I work at a continuation High School with 180 students. Once one student
reads a book they tell their friends and then it is checked out over and
over again. I have several ties in my Top Tens.
TOP TEN NON-FICTION
1. A Child Called It: one child’s courage to survive by David J. Pelzer
(Tied for First)
2. CHSPE 2008 by Sharon Green (Tied for First)
3. The Lost Boy by David J. Pelzer (Tied for Third)
4. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (Tied for Third)
5. Always running: la vide loca, gang days in L.A. by Luis J. Rodriguez
6. Kabul Beauty School: and American woman goes beyond the veil by Deborah
Rodriguez
7. Poems by Robert Frost
8. Three Little Words: a memoir by Ashley Rohdes-Courter
9. I don’t want to be crazy by Samantha Schutz
10. I shall not be moved by Maya Angelou
TOP TEN FICTION
1. Crank by Ellen Hopkins (Tied for First)
2. Glass by Ellen Hopkins (Tied for First)
3. Beastly by Alex Finn (Tied for Third)
4. Unwind by Neal Shusterman (Tied for Third)
5. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Tied for Fifth)
6. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (Tied for Fifth)
7. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous (Tied for Fifth)
8. Impluse by Ellen Hopkins (Tied for Fifth)
9. Sticks and Stones by Beth Goobie
10. Bang by Norah McClintock
MY TOP TEN READS THIS YEAR
1. The Shack by William P Young
2. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
3. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
4. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
5. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
6. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
7. Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace by Greg Mortenson
8. Marley and Me: Love and Life with the World’s Worst Dog by John Grogan
9. Sold by Patricia McCormick
10. Harmless by Dana Reinhardt
Diane Mueller
Library Media Specialist
Del Valle/ Phoenix High School
Livermore, CA
dmueller@livermore.k12.ca.us
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