2025 Book List

Elementary (from the 2025 Georgia Children’s Book Award Top 20 List)

Brockenbough, M. (2023). To Catch a Thief. Scholastic.

Case, J. (2022). Little Monarchs. Margaret Ferguson Books.          

Kuyatt, M. E. (2023). Good Different. Scholastic.

Ortega, C. A. (2023). Frizzy. First Second Books.

Reynolds, J. (2023). It’s the End of the World and I’m in My Bathing Suit. Scholastic.

Souders, T. (2023) The Mystery of the Radcliffe Riddle. Sourcebooks.

Tandon, N. (2022) The Way I Say It. Charlesbridge.

Tang, B. (2023). Parachute Kids. Graphix.

Thomas, A. (2023). Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy. Balzer + Bray.

Warga, J. (2022). A Rover’s Story. Balzer + Bray

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