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 2024-12-08. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 819 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) The wild robot

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Brown, Peter

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#2 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-12-08. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 44 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...

3) Lightlark

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Aster, Alex

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#3 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-12-08. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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A gripping, propulsive YA fantasy novel from award-winning author and social media superstar Alex Aster, "Lightlark is an ebullient, fast-paced fantasy with a beautifully rendered world that seethes with intrigue, romance and tension. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough" (#1 New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir)

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4) Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone

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Rowling, J. K

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#4 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-12-08. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 818 week(s).

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Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. "Harry Potter has never been the star of a Quidditch team, scoring points while riding a broom far above the ground. He knows no spells, has never helped to hatch a dragon, and has never worn a cloak of invisibility. All he knows is a miserable life with the Dursleys, his horrible...

5) The Last Olympian

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Rick Riordan

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#5 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-12-08. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 752 week(s).

6) The inheritance games

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Barnes, Jennifer

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#6 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-12-08. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 87 week(s).

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When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.

7) The Dark Secret; #4 Wings of Fire

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by Tui T. Sutherland

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#7 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-12-08. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 222 week(s).

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When Starflight, one of the dragonets of destiny, is kidnapped by the NightWings he finds that the kingdom of his birth is a miserable place, full of terrible secrets--and that, with his fellow dragonets too far away to help, the fate of two kingdoms rests in his talons.

8) A good girl's guide to murder

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Jackson, Holly

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#8 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-12-08. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 165 week(s).

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As her senior capstone project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi is determined to find the real killer in a closed, local murder case, but not everyone wants her meddling in the past.

9) Powerless

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Roberts, Lauren

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#9 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-12-08. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 21 week(s).

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Red Queen meets The Hunger Games in this epic and sizzling fantasy romance not to be missed. Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of Ilya . . . The exceptional. The Elites. The Elites have possessed powers for decades, gifted to them by the Plague, while those born Ordinary are just that, banished from the kingdom and shunned from society. No one knows this better than Paedyn Gray, an Ordinary posing as an Elite. When she unsuspectingly saves...

10) Who was Mother Teresa?

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Gigliotti, Jim

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#10 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-12-08. It has been on the list for 173 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.