World+Classics

The four March sisters experience joys and sorrows as they grow into young women in nineteenth century New England. || Thirteen-year-old Jonathan goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War and discovers the real war is being fought within himself. || A young boy named Egan sets out to prove that the strange sounds coming from the top of the Mammoth Mountains near his aunt and uncle's home--which the villagers believe are the cries of a mysterious monster--have a reasonable explanation. || A fourteen-year-old English girl wins a horse in a raffle,trains it, and rides it in the Grand National steeplechase. || A nine-year-old boy receives a toy Native American, a cupboard, and a little key for his birthday and embarks on an adventure when the toy comes to life and befriends him. || 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. || The adventures of the three Darling children in Neverland with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up. || When a storm blows Dorothy to the land of Ev where lunches grow on trees, she meets the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman, the Cowardly Lion, and Princess Ozma, and together they set out to free the Queen of Ev and her ten children. || After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great wizard in order to return to Kansas. || Madeline, smallest and naughtiest of the twelve little charges of Miss Clavel, wakes up one night with an attack of appendicitis. || Madeline and her friends become very upset when Genevieve, a dog that has become a cherished school pet since rescuing Madeline from an accidental fall into the Seine, is tossed out by the school board chairman. || By the time the velveteen rabbit is dirty, worn out, and about to be burned, he has almost given up hope of ever finding the magic called Real. || Five brothers who look just alike outwit the executioner by using their extraordinary individual qualities. || Twelve-year-old Margaret, whose parents are Jewish and Christian, tries to choose a religion while struggling with the changes of adolescence. || When several members of Jill's fifth-grade class decide to make life miserable for one girl, unexpected problems occur. || Andrew wants freckles so badly that he buys Sharon's freckle recipe for fifty cents. || Fourth-grader Peter Hatcher finds his demanding two-year-old brother an ever-increasing problem. || Several animals sleep snugly in Nicki's lost mitten until the bear sneezes. || Presents a wordless book using over one hundred seventy-five picture frames to relate the story of the adventure shared by a little boy and the snowman he built in the yard. || The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century. || 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. || When three hungry soldiers come to a town where all the food has been hidden, they set out to make soup of water and stones, and all the town enjoys a feast. || A little rabbit who wants to run away tells his mother how he will escape, but she is always right behind him. || Young Babar, escaping from a hunter, goes to the city where he is befriended by a rich old Lady. || Sara Crewe, young daughter of a wealthy diamond merchant, struggles to keep her dignity after her father loses his fortune and the other girls at Miss Minchin's school begin to treat her differently. || Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden. || A young Labrador Retriever, an old Bull Terrier and a Siamese cat undertake a 250-mile trek through the Canadian wilderness in order to return to their home. || A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her. || Although Mike Mulligan's steam shovel is too old fashioned to compete with newer models, the people of Popperville find a way to keep them working. || Problems develop when Nate's hen lays an egg that hatches into a dinosaur. || Three lonely foster children learn to care about themselves and each other. || A teenage girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally handicapped brother gets lost. || After she falls headfirst into a bird's nest, a baby bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her mother. || A grouchy ladybug who is looking for a fight challenges everyone she meets regardless of their size or strength. || Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep. Die-cut pages illustrate what the caterpillar ate on successive days. || Fascinated with dinosaurs, Patrick invents an imaginary explanation of why they become extinct. || By falling down a rabbit hole and stepping through a mirror, Alice experiences unusual adventures with a variety of nonsensical characters. || In the bleak, forbidding house of her great-aunts, neglected twelve-year-old orphan Maggie hears ghostly voices and finds magic that awakens in her the capacity to love and be loved. || Young Will Parker and his companions make a perilous journey toward an outpost of freedom where they hope to escape from the Tripods, the huge, three-legged machines that control Earth by "capping" mature humans with brainwashing devices that make them docile, obedient servants. || 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. || Third-grader Ellen takes dancing lessons, wears braces on her teeth, and has a best friend. || The misadventures of a young boy whose mischievous spirit gets him into one predicament after another. || The adventures of a boy and a little mouse who wants to ride his toy motorcycle. || The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job. || Seven-year-old Ramona Quimby, feeling that she is perhaps not as loved as her younger sister, tries a number of ploys to get her mother's attention. || Ramona's year in third grade is highlighted by the arrival of Howie's rich uncle, a change in her after-school situation, a surprise wedding, a death and a new arrival in the family, and her father's getting a job. || With her father returning to college and her mother working full time, Ramona muddles through the hard times at school and home and proves to be big enough for her family to depend on. || Ramona Quimby expects fourth grade to be the best year of her life; and although things do not go just as she had hoped, she still manages to have her share of adventures. || Six-year-old Ramona Quimby must cope with a scary new bedroom, a job that steals away her mother's attention, and an unsympathetic first grade teacher. || Ramona starts kindergarten where her good intentions and uncontrollable curiosity lead her to be labeled a pest. || Ralph the mouse is bored with his family, so he decides to hop on his motorcycle and head to Happy Acres Camp; however, life at camp makes him wish he were back home. || The happy home life of Socks, the cat, is disrupted by the addition of a new baby to the household. || In the Great Smoky Mountains region, a fourteen-year-old girl struggles to keep her family together after their father dies. || By rights young Daniel Arabus and his mother, slaves in Captain Iver's house in Stratford, Conn., should be free. But the Captain refuses to honor