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13 Ghosts: Strange But True Stories

by: Will Osborne

Summary: None available

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

by: Judith Conaway

Summary: This adaptation of the Jules Verne classic describes an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and the undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century.

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

by: Jules Verne

Summary: This extraordinary voyage into the depths of the unknown aboard the legendary submarine Nautilus-commanded by the brilliant, tragic Captain Nemo-explores both the limitless possibilities of science and the twisted labyrinth of the human mind.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Z 10.0 523 28.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 389 138138 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None A Bad, Bad Day

by: Kirsten Hall

Summary: A young boy's day starts badly, but his mood improves when his teacher gives him a good mark on his paper.

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A Barrel of Gold

by: Joy Cowley

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A Big Help

by: Karen O'Donnell Taylor

Summary: With a little help from all his friends, a bird is able to get to his nest.

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by: Sandy Fass

Summary: Roberto wanted to make his family bigger, so his dad gave him a puppy.

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A Boat for Toad

by: Anne W. Phillips

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A Book About Your Skeleton

by: Ruth Belov Gross

Summary: Easy-to-read introduction to the human skeletal system.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.9 9572 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 38 1009 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None A Chair For My Mother

by: Vera B. Williams

Summary: A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable arm- chair after all their furniture is lost in a fire.

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A Clean House for Mole and Mouse

by: Harriet Ziefert

Summary: Mole and Mouse work hard cleaning and tidying their house and spend the rest of the day outside so their house will stay clean.

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A Coral Reef

by: Julie Haydon

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by: Joy Cowley

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A First Clay Gathering

by: Nora Naranjo-Morse

Summary: Multicultural - Kaa Povi, her mother and grandmother travel to the mountains near their pueblo to gather the clay needed to make their traditional pottery.

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A First Passover

by: Leslie Swartz

Summary: Multicultural - Encourages awareness and appreciation of Jewish American cultures.

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by: Margo Lemieux

Summary: Jed and his dad find that visiting the fish is a great way to pass a rainy day.

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A Friend for King Amadou

by: Robert McKissack

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A Funny Man

by: Patricia Jensen

Summary: A man does some unusual and funny things such as driving a teapot instead of a car and having a pet crocodile who plays the banjo. Even at the end of the day when he goes to bed, he still does something funny.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: E None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 18 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None A Girl Named Helen Keller

by: Margo Lundell

Summary: The story of Helen Keller, a blind and deaf child of great courage.

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A Great Place for Llama

by: Virginia Mueller

Summary: Llama doesn't seem to fit in anywhere until he finds the bear's home.

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A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher

by: Mike Thaler

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by: Mary Ann Hoberman

Summary: This book lists in rhyme the dwellings of various animals and things.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.6 58951 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 12 48 732 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

A Kiss for Little Bear

by: Else Minarik

Summary: When Grandma Bear sends a kiss to Little Bear, it travels a peculiar route through many animals until it finally reaches him.

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A Koala Grows Up

by: Rita Golden Gelman

Summary: Follows the activities and adventures of a koala bear from birth until two years of age when he leaves his mother to look for a mate.

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by: Clyde Robert Bulla

Summary: Left on their own in London, three impoverished children draw upon their resources to stay together and make their way to the Virginia colony in search of their father.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 2.9 672 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 117 14257 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

A Long Way From Chicago

by: Richard Peck

Summary: A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great De- pression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.

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A Magician's House

by: Joy Cowley

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by: Anne Sibley O'Brien

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A Mother for Choco

by: Keiko Kasza

Summary: A lonely little bird named Choco goes in search of a mother.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H 2.2 7582 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 38 449 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

A Mouse Called Wolf

by: Dick King-Smith

Summary: A mouse with an unusual name shares his musical gift with a widowed concert pianist.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q 5.3 17579 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 98 9822 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None A Panda Grows Up

by: Rita Golden Gelman

Summary: Baby giant pandas live in the mountains of central China. After they are born, they stay with their mothers and learn how to take care of themselves. Today, giant pandas are in danger of becoming extinct. This book is the story of one giant panda learning to survive in his environment.

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A Pet for Scat

by: Joe Spinone

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A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman

by: David A. Adler

Summary: An illustrated biography of the escaped slave who led other slaves to freedom on the Un- derground Railroad.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 4.3 20901 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 32 1282 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None A Picture for Harold's Room

by: Crockett Johnson

Summary: When the hero of Harold and the Purple Crayon realizes that his room needs a picture, he draws one and it becomes real.

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A Place to Hide

by: Jayne Pettit

Summary: Fascinating true stories of courageous people, who, amidst the horror of the Holocaust, defied the Nazis to help others.

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A Pocket for Corduroy

by: Don Freedman

Summary: When Lisa's toy bear Corduroy discovers that he doesn't have a pocket, he goes in search of one.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 3.7 5534 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 32 861 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None A Pocket Full of Kisses

by: Audrey Penn

Summary: Chester Raccoon is worried that his mother does not have enough love for both him and his new baby brother.

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A River Dream

by: Allen Say

Summary: While sick in bed, a young boy opens a box from his uncle and embarks on a fantastical fishing trip.

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A River Ran Wild

by: Lynne Cherry

Summary: An environmental history of the Nashua River, from its discovery by Indians through the polluting years of the Industrial Revolution to the ambitious clean-up that revitalized it.

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by: Joy Cowley

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A Snake Mistake

by: Mavis Smith

Summary: When Jake, the snake, sees two light bulbs in the chicken coop, he thinks they are eggs, so he eats them for dinner.

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A Taste of Blackberries

by: Doris Buchanan Smith

Summary: A little boy confronts grief and wrestles with the pain of loss when his best friend dies.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 4.0 295 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 85 10904 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None A Terrible Fright (a play)

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

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A Three Hat Day

by: Laura Geringer

Summary: A hat collector is having a very bad day until he meets his true love in the hat section of the department store.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 3.2 9798 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 12 32 776 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

A Tree Can Be…

by: Judy Nayer

Summary: In this story, children play in and around a tree. The tree is also a home for some birds and animals.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: E 1.8 34694 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 12 16 67 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One A Tune for My Mother

by: Tim Johnson

Summary: With a little help, Jo composes her own special song for her mother on Mother's Day.

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A Walk in the City

by: Tanner Ottley Gay

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A Walk with Grandpa

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 22 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None A Wall of Names

by: Judy Donnelly

Summary: Surveys the history of the Vietnam War, chronicles the construction of the Vietnam Memo- rial, and discusses what the Memorial means to many Americans.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 4.5 8448 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 48 4184 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Abe Lincoln's Hat

by: Martha Brenner

Summary: How Lincoln used his hat as a filing cabinet.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 2.6 11151 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 48 1203 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Abel's Island

by: William Steig

Summary: Stranded on a deserted island, a lovable young mouse discovers inner resources he did not know he possessed.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 5.9 101 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 21 117 17610 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Adventures of Spider

by: Joyce Cooper Arkhurst

Summary: This book presents six tales about Spider, including those which explain how he got a thin waist and a bald head and why he lives in ceilings and dark corners.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 4.4 75731 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 58 5887 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse

by: Leo Lionni

Summary: Alexander the mouse makes friends with Willy, a toy mouse, and wants to be just like him until he discovers that Willy is to be thrown away.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 3.0 17503 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 5 32 742 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Alexander Graham Bell: An Inventive Life

by: Elizabeth MacLeod

Summary: This book describes some of the many inventions and interests of Alexander Graham Bell which have had a profound effect on our way of life.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: U 6.2 35349 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 32 3457 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None All About You

by: Catherine Anholt

Summary: When you wake up in the morning, how do you feel? Happy, tired, sad? Noisy, quiet, glad? This book invites very young children to think and talk about themselves and their world.

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All in Fun

by: Suzy Kline

Summary: Harry teases Song Lee, but she has the last word.

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All Tutus Should be Pink

by: Sheri Brownrigg

Summary: Two little girls attend ballet class and eat strawberry ice cream afterwards.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 1.8 11153 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 29 242 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None Amalia and the Grasshopper

by: Jerry Tello

Summary: With the help of her grandfather and by watching a grasshopper jump, Amalia learns how to shoot basketballs in the hoop.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 2.7 31729 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 13 24 394 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One

The Amazing Popple Seed

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

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Amazing Sharks

by: Melvin Berger

Summary: None available

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by: Monica Halpern

Summary: Explains the life cycle of the silkworm as an example of a living organism adapting to its environment.

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Amazon Sun, Amazon Rain

by: Ximena de la Piedra

Summary: The animals of the Amazon jungle play in the sun and head for shelter when the rain begins.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G 1.3 31728 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 16 107 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One

Amber Brown is Not a Crayon

by: Paula Danziger

Summary: Amber learns her best friend is moving to Alabama.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N 3.7 11145 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 80 7873 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Amelia Bedelia

by: Peggy Parish

Summary: Wacky misadventures as that hapless maid Amelia Bedelia interprets her instructions very literally.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.5 5453 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 64 1039 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Amelia Bedelia's Family Album

by: Peggy Parish

Summary: Amelia Bedelia entertains Mr. and Mrs. Rogers by showing them her family album and describing what her relatives do.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.2 9584 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 48 867 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Amelia Earhart: Aviation Pioneer

by: Roxanne Chadwick

Summary: Traces the life of the pilot who became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.

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by: William Steig

Summary: After being saved from drowning by a whale, a mouse gets a chance to repay the favor years later.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 4.7 5501 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 28 1813 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

An Unusual Show

by: Ellen Blonder

Summary: It's showtime, and in this story the alligator, bear, kangaroo, frog, and other animals get dressed for the performance.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C 1.7 34667 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 16 64 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One

And Now Miguel

by: Joseph Krumgold

Summary: The secret wish of Miguel Chavez, to go to the mountains with the men of his family, comes true.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Y 4.8 4 8.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 4 245 56043 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No Newbery 1954 None And Then What Happened Paul Revere?

by: Jean Fritz

Summary: A humorous biography of Paul Revere, covering more than his famous ride, like life in Bos- ton in the 1700s.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 5.3 5402 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 48 3279 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Animal Mothers

by: Stsushi Komori

Summary: None available

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The Animal Picnic

by: Leslie Perkins

Summary: Each animal brings to the picnic an item that rhymes with its name.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 1.7 31730 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 16 103 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One Animal Senses

by: Melvin Berger

Summary: None available

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Animal Tracks

by: Arthur Dorros

Summary: This book describes the different tracks that various animals make and how they are all unique.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.8 18386 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 34 538 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Animorphs: The Message

by: K.A. Applegate

Summary: The Animorphs have to figure out if the strange dreams they have all been having are a message or a trap.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T 3.9 18976 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 151 26464 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Anna, Grandpa, and the Big Storm

by: Carla Stevens

Summary: Anna's grandfather is bored with city life until he and Anna are stranded on the Third Ave- nue elevated subway train during the blizzard of 1888.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N 3.2 43111 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 28 64 3967 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Anne Frank in the World

by: Anne Frank House

Summary:More than two hundred photos and informative captions present Anne Frank's family before their years in hiding from the Nazis; chronicle the events that affected their lives in Germany and the Netherlands; and show late twentieth-century examples of racism and racial violence in the U.S. and Europe. AR Level: Quiz: Points: Z None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 144 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Anne of Green Gables (Unabridged)

by: L.M. Montgomery

Summary: This is the first novel in the Anne series that has delighted millions of young readers since its publication in 1908. Eleven-year-old Anne Shirley wins the heart of her foster mother.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V 7.3 203 17.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 22 308 97364 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Annie, Bea, and CHI CHI Dolores

by: Donna Maurer

Summary: The letters of the alphabet provide a humorous look at some of the activities of young animals at school, including counting, erasing, making music, painting, and snack time.

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Ant Cities

by: Arthur Dorros

Summary: Explains how ants live and work together to build and maintain their cities. A Let's Read and Find Out book.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 3.2 8403 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 14 32 794 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: NonFiction No None None

Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave

by: Virginia Hamilton

Summary: This book is a biography of the slave who escaped to Boston in 1854, was arrested at the instigation of his owner, and whose trial caused a furor between abolitionists and those determined to enforce the Fugitive Slave Acts.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Y 5.8 355 7.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 186 41841 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None The Apple and the Arrow

by: Mary Buff

Summary: Eleven-year-old Walter Tell awaits the skillful demonstration of his father William, a Swiss freedom fighter, who will shoot an apple from his head. The coauthor is Conrad Buff.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 4.8 19039 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 75 14055 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction None None

Apples and Pumpkins

by: Anne Rockwell

Summary: In preparation for Halloween night, a family visits Mr. Comstock's farm to pick apples and pumpkins.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 2.1 121153 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 24 183 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Arguments

by: Margaret Mahy

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Around the World in a Hundred Years

by: Jean Fritz

Summary: This book examines the great wave of European exploration during the fifteenth century, which resulted in more accurate maps.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V 6.8 106603 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 128 22921 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Arrow to the Sun

by: Gerald McDermott

Summary: Indian myth in which the Lord of the Sun sends the spark of life to earth, and it becomes a Boy.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N 2.7 5341 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 18 14 397 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Artemis Fowl

by: Eoin Colfer

Summary: Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a brilliant criminal mastermind, but even he does not know what he has taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These fair- ies are armed and they are dangerous.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Y 5.0 54675 9.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 280 56684 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident

by: Eoin Colfer

Summary: As Artemis rushes to his kidnapped father's rescue, he is stopped by a familiar nemesis, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police. This time, however, he is going to have to join forces with them if he wants to save his father.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: X 5.0 59973 9.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 277 58517 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Arthur and the Crunch Cereal Contest

by: Marc Brown

Summary: Arthur can't come up with a catch jingle until he hears D. W. and wonders if he could use it. The coauthor is Stephen Krensky.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.0 20003 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 61 5095 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Arthur and the True Francine

by: Marc Brown

Summary: Francine and Muffy are good friends until Muffy lets Francine take the blame for cheating on a test.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 2.3 16965 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 27 472 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None Arthur Babysits

by: Marc Brown

Summary: Arthur's experience baby-sitting for the terrible Tibble Twins is as challenging as he expected, but he finally gets control by telling them a spooky story.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.4 6102 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 32 878 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Arthur Goes To Camp

by: Marc Brown

Summary: Arthur is not looking forward to Camp Meadowcroak; and when mysterious things start happening there, he decides to run away.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 2.9 16966 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 30 733 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Arthur Lost and Found

by: Marc Brown

Summary: When Arthur and Buster try to take the bus to Arthur's swimming lesson, they fall asleep and end up in a strange part of town.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 2.6 34903 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 30 833 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Arthur Meets the President

by: Marc Brown

Summary: Arthur's essay wins a contest and he has to read it to the President in a special ceremony at the White House.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.2 6051 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 32 993 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Arthur Writes A Story

by: Marc Brown

Summary: Arthur has to write a story as a homework assignment and keeps changing his idea of what to write as he talks to his friends.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 2.6 16974 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 32 629 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Arthur's Birthday

by: Marc Brown

Summary: Their friends must decide which party to attend when Muffy schedules her birthday party for the same day as Arthur's.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 2.3 16968 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 32 765 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None Arthur's Chicken Pox

by: Marc Brown

Summary: Arthur hopes he'll recover from the chicken pox in time to go to the circus.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 2.9 9106 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 30 793 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Arthur's Family Vacation

by: Marc Brown

Summary: Arthur makes his family's potentially disastrous family vacation into a success.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 2.7 9051 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 32 786 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Arthur's Teacher Trouble

by: Marc Brown

Summary: Third-grader Arthur is amazed when he is chosen to be in the school spellathon.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.7 13948 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 30 822 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None Arthur's Tooth

by: Marc Brown

Summary: Arthur, tired of being the only one in his class who still has all his baby teeth, waits impa- tiently for his loose tooth to fall out.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 2.8 5502 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 32 702 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

As Luck Would Have It

by: Margaret Mahy

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

At the Carnival

by: Kirsten Hall

Summary: A boy's mother reminds him to stay close as they enjoy the rides at a carnival.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D 0.4 62237 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 9 17 68 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None Aunt Eater Loves a Mystery

by: Doug Cushman

Summary: Aunt Eater loves mystery stories so much that she sees mysterious adventures wherever she looks.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.4 7352 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 12 64 1331 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Babar's Little Circus Star

by: Lauren De Brunhoff

Summary: Babar's new daughter becomes the star of the big top, showing that there are huge advan- tages to being small.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: E 1.5 7204 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 6 32 295 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Babe the Gallant Pig

by: Dick King-Smith

Summary: Babe, the piglet won by Farmer Hogget at a fair, learns to be a sheep-pig.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q 5.6 205 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 118 16565 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Baby Chimp

by: Rebel Williams

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 9 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Back to the Day Lincoln was Shot!

by: Beatrice Gormley

Summary: You can't change history. That's what everyone says, but Matt and Emily's grandfather has invented a way to travel back in time. Now Matt and Emily, and their scientific genius friend, Jonathan, are about to take a trip to the night President Lincoln was shot.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 25 138 None Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Ball Game

by: David Packard

Summary: A young player steps up to bat at a crucial point in a baseball game and succeeds in making the play that wins the game.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D 0.4 31602 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 14 18 47 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One Balls

by: Harley Chan

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 8 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Bat 6

by: Virginia Euwer Wolff

Summary: In small-town post-World War II Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Z 5.1 29497 8.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 14 230 54948 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Bats

by: Carolyn MacLulich

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 14 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Bats!

by: Ron Cole

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!

by: Stephen Manes

Summary: Milo, tired of problems with his sister, parents, and classmates, finds a book in the library which promises to make him perfect in just three days.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 4.2 153 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 76 7723 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Beaches

by: JoAnne Early Macken

Summary: This book describes animals and plants that live in and around sandy beaches.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D 1.6 89947 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 7 24 167 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction Yes None None Bear's Bargain

by: Frank Asch

Summary: Bear and Little Bird try to help each other achieve impossible ambitions.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.9 34805 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 28 428 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Beautiful Bugs

by: Maria Fleming

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 14 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Beautiful Pig

by: Margaret Mahy

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 24 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Beauty

by: Bill Wallace

Summary: A story of the love between a boy and his horse, Beauty. During a wild storm, Beauty raced through the barn doors the boy had forgotten to close and into a terrible trap. The boy then ran into the blinding rain, desperate to save his best friend.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V 4.0 552 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 22 177 34102 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Beauty and the Beast

by: Vera Southgate

Summary: Count Von Flittermouse, a body-changing vampire bat, kidnaps Violet Mae Mouse in hopes of gaining a bottle of fluid from the Fountain of Youth.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 15 51 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Because of Winn-Dixie

by: Kate DiCamillo

Summary: Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 3.9 39557 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 42 182 22123 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes Sasquatch 2003 None Bedtime for Frances

by: Russell Hoban

Summary: Frances employs every ruse she can think of to put off bedtime, until the thought of a spanking makes her sleepy.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.7 5208 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 5 28 1276 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

The Berenstain Bear Scouts: Ghost versus Ghost

by: Stan Berenstain

Summary: The Bear Scouts are going for their Wilderness Survival Badge. Some bears think the Great Grizzly Forest is haunted, but the bears are going to try to survive one night in the woods of Great Grizzly. The coauthor is Jan Berenstain.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 4.7 12766 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 98 10436 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Bessie Coleman Queen of the Sky

by: Linda Johns

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 229 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Best Friends

by: Steven Kellogg

Summary: Kathy feels lonely and betrayed when her best friend goes away for the summer and has a wonderful time.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.4 7355 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 29 1039 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Best Poems Ever

by: Edric Mesmer

Summary: Includes poems by Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Walt Whitman, Pablo Neruda, Lucille Clifton, Elizabeth Barret Browning and more.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Y None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 70 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

The Best School Year Ever

by: Barbara Robinson

Summary: The terrible kids at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School return with more wild behavior and outrageous lies.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 5.4 10212 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 3 117 21821 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The BFG

by: Roald Dahl

Summary: Luckily for Sophie, the BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who carries her off is nothing like his giant neighbors who are headed for England to gobble children and must be stopped.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: U 4.8 5058 6.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 208 37568 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Bicycle Rider

by: Mary Scioscia

Summary: Focuses on the first cycling victory in the career of champion bicyclist Marshall Taylor.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 25 38 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: NonFiction No None None

Big Al

by: Andrew Clements

Summary: A big, ugly fish has trouble making friends he longs for because of his appearance--until the day his scary appearance saves them all from a fisherman's net.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 3.8 6254 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 24 624 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None Big Bad Bruce

by: Bill Peet

Summary: Bruce, a bear bully, never picks on anyone his own size until he is diminished in more ways than one by a small but very independent witch.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N 4.7 19553 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 8 38 1893 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Big Balloon Race

by: Eleanor Coerr

Summary: Ariel almost causes her famous mother to lose a balloon race and then helps her to win it.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.6 7357 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 12 62 1391 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Big Cats

by: Joyce Milton

Summary: Describes the physical characteristics and behavior of big felines in their habitats around the world.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.7 9534 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 11 48 983 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Big Digs

by: Meish Goldish

Summary: This book explores three engineering marvels, how and why they were built, and their im- pact on society and the environment.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: W 5.8 76381 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 32 2385 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

The Big Family

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Big Mama and Grandma Ghana

by: Angela Medearis

Summary: A boy enjoys the time he spends with his maternal grandmother and meets for the first time his paternal grandmother, who comes for a visit from Ghana, Africa.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.0 31731 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 13 24 378 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Big Tease

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Binky Brothers, Detectives

by: James Lawrence

Summary: When the Binky brothers get a case involving a missing catcher's mitt, the younger brother proves the better detective and establishes his right to be a full partner in the agency.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 12 60 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Birds

by: Julie Haydon

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 6 16 18 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Birds

by: Carolyn MacLulich

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 15 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Birds on Stage

by: Saturnino Romay

Summary: Descriptions of different birds are given in simple rhyme.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G 1 31709 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 16 154 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One

The Birthday Cake

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Birthday Dog

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: Papa and Mama go the pound to look for a dog for their twins' birthday.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 1.5 32393 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 16 283 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

The Birthday Present

by: Mavis Smith

Summary: A young dog buys a birthday present for his Mom.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A 0.4 31683 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 7 16 26 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One

Black Bear Cub

by: Alan Lind

Summary: After hibernating all winter, Mother Bear takes Black Bear Cub and his sister out of their den and teaches them how to survive in the forest.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 4.4 52498 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 31 937 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Black Beauty

by: Cathy East Dubowski

Summary: In this adaptation of the Anna Sewell classic, a horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q 3.6 83443 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 16 94 7391 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Blind Men and the Elephant

by: Karen Backstein

Summary: A retelling of the fable from India about six blind men who each get a limited understanding of what an elephant is by feeling only one part of it.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.6 36027 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 30 703 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

The Blue Jay

by: Margaret Cleveland

Summary: Lucy makes friends with a blue jay.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H 1.9 44473 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 16 172 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Blue Skies, French Fries

by: Judy Delton

Summary: Just before school starts, the Pee Wee Scouts have a big Labor Day Pee Wee Weenie Roast.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 3.1 658 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 87 7780 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Blueberries for Sal

by: Robert McCloskey

Summary: A bear cub and a little girl each mistakes the other's mother for its own.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 4.1 5459 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 23 28 1042 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Bo and Peter

by: Betsy Franco

Summary: Bo and his best friend Peter, who uses a wheelchair, spend the day together.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C 1.1 34665 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 12 16 45 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One Bob and Shirley

by: Harriet Ziefert

Summary: Two old lobsters are caught and put in a fish store window until some concerned humans picket the store

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 27 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Bogle's Card

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: Bogle loses his perfect Mother's Day card.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H 1.6 11655 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 16 243 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Bogle's Feet

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: Bogle the giant's feet go on strike and he can't do a thing with them.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 1.9 32394 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 16 280 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Bone Dance

by: Martha Brooks

Summary: When her father wills her a cabin on land in rural Manitoba, Alexandra meets a young man who shares her Native Canadian heritage and her experiences

AR Level: Quiz: Points: X 4.7 18437 6.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 179 37954 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Boots

by: Anne Schreiber

Summary: A child gets dressed to go out and play in the snow.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C 1.3 101621 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 13 16 58 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One

Bootsie Barker Bites

by: Barbara Bottner

Summary: Bootsie's bite makes her a neighborhood terror, but she eventually gets her just desserts.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.6 7178 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 28 464 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Borreguita and the Coyote

by: Verna Aardema

Summary: A little lamb uses her clever wiles to keep a coyote from eating her up.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 3.1 7659 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 24 832 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Bound for Oregon

by: Jean Van Leeuwen

Summary: Historical novel about a family's tumultuous journey along the Oregon Trail in 1852.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: U 5.3 10897 6.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 25 167 42065 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Boundless Grace

by: Mary Hoffman

Summary: Grace is invited for a visit with her father and his new family in Africa.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.8 12479 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 24 1387 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Boxcar Children

by: Gertrude Chandler Warner

Summary: The resourceful Alden children survive without adult supervision and make a home for themselves in an abandoned boxcar.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 3.9 5301 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 20 154 17087 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Boy Who Ate Dog Biscuits

by: Betsy Sachs

Summary: All Billy wants is a dog of his own, but he gets a baby sister instead.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N 2.6 404 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 11 63 7023 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

The Brave Bunny

by: Ben M. Baglio

Summary: Laura Baker's pet rabbit, Nibbles, is scared of everything, but now he must be brave because he is very ill.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 3.2 121136 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 59 3476 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Brave Dog Blizzard

by: Sharon Salisbury O'Toole

Summary: Blizzard the sheepdog fights hard to protect the sheep when his family goes to the county fair for the day.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 80 None Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Bravest Dog Ever

by: Natalie Standiford

Summary: Recounts the life of Balto, the sled dog who saved Nome, Alaska, in 1925 from a diphthe- ria epidemic by delivering medicine through a raging snowstorm.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.5 6255 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 48 1224 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction Yes None None

Bread and Jam For Frances

by: Russell Hoban

Summary: Frances decides she likes to eat only bread and jam at every meal until, to her surprise, her parents grant her wish.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 3.4 16865 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 3 31 1720 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Bread Bread Bread

by: Ann Morris

Summary: Engaging photographs from all over the world show people with all kinds of bread. They're making it, baking it, buying it, carrying it, and eating it, too!

