| Title |
Author |
Level |
Points |
Description |
Pages |
Have
copy |
| Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt, The |
MacLachlan, Patricia |
5.7 |
4 |
Story of an endearing, clever girl and the relationships
she encounters on her way to growing up. |
136 |
Y |
| Family Under the Bridge, The |
Carlson, Natalie Savage |
4.7 |
3 |
An old tramp, adopted by three fatherless children when their
mother hides them under a bridge on the Seine, finds a home for mother and
children and a job for himself. |
97 |
Y |
| Fancy Feet (New Kids at the Polk Street School) |
Giff, Patricia Reilly |
2.1 |
1 |
When the shoes that Stacey borrowed turn up missing, others
accuse her of stealing them. |
77 |
|
|
Fantastic Mr. Fox |
Dahl, Roald |
4.1 |
1 |
Mr. Fox saves his family and his animal friends when he outsmarts three farmers who are hunting him. |
90 |
Y |
|
Farm Animals (Pictures & Words) |
Tuxworth, Nicola |
1.4 |
0.5 |
Simple text and photographs present farm animals and their young, including cows, horses, and goats. |
24 |
Y |
|
Farmer Boy |
Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
5.2 |
9 |
Almanzo Wilder's boyhood on his father's farm in upper New York state, a century ago. |
372 |
Y |
|
Felicity Learns a Lesson |
Tripp, Valerie |
4.3 |
1 |
Shortly before the Revolutionary War, nine-year-old Felicity, who lives in Williamsburg, is torn between supporting the tariff-induced tea boycott and saving her friendship with Elizabeth, a young loyalist from England. |
69 |
Y |
|
Ferret in the Bedroom, Lizards in the Fridge |
Wallace, Bill |
4.4 |
4 |
Liz fears that all the animals her zoologist father keeps in the house could prevent her from becoming class president. |
132 |
|
|
Fever, 1793 |
Anderson, Laurie Halse |
4.4 |
7 |
In 1793 Philadelphia, fourteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic. |
251 |
Y |
|
Finding Food (Animal Marvels) |
Gareth Stevens Publishing |
5.2 |
1 |
This book is about how animals find their food. |
32 |
|
|
Finding the Titanic |
Ballard, Robert D. |
4 |
0.5 |
This book 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 |
|
Firebirds (Great American Muscle Cars) |
Ethan, Eric |
4.8 |
0.5 |
This book surveys the history of the Pontiac Firebird and its designs, engines, performance, and costs. |
24 |
Y |
|
Fires |
Gentle/Perry |
4.9 |
0.5 |
This book discusses the causes and effects of fires. |
24 |
|
|
First Book About Animal Homes, A |
Tuxworth, Nicola |
2.1 |
0.5 |
Photographs and simple text describe where such animals as chickens, cows, rabbits, fish, bees, hamsters, and dogs are kept. |
24 |
Y |
|
First Book About Bodies, A |
Tuxworth, Nicola |
2.8 |
0.5 |
Photographs and simple text introduce different parts of the body, how they work, and how they are used. |
24 |
Y |
|
First Book About Colors, A |
Tuxworth, Nicola |
1.8 |
0.5 |
Presents pictures of objects that represent colors familiar to young children. |
24 |
Y |
|
First Book About Growing, A |
Tuxworth, Nicola |
1.7 |
0.5 |
Simple text and photographs depict the growth of young people, ducks, cats, horses, and other living things into older, larger organisms. |
24 |
Y |
|
First Book About Mixing and Matching, A |
Tuxworth, Nicola |
2.1 |
0.5 |
Asks the reader to sort objects into different groups, such as same colors, like shapes, and similar patterns or sizes. |
24 |
Y |
|
First Book About Patterns, A |
Tuxworth, Nicola |
3.1 |
0.5 |
Points out stripes, dots, wiggles, spirals, and other patterns found in nature, clothes, food, and objects around us. |
24 |
Y |
|
First Four Years, The |
Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
5.8 |
4 |
Frontier homesteading is a rough but rewarding experience, as the hardy Wilder family can testify. |
135 |
Y |
|
Fish (Wonderful World of Animals) |
MacLeod, Beatrice |
5.3 |
0.5 |
Introduces the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of various fish. |
32 |
Y |
|
Fleas (The New Creepy Crawly Collection) |
Fisher, Enid Broderick |
5.9 |
0.5 |
Examines the anatomy, behavior, habitat, dangers, and uses of these tiny creatures. |
24 |
Y |
|
Flies (The New Creepy Crawly Collection) |
Green, Tamara |
5.6 |
0.5 |
Examines the anatomy, behavior, dangers, relatives, and enemies of the common house fly. |
24 |
Y |
|
Flossie and the Fox |
McKissack, Patricia C. |
3.2 |
0.5 |
A wily fox, notorious for stealing eggs, meets his match when he encounters a bold little girl in the woods who insists upon proof that he is a fox before she will be frightened. |
29 |
Y |
|
Flunking of Joshua T. Bates, The |
Shreve, Susan |
5.1 |
2 |
Joshua thinks he will be in the third grade forever, until he meets Mrs. Goodwin, a very surprising teacher. |
90 |
Y |
|
Flutter By, Butterfly (Nature Close-Ups) |
Clyne, Densey |
5.3 |
0.5 |
Discusses the life cycle, behavior patterns, and habitats of the exotic beauties of the insect world that undergo a miraculous transformation before earning their wings. |
32 |
Y |
|
Fog Magic |
Sauer, Julia |
6.1 |
4 |
Story of a Nova Scotia girl for whom the fog blowing in from the sea had the power to transport her to her own secret world. |
107 |
Y |
|
Food (Pictures & Words) |
Tuxworth, Nicola |
0.9 |
0.5 |
Simple text and photographs show babies and young children serving, eating, and even preparing a variety of foods. |
24 |
Y |
|
Fourth Floor Twins and the Skyscraper Parade, The |
Adler, David A. |
3.3 |
1 |
When a famous sculpture is stolen from the museum, two sets of twins team up to track down the thief. |
60 |
Y |
|
Fourth Grade Rats |
Spinelli, Jerry |
2.6 |
2 |
Suds learns that his best friend is wrong. You don't have to be a tough guy, a 'rat,' to be a grown-up fourth-grader. |
84 |
|
|
Fourth-Grade Celebrity |
Giff, Patricia Reilly |
5.6 |
3 |
Casey Valentine resents being compared to her popular older sister and decides that she will make herself over. |
117 |
Y |
|
Fox Steals Home, The |
Christopher, Matt |
4.5 |
4 |
Already troubled by his parents' divorce, Bobby Canfield is further distressed when he learns that his father, who coached him in running bases, intends to move away. |
178 |
Y |
|
Francine the Superstar |
Brown/Krensky |
3.6 |
1 |
After her friends help her get the lead in the third grade play, Francine becomes so intent on making the play perfect that she almost ruins it. |
57 |
|
|
Francine, Believe It or Not |
Brown/Krensky |
3.2 |
1 |
Muffy is so sure that Francine can't be nice for a whole week that she bets her Princess Peach watch on it. Francine struggles to keep her cool while Arthur and his friends push her to the limit. |
58 |
Y |
|
Frankenstein Doesn't Plant Petunias |
Dadey/Jones |
3.7 |
1 |
A fun-filled horror adventure story. |
57 |
|
|
Frankenstein Doesn't Slam Hockey Pucks |
Dadey/Jones |
4 |
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 |
|
|
Freckle Juice |
Blume, Judy |
3.1 |
0.5 |
Andrew wants freckles more than anything else and uses a "freckle juice" recipe with hilarious results. |
47 |
Y |
|
Friend Like That, A |
Slote, Alfred |
3.3 |
4 |
When eleven-year-old Robby takes drastic steps to stop his widowed father from developing a new love interest, his friend Beth has to step in and help him come to terms with the situation. |
152 |
|
|
Friendship, The |
Taylor, Mildred D. |
4.1 |
1 |
Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly black man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s. |
53 |
Y |
|
Frindle |
Clements, Andrew |
5.4 |
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 |
|
Frogs (Animals Are Fun) |
Lever et al., E. Melanie |
2.2 |
0.5 |
This book briefly describes the frog and its habitat. |
16 |
|
|
Frogs, Toads, and Turtles |
Burns, Diane L. |
4.5 |
1 |
This book describes the physical characteristics, habitat, and diet of twenty-six kinds of frogs, toads, and turtles. |
40 |
Y |
|
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler |
Konigsburg, E.L. |
4.7 |
5 |
Claudia and her brother Jamie run away from home and take up residence in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
162 |
Y |
|
Frozen Fire |
Houston, James |
4.9 |
5 |
Determined to find his father who has been lost in a storm, a young boy and his Eskimo friend brave wind storms, starvation, wild animals, and wild men during their search in the Canadian Arctic. |
149 |
Y |
|
Fudge-a-Mania |
Blume, Judy |
3.3 |
3 |
Pete describes the family vacation in Maine with the Tubmans, highlighted by the antics of his younger brother Fudge. |
147 |
Y |
|
Gaffer Samson's Luck |
Walsh, Jill Paton |
4.7 |
4 |
