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    Best Selling Young Adult Books | March 2014

    Bianca SchulzeBy Bianca Schulze7 Mins Read Best Kids Stories Best Sellers Book Lists Chapter Books Teens: Young Adults
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    The Children’s Book Review | March 4, 2014

    Popular Books for Teens

    Our best selling young adult book list features popular books for teens; including Allegiant by Veronica Roth and our hand selected titles from the nationwide best selling young adult books, as listed by The New York Times, featuring titles by super-talents John Green, Ransom Riggs, Stephen Chbosky, Markus Zusak and Rainbow Rowell.

    The Children’s Book Review’s Best Selling Young Adult Book

    AllegiantAllegiant (Divergent Trilogy)

    By Veronica Roth

    What if your whole world was a lie?
    What if a single revelation—like a single choice—changed everything?
    What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected?
    The explosive conclusion to Veronica Roth’s #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy reveals the secrets of the dystopian world that has captivated millions of readers in Divergentand Insurgent.

    Ages 14-17 | Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books | Oct. 22, 2013 | ISBN-13: 978-0062024060

    Nationwide Best Selling Young Adult Books

    The Fault in Our Stars BookThe Fault in our Stars

    By John Green

    Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture!
    TIME Magazine’s #1 Fiction Book of 2012!

    The Fault in Our Stars is a love story, one of the most genuine and moving ones in recent American fiction, but it’s also an existential tragedy of tremendous intelligence and courage and sadness.” Lev Grossman, TIME Magazine

    Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.

    Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning-author John Green’s most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.

    Ages 14-17 | Publisher: Dutton Books | Jan. 10, 2012 | ISBN-13: 978-0525478812

    MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarPeopleMiss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

    By Ransom Riggs

    A New York Times #1 best seller

    On the New York Times Best Seller List for more than 52 consecutive weeks

    Includes an excerpt from the much-anticipated sequel and an interview with author Ransom Riggs
     
    A mysterious island.

    An abandoned orphanage.

    A strange collection of very curious photographs.

    It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive. 

A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.

    Ages 12-17 | Publisher: Quirk Books | Jun. 7, 2013 | ISBN-13: 978-1594746031

    BookThe Perks of Being a Wallflower

    By Stephen Chbosky

    Standing on the fringes of life offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor. This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction: The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

    This is the story of what it’s like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie’s letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it puts him on a strange course through uncharted territory. The world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends. The world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite.

    Through Charlie, Stephen Chbosky has created a deeply affecting coming-of-age story, a powerful novel that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller coaster days known as growing up.

    Ages 14 and up | Publisher: MTV Books | Aug. 14, 2012 | ISBN-13: 978-1451696196

    Book John GreenLooking for Alaska

    By John Green

    The award-winning, genre-defining debut from #1 bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars

    Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award
    Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
    New York Times bestseller

    Before. Miles Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . .

    After. Nothing is ever the same.

    Ages 14-17 | Publisher: Dutton Books | Mar. 3, 2005 | ISBN-13: 978-0142402511

    The-Book-ThiefThe Book Thief 

    By Markus Zusak

    The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that will be in movie theaters on November 15, 2013, Markus Zusak’s unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul.

    It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.

    Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.

    In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.

    Ages 12 and up | Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf | Sept. 11, 2007 | ISBN-13: 978-0375842207

    Eleanor and Park by Rainbow RowellEleanor & Park 

    By Rainbow Rowell

    “Eleanor & Park reminded me not just what it’s like to be young and in love with a girl, but also what it’s like to be young and in love with a book.”—John Green, The New York Times Book Review

    Bono met his wife in high school, Park says.
    So did Jerry Lee Lewis, Eleanor answers.
    I’m not kidding, he says.
    You should be, she says, we’re 16.
    What about Romeo and Juliet?
    Shallow, confused, then dead.

    I love you, Park says.
    Wherefore art thou, Eleanor answers.
    I’m not kidding, he says.
    You should be.

    Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits—smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you’ll remember your own first love—and just how hard it pulled you under.

    Eleanor & Park is the winner of the 2013 Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Best Fiction Book.
    A Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book of 2013
    A New York Times Book Review Notable Children’s Book of 2013
    A Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book of 2013
    An NPR Best Book of 2013

    Ages 13-17 | Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin | Feb. 26, 2013 | ISBN-13: 978-1250012579

    This information for the best selling books was gathered from the New York Times Best Sellers list, which reflects the sales of books from books sold nationwide, including independent and chain stores. It is correct at the time of publication and presented in random order. Visit www.nytimes.com for their most current and up-to-date list.

    After you’ve had time to browse through the titles above, discover some exciting new release YA books, as picked by YA blogger Joli Huynh: Best Young Adult Books with Joli Huynh of Actin’ Up With Books

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    Bianca Schulze is the founder of The Children’s Book Review. She is a reader, reviewer, mother and children’s book lover. She also has a decade’s worth of experience working with children in the great outdoors. Combined with her love of books and experience as a children’s specialist bookseller, the goal is to share her passion for children’s literature to grow readers. Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, she now lives with her husband and three children near Boulder, Colorado.

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    1. Jane Goldsberry on July 22, 2014 8:30 am

      These titles pictured above are very popular with our students.

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