their agreement and instead sells Daniel on board a ship to the West Indies. || Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town. || Pinocchio, a wooden puppet full of tricks and mischief, with a talent for getting into trouble, wants more than anything else to become a real boy. || Timothy Frisby, a field mouse, teams up with the adventurous rat, Racso. Together they try to prevent the destruction of a secret community of rats that can read and write. || As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all. || A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity. || On his eleventh birthday Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs that will enable the Old Ones to triumph over the evil forces of the Dark. || Brief text and illustrations trace the journey of a colorful train as it goes through tunnels, by cities, and over trestles. || Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants. || 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. || **A young boy escapes from two wicked aunts and embarks on a series of adventures with six giant insects he meets inside a giant peach. || Angered by a neighboring family's sport hunting, an eight-year-old girl turns her magic finger on them. || Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security. || A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice. || An eight-year-old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness, and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family. || A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King. || Alone in a sampan with his pig and three ducklings, a little Chinese boy is whirled down a raging river, back to the town from which he and his parents had escaped the invading Japanese, and spends long and frightening days regaining his family and new home. || The people in a little town in Holland try to bring storks to nest in their village. || When William Everett Crocodile is chosen to be a suitcase, his talking toothbrush becomes his salvation. || When Strega Nona leaves him alone with her magic pasta pot, Big Anthony is determined to show the townspeople how it works. || A well-mannered little boy, frequently invited to visit the king and queen, always asks to bring his animal friends as guests. || 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. || A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future. || Retells in verse Jack's encounter with a giant, including such lore as the right way to shake hands with a giant. || Relates the incredible adventures of Professor William Waterman Sherman who in 1883 sets off in a balloon across the Pacific, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, and is eventually picked up in the Atlantic. || In 1756, during the French and Indian War in upper New York state, ten-year-old Edward is determined to protect his home and family with the ancient, and much too heavy, Spanish gun that his father had given him before leaving home to fight the enemy. || A mother and child plant a rainbow of flowers in the family garden. || A cumulative folk song in which seven soldiers build a magnificent cannon, but Drummer Hoff fires it off. || The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children. || In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson. Includes a note from the author's daughter, Helena Estes. || Relates the adventures and misadventures of the four Moffat children living with their widowed mother in a yellow house on New Dollar Street in the small town of Cranbury, Connecticut. || The story of the understanding and love between a boy and a magnificent wild horse and the adventures and dangers they shared. || 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. || Eleven-year-old Harriet keeps notes on her classmates and neighbors in a secret notebook, but when some of the students read the notebook, they seek revenge. || A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws. || Two children persuade their father, an inventor, to purchase and restore an old car which turns out to have magical powers. || After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution. || A teddy bear spends his days waiting in a store for someone to buy him. || Dandelion overdresses for a come-as-you-are party and is turned away because the hostess does not recognize him. || A toy bear who wants a pocket for himself searches for one in a laundromat. || An old man sets out in search of a pet for his lonely wife and returns with millions of cats, all claiming to be the most beautiful of the bunch. || Henny Penny and her friends are on the way to tell the king the sky is falling when they are outwitted by the fox. || A poor young man gains a fortune and meets a beautiful princess when his cat, the clever Puss, outwits an evil giant. || Little Willy hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters. || Janey and her family settle in a real home after spending years as migratory workers. || A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains, including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship. || Escaping from an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl gets lost on the Alaskan tundra and is befriended by a wolf pack. || During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently. || In the late 1860s in the Texas hill country, a big yellow dog and a fourteen-year-old boy form a close, loving relationship. || Though she is fond of her people, a girl prefers to live among the wild horses where she is truly happy and free. || The boy who finds the dragon in the cave knows it is a kindly, harmless one, but how can he convince the frightened villagers and especially St. George the dragon killer that there is no cause for concern? || The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger. || Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived as an outlaw in Sherwood Forest dedicated to fighting tyranny. || A collection of myths, folktales, and legends of ancient Egypt. || A young llama asks his friends if their mamas are llamas and finds out, in rhyme, that their mothers are other types of animals. || Recounts how most African folk tales came to be called "Spider Stories." || Describes the day-to-day life of an early nineteenth-century New England family throughout the changing seasons. || An African-American family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home which was once a stop on the Underground Railroad. || Already a leader in New York's underground world of homeless children, Buddy Clark takes on the responsibility of protecting the overweight, emotionally disturbed friend with whom he has been playing hooky from eighth grade all semester. || Fourteen-year-old Tree, resentful of her working mother who leaves her in charge of a retarded brother, encounters the ghost of her dead uncle and comes to a deeper understanding of her family's problems. || Betsy experiences an interesting first year in school and looks forward to summer vacation at her grandfather's farm. || Chrysanthemum loves her name until