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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The fire, the water, and Maudie McGinn
Pla, Sally J.
Paper Book
Neurodivergent Maudie is ready to spend an amazing summer with her dad, but will she find the courage to tell him a terrible secret about life with her mom and new stepdad? This contemporary novel is a must-read for fans of Leslie Connor and Ali Standish. A Schneider Family Book Award winner! ...
Global
Colfer, Eoin
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling author Eoin Colfer and the team behind the Artemis Fowl graphic novels and bestselling, acclaimed graphic novel Illegal comes a compelling and timely story that follows two courageous children as they face the effects of climate change. Time is running out...
It happened on Saturday
Dunlap, Sydney
Paper Book
A 2025 OLA Intermediate Sequoyah Masterlist selection 2025 Beehive Book Award Nominee 2024 Crystal Kite Awards Honor Winner 2024 IPPY Awards Silver Medalist, Juvenile Fiction 2023 Moonbeam Awards Gold Medalist (Pre-Teen Fiction - Mature Issues) 34th Annual Reading...
The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
Day, Nicholas.
Paper Book
A "witty thriller" (The New York Times) for middle-grade readers 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. ...
SOMETHING LIKE HOME
Arango, Andrea Beatriz
Paper Book
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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