Perhaps I missed some big news this week or last, because Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs has made a sudden resurgence into the top spot this week. Kelley Armstrong’s latest, The Calling, debuts at no. 5. It’s the second book in her Darkness Rising series. On the series list, C.C. Hunter’s Shadow Falls makes its debut at no. 7.
| This Week | Children’s Chapter Books | Weeks on List | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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) | 45 | |
| 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) | 14 | |
| 3 | CHOMP, by Carl Hiaasen. (Knopf, $16.99.) Life gets wilder for a boy when his dad, an animal wrangler, takes a job with a reality-TV show. (Ages 10 to 14) | 3 | |
| 4 | NANCY CLANCY, SUPER SLEUTH, by Jane O’Connor. Illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser. (Harper/HarperCollins, $9.99.) Crime in the classroom? Nancy’s on the case. (Ages 7 to 10) | 2 | |
| 5 | THE CALLING, by Kelley Armstrong. (Harper/HarperCollins, $17.99.) Friends face the wilderness; Book 2 of Darkness Rising. (Ages 13 to 17) | 1 | |
| 6 | 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) | 5 | |
| 7 | THE FAME GAME, by Lauren Conrad. (Harper/HarperCollins, $18.99.) Madison Parker has her own show; now she must watch her back. (Ages 14 to 17) | 2 | |
| 8 | 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) | 28 | |
| 9 | 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) | 109 | |
| 10 | 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) | 4 | |
Novel Novice 
I noticed Peculiar Children popping up on my Goodreads feed again recently too… did it maybe get re-released recently in paperback?