| AR BL | Title | Author | AR Pts | Description | No.of Pages | Have Book |
| 5 | Adventures of King Midas, The | Banks, Lynne Reid | 4 | King Midas travels far and wide to reverse the spell that turns everything into gold. | 153 | Y |
| 5 | Afternoon of the Elves | Lisle, Janet Taylor | 4 | As Hillary works in the miniature village allegedly built by elves in Sara-Kate's backyard, she becomes more and more curious about Sara-Kate's real life inside her big, gloomy house with her mysterious, silent mother. | 122 | Y |
| 5 | Airplanes of World War II | Masters, Nancy Robinson | 0.5 | An introduction to the different kinds of airplanes used in World War II, including information about airplane parts and pilots' codes. | 48 | Y |
| 5 | All but Alice | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 5 | Seventh-grader Alice decides that the only way to stave off personal and social disasters is to be part of the crowd, especially the 'in' crowd, no matter how boring and potentially difficult. | 151 | |
| 5 | Apatosaurus (A True Book) | Landau, Elaine | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the huge plant-eating Apatosaurus and discusses theories on why it became extinct. | 47 | Y |
| 5 | Atlantis: The Missing Continent | McMullen, David | 1 | Discusses Atlantis, the mysterious missing continent believed to be located off the western coast of Africa. | 48 | |
| 5 | Baby Animals 2 (Creative Ed.) | Elwood, Ann | 0.5 | This book describes the development and behavior of a variety of baby animals, including birds, reptiles, and mammals. | 24 | Y |
| 5 | Blizzards (Nature's Fury) | Meister, Cari | 1 | This book discusses the nature, causes, and dangers of blizzards, blizzards of the past, and ways to survive them. | 32 | |
| 5 | Boa Constrictors (Snake Discovery) | Bargar/Johnson | 0.5 | Discusses the natural habitats, physical characteristics, life cycle, and behavior of these non-poisonous snakes. | 24 | Y |
| 5 | Bombers of World War II | Masters, Nancy Robinson | 0.5 | Introduces the different kinds of bombers used during World War II, their capabilities, the kinds of missions on which they were sent, and any special characteristics. | 48 | Y |
| 5 | Boys Against Girls | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 4 | The Hatford brothers cannot imagine spending Thanksgiving dinner with the Malloy sisters as the practical jokes and rivalries between the two families continue. Sequel to "The Girls Get Even." | 147 | Y |
| 5 | Bronze Bow, The | Speare, Elizabeth George | 10 | Eighteen-year-old Daniel, an Israeli, is consumed by hatred of the Romans who killed his father, until he learns from listening to Jesus that love is the answer. | 254 | Y |
| 5 | Carnivorous Mushrooms: Lassoing Their Prey? | Gentle, Victor | 0.5 | Introduces some varieties of fungi that eat eelworms, describing the damage these tiny worms cause to both plants and animals and the different ways that the fungi trap their prey. | 24 | Y |
| 5 | Caught in the Act | Nixon, Joan Lowery | 6 | Eleven-year-old Michael Patrick Kelly from New York City is sent to a foster home, a Missouri farm with a sadistic owner, a bullying son, and a number of secrets, one of which may be murder. | 150 | Y |
| 5 | Chasing Redbird | Creech, Sharon | 7 | Thirteen-year-old Zinnia Taylor uncovers family secrets and self-truths while clearing a mysterious settler trail that begins on her family's farm in Kentucky. | 261 | Y |
| 5 | Constellations (A True Book) | Sipiera, Paul/Diane | 0.5 | Identifies the groups of stars known as constellations and discusses their origin, uses, and observations. | 48 | Y |
| 5 | Cookcamp, The | Paulsen, Gary | 3 | During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness. | 115 | Y |
| 5 | Coral Reef Builders | Ethan/Bearanger | 0.5 | Explains how coral reefs are made. | 22 | |
| 5 | Corvettes (Great American Muscle Cars) | Ethan, Eric | 0.5 | This book surveys the history of the Corvette and its designs, engines, performance, and costs. | 24 | |
| 5 | Dancing Carl | Paulsen, Gary | 3 | As winter progresses, the strange man in the worn flight jacket dances frequently on the ice of the rink, expressing more with his movements than most people do with words. | 105 | |
| 5 | Daytona 500 | Ethan, Eric | 0.5 | This book discusses the background events and rules of the Daytona 500, the most prestigious of the NASCAR Winston Cup racing series. | 24 | |
| 5 | Dicey's Song | Voigt, Cynthia | 11 | Left without their mother, Dicey shepherds her young siblings from Provincetown to Chesapeake Bay for a new beginning with their grandmother. | 359 | Y |
| 5 | Dragon and the Unicorn, The | Cherry, Lynne | 0.5 | Valerio the dragon and Allegra the unicorn are driven into hiding when humans begin to destroy their natural habitat, but they receive hope when they befriend the daughter of the man responsible. | 28 | Y |
| 5 | Easter Cat, The | De Jong, Meindert | 3 | Although she always wanted a cat, Millie was never allowed to keep one until she found one next to her Easter basket. | 110 | Y |
| 5 | Elephants for Kids/Elephant Magic for Kids | Fredericks, Anthony D. | 0.5 | This book explains the habitat, appearance, food, and behavior of both African and Asian elephants. | 48 | |
| 5 | Endangered Animals (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 0.5 | This book provides information as to why we need animals and plants, why animals need homes, food, and water, and which animals are endangered and why. | 24 | Y |
| 5 | Escape from Slavery | Rappaport, Doreen | 3 | Five accounts of black slaves who managed to escape to freedom during the period preceding the Civil War. | 104 | Y |
| 5 | Fledgling, The | Langton, Jane | 6 | Georgie's fondest hope, to be able to fly, is fleetingly fulfilled when she is befriended by a Canada goose. | 182 | Y |
| 5 | Forgotten Door, The | Key, Alexander | 5 | Jon must find the secret passage to his own peaceful world, through which he fell into this one. | 140 | Y |
| 5 | Fortune Telling | Green, Carl | 1 | Fortune tellers claim to have a special gift or power to see into the future. Many people believe, but most scientists dismiss these gifts. What do you believe? | 48 | |
| 5 | Gift of the Pirate Queen, The | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 4 | Grace O'Malley has difficulty adjusting to her mother's death and helping her sister with her diabetes. Then Cousin Fiona visits from Ireland and inspires her with wonderful stories about an earlier Grace O'Malley, the Pirate Queen. | 164 | Y |
| 5 | Giraffes (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and future of the tallest land animal, the giraffe. | 24 | Y |
| 5 | Great Brain Does It Again, The | Fitzgerald, John D. | 5 | Tom's many business ventures include operating a carnival ride, and helping a fat boy reduce. | 129 | Y |
| 5 | Hear That Whistle Blow | Schraff, Anne | 3 | The Great Depression is smothering America, and Hack Proctor has to put his dreams of becoming a doctor aside to help his parents. | 119 | |
| 5 | Hurry Home, Candy | De Jong, Meindert | 7 | Lost and nameless, a stray dog exhibits courage and finds a home at last. | 244 | Y |
| 5 | In the Face of Danger | Nixon, Joan Lowery | 6 | Deeply unhappy about her family's separation because of poverty, Megan gradually finds contentment and purpose in her new home on the Kansas prairie with a kind and loving adopted family. | 151 | Y |
| 5 | Jar of Dreams, A | Uchida, Yoshiko | 4 | Growing up in depression-era California, Rinko feels left out because she is Japanese. | 131 | Y |
| 5 | Journey from Peppermint Street | De Jong, Meindert | 8 | Siebren goes on a journey with his grandfather and learns about people, about fear, and about love. | 242 | |
| 5 | Julie | George, Jean Craighead | 6 | Julie returns to live with her father and finds she must make choices between the old and the new in this sequel to Julie of the Wolves. | 226 | Y |
| 5 | Keeping Secrets | Nixon, Joan Lowery | 6 | In 1863, eleven-year-old Peg Kelly is drawn into the dangerous activities of a mysterious young woman who had come to her home in Missouri after fleeing the raid of William Quantrill and his raiders on Lawrence, Kansas. | 163 | Y |
| 5 | Kidnapping of Courtney Van Allen & What's-Her-Name, The | Cool, Joyce | 6 | Two girls are brought together in New York City by an eccentric aunt. They embark on a whirlwind adventure and are kidnapped by the craziest collection of criminals ever. | 168 | |
| 5 | Koalas for Kids/Koala Magic for Kids | Feeney, Kathy | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the koala, a nocturnal marsupial found only in Australia. | 48 | |