she starts going to school and the other children begin to make fun of it. || Owen's parents try to get him to give up his favorite blanket before he starts school, but when their efforts fail, they come up with a solution that makes everyone happy. || An unusual work horse raised in Vermont and known originally as "Little Bub" becomes the sire of a famous American breed and takes the name of his owner, Justin Morgan. || Sham and the stable boy Agba travel from Morocco to France to England where, at last, Sham's majesty is recognized and he becomes the "Godolphin Arabian," ancestor of the most superior Thoroughbred horses. || Two youngsters' determination to own a Chincoteague pony is greatly increased when the Phantom and her colt are among those rounded up for the yearly auction. || In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. || To the surprise of many, the little country cottontail becomes one of the special Easter bunnies even though she has twenty-one children of her very own. || Frances learns that she likes to eat other things besides bread and jam. || After the old woman cuts off his tail when he steals her milk, the fox must go through a long series of transactions before she will sew it back on again. || A toy Indian in a toy canoe takes a journey of several hundred miles through the Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence River, and Niagara Falls before it reaches the Atlantic Ocean. || Though scoffed at by Harold the dog, Chester the cat tries to warn his human family that their foundling baby bunny must be a vampire. || Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War. || After her mother's death, Julie goes to live with Aunt Cordelia, a spinster schoolteacher, where she experiences many emotions and changes as she grows from seven to eighteen. || Although unaware that a fox is after her as she takes a walk around the farmyard, Rosie the hen still manages to lead her stalker into one accident after another. || The people of a village perform their annual lottery, with startling consequences for the recipient of the one paper with the black spot. Includes background information about the story and the author. || Harold uses his fantastic purple crayon to draw himself some wonderful adventures. || Milo finds a cure for his boredom and discovers the importance of words and numbers on a journey through a fantastical land. || Relates the adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day. || Sixteen-year-old Jefferson Davis Bussey cannot wait to join the Army and defend the Union against the dreaded Colonel Watie, but when he is assigned to infiltrate the enemy camp as a spy, he discovers the rebels are boys and men just like him, and he must then decide whether to betray his enemies or join them. || Chicken Little and his feathered friends, alarmed that the sky seems to be falling, are easy prey to hungry Foxy Loxy when he poses as a police officer in hopes of tricking them into his truck. || Jenny and her mouse friends, in search of a peaceful place to live, come to the island of the Skog, who seems a more terrible threat than city cats and dogs. || A Polish family in the Middle Ages guards a great secret treasure and a boy's memory of an earlier trumpeter of Krakow makes it possible for him to save his father. || Impressed by the proud caterpillar's boast that she will turn into a butterfly when she grows up, a polliwog determines to watch the caterpillar very carefully and turn into a butterfly too. || Twelve stories about animals, insects, and other subjects include "How the Whale Got His Throat," "The Elephant's Child," "How the Alphabet Was Made," and "The Butterfly that Stamped." || A trapper's son and a champion Irish Setter roam wilderness areas and grow to maturity together. || A collie undertakes a 1000-mile journey in order to once again meet her former master at the school gate. || Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself. || Elizabeth is very lonely until she meets Jennifer, who is a witch and who teaches Elizabeth to become a witch herself. || 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. || Leo, a young tiger, finally blooms under the anxious eyes of his parents. || Despite everyone's dire predictions, a little boy has faith in the carrot seed he plants. || His friendship with the town odd-jobs man, Onion John, causes a conflict between Andy and his father. || Meg Murry, her brother Charles, and their friend Calvin, embark on a journey through space and time, assisted by three otherworldly women, when they set out to find Meg's father, a physicist who disappeared while experimenting with time travel. || Georgie's fondest hope, to be able to fly, is fleetingly fulfilled when she is befriended by a Canada goose. || A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored "The American Practical Navigator." || Benjamin Franklin's companion, Amos the mouse, recounts how he was responsible for Franklin's inventions and discoveries. || The life of the Revere family and the doings of the Sons of Liberty as told from the point of view of Paul Revere's horse. || New folks are coming to live in the Big House. The animals of Rabbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers. || Four young cats with wings leave the city slums in search of a safe place to live, finally meeting two children with kind hands. || In Spain, a young bull named Ferdinand who would rather sit peacefully under a tree and smell the flowers than butt heads with the others is chosen for the bullfights in Madrid when a sting from a bee makes him stomp and snort like the fiercest bull of all. || A collection of over 100 limericks with the author's original illustrations. || Birdie Boyer and her hard working family raise strawberries in Florida, but have to face the dislike of their neighbors. || A collection of all seven volumes of the "Chronicles of Narnia," featuring original illustrations which have been colored by the artist. || Four English school children find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch who has cursed the land with eternal winter. || Escapades of a lucky little girl who lives with a horse and a monkey--but without any parents--at the edge of a Swedish village. || Frederick, the poet mouse, stores up something special for the long cold winter. || Swimmy, a small black fish, finds a way to protect a school of small red fish from their natural enemies. || As Hillary works in the miniature village, allegedly built by elves, in Sara-Kate's backyard, she becomes more and more curious about Sara-Kate's real life inside her big, gloomy house with her mysterious, silent mother. || Twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from crocodile to ostrich. || Five tales recounting the adventures of two best friends--Frog and Toad. || Buck, a dog that has been forced into the harsh life of 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. || Follows the adventures of a dog who is part wolf as he eventually makes his peace with man in the wilderness of northern Canada. || Relates the