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 28 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Bremen Town Musicians

by: Ilse Plume

Summary: This is a retelling of the Grimm tale in which an old donkey, a dog, cat, and rooster, no longer wanted by their masters, set out for Bremen to become musicians.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 4.4 85559 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 32 1200 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Bremen-town Musicians

by: Ruth B. Gross

Summary: While on their way to Bremen, four aging animals who are no longer of any use to their masters find a new home after outwitting a gang of robbers.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.2 5507 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 32 719 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None Brian's Winter

by: Gary Paulsen

Summary: Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 5.9 11704 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 22 133 31140 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Bridge to Terabithia

by: Katherine Paterson

Summary: The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer, who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: U 4.6 11 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 30 128 32888 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No Newbery 1978 None

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain

by: Verna Aardema

Summary: A cumulative rhyme relating how Ki-pat brought rain to the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 4.6 9758 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 36 717 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Brocaded Slipper

by: Lynette Dyer Vuong

Summary: A collection of five Vietnamese fairy tales, including "Little Finger of the Watermelon Patch" and "The Lampstand Princess."

AR Level: Quiz: Points: W None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 24 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Bud, Not Buddy

by: Christopher Paul Curtis

Summary: Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the re- nowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T 5.0 29554 8.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 14 243 52179 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No Newbery 2000 None

Bug Watching

by: Rebel Williams

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: B None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Bull Run

by: Paul Fleischman

Summary: Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys, and worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Y 5.3 8455 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 102 13507 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Bully Trouble

by: Joanne Cole

Summary: Arlo and Robby, finding themselves the victims of a neighborhood bully, work out a red-hot scheme for discouraging him.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.0 7360 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 11 48 7360 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Bunnicula

by: Deborah Howe

Summary: Chester, the Monroe family's cat, resorts to hilarious antics to alert his owners and Harold, their dog, that the newly adopted bunny may actually be a vegetable vampire. The coauthor is James Howe.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q 4.2 254 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 98 14558 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Busy Buzzing Bumblebees

by: Alvin Schwartz

Summary: A collection of forty-six tongue twisters.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 12 63 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Buzz, Said the Bee

by: Wendy Cheyette Lewison

Summary: As one animal sits on another in an accumulating progression, the reader learns the sounds each animal makes.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G 1.4 31612 1.4 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 10 29 163 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Cactuses

by: Lesley Pether

Summary: Describes the history and development of cacti, different species, their habitats and some of their uses.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 12 237 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None The Cake

by: Margaret Mahy

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 1 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Call 911

by: Rebel Williams

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 8 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Call of the Wild

by: Jack London

Summary: Buck, a dog that has been forced into the harsh life of a sled dog, befriends a man seeking his fortune in the Klondike gold fields, and must ultimately decide whether to stay with his master or obey his instinct to join the wolves.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Y 8.0 107 7.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 201 37058 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None Cam Jansen and the Chocolate Fudge Mystery

by: David A. Adler

Summary: When Cam Jansen and her friend Eric uncover a mystery while selling fudge door to door to raise money for the local library, Cam uses her photographic memory to foil the crime. Book #14

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 3.7 17659 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 58 5677 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Cam Jansen and the Mystery at the Monkey House

by: David A. Adler

Summary: The fifth-grade sleuth uses her photographic memory to catch the monkey kidnappers at the city zoo. Book #10

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 3.7 5210 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 56 5278 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Babe Ruth Baseball

by: David A. Adler

Summary: Cam Jansen has the perfect chance to show off her amazing mental camera at the community hobby show. When a prized baseball is stolen, Cam's memory is put to the test. Book #6

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 3.8 4980 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 26 57 4980 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Circus Clown

by: David A. Adler

Summary: Pickpockets disguised as clowns are no match for Cam Jansen, the girl with the photographic memory. Book #7

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 3.9 7605 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 3 57 5596 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Dinosaur Bones

by: David A. Adler

Summary: When she notices some bones missing from a dinosaur skeleton exhibited in the museum, a young girl with a photographic memory tries to discover who has been taking them and why. Book #3

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 3.8 7606 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 56 5186 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Monster Movie

by: David A. Adler

Summary: When Cam goes to see the new monster movie, someone steals the last half of it--but can she find out who it was? Book #8

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 3.9 17664 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 1 57 5945 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds

by: David A. Adler

Summary: A fifth-grader with a photographic memory and her friend Eric help solve the mystery of the stolen diamonds. Book #1

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 3.2 308 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 58 4619 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the U.F.O.

by: David A. Adler

Summary: Ten-year-old Cam, possessor of a photographic memory, and her friend Eric investigate what seems to be a brief appearance of U.F.O.s. Book #2

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 3.4 14661 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 58 4899 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Can We Go?

by: Frances Bell

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: B None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Candy Corn Contest

by: Patricia Giff

Summary: Richard has been dipping into the jar of candy corn that is the object of Ms. Rooney's contest. What is Ms. Rooney going to do when she finds out?

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.5 5211 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 76 8169 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Caps for Sale

by: Esphyr Slobodkina

Summary: A band of monkeys steals a peddler's caps while he is asleep.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 3.1 5461 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 15 48 672 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Caps, Hats, Socks, and Mittens A Book About the Four Seasons

by: Louise Borden

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 32 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One Captain Bumble (a play)

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Captain's Dog

by: Roland Smith

Summary: Captain Meriwether Lewis's dog Seaman describes his experiences as he accompanies his master on the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore the uncharted western wilderness.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: W 5.8 32520 8.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 14 287 50839 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Carnival

by: Denise Burden-Patmon

Summary: Multicultural - A girl from Trinidad celebrates the carnival festival in Brooklyn in September.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 22 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None The Carrot Seed

by: Ruth Krauss

Summary: A little boy plants and tends a carrot seed in spite of the pessimism of his family.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G 1.9 29233 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 25 101 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Carrots, Peas, and Beans

by: John Lockyer

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 16 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Case of the Cat's Meow

by: Crosby Bonsall

Summary: Snitch's cat Mildred has disappeared. He and his friends Wizard, Skinny, and Tubby--all charter members of the Private Eyes club--get on the case right away.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.3 7661 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 64 1293 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None The Case of the Double Cross

by: Crosby Bonsall

Summary: Wizard's private eyes don't want any girls in their club, but Marigold and her friends dream of joining. When a funny little man double-crosses the private eyes with a message in code, the girls get their chance to prove themselves.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.6 7308 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 64 1028 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

The Case of the Kidnapped Candy

by: James Preller

Summary: When the class's candy stash disappears, it's up to Jigsaw and Mila to figure out who stole it. There's more than one person with a sweet tooth in Ms. Gleason's classroom, so solving the mystery won't be easy. Book #30

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N 3.2 112707 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 72 6040 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Case of the Scaredy Cats

by: Crosby Bonsall

Summary: Chronicles the series of events occuring after the girls take over the boy's club house.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.0 11162 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 13 64 1007 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None The Case of the Secret Message

by: Parker Hinter

Summary: This is a collection of eight mysteries for readers to solve. Tell-tale clues-such as a ques- tionable autograph dated November 21, 1956, are presented in the illustrations or text. The culprit is usually Polly Peacock or another member of the Clue Club.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 84 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Case of the Two Masked Robbers

by: Lillian Hoban

Summary: This book tells the story of raccoon twins, Arabella and Albert, who track down the robbers who stole Mrs. Turtle's eggs.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.5 44218 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 12 62 1222 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Cat on the Roof

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 8 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Cat Who Went to Heaven

by: Elizabeth Coatsworth

Summary: A magical cat inspires a Japanese artist to paint the greatest picture of his life.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q 5.9 17 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 3 64 11140 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No Newbery 1931 None

The Cat Who Wore a Pot on Her Head

by: Jan Slepian

Summary: A cat named Bendemolena lives in a noisy place. To keep out the noise, she wears a pot on her head but has trouble hearing when someone is speaking to her.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 31 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Cat's Meow

by: Gary Soto

Summary: Eight-year-old Graciela, who is Mexican-American, is amazed when her cat Pip starts speaking in Spanish.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 3.9 68464 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 78 8544 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Cats Nobody Wanted

by: Harriet May Savitz

Summary:Frankie's neighbors aren't very happy when Mrs. Beasley moves onto their street. They call her the cat lady because she takes in all kinds of stray cats and finds homes for them. Mrs. Beasley can't help it, but sometimes the cats get loose and run through people's yards. And that makes her neighbors really mad. No one but Frankie seems to see that Mrs. Beasley is doing a good thing by saving those lost animals. AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 83 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Cats of Tiffany Street

by: Sarah Hayes

Summary: When a cat catcher captures a close-knit group of cats that likes to hang out on Tiffany Street, Shadow the cat devises a plan to rescue them.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 32 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Catwings

by: Ursula K. Le Guin

Summary: Four young cats with wings leave the city slums in search of a safe place to live, finally meeting two children with kind hands.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 4.3 5212 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 39 2906 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Cay

by: Theodore Taylor

Summary: After the freighter on which Phillip and his mother were traveling from wartime Curacao to the U.S. is torpedoed, the boy finds himself dependent on an old West Indian for survival.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V 5.3 108 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 27 144 26145 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Celery Stalks at Midnight

by: James Howe

Summary: Chester the cat is more than ever convinced that Bunnicula is a vampire when there is a harvest of white vegetables on the morning after the night that Bunnicula was probably wandering through the neighborhood.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 4.0 660 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 111 16015 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Chalk Box Kid

by: Clyde Robert Bulla

Summary: Nine-year-old Gregory's house does not have room for a garden, so he creates one in a surprising place.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N 2.7 255 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 56 4629 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None Champions

by: Rebel Williams

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 8 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

by: Roald Dahl

Summary: Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 4.8 20 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 23 176 30644 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Charlotte's Web

by: E.B. White

Summary: In this endearing story, a little girl and Charlotte, a beautiful grey spider, struggle to save Wilbur the pig from being butchered.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 4.4 19 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 184 31938 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Chick and the Duckling

by: Mirra Ginsburg

Summary: Hatched at the same time, the chick is successful at imitating the duck until the the duck goes for a swim.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D 1.3 31623 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 30 38 112 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Chicken Pox!

by: Dona McDuff

Summary: Molly has the chicken pox. Her brother sees all the good things and special treatment she receives from everyone. How can he get the chicken pox?

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 16 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Childtimes

by: Eloise Greenfield

Summary: This book presents childhood memoirs of three black women--grandmother, mother, and daughter--who grew up between the 1880's and the 1950's. The coauthor is Lessie Jones Little, with material by Pattie Ridley Jones.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: X 5.0 9546 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 180 25515 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Chinese Kites

by: Rebel Williams

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 8 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Chocolate Chippo Hippo

by: Vincent Andriani

Summary: Ed the hippo loves chocolate chip cookies so much he works in a bakery and even has a chocolate chip cookie suit and chocolate chip cookie sunglasses.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.5 31732 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 16 143 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One

Chocolate Daze

by: Elaine Moore

Summary: A girl's elaborate schemes to reunite her parents lead to one humorous misadventure after another, but ultimately end in a better understanding of a familiar family situation. A funny and touch- ing preteen novel by a well-known author.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Z None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 13 144 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction None None Chocolate Fever

by: Robert Kimmel Smith

Summary: From eating too much chocolate, Henry breaks out in brown bumps that help him foil some hijackers and teach him a valuable lesson about self-indulgence.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 4.2 5215 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 93 9611 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Chocolate Touch

by: Patrick Skene Catling

Summary: Instead of gold, everything John Midas touched turns to precious chocolate.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N 4.7 256 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 30 87 11444 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Chocolate War

by: Robert Cormier

Summary: This powerful novel is about a young high school student who refuses to be intimidated by society and the people around him.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Y 5.4 5260 8.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 3 191 51115 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Circle of Gold

by: Candy Dawson Boyd

Summary: Mattie Benson knows just what to get her mother for Mother's Day until she loses her best job and is accused of stealing. She thinks that she can still get the present, but maybe she is expect- ing miracles again.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 4.0 309 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 9 124 24892 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction None None

The Circuit

by: Francisco Jimenez

Summary: This book is a collection of stories from the life of a migrant child, Francisco Jimenez.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Z 5.3 2485 6.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 116 27007 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Circus

by: Miriam Frost

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: B None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None City Green

by: DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan

Summary: Children and community members get together to turn an empty lot into a garden.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 3.5 17712 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 30 1305 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

City Mouse-Country Mouse

by: John Waller

Summary: City mouse-country mouse -- The lion and the mouse -- Belling the cat.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 32 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

City Sounds

by: Jean Marzollo

Summary: Maryanne and her Grandfather sit on a park bench listening to and imitating the sounds of the city.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G 2.6 31718 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 16 143 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None One Class Clown

by: Johanna Hurwitz

Summary: Lucas Cott, the class clown, wants to become the perfect student but finds it hard to change his ways.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q 4.6 310 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 98 15360 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Classroom Pet

by: Grace Maccarone

Summary: Sam is in charge of taking care of the classroom hermit crab over Christmas vacation, but when he turns his back, the crab disappears.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 3 29 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Clean Your Room, Harvey Moon!

by: Pat Cummings

Summary: Harvey Moon's room is a MESS! His mother won't let him watch cartoons until he finishes his Saturday morning cleaning.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 3.3 71195 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 38 430 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Cleopatra

by: Robert Green

Summary: This book presents the life of the Egyptian queen whose dream of controlling most of the known world was never fulfilled even though she was allied to a powerful Roman.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: X 6.6 27125 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 63 4987 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Clever Mr. Brown

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type

by: Doreen Cronin

Summary: When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn, they start making demands and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.3 45430 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 29 403 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One Clifford the Big Red Dog

by: Norman Bridwell

Summary: Emily Elizabeth tells the reader about the dilemmas and delights of having a really big, red dog.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 1.2 6059 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 5 30 236 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Climates

by: Christina Wilsdon

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Closer and Closer

by: Rebel Williams

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 10 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Clouds

by: Kelly Poulsen

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

by: Judi Barrett

Summary: Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow, where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers--until the weather takes a turn for the worse.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 4.3 5463 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 16 32 1231 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Clown Face

by: Miriam Frost

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 5 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Cocoa Commotion

by: Melissa Peterson

Summary: Ben and Maya travel through time to stop the infamous criminal mastermind Carmen Sandiego, who plans to wipe out chocolate by stealing cocoa beans from their most influential points in world history.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 4.2 21713 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 3 138 22377 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Collections

by: Margaret Ballinger

Summary: The children in this story love to collect things. Each child collects something different and carefully organizes his or her collection in a special place. The last child collects just about everything, and the reader has the feeling she will store it just about anywhere!

AR Level: Quiz: Points: E None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 7 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Colorful Animals

by: John Lockyer

Summary: Text and photographs describe how different animals use their color to survive.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 4.5 35099 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 24 1056 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Come Back, Salmon

by: Molly Cone

Summary: Photographic record of how a group of dedicated kids adopted a stream and brought it back to life.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 5.6 8408 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 28 4 6313 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Confucius The Golden Rule

by: Russell Freedman

Summary: This book is an introduction to the life and teachings of Confucius.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: W 7.6 61639 1 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 48 6738 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

by: Rebel Williams

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 8 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Cooking Pot

by: Various

Summary: Rosie and the Big Bad Bear, Lala-she-Bo, The Hobyahs, Michael Finnegan-a song, Hello! What's Your Name?, The Tale of the Cook -a play, Home Cooking, Fly, the Funaways, Possume in a Cherry Tree, How the Turtle Got His Shell.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 48 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Coral Reefs

by: JoAnne Early Macken

Summary: This book describes the animals and plants that live in and around a coral reef. This book describes the animals and plants that live in and around a coral reef.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D 1.6 89948 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 7 24 183 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction Yes None None

Corduroy

by: Don Freeman

Summary: A little girl wants a stuffed bear, but her mother refuses to buy it for her.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 3.5 5464 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 32 704 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One Countdown (a play)

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Cow Up a Tree

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Cowboys of the Wild West

by: Russell Freedman

Summary: Describes in text and illustrations, the duties, clothes, equipment, and day-to-day life of the cowboys who flourished in the west from the 1860's to the 1890's

AR Level: Quiz: Points: X 6.7 24917 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 103 13033 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Crabs

by: Andrew Campbell

Summary: Photographs and text introduces the behaviour, characteristics, and habitats of different types of crab

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Crocodiles

by: Maggie Blake

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 3 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Crocodile's Teeth

by: Janet Slater Redhead

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Daniel's Dinosaurs

by: Mary DeBall Carmine

Summary: Daniel loves dinosaurs until one day his mother takes him to the aquarium to see the sharks.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 2.6 18405 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 25 232 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One

Daniel's Duck

by: Clyde Robert Bulla

Summary: A picture story set in rural Tennessee when people lived in log cabins. Young Daniel carves a wooden duck. When he exhibits his duck at the town fair, people laugh and Daniel is heart- broken.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.0 7362 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 13 64 1186 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Danny and the Dinosaur

by: Syd Hoff

Summary: Danny goes to a museum to see the dinosaurs and ends up spending the day outside with one.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.3 6060 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 64 836 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None Dara's Cambodian New Year

by: Sothea Chiemruom

Summary: Multicultural - A Cambodian American boy remembers the New Year celebration in his native land by painting pictures of it. Encourages awareness and appreciation of Cambodian American cultures.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 23 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Dashing Through the Snow

by: Sherry Shahan

Summary: Presents the history and action of the Junior Iditarod, the annual dogsled race for young people in Alaska, discussing such related topics as dog care, equipment, and technique.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: W 6.4 16763 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 40 2933 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

David's Crows

by: Allen Tobias

Summary: David learns about crows when he's forced to stay at home.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 14 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Davy's Dream

by: Paul Owen Lewis

Summary: Davy dreams of sailing among a pod of wild orca whales. As he embarks on an unforgetta- ble adventure, he learns that dreams pursued can come true.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 3.6 55903 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 63 560 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash

by: Trinka Hakes Noble

Summary: Class trip to the farm turns into a riotous afternoon.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.2 5466 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 32 402 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Day of the Blizzard

by: Marietta Moskin

Summary: Katie must run an important errand for her sick mother in a terrible blizzard.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q 4.0 18714 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 79 9445 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Day the Teacher Went Bananas

by: James Howe

Summary: With the new teacher, there are also new lessons.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H 1.8 16197 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 27 217 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Days with Frog and Toad

by: Arnold Lobel

Summary: Frog and Toad spend their days together but find sometimes it's nice to be alone.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.5 6061 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 11 64 2075 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Dear Mr. Henshaw

by: Paul Zelinsky

Summary: In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q 4.9 24 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 22 148 18145 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Deep Sea Creatures

by: Elizabeth Bennett

Summary: This book is an introduction to deep-sea animals.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.2 127092 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 24 706 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Deserts and Droughts

by: Christina Wilsdon

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

The Devil's Arithmetic

by: Jane Yolen

Summary: Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage, until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Y 4.6 6998 6.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 18 170 38286 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Diary of a Worm

by: Doreen Cronin

Summary: A young worm discovers, day by day, that there are some very good and some not so good things about being a worm in this great big world.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.8 72276 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 36 536 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One

The Difficult Day

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 24 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Digging for Dinosaurs

by: Melvin Berger

Summary: Explains how paleontologists have helped us learn about dinosaurs.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Dinosaur Hunters

by: Kate McMullan

Summary: Describes the work scientists do to find out more about these huge prehistoric animals.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 4.4 6410 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 48 3775 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs

by: Byron Barton

Summary: In prehistoric days, there were many different kinds of dinosaurs, big and small, those with spikes and those with long, sharp teeth.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G 2.9 7214 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 40 96 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction Yes None None

The Diving Bell

by: Todd Strasser

Summary: During the Spanish colonization of Mexico, a young girl invents a diving bell to save her brother and her people.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 12 159 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Do You Love Me?

by: Dick Gackenbach

Summary: The accidental death of a hummingbird helps Walter see that different creatures have different needs and not all of them want to be pets.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 3 48 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Doctor De Soto

by: William Steig

Summary: Dr. De Soto, a dentist mouse, and his wife, who is also his assistant, were not in the habit of treating animals that could be threatening to mice; so when a fox with a very painful toothache showed up at their office, they had quite a decision to make.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 3.6 5511 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 28 1114 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One

The Dog that Pitched a No-Hitter

by: Matt Christopher

Summary: Harry the dog solves his owner's pitching problems.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 3.7 9121 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 42 2086 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Dogs

by: Amy Levin

Summary: Children go to a pet show and demonstrate to the judge all of the things that their dogs can do.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Dogsong

by: Gary Paulsen

Summary: 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.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V 5.2 360 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 14 177 34815 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Dollhouse Murders

by: Betty Ren Wright

Summary: Amy thinks the dolls in her aunt's dollhouse are trying to tell her something about the un- solved murder of her great-grandparents.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 4.3 258 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 14 149 33979 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Dolphin

by: Robert A. Morris

Summary: Describes the birth and the first six months of life of a baby dolphin.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 62 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Dolphins

by: Justin McCoy Martin

Summary: This book introduces the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, and life cycle of the dolphin.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.1 127564 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 24 707 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Dolphin's First Day: The Story of a Bottlenose Dolphin

by: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeldr

Summary: This book describes a baby dolphin's experiences during his first day in the ocean.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N 3.9 52273 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 31 867 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Don't Be Late

by: Akimi Gibson

Summary: Beginning with the mouse telling the cat, by progression the farm animals remind each other not to be late for the dance that day.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D 1.4 31723 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 12 16 112 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One

Don't Tell the Whole World!

by: Joanna Cole

Summary: Knowing that his talkative wife will reveal to the world that he has found a fortune buried on their farm, John arranges an elaborate scheme to insure that she will not be believed.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 32 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Doorbell Rang

by: Pat Hutchins

Summary: Each time the doorbell rings, there are more people who have come to share Ma's wonderful cookies.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 1.9 28791 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 24 282 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None Do-Whacky-Do

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 24 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Down by the Swamp

by: Charlotte Armajo

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories of the Supernatural

by: Robert Louis Stevenson

Summary: A London physician leads a double life when he discovers a drug that alters his appearance and disposition. In addition, stories of the supernatural are included.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Z 7.3 109424 9.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 208 51872 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Dragon (a play)

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Dragon of the Lost Sea

by: Laurence Yep

Summary: Shimmer, a renegade dragon princess, tries to redeem herself by capturing a witch with the help of a human boy.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: W 5.8 7041 6.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 25 211 39281 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Dragon's Gate

by: Laurence Yep

Summary: A young immigrant boy from China joins his father and uncle in helping to build the trans- continental railroad.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: W 5.3 10113 10.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 3 272 66348 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Dragons of Blueland

by: Ruth Stiles Gannett

Summary: Elmer saves the dragon's family from hunters.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 4.9 7712 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 13 87 7783 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Dragonslayers

by: Bruce Coville

Summary: A brave squire, an earnest page, and a strong-willed princess set out, each for individual reasons, to try to slay the dragon created to carry out a witch's revenge.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: U 4.6 14879 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 13 119 17757 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Drinking Gourd

by: F.N. Monjo

Summary: A suspenseful story of a young boy who helps a slave family escape to Canada and to freedom.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.0 259 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 22 62 1886 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm

by: Nancy Farmer

Summary: In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped and put to work in a plastic mine while three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for them.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: W 4.7 11713 12.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 311 84136 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

