It may surprise you, it did me, that more school age kids read To Kill a Mocking Bird than the Harry Potter books last year — although it’s not holding true today on the Amazon.com website (I just checked).

As published in Shelf Awarness today:

Wonder what all the other kids are reading these days? The Washington Post reported that the Renaissance Learning report, What Kids Are Reading, “calculated the books most read by more than 3 million schoolchildren last year.” You can see the complete list at the Post, but the number one titles by category include:

• Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss (first grade)
• If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff (second grade)
• Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White (third grade)
• Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume (fourth grade)
• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (fifth grade)
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (sixth grade)
• The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (seventh and eighth grades)
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (ninth through twelfth grade)

If you look on the ratings on Amazon.com for various books (kind of the only non-scientific way to gauge on a daily basis how books are selling) you find Dr. Seuss holding his own day-in-and-day-out for years. It’s getting to be that time to stock up on summer reading for the kids!

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