Top Checkouts 2025: Children's Fiction

In children's fiction, all of our top ten checkouts are books by author Jeff Kinney. To give you a little more interesting list, we've grabbed our top 10 titles while limiting it to one book from each series. We think this offers a little more representative look of what titles topped the charts this year.

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Top Checkouts 2025: Children's Fiction

In children's fiction, all of our top ten checkouts are books by author Jeff Kinney. To give you a little more interesting list, we've grabbed our top 10 titles while limiting it to one book from each series. We think this offers a little more representative look of what titles topped the charts this year.

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No brainer
Kinney, Jeff
Paper Book
In No Brainer, book 18 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, it's up to Greg to save his crumbling school before it's shuttered for good. Up until now, middle school hasn't exactly been a joyride for Greg...
Tales from a not-so-bratty little sister
Russell, Rachel Renée
Paper Book
Nikki Maxwell's diary enters her bratty little sister's clutches in this sixteenth installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series! It's almost time for school to start again, and Nikki is a little worried--but, as always, she has her BFFS to help....
Rowley Jefferson's awesome friendly adventure
Kinney, Jeff
Paper Book
An instant #1 New York Times bestseller! You've never seen the Wimpy Kid World like this before--an entirely new, awesome, friendly, truly fantastic fantasy quest from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney! From the...
Bo and the merbaby
Elliott, Rebecca
Paper Book
Bo helps a mermaid in this magical early chapter book from the USA Today bestselling author of Owl Diaries! Pick a book. Grow a Reader! This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high...
The Wildwood Bakery
Elliott, Rebecca
Paper Book
Eva and her friends are opening a bakery, in the seventh installment of this New York Times bestselling series! Pick a book. Grow a Reader! This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high...
Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone
Rowling, J. K.
Paper Book
Harry Potter has never been the star of a Quidditch team, scoring points while riding a broom far above the ground. He knows no spells, has never helped to hatch a dragon, and has never worn a cloak of invisibility.All he knows is a miserable life with the Dursleys, his horrible aunt and uncle,...
Spy school project X
Gibbs, Stuart
Paper Book
In the tenth book in the New York Times bestselling Spy School series, Ben Ripley races against time and across state lines--by car, train, boat, and plane--to avoid his new cyber enemies and track down Murray Hill. Ben Ripley's longtime nemesis, Murray Hill, has put a...
Haunting of the ghost dragon
West, Tracey
Paper Book
In the latest action-packed installment of this New York Times bestselling series, Drake and Worm encounter a mysterious Ghost Dragon! Pick a book. Grow a Reader! This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers....
Harry Potter and the cursed child. Parts one and two
Thorne, Jack
Paper Book
The Eighth Story. Nineteen Years Later. Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official...
The dangerous gift
Sutherland, Tui
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times bestselling series continues! A wall can't protect them anymore . . . Snowfall didn't expect to be queen of the IceWings at such a young age, but now that she is, she's going to be the best queen ever. All she has to do is keep her tribe within IceWing...
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