story of a wealthy young man who is rescued after a shipwreck by the brutal, ruthless captain of a tramp steamer. || Rambunctious Froggy hops out into the snow for a winter frolic but is called back by his mother to put on some necessary articles of clothing. || After Tacy Kelly moves into the house across the street from Betsy Ray, the five-year-olds become inseparable friends. || In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis. || A little princess is protected by her friend Curdie from the goblin miners who live beneath the castle. || Caleb and Anna are captivated by the mail-order bride their father has invited to live with them in their prairie home, and hope that she will stay. || Children see a variety of animals, each one a different color, and a teacher looking at them. || Presents a rhyming alphabet rhyme books that relates the story of what happens when the whole alphabet tries to climb a coconut tree. || Michael's love for his great-great-aunt who lives with them leads him to intercede with his mother, who wants to toss out all her old things. || Little Sal and Little Bear both lose their mothers while eating blueberries and almost end up with the other's mother. || Six episodes in the life of Homer Price including one in which he and his pet skunk capture four bandits and another about a donut machine on the rampage. || A family of mallard ducks searches for a new home in Boston. || In trying to determine which of his six sons to reward for saving his life, Anansi the Spider is responsible for placing the moon in the sky. || An adaptation of the Pueblo Indian myth which explains how the spirit of the Lord of the Sun was brought to the world of men. || Aerin, with the guidance of the wizard Luthe and the help of the blue sword, wins the birthright due her as the daughter of the Damarian king and a witchwoman of the mysterious, demon-haunted North. || In 1940, when the Nazi invasion of Norway reaches their village in the far north, twelve-year-old Peter and his friends use their sleds to transport nine million dollars worth of gold bullion past the German soldiers to the secret harbor where Peter's uncle keeps his ship ready to take the gold for safekeeping in the United States. || A courageous young white man aids slaves escaping from Kentucky in pre-Civil War days. || A satire on modern city life depicting an outbreak of war between truck drivers and pushcart peddlers. || A Navajo girl unravels a day's weaving on a rug whose completion, she believes, will mean the death of her grandmother. || Ten adventures of Pooh, Eeyore, Tigger, Piglet, Owl, and other friends of Christopher Robin. || The adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends, in which Pooh Bear uses a balloon to get honey, Piglet meets a Heffalump, and Eeyore has a birthday. || An ugly duckling, teased by the other animals because he doesn't fit in, learns the true meaning of beauty and belonging after making a surprising discovery. || Sixteen-year-old Anne, mischievous and spirited as ever, returns to Avonlea to teach in the village school where she herself was taught. || An adventurous young orphan goes to live on a farm with an elderly brother and sister. || A collection of twelve short stories set on Prince Edward Island in Avonlea. || When the eldest son fell in the well and most of the time getting help was spent pronouncing the name of the one in trouble, the Chinese, according to legend, decided to give all their children short names. || A beautiful princess, Elizabeth, lived in a castle, had expensive clothes and was going to marry a prince. Unfortunately, a dragon changes her plans. || 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, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs. || A young girl names all the clothes that she must wear to play in the snow. || A quietly humorous story of one kind of contemporary New York City boyhood, a fourteen-year-old and his family, his friends, and a stray tomcat. || Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. || 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. || Miniature people who live in an old country house by borrowing things from the humans are forced to emigrate from their home under the clock. || A young boy, having given a cookie to a bossy mouse, is run ragged by the energetic rodent's subsequent requests. || With nowhere else to turn, a field mouse asks the clever escaped lab rats living under the rosebush to help save her son, who lies in the path of the farmer's tractor, too ill to be moved. || Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life. || Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother who took opposite sides in the War for Independence, and fleeing from the British who seek to arrest her, Sarah struggles to shape a new life for herself in the wilderness. || In claiming as his own the magnificent black pearl he finds, a sixteen-year-old youth enrages the sea devil who legend says is its owner. || A young Navajo girl recounts the events of 1864 when her tribe was forced to march to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, as prisoners of the white soldiers. || An aimless Wyoming teenager at odds with his practical father finds purpose when he befriends a wild filly. || A literal-minded housekeeper causes a ruckus in the household when she attempts to make sense of some instructions. || 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. || Feeling deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find her identity. || A thirteen-year-old boy describes the poverty and discontent of eighteenth century Osaka and the world of puppeteers in which he lives. || After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. || 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. || To a thirteen-year-old Vermont farm boy whose father slaughters pigs for a living, maturity comes early as he learns "doing what's got to be done," especially regarding his pet pig who cannot produce a litter. || The Wump World is an unspoiled place until huge monsters bring hordes of tiny creatures from the planet Pollutus. || When the Biggs go on a three-month vacation and an untidy family from the city moves into the house, the Littles must take action. || The most beautiful fish in the entire ocean discovers the real value of personal beauty and friendship. || A newly illustrated edition of the classic fable of the hen who is forced to do all the work of baking bread and of the animals who learn a bitter lesson from it. || A little blue engine comes to the rescue of a train that is loaded with toys, dolls, and good things to eat, but cannot get over the mountains to deliver the cargo to waiting children. || A homemade quilt ties together the lives of four generations of an immigrant Jewish family, remaining a symbol of their enduring love and faith. || Unwanted and unloved, Pollyanna Whittier comes to her aunt's home without a warm welcome. Pollyanna's irrepressible spirits make punishments seem like treats and her cheerfulness brings happiness to her aunt and other members of