We have a new no. 1! Carl Hiaasen’s latest middle-grade novel, Chomp, debuts in the top spot. Otherwise, there are no new entrants in chapter books, paperbacks or series.
| This Week | Children’s Chapter Books | Weeks on List | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CHOMP, by Carl Hiaasen. (Knopf, $16.99.) Life gets wilder for a boy when his father, an animal wrangler, takes a job with a reality-TV show featuring an overeager, inept host. (Ages 10 to 14) | 1 | |
| 2 | THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, by John Green. (Dutton, $17.99.) A 16-year-old heroine faces the medical realities of cancer. (Ages 14 and up) | 12 | |
| 3 | 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) | 43 | |
| 4 | 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) | 26 | |
| 5 | THE KANE CHRONICLES SURVIVAL GUIDE, by Rick Riordan. (Disney-Hyperion, $12.99.) For followers of the series, a primer on its people, places, gods and creatures. (Ages 10 to 14) | 2 | |
| 6 | THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET, by Brian Selznick. (Scholastic, $22.99.) An orphan thief must decipher his father’s last message. (Ages 9 to 12) | 107 | |
| 7 | SEEDS OF REBELLION, by Brandon Mull. (Aladdin, $19.99.) A boy finds himself itching to return to Lyrian; Book 2 of the Beyonders. (Ages 8 to 12) | 3 | |
| 8 | THE LEGO IDEAS BOOK, by Daniel Lipkowitz. (DK, $24.99.) Projects with plastic bricks. (Ages 7 and up) | 22 | |
| 9 | WONDER, by R. J. Palacio. (Knopf, $15.99.) A boy with a facial deformity enters the fifth grade at a mainstream school. (Ages 8 to 12) | 3 | |
| 10 | LEGO STAR WARS CHARACTER ENCYCLOPEDIA, by Hannah Dolan and others. (DK, $18.99.) More than 300 minifigures. (Ages 7 and up) | 19 | |
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