| AR BL | Title | Author | AR Pts | Description | No.of Pages | Have Book |
| 4 | 213 Valentines | Cohen, Barbara | 1 | Wade has trouble adjusting when he is transferred to a special fourth-grade class for the gifted and talented, so he plans to send himself 213 valentines signed by celebrities. | 55 | Y |
| 4 | 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, The | Seuss, Dr. | 1 | Bartholomew provokes the king when hats magically appear on his head every time he removes one. | 48 | Y |
| 4 | Addy Saves the Day | Porter, Connie | 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 |
| 4 | All About Sam | Lowry, Lois | 3 | The adventures of Sam, Anastasia Krupnik's younger brother, from his first day as a newborn through his mischievous times as a toddler. | 135 | Y |
| 4 | Amelia's War | Rinaldi, Ann | 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 |
| 4 | Angel's Mother's Baby | Delton, Judy | 3 | Twelve-year-old Angel has adjusted to her mother's remarriage and believes that she and her younger brother Rags now live in the perfect family, until she discovers that her mother is going to have another baby. | 133 | Y |
| 4 | Arabian Horses (Checkerboard) | Gammie, Janet L. | 0.5 | Discover the Arabian horse; learn important facts about these beautiful animals and how to care for them. | 21 | |
| 4 | Baby | MacLachlan, Patricia | 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 |
| 4 | Beauty | Wallace, Bill | 5 | A story of the love between a boy and his horse, Beauty. During a wild storm, Beauty raced through the barn doors the boy had forgotten to close and into a terrible trap. The boy then ran into the blinding rain, desperate to save his best friend. | 177 | Y |
| 4 | Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 0.5 | Mama Bear lays down the law when she notices her family is getting chubby. | 30 | Y |
| 4 | Berenstain Bears Go Out for the Team, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 0.5 | Mama bear helps Brother and Sister Bear (and young readers) prepare sensibly for team sports. | 29 | Y |
| 4 | Berenstain Bears Go to Camp, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 0.5 | It's vacation time, and the young Bears learn what it's like to live at camp. | 29 | Y |
| 4 | Berenstain Bears Trick or Treat, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 0.5 | The Berenstain Bear cubs have an adventure on Halloween night that proves Mother's adage, 'appearances can be deceiving.' | 29 | Y |
| 4 | Berenstain Bears' Trouble at School, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 0.5 | When Brother Bear ignores make-up work after being out sick with a cold, he learns the consequences of neglecting responsibilities. | 29 | Y |
| 4 | Berenstain Bears' Trouble with Money, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 0.5 | Brother and Sister Bear learn some important lessons about earning and spending money. | 29 | Y |
| 4 | Betsy-Tacy | Lovelace, Maud Hart | 3 | Two young girls become inseparable friends. | 113 | Y |
| 4 | Blizzards (Forces of Nature) | Merrick, Patrick | 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 |
| 4 | Blue Heron | Avi | 5 | While spending the month of August on the Massachusetts shore with her father, stepmother, and their new baby, almost thirteen-year-old Maggie finds beauty in and draws strength from a great blue heron, even as the family around her unravels. | 186 | Y |
| 4 | Canada (Going Places) | Meister, Cari | 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 | |
| 4 | Case of the Elevator Duck, The | Berends, Polly | 1 | This book tells the story of an eleven-year-old detective and his adventures after finding a duck in the elevator of his apartment building. | 54 | Y |
| 4 | Celery Stalks at Midnight, The | Howe, James | 2 | Chester the cat is more than ever convinced that Bunnicula is a vampire when there is a harvest of white vegetables on the morning after the night that Bunnicula was probably wandering through the neighborhood. | 111 | Y |
| 4 | Certain Small Shepherd, A | Caudill, Rebecca | 1 | An unexpected snowstorm cancels the school Christmas show, but mute Jamie still gets a chance to wear his costume on a special Christmas Eve. | 48 | Y |
| 4 | Championship Game | Hughes, Dean | 2 | Members of the Angel Park community wonder where Coach Wilkens' loyalties lie when he helps players on rival teams before the championship baseball game. | 92 | |
| 4 | Cobras | George, Linda | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of cobras. | 48 | Y |
| 4 | Copperheads | George, Linda | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of copperhead snakes. | 48 | Y |
| 4 | Cranberry Christmas | Devlin, Wende/Harry | 0.5 | Mr. Whiskers faces a gloomy Christmas until Maggie and her grandmother help him straighten out his house and find the deed to the nearby pond. | 30 | Y |
| 4 | Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, The | Stine, R.L. | 3 | Gabe doesn't believe in the curse of the mummy's tomb. But that doesn't mean that the curse isn't real. | 132 | Y |
| 4 | Dirt Bike Racer | Christopher, Matt | 4 | Ron finds a dirt bike which he fixes up with the help of an old man who raced bikes himself, and a challenge to race the old man's nephew provides a special excitement. | 149 | Y |
| 4 | Double Dog Dare | Gilson, Jamie | 3 | The fifth-grade year starts as one student returns from winning a national personality contest, a new girl with some interesting knowledge arrives, jealousy gets a grip on one particular student, and an 'experiment' to see who's smart is conducted. | 126 | |
| 4 | Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book | Seuss, Dr. | 0.5 | A story in rhyme about how a yawning bug sets off a chain reaction of yawns until everyone finally goes to sleep. | 54 | Y |
| 4 | Dragonling, The | Koller, Jackie French | 1 | Finding a baby dragon accidentally left alive after his older brother's dragonquest, Darek risks death and the anger of his people in trying to return it to the Valley of the Dragons. | 60 | Y |
| 4 | Duck (Observing Nature) | Savage, Stephen | 0.5 | Describes the life cycle, habitat, and types of ducks. | 29 | Y |
| 4 | Eat Your Poison, Dear | Howe, James | 3 | Young sleuth Sebastian and three friends probe the mystery of a poisoning in their school cafeteria. | 139 | Y |
| 4 | Edward and the Pirates | McPhail, David | 0.5 | Once Edward has learned to read, books and his vivid imagination provide him with great adventures. | 28 | Y |
| 4 | Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Disgusting Sneakers | Sobol, Donald J. | 1 | America's Sherlock Holmes in sneakers continues his war on crime in ten more cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book. | 92 | Y |
| 4 | Escape, The | Applegate, K.A. | 4 | Marco's mother is taken over by the Yeerk in her brain, and now she is overseeing a secret underwater project. | 163 | Y |
| 4 | Evergreen Trees (Trees) | Prevost, John F. | 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 | |
| 4 | Farm Kids (Farm) | Hansen, Ann Larkin | 0.5 | This book describes aspects of life on the farm such as the abundances of space, the need for safety, the importance of work, and the value of clubs, projects, and fairs. | 32 | |
| 4 | Farmers (Farm) | Hansen, Ann Larkin | 0.5 | This book discusses what farmers do and how their work has changed and continues to change over the years. | 32 | |
| 4 | Finding the Titanic | Ballard, Robert D. | 0.5 | Describes the voyage of the Titanic, the accident that caused it to sink, the rescue of those who survived, and discovery of the wreck. | 48 | Y |
| 4 | Frankenstein Doesn't Slam Hockey Pucks | Dadey/Jones | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the large man coaching the new hockey team really be Frankenstein's monster? | 76 | |
| 4 | Frozen Face, The | Schraff, Anne | 3 | Only Laura can see Todd Smith. Why has he sought her out, and what dark secret will his presence reveal? | 109 | |
| 4 | Giraffes (African Animals Discovery) | Stone, Lynn M. | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of the giraffe. | 24 | Y |
| 4 | Golden Bird, The | Stolp, Hans | 1 | Engaged in a losing battle with cancer, ten-year-old Daniel is comforted by many people but finds his greatest solace in the visits of a phoenix-like golden bird and its vision on rebirth and renewal. | 55 | |
| 4 | Grab Hands and Run | Temple, Frances | 4 | After his father disappears, twelve-year-old Felipe, his mother, and his younger sister set out on a difficult and dangerous journey, trying to make their way from their home in El Salvador to Canada. | 165 | |
| 4 | Hammerhead Sharks (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 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 |
| 4 | Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons | Rinaldi, Ann | 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 |
| 4 | Happy Birthday, Kirsten! | Shaw, Janet | 1 | On a Minnesota farm in the mid-1800s, the hard-working members of the Larson family find time to celebrate Kirsten's tenth birthday. | 52 | Y |
| 4 | Haunted Cabin Mystery | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 2 | The Alden children travel on a Mississippi paddle wheel steamer to visit an old family friend in his cabin near Hannibal, Missouri, and try to discover who is responsible for the mysterious activities near the house. | 121 | Y |
| 4 | Haunted Clubhouse, The | Leavitt, Caroline | 4 | Wishbone, Joe, Samantha, and David set out to prove that the clubhouse is not haunted that someone is just trying to scare them away. | 142 | |
| 4 | Hello, My Name Is Scrambled Eggs | Gilson, Jamie | 4 | In this sequel to Harvey, the Beer Can King, Harvey attempts to Americanize the son of a Vietnamese family who has moved to his town. | 159 | Y |
| 4 | Howliday Inn | Howe, James | 4 | While investigating the horrible howling that emanates from Chateau Bow Wow, Chester the Cat and Harold the Dog stumble on a mystery involving some suspicious disappearances and maybe murder. | 195 | Y |
| 4 | Inuit (Native Peoples), The | Lassieur, Allison | 0.5 | This book gives an overview of the Inuit. | 24 | Y |
| 4 | John Henry | Lester, Julius | 0.5 | Retelling of the legend of the African American folk hero. | 36 | Y |
| 4 | Jumping Spiders (Checkerboard) | Gerholdt, James E. | 0.5 | Discover more about the Jumping Spider. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves from dangers. | 21 | Y |
| 4 | King Cobras (Checkerboard) | Gerholdt, James E. | 0.5 | Discover more about the King Cobra Snake. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves from dangers. | 21 | Y |
| 4 | Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor, The | Cole, Joanna | 0.5 | On another special field trip on the magic school bus, Ms.Frizzle's class learns about the ocean and the different creatures that live there. | 40 | Y |
| 4 | Mars (Galaxy) | Kipp, Steven L. | 0.5 | Discusses the surface features, atmosphere, exploration, and other aspects of the planet Mars. | 24 | Y |
| 4 | Mitzi's Honeymoon with Nana Potts | Williams, Barbara | 3 | When Mitzi McAllister's mother decides to marry Walter Potts, Mitzi finds herself spending her parents' honeymoon with Nana Potts and some other new family members. | 104 | |
| 4 | Mrs. Mack | Polacco, Patricia | 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 |
| 4 | My Great-Aunt Arizona | Houston, Gloria | 0.5 | An Appalachian girl, Arizona Houston Hughes, grows up to become a teacher who influences generations of schoolchildren. | 29 | Y |
| 4 | New Kid in Class | Schraff, Anne | 3 | James Olson is the new kid in class. Soon people and pets start disappearing. Can Sarah find out who's behind it all? | 149 | |
| 4 | No Substitutions (Strange Matter) | Engle, Marty M. | 2 | Curtis and Shelly find their lives in danger when they encounter a sinister substitute teacher hiding a book about werewolves. | 120 | |
| 4 | Oh Say Can You Say? | Seuss, Dr | 0.5 | A collection of silly verse tongue-twisters. | 38 | Y |
| 4 | Old Motel Mystery, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 2 | The Boxcar Children help Aunt Jane fix a dilapidated motel, but someone sabotages their work. | 121 | Y |
| 4 | Oliver Dibbs to the Rescue! | Steiner, Barbara | 4 | Beginning by painting his dog with tiger stripes, ten-year-old Ollie embarks on a series of sometimes disastrous moneymaking ventures to raise funds, on behalf of wildlife preservation. | 122 | Y |
| 4 | Perfect Pair, The | Lowell, Melissa | 4 | Nikki and Alex are a perfect pair on the ice, but Alex thinks that relationship is more serious than just skating pairs. | 136 | |
| 4 | Phantoms Don't Drive Sports Cars | Dadey/Jones | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. Could the strange man who plays in the orchestra, wears a cape and always has one side of his face shaded really be a phantom haunting the opera? | 75 | |
| 4 | Pish, Posh, said Hieronymus Bosch | Willard, Nancy | 0.5 | An imaginative poem about the fifteenth-century painter filled with medieval beasts and other images from Bosch's world. | 28 | Y |
| 4 | Prairie School | Lenski, Lois | 7 | Story of things that did or could have happened in a one-room rural school on the prairie of South Dakota. | 196 | |
| 4 | Prince and the Pooch, The | Leavitt, Caroline | 4 | When Joe fills in as a coach for a local baseball team, he finds out that it is not as simple as it seems. | 139 | Y |
| 4 | Pythons (Checkerboard) | Gerholdt, James E. | 0.5 | Discover more about the Python Snake. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves from dangers. | 21 | Y |
| 4 | Rechenka's Eggs | Polacco, Patricia | 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 |
| 4 | Redwood Trees (Trees) | Prevost, John F. | 0.5 | This book provides basic information about the redwood, including its structure, econmic uses, and the pests and diseases that affect it. | 24 | |
| 4 | Riptide | Weller, Frances | 0.5 | Zach's dog Riptide loves the sea and proves himself worthy of being the 19th lifeguard on Cape Cod's Nauset Beach. | 28 | Y |
| 4 | Robinhound Crusoe | Leavitt, Caroline | 4 | When the power goes out in Oakdale, Wishbone must use his imagination to survive without food and water. | 137 | |
| 4 | Rough-Face Girl, The | Martin, Rafe | 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 |
| 4 | Sea Monsters Don't Ride Motorcycles | Dadey/Jones | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. Is the winning rider at the motorcycle races really a sea monster? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out! | 74 | |
| 4 | Secret Path, The | Pike, Christopher | 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 |
| 4 | Smugglers' Island | Avi | 5 | Pete, a lonely and timid eleven-year-old who has just made friends with an adventurous girl named Rootie, hides on Cutlass Island with his alcoholic father, waiting for the gunman his father fears will kill him. | 178 | Y |
| 4 | Song and Dance Man | Ackerman, Karen | 0.5 | Grandpa demonstrates for his visiting grandchildren some of the songs, dances, and jokes he performed when he was a vaudevillian. | 21 | Y |
| 4 | Soup for President | Peck, Robert Newton | 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 |
| 4 | Spear-Nosed Bats (Checkerboard) | Gerholdt, Pamela J. | 0.5 | Learn all about the Spear-nosed Bat. Find out where they live, how they see in the dark, and how they find food. | 21 | Y |
| 4 | Spinner Dolphins (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 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 |
| 4 | Springs (Simple Machines) | Glover, David | 0.5 | Introduces the principles of springs as simple machines, using examples from everyday life. | 24 | Y |
| 4 | Stone Fox | Gardiner, John Reynolds | 1 | Little Willy hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dogsled race he enters. | 81 | Y |
| 4 | Sylvester and the Magic Pebble | Steig, William | 0.5 | In a moment of fright, Sylvester the donkey asks his magic pebble to turn him into a rock but then cannot hold the pebble to wish himself back to normal again. | 32 | Y |
| 4 | Taste of Blackberries, A | Smith, Doris Buchanan | 2 | A little boy confronts grief and wrestles with the pain of loss when his best friend dies. | 85 | Y |
| 4 | Thoroughbred Horses (Checkerboard) | L.Gammie, Janet | 0.5 | Discover the Thoroughbred horse; learn important facts about these beautiful animals and how to properly care for them. | 21 | |
| 4 | Thresher Sharks (Shark Discovery) | Palmer, Sarah | 0.5 | Describes the appearance, habitat, and behavior of thresher sharks. | 24 | Y |
| 4 | Ticks (Naturebooks) | Merrick, Patrick | 0.5 | Introduces the physical characteristics, behavior, and life cycle of ticks. | 31 | Y |
| 4 | Top Secret | Gardiner, John Reynolds | 2 | Allen Brewster, an inquisitive fourth grade student, turns himself into a human plant as part of a project for the Science Fair. | 108 | Y |
| 4 | Twenty and Ten | Bishop, Claire Huchet | 2 | A nun and 20 French children contrive to hide ten Jewish refugee children. This is their exciting tale of courage and kindness. | 76 | Y |
| 4 | Under the Blood-Red Sun | Salisbury, Graham | 8 | Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a local bully until life with his Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941. | 246 | Y |
| 4 | Walnut Trees (Trees) | Prevost, John F. | 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 | |
| 4 | Werewolves and Stories About Them | Kudalis, Eric | 0.5 | A look at the imaginary world of werewolves and how wolves and humans live together today. | 48 | Y |
| 4 | Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears | Aardema, Verna | 0.5 | A mosquito tells a tall tale that sets off a chain reaction. Charming picture book lavishly illustrated in full color. | 26 | Y |
| 4 | Windcatcher | Avi | 3 | During a summer visit to his grandmother's home in Connecticut, a young boy learns to sail, discovers a sunken treasure, and wards off greedy treasure hunters. | 124 | Y |
| 4 | Wonder Kid Meets the Evil Lunch Snatcher | Duncan, Lois | 1 | Terrorized by an evil lunch-snatcher at his new school, Brian devises, with the help of a fellow comic book fan, a plan involving a new superhero called Wonder Kid. | 76 | Y |
| 4 | Yellow Bird and Me | Hansen, Joyce | 5 | Doris becomes friends with Yellow Bird as she helps him with his studies and his part in the school play and discovers that he has dyslexia. | 155 | Y |
| 4 | Yellowstone National Park (Going Places) | Meister, Cari | 0.5 | This book presents the geographic features, plant and animal life, and other attractions of the first national park. | 24 | |
| 4 | Zebras (African Animals Discovery) | Stone, Lynn M. | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of the zebra. | 24 | Y |
| 4.1 | Bad Circuits (Strange Matter) | Barnes, Johnny Ray | 3 | Stephanie discovers the shocking invention that her cousin Daniel is entering in the local science competition. | 115 | |
| 4.1 | Bears' House, The | Sachs, Marilyn | 2 | Although she sucks her thumb, smells bad, and loses herself in the make-believe world of the three bears' dollhouse, ten-year-old Fran knows how to take care of her baby sister better than anybody else. | 67 | Y |
| 4.1 | Berenstain Bears and the Female Fullback, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 1 | Sexual stereotyping in Bear Country when a girl signs up for the football team. | 102 | |
| 4.1 | Berenstain Bears and the Messy Room, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 0.5 | The entire Bear family becomes involved in an attempt to clean and organize the cubs' messy room. A First Time Book. | 29 | Y |
