Every year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of books that make great additions to your holiday library. These Christmas Books were released in 2025.
Browsing: ages 9 & up
Each year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of middle grade books that make great gifts. The following are middle grade books published in 2025.
An American gymnast experiences Nazi Germany firsthand during the 1936 Berlin Olympics in War Games, by Alan Gratz.
Follow three children through three different time periods as each sets out in search of refuge in Alan Gratz’s Refugee: The Graphic Novel.
A boy sets out to change his future by creating his own country in The Free State of Jax, a contemporary middle-grade novel by Jennifer A. Nielsen.
A girl dreams about a world beyond the shelter where her family lives following the Great Poisoning in Outside, a MG novel by Jennifer L. Holm.
A boy discovers a mystical animal in a London junkyard in Tyger, a middle-grade fantasy written by SF Said and illustrated Dave McKean.
Popular authors bring the past to life through historical fiction. The following middle-grade books touch on D-Day, the rise of the Nazi regime and a Civil War Britain.
The Chasing Vermeer series features mysteries, puzzles, adventure and works of art.
A summer visit to Martha’s Vineyard goes sideways when a popular teen is murdered in Blood in the Water, by Tiffany D. Jackson.