Bust out the confetti! We finally have a new entrants in the top 10! Marissa Meyer’s sci-fi romance Cinder is a loose reimagining of the Cinderella story and debuts at no. 10. Look for our review tomorrow (and a special guest blog from her later this month). In paperbacks, Switched by Amanda Hocking landed at no. 4. And for the first time, Amdrea Cremer’s Nightshade series landed at no. 5 on the series list. Congratulations to all the authors for breaking the winter reading slump!
| This Week | Children’s Chapter Books | Weeks on List | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | THE SON OF NEPTUNE, by Rick Riordan. (Disney-Hyperion, $19.99.) The cast of characters expands; Book 2 of the Heroes of Olympus. (Ages 9 to 12) | 14 | |
| 2 | 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) | 31 | |
| 3 | CLOCKWORK PRINCE, by Cassandra Clare. (Margaret K. McElderry, $19.99.) Book 2 of the Infernal Devices, a sequel to “Clockwork Angel.” (Ages 14 and up) | 5 | |
| 4 | THE LEGO IDEAS BOOK, by Daniel Lipkowitz. (DK, $24.99.) Projects with plastic bricks. (Ages 7 and up) | 10 | |
| 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) | 61 | |
| 6 | CROSSED, by Ally Condie. (Dutton, $17.99.) In this sequel to “Matched,” Cassia makes her way to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky. (Ages 14 and up) | 7 | |
| 7 | WONDERSTRUCK, by Brian Selznick. (Scholastic, $29.99.) In alternating stories told in words and pictures, children look for loved ones. (Ages 9 to 12) | 17 | |
| 8 | 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) | 16 | |
| 9 | DIVERGENT, by Veronica Roth. (Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins, $17.99.) A girl must prove her mettle in a dystopia split into five factions. (Ages 14 and up) | 12 | |
| 10 | CINDER, by Marissa Meyer. (Feiwel & Friends, $17.99.) A cyborg with a wicked stepmother and a mysterious past is at the center of an intergalactic struggle. (Ages 12 and up) | 1 |
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