32 | |
| Meister, Cari | Grand Canyon (Going Places) | 4.1 | 0.5 | This book describes the history, geographic features, and plants and animal life of the natural wonder known as the Grand Canyon and the activities of visitors to the Grand Canyon National Park. | 24 | |
| Meister, Cari | Hurricanes (Nature's Fury) | 4.8 | 0.5 | This book discusses the nature, causes, and dangers of hurricanes, hurricanes of the past, and ways to survive them. | 32 | |
| Meister, Cari | Mexico (Going Places) | 3.9 | 0.5 | This book describes a variety of tourist attractions in Mexico including Teotihuacáe past, and ways to survive them. | 24 | |
| Meister, Cari | Ocean (Going Places), The | 3.9 | 0.5 | This book explores the ocean, its waves, tides, animals, and pollution problems. | 24 | |
| Meister, Cari | Tiny's Bath | 0.6 | 0.5 | Tiny is a very big dog who loves to dig, and when it is time for his bath, his owner has trouble finding a place to bathe him. | 30 | Y |
| Meister, Cari | Tornadoes (Nature's Fury) | 5.1 | 1 | This book discusses the nature, causes, and dangers of tornadoes, tornadoes of the past, and ways to survive them. | 32 | |
| Meister, Cari | Volcanoes (Nature's Fury) | 4.8 | 1 | This book discusses the nature, causes, and dangers of volcanoes, volcanoes of the past, and ways to survive them. | 32 | |
| Meister, Cari | When Tiny Was Tiny | 0.9 | 0.5 | A dog's owner describes how Tiny grew from a very small puppy to a very big dog. | 29 | Y |
| Meister, Cari | Yellowstone National Park (Going Places) | 4 | 0.5 | This book presents the geographic features, plant and animal life, and other attractions of the first national park. | 24 | |
| Mendez, Phil | Black Snowman, The | 3.7 | 0.5 | Through the powers of a magical "kente," a black snowman comes to life and helps young Jacob discover the beauty of his black heritage, as well as his own self-worth. | 45 | Y |
| Merk, Ann/Jim | Clouds (Weather Report) | 4.1 | 0.5 | Describes the different types of clouds and the weather that usually goes with them. | 24 | Y |
| Merrick, Patrick | Avalanches (Forces of Nature) | 4.5 | 0.5 | Discusses what avalanches are, how they occur, and how to protect oneself from avalanches. | 31 | Y |
| Merrick, Patrick | Blizzards (Forces of Nature) | 4 | 0.5 | Uses a question-and -answer format to provide information about the causes of blizzards, where they occur, their characteristics, and the effects they produce. | 32 | Y |
| Merrick, Patrick | Droughts (Forces of Nature) | 3.9 | 0.5 | Uses a question-and-answer format to provide information about the causes of droughts, where they occur, their characteristics, and the effects they produce. | 32 | Y |
| Merrick, Patrick | Ticks (Naturebooks) | 4 | 0.5 | Introduces the physical characteristics, behavior, and life cycle of ticks. | 31 | Y |
| Merrill, Jean | Toothpaste Millionaire, The | 5 | 3 | Rufus Mayflower learns about making toothpaste, forming a corporation, and earning lots of money. | 89 | |
| Meyer, Miriam | Blind Guards of Easter Island, The | 5.9 | 1 | Discusses the human-like rock structures on Easter Island and speculates on how they may have gotten there. | 48 | |
| Miles, Miska | Annie and the Old One | 4.4 | 0.5 | Annie comes to accept the impending death of her grandmother, as she recognizes the wonder of life. | 44 | Y |
| Miller, Sara Swan | Three Stories You Can Read to Your Dog | 2 | 0.5 | Stories addressed to dogs and written from a dog's point of view, featuring such topics as a burglar, bones, and running free. | 43 | Y |
| Mills, Lauren | Rag Coat, The | 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 |
| Milne, A.A. | Winnie-The-Pooh | 4.6 | 3 | Winnie-the-Pooh and all his friends delight readers with their adventurous exploits. | 161 | Y |
| Minarik, Else Holmelund | Kiss for Little Bear, A | 1.4 | 0.5 | When Grandma Bear sends a kiss to Little Bear, it travels a peculiar route through many animals until it finally reaches him. | 32 | Y |
| Minarik, Else Holmelund | No Fighting, No Biting! | 2.6 | 0.5 | The merry adventures of two scrapping alligator children--and Rosa and Willy, their human counterparts. | 62 | Y |
