Here are the best selling Chapter Books for 2011 as reported by the New York Times. We have added reading information and an age guide.
ABANDON
by Meg Cabot
Reading Level Info: 5.1 (12.0 points) quiz: 143876
A supernatural romance inspired by the myth of Persephone. (YA)
Hardcover: 320 pages
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
by Beth Revis
**Starred Review** Kirkus
Reading Level Info: AR 4.9 (15 points) quiz: 142333
The spaceship Godspeed travels to a new Earth carrying 100 frozen people. (Ages 14 and up)
Hardcover: 416 pages
BEAUTY QUEENS
by Libba Bray
Reading Level Info: 4.4 (15 points) quiz: 144241
A plane full of pageant contestants crashes on a small tropical island. (YA)
Hardcover: 400 pages
BEST OF THE BEST
by Tim Green
Reading Level Info: 4.8 (7 points) quiz: 143902
A Little League player tries to keep his family together. (middle-grades)
Hardcover: 272 pages
BETWEEN SHADES OF GRAYby Ruta Sepetys
15 year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp, and she vows to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. (YA)
Word Count: 64,750
Page Count: 344
Accelerated Reading level: 3.6 / points: 9.0
AR quiz: 142569
A WORLD WITHOUT HEROES (The Beyonders)
by Brandon Mull
A young boy is transported to a world ruled by an evil wizard. (Tween and middle-grades)
Word Count: 124,250
Page Count: 464
Accelerated Reading level: 5.1 / points: 19.0
AR quiz: 142617
Lexile: 710L
Bloodlines
by Richelle Mead
Reading Level Info: AR 5.0 (17 points) quiz: 145499
A Moroi princess and an alchemist hide out at a private school in California. (Ages 12 and up)
Hardcover: 432 pages
Cal Ripken, Jr.'s All-Stars: HOTHEAD
by Cal Ripken Jr. and Kevin Cowherd
Reading Level Info: generic 5.2 (5 points) quiz: 142574
An all-star shortstop with one big problem: his temper. (Ages 8 to 12)
Hardcover: 144 pages
CLOCKWORK ANGELby Cassandra Clare
When sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London's Downworld, where vampires, warlocks and other supernatural folk stalk the gas lit streets. Only the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the world of demons, keep order amidst the chaos. (YA)
Word Count: 131,487
Page Count: 512
Accelerated Reading level: 5.6 / points: 21.0
AR quiz: 139502
CLOCKWORK PRINCE
by Cassandra Clare
Reading Level Info: AR unknown (probably 5th)
Book #2 in the Infernal Devices series. See Clockwork Angel.
Hardcover: 528 pages
CRESCENDO
by Becca Fitzpatrick
Reading Level Info: AR 4.8 (15 points) quiz: 140675
A world where the truth is sought and feared; a sequel to “Hush, Hush.” (Ages 14 and up) 10
Hardcover: 432 pages
CROSSED
by Ally Condie
Reading Level Info: 4.2 (12 points) quiz: 147776
In this sequel to “Matched,” Cassia makes her way to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky. (YA)
Hardcover: 367 pages
DARTH PAPER STRIKES BACK: AN ORIGAMI YODA BOOK
by Tom Angleberger
Reading Level Info: 4.4 (3 points) quiz: 145596
Origami Yoda to the rescue. (A follow on to The Strange Case of Origami Yoda!)
Hardcover: 176 pages
DELIRIUM
by Lauren Oliver
**Starred Review** Kirkus
**Starred Review** PublishersWeekly
**Starred Review** VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates )
95 days before she is to be permanently cure of 'love', Lena meets Alex, a confident and mysterious young man who makes her heart flutter and her skin turn red-hot.
Word Count: 114,476
Page Count: 480
Accelerated Reading level: 6.1 / points: 18.0
AR quiz: 143097
Lexile: 920L
DEMONGLASS
by Rachel Hawkins
Reading Level Info: AR 5.4 (12 points) quiz: 142167
A young demon makes a shocking discovery about her heritage. (Ages 11 and up)
Hardcover: 368 pages
DIVERGENTby Veronica Roth
**Starred Review** PublishersWeekly
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
Word Count: 105,143
Page Count: 576
Accelerated Reading level: 4.8 / points: 16.0
AR quiz: 144400
DORK DIARIES series
by Rachel Renée Russell
Reading Level Info: AR 5s
Tales of a junior Samuel Pepys of the female variety. (Tween and middle-grades)
Hardcover: 288 pages
THE EMERALD ATLAS
by John Stephens
Reading Level Info: 4.9 (15 points) quiz: 143205
Three siblings discover a mysterious book that unlocks a powerful prophecy. (middle-grades)
Hardcover: 432 pages
EONA
by Alison Goodman
Reading Level Info: 5.4 (25 points) quiz: 143199
Eona and her fellow rebels are on the run from High Lord Sethon’s army. (YA)
Hardcover: 637 pages
EVERY THING ON IT
by Shel Silverstein.
