var library = [ { author: 'Bill Gates', title: 'The Road Ahead', libraryID: 1254}, { author: 'Steve Jobs', title: 'Walter Isaacson', libraryID: 4264}, { author: 'Suzanne Collins', title: 'Mockingjay: The Final Book of The Hunger Games', libraryID: 3245} ]; function property_value(array, property_key) { var arr = [], index = -1, arrlen = array.length,array_items; while (++index < arrlen) { array_items = array[index]; if (array_items.hasOwnProperty(property_key)) { arr[arr.length] = array_items[property_key]; } } return arr; } console.log(property_value(library, 'title')); console.log(property_value(library, 'author'));