| 4.1 | Berenstain Bears Meet Santa Bear, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 0.5 | Sister Bear enjoys Christmas preparations, especially getting her list ready--but on Christmas morning she realizes what Christmas is really all about. | 29 | Y |
| 4.1 | Bird-Eating Spiders (Checkerboard) | Gerholdt, James E. | 0.5 | Discover more about the Bird-Eating Spider. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves from dangers. | 21 | Y |
| 4.1 | Black Widow Spiders (Checkerboard) | Gerholdt, James E. | 0.5 | Discover more about the Black-Widow Spider. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves against dangers. | 21 | Y |
| 4.1 | Blue Whales (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 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 |
| 4.1 | Blueberries for Sal | McCloskey, Robert | 0.5 | A bear cub and a little girl each mistakes the other's mother for its own. | 28 | Y |
| 4.1 | Burning Questions of Bingo Brown, The | Byars, Betsy | 4 | A boy is puzzled by the comic and confusing questions of youth and worried by disturbing insights into adult conflicts. | 166 | Y |
| 4.1 | Canada Geese Quilt, The | Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie | 1 | Worried that the coming of a new baby and her grandmother's serious illness will change the warm, familiar life on her family's Vermont farm, ten-year-old Ariel combines her artistic talent with her grandmother's knowledge to make a very special quilt. | 60 | Y |
| 4.1 | Carry on, Mr. Bowditch | Latham, Jean | 8 | This fictionalized biography tells the story of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain. | 251 | Y |
| 4.1 | Cast Two Shadows | Rinaldi, Ann | 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 |
| 4.1 | Christina's Ghost | Wright, Betty Ren | 3 | Christina's summer in a spooky, isolated Victorian house with her grumpy uncle turns into a ghostly adventure. | 105 | Y |
| 4.1 | Clouds (Weather Report) | Merk, Ann/Jim | 0.5 | Describes the different types of clouds and the weather that usually goes with them. | 24 | Y |
| 4.1 | Crocodiles (Australian Animal Discovery) | Stone, Lynn M. | 0.5 | Discusses the physical characteristics and behavior of the crocodile, with an emphasis on its presence in Australia. | 24 | Y |
| 4.1 | Curious George Gets a Medal | Rey, H.A. | 0.5 | Following a day of misadventures, Curious George becomes the first space monkey. | 47 | Y |
| 4.1 | Curious George Rides a Bike | Rey, H.A. | 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 |
| 4.1 | Diamondback Rattlesnakes (Checkerboard) | Gerholdt, James E. | 0.5 | Discover more about the Diamondback Rattlesnake. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves from dangers. | 21 | Y |
| 4.1 | Doctor De Soto Goes to Africa | Steig, William | 0.5 | While en route to Africa to tend to a suffering elephant, Dr. DeSoto is kidnapped by a rhesus monkey. | 28 | |
| 4.1 | Dog-Faced Bats (Checkerboard) | Gerholdt, Pamela J. | 0.5 | Learn about the Dog-Faced bat. Find out where they live, how they see in the dark, and how they find food. | 21 | Y |
| 4.1 | Driven to Death (Strange Matter) | Engle, Marty M. | 3 | Three ghosts from a phantom pirate ship try to enslave Darren and his older brother David. | 123 | |
| 4.1 | Encyclopedia Brown Boy Detective | Sobol, Donald J. | 1 | Presents ten baffling mysteries for the boy detective and the reader, with Encyclopedia's solutions included at the end of the book. | 111 | Y |
| 4.1 | Erosion (Earth's Conditions) | Rutten, Joshua | 0.5 | Questions and answers introduce the basics of erosion, its causes, effects, and possible solutions for slowing down the process. | 32 | Y |
| 4.1 | Escape from Fire Mountain | Paulsen, Gary | 1 | Nikki sets out to rescue two children trapped in a forest fire. | 67 | Y |
| 4.1 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Dahl, Roald | 1 | Mr. Fox saves his family and his animal friends when he outsmarts three farmers who are hunting him. | 90 | Y |
| 4.1 | Feathers and Fools | Fox, Mem | 0.5 | A modern fable about some peacocks and swans who allow the fear of their differences to become so great that they end up destroying each other. | 29 | |
| 4.1 | Fisherman Bats (Checkerboard) | Gerholdt, Pamela J. | 0.5 | Learn all about the Fisherman Bat. Find out where they live, how they see in the dark, and how they find food. | 21 | Y |
| 4.1 | Frankenstein and Other Stories of Man-made Monsters | Kudalis, Eric | 0.5 | Dr. Frankenstein creates a monster which escapes and comes to an unhappy end. Includes information about the original story, different movie versions, and the scientific aspects behind the story. | 48 | Y |
| 4.1 | Friendship, The | Taylor, Mildred D. | 1 | Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly black man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s. | 53 | Y |
| 4.1 | George Washington's Breakfast | Fritz, Jean | 0.5 | George W. Allen, namesake of George Washington, wants to learn everything about the first president, especially what he ate for breakfast. | 40 | |
| 4.1 | Girl Who Loved Wild Horses, The | Goble, Paul | 0.5 | Though she is fond of her people, a girl prefers to live among the wild horses where she is truly happy and free. | 27 | Y |
| 4.1 | Going for the Gold | Lowell, Melissa | 3 | Jill is going to a famous figure-skating training center in Colorado, but the training is much tougher than Jill had expected. | 118 | Y |
| 4.1 | Gold Cadillac, The | Taylor, Mildred D. | 1 | Two Black girls living in the North are proud of their family's beautiful new Cadillac, until they take it on a visit to the South and encounter racial prejudice for the first time. | 43 | |
| 4.1 | Grand Canyon (Going Places) | Meister, Cari | 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 | |
| 4.1 | If I Ran the Zoo | Seuss, Dr. | 0.5 | Young Gerald McGrew imagines the animal he'd have in the zoo if he were in charge. | 54 | Y |
| 4.1 | Island of One, The | Bunting, Eve | 1 | When an asteroid threatens to destroy their space island, the sole survivors of the destruction of Earth must find a new place to go. | 60 | Y |
| 4.1 | Jack and the Beanstalk | Kellogg, Steven | 0.5 | The author/illustrator brings this timeless tale to life with the zest and energy that are his trademarks. | 36 | Y |
| 4.1 | Jelly Belly | Smith, Robert Kimmel | 4 | It's tough for eleven-year-old Ned to stop eating. At 4 feet 8 inches tall, he weighs 109 pounds and keeps growing wider. | 155 | |
| 4.1 | Jessi and the Bad Baby-sitter | Martin, Ann M. | 4 | The club welcomes a new member, Wendy, who is a friend of Jessi's; but is she Baby-Sitters Club material? | 138 | |
| 4.1 | Kangaroos (Australian Animals Discovery) | Stone, Lynn M. | 0.5 | Describes habitat, lifestyle, infancy, predators, relationship with humans, and future of this well-known Australian animal. | 24 | Y |
| 4.1 | Killer Whales (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 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 |
| 4.1 | King's Stilts, The | Seuss, Dr. | 0.5 | When the King's stilts are stolen and hidden and he can no longer enjoy his play hour, the whole kingdom is threatened with destruction until a page boy bravely saves the day. | 44 | Y |
| 4.1 | Last One In (Strange Matter), The | Engle, Marty M. | 3 | Thirteen-year-old Michelle, her older sister, and a neighbor boy explore a lakeside cavern searching for a monster which some people think is only a hoax. | 125 | |
| 4.1 | Mako Sharks (Shark Discovery) | Palmer, Sarah | 0.5 | Describes the appearance, habitat, and behavior of mako sharks. | 24 | Y |
| 4.1 | Mask, The | Bunting, Eve | 1 | When Matt's father purchases an old Chinese mask, strange things begin to happen inside Mathew's head. | 54 | Y |
| 4.1 | Monster Blood | Stine, R.L. | 3 | Evan buys a dusty can of monster blood. It's fun to play with until it starts growing and it has an appetite. | 128 | Y |
| 4.1 | Mother Goose | Marshall, James | 0.5 | All the Mother Goose favorites made especially amusing with Marshall's illustrations. An ALA Notable book. | 33 | |
| 4.1 | Mrs. Jeepers in Outer Space | Dadey/Jones | 2 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But what happens when Mrs. Jeepers takes the third grade to space camp? Could she really turn all of the scientists into vampires? | 124 | |
| 4.1 | Museum (Field Trips), The | Kallen, Stuart A. | 0.5 | This book describes different kinds of museums and what one can expect to find in each. | 24 | |
| 4.1 | Mystery of the Mixed-up Zoo | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 2 | The Boxcar Children must find out who's responsible for the trouble at the zoo, or it will be closed down. | 120 | Y |
| 4.1 | Nez Perce Tribe (Native Peoples), The | Lassieur, Allison | 0.5 | This book gives an overview of the past and present lives of the Nez Perce tribe. | 24 | Y |
| 4.1 | Orchids (Flowers) | Prevost, John F. | 0.5 | This book describes the habitat, parts, pests and diseases, and varieties of orchids. | 24 | |
| 4.1 | Pawnee Nation (Native Peoples), The | Walters, Anna Lee | 0.5 | This book gives an overview of the past and present lives of the Pawnee Nation. | 24 | Y |
| 4.1 | People of the Rain Forest | Woods, Mae | 0.5 | This book describes how different groups of peoples live in rain forests in Central and South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. | 24 | |
| 4.1 | Plant That Ate Dirty Socks, The | McArthur, Nancy | 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 |
| 4.1 | Quest for Queenie, The | Ball, Brian | 1 | Harry and Jill are chosen by a magic talking sword to rescue a damsel from the Bad Wizard in Mandragora, but the damsel is Harry's complacent fat spaniel, and she decides she wants to stay in Mandragora. | 78 | |
| 4.1 | Relatives Came, The | Rylant, Cynthia | 0.5 | The relatives come to visit from Virginia, and everyone has a wonderful time. | 26 | |
| 4.1 | Remembering Box, The | Clifford, Eth | 1 | Nine-year-old Joshua's weekly visits to his beloved grandmother on the Jewish Sabbath give him an understanding of love, family, and tradition, which helps him accept her death. | 70 | Y |
| 4.1 | Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes | Coerr, Eleanor | 1 | Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy. | 63 | Y |
| 4.1 | Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark | Schwartz, Alvin | 1 | Stories of ghosts and witches gathered from American folklore. | 87 | Y |
| 4.1 | Seal Killers, The | Brin, Susannah | 1 | Andy and Colleen try to catch the people responsible for killing the seals near where they live. | 50 | Y |
| 4.1 | Seasons (A True Book) | Sipiera, Paul/Diane | 0.5 | Explains how and why the four seasons occur and examines the weather they bring. | 48 | Y |
| 4.1 | Skinnybones | Park, Barbara | 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 |
| 4.1 | Snakes (Remarkable Reptiles) | Gerholdt, James E. | 0.5 | Examines a variety of snakes within their habitats. | 23 | Y |
| 4.1 | Something Upstairs | Avi | 3 | When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his murder by slave traders. | 116 | Y |
| 4.1 | Spirit Quest | Sharpe, Susan | 3 | Vacationing on an Indian reservation off the coast of Washington, eleven-year-old Aaron becomes friends with Robert, a young Quileute Indian who is preparing for his spirit quest. | 122 | Y |
| 4.1 | Spotted Dolphins (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 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 |
| 4.1 | Spring Break | Lowell, Melissa | 4 | Jill is finding it difficult to balance her time between training for the Olympics and dating. | 135 | |
| 4.1 | Stepbrother Sabotage | Wittman, Sally | 1 | Nine-year-old Josh finds it impossible to get along with his rambunctious eight-year-old stepbrother Jake until an impending change in their family unites them on a common front. | 71 | Y |
| 4.1 | Teddy Bear's Scrapbook | Howe, Deborah/James | 1 | The whimsical, dryly humorous account of a small girl and her well-traveled teddy bear. | 75 | |
| 4.1 | Thank You, Mr. Falker | Polacco, Patricia | 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 |
| 4.1 | Tiger Sharks (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 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 |
| 4.1 | Violets (Flowers) | Prevost, John F. | 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 | |
| 4.1 | Wild Christmas Reindeer, The | Brett, Jan | 0.5 | After a few false starts, Teeka discovers the best way to get Santa's reindeer ready for Christmas Eve. | 29 | Y |
| 4.1 | Wolfmen Don't Hula Dance | Dadey/Jones | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the hairy, fire-eating hula dancer for the Bailey School Luau really be a wolfman? | 71 | |
| 4.2 | Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst | Lowry, Lois | 3 | Anastasia, feeling she is misunderstood by everyone, buys a bust of Freud and starts having "sessions" with it. | 119 | Y |
| 4.2 | Animal Shelter Mystery, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3 | The Alden children save an old woman's house, land, and all the animals in her animal shelter from greedy contractors. | 121 | Y |
| 4.2 | Animals of the Rain Forest | Woods, Mae | 0.5 | This book examines the physical characteristics and behaviors of a wide variety of animals found in the rain forest, including monkeys, jungle cats, and frogs. | 24 | |
| 4.2 | Apple Trees (Trees) | Prevost, John F. | 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 | |
| 4.2 | Arthur, for the Very First Time | MacLachlan, Patricia | 3 | Arthur spends a summer with his unconventional aunt and uncle and begins to look at life, his family, and himself differently. | 117 | Y |
| 4.2 | Bandit's Moon | Fleischman, Sid | 3 | Twelve-year-old Annyrose relates her adventures with Joaquíle and begins to look at life, his family, and himself differently. | 136 | Y |
| 4.2 | Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days! | Manes, Stephen | 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 |
| 4.2 | Berenstain Bear Scouts and the Magic Crystal Caper, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 1 | Grizzly Gran loves telling bearfolk the future with her crystal ball, but when her crystal turns up missing, the bear scouts try to help her solve the mystery. | 102 | Y |
| 4.2 | Berenstain Bears and the Prize Pumpkin, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 0.5 | Mama Bear's reminders about the true meaning of Thanksgiving are left in the dust as the spirit of competition takes over and Papa Bear and the cubs begin a campaign to win first prize in the Thanksgiving Pumpkin contest. | 29 | Y |
| 4.2 | Berenstain Bears and the Slumber Party, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 0.5 | Lizzy Bruin's slumber party becomes even wilder when Too-Tall Grizzly and his friends decide to attend uninvited. | 29 | Y |
| 4.2 | Blackwater Swamp | Wallace, Bill | 5 | Ted and his sister find peril when they move to the Louisiana bayou. | 185 | Y |
| 4.2 | Building Blocks | Voigt, Cynthia | 5 | Young Brann travels back in time, where he meets his father as a boy and learns more about the behavior that he thinks odd in his grown-up father. | 121 | Y |
| 4.2 | Bunnicula | Howe, Deborah/James | 2 | Chester, the Monroe family's cat, resorts to hilarious antics to alert his owners and Harold, their dog, that the newly adopted bunny may actually be a vegetable vampire. | 98 | |
| 4.2 | Chocolate Fever | Smith, Robert Kimmel | 1 | Henry eats so much chocolate that he makes medical history by getting the first recorded case of Chocolate Fever. | 93 | Y |
| 4.2 | Choosing Up Sides | Ritter, John H. | 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 |
| 4.2 | Copperheads (Checkerboard) | Gerholdt, James E. | 0.5 | Discover more about the Copperhead Snake. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they defend themselves against dangers. | 21 | Y |
| 4.2 | Coral Reefs (Biomes of Nature) | Owens, Caleb | 0.5 | A brief introduction to coral reefs and the animals and plants that live there. | 32 | Y |
| 4.2 | Coral Snakes | George, Linda | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of coral snakes. | 47 | Y |
| 4.2 | Cracker Jackson | Byars, Betsy | 4 | After attempting to save his ex-babysitter from wife abuse, Cracker Jackson gains an adult insight into the sadness of failed heroics. | 146 | Y |
| 4.2 | Daisies (Flowers) | Prevost, John F. | 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 | |
| 4.2 | Dog Overboard! | Sathre, Vivian | 5 | Wishbone imagines himself as a young Scottish lowlander bound for adventure and is kidnapped and forced to work as a cabin boy. | 139 | |
| 4.2 | Eddie and the Fire Engine | Haywood, Carolyn | 3 | Eddie is a born collector, and in this book he has his sights on a retired fire engine and a goat. | 189 | |
| 4.2 | Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Midnight Visitor | Sobol, Donald J. | 1 | Ten tough new cases for the Brown Detective Agency, such as a holdup at the First City Bank and a stolen tennis racket. | 112 | Y |
| 4.2 | Encyclopedia Brown Solves Them All | Sobol, Donald J. | 1 | Leroy 'Encyclopedia' Brown invites the reader to solve ten mysteries. Answers are provided at the back of the book. | 96 | Y |
| 4.2 | Fairy Rebel, The | Banks, Lynne Reid | 3 | A rebellious fairy named Tiki, already in trouble for breaking the rule against wearing jeans, risks the further wrath of the fairy queen by trying to fulfill a human's special request for help. | 118 | Y |
| 4.2 | Floods (A True Book) | Sipiera, Paul/Diane | 0.5 | Explains the importance of water to life on Earth, how flooding occurs, and some of its most devastating consequences. | 48 | Y |
| 4.2 | Flying Fox Bats (Checkerboard) | Gerholdt, Pamela J. | 0.5 | Learn all about the Flying Fox Bats. Find out where they live, how they see in the dark, and how they find food. | 21 | Y |
| 4.2 | Freedom Knows No Color | Schraff, Anne | 3 | Julian risks his life to escape slavery. But when he's finally free, he finds out that freedom does not guarantee equality. | 118 | |
| 4.2 | Freeze Frame | Bricker, Sandra D. | 1 | One of the pictures Brad developed has a clue to a murder. | 45 | Y |
| 4.2 | Freshwater Dolphins (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 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 |
| 4.2 | Getting Something on Maggie Marmelstein | Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman | 2 | After Thad embarrasses Maggie and she retaliates by embarrassing him even more, he plots revenge. | 101 | Y |
| 4.2 | Ghost Brother | Adler, C.S. | 5 | Wishing to be like his older but dead brother, who often materializes to give Wally advice and support, Wally enters a skateboarding competition and finally gains the confidence to be himself. | 150 | Y |
| 4.2 | Ghost in the Family, A | Wright, Betty Ren | 2 | While visiting his friend Jeannie's eccentric Aunt Rosebud in a boarding house that may be haunted, ten-year-old Chad comes across a mystery involving a missing diamond bracelet. | 92 | |
| 4.2 | Goblins Don't Play Video Games | Dadey/Jones | 1 | There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the new computer teacher really be the Master Goblin from Melody's video game? | 82 | |
| 4.2 | Grasslands (A True Book) | Stille, Darlene R. | 0.5 | This book examines the different types of grasslands and the plant and animal life they support. | 47 | |
| 4.2 | Gray Whales (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 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 |
