Happy Sunday fellow book nerds! We have a new entrant onto the best sellers list–Seraphina by Rachel Hartman. However, the big news is that John Green’s Looking for Alaska made it into the top ten for the first time on the paperback list. Published in 2005, it won the 2006 Printz Award from the ALA.
| This Week | Children’s Chapter Books | Weeks on List | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | INSURGENT, by Veronica Roth. (Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins, $17.99.) A faction war looms in this “Divergent” follow-up. (Ages 14 and up) | 11 | |
| 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) | 27 | |
| 3 | BETWEEN THE LINES, by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer. (Simon Pulse/Emily Bestler Books/Atria, $19.99.) A girl crosses the border between reality and fantasy. (Ages 12 to 17) | 3 | |
| 4 | MIDDLE SCHOOL: GET ME OUT OF HERE!, by James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts. Illustrated by Laura Park. (Little, Brown, $15.99.) Seventh grade is more competitive than expected. (Ages 8 to 12) | 10 | |
| 5 | MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN, by Ransom Riggs. (Quirk Books, $17.99.) A mysterious orphanage. (Ages 12 and up) | 58 | |
| 6 | 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) | 41 | |
| 7 | WONDER, by R.J. Palacio. (Knopf, $15.99.) A boy with a facial deformity enters a mainstream school. (Ages 8 to 12) | 17 | |
| 8 | SERAPHINA, by Rachel Hartman. (Random House, $17.99.) In a world where humans and dragons coexist, a girl with a gift for music has reason to fear both sides. (Ages 12 to 17) | 1 | |
| 9 | THE GOLDEN LILY, by Richelle Mead. (Razorbill, $18.99.) An alchemist and a Moroi princess guard secrets; “Bloodlines” series, Book 2. (Ages 12 to 17) | 5 | |
| 10 | CHOMP, by Carl Hiaasen. (Knopf, $16.99.) Life gets wilder for an animal wrangler’s son. (Ages 10 to 14) | 14 | |
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