| 5 | Little Prince, The | de Saint-Exupery, Antoine | 2 | This enchanting fable tells the story of a pilot downed in the Sahara and a boy from outer space who teaches him the meaning of life. | 111 | Y |
| 5 | Long Way from Chicago, A | Peck, Richard | 5 | A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother. | 148 | Y |
| 5 | Make Lemonade | Wolff, Virginia Euwer | 5 | A novel in 48 short chapters about a variety of amazing young people who tenaciously hold on to their dreams. | 200 | Y |
| 5 | Mambas (Snake Discovery) | Bargar/Johnson | 0.5 | An introduction to the physical characteristics, habits, natural environment, and relationship to human beings of the various species of mambas. | 24 | |
| 5 | Matilda | Dahl, Roald | 6 | Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and to restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security. | 240 | Y |
| 5 | Maze, The | Hobbs, Will | 7 | Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah, where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild. | 198 | Y |
| 5 | Megan's Island | Roberts, Willo Davis | 7 | When eleven-year-old Megan, her younger brother, and her mother go up to the lake cottage, a mysterious stranger follows them. | 187 | Y |
| 5 | Miller 400 | Ethan, Eric | 0.5 | This book describes the Miller 400, the first race sanctioned by the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) in 1969 and held annually at the Michigan Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan. | 24 | |
| 5 | Monkey Island | Fox, Paula | 5 | Forced to live on the streets of New York after his mother disappears from their hotel room, eleven-year-old Clay is befriended by two men who help him survive. | 151 | Y |
| 5 | Mr. Tucket | Paulsen, Gary | 4 | A young boy is captured on the Oregon Trail by Pawnee Indians. | 166 | Y |
| 5 | My Teacher Flunked the Planet | Coville, Bruce | 5 | Peter Thompson's hilarious tour of Earth with disguised aliens continues as he searches for a way to save the planet. | 162 | Y |
| 5 | My War with Goggle-Eyes | Fine, Anne | 6 | Kitty is not pleased with her mother's boyfriend, especially his views on the anti-nuclear issue, until unexpected events prompt her, after all, to help him find his place in the family. | 166 | |
| 5 | Nefertiti: The Mystery Queen | Holmes, Burnham | 1 | The life of Nefertiti, concentrating on the period during which her husband Amenhetep IV struggled to change the ancient forms of worship in Egypt from many gods to one, the sun god. | 48 | |
| 5 | Old Yeller | Gipson, Fred | 5 | This is the heartwarming story of a boy and his dog and their many adventures in the Texas wilderness. | 158 | Y |
| 5 | Out-of-Body Experiences | Green, Carl | 1 | Near-death and out-of-the-body experiences are scientifically investigated. | 48 | |
| 5 | Owls in the Family | Mowat, Farley | 3 | Two owls, Wol and Weeps, join Billy and his dog Mutt to shake up the whole neighborhood. | 91 | Y |
| 5 | Philip Hall Likes Me. I Reckon Maybe. | Greene, Bette | 4 | Young Beth loves Philip, but that doesn't mean she is averse to competing with him. | 135 | Y |
| 5 | Pride of the Green Mountains | Baker, Carin Greenberg | 3 | With her father away fighting in the Civil War and her mother struggling to keep their Vermont dairy farm, ten year old Rosaline tries to come up with a plan that will save their home without selling her beloved Morgan horse, Major. | 122 | |
| 5 | Racso and the Rats of NIMH | Conly, Jane Leslie | 8 | Timothy Frisby, a field mouse, teams up with the adventurous young rat Racso. Together they try to prevent the destruction of a secret community of rats that can read and write. | 278 | Y |
| 5 | Recalling Past Lives | Green, Carl | 1 | A discussion of reincarnation and related phenomena, featuring reports of people who claimed to have lived past lives. | 48 | |
| 5 | Ruby Mae Has Something to Say | Small, David | 0.5 | Tongue-tied Ruby Mae Foote fulfills her dream of speaking for world peace at the United Nations when her nephew Billy Bob invents a device to solve her speech problem. | 30 | Y |
| 5 | Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett | Kellogg, Steven | 0.5 | Sally Ann, wife of Davy Crockett, fears nothing--and proves it when braggart Mike Fink tries to scare her. | 37 | Y |
| 5 | Scared Stiff | Roberts, Willo Davis | 7 | When their mother disappears, two brothers go to stay with a great uncle in a mobile home park next to an abandoned amusement park and begin a search which puts them in danger. | 188 | Y |
| 5 | Search for Grissi, The | Shura, Mary Francis | 4 | Eleven-year-old Peter feels uncomfortable at home and school after his family moves to Brooklyn, until his search for his sister's missing cat opens up a new life for him. | 126 | Y |
| 5 | Secrets of Tut's Tomb and the Pyramids | Reiff, Stephanie | 1 | Discusses the building of the Egyptian pyramids, strange stories associated with them, and possible powers possessed by pyramids. | 48 | |
| 5 | Sundews: A Sweet and Sticky Death | Gentle, Victor | 0.5 | Introduces these carnivorous plants by describing their traps, plant types, diet, and nutrient-poor habitats with the consequent benefit of carnivory. | 24 | |
| 5 | Swarm, The | Whitman, John | 3 | When Zak accidentally kills one of the shreves, he doesn't think it is such a big deal, but the shreves think otherwise and vow revenge. | 112 | |
| 5 | Tale of the Missing Mascot | Steele, Alexander | 4 | Wishbone and his friends discover that the mascot from an opposing team has been stolen from a locked car. | 137 | |
| 5 | Timothy of the Cay | Taylor, Theodore | 5 | In a prequel to The Cay, Timothy finds himself afloat on a life raft with a white boy. | 161 | Y |
| 5 | Toothpaste Millionaire, The | Merrill, Jean | 3 | Rufus Mayflower learns about making toothpaste, forming a corporation, and earning lots of money. | 89 | |
| 5 | Tuck Everlasting | Babbitt, Natalie | 4 | Winnie Foster meets the mysterious Tuck family, who drank from a magical spring and found they must live forever without aging. | 139 | Y |
| 5 | Velociraptor (A True Book) | Landau, Elaine | 0.5 | This book describes the characteristics and habits of the small but fierce meat-eating dinosaur, Velociraptor, that lived in prehistoric times. | 47 | Y |
| 5 | Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963, The | Curtis, Christopher Paul | 8 | The ordinary routines of the Watsons, an African-American family from Michigan, are drastically changed when they visit Alabama. | 210 | Y |
| 5 | Weasel | DeFelice, Cynthia | 4 | Alone in the frontier wilderness in the winter of 1839 while his father is recovering from an injury, eleven-year-old Nathan runs afoul of the renegade killer known as Weasel and makes a surprising discovery about the concept of revenge. | 119 | Y |
| 5 | Wind in the Door, A | L'Engle, Madeleine | 7 | Suffering from a rare blood disease, a boy regains his health through the intervention of a space creature. | 211 | Y |
| 5 | Winston 500 | Ethan, Eric | 0.5 | This book describes the action at Winston 500, held at the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. | 24 | |
| 5 | Winter Room, The | Paulsen, Gary | 3 | A young boy growing up on a northern Minnesota farm describes the scenes around him and recounts his old Norwegian uncle's tales of an almost mythological logging past. | 103 | Y |
| 5 | Words of Stone | Henkes, Kevin | 5 | Busy trying to deal with his many fears and his troubled feelings for his dead mother, ten-year-old Blaze has his life changed when he meets the boisterous and irresistible Joselle. | 152 | Y |
| 5 | Yearling, The | Rawlings, Marjorie | 19 | A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet. | 509 | Y |
| 5 | Zebras (Creative Ed.) | Wood, Linda C. | 0.5 | This book examines the behavior, habitat, and different kinds of zebras. | 24 | Y |
| 5 | Zucchini Warriors, The | Korman, Gordon | 7 | The funniest Bruno & Boots story yet, in which they must hide the fact that their school's best football player is a girl from another school. | 197 | Y |
| 5.1 | Banner in the Sky | Ullman, James Ramsey | 11 | Rudi's father had been killed trying to climb the Citadel, a dangerous Swiss mountain. Now it is Rudi's dream to make that climb. | 285 | Y |
| 5.1 | Bermuda Triangle, The | Collins, Jim | 1 | Discusses the many mysterious, unexplained losses of ships and planes in the area of the Atlantic Ocean between Florida and Bermuda. | 48 | |
