what's hot in your school or children's library?

just wondering, what with all the awards just posted, what is hot with your students/patrons? In other words, what do the KIDS like to read?

Here's what I can't keep on the shelves recently:
Franny K. Stein series
The Guinness Book of World Records
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Babymouse series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians series
Captain Underpants
The Tale of Despereaux

Interesting that only one The Tale of Despereauxis an award-winning book (although The Lightning Thief was on the Texas Bluebonnet list a couple of years ago.)

Seconding Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Babymouse. The Spiderwick Chronicles are also going out regularly, and Junie B. Jones is always a favorite. But I'm finding kids that age aren't reading much besides the big hits like these...

Twilight by S. Meyer and all the follow-ups! Have had to order extra copies!
All the Cherub series by Robert Muchamore

This is interesting. We have a CHildren's Lit prof who hasn't updated her reading list since the Ramona Quimby series so students are always asking ME what kids are really reading. I have to remind them that the only kid I deal with is my own, and he's 5.

Junie B. and The Magic Tree House are popular, but I don't have kids grabbing them out of the book drop, or wanting to know when it's due back like Diary of a Wimpy Kid, or The Guinness Book of Records, or Franny K. Stein. If I had the money, I'd get multiple copies of them.

Diary of a Worm

Do not open this book

The -ology series. For instance Pirateology.

Seconding Twilight, the Guinness books, and anything ending in -ology.

One of the elementary librarians in our school system emailed us all a cute story yesterday. She had a little boy ask her where the "Pointless Book of World Records" was!!

City of Ember is currently hot with my 12 year old daughter's set. I'm not sure if it's part of a series, but I know there is at least one other book.

It seems like anything that has been made into a movie recently is popular with our younger patrons. City of Ember, The Tale of Despereaux, Coraline, The Spiderwick Chronicles, even the Twilight books didn't start getting very popular around here until the first film was announced.

The very young ones all love Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and other books by Mo Willems (as do I...).

However, I also find it interesting that we have certain children's books like The Graveyard Book and Little Brother that are in very high demand with adult patrons.

We have a lot of adults on waiting lists for things like The Graveyard Book. What's funny is when they start checking out the kids books and say they want to see what the kids are reading. I try to steer them toward Diary of a Wimpy Kid or City of Ember, but they don't believe me. :)

The Graveyard Book Is actually shelved in our YA section, as is Twilight and City of Ember. YA books are doing very well with all ages, but things marked as "juvenile" are the ones I mentioned not going out very much.

@ #11: I don't really find it too odd that adults would be reading The Graveyard Book or Little Brother, really. Both authors are very, very popular with adults.

There are people (myself included) who would read anything Neil Gaiman ever wrote, up to and including grocery lists scribbled on napkins, ha. And Cory Doctorow is very high-profile due to his popular blog, Boing Boing, on which Little Brother has been extensively discussed. :-)

In fact, I'm not a children's librarian, but I've read both of those books, and enjoyed them immensely, too!

I work in a school library that caters for 8-18 year old males
Books always on loan:
Twilight series
All titles by Robert Muchamore
All titles by Matthew Reilly: Ice Station, Scarecrow, Contest, Seven Ancient wonders, Six Sacred Stones
Anything by Anthony Horowitz the Stormbreaker series and The Diamond brothers series
also Jimmy Coates series by Joe Craig

Regarding Little Brother - in the UK, it is published as adult fiction. Just thought that news might interest some.

Similarly, in the UK, The Graveyard Book is published two editions. One for children, and one for adults. The part which boggles me is that our library system only has *one copy* for the entire county. Even before the book won the Newbery, I found that insane.

As for what's popular based on my own observation;

Definitely Robert Muchamore's CHERUB books. Incidentally, this is one of a few cases where I can legitimately say that I followed a series before it became wildly popular.

Interest in Twilight has been driven into overdrive by the movie. Ick.

The old favourites are still popular. Harry Potter, Flower Fairy books, Lemony Snicket and the Eragon series. Oh, and Jacqueline Wilson's books, of course.

I expect Scott Westerfeld's books would be more popular if they were all actually catalogued properly in our system. It's shaming the number of ways his name is spelt in our records.

Also hugely popular at the moment, it would appear, are Adam Blade's animal books, and a series of books about cows in space (I forget the title) by, I think, Steve Barlow.

re: The Graveyard Book
I wonder if adults are looking at the awards lists for the popular titles instead of say the NY Times Best-Seller list.

I forgot Geronimo Stilton... Those are hardly ever on the shelf. I don't know why, because I hardly hear them mentioned except when kids are asking for them.

In the teen section, I get asked for the Eragon series, and in recent weeks Brisingr which just came out. I also get asked for drawing books (how to draw) several times a week. Manga comics, especially Naruto, Bleach and Death Note, are also extremely popular.

Younger kids are always asking for Goosebumps and Captain Underpants books.

In my library they love the {Bluford Series} and the {Kimani Tru} books.

The Twilight series is popular at the high school I work at and Nicholas Sparks books as well.

At the high school where I work the most popular books are:

manga, esp. Naruto, Bleach, Fruits Basket, Death Note and many others
anything by Stephenie Meyer
Darren Shan's Demonata and Cirque du Freak series
anything by Marilyn Reynolds (she spoke at our school last year)
the Bluford series
Go Ask Alice
A child called It
Gossip Girl series
Uglies and Midnighters series by Scott Westerfeld

FionaCat
Wow! I can't believe Go Ask Alice is still that much in demand...I read it when I was in high school, and I just turned 50!

Secrets of Droon

Any graphic novel for that matter including:
Guz Beezer
Owly
Star Wars Manga
Artemis Fowl
Redwall
Jellaby
Bone series
Babymouse

Hockey non-fiction titles, snowboarding, snow mobiling

Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Guinness Book
Fancy Nancy
Sponge Bob Squarepants
Anything Star Wars
Tale of Despereaux
Geronimo Stilton
Captain Underpants
Dipper Baby
Goosebumps
New Mighty Robot series by Pilkey
Ripley's Believe It or Not