James' difficulty in adjusting to a new school and life in the Fens, is further complicated by the request of an elderly neighbor to find his lucky piece, a task which puts James in some danger. |
118 |
|
|
Gammage Cup, The |
Kendall, Carol |
5.9 |
8 |
Fantasy about a new race of little people. |
283 |
Y |
|
Gargoyles Don't Drive School Buses |
Dadey/Jones |
3.6 |
1 |
Could the new bus driver who looks just like a statue on top of the old library really be a living gargoyle? |
66 |
|
|
Gathering of Days, A |
Blos, Joan W. |
6.7 |
5 |
When Catherine's mother dies in childbirth and her father decides to remarry, Catherine must face painful changes. |
144 |
Y |
|
Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon |
Mukerji, Dhan Gopal |
6.5 |
6 |
Gay-Neck, a carrier pigeon, is trained by his owner and has many courageous and spirited adventures over the housetops of an Indian village, in the Himalayas, and finally on the French battlefield on World War I. |
191 |
Y |
|
Genies Don't Ride Bicycles |
Dadey/Jones |
3.6 |
1 |
The Bailey School students are on the trail of a real genie. |
69 |
|
|
Gentle Ben |
Morey, Walt |
4.8 |
8 |
Danger and excitement as young Mark Andersen struggles to save his friend, Ben, the big brown bear. |
191 |
Y |
|
George Washington's Breakfast |
Fritz, Jean |
4.1 |
0.5 |
George W. Allen, namesake of George Washington, wants to learn everything about the first president, especially what he ate for breakfast. |
40 |
Y |
|
Getting Around (Animal Marvels) |
Gareth Stevens Publishing |
5.1 |
1 |
This book is about how animals get around. |
32 |
|
|
Getting Something on Maggie Marmelstein |
Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman |
4.2 |
2 |
After Thad embarrasses Maggie and she retaliates by embarrassing him even more, he plots revenge. |
101 |
|
|
Ghost Brother |
Adler, C.S. |
4.2 |
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 |
|
|
Ghost in the Window, A |
Wright, Betty Ren |
5.5 |
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 |
Y |
|
Ghost Town at Sundown |
Osborne, Mary Pope |
3 |
1 |
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to the wild west, where they experience excitement and danger and try to solve a riddle. |
73 |
|
|
Ghosts Don't Eat Potato Chips |
Dadey/Jones |
3.4 |
1 |
When potato chips begin forming secret messages on the floor of Aunt Matilda's house, there must be a ghost behind this spooky business. |
67 |
Y |
|
Ghouls Don't Scoop Ice Cream |
Dadey/Jones |
3.7 |
1 |
The Bailey School Kids think the new worker at Burger Doodle is a ghoul spying for vampires. |
66 |
|
|
Giants and Wild, Hairy Monsters |
Gentle/Perry |
4.4 |
0.5 |
This book examines the existence of mythical and fictional monsters that are big and hairy, including King Kong, the Abominable Snowman, and Sasquatch. |
24 |
Y |
|
Giants Don't Go Snowboarding |
Dadey/Jones |
3.8 |
1 |
There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the large man giving snowboarding lessons really be a giant lurking on Ruby Mountain? |
76 |
|
|
Gib and the Gray Ghost |
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley |
6.4 |
9 |
In 1909, after spending several months back at the Lovell House Home for Orphaned and Abandoned Boys, eleven-year-old Gib returns to live on the Thornton ranch, where his natural way with horses helps to make him feel at home. |
230 |
Y |
|
Gift of the Pirate Queen, The |
Giff, Patricia Reilly |
5 |
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 |
|
|
Ginger Pye |
Estes, Eleanor |
6 |
9 |
The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children. |
306 |
Y |
|
Girl Called Al, A |
Greene, Constance C. |
3.8 |
3 |
Plump, bespectacled Al moves into the apartment house, bringing nonconformity and friendship with her. |
127 |
Y |
|
Girl Named Helen Keller, A |
Lundell, Margo |
2.5 |
0.5 |
The story of Helen Keller, a blind and deaf child of great courage. |
42 |
|
|
Give Us a Great Big Smile, Rosy Cole |
Greenwald, Sheila |
3.8 |
1 |
Rosy's tenth birthday is a disaster when she learns that she is going to be the unwilling star of her uncle's next book. |
76 |
|
|
Giver, The |
Lowry, Lois |
5.7 |
7 |
The Elders of the Committee choose Jonas to be the person responsible for receiving and keeping all the memories of the past--a huge task for this exceptional boy. |
180 |
Y |
|
Goblins Don't Play Video Games |
Dadey/Jones |
4.2 |
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 |
|
|
Going Home |
Mohr, Nicholasa |
4.4 |
6 |
Feeling like an outsider when she visits her relatives in Puerto Rico, eleven-year-old Felita tries to come to terms with the heritage she always took for granted. |
192 |
|
|
Gold Cadillac, The |
Taylor, Mildred D. |
4.1 |
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 |
Y |
|
Gold Fever! |
McMorrow, Catherine |
3.8 |
0.5 |
A story of the forty-niners who went to California to look for gold. |
48 |
|
|
Gone-Away Lake |
Enright, Elizabeth |
5.3 |
7 |
Julian and Portia spend an unforgettable vacation when they discover an abandoned summer colony. |
256 |
Y |
|
Good Master, The |
Seredy, Kate |
4.4 |
5 |
Two cousins spend an adventurous year on a ranch in the Hungarian plains. |
196 |
Y |
|
Good, the Bad, and the Goofy, The |
Scieszka, Jon |
3.8 |
1 |
Joe, Sam, and Fred are cowboys who find the Wild West just a bit too wild. |
70 |
Y |
|
Grandmother for the Orphelines, A |
Carlson, Natalie |
4.7 |
2 |
The children from the orphanage set out to find the right grandmother, but go about it the wrong way. |
91 |
|
|
Grasshoppers (The New Creepy Crawly Collection) |
Coleman, Graham |
5.7 |
0.5 |
Examines the anatomy, behavior, varied habitats, life cycle, enemies, and different kinds of grasshoppers. |
24 |
Y |
|
Great Brain at the Academy, The |
Fitzgerald, John D. |
5.8 |
6 |
In the strict atmosphere of a Catholic boarding school, Tom Fitzgerald's fertile brain concocts hilarious trouble. |
164 |
Y |
|
Great Brain Does It Again, The |
Fitzgerald, John D. |
5 |
5 |
Tom's many business ventures include operating a carnival ride, and helping a fat boy reduce. |
129 |
Y |
|
Great Brain Is Back, The |
Fitzgerald, John D. |
5 |
4 |
Although bedazzled by pretty Polly Reagan, thirteen-year-old Tom Fitzgerald's great brain and money-loving ways haven't changed a bit. |
120 |
Y |
|
Great Brain Reforms, The |
Fitzgerald, John D. |
5.1 |
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 |
|
Great Ideas of Lila Fenwick, The |
McMullan, Kate |
4.8 |
4 |
Fifth-grader Lila has some truly amazing "Great Ideas" that get her out of and into all kinds of trouble. |
118 |
|
|
Green Book, The |
Walsh, Jill Paton |
5.5 |
2 |
When a group of Britons depart a dying Earth, it is the children who do not give up hope when they arrive at a new planet. |
69 |
Y |
|
Gremlins Don't Chew Bubble Gum |
Dadey/Jones |
3.7 |
1 |
The electrical appliances of the new secretary at Bailey School blow up. |
80 |
|
|
Grey King, The |
Cooper, Susan |
6.2 |
9 |
Will Stanton is swept into a quest to find the golden harp and wake the Sleepers. |
165 |
Y |
|
Groundhog's Horse |
Rockwood, Joyce |
4.3 |
3 |
An eleven-year-old Cherokee sets off on a one-boy raid of a Creek town to rescue his "unusual" horse. |
115 |
|
|
GTOs (Great American Muscle Cars) |
Ethan, Eric |
4.9 |
0.5 |
This book surveys the history of the GTO and its designs, engines, performance, and costs. |
24 |
Y |
|
Half Magic |
Eager, Edward |
5 |
5 |
Four children spending their summer in a city apartment enjoy a series of fantastic adventures by double-wishing on an ancient coin. |
217 |
Y |
|
Happy Birthday, Addy |
Porter, Connie |
4.3 |
1 |
Addy makes a new friend, who encourages her to claim a birthday and helps her face prejudice. |
61 |
Y |
|
Happy Birthday, Felicity! |
Tripp, Valerie |
4.2 |
1 |
As her tenth birthday approaches, Felicity is excited by her grandfather's visit, but she is also concerned about the growing tensions between the colonists and the British governor in Williamsburg. |
69 |
Y |
|
Happy Birthday, Josefina! |
Tripp, Valerie |
4.3 |
1 |
Josefina hopes to become a "curandera" or healer like Tia Magdalena, and she is tested just before her tenth birthday when a friend receives a potentially fatal snakebite. |
67 |
|
|
Happy Birthday, Kirsten! |
Shaw, Janet |
4 |
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 |
|
Happy Birthday, Molly! |
Tripp, Valerie |
3.5 |
1 |
When an English girl comes to stay at Molly's during World War II, she and Molly learn to bridge their differences and ultimately enjoy a wonderful, mutual birthday party. |
