Kiera Cass’s The Selection debuts at no. 9 this week–isn’t that cover gorgeous? John Grisham’s Theodore Boone: The Abduction is no. 4 on the paperback list, as well as Where She Went by Gayle Forman at no. 9. It’s the sequel to If I Stay.
| 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) | 47 | |
| 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) | 16 | |
| 3 | 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) | 4 | |
| 4 | 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) | 5 | |
| 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) | 30 | |
| 6 | THE LEGO IDEAS BOOK, by Daniel Lipkowitz. (DK, $24.99.) Projects with plastic bricks. (Ages 7 and up) | 25 | |
| 7 | 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) | 111 | |
| 8 | 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) | 6 | |
| 9 | THE SELECTION, by Kiera Cass. (HarperTeen/HarperCollins, $17.99.) For 35 girls, a chance to escape a life laid out since birth. (Ages 13 to 17) | 1 | |
| 10 | DEAD END IN NORVELT, by Jack Gantos. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $15.99.) Typing obituaries for a neighbor lands Jack in a string of comic adventures; a 2012 Newbery winner. (Ages 10 to 14) | 7 | |
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