Once again, Ransom Riggs makes a peculiar play for the top spot with Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, but with a new Rick Riordan book coming out this week–The Serpent’s Shadow–you can bet it’ll steal away the spotlight, possibly giving Riordan three titles in the top ten!
| 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) | 46 | |
| 2 | 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) | 4 | |
| 3 | 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) | 15 | |
| 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) | 3 | |
| 5 | 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) | 29 | |
| 6 | THE LEGO IDEAS BOOK, by Daniel Lipkowitz. (DK, $24.99.) Projects with plastic bricks. (Ages 7 and up) | 24 | |
| 7 | THE FAME GAME, by Lauren Conrad. (Harper/HarperCollins, $18.99.) Madison Parker has her own show; now she has to watch her back. (Ages 14 to 17) | 3 | |
| 8 | 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) | 110 | |
| 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) | 5 | |
| 10 | THE THRONE OF FIRE, by Rick Riordan. (Disney-Hyperion, $18.99.) The Kanes seek the sun god, Ra; Book 2 of the Kane Chronicles. (Ages 10 and up) | 31 | |
Novel Novice 
Love your blog! Every Monday, I take a look at the hot books being released that week, based on Barnes & Noble presales, in YA and adult fiction and general nonfiction. I noticed for this week, middle grade or YA novels account for 6 of the top 10 presale books!