Book List

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Best Selling Books (updated August 10, 2010)

Top 10 For Independent Readers

1. Beezus and Ramona, Beverly Cleary
2. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
3. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, Stephenie Meyer
4. Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary, Simon Beecroft
5. The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary, Jeff Kinney
6. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
7. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Ultimate Guide, Rick Riordan
8. When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead
9. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time, Greg Mortenson
10. The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, Tom Angleberger

Top 10 Children's Fiction Series

1. Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
2. Pretty Little Liars, Sara Shepard
3. Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Rick Riordan
4. Magic Tree House, Mary Pope Osborne
5. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
6. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney
7. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
8. Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling
9. The 39 Clues, Gordon Korman
10. The Kane Chronicles, Rick Riordan

 Top 10 Picture Books

1. Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown
2. How Rocket Learned to Read, Tad Hills
3. Star Wars: A Scanimation Book, Rufus Butler Seder
4. Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
5. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
6. City Dog, Country Frog, Mo Willems
7. Pat the Bunny, Dorothy Kunhardt
8. Ladybug Girl at the Beach, David Soman
9. Make Way for Ducklings, Robert McCloskey
10. Pinkalicious and the Pink Drink, Victoria Kann

What We Recently Read:

Deena
* Tortilla Sun, by Jennifer Cervantes
* Gifted #4 Finders Keepers, Marilyn Kaye
* Gamadin, Word of Honor, Tom Kirkbride
* Gifted #3 Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, Marilyn Kaye
* City of Bones, Cassandra Clare
* Hunger Games, Suzanne Collinss (read with family every night)
* Chains, Laure Halse Anderson
* Adoration of Jenna Fox, Mary E. Pearson
* Zorgamazoo, by Robert Paul Weston (California Young Reader Nominee 2011)
* Maze Runner, James Dashner



Jenny
* Sandman, by David Lucero
* Octavian Nothing, by M. T. Anderson
* Anything But Typical, by Nora Baskin
* Wide Awake, by David Leviathan
* Haunted, by Chuck Palahniuk
* Unwind, by Neil Shusterman
* Candor, by Pam Bachorz
* Be More Chill, by Ned Vizzini
* The Adoration of Jenna Foxx, by Mary E. Pearson


Lowell
*Feed- M.T. Anderson
*Grave Peril- Jim Butcher
*Gone Tomorrow- Lee Child
*His Dark Materials- Philip Pullman
*Deception Point- Dan Brown
*Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
*Roxaboxen- Alice McLerran
*The Hermit Crab- Carter Goodrich