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2025 Middle School Nominees

Adrift byTanya Guerrero

Bomb, Graphic Novel: The Race to Build – and Steal – the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin

The Fire, The Water, and Maudie McGinn by Sally J. Pla

Harboring Hope : The True Story of How Henny Sinding Helped Denmark's Jews Escape the Nazis by Susan Hood

Hoops by Matt Tavares

Iceberg by Jennifer A. Nielsen

Keeper of the Lost Cities Graphic Novel Part 1 by Shannon Messenger

The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh

The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity by Nicholas Day

Saving Sunshine by Saadia Faruqi

Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal about the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge

The Star that Always Stays by Anna Rose Johnson

The Superteacher Project by Gordon Korman

The Unforgettable Logan Foster by Shawn Peters