NYT - Children’s & Young Adult Series

1) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Book 1: Greg Heffley's Journal

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#1 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-05-19. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 790 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) A good girl's guide to murder

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Jackson, Holly

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#2 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-05-19. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 136 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.

3) Percy Jackson and the Olympians Book 5: The Last Olympian

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Riordan, Rick

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#3 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-05-19. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 723 week(s).

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The long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy Jackson's sixteenth birthday unfolds as he leads an army of young demigods to stop Kronos in his advance on New York City, while the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster, Typhon

4) Who was Mother Teresa?

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Gigliotti, Jim

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#4 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-05-19. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 153 week(s).

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

5) The wild robot

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Brown, Peter

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#5 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-05-19. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 17 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.

6) Harry Potter Book 1: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

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Rowling, J. K

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#6 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-05-19. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 789 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.

7) The hunger games

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Collins, Suzanne

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#7 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-05-19. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 326 week(s).

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In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through a televised survival competition pitting young people against one another, Katniss's skills are put to the test when she takes her younger sister's place.

8) We'll always have summer: a summer novel

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Han, Jenny

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#9 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-05-19. Last week it was ranked 10. It has been on the list for 107 week(s).

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The summer after her first year of college, Isobel "Belly" Conklin is faced with a choice between Jeremiah and Conrad Fisher, brothers she has always loved, when Jeremiah proposes marriage and Conrad confesses that he still loves her.

9) Once upon a broken heart

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Garber, Stephanie

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#10 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-05-19. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 13 week(s).

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Desperate to stop her beloved from marrying another, sixteen-year-old Evangeline Fox strikes a deal with the mythic Prince of Hearts leading her down a dangerous path that may ultimately end in her destruction.