57 |
Y |
|
Happy Birthday, Samantha! |
Tripp, Valerie |
3.7 |
1 |
A ten-year-old girl discovers the modern delights of turn-of-the-century New York City when she travels there with her grandmother. |
56 |
Y |
|
Happy Boo Day |
Jones/Dadey |
4 |
1 |
Bailey City is full of some pretty weird grown-ups. It is the perfect place for the spooky Hauntly Manor Inn. Could Kilmer's great-grandfather Franklin really be a ghost? |
66 |
|
|
Happy Orpheline, The |
Carlson, Natalie Savage |
4.8 |
2 |
Brigitte is part of the biggest, happiest family in France. She is an orpheline with 19 other sisters who are cared for by the loving Madame Flattot and Genevieve. Life is exciting until Brigitte gets left at a dog cemetery. |
96 |
|
|
Harriet the Spy |
Fitzhugh, Louise |
4.5 |
8 |
Harriet's notebook of her feelings about classmates and neighbors is found by her classmates. |
298 |
Y |
|
Harris and Me |
Paulsen, Gary |
5.7 |
5 |
Sent to live with relatives on their farm because of his unhappy home life, an eleven-year-old city boy meets his distant cousin Harris and is given an introduction to a whole new world. |
157 |
Y |
|
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |
Rowling, J.K. |
6.7 |
14 |
When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school. |
341 |
Y |
|
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
Rowling, J.K. |
6.8 |
32 |
In this fourth novel of Harry Potter's training as a wizard and his coming of age, Harry wants to be a normal, fourteen-year-old wizard. Unfortunately, he is not normal -- even by wizardry standards. In his case, different can be deadly. |
734 |
Y |
|
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
Rowling, J.K. |
6.7 |
18 |
When Harry and his best friends go back for their third year at Hogwarts, an escaped mass murderer is on the loose, and the sinister prison guards of Azkaban have been called in to guard the school. |
433 |
Y |
|
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone |
Rowling, J.K. |
5.5 |
12 |
Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. |
309 |
Y |
|
Harry's Mad |
King-Smith, Dick |
4.8 |
3 |
Harry's legacy from his great-uncle, a talking parrot, proves to be a much more exciting gift than he ever imagined. |
123 |
Y |
|
Harvey's Horrible Snake Disaster |
Clifford, Eth |
4.4 |
3 |
When Harvey's cousin brings a snake to his house for the weekend, Harvey knows he's headed for disaster. |
108 |
|
|
Hattie and the Wild Waves |
Cooney, Barbara |
4.6 |
0.5 |
A young Brooklyn girl from a wealthy German American Family dreams of becoming an artist. |
34 |
|
|
Haunted Cabin Mystery |
Warner, Gertrude Chandler |
4 |
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 |
|
|
Haunting of Grade Three, The |
Maccarone, Grace |
3.8 |
1 |
Because of overcrowding at the school's main building, a third grade takes its classes at the haunted Blackwell mansion. |
94 |
Y |
|
Hauntlys' Hairy Surprise, The |
Jones/Dadey |
3.9 |
1 |
Bailey City is full of some pretty weird grown-ups. It is the perfect place for the spooky Hauntly Manor Inn. Could all these hairy monsters be hiding out in Bailey City? |
106 |
|
|
Have You Seen Hyacinth Macaw? |
Giff, Patricia Reilly |
3.6 |
3 |
Junior detective Abby Jones and her pal Potsie become involved in a series of lighthearted adventures. A great story for all those young readers who love a mystery. |
134 |
Y |
|
Hedgehogs in the Closet |
Carris, Joan |
4.2 |
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 |
|
|
Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle |
MacDonald, Betty |
5.2 |
4 |
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle cures a show-off, crybaby, bully, whisperer, and slowpoke. |
125 |
Y |
|
Hello, My Name Is Scrambled Eggs |
Gilson, Jamie |
4 |
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 |
|
Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library |
Clifford, Eth |
4 |
2 |
Rose and Jo-Beth are trapped in an old library during a blizzard and there are strange noises coming from upstairs. |
96 |
Y |
|
Henry and Beezus |
Cleary, Beverly |
4.6 |
4 |
Accompanied by friend Beezus, bubble-gum tycoon Henry schemes to get a bike of his own. |
192 |
Y |
|
Henry Huggins |
Cleary, Beverly |
4.7 |
3 |
Third grader Henry Huggins acquires a flea-bitten but charming dog named Ribsy. |
155 |
Y |
|
Henry Reed, Inc. |
Robertson, Keith |
5.5 |
8 |
Fourteen-year-old Henry Reed and his friend Midge Glass turn Grover's Corner, New Jersey, upside down when they open a research business. |
239 |
Y |
|
Henry Reed's Baby-Sitting Service |
Robertson, Keith |
5.1 |
6 |
Back in Grover's Corners, N.J. for the summer, Henry and his partner Midge establish a baby sitting service and find a disappearing child and a peacock among their charges. |
204 |
Y |
|
Henry Reed's Think Tank |
Robertson, Keith |
5.6 |
7 |
Henry and Midge have a terrific new scheme. It all started when they found that the people of Grover's Corner had all sorts of weird and wacky problems to solve. Henry and Midge form a think tank to help their friends out of trouble. |
182 |
|
|
Herbie Jones |
Kline, Suzy |
3.5 |
2 |
Herbie is elated at being promoted from the lowest reading group in his third- grade class, but it means leaving his best friend behind. |
95 |
|
|
Herbie Jones and Hamburger Head |
Kline, Suzy |
3.4 |
2 |
After Herbie and Ray foil a robbery attempt at the local bank, they try to find a good home for the robber's dog. |
111 |
Y |
|
Herbie Jones and the Class Gift |
Kline, Suzy |
3.4 |
1 |
Disaster strikes when Annabelle trusts Herbie Jones and Raymond with the job of picking up the class' gift for their teacher. |
94 |
Y |
|
Hercules Doesn't Pull Teeth |
Dadey/Jones |
3.7 |
1 |
Could the dentist really be Hercules, the strongest man in the world? |
70 |
|
|
Here Comes Zelda Claus and Other Holiday Disasters |
Hall, Lynn |
4.6 |
3 |
Relates the amusing holiday misadventures of Zelda Hammersmith, whose good intentions only lead to trouble. |
149 |
|
|
Hero and the Crown, The |
McKinley, Robin |
7 |
15 |
A return to the kingdom of Damar where the girl-warrior, Arien, wields the power of the Blue Sword. |
227 |
Y |
|
High King, The |
Alexander, Lloyd |
6.1 |
11 |
When the sword of Dyrnwyn falls into the hands of Arawn Death-Lord, Taran and his friends raise an army to march against him. |
304 |
Y |
|
Hitty: Her First Hundred Years |
Field, Rachel |
7.1 |
11 |
Hitty is a doll of great charm and real character whose memoirs are full of her thrilling adventures on land and sea. |
235 |
Y |
|
Holes |
Sachar, Louis |
4.6 |
7 |
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert. |
233 |
Y |
|
Homeless Bird |
Whelan, Gloria |
5.3 |
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 |
|
Homer Price |
McCloskey, Robert |
6.6 |
4 |
Ingenious young Homer Price captures thieves, solves mysteries, and helps people in trouble. |
149 |
Y |
|
Hop, Skip, Jump (Pictures & Words) |
Tuxworth, Nicola |
1 |
0.5 |
Photographs and simple text show a group of young children hopping, skipping, jumping, playing catch, and enjoying other activities. |
24 |
Y |
|
Hope Was Here |
Bauer, Joan |
5.1 |
6 |
When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved in the political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor. |
186 |
Y |
|
Horizontal Man, The |
Dahl, Michael |
4.6 |
7 |
Thirteen-year-old Finnegan Zwake's life with his uncle is fairly normal, until the day Finn discovers a body in the basement. In addition, a Mayan gold figure, the Horizontal Man, is missing |
182 |
Y |
|
Horrible Harry and the Christmas Surprise |
Kline, Suzy |
2.9 |
0.5 |
When their teacher ends up in the hospital, the members of class 2B find a way to include her in their holiday celebration. |
54 |
Y |
|
Horrible Harry and the Drop of Doom |
Kline, Suzy |
2.8 |
1 |
On the last day of second grade, Song Lee's party at the local amusement park forces Harry to face his fear of elevators when he is expected to ride the Drop of Doom. |
58 |
Y |
|
Horrible Harry and the Dungeon |
Kline, Suzy |
3.1 |
1 |
It's almost summer vacation and the students in room 2B are having trouble concentrating on their butterfly project until a frightening-looking new teacher comes to supervise the suspension room. |
58 |
Y |
|
Horrible Harry and the Green Slime |
Kline, Suzy |
3.3 |
1 |
Follows the school activities of second-graders, Harry and Doug, as they participate in a secret mission to celebrate 'Charlotte's Web,' learn how to make green slime, and put on a skit warning about the dangers of smoking. |
