Bellview Elementary School library ‘Top 10’

(Represents books most frequently checked out during previous 30 days) Jan. 26, 2014

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. 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.

4. Chocolate Fever FIC SMI (Smith, Robert Kimmel)

From eating too much chocolate,

Henry breaks out in brown bumps

that help him foil some hijackers and

teach him a valuable lesson about

self-indulgence..

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. Amber Brown is not a crayon

FIC DAN (Danziger, Paula)

The year she is in the third grade is a

sad time for Amber because her best

friend Justin is getting ready to move

to a distant state.

8. The boxcar children

FIC WAR (Warner, Gertrude Chandler)

Four orphaned children, afraid to go

live with their grandfather, set up

housekeeping in an abandoned boxcar

and are doing fine until one of them

becomes ill.

9. Dinosaurs before dark

FIC OSB (Osborne, Mary Pope)

Eight-year-old Jack and his younger

sister Annie find a magic treehouse,

which whisks them back to an ancient

time zone where they see live

dinosaurs.

10. Umbrella summer

FIC GRA (Graff, Lisa)

After her brother Jared dies, 10-year-

old Annie worries about the hidden

dangers of everything, from bug bites

to bicycle riding, until she is

befriended by a new neighbor who is

grieving her own loss.