NYT - Children’s & Young Adult Series

1) The one and only Ivan

Author

Applegate, Katherine

Series

One and only Ivan stories volume 1

Notes

#1 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-05-26. It has been on the list for 26 week(s).

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, Large Print

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Inspired by the true story of a captive silverback gorilla known as Ivan, this novel celebrates the transformative power of unexpected friendships. Having spent twenty-seven years behind the glass walls of his enclosure in a shopping mall, Ivan has grown accustomed to humans watching him. He hardly ever thinks about his life in the jungle. Instead, Ivan occupies himself with television, his friends Stella and Bob, and painting. But when he meets Ruby,...

2) Diary of a wimpy kid: a novel in cartoons

Author

Kinney, Jeff

Series

Diary of a wimpy kid volume 1

Notes

#2 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-05-26. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 791 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.

3) A good girl's guide to murder

Author

Jackson, Holly

Series

Good girl's guide to murder volume 1

Notes

#3 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-05-26. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 137 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.

4) Who was Mother Teresa?

Author

Gigliotti, Jim

Series

Who was-- ?

Notes

#4 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-05-26. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 154 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.

5) The last Olympian

Author

Riordan, Rick

Series

Percy Jackson & the Olympians volume 5

Notes

#5 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-05-26. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 724 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.

6) The Hunger Games

Author

Collins, Suzanne

Series

Hunger Games trilogy volume 1

Notes

#6 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-05-26. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 327 week(s).

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"In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward...

7) Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets

Author

Rowling, J. K

Series

Harry Potter (Original series) volume 2

Notes

#7 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-05-26. Last week it was ranked 6. It has been on the list for 790 week(s).

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"Harry Potter can't wait to get back to Hogwarts after a summer with no friends and no magic. But his second year at school is rife with fresh torments, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockhart; a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom; and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's younger sister, Ginny. These seem minor when the real trouble begins, and someone -- or something -- starts turning Hogwarts...

8) The cruel prince

Author

Black, Holly

Series

Folk of the air volume 1

Notes

#8 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-05-26. It has been on the list for 44 week(s).

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Jude, seventeen and mortal, gets tangled in palace intrigues while trying to win a place in the treacherous High Court of Faerie, where she and her sisters have lived for a decade.

9) Saving 6

Author

Walsh, Chloe

Series

Boys of Tommen volume 3

Notes

#9 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-05-26. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 8 week(s).

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Book, eBook

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"Forced into the role of protector to his family after his older brother skips town, Joey is drawn into the world of addiction where his only hope for salvation rests on Aoife, his boss's daughter and his classmate, with whom he forms a tangled and complex friendship"--

10) We'll always have summer

Author

Han, Jenny

Series

Summer novels (Jenny Han) volume 3

Notes

#10 on the Children’s & Young Adult Series list for 2024-05-26. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 108 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.