Reading Level Info: unknown
Poems and drawings by the genius author of "Where the Sidewalk Ends."
Hardcover: 208 pages
THE GATHERING
by Kelley Armstrong.
Reading Level Info: AR 4.2 (11 points) quiz: 143321
A girl’s paw-print birthmark, mountain lions and other strange goings-on in a Vancouver Island town (YA)
Hardcover: 368 pages
HADES
by Alexandra Adornetto.
Reading Level Info: 5.7 (17 points) quiz: 146134
An angel's motorcycle ride ends up in hell. (Ages 12 and up)
Hardcover: 432 pages
HARRY POTTER FILM WIZARDRY
by Brian Sibley
Reading Level Info: unknown
Deep background, subtext and behind-the-screen details from the moviemakers. (Ages 18 and up)
Hardcover: 160 pages
HEART OF A SAMURAI
**Newbury Honor Winner**
Reading Level Info: AR 5.4 (8 points) quiz: 139383
In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro, who dreams of becoming a samurai, learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States.
Hardcover: 320 pages
I AM NUMBER FOUR
by Pittacus Lore
In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old alien hiding on Earth.
Word Count: 100,385
Page Count: 496
Accelerated Reading level: 4.4 / points: 14.0
AR quiz: 139745
Lexile: 700L
INVINCIBLE (THE CHRONICLES OF NICK)
by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Reading Level Info: AR 4.4 (10 points) quiz: 146649
[Infinity was at AR 4.5 ( 11 points)]
Next assignment: raise the dead. (YA)
Hardcover: 432 pages
JUSTIN BIEBER, FIRST STEP 2 FOREVER
by Justin Bieber
Reading Level Info: AR 5.5 (5 points) quiz: 143075
Justin tells the story of his amazing journey from small-town schoolboy to global superstar.
Hardcover: 240 pages
THE LEGO IDEAS BOOK
by Daniel Lipkowitz
Tips for taking the brick projects you have and making something new. (Ages 7 and up)
Hardcover: 200 pages
LEGO STAR WARS CHARACTER ENCYCLOPEDIA
by DK
More than 300 mini-figures. (Ages 7 and up)
Hardcover: 208 pages
THE LOST HERO
by Rick Riordan
Reading Level Info: AR 4.5 (19 points) quiz: 140427
Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself. (middle-grades and up)
Hardcover: 576 pages
MATCHED
by Ally Condie
In this dystopian romance, a girl rebels against a deterministic future society. (YA)
Word Count: 89,124
Page Count: 400
Accelerated Reading level: 4.8 / points: 13.0
AR quiz: 140501
MICHAEL VEY: THE PRISONER OF CELL 25
by Richard Paul Evans
Reading Level Info: 3.5 (11 points) quiz: 146904
Special powers prove dangerous. (YA)
Hardcover: 336 pages
MIDDLE SCHOOL, THE WORST YEARS OF MY LIFE
by James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts. Illustrated by Laura Park
Reading Level Info: AR 4.5 (4 points) quiz: 144983
Rafe breaks every rule in the book. (Ages 8 to 12)
Hardcover: 288 pages
MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN
by Ransom Riggs
Reading Level Info: 5.7 (13 points) quiz: 145802
An island, an abandoned orphanage and a collection of curious photographs. (Young Adult)
Hardcover: 352 pages
MODELLAND
by Tyra Banks
Reading Level Info: AR 5.0 (21 points) quiz: 146228
Tookie De La Crème is an awkward girl, in a world where she doesn’t seem to belong. (YA)
Hardcover: 576 pages
MOON OVER MANIFEST
by Clare Vanderpool
Reading Level Info: AR 5.3 (12 points) quiz: 140091
Abilene, 12, solves a mystery in Depression-era Kansas. (YA)
Paperback: 368 pages
NEVER HAVE I EVER (Lying Game 2)
by Sara Shepard
Reading Level Info: AR 5.0 (9 points) quiz: 145648
Emma’s investigation of her twin sister’s murder continues. (YA)
OKAY FOR NOW
by Gary D. Schmidt
Reading Level Info: AR 4.9 (11 points) quiz: 143203
In 1968, a boy finds friendship in upstate New York. (Ages 10 to 14)
Hardcover: 368 pages
ONE CRAZY SUMMER
by Rita William-Garcia
**Newbury Honor Winner**
Reading Level Info: 4.6/ points: 7.0 quiz: 135338
Delphine and her sisters spend the summer of ’68 in Oakland with their estranged mother. (Tween & UP)
Hardcover: 224 pages
OUT OF MY MIND
by Sharon M. Draper
**Starred Review** School Library Journal
Reading Level Info: 4.3 (8 points) quiz: 136421
A brilliant girl with cerebral palsy longs for a way to speak. (Ages 10 and up)
Hardcover: 496 pages
PERFECT
by Ellen Hopkins
Reading Level Info: AR generic 4
Four teenagers’ ideas of perfection are as different as the paths they take to achieve it. (YA)
THE POWER OF SIX
by Pittacus Lore
Reading Level Info: ATOS 5.3 (14 points) quiz: 146436
1st book of the Lorien Legacies was "I Am Number Four". In this book the story continues as the kids find one another.