| Mochizuki, Ken | Baseball Saved Us | 3.9 | 0.5 | A Japanese-American boy learns to play baseball when he and his family are forced to live in internment camps during World War II. | 30 | |
| Mohr, Nicholasa | Felita | 3.6 | 2 | The everyday experiences of an eight-year-old Puerto Rican girl growing up in a close-knit, urban community. | 112 | Y |
| Mohr, Nicholasa | Going Home | 4.4 | 6 | Feeling like an outsider when she visits her relatives in Puerto Rico, eleven-year-old Felita tries to come to terms with the heritage she always took for granted. | 192 | |
| Moncure, Jane Belk | Away Went the Farmer's Hat | 2.4 | 0.5 | A farmer's hat, whisked away by the wind, is enjoyed by his horse, a duck, baby rabbits, a nest of tiny squirrels, and other animals before it finally returns to the farmer's possession. | 30 | Y |
| Moncure, Jane Belk | Bears Upstairs, The | 2 | 0.5 | Katie Plays with her toy bears using chairs and later serves them pears. | 31 | Y |
| Moncure, Jane Belk | Dragon in a Wagon, A | 2.1 | 0.5 | Megab goes for a ride with a dragon in a wagon and they continue traveling by a great variety of transportation modes and greet a great variety of creatures along the way. | 31 | |
| Moncure, Jane Belk | Here We Go Round the Year | 1.8 | 0.5 | Twelve little teddy bears describe the weather and activities with each month of the year. | 31 | Y |
| Moncure, Jane Belk | Hide-and-Seek Word Bird | 1.2 | 0.5 | This book uses simple vocabulary to depict Word Bird's game with Papa. | 32 | Y |
| Moncure, Jane Belk | Mr. Doodle Had a Poodle | 1.6 | 0.5 | Even though he has not quite mastered the skill of barking, Mr. Doodle's poodle performs many tricks. Includes a vocabulary list. | 31 | Y |
| Moncure, Jane Belk | Nanny Goat's Boat | 2.1 | 0.5 | Nancy Goat, sick in bed from a boating mishap, is visited by her animal friends with gifts to cheer her, after which she returns the favor by taking them out on her new boat. | 31 | Y |
| Moncure, Jane Belk | Polka-Dot Puppy | 2.2 | 0.5 | After a long and unsuccessful search, Polka-dot Puppy finally finds a home. | 31 | Y |
| Moncure, Jane Belk | Watch Out! Word Bird | 0.9 | 0.5 | When Word Bird doesn't stay in the yard as his mother told him to do, he learns the hard way that she was right. | 30 | Y |
| Moncure, Jane Belk | What Do You Do with a Grumpy Kangaroo? | 2.2 | 0.5 | Tony tries to cheer up Grumpy Kangaroo by taking him to the circus and the playground. | 31 | Y |
| Moncure, Jane Belk | What Do You Say When a Monkey Acts This Way? | 1.9 | 0.5 | Each day of the week, Little Monkey learns appropriate behavior for a variety of situations. | 31 | Y |
| Moncure, Jane Belk | Where Is Baby Bear? | 2 | 0.5 | Peter opens a word window and plays hide-and-seek with the animals he finds there. | 31 | Y |
| Moncure, Jane Belk | Word Bird's Dinosaur Days | 2.5 | 0.5 | Word Bird becomes acquainted with dinosaurs on a class trip to the museum. | 32 | Y |
| Moncure, Jane Belk | Word Bird's Magic Wand | 2.2 | 0.5 | Word Bird and his friends use their magic wands to make signs, stories, and a variety of words. | 32 | Y |
| Moncure, Jane Belk | Word Bird's New Friend | 2.3 | 0.5 | When a new student arrives at school, Word Bird does his best to help him feel at home. | 32 | Y |
| Moncure, Jane Belk | Word Bird's Rainy-Day Dance | 2.1 | 0.5 | Animal students in school use a story dance to show how seeds, sun, and rain combine to produce growing plants. | 32 | Y |
| Monjo, F.N. | Drinking Gourd, The | 3 | 0.5 | A suspenseful story of a young boy who helps a slave family escape to Canada and to freedom. | 62 | |
| Monson-Burton, Marianne | Girls Know Best 3: Your Words, Your World | 6.5 | 4 | In this book, twenty-four girl authors share their unique insight with girls everywhere. They give readers a chance to find out about starting a band, staging a play, or just being a little more creative while mopping the floor. | 153 | |
| Montgomery, L.M. | Anne of Avonlea (Unabridged) | 8.6 | 16 | In this second volume of the beloved trilogy about Anne Shirley, sixteen-year-old Anne teaches at the Avonlea school. | 323 | |