EEK! There's a Mouse in the House!

by: Wong Herbert Yee

Summary: After discovery of a mouse in the house, larger and larger animals are sent in after one another, with increasingly chaotic results.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C 1.2 84450 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 28 206 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Eency Weency Spider

by: Joanne Oppenheim

Summary: After climbing the water spout, Eency Weency Spider meets Little Miss Muffet, Humpty Dumpty, and Little Jackie Horner.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.5 9661 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 28 349 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Elaine and the Flying Frog

by: Heidi Chang

Summary: Chinese American Elaine Chow feels like an outcast after moving to a small town in Iowa, until she shares a new friendship and science project with a girl strongly interested in frogs.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 3.3 35984 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 62 6533 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Elevator Family

by: Douglas Evans

Summary: The four members of the Wilson family decide to spend their holiday in one of the elevators at the San Francisco Hotel.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 4.0 44961 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 27 87 8562 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Ella Enchanted

by: Gail Carson Leving

Summary: In this novel based on Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: U 4.6 17769 8.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 20 229 52994 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Elmer and the Dragon

by: Ruth Stiles Gannett

Summary: On their way home, Elmer and a flying dragon land on an unusual island and help some canaries uncover a buried treasure.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 4.6 7714 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 12 87 7019 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Emily Loved Yellow

by: Glenda Weston

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Treasure Hunt

by: Donald Sobol

Summary: This text offers ten brain-twisting mysteries that Encyclopedia Brown must solve by using his famous computer-like brain.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 4.4 40626 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 91 10160 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Encyclopedia Brown Solves Them All

by: Donald Sobol

Summary: Leroy 'Encyclopedia' Brown invites the reader to solve ten mysteries. Answers are pro- vided at the back of the book.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 4.2 7719 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 3 96 10193 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Cake!

by: Donald Sobol

Summary: The ten-year-old detective solves "The Case of the Missing Garlic Bread" and other food- related mysteries. Includes menus and recipes for a Fourth-of-July party, a birthday brunch, and other occasions.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 121 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Endless Steppe

by: Esther Hautzig

Summary: During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the harsh Asian steppe.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Y 6.3 361 10.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 24 243 61776 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None The Enormous Egg

by: Olivet Butterworth

Summary: Twelve-year-old Nate Twitchell's hen lays an egg the size of a melon, and the creature that hatches makes world news.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 4.0 609 6.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 188 36933 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Every Morning

by: Rebel Williams

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 8 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Everybody Cooks Rice

by: Norah Dooley

Summary: Anthony is late again and as usual Carrie is sent to find her little brother.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.8 18397 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 27 32 1041 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Fables

by: Arnold Lobel

Summary: This book tells twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from crocodile to ostrich.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 4.2 40318 1 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 41 5455 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No Caldecott 1981 None

Family Fleas

by: Tim Johnson

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 11 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Family Under the Bridge

by: Natalie Savage Carlson

Summary: 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.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T 4.7 467 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 97 17375 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Fantastic Mr. Fox

by: Roald Dahl

Summary: Mr. Fox saves his family and his animal friends when he outsmarts three farmers who are hunting him.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 4.1 5011 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 18 90 9387 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Fast and Funny

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 48 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Fear Place

by: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Summary: When he and his older brother Gordon are left camping alone in the Rocky Mountains, twelve-year-old Doug faces his fear of heights and his feelings about Gordon--with the help of a cou- gar.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V 5.4 11464 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 3 118 29624 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Feast for 10

by: Cathryn Falwell

Summary: Numbers from one to ten are used to tell how members of a family shop and work together to prepare a meal.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 2 32 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One

Ferret in the Bedroom, Lizards in the Fridge

by: Bill Wallace

Summary: Liz fears that all the animals her zoologist father keeps in the house could prevent her from becoming class president.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T 4.4 261 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 26 132 26993 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Fiddle-dee-dee

by: June Melser

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 48 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Fiesta!

by: Beatriz McConnie Zapater

Summary: Multicultural - A Hispanic American family celebrates a fiesta in America. Encourages awareness and appreciation of Hispanic American cultures.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 23 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

The Fight on the Hill

by: Margaret Mahy

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 24 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Finding Animal Tracks

by: David Neufeld

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 11 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Finding Buck McHenry

by: Alfred Slote

Summary: Eleven-year-old Jason, believing the school custodian Mack Henry to be Buck McHenry, a famous pitcher from the old Negro League, tries to enlist him as a coach for his Little League team by revealing his identity to the world.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 3.5 5361 6.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 250 45816 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Fire Cat

by: Esther Averill

Summary: Pickles, a handsome young cat who has yellow fur with black spots, goes to work in the fire department and becomes a famous fire cat.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.9 127318 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 15 64 1650 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

First Test

by: Tamora Pierce

Summary: Ten-year-old Keladry of Mindalen, daughter of nobles, serves as a page, but must prove herself to the males around her if she is ever to fulfill her dream of becoming a knight. Book #1

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V 5.3 44707 8.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 15 228 54853 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Fish Do the Strangest Things

by: Leonora and Arthur Hornblow

Summary: Describes seventeen fish that have peculiar characteristics and habits, including fish that spit, fly, climb trees, blow up like balloons, and sleep out of water.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 3.3 8412 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 64 4201 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction Yes None None

Fishing With Grandpa

by: Rita Partridge

Summary: A young boys learns from his grandpa that fishing is very hard work.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 18 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Fishy Facts

by: Ivan Chermayeff

Summary: Colorful and fun drawings of fish accompany interesting facts about fish.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 38 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Five Brave Explorers

by: Wade Hudson

Summary: This book contains stories about five black American explorers.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 4.4 44195 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 16 48 3176 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Five Funny Frights

by: Judith Bauer Stamper

Summary: A collection of five easy-to-read scary stories with humorous endings, including: "The Skeleton," "The Scream," and "Bloody Fingers."

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.9 9124 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 35 1188 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Five True Dog Stories

by: Margaret Davidson

Summary: An anthology of five dog stories including the story of Barry, the Saint Bernard.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 5 47 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Fledgling

by: Jane Langton

Summary: Georgie's fondest hope, to be able to fly, is fleetingly fulfilled when she is befriended by a Canada goose. Book #4

AR Level: Quiz: Points: U 5.0 114 6.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 182 40081 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Flossie & the Fox

by: Patricia McKissack

Summary: 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.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 3.2 5013 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 32 1537 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Follow My Leader

by: James B. Garfield

Summary: After Jimmy is blinded in an accident, he has to relearn all the things he used to know. Then he's given the chance to have a guide dog and must work harder than he ever has before.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 4.5 47346 6.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 191 44399 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Force and Motion

by: Christina Wilsdon

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: NonFiction No None None

Fossils Tell of Long Ago

by: Aliki

Summary: Explains how fossils are formed and what they tell us about the past.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.6 13815 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 25 32 813 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Fox and Chick

by: Cass Hollander

Summary: A chick invites a fox to his home to chat, only to keep changing the time. The fox keeps coming back, until a dog chases him home.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 26 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Fox on the Job

by: James Marshall

Summary: Fox tries to earn the money for a new bicycle in several different jobs.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.0 7313 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 48 953 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Fraidy Cats

by: Stephen Krensky

Summary: One dark and noisy night the Fraidy Cats let their imaginations run wild, visualizing scary things from wild elephants to hungry wolves.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.0 11171 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 29 491 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Frankenstein

by: Larry Weinberg

Summary: This easy-to-read adaptation of the classic tale by Mary Shelley tells the story of a monster, assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies, who develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and his creator.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 2.8 49406 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 13 94 7606 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Freckle Juice

by: Judy Blume

Summary: Andrew wants freckles more than anything else and uses a "freckle juice" recipe with hilarious results.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.1 262 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 30 47 3318 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Frederick

by: Leo Lionni

Summary: Frederick, an apparently lazy mouse, has a special surprise for the mice who thought he should have been storing up supplies for the winter.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 3.1 6064 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 14 27 517 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Fresh Fall Leaves

by: Betsy Franco

Summary: A boy and a girl play in the fall leaves.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: E 1.5 31721 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 9 16 51 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One Frindle

by: Andrew Clements

Summary: 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.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 5.4 16637 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 20 105 16232 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No Sasquatch 1998 None

Frog and Toad Are Friends

by: Arnold Lobel

Summary: Follow the friendship of Frog and Toad and their adventures in the woods.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.9 6116 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 64 2281 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Frog and Toad Together

by: Arnold Lobel

Summary: Five further adventures of two best friends, Frog and Toad, as they share cookies, plant a garden, and test their bravery.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.9 5467 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 11 64 1942 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None Frog Goes to Dinner

by: Mercer Mayer

Summary: None available

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Frogs

by: Rebel Williams

Summary: None available

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Frogs

by: Carolyn MacLulich

Summary: None available

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by: Norman Yu

Summary: Examines the life cycle of a frog and how it transform from a tadpole to a frog.

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Frog's Lunch

by: Dee Lillegard

Summary: A frog sits patiently on his lilly pad waiting for the fly to come close enough so he can snap it up for lunch.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: E 1.0 31722 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 5 16 90 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

From Seed to Plant

by: Christina Wilsdon

Summary: None available

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by: E.L. Konigsburg

Summary: Claudia and her brother Jamie run away from home and take up residence in the Metro- politan Museum of Art.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 4.7 29 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 162 30906 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No Newbery 1968 None

Fur, Feathers, and Flippers

by: Patricia Lauber

Summary: To survive in the many different environments, animals have developed varied behaviors and abilities. Because of their adaptations, most animals cannot live anywhere else on earth except in their own special areas, or habitats.

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Gentle Annie

by: Mary Francis Shura

Summary: A biography of Anna Blair Etheridge, a nurse during the Civil War, from childhood through her four years of service with the Army of the Potomac.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 5.2 6362 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 184 35799 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None George and Martha One Fine Day

by: James Marshall

Summary: This book contains five episodes in the life of hippo friends George and Martha: "The Tight- rope," "The Diary," "The Icky Story," "The Big Scare," and "The Amusement Park."

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.4 40591 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 12 44 526 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

George Shrinks

by: William Joyce

Summary: Taking care of a cat and a baby brother turns into a series of comic adventures when George wakes up to find himself shrunk to the size of a mouse.

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George the Drummer Boy

by: Nathaniel Benchley

Summary: A young boy in the British Army endures the frightening battles of Lexington and Concorde at the onset of the American Revolution.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 3.3 29748 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 13 61 1044 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None George Washington

by: Amy L. Cohn

Summary: None available

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George Washington's Mother

by: Jean Fritz

Summary: Describes the life of the mother of our first President and her relationship with her children.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 2.5 6215 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 5 48 2262 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

George's Marvelous Medicine

by: Roald Dahl

Summary: What's the only cure for the meanest grandmother in the world? George creates a fierce and fantastic bubbling brew, the perfect cure.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 4.0 10776 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 21 89 11963 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Germs! Germs! Germs!

by: Bobbi Katz

Summary: Rhyming text describes how germs attack the body to cause illness, and how careful people make life difficult for germs.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 1.8 54804 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 38 442 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

The Ghost and the Sausage

by: June Melser

Summary: None available

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Ghost in the Library

by: Michael Pellowski

Summary: Melanie is convinced that Morganville is a dull place until ghostly happenings in the library reveal the town's interesting past.

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by: Joy Cowley

Summary: A story about a pumpkin that grows too big.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.0 11665 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 16 239 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Gingerbread Man (a play)

by: Christine Young

Summary: A play adapted from the traditional tale by Christine Young ; ill by Madeline Beasley.

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The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

by: Roald Dahl

Summary: When Billy joined the Ladderless Cleaning Company, he had no idea what was in store for him.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 4.7 9265 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 79 6702 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Giver

by: Lois Lowry

Summary: 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.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Y 5.7 8568 7.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 180 43617 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes Newbery 1994 None

Glasses For D.W.

by: Marc Brown

Summary: Arthur's little sister wants to wear glasses like her brother and tries to prove she needs them.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G 2.2 65665 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 24 329 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

The Goat Who Couldn't Sneeze

by: Cedilia Avalos

Summary: A goat searches for someone to teach him to sneeze, so he can earn the respect of his herd.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F 2.6 47957 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 24 531 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Goggles!

by: Ezra Jack Keats

Summary: Two boys must outsmart the neighborhood bullies before they can enjoy their new treasure, a pair of motorcycle goggles.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 1.8 45240 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 37 328 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

The Golden Goblet

by: Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Summary: A young Egyptian boy struggles to reveal a hideous crime and reshape his own destiny.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V 6.3 20316 11.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 5 248 67994 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Good Morning, Monday

by: Sheila Keenan

Summary: In this story, adults and children go to work and school on different modes of transporta- tion.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F 1.8 34670 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 16 78 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One Good to Eat

by: Rebel Williams

Summary: None available

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Grandma's Bicycle

by: Ron Bacon

Summary: None available

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Grandma's Stick

by: June Melser

Summary: None available

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by: Christina Wilsdon

Summary: None available

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Grasshopper and Ant

by: Alex Haber

Summary: A happy-go-lucky grasshopper who plays all summer while the ant plants food for winter. When winter finally comes the grasshopper learns that it is best to prepare for the days ahead.

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Grasshopper on the Road

by: Arnold Lobel

Summary: While on a long journey, Grasshopper meets hopeless other creatures except for one worm that is open to change.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.9 7371 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 62 1947 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None The Great Brain

by: John D. Fitzgerald

Summary: The exploits of the Great Brain of Adenville, Utah, are described by his younger brother, frequently the victim of the Great Brain's schemes for gaining prestige or money.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V 5.2 115 7.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 175 47205 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Great Frogs!

by: Kathryn Riley

Summary: Mr. Best, a teacher, encourages his young students to draw all kinds of frogs.

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The Great Kapok Tree

by: Lynne Cherry

Summary: The many different animals that live in a great kapok tree in the Brazilian rainforest try to convince a man with an ax of the importance of not cutting down their home.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 3.8 6216 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 5 30 911 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Great Outdoors

by: Linda Hartley

Summary: None available

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The Great Time Travel Ride

by: Rober and Anne O'Brian

Summary: None available

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The Green Dragon

by: Belinda M. Thompson

Summary: None available

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by: Karen Anderson

Summary: None available

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Grizzly and the Bumble-bee

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: Simple text and illustrations about bears and Bumble bees for early readers.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Grizzwold

by: Syd Hoff

Summary: Grizzwold must find a new home now that loggers have cut down the forest.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 2.0 7316 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 16 64 602 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None Growing Vegetable Soup

by: Lois Ehlert

Summary: Big book edition of the popular children's story. Shows vegetables being planted, growing, and used to make delicious soup.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C 2.0 9569 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 17 32 108 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Gulliver's Stories

by: Edward W. Dolch

Summary: Designed for younger readers of the classics, "Gulliver's Stories" is based on Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", the hilarious and incredible adventures of a man who finds himself first as a feared giant in the world of tiny people of Lilliput, and then as a man of minuscule proportions in a country full of giants. AR Level: Quiz: Points: X None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 166 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Gumby Shop

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

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by: A. Delaney

Summary: A little girl wanders into the woods to pick flowers and meets the dreaded Gunnywolf.

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The Haircut

by: Susan Hartley

Summary: A little boy lets his sister cut his hair. When she is finished, he gets a big surprise.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 11 9 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Half Magic

by: Edward Eager

Summary: Four children spending their summer in a city apartment enjoy a series of fantastic adventures by double-wishing on an ancient coin.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 5.0 471 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 21 217 35849 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Halloween Performance

by: Felicia Bond

Summary: Roger plays a small but important part in the school Halloween play.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 7 22 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Hamid's Surprise

by: Donna Lugg Pape

Summary: None available

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Hank and Lin

by: Stu Goodwin

Summary: Hank and Lin help each other to discover things about themselves.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 17 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Happy Birthday, Danny and the Dinosaur!

by: Syd Hoff

Summary: Danny and the dinosaur celebrate their birthdays together.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H 1.9 44313 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 32 278 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Happy Birthday, Dr. King!

by: Kathryn Jones

Summary: Multicultural - Jamal uses his own experience and his knowledge of the Montgomery bus boycott to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday at his school.

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Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King

by: Jean Marzollo

Summary: A simple and moving introduction to the civil rights leader's life and to the holiday that hon- ors his legacy.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 4.2 7571 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 27 593 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Happy Birthday, Moon

by: Frank Asch

Summary: When a bear discovers that the moon shares his birthday, he buys the moon a beautiful hat as a present.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 2.6 5515 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 26 445 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

The Hare and the Tortoise

by: Judith Bittinger

Summary: None available

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Harold's ABC

by: Crockett Johnson

Summary: Harold takes a trip to the moon and comes home again simply by drawing his way through the letters of the alphabet with a purple crayon.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 64 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Harry and Friends in the Old West

by: Suzy Kline

Summary: None available

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Harry and Larry the Fishermen

by: Richard Scarry

Summary: On their daily boating excursion to catch fish for the rest of the Cat family, Uncle Harry and Uncle Larry see other animal neighbors and have some exciting adventures.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 32 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Harry and Willy and Carrothead

by: Judith Caseley

Summary: Three boys overcome prejudicial ideas about appearances and become friends.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Harry Houdini: Master of Magic

by: Robert Kraske

Summary: This is an exciting biography of the best-known magician in the world, Harry Houdini.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 4.7 34984 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 14 72 8920 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Harry in Trouble

by: Barbara Ann Porte

Summary: Harry is upset about losing his library card three times in a row, but feels better when he learns that his father and his friend Dorcas sometimes lose things.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.7 59510 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 46 1387 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Harry's House

by: Angela Shelf Medearis

Summary: A girl and her mother build a house for her dog, Harry.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F 1 31707 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 16 84 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One Hatchet

by: Gary Paulsen

Summary: After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends 54 days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given to him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 5.7 367 7.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 195 42328 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Hats Around the World

by: Liza Charlesworth

Summary: Big or small, plain or fancy short or tall! The text and colorful photographs in this story con- trast different kinds of hats worn by people around the world.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: B None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 14 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Hats, Hats, Hats

by: Ann Morris

Summary: Introduces a variety of hats, from soft and hard hats to snuggly and hooded hats.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 36 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Hatupatu and the Birdwoman

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 16 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Haunted Cabin Mystery

by: Gertrude Chandler Warner

Summary: 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.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 4 5320 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 1 121 17298 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Have You Seen My Duckling?

by: Nancy Tafuri

Summary: When a duckling wanders away, its mother and her seven other duckling search for it. The fish and the beaver and the frog haven't seen her duckling. But on every page, readers who look closely will be able to spot it.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 23 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Helen Keller

by: Margaret Davidson

Summary: This is the biography of Helen Keller, who overcame many obstacles related to her blind- ness and deafness.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.9 34985 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 19 95 8946 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Helicopter Over Hawaii

by: Rebel Williams

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 9 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Hello, My Name is Scrambled Eggs

by: Jamie Gilson

Summary: 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.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 4.0 265 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 159 30502 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Help Me

by: June Melser

Summary: None available

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The Hen Sat

by: Kathryn Lewis

Summary: The hen sits on her nest despite several distractions.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: B None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 18 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Henny Penny

by: H. Werner Zimmermann

Summary: Henny Penny and her friends are on their way to tell the king that the sky is falling when they meet a hungry fox.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 28 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One Henry and Mudge and the Happy Cat

by: Cynthia Rylant

Summary: Henry's family takes in a stray cat, the ugliest cat they have ever seen, and an amazing relationship blossoms between it and their big dog Mudge.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.7 6119 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 48 904 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Henry and Mudge and the Wild Wind

by: Cynthia Rylant

Summary: Henry and his big dog Mudge try to keep busy inside the house during a thunderstorm.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.3 9477 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 3 40 782 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Henry and Mudge In Puddle Trouble

by: Cynthia Rylant

Summary: For Henry and his big dog Mudge, Spring means admiring the first snow glory, playing in puddles in the rain, and watching the five new kittens next door.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.5 7320 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 16 48 1293 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None Henry and Ribsy

by: Beverly Cleary

Summary: Henry Huggins and his dog, Ribsy, go fishing and end up as wet as the huge salmon they try to catch.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 4.6 417 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 25 192 23383 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Herbie Jones Reader's Theater

by: Suzy Kline

Summary: A collection of twenty-one episodes from four Herbie Jones novels, adapted into scripts for reading aloud.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 177 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Here's to Hats

by: John Parker

Summary: Text and photographs describe different types of hats and their uses.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 3.4 32391 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 540 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Herman Henry's Dog

by: Ada Evelyn

Summary: Herman Henry makes some adjustments when he wants a dog on the family farm.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 1.7 44453 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 16 317 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Hiccups for Hippo

by: Jenny Keal

Summary: None available

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Hide and Seek

by: Roberta Brown

Summary: In this story, Miguel and his friends play hide and seek in the house. The coauthor is Sue Carey.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D 0.8 34661 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 12 16 64 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One Hill of Fire

by: Thomas P. Lewis

Summary: An easy-to-read account of the birth of Paricutin volcano in the field of a poor Mexican farmer.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.9 7374 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 26 63 1101 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Holes

by: Louis Sachar

Summary: 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.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V 4.6 28081 7.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 55 233 47079 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes Newbery 1999 None

Hooray for Snail!

by: John Stadler

Summary: Slow Snail hits the ball so hard during a baseball game that it flies to the moon and back. Will Snail have time to slide in for a home run?

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F 0.9 58958 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 38 114 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Horrible Harry and the Ant Invasion

by: Suzy Kline

Summary: Horrible Harry of classroom 2B cuts back on his mischievous pranks after falling for Song Lee.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 3.1 6270 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 4 56 4432 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Horrible Harry and the Christmas Surprise

by: Suzy Kline

Summary: When their teacher ends up in the hospital, the members of class 2B find a way to include her in their holiday celebration.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.9 6271 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 54 3799 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Horrible Harry and the Drop of Doom

by: Suzy Kline

Summary: 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.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.8 20023 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 20 58 4265 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None Horrible Harry and the Dungeon

by: Suzy Kline

Summary: 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.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 3.1 15298 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 58 4511 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Horrible Harry and the Kickball Wedding

by: Suzy Kline

Summary: As Valentine's Day approaches, the students in room 2B are preoccupied with the kickball and a possible wedding between Horrible Harry and Song Lee.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.9 20024 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 52 3238 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Horrible Harry and the Purple People

by: Suzy Kline

Summary: Horrible Harry returns to the spotlight with the purple people, mysterious beings that only he can see.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.9 18725 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 53 3228 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None The Horrible Thing with Hairy Feet

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 24 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Horror at the Haunted House

by: Peg Kehret

Summary: A fast-paced ghost story as two kids try to solve the mystery of a haunted mansion.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: W 5.2 8529 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 132 32665 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

How Do Seeds Travel?

by: Isabella Masani

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 12 179 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None How Far Will I Fly?

by: Sachi Oyama

Summary: A boy asks his mother many questions about growing up.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F 0.9 31717 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 13 16 95 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One

How Have I Grown?

by: Mary Reid

Summary: A young girl describes the ways she has changed from the time she was a baby until she goes to kindergarten.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 7 32 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One

How I Became a Pirate

by: Melinda Long

Summary: Jeremy Jacob joins Braid Beard and his pirate crew and finds out about pirate language, pirate manners, and other aspects of their life.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N 3.1 71622 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 32 958 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One How Machines Help

by: John Sheridan

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 143 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

How Many Days to America?

by: Eve Bunting

Summary: Refugees from a Caribbean island embark on a dangerous boat trip to America, where they have a special reason to celebrate Thanksgiving.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 3.1 18678 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 23 32 1016 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

How Much is That Guinea Pig in the Window?

by: Joanne Rocklin

Summary: Mr. Day's fourth-grade class has a contest, recycling bottles and cans so that they will have enough money to buy a guinea pig.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.6 17320 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 44 1864 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None How Plants Survive

by: Kathleen V. Kudinski

Summary: In this book readers will learn how plants compete with one another for sunshine, wage battles for water, and struggle to protect their own patch of soil.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N None 66607 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 1186 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None One

How the Moon Got in the Sky

by: Judith Bittinger

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: E None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 8 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

How to Ride a Giraffe

by: Alice Cary

Summary: This book describes the steps involved in riding a giraffe.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 1.6 44455 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 16 218 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None How Will the Easter Bunny Know

by: Kay Winters

Summary: Mike, who will be spending Easter at his grandmother's apartment, worries that the Easter Bunny will not know where to find him.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N 2.6 30630 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 48 1272 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Howling Hill

by: Will Hobbs

Summary: While separated from her family in the wilderness area along the Nahanni River, a wolf pup discovers that she can express her loneliness in a long, loud howl.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.8 29206 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 32 1437 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Humpity-Bump!

by: Joelle Murphy

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 14 8 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Hundred Dresses

by: Eleanor Estes

Summary: In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 5.4 42 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 27 80 7329 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Hundred Penny Box

by: Sharon Mathis

Summary: 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.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q 3.9 320 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 30 47 5878 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Hungry Monster

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Hurricanes!

by: Lorraine Jean Hopping

Summary: This book discusses where hurricanes come from, what types there are, and what can be done during one.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 3.8 34936 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 15 48 1882 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

I Am

by: Adria Klein

Summary: A girl tells about all of the things that she likes to do in a day.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

I Am an Apple

by: Jean Marzollo

Summary: This book depicts a bud on an apple tree as it grows into an apple, ripens, is harvested, and provides seeds as a promise for the future

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G 1 58853 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 28 166 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None I am Sam

by: John Shefelbine

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 5 30 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

I Can't Said the Ant

by: Polly Cameron

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 13 36 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

I Don't Care

by: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

Summary: A young boy discovers that denying his grief doesn't make it disappear.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 1 32 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None I Hate My Bow!

by: Hans Wilhelm

Summary: A furious and embarrassed little dog hates the frilly bow his owners have put on his head and wishes he could go play in the mud with the other dogs.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G 0.6 55667 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 29 73 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

I Have a Dream: The Story of Martin Luther King

by: Margaret Davidson

Summary: This book is a brief biography detailing the major achievements of the leader who worked for equal rights for African Americans.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q 4.8 88649 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 127 16089 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

I Like

by: Gay Su Pinnell

Summary: A boy tell the different things he likes to do from the time he wakes up until it's time for bed.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 5 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None I Like Cats

by: Peggy Kahn

Summary: Jan explains to her friend Pat how she came up with the names for her cats.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 22 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

I Like Shapes

by: Shane Armstrong

Summary: "The world is full of shapes. What shapes do you like best? See if you can find the shapes you like in this story."