58 |
|
|
Horrible Harry and the Purple People |
Kline, Suzy |
2.9 |
0.5 |
Horrible Harry returns to the spotlight with the purple people, mysterious beings that only he can see. |
53 |
Y |
|
Horrible Harry in Room 2B |
Kline, Suzy |
3.2 |
0.5 |
Doug discovers that though being Harry's best friend in Miss Mackle's second- grade class isn't always easy, as Harry likes to do horrible things, it is often a lot of fun. |
56 |
Y |
|
Horrible Harry's Secret |
Kline, Suzy |
2.8 |
0.5 |
Horrible Harry falls in love with Song Lee, and Harry's best friend Doug can't stand all that mush. |
52 |
Y |
|
Horses (Animals Are Not Like Us) |
Meadows, Graham |
2 |
0.5 |
Describes the physical characteristics and behavior of horses, pointing out ways in which they differ from people. |
23 |
Y |
|
Hostile Hospital, The |
Snicket, Lemony |
6.9 |
6 |
On the run after being falsely accused of murder, the three Baudelaire orphans find themselves in Heimlich Hospital, with the evil Count Olaf in close pursuit. |
255 |
Y |
|
Hot and Cold Summer, The |
Hurwitz, Johanna |
4.2 |
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 |
|
|
Hour of the Olympics |
Osborne, Mary Pope |
3.3 |
1 |
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to retrieve a lost story in ancient Greece, where they witness the original Olympic games. |
70 |
|
|
House of Dies Drear, The |
Hamilton, Virginia |
4.8 |
9 |
This mystery concerns an African-American boy's move to Drear House, which had once played a part in the Underground Railroad. |
279 |
Y |
|
House of Sixty Fathers, The |
De Jong, Meindert |
5.5 |
6 |
A young Chinese boy and his pet pig are separated from his parents when Japanese soldiers invade his country. |
189 |
|
|
Houseboat Mystery |
Warner, Gertrude Chandler |
3.4 |
3 |
Floating down a lazy river, Benny finds a blackmail scheme in progress. |
128 |
Y |
|
How to Eat Fried Worms |
Rockwell, Thomas |
3.5 |
2 |
Billy accepts the challenge to eat fifteen worms in fifteen days when his friend bets fifty dollars that he cannot do it. |
115 |
Y |
|
How Yossi Beat the Evil Urge |
Chaikin, Miriam |
3.7 |
1 |
Yossi, a young Chassidic Jew, sings his way to triumph when the Evil Urge lands him in trouble. |
42 |
|
|
Howliday Inn |
Howe, James |
4 |
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 |
|
Howling at the Hauntlys' |
Jones/Dadey |
3.6 |
1 |
After hearing strange howling sounds, Annie and Jane begin to think that Kilmer's cousin fromTransylvania is a werewolf. |
71 |
|
|
Howling for Home |
Carris, Joan |
3.4 |
1 |
Dissatisfied at having to eat dry food, sleep in the laundry room, and wear a collar, Beau, a newly adopted puppy, decides to run away. |
61 |
|
|
Hugh Pine |
VanDeWetering, Jan |
4.8 |
2 |
A clever porcupine saves his forest friends from speeding cars. |
83 |
Y |
|
Hundred and One Dalmatians, The |
Smith, Dodie |
5.4 |
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 |
|
|
Hundred Dresses, The |
Estes, Eleanor |
5.4 |
1 |
In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson. |
80 |
Y |
|
Hundred Penny Box, The |
Mathis, Sharon Bell |
3.9 |
1 |
The Box contains a penny for each year of Aunt Dew's life, and each penny symbolizes a memory which she shares ritually with her great-great-nephew Michael. |
47 |
Y |
|
Hurricanes |
Gentle/Perry |
4.7 |
0.5 |
This book discusses the causes and effects of hurricanes and similar storms. |
24 |
|
|
Hurry Home, Candy |
De Jong, Meindert |
5 |
7 |
Lost and nameless, a stray dog exhibits courage and finds a home at last. |
244 |
Y |
|
I Left My Sneakers in Dimension X |
Coville, Bruce |
5.5 |
5 |
Rod's summer vacation is already ruined when his bratty cousin Elspeth comes to stay. But when aliens capture him and take him to Dimension X, he is forced to make the most terrifying decision of his life. |
180 |
Y |
|
I Should Worry, I Should Care |
Chaikin, Miriam |
3.7 |
3 |
A young Jewish girl and her family adjust to a new neighborhood and new friends at a time when the radio is telling of Hitler's rise to power in Europe. |
103 |
|
|
I Want to Go Home! |
Korman, Gordon |
4.3 |
6 |
Nobody hates camp more than Rudy Miller does. |
182 |
|
|
I Was a Sixth Grade Alien |
Coville, Bruce |
4.7 |
4 |
Tim comes upon an alien in his sixth grade class and is invited back to his embassy, where he discovers a plan to sabotage the alien mission. |
168 |
Y |
|
I, Houdini |
Banks, Lynne Reid |
6.2 |
5 |
A boastful hamster with exceptional talent as an escape artist, recounts his experiences chewing, wriggling, or squeezing his way out of various closed areas in his quest for the great outside. |
127 |
|
|
I, Juan de Pareja |
Borton de Treviħer with exceptional talent as an escape artist, recounts his experiences chewing, wriggling, or squeezing his way out of various closed areas in his quest for the great outside. |
6.5 |
7 |
After the slave Juan de Pareja is willed to the great Spanish painter Velßis experiences chewing, wriggling, or squeezing his way out of various closed areas in his quest for the great outside. |
180 |
Y |
|
If You Didn't Have Me |
Nilsson, Ulf |
4.2 |
3 |
A small Swedish boy spends the summer on his grandmother's farm while his parents build a new house. |
113 |
|
|
Iggie's House |
Blume, Judy |
3.5 |
3 |
When Grove Street gets its first black family, Winnie is a welcoming party of one. |
117 |
Y |
|
I'll Meet You at the Cucumbers |
Moore, Lilian |
3.5 |
1 |
Adam and Junius, two country mice, go for a visit to the city, where Adam despairs when his dear friend admits he might like to stay. |
63 |
Y |
|
I'm Going to Be Famous |
Birdseye, Tom |
3.7 |
4 |
Determined to achieve fame by breaking several oddball world records in an upcoming contest, Arlo Moore and his friends practice fiendishly under the disapproval of parents and the school principal. |
160 |
|
|
I'm Not Who You Think I Am |
Kehret, Peg |
4.6 |
4 |
Thirteen-year-old Ginger becomes the target of a disturbed woman who believes that Ginger is her dead daughter. |
154 |
Y |
|
Impy for Always |
Koller, Jackie French |
3.5 |
1 |
Eight-year-old Impy, dismayed at the changes she sees in her rapidly maturing twelve-year-old cousin Christina, stubbornly tries to continue their former sharing of dolls and funny nicknames, but Christina persists in growing up. |
57 |
|
|
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson |
Lord, Bette Bao |
4.6 |
4 |
In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn, where she starts to feel at home and makes friends when she discovers baseball and the Brooklyn Dodgers. |
169 |
Y |
|
Incognito Mosquito Makes History |
Hass, E.A. |
5.2 |
2 |
The famous insective, Incognito Mosquito, travels back in time to solve five mysteries involving such notables as: Christopher Columbug, Benetick Arnold, Buffalo Bill Cootie, Tutankhamant, and Robin Hoodlum. |
120 |
|
|
Incredible Journey, The |
Burnford, Sheila |
7.6 |
5 |
Three house pets migrate through the wilderness to find their family. |
145 |
Y |
|
Indian in the Cupboard, The |
Banks, Lynne Reid |
4.6 |
6 |
A young boy discovers that his magic cupboard and key can turn toys into live people and animals. |
181 |
Y |
|
Insects and Other Invertebrates (Wonderful World of Animals) |
MacLeod, Beatrice |
5.9 |
0.5 |
Introduces the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of various invertebrates. |
32 |
Y |
|
Into the Dream |
Sleator, William |
4.9 |
4 |
When two youngsters realize they are having the same frightening dream, they begin searching for an explanation for this mysterious coincidence. |
137 |
|
|
Invisible Dog, The |
King-Smith, Dick |
3.5 |
1 |
When Janie can't afford the Great Dane puppy she wants, she invents an invisible dog as her pet. |
73 |
Y |
|
Invisible Lissa |
Honeycutt, Natalie |
4.4 |
5 |
Lissa badly wants to get into Debra's exclusive fifth-grade lunch club until she finds out what it is really like. |
122 |
|
|
Invisible Stanley |
Brown, Jeff |
3.3 |
1 |
One morning after a thunderstorm, the Lambchop family is surprised to discover that Stanley is suddenly invisible. |
84 |
|
|
Irish Red |
Kjelgaard, Jim |
5.8 |
7 |
A boy and his dog face a killing snowstorm and a murderous puma. |
182 |
Y |
|
Isabelle Shows Her Stuff |
Greene, Constance C. |
3.8 |
4 |
In this sequel to Isabelle the Itch, Isabelle teaches eight-year-old Guy how to lose his "goody-goody" image. |
138 |
|
|
Island of the Blue Dolphins |
O'Dell, Scott |
5.4 |
6 |
An Indian girl is left alone on an island for ten years. |
181 |