| Montgomery, L.M. | Anne of Green Gables (Unabridged) | 7.3 | 17 | This is the first novel in the Anne series that has delighted millions of young readers since its publication in 1908. Eleven-year-old Anne Shirley wins the heart of her foster mother. | 446 | |
| Montgomery, L.M. | Anne of Ingleside | 6 | 16 | Fifteen years and five children later, Anne begins to wonder if Gilbert still loves her as much as he did on their wedding day. | 277 | Y |
| Montgomery, L.M. | Anne of the Island (Bloomsbury) | 7.4 | 13 | Eighteen-year-old Anne leaves the Island to attend Redmond College, instead of getting married as some of her friends have done. | 256 | Y |
| Montgomery, L.M. | Anne of Windy Poplars | 5.9 | 14 | Anne takes a position as principal in a town led by the head-strong Pringles. She quickly becomes the whole town's champion and confidant. | 258 | Y |
| Montgomery, L.M. | Anne of Windy Willows (Bloomsbury) | 7.2 | 14 | The fourth of the Avonlea books continues to tell the heart-warming story of Anne Shirley, now principal of Summerside High School and engaged to her childhood sweetheart Gilbert Blythe. | 255 | |
| Moore, Lilian | I'll Meet You at the Cucumbers | 3.5 | 1 | Adam and Junius, two country mice, go for a visit to the city, where Adam despairs when his dear friend admits he might like to stay. | 63 | Y |
| Morey, Walt | Gentle Ben | 4.8 | 8 | Danger and excitement as young Mark Andersen struggles to save his friend, Ben, the big brown bear. | 191 | Y |
| Morley, Jacqueline | Egyptian Pyramid, An | 7.5 | 1 | The building and the purpose of an Egyptian pyramid is studied in a series of architectural drawings. | 45 | Y |
| Morley, Jacqueline | Roman Villa, A | 6.8 | 1 | Daily life in a Roman villa is illustrated in a series of fascinating architectural drawings. | 45 | Y |
| Morley, Jacqueline | Shakespeare's Theater | 7 | 1 | A look at the Globe Theater in London where many of Shakespeare's plays were first produced. | 43 | Y |
| Mosel, Arlene | Funny Little Woman, The | 3.6 | 0.5 | Delightful retelling of Japanese tale in which a woman goes underground, finds a magic rice-paddle, and grows exceedingly rich. | 36 | Y |
| Mosel, Arlene | Tikki Tikki Tembo | 4.2 | 0.5 | This book is the re-creation of an ancient Chinese folktale about the boy with the long name who fell down the well. | 38 | Y |
| Moss, Lloyd | Zin! Zin! Zin!: A Violin | 3.3 | 0.5 | Ten instruments take their parts one by one in a musical performance. | 27 | Y |
| Mowat, Farley | Owls in the Family | 5 | 3 | Two owls, Wol and Weeps, join Billy and his dog Mutt to shake up the whole neighborhood. | 91 | Y |
| Mukerji, Dhan Gopal | Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon | 6.5 | 6 | Gay-Neck, a carrier pigeon, is trained by his owner and has many courageous and spirited adventures over the housetops of an Indian village, in the Himalayas, and finally on the French battlefield on World War I. | 191 | Y |
| Munsch, Robert | Mud Puddle | 3.1 | 0.5 | Little Jule Ann is pursued by a mud puddle who likes to jump on her. Jule Ann finally finds a way to stop the mud puddle. | 24 | Y |
| Munsch, Robert N. | Love You Forever | 3.4 | 0.5 | A young woman tells her son, throughout his childhood, how she loves him, until a time when the son has a daughter of his own and passes on the same message of love. | 28 | Y |
| Munsch, Robert N. | Paper Bag Princess, The | 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 |
| Munsch, Robert N. | Pigs | 2.6 | 0.5 | Megan leaves a gate open, and the pigs run wild. | 24 | Y |
| Munsch, Robert N. | Stephanie's Ponytail | 3 | 0.5 | All Stephanie wanted to do was look a little different. | 19 | Y |
| Murphy, Jim | Boys' War, The | 7.6 | 3 | Includes diary entries, personal letters, and archival photographs to describe the experiences of boys, sixteen years old or younger, who fought in the Civil War. | 100 | Y |