AR Level: Quiz: Points: B None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 17 7 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

I Love Animals

by: Flora McDonnell

Summary: This book presents a contented dog waiting to be petted, a happy goat scampering free of its tether across the field, a large sow delightedly suckling its piglets, and a host of other barnyard residents.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D 1.3 47721 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 6 6 92 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None I Love Mud and Mud Loves Me

by: Vicki Stephens

Summary: Sam loves mud and jam and all sorts of things that make him dirty and messy.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D 1.6 31695 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 13 16 122 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One

I See A Bug

by: Kirsten Hall

Summary: A young boy invites a bug he finds at the front door to come into his house, but it is soon followed by many more until he finally has to make them return outside. Includes flash cards.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 33 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

I Shop with My Daddy

by: Grace Maccarone

Summary: A father and his young daughter go up and down the aisles of a supermarket selecting gro- ceries

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G 0.7 41860 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 5 29 131 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None I Was Walking Down the Road

by: Sarah E. Barchas

Summary: A little girl takes a walk and every animal or insect she sees, she catches and puts in a cage; however at the end of the story she lets all of them go.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 30 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Ian and the Seed

by: Delores Lowe Friedman

Summary: Ian was given a seed from his grandma. He watches it grow and then plants it outside.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 17 8 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Iceberg Hermit

by: Arthur Roth

Summary: Shipwrecked in 1757 on an iceberg in the Arctic seas with only an orphaned polar bear cub for companionship, seventeen-year-old Allan begins a seemingly hopeless struggle for survival.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: X 6.4 5272 8.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 5 219 48959 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None If the Dinosaurs Came Back

by: Bernard Most

Summary: A small boy imagines a world in which dinosaurs perform beneficial public services.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H 2.9 7225 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 38 271 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

If You Give a Moose a Muffin

by: Laura Joffe Numeroff

Summary: Chaos can ensue if you give a moose a muffin and start him on a cycle of urgent requests.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.4 6072 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 22 32 306 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

If You Grew Up With George Washington

by: Ruth Belov Gross

Summary: Describes life in Virginia in the 1730's and 1740's, how people spent their time, worked, what they ate, etc., and what George Washington would have done growing up.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 4.6 24918 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 64 4577 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None If You Lived at the Time of the Great San Francisco Earthquake

by: Ellen Levine

Summary: Told from a child's perspective, this book depicts the earthquake of 1906 that shattered San Francisco.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q 5.1 18477 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 16 64 6678 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

If you Lived in Colonial Times

by: Ann McGovern

Summary: Through a question-and-answer format, the major aspects of everyday life in colonial America are seen through the eyes of children living in that period.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 4.1 18478 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 80 6326 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

If You Lived in the Alaska Territory

by: Nancy Smiler Levinson

Summary: This book discusses daily life in the Alaska Territory in the early 1900s, especially for Inuit peoples.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q 5.0 112781 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 79 6646 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None If You Lived with the Iroquois

by: Ellen Levine

Summary: This book describes what everyday life was like for the Iroquois Indians.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q 5.9 75275 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 80 9173 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

I'm a Caterpillar

by: Jean Marzollo

Summary: This book follows the life cycle of a caterpillar through the changing seasons.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G 0.9 55668 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 15 32 85 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction Yes None None

I'm a Seed

by: Jean Marzollo

Summary: This story follows the life cycle of a seed to a plant through the changing seasons.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G 1 55669 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 29 181 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction Yes None None I'm Hungry

by: Judy Tuer

Summary: A baby monkey is hungry. As it looks for food, the rest of the family decide they are hungry too. Soon they make pizza, cupcakes, popcorn, and sandwiches and decide to have a party.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

I'm Not Who You Think I am

by: Peg Kehret

Summary: Thirteen-year-old Ginger becomes the target of a disturbed woman who believes that Gin- ger is her dead daughter.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V 4.6 29379 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 154 28296 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Imani's Gift at Kwanzaa

by: Denise Burden-Patmon

Summary: Multicultural - This book is a good introduction to Kwanza for children and yes adults too. It explains the meaning of Kwanza, The symbols, and the terminolgy associated with this cultural festival.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 23 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Imogene's Antlers

by: David Small

Summary: One Thursday, Imogene wakes up with a pair of antlers growing out of her head and causes a sensation wherever she goes.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.6 5517 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 15 26 291 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

In My Backyard

by: John DeVries

Summary: A little boy who finds a frog, brings him home to live with his dog Rover in the dog house, and the three of them have lots of fun playing together in the backyard.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A 1.9 31733 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 6 28 165 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One

In the Barrio

by: Alma Flor Ada

Summary: Many interesting and colorful things happen each day in the neighborhood.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One In the City

by: Susana Pasternac

Summary: A park in the city is a place to discover many wonderful things, such as a playground, a garden, and a nest in a tree.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C 1.2 34662 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 9 16 47 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

In the Deep

by: Mary Kay Carson

Summary: Discusses the various plant and animal life that can be found in the deep sea, including the flashlight fish, gulper eel, and viper fish and what unique qualities help them survive in the cold dark waters of the ocean.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 None Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

In the Forest

by: Melissa Schiller

Summary: This patterned book asks the reader, "What do you see?" Each illustration is a puzzle piece of an animal in a forest. The last page shows a whole picture of the forest.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: B None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None In the Forest

by: Rebel Williams

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 8 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

by: Bette Lord

Summary: 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.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 4.6 229 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 169 26776 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Incident at Hawk's Hill

by: Allan Eckert

Summary: Set in 1870, this story about a boy and a badger is based on an actual incident.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V 7.2 119 9.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 25 191 51061 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Incredible Journey

by: Sheila Burnford

Summary: Three house pets migrate through the wilderness to find their family

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V 7.6 230 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 145 30851 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison

by: Lois Lenski

Summary: Authentic reconstruction of Mary Jemison's capture and life with the Seneca Indians.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T 5.4 10881 10.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 23 298 65304 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Indian in the Cupboard

by: Lynne Reid Banks

Summary: A young boy discovers that his magic cupboard and key can turn toys into live people and animals.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 4.6 231 6.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 229 44004 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Insect Lives

by: Melvin Berger

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Insects

by: Carolyn MacLulich

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 22 16 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Inventors From DaVinci to Biro

by: Straun Reid

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: W None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 47 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Invincible Louisa

by: Cornelia Meigs

Summary: The true story of Louisa May Alcott, the author of "Little Women."

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Z 8.0 17820 10.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 5 241 55156 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No Newbery 1934 None

Invisible

by: Janet Slater Redhead

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Is it Time?

by: Jane Campbell

Summary: A little girl can't wait to go on a trip. She keeps trying to wake up her family to see if it is time to leave. When everyone is ready to go, she has fallen asleep.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 18 8 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Is There Life in Outer Space?

by: Franklyn M. Branley

Summary: An illustrated introduction to the concept of life on other planets.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 3.5 13818 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 19 32 776 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: NonFiction No None None

Is Tomorrow My Birthday?

by: Wendy Blaxland

Summary: Tom is very anxious for his birthday to arrive. Each day he asks his parents, "Is Tomorrow My Birthday?" and each day his parents tell him what day of the week it is and that it is not yet Satur- day, the day of his birthday.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: E None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 8 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Is Your Mama a Llama?

by: Deborah Guarino

Summary: A young llama asks his friends if their mamas are llamas and finds out, in rhyme, that their mothers are other types of animals.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G 1.6 6121 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 27 344 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One The Island of the Blue Dolphins

by: Scott O'Dell

Summary: This book portrays the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast when her tribe emigrated and she was left behind.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V 5.4 45 6.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 11 181 40531 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No Newbery 1961 None

Itchy, Itchy Chicken Pox

by: Grace Maccarone

Summary: Spunky rhythm and peppy rhymes in a lively story that shows how to deal with chicken pox.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F 0.7 31613 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 18 30 131 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One

It's a Perfect Day

by: Abigail Pizer

Summary: A rooster, a pig, a cow, and many other farm animals enjoy a perfect day in the country. Uses rebuses.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 17 20 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None It's Mine

by: Leo Lionni

Summary: Three selfish frogs quarrel over who owns their pond and island, until a storm makes them value the benefits of sharing.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 2.7 36004 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 5 30 405 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

It's Super to Be Six!

by: Various

Summary: From Now we are six / by A. A. Milne -- From Danny and the dinosaur / by Syd Hoff -- From Nate the great / by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat -- From Sparky and Eddie: the first day of school / by Tony Johnston -- Training wheels / by Kathryn Cristaldi

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 56 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Itsy Bitsy Spider

by: Iza Trapani

Summary: The itsy bitsy spider encounters a fan, a mouse, a cat, and a rocking chair as she makes her way to the top of a tree to spin her web.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F 2.7 40905 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 36 426 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None J.T.

by: Jane Wagner

Summary: J.T., the kid everyone said had "gone bad," finds an alley cat to love.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q 4.6 478 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 124 9506 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Jacket I Wear in the Snow

by: Shirley Neitzel

Summary: A young girl names all the clothes that she must wear to play in the snow.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 32 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Jackie Robinson and the Story of All-Black Baseball

by: Jim O'Connor

Summary: Presents a biography of the first black baseball player to play in the major leagues when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Also traces the history of all-black baseball teams

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N 4.1 6425 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 16 48 4408 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Jack-in-the-Box

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 8 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Jack-O- Lantern

by: Miriam Frost

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: B None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Jamaica's Find

by: Juanita Havill

Summary: A little girl finds a stuffed dog in the park and decides to take it home.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.6 10526 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 7 32 776 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None Jamberry

by: Bruce Degen

Summary: A little boy walking in the forest meets a big lovable bear that takes him on a delicious berry-picking adventure in the magical world of Berryland.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 32 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One

Jane Goodall and the Chimps

by: Vanessa Marchetti

Summary: An introductory biography of Jane Goodall and her study of chimpanzees in Tanzania, East Africa.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 295 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Jenny's Faraway Family

by: Delores Friedman

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 13 16 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Jessie's Flower

by: Ron Bacon

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

John & Abigail Adams

by: Judith St. George

Summary: This book presents the partnership between John Adams, the second President of the United States, and his wife, Abigail, well known for speaking out on women's rights.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V 7.8 54936 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 147 27529 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Josie Cleans Up

by: Deborah Eaton

Summary: Josie cleans up her room so she can go to the movies with her mom.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 1.5 44457 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 16 211 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty

by: Ellen Emerson White

Summary: An eighteen-year-old Marine records in a journal his experiences in Vietnam during the siege of Khe Sanh, 1967-1968.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: W 5.9 59356 7.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 188 44282 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Journey to Jo'burg

by: Beverley Naidoo

Summary: Separated from their mother by the harsh social and economic conditions prevalent among blacks in South Africa, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother make a journey over 300 kilo- meters to find her in Johannesburg.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 4.6 369 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 28 80 10547 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Julian, Dream Doctor

by: Ann Cameron

Summary: Julian and Huey try to find the perfect birthday gift for Dad with amusing results.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N 2.9 667 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 28 70 6266 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None Julie of the Wolves

by: Jean Craighead George

Summary: Common sense and courage enable a young Eskimo girl to survive when she becomes lost in the Arctic wild.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: U 5.8 49 6.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 15 170 36049 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No Newbery 1973 None

Jump, Frog, Jump

by: Robert Kalan

Summary: This is a cumulative tale in which a frog tries to catch a fly without getting caught itself.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.5 43248 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 32 296 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One

Jump, Jill, Jump

by: Kay Winters

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 8 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business

by: Barbara Park

Summary: Junie is pretty upset about her new baby brother; but when she finally sees him, she goes ape.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 2.9 6323 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 68 6603 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky Peeky Spying

by: Barbara Park

Summary: Junie spies on her teacher and gets into real trouble.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 2.9 14676 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 66 6059 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Junie B. Jones Has a Monster Under Her Bed

by: Barbara Park

Summary: After hearing from a classmate at kindergarten that people have monsters under their beds, Junie B. Jones is afraid to go to sleep.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 2.7 17570 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 69 6009 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None Junie B. Jones has a Peep in Her Pocket

by: Barbara Park

Summary: 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.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 2.9 44907 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 3 67 5836 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook

by: Barbara Park

Summary: Junie B. Jones experiences glee while showing off her new, furry mittens in kindergarten, but disaster strikes when her mittens disappear.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.0 17572 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 1 67 5434 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln

by: Jean Fritz

Summary: An easy-to-read story about Lincoln's famous speech.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N 2.9 8423 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 48 1744 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Just a Seed

by: Wendy Blaxland

Summary: A girl tosses and apple seed out of the window, with the comment, "Just a Seed." Nature takes over and the seed becomes a seedling, a sapling, a tree with flowers, and finally an apple tree. The apples are eaten and the seeds are again tossed out of the window with the same comment with which the story began - "Just a Seed." AR Level: Quiz: Points: E None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 7 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Just Grandma and Me

by: Mercer Mayer

Summary: Little Critter and his grandmother spend a day at the beach.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 1.9 36421 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 24 186 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Just Like Me

by: June Melser

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 48 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Just So Stories

by: Rudyard Kipling

Summary: This book creates the magical enchantment of the dawn of the world, when animals could talk and think like people.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Z 6.4 20231 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 190 33373 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Kangaroos

by: Carloyn MacLulich

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 14 16 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Karen's Island

by: Andrew Clements

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 11 16 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Kate Shelley and Midnight Express

by: Margaret K. Wetterer

Summary: The true story of a young girl who raced through a storm to warn the station of a coming train.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.3 6005 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 28 48 1556 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Katy and the Big Snow

by: Virginia Lee Burton

Summary: Katy, a brave and untiring tractor, who pushes a bulldozer in the summer and a snowplow in the winter, makes it possible for the townspeople to do their jobs.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.9 19575 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 36 707 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie

by: Peter Roop

Summary: In the winter of 1856, a storm delays the lighthouse keeper's return to an island off the coast of Maine, and his daughter Abbie must keep the lights burning by herself. The coauthor is Con- nie Roop.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.2 668 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 40 1152 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction Yes None None Kenny and the Little Kickers

by: Claudio Marzollo

Summary: Although he feels shy and out of place on the playing field, Kenny agrees to try soccer.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 28 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Kid in the Red Jacket

by: Barbara Park

Summary: 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.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 3.9 178 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 113 21227 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Kid Power

by: Susan Beth Pfeffer

Summary: Eleven-year-old Janie advertises to do odd jobs in her neighborhood and receives so much business, she hires her friends and becomes manager of the Kid Power Agency.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 4.1 7676 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 5 121 28050 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Kids in Ms. Coleman's Class: Snow War

by: Ann Martin

Summary: The kids in class start by building snow forts and throwing snowballs, but the snowball fights turn mean. Snowball fights on the playground turn mean, and Ian trys to stop them.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 82 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

King Arthur

by: Howard Pyle

Summary: Relates how Arthur became a king, married Guinevere, and suffered his downfall through treachery.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: U None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 47 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The King of Show-and-Tell

by: Abby Klein

Summary: Envious because Robbie always brings the most exciting things to school for show-and- tell, Freddy rescues a baby bird that has fallen from its nest and has to find a way to get it to school without his mother or teacher noticing. Book #2

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 3.1 83157 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 95 5719 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None King of the Birds

by: Shirley Climo

Summary: When chaos reigns among the birds, Owl declares a contest to determine who will be their king.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 32 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Kissing Hand

by: Audrey Penn

Summary: When Chester the raccoon is reluctant to go to kindergarten for the first time, his mother teaches him a secret way to carry her love with him.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 2.7 30793 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 28 492 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One

Kites

by: Bettina Ling

Summary: Simple text and illustrations show children flying different colored kites in the sky.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: E 1.6 27420 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 7 16 43 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One Knights of the Round Table

by: Gwen Gross

Summary: This is a retelling of the exploits of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 2.8 83151 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 109 11288 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Korean Children's Day

by: Ruth Suyenaga

Summary: Multicultural - A young Korean-American describes traditional activities that are a part of Children's Day in Korea, including the game yut, foods, a song and drum dance, and Tae Kwon Do

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 23 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: NonFiction No None None

Lad, a Dog: Lad to the Rescue

by: Margo Lundell

Summary: Having befriended a young girl who is unable to walk, Lad risks his life to save her from a poisonous snake. This story is based on the book by Albert Payson Terhune.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 3.2 40717 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 46 1437 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Lady With the Alligator Purse

by: Nadine Westcott

Summary: The old jump rope/nonsense rhyme features an ailing young Tiny Tim.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 12 22 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Laila's Wedding

by: Kaleel Sakakeeny

Summary: Multicultural - Amal is excited by the happenings surrounding the traditional Syrian Ameri- can wedding of her sister Laila.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 23 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: NonFiction No None None

Last One in is a Rotten Egg

by: Leonard Kessler

Summary: After Freddy is pushed into deep water by a couple of toughs, he decides to learn to swim.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.0 16868 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 64 1371 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Leaves

by: Christina Wilsdon

Summary: Spring leaves -- A leaf grows -- A leaf makes food -- Getting air, water, and light -- Sugar water -- Summer leaves -- Autumn leaves -- Falling leaves -- Evergreen leaves -- A world of leaves -- Glossary.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

The Legend of the Bluebonnet

by: Tomie DePaola

Summary: Luminous paintings capture the essence of a favorite Indian tale of a courageous small girl in the land now called Texas.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 4.2 5476 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 28 803 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Legs

by: Miriam Frost

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 10 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Legs

by: Rachel Gosset

Summary: This concept book counts legs. Through simple text and pictures it tells that some animals have no legs and others have many.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 18 7 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Lemming Condition

by: Alan Arkin

Summary: A young lemming is haunted by doubts about the purpose of the great march westward to the sea.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q 4.3 276 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 58 8951 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Lesson

by: Pat Cummings

Summary: Linda teaches her friend to dance.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F 1.3 31706 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 16 134 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One Let Me In

by: June Melser

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 48 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Let's Get the Rhythm

by: Anne Miranda

Summary: Five friends play the Let's Get the Rhythm game, as adapted from a chant.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D 1.2 34666 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 7 16 133 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One

Let's Go on a Museum Hunt

by: Francie Alexander

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 31 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Letters from Rifka

by: Karen Hesse

Summary: Rifka and her family flee the pogroms in Russia in 1919 and cross the Atlantic to land on Ellis Island.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 4.2 8533 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 23 147 28448 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Life and Words of Martin Luther King Jr.

by: Ira Peck

Summary: In words and pictures, this is the story of Martin Luther King, Jr.--his life and tragic death.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V 5.2 34982 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 103 15780 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Life in a Coral Reef

by: Melvin Berger

Summary: None available

by: George Huxley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 371 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Life in the Polar Lands

by: Monica Byles

Summary: This book depicts the animals, people and plant life found in the north and south poles.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T 6.3 29455 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 32 3189 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Life on the African Savannah

by: Melvin Berger

Summary: The grasses and herds of animals are predominant on the savannahs of Africa, but there are also other types of life in this region.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Light

by: Rebel Williams

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 8 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Light and Color

by: Christina Wilsdon

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

The Light at Tern Rock

by: Julia Sauer

Summary: Ronnie and his aunt take care of the lighthouse while the keeper is on vacation, and when he does not return as expected, they discover Tern Rock is a perfect place to spend Christmas. Origi- nally published in "The Horn Book" as THE LIGHT AT CHRISTMAS.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N 4.8 109160 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 62 6109 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Lighthouse Mystery

by: Gertrude Chandler Warner

Summary: Renting a lighthouse is unusual, but even more so is an unfriendly boy's peculiar behavior.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 3.2 5308 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 1 128 17163 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Lincoln: A Photobiography

by: Russell Freedman

Summary: Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V 7.7 238 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 4 150 28244 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No Newbery 1988 None

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

by: C.S. Lewis

Summary: Aslan, the noble lion, frees Narnia from the spell of the White Witch. Book #1

AR Level: Quiz: Points: W 5.7 52 6.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 189 36363 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Lions at Lunchtime

by: Mary Pope Osboure

Summary: 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. Book #11

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.0 18727 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 70 5313 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Little Bear

by: Else Holmelund Minarik

Summary: Little Bear's four adventures include taking a trip to the moon and having a birthday party.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.4 6279 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 11 64 1630 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Little Bear's Visit

by: Else Holmelund Minarik

Summary: Charmingly depicts Little Bear's delight in visiting his grandparents.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.3 7326 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 64 1428 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None Little Brother's Haircut

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 16 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Little Chick's Friend Duckling

by: Mary DeBall Kwitz

Summary: While wondering if they will remain best friends after Broody Hen's six eggs hatch, Little Chick and Duckling investigate several big, scary things on the farm.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 30 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Little Fish that Got Away

by: Bernadine Cook

Summary: Persistence pays off and faith is rewarded in this old fisherman's tale of a little boy who goes fishing every day, but never catches any fish.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 2.8 86776 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 64 890 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Little House

by: Virginia Burton

Summary: Beautifully illustrated story of a little house threatened by progress when tall buildings en- velop the countryside.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 4.2 5230 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 40 1388 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No Caldecott 1943 None

The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear

by: Don Wood

Summary: Little Mouse worries that the big, hungry bear will take his freshly picked, ripe, red strawberry for himself. The coauthor is Audrey Wood.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 1.5 106243 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 32 148 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Little One Inch

by: Akimi Gibson

Summary: A Japanese couple wish for a child and find a tiny boy who grows up to be no bigger than an inch.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.9 31734 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 16 388 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One Little Polar Bear and the Brave Little Hare

by: Hans de Beer

Summary: A polar bear comes to the rescue of a snow rabbit.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.2 10673 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 45 998 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Little Red Hen

by: Judith Bittinger

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: E None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 8 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Little Red Hen

by: Lucinda McQueen

Summary: The little red hen teaches her friends a lesson when they will not help her make bread.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 2.9 39898 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 32 686 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One The Little Red Hen (a play)

by: Christine Young

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Little Sister

by: Robin Mitchell

Summary: A boy tells of his problem. His little toys have been broken, as it turns out, by his little sister!

