| Author | Title | Author | AR BL | AR Pts | Description | No.of Pages | Have Book |
| Palatini, Margie | Piggie Pie! | Palatini, Margie | 2.5 | 0.5 | Gritch the witch flies to Old MacDonald's farm for some pigs to make a piggie pie; but when she arrives, she can't find a single porker. | 28 | Y |
| Palmer, Sarah | Great White Sharks (Shark Discovery) | Palmer, Sarah | 4.2 | 0.5 | A brief description of the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the great white shark, considered to be the most dangerous shark of all. | 24 | Y |
| Palmer, Sarah | Hammerhead Sharks (Shark Discovery) | Palmer, Sarah | 4.3 | 0.5 | Describes the appearance, habitat, and behavior of the three main kinds of hammerhead sharks. | 24 | Y |
| Palmer, Sarah | Mako Sharks (Shark Discovery) | Palmer, Sarah | 4.1 | 0.5 | Describes the appearance, habitat, and behavior of mako sharks. | 24 | Y |
| Palmer, Sarah | Nurse Sharks (Shark Discovery) | Palmer, Sarah | 4.3 | 0.5 | Describes the appearance, habitat, and behavior of nurse sharks. | 24 | Y |
| Palmer, Sarah | Thresher Sharks (Shark Discovery) | Palmer, Sarah | 4 | 0.5 | Describes the appearance, habitat, and behavior of thresher sharks. | 24 | Y |
| Palmer, Sarah | Whale Sharks (Shark Discovery) | Palmer, Sarah | 4.2 | 0.5 | An introduction to the whale shark, the biggest fish in the world--but harmless to people. | 24 | Y |
| Parish, Peggy | Amelia Bedelia | Parish, Peggy | 2.5 | 0.5 | Wacky misadventures as that hapless maid Amelia Bedelia interprets her instructions very literally. | 23 | Y |
| Parish, Peggy | Amelia Bedelia and the Surprise Shower | Parish, Peggy | 2.3 | 0.5 | Mad-cap misadventures of a very literal-minded housekeeper during a wedding shower. | 64 | Y |
| Parish, Peggy | Amelia Bedelia Goes Camping | Parish, Peggy | 1.8 | 0.5 | When Amelia goes camping, all sorts of amusing things happen. | 59 | Y |
| Parish, Peggy | Amelia Bedelia Helps Out | Parish, Peggy | 2.3 | 0.5 | Amelia Bedelia and her niece Effie Lou have come to help Miss Emma take care of her house and garden. | 63 | Y |
| Parish, Peggy | Amelia Bedelia's Family Album | Parish, Peggy | 2.2 | 0.5 | Amelia Bedelia entertains Mr. and Mrs. Rogers by showing them her family album and describing what her relatives do. | 48 | Y |
| Parish, Peggy | Come Back, Amelia Bedelia | Parish, Peggy | 2.1 | 0.5 | Mad-cap misadventures with a very literal-minded housekeeper. | 64 | Y |
| Parish, Peggy | Good Work, Amelia Bedelia | Parish, Peggy | 2.1 | 0.5 | Mr. and Mrs. Rogers leave a list of chores for Amelia to do while they are gone for the day. | 52 | Y |
| Parish, Peggy | Key to the Treasure | Parish, Peggy | 3.2 | 2 | While spending the summer with their grandparents, a trio of children decodes secret messages left many years before by their great-great-grandfather. | 154 | Y |
| Parish, Peggy | Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia | Parish, Peggy | 2.1 | 0.5 | Everyone's favorite maid adds her literal-minded efforts to the Christmas festivities with predictable and humorous results. | 63 | Y |
| Parish, Peggy | Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia | Parish, Peggy | 2.3 | 0.5 | When Amelia, who follows all directions literally, plays baseball, the results are predictably funny. | 64 | Y |
| Parish, Peggy | Teach Us, Amelia Bedelia | Parish, Peggy | 1.9 | 0.5 | That hapless, literal-minded maid Amelia Bedelia is plagued by hilarious misunderstandings. | 56 | Y |
| Parish, Peggy | Thank You, Amelia Bedelia | Parish, Peggy | 2.6 | 0.5 | Preparing for the arrival of an important visitor, a wacky housekeeper follows her employer's instructions with humorous results. | 64 | Y |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business | Park, Barbara | 2.9 | 1 | Junie is pretty upset about her new baby brother; but when she finally sees him, she goes ape. | 68 | Y |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth | Park, Barbara | 3 | 1 | Junie creates the strangest job description for career day at school. | 69 | Y |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky Peeky Spying | Park, Barbara | 2.9 | 1 | Junie spies on her teacher and gets into real trouble. | 66 | Y |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones and That Meanie Jim's Birthday | Park, Barbara | 2.8 | 1 | Junie B. is very upset when a boy in her class plans to invite everyone except her to his birthday party, but her grandfather helps her deal with the situation. | 85 | Y |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentime | Park, Barbara | 2.9 | 1 | When Junie B. Jones receives a mushy gushy "valentime" on Valentine's Day, she tries to find out who her secret admirer is. | 69 | Y |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus | Park, Barbara | 2.9 | 1 | Junie goes off to kindergarten and gets locked in the school. | 69 | Y |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones and the Yucky Blucky Fruitcake | Park, Barbara | 2.7 | 1 | Junie, a spunky, sometimes exasperating, kindergartner, looks forward to winning lots of prizes at the school carnival; but a fruitcake was not exactly what she had in mind. | 71 | Y |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones Has a Monster Under Her Bed | Park, Barbara | 2.7 | 1 | After hearing from a classmate at kindergarten that people have monsters under their beds, Junie B. Jones is afraid to go to sleep. | 69 | Y |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones Is a Beauty Shop Guy | Park, Barbara | 2.8 | 1 | After her first trip to a beauty parlor Junie decides she wants to work there, and she practices on her bunny slippers, her dog, and herself with disastrous results. | 67 | Y |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones Is a Party Animal | Park, Barbara | 2.8 | 1 | Lucille invites Junie B. and her friend Grace to sleep over at her rich nanna's house, where everything is beautiful and breakable. | 71 | Y |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones Is Almost a Flower Girl | Park, Barbara | 2.7 | 1 | Six-year-old Junie B. is disappointed to find out that her aunt has asked someone else to be the flower girl at her wedding. | 68 | Y |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook | Park, Barbara | 3 | 1 | Junie B. Jones experiences glee while showing off her new, furry mittens in kindergarten, but disaster strikes when her mittens disappear. | 67 | Y |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones Loves Handsome Warren | Park, Barbara | 2.7 | 1 | Unable to compete with her friends' fancy clothes and running ability, irrepressible six-year-old Junie B. finds her own way to make the new boy at school like her. | 71 | Y |
| Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones Smells Something Fishy | Park, Barbara | 2.6 | 1 | Frustrated because the rules for her class's Pet Day will not let her take her dog to school, Junie B. Jones considers taking a racoon, a worm, a dead fish, and other unusual replacements. | 66 | Y |
