The Bellview Elementary School ‘Top 10’ represent the most often-checked-out books during the previous 30 days, as tracked by the Follett-Destiny online public access catalog. Original document was created with Microsoft Word.

1. Bellview Elementary School library ‘Top 10’
1. Inside out & back again
6. Marty McGuire
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 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 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
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
by St. George.
return home.
3. Clementine
8. Gregor the Overlander
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.
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.
4. Pie
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.
FIC WEE (Weeks, Sarah)
Alice’s Aunt Polly passes away and
entrusts the recipe for her worldfamous 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.
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.
(Represents books most frequently checked out during previous 30 days)
Dec. 31, 2013