What Kids Are Reading: Summer Book Ideas

Renaissance Learning has released a comprehensive study of the books that kids are reading in school.  The data was collected through the Accelerated Learning software database which last year alone included the reading records of 3 million students in grades 1-12 at more than 9,800 U.S. schools.

You can download and read the entire report here.

The report has reflections on reading from authors Mary Pope Osborne, S.E. Hinton, Daniel Handler, and Christopher Paul Curtis.  Also included are reading lists detailing the most read books overall, by gender, by region, and by kids in the top 10% of reading achievement.

If you are a parent looking to build a summer reading list- this is an excellent place to find book ideas!

Hat tip to the Literacy and Reading News blog.