Y |
|
It's a Frog's Life! (Nature Close-Ups) |
Clyne, Densey |
4.7 |
0.5 |
Describes the physical characteristics and behavior of frogs, the little animals with the built-in goggles and the permanent wide-mouth smile. |
32 |
Y |
|
It's All Greek to Me |
Scieszka, Jon |
3.7 |
1 |
As they are about to go on stage, Joe, Fred, and Sam are transported back to the time of Zeus and the other gods in Greek mythology, who, strangely enough, behave much as the characters in the trio's class play. |
73 |
Y |
|
It's Like This, Cat |
Neville, Emily Cheney |
4.7 |
5 |
A teenage boy in New York City gets a cat instead of a dog simply to annoy his father, then begins to learn that his father is a caring human being, not just a strict parent. |
180 |
Y |
|
It's New! It's Improved! It's Terrible! |
Manes, Stephen |
3.2 |
2 |
For his birthday, 12-year-old Arnold wants a pair of Helicopter Shoes, but he learns that what he wants may not be what it is advertised to be. |
98 |
Y |
|
J. T. |
Wagner, Jane |
4.6 |
1 |
J.T., the kid everyone said had 'gone bad,' finds an alley cat to love. |
124 |
|
|
Jack on the Tracks |
Gantos, Jack |
5.1 |
6 |
Moving with his unbearable sister to Miami, Florida, Jack tries to break some of his bad habits but finds himself irresistibly drawn to things disgusting, gross, and weird. |
182 |
|
|
Jackie Robinson |
Rudeen, Kenneth |
4.6 |
1 |
The dramatic story of Jackie Robinson's triumph on the baseball field. |
53 |
|
|
Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang |
Richler, Mordecai |
5.2 |
2 |
Delightful fantasy about a little boy condemned to prison for insulting an adult, and how he escapes. |
87 |
Y |
|
Jade Green: A Ghost Story |
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds |
5.8 |
5 |
While living with her uncle in a house haunted by the ghost of a young woman, recently orphaned Judith Sparrow wonders if her one small transgression causes mysterious happenings. |
168 |
Y |
|
Jake's Orphan |
Brooke, Peggy |
5.4 |
8 |
When taken from an orphanage to work on a farm in North Dakota in 1926, twelve-year-old Tree searches for a home not only for himself but also for his irrepressible younger brother. |
261 |
Y |
|
James and the Giant Peach |
Dahl, Roald |
4.8 |
4 |
Madcap adventures take place as young James enters a peach as big as a house and encounters wonderful new friends. |
126 |
Y |
|
Janitor's Boy, The |
Clements, Andrew |
5.4 |
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 |
|
Jar of Dreams, A |
Uchida, Yoshiko |
5 |
4 |
Growing up in depression-era California, Rinko feels left out because she is Japanese. |
131 |
Y |
|
Jasmine & Rex |
Hanel, Wolfram |
3 |
0.5 |
A story of a cat and a dog who fall in love. |
60 |
|
|
Jelly Belly |
Smith, Robert Kimmel |
4.1 |
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 |
Y |
|
Jennifer Murdley's Toad |
Coville, Bruce |
4.6 |
4 |
When an ordinary looking fifth-grader purchases a talking toad, she embarks on a series of extraordinary adventures. |
156 |
Y |
|
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth |
Konigsburg, E.L. |
4.5 |
3 |
Lonely Elizabeth decides to be an apprentice witch to Jennifer, and that's when the fun starts. |
117 |
Y |
|
Jennifer, Too |
Havill, Juanita |
2.9 |
1 |
Jennifer discovers ways to be included in the games of her older brother Matt and his friends. |
58 |
|
|
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher |
Coville, Bruce |
4.9 |
4 |
Small for his age but artistically talented, twelve-year-old Jeremy Thatcher unknowingly buys a dragon's egg. |
148 |
Y |
|
Jimmy Spoon and the Pony Express |
Gregory, Kristiana |
5.3 |
3 |
Jimmy knew he was right for the job when he saw the ad for the Pony Express; but the job is a lot harder than he thought. |
128 |
|
|
Job for Jenny Archer, A |
Conford, Ellen |
3.1 |
1 |
Convinced that her family is poor because her parents refuse to get her a horse or a swimming pool, nine-year-old Jenny Archer follows her own path to making money, including a plunge into real estate that puts her house on the market. |
76 |
Y |
|
Joey Pigza Loses Control |
Gantos, Jack |
4.9 |
7 |
Joey, who is taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the father he has never known. Dad insists that Joey stop taking his medication, and Joey loses control as he tries to help his baseball team. |
195 |
Y |
|
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key |
Gantos, Jack |
4.9 |
5 |
To the constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey has trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings when his prescription meds wear off and he starts getting worked up and acting wired. |
154 |
Y |
|
Johnny Long Legs |
Christopher, Matt |
4 |
2 |
Even though he is the tallest member of the basketball team, a young boy finds he is far from being the best player. |
133 |
Y |
|
Johnny Tremain |
Forbes, Esther |
5.9 |
13 |
This book follows a young apprentice from a tragic accident in a silversmith's shop to his dramatic involvement as a patriot in the days just before the American Revolution. |
293 |
Y |
|
Journey from Peppermint Street |
De Jong, Meindert |
5 |
8 |
Siebren goes on a journey with his grandfather and learns about people, about fear, and about love. |
242 |
|
|
Journey Outside |
Steele, Mary |
5.7 |
5 |
Young Dilar of the Raft People lives on a subterranean river. Then he sets out on a quest and discovers Outside. |
127 |
Y |
|
Judge Benjamin: Superdog Gift |
McInerney, Judith |
4.7 |
3 |
It's an extra-special Christmas for the Riley family, when their St. Bernards, Benjamin and Agatha, give birth to puppies. |
128 |
|
|
Judy Moody |
McDonald, Megan |
3.5 |
1 |
Judy Moody is in a first day of school bad mood until she gets an assignment to create a collage all about herself. |
160 |
Y |
|
Judy Moody Gets Famous! |
McDonald, Megan |
3.5 |
1 |
Judy Moody is jealous of Jessica Finch, who gets her picture on the front page of the newspaper. |
126 |
Y |
|
Julian's Glorious Summer |
Cameron, Ann |
3.1 |
1 |
When his best friend, Gloria, receives a new bike, seven-year-old Julian makes up a story about why he can't take the time to learn to ride rather than face his fears. |
62 |
|
|
Julie of the Wolves |
George, Jean Craighead |
5.8 |
6 |
Common sense and courage enable a young Eskimo girl to survive when she becomes lost in the Arctic wild. |
170 |
Y |
|
Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business |
Park, Barbara |
2.9 |
1 |
Junie is pretty upset about her new baby brother; but when she finally sees him, she goes ape. |
68 |
Y |
|
Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth |
Park, Barbara |
3 |
1 |
Junie creates the strangest job description for career day at school. |
69 |
Y |
|
Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky Peeky Spying |
Park, Barbara |
2.9 |
1 |
Junie spies on her teacher and gets into real trouble. |
66 |
Y |
|
Junie B. Jones and That Meanie Jim's Birthday |
Park, Barbara |
2.8 |
1 |
Junie B. is very upset when a boy in her class plans to invite everyone except her to his birthday party, but her grandfather helps her deal with the situation. |
85 |
Y |
|
Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentime |
Park, Barbara |
2.9 |
1 |
When Junie B. Jones receives a mushy gushy "valentime" on Valentine's Day, she tries to find out who her secret admirer is. |
69 |
Y |
|
Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus |
Park, Barbara |
2.9 |
1 |
Junie goes off to kindergarten and gets locked in the school. |
69 |
Y |
|
Junie B. Jones and the Yucky Blucky Fruitcake |
Park, Barbara |
2.7 |
1 |
Junie, a spunky, sometimes exasperating, kindergartner, looks forward to winning lots of prizes at the school carnival; but a fruitcake was not exactly what she had in mind. |
71 |
Y |
|
Junie B. Jones Has a Monster Under Her Bed |
Park, Barbara |
2.7 |
1 |
After hearing from a classmate at kindergarten that people have monsters under their beds, Junie B. Jones is afraid to go to sleep. |
69 |
Y |
|
Junie B. Jones Has a Peep in Her Pocket |
Park, Barbara |
2.9 |
1 |
When Junie B. learns that her kindergarten class is going on a field trip to a farm, she worries about being attacked by a rooster. |
67 |
Y |
|
Junie B. Jones Is a Beauty Shop Guy |
Park, Barbara |
2.8 |
1 |
After her first trip to a beauty parlor Junie decides she wants to work there, and she practices on her bunny slippers, her dog, and herself with disastrous results. |
67 |
Y |
|
Junie B. Jones Is a Graduation Girl |
Park, Barbara |
3 |
1 |