| 4.2 | Great White Sharks (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 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 |
| 4.2 | Great White Sharks (Shark Discovery) | Palmer, Sarah | 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 |
| 4.2 | Hedgehogs in the Closet | Carris, Joan | 4 | Unhappy with his family's move to England, eleven-year-old Nick slowly begins to thrive in the very British setting of his new home and school. | 186 | |
| 4.2 | High Rise Glorious Skittle Skat...Angel Food Cake, The | Willard, Nancy | 1 | As she is preparing a special angelfood cake for her mother's birthday, a girl is surprised by three angels who have dropped in for a taste. | 52 | Y |
| 4.2 | Hooples' Horrible Holiday, The | Manes, Stephen | 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 | |
| 4.2 | Hot and Cold Summer, The | Hurwitz, Johanna | 3 | Rory and Derek are best friends, but with everyone wanting them to include Bolivia, the new girl, their friendship might be put to the test. | 158 | Y |
| 4.2 | If You Didn't Have Me | Nilsson, Ulf | 3 | A small Swedish boy spends the summer on his grandmother's farm while his parents build a new house. | 113 | Y |
| 4.2 | Insects of the Rain Forest | Woods, Mae | 0.5 | This book describes a variety of insects that live in the rain forest, and discusses some of their adaptations to that environment. | 24 | |
| 4.2 | Joshua's Dream: A Journey to the Land of Israel | Segal, Sheila | 0.5 | Joshua's dream of taking part in the transformation of Israel's desert land finally comes true. | 26 | Y |
| 4.2 | Journey into Terror | Wallace, Bill | 5 | Samuel visits his father in Oklahoma City and becomes involved in a journey of terror. | 164 | |
| 4.2 | Jupiter (Our Universe) | McDonald, Mary Ann | 0.5 | Describes the location, movements, surface and moons of the planet Jupiter. | 32 | Y |
| 4.2 | Katie John | Calhoun, Mary | 4 | Katie John and her family move into an inherited house in order to sell it, but find they don't want to part with it. | 134 | Y |
| 4.2 | Last Man's Reward, The | Patneaude, David | 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 |
| 4.2 | Legend of the Bluebonnet, The | De Paola, Tomie | 0.5 | Luminous paintings capture the essence of a favorite Indian tale of a courageous small girl in the land now called Texas. | 22 | Y |
| 4.2 | Letters from Rifka | Hesse, Karen | 4 | Rifka and her family flee the pogroms in Russia in 1919 and cross the Atlantic to land on Ellis Island. | 148 | Y |
| 4.2 | Like Father, Like Son | Schraff, Anne | 3 | Ric Salas has some pretty strange neighbors. When a teacher is stabbed, the mystery starts. | 137 | |
| 4.2 | Little House on Rocky Ridge | MacBride, Roger Lea | 8 | A continuation of the Little House On The Prairie series as the Wilders move out on their own. | 353 | Y |
| 4.2 | Little House, The | Burton, Virginia Lee | 0.5 | Beautifully illustrated story of a little house threatened by progress when tall buildings envelop the countryside. | 40 | Y |
| 4.2 | Lizards (Remarkable Reptiles) | Gerholdt, James E. | 0.5 | Examines the lizard, a remarkable reptile. | 23 | Y |
| 4.2 | Mishmash | Cone, Molly | 2 | Pete finally gets to have a dog of his own, but Mishmash believes he's a person. | 114 | Y |
| 4.2 | Mississippi Bridge | Taylor, Mildred D. | 1 | During a heavy rainstorm in 1930s rural Mississippi, a ten-year-old white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers off a crowded bus to make room for late-arriving white passengers and then set off across the raging Rosa Lee Creek. | 62 | |
| 4.2 | Moans and Groans and Dinosaur Bones | Delton, Judy | 2 | The Pees Wees are taking a train ride, going to a museum and staying in a fancy hotel. Molly is excited until she learns that her parents are going, too. Things get even worse when the train leaves without the Pee Wees! | 100 | Y |
| 4.2 | Most Beautiful Place in the World, The | Cameron, Ann | 1 | Growing up with his grandmother in a small Guatemalan town, seven-year-old Juan discovers the value of hard work, the joy of learning, and the location of the most beautiful place in the world. | 57 | Y |
| 4.2 | My Friend the Vampire | Sommer-Bodenburg, Angela | 4 | Tony thinks his new friend is great, except that he's a vampire; and to make matters worse, Tony's parents want to meet his new friend. | 155 | |
| 4.2 | Mystery of the Hidden Beach, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 2 | The Aldens try to find out who has destroyed a coral reef in Key West. | 119 | Y |
| 4.2 | Never Grab a Deer by the Ear | Bare, Colleen Stanley | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and life cycle of the two native deer species in North America, the whitetail and the mule deer. | 31 | Y |
| 4.2 | Nighty-Nightmare | Howe, James | 2 | When scary strangers appear at the Monroes' overnight campsite, Chester the cat tries to convince the family's two dogs that foul play is intended. | 121 | Y |
| 4.2 | Oceans (A True Book) | Stille, Darlene R. | 0.5 | This book is an introduction to the ocean, describing its physical characteristics, the plants and animals that live in or near it, and its importance to life on Earth. | 47 | |
| 4.2 | On Beyond Zebra | Seuss, Dr. | 0.5 | A fun way to learn and remember the alphabet. | 54 | Y |
| 4.2 | Pawloined Paper, The | Litowinsky, Olga | 3 | Joe and Wishbone must make sure a top secret note doesn't fall into the wrong hands. | 130 | |
| 4.2 | Phantom Falcon, The | Schraff, Anne | 1 | Kevin learns it is okay just to play the game of soccer despite pressure from his father. | 51 | Y |
| 4.2 | Police Station (Field Trips), The | Kallen, Stuart A. | 0.5 | This book describes the work done by various people at a police station. | 24 | |
| 4.2 | Red-Hot Hightops | Christopher, Matt | 3 | Normally fearful to play basketball in front of a crowd, Kelly becomes a confident and aggressive player when she dons a mysterious pair of red sneakers that she finds. | 148 | |
| 4.2 | Rough Waters | Rottman, S.L. | 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 |
| 4.2 | Sand Sharks (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 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 |
| 4.2 | Saturn (Galaxy) | Vogt, Gregory L. | 0.5 | This book discusses the orbit, atmosphere, rings, moons, surface features, exploration, and other aspects of the planet Saturn. | 24 | Y |
| 4.2 | Saturn (Our Universes) | Murray, Peter | 0.5 | Describes what is known about the second-largest planet in the solar system and its rings and moons. | 32 | Y |
| 4.2 | Shining Mark, The | Schraff, Anne | 3 | Last year, Tony's best friend was shot and killed. Now Tony faces the possibility of another tragic loss. Sequel to When a Hero Dies. | 109 | |
| 4.2 | Skating Camp | Lowell, Melissa | 4 | Jill is looking forward to going to summer skating camp with the Silver Blades; but since she has been gone, things have changed and Jill is not ready to accept all those changes. | 132 | |
| 4.2 | Space Travel (Space Observer) | Tesar, Jenny | 0.5 | Describes space travel within the solar system in a brief introduction. | 24 | Y |
| 4.2 | Stolen Trophy, The | Friedman, Michael Jan | 3 | When a trophy disappears from Timmy's house, Wishbone and Joe suspect Damont is involved but think there is more to the mystery than meets the eye. | 140 | |
| 4.2 | Surprise Island | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 3 | Summer vacation on an almost-private island gives the Aldens a challenge. | 178 | Y |
| 4.2 | Thunder Cave | Smith, Roland | 9 | Determined after his mother's accidental death to foil his stepfather's plans for his future, fourteen-year-old Jacob travels alone to Africa in search of his father, a biologist studying elephants in a remote area of Kenya. | 249 | Y |
| 4.2 | Tikki Tikki Tembo | Mosel, Arlene | 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 |
| 4.2 | Toads and Diamonds | Huck, Charlotte | 0.5 | Two stepsisters receive appropriate gifts for their actions: one's words are accompanied by flowers and jewels, the other's by toads and snakes. | 28 | Y |
| 4.2 | Tough to Tackle | Christopher, Matt | 2 | A young football player learns some important lessons about life when he must play a position he does not like or quit the team. | 152 | Y |
| 4.2 | Trapped in Death Cave | Wallace, Bill | 5 | A posthumous letter referring to buried treasure convinces Gary that his grandfather did not die a natural death and, with his friend Brian, he sets out to find both the treasure and his grandfather's killer. | 151 | Y |
| 4.2 | Trees of the Dancing Goats, The | Polacco, Patricia | 0.5 | During a scarlet-fever epidemic one winter in Michigan, a Jewish family helps make Christmas special for their sick neighbors. | 29 | Y |
| 4.2 | Tundra (Biomes of Nature), The | Inseth, Zachary | 0.5 | Questions and answers introduce the appearance, location, importance, and life of the tundra. | 32 | Y |
| 4.2 | Uranus (Galaxy) | Vogt, Gregory L. | 0.5 | This book discusses the surface features, atmosphere, orbit, moons, rings, and exploration of the planet Uranus. | 24 | Y |
| 4.2 | Vipers | Ethan, Eric | 0.5 | Describes what various types of vipers look like, what they eat, where they can be found, how they defend themselves, the danger from their bites, and the outlook for their future. | 24 | |
| 4.2 | Wanted...Mud Blossom | Byars, Betsy | 4 | Convinced that Mud is responsible for the disappearance of the school hamster that he was taking care of for the weekend, Junior Blossom is determined that the dog should be tried for his "crime." | 148 | Y |
| 4.2 | Weeping Willow Trees (Trees) | Prevost, John F. | 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 | |
| 4.2 | Wetlands (Biomes of Nature) | Donnelly, Andrew | 0.5 | A brief introduction to wetlands, their appearance, location, and plants and animals that live there. | 32 | Y |
| 4.2 | Whale Sharks (Shark Discovery) | Palmer, Sarah | 0.5 | An introduction to the whale shark, the biggest fish in the world--but harmless to people. | 24 | Y |
| 4.2 | White-Sided Dolphins (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 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 |
| 4.2 | Wrinkle-Faced Bats (Checkerboard) | Gerholdt, Pamela J. | 0.5 | Learn all about the Wrinkle-Faced Bat. Find out where they live, how they see in the dark, and how they find food. | 21 | Y |
| 4.2 | Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree, The | Houston, Gloria | 0.5 | Ruthie and her mother wonder how they will fulfill their obligation of getting the perfect Christmas tree to the town for the holiday celebration, since Papa has left the Appalachian area to go to war. | 28 | Y |
| 4.3 | Adventures of Captain Underpants, The | Pilkey, Dav | 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 | |
| 4.3 | Airport (Field Trips), The | Kallen, Stuart A. | 0.5 | This book describes the organization of the airport and the work which is performed there. | 24 | |
| 4.3 | Anastasia at Your Service | Lowry, Lois | 5 | Twelve-year-old Anastasia has a series of disastrous experiences when, expecting to get a job as a lady's companion, she is hired instead to be a maid. | 149 | |
| 4.3 | B Is for Betsy | Haywood, Carolyn | 2 | Betsy experiences an interesting first year in school and looks forward to summer vacation at her grandfather's farm. | 159 | Y |
| 4.3 | Back Yard Angel | Delton, Judy | 2 | Although ten-year-old Angel loves her little brother Rags dearly, the constant responsibility of taking care of him weighs heavily on her young shoulders. | 170 | Y |
| 4.3 | Berenstain Bears and the In-Crowd, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 0.5 | A rich new cub named Queenie McBear teases Sister Bear and steals her Double-Dutch partners away before the big tournament. | 29 | Y |
| 4.3 | Berenstain Bears Forget Their Manners, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 0.5 | Mama Bear decides to start a Bear Family Politeness Plan with a set of simple rules and penalties. | 29 | Y |
| 4.3 | Bingo Brown and the Language of Love | Byars, Betsy | 4 | As twelve-year-old Bingo Brown strives for the triumphs of today and steels himself against the tribulations of tomorrow, he discovers that he will have to undergo a few more trials and triumphs before growing up. | 132 | Y |
| 4.3 | Black Star, Bright Dawn | O'Dell, Scott | 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 |
| 4.3 | Bottlenose Dolphins (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 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 |
| 4.3 | Boy from Planet Nowhere, The | Schraff, Anne | 3 | This book tells a story of a boy who grew up moving from foster home to foster home and was always told that he was a nobody. | 125 | |
| 4.3 | Cassie Binegar | MacLachlan, Patricia | 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 |
| 4.3 | Catwings | Le Guin, Ursula K. | 0.5 | Four young cats with wings leave the city slums in search of a safe place to live, finally meeting two children with kind hands. | 39 | Y |
| 4.3 | Chameleons Are Cool | Jenkins, Martin | 0.5 | Describes different kinds of chameleons, examining their physical features, their behavior, and their ability to change color. | 29 | Y |
| 4.3 | Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | Barrett, Judi | 0.5 | Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow, where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers--until the weather takes a turn for the worse. | 28 | Y |
| 4.3 | Competition, The | Lowell, Melissa | 3 | Tori is looking forward to going to Lake Placid for a competition but is having some family problems that may affect her competition. | 116 | |
| 4.3 | Copperheads (Snake Discovery) | Bargar/Johnson | 0.5 | An introduction to the physical characteristics, natural environment, and relationship to human beings of the various species of Copperheads. | 24 | Y |
| 4.3 | Coyote, The | Mattern, Joanne | 0.5 | Details the characteristics, habitats, and life cycle of the coyote. | 48 | Y |
| 4.3 | Crops on the Farm (Farm) | Hansen, Ann Larkin | 0.5 | This book describes the main crops grown in the United States, the soil composition and climate conditions necessary for their growth, the development of hybrids, and the importance of caring for the land. | 32 | |
| 4.3 | Danger in Quicksand Swamp | Wallace, Bill | 5 | Ben and Jake battle alligators, quicksand, and a murderer when they search for buried treasure on an island in a swamp. | 181 | |
| 4.3 | Deadly Obsession, A | Schraff, Anne | 2 | An insane actor tries to become young again by taking the life of a teenage boy. | 104 | |
| 4.3 | Dollhouse Murders, The | Wright, Betty Ren | 5 | Amy thinks the dolls in her aunt's dollhouse are trying to tell her something about the unsolved murder of her great-grandparents. | 149 | Y |
| 4.3 | Dream Mountain | Schraff, Anne | 3 | When Wakeman Storey travels to the gold-mining towns of California in search of his missing father, he finds more than he bargained for. Does he have the courage to reveal the truth and see that justice is done? | 134 | |
| 4.3 | Dream Tree, The | Cosgrove, Stephen | 0.5 | Patti Caterpillar resolves to tell her caterpillar friends what it's like to be a beautiful butterfly when she becomes one herself. | 16 | |
| 4.3 | Eaten Alive | Whitman, John | 4 | Tash, Zak, and Uncle Hoole travel to D'vouran, where people seem to be vanishing into thin air; something is terribly wrong here and Tash needs to trust her instincts before it's to late. | 140 | Y |
| 4.3 | Eye of the Great Bear | Wallace, Bill | 5 | After moving to Montana, Bailey Trumbull's whole life changes and he must face his fears head on. | 161 | Y |
| 4.3 | Flutterby | Cosgrove, Stephen | 0.5 | In a tale of being proud of who you are, Flutterby discovers it's great being a tiny horse with wings. | 28 | |
| 4.3 | Frozen Dinners (Strange Matter) | Barnes, Johnny Ray | 2 | Left alone in the mountain home of their uncle during a blizzard, three children struggle against an attack by abominable snowmen who attempt to break into the house. | 118 | |
| 4.3 | Groundhog's Horse | Rockwood, Joyce | 3 | An eleven-year-old Cherokee sets off on a one-boy raid of a Creek town to rescue his "unusual" horse. | 115 | |
| 4.3 | Hammerhead Sharks (Shark Discovery) | Palmer, Sarah | 0.5 | Describes the appearance, habitat, and behavior of the three main kinds of hammerhead sharks. | 24 | Y |
| 4.3 | Hannah | Whelan, Gloria | 1 | Hannah, a blind girl living in Michigan in the late nineteenth century, doesn't go to school until a new teacher comes to board at their house. | 63 | Y |
| 4.3 | Hansel and Gretel | Lesser, Rika | 0.5 | A poor woodcutter's children, lost in the forest, come upon a house made of bread, cakes, and candy, occupied by a wicked witch who likes to have children for dinner. | 32 | Y |
| 4.3 | I Want to Go Home! | Korman, Gordon | 6 | Nobody hates camp more than Rudy Miller does. | 182 | |
| 4.3 | Ice Princess, The | Lowell, Melissa | 3 | Tori's favorite skating star is in town, and Tori soon realizes she is not the sweet champion everyone thinks. | 115 | |
| 4.3 | Jim Ugly | Fleischman, Sid | 3 | This story tells of the adventures of twelve-year-old Jake Bannock and Jim Ugly, his father's part-mongrel, part-wolf dog, as they travel through the Old West trying to find out what really happened to Jake's actor father. | 130 | Y |
| 4.3 | Knucklehead | Press, Skip | 1 | Wilbert learns how to pitch a knuckleball, and his new life seems better. | 50 | Y |
| 4.3 | Kristy and Mr. Mom | Martin, Ann M. | 4 | Watson becomes the housekeeper in order to reduce his stress. | 154 | |
| 4.3 | Lemming Condition, The | Arkin, Alan | 1 | A young lemming is haunted by doubts about the purpose of the great march westward to the sea. | 58 | |
| 4.3 | Levers (Simple Machines) | Glover, David | 0.5 | Introduces the principles of levers as simple machines, using examples from everyday life. | 24 | Y |
| 4.3 | Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane, The | Cole, Joanna | 0.5 | Ms. Frizzle's class takes a whirlwind field trip into the middle of a hurricane. | 42 | Y |
| 4.3 | Memories Are Forever | Schraff, Anne | 3 | Bian knew being different wasn't easy, especially when her Vietnamese traditions clashed with American culture. Could she obey her parents' traditional rules and still date an American boy? | 135 | |
| 4.3 | Miss Spider's Wedding | Kirk, David | 0.5 | Miss Spider proves that her heart knows best when it comes to choosing a husband. | 37 | Y |
| 4.3 | Morgan and Me | Cosgrove, Stephen | 0.5 | When he is transformed into a unicorn, Morgan learns that life comes with sacrifice and change. | 27 | Y |
| 4.3 | Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters | Steptoe, John | 0.5 | Mufaro's two beautiful daughters, one bad-tempered, one kind and sweet, go before the king, who is choosing a bride. | 25 | |
| 4.3 | My Brother's Keeper: Virginia's Diary | Osborne, Mary Pope | 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 | |
| 4.3 | My Name Is Brain Brian | Betancourt, Jeanne | 4 | Brian is discovered to be dyslexic, and his teacher teams him up with the smartest student in the sixth grade in this realistic look at learning disabilities. | 128 | Y |
| 4.3 | My Trip to Alpha I | Slote, Alfred | 1 | Voya-code is the most sophisticated form of interplanetary travel, but a young boy finds it is not without dangers. | 96 | Y |
| 4.3 | Neptune (Galaxy) | Vogt, Gregory L. | 0.5 | This book discusses the orbit, atmosphere, moons, surface features, exploration, and other aspects of the planet Neptune. | 24 | Y |
