[SEO-Members] 2025 Buckeye Book Award nominees announced

[jdwyer at library.ohio.gov]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 1, 2025

The Buckeye Children's Book Award Council is pleased to announce the nominees for the 2025 Buckeye Children's Book Award and the 2025 Buckeye Teen Book Award. The following titles were chosen by young readers across Ohio through an online nomination process.

Buckeye Children's Book Award:
Grades K-2

  *   The Bakery Dragon by Devin Elle Kurtz (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2024 ISBN 978-0593710968)
  *   Home in a Lunchbox by Cherry Mo (Penguin Workshop, 2024 ISBN 978-0593661345)
  *   Mr. Fox's Game of "No!" by David LaRochelle, illus. by Mike Wohnoutka (Candlewick, 2024 ISBN 978-1536229677)
  *   Ursula Upside Down by Corey R. Tabor (Greenwillow Books, 2024 ISBN 978-0063275560)
  *   The Yellow Bus by Loren Long (Roaring Brook Press, 2024 ISBN 978-1250903136)

Grades 3-5

  *   Bunny and Clyde by Megan McDonald, illus. by Scott Nash (Candlewick, 2024 ISBN 978-1536228731)
  *   InvestiGators: Class Action by John Patrick Green (First Second, 2024 ISBN 978-1250849908)
  *   My Block Looks Like by Janelle Harper, illus. by Frank Morrison (Viking Books for Young Readers, 2024 ISBN 978-0593526309)
  *   Old School by Gordon Korman (HarperCollins, 2025 ISBN 978-0063238145)
  *   They Call Me No Sam! by Drew Daywalt, illus. by Mike Lowery (Clarion Books, 2024 ISBN 978-0358612902)

Grades 6-8

  *   Heroes by Alan Gratz (Scholastic Press, 2024 ISBN 978-1338736076)
  *   Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2024 ISBN 978-0593809860)
  *   Slugfest by Gordon Korman (HarperCollins, 2025 ISBN 978-0063238091)
  *   When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary by Alice Hoffman (Scholastic Press, 2024 ISBN 978-1338856941)
  *   Will's Race for Home by Jewell Parker Rhodes (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2025 ISBN 978-0316299336)

Buckeye Teen Book Award (grades 9-12)

  *   Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross (Wednesday Books, 2023 ISBN 978-1250857439)

  *   Louder Than Hunger by John Schu (Candlewick, 2024 ISBN 978-1536229097)
  *   The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson (Delacorte Press, 2024 ISBN  978-0593374207)
  *   Reckless by Lauren Roberts (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2024 ISBN 978-1665955430)

To be eligible for nomination, a book must have been published in the United States in the previous two years. This year's nominees include five titles each in the Grade K-8 categories and four titles in the Teen category. Voting is open to any student in Ohio, and runs September 1, 2025 - November 10, 2025 on the Buckeye Book Award website: www.bcbookaward.info<http://www.bcbookaward.info/>. Winners will be announced after December 1, 2025. Nominations for the 2026 awards are being accepted at the same website through March 10, 2026. The Buckeye Book Award is notable among other state programs because the books are nominated entirely by Ohio's children and teens.

More information on the Buckeye Book Awards is available on the website www.bcbookaward.info<http://www.bcbookaward.info/> or by contacting the BCTBA Council President at buckeyekidsread at gmail.com<mailto:buckeyekidsread at gmail.com>.



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Janet Ingraham Dwyer
Youth Services Library Consultant
Library Programs & Development
State Library of Ohio
274 E. 1st Avenue
Columbus, OH 43201
614.644.6910
jdwyer at library.ohio.gov<mailto:jdwyer at library.ohio.gov>
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