Junie B. Jones has just turned six and is looking forward to her kindergarten graduation, but when grape juice stains the white gown, she is afraid graduation is ruined. |
69 |
|
|
Junie B. Jones Is a Party Animal |
Park, Barbara |
2.8 |
1 |
Lucille invites Junie B. and her friend Grace to sleep over at her rich nanna's house, where everything is beautiful and breakable. |
71 |
Y |
|
Junie B. Jones Is Almost a Flower Girl |
Park, Barbara |
2.7 |
1 |
Six-year-old Junie B. is disappointed to find out that her aunt has asked someone else to be the flower girl at her wedding. |
68 |
Y |
|
Junie B. Jones Is Captain Field Day |
Park, Barbara |
2.8 |
1 |
As captain of Room Nine's field day team, Junie B. Jones tries to rally her troops after they lose several events. |
66 |
Y |
|
Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook |
Park, Barbara |
3 |
1 |
Junie B. Jones experiences glee while showing off her new, furry mittens in kindergarten, but disaster strikes when her mittens disappear. |
67 |
Y |
|
Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World |
Walter, Mildred Pitts |
3.9 |
3 |
Suffering in a family full of females, Justin learns real lessons in what "women's work" is, when he spends time on his beloved grandfather's ranch. |
122 |
|
|
Justin Morgan Had a Horse |
Henry, Marguerite |
5.8 |
5 |
A remarkable little work horse that could walk faster, trot faster, run faster, and pull heavier logs than any other horse in all Vermont, sires a famous family of American horses. |
169 |
Y |
|
Kangaroos (Animals Are Fun) |
Lever et al., E. Melanie |
2.2 |
0.5 |
This book briefly describes the kangaroo, its habitat, and some of its relatives. |
16 |
|
|
Kate and the Beanstalk |
Osborne, Mary Pope |
3.6 |
0.5 |
A girl climbs to the top of a giant beanstalk, where she uses her quick wits to outsmart a giant and make her and her mother's fortune. |
31 |
|
|
Katie John |
Calhoun, Mary |
4.2 |
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 |
|
Keisha to the Rescue |
Reed, Teresa |
4.9 |
2 |
Keisha's thrilled to be a lifeguard at an exclusive country club. But some of the other lifeguards seem more interested in acting cool than guarding lives. |
76 |
|
|
Kevin Corbett Eats Flies |
Hermes, Patricia |
3.6 |
5 |
Kevin and his friend Bailey conspire to prevent Kevin's father from moving himself and Kevin once again. |
160 |
|
|
Kid in the Red Jacket, The |
Park, Barbara |
3.9 |
3 |
When ten-year-old Howard has to move with his family to a distant state, he is forced to live on a street named Chester Pewe, adjust to a new school, and get used to being shadowed by the little girl in a nearby house. |
113 |
|
|
Kidnapping of Courtney Van Allen & What's-Her-Name, The |
Cool, Joyce |
5 |
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 |
|
|
Killer Sharks, Killer People |
Gentle/Perry |
5.5 |
0.5 |
This book explains why sharks sometimes kill people and why people kill sharks. |
24 |
|
|
Kilmer's Pet Monster |
Jones/Dadey |
3.5 |
1 |
Bailey City is full of some pretty weird grown-ups. It is the perfect place for the spooky Hauntly Manor Inn. Could a witch with a very unusual pet be visiting for a while? |
72 |
|
|
King Arthur |
Brown/Krensky |
3.8 |
1 |
Arthur's third-grade class has lost all the other events at the Middle Ages Fair. The only challenge left is to pull a sword from a stone. Can Arthur and his classmates show Glenbrook Academy who the real winners are? |
58 |
Y |
|
Kirsten Learns a Lesson |
Shaw, Janet |
4 |
1 |
After immigrating from Sweden to join relatives in an American prairie community, Kirsten endures the ordeal of a strange school through a secret friendship with an Indian girl. |
69 |
Y |
|
Kirsten Saves the Day |
Shaw, Janet |
3.7 |
1 |
Kirsten is excited when she finds a bee tree full of honey, but she exposes herself to great danger by trying to harvest the honey by herself. |
67 |
Y |
|
Kirsten's Surprise |
Shaw, Janet |
3.9 |
1 |
Kirsten and her family celebrate their first Christmas in their new home on Uncle Olav's farm, in mid-nineteenth-century Minnesota. |
62 |
Y |
|
Kitty from the Start |
Delton, Judy |
5.3 |
3 |
Kitty moves to a new neighborhood and eventually makes a successful transition into her new third grade. |
141 |
|
|
Kitty in the Middle |
Delton, Judy |
4.6 |
3 |
First love, a madcap mix-up at a stranger's wedding, and exploring a mysterious old house are some of the experiences that make fourth grade exciting for three friends. |
135 |
|
|
Kneeknock Rise |
Babbitt, Natalie |
4.4 |
2 |
Egan goes to visit relatives in Instep, where he encounters an unusual moan that comes from the top of Kneeknock Rise. |
118 |
Y |
|
Knight at Dawn, The |
Osborne, Mary Pope |
2.9 |
1 |
Jack and Annie time travel back to medieval England via a magic tree house. |
65 |
Y |
|
Knights Don't Teach Piano |
Dadey/Jones |
3.9 |
1 |
The kids wonder if the new piano teacher is a knight planning to take over Bailey City. |
66 |
|
|
Knights of the Kitchen Table |
Scieszka, Jon |
3.8 |
1 |
When Joe, Fred, and Sam are sent back in time by a magic book, they find themselves face to face with giants, dragons, wizards, King Arthur, and the Knights of the Round Table. |
55 |
Y |
|
Koalas (Animals Are Fun) |
Lever et al., E. Melanie |
2.3 |
0.5 |
This book briefly discusses the koala and its habitat. |
16 |
|
|
Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam, The |
Nhuong, Huynh Quang |
6.1 |
4 |
Fifteen true stories of the author's childhood in Vietnam. |
127 |
|
|
Lazy Lions, Lucky Lambs |
Giff, Patricia Reilly |
2.7 |
1 |
For Richard "Beast" Best, March is the worst time of the year, with report cards and the fear of being held back again. |
73 |
Y |
|
Lemming Condition, The |
Arkin, Alan |
4.3 |
1 |
A young lemming is haunted by doubts about the purpose of the great march westward to the sea. |
58 |
Y |
|
Lemonade Trick, The |
Corbett, Scott |
4.9 |
3 |
Kerby discovers a recipe for lemonade that turns the worst people into the nicest. Unfortunately, with nice people, the opposite is true. |
103 |
Y |
|
Leprechauns Don't Play Basketball |
Dadey/Jones |
3.8 |
1 |
The students at Bailey Elementary School think their gym teacher is a leprechaun. |
71 |
|
|
Let the Circle Be Unbroken |
Taylor, Mildred D. |
5.7 |
15 |
This inspiring story of a loving, close-knit black family confronted with racial injustice contributes to a deeper understanding of what it means to be black today. |
339 |
Y |
|
Libby on Wednesday |
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley |
6.3 |
8 |
Having been put ahead in an accelerated eighth-grade program by her bizarre and creative family, precocious eleven-year-old Libby hates her "socialization" process until she makes some highly original friends in a writing workshop. |
196 |
|
|
Lighthouse Mystery, The |
Warner, Gertrude Chandler |
3.2 |
2 |
Renting a lighthouse is unusual, but even more so is an unfriendly boy's peculiar behavior. |
128 |
Y |
|
Like Jake and Me |
Jukes, Mavis |
2.9 |
0.5 |
Alex feels that he does not have much in common with his stepfather Jake until a fuzzy spider brings them together. |
36 |
|
|
Lincoln: A Photobiography |
Freedman, Russell |
7.7 |
5 |
Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President. |
150 |
Y |
|
Lion in the Box: A Christmas Story, The |
De Angeli, Marguerite |
4.3 |
2 |
Retells the events of a special Christmas for a poor family in New York at the turn of the century. |
67 |
|
|
Lions at Lunchtime |
Osborne, Mary Pope |
3 |
1 |
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to Africa, where they meet up with some wonderful animals and where they even solve a mystery. |
70 |
|
|
Little House in the Big Woods |
Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
5.3 |
5 |
The Ingalls family is snug in their Wisconsin house in spite of blizzards, wolves, and the lonely forest. |
238 |
Y |
|
Little Riders, The |
Shemin, Margaretha |
5.4 |
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 |
|
|
Little Town on the Prairie |
Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
5.4 |
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 |
|
Littles Give a Party, The |
Peterson, John |
3.6 |
1 |
The Littles give Granny a birthday party. |
96 |
Y |
|
Littles Go Exploring, The |
Peterson, John |
3.5 |
1 |
The Littles venture into the unknown land beyond the Dark Woods. |
94 |
Y |
|
Littles Have a Wedding, The |
Peterson, John |
3.4 |
1 |
More fantasy-adventure with the Lilliputian Little family, when cousin Dinky gets married and Tom and Lucy want to give a special gift. |
