Okay, I have nothing against Bill O’Reilly, but why on earth is his book in its eighth week in the top spot? Who is buying all these copies?!
ANYWAY, James Patterson’s latest, Confessions of a Murder Suspect, is also holding strong, and there’s one new entrant–an MG title–at no. 5. It’s called The Fire Chronicle by John Stephens.
| This Week | Children’s Chapter Books | Weeks on List |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | 8 | |
| 2 | CONFESSIONS OF A MURDER SUSPECT, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown, $19.99.) A girl seeking to bring her parents’ killer to justice disturbs family secrets. (Ages 12 to 17) | 3 | |
| 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) | 40 | |
| 4 | WONDER, by R.J. Palacio. (Knopf, $15.99.) A boy with a facial deformity enters a mainstream school. (Ages 8 to 12) | 29 | |
| 5 | THE FIRE CHRONICLE, by John Stephens. (Knopf, $17.99.) Three siblings long to find their parents; Book 2 of the Books of Beginnings. (Ages 8 to 12) | 1 | |
| 6 | THE DEMIGOD DIARIES, by Rick Riordan. (Hyperion/Disney, $12.99.) Lore on the Heroes of Olympus and Percy Jackson books. (Ages 10 to 14) | 9 | |
| 7 | INSURGENT, by Veronica Roth. (Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins, $17.99.) In this “Divergent” follow-up, a faction war looms. (Ages 14 and up) | 24 | |
| 8 | LEGO BATMAN, by Daniel Lipkowitz. (DK, $21.99.) A visual dictionary of the superhero, his foes, their weapons and vehicles, and more. (Ages 6 to 12) | 2 | |
| 9 | JUSTIN BIEBER: JUST GETTING STARTED, by Justin Bieber. (Harper/HarperCollins, $21.99.) The pop star tells his own story in words and pictures. (Ages 10 and up) | 3 | |
| 10 | 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) | 7 | |
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