Bellview Elementary School library ‘Top 10’

(Represents books most frequently checked out during previous 30 days) Dec. 31, 2013

1. Inside out & back again

FIC LAI (Lai, Thanhha)

Through a series of poems, a young

girl chronicles the life-changing year of

1975, when she, her mother, and her

brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in

Alabama. Newbery Award.

2. Kenny & the dragon

FIC DIT (DiTerlizzi, Tony)

Kenny Rabbit tries to save his friend,

the dragon, after he is labeled a

community nuisance by the simple

people of Roundbrook village, who

arrange for the creature to be fought

by St. George.

3. Clementine

FIC PEN (Pennypacker, Sara)

While sorting through difficulties

in her friendship with her neighbor

Margaret, eight-year-old

Clementine gains several unique

hairstyles while also helping her

father in his efforts to banish

pigeons from the front of their apartment building.

4. Pie FIC WEE (Weeks, Sarah)

Alice’s Aunt Polly passes away and

entrusts the recipe for her world-

famous pie crust to her cat, which she

leaves in Alice’s care, and as everyone,

including Alice, tries to discover the

secret ingredients, Alice learns lessons about faith,

love, and family.

5. Who was Neil Armstrong?

92 ARM (Edwards, Roberta)

Looks at the life of Neil Armstrong,

the American astronaut who in 1969

became the first person ever to set

foot on the moon.

6. Marty McGuire

FIC MES (Messner, Kate)

When tomboy Marty is cast as the

princess in the third-grade play, she

learns about improvisation, which

helps her become more adaptable.

7. Young Fredle

FIC VOI (Voigt, Cynthia)

Fredle, a young mouse cast out of his

home, faces dangers and predators

outside, makes some important

discoveries and allies, and learns the

meaning of freedom as he struggles to

return home.

8. Gregor the Overlander

FIC COL (Collins, Suzanne)

When eleven-year-old Gregor and his

two-year-old sister are pulled into a

strange underground world, they

trigger an epic battle involving

humans, bats, rats, cockroaches, and

spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient

prophecy.

9. Waiting for the magic

FIC MacL (MacLachlan, Patricia)

In the absence of their father, a

brother and sister adopt four dogs

and a cat in an attempt to save their

family.

10. Eleven

FIC GIF (Giff, Patricia Reilly)

When Sam, who can barely read,

discovers an old newspaper clipping

just before his eleventh birthday, it

brings forth memories from his past,

and, with the help of a new friend at school and the

castle they are building for a school project, his

questions are eventually answered.