95 |
|
|
Living Together (Animal Marvels) |
Gareth Stevens Publishing |
5.8 |
1 |
This book is about how animals live together. |
32 |
|
|
Lizard Music |
Pinkwater, Daniel |
4.9 |
5 |
When left to take care of himself, a young boy becomes involved with a community of intelligent lizards who tell him of a little-known invasion from outer space. |
136 |
|
|
Long Way from Chicago, A |
Peck, Richard |
5 |
5 |
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother. |
148 |
Y |
|
Love, from the Fifth-Grade Celebrity |
Giff, Patricia Reilly |
4.7 |
3 |
Casey and Tracy are good friends. When Tracy moves, she and Casey begin to go to school together. Can their friendship be saved? |
118 |
Y |
|
Lucky Stone, The |
Clifton, Lucille |
4.4 |
1 |
Young Tee loved to hear the stories of good-luck that accompany her grandmother's lucky stone, but she needs some good luck herself, and the stone doesn't belong to her. |
62 |
Y |
|
Luke Was There |
Clymer, Eleanor |
3.5 |
2 |
To Julius, all adults are the same--they can't be trusted. They make believe they like you, then go away. He meets Luke, an adult who is different, but Luke has to leave too. Julius is alone, but Luke hasn't forgotten him... |
72 |
|
|
Machines at Work (Pictures & Words) |
Tuxworth, Nicola |
1.5 |
0.5 |
Simple text and photographs of children playing with toys present such useful vehicles as the tractor, dump truck and fire engine. |
24 |
Y |
|
Mad Scientists |
Gentle/Perry |
4.4 |
0.5 |
This book contrasts the monster-creating escapades of mad scientists such as Frankenstein, Moreau, and Jekyll with the methods used by real scientists who try to help, not hurt, the world. |
24 |
Y |
|
Maggie, Too |
Nixon, Joan Lowery |
4.7 |
4 |
A defensive twelve-year-old comes to understand her father, a busy Hollywood director planning to re-marry, after she is exiled for the summer to the everyday life of her grandmother's house in Houston. |
101 |
|
|
Magic of the Glits, The |
Adler, C.S. |
5.5 |
3 |
Twelve-year-old Jeremy, spending the summer on Cape Cod, befriends an eight-year-old girl whose mother has just died. |
90 |
|
|
Making the Team |
Hughes, Dean |
3.6 |
2 |
Three third-grade rookies who make the Little League baseball team aren't immediately accepted by the older players. |
91 |
Y |
|
Maldonado Miracle, The |
Taylor, Theodore |
4.5 |
5 |
A wonderful and moving story of a poor Mexican boy trying to find his father, who has gone north for work, and the world of the illegal alien. |
121 |
Y |
|
Mammals (Wonderful World of Animals) |
MacLeod, Beatrice |
4.7 |
0.5 |
Introduces the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of various mammals. |
32 |
Y |
|
Manmade Monsters |
Gentle/Perry |
4.5 |
0.5 |
This book examines monsters fashioned from organic or robotic parts, both in literature and movies, including Frankenstein and the computer HAL, from "2001: A Space Odyssey." |
24 |
Y |
|
Martians Don't Take Temperatures |
Dadey/Jones |
3.6 |
1 |
Some of the students at Bailey School think the new school nurse is a Martian. |
67 |
|
|
Martin's Mice |
King-Smith, Dick |
4.5 |
3 |
A farm cat who doesn't want to catch mice keeps a family of them as pets in the barn; but then he is given away to a townswoman and acquires a new perspective. |
122 |
Y |
|
Marvin Redpost: A Flying Birthday Cake? |
Sachar, Louis |
3.2 |
1 |
Two days after Marvin sees a glowing green thing that looks like a flying birthday cake in the night sky, his third-grade class is joined by a mysterious new boy with peculiar behavior. |
76 |
Y |
|
Marvin Redpost: Alone in His Teacher's House |
Sachar, Louis |
2.9 |
1 |
Marvin dog-sits his teacher's pet. |
83 |
Y |
|
Marvin Redpost: Class President |
Sachar, Louis |
3.4 |
1 |
Even though they have all come to school in holey clothes, Marvin and his third grade class manage to impress their surprise visitor, the President of the United States. |
67 |
Y |
|
Marvin Redpost: Kidnapped at Birth? |
Sachar, Louis |
2.8 |
1 |
Marvin believes he's really a lost prince who was kidnapped at birth. |
68 |
Y |
|
Marvin Redpost: Why Pick on Me? |
Sachar, Louis |
2.7 |
1 |
Marvin is picked on by the class bully--and everyone else as well. |
64 |
Y |
|
Matilda |
Dahl, Roald |
5 |
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 |
|
McBroom Tells a Lie |
Fleischman, Sid |
3.9 |
0.5 |
A farmer and his family save their amazing one-acre farm by using a Popcornmobile, frozen sunlight, and lightning bugs. |
64 |
Y |
|
McBroom Tells the Truth |
Fleischman, Sid |
3.9 |
0.5 |
After leaving their rocky Connecticut farm to seek their fortunes in the West, Josh McBroom, his wife Melissa, and their eleven redheaded children stop in Iowa where they become owners of a small but very unusual piece of property. |
62 |
Y |
|
McBroom the Rainmaker |
Fleischman, Sid |
3.6 |
0.5 |
When a great drought on the prairie causes cows to give powdered milk and mosquitoes to grow almost as large as small cowsheds, McBroom comes up with a novel idea for producing rain. |
64 |
Y |
|
McBroom's Ghost |
Fleischman, Sid |
4 |
0.5 |
The McBroom family is plagued by a mysterious ghost that visits their amazing one acre farm after every prolonged freezing spell. |
62 |
Y |
|
Megan's Masquerade |
Magraw, Trisha |
5.7 |
2 |
At a masquerade ball during the Revolutionary War, Megan makes a new friend who desperately needs her help. |
72 |
|
|
Mermaids Don't Run Track |
Dadey/Jones |
3.8 |
1 |
There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the beautiful singing track coach with long hair really be a magical mermaid? |
72 |
|
|
Merry Christmas from Betsy |
Haywood, Carolyn |
3.9 |
2 |
Another Christmas adventure finds Betsy and her friends on a sleigh ride with a mysterious driver who claims to be Santa Claus' twin brother. |
187 |
Y |
|
Midnight Fox, The |
Byars, Betsy |
4.9 |
4 |
Tom, a city boy forced to spend the summer on his aunt's farm, is afraid of animals -- until he learns to love a black fox. |
157 |
Y |
|
Midnight on the Moon |
Osborne, Mary Pope |
2.8 |
1 |
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to a moon base in the future where they continue to search for the fourth thing they need to free their friend Morgan from the magic spell. |
70 |
|
|
Mike's Mystery |
Warner, Gertrude Chandler |
3 |
2 |
Benny and Mike get into trouble when they get curious about a uranium mine. |
128 |
Y |
|
Miles' Song |
McGill, Alice |
5.6 |
7 |
In 1851 in South Carolina, Miles, a twelve-year-old slave, is sent to a "breaking ground" to have his spirit broken, but he endures the experience by secretly taking reading lessons from another slave. |
213 |
Y |
|
Miller 400 |
Ethan, Eric |
5 |
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 |
Y |
|
Miracle's Boys |
Woodson, Jacqueline |
4.3 |
3 |
Twelve-year-old Lafayette's close relationship with his older brother Charlie changes after Charlie is released from a detention home and blames Lafayette for the death of their mother. |
133 |
Y |
|
Mirandy and Brother Wind |
McKissack, Patricia C. |
3.6 |
0.5 |
To win first prize in the Junior Cakewalk, Mirandy tries to capture the wind for her partner. |
29 |
Y |
|
Miserable Mill, The |
Snicket, Lemony |
6.2 |
5 |
Accidents, evil plots, and general misfortune abound when, in their continuing search for a home, the Baudelaire orphans are sent to live and work in a sinister lumbermill. |
194 |
Y |
|
Mishmash |
Cone, Molly |
4.2 |
2 |
Pete finally gets to have a dog of his own, but Mishmash believes he's a person. |
114 |
|
|
Miss Rumphius |
Cooney, Barbara |
3.8 |
0.5 |
Alice Rumphius wants to travel the world and do the one thing her grandfather told her to do--make the world more beautiful. |
28 |
Y |
|
Mississippi Bridge |
Taylor, Mildred D. |
4.2 |
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 |
|
|
Mitzi's Honeymoon with Nana Potts |
Williams, Barbara |
4 |
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 |
|
|
Moles: Champion Excavators |
Garcia, Eulalia |
5.9 |
0.5 |
Describes the physical characteristics and habits of moles, animals known for their ability to dig. |
32 |
Y |
|
Molly Learns a Lesson |
Tripp, Valerie |
3.7 |
1 |
During World War II, nine-year-old Molly goes to school and with her friends tries to aid the war effort. |
67 |
Y |
|
Molly's Pilgrim |
Cohen, Barbara |
3 |
0.5 |
Told to make a doll like a Pilgrim for the Thanksgiving display at school, Molly's Jewish mother dresses the doll as she herself dressed before leaving Russia. |
27 |
Y |
|
