| 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 |