Most frequently checked out books by younger readers
Younger readers
Where the Wild Things Are
Polar Express
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
We're Going on a Bear Hunt
Happy Birthday Moon
Curious George
Dr. Seuss
Amelia Bedelia
Berenstain Bears
Clifford
Frog and Toad books
Morris and Borris
Beatrix Potter
Madeleine
Very Hungry Caterpillar
Hoban -- Francis Books
Arthur
Mercer Mayer
Older readers
Beverly Cleary books
Hardy Boys
Nancy Drew
Baby-Sitters Club
Patricia Giff Books
American Girls
Alford Hitchcock and the Three Investigators
Matt Christopher
Scary Stories
Box Car Children
Secret Garden
Charlotte's Web
Little House on the Prairie books
C.S. Lewis's Narnia Chronicles
Hatchet and the River
Soup
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Black Stallion
Yearling
Where the Red Fern Grows
Stuart Little
Where's Waldo?
Sheldon Silverstein books
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