the community. || Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North. || The gentle son of a medieval German robber baron, raised in the calm and thoughtful quiet of a monastery, returns to his father's castle and, despite great suffering and blood-feuds, grows to honor and manhood. || A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet. || The adventures of a ten-year-old boy and the two dogs he bought with money he had earned. || The curiosity of a newly-captured monkey gets him into continual trouble. || A monkey's adventures start with an upset ink bottle and end with a space flight. || George the monkey goes riding on his new bicycle and runs into unexpected adventure. || A lively monkey escapes from the zoo and takes jobs as a dishwasher, window washer, painter and movie star. || After a day of playing with a ball, fishing at the lake, and losing a baby rabbit, Curious George needs to be rescued when he tries to fly a kite. || After being raised as an Indian for eleven years following his capture at the age of four, John Butler is forcibly returned to his white parents but continues to long for the freedom of Indian life. || Henry Reed keeps a journal of his summer activities which include setting up a research firm and embarking on a series of usually profitable projects with the aid of his ally and neighbor Midge. || The six mean Herdman kids lie, steal, smoke cigars (even the girls) and then become involved in the community Christmas pageant. || Two boys set out to prove that worms can make a delicious meal. || Brave bear hunters go through grass, a river, mud, and other obstacles before the inevitable encounter with the bear forces a headlong retreat. || Humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story. || The discoveries and adventures of ten-year-old Lucinda, who spends a wonderful year exploring the New York City of the 1890s. || The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs. || The adventures of a country cricket who unintentionally arrives in New York and is befriended by Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat. || After he is sent to bed without supper for behaving like a wild thing, Max dreams of a voyage to the island where the wild things are. || A boy imagines a series of incredible sights on his way home from school so that he will have an interesting report to give his father. || Two children sitting at home on a rainy day are visited by the Cat in the Hat who shows them some tricks and games. || Further mischief of the Cat in the Hat, who upsets the household again. || In verse, Sam-I-am tells of the virtues of green eggs and ham. || A mean old creature learns a lesson when he tries to find a way to keep Christmas from coming. || The Once-ler describes the results of the local pollution problem. || A young boy grows to manhood and old age experiencing the love and generosity of a tree which gives to him without thought of return. || A collection of humorous poems and drawings. || A boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale are only two of the characters in a collection of humorous poetry illustrated with the author's own drawings. || Thirty-six stories by the Nobel Prize winner, including some of his most famous such as "Zlateh the Goat," "Mazel and Shlimazel," and "The Fools of Chelm and the Stupid Carp." || A band of monkeys steals a peddler's caps while he is asleep. || 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. || A group of children, entranced with Egypt, play their own Egypt game, are visited by a secret oracle, become involved in a murder, and befriend the Professor before they move on to new interests, such as Gypsies. || Fifth grader Leroy Brown solves ten mysteries and, by putting the solutions at the back of the book, challenges the reader to do the same. || A young boy seeks revenge against the Romans for killing his parents, but is turned away from vengeance by Jesus. || Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills. || In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft. || Based on a Polynesian legend, this is the story of a youth who overcomes his fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his tribe. || After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries. || Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home. || On her way home from school, Pearl finds an unusual bone that has unexpected powers. || Brave Irene, the dressmaker's daughter, ventures out into a fierce snowstorm to deliver the beautiful ball gown her mother has made for the duchess. || Dr. De Soto, a mouse dentist, copes with the toothaches of various animals except those with a taste for mice, until the day a fox comes to him in great pain. || In a moment of fright, Sylvester the donkey asks his magic pebble to turn into a rock but then can not hold the pebble to wish himself back to normal again. || Ownership of a beautiful red pony teaches ten-year-old Jody about life and death. || Mufaro's two beautiful daughters, one bad-tempered, one kind and sweet, go before the king, who is choosing a wife. || Recounts the race between the boastful hare and the persevering tortoise. || While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune. || An accused man must choose which door a beautiful lady stands behind or be torn to shreds by the tiger waiting behind the other door. || The voyages of an Englishman carry him to a land of people six inches high, a land of giants, an island of sorcerers, and a land where horses are masters of human-like creatures. || A mother duck leads her family around the pond as she searches for one missing duckling. || An African-American family living in the South during the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand. || 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. || The Welsh poet Dylan Thomas recalls the celebration of Christmas with his family and the feelings it evoked in him as a child. || Story about a little girl who lives at the Plaza Hotel. || The wind brings four English children a new nanny who slides up the bannister and introduces them to some delightful people and experiences. || A retelling of the traditional tale of how a boy's lost mitten becomes a refuge from the cold for an increasing number of animals. || The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century. || Nineteenth-century mechanic Hank Morgan suffers a blow to the head and wakes up in King Arthur's Court where he tries to introduce modern technology and political ideas to the inhabitants. || When young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places, each learns something about the other's very different station in life. || Left on their own for an afternoon, two bored and restless children find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical jungle adventure board game. || A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa Claus. || The adventures of eleven-year-old Adam as he travels the open roads of thirteenth-century England searching for his missing father, a minstrel, and his stolen red