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 7 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Littles

by: John Peterson

Summary: The Littles, tiny people who live within the walls of the Biggs' house, fear mice.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 3.3 5231 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 15 80 7230 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Littles and the Big Blizzard

by: Teddy Slater

Summary: During a blizzard, a tiny family with a baby on the way anxiously awaits the arrival of the nurse, Aunt Lily. This book is adapted from LITTLES TO THE RESCUE by John Peterson.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.5 55259 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 32 596 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Littles and the Lost Children

by: John Peterson

Summary: An exciting adventure about people who are no more than six inches tall.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 4.2 7736 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 14 112 13524 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Littles to the Rescue

by: John Peterson

Summary: There was a surprise for the Littles and Stubby Speck when they finally got to the end of the trail.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.6 20030 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 12 94 10443 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Living Things Need Water

by: Sharon Street

Summary: The front inside cover includes discussion and activity questions.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 26 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Llama Pajamas

by: Susan Clymer

Summary: When Sarah and her parents go hiking in the mountains with two huge, shaggy beasts, it's the adventure of their lives.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 4.0 13731 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 113 14684 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Log Hotel

by: Anne Schreiber

Summary: Animals and plants of the forest live and grow around a fallen oak log

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.2 31735 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 24 262 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One Lola and Miss Kitty

by: Cheyenne Cisco

Summary: Lola tries to get Miss Kitty to play.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H 1.4 44458 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 16 265 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China

by: Ed Young

Summary: Three sisters staying home alone are endangered by a hungry wolf who is disguised as their grandmother.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 3.5 5523 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 5 27 1145 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes Caldecott 1990 None

The Long Grass of Tumbledown Road

by: Margaret Mahy

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Long Way to a New Land

by: Joan Sandin

Summary: Story of a Swedish family traveling to America in 1868.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.7 8426 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 16 63 1503 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Long Way Westward

by: Joan Sandin

Summary: This book relates the experiences of two young brothers and their family, immigrants from Sweden, from their arrival in New York through the journey to their new home in Minnesota.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.9 137320 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 3 63 1621 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Look Alike Animals

by: Robin Bernard

Summary: This book illustrates with photographs how similar some animals look, such as alligators and crocodiles, and points out in simple text the subtle differences that make each animal unique.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 1.3 31736 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 13 16 131 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One Looking After Billy

by: Claire Masurel-Shumacher

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 16 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Looking at Clouds

by: Susan Ring

Summary: Explains how clouds are formed and the different types of clouds.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Losing Joe's Place

by: Gordon Korman

Summary: Jason and his two friends move into Jason's brother's apartment and manage to wreak havoc in it during one funny and memorable summer.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T 5.5 6049 8.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 233 52140 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Louis Armstrong: Swinging Singing Satchmo

by: Sanford Brown

Summary: None Available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Z None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 124 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Louis Braille

by: Margaret Davidson

Summary: This book is a biography of the French man who created a way for the blind to read.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N 3.8 29965 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 24 80 10973 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Lunch

by: Gay Su Pinnell

Summary: Describes what a young girl likes best about the food in the school cafeteria.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Lunch at the Zoo

by: Wendy Blaxland

Summary: Several animals and a zookeeper all enjoy their lunches. A seagull joins in the act, provid- ing a surprise ending.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: B None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 10 7 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

M.C. Higgins, the Great

by: Virginia Hamilton

Summary: Thirteen-year-old M.C. hopes his mother will be offered a recording contract so his family can leave their home before a sliding slag heap destroys it.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: X 4.4 125 10.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 21 278 69544 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No Newbery 1975 None

Machines

by: Ann Morris

Summary: Describes in simple word what different machines do and the noises they make.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 11 8 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Machines

by: Marcie Bovetz

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: E None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 5 8 52 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Madeline

by: Ludwig Bemelmans

Summary: Madeline, smallest and naughtiest of the 12 little charges of Miss Clavel, wakes up one night with an attack of appendicitis.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 3.1 5478 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 48 418 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

The Magic Paintbrush

by: Fran Hunia

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 14 51 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth

by: Joanna Cole

Summary: On a special field trip in the magic school bus, Ms. Frizzle's class learns first hand about different kinds of rocks and the formation of the earth.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 3.6 5480 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 40 1572 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction Yes None None

The Magic Spectacles

by: Lilian Moore

Summary: The magic spectacles -- The "now really" time -- Janey's boss -- The pet that Benjy wanted -- The silver bird express -- Wait for a winday day -- Little Will.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 70 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Magic!

by: Rebel Williams

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 9 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Magnets

by: Christina Wilsdon

Summary: Magnets --What's magnetic? --Push and pull --Magnetic force --Magnetic field --Inside a magnet --Magnetizing --Magnet Earth --Magnetism and electricity --Magnets at work --Glossary.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Make Way for Ducklings

by: Robert McCloskey

Summary: A merry picture book; very few words; a gravity that underscores the delightful comedy of the pictures.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q 4.1 5524 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 64 1149 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No Caldecott 1942 One

Making a Memory

by: Margaret Ballinger

Summary: A little girl talks about the various items which she keeps on her shelf, each one from a different year in her life.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 15 10 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Making Mountains

by: Margaret Ballinger

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: B None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 7 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Making Paper

by: Heather Hammonds

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Mama Zooms

by: Jane Cowen-Fletcher

Summary: A young boy's imagination transforms his mother's wheelchair into a zooming machine, which takes them on wonderful adventures together.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F 1.9 31713 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 30 176 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Mango, Mango

by: Anne Schreiber

Summary: A little girl who likes mangos dreams about playing in a mango forest.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 2.6 31737 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 74 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One

Maniac Magee

by: Jerry Spinelli

Summary: After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: W 4.7 5075 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 17 184 35427 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No Newbery 1991 None

Mark Twain

by: Clinton Cox

Summary: This is a biography of one of the most well-known American authors, Mark Twain.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: W 8.0 34987 7.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 234 41120 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Martin and the Tooth Fairy

by: Bernice Chardiet

Summary: When Martin receives more money from the Tooth Fairy than his friends at school, he offers to put their teeth under his pillow for a percentage of the profits.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 32 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Martin Luther King Day

by: Linda Lowery

Summary: This book briefly recounts the life of the black minister who devoted his life to civil rights and discusses the national holiday in his name.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 4.1 49322 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 56 1779 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Martin Luther King, Jr.: Young Man with a Dream

by: Dharathula H. Millender

Summary: A biography of the civil rights leader whose philosophy and practice of nonviolent civil disobedience helped American blacks win many battles for equal rights.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 6.7 813 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 11 192 24250 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: NonFiction No None None Marvin Redpost: Kidnapped at Birth?

by: Louis Sachar

Summary: Marvin believes he's really a lost prince who was kidnapped at birth.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.8 6331 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 1 68 5423 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Mary Had a Little Lamb

by: Sarah Josepha Hale

Summary: A contemporary interpretation of the well-known nineteenth-century nursery rhyme about the school-going lamb, accompanied by color photographs, a sample exercise from McGuffey's reader, and a note on the history of the author and her famous rhyme.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 28 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Maui Hooks Hawai'i

by: Judy Scheu

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 16 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Me Too!

by: Maryann Dobeck

Summary: Pam and Sam both feel that they are the fastest runner.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 20 8 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Me Too!

by: Mercer Mayer

Summary: Sharing with one's little sister can be an awful bother, but it has its rewards, too.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 1.5 7284 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 24 237 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Memories of Vietnam

by: Ellen Weiss

Summary: "The war was half a world away. But it nearly tore the United States apart. Over half a million U.S. soldiers were sent to fight in Vietnam. Vietnam was undergoing a long civil war. The North was fighting the South. Did Americans belong there? Lots of people had answers. But before you decide, consider what the people who were there had to say. They experienced the war up close and personal. Through their letters and memories, you will, too." AR Level: Quiz: Points: Z None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 63 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Messages

by: Jane Campbell

Summary: Laura receives a lot of messages on a special day. They come by mail, by phone, by computer, by fax and in person. But they all say the same thing: Happy Birthday!

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 7 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Messy Meals

by: Betsy Franco

Summary: A girl puts food in the strangest places!

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F 2.9 34671 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 16 88 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One

Ming Lo Moves the Mountain

by: Arnold Lobel

Summary: A wise man tells Ming Lo how to move the mountain away from his house.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 3.6 11178 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 32 1144 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Minnie and Moo Go to the Moon

by: Denys Cazet

Summary: Two cow friends, Minnie and Moo, have an adventure when they drive the farmer's tractor.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H 2.0 32164 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 15 48 1069 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Miracles on Maple Hill

by: Virginia Sorensen

Summary: After her father returns from the war moody and tired, Marly's family decides to move from the city to Maple Hill Farm in the Pennsylvania countryside where they share many adventures which help restore their spirits and their bond with each other.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 4.9 59 7.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 11 180 48696 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No Newbery 1957 None

Miss Mary Mack

by: Evan Polenghi

Summary: Told in chant style, Miss Mary Mack goes to the circus to see the elephant jump over the fence.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D 1.1 31694 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 7 8 70 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One Miss Nelson Has a Field Day

by: James Marshall

Summary: The notorious Miss Swamp reappears at the Horace B. Smedley School, this time to shape up the football team and make them win at least one game.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 3.0 21393 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 32 738 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Miss Nelson is Back

by: James Marshall

Summary: While Miss Nelson is recuperating from her tonsillectomy, her class dreads the arrival of Miss Swamp, the substitute teacher.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.7 6130 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 32 906 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Miss Nelson is Missing!

by: James Marshall

Summary: Miss Nelson has the worst-behaved class in school; then Miss Swamp turns up to straighten things out. Who is Miss Swamp? That's the mystery.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.7 5234 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 19 32 596 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None The Missing Tarts

by: B.G. Hennessy

Summary: When the Queen of Hearts discovers that her strawberry tarts have been stolen, she enlists the help of many popular nursery rhyme characters in order to find them.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 32 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Misty of Chincoteague

by: Marguerite Henry

Summary: A breed of wild horses inhabit an island, and one is befriended and tamed by the love of two children.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 5.3 60 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 30 174 23416 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Mitten

by: Jan Brett

Summary: Several animals sleep snugly in Nicki's lost mitten until the bear sneezes.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q 3.9 6131 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 32 584 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One Mix it Up

by: Gloria Bancroft

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: E None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 6 8 35 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Mix It Up!

by: Heather Hammonds

Summary: Making an ice cream soda.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: B None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 52 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Moccasins

by: Miriam Frost

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 10 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Mom's Secret

by: Meredith Costain

Summary: A daughter tries to guess what her mother's secret is.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 15 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Monkey See, Monkey Do

by: Marc Gave

Summary: Monkeys, monkeys everywhere! In this rhyming story, monkeys visit a family for a day and join them in their activities. The result is a very funny day.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 23 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Monkeys

by: Susan Canizares

Summary: Photographs and simple text explore the daily activities of monkeys in the Amazon rainforest.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: B None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 1 14 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Monster

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Monster Math

by: Grace Maccarone

Summary: Rhyming text and illustrations follow the activities of a group of twelve monsters that dimin- ishes one by one.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G 1.5 110845 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 32 160 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Monster Math Picnic

by: Grace Maccarone

Summary: The number of monsters engaged in various activities at a picnic always adds up to ten.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F 0.9 58855 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 8 29 98 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None The Monster Under My Bed

by: Suzanne Gruber

Summary: At bedtime, a little bear finds that there is a logical explanation for those monster noises coming from beneath his bed.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 3 31 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Moonbear's Books

by: Frank Asch

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 30 18 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Moonwalkers

by: David Getz

Summary: This book is a brief description of the trips to the moon and what was learned from them.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V 5.4 66609 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 1369 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None One More Spaghetti, I Say!

by: Rita Golden Gelman

Summary: Minnie the monkey is too busy eating spaghetti--all day, in all ways--to play with Freddy.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H 1.2 11179 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 8 29 340 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One

More Stories Julian Tells

by: Ann Cameron

Summary: More episodes in the life of Julian including a bet with his best friend Gloria, a secret project, and what happens when his brother Huey decides to be Superboy.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N 2.9 6231 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 82 6301 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

More! More! More!

by: June Melser

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 48 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Most Wonderful Doll in the World

by: Phyllis McGinley

Summary: The memory of the doll Dulcy lost becomes more wonderful and exaggerated each time she talks about it.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 4.6 6232 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 57 4294 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Mother's Day

by: Ana Consuelo Matiella

Summary: Multicultural - Sara and Chico prepare a special Mother's Day surprise for their grandmother.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Z None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 23 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Mouse and the Motorcycle

by: Beverly Cleary

Summary: A reckless young mouse named Ralph makes friends with a boy in room 215 of the Moun- tain View Inn and discovers the joys of motorcycling.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 5.1 182 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 174 22416 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Mouse Soup

by: Arnold Lobel

Summary: A mouse convinces a weasel he needs the ingredients from several stories to make a tasty mouse soup.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.4 7333 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 10 64 1350 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Mousetrap

by: Diane Snowball

Summary: Told in rhyme, a boy follows a mouse through the house.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F 0.8 31710 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 50 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Mr. Baseball

by: William Hooks

Summary: A Little Leaguer suffers the enthusiastic activities of his baseball-loving five-year-old brother.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.5 9678 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 48 1174 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Mr. Beep

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Mr. Fixit

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: A story about a boy who likes to help fix things but has trouble putting them back again.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H 1.4 11675 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 16 197 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Mr. McCready's Cleaning Day

by: Tracey Shilling

Summary: "Cleaning the house when you can't see what you're doing can lead to all kinds of problems. When Mr. McCready tries to clean without his glasses, the house ends up more dusty than when he started"--P. [4] of cover.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 15 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Mr. Popper's Penguins

by: Richard Atwater

Summary: Mr. Popper trains his band of penguins to star in a vaudeville tour. The coauthor is Flor- ence Atwater.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T 5.6 58 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 139 16160 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Mr. Putter and Tabby Walk the Dog

by: Cynthia Rylant

Summary: When their neighbor Mrs. Teaberry hurts her foot, Mr. Putter and his cat Tabby agree to walk her dog for a week, not knowing what they are in for.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 5 38 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Mr. Wumple's Travels

by: Pauline Cartwright

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Mrs. Brice's Mice

by: Syd Hoff

Summary: Mrs. Brice has 25 mice, and they all do everything together.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 2.3 7335 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 32 381 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh

by: Robert C. O'Brien

Summary: 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.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V 5.1 62 8.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 18 233 53752 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No Newbery 1972 None

Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters

by: John Steptoe

Summary: Mufaro's two beautiful daughters, one bad-tempered, one kind and sweet, go before the king, who is choosing a bride.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T 4.3 5030 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 32 1588 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Muggie Maggie

by: Beverly Cleary

Summary: 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.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 4.5 429 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 22 70 5398 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Mummies in the Morning

by: Mary Pope Osboure

Summary: 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. Book #3

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 2.7 10644 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 65 5105 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Mush!

by: Patricia Seibert

Summary: Describes the annual Iditarod dog sled race in Alaska and the sled dogs who compete in it.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 32 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Mushroom in the Rain

by: Mirra Ginsburg

Summary: How can an ant, butterfly, mouse, sparrow, and rabbit all take shelter from the rain under the same mushroom when originally there was room only for the ant?

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.5 9462 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 11 26 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Music is in the Air

by: Ann Morris

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None One

The Music of Dolphins

by: Karen Hesse

Summary: After rescuing an adolescent girl from the sea, researchers learn she has been raised by dolphins and attempt to rehabilitate her to the human world.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V 3.4 17783 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 25 181 19477 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None My Bean Plant

by: Joseph Cician

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

My Best Sandwich

by: Susan Hartley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 20 7 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

My Buddy

by: Audrey Osofsky

Summary: A young boy with muscular dystrophy tells how he is teamed up with a dog trained to do things for him that he can't do for himself.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 3.0 7189 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 27 26 907 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None My Cat Muffin

by: Marjory Gardner

Summary: In this simple story, a girl describes her best friend - her cat, Muffin.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: B None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 7 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

My Cats

by: Eileen Robinson

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

My Dad's Truck

by: Meredith Costain

Summary: A boy tells all about his dad's truck. He tells what color it is, how many wheels and horns it has, that it has a cabin and a long trailer, and he describes it's size - gigantic!

AR Level: Quiz: Points: E None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 7 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None My Dog's the Best

by: Stephanie Calmenson

Summary: In this story, each child thinks their dog is the best and tells the other children why.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F 0.6 3051 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 30 183 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

My Father

by: Laura Mayer

Summary: A child relates the story about how her father became a citizen of the United States.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 2.3 31738 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 13 16 195 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

My Father's Dragon

by: Ruth Stiles Gannett

Summary: 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.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 5.6 486 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 29 87 7682 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None My First American Friend

by: Sarunna Jin

Summary: This timely, true story portrays a young Chinese girl's journey to the U. S. and the new life and new friend she finds there.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 3.5 9181 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 30 515 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

My Fives Senses

by: Margaet Miller

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: E None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 30 30 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

My Friends

by: Taro Gomi

Summary: A little girl learns to walk, climb, and study the earth with help from her friends, most of which are animals.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 32 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None My Frog Log

by: Margarita Gonzalez-Jensen

Summary: Rogelio and his class are studying frogs. They watch frogs grow for 16 weeks and keep an observation log about everything that they see.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 3 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

My Garden

by: Jesse S. Ostrow

Summary: In this story, a young boy explores his garden.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: B 0.9 34659 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 8 38 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One

My River

by: Shari Halpern

Summary: Frogs, fish, a turtle, and other creatures who live in or around a river state their need for the river, making a plea for protecting this natural resource.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 38 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None My Robot Buddy

by: Alfred Slote

Summary: 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.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q 3.6 183 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 70 9247 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

My Side of the Mountain

by: Jean Craighead George

Summary: Written in the form of a diary, this story relates the days of a young boy in the Catskill Mountains.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: U 5.2 64 6.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 177 40355 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

My Tooth is About to Fall Out

by: Grace Maccarone

Summary: An easy-to-read book concerning a young girl about to lose her first tooth.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 1.6 31611 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 1 30 175 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes

by: Judith Conaway

Summary: Amateur detective Sherlock Holmes, the master of deductive reasoning, solves several mysteries with the aid of his friend, Dr. John Watson. This book is adapted from the stories of Sir Ar- thur Conan Doyle.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 2.8 83447 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 11 95 9125 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Mystery in the Night Woods

by: John Peterson

Summary: Weasel is after something, and he's going to trick Flying Squirrel to get it. But Flying Squir- rel has a friend, Mr. Bat, who isn't going to sit around and let Weasel get away with it!

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 80 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Mystery of the Hidden Painting

by: Gertrude Chandler Warner

Summary: 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.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 3.8 5324 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 127 14953 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Mystery Ranch

by: Gertrude Chandler Warner

Summary: When an eccentric old aunt needs help on her ranch, the Aldens overturn a plot against her.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 3.3 5304 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 3 127 13801 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Nana's Place

by: Akimi Gibson

Summary: Jojo misses his grandmother and is beginning to forget her, but his grandfather shows him how his grandmother will always be with him.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 1.8 31739 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 16 212 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One

Nate the Great

by: Marjorie Sharmat

Summary: Super-detective Nate tracks down Annie's missing picture and finds a lost cat in the bargain.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.0 330 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 11 62 1594 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None Nate the Great and the Missing Key

by: Marjorie Sharmat

Summary: Nate must solve the riddle of Rosamond's strange poem in order to find Annie's missing house key.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.9 5237 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 47 1725 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Nate the Great and the Phony Clue

by: Marjorie Sharmat

Summary: Nate and his faithful dog Sludge overcome hostile adversaries and a sly, phony clue to solve his latest challenge.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.6 7630 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 3 48 1542 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Nate the Great Stalks Stupidweed

by: Marjorie Sharmat

Summary: Nate the Great searches for a missing weed after it disappears from a pot on Oliver's porch.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.7 7634 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 42 2176 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None Nathan & Nicholas Alexander

by: Lulu Delacre

Summary: Nicholas, a charming mouse, tries to convince Nathan, a stubborn elephant, to share his toy chest with him. At first, Nathan is angry, but he soon realizes that sharing can be the start of a beautiful friendship.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 30 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Navajo Long Walk

by: Nancy M. Armstrong

Summary: A young Navajo boy recounts the story of the forced internment of his tribe at Fort Sumner, and their subsequent return to their homeland.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 120 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Ned's New Old Sled

by: Robin Bloksberg

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 17 16 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Nest

by: Trevor Pye

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 3 8 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Never Ride Your Elephant to School

by: Doug Johnson

Summary: A humorous account of the disadvantages of bringing an elephant into the classroom.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 3.2 13781 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 24 586 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Never Wake a Sleeping Snake

by: Bonnie Larkin Nims

Summary: Mike's constant yelling comes to an abrupt end when he discovers a sleeping snake in his house.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 18 12 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The New Baby Calf

by: Edith Newlin Chase

Summary: Buttercup, the wise, loving mother cow, knows that baby caves need care, love, confi- dence, and time to grow big and strong.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H 2.4 44056 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 5 30 240 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Next Door Friends

by: Kathryn Lewis

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 18 16 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Night Flyers

by: Robin Bernard

Summary: Simple text presenting an overview of different kinds of bats.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 13 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Night Noise

by: Pauline Cartwright

Summary: A young boy describes the noises heard in the night.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Night of the Twisters

by: Ivy Ruckman

Summary: A twelve-year-old relates an account of the night that freakish and devastating tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: U 4.7 628 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 153 27903 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Night Sky

by: Alice Pernick

Summary: Simple text describes some of the many wonderful things there are to see in the night sky.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.0 31740 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 16 164 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One The Night the Lights Went Out

by: Robin Bloksberg

Summary: Jake experiences his first power failure.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H 1.0 44481 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 16 157 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

No Flying in the House

by: Betty Brock

Summary: A tiny talking dog arrives at the home of the rich Mrs. Vancourt and asks shelter for herself and her companion, a little girl.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 4.5 106510 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 20 139 18437 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

No Good in Art

by: Miriam Cohen

Summary: First-grader Jim can't paint a picture of himself as an adult because he's no good in art, but when he is encouraged to paint what he likes to do, he surprises everyone.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 2.8 7235 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 32 781 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None No More Monsters for Me!

by: Peggy Parish

Summary: Minneapolis Simpkin is not allowed to have a pet, so she finds the most unusual replace- ment.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 1.7 7385 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 64 1462 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

No Puppies Today!

by: Joanna Cole

Summary: In this nursery rhyme a girl was told by her family to take the animals back to the pet shop and finally she found a puppy she wanted.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 19 24 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

N-O Spells No!

by: Teddy Slater

Summary: Katie's favorite word is no, but her mother finds a way to get Katie to say yes.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 2.5 11183 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 28 350 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Noisy Breakfast

by: Ellen Blonder

Summary: A dog and his mouse friend make breakfast together.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D 1.1 31685 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 8 16 33 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One

Noisy Nora

by: Rosemary Wells

Summary: Feeling neglected, Nora makes more and more noise to attract her parents' attention.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 2.6 18639 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 10 28 204 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

The Noonday Friends

by: Mary Stolz

Summary: Two young friends stop speaking to each other, even though they can't remember why they argued in the first place. This is just one more thing on top of the other problems that each has with her own family.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 4.8 239 6.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 22 182 37550 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Not Enough Water

by: Shane Armstrong

Summary: When Sam gets into his wading pool there is not enough water. But after four friends join him, there is suddenly too much!

