Visit your local library for these exciting titles from the NYTimes Bestseller List! (April 2025) Children's Picture Books - Top 10 1 HOW TO CATCH THE EASTER BUNNY by Adam Wallace and Andy Elkerton. (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky) The Easter Bunny avoids traps in order to deliver eggs and candy. (Ages 4 to 8) 2 BUFFALO FLUFFALO by Bess Kalb. Illustrated by Erin Kraan. (Random House Studio) A buffalo's posturing is exposed when the rain falls. (Ages 4 to 8) 3 WILL THE PIGEON GRADUATE? by Mo Willems. (Union Square Kids) The Pigeon questions his academic future. (Ages 3 to 5) 4 THE GOOD EGG PRESENTS: THE GREAT EGGSCAPE! by Jory John. Illustrated by Pete Oswald. (HarperCollins) Good Egg and his pals escape their carton! (Ages 4 to 8) 5 HOW TO CATCH A LEPRECHAUN by Adam Wallace. Illustrated by Andy Elkerton. (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky) This is the year you'll finally catch a leprechaun. (Ages 4 to 10) 6 BE A HERO WITH SKIPPER THE SEAL by William H. McRaven and Kelly Marie McRaven. Illustrated by Howard McWilliam. (Little, Brown) Skipper's mission is to find the greatest heroes of all! (Ages 4 to 8) 7 MOSTLY WHAT GOD DOES IS LOVE YOU by Savannah Guthrie. Illustrated by Morgan Huff. (Zonderkidz) Children are reminded that God is always with them. (Ages 4 to 8) 8 DRAGONS LOVE TACOS by Adam Rubin. Illustrated by Daniel Salmieri. (Dial) What to serve your dragon-guests. (Ages 3 to 5) 9 THE WONDERFUL THINGS YOU WILL BE by Emily Winfield Martin. (Random House) A celebration of future possibilities. (Ages 3 to 7) 10 GRUMPY MONKEY SPRING FEVER by Suzanne Lang. Illustrated by Max Lang. (Random House Studio) Jim Panzee catches a bad case of spring fever. (Ages 4 to 8) Children's Middle Grade (Hardcover) - Top 10 1 IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES by Katherine Rundell. Illustrated by Ashley Mackenzie. (Knopf) A young boy is enlisted to save a place where magical creatures reside. (Ages 10 and up) 2 REFUGEE by Alan Gratz. (Scholastic) Three children in three different conflicts look for safe haven. (Ages 9 to 12) 3 THE COMPLETE COOKBOOK FOR YOUNG CHEFS by America's Test Kitchen Kids. (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky) Over 100 kid-tested recipes from America's Test Kitchen. (Ages 8 and up) 4 THE CURSED CAMPGROUND by FGTeeV with Joe Caramagna. Illustrated by Tim Wesson. (HarperCollins) Duddy inadvertently summons Bigfoot to the campground. (Ages 8 to 12) 5 OLD SCHOOL by Gordon Korman. (HarperCollins) Dexter, a 12-year-old raised and home-schooled by senior citizens, must now attend school with kids his own age. (Ages 8 to 12) 6 WONDER by R.J. Palacio. (Knopf) A boy with a facial deformity starts school. (Ages 8 to 12) 7 RESIST by Alan Gratz. (Scholastic) Samira goes on a dangerous mission to save her mother on D-Day. (Ages 9 to 12) 8 HEROES by Alan Gratz. (Scholastic) The friends Frank and Stanley give a vivid account of the Pearl Harbor attack. (Ages 8 to 12) 9 AWAY by Megan E. Freeman. (Aladdin) A group of children in a relocation camp investigate why they were driven from their homes. (Ages 10 and up) 10 THE LAST DRAGON ON MARS by Scott Reintgen. (Aladdin) Lunar must save the planet of Mars with a dragon named Dread. (Ages 10 and up) Young Adult Books (Hardcover) - Top 10 1 WINGS OF STARLIGHT by Allison Saft. (Disney) Clarion, the successor to the throne of Pixie Hollow, is determined to confront a monster that threatens the land. (Ages 12 to 18) 2 REBEL WITCH by Kristen Ciccarelli. (Wednesday) Rune and Gideon must join forces to stop a sinister plot by Cressida Roseblood. (Ages 13 to 18) 3 OUR INFINITE FATES by Laura Steven. (Wednesday) Evelyn and Arden are doomed souls who repeatedly fall in love and kill each other. (Ages 13 to 18) 4 HEARTLESS HUNTER by Kristen Ciccarelli. (Wednesday) Rune, a witch, and Gideon, a witch-hunter, fall in love. (Ages 13 to 18) 5 FABLE FOR THE END OF THE WORLD by Ava Reid. (HarperCollins) Inesa, the hunted, and Melinoe, the hunter, fall in love in a postapocalyptic society. (Ages 14 and up) 6 NOTHING LIKE THE MOVIES by Lynn Painter. (Simon & Schuster) In this sequel to "Better Than the Movies," Wes tries to win back the heart of Liz. (Ages 14 and up) 7 NIGHTWEAVER by R. M. Gray. (Little, Brown) Aster hunts the creatures responsible for her brother's death. (Ages 12 to 18) 8 IF HE HAD BEEN WITH ME by Laura Nowlin. (Sourcebooks Fire) The coming-of-age love story of Autumn and Phineas. (Ages 14 to 18) 9 MURTAGH by Christopher Paolini. (Knopf) Murtagh and his dragon, Thorn, must find and outwit a mysterious witch. (Ages 12 to 15) 10 Ivy Benton enters a competition to win the hand of Prince Bram. (Ages 13 and up) Children's and Young Adult Series - Top 10 1 THE HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins. (Scholastic) In a dystopia, a girl fights for survival on live TV. (Ages 12 and up) 2 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID written and illustrated by Jeff Kinney. (Amulet) The travails and challenges of adolescence. (Ages 9 to 12) 3 THE WILD ROBOT by Peter Brown. (Little, Brown) Roz the robot adapts to her surroundings on a remote, wild island. (Ages 7 to 12) 4 HARRY POTTER by J.K. Rowling. (Scholastic) A wizard hones his conjuring skills in the service of fighting evil. (Ages 10 and up) 5 PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS by Rick Riordan. (Disney-Hyperion) A boy battles mythological monsters. (Ages 9 to 12) 6 THE POWERLESS TRILOGY by Lauren Roberts. (Simon and Schuster) A story of forbidden love between Paedyn, an Ordinary, and Kai, an Elite, in the kingdom of Ilya. (Ages 14 and up) 7 THE LEGENDBORN CYCLE by Tracy Deonn. (Simon & Schuster) Bree Matthews infiltrates a secret magical society. (Ages 14 and up) 8 BOYS OF TOMMEN by Chloe Walsh. (Bloom) In Ireland, friends at the private school Tommen College prepare for adulthood. (Ages 16 to 18) 9 A GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER by Holly Jackson. (Delacorte) Pippa Fitz-Amobi solves murderous crimes. (Ages 14 and up) 10 LIGHTLARK SAGA by Alex Aster. (Amulet) Every 100 years the island of Lightlark appears and a deadly competition called the Centennial takes place. (Ages 13 and up)