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Movies based on popular children’s books perpetuate the popularity of the titles they’re inspired by, heavily influencing what children choose to read. This finding, and many other unique insights, is found in the third annual edition of
What Kids Are Reading: The Book Reading Habits of Students in American Schools, 2011 Edition
Jeff Kinney’s The Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief, released as movies in 2010, have pushed the titles in Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series out of top spots for some grades. Three of the four titles in the Twilight series have also been released as movies. The report also found that contemporary ‘classic’ titles, such as S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders and Lois Lowry’s The Giver have also overtaken last year’s list-dominating Twilight series.
The data contained in this report comes from Accelerated Reader (AR)—the world’s largest single database of student book-reading behavior—and is based on AR reading data for more than 6.2 million students in grades 1 – 12, from nearly 20,000 schools nationwide who read more than 192 million books during the 2009-2010 school year. This information-packed report includes lists of the Top 40 Books Read:
 Overall and by gender, grades 1–12- By struggling readers—including both "all books" and those labeled by publishers as low-and high-achieving
- By students in the top 10% of reading achievement
Teen author Riley Carney, who has written a five-book fantasy series called Reign of the Elements, wrote the introduction to the What Kids Are Reading, 2011 report. The report also features contributions from popular children’s authors Henry Winkler & Lin Oliver, Mike Thaler, and Louis Sachar.
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