| Murray, Peter | Deserts (Biomes of Nature) | 4.4 | 0.5 | Highlights a number of the world's deserts, defines what constitutes a desert, and describes the environment, including some of the plants and animals in these regions. | 32 | Y |
| Murray, Peter | Earthquakes (Forces of Nature) | 4.7 | 0.5 | Examines earthquakes, what they are, what causes them, and better means of monitoring them. | 31 | Y |
| Murray, Peter | Hurricanes (Forces of Nature) | 4.7 | 0.5 | Briefly describes the Hurricane, why they form and where they are the most common. | 31 | Y |
| Murray, Peter | Planet Earth (Our Universe) | 4.4 | 0.5 | Describes the Earth's physical characteristics, discussing interactions of climate, geology, and ecology. | 32 | Y |
| Murray, Peter | Prairies (Biomes of Nature) | 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 |
| Murray, Peter | Rainforests (Biomes of Nature) | 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 |
| Murray, Peter | Saturn (Our Universes) | 4.2 | 0.5 | Describes what is known about the second-largest planet in the solar system and its rings and moons. | 32 | Y |
| Murray, Peter | Tornadoes (Forces of Nature) | 4.4 | 0.5 | Examines tornadoes, what causes them and the destruction they can do. | 31 | Y |
| Murray, Peter | Volcanoes (Forces of Nature) | 4.9 | 0.5 | Examines volcanoes, how they were formed, and the devastation they can cause. | 31 | Y |
| Myers, Edward | Climb or Die | 4.7 | 5 | A sister and brother must rescue their injured parents after a car accident. | 180 | Y |
| Myers, Walter Dean | Me, Mop, and the Moondance Kid | 3.9 | 5 | After they are adopted, eleven-year-old T.J. and his younger brother Moondance, remain involved with their friend Mop's relentless attempts to become adopted herself and to wreak revenge on their baseball rivals, the obnoxious Eagles. | 154 | Y |
| Namioka, Lensey | Yang the Third and Her Impossible Family | 4.5 | 3 | Yingmei Yang changed her name to Mary now that she is learning how to "be American." In an attempt to be best friends with popular Holly Hanson, Mary adopts one of Holly's kittens. Now Mary must keep it a secret from her family. | 143 | |
| Namioka, Lensey | Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear | 4.6 | 3 | Newly arrived in Seattle from Shanghai, Yingtao is an outsider in his musical family because he's tone-deaf. | 134 | Y |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Agony of Alice, The | 5.3 | 5 | Eleven-year-old, motherless Alice, decides she needs a gorgeous role model until she discovers what really makes someone beautiful. | 131 | Y |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | All but Alice | 5 | 5 | Seventh-grader Alice decides that the only way to stave off personal and social disasters is to be part of the crowd, especially the 'in' crowd, no matter how boring and potentially difficult. | 151 | |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Boys Against Girls | 5 | 4 | The Hatford brothers cannot imagine spending Thanksgiving dinner with the Malloy sisters as the practical jokes and rivalries between the two families continue. Sequel to "The Girls Get Even." | 147 | Y |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Boys Start the War, The | 4.6 | 4 | A rollicking family feud escalates into a war of wits and pranks. | 133 | Y |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Danny's Desert Rats | 4.4 | 4 | T.R. and Danny join their friends in forming a group called the Desert Rats, and their major mission for the summer is helping Paul keep his beloved cat despite their town house development's rule against pets. | 134 | Y |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Fear Place, The | 5.4 | 5 | Despite the strained relationship between them, Doug must overcome his fear in order to search for his missing brother. | 118 | Y |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Jade Green: A Ghost Story | 5.8 | 5 | While living with her uncle in a house haunted by the ghost of a young woman, recently orphaned Judith Sparrow wonders if her one small transgression causes mysterious happenings. | 168 | Y |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Night Cry | 5.4 | 