Virginia Readers' Choice Middle School 2025-2026

Nominees for Virginia Readers' Choice awards for the 2025-2026 school year.

Updated April 24, 2025
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Colfer, Eoin
Ebook
The last hope in Hopetown
Tureaud, Maria
Paper Book
Stranger Things meets Fake Blood in this deliciously charming and spooky novel about one girl's choice to save her vampire parents or do what's right for the greater good. Twelve-year-old human Sophie Dawes lives a good life in Hopetown. There,...
The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
Day, Nicholas.
Audiobook
A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how the robbery made the portrait the most famous artwork in the world--and how the painting by Leonardo da Vinci should never have existed at all. On a hot August day in Paris,...
A perfect mistake
Conklin, Melanie
Paper Book
A moving, voice-driven novel about friendship, responsibility, and fighting against unfair expectations, for fans of Rebecca Stead and Erin Entrada Kelly.   Max wishes he could go back in time to before he was diagnosed with ADHD, before he grew to be the...
SOMETHING LIKE HOME
Arango, Andrea Beatriz
Audiobook
The Pura Belpré Honor winning novel in verse, in which a lost dog helps a lonely girl find a way home to her family . . . only for them to find family in each other along the way. From the Newbery Honor winning author of Iveliz Explains It All. "Trust me: this book will touch...
What happened to Rachel Riley?
Swinarski, Claire
Paper Book
ALA Notable Children's Book Regional Indie Bestseller Audie Award Winner Edgar Award Nominee Cybils Award Nominee YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults New York Public Library Best Book of the Year Chicago Public Library Best of...

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