| 4.3 | Nory Ryan's Song | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 5 | When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive. | 148 | Y |
| 4.3 | Nurse Sharks (Shark Discovery) | Palmer, Sarah | 0.5 | Describes the appearance, habitat, and behavior of nurse sharks. | 24 | Y |
| 4.3 | Pegasus, the Flying Horse | Yolen, Jane | 0.5 | This book retells how, with the help of the goddess Athena, the handsome and overly proud Bellerophon tames the winged horse Pegasus and conquers the monstrous Chimaera. | 37 | Y |
| 4.3 | Piranhas | McAuliffe, Emily | 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 | |
| 4.3 | Place to Hide (Strange Matter), A | Barnes, Johnny Ray | 3 | While searching the Dark Woods for a lost fort, twelve-year-old Trey and his friends encounter horrible scaly monsters that seem intent on stopping them. | 126 | |
| 4.3 | Popcorn Book, The | De Paola, Tomie | 0.5 | Presents a variety of facts about popcorn and includes two recipes. | 28 | Y |
| 4.3 | Rattlesnakes | Ethan, Eric | 0.5 | Describes what rattlesnakes look like, what they eat, where they can be found, how they defend themselves, the danger from their bites, and the outlook for their future. | 24 | |
| 4.3 | Red Shoes, The | Andersen/Bazilian | 0.5 | This book is a retelling of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale in which a girl's desire for a pair of red dancing shoes almost dooms her to dance forever. | 30 | |
| 4.3 | Samantha Learns a Lesson | Adler, Susan S. | 1 | Samantha is determined to help nine-year-old Nellie, attending school for the first time, with her school work and learns a great deal herself about what it is like to be a poor child and work in a factory. | 61 | Y |
| 4.3 | Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones | Schwartz, Alvin | 2 | More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, haunts, superstitions, monsters, and horrible, scary things. | 108 | |
| 4.3 | Shoes from Grandpa | Fox, Mem | 0.5 | In a cumulative rhyme, family members describe the clothes they intend to give Jessie to go with her shoes from Grandpa. | 29 | Y |
| 4.3 | Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You | DeClements, Barthe | 4 | After being sent to special education classes because of her reading problem, "Bad Helen" meets a sympathetic teacher who helps her achieve her dream of going to junior high. | 146 | |
| 4.3 | Skates of Uncle Richard, The | Fenner, Carol | 1 | With her Uncle's encouragement, a nine-year-old takes the first step toward realizing her dream of becoming a figure skater. | 46 | |
| 4.3 | Smokey | Peet, Bill | 0.5 | The story of Smokey, a locomotive, who runs away after hearing of his coming retirement. | 38 | Y |
| 4.3 | Soup and Me | Peck, Robert Newton | 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 | |
| 4.3 | Staircase, The | Rinaldi, Ann | 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 |
| 4.3 | Stories of Mummies and the Living Dead | Kudalis, Eric | 0.5 | When its casket is opened, an Egyptian mummy comes to life and tries to raise a princess from the dead. Includes information about other mummy stories and about how mummies were made in ancient Egypt. | 48 | Y |
| 4.3 | Story About Ping, The | Flack, Marjorie | 0.5 | The classic of a little yellow duck's night of adventure on the Yangtze River. | 32 | Y |
| 4.3 | Sunflowers (Flowers) | Prevost, John F. | 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 | |
| 4.3 | Tall, Dark and Deadly | Keene, Carolyn | 5 | Nancy looks into a computer dating service--and ends up on a date with danger! | 153 | |
| 4.3 | Tarantula Shoes | Birdseye, Tom | 4 | Ryan and his family are moving from Arizona to Kentucky, and he is worried about having to go to a new school, make new friends, and fit in with a new crowd. | 131 | Y |
| 4.3 | Tarantula Spiders (Checkerboard) | Gerholdt, James E. | 0.5 | Discover more about the Tarantula Spider. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves from dangers. | 21 | Y |
| 4.3 | Tasmanian Devil (Australian Animals Discovery) | Stone, Lynn M. | 0.5 | An introduction to the Australian marsupial whose curious look has earned it an undeserved name. | 24 | Y |
| 4.3 | There's an Owl in the Shower | George, Jean Craighead | 3 | Because protecting spotted owls has cost Borden's father his job as a logger in the old growth forest of northern California, Borden intends to kill any spotted owl he sees until he and his father find themselves taking care of a young owlet. | 134 | Y |
| 4.3 | Titanic Crossing | Williams, Barbara | 5 | In 1912, thirteen-year-old Albert considers his younger sister a pest, but things change when they travel with their mother and uncle aboard the "Titanic" and are caught up in its tragic sinking. | 163 | Y |
| 4.3 | Touchdown | Steel, Richard A. | 1 | Together Butch and Ben find out how their friend died during the football game. | 48 | Y |
| 4.3 | Transall Saga, The | Paulsen, Gary | 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 | |
| 4.3 | Trapdoor Spiders (Checkerboard) | Gerholdt, James E. | 0.5 | Discover more about the Trapdoor Spider. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves against dangers. | 21 | Y |
| 4.3 | Tropical Rain Forests (A True Book) | Stille, Darlene R. | 0.5 | This book differentiates a tropical rain forest from other types of forests, and describes its typical plant and animal life. | 47 | |
| 4.3 | TV Kid, The | Byars, Betsy | 3 | Television is Lennie's only escape from loneliness and boredom, until a snake bite jolts him into reality. | 123 | |
| 4.3 | Wait Until Spring | Schraff, Anne | 3 | Amelia Kintz and her family have just moved to America from Germany. The immigrants are looked down upon and Amelia struggles to adjust to this new country and with her feelings for a university student. | 125 | |
| 4.3 | Well: David's Story, The | Taylor, Mildred D. | 3 | In Mississippi in the early 1900s, ten-year-old David Logan's family generously share their well water with both white and black neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence. | 92 | Y |
| 4.3 | Wild Horses for Kids/Wild Horse Magic for Kids | Henckel, Mark | 0.5 | This book presents information about wild horses through the conversation of ten-year-old April, who is vacationing in the West, and the cowboy she meets. | 48 | |
| 4.3 | Wolf Spiders (Checkerboard) | Gerholdt, James E. | 0.5 | Discover more about the Wolf Spider. Find out where they are found, how they catch their prey, and how they protect themselves against dangers. | 21 | Y |
| 4.3 | Wolves (Welcome to the World of Animals) | Swanson, Diane | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics and behavior of wolves. | 24 | Y |
| 4.3 | Woodshed Mystery, The | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 5 | A double puzzle involves an old friend of Aunt Jane's, romance, discovering the truth behind rumors about the house Grandfather and Aunt Jane lived in as children. | 159 | Y |
| 4.3 | Zlata's Diary | Filipovic, Zlata | 5 | A young girl's diary records the destruction of her city during the war in Yugoslavia. | 200 | |
| 4.4 | 13th Floor: A Ghost Story, The | Fleischman, Sid | 4 | When his older sister disappears, Buddy Stebbins follows her back in time and finds himself aboard a seventeenth-century pirate ship captained by a distant relative. | 131 | Y |
| 4.4 | Addy's Surprise | Porter, Connie | 1 | Addy and her mother forego their Christmas plans to help the newly freed slaves arriving in Philadelphia during the Civil War. | 65 | Y |
| 4.4 | Aldo Peanut Butter | Hurwitz, Johanna | 3 | Peanut and Butter, the two dogs Aldo gets for his 11th birthday, create chaos inside the house while his parents are out of town and get accused of tearing up the neighbor's lawn. | 113 | Y |
| 4.4 | Anastasia on Her Own | Lowry, Lois | 4 | Anastasia is left in charge when Mrs. Krupnik goes away--but will her system work? | 131 | Y |
| 4.4 | Annie and the Old One | Miles, Miska | 0.5 | Annie comes to accept the impending death of her grandmother, as she recognizes the wonder of life. | 44 | Y |
| 4.4 | Babushka Baba Yaga | Polacco, Patricia | 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 | |
| 4.4 | Backyard Dragon | Sterman, Betsy/Samuel | 5 | Owen finds a dragon in his backyard, but no one believes him. | 189 | Y |
| 4.4 | Battle for the Castle, The | Winthrop, Elizabeth | 6 | Twelve-year-old William uses the magic token to return through the toy castle in his attic to the medieval land of Sir Simon, which is now menaced by a skeleton ship bearing a plague of evil. | 211 | Y |
| 4.4 | Bella Arabella | Fosburgh, Liza | 4 | Arabella's best friend is her cat. They live in the most beautiful house in the world. Her stepfather thinks she is lonely and decides to send her to boarding school. She makes a wish, and because she really believes, her wish comes true. | 102 | |
| 4.4 | Belle Prater's Boy | White, Ruth | 5 | Gypsy is puzzled by Woodrow's calm acceptance of his mother's disappearance. When Woodrow finally reveals a secret about his mother, Gypsy begins to understand. | 196 | Y |
| 4.4 | Berenstain Bear Scouts in Giant Bat Cave, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 1 | Ralph Ripoff wants to turn the cave, home to Bear Country's bats, into an underground theme park! | 96 | Y |
| 4.4 | Berenstain Bear Scouts Meet Bigpaw, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 1 | The grown-ups of Bear Country want to attack Bigpaw, but is he really dangerous? | 96 | |
| 4.4 | Berenstain Bears and the Drug Free Zone, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 1 | Brother and Sister Bear just say no to drugs. | 102 | Y |
| 4.4 | Berenstain Bears and the School Scandal Sheet, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 1 | Frustrated by their lack of artistic freedom on the staff of the school newspaper, Brother Bear and his friends start an underground paper and discover some basic truths about freedom of the press and responsibility. | 104 | Y |
| 4.4 | Berries Goodman | Neville, Emily Cheney | 5 | A city boy's move to the suburbs includes a painful experience in anti-Semitism. | 178 | |
| 4.4 | Blue Moose | Pinkwater, Daniel | 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 | |
| 4.4 | Captain Underpants and the Invasion...Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria | Pilkey, Dav | 1 | Captain Underpants must face three massive, tentacled space aliens who are on a mission to enslave the whole planet. | 141 | |
| 4.4 | Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | Dahl, Roald | 5 | Charlie Bucket and his family share a fantastic journey as they attempt to return to the Chocolate Factory. | 161 | Y |
| 4.4 | Charlotte's Web | White, E.B. | 5 | In this endearing story, a little girl and Charlotte, a beautiful grey spider, struggle to save Wilbur the pig from being butchered. | 184 | Y |
| 4.4 | Cheetahs for Kids/Cheetah Magic for Kids | MacPherson, Winnie | 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 | |
| 4.4 | Crab Moon | Horowitz, Ruth | 0.5 | One June night, a young boy watches as many, many horseshoe crabs come ashore to lay their eggs. | 26 | |
| 4.4 | Danny's Desert Rats | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 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 |
| 4.4 | Darkness | Schraff, Anne | 3 | Seventeen-year-old Karl Schmidt is confused. His relatives in Germany rave about the country's new leader, Adolph Hitler, and the improvements he's making there. But Karl's Jewish friend, Rebecca, tells a different story. | 119 | |
| 4.4 | Deadly Delivery (Strange Matter) | Engle, Marty M. | 2 | Simon and his sister Sarah experience unbelievable terror when a ghost transforms their house into a haunted house. | 115 | |
| 4.4 | Deserts (Biomes of Nature) | Murray, Peter | 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 |
| 4.4 | Eddie's Blue-Winged Dragon | Adler, C.S. | 4 | A sixth-grader with cerebral palsy becomes the owner of a brass dragon, which helps him out in some of the battles he faces due to his handicap. | 144 | Y |
| 4.4 | Einstein Anderson, Science Sleuth | Simon, Seymour | 2 | Adam "Einstein" Anderson uses his knowledge to discover the cause of a shrinking table, win a bet with Pat the Brat, uncover a UFO hoax, and solve other scientific riddles. | 73 | |
| 4.4 | Esio Trot | Dahl, Roald | 1 | Shy Mr. Hoppy devises a plan to win the heart of his true love by teaching her a spell to make her tortoise grow bigger. | 62 | Y |
| 4.4 | Ferret in the Bedroom, Lizards in the Fridge | Wallace, Bill | 4 | Liz fears that all the animals her zoologist father keeps in the house could prevent her from becoming class president. | 132 | Y |
| 4.4 | Five Chinese Brothers, The | Bishop, Claire | 0.5 | Five Chinese brothers take turns saving each other's lives when one is accused unjustly of a crime. | 44 | Y |
| 4.4 | Freaky Friday | Rodgers, Mary | 4 | A day of revelations and fresh insights as Annabel Andrews, thirteen, wakes up to discover she has turned into her mother. | 145 | Y |
| 4.4 | Giants and Wild, Hairy Monsters | Gentle/Perry | 0.5 | This book examines the existence of mythical and fictional monsters that are big and hairy, including King Kong, the Abominable Snowman, and Sasquatch. | 24 | |
| 4.4 | Gingerbread Heart, The | Schraff, Anne | 3 | Jelena learned one thing from the war in her Bosnia homeland: Friends can become your worst enemies. Could she ever learn to trust her new American classmates? | 114 | |
| 4.4 | Glass Slippers Give You Blisters | Auch, Mary Jane | 5 | Kelly's involvement in helping design a production of her junior high school's drama club, spurred on by encouragement from her artistic grandmother, helps her discover her own artistic identity. | 169 | Y |
| 4.4 | Go Fish | Stolz, Mary | 1 | After spending the day fishing in the Gulf of Mexico with Grandfather, eight-year-old Thomas has a quiet evening on the porch hearing more about his African heritage. | 73 | Y |
| 4.4 | Going Home | Mohr, Nicholasa | 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 | |
| 4.4 | Good Master, The | Seredy, Kate | 5 | Two cousins spend an adventurous year on a ranch in the Hungarian plains. | 196 | |
| 4.4 | Harvey's Horrible Snake Disaster | Clifford, Eth | 3 | When Harvey's cousin brings a snake to his house for the weekend, Harvey knows he's headed for disaster. | 108 | Y |
| 4.4 | Hippos (Creative Ed.) | Brust, Beth Wagner | 0.5 | This book describes the two different types of hippos, how they swim, what they eat, and how they live in herds. | 24 | Y |
| 4.4 | Hunchdog of Notre Dame | Friedman, Michael Jan | 3 | Wishbone imagines he is involved in a life-and-death struggle with his evil master Frollo. | 139 | |
| 4.4 | Hyena Laughs at Night, The | Schraff, Anne | 3 | This book tells a story of a boy who thinks that some day he will be a famous caricature artist. | 111 | |
| 4.4 | Johnny Appleseed | Kellogg, Steven | 0.5 | Presents the life of John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, describing his love of nature, his kindness to animals, and his physical fortitude. | 36 | |
| 4.4 | Just Another Name for Lonely | Schraff, Anne | 3 | Tina wishes she had never come back to Albuquerque. Her old girlfriends are snubbing her, and the boys are only interested in her unearned reputation. How can she overcome the torrent of rumors swirling around her? | 107 | |
| 4.4 | Kartusch | Cosgrove, Stephen | 0.5 | The sleepless Fuzzy Eyefulls learn that there are as many beautiful things to behold in their dreams as there are when they are awake. | 28 | Y |
| 4.4 | Kneeknock Rise | Babbitt, Natalie | 2 | Egan goes to visit relatives in Instep, where he encounters an unusual moan that comes from the top of Kneeknock Rise. | 118 | Y |
| 4.4 | Lucky Stone, The | Clifton, Lucille | 1 | Young Tee loved to hear the stories of good-luck that accompany her grandmother's lucky stone, but she needs some good luck herself, and the stone doesn't belong to her. | 62 | Y |
| 4.4 | M.C. Higgins, the Great | Hamilton, Virginia | 10 | Thirteen-year-old M.C. hopes his mother will be offered a recording contract so his family can leave their home before a sliding slag heap destroys it. | 278 | |
| 4.4 | Mad Scientists | Gentle/Perry | 0.5 | This book contrasts the monster-creating escapades of mad scientists such as Frankenstein, Moreau, and Jekyll with the methods used by real scientists who try to help, not hurt, the world. | 24 | |
| 4.4 | Maltese Dog, The | Capeci, Anne | 4 | Wishbone helps Joe clear his name when the basketball team thinks that Joe is the one who is playing practical jokes on them. | 137 | |
| 4.4 | Maria: A Christmas Story | Taylor, Theodore | 2 | Maria Gonzaga organizes the Mexican-Americans in the San Joaquin Valley to create a float for the annual Christmas parade. | 84 | Y |
| 4.4 | Mercury (Galaxy) | Kipp, Steven L. | 0.5 | Discusses the orbit, surface features, exploration, and other aspects of the planet Mercury. | 24 | Y |
| 4.4 | Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel | Burton, Virginia Lee | 0.5 | Mike prefers his steam shovel to the new gas and diesel-engine contraptions and digs his way to a happy ending. | 44 | Y |
| 4.4 | Morph Monsters | Gentle/Perry | 0.5 | This book discusses were-creatures, monsters that change from one entity into another, such as werewolves and cat peole, including some scientific explanations for these beasts. | 24 | |
| 4.4 | Navajo Nation (Native Peoples), The | Pasqua, Sandra M. | 0.5 | The book discusses the past and present lives of the Navajo Nation. | 24 | Y |
| 4.4 | Nurse Sharks (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 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 |
| 4.4 | Planet Earth (Our Universe) | Murray, Peter | 0.5 | Describes the Earth's physical characteristics, discussing interactions of climate, geology, and ecology. | 32 | Y |
| 4.4 | Power of the Rose, The | Schraff, Anne | 2 | Valerie's never been able to forget her first love. But can she live on memories? Sequel to The Haunting of Hawthorne. | 94 | |
| 4.4 | Prairies (Biomes of Nature) | Murray, Peter | 0.5 | Describes where prairies are found, the plants and animals that exist there, and the role of fire in the ecosystem. | 32 | Y |
| 4.4 | Pulleys and Gears (Simple Machines) | Glover, David | 0.5 | Introduces the principles of pulleys and gears as simple machines, using examples from everyday life. | 24 | Y |
| 4.4 | Pup in King Arthur's Court, A | Barkan, Joanne | 5 | Using a computer, Joe and David decide to publish a sports newsletter that will put the school's existing one to shame. That reminds Wishbone of "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," and he is transported back to medieval England. | 164 | |
| 4.4 | Racing the Sun | Pitts, Paul | 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 |
| 4.4 | Roses (Flowers) | Prevost, John F. | 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 | |
| 4.4 | Scrambled Eggs Super! | Seuss, Dr. | 0.5 | Tired of scrambled eggs always tasting the same, Peter T. Hooper goes on a great egg hunt for his new recipe. | 52 | Y |
| 4.4 | Screws (Simple Machines) | Glover, David | 0.5 | Introduces the principles of screws as simple machines, using examples from everyday life. | 24 | Y |
| 4.4 | Secret Window, The | Wright, Betty Ren | 4 | Meg has a secret that she does not tell anyone--she has weird dreams and they come true. After a series of traumatic events, Meg feels more different than ever. Following a near tragedy, Meg realizes that sometimes being different is a good thing. | 149 | |