| Park, Barbara | Kid in the Red Jacket, The | Park, Barbara | 3.9 | 3 | When ten-year-old Howard has to move with his family to a distant state, he is forced to live on a street named Chester Pewe, adjust to a new school, and get used to being shadowed by the little girl in a nearby house. | 113 | Y |
| Park, Barbara | Mick Harte Was Here | Park, Barbara | 4.5 | 2 | A young girl copes with the death of her brother in a bike accident. | 88 | Y |
| Park, Barbara | Skinnybones | Park, Barbara | 4.1 | 3 | Life looks hopeless when Alex's losing team has to play baseball against T.J.'s winning team. But Alex has a hidden talent that could save the day -- unless it ruins his life first. | 111 | Y |
| Pasqua, Sandra M. | Navajo Nation (Native Peoples), The | Pasqua, Sandra M. | 4.4 | 0.5 | The book discusses the past and present lives of the Navajo Nation. | 24 | Y |
| Paterson, Katherine | Bridge to Terabithia | Paterson, Katherine | 4.6 | 5 | The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer, who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm. | 128 | Y |
| Paterson, Katherine | Come Sing, Jimmy Jo | Paterson, Katherine | 4.7 | 8 | Young James is a singing star on stage, but his offstage world is coming apart. | 178 | Y |
| Paterson, Katherine | Great Gilly Hopkins, The | Paterson, Katherine | 4.6 | 5 | An eleven-year-old foster child tries to cope with her longings and fears as she schemes against everyone who tries to be friendly. | 148 | Y |
| Paterson, Katherine | Jacob Have I Loved | Paterson, Katherine | 5.7 | 8 | Sibling rivalry divides twin sisters living on an island in Chesapeake Bay. | 175 | Y |
| Paterson, Katherine | Marvin's Best Christmas Present Ever | Paterson, Katherine | 2.3 | 0.5 | Marvin wants to make a great Christmas present for his parents that will last forever. | 48 | Y |
| Paterson, Katherine | Master Puppeteer, The | Paterson, Katherine | 5.4 | 7 | Set in feudal Japan, this is the story of a young boy who is drawn into the magical and mysterious world of the puppet-theater. | 179 | Y |
| Patneaude, David | Framed in Fire | Patneaude, David | 3.8 | 5 | When his stepfather conspires to keep thirteen-year-old Peter at a mental institution, Peter begins to piece together secrets about his past with the help of his younger brother's strangely prophetic dreams. | 214 | Y |
| Patneaude, David | Last Man's Reward, The | Patneaude, David | 4.2 | 5 | In hopes of winning the valuable baseball card that he and his new friends have hidden in a remote cave outside Granite Falls, Washington, Albert asks the gruff P. E. teacher at his middle school to help him become a long-jumper. | 192 | Y |
| Patneaude, David | Someone Was Watching | Patneaude, David | 4.5 | 6 | Chris has a hard time adjusting to his younger sister's disappearance and decides to seek out the kidnappers. | 220 | Y |
| Patterson, Francine | Koko's Kitten | Patterson, Francine | 3.5 | 0.5 | The real-life experience of Koko, a gorilla in California who uses sign language, with a kitten whom she loved and grieved over when it died. | 29 | Y |
| Paulsen, Gary | Boy Who Owned the School, The | Paulsen, Gary | 5.5 | 2 | Jacob Freisten, often in a fog, tries to ease through high school unnoticed; but a beautiful classmate takes notice of him and his life begins to change. | 85 | Y |
| Paulsen, Gary | Brian's Return | Paulsen, Gary | 5.5 | 4 | After living alone in the wilderness on the edge of death, Brian dreams of returning to the woods where he is more comfortable than in civilization. | 115 | Y |
| Paulsen, Gary | Brian's Winter | Paulsen, Gary | 5.9 | 5 | Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet. | 133 | Y |
| Paulsen, Gary | Canyons | Paulsen, Gary | 5.5 | 5 | Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800s. | 184 | Y |
| Paulsen, Gary | Captive! | Paulsen, Gary | 3.7 | 1 | Roman Sanchez's life has become a nightmare. His father, a SWAT officer, has been killed; and masked gunmen have taken Roman and three other boys hostage! | 50 | Y |
| Paulsen, Gary | Cookcamp, The | Paulsen, Gary | 5 | 3 | During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness. | 115 | Y |
| Paulsen, Gary | Crossing, The | Paulsen, Gary | 5.8 | 3 | Thirteen-year-old Manny, a street kid fighting for survival in a Mexican border town, develops a strange friendship with an emotionally disturbed American soldier who decides to help him get across the border. | 114 | |
| Paulsen, Gary | Dancing Carl | Paulsen, Gary | 5 | 3 | As winter progresses, the strange man in the worn flight jacket dances frequently on the ice of the rink, expressing more with his movements than most people do with words. | 105 | |
| Paulsen, Gary | Danger on Midnight River | Paulsen, Gary | 3.7 | 1 | Daniel helps rescue the bullies who have teased him. | 65 | Y |
| Paulsen, Gary | Dogsong | Paulsen, Gary | 5.2 | 5 | A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy, who feels assailed by the modernity of his life, takes a 1,400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own "song" of himself. | 177 | Y |
| Paulsen, Gary | Escape from Fire Mountain | Paulsen, Gary | 4.1 | 1 | Nikki sets out to rescue two children trapped in a forest fire. | 67 | Y |
| Paulsen, Gary | Hatchet | Paulsen, Gary | 5.7 | 7 | After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends 54 days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given to him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. | 195 | Y |
| Paulsen, Gary | Haymeadow, The | Paulsen, Gary | 5.4 | 6 | Fourteen-year-old John comes of age and gains self-reliance during the summer he spends up in the Wyoming mountains tending his father's herd of sheep. | 195 | Y |
| Paulsen, Gary | Legend of Red Horse Cavern, The | Paulsen, Gary | 3.5 | 1 | Will and Sarah get lost in the caverns of the Sacramento Mountains. | 55 | Y |
| Paulsen, Gary | Mr. Tucket | Paulsen, Gary | 5 | 4 | A young boy is captured on the Oregon Trail by Pawnee Indians. | 166 | Y |
| Paulsen, Gary | River, The | Paulsen, Gary | 5.5 | 4 | Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for 54 days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival. | 129 | Y |
| Paulsen, Gary | Rodomonte's Revenge | Paulsen, Gary | 3.7 | 1 | Brett and Tom play a virtual reality game until a computer infiltrates their minds. | 76 | Y |
| Paulsen, Gary | Sentries | Paulsen, Gary | 5.4 | 5 | The common theme of nuclear disaster and human vulnerability interweaves the lives of four young people, an Ojibway Indian, an illegal Mexican migrant worker, a rock musician, and a sheep rancher's daughter with the lives of three veterans of past wars. | 168 | |
| Paulsen, Gary | Transall Saga, The | Paulsen, Gary | 4.3 | 8 | While backpacking in the desert, Mark falls into a tube of blue light and is transported into a more primitive world, where he must use his knowledge and skills to survive. | 248 | |
