The Most Popular Books In My Middle School Classroom Library This Year

My classroom library is organized by genre with a few areas that are organized by format or topic. Within each genre, books are alphabetized by author’s last name. This combination of organizational strategies, helps students (and me) find the books they’ll be interested in reading.

The genres that make up my classroom library are: fantasy, science fiction, romance, action & adventure, dystopia, mysteries & thrillers, humor, realistic fiction, historical fiction, and nonfiction.

I have a separate section for graphic novels (fiction and nonfiction are mixed together), and bins for short story collections, verse novels, and manga. I also have bins for my fiction books about animals.

Read on for the top book check outs in each genre plus from the graphic novel section of my classroom library.

8 Things I Tried This School Year

We all do something a little different each year, but may not always take time to reflect on what has worked and what hasn't. I know I haven't always.⁠ This year will be year three of me putting my reflections into a blog post. The process of putting my thoughts down on "paper" helps me to consider what I want to do again the next year and what I want to do differently.⁠

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I also really like being able to look back at previous years to see what I was doing before and if there's a teaching practice I want to bring back in my classroom.⁠ You can find my reflections on what I tried last year and what I tried the year before to see if there's anything you'd try out in your own classroom.