| 4.4 | See You Around, Sam! | Lowry, Lois | 3 | Sam Krupnik decides to run away to Alaska because his mother will not let him wear his plastic fangs in the house. | 113 | Y |
| 4.4 | Shiloh | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 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 |
| 4.4 | Solar System (Universe), The | Welsbacher, Anne | 0.5 | This book gives a simple introduction to our solar system and its many components, including the sun, planets, satellites, asteroids, and comets. | 24 | |
| 4.4 | Soup | Peck, Robert Newton | 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 |
| 4.4 | Sparrow's Treasure | Schraff, Anne | 3 | A treasure hunt brings Rachel new joy and unexpected risk. | 115 | |
| 4.4 | Spider Kane and the Mystery at Jumbo Nightcrawler's | Osborne, Mary Pope | 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 |
| 4.4 | Stargone John | McKenzie, Ellen | 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 |
| 4.4 | Summer of Shame | Schraff, Anne | 3 | Can Mark save his innocent friends from the fear and frenzy of the townspeople? Sequel to An Alien Spring. | 110 | |
| 4.4 | Talking Eggs, The | San Souci, Robert D. | 0.5 | A Southern folktale in which kind Blanche, following the instructions of an old witch, gains riches, while her greedy sister makes fun of the old woman and is duly rewarded. | 29 | Y |
| 4.4 | Three Young Pilgrims | Harness, Cheryl | 0.5 | Three young Pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower give a very personal and moving account of their first year in the New World. | 32 | Y |
| 4.4 | Toad for Tuesday, A | Erickson, Russell | 1 | Can Warton persuade a hungry owl not to eat him for dinner? | 64 | Y |
| 4.4 | Tornadoes (Forces of Nature) | Murray, Peter | 0.5 | Examines tornadoes, what causes them and the destruction they can do. | 31 | Y |
| 4.4 | Vampires | Gentle/Perry | 0.5 | This book discusses vampires in legend and literature and some real people and animals that may have helped inspire the concept of blood-drinking monsters. | 24 | |
| 4.4 | Village of Round and Square Houses, The | Grifalconi, Ann | 0.5 | A grandmother explains to her listeners why in their village on the side of a volcano the men live in square houses and the women in round ones. | 30 | Y |
| 4.4 | When Grandfather's Parrot Inherited Kennsington Court | Allen, Linda | 1 | Appalled that Grandfather left his inheritance to his parrot, the relatives seek to break the will; but young Miranda, who is caring for the parrot, makes a discovery that settles everything. | 68 | |
| 4.4 | Wish Giver, The | Brittain, Bill | 4 | When a strange little man comes to the Coven Tree Church Social promising he can give people exactly what they ask for, three young believers-in-magic each make a wish that comes true in the most unexpected way. | 181 | Y |
| 4.5 | After the Goat Man | Byars, Betsy | 3 | Impending highway construction force Figgy and his grandfather to leave their home in the woods, but Figgy's grandfather, the "Goat Man," rejects city life and returns to the woods. | 126 | Y |
| 4.5 | Anastasia Again! | Lowry, Lois | 5 | Anastasia can't see how her parents can even think of moving to the suburbs and enlists her two-year-old brother to prevent the move. | 145 | |
| 4.5 | Anastasia Krupnik | Lowry, Lois | 3 | For ten-year-old Anastasia, life is full of problems like teachers, boys, a grandmother who does not remember her name, and the arrival of a new baby brother. | 113 | Y |
| 4.5 | Army of Terror | Whitman, John | 3 | Tash, Zak, and Uncle Hoole travel to Borborygmus to make sure Gog's project starscreen has been destroyed, but when they find Gog's laboratory, it's empty. Or so they think... | 125 | Y |
| 4.5 | Avalanches (Forces of Nature) | Merrick, Patrick | 0.5 | Discusses what avalanches are, how they occur, and how to protect oneself from avalanches. | 31 | Y |
| 4.5 | Berenstain Bears Don't Pollute (Anymore), The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 0.5 | Brother and Sister Bear create Earthsavers Club to deal with pollution in Bear Country. | 29 | Y |
| 4.5 | Bighorn Sheep, The | Mattern, Joanne | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and life cycle of the bighorn sheep. | 48 | Y |
| 4.5 | Breaking the Ice | Lowell, Melissa | 4 | Nikki soon realizes that being a member of the Silver Blades skating club is going to be tougher than she thought, and she will have to work twice as hard to stay on top. | 135 | Y |
| 4.5 | Bridge to the Moon | Schraff, Anne | 2 | Jonathan becomes assistant editor for his school's paper, but not everyone is happy for him. Sequel to Maitland's Kid. | 98 | |
| 4.5 | Cages | Kehret, Peg | 5 | After losing an acting role and fighting with her alcoholic stepfather, Kit is arrested for shoplifting and ordered to work as part of her sentence at an animal shelter. | 150 | Y |
| 4.5 | Catundra | Cosgrove, Stephen | 0.5 | Through exercise and a healthy diet, fat cat Catundra becomes a trim and terrific tabby. | 28 | Y |
| 4.5 | Christmas in Silver Lake | Hubbard, Coleen | 3 | Eleven year old Erika has difficulty adjusting to life in Minnesota when her family mores there from Germany in 1880, but a special Clydesdale horse not only helps her fit in, but saves her life. | 125 | |
| 4.5 | Cobras (Great American Muscle Cars) | Ethan, Eric | 0.5 | This book surveys the history of the Shelby Cobra and its designs, engines, performance, and costs. | 24 | |
| 4.5 | Cobras (Snake Discovery) | Bargar/Johnson | 0.5 | An introduction to the physical characteristics, natural environment, and relationship to human beings of the various species of cobras. | 24 | |
| 4.5 | Common Dolphins (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 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 |
| 4.5 | Deadly Diamonds, The | Swinburne, Laurence | 1 | Briefly traces the history and attendant bad luck of the Regent, Bigott, Hope, and other famous diamonds. | 48 | |
| 4.5 | Disappearing Dinosaurs, The | Strickland/Fuller | 5 | Wishbone and his friends get trapped inside a dark museum while someone tries to steal rare dinosaur bones. | 141 | |
| 4.5 | Dracula and Other Vampire Stories | Kudalis, Eric | 0.5 | The vampire Dracula pursues his hunger for human blood, both in Transylvania and London. Includes information about vampire stories in books and films and the historical background of Dracula. | 48 | Y |
| 4.5 | Egyptian Cinderella, The | Climo, Shirley | 0.5 | In this version of Cinderella set in Egypt in the sixth century B. C., Rhodopes, a slave girl, eventually comes to be chosen by the Pharaoh to be his queen. | 28 | Y |
| 4.5 | Floods (Nature's Fury) | Meister, Cari | 0.5 | This book discusses the nature, causes, and dangers of floods, floods of the past, and ways to survive them. | 32 | |
| 4.5 | Fly the Unfriendly Skies (Strange Matter) | Engle, Marty M. | 2 | Abducted from an airplane, twelve-year-old Morgan Taylor and his older sister find themselves aboard an alien spacecraft. | 119 | |
| 4.5 | Fox Steals Home, The | Christopher, Matt | 4 | Already troubled by his parents' divorce, Bobby Canfield is further distressed when he learns that his father, who coached him in running bases, intends to move away. | 178 | Y |
| 4.5 | Great UFO Frame-Up, The | Horton, Randy | 1 | Jed hates astronomy class and comes up with an idea to get out of class for the rest of the semester. | 46 | Y |
| 4.5 | Grizzlies (A True Book) | Lepthien, Emilie U. | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics and habits of the North American brown bear known as the grizzly. | 48 | Y |
| 4.5 | Gullifur's Travels | Strickland, Brad/Barbara | 4 | This is a humorous tale about being shipwrecked on strange islands where giants and tiny people rule. | 139 | |
| 4.5 | Harriet the Spy | Fitzhugh, Louise | 8 | Harriet's notebook of her feelings about classmates and neighbors is found by her classmates. | 298 | Y |
| 4.5 | Hobie Hanson, You're Weird | Gilson, Jamie | 5 | No matter what Hobie does on his summer vacation, Molly Bosco always seems to be there. | 169 | |
| 4.5 | Homer Sweet Homer | Jablonski, Carla | 4 | Wishbone gets kidnapped and his favorite tree is in danger of being bulldozed. He imagines himself as Odysseus as he struggles to return to his homeland. | 143 | |
| 4.5 | Horse for Hannah, A | Hubbard, Coleen | 2 | Although at first unhappy that her birthday present is a trip to England and not a horse, Hannah falls in love with and England Hackney and is distressed that she may have to leave the gentle horse behind. | 121 | |
| 4.5 | How You Were Born | Cole, Joanna | 0.5 | Text and photographs explain how a baby is conceived, how it grows inside a mother's womb, and how it is born. | 48 | Y |
| 4.5 | Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth | Konigsburg, E.L. | 3 | Lonely Elizabeth decides to be an apprentice witch to Jennifer, and that's when the fun starts. | 117 | Y |
| 4.5 | Just Call Me Stupid | Birdseye, Tom | 5 | A teacher and a classmate help a troubled boy learn how to read. | 181 | Y |
| 4.5 | Leo the Lop | Cosgrove, Stephen | 0.5 | Leo, the rabbit whose ears are different from all the other rabbits, learns that 'normal is whatever you are.' | 26 | Y |
| 4.5 | Linnea in Monet's Garden | Bjork, Christina | 1 | When Linnea visits Claude Monet's garden she explores Monet's life and what an being an impressionist is all about. | 53 | Y |
| 4.5 | Manmade Monsters | Gentle/Perry | 0.5 | This book examines monsters fashioned from organic or robotic parts, both in literature and movies, including Frankenstein and the computer HAL, from "2001: A Space Odyssey." | 24 | |
| 4.5 | Many Moons | Thurber, James | 0.5 | Story of a princess who wears the moon like a necklace. | 30 | Y |
| 4.5 | Mars (Our Universe) | George, Michael | 0.5 | Reviews the history of Earth's observation of the red planet since ancient times, and looks at the results of modern scientific studies carried out by telescope, satellite, and landing probe. | 32 | Y |
| 4.5 | Martin's Mice | King-Smith, Dick | 3 | A farm cat who doesn't want to catch mice keeps a family of them as pets in the barn; but then he is given away to a townswoman and acquires a new perspective. | 122 | Y |
| 4.5 | Mick Harte Was Here | Park, Barbara | 2 | A young girl copes with the death of her brother in a bike accident. | 88 | Y |
| 4.5 | Midnight Fridge, The | Glassman, Bruce S. | 0.5 | Late one night, all the foods in the refrigerator start arguing about which one is the best. | 30 | Y |
| 4.5 | Mutt in the Iron Muzzle, The | Friedman, Michael Jan | 4 | Imagining himself as Philippe, twin brother of the king of France, Wishbone must decide if he should risk everything to escape his iron mask and trade it in for the king's crown. | 135 | |
| 4.5 | Number the Stars | Lowry, Lois | 4 | In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis. | 137 | Y |
| 4.5 | Onion John | Krumgold, Joseph | 8 | An old man teaches his young friends the value of friendship. | 248 | Y |
| 4.5 | Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog, The | Erickson, John R. | 3 | Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, is accused of the murder of a chicken and becomes an outlaw with the coyotes. | 136 | Y |
| 4.5 | Owls (Welcome to the World of Animals) | Swanson, Diane | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics, behaviors, and habitats of these birds with sharp beaks, sharp claws, and super-sharp senses. | 32 | Y |
| 4.5 | Ox-Cart Man | Hall, Donald | 0.5 | Describes the day-to-day life of an early nineteenth century New England family throughout the changing seasons. | 37 | Y |
| 4.5 | Plant That Ate Dirty Socks Goes up in Space, The | McArthur, Nancy | 4 | The boys' school gets involved in the mission to build a mock spaceship, trying space food, and counting down to blastoff. | 140 | Y |
| 4.5 | Rainforests (Biomes of Nature) | Murray, Peter | 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 |
| 4.5 | Rattlebang Picnic, The | Mahy, Margaret | 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 |
| 4.5 | Return of the Eagle, The | Buchanan, Paul | 1 | Jack and some friends hear a train at night even though there are no trains running through their town. | 54 | Y |
| 4.5 | Riding Freedom | Ryan, Pam Munoz | 3 | Charlotte (Charley) Parkhurst runs away from an orphanage, poses as a boy, moves to California, and fools everyone by her appearance. | 138 | Y |
| 4.5 | Sasquatch | Smith, Roland | 5 | In an attempt to protect the resident Sasquatch from ruthless hunters, thirteen-year-old Dylan follows his father into the woods on the slopes of Mount Saint Helens, which is on the brink of another eruption, | 188 | Y |
| 4.5 | Sea Horses (A True Book) | Landau, Elaine | 0.5 | This is an introduction to sea horses, describing their physical characteristics and habits, as well as their suitability as pets. | 47 | |
| 4.5 | Sea Turtles (A True Book) | Lepthien, Emilie U. | 0.5 | An introduction to sea turtles: where they live, what they eat, how they breed and nest. | 48 | Y |
| 4.5 | Someday the Sun Will Shine Again | Schraff, Anne | 3 | Josephine Thorpe has survived harsh working conditions, a tyrannical boss, and an unsympathetic aunt. But now she has lost her job and once again must struggle to survive. | 124 | |
| 4.5 | Someone Was Watching | Patneaude, David | 6 | Chris has a hard time adjusting to his younger sister's disappearance and decides to seek out the kidnappers. | 220 | Y |
| 4.5 | SOS Titanic | Bunting, Eve | 6 | Fifteen-year-old Barry O'Neill, traveling from Ireland to America on the maiden voyage of the Titanic, finds his life endangered when the ship hits an iceberg and begins to sink. | 243 | Y |
| 4.5 | Sperm Whales (Checkerboard) | Prevost, John F. | 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 |
| 4.5 | Stallion of Box Canyon, The | Malcolm, Jahnna N. | 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 | |
| 4.5 | Stray, The | King-Smith, Dick | 3 | When seventy-five-year-old Henny Hickathrift runs away from the old people's home, she meets five children and their parents, who welcome her into their family. | 139 | Y |
| 4.5 | Sun (Galaxy) | Vogt, Gregory L. | 0.5 | This book discusses the rotation, interior, surface features, atmosphere, and exploration of the Sun, including solar wind and the Sun's place in the solar system. | 24 | Y |
| 4.5 | Three Little Pigs, The | Kellogg, Steven | 0.5 | In this retelling of a well-known tale, Serafina Sow starts her own waffle selling business in order to enable her three offspring to prepare for the future, which includes an encounter with a surly wolf. | 30 | Y |
| 4.5 | Thunderstorms (A True Book) | Sipiera, Paul/Diane | 0.5 | Introduces thunderstorms by explaining the weather conditions which cause them and describing the damage which severe storms can cause. | 48 | Y |
| 4.5 | Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story | Hahn, Mary Downing | 6 | When Drew goes to spend the summer with his great-aunt in the family's old house, he is drawn 80 years into the past to trade places with his great-great-uncle, a boy who is deathly ill with diphtheria. | 165 | Y |
| 4.5 | Trail Mates | Bryant, Bonnie | 4 | Carole is concerned about the attention her dad is paying to a woman in his life after her mother's death. | 133 | Y |
| 4.5 | Treasure of Skeleton Reef, The | Strickland/Fuller | 5 | Joe and Wishbone are on hand to help restore an old building. | 139 | |
| 4.5 | Tulips (Flowers) | Prevost, John F. | 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 | |
| 4.5 | Tyrannosaurus Rex and Barnum Brown | Hartzog, Brooke | 0.5 | Recounts the life and fossil discoveries of Barnum Brown, the paleontologist who, in 1908, discovered the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus skeleton that had ever been found. | 24 | Y |
| 4.5 | Ugly Duckling, The | Andersen, Hans Christian | 0.5 | Turned away by his own family and ridiculed by other creatures, the ugly duckling begins a lonely journey to find acceptance. Share his triumph when a surprising discovery turns his sadness to joy. | 30 | Y |
| 4.5 | Uranus (A True Book) | Brimner, Larry Dane | 0.5 | This book discusses the discovery, rotation, unique tilt, rings, moons, and other aspects of the seventh planet from the sun. | 47 | |
| 4.5 | Vampire Bats (Checkerboard) | Gerholdt, Pamela J. | 0.5 | Learn all about the Vampire Bat. Find out where they live, how they see in the dark, and how they find food. | 21 | Y |
| 4.5 | Welcome Comfort | Polacco, Patricia | 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 |
| 4.5 | Wetlands (A True Book) | Stille, Darlene R. | 0.5 | This book examines the different types of wetlands and the plant and animal life they support. | 47 | |
| 4.5 | Whitetails for Kids/Whitetail Magic for Kids | Wolpert, Tom | 0.5 | This book depicts the birth, development, and behavior of a whitetail deer during its first year of life. | 48 | |
| 4.5 | Wringer | Spinelli, Jerry | 5 | As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it. | 228 | Y |
| 4.5 | Yang the Third and Her Impossible Family | Namioka, Lensey | 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 | |
| 4.6 | 4B Goes Wild | Gilson, Jamie | 4 | Fourth-graders on a three-day camping trip with their teachers experience frights and delights. | 147 | |
| 4.6 | Adaline Falling Star | Osborne, Mary Pope | 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 |
| 4.6 | Anastasia at This Address | Lowry, Lois | 4 | Ready for romance, thirteen-year-old Anastasia answers an ad in the personals with an exaggerated description of herself but soon runs into trouble when the unknown man turns up at a friend's wedding. | 129 | Y |
| 4.6 | Animal, the Vegetable and John D Jones, The | Byars, Betsy | 4 | Clara and Deanie can't stand John D. Jones, the son of their divorced father's girlfriend. The feeling is mutual, and John D. dubs the girls the Animal and the Vegetable. It takes a near tragedy to bring them together. | 150 | Y |
| 4.6 | Attaboy, Sam! | Lowry, Lois | 3 | Sam is able to help his sister Anastasia with the poem she is writing for their mother's birthday, but his own efforts to create a special perfume are disastrous. | 116 | Y |
| 4.6 | Bears (Welcome to the World of Animals) | Swanson, Diane | 0.5 | This book introduces different species of bears and their physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior. | 32 | Y |
| 4.6 | Big Cats Past and Present | Johnston, Marianne | 0.5 | This book describes the prehistoric ancestors, evolution, and modern-day members of the cat family. | 24 | Y |
| 4.6 | Big Sundae, The | Horton, Randy | 1 | Monty accidentally skis into the middle of a birthday party, and everyone thinks he is a professional ski jumper. Monty must face his fear or back down when he is asked to perform again. | 49 | Y |
| 4.6 | Blue-Eyed Daisy, A | Rylant, Cynthia | 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 | |
| 4.6 | Boys Start the War, The | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 4 | A rollicking family feud escalates into a war of wits and pranks. | 133 | Y |
| 4.6 | Brain Spiders, The | Whitman, John | 3 | Zak and Tash are forced to fight to protect the galaxy from a monstrous brain spider. | 130 | |
| 4.6 | Bridge to Terabithia | Paterson, Katherine | 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 |
| 4.6 | Case of the Halloween Ghost, The | Erickson, John R. | 3 | Hank the Cowdog has one of the scariest adventures of his life when he and his cowardly companion Drover find themselves in a strange and spooky place on Halloween night. | 131 | Y |