| Paulsen, Gary | Winter Room, The | Paulsen, Gary | 5 | 3 | A young boy growing up on a northern Minnesota farm describes the scenes around him and recounts his old Norwegian uncle's tales of an almost mythological logging past. | 103 | Y |
| Paulsen, Gary | Woodsong | Paulsen, Gary | 5.6 | 5 | This story features dogsledding adventures, capped by the story of the author's first Iditarod. | 132 | |
| Pearce, Philippa | Tom's Midnight Garden | Pearce, Philippa | 6.1 | 9 | Late at night, when the clock strikes 13, Tom tiptoes downstairs to find a lush garden which is not there during the day. | 229 | Y |
| Pearson, Anne | Ancient Greece (Eyewitness) | Pearson, Anne | 7.8 | 1 | Discover the world of the ancient Greeks, their myths and legends, heroes and gods, and the rich legacy of their civilization. | 63 | Y |
| Pearson, Anne | What Do We Know About the Greeks? | Pearson, Anne | 5.7 | 0.5 | Everyday life among the Greeks is detailed in drawings and photographs. | 43 | Y |
| Peck, Richard | Ghosts I Have Been | Peck, Richard | 5.7 | 9 | Teenager, Blossom Culp, discovers that she has the gift of Second Sight, but that she is powerless to change the course of history. | 214 | Y |
| Peck, Richard | Long Way from Chicago, A | Peck, Richard | 5 | 5 | A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother. | 148 | Y |
| Peck, Robert Newton | Soup | Peck, Robert Newton | 4.4 | 2 | Rural Vermont during the 1920s is the setting of this nostalgic account of episodes in the lives of young Rob Peck and his pal, Soup. | 96 | Y |
| Peck, Robert Newton | Soup and Me | Peck, Robert Newton | 4.3 | 3 | From their crisp Vermont spring to the chill of winter, Soup and Rob learn about many things: Untended clothes, runaway pumpkins, marigolds, fighting turkeys, and Miss Kelly's Christmas. | 115 | |
| Peck, Robert Newton | Soup for President | Peck, Robert Newton | 4 | 3 | Soup is running against Rob's girlfriend for class president, and with Rob as his campaign manager, life for Soup and Rob gets pretty interesting. | 107 | Y |
| Peck, Robert Newton | Soup on Ice | Peck, Robert Newton | 4.7 | 3 | Rob and Soup engineer an incredible appearance by Santa and his sleigh in their small Vermont town. | 112 | Y |
| Peck, Robert Newton | Soup on Wheels | Peck, Robert Newton | 3.9 | 2 | Rob and Soup vie for the prize in their town's "Vermont Mardy Grah." | 101 | Y |
| Peet, Bill | Chester the Worldly Pig | Peet, Bill | 5.3 | 0.5 | A disgruntled pig sets his sights on being more than something to eat. | 48 | Y |
| Peet, Bill | Hubert's Hair-Raising Adventure | Peet, Bill | 4.7 | 0.5 | A riotously funny picture-book tale about how the animals come to Hubert the Lion's aid when a spark ignites his hair, sending him stubbleheaded and humiliated into hiding. | 38 | Y |
| Peet, Bill | Smokey | Peet, Bill | 4.3 | 0.5 | The story of Smokey, a locomotive, who runs away after hearing of his coming retirement. | 38 | Y |
| Penn, Audrey | Kissing Hand, The | Penn, Audrey | 2.7 | 0.5 | When Chester the raccoon is reluctant to go to kindergarten for the first time, his mother teaches him a secret way to carry her love with him. | 27 | Y |
| Peters, Lisa Westberg | Sun, the Wind and the Rain, The | Peters, Lisa Westberg | 3.6 | 0.5 | This book compares the evolution of a mountain on Earth to a child's sand mountain on the beach. | 28 | Y |
| Petersen, P.J. | Can You Keep a Secret? | Petersen, P.J. | 2.9 | 2 | Mike has a reputation for not being able to keep a secret and he worries that he may reveal things that his classmates do not want known. | 106 | Y |
| Peterson, Jeanne Whitehouse | I Have a Sister - My Sister Is Deaf | Peterson, Jeanne Whitehouse | 3.3 | 0.5 | A young girl describes how her deaf sister experiences everyday things. | 15 | Y |
| Peterson, John | Littles, The | Peterson, John | 3.3 | 1 | The Littles, tiny people who live within the walls of the Biggs' house, fear mice. | 80 | Y |
| Pfister, Marcus | Penguin Pete and Pat | Pfister, Marcus | 3.7 | 0.5 | Upon returning from his travels, Penguin Pete is captivated by a girl penguin with a blue beak, cultivates her friendship, and wins her flipper in marriage. | 23 | Y |
| Pfister, Marcus | Penguin Pete's New Friends | Pfister, Marcus | 2.6 | 0.5 | A little penguin is angry he can't go fishing with his bigger friends. | 24 | Y |
| Pfister/James | Rainbow Fish to the Rescue! | Pfister/James | 3.7 | 0.5 | Rainbow Fish learns the lesson of standing up for others even when peer pressure to do the opposite is placed against someone who is different. | 24 | |
| Pfister/James | Rainbow Fish, The | Pfister/James | 3.3 | 0.5 | The most beautiful fish in the ocean learns the value of friendship. Illustrated with holographic foil images. | 24 | Y |
| Phillips, Joan | Lucky Bear | Phillips, Joan | 0.5 | 0.5 | An intrepid teddy bear falls from a toy store window and begins an adventure while looking for a child to love him. | 30 | Y |
| Pike, Christopher | Secret Path, The | Pike, Christopher | 4 | 3 | After Adam moves to Springville and meets Sally, he finds out that the town is really called Spooksville because of all the strange occurrences that take place there. | 129 | Y |
| Pilkey, Dav | Adventures of Captain Underpants, The | Pilkey, Dav | 4.3 | 1 | George and Harold have created the greatest superhero in the history of their elementary school, and now they're going to bring him to life. | 120 | |
| Pilkey, Dav | Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets | Pilkey, Dav | 4.7 | 1 | Captain Underpants must intervene when George and Harold accidentally create an army of evil, talking toilets that intend to take over the world. | 139 | |
| Pilkey, Dav | Captain Underpants and the Invasion...Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria | Pilkey, Dav | 4.4 | 1 | Captain Underpants must face three massive, tentacled space aliens who are on a mission to enslave the whole planet. | 141 | |
| Pilkey, Dav | Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants | Pilkey, Dav | 4.7 | 1 | When Professor Poopypants becomes their new science teacher, George and Harold almost cause the entire planet to be taken over by a maniacal, mad-scientist guy in a giant robot suit. | 153 | |
| Pilkey, Dav | Dog Breath: The Horrible Trouble with Hally Tosis | Pilkey, Dav | 3.4 | 0.5 | Hally, the Tosis family dog, has such bad breath that Mr. and Mrs. Tosis plan to give her away, until she proves to be an invaluable watchdog. | 30 | Y |
| Pilkey, Dav | Hallo-wiener, The | Pilkey, Dav | 3.2 | 0.5 | All the other dogs make fun of Oscar the dachshund until one Halloween when, dressed as a hot dog, Oscar bravely rescues the others. | 30 | Y |
| Pilkey, Dav | Paperboy, The | Pilkey, Dav | 2.9 | 0.5 | A paperboy and his dog enjoy the quiet of the early morning as they go about their rounds. | 26 | Y |