| 5.1 | Best Christmas Pageant Ever, The | Robinson, Barbara | 2 | The Herdman children, given to horrible pranks, take over the Sunday school Christmas pageant but eventually learn the true meaning of Christmas. | 80 | Y |
| 5.1 | Cabin Faced West, The | Fritz, Jean | 3 | A young girl misses the life she had before her family moved into the wilderness, until she gets a very special visitor. | 124 | Y |
| 5.1 | Chimpanzees and Bonobos (Creative Ed.) | Elwood, Ann | 0.5 | This book presents facts about the physical characteristics and social behavior of the two types of chimpanzees, our closest animal relatives. | 24 | Y |
| 5.1 | Coral Reef Feeders | Ethan/Bearanger | 0.5 | Explains how some of the fish and other sea creatures eat coral polyps. | 22 | |
| 5.1 | Coral Reef Survival | Ethan/Bearanger | 0.5 | Discusses the different kinds of sea creatures that hide in the coral reefs. | 22 | |
| 5.1 | Earthquakes (A True Book) | Sipiera, Paul P. | 0.5 | Introduces the origins, causes, and destructive effects of earthquakes. | 48 | Y |
| 5.1 | Flunking of Joshua T. Bates, The | Shreve, Susan | 2 | Joshua thinks he will be in the third grade forever, until he meets Mrs. Goodwin, a very surprising teacher. | 90 | Y |
| 5.1 | Getting Near to Baby | Couloumbis, Audrey | 6 | Thirteen-year-old Willa Jo and her younger sister come to terms with the death of their family's baby while staying with their Aunt Patty and Uncle Hob. | 211 | Y |
| 5.1 | Great Brain Reforms, The | Fitzgerald, John D. | 6 | Great Brain is home for the summer and is ready to reform, and that's how the trial between the kids of Adenville and the Great Brain takes place on a summer afternoon. | 165 | Y |
| 5.1 | Great White Sharks: The Ocean's Most Deadly Killers | Martin, James | 0.5 | The most fearsome hunter in the ocean--the great white shark. | 47 | Y |
| 5.1 | Henry Reed's Baby-Sitting Service | Robertson, Keith | 6 | Back in Grover's Corners, N.J. for the summer, Henry and his partner Midge establish a baby sitting service and find a disappearing child and a peacock among their charges. | 204 | |
| 5.1 | Homesick, My Own Story | Fritz, Jean | 6 | Autobiography of Jean Fritz, illustrated with drawings and photographs, covering her life from her birth in China to the present. | 163 | |
| 5.1 | Jupiter (A True Book) | Brimner, Larry Dane | 0.5 | This book describes the appearance, climate, moons, and exploration of the largest planet in the solar system. | 47 | |
| 5.1 | Kangaroos for Kids/Kangaroo Magic for Kids | Lehne, Judith Logan | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics and behavior of different varieties of kangaroos. | 48 | |
| 5.1 | Koalas (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 0.5 | This book provides an introduction to the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of koalas. | 24 | Y |
| 5.1 | Looking at...Maiasaura | Vaughan, Jenny | 0.5 | A look at the lizard that lived in groups and built huge nests for its young during the Cretaceous period. | 24 | |
| 5.1 | Matchlock Gun, The | Edmonds, Walter D. | 1 | In 1756, during the French and Indian War in upper New York state, ten-year-old Edward is determined to protect his home and family with the ancient, and much too heavy, Spanish gun that his father had given him before leaving home to fight the enemy. | 50 | Y |
| 5.1 | Moby Dog | Steele, Alexander | 5 | Wishbone imagines himself as a sailor on board a great whaling ship under the command of peg-legged Captain Ahab. | 140 | Y |
| 5.1 | Moose for Kids/Moose Magic for Kids | Fair, Jeff | 1 | Describes the habitat, physical characteristics, and behavior of the moose of the wild north country. | 48 | |
| 5.1 | Mouse and the Motorcycle, The | Cleary, Beverly | 3 | A boy and a mouse share a common love -- motorcycles. | 158 | Y |
| 5.1 | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (The Secret of NIMH) | O'Brien, Robert C. | 8 | When Timothy, youngest of a family of field mice, becomes ill, his mother, Mrs. Frisby, enlists the aid of the Rats of NIMH to move their home from the path of the farmer's plow. | 233 | Y |
| 5.1 | Mustangs (Great American Muscle Cars) | Ethan, Eric | 0.5 | This book surveys the history of the Mustang and its designs, engines, performance, and costs. | 24 | |
| 5.1 | Oceans (Biomes of Nature) | Rothaus, Don P. | 0.5 | Describes various characteristics of the world's oceans, including origins, the composition of seawater, currents, and the effect of the moon on tides. | 32 | Y |
| 5.1 | One of the Third Grade Thonkers | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 4 | Ashamed of his wimpy younger cousin, eight-year-old Jimmy is determined to keep him out of his special club for rough, tough, and terrible boys, until an accident involving Jimmy's father demonstrates for him the true meaning of courage. | 136 | Y |
| 5.1 | Piranhas (A True Book) | Landau, Elaine | 0.5 | This book is an introduction to the various species of fish called piranhas, discussing their reputation as killers, their physical characteristics and habits, and their suitability as pets. | 47 | Y |
| 5.1 | Planet of Junior Brown, The | Hamilton, Virginia | 7 | Story of friendship between a troubled teenage pianist, a street-wise classmate, and a janitor who constructs a LO-planet revolving solar system. | 217 | Y |
| 5.1 | Planet Plague | Whitman, John | 4 | Tash and Hoole decide to visit the planet Gobindi to study the ancient ruins, but Tash thinks she has discovered an imperial plot to spread a terrible virus across the galaxy. | 124 | Y |
| 5.1 | Polar Bears (Creative Ed.) | Biel, Timothy Levi | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, infancy, and future of the polar bear. | 24 | Y |
| 5.1 | Protecting Marie | Henkes, Kevin | 6 | Relates twelve-year-old Fanny's love-hate relationship with her father, a temperamental artist who has given Fanny a new dog. | 195 | |
| 5.1 | Quarter Horses | Gentle/Perry | 0.5 | Describes the physical features and other characteristics that have made the quarter horse one of the most popular breeds in America. | 24 | Y |
| 5.1 | Ralph S. Mouse | Cleary, Beverly | 3 | Ralph, the motorcycle-riding mouse, is off on another adventure and acquires a new sports car to replace his broken motorcycle. | 160 | Y |
| 5.1 | Ramona the Pest | Cleary, Beverly | 4 | A lovable five-year-old girl starts kindergarten with a hilarious series of misdeeds. | 192 | Y |
| 5.1 | Red Sea, The | Taylor, Leighton | 1 | Examines various aspects of the Red Sea, including its physical features, sea life, and human inhabitants. | 48 | Y |
| 5.1 | Ride of Courage | Felder, Deborah | 3 | In 1781, twelve year old Molly Randall finds her courage tested when she must ride a powerful Arabian horse to warn her uncle and his Patriot troops of British plans to capture them. | 128 | |
| 5.1 | Seals, Sea Lions & Walruses (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 0.5 | This book provides information as to physical characteristics, behavior, and differences between seals, sea lions, and walruses. | 24 | Y |
| 5.1 | Shadowmaker, The | Hansen, Ron | 1 | A cunning little girl named Drizzle rescues her town from the bedlam created by the mysterious Shadowmaker, a wizard who makes new shadows for people. | 66 | Y |
| 5.1 | Southern 500 | Ethan, Eric | 0.5 | This book describes the Southern 500, one of the oldest races sponsored by the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) and held annually in Darlington, South Carolina. | 24 | |
| 5.1 | Spitting Cobras of Africa, The | Martin, James | 0.5 | Learn about the Spitting Cobras that live in the hot regions along the earth's equator and how they defend themselves. | 48 | Y |
| 5.1 | Tigers (Creative Ed.) | Biel, Timothy Levi | 0.5 | This book provides information on the physical characteristics, behavior, and lifestyle of tigers. | 24 | Y |
| 5.1 | Tornadoes (Nature's Fury) | Meister, Cari | 1 | This book discusses the nature, causes, and dangers of tornadoes, tornadoes of the past, and ways to survive them. | 32 | |
| 5.1 | Volcano Disaster, The | Kehret, Peg | 3 | When an Instant Commuter transports him to Mount Saint Helens during an eruption, Warren cannot get himself back to his own home in his own time. | 136 | |
| 5.1 | Zia | O'Dell, Scott | 5 | Poignant sequel to 'The Island Of The Blue Dolphins,' in which Zia and her Aunt Karana are reunited, but not for long. | 144 | Y |
| 5.2 | Abominable Snowman, The | Antonopulos, Barbara | 1 | Briefly describes evidence that large ape-like creatures or Yeti live in the Himalaya Mountains. | 48 | |
| 5.2 | Anacondas (Snake Discovery) | Bargar/Johnson | 0.5 | An introduction to the physical characteristics, habits, natural environment, and relationship to human beings of the various species of anacondas. | 24 | |
