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"I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books."

—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82) American writer, philosopher, poet, essayist

Children's Books Best Sellers (Book Sense)

Mockingjay (The Final Book of the Hunger Games)

by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic, ISBN: 9780439023511); Last week: 1; Weeks on List: 3

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic, ISBN: 9780439023528); Last week: 2; Weeks on List: 10

Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)

by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic, ISBN: 9780439023498); Last week: 3; Weeks on List: 24

Into the Gauntlet (The 39 Clues, #10)

by Margaret Peterson Haddix (Scholastic, ISBN: 9780545060509); Weeks on List: 1

The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, #1)

by Rick Riordan (Hyperion, ISBN: 9781423113386); Last week: 4; Weeks on List: 18

Clockwork Angel (Infernal Devices, #1)

by Cassandra Clare (Margaret K. McElderry, ISBN: 9781416975861); Weeks on List: 1

It's a Book

by Lane Smith (Roaring Brook, ISBN: 9781596436060); Last week: 9; Weeks on List: 2

Goodnight Moon

by Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illus.) (Harper, ISBN: 9780694003617); Last week: 7; Weeks on List: *

The Adventures of Ook and Gluk, Kung-Fu Cavemen From the Future

by Dav Pilkey (Blue Sky, ISBN: 9780545175302); Last week: 5; Weeks on List: 4

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)

by Rick Riordan (Hyperion, ISBN: 9781423134947); Last week: 6; Weeks on List: 32

The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2)

by Rick Riordan (Miramax, ISBN: 9781423103349); Last week: 13; Weeks on List: 51

The Book Thief

by Markus Zusak (Knopf, ISBN: 9780375842207); Last week: 11; Weeks on List: *

The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 3)

by Rick Riordan (Hyperion, ISBN: 9781423101482); Weeks on List: 39

The Atlantis Complex (Artemis Fowl, #7)

by Eoin Colfer (Hyperion, ISBN: 9781423128199); Last week: 10; Weeks on List: 5

Breaking Dawn (Twilight, Book 4)

by Stephenie Meyer (Little Brown, ISBN: 9780316067935); Last week: 14; Weeks on List: 5

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