| Pinczes, Elinor J. | One Hundred Hungry Ants | Pinczes, Elinor J. | 2.6 | 0.5 | Kids will learn the art of division as a group of enterprising ants divides and subdivides in search of a picnic. | 28 | Y |
| Pinkwater, Daniel | Big Bob and the Thanksgiving Potatoes | Pinkwater, Daniel | 2.3 | 0.5 | Big Bob and Big Gloria, who are friends because they are both large for their age, start a new trend when their second-grade class is supposed to make turkey decorations for Thanksgiving. | 28 | Y |
| Pinkwater, Daniel | Blue Moose | Pinkwater, Daniel | 4.4 | 0.5 | The adventures of a talking blue moose who moves in with Mr. Breton and helps him run his restaurant on the edge of the big north woods. | 47 | |
| Pinkwater, Daniel | Lizard Music | Pinkwater, Daniel | 4.9 | 5 | When left to take care of himself, a young boy becomes involved with a community of intelligent lizards who tell him of a little-known invasion from outer space. | 136 | Y |
| Piper, Watty | Little Engine That Could, The | Piper, Watty | 3.5 | 0.5 | The story of the little blue engine that thought she could pull the heavy train and did. | 37 | Y |
| Pitts, Paul | Racing the Sun | Pitts, Paul | 4.4 | 5 | When twelve-year-old Brandon's Navajo grandfather comes to live with him, Brandon is forced to consider his heritage and his father's rejection of the old ways. | 148 | Y |
| Plourde, Lynn | Pigs in the Mud in the Middle of the Rud | Plourde, Lynn | 1.3 | 0.5 | A feisty grandmother and her family struggle to get an assortment of farm animals out of the road so the family can pass in their Model T Ford. | 30 | Y |
| Podendorf, Illa | Rocks and Minerals | Podendorf, Illa | 3.5 | 0.5 | An introduction to the formation and identification of a variety of rocks and minerals. | 45 | |
| Polacco, Patricia | Babushka Baba Yaga | Polacco, Patricia | 4.4 | 0.5 | The Russian villagers are afraid of her, so the legendary Baba Yaga disguises herself as an old woman in order to know the joys of being a grandmother. | 16 | |
| Polacco, Patricia | Butterfly, The | Polacco, Patricia | 3.8 | 0.5 | During the Nazi occupation of France, Monique's mother hides a Jewish family in her basement and tries to help them escape to freedom. | 48 | Y |
| Polacco, Patricia | Chicken Sunday | Polacco, Patricia | 3.7 | 0.5 | To thank old Eula for her wonderful Sunday chicken dinners, the children sell decorated eggs and buy her a beautiful Easter hat. | 29 | Y |
| Polacco, Patricia | Mrs. Mack | Polacco, Patricia | 4 | 1 | The author remembers the summer when she was ten years old and staying with her father in Michigan where she took riding lessons and became best friends with a perfect horse. | 38 | Y |
| Polacco, Patricia | My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother | Polacco, Patricia | 3.3 | 0.5 | Patricia shows her brother that there's one thing she can do better than him. | 29 | Y |
| Polacco, Patricia | Pink and Say | Polacco, Patricia | 3.8 | 1 | Sheldon Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, and their capture by Southern troops during the Civil War. | 41 | Y |
| Polacco, Patricia | Rechenka's Eggs | Polacco, Patricia | 4 | 0.5 | An injured goose rescued by Babushka, having broken the painted eggs intended for the Easter Festival in Moscva, lays 13 marvelously colored eggs to replace them, then leaves behind one final miracle in egg form before returning to her own kind. | 30 | Y |
| Polacco, Patricia | Thank You, Mr. Falker | Polacco, Patricia | 4.1 | 0.5 | At first, Trisha loves school, but her difficulty learning to read makes her feel dumb, until, in the fifth grade, a new teacher helps her understand and overcome her problem. | 35 | Y |
| Polacco, Patricia | Thunder Cake | Polacco, Patricia | 3.5 | 0.5 | Grandma finds a way to dispel her grandchild's fear of thunderstorms. | 30 | |
| Polacco, Patricia | Trees of the Dancing Goats, The | Polacco, Patricia | 4.2 | 0.5 | During a scarlet-fever epidemic one winter in Michigan, a Jewish family helps make Christmas special for their sick neighbors. | 29 | Y |
| Polacco, Patricia | Welcome Comfort | Polacco, Patricia | 4.5 | 0.5 | Welcome Comfort, a lonely foster child, is assured by his friend, the school custodian, that there is a Santa Claus, but he does not discover the truth until one wondrous and surprising Christmas Eve. | 32 | Y |
| Polushkin, Maria | Mother, Mother I Want Another | Polushkin, Maria | 1.7 | 0.5 | Anxious to get her son to sleep, Mrs. Mouse goes off to find what she thinks he wants--another mother. | 25 | |
| Porter, Connie | Addy Learns a Lesson | Porter, Connie | 3.9 | 1 | After escaping from a plantation in North Carolina, Addy and her mother arrive in Philadelphia, where Addy goes to school and learns a lesson in true friendship. | 68 | Y |
| Porter, Connie | Addy Saves the Day | Porter, Connie | 4 | 1 | The Civil War is over, but not the feud between Addy and Harriet, until tragedy forces them to come together at last. | 67 | Y |
| Porter, Connie | Addy's Surprise | Porter, Connie | 4.4 | 1 | Addy and her mother forego their Christmas plans to help the newly freed slaves arriving in Philadelphia during the Civil War. | 65 | Y |
| Press, Skip | Cliffhanger | Press, Skip | 3.8 | 1 | Hiro must find a way to save Jake after he falls halfway down a cliff. | 47 | Y |
| Press, Skip | Knucklehead | Press, Skip | 4.3 | 1 | Wilbert learns how to pitch a knuckleball, and his new life seems better. | 50 | Y |
| Prevost, John F. | Apple Trees (Trees) | Prevost, John F. | 4.2 | 0.5 | This book presents brief information about the roots, trunk, leaves, fruits, and varieties of apple trees, pests that affect them, their economic uses, and more. | 24 | |
| Prevost, John F. | Beluga Whales (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 3.6 | 0.5 | Discover more about the Beluga Whale. Find out where they live, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves from dangers. | 23 | Y |
| Prevost, John F. | Blue Whales (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 4.1 | 0.5 | Discover more about the Blue Whale. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves from dangers. | 24 | Y |
| Prevost, John F. | Bottlenose Dolphins (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 4.3 | 0.5 | Discover more about the Bottlenose Dolphin. Find out where they live, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves against dangers. | 23 | Y |
| Prevost, John F. | Common Dolphins (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 4.5 | 0.5 | Discover more about the common dolphin. Find out where they live, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves against dangers. | 23 | Y |
| Prevost, John F. | Cottonwood Trees (Trees) | Prevost, John F. | 3.9 | 0.5 | This book provides basic information about the cottonwood, including its structure, economic uses, and the pests and diseases that affect it. | 24 | |