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Not Too Big

by: John Wilson

Summary: Dee love things that are big. When she's told Aunt Jenny was coming to visit, she decides to makes her a big cat. When it was time for Aunt Jenny to leave she couldn't take the cat. It was too big to get out of the door.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 23 12 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Nothing Fair in Fifth Grade

by: Barthe DeClements

Summary: A fifth grade class, repelled by the overweight new student who has serious home problems, finally learns to accept her.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q 3.7 185 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 137 27092 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Now Is Your Time!

by: Walter Dean Myers

Summary: A history of the African-American struggle for freedom and equality, beginning with the capture of Africans in 1619, continuing through the American Revolution, the Civil War, and into contemporary times.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Y 8.3 7015 9.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 274 48016 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No Coretta Scott King None 1992 Number the Stars

by: Lois Lowry

Summary: In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: U 4.5 379 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 30 144 27197 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes Newbery 1990 None

Numbering All the Bones

by: Ann Rinaldi

Summary: Eulinda is left behind to deal with a cruel mistress, and a master who will not acknowledge that Eulinda is his daughter.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: W 4.2 59767 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 170 33632 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Obon

by: Ruth Suyenaga

Summary: Multicultural - Maile meets her shy cousin for the first time in Hawaii, where her family has gathered to celebrate the Japanese Obon festival.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 23 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Ocean Floors

by: JoAnne Early Macken

Summary: This book describes fish and plants that live on the ocean floor.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D 1.6 89956 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 7 24 190 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction Yes None None

Oceans

by: Christina Wilsdon

Summary: None available

by: Peggy Rathmann

Summary: The children at Napville Elementary School always ignore Officer Buckle's safety tips until a police dog named Gloria accompanies him when he gives his safety speeches.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H 3.4 14100 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 14 30 650 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Old Sky

by: Philemon Sturges

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 27 12 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Old Turtle's Baseball Stories

by: Leonard Kessler

Summary: While gathered around the wood stove in winter, Old Turtle tells his friends unbelievable baseball stories of Cleo Octopus, Melvin Moose, Clara Kangaroo, and Randy Squirrel.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 55 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Old Yeller

by: Fred Gipson

Summary: This is the heartwarming story of a boy and his dog and their many adventures in the Texas wilderness.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V 5.0 66 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 181 35968 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

On My Honor

by: Marion Bauer

Summary: When his best friend drowns while they are both swimming in a treacherous river that they had promised never to go near, Joel is devastated and terrified at having to tell both sets of parents the terrible consequences of their disobedience.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 4.7 128 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 12 90 16709 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

On the Go

by: Ann Morris

Summary: Discusses the ways in which people all over the world move from place to place, including walking, riding on animals, and traveling on wheels and water.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 28 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: NonFiction No None None On Top of Spaghetti

by: Katherine Tollotson

Summary: A parody, sung to the tune of "On Top of Old Smokey," tracing the meanderings of a meat- ball that was sneezed off a plate of spaghetti.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 30 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The One Bad Thing About Father

by: F.N. Monjo

Summary: Young Quentin thinks there is just one bad thing about her father, he is Teddy Roosevelt, President of the United States. This is her amusing account of life in the White House.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.3 54498 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 23 65 2007 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

One Day in the Alpine Tundra

by: Jean Craighead George

Summary: An ecological chapter book set in the Teton mountain range of Wyoming. Describes the mammals, plants, climate and geological features unique to the area directly above a mountain tree line.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 5.5 11432 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 52 4623 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None The One Day in the Desert

by: Jean Craighead George

Summary: Explains how the animal and human inhabitants of the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, including a mountain lion, a roadrunner, a coyote, a tortoise, and members of the Papago Indian tribe, adapt to and survive the desert's merciless heat.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 5.5 14688 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 43 3725 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: NonFiction No None None

One Day in the Woods

by: Jean Craighead George

Summary: A young explorer searches through the woods and learns about the forest habitat and its inhabitants.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 5.4 10898 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 52 4680 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

One for You and One for Me

by: Wendy Blaxland

Summary: Two girls share their treats between themselves and the animals around them.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 23 8 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None One Night

by: Jackie Carter

Summary: Told in rhyme, a little girl helps put her baby brother to sleep.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H 2.2 31708 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 16 93 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One

One Red Rooster

by: Kathleen Sullivan Carroll

Summary: Introduces the numbers one through ten in rhymed text and illustrations of a variety of rather noisy farm animals.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: B None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 26 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Operation: Dump the Chump

by: Barbara Park

Summary: Eight-year-old Oscar has a plan to get rid of his creepy younger brother--Robert the Slobert--for an entire summer.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 3.9 11586 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 118 19454 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Oregon Trail

by: Eileen Gluffre Cotton

Summary: Book2Web, the series of books that provides a direct and purposeful connection between your classroom and the Internet. The 72 Book2Web books are organized into six strands: two in science and four in socials studies.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: W None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 25 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Oscar Otter

by: Nathaniel Benchley

Summary: A young otter learns a lesson about straying too far from water.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.6 7337 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 3 64 551 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great

by: Judy Blume

Summary: A new friend shows Sheila that you have to admit your fears before you can overcome them.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 3.5 488 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 118 26732 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Our Only May Amelia

by: Jennifer L. Holm

Summary: As the only girl in a Finnish American family of seven brothers, May Amelia Jackson resents being expected to act like a lady while growing up in Washington state in 1899.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 4.8 35294 7.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 14 251 46545 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Our Plants

by: Jeanne W. Berger

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 13 8 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Our Sixth-Grade Sugar Babies

by: Eve Bunting

Summary: Vicki and her best friend fear that their sixth-grade project, carrying around five-pound bags of sugar to learn about parental responsibility, will make them look ridiculous in the eyes of the seventh-grade boy they both love.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 3.9 6007 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 25 146 28980 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Our Water Supply

by: Peggy Bresnick Kendler

Summary: In this book, you'll find out how water is cleansed, stored up for use, pumped to our homes, and why it is important that we save water.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T 4.8 76456 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 1968 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Over in the Meadow

by: Ezra Jack Keats

Summary: In this book, an old nursery poem introduces animals and their young and the numbers one through ten.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.3 74305 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 11 28 390 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Over in the Meadow, An Old Counting Rhyme

by: Unknown

Summary: Based on the original by Olive A. Wadsworth..

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Owl at Home

by: Arnold Lobel

Summary: Five humorous tales about Owl and his house.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.7 7387 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 12 64 1501 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Owl Moon

by: Jane Yolen

Summary: On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 3.2 5532 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 4 28 751 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes Caldecott 1988 None

Owls in the Family

by: Farley Mowat

Summary: Two owls, Wol and Weeps, join Billy and his dog Mutt to shake up the whole neighborhood.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 5.0 680 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 24 91 19022 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None P.S. Longer Letter Later

by: Paula Danziger

Summary: Twelve-year-old best friends Elizabeth and Tara continue their friendship through letter- writing after Tara's family moves to another state. The coauthor is Ann M. Martin.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: U 4.5 20090 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 234 34394 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Pack 109

by: Mike Thaler

Summary: Relates the adventures of the five scouts of Pack 109 as they try to get yet another merit badge.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 7 48 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Painters

by: Rebel Williams

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 10 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Panda

by: Brian Cutting

Summary: This story of Mei-ling, the panda, introduces the reader to the appearance, behavior and habitat of pandas. The coauthor is Jillian Cutting.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.5 32405 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 415 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Paper Bag Trail

by: Anne Shreiber

Summary: A paper bag blown away by the wind, is picked up by different people and animals, and each time is blown away again. The coauthor is Arbo Doughty

AR Level: Quiz: Points: E 1.5 31698 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 12 16 68 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One

The Paper Crane

by: Molly Bang

Summary: A mysterious man enters a restaurant and pays for his dinner with a paper crane that magically comes alive and dances.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 3.6 9786 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 22 32 450 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Paul Bunyan

by: Paul Kellogg

Summary: This story recounts the life of the extraordinary lumberjack whose unusual size and strength brought him many fantastic adventures.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 5.7 9134 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 14 30 1004 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Peanut Butter and Jelly

by: Nadine Bernard Westcott

Summary: Rhyming text and illustrations explain how to make a peanut butter jelly sandwich. Includes instructions for accompanying hand and foot motions at the end of the book.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: E None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 30 22 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Peanut Butter Rhino

by: Vincent Andriani

Summary: On his way to meet Elephant for lunch, Rhino loses his peanut butter sandwich.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 1.5 31741 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 192 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One Peanuts

by: Judy Ling

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Penguin

by: Anne-Marie Dalmais

Summary: Text and illustrations introduce the natural environment, physical characteristics, and habits of the emperor penguin.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 11 27 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: NonFiction No None None

People Build Dams

by: Trent Johnson

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Perloo the Bold

by: Avi

Summary: In this wild adventure Perloo, a rabbit-like Montmer, travels over snowy mountains, through underground tunnels, and into enemy territory and alters the future of Montmers everywhere.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 4.9 34832 7.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 15 223 43706 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Person From Planet X

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: The alien from Planet X befriends some children, who help him choose a name.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.0 32396 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 16 340 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Pet Show!

by: Ezra Jack Keats

Summary: When he can't find his cat to enter in the neighborhood pet show, Archie must do some fast thinking to win a prize.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H 2.2 29244 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 3 34 461 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Peter's Chair

by: Ezra Jack Keats

Summary: Peter is not happy when he sees all of his things being painted pink for his new sister.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 1.8 16869 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 28 299 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Peter's Move

by: Alexander James

Summary: A reluctant Peter moves to a new house and finds with all his things in his new room it feels just like home.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H 1.4 44467 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 16 223 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Petey

by: Ben Mikaelsen

Summary: In 1922, Petey, who has cerebral palsy, is misdiagnosed as an idiot and institutionalized; sixty years later, still in the institution, he befriends a boy and shares with him the joy of life.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: X 4.8 34834 6.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 12 280 43342 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Phantom of the Opera

by: Kate McMullan

Summary: In this adaptation of Gaston Leroux's novel, a disfigured musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House falls in love with a beautiful soprano. In his desperation to have his love re- turned, he embarks on some terrifying means toward that end.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 2.7 112339 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 15 95 7964 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Phoebe the Spy

by: Judith Berry Griffin

Summary: During the Revolution, Phoebe Fraunces has a chance to save the life of General George Washington while he has dinner at Mortier House in New York City.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 4.3 24904 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 48 4376 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Pick a Pet

by: Helen Lester

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 8 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Pickle Puss

by: Patricia Giff

Summary: When Emily realizes that she might not be playing fair in a bet with another girl, she knows she's really in a pickle.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.1 444 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 69 5720 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

The Pie Thief (a Play)

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

by: Deborah Hautzig

Summary: Rats are everywhere in the town of Hamelin until the Pied Piper plays his magic flute.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.8 7391 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 48 1265 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Pilot Down, Presumed Dead

by: Marjorie Phleger

Summary: A suspenseful, exciting story for pre-teenage and teenage readers about a man faced with a grim struggle for survival.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Z 7.0 6937 8.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 206 46138 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction N None None

The Pinballs

by: Betsy Byars

Summary: Three lonely foster children learn to care about themselves and each other.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 3.8 242 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 136 22330 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Pioneer Bear

by: Joan Sandin

Summary: True story about a photographer who travels to Minnesota to take a dancing bear's picture.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.5 10535 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 3 48 1310 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None Pippi Longstocking

by: Astrid Lindgren

Summary: 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.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 5.2 69 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 160 26522 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Pirates

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Pirates Don't Wear Pink Sunglasses

by: Debbie Dadey

Summary: The Bailey School kids decide to find out if the boat instructor at Camp Lone Wolf is really a pirate searching for buried treasure. The coauthor is Marcia Thornton Jones.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 3.9 10685 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 78 7901 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Pizza

by: Saturnino Romay

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: B None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 16 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One

Plants All Around

by: Jan Stradling

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Play Ball!

by: Rebel Williams

Summary: None available

by: Peggy Parish

Summary: When Amelia, who follows all directions literally, plays baseball, the results are predictably funny.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.3 6087 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 27 64 1380 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Play With Me

by: Marie Hall Ets

Summary: A little girl goes to the meadow to play, but each animal she tries to catch runs away from her--until she sits still by the pond, and they all come back.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 27 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Playground Problem

by: Margaret McNamara

Summary: Nick, Jamie, and Reza refuse to let Emma join their soccer game because she is a girl.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F 1.5 77960 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 32 272 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None Please Let It Snow

by: Harriet Ziefert

Summary: A young boy has a new snow suit, hat, boots, and mittens and he is anxious for it to snow so he can go outside to play.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F 1.1 43679 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 29 197 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Pond Party

by: Harvey M. Plotnick

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 10 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Pond's and Rivers

by: Jan Strading

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 14 178 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None The Popcorn Book

by: Tomie de Paola

Summary: Presents a variety of facts about popcorn and includes two recipes.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N 4.3 27474 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 28 712 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Poppleton and Friends

by: Cynthia Rylant

Summary: Poppleton goes to the shore, struggles with dry skin, and tries a grapefruit for the first time.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.6 25092 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 14 48 772 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Poppleton Forever

by: Cynthia Rylant

Summary: Poppleton plants a tree, gets a cold, and hangs some wallpaper with the help of his friends.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.5 25093 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 48 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Poppleton in Spring

by: Cynthia Rylant

Summary: This book describes some of the adventures Poppleton enjoys during the spring.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.5 39820 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 14 48 665 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Poppy

by: Avi

Summary: A brave young mouse challenges the owl that rules over the territory and saves her family from starvation. Book #1

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 4.5 14795 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 25 160 26555 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Potatoes on Tuesday

by: Dee Lillegard

Summary: A family of raccoons picks different vegetables each day of the week.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 8 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Powwow

by: Linda Coombs

Summary: Multicultural - Encourages awareness and appreciation of Native American cultures.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 23 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: NonFiction No None None

The President Who Pardoned a Turkey

by: Allan Zullo

Summary: Describes some of the wacky but real people, places and events in United States history.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Z None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 63 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Prince Cinders

by: Babette Cole

Summary: Poor Prince Cinders always has to clean up after his three big brothers. Until one night, when a small dirty fairy falls down the chimney and promises Prince Cinders that all his wishes will come.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N 3.2 23627 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 11 26 448 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Pumpkin Pumpkin

by: Jeanne Titherington

Summary: Jamie plants a pumpkin seed and, after watching it grow, carves it and saves some seeds to plant in the spring.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C 2.4 7238 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 16 24 75 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

The Pumpkin that Kim Carved

by: Fay Robinson

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 16 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy

by: Jane Thayer

Summary: When Petey the puppy decides that he wants a boy for Christmas, he discovers that he must go out and find one on his own.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 3.0 7340 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 30 1319 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Push and Pull

by: Patricia J. Murphy

Summary: The simple text and photographs in this book describe and illustrate push and pull move- ment.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G 2.4 56963 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 31 232 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Putting on a Play

by: Caroline Feller Bauer

Summary: Discusses the process of putting on a play and includes a script, The birthday breakfast.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 27 32 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Pyramid

by: David Macaulay

Summary: Describes in detail the painful and complicated occupation of building a pyramid. Black- and-white illustrations reveal the process of pyramid-building step by step.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: W 7.5 18491 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 80 4563 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None The Rabbit and the Turnip

by: Judith Blaxland

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: E None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 3 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Rabbit Hill

by: Robert Lawson

Summary: The Animals of the Hill prepare for the "new Folk" moving into the Big House.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Z 6.4 71 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 23 128 20482 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No Newbery 1945 None

Rabbit's Party

by: Eve Bunting

Summary: Rabbit plans his birthday party and invites his friends.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G 1.5 31742 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 16 352 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One Raccoon and Lizard Take a Hike

by: Fay Robinson

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 12 16 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Race to the South Pole

by: Lorraine Jean Hopping

Summary: Robert Scott dreamed of being the first person to stand on the South Pole. But, explorer Roald Amundsen was also heading to the South Pole. This book tells the compelling story of the race to the Pole.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V 4.3 76470 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 1768 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None One

Radio Man

by: Arthur Dorros

Summary: As he travels with his family of migrant farmworkers, Diego relies on his radio to provide him with companionship and help connect him to all the different places in which he lives.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 3.3 19990 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 40 1036 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Rain

by: Lesley Jane

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 171 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Rain Cloud Island

by: Veronica Freeman Ellis

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 15 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Raindrops

by: Sandy Gay

Summary: Dressed in her red rain cap, yellow slicker and yellow galoshes, a little girl takes her dog out for a walk in the rain.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C 0.7 34660 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 13 16 67 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One Rainy Day Alphabet Book

by: Jackie Posner

Summary: Each letter of the alphabet is used to described children's activities on a rainy day. The coauthor is Sara Wiener.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: E 1.4 31704 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 7 16 96 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One

Ralph S. Mouse

by: Beverly Cleary

Summary: Ralph, the motorcycle-riding mouse, is off on another adventure and acquires a new sports car to replace his broken motorcycle.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 5.1 336 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 1 160 19655 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Ramona Quimby Age 8

by: Beverly Cleary

Summary: Now in third grade, Ramona rides the school bus alone and helps around the house while her mother works and her father attends college.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 5.6 134 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 190 21963 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Rascal

by: Sterling North

Summary: The author recalls his carefree life in a small midwestern town at the close of World War I, and his adventures with his pet raccoon, Rascal.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V 7.1 73 7.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 189 42024 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction Yes None None

The Raven and Other Poems

by: Edgar Allen Poe

Summary: A collection of twenty-six poems by nineteenth-century American poet Edgar Allen Poe.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Z None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 73 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Ravi's Diwali Surprise

by: Anisha Kacker

Summary: Multicultural - Ravi's enjoyment of Diwali, the Indian festival of lights, is hampered by the absence of his older brother, Shankar.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 22 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Read it to Believe it! Head for the Hills!

by: Paul Robert Walker

Summary: The amazing true story of the Johnstown flood.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 109 None Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Recess Mess

by: Grace Maccarone

Summary: In this story, first-grade boys and girls go out to play at recess, and Sam learns to spell.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G 0.7 58779 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 32 159 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution

by: Ji-li Jiang

Summary: This book is an engrossing memoir of a Chinese girl, her family, and how their lives became a nightmare during Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Z 5.0 17835 8.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 5 272 54473 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Redwall

by: Brian Jacques

Summary: The peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes. Matthias determines to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior which, he is convinced, will help destroy the enemy.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Z 5.6 7129 16.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 16 351 101289 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Remember My Name

by: Sara H. Banks

Summary: Eleven-year-old Annie Rising Fawn Stuart is sent to live with her uncle, a wealthy Chero- kee plantation owner in Georgia, where she befriends a young slave girl and is caught up in the tragic events surrounding the forced Indian removal in 1838.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 119 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Remnants: The Mayflower Project

by: K.A. Applegate

Summary: In 2011, eighty people are given the chance to escape from Earth before an asteroid destroys Earth.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: U 5.0 79697 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 178 30952 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Report to the Principal's Office

by: Jerry Spinelli

Summary: While Sunny is determined to hate everyone at Plumstead Middle School, Eddie hopes to simply survive, Salem tries her hand at writing, and Pickles acts like -- Pickles. These four have one thing in common, they're all about to report to the principal.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: U 4.5 63439 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 134 24735 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Restless Earth

by: Melvin Berger

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

The Riddle of the Red Purse

by: Patricia Reilly Giff

Summary: When Dawn finds a purse and several kids claim it, she must use her detective skills to find out who it belongs to.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.2 6288 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 68 5158 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The River

by: Sarah Gaitanos

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: B None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The River

by: Gary Paulsen

Summary: 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.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 5.5 7023 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 22 129 27563 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Rivers

by: JoAnne Early Macken

Summary: This book describes plants and animals that live in and around rivers.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D 1.4 89957 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 7 24 143 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction Yes None None Road Robber

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: A story about a town that has a road stolen.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.3 11685 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 16 283 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Road Work Ahead

by: Robert Newell

Summary: Carlos and his mother watch the big trucks on the road crew.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 1.2 44469 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 16 207 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

The Robber Pig and the Ginger Beer

by: Margaret Mahy

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Robber Pig and the Green Eggs

by: Margaret Mahy

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Robert and the Hairy Disaster

by: Barbara Seuling

Summary: Robert thinks Susanne Lee and her friends are giggling about his hair, so he asks Paul to cut it, with disastrous results.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.2 83760 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 54 4821 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Robert and the Rocket

by: Leesa Waldron

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 5 15 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Robinson Crusoe

by: Daniel Defoe

Summary: A young seaman is cast ashore on an uninhabited tropical island.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Z 12.3 520 27.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 448 121961 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Rockabye Crocodile

by: Jose Aruego

Summary: Two elderly boars with contrasting dispositions take turns caring for a baby crocodile and find that their attitudes determine how they are repaid.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 24 32 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Rocks and Minerals

by: Glen Phelan

Summary: Describes the difference between rocks, minerals, and gems. Explains how different types of rock were formed. Describes the properties that are used to identify minerals, and explores different places where rocks and minerals are found. Shows how rocks are used every day, sometimes in new ways. AR Level: Quiz: Points: S None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 30 None Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

by: Mildred D. Taylor

Summary: Warmth, humor and hard times prevail as a black family struggles to maintain dignity and independence in Depression-era Mississippi.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: W 5.7 136 10.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 276 65606 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No Newbery 1977 None

The Roller Coaster

by: John Lockyer

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Roly-Poly

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 48 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Rooster Who Went to His Uncle's Wedding

by: Alma Flor Ada

Summary: In this Latin American Folktale, a rooster needs much help to get to his uncle's wedding on time and looking perfect.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 4.0 47731 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 4 32 884 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Roots

by: Christina Wilsdon

Summary: Look at a plant -- Roots find water -- Root hairs -- Roots grow -- Root systems -- Fibrous roots -- Rooted in place -- Root helpers -- Roots we eat -- Roots in the air -- Glossary.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Rosie and Michael

by: Judith Viorst

Summary: Two friends tell what they like about each other--even the bad things.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 4.0 21367 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 36 878 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Rough-Face Girl

by: Rafe Martin

Summary: In this Algonquin Indian version of the Cinderella story, the Rough-Face Girl and her two beautiful but heartless sisters compete for the affections of the Invisible Being.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 4.0 6140 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 30 1557 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Rowan of Rin

by: Emily Rodda

Summary: Because only he can read the magical map, young, weak, and timid Rowan joins six other villagers to climb a mountain and try to restore their water supply, as fears of a dragon and other hor- rors threaten to drive them back.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T 4.7 22373 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 14 151 30942 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Ruby Bridges

by: Margaret Nevinski

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Rumpelstiltskin

by: Paul Zelinsky

Summary: Classic story retold and highlighted with outstanding illustrations. A poor miller's daughter is forced into a pact with Rumpelstiltskin and can only redeem herself by guessing his name.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N 4.0 6141 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 30 1042 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Run Away Home

by: Partrica McKissack

Summary: In 1886 in Alabama, an eleven-year-old African-American girl and her family befriend and give refuge to a runaway Apache boy.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: X 4.9 25225 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 160 29592 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Runaway Ralph

by: Beverly Cleary

Summary: Ralph runs away looking for freedom but winds up a prisoner at a summer camp.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 5.3 5041 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 175 24176 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Sacajawea

by: Joseph Bruchac

Summary: Sacajawea, a Shoshone Indian interpreter, peacemaker, and guide, and William Clark al- ternate in describing their experiences on the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Northwest.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Y 5.7 35646 8.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 199 51809 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

by: Eleanor Coerr

Summary: Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 4.1 436 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 29 63 5677 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Sam the Minuteman

by: Nathaniel Benchley

Summary: The American Revolution is about to begin, and Sam, a young Minuteman, must overcome his fears in order to help his countrymen fight for freedom.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.9 29749 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 11 62 1078 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Samir and Yonatan

by: Daniella Carmi

Summary: Samir is sent for surgery to an Israeli hospital where he has two otherworldly experiences, making friends with an Israeli boy and traveling with him to Mars, where Samir finds peace about his brother's death. Translation is done by Yael Lotan.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Y 5.0 60451 6.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 183 38440 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Samuel's Choice

by: Richard Berleth

Summary: A young slave plays a heroic role in the Battle Of Long Island at the start of the American Revolution.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 4.4 6485 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 37 3738 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Sarah Morton's Day

by: Kate Waters

Summary: Take a trip through the year of 1627 with a pilgrim girl named Sarah, as she shows what work and play were like in an early American settlement.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q 3.4 29247 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 32 1048 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Sarah, Plain and Tall

by: Patricia MacLachlan

Summary: In this loving story of a motherless family, a tall, plain woman comes to stay with them.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 3.4 137 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 58 8377 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No Newbery 1986 None

Sarah, the Bear and the Kangaroo

by: Margaret Mahy

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M None None 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Sarah's Unicorn

by: Bruce Colville

Summary: Although she tries to keep her friendship with Oakhorn a secret, Sarah's wicked aunt finds out and is determined to rob the unicorn of his magic.The coauthor is Katherine Coville.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 3.7 29413 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 11 48 760 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Say it, Sign it

by: Elaine Epstein

Summary: Todd and Sonya play at the beach communicating in sign language. Some words are illustrated simply in sign in an insert picture.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G 1.3 31715 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 13 16 160 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

The Schoolyard Mystery

by: Elizabeth Levy

Summary: Chip, an invisible boy, and his friends solve the mystery of who took the school ball from the playground.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.9 9294 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 44 3236 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Scout

by: Ellen Miles

Summary: Scout clearly has the skills to be a search-and-rescue dog, and Charles and Lizzie have to find her an owner who will help her reach her full potential. Book #7