| 5.2 | Armageddon Summer | Yolen/Coville | 9 | Fourteen-year-old Marina and sixteen-year-old Jed accompany their parents' religious cult, the Believers, to await the end of the world atop a remote mountain, where they try to decide what they themselves believe. | 266 | |
| 5.2 | Baby Animals 1 (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 0.5 | This book provides information on the different kinds of baby animals, how the babies are cared for, and the future of baby animals. | 24 | Y |
| 5.2 | Big Wave, The | Buck, Pearl S. | 2 | A Japanese boy learns the joy of living after surviving a tidal wave that tragically destroys his family and his village. | 57 | Y |
| 5.2 | Birds of Prey (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 0.5 | This book describes the characteristics of a variety of birds of prey, including the owl, eagle, hawk, and vulture. | 24 | Y |
| 5.2 | Black Cauldron, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 7 | In Prydain, a young Assistant Pig-Keeper achieves honor in a quest to destroy the evil Black Cauldron. | 229 | Y |
| 5.2 | Black Stallion, The | Farley, Walter | 7 | Story of the wildest of all wild creatures--a stallion unbroken, untamed! | 187 | Y |
| 5.2 | Bloody Country | Collier, James/Christopher | 6 | Set during the Revolutionary War, this is the story of two friends, a landowner's son and a slave, who have very different points of view on war and slavery. By the authors of My Brother Sam Is Dead. | 181 | |
| 5.2 | Bloomability | Creech, Sharon | 7 | When her aunt and uncle take her from New Mexico to Lugano, Switzerland, to attend an international school, thirteen-year-old Dinnie discovers an expanding world and her place in it. | 273 | Y |
| 5.2 | Dogsong | Paulsen, Gary | 5 | A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy, who feels assailed by the modernity of his life, takes a 1,400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own "song" of himself. | 177 | Y |
| 5.2 | Faithful Friend, The | San Souci, Robert D. | 0.5 | A retelling of the traditional tale from the French West Indies in which two friends, Clement and Hippolyte, encounter love, zombies, and danger on the island of Martinique in the West Indies. | 33 | Y |
| 5.2 | Farmer Boy | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 9 | Almanzo Wilder's boyhood on his father's farm in upper New York state, a century ago. | 372 | Y |
| 5.2 | First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 7 | After paying a silver penny to encourage a magician to perform in the town square, a carpenter's helper is conjured to a strange place where the people call him King of Abadan. | 213 | Y |
| 5.2 | Ghosts and Poltergeists | Meier, Gisela | 1 | Examines evidence supporting the existence of ghosts and poltergeists. | 48 | Y |
| 5.2 | Great Brain, The | Fitzgerald, John D. | 7 | A boy genius has scheming adventures. | 175 | Y |
| 5.2 | Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle | MacDonald, Betty | 4 | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle cures a show-off, crybaby, bully, whisperer, and slowpoke. | 125 | Y |
| 5.2 | Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang | Richler, Mordecai | 2 | Delightful fantasy about a little boy condemned to prison for insulting an adult, and how he escapes. | 87 | Y |
| 5.2 | Kestrel, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 9 | With war in Westmark and the assumption of the throne by Mickie, all Theo's talents are needed, as well as those of his former companions. | 244 | |
| 5.2 | Last of the Breed, The | Steele, Alexander | 5 | While Wishbone and his friends try to come up with a plan to stop a local real estate developer from destroying part of a beautiful park, Wishbone imagines himself as Hawkeye, the brave scout from James Fennimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." | 163 | |
| 5.2 | Looking at...Ankylosaurus | Brown, Mike | 0.5 | A look at the armored reptile that roamed from Mongolia to North America during the Cretaceous period. | 24 | Y |
| 5.2 | Looking at...Iguanodon | Vaughan, Jenny | 0.5 | A realistic and scientifically accurate picture of a dinosaur's daily life. | 24 | Y |
| 5.2 | Moffats, The | Estes, Eleanor | 6 | Living in Cranbury on New Dollar Street, having a mother who could make both ends just meet and have fun doing it, and being one of a family of four children is a rich, adventurous existence for the Moffat children. | 211 | Y |
| 5.2 | More Adventures of the Great Brain | Fitzgerald, John D. | 6 | More exploits of the Great Brain, as seen through the eyes of his younger brother, J. D. | 142 | Y |
| 5.2 | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle | MacDonald, Betty | 3 | Eight funny and instructive stories in which the magical Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle helps teach children how to behave. | 119 | Y |
| 5.2 | Mummies Made in Egypt | Aliki | 0.5 | Unravels the secret of the ancient Egyptian art of mummy-making. | 27 | Y |
| 5.2 | Mustangs: America's Wild Horses | Gentle/Perry | 0.5 | Describes the history and characteristics of the wild horses known as mustangs, as well as efforts to keep them from disappearing. | 24 | Y |
| 5.2 | My Side of the Mountain | George, Jean Craighead | 6 | Written in the form of a diary, this story relates the days of a young boy in the Catskill Mountains. | 177 | Y |
| 5.2 | Ocean Mammals (A True Book) | Landau, Elaine | 0.5 | Discusses several different marine mammals, including dolphins, manatees, and whales. | 48 | Y |
| 5.2 | Old Mother West Wind | Burgess, Thornton | 3 | All the favorite old Burgess characters and stories in a new illustrated edition. | 140 | |
| 5.2 | Pippi Longstocking | Lindgren, Astrid | 4 | A lucky little girl who lives with a horse and a monkey--but without any parents--at the edge of a Swedish village is involved in many escapades. | 160 | Y |
| 5.2 | Ramona and Her Father | Cleary, Beverly | 3 | In this adventure with Beezus and Ramona, two of the best-loved characters in children's literature, Mr. Quimby loses his job, and the entire family learns to cope with hardship. | 186 | Y |
| 5.2 | Rattlesnakes (Creative Ed.) | Brust/Dorn | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics and behavior of the rattlesnake and presents rattlesnake-related activities. | 24 | Y |
| 5.2 | Ring of Endless Light, A | L'Engle, Madeleine | 11 | Life is changing on Seven Bay Island for Vicky Austin, with Commander Rodney dead, her grandfather dying, and three boys who devote their attention to her. | 332 | Y |
| 5.2 | Root Cellar, The | Lunn, Janet | 10 | For twelve-year-old Rose, the root cellar was a passage through which she could escape the present and travel back in time to the 1860s and the Civil War. | 229 | Y |
| 5.2 | Secret of the Indian, The | Banks, Lynne Reid | 5 | In this third book about Omri and his magic cupboard, Omri and his friend Patrick must risk grown-ups discovering their secret when they find themselves in need of a friend whose toy plastic doctors can be brought to life to save wounded people. | 147 | Y |
| 5.2 | Shadow of a Bull | Wojciechowska, Maia | 5 | The son of a famous bullfighter resists the pressures that try to force him to become a bullfighter like his hero father. | 141 | Y |
| 5.2 | Sharks (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 0.5 | This book provides information on the physical characteristics and behavior of different species of sharks. | 24 | Y |
| 5.2 | Snowbird, The | Calvert, Patricia | 7 | Willie and her brother TJ are orphaned and must journey to the Dakota Territory to live with their uncle and aunt they do not even know. | 135 | |
| 5.2 | Socks | Cleary, Beverly | 2 | A comfortable cat's life for tabby Socks is disrupted by the arrival of a new baby in the owner's home. | 156 | Y |
| 5.2 | Spiders (Creative Ed.) | Biel, Timothy Levi | 0.5 | This book identifies different types of spiders, describing physical characteristics, habits, and habitats. | 24 | Y |
| 5.2 | Stegosaurus (A True Book) | Landau, Elaine | 0.5 | This book describes the characteristics and habits of the plant-eating dinosaur, stegosauras, as well as theories about why dinosaurs became extinct. | 47 | Y |
| 5.2 | String in the Harp, A | Bond, Nancy | 17 | When Peter and his sisters are forced to move to Wales, he finds a harp-tuning key that transports him back to the sixth century. | 370 | Y |
