Visit your local library for these exciting titles from the NY Times Bestseller List! (August 2017) Children's Picture Books - Top 10 1 SHE PERSISTED by Chelsea Clinton. Illustrated by Alexandra Boiger. (Philomel) Bringing to life 13 American women who changed the world. 2 WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A PROBLEM? by Kobi Yamada. Illustrated by Mae Besom. (Compendium) Problems can be lessons in disguise. 3 DRAGONS LOVE TACOS by Adam Rubin. Illustrated by Daniel Salmieri. (Dial) What to serve your dragon-guests. 4 DRAGONS LOVE TACOS 2 by Adam Rubin and Daniel Salmieri. (Dial) Heading into the past for the seed of a taco tree. 5 THE WONDERFUL THINGS YOU WILL BE by Emily Winfield Martin. (Random House) A celebration of future possibilities. 6 WHAT DO YOU DO WITH AN IDEA? by Kobi Yamada. Illustrated by Mae Besom. (Compendium) Giving a new idea the room to grow. 7 WAITING IS NOT EASY! by Mo Willems. (Hyperion) Impatient Gerald has to wait for Piggie's promised surprise. 8 ROSIE REVERE, ENGINEER by Andrea Beaty. Illustrated by David Roberts. (Abrams) A young inventor learns to fail better. 9 THE DAY THE CRAYONS QUIT by Drew Daywalt. Illustrated by Oliver Jeffers. (Philomel) Problems arise when Duncan's crayons revolt. 10 MIGHTY, MIGHTY CONSTRUCTION SITE by Sherri Duskey Rinker and Tom Lichtenheld. (Chronicle) The vehicles make a building rise. Children's Middle Grade (Hardcover) - Top 10 1 WONDER by R. J. Palacio. (Knopf) A boy with a facial deformity starts school. 2 THE DARK PROPHECY by Rick Riordan. (Disney-Hyperion) Lester, a.k.a. Apollo, summons the help of demigods to restore an Oracle. 3 MINECRAFT: THE ISLAND by Max Brooks. (Del Rey) A lone castaway faces dangers in a strange new world. 4 DOG MAN UNLEASHED by Dav Pilkey. (Scholastic) Only one hybrid hero can foil the criminally minded, again. 5 GOOD NIGHT STORIES FOR REBEL GIRLS by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo. (Timbuktu Labs) Fairy tale versions of the lives of 100 influential women. 6 DOG MAN by Dav Pilkey. (Scholastic) A dog's head is combined with a policeman's body to create this hybrid supercop hound. 7 MIDDLE SCHOOL MAYHEM by Rachel Renée Russell. (Simon & Schuster) Max is trapped in the school with three bumbling thieves. 8 POTTYMOUTH AND STOOPID by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein. Illustrated by Stephen Gilpin. (Jimmy Patterson) Two middle schoolers try to thwart bullies with humor. 9 THE HIDDEN ORACLE by Rick Riordan. (Disney-Hyperion) Apollo sets out to restore his tarnished reputation. 10 THE GIRL WHO DRANK THE MOON by Kelly Barnhill. (Algonquin) A sacrificial girl is saved by a good witch. Young Adult Books (Hardcover) - Top 10 1 THE HATE U GIVE by Angie Thomas. (Balzer & Bray) A 16-year-old girl sees a police officer kill her friend. 2 ONE OF US IS LYING by Karen M. McManus. (Delacorte) For five students, a detour into detention ends in murder. 3 LORD OF SHADOWS by Cassandra Clare. (Margaret K. McElderry) Caught between the faerie courts and the laws of the Clave. 4 ONCE AND FOR ALL by Sarah Dessen. (Viking) Can the harder-hearted Louna reform the more romantically casual Ambrose? 5 CRAZY HOUSE by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet. (Jimmy Patterson) The wrong twin's on death row. 6 THIS IS WHERE IT ENDS by Marieke Nijkamp. (Sourcebooks Fire) An act of violence parsed from four perspectives. 7 LADY MIDNIGHT by Cassandra Clare. (Margaret K. McElderry) Shadowhunters grapple with occult murders and first love. 8 THE LAST MAGICIAN by Lisa Maxwell. (Simon Pulse) A girl must travel back in time to find a mysterious book that could save her future. 9 ALEX AND ELIZA by Melissa de la Cruz. (Putnam) As the Revolution unfolds, Eliza Schuyler meets a man named Hamilton. 10 THE SUN IS ALSO A STAR by Nicola Yoon. (Delacorte) The story of a girl, a boy, budding love and the universe. Children's Series - Top 10 1 LAND OF STORIES by Chris Colfer. Illustrated by Brandon Dorman. (Little, Brown) Fairy tales and classic stories collide. 2 HARRY POTTER by J. K. Rowling. (Scholastic) A wizard hones his conjuring skills in the service of fighting evil. 3 CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS written and illustrated by Dav Pilkey. (Scholastic) Boys and their principal fight evil. 4 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID written and illustrated by Jeff Kinney. (Amulet) The travails and challenges of adolescence. 5 DESCENDANTS by Melissa de la Cruz. (Disney-Hyperion) A three-pronged prize pits teams against each other. 6 MERCY WATSON by Kate DiCamillo. Illustrated by Chris Van Dusen. (Candlewick) The adventures of an irrepressible adopted pig. 7 DORK DIARIES by Rachel Renée Russell. (Simon & Schuster) Nikki Maxwell navigates the halls of middle school. 8 PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS by Rick Riordan. (Disney-Hyperion) A boy battles mythological monsters. 9 GIVER QUARTET by Lois Lowry. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Exploring human connection in a post-apocalyptic world. 10 WHO WAS/IS . . . ? by Jim Gigliotti and others; various illustrators. (Grosset & Dunlap) Biographies unlock legendary lives.