During the month of April, Lincoln students were asked to vote for their favorite book. Many votes were cast, counted, and recounted. After votes were tallied,  the top eight books are:

1  The Coldest Winter Ever by Sistah Souljah

2  A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer

3 The Cirque Du Freak Series by Darren Shan

4 The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling

5 Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

6  A Lesson before Dying by Ernest Gaines

7 Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Draper

8 New Moon by Stephanie Meyer

"Lincoln students have checked out more library books than students at any other high school in our district. From September to May 12 our students checked out 7,200 books. That's 1,400 more than the next highest check out rate," stated school librarian Mrs. Denton.

The following list includes many childhood favorites, so don't be too surprised to see The Cat in the Hat. Books that received at least one vote are:

A List by Zoey Dean

Absolute Boyfriend by Yuu Watase

Addicted by Zane

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Air Gear by Oh!great

Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Always Running by Luis Rodriguez

Anne Frank:The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Annie's Baby

Art of War by Suntzu

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

Autobiography of my Dead Brother by Walter Dean Myers

Babysitter by R.L. Stine

Bad by Jean Ferris

Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket

Baseball in April by Gary Soto

Beach Party by R.L. Stine

Beastly by Alex Flinn

Because of Romek David Faber

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Bible

Black Cat by Kentovo Yabuki

Bleach by Tite Kubo

Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Bluford Series by Various Authors

Bone by Jeff Smith

Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer

Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn

Bridge to Terrabithia by Katherine Paterson

Bully by Paul Langan

Cat in the Hat by Dr.Seuss

A List by Zoey Dean

Absolute Boyfriend manga by Yuu Watase

Addicted by Zane

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Air Gear by Oh!great

Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Always Running by Luis Rodriguez

Anne Frank:The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Annie's Baby by Beatrice Sparks

Art of War by Suntzu

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

Autobiography of my Dead Brother by Walter Dean Myers

Babysitter by R.L. Stine

Bad by Jean Ferris

Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket

Baseball in April by Gary Soto

Beach Party by R.L. Stine

Beastly by Alex Flinn

Because of Romek by David Faber

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Bible

Black Cat by Kentovo Yabuki

Bleach by Tite Kubo

Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Bluford Series by Various

Bone by Jeff Smith

Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer

Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn

Bridge to Terrabithia by Katherine Paterson

Bully by Paul Langan

Cat in the Hat by Dr.Seuss

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Chicken Soup Series by Jack Canfield, ed.

Circuit by Francisco Jimenez

Clique Series by Lisi Harrison

Color Purple by Alice Walker

Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Copper Sun by Sharon Darper

Crackback by John Coy

Crash by Ellen Hopkins

Dance in the Vampire Bund by Nozomu Tamaki

Darkest Hour by Meg Cabot

Darkness before Dawn by Sharon Darper

Dear John by Nicholas Sparks

Death by Cashmere by Sally Goldenbaum

Death Note by Tsugnmi Ohba

Diary of Julie Weiss by Berry Denen Berg

Divine Comedy by Dante Alagheri

Don’t Make a Black Woman Take off Her Earrings by Tyler Perry

Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover by Ally Carter

Drive-by by Lynne Ewing

Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer

Eight by Lane Frost

Eldest by Christopher Paolini

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario

Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

False Memory by Dean Koontz

Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Houston

Fighting Ruben Wolfe by Marcus Zusak

First Semester by Ceciel Ross

First They Killed My Father by Luang Una

Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews

Flyy Girl by Omar Tyree

Forged By Fire by Sharon M. Draper

Freedom Writers Diary by Freedom Writers

Full Circle by Danielle Steel

Geek High by Piper Banks

Girl Who Owned a City by O.T. Nelson

Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

Go Ask Alice

Gone by Michael Grant

Gossip Girl by Cecily Von Ziegesar

Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

Halfway to Heaven by Kimberly Brubker

Harris Family by R.M. Johnson

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Hell House by Richard Matheson

Hellsing by Kohta Hirano

History's Strongest Disciple Kenschi by Matsuena Shun

Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Holes by Louis Sacher

Hotlanta by Mittzi Miller

House of Night Series by P.C. Cast

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan

Identical by Ellen Hopkins

Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Into the Wild by John Krakauer

Inu Baka by Yukiya Sakuragi

It's A Mall World After All by Janette Rallison

Jake Reinvented by Gordon Korman

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

Jason & Kyra by Dana Davidson

Jazz by Toni Morrison

Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Juventud en Extasis by Carlos Sanchez

Kingdom Hearts by Shiro Amano

Kiss Me, Kill Me by Lauren Henderson

Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Land of the Blindfolded by Sakura Tsckubt

Last Song by Nicholas Sparks

Lennon Legend by James Henke

Let Me Stand Alone by Rachel Corrie

Life by Keiko Suenobu

Life and Death of Adolf Hitler by James Giblin

Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Looking For Alaska by John Green

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Lost and Found by Anne Schraff

Lost Boy by Dave Pelzer

Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Macario by B. Traven

Macho by Victor Villasenor

Man Named Dave by Dave Pelzer

Mediator Series by Megan Cabot

Mi Vida Loca by Johnny Tapia

Million Little Pieces by James Frey

Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Money Hungry by Sharon Flake

Monster by Sanyika Shakur

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O'Brien

Mystic River by Dennis Lahane

Name of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto

Native Son by Richard Wright

New York by Edward Rutherfurd

Night by Elie Wiesel

Night Of The Ninjas by Mary Osborne

No Excuses by Kyle Maynard

Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

Notes from Underground by Feodor Dostoevsky

November Blues by Sharon Draper

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr.Seuss

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket

People Of The Book by Geraldine Brooks

Piece Of Cake by Cupcake Brown

Played by Dana Davidson

Private Peaceful by Michale Morpugo

Pygmalion by George Benard Shaw

Rain of Gold by Victor Villasenor

Red Death White Butterfly by Walter Mosley

REM World by William Sleator

Requiem for A Dream by Hurbert Selby

Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

Revolting Recipes by Roald Dahl

Rhymes with Witches by Lauren Myracle

Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kigosaki

Rich Kid by Robert Kigosaki

Road by Cormac McCarthy

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Roots by Alex Haley

Running Lose by Chris Crutcher

School Rumble by Jin Kobayashi

Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

Seven Deadly Sins Series by Robin Wasserman

Shadow Children Series by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Shrink to Fit by Dana Sarkar

Singularity by William Sleator

Skin I'm In by Sharon Flake

Slam by Walter Dean Myers

Small Steps by Louis Sachar

Smart Kid by Sharon Lechter

Sorcerers and Secretaries by Amy Kim Ganter

Speak by Laurie Anderson

Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi

Story of a Girl by Sarah Zarr

Sula by Toni Morrison

Switched by R.L. Stine

That White Girl by Jlove

The End by Lemony Snicket

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston

Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen

Traveler of the Moon by Lee Na Hyeon

Tricks by Ellen Hopkins

Truth about Forever by Sarah Dessen

Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer

Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right by Brenda Hampton

Upstate by Kalisha Buckhanon

Wake by Lisa McMann

Watson's go to Birmingham, 1963 by Christopher Curtis

Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

White Oleander by Janet Finch

Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

World War Z by Max Brooks

Ms. Denton and Ms. Heisel say, "Thank you!" to everyone who voted.