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.9 116939 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 75 10782 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None Scruffy

by: Peggy Parish

Summary: Todd chooses a cat from the animal shelter for his birthday present.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 1.9 7342 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 62 1416 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Sea Turtles

by: Lydia Carlin

Summary: This book is an introduction to sea turtles.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 2.8 127010 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 24 630 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

The Seal

by: Anne-Marie Dalmais

Summary: Text and illustrations introduce the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the seal.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 27 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: NonFiction No None None The Search for Delicious

by: Natalie Babbitt

Summary: 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.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: U 5.4 5042 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 167 26154 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Search For Grissi

by: Mary Francis Shura

Summary: 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.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T 5.0 188 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 11 126 25960 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Second-hand Magic

by: Ruth Chew

Summary: Two children acquire a magic kite and, with some second-hand items from a nearby store, enjoy a series of adventures.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 13 127 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Secret at the Polk Street School

by: Patrica Giff

Summary: After she gets a threatening message and finds pointy teeth marks in her loaf of bread just before she appears as Little Red Riding Hood in the school play, Dawn gets a terrible case of stage fright.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 2.3 6290 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 72 5240 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

The Secret Garden

by: Frances Burnett

Summary: Mary moves to a huge estate to live with her mysterious uncle, his ailing son, the servants- -and a secret garden.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: U 6.3 78 13.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 311 80398 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Secret of Platform 13

by: Eva Ibbotson

Summary: Odge and an old wizard travel through a magical tunnel from their island to London to rescue the son of the King and Queen who was stolen as an infant.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 5.8 21572 7.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 231 46046 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Secret Soldier: The Story of Deborah Sampson

by: Ann McGovern

Summary: This is the exciting, true story of a woman who became a soldier during the Revolutionary War by dressing and acting like a man.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 4.1 30651 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 63 6883 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

The See You Tomorrow, Charles

by: Miriam Cohen

Summary: Charles is the new boy in class, and he is blind. The other students are not real sure how to handle the situation.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.3 19923 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 28 663 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Sharks

by: Carolyn MacLulich

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 11 16 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Sharks

by: Justin McCoy Martin

Summary: This book describes the physical characteristics, habitat, behavior, and life cycle of sharks.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.2 127566 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 24 673 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Sharks

by: Seymour Simon

Summary: This book looks at the many different types of sharks, and reveals little known facts that expose the falsehood of many of the negative myths and rumors about them.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T 6.1 11786 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 26 2781 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Shiloh

by: Phylis Reynolds Naylor

Summary: When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner. The owner is a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs. Book #1.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 4.4 5440 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 144 29617 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes Newbery 1992 Video The Shoe Grabber

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Shoeshine Girl

by: Clyde Robert Bulla

Summary: Determined to earn some money, ten-year-old Sarah Ida gets a job at a shoeshine stand and learns a great many things besides shining shoes.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N 2.7 340 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 84 9883 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Shoveling Snow

by: Pat Cummings

Summary: Pam, with the help of her friends, shovels snow and makes a snowman.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F 0.9 31690 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 16 110 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One Show and Tell

by: Sharon Gordon

Summary: Worried about not having anything for show and tell, Jenny the squirrel absent-mindedly picks up many beautiful leaves as she walks to school and suddenly has an idea.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 28 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Show-and-Tell Frog

by: Joanne Oppenheim

Summary: Allie finds a frog for show-and-tell, but he disappears before she can take him to school.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 1.6 9690 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 32 411 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

The Show-and-Tell War

by: Janice Lee Smith

Summary: Five stories relate the adventures and misadventures of Adam Joshua as he contends with the first day of school, pretending to be sick, stealing a library book, making the scariest Halloween costume, and being upstaged at show-and-tell time.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N 4.6 10884 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 15 162 11264 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Sidewalk Story

by: Sharon Bell Mathis

Summary: Lilly Etta tries to keep her friend's family from being evicted.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N 3.3 291 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 13 58 10655 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Sideways Stories From Wayside School

by: Louis Sachar

Summary: Humorous episodes take place in the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q 3.3 5243 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 18 124 20395 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Sidney Rella and the Glass Sneaker

by: Bernice Myers

Summary: Sidney Rella becomes a football player with a little help from his fairy godfather.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 28 32 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Sign of the Beaver

by: Elizabeth George Speare

Summary: Written in the form of a diary, this story relates the days of a young boy in the Catskill Mountains.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T 4.9 138 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 26 135 32818 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Silly Billys

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: Little Billy and Big Billy have some funny misadventures while learning how to share.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.0 32397 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 16 346 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Sing to the Moon

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: The dragon kite -- No time to talk -- The trader from Currumbin : a play -- Lawn-mower poem -- The lawn -- Ah-ah-choo -- Come for lunch -- Red! Green! Stop! Go! -- At the north pole -- Hammer Hammer Hammer -- Woops -- Roo-roo-roo : a song -- Me-ow.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 48 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Sione's Talo

by: Lino Nelisi

Summary: A family works together to pull a huge talo plant out of the ground.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H 1.6 31684 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 16 166 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One

The Skeleton Inside You

by: Philip Balestrino

Summary: An introduction to the human skeletal system, explaining how the 206 bones of the skeleton join together, how they grow, how they help make blood, what happens when they break, and how they mend.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N 3.8 13824 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 32 843 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Skyfire

by: Frank Asch

Summary: When he sees a rainbow for the first time, Bear thinks that the sky is on fire and he is determined to put out the skyfire.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 1.6 24901 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 28 275 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None Skylark

by: Patricia MacLachlan

Summary: In the sequel to Sarah, Plain and Tall, Sarah's new family experiences some doubts about their future.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 3.2 10209 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 87 10511 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Sleeping Ugly

by: Jane Yolen

Summary: When beautiful Princess Miserella, Plain Jane, and a fairy fall under a sleeping spell, a prince undoes the spell in a surprising way.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.5 20207 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 27 64 1485 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Slime Time

by: Jim O'Connor

Summary: Danny and Jed become contestants on the children's television show "Slime Time," where wrong answers mean getting sprayed with whipped cream, but right answers could lead to new skate- boards. The coauthor is Jane O'Connor.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q 3.3 5244 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 63 7449 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Sloppy Tiger and the Party

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: Sloppy Tiger has a very festive and very sloppy time at Jim's birthday party.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 1.9 32398 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 16 295 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Sloppy Tiger Bedtime

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: Sloppy Tiger wants to watch television instead of going to bed.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 1.6 32399 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 16 332 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Small Treasures

by: Akimi Gibson

Summary: In this story, a young girl has a special box where she keeps her special treasures.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G 2.9 34672 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 16 53 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One The Smile

by: Janet Slater Redhead

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Snakes

by: Rebel Williams

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 8 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Snow on Snow on Snow

by: Cheryl Chapman

Summary: The author uses repetitive word play to tell the story of an African American boy who loses and then recovers his dog while sledding in the snow.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 11 32 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Snow Treasure

by: Marie McSwigan

Summary: In 1940, when the Nazi invasion of Norway reaches their village, twelve-year-old Peter & his friends use their sleds to transport nine million dollars worth of gold past the German soldiers to the harbor ready to take the gold for safekeeping in the US.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 5.3 85 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 17 156 34121 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Snowball

by: Jennifer Armstrong

Summary: A small snowball gets bumped by a skier and rolls down the hill growing in size and picking up people as it goes. Watch out below! Here comes a giant snowball tumbling down a hill, picking up everything--and everybody--in its path! This Early Step into Reading Book tells a story of a huge snowball on a collision course with laughter. Full color. A snowball gathers up children as it rolls down a hill. AR Level: Quiz: Points: E None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 7 32 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Snowshoe Thompson

by: Nancy Smiler Levinson

Summary: One winter John Thompson skis across the Sierra Nevada and creates a path upon which mail and people may travel, thus earning his nickname "Snowshoe Thompson".

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.2 14645 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 23 64 978 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Snowy Day

by: Ezra Jack Keats

Summary: A small boy experiences the joys of a snowy day.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.5 6092 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 12 32 316 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes Caldecott 1963 None

Snuffy, Fluffy and the Mice

by: Philemon Sturges

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: B None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 29 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Soccer Game

by: Grace Maccarone

Summary: Brief rhyming text follows a group of children through some exciting plays during a soccer game.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 29 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Soccer Sam

by: Jean Marzollo

Summary: Sam's cousin from Mexico comes for an extended visit and teaches Sam and all the second-graders to play soccer.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 2.6 6293 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 1 48 1638 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Some Friend!

by: Carol Carrick

Summary: Mike has always been a little in awe of his self-assertive friend Rob but one day, when pushed too far, Mike realizes he will have to take a stand of his own or lose self-respect.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Y None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 112 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Some Things Float

by: Lesley Pether

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 6 12 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None One Song Lee in Room 2B

by: Suzy Kline

Summary: Spring becomes a memorable time for Miss Mackle's second-grade classroom because of the antics of Horrible Harry and the special insights of shy Song Lee.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 3.0 9296 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 56 4711 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Song Quest

by: Katherine Roberts

Summary: Alone, stranded far from home, Rialle and Kherron are caught up in a dangerous and sinis- ter web, struggling against the powers of darkness that threaten to destroy their world.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: X 5.3 63440 11.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 271 71177 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Sonny's Best Friend

by: Mindy Menschell

Summary: Sonny believes only a boy can be his best friend. But when his friend Manda takes a trip with her family, he realizes she's really was best friend.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 27 16 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None SOS Titanic

by: Eve Bunting

Summary: Fifteen-year-old Barry O'Neill, traveling from Ireland to America on the maiden voyage of the "Titanic", finds his life endangered when the ship hits an iceberg and begins to sink.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T 4.5 14492 6.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 4 246 41313 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Sound

by: Liam Collins

Summary: What do you hear? -- What is sound? -- Loud and soft --High and low --Sounds around you.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Sound

by: Christina Wilsdon

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Soup

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: Souper man and Souper woman use soup to become heroes.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 0.9 11688 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 16 258 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Soup

by: Robert Newton Peck

Summary: Rural Vermont during the 1920s is the setting of this nostalgic account of episodes in the lives of young Rob Peck and his pal, Soup.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q 4.4 192 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 96 15169 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Soup Fit for a King (a play)

by: Elaine Le Sueur

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Soup for President

by: Robert Newton Peck

Summary: Soup is running against Rob's girlfriend for class president, and with Rob as his campaign manager, life for Soup and Rob gets pretty interesting.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q 4.0 5045 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 11 107 19014 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Space Dog the Hero

by: Natalie Standiford

Summary: Space Dog, who is really an alien from the planet Queekrg, has a hard time pretending to be a watchdog when Roy's father goes away on a business trip.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 3.1 28320 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 24 73 6815 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Spectacular Stone Soup

by: Patricia Giff

Summary: Stacy must do some quick thinking and quick acting when she realizes that she is not very helpful.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.5 6241 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 76 4371 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Spiders

by: Unknown

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 11 15 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Spinach With Chocolate Sauce

by: Francess Lantz

Summary: When a child star is kidnapped from his parents' restaurant, Puck and his parents become the number-one suspects. Determined to clear his family name, Puck sets out to solve the mystery and becomes involved in more dangerous adventures than he ever imagined.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 14 144 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Spooky Tail of Prewitt Peacock

by: Bill Peet

Summary: When Prewitt's shamefully scraggly tail develops the appearance of a scary green-eyed monster, the other peacocks decide it has to go.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.8 19596 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 30 1423 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Spots Feathers and Curly Tails

by: Nancy Tafuri

Summary: Questions and answers highlight some outstanding characteristics of farm animals, such as a chicken's feathers and a horse's mane.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 32 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Spray-Paint Mystery

by: Angela Shelf Medearis

Summary: Third-grader Cameron, anxious to prove that he can be a great detective like his dad, sets out with the help of his friend Tarann to discover who has been painting graffiti on the school walls.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 3.3 134529 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 102 12770 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Staying Nine

by: Pam Conrad

Summary: Nine-year-old Heather doesn't want to turn ten until wacky Rosa Rita shows her that growing up isn't so bad.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 3.9 7693 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 15 70 9980 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Steal Away

by: Jennifer Armstrong

Summary: In 1855 two thirteen-year-old girls, one white and one black, run away from a southern farm and make the difficult journey north to freedom, living to recount their story 41 years later to two similar young girls.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T 4.5 7860 6.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 206 43811 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Steal Away Home

by: Lois Ruby

Summary: Kansas family finds a skeleton in a secret room and learns their house was a station on the Underground Railroad.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 5.5 11491 7.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 13 192 42090 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Stone Fox

by: John Reynolds Gardiner

Summary: Little Willy hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dogsled race he enters.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 4.0 293 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 81 8957 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None Stone Soup

by: Ann McGovern

Summary: When a little old lady claims she has no food to give him, a hungry young man proceeds to make a soup with a stone and water.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 3.1 83089 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 32 936 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Stop That Rabbit

by: Sharon Peters

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 28 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Storm

by: Sanda Iversen

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 5 12 71 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Stormbreaker

by: Anthony Horowitz

Summary: After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, Alex is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency. Book #1

AR Level: Quiz: Points: W 5.1 50390 7.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 192 47510 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Storms

by: Andrew Collins

Summary: With simple text and photographs, decribes the different kinds of storms such as thunder- storms, tornadoes, and hurricanes.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

The Story About Ping

by: Marjorie Flack

Summary: The classic of a little yellow duck's night of adventure on the Yangtze River.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 4.3 5492 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 32 1139 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Story of Ferdinand

by: Munro Leaf

Summary: Ferdinand is a little bull who would rather just sit and smell the flowers than fight.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.7 5493 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 14 72 737 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

The Story of Ruby Bridges

by: Robert Coles

Summary: For months, six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of segregationists when she becomes the first African-American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 4.4 14855 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 24 1007 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Story of Sacajawea, Guide to Lewis and Clark

by: Della Rowland

Summary: A biography of the young Indian girl who guided Lewis and Clark through the uncharted terrain of the western United States.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T 6.1 16319 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 21 105 20357 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None The Story of the White House

by: Kate Waters

Summary: Text and photographs depict the history and trivia of the White House and its tenants.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 4.6 18894 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 40 1481 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Strange Plants

by: Monica Halpern

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Strawberry Thanksgiving

by: Paulla Jennings

Summary: Multicultural - American Indian children celebrate the strawberry festival.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 23 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: NonFiction No None None The Stray Dog

by: Marc Simont

Summary: A family befriends a stray dog, names him Willy, and decides to keep him. This is from a true story by Reiko Sassa.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 1.7 45453 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 30 212 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One

Strider

by: Beverly Cleary

Summary: In a series of diary entries, Leigh tells how he comes to terms with his parents' divorce, acquires joint custody of an abandoned dog, and joins the track team at school.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 4.8 5442 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 179 21363 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Strike Me Down with a String Bean

by: Malcolm McNeill

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Stripes

by: Miriam Frost

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 10 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Sun Smile

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 48 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Sun, the Wind, and the Rain

by: Beverley Randell

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None The Sunflower that went FLOP

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Super Cluck

by: Jane O'Connor

Summary: Chuck Cluck, an alien chick living on Earth, earns the name Super Cluck when he uses his super strength to save baby chicks from a rat. The coauthor is Robert O'Connor.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.7 44214 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 11 64 1080 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Superkids

by: Brian and Jillian Cutting

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 16 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Surprise Garden

by: Zoe Hall

Summary: After sowing unmarked seeds, three youngsters wait expectantly for their garden to grow.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 30 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One

Surprise Island

by: Gertrude Chandler Warner

Summary: Summer vacation on an almost-private island gives the Aldens a challenge.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 4.2 5302 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 178 22923 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Surprise Party

by: Pat Hutchins

Summary: Rabbit confides to Owl that he is planning a party, but as the message is passed from animal to animal it gets more and more confused.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 1.5 70559 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 32 327 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Survival in the Storm

by: Katelan Janke

Summary: A twelve-year-old girl keeps a journal of her family's and friends' difficult experiences in the Texas Panhandle, part of the "Dust Bowl," during the Great Depression.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: W 6.4 64752 6.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 189 36495 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt

by: Deborah Hopkinson

Summary: Drawn from a true incident in African American history, this is the story of a young slave who uses a quilt as a map to the underground railroad.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 3.8 9960 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 5 30 2145 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Swing, Swing, Swing

by: Gail Tuchman

Summary: A young girl shares her swing with her many animal friends.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C 1.0 31700 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 13 16 94 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One Tails

by: Jane Buxton

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Taking Care of Yoki

by: Barbara Campbell

Summary: No available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 167 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Tale of Despereaux

by: Kate DiCamillo

Summary: This is the adventures of Despereaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 4.7 70401 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 15 269 32375 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No Newbery 2004 None Tales for the Perfect Child

by: Florence Parry Heide

Summary: Vignettes of children whose less than desirable behavior is masked in insidious but accept- able ways.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 14 79 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

by: Judy Blume

Summary: Peter Hatcher has a terrible problem--his two-year-old little brother.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q 3.3 294 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 24 120 23741 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Talk About a Family

by: Eloise Greenfield

Summary: Genny is eager for her eldest brother's return from military service, convinced that he can fix everything--even the growing rift between their parents.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 3.6 445 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 60 5775 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Talking Yam

by: Cheyenne Randall

Summary: A farmer rushes to tell the king about his talking yam.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 1.7 44485 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 16 329 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Teach Us, Amelia Bedelia

by: Peggy Parish

Summary: That hapless, literal-minded maid Amelia Bedelia is plagued by hilarious misunderstand- ings.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 1.9 7647 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 3 56 1590 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Teacher's Pet

by: Johanna Hurwitz

Summary: Nine-year-old Cricket's expectations of being, as always, the teacher's favorite student are dashed by the arrival of an unusual new girl in her fourth-grade class.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 4.7 346 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 116 20059 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Tell-tale

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 8 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Ten Black Dots

by: Donald Crews

Summary: A counting book which shows what can be done with ten black dots--one can make a sun, two a fox's eyes, or eight the wheels of a train.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 31 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Tenth Good Thing About Barney

by: Judith Voirst

Summary: In an attempt to overcome his grief, a boy tries to think of the ten best things about his dead cat.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.8 26994 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 15 32 812 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Terrific Trees

by: Mignon Manhart

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.2 None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Tet: The New Year

by: Kim-Lan Tran

Summary: Multicultural - Encourages the awareness and appreciation of Vietnamese American cultures.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 23 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

That Fat Hat

by: Joanne Barkan

Summary: When Lou Lou, an individualistic cat, decides to wear a very large hat to lunch, her more conformist friend is very upset.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.4 126526 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 48 1101 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None That's Really Weird!

by: Pauline Cartwright

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

by: Louis Sachar

Summary: An eleven-year-old misfit learns to believe in himself when he gets to know the new school counselor, who is also a sort of a misfit.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q 3.4 349 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 11 195 36671 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

There's a Hamster in My Lunchbox

by: Susan Clymer

Summary: For Halloween, someone left a fluffy hamster dressed in a black cape on the teacher's desk. Who put it there -- and why? And what do you do with a frisky hamster that keeps getting lost and turning up in the strangest places?

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 120 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None There's a Hole in My Pocket

by: Akimi Gibson

Summary: The little elephant has a hole in his pocket and asks his friends and family for advice on how to fix it.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C 0.6 31691 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 16 56 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction None One

There's an Owl in the Shower

by: Jean Craighead George

Summary: Because protecting spotted owls has cost Borden's father his job as a logger in the old growth forest of northern California, Borden intends to kill any spotted owl he sees until he and his father find themselves taking care of a young owlet.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q 4.3 10641 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 26 134 17607 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

They Came from Center Field

by: Dan Gutman

Summary: Creatures from outer space land on Earth and ask "Bloop" Jones and his team to teach them baseball.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T 4.4 106867 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 5 90 10637 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Thief Lord

by: Cornelia Funke

Summary: Prosper and Bo are orphans on the run from their cruel aunt and uncle. The brothers decide to hide out in Venice, where they meet a mysterious thirteen-year-old boy who calls himself the "Thief Lord."

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V 4.8 63446 13.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 349 85591 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

This is the Place for Me

by: Joanna Cole

Summary: Morty the bear is tired of his broken-down home. He tries various other homes, but eventually returns to his own little house.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 5 30 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Three Cheers for Tacky

by: Helen Lester

Summary: Tacky the Penguin competes in an iceberg-wide cheering contest.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.8 12453 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 32 683 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Three Kings' Day

by: Beatriz McConnie Zapater

Summary: Multicultural - Story about Puerto Rican children in New York City getting ready for the visit of the Three Kings. Encourages awareness and appreciation of Hispanic American cultures.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 23 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Three Little Kittens

by: Paul Galdone

Summary: Three little kittens lose, find, soil, and wash their mittens.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G 1.6 44665 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 32 175 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Three Wishes for Buster

by: Andrew Clements

Summary: When Buster was a baby his family made a wish for him. They soon find out that Buster was all that and more.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 22 16 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Thumbelina

by: Alison Ainsworth

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 13 51 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Thumbprint Critters

by: Sarah Tatler

Summary: Instructions for creating a variety of shapes and figures using thumbprints and a few simple lines.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 5 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

THUMP, THUMP, Rat-a Tat-Tat

by: Gene Baer

Summary: A distant marching band grows larger and louder as it nears, and then softer and smaller as it goes away again.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 14 32 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Tiddalik

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 48 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Tikki Tikki Tembo

by: Arlene Mosel

Summary: This book is the re-creation of an ancient Chinese folktale about the boy with the long name who fell down the well.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 4.2 6095 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 38 973 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Time Machine

by: Les Martin

Summary: A scientist invents a time machine and uses it to travel to the year 802,701 A.D., where he discovers the childlike Eloi and the hideous underground Morlocks. This book is adapted from the classic by H.G. Wells.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 3.1 83455 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 14 94 7961 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Tina's Taxi

by: Betsy Franco

Summary: A simple story of the taxi-driving Tina and the the customers she picks up on each day of the week.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C 1.2 31686 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 16 84 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One

Together

by: George Ella Lyon

Summary: An illustrated poem about friendship and togetherness.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 31 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Tom's Midnight Garden

by: Philippa Pearce

Summary: While staying with his aunt and uncle, Tom discovers a magical garden and meets a girl from the Victorian era with whom he travels back in time.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V 6.1 89 9.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 25 229 56032 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Too Many Murphys

by: Colleen O'Shaughnessy McKenna

Summary: Collette Murphy, eight years old, wishes she were an only child, and is surprised when her wish comes true for a day.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T 4.4 18546 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 140 22784 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Too Many Puppies

by: Patience Brewster

Summary: A little girl looks forward to keeping all of Milly's puppies, but when they begin to make big demands on her, she changes her mind about them.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 2.2 89182 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 32 482 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Too Many Rabbits

by: Peggy Parish

Summary: After finally finding a home for a mother rabbit and her many children, Miss Molly gets a new house guest--a pregnant cat.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 0.9 81204 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 48 1179 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Tools Measure Weather

by: Lesley Pether

Summary: Literacy focus: vocabulary, consonant digraphs, short vowel sounds, two-syllable words, classifying, developing technical vocabulary, using illustrations to understand text. Science focus: introduces various tools that scientists use.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 12 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction None None

Tools Scientists Use

by: Sarah Russell

Summary: Literacy focus: vocabulary, consonant digraphs, two- and three-syllable words, classifying, noting details, drawing conclusions. Science focus: looks at a variety of tools that scientists use to do their job.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

The Tooth Race

by: Caren Stelson

Summary: Tom and Tim race to see whose wiggly tooth will come out first.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 1.6 44487 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 16 319 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Top Ten Shakespeare Stories

by: Terry Deary

Summary: Presents facts and trivia about ten plays by William Shakespeare and the time period in which they were written.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Z None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 192 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Tornado

by: Betsy Byars

Summary: As they wait out a tornado in their storm cellar, a family listens to their farmhand tell stories about the dog that was blown into his life by another tornado when he was a boy.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 3.2 14598 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 49 4440 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Tornadoes

by: Brian Cassie

Summary: Readers can learn all about tornadoes in this book full of facts and photographs.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 1 32 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: NonFiction No None None Tortillas

by: Margarita Gonzalez-Jensen

Summary: Simple text and illustrations show children eating tortillas in many different ways.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: E 1.5 34668 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 13 16 72 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One

Tracker

by: Gary Paulsen

Summary: A thirteen-year-old boy must come to terms with the approaching death of his beloved grandfather, with whom he shares a very special relationship.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T 5.3 647 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 90 16108 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Trading Game

by: Alfred Slote

Summary: During a summer of baseball and baseball-card trading, eleven-year-old Andy makes dis- coveries about his father and grandfather, who played professional baseball, along with discovering himself.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.3 5393 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 200 36982 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Train Ride Story

