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.
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Every year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of books that make great additions to your home library. The following picture books were published in 2025.
A turkey sets out to craft the best costume ever for the November ball in Turkey in Disguise, by Adam Wallace and Mike Moran.
Learn about the role air plays in our lives and on our planet in Our Air, a nonfiction picture book by G. Brian Karas.
Discover the new ecosystem that flourishes after a tree falls in The Tomorrow Tree: How Nature Creates New Life from Old.
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Wild Moon, by Andie Powers and Lucy Rose, features the eight lunar phases of the moon and how they affect wildlife on Earth.
Journey through the forest with a group of young explorers in The Everything Trail, a picture book by Meg Fleming and Chuck Groenink.
Introduce young readers to the mystery, wonder, and beauty of the quarter of our world that’s frozen in Our Frozen Planet, by Leisa Stewart-Sharpe and Kim Smith.