Upper Fiction Book Series

Our media center is set up so that students can easily browse for books that they want to read and are able to read independently.  One of the sections in our media center houses our upper fiction chapter books, many just call these chapter books.  These are books that are 150 or more pages and are usually a higher reading level.  Students in our school typically start reading books in this section in late second grade to beginning of third.

These books are placed on the shelf in alphabetical order by author's last name, but to make locating a book even easier, I use Demco book stops to label the series, if we have at least 3 books in a series.  Since I began using book stops, students are much more independent when they are looking for books, which helps when I am stuck behind the circulation desk.

The books in our upper fiction chapter book section often become super popular and are moved to the Wildcat Favorites section.   (see the post about Wildcat Favorites HERE)  This is a current list of the series books that are in the upper fiction chapter books in our media center:

Amber Brown
Humphrey
Judy Blume
Agent Amelia
Fizzopolis
Beverly Cleary
Andrew Clements
Land of Stories
Bruce Coville
Road Dahl
School of Fear
Lemonade War
Dear America
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Hank the Cowdog
Sugar Plum Ballerinas
Lemoncello's Library
Crime Biters
Million Dollar
Cupcake Cousins
Sleuth or Dare
Seekers
Melonhead
Lucy Rose
Gordan Korman
Swindle
Platypus Police Squad
Guardians of Ga'hoole
Chronicles of Narnina
Warped and Creepy Tales of Weenies
The Sisters Club
Julia Gillian
Marty McGuire
Silver Jaguar Society
Ranger in Time
Upside Down Magic
Twintuition
Fablehaven
Boys vs Girls
Shiloh
The Resisters
My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish
Confectionately Yours
Timmy Failure
Jacky Haha
Clementine
Bowers and Birdie
Stories from Sideways School
Charmed Life
Time Warp Trio
Storm Runners
Encyclopedia Brown
How to Beat the Bully
Eleanor
Geronimo Stilton
Justin Case
Boxcar Children
Stick Dog
Stick Cat
Little House on the Prarire
Ghost Buddy
Hank Zipzer
DC Superhero Girls

What upper chapter book series do you have in your library media center?

#toptentitles Upper Fiction

Today's top ten covers the upper fiction section. This section includes longer chapter books, usually third grade reading level and up.  Upper Fiction top ten titles overall had lower numbers of check outs, but I attribute this to the fact that it is a larger section and there are more students checking out in that section so there are more books to circulate per student.

Number ten was a tie between 4 books.  All four of these books were acquired later in the year, so I fully expect that they will have many more check out this upcoming school year.

Number nine was a tie between 5 books.  I was happy to see the Ellray Jakes series is making a strong showing as this is a new series in our media center.

Number eight was also a tie between 5 books.  Ellray Jakes made another appearance and a Kickers book also showed up. This is no surprise as soccer is very popular in the city where I live.  Kickers is a new series to our media center, but one that I can see growing in popularity because of it's subject matter.

Spot number seven is shared between 8 books.  No surprise that another Whatever After book is in the top ten.  Those are super hot sellers at the Book Fair.  And look, Ellray Jakes and Kickers showed up again.  One of the Sisters Club books and The Lemondade War books also made their first appearances.

Number six was a tie between 5 books, with another Timmy Failure book and Sisters Club book.

Number five was a tie between the first Sisters Club book and the third Lemonade War book.

The number four spot goes to Stick Dog.  I think the larger print and pictures may have something to do with the popularity of this one.

I was happy to see a Clements book take the number three. Although many teachers use Clements books in their classrooms, he is an author that doesn't get checked out much in our media center, even though we have about 20 copies of different titles of his books.

Again, no surprise at what title took the number two spot.  So glad I purchased the next titles in the Lemonade War series last year.

And the top upper fiction book checked out in my media center for the 2014-2015 school year was...

This one was a bit of a surprise for me, even though we have 2 copies of every one of the books in this series.  It just didn't seem to me that it was being checked out that much.  Guess I was wrong.

See any surprises in my top ten?  

Top 10 Upper Fiction Books of the Year

There were so many ties in this top 10 that I couldn't look up the top 10 with the ties.  It was over 50 books.  So I am just going to list the top 10 books as they appeared in the list, even if they were tied.

#10 was Ghost Buddy: Mind If I Read Your Mind? by Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver with 12 checkouts.

#9 was Ghost Buddy: How to Scare the Pants Off Your Pets by Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver with 12 checkouts.

#8 was Are You Scared Yet?: Haunted House by Robert D. San Souci with 12 checkouts.

#7 was Out of This World: Ethan Flask and Professor Von Offel Take On Space Science by Kathy Burkett with 13 checkouts.

#6 was The Time Warp Trio: Knights of the Kitchen Table by Jon Scieszka with 13 checkouts.

#5 was Otherwise Known as Shelia the Great by Judy Blume with 14 checkouts.

#4 was The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum with 16 checkouts.

#3 was When We Were Young by A.A. Milne with 16 checkouts.

#2 was The Best Halloween Ever by Barbara Robinson 

with 18 checkouts.

And the #1 upper fiction book was A Dog on His Own by Mary Jane Auch with 18 checkouts.

Next up Middle Grade Fiction books.  Stay tuned!

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