| Prevost, John F. | Daisies (Flowers) | Prevost, John F. | 4.2 | 0.5 | This book describes the structure of and growing conditions for this popular flower and includes information about its various species and pests and diseases that affect it. | 24 | |
| Prevost, John F. | Evergreen Trees (Trees) | Prevost, John F. | 4 | 0.5 | This book provides basic information about evergreens and cone-bearing plants, including their structure, economic uses, and pests and diseases that affect them. | 24 | |
| Prevost, John F. | Freshwater Dolphins (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 4.2 | 0.5 | Discover more about the Freshwater Dolphin. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves against dangers. | 23 | Y |
| Prevost, John F. | Gray Whales (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 4.2 | 0.5 | Discover more about the Gray Whale. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves against dangers. | 23 | Y |
| Prevost, John F. | Great White Sharks (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 4.2 | 0.5 | Discover more about the Great White Shark. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves against dangers. | 24 | Y |
| Prevost, John F. | Hammerhead Sharks (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 4 | 0.5 | Discover more about the Hammerhead Shark. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves against dangers. | 24 | Y |
| Prevost, John F. | Humpback Whales (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 3.9 | 0.5 | Discover more about the Humpback Whale. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves against dangers. | 24 | Y |
| Prevost, John F. | Killer Whales (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 4.1 | 0.5 | Discover more about the Killer Whale. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves against dangers. | 23 | Y |
| Prevost, John F. | Nurse Sharks (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 4.4 | 0.5 | Discover more about the Nurse Shark. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves against dangers. | 24 | Y |
| Prevost, John F. | Orchids (Flowers) | Prevost, John F. | 4.1 | 0.5 | This book describes the habitat, parts, pests and diseases, and varieties of orchids. | 24 | |
| Prevost, John F. | Redwood Trees (Trees) | Prevost, John F. | 4 | 0.5 | This book provides basic information about the redwood, including its structure, econmic uses, and the pests and diseases that affect it. | 24 | |
| Prevost, John F. | Roses (Flowers) | Prevost, John F. | 4.4 | 0.5 | This book describes the variety of colors, various parts, growing conditions, and other aspects of one of the most popular flowers in the world. | 24 | |
| Prevost, John F. | Sand Sharks (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 4.2 | 0.5 | Discover more about the Sand Shark. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves against dangers. | 24 | Y |
| Prevost, John F. | Sperm Whales (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 4.5 | 0.5 | Discover more about the Sperm Whale. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves against dangers. | 23 | Y |
| Prevost, John F. | Spinner Dolphins (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 4 | 0.5 | Discover more about the Spinner Dolphin. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves against dangers. | 23 | Y |
| Prevost, John F. | Spotted Dolphins (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 4.1 | 0.5 | Discover more about the Spotted Dolphin. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves against dangers. | 23 | Y |
| Prevost, John F. | Sunflowers (Flowers) | Prevost, John F. | 4.3 | 0.5 | This book provides brief information about the various parts of the sunflower plant, as well as varieties, pests, diseases, and economic uses. | 24 | |
| Prevost, John F. | Tiger Sharks (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 4.1 | 0.5 | Discover more about the Tiger Shark. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves against dangers. | 24 | Y |
| Prevost, John F. | Tulips (Flowers) | Prevost, John F. | 4.5 | 0.5 | This book describes the tulip flower, and varieties of tulips, the bulbs and seeds, and the various insect pests and diseases that may attack these popular spring flowering bulbs. | 24 | |
| Prevost, John F. | Violets (Flowers) | Prevost, John F. | 4.1 | 0.5 | This book describes the structure of and growing conditions for violets, with information about the various species and the pests and disease that may affect them. | 24 | |
| Prevost, John F. | Walnut Trees (Trees) | Prevost, John F. | 4 | 0.5 | This book presents brief information about the roots, trunk, leaves, seeds, and varieties of the walnut trees, pests that affect it, its economic uses, and more. | 24 | |
| Prevost, John F. | Weeping Willow Trees (Trees) | Prevost, John F. | 4.2 | 0.5 | This book provides basic information about the weeping willow tree, including the structure of the plant, its economic uses, and the pests and diseases that affect it. | 24 | |
| Prevost, John F. | Whale Sharks (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 3.8 | 0.5 | Discover more about the Whale Shark. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves against dangers. | 24 | Y |
| Prevost, John F. | White-Sided Dolphins (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 4.2 | 0.5 | Discover more about the White-Sided Dolphin. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves against dangers. | 23 | Y |
| Primavera, Elise | Auntie Claus | Primavera, Elise | 3.5 | 0.5 | When her eccentric Auntie Claus leaves for her annual business trip, Sophie stows away in her luggage, travels with her to the North Pole, and discovers that her aunt is really Santa's sister and helper. | 38 | Y |
| Provensen, Alice/Martin | Glorious Flight Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot, The | Provensen, Alice/Martin | 2.6 | 0.5 | A biography of the man whose fascination with flying machines produced the Bleriot XI, which crossed the English Channel in 37 minutes in the early 1900s. | 39 | Y |
| Pullman, Philip | Golden Compass, The | Pullman, Philip | 7.1 | 19 | Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subjects of gruesome experiments in the Far North. | 399 | Y |
| Pullman, Philip | Subtle Knife, The | Pullman, Philip | 6.2 | 16 | As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife. | 326 | Y |
| Putnam, James | Mummy (Eyewitness) | Putnam, James | 7.4 | 1 | Documents the history and significance of mummies, both natural and man-made, and describes the principles and ceremonies associated with them. | 63 | Y |
| Putnam, James | Pyramid (Eyewitness) | Putnam, James | 7.4 | 1 | An Eyewitness book that studies the mysterious monuments of the ancient Egyptian world. | 63 | Y |
| Quackenbush, Robert | Henry's Awful Mistake | Quackenbush, Robert | 2.4 | 0.5 | Henry the Duck tries all sorts of methods to rid his kitchen of an ant before his guest comes to supper. | 42 | Y |