6 | Ellen is awakened at night by horrible cries that may be human. | 154 | Y |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | One of the Third Grade Thonkers | 5.1 | 4 | Ashamed of his wimpy younger cousin, eight-year-old Jimmy is determined to keep him out of his special club for rough, tough, and terrible boys, until an accident involving Jimmy's father demonstrates for him the true meaning of courage. | 136 | Y |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Saving Shiloh | 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 |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Shiloh | 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 |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Shiloh Season | 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 |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | To Walk the Sky Path | 5.4 | 5 | The story of a young Seminole Indian, who because of his education, finds himself caught between the traditional world of his ancestors and the modern world of his schoolmates. | 144 | Y |
| Ness, Evaline | Sam, Bangs & Moonshine | 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 | |
| Neville, Emily Cheney | Berries Goodman | 4.4 | 5 | A city boy's move to the suburbs includes a painful experience in anti-Semitism. | 178 | |
| Neville, Emily Cheney | It's Like This, Cat | 4.7 | 5 | A teenage boy in New York City gets a cat instead of a dog simply to annoy his father, then begins to learn that his father is a caring human being, not just a strict parent. | 180 | Y |
| Nhuong, Huynh Quang | Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam, The | 6.1 | 4 | Fifteen true stories of the author's childhood in Vietnam. | 127 | |
| Nielsen, Nancy | Killer Whales: The Orcas of the Pacific Ocean | 4.8 | 0.5 | Includes full-color photographs of Killer Whales or Orcas that inhabit cold coastal waters. | 47 | Y |
| Niemuth, Neal | Owls for Kids/Owl Magic for Kids | 4.8 | 0.5 | Information about the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of snowy owls is woven into a story. | 47 | |
| Nilsson, Ulf | If You Didn't Have Me | 4.2 | 3 | A small Swedish boy spends the summer on his grandmother's farm while his parents build a new house. | 113 | Y |
| Nixon, Joan Lowery | Caught in the Act | 5 | 6 | Eleven-year-old Michael Patrick Kelly from New York City is sent to a foster home, a Missouri farm with a sadistic owner, a bullying son, and a number of secrets, one of which may be murder. | 150 | Y |
| Nixon, Joan Lowery | Dangerous Promise, A | 6 | 7 | Two teenage boys join a Civil War regiment. | 148 | Y |
| Nixon, Joan Lowery | David's Search | 3.8 | 2 | Eleven-year-old orphan train rider David Howard settles with a strict Texas farm family, and his best friend is an ex-slave who is threatened by the growing presence of the Ku Klux Klan. | 127 | Y |
| Nixon, Joan Lowery | Family Apart, A | 5.4 | 7 | When their mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860. | 162 | |
| Nixon, Joan Lowery | House on Hackman's Hill, The | 4.6 | 4 | Jeff and Debbie make their way to the old Hackman mansion to look for a stolen Egyptian mummy that old Mr. Karsten has told them about--and for which they could get a $10,000 reward. They are soon trapped in the house with a mummy that lives! | 126 | Y |
| Nixon, Joan Lowery | In the Face of Danger | 5 | 6 | Deeply unhappy about her family's separation because of poverty, Megan gradually finds contentment and purpose in her new home on the Kansas prairie with a kind and loving adopted family. | 151 | Y |
| Nixon, Joan Lowery | Keeping Secrets | 5 | 6 | In 1863, eleven-year-old Peg Kelly is drawn into the dangerous activities of a mysterious young woman who had come to her home in Missouri after fleeing the raid of William Quantrill and his raiders on Lawrence, Kansas. | 163 | Y |
| Nixon, Joan Lowery | Maggie, Too | 4.7 | 4 | A defensive twelve-year-old comes to understand her father, a busy Hollywood director planning to re-marry, after she is exiled for the summer to the everyday life of her grandmother's house in Houston. | 101 | |
