5 of the Most Popular Nonfiction Books in Our K-3 School Library
The time has come to recap the ten most checked out nonfiction books in our K-3rd grade school library this year.
But there’s a problem.
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This is actually bit of a tricky list to compile. The reason? Multiple copies. Do I add up all the checkouts for a book we have four copies of? Do I just look at the individual copies with the most checkouts?
Because of this, I decided to go in no particular order.
Here are the 5 most popular books from our K-3 nonfiction section this school year.

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About Travis Jonker
Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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Aren’t the Scary Stories fiction?
Hey Bob! Yeah that one is kind of weird because the Scary Story books are placed in the nonfiction section of most libraries. It’s in the 398s (folklore) for us. So maybe a better description for this post would be “Nonfiction section books”?