With the release of the third book in The Caster Chronicles series—Beautiful Chaos by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl (read an excerpt)–the Beautiful Creatures paperback edition is no. 4 on the paperback list. Kathy Reichs’s sequel to Virals—Seizure— is at no. 10.
| This Week | Children’s Chapter Books | Weeks on List |
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| 1 | THE SON OF NEPTUNE, by Rick Riordan. (Hyperion, $19.99.) The cast of characters expands; Book 2 of the Heroes of Olympus. (Ages 9 to 12) | 3 | |
| 2 | EVERY THING ON IT, by Shel Silverstein. (Harper/HarperCollins, $19.99.) Poems and drawings by the author of “Where the Sidewalk Ends.” (Ages 9 to 12) | 5 | |
| 3 | WONDERSTRUCK, by Brian Selznick. (Scholastic, $29.99.) In alternating stories told in words and pictures, children look for loved ones. (Ages 9 to 12) | 6 | |
| 4 | MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN, by Ransom Riggs. (Quirk Books, $17.99.) An island, an abandoned orphanage and a collection of curious photographs. (Ages 12 and up) | 20 | |
| 5 | THE LOST HERO, by Rick Riordan. (Disney-Hyperion, $18.99.) A return to Camp Half-Blood and semi-divine characters. (Ages 10 and up) | 51 | |
| 6 | DARTH PAPER STRIKES BACK: AN ORIGAMI YODA BOOK, by Tom Angleberger. (Amulet, $12.95.) Origami Yoda to the rescue. (Ages 8 to 12) | 9 | |
| 7 | THE POWER OF SIX, by Pittacus Lore. (HarperCollins, $17.99.) Nine Loric aliens came to Earth seeking refuge. Six remain. (Ages 14 and up) | 9 | |
| 8 | LEGO STAR WARS CHARACTER ENCYCLOPEDIA, by Hannah Dolan and others. (DK, $18.99.) More than 300 minifigures. (Ages 7 and up) | 5 | |
| 9 | THE MAGIC OF REALITY, by Richard Dawkins. Illustrated by Dave McKean. (Free Press, $29.99.) The science of natural events. (Ages 12 and up) | 3 | |
| 10 | SEIZURE, by Kathy Reichs. (Razorbill, $17.99.) Tory Brennan, niece of Reichs’s Temperance Brennan, returns in the “Virals” sequel. (Ages 12 and up) | 1 | |
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