416 pages
STAR WARS CHARACTER ENCYCLOPEDIA
by DK
Reading Level Info: generic 7
Profiles, movie stills and more. (Ages 7 to 17)
Hardcover: 208 pages
THE RED PYRAMIDby Rick Riordan
**Starred Review** Booklist
**Starred Review** School Library Journal
Siblings Carter and Sadie Kane, descendents of Egyptian magicians, must defeat the god Set after the gods are accidentally released in the present.
Word Count: 124,305Page Count: 544
Accelerated Reading level: 4.5 / points: 18.0
AR quiz: 137173
Lexile: 650L
SAPPHIQUE
by Catherine Fisher
Reading Level Info: AR 4.4 (14 points) quiz: 141389
In the sequel to "Incarceron," Finn makes it Outside to discover it is a prison of another kind. (Ages 14 and up)
Hardcover: 464 pages
SEIZURE
by Kathy Reichs
Reading Level Info: AR generic 3
Tory Brennan, niece of Reichs’s Temperance Brennan, returns in the “Virals” sequel. (YA)
Hardcover: 491 pages
SHELTER
by Harlan Coben
Reading Level Info: AR 3.7 (9 points) quiz: 146356
Mickey’s train wreck of a life is finally improving, until his girlfriend vanishes. (YA)
Hardcover: 288 pages
THE STRANGE CASE OF ORIGAMI YODA
by Tom Angleberger
Reading Level Info: AR 4.7 (3 points) quiz: 136271
Is the puppet on Dwight’s finger an oracle? (Ages 8 and up)
Hardcover: 160 pages
SUMMER AND THE CITY
by Candace Bushnell.
Reading Level Info: AR 3.9 (12 points) quiz: 146357
Carrie Bradshaw explores the Big Apple. (YA)
Hardcover: 416 pages
SUPER DIAPER BABY 2
by Dav Pilkey
Reading Level Info: AR 2.2 (1 points) quiz: 144671
(super baby 1 was 2.5)
The Invasion of the Potty Snatchers. (Ages 7 to 10)
Hardcover: 192 pages
SUPERNATURALLY
by Kiersten White
Reading Level Info: 4.5 (10 points) quiz: 144850
Evie returns to tracking paranormal creatures. (YA)
Hardcover: 352 pages
TALES FROM A NOT-SO-POPULAR PARTY GIRL
by Rachel Renée Russell
Reading Level Info: AR 5.1 (4 points) quiz: 137932
Further reflections of Nikki Maxwell on enduring middle school; a “Dork Diaries” book. (Ages 9 to 13)
Hardcover: 288 pages
THEODORE BOONE: KID LAWYER
by John Grisham
Reading Level Info: 5.2 (8 points) quiz: 137599
The “kid lawyer” uses his legal skills to find a missing friend. (Ages 8 to 12)
Hardcover: 272 pages
THEODORE BOONE: THE ABDUCTION
by John Grisham
Reading Level Info: 5.5 (7 points) quiz: 144766
The “kid lawyer” uses his legal skills to find a missing friend. (Ages 8 to 12)
Hardcover: 256 pages
THE CHRONICLES OF HARRIS BURDICK: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales
by Chris Van Allsburg and others!
Reading Level Info: AR 5.4 (8 points) quiz: 146840
Fourteen tales. (Ages 10 and up)
- Hardcover: 192 pages
THE THRONE OF FIRE
by Rick Riordan
Reading Level Info: AR 4.8 (17 points) quiz: 143960
The Kanes seek the sun god, Ra; Book 2 of the Kane Chronicles. (Ages 10 and up)
Paperback: 464 pages
THE GIFT
by James Patterson and Ned Rust
Reading Level Info: 5.2 (9 points) quiz:141560
Two siblings, Whit and Wisty, flex their magical powers. (Ages 10 and up)
Hardcover: 352 pages
THE GIRL WHO CIRCUMNAVIGATED FAIRYLAND IN A SHIP OF HER OWN MAKING
by Catherynne M. Valente. Illustrated by Ana Juan.
