Maine Student Book Award
2025-2026 Reading List
The Songbird and the Rambutan Tree
Lucille Abendanon
Between Two Brothers
Crystal Allen
Once They See You: 13 Stories to Shiver and Shock
Josh Allen
Boy 2.0
Tracey Baptiste
Mountain of Fire: The Eruption and Survivors of Mount St. Helens
Rebecca E. Barone
Viewfinder
Christine D. Chung
The Legend of the Last Library
Frank L. Cole
The Flicker
H.E. Edgmon
A Game of Noctis
Deva Fagan
The Partition Project
Saadia Faruqi
Narwhal: Unicorn of the Arctic
Candace Fleming
Not Nothing
Gayle Forman
Popcorn
Rob Harrell
The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien
Jon Hendrix
Evidence!: How Dr. John Snow Solved the Mystery of Cholera
Deborah Hopkinson
Emma and the Love Spell
Meredith Ireland
Code Name Kingfisher
Liz Kessler
Amir and the Jinn Princess
M T Khan
Wildful
Kengo Kurimoto
The Truth About Triangles
Michael Leali
The Last Bloodcarver
Vanessa Le
The Dark!: Wild Life in the Mysterious World of Caves
Lindsey Leigh
The Witching Wind
Natalie Lloyd
Maple's Theory of Fun
Kate McMillan
No Place for Monsters: Little Nobody
Kory Merrity
Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody
Patrick Ness
The Wrong Way Home
Kate O'Shaughnessy
The Last Hope School For Magical Delinquents
Nicki Pau Preto
The Firelight Apprentice
Bree Paulsen
The Sherlock Society
James Ponti
Puzzleheart
Jenn Reese
The Last Dragon On Mars
Scott Reintgen
Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell
Spooky Lakes: 25 Strange and Mysterious Lakes that Dot Our Planet
Geo Rutherford
The Night Train
Lorelai Savaryn
The Kid
Jeff Schill
Ratty
Suzanne Selfors
Tig
Heather Smith
The Longest Shot: How Larry Kwong Changed the Face of Hockey
Chad Soon and George Chiang
Mid-Air
Alicia Williams
