Announcement

Greetings March Book Madness Community,

We are Katie and Jeff, both long-time educators in central Ohio. Along with colleagues from our district, we will be heading up the new team for March Book Madness. 
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We are excited to continue the great work done by Scott and Tony over the past 11 years, and we want to thank them for creating, organizing, and running March Book Madness. What started as a classroom project has developed into an annual reading event that has inspired countless students around the world. 

We will have a new website soon along with the book contenders for 2026, so check back toward the end of October.

Thanks!!
Katie and Jeff
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Picture Books
​Middle Grade
​Young Adult
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  • The Yellow Bus by Loren Long
  • Zuni and the Memory Jar by Aisha Saeed (A) and Neha Rawat (I)
  • The Book That Almost Rhymed by Omar Abed (A) and Hatem Aly (I)
  • I Lived Inside A Whale by Xin Li
  • I’m Sorry You Got Mad by Kyle Lukoff (A) and Julie Kwon (I)
  • More Than Words by Roz MacLean
  • Dear Unicorn by Josh Funk (A) and Charles Santoso (I)
  • Amah Faraway by Margaret Chiu Greanias (A) and Tracy Subisak (I)
  • Not Yet - The Story of an Unstoppable Skater by Zahra Lari/Hadley Davis (A) and Sara Alfageeh (I)
  • Harold the Iceberg Melts Down by Lisa Wyzlic (A) and Rebecca Syracuse (I)
  • The Boy Who Said Wow by Todd Boss
  • I Do Not Eat Children by Marcus Cutler
  • Magic Ramen: The Story of Momofuku Ando by Andrea Wang (A)
  • The Spaceman by Randy Cecil
  • Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao by Kat Zhang
  • Wings of an Eagle - Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills by Billy Mills,  Donna Janell Bowman (A) and S.D. Nelson (I)
  • The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly 
  • Max in the House of of Spies by Adam Gidwitz
  • Duel by Jessixa Bagley & Aaron Bagley 
  • Curveball by Pablo Cartaya/Miguel Diaz Rivas
  • Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back by Ruth Chan
  • Gamerville by Jonnie Christmas 
  • The Mystery of Locked Rooms by Lindsay Currie
  • And then, BOOM! By Lisa Fipp 
  • Faker by Gordan Korman 
  • The Misfits by Lisa Yee, Dan Santat 
  • A Strange Thing Happened In Cherry Hall by Jasmine Varga
  • Forever Twelve by Stacey McAnulty
  • Mid Air by Alicia Williams
  • The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman by Gennifer Choldenko
  • The Night War by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
  • The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers





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  • Rez Ball by Byron Graves 
  • She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran 
  • The Blood Years by Elana K. Arnold 
  • We Are All So Good at Smiling by Amber McBride 
  • The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson.
  • Thieves’ Gambit by Kayvion Lewis
  • Some Kind of Hate by Sarah Dara Littman 
  • Their Vicious Games by Joelle Wellington 
  • This Day Changes Everything by Edward Underhill  
  • Chaos Theory by Nic Stone 
  • Just Do This One Thing for Me by Laura Zimmerman
  • Four Eids and a Funeral by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé and Adiba Jaigirdar 
  • Death at Morning House by Maureen Johnson 
  • Sky's End by Marc J. Gregson
  • Kindling by Traci Chee 
  • Into the Sunken City by Dinesh Thiru ​






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Hop over to our new Facebook page and join the MBM fun! 
For a little more information click here.  
For tips on how to participate click here.  
To see the map of participating schools click here.