| Nixon, Joan Lowery | Place to Belong, A | 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 |
| Nixon, Joan Lowery | Seance, The | 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 |
| Noble, Trinka Hakes | Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash, The | 2.2 | 0.5 | Class trip to the farm turns into a riotous afternoon. | 25 | Y |
| Noble, Trinka Hakes | Jimmy's Boa and the Big Splash Birthday Bash | 2.7 | 0.5 | Jimmy's birthday at SeaLand turns out to be a big splash when everyone ends up in the big tank. | 27 | |
| Noble, Trinka Hakes | Jimmy's Boa Bounces Back | 2.7 | 0.5 | A pet boa constrictor wreaks havoc on a posh garden party. Sequel to The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate The Wash. | 27 | |
| Nolen, Jerdine | Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm | 3.8 | 0.5 | A child ventures out in the middle of the night to see how Harvey Potter grows his wonderful balloons. | 29 | Y |
| Norsgaard, E. Jaediker | Butterflies for Kids/Butterfly Magic for Kids | 5.5 | 0.5 | In this book, information about the physical characteristics, habits, and life cycle of the monarch butterfly is woven into a story. | 46 | |
| North, Sterling | Rascal | 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 |
| Norton, Mary | Bed-Knob and Broomstick | 4.8 | 6 | The Wilson children meet a prim spinster who is studying to be a witch and find themselves transported to a cannibal island. | 227 | Y |
| Norton, Mary | Borrowers Afloat, The | 6 | 6 | Mary Norton's beloved family of miniature people set out on a voyage in a tea kettle in search of a new home. | 191 | Y |
| Norton, Mary | Borrowers, The | 5.3 | 5 | There are not many Borrowers left, as they like to live in quiet places. This is the story of the mysterious tiny people who live in old houses everywhere,... | 180 | Y |
| Novak, Matt | Elmer Blunt's Open House | 2.2 | 0.5 | An animal invasion becomes a case of breaking and entering with a funny new twist. | 21 | Y |
| Novak, Matt | Mouse TV | 2 | 0.5 | The mouse family argues about what to watch on the television. | 27 | Y |
| Numeroff, Laura | If You Give a Moose a Muffin | 2.4 | 0.5 | Chaos can ensue if you give a moose a muffin and start him on a cycle of urgent requests. | 29 | Y |
| Numeroff, Laura | If You Give a Mouse a Cookie | 2.7 | 0.5 | Relating the cycle of requests a mouse is likely to make after you give him a cookie takes the reader through a young boy's day. | 28 | Y |
| Numeroff, Laura | If You Give a Pig a Pancake | 2.5 | 0.5 | One thing leads to another when you give a pig a pancake. | 30 | Y |
| O'Brien, Robert C. | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (The Secret of NIMH) | 5.1 | 8 | When Timothy, youngest of a family of field mice, becomes ill, his mother, Mrs. Frisby, enlists the aid of the Rats of NIMH to move their home from the path of the farmer's plow. | 233 | Y |
| O'Brien, Robert C. | Z for Zachariah | 5.6 | 9 | This novel by the Newberry Award-winning author of Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH is about the aftermath of nuclear devastation. | 249 | Y |
| O'Connor, Jane | Sir Small and the Dragonfly | 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 |
| O'Connor, Jim/Jane | Slime Time | 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 | |
| O'Dell, Scott | Black Pearl, The | 5.4 | 4 | In claiming as his own the magnificent black pearl he finds, a sixteen-year-old youth enrages the sea devil that legend says is its owner. | 96 | Y |
| O'Dell, Scott | Black Star, Bright Dawn | 4.3 | 4 | A thrilling story of a teenage girl's first running in the Iditarod--the challenging long-distance dog sled race held every year in Alaska. | 134 | Y |
| O'Dell, Scott | Island of the Blue Dolphins | 5.4 | 6 | An Indian girl is left alone on an island for ten years. | 181 | Y |
| O'Dell, Scott | My Name Is Not Angelica | 4.8 | 4 | Relates the experiences of a young Senegalese girl brought as a slave to the Danish-owned Caribbean island of St. John, as she participates in the slave revolt of 1733-1734. | 130 | Y |