| 5.2 | Summer of My German Soldier | Greene, Bette | 9 | This is an extraordinary novel about an unlikely friendship between a Jewish girl and a young German soldier during World War II. | 199 | |
| 5.2 | Swiftly Tilting Planet, A | L'Engle, Madeleine | 10 | Third volume of classic trilogy in which 15-year-old Charles and the unicorn Gaudior thwart Madog Branzillo's plan to destroy the world. | 256 | Y |
| 5.2 | Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub | Gilson, Jamie | 4 | The boys and girls in the fourth grade devise a contest to "sink" their substitute teacher by making her cry. | 140 | Y |
| 5.2 | Triceratops (A True Book) | Landau, Elaine | 0.5 | This book describes the characteristics and probable behavior of this three-horned dinosaur, as well as the theories about its extinction. | 47 | Y |
| 5.2 | View from the Cherry Tree, The | Roberts, Willo Davis | 7 | Rob admits having seen a murder, but no one believes him--except the murderer. | 181 | Y |
| 5.2 | Wanderer, The | Creech, Sharon | 6 | Thirteen-year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their transatlantic crossing aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five-foot sailboat. | 305 | Y |
| 5.2 | Whales ((Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 0.5 | This book provides information on the physical characteristics and behavior of different species of whales. | 20 | Y |
| 5.2 | What Do We Know About the Vikings? | Martell, Hazel | 1 | The age of the Vikings is described with annotated photographs and drawings. | 45 | Y |
| 5.2 | Where the Lilies Bloom | Cleaver, Vera/Bill | 6 | This is a tough and tender novel about an orphaned mountain family and the courageous fourteen-year-old, Mary Call, who keeps them together and alive. | 210 | Y |
| 5.2 | You're Only Old Once! | Seuss, Dr. | 0.5 | In Dr. Seuss' first book for older people, this tale in the familiar Seuss format depicts aging and what life is like for "obsolete children." | 42 | Y |
| 5.3 | Agony of Alice, The | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 5 | Eleven-year-old, motherless Alice, decides she needs a gorgeous role model until she discovers what really makes someone beautiful. | 131 | Y |
| 5.3 | And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? | Fritz, Jean | 1 | A humorous biography of Paul Revere, covering more than his famous ride, like life in Boston in the 1700s. | 48 | |
| 5.3 | Baby-sitting Is a Dangerous Job | Roberts, Willo Davis | 6 | Thirteen-year-old Darcy thought she was being followed for some strange reason, and then the children she baby-sat for were kidnapped. | 139 | Y |
| 5.3 | Beauty and the Beast | Brett, Jan | 0.5 | Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast. | 32 | Y |
| 5.3 | Black Holes (A True Book) | Sipiera, Paul P. | 0.5 | Explains the nature and formation of the cosmic phenomenon known as a black hole. | 48 | Y |
| 5.3 | Book of Three, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 7 | Taran sets out with some strangely assorted companions to save his beloved land. | 224 | Y |
| 5.3 | Borrowers, The | Norton, Mary | 5 | There are not many Borrowers left, as they like to live in quiet places. This is the story of the mysterious tiny people who live in old houses everywhere,... | 180 | Y |
| 5.3 | By the Shores of Silver Lake | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 9 | The Ingalls family leaves Minnesota, travels to the Dakota Territory, and lives at a railroad camp until Pa can file their claim to a homestead near Silver Lake. | 290 | Y |
| 5.3 | Cay, The | Taylor, Theodore | 4 | A fine portrayal of how a boy makes his separate peace with racial prejudice. | 144 | Y |
| 5.3 | Chester the Worldly Pig | Peet, Bill | 0.5 | A disgruntled pig sets his sights on being more than something to eat. | 48 | Y |
| 5.3 | Comets and Meteor Showers (A True Book) | Sipiera, Paul P. | 0.5 | Provides an introduction to comets, covering where they come from, how they travel, their importance to astronomers, as well as their relationship to meteor showers. | 48 | Y |
| 5.3 | Dragon's Gate | Yep, Laurence | 10 | A young immigrant boy from China joins his father and uncle in helping to build the transcontinental railroad. | 272 | Y |
| 5.3 | Dragonwings | Yep, Laurence | 10 | This beautiful story is of Moon Shadow and his father Windrider, a Chinese immigrant who makes a flying machine in 1909. | 248 | Y |
| 5.3 | Far North | Hobbs, Will | 9 | Gabe Rogers and his roommate from boarding school find themselves stranded in Canada's Northwest Territories and need to learn to depend on each other for survival. | 214 | Y |
| 5.3 | Girl with the Silver Eyes, The | Roberts, Willo Davis | 7 | Katie's silver-colored eyes and her ability to communicate with animals start a suspense-filled search for others like herself. Excellent, believable science fiction. | 198 | |
| 5.3 | Gone-Away Lake | Enright, Elizabeth | 7 | Julian and Portia spend an unforgettable vacation when they discover an abandoned summer colony. | 256 | Y |
| 5.3 | Greenwitch | Cooper, Susan | 6 | Simon, Jane, and Barney discover the whereabouts of a priceless golden grail, possessed by a dreadful, vengeful power. | 131 | Y |
| 5.3 | Headless Cupid, The | Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | 8 | The four Stanley children are amazed and enchanted when Amanda and her crow come to live with them . . . but is she really a witch? | 203 | |
| 5.3 | Henry and the Paper Route | Cleary, Beverly | 4 | His heart set on having a paper route, Henry Huggins is sidetracked by various interesting and funny distractions. | 192 | Y |
| 5.3 | Homeless Bird | Whelan, Gloria | 5 | When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it. | 216 | Y |
| 5.3 | Kangaroos (Creative Ed.) | Brust, Beth Wagner | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the kangaroo, the largest hopping animal in the world. | 24 | Y |
| 5.3 | Kitty from the Start | Delton, Judy | 3 | Kitty moves to a new neighborhood and eventually makes a successful transition into her new third grade. | 141 | Y |
| 5.3 | Kokopelli's Flute | Hobbs, Will | 6 | Thirteen-year-old Tepary discovers an old flute in a cliff dwelling in New Mexico, and through its power he learns about ancient Native American Magic. | 148 | |
| 5.3 | Little House in the Big Woods | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 5 | The Ingalls family is snug in their Wisconsin house in spite of blizzards, wolves, and the lonely forest. | 238 | Y |
| 5.3 | Loner, The | Wier, Ester | 5 | A lonely boy with no name and no memory wanders the southwest until he finds a home with a sheep rancher. | 151 | Y |
| 5.3 | Long Winter, The | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 10 | Almanzo Wilder makes a dangerous trip to save the village from starvation. | 335 | Y |
| 5.3 | Looking at...Protoceratops | Amery, Heather | 0.5 | A realistic and scientifically accurate picture of a Protoceratop dinosaur's daily life. | 24 | Y |
| 5.3 | Looking at...Velociraptor | Amery, Heather | 0.5 | Enter the world of the small, fierce predator that lived in the Gobi Desert during the Cretaceous period. | 24 | Y |
| 5.3 | Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster | Frasier, Debra | 0.5 | When Sage's spelling and definition of a word reveal her misunderstanding of it to her classmates, she is at first embarrassed. Then she uses her mistake as inspiration for the vocabulary parade. | 34 | Y |
| 5.3 | Missing May | Rylant, Cynthia | 3 | After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her Uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living. | 89 | Y |
| 5.3 | Misty of Chincoteague | Henry, Marguerite | 4 | A breed of wild horses inhabit an island, and one is befriended and tamed by the love of two children. | 173 | Y |
| 5.3 | Mr. Lincoln's Drummer | Wisler, G. Clifton | 5 | This story recounts the courageous exploits of Willie Johnston, an eleven-year-old Civil War drummer who became the youngest recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor. | 129 | Y |
| 5.3 | My Teacher Is an Alien | Coville, Bruce | 3 | Susan Simmons must prevent her alien teacher from taking herself and her classmates to another planet. | 123 | Y |
| 5.3 | Mystery of the Desert Giant | Dixon, Franklin W. | 6 | Who is the mysterious man that the caller said to beware of? | 182 | |
| 5.3 | Night Crossing, The | Ackerman, Karen | 1 | When the Nazis invade Austria, Clara's Jewish family flees to Switzerland. | 56 | Y |
| 5.3 | Night Journey, The | Lasky, Kathryn | 5 | A young girl ignores her parents' wishes and persuades her great-grandmother to relate the story of her escape from Czarist Russia. | 150 | |