| Quackenbush, Robert | Henry's Important Date | Quackenbush, Robert | 2.8 | 0.5 | Due to circumstances beyond his control, Henry arrives at Clara's birthday party just before he thinks it will end. | 48 | Y |
| Quattlebaum, Mary | Jackson Jones and the Puddle of Thorns | Quattlebaum, Mary | 3.2 | 2 | Jackson wants a basketball for his birthday, but his mother gives him a garden plot near their inner-city apartment. | 113 | Y |
| Randell, Beverley | Mrs. Spider's Beautiful Web | Randell, Beverley | 1.4 | 0.5 | Simple text and pictures give a look at the life of a spider and its magnificent web. | 16 | |
| Rappaport, Doreen | Escape from Slavery | Rappaport, Doreen | 5 | 3 | Five accounts of black slaves who managed to escape to freedom during the period preceding the Civil War. | 104 | Y |
| Raskin, Ellen | Westing Game, The | Raskin, Ellen | 5.3 | 8 | Sixteen game players, heirs to Sam Westing's fabulous fortune, are all suspected of his murder. This book is part mystery story, part play-along game, and part do-it-yourself puzzle. | 216 | Y |
| Rasmussen, Richard | UFO Challenge, The | Rasmussen, Richard | 7.8 | 4 | Examines incidents involving reported sightings of unidentified flying objects and meetings with aliens, describes how people react in these situations, and discusses how the authorities are investigating. | 112 | |
| Rathmann, Peggy | Officer Buckle and Gloria | Rathmann, Peggy | 3.4 | 0.5 | The children at Napville Elementary School always ignore Officer Buckle's safety tips until a police dog named Gloria accompanies him when he gives his safety speeches. | 30 | Y |
| Rawlings, Marjorie | Yearling, The | Rawlings, Marjorie | 5 | 19 | A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet. | 509 | Y |
| Rawls, Wilson | Summer of the Monkeys | Rawls, Wilson | 4.8 | 13 | A fourteen-year-old Ozark Mountain boy attempts to recapture monkeys escaped from a traveling circus. | 283 | Y |
| Rawls, Wilson | Where the Red Fern Grows | Rawls, Wilson | 4.9 | 11 | This is a simply written, moving story of the love between a young boy and his two dogs. | 249 | |
| Reeder, Carolyn | Shades of Gray | Reeder, Carolyn | 5.3 | 6 | At the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his immediate family, reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia countryside with his aunt and uncle he considers a "traitor" because they refused to take part in the war. | 152 | Y |
| Reeves, Nicholas | Into the Mummy's Tomb | Reeves, Nicholas | 6.9 | 2 | An account of Howard Carter's discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamun, descriptions of the artifacts inside and their importance, the discovery in 1988 of more artifacts, and theories about the curse associated with the tomb. | 64 | Y |
| Reider, Katja | Snail Started It! | Reider, Katja | 3.3 | 0.5 | This story demonstrates how cruel words can damage self-esteem and kind words can restore it. | 23 | Y |
| Reiff, Stephanie | Secrets of Tut's Tomb and the Pyramids | Reiff, Stephanie | 5 | 1 | Discusses the building of the Egyptian pyramids, strange stories associated with them, and possible powers possessed by pyramids. | 48 | |
| Reiss, Johanna | Upstairs Room, The | Reiss, Johanna | 2.9 | 6 | During World War II, a young Jewish girl and her sister in Holland hide from the Nazis in the home of a Gentile family. | 165 | Y |
| Rey, H.A. | Curious George | Rey, H.A. | 2.6 | 0.5 | Curiosity gets George the monkey into trouble, until he learns to put it to good use. | 54 | Y |
| Rey, H.A. | Curious George Gets a Medal | Rey, H.A. | 4.1 | 0.5 | Following a day of misadventures, Curious George becomes the first space monkey. | 47 | Y |
| Rey, H.A. | Curious George Rides a Bike | Rey, H.A. | 4.1 | 0.5 | George the curious monkey borrows a bike, delivers newspapers, joins a circus, saves a bear from a tree, goes home a hero. | 45 | Y |
| Rey, Margret | Curious George Flies a Kite | Rey, Margret | 2.7 | 0.5 | Another delightful adventure with George, the curious monkey. | 80 | Y |
| Richardson, Adele D. | Freight Trains (Transportation Library) | Richardson, Adele D. | 3.2 | 0.5 | This book describes early models, major parts, and the workings of freight trains. | 24 | Y |
| Richardson, Adele D. | Transport Helicopters (Transportation Library) | Richardson, Adele D. | 3.9 | 0.5 | This book describes early models, major parts, and the workings of transport helicopters. | 24 | Y |
| Richler, Mordecai | Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang | Richler, Mordecai | 5.2 | 2 | Delightful fantasy about a little boy condemned to prison for insulting an adult, and how he escapes. | 87 | Y |
| Richter, Conrad | Light in the Forest, The | Richter, Conrad | 5.5 | 5 | A four-year-old white boy is adopted into an Indian warrior tribe. | 120 | Y |
| Riley, Gail Blasser | Miranda v. Arizona: Rights of the Accused | Riley, Gail Blasser | 9.6 | 4 | Examines the court case that defined a defendant's rights. | 115 | Y |
| Rinaldi, Ann | Amelia's War | Rinaldi, Ann | 4 | 7 | When a Confederate general threatens to burn Hagerstown, Maryland, unless it pays an exorbitant ransom, twelve-year-old Amelia and her friend find a way to save the town. | 265 | Y |
| Rinaldi, Ann | Break with Charity, A | Rinaldi, Ann | 4.7 | 8 | While waiting for a church meeting in 1706, Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy Salem merchant, recalls the malice, fear, and accusations of witchcraft that tore her village apart in 1692. | 299 | Y |
| Rinaldi, Ann | Cast Two Shadows | Rinaldi, Ann | 4.1 | 9 | In South Carolina in 1780, fourteen-year-old Caroline sees the Revolutionary War take a terrible toll among her family and friends and comes to understand the true nature of war. | 281 | Y |
| Rinaldi, Ann | Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons | Rinaldi, Ann | 4 | 9 | A fictionalized biography of the eighteenth-century African woman who as a child was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the colonies as an important black American poet. | 336 | Y |
| Rinaldi, Ann | Keep Smiling Through | Rinaldi, Ann | 3.9 | 5 | A ten-year-old girl living in middle-class America during World War II learns the painful lesson that doing what's right is not always an easy thing to do. | 188 | Y |
| Rinaldi, Ann | Ride into Morning, A | Rinaldi, Ann | 4.8 | 10 | When unrest spreads at the Revolutionary War camp in Morristown, New Jersey, under the command of General Anthony Wayne, a young woman cleverly hides her horse from the mutinous soldiers who have need of it. | 353 | Y |
| Rinaldi, Ann | Staircase, The | Rinaldi, Ann | 4.3 | 8 | In 1878, after her mother's death on the way west, thirteen-year-old Lizzy Enders is left by her father at a convent school in Sante Fe, where she must deal with being the only non-Catholic student. | 229 | Y |
