SLJ’s 2025 Best Books Cover Unveiled SLJ has selected 191 titles for our 2025 Best Books of the year! Download the PDF of the full list and take a look at our fabulous December issue cover, dedicated to this year's list.

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Best Manga 2025 | SLJ Best Books The 2025 Best Manga roundup features haunting sci-fi, slow-burn romance, and charming friendship tales for middle grade and YA readers.

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Best Graphic Novels 2025 | SLJ Best Books The 2025 Best Manga roundup features haunting sci-fi, slow-burn romance, and charming friendship tales for middle grade and YA readers.

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Interview with Phenomenal Best Books Cover Artist Loris Lora SLJ chats with the Pura Belpre–winning artist about the creative process for this year’s December Best Books cover.

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Best Nonfiction Elementary Books 2025 | SLJ Best Books From poo and tentacles to contemplative picture book biographies, this year’s picks for the Best Nonfiction for Elementary readers are filled with facts, information, and wonder.

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Best Picture Books 2025 | SLJ Best Books From sensory-filled illustrations to relentlessly funny characters, the 2025 Best Picture Books make for excellent read-alouds, heartfelt one-on-ones, and heartrending reads.

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Best Transitional Books 2025 | SLJ Best Books These Best Transitional Books of 2025 for beginning, emerging, and newly independent readers include relatable friendship tales, challenges overcome, and everyday slice-of-life stories that are pitch-...

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Best Middle Grade Books 2025 | SLJ Best Books The Best Middle Grade titles of 2025 feature action-packed fantasies, resonant realistic fiction, and heart-pounding horror stories for tweens.

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Best Young Adult Books 2025 | SLJ Best Books The 2025 YA Best Books list has a choice for every teen—long-anticipated companion novels, adorable rom-coms, and genre-bending romanstasy.

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Best Poetry Books 2025 | SLJ Best Books Vibrant anthologies, powerful celebrations of groundbreaking figures, and volumes filled with concrete poems and traditional rhymes make their appearance on our Best Poetry list.

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Best Nonfiction Elementary Books 2025 | SLJ Best Books From poo and tentacles to contemplative picture book biographies, this year’s picks for the Best Nonfiction for Elementary readers are filled with facts, information, and wonder.

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So proud to have been on this committee!

9 Middle Grade & YA Graphic Novels About the Holocaust Every year on January 27th, International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorates the 1945 liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. This year marks the 80th anniversary. Share thes...

Every year on January 27th, International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorates the 1945 liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. This year marks the 80th anniversary. Share these graphic novels with young readers leading up to the day and all year long.

2025 Rubies “Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability but comes through continuous struggle.” – Martin Luther King Jr. Rubies, precious descendant stones set for the future with books that debut in ...

The impetus for representation has shifted, but it remains as real as ever, writes Edi Campbell. The work includes recognizing and promoting new voices in the field, so she's started this list featuring BIPOC debut authors. Suggestions welcome.

28 Picture Books Of Inspiring Black Americans for Black History Month and All Year Celebrating history shapers like John Lewis and Mae Jemison and lesser-known individuals with comparable impact, such as playwrights August Wilson and Lorraine Hansberry, and engineer Raye Montague, t...

Celebrating history shapers like John Lewis and Mae Jemison and lesser-known individuals with comparable impact, such as playwrights August Wilson and Lorraine Hansberry, and engineer Raye Montague, these 28 titles share the lives, struggles, and triumphs of notable Black Americans.

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SLJ's Shelley Diaz and Kid Lit Collective friends.

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APALA winners!

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Sydney Taylor Book Award winners:
Picture Book: An Etrog from Across the Sea
MG: The Girl Who Sang
YA: Night Owls

Schneider Family Book Award winners
Younger Children’s: A Little Like Magic
MG: Popcorn
YA: Chronically Dolores

Stonewall Book Award winners

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Carolyn L. Garnes wins the Coretta Scott King -- Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.

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Margaret A. Edwards Award goes to Tiffany D. Jackson

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Morris Award winner: Not Like Other Girls

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Excellence in Nonfiction Award goes to:
Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles 1992

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Odyssey winners, children's and YA:

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Printz Award winner is Brownstone.

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Congratulations to the Pura Belpré Award winners

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The Sibert Medal goes to Life After Whale.

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