Top Hardcover Children's Books
This is a list of the top 10 selling children's hardcover books in the United States for the week. Rankings reflect sales at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide. These include hundreds of independent book retailers; national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; university, gift, supermarket, discount, department stores and newsstands.
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| #1 | Hardcover Children's Book • May 4, 2008 |
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Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
by Jeff Kinney
Weeks On Bestseller List: 15
How Greg embarrassed himself on his summer vacation (ask his older brother, Rodrick).
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| #2 | Hardcover Children's Book • May 4, 2008 |
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Lock And Key
by Sarah Dessen
Weeks On Bestseller List: 1
A free-spirited high school girl is sent to live with her wealthy older sister.
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| #3 | Hardcover Children's Book • May 4, 2008 |
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Diary Of A Wimpy Kid
by Jeff Kinney
Weeks On Bestseller List: 54
The travails of adolescence, in cartoons.
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| #4 | Hardcover Children's Book • May 4, 2008 |
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Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines
by Nic Sheff
Weeks On Bestseller List: 9
A memoir of a teenager's methamphetamine addiction.
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| #5 | Hardcover Children's Book • May 4, 2008 |
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City Of Ashes
by Cassandra Clare
Weeks On Bestseller List: 5
A girl must track down her father in a hidden realm of demons; a sequel to City of Bones.
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| #6 | Hardcover Children's Book • May 4, 2008 |
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The Invention Of Hugo Cabret
by Brian Selznick
Weeks On Bestseller List: 56
A novel in words and pictures; an orphaned thief must decipher his father's last message.
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| #7 | Hardcover Children's Book • May 4, 2008 |
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| #8 | Hardcover Children's Book • May 4, 2008 |
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Glass
by Ellen Hopkins
Weeks On Bestseller List: 22
A story of addiction, told in verse; the sequel to Crank.
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| #9 | Hardcover Children's Book • May 4, 2008 |
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Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
by Laura Amy Schlitz, illustrated by Robert Byrd
Weeks On Bestseller List: 13
Voices from a medieval village.
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| #10 | Hardcover Children's Book • May 4, 2008 |
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The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie, illustrated by Ellen Forney
Weeks On Bestseller List: 26
A boy leaves his reservation for an all-white school.
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