Every year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of books that make great additions to your library. The following middle grade and YA graphic novels were published in 2025.
Browsing: Middle Grade
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.
Two girls. Two different realities. One big adventure. The Planet, The Portal, and a Pizza, by Wendy Mass and Nora Raleigh Baskin is now on shelves.
How to Save an Otter is the first book in a new series by Kate Messner about a family dedicated to rescuing animals.
An American gymnast experiences Nazi Germany firsthand during the 1936 Berlin Olympics in War Games, by Alan Gratz.
Lauren Tarshis returns with the 25th book in her popular historical fiction I Survived series with I Survived the Dust Bowl, 1935.
Follow three children through three different time periods as each sets out in search of refuge in Alan Gratz’s Refugee: The Graphic Novel.
In Sole Survivor, Norman Ollestad tells the story of how as a sixth-grader he survived a deadly mountainside plane crash during a snowstorm.
A superhero-loving boy born without hands finds the hero inside himself in The Bionic Boy, a middle-grade novel by Lynn Plourde.
A boy struggles to keep his family together while facing the side effects of bull riding in Holding on For Dear Life, by Dusti Bowling.