Reading Level Info: 5.8 (11 points) quiz: 144583
Otherworldly feats. (Ages 10 to 14)
Hardcover: 256 pages
THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET
written and illustrated by Brian Selznick
Reading Level Info: 5.1 (4 points) quiz: 113692
When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.
Hardcover: 533 pages
THE LYING GAME
by Sara Shepard
Reading Level Info: AR 4.9 (9 points) quiz: 142969
A long-lost twin impersonates her dead sister to try to solve her murder. (YA)
Hardcover: 320 pages
THE MAGIC OF REALITY
by Richard Dawkins. Illustrated by Dave McKean.
Dawkins extends his philosophy to children.
Hardcover: 272 pages
THE OUTCASTS
by John Flanagan
Reading Level Info: generic 4
New personae in the companion to the Ranger’s Apprentice series.
Hardcover: 432 pages
THE SON OF NEPTUNE (Heroes of Olympus #2)
by Rick Riordan
Reading Level Info: AR 4.7 (17 points) quiz: 146841
Riordan expands his cast of characters. (Tween and up)
Hardcover: 544 pages
THE UNOFFICIAL HARRY POTTER COOKBOOK
by Dinah Bucholz
Reading Level Info: unknown
Recipes in which a dash of eye of newt would not go amiss. (Ages 9 to 12)
Hardcover: 256 pages
TIGER'S QUEST
by Colleen Houck
Reading Level Info: AR 4.9 (21 points) quiz: 144767
Danger forces Kelsey on another Indian quest to break the Tiger’s Curse. (Young Adult)
Hardcover: 496 pages
THROUGH MY EYES: A Quarterbacks Journey
by Tim Tebow with Nathan Whitaker
Reading Level Info: AR 6.9 (16 points) quiz: 146186
The Christian quarterback’s journey. (MG and up)
Hardcover: 216 pages
TORMENT
by Lauren Kate
Reading Level Info: AR 5.4 (15 points) quiz: 139717
A novel about the nephilim, the children of humans and fallen angels. (YA)
Paperback: 496 pages
TURTLE IN PARADISEby Jennifer L. Holm
**Newbury Honor Winner**
Reading Level Info: AR 3.7 (4 points) quiz: 137063
In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
Paperback: 208 pages
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: THE OFFICIAL ILLUSTRATED GUIDE
by Stephenie Meyer.
Reading Level Info: AR 7.6 (21 points) quiz: 143673
A definitive guide to all things “Twilight.” (Ages 12 and up)
Hardcover: 524 pages
UNCOMMON CRIMINALSby Ally Carter
Reading Level Info: AR 5.3 (9 points) quiz: 144768
Katrina Bishop sets her sights on the infamous Cleopatra Emerald; a Heist Society book. (YA)
Hardcover: 304 pages
UNDERDOGS
by Mike Lupica
Reading Level Info: AR 5.2 (9 points) quiz: 145509
A football team in trouble. (Ages 10 and up)
Hardcover: 272 pages
WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE SUMMER
by Jenny Han.
Reading Level Info: AR 3.9 (8 points) quiz: 145094
A young woman is torn between two brothers. (YA)
Hardcover: 304 pages
WHAT HAPPENED TO GOODBYE
by Sarah Dessen
Reading Level Info: 4.8 (16 points) quiz: 143325
A girl rediscovers herself after her parents’ bitter divorce. (YA)
Hardcover: 402 pages
WHERE SHE WENT
(book#1, see IF I STAY)
by Gayle Forman
Reading Level Info: 5.1 (8 points) quiz: 143768
Rekindled romance during a night spent exploring New York. (Ages 14 and up)
Hardcover: 208 pages
WILDWOOD
(The Wildwood Chronicles, Book I)
by Colin Meloy
Reading Level Info: 6.3 (19 points) quiz: 146438
A girl's brother is kidnapped by crows. (Ages 9 and up)
Hardcover: 560 pages
WOLFSBANE
by Andrea Cremer
Reading Level Info: 4.4 (12 points) quiz: 145426
Calla forges an alliance with her masters' enemies and tries to rescue her pack from imprisonment in Vail. (YA)
Hardcover: 400 pages
WONDERSTRUCK
by Brian Selznick
Reading Level Info: 5.4 (4points) quiz: 146551
Another fabulous book from Brian. Like The Invention of Hugo Cabret, this story is a mix of graphic novel and words.
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