CONGRATULATIONS to the 10 winners of our 2025 Reviewers’ Choice Awards at www.YAdudebooks.ca!

Every February, our book reviewers select their favorite two books of the previous calendar year. As portrayed on the poster above, here are this year’s results.

WINNERS

• Patrick Carman: Bonkers! Attack of the 40 Foot Chicken (Blackstone); Reviewer: Kevin Velayo
• William Loren Katz: Breaking the Chains (Triangle/7 Stories); Reviewer: Pam Withers
• Michael Solis: Deficient (BHC Press); Reviewer: Weldon Ngetich
• Sara De Waard: Defy (Cormorant); Reviewer: Kevin Velayo
• Kosoko Jackson: The Forest Demands Its Due (Quill Tree); Reviewer: Matt Gill
• Christina Kilbourne: 40 Days in Hicksville (DCB Young Readers); Reviewer: James Steeves
• Nicole Dahlin: If We Tell You (Kids Can Press); Reviewer: Pam Withers
• Kacen Callender: Infinity Alchemist (Tor Teen); Reviewer: Weldon Ngetich
• Paul Coccia: Leon Levels Up (Orca Book); Reviewer: James Steeves
• Tom Birdseye: There Is No Map For This (Groundwood/Anansi); Reviewer: Pam Withers

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YAdudebooks was founded in March 2021. Aimed at middle-grade (MG) and young-adult (YA) educators, parents, and teen readers, it now offers more than 200 book reviews and close to 50 author interviews, including some of the most prominent MG/YA authors in the world.

Congratulations again to the 2025 YAdudebooks Reviewers’ Choice Award winners. Please pass this along to your friends and colleagues.

Finally, thanks to the authors who keep writing and the publishers who keep publishing MG & YA books with appeal to boys in particular. It’s our special niche!

- Pam Withers, Founder