RHODE ISLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL BOOK AWARD
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CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2024 WINNER AND RUNNER-UP BOOKS!
Our 2024 RIMSBA Winner is Frizzy by Claribel Ortega! Our two runner-up books are Weird Kid by Greg Van Eekhout and Invisible by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and Gabriela Epstein.
Thank you to all the readers in grades 6-8 who voted this year!
ANNOUNCING OUR 2025 RIMSBA NOMINEES!
Buzzing by Samuel Sattin
The Clackity Lora Senf
Crash from Outer Space: Unraveling the Mystery of Flying Saucers, Alien Beings, and Roswell by Candace Fleming
Ellie Engle Saves Herself by Leah Johnson
A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat
The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto by Adrianna Cuevas
Hoops by Matt Tavares
Labors of Hercules Beal by Gary D Schmidt
The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh
The Otherwoods by Justine Pucella Winans
Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge & Lauren Tamaki
Simon Sort of Says by Erin Bow
The Supervillain's Guide to Being a Fat Kid by Matt Wallace
The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels by Beth Lincoln
The Unforgettable Logan Foster by Shawn Peters
Vivian Lantz's Second Chances by Kathryn Ormsbee
What Happened to Rachel Riley? by Claire Swinarski
What Stays Buried by Suzanne Young
Wretched Waterpark by Kiersten White
You Are Here edited by Ellen Oh
RIMSBA 2025 Nominees.pdfBook Cover Flyer
RIMSBA List 2025 annotations.pdfBook Flyer with Annotations
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A statement from the RIMSBA Committee:
“The Rhode Island Middle School Book Award Committee, composed of Rhode Island teachers, school librarians, and public librarians, works annually to create a diverse list of nominated books using specific criteria. The committee is intentional in seeking books that affirm marginalized groups and champions stories and characters that reflect the lived experiences of Rhode Island youth as well as the larger world. The committee aims to provide an annual list of nominees that maintains diversity in race, gender, sexuality, family makeup, socioeconomics and ability. Nominee lists are thoughtfully curated with an anti-racist lens, to allow all youth to be seen and their voices actively heard. The Rhode Island Middle School Book Award believes representation matters and strives to create mirrors, windows and prisms for all children.”