There aren’t any newcomers to this week’s best seller’s list, but Saraphina by Rachel Hartman is in its third week in the top ten. The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer–a middle-grade title–it also in its third week. There aren’t any new titles on the paperback or series lists.
| 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) | 14 | |
| 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) | 30 | |
| 3 | MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN, by Ransom Riggs. (Quirk Books, $17.99.) A mysterious orphanage. (Ages 12 and up) | 61 | |
| 4 | THE LAND OF STORIES: THE WISHING SPELL, by Chris Colfer. Illustrated by Brandon Dorman. (Little, Brown, $17.99.) An old book offers a passage into the lives of fairy-tale characters. (Ages 8 to 12) | 3 | |
| 5 | 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) | 13 | |
| 6 | WONDER, by R.J. Palacio. (Knopf, $15.99.) A boy with a facial deformity enters a mainstream school. (Ages 8 to 12) | 20 | |
| 7 | 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) | 44 | |
| 8 | 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) | 6 | |
| 9 | CHOMP, by Carl Hiaasen. (Knopf, $16.99.) Life gets wilder for an animal wrangler’s son. (Ages 10 to 14) | 16 | |
| 10 | SERAPHINA, by Rachel Hartman. (Random House, $17.99.) In a world where humans and dragons coexist, a girl fears both sides. (Ages 12 to 17) | 3 | |
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