Check out the top 15 children’s fiction books sold in the US over the last week, courtesy of our friends at Publisher’s Weekly.
1. Twilight, by Stephanie Meyer, Little, Brown/Tingley, US$8.99
2. New Moon by Stephanie Meyer, Little, Brown/Tingley, US$17.99
3. Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer, Little, Brown/Tingley US$18.99
4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney, Abrams?Amulet US$12.95
5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowlings, Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine US$34.99
6. The Lighting Thief by Rick Riordan, Hyperion/Miramax US$7.99
7. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Knoft US$16.95
8. The Nixie’s Song by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi, Simon & Schuster, US$10.99
9. Slam by Nick Hornby, Putnam, US$19.99
10. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Little, Brown, US$16.99
11. Eldest by Christopher Paolini, Knoft, US$21.00
12. Glass by Ellen Hopkins, McElderry Books US$16.99
13. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, Scholastic Press, US$22.95
14. The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall, Yearling US$6.50
15. Princess Academy by Shannon Hale, Bloomsbury, US$7.95
Used with permission, copyright Publishers Weekly 2007; a full listing in all categories can be found at www.publishersweekly.com.