MG Chapter 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 middle grade chapter books.  In our media center, these are chapter books with older characters and may have more mature or intense content, and are therefore reserved for our 4th and 5th graders as policy set forth by our media committee several years ago.

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.

Middle Grade books are also given a neon green call number sticker to make them easy to locate and shelf.


The books in our middle grade 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 middle grade chapter books in our media center:

Orgami Yoda
The Secret Series
Dear Dumb Diary
Urban Outlaws
Middle School Princess
Allie Finkle's Rule for Girls
The Heir Chronicles
The Underland Chronicles
Matched
The City of Ember
The Mother-Daughter Book Club
The Tomorrow Girls
Charlie Joe Jackson
The Shadow Children
The Missing
Horizon
13 Treasures
Warriors
Pippa Morgan's Diary
Master Mind
The Hypnotists
Loser List
Theodore Boone
Kingdom Keepers
Game Changers
Clone Codes
Willow Falls
My Sister the Vampire
Stay Alive
Riley Bloom
Tombquest
Treasure Hunters
Omega City
Poison Apple
Dead City
Olivia Kidney
Stranded
Rotten Apple
Everyday Angel
Guys Read
Sammy Keyes


Do you have a "mature" section in your library media center?  What series are kept there?

#toptentitles Middle Grade Fiction

I have a separate section in my media center just for fourth and fifth graders.  This section includes chapter books with more mature story lines as well as longer plots (i.e. more pages), usually with characters who are in middle school or about to enter middle school.  If you're curious as to why I created this section, you can read my post about it HERE.

Middle Grade fiction is another large section in our library and because of that, there are more books to choose from, so each book may not get a high circulation.  In addition, many of the titles in the top ten are newer additions to our collection and did not have the full year to circulate.

Number ten was a tie between two new additions to our collection.

The number nine spot was taken by three books, also newer additions to our collection.

The number eight spot is held by books that are a little older in our collection, but still new within the last two years.  This is not the only appearance of one of the NERDS titles to show up in this top ten.

I must confess that I have only read 1 out of  the three of  the books that hold the number seven spot, but Hoot is definitely on my "to be read" shelf.

The number six spot is a tie between 4 books, none of which surprise me.  All have eye catching covers and the story lines are pretty good.

Number five...Vampire books are always a hit.

Number four...the other two NERDS books in our collection made it to the top five!

The number three book...I may have had a little bit to do with the popularity of this title as I book talked it with both fourth and fifth grade classes, but it is also a really good action read.

The number two spot...another fun read for tweens

And the number one middle grade fiction book...

I was ecstatic to see that a Haddix book took the number one spot. I find her books so exciting and apparently the kids enjoy her books, too.

What are some of your favorite middle grade reads?  Any of these also popular in your library or media center?

Top 10 Middle Grade Fiction Books of the Year

So tons of ties in this category as well, so I will just be listing the actual top 10 as they appear in order of the report I ran in Destiny. These are the top 10 in my school library media center only.

#10  was The Genius Files: Mission Unstoppable by Dan Gutman

with 10 checkouts.

#9 was Superfan by Jeff Gottesfeld

with 10 checkouts.

#8 was Savvy by Ingrid Law

with 11 checkouts.

#7 was NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue and Defense Society/ Book 1 by Michael Buckley

with 11 checkouts.

#6 was The Friendship Matchmaker by Randa Abdel-Fattah

with 11 checkouts.

#5 was Bone: Crown of Horns/ Book 9 by Jeff Smith 

with 11 checkouts.

#4 was Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl

with 11 checkouts.

#3 was Among the Hidden: Shadow Children Book 1 by Margaret Peterson Haddix

with 11 checkouts.

#2  was 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass

with 13 checkouts.

And the #1 checked out Middle Grade Fiction book in our media center was

Potterwookiee: The Creature From My Closet by Obert Skye

with 14 checkouts.

Next up, Wildcat Favorites...the most popular section in our media center.  Stay tuned!

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