| 4.6 | Christmas Witch, The | Kellogg, Steven | 0.5 | Gloria must prove that she has what it takes to become a Christmas Witch by bringing peace to a planet occupied by two feuding factions. | 37 | |
| 4.6 | Class Clown | Hurwitz, Johanna | 2 | Lucas Cott, the class clown, wants to become the perfect student but finds it hard to change his ways. | 98 | Y |
| 4.6 | Cottonmouths (Snake Discovery) | Bargar/Johnson | 0.5 | An introduction to the physical characteristics, habits, natural environment, and relationship to human beings of various species of cottonmouths, also known as water moccasins. | 24 | Y |
| 4.6 | Creole | Cosgrove, Stephen | 0.5 | Creole makes the other swamp kids look beyond her appearance to see her inner beauty. | 28 | Y |
| 4.6 | Dangerous Ground | Skurzynski, Gloria | 5 | A young girl and her aunt are caught up in a desperate struggle for survival in Yellowstone National Park. | 152 | Y |
| 4.6 | Dark-Thirty, The | McKissack, Patricia C. | 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 |
| 4.6 | Dog on Barkham Street, A | Stolz, Mary | 5 | For Edward Frost, getting a dog and getting rid of the bully, Martin Hastings, seem equally unlikely. | 184 | Y |
| 4.6 | Doomsday Ship, The | Whitman, John | 4 | Zak and Tash are trapped on the ship, when everyone is evacuated and the systems are shut down. | 128 | |
| 4.6 | Dragonslayers, The | Coville, Bruce | 3 | Someone has to kill the dragon that Grizelda made to get revenge on King Mildred. | 119 | Y |
| 4.6 | Earthquake Terror | Kehret, Peg | 4 | When an earthquake hits the isolated island in northern California where his family had been camping, Jonathan must find a way to keep himself, his sister, and their dog alive until help arrives. | 132 | Y |
| 4.6 | Ella Enchanted | Levine, Gail Carson | 8 | In this novel based on Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given. | 229 | Y |
| 4.6 | Fishing Spiders (Spiders Discovery) | Martin, Louise | 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 |
| 4.6 | Fortune-Tellers, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 0.5 | A carpenter goes to a fortune teller and finds the predictions about his future coming true in an unusual way. | 27 | Y |
| 4.6 | Great Gilly Hopkins, The | Paterson, Katherine | 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 |
| 4.6 | Greatest Heroes, The | Schraff, Anne | 4 | Ken Sutton is a good American citizen. But he know that the war in Vietnam is wrong. When his efforts to stop it fail, where will his loyalties lie? | 143 | |
| 4.6 | Hattie and the Wild Waves | Cooney, Barbara | 0.5 | A young Brooklyn girl from a wealthy German American Family dreams of becoming an artist. | 34 | Y |
| 4.6 | Henry and Beezus | Cleary, Beverly | 4 | Accompanied by friend Beezus, bubble-gum tycoon Henry schemes to get a bike of his own. | 192 | Y |
| 4.6 | Henry and Ribsy | Cleary, Beverly | 3 | Henry Huggins and his dog, Ribsy, go fishing and end up as wet as the huge salmon they try to catch. | 192 | Y |
| 4.6 | Horse Play | Bryant, Bonnie | 4 | Stevie overhears a conversation that tells her the riding instructor is in financial trouble. Can the Saddle Club find a way to help? | 134 | |
| 4.6 | House in the Snow, The | Engh, M.J. | 4 | Benjamin and Mackie try to help seven boys that have been kidnapped and held inside a haunted house by invisible robbers who appear to have invisible powers. | 132 | Y |
| 4.6 | House on Hackman's Hill, The | Nixon, Joan Lowery | 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 |
| 4.6 | Ichthyosaurus and Little Mary Anning | Hartzog, Brooke | 0.5 | An account of the English girl who, at age twelve, discovered the first complete ichthyosaurus skeleton, and who continued to collect and study fossils throughout her life. | 24 | Y |
| 4.6 | I'm Not Who You Think I Am | Kehret, Peg | 4 | Thirteen-year-old Ginger becomes the target of a disturbed woman who believes that Ginger is her dead daughter. | 154 | Y |
| 4.6 | In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson | Lord, Bette Bao | 4 | In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn, where she starts to feel at home and makes friends when she discovers baseball and the Brooklyn Dodgers. | 169 | Y |
| 4.6 | Indian in the Cupboard, The | Banks, Lynne Reid | 6 | A young boy discovers that his magic cupboard and key can turn toys into live people and animals. | 181 | Y |
| 4.6 | Island on Bird Street, The | Orlev, Uri | 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 |
| 4.6 | Kate's Secret Plan | Saunders, Susan | 3 | In 1926, ten-year-old Kate is convinced that her horse can win the cattle cutting contest at the annual fair and determines to participate even though the contest is open only to boys. | 121 | |
| 4.6 | Key to the Golden Dog | Capeci, Anne | 4 | Wishbone and Samantha must find out who stole Mr. Ottinger's model railroad system from Pete's pizza parlor before the bad publicity shuts him down. | 140 | |
| 4.6 | Kitty in the Middle | Delton, Judy | 3 | First love, a madcap mix-up at a stranger's wedding, and exploring a mysterious old house are some of the experiences that make fourth grade exciting for three friends. | 135 | |
| 4.6 | Light on Hogback Hill, The | DeFelice, Cynthia | 4 | A girl befriends and learns the truth about the deformed recluse she had previously feared. | 139 | Y |
| 4.6 | Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body, The | Cole, Joanna | 0.5 | When Ms. Frizzle takes their third field trip, it is inside Arnold's body. | 36 | Y |
| 4.6 | Manatees for Kids/Manatee Magic for Kids | Corrigan, Patricia | 0.5 | Information about the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the manatee is woven into a story. | 44 | |
| 4.6 | Medieval Feast, A | Aliki | 0.5 | Describes the preparations and celebration of a medieval feast held at an English manor house entertaining royal guests. | 27 | Y |
| 4.6 | Middle Moffat, The | Estes, Eleanor | 6 | Jane is always in the middle of all the fun, whether it's a fast and furious card game with the oldest inhabitant of Cranbury, playing the old pump organ and blowing out moths instead of music; or losing her head in the middle of the school play. | 234 | |
| 4.6 | Monster at Loch Ness | Berke, Sally | 1 | Discusses the legends and the evidence concerning the origins and existence of the Loch Ness monster. | 48 | |
| 4.6 | Morgans | Gentle/Perry | 0.5 | Describes the physical features and other characteristics of the first original American horse breed. | 24 | Y |
| 4.6 | Murder in the Middle Pasture | Erickson, John R. | 3 | When a calf is murdered, Hank, the wily Cowdog and Head of Ranch Security, pursues a gang of wild dogs and a clan of coyotes to find the killer. | 131 | Y |
| 4.6 | Muttketeer! | Crider, Bill | 4 | Wishbone clashes with an evil official and his sinister sidekicks, who are trying to take over the French government. | 133 | Y |
| 4.6 | Mystery of Dreams, The | Green, Carl | 1 | Dream analysis and interpretation are studied in the exploration of how and why people dream. | 48 | |
| 4.6 | Neptune (A True Book) | Brimner, Larry Dane | 0.5 | This book describes the eighth planet from the Sun, its orbit, rotation, gassy surface, rings, moons, and the visit by the Voyager 2 probe. | 47 | |
| 4.6 | Nightmare Mountain | Kehret, Peg | 5 | Twelve-year-old Molly's visit to her aunt and uncle's llama ranch in the state of Washington leads her into unexpected danger and suspense. | 164 | Y |
| 4.6 | Not-Just-Anybody Family, The | Byars, Betsy | 4 | A warm comedy demonstrates how both good and bad times help to unite a family, even one as strange as the unforgettable Blossom family. | 149 | Y |
| 4.6 | On the Banks of Plum Creek | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 8 | After moving to Minnesota, the Ingalls family encounters a terrible blizzard and a grasshopper plague. | 339 | Y |
| 4.6 | One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale | Demi | 0.5 | A reward of one grain of rice doubles day by day into millions of grains of rice when a selfish raja is outwitted by a clever village girl. | 34 | Y |
| 4.6 | Otters (Welcome to the World of Animals) | Swanson, Diane | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of both sea otters and river otters. | 32 | Y |
| 4.6 | Parrots and Parakeets as Pets (A True Book) | Landau, Elaine | 0.5 | Suggests what to consider when selecting a parrot or parakeet for a pet, and explains its housing, food, and health care needs. | 48 | Y |
| 4.6 | Penguins (Bird Discovery) | Stone, Lynn M. | 0.5 | Describes the appearance, habits, habitat, daily life, infancy, and enemies of the bird that travels on land and in the water but not in the air. | 24 | Y |
| 4.6 | Rapunzel | Zelinsky, Paul O. | 0.5 | The story recounts the German folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress. | 35 | Y |
| 4.6 | Return of the Indian, The | Banks, Lynne Reid | 5 | In this sequel to Indian In The Cupboard, Omri brings Little Bear to life again and begins a spellbinding adventure. | 189 | Y |
| 4.6 | Riddle of the Wayward Books | Strickland/Fuller | 5 | Joe realizes there is something strange going on when he narrowly escapes from a burglar one night at the store. | 139 | |
| 4.6 | Rocks and Minerals (From This Earth) | Russell, William | 0.5 | Discover the many uses for minerals. | 24 | Y |
| 4.6 | Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief | Van Draanen, Wendelin | 6 | Sammy's penchant for speaking her mind gets her into trouble when she involves herself in the investigation of a robbery. | 163 | Y |
| 4.6 | Scooter | Williams, Vera B. | 3 | A child's silver blue scooter helps her adjust to her new home. | 147 | Y |
| 4.6 | Seal Oil Lamp, The | DeArmond, Dale | 1 | A retelling of a traditional Eskimo tale of how a seven-year-old blind boy is saved from death by the kindly little mouse people. | 32 | Y |
| 4.6 | Secret of Gumbo Grove, The | Tate, Eleanora E. | 7 | While helping restore the cemetery of the old Baptist church, eleven-year-old Raisin solves the mystery surrounding the founding of her home town and gains pride in her family's past. | 199 | Y |
| 4.6 | Sisters, Long Ago | Kehret, Peg | 5 | When Willow Paige nearly drowns, she envisions scenes from a past life which lead to an exploration of reincarnation and mental telepathy and set her on a quest to help give hope and strength to her sister who has leukemia. | 149 | |
| 4.6 | Solar System (A True Book), The | Sipiera, Paul P. | 0.5 | Describes the sun, the planets, and the asteroids that make up our solar system. | 48 | Y |
| 4.6 | Stars (A True Book) | Sipiera, Paul P. | 0.5 | Explains the nature, formation, and death of stars. | 48 | Y |
| 4.6 | Sun (Our Universe), The | George, Michael | 0.5 | Describes the appearance, activities and life cycle of the Earth's source of light and heat. | 32 | Y |
| 4.6 | Switcharound | Lowry, Lois | 3 | Forced to spend a summer with their father and his "new" family, Caroline and P.J. are determined to get revenge in this sequel to The One Hundred Things About Caroline. | 118 | Y |
| 4.6 | Tale of Two Sitters, A | Barkan, Joanne | 5 | Wishbone imagines himself as a wealthy Frenchman who must flea his homeland when war breaks out. | 157 | |
| 4.6 | Terror at the Zoo | Kehret, Peg | 5 | A camp-out at a deserted zoo turns scary for Corey and her little brother. | 131 | Y |
| 4.6 | This Island Isn't Big Enough for the Four of Us! | Greer, Gery | 4 | Peter and Scott excitedly plan a camping trip to a deserted island, only to arrive and discover that two girls with zany senses of humor are already in residence. | 151 | Y |
| 4.6 | Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig, The | Trivizas, Eugene | 0.5 | A hilarious retelling in reverse of the traditional story of the villainous monster who destroys homes. | 28 | Y |
| 4.6 | Thunder Rolling in the Mountains | O'Dell, Scott | 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 | |
| 4.6 | Wait Till Helen Comes | Hahn, Mary Downing | 5 | Molly must put aside her feelings for her spooky step-sister, when she realizes that the girl is being influenced by a ghost. | 184 | Y |
| 4.6 | Winged Colt of Casa Mia, The | Byars, Betsy | 4 | Charles was a serious, bookish kid whose mother had sent him out to his uncle's ranch for the summer. Uncle Coot was tired and bitter. The two just had nothing in common--until an amazing colt that can fly brings them together. | 128 | |
| 4.6 | Winnie-The-Pooh | Milne, A.A. | 3 | Winnie-the-Pooh and all his friends delight readers with their adventurous exploits. | 161 | Y |
| 4.6 | Winning of Miss Lynn Ryan, The | Cooper, Ilene | 3 | No matter how hard she tries, Carrie fails to impress her attractive, new fifth-grade teacher, who favors the more popular members of the class and either ignores or criticizes Carrie and her new friend Luke, the class nerd. | 123 | |
| 4.6 | Winter at Wolf Crossing | Schraff, Anne | 3 | Alice Dexter, the new teacher for the one-room schoolhouse in Wolf Crossing, Wyoming, tries to avoid getting involved in her students' private lives, but realizes that some things just can't be ignored. | 134 | |
| 4.6 | Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear | Namioka, Lensey | 3 | Newly arrived in Seattle from Shanghai, Yingtao is an outsider in his musical family because he's tone-deaf. | 134 | Y |
| 4.6 | Your Pet Hamster (A True Book) | Landau, Elaine | 0.5 | A simple introduction to having a hamster as a pet. | 48 | |
| 4.6 | Zeely | Hamilton, Virginia | 4 | Geeder's summer at her uncle's farm is made special because of her friendship with a very tall, composed woman who raises hogs and who closely resembles the magazine photograph of a Watutsi queen. | 122 | Y |
| 4.7 | 18th Emergency, The | Byars, Betsy | 4 | Benjie is adept in coping with 17 kinds of emergencies, but the 18th is a big bully named Hammerman, who waits for him after school. | 120 | Y |
| 4.7 | Aldo Applesauce | Hurwitz, Johanna | 2 | When he and his family move to the suburbs, Aldo has difficulty finding new friends. | 127 | Y |
| 4.7 | Anastasia, Absolutely | Lowry, Lois | 4 | Thirteen-year-old Anatasia Krupnick has more adventures as she tries to deal with a new dog, her school values class, and a personal moral dilemma. | 119 | Y |
| 4.7 | Appaloosas | Gentle/Perry | 0.5 | Describes the history and characteristics that distinguish these horses from other breeds. | 24 | Y |
| 4.7 | Bear Called Paddington, A | Bond, Michael | 4 | A bear from darkest Peru goes to live with a family in London. | 128 | |
| 4.7 | Berenstain Bear Scouts Ghost versus Ghost, The | Berenstain, Stan/Jan | 2 | The Bear Scouts are going for their Wilderness Survival Badge. Some bears think the Great Grizzly Forest is haunted, but the bears are going to try to survive one night in the woods of Great Grizzly. | 98 | |
| 4.7 | Black Widow Spiders (Spiders Discovery) | Martin, Louise | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the shy but poisonous ( female only ) black widow spider. | 24 | Y |
| 4.7 | Break with Charity, A | Rinaldi, Ann | 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 |
| 4.7 | Brickyard 400 | Ethan, Eric | 0.5 | This book describes one of the newest NASCAR races, the Brickyard 400, held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. | 24 | |
| 4.7 | Butterworts: Greasy Cups of Death | Gentle, Victor | 0.5 | Introduces these carnivorous plants by describing their traps, plant types, flower, diet, and nutrient-poor habitats with the consequent benefit of carnivory. | 24 | |
| 4.7 | Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets | Pilkey, Dav | 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 | |
| 4.7 | Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants | Pilkey, Dav | 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 | |
| 4.7 | Chocolate Touch, The | Catling, Patrick | 2 | Instead of gold, everything John Midas touched turns to precious chocolate. | 87 | Y |
| 4.7 | City of the Dead | Whitman, John | 4 | Zak accepts a dare from some new kids he meets to prove he is as tough as they are, but he should have thought twice before going into a cemetery at night. | 141 | Y |
| 4.7 | Climb or Die | Myers, Edward | 5 | A sister and brother must rescue their injured parents after a car accident. | 180 | Y |
| 4.7 | Colorado Summer | Bograd/Hubbard | 3 | Born and bred in New York City, eleven year old Carrie is not looking forward to spending the summer on her aunt's Colorado ranch until she is introduced to Georgia, a Paint horse that is as swift as the wind. | 128 | |
| 4.7 | Come Sing, Jimmy Jo | Paterson, Katherine | 8 | Young James is a singing star on stage, but his offstage world is coming apart. | 178 | Y |
| 4.7 | Coral Reef Hunters | Ethan/Bearanger | 0.5 | Explains about the animals that live around the coral reef and hunt other sea life around the coral reef. | 22 | |
| 4.7 | Creatures of Mystery | Fortman, Jan | 1 | Describes the curious behavior of salmon, lemmings, whales, caribou, and insectivorous plants. | 48 | |
| 4.7 | Danger at the Fair | Kehret, Peg | 5 | Ellen receives a spirit message during a seance at the county fair, warning that her brother Corey is in danger and that she must rescue him. | 133 | Y |
| 4.7 | Danny, the Champion of the World | Dahl, Roald | 6 | A light-hearted tale of Danny and his Dad and the numerous brave and zany adventures they share. | 196 | Y |
| 4.7 | Devil's Bridge | DeFelice, Cynthia | 3 | Twelve-year-old Ben must cope with the loss of his father, who died the year before, and his mother's overprotectiveness when he enters the annual Striped Bass Derby on Martha's Vineyard. | 95 | Y |
| 4.7 | Drive-In of Doom | Strickland/Fuller | 4 | Wishbone, Joe, and their friends are helping Gladys Glendower fix up the old Moonlight Drive-In. | 141 | |
| 4.7 | Drummer Hoff | Emberley, Barbara | 0.5 | A cumulative folk song in which seven soldiers build a magnificent cannon, but Drummer Hoff fires it off. | 26 | Y |
| 4.7 | Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, The | Farmer, Nancy | 12 | In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped and put to work in a plastic mine while three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for them. | 311 | Y |
| 4.7 | Earthquakes (Forces of Nature) | Murray, Peter | 0.5 | Examines earthquakes, what they are, what causes them, and better means of monitoring them. | 31 | Y |
| 4.7 | Elephants (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 0.5 | This book provides information on the ancestors, appearance, behavior, and future of elephants. | 24 | Y |
| 4.7 | Family Under the Bridge, The | Carlson, Natalie Savage | 3 | An old hobo befriends a homeless French family. | 97 | Y |
| 4.7 | Fire (Disaster Discovery) | Conlon, Laura | 0.5 | Brief text examines the disastrous effects of uncontrollable fires, methods of fire extinction and prevention, and ways to protect people during a fire. | 24 | Y |
| 4.7 | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | Konigsburg, E.L. | 5 | Claudia and her brother Jamie run away from home and take up residence in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. | 162 | Y |
| 4.7 | Gaffer Samson's Luck | Walsh, Jill Paton | 4 | James' difficulty in adjusting to a new school and life in the Fens, is further complicated by the request of an elderly neighbor to find his lucky piece, a task which puts James in some danger. | 118 | Y |
| 4.7 | Ghost of the Jedi | Whitman, John | 4 | Tash, Zak, and Uncle Hoole are on the run from Imperial Scientist Borborygmus Gog. The only place to hide is on Nespis 8, but it is haunted by a ghost of a Jedi. | 130 | Y |