| Ritter, John H. | Choosing Up Sides | Ritter, John H. | 4.2 | 5 | In 1921, thirteen-year-old Luke finds himself torn between accepting his left handedness or conforming to the belief of his preacher-father that such a condition is evil and must be overcome. | 166 | Y |
| Roberts, Bethany | Christmas Mice! | Roberts, Bethany | 1 | 0.5 | For jolly mice have fun as they go about their preparations for Christmas. | 32 | Y |
| Roberts, Willo Davis | Baby-sitting Is a Dangerous Job | Roberts, Willo Davis | 5.3 | 6 | Thirteen-year-old Darcy thought she was being followed for some strange reason, and then the children she baby-sat for were kidnapped. | 139 | Y |
| Roberts, Willo Davis | Girl with the Silver Eyes, The | Roberts, Willo Davis | 5.3 | 7 | Katie's silver-colored eyes and her ability to communicate with animals start a suspense-filled search for others like herself. Excellent, believable science fiction. | 198 | |
| Roberts, Willo Davis | Kidnappers: A Mystery, The | Roberts, Willo Davis | 4.8 | 5 | No one believes eleven-year-old Joey, who has a reputation for telling tall tales, when he claims to have witnessed the kidnapping of the class bully outside their expensive private school. | 137 | Y |
| Roberts, Willo Davis | Megan's Island | Roberts, Willo Davis | 5 | 7 | When eleven-year-old Megan, her younger brother, and her mother go up to the lake cottage, a mysterious stranger follows them. | 187 | Y |
| Roberts, Willo Davis | Nightmare | Roberts, Willo Davis | 5.7 | 9 | Murder and money made a nightmare of Nick's vacation trip to visit his brother. | 216 | |
| Roberts, Willo Davis | Pet-Sitting Peril, The | Roberts, Willo Davis | 5.8 | 7 | When Nick took on his pet-sitting job, he had no idea of the mysterious adventures that would come his way. | 167 | Y |
| Roberts, Willo Davis | Scared Stiff | Roberts, Willo Davis | 5 | 7 | When their mother disappears, two brothers go to stay with a great uncle in a mobile home park next to an abandoned amusement park and begin a search which puts them in danger. | 188 | Y |
| Roberts, Willo Davis | View from the Cherry Tree, The | Roberts, Willo Davis | 5.2 | 7 | Rob admits having seen a murder, but no one believes him--except the murderer. | 181 | Y |
| Robertson, Keith | Henry Reed, Inc. | Robertson, Keith | 5.5 | 8 | Fourteen-year-old Henry Reed and his friend Midge Glass turn Grover's Corner, New Jersey, upside down when they open a research business. | 239 | |
| Robertson, Keith | Henry Reed's Baby-Sitting Service | Robertson, Keith | 5.1 | 6 | Back in Grover's Corners, N.J. for the summer, Henry and his partner Midge establish a baby sitting service and find a disappearing child and a peacock among their charges. | 204 | |
| Robinson, Barbara | Best Christmas Pageant Ever, The | Robinson, Barbara | 5.1 | 2 | The Herdman children, given to horrible pranks, take over the Sunday school Christmas pageant but eventually learn the true meaning of Christmas. | 80 | Y |
| Robinson, Barbara | Best School Year Ever, The | Robinson, Barbara | 5.4 | 3 | The terrible kids at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School return with more wild behavior and outrageous lies. | 117 | Y |
| Rock, Gail | House Without a Christmas Tree, The | Rock, Gail | 4.9 | 3 | Ten-year old Addie Mills feels cheated, since year after year her father hasn't let her have a Christmas tree. What's worse, he refuses to give her a reason. Addie finds a way to make her dream come true. But what will her father say? | 87 | Y |
| Rockwell, Thomas | How to Eat Fried Worms | Rockwell, Thomas | 3.5 | 2 | Billy accepts the challenge to eat fifteen worms in fifteen days when his friend bets fifty dollars that he cannot do it. | 115 | Y |
| Rockwood, Joyce | Groundhog's Horse | Rockwood, Joyce | 4.3 | 3 | An eleven-year-old Cherokee sets off on a one-boy raid of a Creek town to rescue his "unusual" horse. | 115 | |
| Rodgers, Mary | Freaky Friday | Rodgers, Mary | 4.4 | 4 | A day of revelations and fresh insights as Annabel Andrews, thirteen, wakes up to discover she has turned into her mother. | 145 | Y |
| Rodgers, Mary | Uzbekistan | Rodgers, Mary | 8.8 | 1 | Discusses the topography, location, ethnic mixture, history, and current political situation of the former soviet republic of Uzbekistan. | 51 | |
| Roehm, Michelle | Boys Know It All: Wise Thoughts and Wacky Ideas | Roehm, Michelle | 6.1 | 7 | Thirty-two boys from around the country give advice about such things as girls, wise-cracking, sports, cooking, siblings, drugs, etiquette, and friendship. | 167 | |
| Roehm, Michelle | Girls Know Best 2: Tips on Life & Fun Stuff to Do | Roehm, Michelle | 6 | 6 | Thirty-eight different girls give advice on specific issues including sisters, school, passing notes, adults, divorce, baby-sitting, boys, sports, drugs, and personal appearance. | 160 | |
| Roehm, Michelle | Girls Know Best: Advice to Girls from Girls on Just About Everythi | Roehm, Michelle | 6.2 | 7 | More than forty girls from around the country write on issues ranging from redecorating bedrooms and overcoming shyness to analyzing dreams. | 154 | |
| Roehm, Michelle | Girls Who Rocked the World 2 | Roehm, Michelle | 8.2 | 9 | This book focuses on the accomplishments of several females, inspiring others to "rock the world." | 152 | |
| Rogers, Jean | Secret Moose, The | Rogers, Jean | 5.4 | 1 | A young boy living in Alaska develops an interest in moose and their habits after he sees a moose in his backyard and decides to follow it. | 64 | |
| Roop, Peter/Connie | Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie | Roop, Peter/Connie | 2.2 | 0.5 | In the winter of 1856, a storm delays the lighthouse keeper's return to an island off the coast of Maine, and his daughter Abbie must keep the lights burning by herself. | 40 | Y |
| Rosen, Michael J. | We're Going on a Bear Hunt | Rosen, Michael J. | 1.3 | 0.5 | Brave bear hunters go through grass, a river, mud, and other obstacles before the inevitable encounter with the bear forces a headlong retreat. | 32 | Y |
| Ross, Pamela | Chinook People (Native Peoples), The | Ross, Pamela | 3.5 | 0.5 | Provides an overview of the past and present lives of the Chinook people, covering their daily activities, customs, family life, religion, government, history and interaction with the United States government. | 24 | Y |
| Ross, Pamela | Pueblo Indians (Native Peoples), The | Ross, Pamela | 3.9 | 0.5 | Provides an overview of the past and present lives of the Pueblo Indians, covering their daily activities, customs, family life, religion, government, history and interaction with the United States government. | 24 | Y |
| Rostkowski, Margaret I. | After the Dancing Days | Rostkowski, Margaret I. | 3.8 | 8 | A forbidden friendship with a badly disfigured soldier in the aftermath of World War I forces thirteen-year-old Annie to redefine the word "hero." | 217 | Y |