spaniel, Nick. || On a day when everything goes wrong for him, Alexander is consoled by the thought that other people have bad days too. || Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage. || Ira is surprised to discover that his best friend Reggie feels happy about having to move to a new town. || A little boy is excited at the prospect of spending the night at his friend's house but worries how he'll get along without his teddy bear. || Lyle is perfectly happy living with the Primms on East 88th St. until irritable Mr. Grumps next door changes all that. || A scientist invents a machine that transports him far into the future where he discovers a changed world inhabited by two unusual races, the Eloi and the Morlocks. || Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him. || After being adopted by a human family, a tiny mouse sets out to win over his resentful new brother and the family feline while fending off a gang of cats who want him out of the house. || Louis, a voiceless trumpeter swan, finds himself far from his wilderness home when he determines to communicate by learning to play a stolen trumpet. || Talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, with whom she spends seven difficult but rewarding years. Includes a reading group guide. || The statue of a prince who lived a life of ease and contentment while living is forced to look down upon the suffering poor of the city. || A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors. || A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, dig a well, and fight a prairie fire. || Pa's homestead thrives, Laura gets her first job in town, blackbirds eat the corn and oats crops, Mary goes to college, and Laura gets into trouble at school, but becomes a certified school teacher. || A child, her waitress mother, and her grandmother save dimes to buy a comfortable armchair after all their furniture is lost in a fire. || Runaway slaves journey north along the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada, following the directions in a song taught to them by one of the Railroad's conductors, an old sailor named Peg Leg Joe. Based on real events. Includes the song's music and lyrics. || Despite pleas from his court, a fun-loving king refuses to get out of his bathtub to rule his kingdom. || In this cumulative tale, a wakeful flea atop a number of sleeping creatures causes a commotion, with just one bite. || The story of a strange, shy little boy in a Japanese village school who was ignored by his classmates until suddenly, and almost too late, a new teacher showed them that Crow Boy has much to offer. || In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine. || On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl. || Al, a janitor, and his faithful dog, Eddie, live together in a single room on the West Side. Their life is a struggle until a large and mysterious bird offers them a change of fortune. || Three sisters staying home alone are endangered by a hungry wolf who is disguised as their grandmother. || A little dog runs away because he hates baths and is so dirty when he returns that no one recognizes him. ||
 * **Aardema, Verna. -- Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears : a West African tale** Reveals the meaning of the mosquito's buzz. ||
 * **Ackerman, Karen. -- Song and dance man** Grandpa demonstrates for his visiting grandchildren some of the songs, dances, and jokes he performed when he was a vaudeville entertainer. ||
 * **Alcott, Louisa May**, **Little men : life at Plumfield with Jo's boys** With two sons of her own, and twelve boys at the Plumfield school, Jo March--now Jo Bhaer--couldn't be happier. But despite the help of the whole March family, boys have a habit of getting into scrapes, and there are plenty of troubles and adventures in store. ||
 * **Alcott, Louisa May,-- Little women**
 * **Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. -- An old-fashioned girl** Polly's friendship with the wealthy Shaws of Boston helps them to build a new life and teaches her the truth about the relationship between happiness and riches. ||
 * **Alexander, Lloyd. -- The Black Cauldron** Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper of Prydain, faces even more dangers as he seeks the magical Black Cauldron, the chief implement of the evil powers of Arawn, lord of the Land of Death. ||
 * **Allard, Harry. -- Miss Nelson is missing!** The kids in Room 207 take advantage of their teacher's good nature until she disappears and they are faced with a vile substitute. ||
 * **Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian),** Presents a collection of Andersen's fairy tales. ||
 * **Anno, Mitsumasa, 1926- -- Anno's journey** Chronicles the author's journey through northern Europe and his impressions of the land, the people at work and play, and their art, architecture, folklore, and fairy tales. ||
 * **Armstrong, William Howard, 1914- -- Sounder** A young African-American boy learns the pain of humiliation and anger when his father is given an unjust jail sentence for stealing a ham from a white man. Learning to read and to discover that things do not die, but become part of other things, brings the youngster new hope. ||
 * **Atwater, Richard. -- Mr. Popper's penguins** The unexpected delivery of a large crate containing an Antarctic penguin changes the life and fortunes of Mr. Popper, a house painter obsessed by dreams of the Polar regions. ||
 * **Avi, 1937- -- The fighting ground**
 * **Babbitt, Natalie. -- Kneeknock Rise**
 * **Babbitt, Natalie. -- Tuck everlasting** The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older. ||
 * **Bagnold, Enid. -- National Velvet**
 * **Banks, Lynne Reid, 1929- -- The Indian in the cupboard**
 * **Barrett, Judi. -- Cloudy with a chance of meatballs**
 * **Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937. -- Peter Pan**
 * **Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919. -- Ozma of Oz : a record of her adventures ...**
 * **Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919. -- The Wizard of Oz**
 * **Bemelmans, Ludwig, 1898-1962. -- Madeline**
 * **Bemelmans, Ludwig, 1898-1962. -- Madeline's rescue**
 * **Bianco, Margery Williams, 1880-1944. -- The velveteen rabbit, or, How toys become real**
 * **Bishop, Claire Huchet. -- The five Chinese brothers**
 * **Blume, Judy. -- Are you there God? It's me, Margaret**
 * **Blume, Judy. -- Blubber**
 * **Blume, Judy. -- Freckle juice**
 * **Blume, Judy. -- Tales of a fourth grade nothing**
 * **Brett, Jan, 1949- -- The mitten : a Ukrainian folktale**
 * **Briggs, Raymond. -- The snowman**
 * **Brink, Carol Ryrie, 1895- -- Caddie Woodlawn**
 * **Brittain, Bill. -- The wish giver : three tales of Coven Tree**
 * **Brown, Marcia. -- Stone soup : an old tale**
 * **Brown, Margaret Wise, 1910-1952. -- The runaway bunny**
 * **Brunhoff, Jean de, 1899-1937. -- The story of Babar, the little elephant**
 * **Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924. -- A little princess**
 * **Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924. -- The secret garden**
