Top 10 children’s books 2013

Students from nearly 2,000 UK schools have voted on their top ten favourite children's books of 2013. Here are their choices. What have they left out?
  
  


Top 10 children’s books: Glass Houses
Glass Houses by Rachel Caine
The first book in the Morganville Vampires series. Freshman Claire Danvers leaves her college dorm for an old house with peculiar roommates. She soon uncovers the truth of Morganville: vampires, ghosts, and a long-lost secret book.
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Top 10 children’s books: Harry Potter and the Prisoner Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
The third novel in the Harry Potter series. An escaped mass-murderer from Azkaban causes concern at Hogwarts as Dementors are called in to guard the school.
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Top 10 children’s books: Twilight
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Twlight is the first book in the four-book Twilight series which charts the life of Bella Swan who falls in love with a 104 year old vampire, Edward Cullen.
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Top 10 children’s books: Crocodile Tears
Alex Rider: Crocodile Tears by Anthony Horowitz
The eighth book in the Alex Rider series. 15 year old spy Alex Rider fights against a con artist who has invested millions of dollars in a genetically modified corn. This corn has the ability to release a virus so powerful it can infect an entire country in just one day.
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Top 10 children’s books: Rachel Caine Dead Girls Dance
The Dead Girls Dance by Rachel Caine
The second book in Rachel Caine’s Morganville Vampire series. Claire's college town is still overrun with the living dead. Join her with new boyfriend and his vampire-slaying dad as a local fraternity decides to throw the Dead Girls' Dance.
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Top 10 children’s books: Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth by Jeff Kinney
The fifth book in the Diary of A Wimpy Kid series, the first of which was made in to a film. About a boy named Greg Heffley and his struggles in middle school
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Top 10 children’s books: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
The fourth novel in the Harry Potter series - Voldermort resurrects the Dark Mark in the middle of the Quidditch World Cup and Harry is entered into the titanic Triwizard Tournament.
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Top 10 children’s books: Mates, Dates and Sole Survivors
Mates, Dates and Sole Survivors by Cathy Hopkins
The fifth in the Mates, Dates series, about four best friends who go through all kinds of teenage problems, from boys, bras and being broke to finding your particular place in the world
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Top 10 children’s books: Chris Ryan Survival
Survival by Chris Ryan
The first book in the Alpha Force series. Aimed at teenagers, the Alpha Force are a group of five teenagers who were shipwrecked together and forced to work together as a team to complete different challenges to test their skills and abilities.
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Battle of the Labyrinth: Percy Jackson Battle of the Labyrinth
Percy Jackson and the battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
The fourth novel in the five-book series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Based predominantly on Greek mythology, the series charts Percy Jackson’s quest to stop the rise of the Titan lord Kronos
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