Monsters Don't Scuba Dive |
Dadey/Jones |
3.6 |
1 |
The Bailey School kids go to summer camp. |
69 |
|
|
Monsters Next Door, The |
Jones/Dadey |
3.8 |
1 |
Bailey City is full of some pretty weird grown-ups. It is the perfect place for the spooky Hauntly Manor Inn. Could Dracula, a mad scientist, and Frankenstein's monster be living there? |
71 |
|
|
Monsters of Marble Avenue, The |
Gondosch, Linda |
2.9 |
1 |
One mishap after another dogs Luke's attempts to put on a puppet show. |
60 |
|
|
Monsters of the Deep |
Gentle/Perry |
4.8 |
0.5 |
This book discusses some of the large and frightening creatures that live, or are believed to have lived, in the world's oceans. |
24 |
Y |
|
More Adventures of the Great Brain |
Fitzgerald, John D. |
5.2 |
6 |
More exploits of the Great Brain, as seen through the eyes of his younger brother, J. D. |
142 |
Y |
|
Morgans |
Gentle/Perry |
4.6 |
0.5 |
Describes the physical features and other characteristics of the first original American horse breed. |
24 |
Y |
|
Morph Monsters |
Gentle/Perry |
4.4 |
0.5 |
This book discusses were-creatures, monsters that change from one entity into another, such as werewolves and cat peole, including some scientific explanations for these beasts. |
24 |
Y |
|
Mosquitoes (The New Creepy Crawly Collection) |
Fisher, Enid Broderick |
6.1 |
0.5 |
Examines the anatomy, behavior, life cycle, and dangers of this tiny member of the fly family. |
24 |
Y |
|
Mostly Michael |
Smith, Robert Kimmel |
4.2 |
6 |
Michael's diary reflects the ups and downs of his 11th year, as he copes with braces, troublesome relatives, a little sister not yet potty-trained, the school play, and a big spelling bee. |
184 |
Y |
|
Mountain Top Mystery |
Warner, Gertrude Chandler |
3.6 |
2 |
Marooned on a mountain, the Aldens survive a landslide and find an Indian secret. |
128 |
Y |
|
Mouse and the Motorcycle, The |
Cleary, Beverly |
5.1 |
3 |
A boy and a mouse share a common love -- motorcycles. |
158 |
Y |
|
Mouse Called Wolf, A |
King-Smith, Dick |
5.3 |
2 |
A mouse with an unusual name shares his musical gift with a widowed concert pianist. |
98 |
|
|
Mr. Popper's Penguins |
Atwater, Richard/Florence |
5.6 |
3 |
Mr. Popper trains his band of penguins to star in a vaudeville tour. |
139 |
Y |
|
Mrs. Jeepers in Outer Space |
Dadey/Jones |
4.1 |
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 |
|
|
Mrs. Jeepers' Monster Class Trip |
Dadey/Jones |
4.4 |
1 |
There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. What happens when Mrs. Jeepers takes the third grade camping for the weekend? Could she really bring a canyon full of rock monsters to life? |
117 |
|
|
Mrs. Jeepers' Secret Cave |
Dadey/Jones |
4 |
1 |
There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. However, could Mrs. Jeepers and some creepy creatures really be hiding the legendary Bailey treasure in the caves of Ruby Mountain? |
115 |
|
|
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters |
Steptoe, John |
4.3 |
0.5 |
Mufaro's two beautiful daughters, one bad-tempered, one kind and sweet, go before the king, who is choosing a bride. |
25 |
Y |
|
Muffy's Secret Admirer |
Brown/Krensky |
3.3 |
1 |
Brain and Francine devise the perfect plan to get even with Muffy after she bribes the judges at the science fair. |
58 |
Y |
|
Muggie Maggie |
Cleary, Beverly |
4.5 |
1 |
Maggie resists learning cursive writing in the third grade, until she discovers that knowing how to read and write cursive promises to open up an entirely new world of knowledge for her. |
70 |
Y |
|
Mummies and Pyramids |
Osborne, Will/Mary |
4.9 |
1 |
This book discusses mummies and pyramids and researches the facts behind the fiction. |
119 |
Y |
|
Mummies Don't Coach Softball |
Dadey/Jones |
3.8 |
1 |
The Bailey School Kids have their doubts about the new softball coach who keeps wrapping up his injuries in bandages. |
70 |
|
|
Mummies in the Morning |
Osborne, Mary Pope |
2.7 |
1 |
Jack and his younger sister take a trip in their tree house back to ancient Egypt, where they help a queen's mummy continue her voyage to the Next Life. |
65 |
Y |
|
Mussels: Hard-Shelled Mollusks |
Llamas, Andreu |
7 |
0.5 |
Describes the physical characteristics and habits of mussels and other mollusks. |
32 |
Y |
|
Mustangs (Great American Muscle Cars) |
Ethan, Eric |
5.1 |
0.5 |
This book surveys the history of the Mustang and its designs, engines, performance, and costs. |
24 |
Y |
|
Mustangs: America's Wild Horses |
Gentle/Perry |
5.2 |
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 |
|
Mustard |
Graeber, Charlotte |
3.1 |
1 |
Alex thinks Mustard is the most wonderful cat in the world. Mustard has been part of Alex's family since before Alex was even born. But Mustard is getting old, and the doctor says he's not well, so it is almost time to say goodbye. |
52 |
|
|
My Brother Stevie |
Clymer, Eleanor |
4.1 |
3 |
An unmanageable younger brother makes life difficult for his sister, until a sympathetic school teacher befriends and helps them both. |
73 |
|
|
My Father's Dragon |
Gannett, Ruth Stiles |
5.6 |
1 |
A young boy determines to rescue a poor baby dragon who is being used by a group of lazy wild animals to ferry them across the river on Wild Island. |
87 |
Y |
|
My Friend the Vampire |
Sommer-Bodenburg, Angela |
4.2 |
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 |
|
|
My Robot Buddy |
Slote, Alfred |
3.6 |
1 |
When an evil robotnapper starts lurking around the neighborhood, Jack needs all the help he can get from his look-alike robot friend, Danny One. |
70 |
Y |
|
My Teacher Flunked the Planet |
Coville, Bruce |
5 |
5 |
Peter Thompson's hilarious tour of Earth with disguised aliens continues as he searches for a way to save the planet. |
162 |
Y |
|
My Teacher Fried My Brains |
Coville, Bruce |
4.8 |
4 |
Bill tries to figure out which new teacher at his school is an alien in the hilarious sequel to 'My Teacher Is An Alien.' |
136 |
Y |
|
My Teacher Glows in the Dark |
Coville, Bruce |
4.9 |
4 |
Peter follows his alien teacher onto his spaceship, where he learns the alien's real reason for visiting Earth. |
137 |
Y |
|
My Teacher Is an Alien |
Coville, Bruce |
5.3 |
3 |
Susan Simmons must prevent her alien teacher from taking herself and her classmates to another planet. |
123 |
Y |
|
My Trip to Alpha I |
Slote, Alfred |
4.3 |
1 |
Voya-code is the most sophisticated form of interplanetary travel, but a young boy finds it is not without dangers. |
96 |
Y |
|
My War with Goggle-Eyes |
Fine, Anne |
5 |
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 |
Y |
|
Mystery at the Fair, The |
Warner, Gertrude Chandler |
3.9 |
2 |
The Aldens are so excited about entering the competitions at the fair, but it seems that someone is trying to ruin every event at the fair. |
120 |
|
|
Mystery Behind the Wall |
Warner, Gertrude Chandler |
3.5 |
2 |
A young Canadian visitor helps the Alden family solve a mystery involving a lost coin collection. |
127 |
Y |
|
Mystery Cruise, The |
Warner, Gertrude Chandler |
3.9 |
2 |
Someone tries to delay the cruise ship the Boxcar Children are on so that Max Greene won't be in time to inherit his great aunt's estate. |
118 |
|
|
Mystery Girl, The |
Warner, Gertrude Chandler |
3.5 |
2 |
The Boxcar Children notice some peculiar things about the girl who works in Jerry Taylor's general store. |
121 |
|
|
Mystery in the Sand |
Warner, Gertrude Chandler |
3.7 |
3 |
Living in a seaside mobile home, the Aldens unravel the secret of two secluded women. |
127 |
Y |
|
Mystery of the Hidden Painting, The |
Warner, Gertrude Chandler |
3.8 |
2 |
Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny spot what looks like a necklace that was given to their grandmother when she was married, but later was stolen. |
117 |
|
|
Mystery of the Missing Dog, The |
Levy, Elizabeth |
3 |
0.5 |
The invisible boy Chip intends to enter his invisible dog Max in the dog show; but when Max is lost, Chip and his Invisible Inc. friends suspect foul play. |
45 |
|
|
Mystery of the Mixed-up Zoo |
Warner, Gertrude Chandler |
4.1 |
2 |
The Boxcar Children must find out who's responsible for the trouble at the zoo, or it will be closed down. |
120 |
|
|
Mystery of the Stolen Bike, The |
Brown/Krensky |
3.1 |
1 |
When Francine's hand-me-down bike is stolen, Arthur and his friends rally to find the thief. |
59 |
Y |
|
Mystery Ranch |
Warner, Gertrude Chandler |
3.3 |
2 |
When an eccentric old aunt needs help on her ranch, the Aldens overturn a plot against her. |
127 |
Y |