| 5.3 | Nowhere to Call Home | DeFelice, Cynthia | 7 | When her father kills himself after losing his money in the stock market crash, twelve-year-old Frances, now a penniless orphan, decides to hop aboard a freight train and live the life of a hobo. | 200 | Y |
| 5.3 | On the Way Home | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 3 | The diary of a trip from South Dakota to Missouri in 1894. | 101 | Y |
| 5.3 | Out of the Dust | Hesse, Karen | 3 | In a series of poems, fourteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm. | 227 | Y |
| 5.3 | Penguins (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 0.5 | This book provides information on the physical characteristics and behavior of different species of penguins. | 24 | Y |
| 5.3 | Pretty Lady of Saratoga | Felder, Deborah | 3 | ALthough her temperamental horse Pretty Lady is about to be retired, Polly longs to see her in the winner's circle and pursues plans to retrain her in time for the prestigious Travers Stakes. | 122 | |
| 5.3 | Rabble Starkey | Lowry, Lois | 7 | Many things change for twelve-year-old Rabble Starkey, her mother, and her best friend Veronica Bigelow, when Veronica's mother becomes incapacitated and the Starkeys move in with the Bigelows. | 192 | Y |
| 5.3 | Respiratory System (A True Book), The | Stille, Darlene R. | 0.5 | Describes the various parts of the human respiratory system and then explains how that system brings fresh oxygen into the body and carries carbon dioxide to the lungs to be expelled. | 48 | Y |
| 5.3 | Runaway Ralph | Cleary, Beverly | 4 | Wanting excitement, adventure, and his independence, the cycling mouse runs away from home on his shiny red motorcycle. | 175 | Y |
| 5.3 | Sea Otters (Creative Ed.) | Brust, Beth Wagner | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics, habitat, life cycle, and daily activities of this member of the weasel family. | 24 | Y |
| 5.3 | Seabirds (Creative Ed.) | Brust, Beth Wagner | 0.5 | This book is a basic introduction to seabirds, of which there are more than 260 species distributed all over the world. | 24 | Y |
| 5.3 | Searching for Dragons | Wrede, Patricia C. | 9 | With the aid of King Mandanbar, princess Cimorene rescues the dragon Kazul and saves the Enchanted Forest from a band of wicked wizards. | 242 | |
| 5.3 | Shades of Gray | Reeder, Carolyn | 6 | At the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his immediate family, reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia countryside with his aunt and uncle he considers a "traitor" because they refused to take part in the war. | 152 | Y |
| 5.3 | Snow Treasure | McSwigan, Marie | 5 | Brave children help save Norway's gold from the invading Nazis during World War II. | 156 | Y |
| 5.3 | Sounder | Armstrong, William H. | 3 | Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read with the help of a devoted dog, Sounder. | 116 | Y |
| 5.3 | Strange Stories of Life | Lawless, Joann | 1 | Curious tales, supposedly true, of people, animals, and natural phenomena. | 48 | |
| 5.3 | True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, The | Avi | 8 | As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious. | 215 | Y |
| 5.3 | Westing Game, The | Raskin, Ellen | 8 | Sixteen game players, heirs to Sam Westing's fabulous fortune, are all suspected of his murder. This book is part mystery story, part play-along game, and part do-it-yourself puzzle. | 216 | Y |
| 5.3 | Zorba the Hutt's Revenge | Davids, Paul/Hollace | 2 | Han Solo's wedding plans are disrupted by a galactic battle in this Star Wars spinoff. | 94 | Y |
| 5.4 | Alligators & Crocodiles (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 0.5 | This book provides information on the physical characteristics, behavior, future, and different kinds of alligators and crocodiles. | 24 | Y |
| 5.4 | Animal Family, The | Jarrell, Randall | 3 | This is the story of how a man finds a family. | 180 | Y |
| 5.4 | Arkadians, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 8 | To escape the wrath of the king and his wicked soothsayers, an honest young man joins with a poet-turned-jackass and a young girl with mystical powers on a series of epic adventures. | 270 | Y |
| 5.4 | Away Is a Strange Place to Be | Hoover, H.M. | 7 | When she is kidnapped from the Earth in 2349 to serve as slave labor on an artificial world under construction, twelve-year-old Abby must cooperate with her fellow prisoner Bryan, a spoiled rich boy, in order to plan an escape. | 167 | Y |
| 5.4 | Bears (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 0.5 | This book provides information on the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of different kinds of bears. | 24 | Y |
| 5.4 | Best School Year Ever, The | Robinson, Barbara | 3 | The terrible kids at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School return with more wild behavior and outrageous lies. | 117 | Y |
| 5.4 | Black Pearl, The | O'Dell, Scott | 4 | In claiming as his own the magnificent black pearl he finds, a sixteen-year-old youth enrages the sea devil that legend says is its owner. | 96 | Y |
| 5.4 | Caribbean Sea, The | Taylor, Leighton | 1 | In text and photographs, presents information about the Caribbean Sea, its location, physical environment, animal life, islands, and mysteries. | 48 | Y |
| 5.4 | Castle of Llyr, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 7 | While undergoing training to be a princess, Eilonwy learns about magic for evil purposes. | 206 | Y |
| 5.4 | Cheetahs (Creative Ed.) | Wood/Jenson | 0.5 | This book discusses the habits and behavior of cheetahs and presents several cheetah-related activities. | 24 | Y |
| 5.4 | Digging to the Center of the Earth | Steele, Michael Anthony | 5 | While trying to unlock the mystery of a metal object that he found in his yard, Wishbone imagines that he is the professor in "Journey to the Center of the Earth." | 143 | |
| 5.4 | Family Apart, A | Nixon, Joan Lowery | 7 | When their mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860. | 162 | |
| 5.4 | Fear Place, The | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 5 | Despite the strained relationship between them, Doug must overcome his fear in order to search for his missing brother. | 118 | Y |
| 5.4 | Frindle | Clements, Andrew | 2 | When Nick Allen decides to turn his fifth-grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, he cleverly invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control. | 105 | Y |
| 5.4 | Giraffes (A True Book) | Lepthien, Emilie U. | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics and habits of these long-necked African animals. | 48 | Y |
| 5.4 | Hawks for Kids/Hawk Magic for Kids | Matteson, Sumner | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of hawks in general, and of the Cooper's Hawk in particular. | 48 | |
| 5.4 | Haymeadow, The | Paulsen, Gary | 6 | Fourteen-year-old John comes of age and gains self-reliance during the summer he spends up in the Wyoming mountains tending his father's herd of sheep. | 195 | Y |
| 5.4 | House on the Cliff, The | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5 | Frank and Joe manage to escape from a hostage situation with a band of smugglers and, of course, solve another mystery. | 180 | Y |
| 5.4 | Hundred and One Dalmatians, The | Smith, Dodie | 7 | All over England, Dalmatian puppies are disappearing. It is up to Pongo and Missis, "a young married couple of Dalmatians," to save their own missing puppies. Fortunately, they have Mr. and Mrs. Dearly and all the country's dogs to aid their search. | 199 | Y |
| 5.4 | Hundred Dresses, The | Estes, Eleanor | 1 | In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson. | 80 | Y |
| 5.4 | Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison | Lenski, Lois | 10 | Authentic reconstruction of Mary Jemison's capture and life with the Seneca Indians. | 298 | Y |
| 5.4 | Island of the Blue Dolphins | O'Dell, Scott | 6 | An Indian girl is left alone on an island for ten years. | 181 | Y |
| 5.4 | Janitor's Boy, The | Clements, Andrew | 4 | Fifth grader, Jack, finds himself the target of ridicule at school when it becomes known that his father is one of the janitors, and he turns his anger onto his father. | 140 | Y |
| 5.4 | Jellyfish (A True Book) | Landau, Elaine | 0.5 | This book introduces the size, shape, colors, and stinging tentacles of jellyfish, and examines their survival in the world's waters since before the age of the dinosaurs. | 47 | Y |
