Last week each student in my second grade class ranked their top five favorite chapter books that I read aloud during the school year. I totaled their rankings giving 5 points for a 1st place vote, 4 points for a 2nd place vote, etc.

Here are the results from their rankings. (Sorry for the blank space. Scroll down a ways to see the rankings.)

Rank	Title	Author	Poll Points
1	Where the Red Fern Grows	Wilson Rawls	60
2	Miles to Go	Miley Cyrus	57
3	Holes	Louis Sachar	38
4	The Tale of Despereaux	Kate DiCamillo	38
5	Shiloh	Phyllis Reynolds Naylor	28
6	Poppy	Avi	26
7	Summer of the Monkeys	Wilson Rawls	23
8	My Side of the Mountain	Jean George	18
9	The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane	Kate DiCamillo	15
10	Stone Fox	John Reynolds Gardiner	13
11	The Best Christmas Pageant Ever	Barbara Robinson	13
12	Wayside School (series)	Louis Sachar	12
13	Junie B. Jones books (series)	Barbara Park	9
14	Weird School books (series)	Dan Gutman	4
15	Flat Stanley	Jeff Brown	3
16	The Incredible Invention of Hugo Cabret	Brian Selznick	2
17	Scholastic Chapter Book Biographies	Peter Roop	2
18	Now You See Me . . . Now You Don't	Dan Greenburg	1
19	Ready Freddy – The Pumpkin Mystery	Abby Klein	0

In the many years that I have done these end-of-year polls, Where the Red Fern Grows has never finished anywhere but first. Although it was way closer this year than usual, probably in part because I just finished Miles to Go.

Edward Tulane should have finished higher, but I read it a LONG time ago and I think they kind of forget after a while. Also, many students really enjoyed the Wayside School series, but if I separate the three books it's hard to get consistent votes for them since students are only voting their top five overall books. I don't think lumping the three together gives perfect results though either - it sort of takes away from voting for a certain book.

I also read Holes last fall. It must have held up pretty well. It is REALLY good!

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Today it was inside recess because it was raining outside. In 2 more days it is going to be our field trip. I am so so excited to go. I am so so excited because I'm going to get to taste some choclate. After we go to the choclate factory we are going somewhere else. We don't know our groups. I think it is going to be so so so much fun. -Anna's journal

At school it was very fun. I played with Elizabeth T. at lunch recess and last recess. We did Read to Self time today. I have good books to read. They are easy books to read. At school we are going to have a field trip. It will be on Friday. At the end of the school year we are gonna go to teh park. I had lots of fun today at school. -Yizel's journal

Today I played with Erica. We played Bild a Bear Work Shop. But I scraped my nee. It really hurt. I read Poppy too. Tomorrow I get to go to Baton. My dad dosen't like when I have to go to Baton because he misses me and I miss him. -Miranda's journal