| Rothaus, Don P. | Oceans (Biomes of Nature) | Rothaus, Don P. | 5.1 | 0.5 | Describes various characteristics of the world's oceans, including origins, the composition of seawater, currents, and the effect of the moon on tides. | 32 | Y |
| Rottman, S.L. | Rough Waters | Rottman, S.L. | 4.2 | 10 | After their parents' death in an automobile accident, two teenage brothers are sent to Colorado to live with an estranged uncle, owner of a white water rafting outfit. | 179 | Y |
| Rounds, Glen | Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf | Rounds, Glen | 3.3 | 0.5 | A unique version of the familiar tale, complete with a mangy wolf and messy pigs. | 29 | Y |
| Roy, Ron | Absent Author, The | Roy, Ron | 3.4 | 1 | Dink and his two friends investigate the apparent kidnapping of famous mystery author Wallis Wallace. | 87 | Y |
| Roy, Ron | Bald Bandit, The | Roy, Ron | 3.2 | 1 | Dink and his detective friends hope to receive a big reward by finding the person whose video recorder picked up a picture of the local bank robber. | 71 | Y |
| Roy, Ron | Deadly Dungeon, The | Roy, Ron | 3.4 | 1 | While visiting Wallis' castle, Dink and his friends investigate strange noises that lead them to a dangerous secret. | 86 | Y |
| Roy, Ron | Empty Envelope, The | Roy, Ron | 3.5 | 1 | Dink and his friends unearth the mysterious truth behind the envelopes incorrectly delivered to his house. | 79 | Y |
| Roy, Ron | Falcon's Feathers, The | Roy, Ron | 3.3 | 1 | Josh and his two friends look for the person who stole a peregrine falcon from its nest. | 87 | Y |
| Roy, Ron | Haunted Hotel, The | Roy, Ron | 3.4 | 1 | When the guests of the Shangri-la Hotel are scared away by a white-haired female ghost, Dink and his friends investigate the mystery. | 87 | Y |
| Roy, Ron | Invisible Island, The | Roy, Ron | 3.6 | 1 | While picnicking on Squaw Island, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose find a hundred-dollar bill, and when they return to explore further they find an entire cave full of money. | 87 | Y |
| Roy, Ron | Three Ducks Went Wandering | Roy, Ron | 2.8 | 0.5 | Three ducks wander away from their mother's nest and find danger before returning safe and sound. | 23 | |
| Ruckman, Ivy | Night of the Twisters | Ruckman, Ivy | 4.7 | 4 | A twelve-year-old relates an account of the night that freakish and devastating tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska. | 153 | Y |
| Russell, William | Rocks and Minerals (From This Earth) | Russell, William | 4.6 | 0.5 | Discover the many uses for minerals. | 24 | Y |
| Rutten, Joshua | Erosion (Earth's Conditions) | Rutten, Joshua | 4.1 | 0.5 | Questions and answers introduce the basics of erosion, its causes, effects, and possible solutions for slowing down the process. | 32 | Y |
| Ryan, Pam Munoz | Riding Freedom | Ryan, Pam Munoz | 4.5 | 3 | Charlotte (Charley) Parkhurst runs away from an orphanage, poses as a boy, moves to California, and fools everyone by her appearance. | 138 | Y |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Blue-Eyed Daisy, A | Rylant, Cynthia | 4.6 | 2 | Twelve-year-old Ellie wonders if her age is hard for everyone as she deals with growing up, her father's drinking, and her sisters' infatuation with boys. | 99 | |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Henry and Mudge and the Bedtime Thumps | Rylant, Cynthia | 2.6 | 0.5 | Henry worries about what will happen to his big dog Mudge during their visit to his grandmother's house in the country. | 40 | Y |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Henry and Mudge and the Long Weekend | Rylant, Cynthia | 2.4 | 0.5 | A wet weekend is transformed by a family project. | 40 | Y |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night | Rylant, Cynthia | 2.2 | 0.5 | Henry, his big dog Mudge, and his parents go on a quiet camping trip to Big Bear Lake, enjoying the clean smell of trees and wonderful green dreams. | 40 | |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Henry and Mudge and the Wild Wind | Rylant, Cynthia | 2.3 | 0.5 | A big storm frightens Mudge the dog, and Henry comes to the rescue. | 40 | Y |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Henry and Mudge in the Sparkle Days | Rylant, Cynthia | 2.8 | 0.5 | In the winter, Henry and his dog Mudge play in the snow, share a family Christmas dinner, and gather around a crackling winter fireplace. | 48 | Y |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Henry and Mudge Under the Yellow Moon | Rylant, Cynthia | 2.3 | 0.5 | In the autumn, Henry and his big dog Mudge watch the leaves turn, meet with some Halloween spooks and share Thanksgiving dinner. | 48 | Y |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Missing May | Rylant, Cynthia | 5.3 | 3 | After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her Uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living. | 89 | Y |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Mr. Putter & Tabby Paint the Porch | Rylant, Cynthia | 2.8 | 0.5 | Mr. Putter finds it a challenge to paint his front porch in the presence of his cat, Tabby, and his neighbor's dog, Zeke. | 38 | Y |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Mr. Putter & Tabby Take the Train | Rylant, Cynthia | 3 | 0.5 | After a small setback, Mr. Putter and his favorite companions enjoy the best train ride of their lives. | 38 | |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Mr. Putter and Tabby Bake the Cake | Rylant, Cynthia | 2.8 | 0.5 | Mr. Putter and Tabby decide to bake a Christmas cake for their strange neighbor, Mrs. Teaberry. | 36 | Y |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Mr. Putter and Tabby Pick the Pears | Rylant, Cynthia | 2.7 | 0.5 | When he gets too old to climb up the ladder, Mr. Putter and his cat Tabby figure out an ingenious way to pick pears for pear jelly. | 36 | Y |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Mr. Putter and Tabby Pour the Tea | Rylant, Cynthia | 2.8 | 0.5 | Mr. Putter is lonely and wants someone to share his stories. | 37 | Y |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Mr. Putter and Tabby Row the Boat | Rylant, Cynthia | 2.7 | 0.5 | On a hot summer day, Mr. Putter, his cat Tabby their neighbor, Mrs. Teaberry and her dog Zeke go for a picnic and a rowboat ride. | 38 | |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Mr. Putter and Tabby Walk the Dog | Rylant, Cynthia | 2.8 | 0.5 | When their neighbor Mrs. Teaberry hurts her foot, Mr. Putter and his cat Tabby agree to walk her dog for a week, not knowing what they are in for. | 38 | Y |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Relatives Came, The | Rylant, Cynthia | 4.1 | 0.5 | The relatives come to visit from Virginia, and everyone has a wonderful time. | 26 | |
| Rylant, Cynthia | When I Was Young in the Mountains | Rylant, Cynthia | 3.6 | 0.5 | The story of an Appalachian childhood which evokes a love of a place, a family, and a way of life. | 29 | Y |