| 4.7 | Gnome from Nome, The | Cosgrove, Stephen | 0.5 | The gnome and an otter find that love and friendship can keep you warm. | 28 | Y |
| 4.7 | Grandmother for the Orphelines, A | Carlson, Natalie | 2 | The children from the orphanage set out to find the right grandmother, but go about it the wrong way. | 91 | |
| 4.7 | Great Ghosts | Cohen, Daniel | 1 | Nine of the world's most famous and most frightening ghost stories. | 48 | Y |
| 4.7 | Henry Huggins | Cleary, Beverly | 3 | Third grader Henry Huggins acquires a flea-bitten but charming dog named Ribsy. | 155 | Y |
| 4.7 | Hubert's Hair-Raising Adventure | Peet, Bill | 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 |
| 4.7 | Hurricanes (Forces of Nature) | Murray, Peter | 0.5 | Briefly describes the Hurricane, why they form and where they are the most common. | 31 | Y |
| 4.7 | It's Like This, Cat | Neville, Emily Cheney | 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 |
| 4.7 | Kid's Guide to How Plants Grow, A | Ayers, Patricia | 0.5 | This book briefly describes how different kinds of plants grow and reproduce, as well as their importance to life on Earth. | 24 | Y |
| 4.7 | Knightmare (Strange Matter) | Barnes, Johnny Ray | 3 | Dared by a school friend, Mitchell steals a valuable artifact from an elaborate suit of armor at the museum, beginning a series of terrifying nightmares that could turn out to be all too real. | 125 | |
| 4.7 | Letter, the Witch, and the Ring, The | Bellairs, John | 6 | Rose Rita tries to help a beleaguered witch and is plunged into a world of occult danger. | 188 | Y |
| 4.7 | Lions (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 0.5 | This book discusses lions, their habits and habitat, and includes several lion-related activities. | 24 | Y |
| 4.7 | Little Cats (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 0.5 | This book describes some of the smaller members of the cat family, including the cheetah, puma, and fishing cat. | 24 | Y |
| 4.7 | Louisiana Blue | Hubbard, Coleen | 2 | When her beloved American Saddlebred horse Blue is stolen and her friend Yonie's father is accused of the theft, Patience fights to find Blue and unmask the true thief. | 120 | |
| 4.7 | Love, from the Fifth-Grade Celebrity | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 3 | Casey and Tracy are good friends. When Tracy moves, she and Casey begin to go to school together. Can their friendship be saved? | 118 | Y |
| 4.7 | Maggie, Too | Nixon, Joan Lowery | 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 | |
| 4.7 | Maniac Magee | Spinelli, Jerry | 5 | After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries. | 184 | Y |
| 4.7 | Many Waters | L'Engle, Madeleine | 10 | This continuation of the Time Trilogy finds Sandy and Denny thrown back in time to the days of Noah and the Ark. | 310 | Y |
| 4.7 | Midnight Magic | Avi | 6 | In Italy in 1491, Magnus the Magician and his apprentice are summoned to the castle of King Claudio to determine if his daughter is indeed being haunted by a ghost. | 247 | Y |
| 4.7 | Moonlight Man, The | Wright, Betty Ren | 5 | When their father moves them for the seventh time in the five years since their mother's death, Jenny and her sister hope to stay in this latest house and try to find out about the ghost who seems bent on getting revenge on their elderly neighbors. | 181 | Y |
| 4.7 | Mysterious Mind Powers | Green, Carl | 1 | Using real reported experiences, the authors explore two of the mind's mysteries--telepathy and psychokinesis. | 48 | |
| 4.7 | Night of the Twisters | Ruckman, Ivy | 4 | A twelve-year-old relates an account of the night that freakish and devastating tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska. | 153 | Y |
| 4.7 | Nightingale, The | Andersen, Hans Christian | 0.5 | Despite being neglected by the emperor for a jewel-studded bird, the little nightingale revives the dying ruler with its beautiful song. | 32 | |
| 4.7 | Nightmare Machine, The | Whitman, John | 3 | As Zak and Tash enjoy the attractions at the theme park, they soon find out that nightmares can come true. | 129 | Y |
| 4.7 | On My Honor | Bauer, Marion Dane | 2 | A twelve-year-old boy must learn to live with his fear and grief when his swimming partner drowns. | 90 | Y |
| 4.7 | Palominos | Gentle/Perry | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics and appearance that a palomino horse has, how these horses are bred, and some famous palominos. | 24 | Y |
| 4.7 | Pandas for Kids/Panda Magic for Kids | Feeney, Kathy | 0.5 | Ten-year-old May learns about the appearance and behavior of the giant panda, a symbol for China and a member of an endangered species. | 48 | |
| 4.7 | Parrots (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 0.5 | This book is an introduction to the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environments of various species of parrots. | 24 | Y |
| 4.7 | Plants of the Rain Forest | Woods, Mae | 0.5 | This book introduces the plants of the rain forest, discussing both the forest floor and the treetops and examining how plants interact with the animals and provide food and other products. | 24 | |
| 4.7 | Polly Panic | Shura, Mary Francis | 4 | When disastrous things happen as Polly enters sixth grade, she finds that in dealing with untrustworthy friends, bullies, and family problems, she has overcome her natural fearfulness. | 127 | |
| 4.7 | Pterodactyls (A True Book) | Landau, Elaine | 0.5 | This book describes the characteristics and behavior of the extinct flying reptiles that lived on the Earth during the Mesozoic era. | 47 | Y |
| 4.7 | Radio Fifth Grade | Korman, Gordon | 5 | Mayhem breaks out in the fifthgrade when the Venice Menace bullies his classmates into letting him become a regular guest on "Kidsview," the school's radio program. | 177 | |
| 4.7 | Riding School Rivals | Saunders, Susan | 3 | Cassie and Hillary vie with each other for the privilege of riding Birchwood Stable's new Lipizzan horse in an important horse show. | 120 | |
| 4.7 | Rodeo Rider | Bryant, Bonnie | 4 | The members of the Saddle Club enter a rodeo to try to earn enough money to save the Bar None Ranch. | 132 | |
| 4.7 | Seance, The | Nixon, Joan Lowery | 5 | It started as a game, but the seance led to murder and terror for the people of a small Texas community. | 172 | Y |
| 4.7 | Secret of the Andes | Clark, Ann Nolan | 5 | An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors. | 120 | Y |
| 4.7 | Shoebag | James, Mary | 4 | Shoebag, a happy, young cockroach who finds himself suddenly changed into a little boy, changes the lives of those around him before returning to his former life as an insect. | 135 | Y |
| 4.7 | Smugglers, The | Lawrence, Iain | 6 | In eighteenth-century England, after his father buys a schooner called the Dragon, sixteen-year-old John sets out to sail it from Kent to London and becomes involved in a dangerous smuggling scheme. | 183 | Y |
| 4.7 | Soup on Ice | Peck, Robert Newton | 3 | Rob and Soup engineer an incredible appearance by Santa and his sleigh in their small Vermont town. | 112 | Y |
| 4.7 | Spirit of the West | Malcolm, Jahnna N. | 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 | |
| 4.7 | Stepping on the Cracks | Hahn, Mary Downing | 8 | In 1944, while her brother is overseas fighting in World War II, eleven-year-old Margaret gets a new view of the school bully Gordy when she finds him hiding his own brother, an army deserter, and decides to help him. | 216 | Y |
| 4.7 | Strawberry Autumn | Schraff, Anne | 3 | Grace Foster doesn't see the racial injustices in her hometown, until she discovers a cause of her own worth fighting for. | 135 | |
| 4.7 | Tarantulas (Spiders Discovery) | Martin, Louise | 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 |
| 4.7 | Teacher's Pet | Hurwitz, Johanna | 3 | Nine-year-old Cricket's expectations of being, as always, the teacher's favorite student are dashed by the arrival of an unusual new girl in her fourth-grade class. | 116 | Y |
| 4.7 | Time Cat | Alexander, Lloyd | 5 | Jason and his magic cat Gareth travel through time to visit countries all over the world during different periods of history. | 206 | Y |
| 4.7 | Trapdoor Spiders (Spiders Discovery) | Martin, Louise | 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 |
| 4.7 | Two Bad Ants | Van Allsburg, Chris | 0.5 | Superb illustrations complement a text concerning two naughty ants and a kitchen adventure. | 31 | Y |
| 4.7 | Two Under Par | Henkes, Kevin | 3 | When his mother's new marriage takes them into the household of a miniature golf-course owner, ten-year-old Wedge struggles with feelings of resentment and dislike for his stepfather. | 116 | Y |
| 4.7 | Water Sky | George, Jean Craighead | 7 | While searching for his uncle in Barrow, Alaska, a young boy joins the crew of an Eskimo whaling captain and learns the importance of whaling to the Eskimo culture. | 208 | Y |
| 4.7 | Whales (Welcome to the World of Animals) | Swanson, Diane | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics and behaviors of these large mammals which live in water. | 32 | Y |
| 4.7 | Wheel on the School, The | De Jong, Meindert | 10 | Storks no longer come to the little Dutch fishing village of Shora to nest. Lina devises a plan to bring them back. | 298 | Y |
| 4.7 | Widow's Broom, The | Van Allsburg, Chris | 0.5 | A witch's worn-out broom serves a widow well until her neighbors decide the thing is wicked and dangerous. | 28 | Y |
| 4.7 | Witches, The | Dahl, Roald | 5 | In spite of everything his grandmother has taught him about witches, a young boy gets turned into a mouse but does manage to interrupt their plans. | 208 | Y |
| 4.7 | Wrinkle in Time, A | L'Engle, Madeleine | 7 | Meg Murry and her family receive a surprise visit from an unearthly stranger out of another dimension in time. | 211 | Y |
| 4.8 | Aldo Ice Cream | Hurwitz, Johanna | 2 | Nine-year-old Aldo discovers the pleasures of doing volunteer work to help the older citizens of the community and the satisfactions of earning his first money on his own for unselfish reasons. | 124 | Y |
| 4.8 | Aliens | Gentle/Perry | 0.5 | This book describes how alien monsters have been imagined in books and movies and examines real creatures in nature that resemble or may have served as inspiration for them. | 24 | |
| 4.8 | Aliens Ate My Homework | Coville, Bruce | 5 | Rod has enough troubles, but a tiny spaceship adds more problems to his life. | 179 | Y |
| 4.8 | Among the Hidden | Haddix, Margaret Peterson | 5 | In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong. | 152 | Y |
| 4.8 | And Now Miguel | Krumgold, Joseph | 8 | The secret wish of Miguel Chavez, to go to the mountains with the men of his family, comes true. | 245 | Y |
| 4.8 | Animal Champions 1 (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 0.5 | This book discusses unusual animals which stand out for their abilities or appearance. | 32 | |
| 4.8 | Bats (Creative Ed.) | Wood/Rink | 0.5 | This book explains why bats are such valuable and mysterious creatures. | 24 | Y |
| 4.8 | Bears for Kids/Black Bear Magic for Kids | Fair, Jeff | 0.5 | Examines the habitat, physical characteristics, hibernation, and protection of the black bear. | 48 | |
| 4.8 | Bed-Knob and Broomstick | Norton, Mary | 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 |
| 4.8 | Beezus and Ramona | Cleary, Beverly | 3 | Nine-year-old Beezus finds it difficult to love her troublesome younger sister all the time, but her mother explains why that is all right. | 159 | Y |
| 4.8 | BFG, The | Dahl, Roald | 6 | Luckily for Sophie, the BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who carries her off is nothing like his giant neighbors who are headed for England to gobble children and must be stopped. | 208 | Y |
| 4.8 | Bladderworts: Trapdoors to Oblivion | Gentle, Victor | 0.5 | Introduces these carnivorous plants by describing their traps, plant types, diet, habitat, and possible use against the cane toad plague in Australia. | 24 | |
| 4.8 | Bunnicula Strikes Again! | Howe, James | 3 | When Bunnicula the rabbit starts acting strangely, the Monroe dogs and cat renew their suspicions that he is a vampire. | 116 | Y |
| 4.8 | Camaros (Great American Muscle Cars) | Ethan, Eric | 0.5 | This book surveys the history of the Chevrolet Camaro and its designs, engines, performance, and costs. | 24 | |
| 4.8 | Center Ice | Lowell, Melissa | 4 | Tori is sure she will win a medal in the next major skating competition if only her mother will get her this new skating dress, but her mother seems to have lost interest in Tori's skating. | 132 | |
| 4.8 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Dahl, Roald | 5 | Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way. | 155 | Y |
| 4.8 | Deadly Stranger | Kehret, Peg | 5 | Katie is concerned that she won't fit in at her new school, and when one of her new friends is missing Katie searches for answers. | 174 | Y |
| 4.8 | Dear Mr. Kilmer | Schraff, Anne | 3 | Richard Knight writes poetry. Can a person be sensitive to nature but brave at the same time? Richard learns the answer after he befriends the poet, Joyce Kilmer. | 134 | |
| 4.8 | Doll in the Garden, The | Hahn, Mary Downing | 4 | After Ashley and Kristi find an antique doll buried in old Miss Cooper's garden, they discover that they can enter a ghostly turn-of-the century world by going through a hole in the hedge. | 128 | Y |
| 4.8 | Earthquakes (Nature's Fury) | Meister, Cari | 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 | |
| 4.8 | Figure in the Shadows, The | Bellairs, John | 5 | Entertaining occult novel in which chubby Lewis unlocks the supernatural powers in a magic amulet. | 155 | Y |
| 4.8 | Firebirds (Great American Muscle Cars) | Ethan, Eric | 0.5 | This book surveys the history of the Pontiac Firebird and its designs, engines, performance, and costs. | 24 | |
| 4.8 | Foxes for Kids/Fox Magic for Kids | Schuler, Judy | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and natural environment of five different kinds of foxes which live in North America. | 48 | |
| 4.8 | Gentle Ben | Morey, Walt | 8 | Danger and excitement as young Mark Andersen struggles to save his friend, Ben, the big brown bear. | 191 | Y |
| 4.8 | Ghosts of Mercy Manor, The | Wright, Betty Ren | 5 | Twelve-year-old Gwen, an orphan who comes to live with the Mercy family, discovers that the house is haunted by the ghost of a sad-looking young girl and is determined to solve the mystery behind her appearances. | 172 | Y |
| 4.8 | Great Ideas of Lila Fenwick, The | McMullan, Kate | 4 | Fifth-grader Lila has some truly amazing "Great Ideas" that get her out of and into all kinds of trouble. | 118 | |
| 4.8 | Great White Man-Eating Shark, The | Mahy, Margaret | 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 | |
| 4.8 | Hoof Beat | Bryant, Bonnie | 4 | Lisa has been hired to write "Hoof Beat," a weekly column about riding for the local paper. | 133 | |
| 4.8 | Horse Show | Bryant, Bonnie | 5 | The Saddle Club is thrilled when they get to attend the American Horse Show, where they meet a young actor who they agree to teach to ride. | 135 | |
| 4.8 | Horse Wise | Bryant, Bonnie | 4 | The Pine Hallow Stables has decided to start a pony club, and the girls think it's a chance to improve their knowledge. | 131 | |
| 4.8 | House of Dies Drear, The | Hamilton, Virginia | 9 | This mystery concerns an African-American boy's move to Drear House, which had once played a part in the Underground Railroad. | 279 | Y |
| 4.8 | Hugh Pine | VanDeWetering, Jan | 2 | A clever porcupine saves his forest friends from speeding cars. | 83 | |
| 4.8 | Hurricanes (Nature's Fury) | Meister, Cari | 0.5 | This book discusses the nature, causes, and dangers of hurricanes, hurricanes of the past, and ways to survive them. | 32 | |
| 4.8 | Icelandic Ponies | Schrenk, Hans-Jorg | 0.5 | This book is a study of Icelandic Ponies. | 48 | |
| 4.8 | Ida Early Comes over the Mountain | Burch, Robert | 4 | Tough times in rural Georgia during the Depression take a lively turn when spirited Ida Early arrives to keep house for the Suttons. | 145 | Y |
| 4.8 | It's a Dog's Life | Erickson, John R. | 3 | Duped into thinking the world is coming to an end, Hank the Cowdog winds up in town for some more adventures, including getting in and out of a case of "soap hydrophobia." | 136 | Y |
| 4.8 | James and the Giant Peach | Dahl, Roald | 4 | Madcap adventures take place as young James enters a peach as big as a house and encounters wonderful new friends. | 126 | Y |
| 4.8 | Jenius: The Amazing Guinea Pig | King-Smith, Dick | 1 | Eight-year-old Judy tries to convince her parents and classmates that her brilliant guinea pig can do all the tricks she says. | 52 | Y |
| 4.8 | Kidnappers: A Mystery, The | Roberts, Willo Davis | 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 |
| 4.8 | Killer Whales: The Orcas of the Pacific Ocean | Nielsen, Nancy | 0.5 | Includes full-color photographs of Killer Whales or Orcas that inhabit cold coastal waters. | 47 | Y |
| 4.8 | Lemurs and Other Animals of the Madagascar Rain Forest | Martin, James | 0.5 | Lemurs are like humans in many ways. They are curious and very careful when something new appears in the forest. | 47 | Y |
| 4.8 | Magic and Magicians | Burgess, Michael | 1 | Discusses past and present manifestations of magic, both the supernatural kind and the magic illusions created as a form of entertainment. | 48 | Y |
| 4.8 | Match Point | Cruise, Robin | 1 | Emily learns to enjoy tennis through her mother's urgings. | 52 | Y |
| 4.8 | Monsters of the Deep | Gentle/Perry | 0.5 | This book discusses some of the large and frightening creatures that live, or are believed to have lived, in the world's oceans. | 24 | |
| 4.8 | Moses the Kitten | Herriot, James | 0.5 | A bedraggled orphaned kitten is nursed back to health on a Yorkshire farm. When he recovers, he has a very unusual idea about the identity of his mother. | 16 | Y |
| 4.8 | Much Ado About Aldo | Hurwitz, Johanna | 1 | Owing to a school project, eight-year-old Aldo decides to give up eating meat. | 95 | Y |
| 4.8 | My Name Is Not Angelica | O'Dell, Scott | 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 |
| 4.8 | Mysterious Caravan, The | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5 | When the Hardy Boys take a winter vacation in Jamaica, Joe finds an ancient bronze death mask washed up near their beach house during a violent storm. | 182 | Y |
| 4.8 | Mystery in Peru: The Lines of Nazca | McMullen, David | 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 | |
| 4.8 | Night the Bells Rang, The | Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie | 1 | The last year of World War I is an eventful one for Vermont farm boy mason as he helps with the chores, tries to get along with his little brother, and sees an older bully go off to the war. | 79 | Y |
| 4.8 | Noonday Friends, The | Stolz, Mary | 6 | Two young friends stop speaking to each other, even though they can't remember why they argued in the first place. This is just one more thing on top of the other problems that each has with her own family. | 182 | Y |
| 4.8 | Nutty for President | Hughes, Dean | 4 | One look at the new kid eating in the school cafeteria, and everyone agrees-- William Bilks is a nerd. But Nutty and his friends are in for a big surprise, because William is really a genius in disguise. | 117 | |
