Last week brought us a number of new titles on the best sellers list, but this week we just shuffled them around. However, Bill O’Reilly remains in the top spot with his latest, Lincoln’s Last Days. Veronia Roth’s second book in her Divergent series, Insurgent, resurged up to the third spot.
| This Week | Children’s Chapter Books | Weeks on List | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LINCOLN’S LAST DAYS, by Bill O’Reilly and Dwight Jon Zimmerman. (Holt, $19.99.) An account of the 16th president’s assassination. (Ages 10 to 15) | 3 | |
| 2 | THE DEMIGOD DIARIES, by Rick Riordan. (Hyperion/Disney, $12.99.) Lore on the Heroes of Olympus and Percy Jackson books. (Ages 10 to 14) | 4 | |
| 3 | INSURGENT, by Veronica Roth. (Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins, $17.99.) In this “Divergent” follow-up, a faction war looms. (Ages 14 and up) | 19 | |
| 4 | 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) | 35 | |
| 5 | SURVIVORS: THE EMPTY CITY, by Erin Hunter. (Harper/HarperCollins, $16.99.) Lucky has always been a lone dog, but he must learn a new way when his world is turned upside down. (Ages 10 to 18) | 3 | |
| 6 | MICHAEL VEY: RISE OF THE ELGEN, by Richard Paul Evans. (Mercury Ink/Simon Pulse, $17.99.) A quest to save Michael’s mother. (Ages 12 to 17) | 4 | |
| 7 | WONDER, by R.J. Palacio. (Knopf, $15.99.) A boy with a facial deformity enters a mainstream school. (Ages 8 to 12) | 25 | |
| 8 | EVERY DAY, by David Levithan. (Knopf, $16.99.) A teenager who wakes up in a different body every day finds love. (Ages 14 to 18) | 2 | |
| 9 | 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) | 18 | |
| 10 | 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) | 48 | |
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