What's Popular At Prospect

I always find it interesting to see what is going out frequently in my library. Here's my top ten circulated items so far this year!

Number 1 - The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli

This surprised me a bit! It is on the Monarch Award, Illinois' Readers' Choice Award for younger students and it has really taken off!

 Number 2 - Minecraft Construction Handbook by Matthew Needler

Not a surprise. Every day kids ask whether there are any Minecraft books in.


Number 3 - Barbie: Surf Princess by Chelsea Eberly

 Number 4 - The Pigeon Needs a Bath! by Mo Willems

Number 5 - The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt

Number 6 - Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds

This renewed interest in Creepy Carrots is spurred by the month AND the fact that we are having Aaron Reynolds visit next week!

Number 7 - Weird But True! 3: 300 Outrageous Facts

Number 8 - This is a Moose by Richard Morris

This is another one on our Monarch list.

Number 9 - The Stonekeeper's Curse by Kazu Kibuishi

Yay for graphic novels rounding out the end of the top ten!

Number 10 - Sisters by Raina Telgemeier

The statistics from my catalog are a little hard to sort through because if I have multiple copies of a title, it lists them separately...so actually, The Watermelon Seed is number 1, 11 and 12 on my list. :)  And of course, items that take longer to read do not get checked out as often, so there aren't any (non-graphic novel) chapter books on the list (which I view as a good thing, since it means kids are keeping the books long enough to read them)!

So, I also looked up what students are searching for the most in the catalog. Here's where some of the chapter books popped up:

Number 1: The 13-Story Treehouse

Number 2: Swindle

Number 3:  Minecraft

Number 4: Hatchet

Tied for Number 5: A Snicker of Magic, Clementine, Harry Potter, Weird But True, and Wonder

Overall, I think my students have pretty good taste in reading! What's popular at your library?