NYT - Children’s & Young Adult Series

1) Diary of a wimpy kid: Greg Heffley's journal

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#1 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-12-22. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 821 week(s).

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Greg records his sixth -grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive. But when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.

2) Lodestar

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Messenger, Shannon

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#2 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-12-22. It has been on the list for 11 week(s).

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"Sophie Foster is back in the Lost Cities - but the Lost Cities have changed. The threat of war hangs heavy over her glittering world, and the Neverseen are wreaking havoc. The lines between friend and enemy have blurred, and Sophie is unsure whom to trust. But when she's warned that the people she loves most will be the next victims, she knows she has to act."--Jacket flap

3) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

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Rowling, J. K

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#3 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-12-22. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 820 week(s).

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"Till now there's been no magic for Harry Potter. He lives with the miserable Dursleys at number four, Privet Drive. His room is the cupboard under the stairs, and he hasn't had a birthday party in eleven years. But then a mysterious letter arrives by owl messenger: a letter with an invitiation to an incredible place called Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. And there he finds not only friends, flying sports on broomsticks, and magic in everything...

4) The wild robot

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Brown, Peter

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#4 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-12-22. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 46 week(s).

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Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants. When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is - but she knows she needs to survive. After battling...

5) The last Olympian

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Riordan, Rick

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#5 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-12-22. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 754 week(s).

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While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it's up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time.

6) Future of the time dragon

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West, Tracey

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#6 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-12-22. It has been on the list for 12 week(s).

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"The dark wizard Maldred has trapped dragon master Eko as well as wizards who have opposed him, all of them frozen in time and space inside a wall in his hideout; so Drake and Worm set out to seek the help of the Time Dragon--but when a imp named Beezel interferes Drake ends up back in his own past, and he must find a way to get back to the present." --

7) Lightlark

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Aster, Alex

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#7 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-12-22. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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In order to break a curse on her kingdom, Isla Crown, the young ruler of Wilding, must compete in the Centennial, a deadly game that only the rulers of six realms are invited to play, and to survive she must lie, cheat, and betray--even as love threatens to undo everything. Every 100 years the island of Lightlark appears. Its purpose: to host the Centennial, a deadly game that only the rulers of six realms are invited to play. The Centennial offers...

8) The hunger games

Author

Collins, Suzanne

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#8 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-12-22. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 350 week(s).

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"The Hunger Games as you've never seen it before--in a remarkable illustrated edition. Even at the age of sixteen, Katniss Everdeen knows it takes hard work, keen observation, and inner fortitude to survive in the world. Her home, District 12, is under the merciless rule of the Capitol, continually forced to pay after losing a long-ago civil war in the nation of Panem. One of the ways the Capitol keeps control is its annual Hunger Games, a televised...

9) A good girl's guide to murder

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Jackson, Holly

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#9 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-12-22. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 167 week(s).

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Popular Fairview high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. Five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town. She knew Sal when she was a child, and he was always so kind to her. How could he possibly have been a killer? Now a senior herself, Pip decides to reexamine the closed case for her final project. She discovers a trail of dark secrets that might actually prove Sal innocent....

10) Who was Mother Teresa?

Author

Gigliotti, Jim

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#10 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-12-22. It has been on the list for 174 week(s).

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Presents the life of an Albanian girl, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, who became known as Mother Teresa and spent most of her life serving "the poorest of the poor" in Calcutta, India.