Best Selling Children's Frontlist Fiction
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BESTSELLERS-CHILDREN’S FRONTLIST FICTION

16 Mar BESTSELLERS-CHILDREN’S FRONTLIST FICTION

Posted at 19:14h in about writing by

 

I can tell you, as writers, that we need to read, read, read—especially

books like the ones we want to write.

 

So I’ve listed the current frontlist fiction for children in middle grades and up.

 

 

 

Frontlist books are a publisher’s sales list of recently published books, especially those with popular appeal.

 

In contrast, the backlist is comprised of the books that a publisher has kept in print over several years.

The following are the top selling juvenile books as of early March 2014. There are humorous books, lighthearted fantasies, dark themes, legends, toughing novels, and stories based on history.

I encourage you to familiarize yourself with those that fit your target age range and category. Scan several chapters of each to get a feel of the tone, style and pace. Also, research the publishers in Writer’s Market or Book Markets for Children’s Writers to learn what their guidelines and current needs are.

 

TOP 25 Children’s Fiction Books in the US

 

  1. Allegiant by Veronica Roth (Katherine Tegen Books; Oct. 2013)
  2. Divergent by Veronica Roth (Katherine Tegen Books, Feb. 2014)
  3. Hard Luck by Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books, Nov. 2013)
  4. Frozen: The Junior Novelization by Sarah Nathan, (Adapted by Random House Disney, Oct. 2013)
  5. Mockingjay (Final Book of the Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press, Feb. 2014)
  6. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (Quirk Books, June 2013)
  7. Princess Labelmaker to the Rescue by Tom Angleberger (Amulet Books, March 2014)
  8. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, Oct. 2013)
  9. Hollow City by Ransom Riggs (Quirk Books, Jan. 2014)
  10. The Finisher by David Baldacci (Scholastic Press, March 2014)
  11. City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare (Margaret K. McElderry Books, March 2014)
  12. Lego: The Lego Movie: Junior Novel by Kate Howard (Scholastic Inc., Dec. 2013)
  13. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press, June 2013)
  14. Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims: Time-Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans by Rush Limbaugh (Threshold Editions, Oct. 2013)
  15. The House of Hades by Rick Riordan (Disney Press, Oct. 2013)
  16. Now Look What You’ve Done by Stephan Pastis (Candlewick Press. Feb. 2014)
  17. Ever After High: The Storybook of Legends by Shannon Hale (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Oct. 2013)
  18. Panic by Lauren Oliver (HarperCollins, March 2014)
  19. Divergent by Veronica Roth (Hardcover edition, Katherine Tegen Books, Feb. 2014)
  20. Inside Divergent: The Initiate’s World by Cecilia Bernard (Katherine Tegen Books, Feb. 2014)
  21. The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan (Disney Press, July 2013)
  22. Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick Press, Sept. 2013)
  23. I Even Funnier: A Middle School Story by James Patterson (Little Brown and Company,Dec. 2013)
  24. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead (Razorbill, Dec. 2013)
  25. Isabelle by Laurence Yep (American Girl Publishing Inc., Jan. 2014)


WANT TO WRITE FOR KIDS? WHETHER YOU WANT TO WRITE FICTION OR NONFICTION, CHECK OUT MY WORKBOOK, WRITE A MARKETABLE CHILDREN’S BOOK, NOT YOUR TYPICAL HOW-TO WRITE GUIDE. 

CO-WRITTEN WITH SHIRLEY RAYE REDMOND, IT REVEALS THE STEP-BY-STEP APPROACH THAT SHIRLEY RAYE AND I USED TO BREAK INTO CHILDREN’S PUBLISHING AND TO KEEP SELLING. 

You must write a marketable book in order to sell it, and this workbook teaches:

* HOW RESEARCH THE MARKET.
* HOW TO CRAFT YOUR STORY TO TARGET THE MARKET.
* HOW TO ESTABLISH EDITOR CONTACTS.

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