THE 'HEARTSONGS' KID
Living with a rare form of muscular dystrophy, 11-year-old poet Mattie J.T. Stepanek had three wishes: to meet Jimmy Carter, to appear on Oprah, and to publish a book of poetry. Already he's three for three--last month Stepanek celebrated the reissue of his second collection, Journey Through Heartsongs (foreword by Jimmy Carter), with a second chat on Oprah. In the process, Stepanek fulfilled the secret wish of every poet: This week he's got a No. 1 best-seller. But on Feb. 5, John Grisham serves him The Summons.
FICTION WEEKS ON LIST
1 JOURNEY THROUGH HEARTSONGS Mattie J.T. Stepanek, VSP/Hyperion, $14.95 4 2 UNDER FIRE: A CORPS NOVEL W.E.B. Griffin, Putnam, $26.95 1 3 THE MILLIONAIRES Brad Meltzer, Warner, $25.95 2 4 BASKET CASE Carl Hiaasen, Knopf, $25.95 3 5 SKIPPING CHRISTMAS John Grisham, Doubleday, $19.95 10 6 THE CAT WHO WENT UP THE CREEK Lilian Jackson Braun, Putnam, $23.95 1 7 THE CORRECTIONS Jonathan Franzen, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 19 8 ONE DOOR AWAY FROM HEAVEN Dean Koontz, Bantam, $26.95 4 9 VIOLETS ARE BLUE James Patterson, Little, Brown, $27.95 8 10 THE DIARY OF ELLEN RIMBAUER: MY LIFE AT ROSE RED Edited by Joyce Reardon, Hyperion, $22.95 2
NONFICTION
1 BODY FOR LIFE Bill Phillips and Michael D'Orso, HarperCollins, $25 125 2 BIAS: A CBS INSIDER EXPOSES HOW THE MEDIA DISTORT THE NEWS Bernard Goldberg, Regnery, $27.95 4 3 GET WITH THE PROGRAM! Bob Greene, Simon & Schuster, $24 3 4 WHO MOVED MY CHEESE? Spencer Johnson, Putnam, $19.95 107 5 JOHN ADAMS David McCullough, Simon & Schuster, $35 34 6 JACK: STRAIGHT FROM THE GUT Jack Welch with John A. Byrne, Warner, $29.95 18 7 THE PRAYER OF JABEZ Bruce Wilkinson, Multnomah, $9.99 48 8 THEODORE REX Edmund Morris, Random House, $35 8 9 ONE NATION: AMERICA REMEMBERS SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 LIFE Magazine Editors, Little, Brown, $29.95 6 10 SELF MATTERS: CREATING YOUR LIFE FROM THE INSIDE OUT Phillip C. McGraw, Simon & Schuster, $25 8
SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