| 4.8 | Owls for Kids/Owl Magic for Kids | Niemuth, Neal | 0.5 | Information about the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of snowy owls is woven into a story. | 47 | |
| 4.8 | Paints and Pintos | Gentle/Perry | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics of both paint and pinto horses and what differentiates these two breeds. | 24 | Y |
| 4.8 | Quentin Corn | Stolz, Mary | 4 | Quentin Corn's life on the farm goes from dull to terrifying when poor Quentin learns that he's about to be barbecued. So the quick-witted pig runs away disguised as a boy! | 122 | Y |
| 4.8 | Ramona and Her Mother | Cleary, Beverly | 4 | Now that her daddy has a job, Ramona hopes that her mother will stop working. If Mrs. Quimby stays home again, Ramona won't have to stay with Howie's grandmother after school, and her parents won't be so tired and irritable. | 182 | Y |
| 4.8 | Ramona Forever | Cleary, Beverly | 4 | Ramona is back and funnier than ever as she prepares for her aunt's wedding and the move her family might make. | 182 | Y |
| 4.8 | Rat Snakes (Snake Discovery) | Bargar/Johnson | 0.5 | Discusses the harmless rat snake, which benefits farmers by devouring thousands of rats each year. | 24 | Y |
| 4.8 | Remarkable Rain Forest, The | Woods, Mae | 0.5 | This book surveys the location, weather, products, plants, and animals of rain forest. | 24 | |
| 4.8 | Ride into Morning, A | Rinaldi, Ann | 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 |
| 4.8 | Running out of Time | Haddix, Margaret Peterson | 7 | When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840s village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1996 tourist site under the observation of heartless scientists, and it is up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of dying children. | 184 | Y |
| 4.8 | Rush for Gold | Hubbard, Coleen | 3 | In need of two hundred dollars, the entry fee for competing in the Palomino Parade, Landy hears a local legend about hidden gold and becomes determined to find the treasure. | 127 | |
| 4.8 | Sail Away | McNeil, Florence | 0.5 | In this book the captain gets his boat shipshape and ready to sail. | 27 | Y |
| 4.8 | Saturn (A True Book) | Brimner, Larry Dane | 0.5 | This book examines the physical characteristics and conditions of Saturn, describing its position in relation to the sun and other planets and surveying humanity's attempts to penetrate its mysteries. | 47 | |
| 4.8 | Secret Funeral of Slim Jim the Snake, The | Woodruff, Elvira | 4 | Nick devises an unusual plan in order to pursue his dream of becoming a trucker just like his dad. | 166 | Y |
| 4.8 | Seeing the Unseen | Green, Carl | 1 | Using real reported experiences, the authors explore precognition and clairvoyance--two of the mind's mysteries. | 48 | |
| 4.8 | Shattered Helmet, The | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5 | Danger is the name of the game when the Hardys agree to help their pen pal from Greece, Evan Pandropolos, search for a priceless, ancient Greek helmet. | 180 | Y |
| 4.8 | Shiloh Season | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 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 |
| 4.8 | Strawberry Girl | Lenski, Lois | 6 | This is the story of Birdie Boyer and how she battles nature, animals, and feuding neighbors in the backwoods of Florida to become a "strawberry girl." | 194 | Y |
| 4.8 | Streams to the River, River to the Sea | O'Dell, Scott | 7 | A fictionalized version of the life of Sacagawea, the Shoshone guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition. | 163 | Y |
| 4.8 | Strider | Cleary, Beverly | 3 | In a series of diary entries, Leigh tells how he comes to terms with his parents' divorce, acquires joint custody of an abandoned dog, and joins the track team at school. | 179 | Y |
| 4.8 | Summer of the Monkeys | Rawls, Wilson | 13 | A fourteen-year-old Ozark Mountain boy attempts to recapture monkeys escaped from a traveling circus. | 283 | Y |
| 4.8 | Tough-Luck Karen | Hurwitz, Johanna | 4 | Karen loves to bake and to baby-sit, but her mother forbids her to do either until she improves her grades. | 157 | Y |
| 4.8 | Venus (A True Book) | Brimner, Larry Dane | 0.5 | Discusses our early ideas about the planet Venus, what we have discovered about it's true nature, and what we may learn from it. | 48 | Y |
| 4.8 | Volcanoes (Nature's Fury) | Meister, Cari | 1 | This book discusses the nature, causes, and dangers of volcanoes, volcanoes of the past, and ways to survive them. | 32 | |
| 4.8 | Walruses (A True Book) | Lepthien, Emilie U. | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics and habits of Atlantic and Pacific whales. | 48 | Y |
| 4.8 | What Is a Bird? | Snedden, Robert | 0.5 | A guide to the similarities and differences of various types of birds. | 32 | Y |
| 4.8 | Wild Cats (Welcome to the World of Animals) | Swanson, Diane | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics and behavior of such North American wild cats as the lynx, bobcat, and mountain lion. | 32 | Y |
| 4.8 | Win, Place or Die | Keene, Carolyn | 4 | Nancy must work quickly to prevent a ruthless killer from striking at the Kentucky Derby. | 152 | Y |
| 4.9 | Addie Across the Prairie | Lawlor, Laurie | 4 | Unhappy to leave her home and friends, Addie reluctantly accompanies her family to the Dakota Territory and slowly begins to adjust to life on the prairie. | 128 | Y |
| 4.9 | All-of-a-Kind Family | Taylor, Sydney | 5 | Five girls have simple but happy times, with parents rich in kindness but poor in money. | 189 | |
| 4.9 | Animal Wonders (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 0.5 | This book describes a wide variety of animal characteristics, including protective coloration, modes of locomotion, and methods of feeding. | 32 | Y |
| 4.9 | Bambi | Salten, Felix | 6 | Bambi learns much about life and about people as he grows into a beautiful stag. | 190 | Y |
| 4.9 | Be a Wolf! | Strickland, Brad | 4 | When Jo's backpack is confiscated, Wishbone and Jo must confront a scary neighbor who owns a big, mean dog. | 137 | Y |
| 4.9 | Beavers for Kids/Beaver Magic for Kids | Corrigan, Patricia | 0.5 | Join in the adventure as eleven-year-old Antonio explores the watery world of beavers, one of nature's most amazing animals. | 47 | |
| 4.9 | Bigfoot: Man, Monster, or Myth? | Carmichael, Carrie | 1 | An inquiry into the existence of the purportedly half-human, half-animal creatures said to have roamed the northwestern states and British Columbia for hundreds of years. | 48 | |
| 4.9 | Case of the On-Line Alien | Steele, Alexander | 5 | David doesn't believe it is possible for aliens to travel to Earth, but when he and Wishbone witness an eerie, green glow in the sky they know they must investigate. | 137 | |
| 4.9 | Castle in the Attic, The | Winthrop, Elizabeth | 6 | William has a fantastic present in the attic that is able to transport him to another land and another time for a challenging and exciting adventure. | 179 | Y |
| 4.9 | Changing Times | Felder, Deborah | 3 | In 1912, ten-year-old Lucy Gordon, living with her family in the foothills of Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains determines to prove that their Tennessee walking horse, Clipper, is worth far more than her father's new Model T automobile. | 120 | |
| 4.9 | Clue of the Tapping Heels, The | Keene, Carolyn | 5 | Nancy Drew tries to find a clue to the strange tapping sounds in the house of a retired actress. | 176 | Y |
| 4.9 | Coca-Cola 600 | Ethan, Eric | 0.5 | This book discusses the background, events, and rules of the Coca-Cola 600, the longest automobile race sanctioned by NASCAR. | 24 | |
| 4.9 | Comeback Dog, The | Thomas, Jane Resh | 1 | The heartwarming story of a special dog, a very special boy, and how they learn to live with each other. | 62 | Y |
| 4.9 | Cricket in Times Square, The | Selden, George | 4 | Chester the cricket resides in a newsstand in Times Square. He has many adventures, climaxing with the rescue of the newsstand owner from financial disaster. | 151 | Y |
| 4.9 | Daniel's Story | Matas, Carol | 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 |
| 4.9 | Dead Man in Indian Creek, The | Hahn, Mary Downing | 4 | When Matt and Parker learn the body they found in Indian Creek is a drug-related death, they fear Parker's mother may be involved. | 130 | Y |
| 4.9 | Dear Mr. Henshaw | Cleary, Beverly | 3 | A series of letters from Leigh Botts to the author, Mr. Henshaw, dealing with Leigh's aspirations of being an author, as well as excerpts from Leigh's diary showing the concerns of this bright young boy. | 134 | Y |
| 4.9 | Disappearances | Fuchs, Carol | 1 | Explores the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle, the kidnapping of a New Hampshire couple by a UFO, the lost colony of Roanoke, the Vikings in America, and the lost civilization of the Maya. | 48 | Y |
| 4.9 | Don't Call Me Toad! | Shura, Mary Francis | 3 | It only took a minute for me to decide I didn't want to be friends with Dinah Dobbins. First she jumped out of the shadows, scaring me half to death, then she had the nerve to call me "Toad"! I hoped I'd never see her again. | 124 | Y |
| 4.9 | Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey | Haddix, Margaret Peterson | 4 | In the journal she is keeping for English class, sixteen-year-old Tish chronicles the changes in her life when her abusive father returns home after a two-year absence. | 125 | Y |
| 4.9 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Dog | Butcher, Nancy | 5 | Wishbone imagines himself as a lawyer who is following the trail of a strange and evil man in nineteenth-century London. | 140 | |
| 4.9 | Dragons and Dinosaurs | Gentle/Perry | 0.5 | This book discusses dragons as they have appeared in the beliefs and legends of various cultures, including ancient Babylon and Egypt, Europe, and Asia, as well as how they are reflected in real creatures such as dinosaurs and komodo lizards. | 24 | |
| 4.9 | Earth (A True Book) | Brimner, Larry Dane | 0.5 | Describes the planet Earth, exploring its composition, early ideas about its shape and position in the solar system, current theories about its creation, and its important relationship with the moon. | 48 | Y |
| 4.9 | Ellen Tebbits | Cleary, Beverly | 3 | Through many humorous adventures, Ellen learns the true value of friendship. | 160 | Y |
| 4.9 | Farm Machinery (Farm) | Hansen, Ann Larkin | 0.5 | This book introduces various kinds of agricultural machinery, describes some of their major parts, and explains how these machines are used on the farm. | 32 | |
| 4.9 | Frozen Fire | Houston, James | 5 | Determined to find his father who has been lost in a storm, a young boy and his Eskimo friend brave wind storms, starvation, wild animals, and wild men during their search in the Canadian Arctic. | 149 | Y |
| 4.9 | Galaxies (Universe) | Welsbacher, Anne | 0.5 | This book presents a brief discussion of the properties of galaxies, including the Milky Way and others. | 24 | |
| 4.9 | GTOs (Great American Muscle Cars) | Ethan, Eric | 0.5 | This book surveys the history of the GTO and its designs, engines, performance, and costs. | 24 | |
| 4.9 | House Without a Christmas Tree, The | Rock, Gail | 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 |
| 4.9 | Hummingbirds (Creative Ed.) | Biel, Timothy Levi | 0.5 | Text and photos introduce the incredible and beautiful hummingbird. | 24 | Y |
| 4.9 | In the Spotlight | Lowell, Melissa | 4 | Danielle has just won the lead role in the Silver Blades Ice Show and feels her hard work has finally paid off, but is the pressure more than she can handle? | 131 | |
| 4.9 | Insects (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 0.5 | This book discusses the beauty, variety, and importance of the miniature world of insects. | 24 | Y |
| 4.9 | Into the Dream | Sleator, William | 4 | When two youngsters realize they are having the same frightening dream, they begin searching for an explanation for this mysterious coincidence. | 137 | |
| 4.9 | Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher | Coville, Bruce | 4 | Small for his age but artistically talented, twelve-year-old Jeremy Thatcher unknowingly buys a dragon's egg. | 148 | Y |
| 4.9 | Lemonade Trick, The | Corbett, Scott | 3 | Kerby discovers a recipe for lemonade that turns the worst people into the nicest. Unfortunately, with nice people, the opposite is true. | 103 | Y |
| 4.9 | Little House on the Prairie | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 8 | Laura and her family journey by covered wagon into Indian territory, and start a farm. | 335 | Y |
| 4.9 | Lizard Music | Pinkwater, Daniel | 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 |
| 4.9 | Masked Monkey, The | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5 | Frank and Joe Hardy are called upon to find a wealthy industrialist's son who has mysteriously disappeared. | 178 | Y |
| 4.9 | Mike Fink | Kellogg, Steven | 0.5 | The story of the folk hero who ran away from home at two days old and grew up to be King of the Keelboatmen. | 37 | |
| 4.9 | Miracles on Maple Hill | Sorensen, Virginia | 7 | Marly and her family discover the miracle of maple syrup time and share many adventures when they move from the city to a farmhouse on Maple Hill. | 180 | Y |
| 4.9 | My Brother Sam Is Dead | Collier, James/Christopher | 7 | In this novel of the American Revolution, a young man is torn between his brother's patriotism and his father's Tory sympathies. | 216 | Y |
| 4.9 | Orphan of Ellis Island, The | Woodruff, Elvira | 5 | During a school trip to Ellis Island, Dominic Cantori, a ten-year-old foster child, travels back in time to 1908 Italy and accompanies two young emigrants to America. | 174 | Y |
| 4.9 | Ostriches, Emus, Rheas, Kiwis & Cassowaries (Creative Ed.) | Elwood, Ann | 0.5 | This book discusses the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of the flightless birds classified as ratites. | 24 | Y |
| 4.9 | Owls (Creative Ed.) | Biel, Timothy Levi | 0.5 | This book provides information on the physical characteristics and behavior of different species of owls. | 24 | Y |
| 4.9 | Palomino Horses: Austria's Haflingers | Schrenk, Hans-Jorg | 0.5 | An in-depth look at the beautiful Palomino horses. | 48 | |
| 4.9 | Perloo the Bold | Avi | 7 | In this wild adventure Perloo, a rabbit-like Montmer, travels over snowy mountains, through underground tunnels, and into enemy territory and alters the future of Montmers everywhere. | 225 | Y |
| 4.9 | Pitcher Plants: Slippery Pits of No Escape | Gentle, Victor | 0.5 | Introduces these carnivorous plants by describing their traps, plant types, diets, and nutrient-poor habitats with the consequent benefit of carnivory. | 24 | Y |
| 4.9 | Place to Belong, A | Nixon, Joan Lowery | 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 |
| 4.9 | Pluto (A True Book) | Brimner, Larry Dane | 0.5 | This book discusses the smallest, most distant, and most mysterious planet in our solar system, its discovery, and its peculiar orbit. | 47 | |
| 4.9 | Protecting the Rain Forest | Woods, Mae | 0.5 | This book describes the characteristics of rain forests, their importance to the world's environment, and what can be done to preserve them from the further destruction. | 24 | |
| 4.9 | Raccoons for Kids/Raccoon Magic for Kids | Fair, Jeff | 1 | Relates the author's childhood story about an orphan raccoon that came to live with him and presents information about this intelligent, masked animal. | 48 | |
| 4.9 | Ramona the Brave | Cleary, Beverly | 3 | Irrepressible Ramona bravely struggles to cope with the assorted trials of growing up. | 190 | Y |
| 4.9 | Riding Camp | Bryant, Bonnie | 4 | The girls are thrilled when they get to go to a sleep over riding camp; but when an emergency takes place at the camp, everyone must pull together. | 133 | |
| 4.9 | Salty Dog | Strickland, Brad | 4 | There's a treasure in Oakdale, and Wishbone sets out to find it. | 135 | Y |
| 4.9 | Saving Shiloh | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 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 |
| 4.9 | Shadrach | De Jong, Meindert | 5 | This beautiful story of a boy and his very special pet rabbit is told with a childlike perception and a sensitive understanding of a child's emotions. | 182 | |
| 4.9 | Sharks for Kids/Shark Magic for Kids | Corrigan, Patricia | 0.5 | This book provides information including what sharks eat, how they find their food, and what their skin feels like. | 47 | |
| 4.9 | Sign of the Beaver, The | Speare, Elizabeth George | 5 | A young boy in Maine, when rescued by an Indian chief and his grandson, must decide whether to spend the winter alone in the woods waiting for his family to return or move on to a new life with his new friends. | 135 | Y |
| 4.9 | Sing down the Moon | O'Dell, Scott | 4 | The forced migration of Navahos from their homeland, is described from the Native American point of view. | 121 | Y |
| 4.9 | Starry Night | Gunn, Robin Jones | 6 | While visiting her college friends and later spending Christmas vacation with her family instead of her friends, Christy is reminded of the restrictions placed on her activities by her parents. | 147 | |
| 4.9 | Summer of the Swans, The | Byars, Betsy | 4 | A fourteen-year-old girl finds maturity while searching for her younger brother lost in the woods. | 142 | Y |
| 4.9 | Trumpet of the Swan, The | White, E.B. | 6 | Louis, the Trumpeter Swan, lacks a voice, but his father hits on a bold alternative so that Louis might win his love, Serena. | 252 | Y |
| 4.9 | Tucker's Countryside | Selden, George | 5 | Children and animals allied in an effort to keep bulldozers and high-rise apartments from spoiling their wilderness playground. | 166 | Y |
| 4.9 | Utah | Joseph, Paul | 0.5 | Surveys the people, geography, and history of this western state. | 32 | Y |
| 4.9 | Velveteen Rabbit, The | Williams, Margery | 1 | Magical fable of the toy rabbit who becomes a real rabbit with the help of the boy who loves him. | 30 | Y |
| 4.9 | Veronica Ganz | Sachs, Marilyn | 4 | Peter tries to get even with bossy Veronica. | 156 | Y |
| 4.9 | Volcanoes (A True Book) | Sipiera, Paul P. | 0.5 | Introduces the origins, causes, and destructive effects of volcanoes. | 48 | Y |
| 4.9 | Volcanoes (Forces of Nature) | Murray, Peter | 0.5 | Examines volcanoes, how they were formed, and the devastation they can cause. | 31 | Y |
| 4.9 | Walk Two Moons | Creech, Sharon | 9 | Sal hopes that her missing mother will soon return home. | 280 | Y |
| 4.9 | Whatever Happened to Amelia Earhart? | Blau, Melinda | 1 | A biography of the woman who set many records as a pilot. Discusses the mystery surrounding her disappearance while attempting to fly around the world. | 48 | |
| 4.9 | Where the Red Fern Grows | Rawls, Wilson | 11 | This is a simply written, moving story of the love between a young boy and his two dogs. | 249 | |
| 4.9 | With Every Drop of Blood | Collier, James/Christopher | 7 | While trying to transport food to Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Johnny is captured by a black Union soldier. | 235 | Y |
| 4.9 | Your Move, J.P.! | Lowry, Lois | 4 | Lovestruck J. P. finds himself doing all sorts of weird things to impress his new interest, but his life becomes very complicated when a simple lie gets out of control. | 122 | Y |
| 4.9 | Your Pet Gerbil (A True Book) | Landau, Elaine | 0.5 | A brief introduction to gerbils as a pet. | 48 | |
| 4.9 | Zombies | Gentle/Perry | 0.5 | This book discusses zombies, bodies without souls, and such related phenomena as golems and animated mummies. | 24 |