| O'Dell, Scott | Sing down the Moon | 4.9 | 4 | The forced migration of Navahos from their homeland, is described from the Native American point of view. | 121 | Y |
| O'Dell, Scott | Streams to the River, River to the Sea | 4.8 | 7 | A fictionalized version of the life of Sacagawea, the Shoshone guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition. | 163 | Y |
| O'Dell, Scott | Thunder Rolling in the Mountains | 4.6 | 4 | In the late nineteenth century, a young Nez Perce girl relates how her people were driven off their land by the U. S. Army and forced to retreat north until their eventual surrender. | 128 | |
| O'Dell, Scott | Zia | 5.1 | 5 | Poignant sequel to 'The Island Of The Blue Dolphins,' in which Zia and her Aunt Karana are reunited, but not for long. | 144 | Y |
| O'Neill, Laurie | Wounded Knee | 7.5 | 1 | Examines the bloody confrontation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1890 between U. S. Calvary troops and the Sioux Indians. | 56 | Y |
| Oppenheim, Joanne | Not Now! Said the Cow | 2 | 0.5 | In this story based on "The Little Red Hen," a little black crow asks his animal friends to help with the planting of some corn seed. | 29 | Y |
| Orlev, Uri | Island on Bird Street, The | 4.6 | 7 | During World War II, a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constant life-threatening conditions. | 162 | Y |
| Orwell, George | Animal Farm | 7.3 | 5 | Politically minded farm animals undergo a revolution against their human master and establish a new government that fails because of a corrupt leader tempted by greed and power. | 128 | Y |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Adaline Falling Star | 4.6 | 4 | After her mother dies, Adaline is sent to live in St. Louis while her father, the famous scout Kit Carson, explores the West. | 170 | Y |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Afternoon on the Amazon | 2.6 | 1 | Eight-year-old Jack, his seven-year-old sister Annie, and Peanut the mouse ride in a tree house to the Amazon rain forest, where they encounter flesh-eating piranhas, hungry crocodiles, and wild jaguars. | 67 | Y |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Buffalo Before Breakfast | 3.3 | 1 | The magic tree house takes Jack and his sister Annie to the Great Plains, where they learn about the life of the Lakota Indians. | 72 | Y |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Day of the Dragon King | 3.3 | 1 | The magic treehouse takes Jack and Annie back 2000 years to ancient China, where they must find the original copy of an old legend before the Imperial Library is burned down by the evil Dragon King. | 68 | Y |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Dingoes at Dinnertime | 3.2 | 1 | The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to Australia, where they must save some animals from a wildfire. | 75 | Y |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Dinosaurs Before Dark | 2.6 | 1 | A time-travel fantasy in which two children encounter dinosaurs in their tree house. | 68 | Y |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Dolphins at Daybreak | 3.1 | 1 | The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie deep into the sea where they meet up with dolphins, sharks, and octopi as they search for the answer to an ancient riddle. | 67 | |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Ghost Town at Sundown | 3 | 1 | Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to the wild west, where they experience excitement and danger and try to solve a riddle. | 73 | Y |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Hour of the Olympics | 3.3 | 1 | The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to retrieve a lost story in ancient Greece, where they witness the original Olympic games. | 70 | Y |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Knight at Dawn, The | 2.9 | 1 | Jack and Annie time travel back to medieval England via a magic tree house. | 65 | Y |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Lions at Lunchtime | 3 | 1 | The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to Africa, where they meet up with some wonderful animals and where they even solve a mystery. | 70 | Y |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Midnight on the Moon | 2.8 | 1 | The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to a moon base in the future where they continue to search for the fourth thing they need to free their friend Morgan from the magic spell. | 70 | Y |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Mummies in the Morning | 2.7 | 1 | Jack and his younger sister take a trip in their tree house back to ancient Egypt, where they help a queen's mummy continue her voyage to the Next Life. | 65 | Y |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | My Brother's Keeper: Virginia's Diary | 4.3 | 2 | During the days leading to the Battle of Gettysburg, Virginia Dickens begins a diary. Gettysburg soon comes the center of the biggest battle of the Civil War; and Ginny wonders if her father and brother will make it home. | 109 | |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Night of the Ninjas | 2.7 | 1 | Jack and Annie travel back to ancient Japan in search of an enchantress. | 69 | Y |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Pirates Past Noon | 2.8 | 1 | Jack and Annie travel back in time to the age of pirates and buried treasure. | 67 | Y |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Polar Bears Past Bedtime | 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 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Revolutionary War on Wednesday | 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 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Spider Kane and the Mystery at Jumbo Nightcrawler's | 4.4 | 2 | Lieutenant Leon Leafwing and Detective Spider Kane investigate the mysterious disappearance of Leon's mother and members of the Order of the MOTH. | 124 | Y |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Sunset of the Sabertooth | 3 | 1 | The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie on a mission to the Ice Age where they encounter Cro-Magnons, cave bears, sabertooth tigers, and woolly mammoths. | 68 | Y |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Tigers at Twilight | 3 | 1 | Having used their magic tree house to travel to India, where they must get a gift to help free the dog Teddy from a spell, Jack and Annie have adventures involving a tiger and other endangered jungle animals. | 72 | |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Tonight on the Titanic | 3.1 | 1 | The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie to the deck of the Titanic to find a mysterious gift that will free their puppy from a terrible magic spell. | 71 | Y |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Vacation Under the Volcano | 3.3 | 1 | Their magic tree house takes Annie and Jack to Pompeii just as Vesuvius is about to erupt, and they must find a Roman scroll before everything is covered with burning ash. | 74 | Y |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Viking Ships at Sunrise | 3.3 | 1 | Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to a monastery in medieval Ireland, where they try to retrieve a lost book while being menaced by Viking raiders. | 71 | Y |
| Osinski, Alice | Andrew Jackson | 7.8 | 2 | Traces the life of the rowdy "Hero of New Orleans," from his backwoods beginnings through his military career to his term as seventh President of the United States. | 89 | Y |
| Osinski, Alice | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 7.7 | 2 | Follows the life and career of America's thirty-second President, who led the country through the Depression and was elected to four terms in the White House. | 89 | Y |
| Osinski, Alice | Woodrow Wilson | 7.8 | 2 | Follows the life and career of the scholar and educator who was President of the United States during World War I. | 89 | Y |
| Owens, Caleb | Coral Reefs (Biomes of Nature) | 4.2 | 0.5 | A brief introduction to coral reefs and the animals and plants that live there. | 32 | Y |