| 5.4 | King of the Wind | Henry, Marguerite | 5 | An Arab stable boy's love for a Sultan's horse begins the line from which Man o' War was sired. | 174 | Y |
| 5.4 | Komodo Dragons: Giant Lizards of Indonesia | Martin, James | 0.5 | Giant lizards of Indonesia. | 48 | Y |
| 5.4 | Lassie Come-Home | Knight, Eric | 9 | After being sold because of hard times, Lassie time and again escapes and returns to her beloved Joe. | 230 | |
| 5.4 | Little Riders, The | Shemin, Margaretha | 2 | An American girl living in Nazi-occupied Holland resents the presence of a German soldier quartered in her grandparents' home, until the night she tries to hide part of the town's treasured clock mechanism. | 76 | Y |
| 5.4 | Little Town on the Prairie | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | 9 | Pa's homestead thrives, Laura gets her first job in town, blackbirds eat the crops, Mary goes to college, and Laura gets into trouble at school but becomes a certified schoolteacher. | 307 | Y |
| 5.4 | Llamas (A True Book) | Lepthien, Emilie U. | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics and habits of llamas and their relatives. | 48 | Y |
| 5.4 | Looking at...Brachiosaurus | Amery, Heather | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics and probable behavior of this herbivorous dinosaur with spiked thumbs. | 24 | Y |
| 5.4 | Looking at...Chasmosaurus | Amery, Heather | 0.5 | Learn more about this prehistoric creature from the Cretaceous Period. | 24 | |
| 5.4 | Looking at...Pterodactylus | Coleman, Graham | 0.5 | A look at a flying dinosaur of the Jurassic period. | 24 | |
| 5.4 | Looking at...Stegosaurus | Amery, Heather | 0.5 | A scientific look at Stegosaurus, a dinosaur from the Jurassic period. | 24 | Y |
| 5.4 | Looking at...Triceratops | Vaughan, Jenny | 0.5 | A realistic and scientifically accurate picture of a Triceratop dinosaur's daily life. | 24 | Y |
| 5.4 | Lostman's River | DeFelice, Cynthia | 6 | Tyler hides from the law in the Florida swamps where he learns about that imperiled environment. | 160 | Y |
| 5.4 | Magician's Nephew, The | Lewis, C.S. | 6 | When Digory and Polly try to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic is mixed up; they all land in Narnia where they witness Aslan blessing the animals with human speech. | 221 | Y |
| 5.4 | Master Puppeteer, The | Paterson, Katherine | 7 | Set in feudal Japan, this is the story of a young boy who is drawn into the magical and mysterious world of the puppet-theater. | 179 | Y |
| 5.4 | Mountain Mammals (A True Book) | Landau, Elaine | 0.5 | Briefly describes such animals as pikas, yaks, giant pandas, and vicunas. | 48 | Y |
| 5.4 | Mythical Beasts | Marx, Doug | 1 | Describes some of the mythical beasts that have existed in the imaginations of people of all cultures throughout history. Includes Scylla, Minotaur, griffin, phoenix, unicorn, and Bigfoot. | 48 | Y |
| 5.4 | Night Cry | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 6 | Ellen is awakened at night by horrible cries that may be human. | 154 | Y |
| 5.4 | Old World Monkeys (Creative Ed.) | Elwood, Ann | 0.5 | This book examines the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of various species of Old World monkeys, those living in the rain forests and woodland-grassland regions of Africa and Asia. | 24 | Y |
| 5.4 | One-Eyed Cat | Fox, Paula | 7 | Ned thinks he may have injured a wild cat when he recklessly fires a forbidden rifle into the dark shadows near the house. | 216 | Y |
| 5.4 | Over Sea, Under Stone | Cooper, Susan | 12 | Three children on a holiday in Cornwall find an ancient manuscript which sends them on a dangerous quest for a grail that would reveal the true story of King Arthur. | 252 | Y |
| 5.4 | Pacific Ocean, The | Taylor, Leighton | 1 | In text and photographs, presents some of what is known about the Pacific Ocean, its islands, its people, and its exotic creatures. | 48 | Y |
| 5.4 | Riddle of Penncroft Farm, The | Jensen, Dorothea | 7 | Lars Olafson's move to a farm near Valley Forge brings him friendship with the ghost of an eighteenth-century ancestor who recounts for him his adventures in that part of Pennsylvania during the American Revolution. | 244 | Y |
| 5.4 | Romeo and Juliet Together (and Alive) at Last | Avi | 3 | In this sequel to S. O. R. Losers, Ed masterminds a plan to bring Saltz and the girl of his dreams together on stage. | 122 | Y |
| 5.4 | Search for Delicious, The | Babbitt, Natalie | 4 | The Prime Minister is compiling a dictionary; and when no one at court can agree on the meaning of delicious, the King sends his twelve-year-old messenger to poll the country. | 167 | Y |
| 5.4 | Secret Moose, The | Rogers, Jean | 1 | A young boy living in Alaska develops an interest in moose and their habits after he sees a moose in his backyard and decides to follow it. | 64 | |
| 5.4 | Secret of the Old Clock, The | Keene, Carolyn | 5 | Nancy's decided that Mr. Crowley must have left a second will, so she proceeds to find out the mystery of the old clock. | 180 | Y |
| 5.4 | Sentries | Paulsen, Gary | 5 | The common theme of nuclear disaster and human vulnerability interweaves the lives of four young people, an Ojibway Indian, an illegal Mexican migrant worker, a rock musician, and a sheep rancher's daughter with the lives of three veterans of past wars. | 168 | |
| 5.4 | To Walk the Sky Path | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | 5 | The story of a young Seminole Indian, who because of his education, finds himself caught between the traditional world of his ancestors and the modern world of his schoolmates. | 144 | Y |
| 5.4 | Turtles (Creative Ed.) | Biel, Timothy Levi | 0.5 | This book identifies many types of turtles, describing physical characteristics, habits, and habitats. | 24 | Y |
| 5.4 | Very Young Gymnast, A | Krementz, Jill | 1 | Follows a young gymnast through her schedule of hard work and training. | 119 | Y |
| 5.4 | Wizard in the Tree, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 5 | Mallory's encounter with the wizard in the tree begins a chain of events that change the lives of the villagers dominated by a suspicious squire. | 138 | Y |
| 5.5 | Big Cats (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 0.5 | This book provides information on the physical characteristics and behavior of different species of big cats. | 24 | Y |
| 5.5 | Boy Who Owned the School, The | Paulsen, Gary | 2 | Jacob Freisten, often in a fog, tries to ease through high school unnoticed; but a beautiful classmate takes notice of him and his life begins to change. | 85 | Y |
| 5.5 | Brian's Return | Paulsen, Gary | 4 | After living alone in the wilderness on the edge of death, Brian dreams of returning to the woods where he is more comfortable than in civilization. | 115 | Y |
| 5.5 | Butterflies for Kids/Butterfly Magic for Kids | Norsgaard, E. Jaediker | 0.5 | In this book, information about the physical characteristics, habits, and life cycle of the monarch butterfly is woven into a story. | 46 | |
| 5.5 | Camels (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 0.5 | This book provides information on the physical characteristics, behavior, and different kinds of camels. | 24 | Y |
| 5.5 | Canyons | Paulsen, Gary | 5 | Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800s. | 184 | Y |
| 5.5 | Child of the Owl | Yep, Laurence | 10 | A savvy street kid finds her roots in the maze of San Francisco's Chinatown. | 278 | Y |
| 5.5 | Coral Reef Partners | Ethan/Bearanger | 0.5 | Explains how some animals work together to survive, not because they like each other. | 22 | |
| 5.5 | Dealing with Dragons | Wrede, Patricia C. | 8 | Bored with traditional palace life, a princess goes off to live with a group of dragons and soon becomes involved with fighting against some disreputable wizards who want to steal away the dragons' kingdom. | 212 | |
| 5.5 | Dolphins & Porpoises (Creative Ed.) | Brust, Beth Wagner | 0.5 | This book describes the physical characteristics, behavior, and enemies of dolphins and porpoises. | 24 | Y |
| 5.5 | Eagles (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 0.5 | This book provides an introduction to the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of various species of eagles. | 24 | Y |
| 5.5 | Flying Angels, The | Hubbard, Coleen | 3 | Adela is excited to perform with the Flying Angels, the vaulting team to which her sisters belong, but her pride makes her quit when she falls while dismounting from her horse. | 123 | |
| 5.5 | Galaxies (A True Book) | Sipiera, Paul P. | 0.5 | Examines what a galaxy is, the different types that exist, their structures, and some facts learned from the study of galaxies. | 48 | Y |