 * **Burnford, Sheila Every. -- The incredible journey**
 * **Burton, Virginia Lee, 1909-1968. -- The little house**
 * **Burton, Virginia Lee, 1909-1968. -- Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel**
 * **Butterworth, Oliver. -- The enormous egg**
 * ** Byars, Betsy Cromer. -- The pinballs **
 * **Byars, Betsy Cromer. -- The summer of the swans**
 * **Cannon, Janell, 1957- -- Stellaluna**
 * **Carle, Eric. -- The grouchy ladybug**
 * **Carle, Eric. -- The very hungry caterpillar**
 * **Carrick, Carol. -- What happened to Patrick's dinosaurs?**
 * **Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 -- Alice in Wonderland ; and, Through the looking glass**
 * **Cassedy, Sylvia. -- Behind the attic wall**
 * **Christopher, John, 1922- -- The White Mountains**
 * **Cleary, Beverly. -- Dear Mr. Henshaw \**
 * **Cleary, Beverly. -- Ellen Tebbits**
 * **Cleary, Beverly. -- Henry Huggins**
 * **Cleary, Beverly. -- The mouse and the motorcycle**
 * **Cleary, Beverly. -- Ramona and her father**
 * **Cleary, Beverly. -- Ramona and her mother**
 * **Cleary, Beverly. -- Ramona forever**
 * **Cleary, Beverly. -- Ramona Quimby, age 8**
 * **Cleary, Beverly. -- Ramona's world**
 * **Cleary, Beverly. -- Ramona the brave**
 * **Cleary, Beverly. -- Ramona the pest**
 * **Cleary, Beverly. -- Runaway Ralph**
 * **Cleary, Beverly. -- Socks**
 * **Cleaver, Vera. -- Where the lilies bloom**
 * **Collier, James Lincoln, 1928- -- Jump ship to freedom**
 * **Collier, James Lincoln, 1928- -- My brother Sam is dead**
 * **Collodi, Carlo, 1826-1890. -- Pinocchio**
 * **Conly, Jane Leslie. -- Racso and the rats of NIMH**
 * **Cooney, Barbara, 1917-2000. -- Miss Rumphius**
 * **Cooney, Caroline B. -- The face on the milk carton**
 * **Cooper, Susan, 1935- -- The dark is rising**
 * **Crews, Donald. -- Freight train**
 * **Dahl, Roald. -- The BFG**
 * **Dahl, Roald. -- Charlie and the chocolate factory**
 * **Dahl, Roald. -- James and the giant peach
 * **Dahl, Roald. -- The magic finger**
 * **Dahl, Roald. -- Matilda**
 * **Dahl, Roald. -- The witches**
 * **Dalgliesh, Alice, 1893- -- The courage of Sarah Noble**
 * **De Angeli, Marguerite. -- The door in the wall**
 * **De Jong, Meindert, 1910- -- The house of sixty fathers**
 * **De Jong, Meindert, 1910- -- The wheel on the school**
 * **De Paola, Tomie. -- Bill and Pete**
 * **De Paola, Tomie. -- Strega Nona : an original tale**
 * **De Regniers, Beatrice Schenk. -- May I bring a friend?**
 * **DiCamillo, Kate. -- Because of Winn-Dixie**
 * **Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. -- A Christmas carol**
 * **Doyle, Richard. -- Jack the giant killer**
 * **Du Bois, William Pene, 1916- -- The twenty-one balloons**
 * **Edmonds, Walter Dumaux, 1903-1998. -- The matchlock gun**
 * **Ehlert, Lois. -- Planting a rainbow**
 * **Emberley, Barbara. -- Drummer Hoff**
 * **Estes, Eleanor, 1906-1988. -- Ginger Pye**
 * **Estes, Eleanor, 1906-1988. -- The hundred dresses**
 * **Estes, Eleanor, 1906-1988. -- The Moffats**
 * **Farley, Walter, 1915-1989. -- The black stallion**
 * **Fitzgerald, John Dennis. -- The Great Brain**
 * **Fitzhugh, Louise. -- Harriet the spy**
 * **Fleischman, Sid, 1920- -- The whipping boy**
 * **Fleming, Ian, 1908-1964. -- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; the magical car.**
 * **Forbes, Esther. -- Johnny Tremain : a novel for old & young**
 * **Freeman, Don, 1908-1978. -- Corduroy**
 * **Freeman, Don, 1908-1978. -- Dandelion**
 * **Freeman, Don, 1908-1978. -- A pocket for Corduroy**
 * **Gag, Wanda, 1893-1946. -- Millions of cats**
 * **Galdone, Paul. -- Henny Penny**
 * **Galdone, Paul. -- Puss in boots**
 * **Gardiner, John Reynolds. -- Stone Fox**
 * **Gates, Doris, 1901- -- Blue willow**
 * **George, Jean Craighead, 1919- -- My side of the mountain**
 * **George, Jean Craighead. -- Julie of the wolves**
 * **Giff, Patricia Reilly. -- Lily's crossing**
 * **Gipson, Fred, 1908- -- Old Yeller**
 * **Goble, Paul. -- The girl who loved wild horses**
 * **Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932. -- The reluctant dragon**
 * **Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932. -- The wind in the willows**
 * **Green, Roger Lancelyn. -- The adventures of Robin Hood**
 * **Green, Roger Lancelyn. -- Tales of ancient Egypt**
 * **Guarino, Deborah. -- Is your mama a llama?**
 * **Haley, Gail E. -- A story, a story : an African tale**
 * **Hall, Donald, 1928- -- Ox-cart man**
 * **Hamilton, Virginia, 1936-2002. -- The house of Dies Drear**
 * **Hamilton, Virginia, 1936-2002. -- The planet of Junior Brown**
 * **Hamilton, Virginia, 1936-2002. -- Sweet whispers, Brother Rush**
 * **Haywood, Carolyn, 1898- -- "B" is for Betsy**
 * **Henkes, Kevin. -- Chrysanthemum**
 * **Henkes, Kevin. -- Owen**
 * **Henry, Marguerite, 1902-1997. -- Justin Morgan had a horse**
 * **Henry, Marguerite, 1902-1997. -- King of the wind : the story of the Godolphin Arabian**
 * **Henry, Marguerite, 1902-1997. -- Misty of Chincoteague**
 * **Hesse, Karen. -- Out of the dust**
 * **Heyward, DuBose, 1885-1940. -- The country bunny and the little gold shoes, as told to Jenifer**
 * **Hoban, Russell. -- Bread and jam for Frances**
 * **Hogrogian, Nonny. -- One fine day**
 * **Holling, Holling Clancy. -- Paddle-to-the-sea**
 * **Howe, Deborah. -- Bunnicula : a rabbit-tale of mystery**
 * **Hunt, Irene. -- Across five Aprils**
 * **Hunt, Irene. -- Up a road slowly**
 * **Hutchins, Pat, 1942- -- Rosie's walk**
 * **Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965. -- The lottery**
 * **Johnson, Crockett, 1906- -- Harold and the purple crayon**
 * **Juster, Norton, 1929- -- The phantom tollbooth**
 * **Keats, Ezra Jack. -- The snowy day**
 * **Keith, Harold, 1903-1998. -- Rifles for Watie**
 * **Kellogg, Steven. -- Chicken Little**
 * **Kellogg, Steven. -- The island of the Skog**
 * **Kelly, Eric Philbrook, 1884-1960. -- The trumpeter of Krakow**
 * **Kent, Jack, 1920- -- The caterpillar and the polliwog**
 * **Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936. -- Just so stories**
 * **Kjelgaard, Jim. -- Big Red**
 * **Knight, Eric, 1897-1943. -- Lassie come-home**
 * **Konigsburg, E. L. -- From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler**
 * **Konigsburg, E. L. -- Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and me, Elizabeth**
 * **Konigsburg, E. L. -- The view from Saturday**
 * **Kraus, Robert, 1925- -- Leo the late bloomer**
 * **Krauss, Ruth. -- The carrot seed**
 * **Krumgold, Joseph, 1908-1980. -- Onion John**
 * **L'Engle, Madeleine. -- A wrinkle in time**
 * **Langton, Jane. -- The fledgling**
 * **Langton, Jane. -- The fledgling**
 * **Latham, Jean Lee. -- Carry on, Mr. Bowditch**
 * **Lawson, Robert, 1892-1957. -- Ben and me : a new and astonishing life of Benjamin Franklin as written by his good mouse Amos**
 * **Lawson, Robert, 1892-1957. -- Mr. Revere and I : being an account of certain episodes in the career of Paul Revere, Esq. as recently revealed by his horse, Scheherazade, later pride of his Royal Majesty's 14th Regiment of Foot**
