It seems, at times, that a frantic race persists to ensure that a child, in the crucial learning stages of early elementary education, acquires the appropriate reading level before he or she "gets behind." Though there are obvious issues with branding a book "Grade Level One" or "Reading Level 2.2," it is nevertheless helpful for a library to provide parents, teachers, and children with a generalized reading-level scheme, so as to aid in the literacy of young children; in fact, it would be strange to walk into a library that did not differentiate between picture ("easy") books, juvenile books, and adult books. In this article, the author describes how the Slater Public Library in Iowa has attempted to create a more searchable online catalog, utilizing machine-readable cataloging (MARC) subject fields, to assist patrons in finding accessible materials for early elementary children. (Contains 3 figures and 6 resources.)