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: Julie is riding on a train and meets some characters looking for a story.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 0.7 11691 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 16 189 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Trash

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: The animals must clean up trash left at the zoo by people.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H 1.7 11692 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 16 134 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Treasure Island

by: Lisa Norby

Summary: In this adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, an innkeeper's son finds a treasure map that leads him to a pirate's fortune.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 3.7 83456 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 15 95 9680 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Treasure Island

by: Robert Louis Stevenson

Summary: This classic presents a tale of piracy on the tropical seas, of treachery and greed combined with romance, treasure, and adventure.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Z 8.3 522 12.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 222 66950 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Tree House

by: Roberta Brown

Summary: A young girl, her dog, and stuffed rabbit go down the street and through the woods to the tree house. The coauthor is Sue Carey.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: B 1.1 34663 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 16 25 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One

Trees

by: Miriam Frost

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 10 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Trees

by: Christina Wilsdon

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

The Trickster Ghost

by: Ellen Showell

Summary: Shortly after his family moves into his mother's girlhood home, things start disappearing and eight-year-old Stephen becomes the prime suspect.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 51 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Triplet Trouble and the Cookie Contest

by: Debbie Dadey

Summary: Sam Johnson and his friends, the Tucker triplets, learn a valuable lesson about friendship when they challenge one another to a very messy cookie cook-off. The coauthor is Marcia Thornton Jones. Book #5

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.1 112785 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 55 3625 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Triss

by: Brian Jacques

Summary: Triss, Shogg, and Welfo escape from slavery at Riftgard and are pursued across the sea toward Redwall by Princess Kurda, Prince Bladd, and a band of freebooters who seek the rumored treasure of Brockhall.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Z 5.8 63024 17.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 14 383 106978 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Tropical Fish

by: Megan Duhamel

Summary: This book is an introduction to tropical fish.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 2.9 127104 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 24 576 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Trouble for Lucy

by: Carla Stevens

Summary: Based on actual journals of the pioneer's journey to Oregon, the story combines with Ronald Himler's striking illustrations, to bring an exciting time in American history warmly to life.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 3.8 197 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 17 80 8846 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Trouble with Magic

by: Ruth Crew

Summary: Harrison Peabody, a very pleasant wizard, demonstrates that a great deal of trouble often accompanies a little bit of magic.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 112 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Trucks

by: Rebel Williams

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 8 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

True Stories About Abraham Lincoln

by: Ruth Belov Gross

Summary: Traces the political and personal life of the Civil War president.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 46 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None The True Story of Pocahontas

by: Lucille Recht Penner

Summary: A biography of the Powhatan Indian princess.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G 2.7 9585 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 3 48 1309 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!

by: Jon Scieszka

Summary: The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q 3.0 9506 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 26 863 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

The Trumpet of the Swan

by: E.B. White

Summary: Louis, the Trumpeter Swan, lacks a voice, but his father hits on a bold alternative so that Louis might win his love, Serena.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 4.9 90 6.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 252 42203 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Try, Try Again

by: Debbie Diller

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 24 12 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Tuck Everlasting

by: Natalie Babbitt

Summary: Winnie Foster discovers a magic spring that has given the Tuck family eternal life. She is faced with the difficult decision of whether or not to drink from it, and whether to tell all when a stranger wants to know the secret in order to sell the water.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: U 5.0 247 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 139 27848 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Tumble Bumble

by: Felicia Bond

Summary: A tiny bug goes for a walk, but it's no ordinary stroll. Along the way he bumps into a cat, a crocodile, even a baby pig. More creatures join them until they tippy-toe into a house that belongs to a young boy who happily tumble bumbles with them.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.1 40617 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 32 215 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One Turtle and Tortoise

by: Vincent Serventy

Summary: Describes the life cycle and natural environment of the turtle and the tortoise with empha- sis on their struggle for survival.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 23 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Twisters

by: Lucille Penner

Summary: This book describes how tornadoes and hurricanes form, as well as the damage caused by them.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.6 2456 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 48 1109 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Two Crazy Pigs

by: Karen Berman Nagel

Summary: Two pigs who drive the farmer and his wife crazy with their silliness and pranks decide to move to a new farm, only to be missed by all the other animals when they leave.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 1.8 83091 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 32 298 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None Tyrannosaurus was a Beast

by: Jack Prelutsky

Summary: A collection of humorous poems about dinosaurs.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 20 32 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Ugly Duckling

by: Lilian Moore

Summary: An ugly duckling spends an unhappy year ostracized by the other animals before he grows into a beautiful swan.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 46 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Umbrella

by: Taro Yashima

Summary: Momo eagerly waits for a rainy day so she can use the red boots and umbrella she re- ceived on her birthday.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 4.0 7596 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 13 32 567 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Uncle Jed's Barbershop

by: Margaree King Mitchell

Summary: Despite serious obstacles and setbacks, Sarah Jean's Uncle Jed, the only black barber in the county, pursues his dream of saving enough money to open his own barbershop.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 3.8 7194 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 28 1004 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Uncovering Earth's History

by: Glen Phelan

Summary: In this book, follow the discovery of a perfectly preserved woolly mammoth, an Ice Age mammal found by a family in Siberia, and learn how fossils tell us about climate, events, and life on Earth thousands of years ago.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 5.9 63746 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 32 3432 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Under Water

by: Rebel Williams

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 6 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Underground

by: Rebel Williams

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 8 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Using Rocks

by: Jacob Fink

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 12 167 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Using the River

by: Claire Llewllyn

Summary: This book describes how rivers are used.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.6 50472 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 895 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Vegetable Soup

by: Ann Morris

Summary: The ingredients that go into vegetable soup are detailed in rhyme.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D 1.3 31716 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 6 16 85 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One

Venomous Snakes

by: Ellen Catala

Summary: Describes the physical characteristics and behavior of venomous snakes in the viper, pit viper, and elapid families.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: NonFiction No None None

Venus Among the Fishes

by: Elizabeth Hall

Summary: Killer whales are invading the peaceful dolphin territory of Glacier Strait. Coral and her brother Snapper are sent to find their older brother and safer waters. Coral encounters all kinds of danger, but the greatest danger is the humans.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: S 4.7 14147 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 143 29927 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The View From Saturday

by: E.L. Sonigsburg

Summary: Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: U 5.9 15098 7.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 20 163 42685 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No Newbery 1997 None

Volcanoes: The Hottest Spots on Earth

by: Eileen Gluffre Cotton

AR Level: Quiz: Points: W None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 25 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

by: Hugh Lofting

Summary: This fictional classic presents the story of the good doctor who learns the language of animals and made adventurous voyages.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: U 5.7 93 11.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 13 387 73092 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No Newbery 1923 None Wait a Second!

by: Emily Herman

Summary: Pete has to wait before cutting his birthday cake, because of many disruptions.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 13 16 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Wake Me in Spring

by: James Preller

Summary: Mouse tucks Bear into bed and promises to wake him in spring, even though he feels sad. He will not see him for a long time.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: E 2.2 31726 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 14 29 302 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Wake Up!

by: Mindy Menschell

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: B None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 28 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Wake Up, Scooterville

by: Judith Bauer Stamper

Summary: In solving the radio contest mystery, a child and townspeople become aware of the need to clean up Scooter Creek.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.6 31743 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 32 848 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One

Waldo and the Desert Island Adventure

by: Hans Wilhelm

Summary: Michael and his dog Waldo, walking along a rainy beach, pool their imaginations to share a possible adventure involving a band of pirates and several monsters.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Walk Two Moons

by: Sharon Creech

Summary: After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V 4.9 10299 9.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 5 280 59400 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No Newbery 1995 None Walking, Walking

by: Miriam Frost

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 8 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Walter's Lucky Socks

by: Gibbs Davis

Summary: The Never Sink Nine's first game is against the Bronco Dogs. They are tough! Will Walter's lucky socks help them or should they rely on practice.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 14 70 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Wanted Dead or Alive: The True Story of Harriet Tubman

by: Ann McGovern

Summary: This is the story of Harriet Tubman and how she led hundreds of slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 3.8 32495 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 60 5497 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Watch Out for the Chicken Feet in your Soup

by: Tomie dePaola

Summary: Embarrassed to introduce a friend to his old-fashioned Italian grandmother, a young boy gains a new appreciation of her when he finds how well she and his friend get along.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 1.3 61754 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 11 32 232 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Watchers #6: Lab 6

by: Peter Lerangis

Summary: Sam Hughes hears a voice screaming in his head and is frequently in agonizing pain. His brain calls out to his unborn twin brother, Kevin. As these conditions worsen and Sam's parents seem to detach from him, he sets out to investigate what is wrong.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 156 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Water

by: Ann Morris

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: B None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 17 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Water

by: Pauline Cartwright

Summary: This book describes the many places water is found, both natural and man made.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.2 35228 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 8 9594 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Water Cycle

by: Christina Wilsdon

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963

by: Christopher Paul Curtis

Summary: The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African-American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T 5.0 11552 8.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 12 210 50225 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Wax Man

by: Olga Loya

Summary: The chicken-stealing fox is thwarted in her nightly raid by a mysteriously quiet guard.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Wayside School is Falling Down

by: Louis Sachar

Summary: More humorous episodes from the classroom on the 13th floor of Wayside School, where students learn to tango, face the cafeteria's dreaded Mushroom Surprise, and study a hobo during Show and Tell. Sequel to Sideways Stories from Wayside School.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Q 3.4 5247 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 22 179 28627 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

We are Best Friends

by: Aliki Brandenberg

Summary: When Robert's best friend Peter moves away, both are unhappy, but they learn that they can make new friends and still remain best friends.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 32 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None We Use Water

by: Nick Bruce

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 8 42 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Weather

by: Pamela Chanko

Summary: Photographs and simple text describe some of the activities associated with various types of weather, from ice skating to going to the beach.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 14 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Weather Watching

by: Heather Hammonds

Summary: Rain, sun and clouds --Meteorology --Weather stations --The weather at home --Make a rain gauge --Measure the temperature --Look at the clouds --Record the weather --Make a weather chart.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 339 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Weather Words and What They Mean

by: Gail Gibbons

Summary: This book introduces basic weather terms and concepts.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 3.5 57584 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 32 1119 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Weathering and Erosion

by: Christina Wilsdon

Summary: Explains how physical weathering, chemical weathering, and erosion occur.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

The Web of Life

by: Melvin Berger

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Well I Never

by: June Melser

Summary: Do you eat up your food? -- Well I never! -- I climbed up -- Sing sing -- The mouse and the old woman -- The three billy goats : a play -- Oh dear! -- Anna Maria -- Hot water! -- The turtle and the wolf.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 48 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

We'll Never Forget You, Roberto Clemente

by: Trudie Engel

Summary: This book is a biography of Puerto Rican baseball player Roberto Clemente, one of the greatest hitters in the history of the game, who lost his life in a plane crash in 1972.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N 4.5 134530 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 106 10387 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Wendy's Puppy

by: Kathryn Riley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 13 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None We're Going on a Bear Hunt

by: Michael Rosen

Summary: Brave bear hunters go through grass, a river, mud, and other obstacles before the inevita- ble encounter with the bear forces a headlong retreat.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 1.3 11194 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 13 36 410 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

The Westing Game

by: Ellen Raskin

Summary: 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.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: V 5.3 144 8.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 216 50966 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No Newbery 1979 None

Wet Grass

by: June Melser

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Wetlands

by: Heather Hammonds

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 6 16 175 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Wetlands

by: JoAnne Early Macken

Summary: This book describes plants and animals that live in and around wetlands.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D 1.5 89968 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 7 24 149 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction Yes None None

Whale Watch

by: June Behrens

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 31 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Whales

by: Jack Prager

Summary: This book presents an introduction to the physical characteristics, behavior, and natural habitat of whales

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.1 127567 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 24 654 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Whales

by: Seymour Simon

Summary: This book examines the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of various species of whales.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 5.5 59931 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 40 2238 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: NonFiction No None None

Whales The Gentle Giants

by: Joyce Milton

Summary: Describes how whales live and some different types of whales.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.8 6383 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 12 48 1068 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None What am I Made of?

by: David Bennett

Summary: Explore the most special of all living things your body.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N 3.8 18271 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 29 1211 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

What Are You Going to Buy

by: Pauline Cartwright

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 24 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

What Can Jenna Find?

by: Janet Klausner

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 19 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None What do you do with a Kangaroo?

by: Mercer Mayer

Summary: A little girl copes with a variety of animals who try to take over her things and order her about.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 3.8 44438 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 46 729 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None Two

What Grows Here?

by: Santina Bruni

Summary: Literacy focus: vocabulary, compound words, initial consonant blend, using illustrations to understand text, comparing and contrasting, making predictions. Social studies focus: shows the plants that grow in different environments.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 37 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

What Has Stripes

by: Margaret Ballinger

Summary: A boy looks around him for things that have stripes - and a dog finds them!

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 8 7 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None What I Would Do

by: Pauline Cartwright

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

What is Big?

by: Shane Armstrong

Summary: A boy compares the sizes of different people, animals and other things in the world.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 14 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

What is That? Said the Cat

by: Grace Maccarone

Summary: An assortment of animals tries different ways to get a big box open, only to be very surprised by what is inside.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F 1.4 41843 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 14 118 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None What Lila Loves

by: Bronwen Scarffe

Summary: Lila loves lots of things with names that begin with a particular letter of the alphabet.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: B None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One

What Seahorse Saw

by: Robin Bernard

Summary: A seahouse goes on an adventure and soon realize he misses home.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 20 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

What Will the Weather be Like Today?

by: Paul Rogers

Summary: Simple text and pictures discuss the different kinds of weather.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.0 28788 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 28 159 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None What Zoo Keepers Do

by: Jack Hanna

Summary: This book describes how lots of people work to keep the zoo a nice place for the animals.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.5 41752 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 45 1813 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

What's Cooking Jenny Archer?

by: Ellen Conford

Summary: Follows the comic mishaps of Jenny Archer as she goes into business preparing lunches for friends at school.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.2 6488 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 69 5969 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

What's Inside?

by: Mary Jane Martin

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: E None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 7 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None One Wheels

by: Judy Nayer

Summary: Simple text and illustrations show wheels and their many uses.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: E 1.7 34669 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 7 16 72 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None One

The Wheels on the Bus

by: Maryann Kovalski

Summary: While a grandmother and grandchildren wait for the bus, they sing the title song with such gusto they miss their bus.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: F None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 30 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Wheels, Wheels, Wheels

by: Nancy White Carlstrom

Summary: A train, a truck, a car, a bicyclist, a unicyclist, and a roller skater compete in a race.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None When the Wind Blows

by: Heather Hammonds

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: E None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 6 16 107 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

When this Box is Full

by: Patricia Lillie

Summary: Each month a child adds something to an empty box, including a red foil heart in February and toasted pumpkin seeds in October.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: B None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 30 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

When Will I Read

by: Miriam Cohen

Summary: Impatient to begin reading, a first-grader doesn't realize that there is more to reading than books.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 2.3 671 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 28 671 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None When Will We Be Sisters?

by: Virginia Kroll

Summary: Paula and Lisa go through an adjustment period after they become sisters.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 2.2 21229 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 24 448 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Where Does the Brown Bear Go?

by: Nicki Weiss

Summary: When the lights go down on the city street and the sun sinks far behind the seas, the animals of the world are on their way home for the night.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Where is My Baby?

by: Debprah Eaton

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 23 8 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Where is My Spider

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Where the Red Fern Grows

by: Wilson Rawls

Summary: This is a simply written, moving story of the love between a young boy and his two dogs.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: X 4.9 95 11.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 249 75528 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Where the Wild Things Are

by: Maurice Sendak

Summary: A naughty little boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails to the land of the wild things where he becomes their king.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 3.4 5499 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 48 336 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes Caldecott 1964 None Where's My Snack? (a play)

by: Christine Young

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 16 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Where's the Bus

by: Sandy Lanton

Summary: A mix of fiction and nonfiction: articles, stories, poems, and plays presented in a magazine- like format.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Which Hat Today?

by: Margaret Ballinger

Summary: Each day a girl decides which hat from her collection she wants to wear. On her birthday, she picks a very special hat.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: E None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 7 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Whipping Boy

by: Sid Fleischman

Summary: A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 3.9 146 2.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 90 13280 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No Newbery 1987 None

Whistle For Willie

by: Ezra Jack Keats

Summary: A child and his city world are captured in colorful illustrations.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.5 17550 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 3 28 380 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Who am I?

by: Aylette Jenness

Summary: Multicultural - David asks about his ethnic background and celebrates family heritage day with his school class.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 23 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Who Likes the Cold?

by: Rebel Williams

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: A None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 6 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Who Lives in a Tree?

by: Susan Canizares

Summary: Photographs and simple text depict the many different animals that live in trees, from the roots to the branches.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: B None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 7 12 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Who Lives in this Hole?

by: Rebel Williams

Summary: None available

by: Joanna Cole

Summary: Mama Sue, Papa Joe, and the kids prepare a fiery pot of stew for visiting Aunt Tootie.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: L 2.9 7350 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 21 38 711 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Who Really Killed Cock Robin?

by: Jean Craighead George

Summary: Eighth-grader Tony follows a trail of environmental clues to try and figure out what ecological imbalances might have caused the death of the town's best-known robin.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: U 5.6 42831 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 21 191 34512 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Who Stole the Cookies?

by: Judith Moffatt

Summary: Each in a series of animals denies taking the cookies from the cookie jar.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: G 0.8 31603 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 5 32 154 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None Who Wants a Ride?

by: Robin Bernard

Summary: Different wildlife babies ride with their mothers in many different ways.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H 1.5 31719 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 216 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None One

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

by: Verna Aatrdema

Summary: This picture book is a retelling of a traditional West African tale that reveals how the mos- quito developed its annoying habit.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 4.0 5550 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 28 1219 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes Caldecott 1975 None

Wild Weather

by: Julie Haydon

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 187 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Wild Woolly Child

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 24 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Wildfires

by: Susan Ring

Summary: In this book, readers will find out how smoke jumpers and hotshot crews battle fires that tear across acres and acres of land, destroying everything in their path.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 5.3 66619 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 24 1263 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None One

Will and Orv

by: Walter Schulz

Summary: On a windy day in Kitty Hawk, N. C., in 1903, the Wright Brothers attempt to make history as they prepare the 'Flyer' for the world's first engine-powered flight.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 2.9 6700 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 28 48 1505 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction Yes None None Willie's Not the Hugging Kind

by: Joyce Durham Barrett

Summary: Willie's best friend, Jo-Jo, thinks hugging is silly, so Willie stops hugging everybody. He soon misses giving and getting hugs from his family.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: M 3.4 47839 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 32 1220 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Willie's Wonderful Pet

by: Mel Cebulash

Summary: Willie's pet is the only animal that performs on Pet Day at school.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I 1.5 31725 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 30 316 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction Yes None None

Wings a Tale of Two Chickens

by: James Marshall

Summary: Two plump chicken friends get into trouble when the somewhat dense one goes for a hot- air balloon ride with a suave fox.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: K 2.6 68418 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 32 767 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Winter is Here!

by: Kimberly Weinberger

Summary: Winter is Here! Describes in rhyme what children do in winter. They skate and slide and put a hat on their snowman's head.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 12 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Wish Broom

by: Peggy Kahn

Summary: Katie wishes that her wish broom would clean up her room.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 27 16 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Wish Giver

by: Bill Brittain

Summary: When a strange little man comes to the Coven Tree Church Social promising he can give people exactly what they ask for, three young believers-in-magic each make a wish that comes true in the most unexpected way.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T 4.4 499 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 18 181 27661 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Wishing Tree

by: Ruth Chew

Summary: A bird and cat that talk and a special tree in a nearby park involve a brother and sister in some magical adventures.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 141 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

by: Elizabeth Speare

Summary: Puritan neighbors regard Kit Tyler with suspicion, fear, and anger when she befriends an old woman accused of witchcraft.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: W 5.7 98 9.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 4 249 60027 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No Newbery 1959 None

The Wizard of Oz

by: Frank Baum

Summary: Lifted from Kansas to the magical Land of Oz, Dorothy Gale meets a Scarecrow, a Tin Woodman, and a cowardly Lion, all of whom set off to find the Wizard and defeat the Wicked Witch of the West.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: U 7.0 525 7.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 12 156 40508 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Wonder-Whizz

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 24 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Wood

by: Rebel Williams

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: B None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 9 8 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Wood

by: Kate McGough

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: D None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: None 5 8 48 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None Woodsong

by: Gary Paulsen

Summary: This story features dogsledding adventures, capped by the story of the author's first Idi- tarod.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T 5.6 6950 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 132 30485 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction Yes None None

The Word Eater

by: Mary Amato

Summary: Lerner Chanse, a new student at Cleveland Park Middle School, finds a worm that magically makes things disappear, and she hopes it will help her fit in, or get revenge, at her hated school.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: R 4.5 48342 4.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 27 151 26411 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The World of Matter

by: Ron Cole

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: N None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None The World of Reptiles

by: Darlyne Murawski

Summary: Introduces the reader to the diversity of forms and behaviors associated with the reptilian way of life.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: NonFiction No None None

World of Water

by: William T. Ryan

Summary: This book is an exploration of different forms of water resources.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T 4.7 66621 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 1037 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Worm Day

by: Harriet Ziefert

Summary: Mr. Rose brings his science class a cooler full of worms so that they can study the animals' characteristics first hand.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 7 64 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Worms for Breakfast

by: Alison deWinter

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Would You Like to Fly?

by: Rebel Williams

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: C None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 8 8 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Wrong - Way Rabbit

by: Teddy Slater

Summary: Comical rhyming story about a bunny who likes to do things backwards.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J 2.0 11200 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 28 297 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Yagua Days

by: Cruz Martel

Summary: A Puerto Rican boy living in New York makes his first trip to Puerto Rico where he learns about yagua days.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 29 40 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Yang the Youngest and Her Impossible Family

by: Lensey Namioka

Summary: Yingmei Yang changed her name to Mary now that she is learning how to "be American." In an attempt to be best friends with popular Holly Hanson, Mary adopts one of Holly's kittens. Now Mary must keep it a secret from her family.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 4.5 14149 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 16 143 24039 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear

by: Lensey Namioka

Summary: Newly arrived in Seattle from Shanghai, Yingtao is an outsider in his musical family because he's tone-deaf.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: P 4.6 8550 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 134 21167 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None The Yard Sale

by: Susan McCloskey

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 16 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Year of the Panda

by: Miriam Schlein

Summary: Chinese boy rescues a starving baby panda, and in the process learns why pandas are endangered and what the government is doing to save them.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T 3.4 6996 1.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 30 83 7783 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

The Yellow House Mystery

by: Gertrude Chandler Warner

Summary: A spooky old house on Surprise Island intrigues Benny.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: O 3.2 5303 3.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 191 24472 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Young Cam Jansen and the Ice Skate Mystery

by: David Adler

Summary: When her friend Eric loses the key to their locker at the ice skating rink, Cam uses her photographic memory to solve the mystery. Book #4

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H 2.5 29423 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 31 1147 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Young Cam Jansen and the Lost Tooth

by: David Adler

Summary: Cam uses her photographic memory to help a classmate find the tooth she lost at school. Book #3

AR Level: Quiz: Points: H 2.4 16397 0.5 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 2 32 1288 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None

Young Kangaroo

by: Margaret Wise Brown

Summary: A tiny kangaroo is born and moves into his mother's pouch, where he grows big enough to be interested in the world around him long before he actually leaves her pouch to investigate further.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 5 44 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Your Life in Poems

by: Charles Doersch

Summary: "Do you know any poets? You might. Rockers can be poets. Rappers can be poets. The special someone who sits across from you in Spanish class might be a poet, too. Poetry is about the everyday stuff in your life.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: Y None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 6 40 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Yo-Yo Ma

by: Susan McCloskey

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: J None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 6 16 None Available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None

Yum and Yuk

by: Joy Cowley

Summary: None available

AR Level: Quiz: Points: I None None None Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: No 10 8 None available Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Fiction No None None Zlata's Diary

by: Zlata Filipovic

Summary: This book presents the diary of a thirteen-year-old girl living in Sarajevo, begun just before her eleventh birthday when there was still peace in her homeland.

AR Level: Quiz: Points: T 4.3 11144 5.0 Lesson Plans: Copies: Pages: Word Count: Yes 11 200 32888 Fiction/Nonfiction: Voice Recording: Award: Cassette: Nonfiction No None None