Season’s Readings

I’m not one to start my holiday shopping until after the turkey leftovers have run out, but I know many people are already in search of the perfect gift.  My advice?  Don’t forget the books!  Books make great gifts and stocking stuffers.  My gift to you this season is a list of the most popular books in our library. Even though we have multiple copies of these titles, with over 800 students to cater to, these books are never on our shelves because they are always checked out.

All of our kids love books by Mo Willems, especially his "Pigeon" books and the "Elephant and Piggy" series.  We also love “Pete the Cat” books, both the original stories by Eric Litwin, who was our guest author this fall, and the continuing series and easy readers by Kimberly and James Dean.

 Also, book versions of Disney’s Frozen movie are all the rage.  All of these books are geared toward younger readers, but even our 5^th graders love these characters.

There are all types of handbooks for construction activities. Lego books show how to build manually with Lego blocks and Minecraft handbooks give kids ideas for building things virtually within that extremely popular computer game. These books are so hot; we never have enough copies in the library to keep everyone happy.

Older kids love the “39 Clues”, which is a great adventure/mystery series written by various popular young adult authors (make sure you read them in order, which is a tough task as there are two sequel series that carry on after the first 10 books are done). Other awesomely popular series are: “I Survived” by Lauren Tarshis, “Percy Jackson & The Olympians” and “The Heroes of Olympus” by Rick Riordan,  “Warriors”  by Erin Hunter and “Diary of a Wimpy Kid”  by Jeff Kinney.  Carl Hiaasen, Dan Gutman, Kate DiCamillo, Mike Lupica and Louis Sachar are more of the most popular authors at Stonehedge.

So, to combat the jingle jangle of the holiday season, think about giving books. Books over the holiday season (and any time, for that matter) will make your homes calm and your children bright…(Read4Fun)  Mrs. Abbott