Here are the best selling Chapter Books for 2012 as reported by the New York Times. We have added reading information. (For the long list of 2011 Best sellers click here.)
THIRTEEN REASONS WHYby Jay Asher
**STARRED REVIEW** Kirkus
When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death. (Young Adult)
Word Count: 62,496Page Count: 336
Accelerated Reading level: 3.9 / points: 9.0
AR quiz: 119218
Lexile: 550L
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THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIANby Sherman Alexie
**STARRED REVIEW** Kirkus
**STARRED REVIEW** School Library Journal
**STARRED REVIEW** Publishers Weekly
**STARRED REVIEW** Horn Book
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. (Ages 12 and up)
Word Count: 44,275
Page Count: 228
Accelerated Reading level: 4.0 / points: 6.0
AR quiz: 117771
Lexile: 600L
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BEFORE I FALLby Lauren Oliver
**STARRED REVIEW** Publishers Weekly
After teenage Samantha dies in a car crash, she relives the day of her death over and over again until she finally discovers a way to save herself. Plot contains profanity, drug and sexual references. (YA)
Word Count: 117,295
Page Count: 496
Accelerated Reading level: 5.4 / points: 18.0
AR quiz: 136739
Lexile: 860L
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THE BOOK THIEFby Markus Zusak
**STARRED REVIEW** Kirkus
**STARRED REVIEW** School Library Journal
**STARRED REVIEW** Publishers Weekly
**STARRED REVIEW** Horn Book
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel, a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding.
Word Count: 118,933
Page Count: 576
Accelerated Reading level: 5.1 / points: 18.0
AR quiz: 106101
Lexile: 730L
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CLOCKWORK ANGELby Cassandra Clare
When sixteen-year-old orphan Tessa Fell's older brother suddenly vanishes, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London's dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother. (YA)
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Page Count: 512
Accelerated Reading level: 5.6 / points: 21.0
AR quiz: 139502
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I AM NUMBER FOURby 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
MATCHEDby Ally Condie
**STARRED REVIEW** Publishers Weekly
Cassia has always had complete trust in the Society to make decisions for her, but when she is being paired with her ideal mate, a second face flashes on the screen, and Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility. (YA)
Word Count: 89,124Cassia has always had complete trust in the Society to make decisions for her, but when she is being paired with her ideal mate, a second face flashes on the screen, and Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility. (YA)
Page Count: 400
Accelerated Reading level: 4.8 / points: 13.0
AR quiz: 140501
THE LYING GAMEby Sara Shepard
Seventeen-year-old Emma Paxton steps into the life of her long-lost twin Sutton to solve her murder, while Sutton looks on from her afterlife. (YA)
Word Count: 63,047
Page Count: 320
Accelerated Reading level: 4.9 / points: 9.0
AR quiz: 142969
THE RED PYRAMIDby Rick Riordan
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
WAR HORSEby Michael Morpurgo
Joey the horse recalls his experiences growing up on an English farm, his struggle for survival as a cavalry horse during World War I, and his reunion with his beloved master.
Word Count: 37,372
Page Count: 192
Accelerated Reading level: 5.9 / points: 6.0
AR quiz: 114464
Lexile: 1090L
--sample pages available
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