| 5.5 | Ghost Cadet | Alphin, Elaine Marie | 6 | Twelve-year-old Benjy, in Virginia visiting the grandmother he has never met, meets the ghost of a Virginia Military Institute cadet who was killed in the Battle of New Market in 1864 and helps him recover his family's treasured gold watch. | 182 | Y |
| 5.5 | Ghost in the Window, A | Wright, Betty Ren | 5 | A man who died in a car crash after allegedly stealing $50,000 from a bank tries to communicate with the family through Meg's dreams. Sequel to A Secret Window. | 152 | |
| 5.5 | Giant Pandas (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 0.5 | This book provides an introduction to the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of giant pandas. | 24 | Y |
| 5.5 | Henry Reed, Inc. | Robertson, Keith | 8 | Fourteen-year-old Henry Reed and his friend Midge Glass turn Grover's Corner, New Jersey, upside down when they open a research business. | 239 | |
| 5.5 | Hidden Staircase, The | Keene, Carolyn | 6 | Nancy is off to solve another case, this time in a haunted house. | 182 | Y |
| 5.5 | House of Sixty Fathers, The | De Jong, Meindert | 6 | A young Chinese boy and his pet pig are separated from his parents when Japanese soldiers invade his country. | 189 | Y |
| 5.5 | Illyrian Adventure, The | Alexander, Lloyd | 5 | Vesper Holly sails to the tiny country of Illyria to search for the treasure and magical army of King Vartan by the author of the Prydain Chronicles. | 132 | Y |
| 5.5 | Indian Ocean, The | Taylor, Leighton | 1 | In text and photographs, presents information about the Indian Ocean, its location, physical environment, animal life, islands, and mysteries. | 48 | Y |
| 5.5 | Jason's Gold | Hobbs, Will | 8 | When news of the discovery of gold in Canada's Yukon in 1897 reaches fifteen-year-old Jason, he embarks on a 5000-mile journey to strike it rich. | 221 | |
| 5.5 | Killer Bees | Blau, Melinda | 1 | The story of a special strain of honeybees developed by man to increase honey production, but which also has a fierce, belligerent, attacking instinct. | 48 | Y |
| 5.5 | Light in the Forest, The | Richter, Conrad | 5 | A four-year-old white boy is adopted into an Indian warrior tribe. | 120 | Y |
| 5.5 | Looking at...Diplodocus | Coleman, Graham | 0.5 | Enter the world of the enormous plant-eater that roamed North America during the Jurassic period. | 24 | Y |
| 5.5 | Looking at...Plesiosaurus | Amery, Heather | 0.5 | An introduction to the ocean-going reptile of the warm Jurassic period. | 24 | |
| 5.5 | Looking at...Tyrannosaurus rex | Amery, Heather | 0.5 | A realistic and scientifically accurate picture of a Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur's daily life. | 24 | Y |
| 5.5 | Mr. Ape | King-Smith, Dick | 3 | A wealthy old man living alone in his enormous home meets a gypsy father and son, adopts many animals, and finally learns the true meaning of family. | 128 | Y |
| 5.5 | Mystery of Stonehenge, The | Lyon, Nancy | 1 | Discusses the theories and superstitions that have arisen throughout the years to explain the existence of the circle of stones at Stonehenge. | 48 | |
| 5.5 | Promises to the Dead | Hahn, Mary Downing | 8 | In the early days of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Jesse leaves his home on Maryland's Eastern Shore to help a young runaway slave find a safe haven. | 202 | Y |
| 5.5 | Pythons (Snake Discovery) | Bargar/Johnson | 0.5 | Introduces the nonpoisonous python--one of the world's largest snakes, which may grow to a length of 33 feet. | 24 | |
| 5.5 | Return of the Great Brain, The | Fitzgerald, John D. | 6 | The shrewdest young con artist west of the Mississippi rides again, and along with his brother attempt to solve a train robbery. | 150 | Y |
| 5.5 | Rhinos (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 0.5 | This book provides an introduction to the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of various species of rhinoceros. | 24 | Y |
| 5.5 | River, The | Paulsen, Gary | 4 | Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for 54 days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival. | 129 | Y |
| 5.5 | Secret Agent on Flight 101, The | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5 | Rarely do magicians reveal their professional secrets. Consequently, Frank and Joe Hardy are amazed when a well-known magician, the Incredible Hexton, offers to reveal the secret of his "Vanishing Man Act" and invites Mr. Hardy to be the subject. | 176 | Y |
| 5.5 | Seven Spiders Spinning | Maguire, Gregory | 4 | Seven prehistoric spiders that had been trapped in ice for thousands of years bring excitement to rural Vermont and briefly unite two rival clubs at a local elementary school. | 132 | Y |
| 5.5 | Terror in the Tropics: The Army Ants | Lisker, Tom | 1 | An introduction to army ants, their habits, homes, the social aspects of their lives, and how they affect human beings. | 48 | |
| 5.5 | Trouble with Tuck, The | Taylor, Theodore | 4 | From an award-winning author comes a compelling story of a young girl who works against all odds to provide her blind dog with a guide dog of his own. | 110 | Y |
| 5.5 | Twin in the Tavern, The | Wallace, Barbara Brooks | 7 | A young orphan, afraid of being sent to the workhouse, finds himself at the mercy of the unsavory owner of a tavern in Alexandria, Virginia, while he tries to solve the mystery surrounding his past and a missing twin. | 179 | Y |
| 5.5 | Tyrannosaurus Rex (A True Book) | Landau, Elaine | 0.5 | This book describes the characteristics and habits of the massive flesh-eating dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus Rex, as well as theories about why it became extinct. | 47 | Y |
| 5.5 | What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? | Fritz, Jean | 1 | A brief biography of the eighteenth-century printer, inventor, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States. | 46 | Y |
| 5.5 | Wolves (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 0.5 | This book discusses the habits and behavior of wolves, their life in a pack, baby wolves, and the future of wolves. | 24 | Y |
| 5.6 | Babe, the Gallant Pig | King-Smith, Dick | 3 | Babe, the piglet won by Farmer Hogget at a fair, learns to be a sheep-pig. | 118 | Y |
| 5.6 | Big Red | Kjelgaard, Jim | 9 | This famous wilderness adventure portrays the story of a boy and his dog and their feud with Old Majesty, the legendary bear. | 218 | Y |
| 5.6 | Brighty of the Grand Canyon | Henry, Marguerite | 7 | In this story, a lone burro creates friendships with a number of men in the Grand Canyon and helps to capture a murderer. | 222 | Y |
| 5.6 | Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? | Fritz, Jean | 1 | A biography of George the Third, King of Great Britain at the time of the American Revolution. | 48 | Y |
| 5.6 | Cat Running | Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | 7 | When eleven-year-old Cat Kinsey builds a secret hideout to escape her unhappy homelife, she slowly gets to know a poor family who have come to California after losing their home in Texas to the dust storms of the 1930's. | 168 | Y |
| 5.6 | Dinosaurs (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 0.5 | This book provides information on the kinds, behavior, extinction, and fossil evidence of dinosaurs. | 20 | Y |
| 5.6 | Disappearing Floor, The | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5 | Frank and Joe solve another mystery involving notorious jewel thieves. | 176 | Y |
| 5.6 | Ducks, Geese & Swans (Creative Ed.) | Wexo, John Bonnett | 0.5 | This book provides an introduction to the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of ducks, geese, and swans. | 20 | Y |
| 5.6 | Fourth-Grade Celebrity | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 3 | Casey Valentine resents being compared to her popular older sister and decides that she will make herself over. | 117 | Y |
| 5.6 | Haunted Fort, The | Dixon, Franklin W. | 5 | A long-distance telephone call from Chet Morton's uncle summons Frank and Joe Hardy and their staunch pal Chet to a summer art school located near old Fort Senandaga, which is reputed to be inhabited by a ghost. | 176 | Y |
| 5.6 | If UFOs Are Real | Koss, Larry | 1 | Examines sightings, studies, and projects related to unidentified flying objects and discusses the search for life in space. | 48 | Y |
| 5.6 | Last Battle, The | Lewis, C.S. | 7 | Aslan leads his people to a glorious new paradise after defeating the evil that had infested Narnia. | 228 | Y |