 * **Lawson, Robert, 1892-1957. -- Rabbit hill**
 * **Le Guin, Ursula K. 1929- -- Catwings**
 * **Leaf, Munro, 1905-1976. -- The story of Ferdinand**
 * **Lear, Edward, 1812-1888. -- A book of nonsense**
 * **Lenski, Lois, 1893- -- Strawberry girl**
 * **Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. -- The complete chronicles of Narnia**
 * **Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. -- The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe**
 * **Lindgren, Astrid, 1907- -- Pippi Longstocking**
 * **Lionni, Leo, 1910-1999. -- Frederick**
 * **Lionni, Leo, 1910-1999. -- Swimmy**
 * **Lisle, Janet Taylor. -- Afternoon of the elves**
 * **Lobel, Arnold. -- Fables**
 * **Lobel, Arnold. -- Frog and Toad are friends**
 * **London, Jack, 1876-1916. -- The call of the wild**
 * **London, Jack, 1876-1916. -- White Fang**
 * **London, Jack. -- The sea wolf**
 * **London, Jonathan, 1947- -- Froggy gets dressed**
 * **Lovelace, Maud Hart, 1892- -- Betsy-Tacy**
 * **Lowry, Lois. -- Number the stars**
 * **MacDonald, George, 1824-1905. -- The princess and the goblin**
 * **MacLachlan, Patricia. -- Sarah, plain and tall**
 * **Martin, Bill, 1916-2004. -- Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see?**
 * **Martin, Bill, 1916-2004. -- Chicka chicka boom boom**
 * **Mathis, Sharon Bell. -- The hundred penny box**
 * **McCloskey, Robert, 1914-2003. -- Blueberries for Sal**
 * **McCloskey, Robert, 1914-2003. -- Homer Price**
 * **McCloskey, Robert, 1914-2003. -- Make way for ducklings**
 * **McDermott, Gerald. -- Anansi the spider : a tale from the Ashanti**
 * **McDermott, Gerald. -- Arrow to the sun : a Pueblo Indian tale**
 * **McKinley, Robin. -- The hero and the crown**
 * **McSwigan, Marie, 1907-1962. -- Snow treasure**
 * **Meltzer, Milton, 1915- -- Underground man**
 * **Merrill, Jean. -- The pushcart war**
 * **Miles, Miska. -- Annie and the Old One**
 * **Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956. -- The house at Pooh Corner**
 * **Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956. -- Winnie-the-Pooh**
 * **Mitchell, Stephen, 1943- -- The ugly duckling**
 * **Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942. -- Anne of Avonlea**
 * **Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942. -- Anne of Green Gables**
 * **Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942. -- Chronicles of Avonlea**
 * **Mosel, Arlene. -- Tikki Tikki Tembo**
 * **Munsch, Robert N., 1945- -- The paper bag princess**
 * **Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. -- Shiloh**
 * **Neitzel, Shirley. -- The jacket I wear in the snow**
 * **Neville, Emily Cheney. -- It's like this, Cat**
 * **Noble, Trinka Hakes. -- The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash**
 * **North, Sterling, 1906- -- Rascal**
 * **Norton, Mary. -- The Borrowers**
 * **Numeroff, Laura Joffe. -- If you give a mouse a cookie**
 * **O'Brien, Robert C. -- Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH**
 * **O'Dell, Scott, 1898-1989. -- Island of the Blue Dolphins**
 * **O'Dell, Scott, 1898-1989. -- Sarah Bishop**
 * **O'Dell, Scott. -- The black pearl**
 * **O'Dell, Scott. -- Sing down the moon**
 * **O'Hara, Mary. -- My friend Flicka**
 * **Parish, Peggy. -- Amelia Bedelia**
 * **Paterson, Katherine. -- Bridge to Terabithia**
 * **Paterson, Katherine. -- Jacob have I loved**
 * **Paterson, Katherine. -- The master puppeteer**
 * **Paulsen, Gary. -- Hatchet**
 * **Pearce, Philippa. -- Tom's midnight garden**
 * **Peck, Robert Newton. -- A day no pigs would die**
 * **Peet, Bill. -- The wump world**
 * **Peterson, John Lawrence, 1924- -- The Littles**
 * **Pfister, Marcus. -- The rainbow fish**
 * **Pinkney, Jerry. -- The little red hen**
 * **Piper, Watty, pseud. -- The little engine that could**
 * **Polacco, Patricia. -- The keeping quilt**
 * **Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman), 1868-1920. -- Pollyanna**
 * **Pullman, Philip, 1946- -- The golden compass**
 * **Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911. -- Otto of the Silver Hand**
 * **Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 1896-1953. -- The yearling**
 * **Rawls, Wilson. -- Where the red fern grows : the story of two dogs and a boy**
 * **Rey, H. A. (Hans Augusto), 1898-1977. -- Curious George**
 * **Rey, H. A. (Hans Augusto), 1898-1977. -- Curious George gets a medal**
 * **Rey, H. A. (Hans Augusto), 1898-1977. -- Curious George rides a bike**
 * **Rey, H. A. (Hans Augusto), 1898-1977. -- Curious George takes a job**
 * **Rey, Margret. -- Curious George flies a kite**
 * **Richter, Conrad, 1890-1968. -- The light in the forest : a novel**
 * **Robertson, Keith, 1914- -- Henry Reed, Inc.**
 * **Robinson, Barbara, 1927- -- The best Christmas pageant ever**
 * **Rockwell, Thomas, 1933- -- How to eat fried worms**
 * **Rosen, Michael, 1946- -- We're going on a bear hunt**
 * **Sachar, Louis, 1954- -- Sideways stories from Wayside School**
 * **Sawyer, Ruth, 1880-1970. -- Roller skates**
 * **Scieszka, Jon. -- The true story of the 3 little pigs**
 * **Selden, George, 1929- -- The cricket in Times Square**
 * **Sendak, Maurice. -- Where the wild things are**
 * **Seuss, Dr. -- And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street**
 * **Seuss, Dr. -- The cat in the hat**
 * **Seuss, Dr. -- The cat in the hat comes back!**
 * **Seuss, Dr. -- Green eggs and ham**
 * **Seuss, Dr. -- How the Grinch stole Christmas**
 * **Seuss, Dr. -- The Lorax**
 * **Silverstein, Shel. -- The giving tree**
 * **Silverstein, Shel. -- A light in the attic**
 * **Silverstein, Shel. -- Where the sidewalk ends : the poems & drawings**
 * **Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991. -- Stories for children**
 * **Slobodkina, Esphyr, 1908- -- Caps for sale : a tale of a peddler, some monkeys, and their monkey business**
 * **Smith, Robert Kimmel, 1930- -- Chocolate fever**
 * **Snyder, Zilpha Keatley. -- The Egypt game**
 * **Sobol, Donald J., 1924- -- Encyclopedia Brown boy detective**
 * **Speare, Elizabeth George. -- The bronze bow**
 * **Speare, Elizabeth George. -- The sign of the beaver**
 * **Speare, Elizabeth George. -- The witch of Blackbird**
 * **Sperry, Armstrong, 1897-1976. -- Call it courage**
 * **Spinelli, Jerry. -- Maniac Magee : a novel**
 * **Spyri, Johanna, 1827-1901. -- Heidi** ||
 * **Steig, William, 1907-2003. -- Abel's island**
 * **Steig, William, 1907-2003. -- The amazing bone**
 * **Steig, William, 1907-2003. -- Brave Irene**
 * **Steig, William, 1907-2003. -- Doctor De Soto**
 * **Steig, William, 1907-2003. -- Sylvester and the magic pebble**
 * **Steinbeck, John. -- The red pony**
 * **Steptoe, John, 1950- -- Mufaro's beautiful daughters : an African tale**
 * **Stevens, Janet. -- The tortoise and the hare : an Aesop fable**
 * **Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894. -- Treasure Island**
 * **Stockton, Frank Richard, 1834-1902. -- The lady, or the tiger?**
 * **Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. -- Gulliver's travels**
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