PRESS RELEASE [https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfhRZ2mm7_aX02jgzUuGb1h2nu4D...] Great Lakes Great Books Award Jesse Shirtz, committee co-chair 906-486-4381 GreatLakesGreatBooks@gmail.com<mailto:GreatLakesGreatBooks@gmail.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2024-25 Great Lakes Great Books Award Winners Announced [ISHPEMING, MI] - The Great Lakes Great Books Award Committee announced this year’s winners at the Michigan Reading Association’s Annual Conference on Saturday, March 8, 2025in a Facebook Live event. Michigan students in grades K-12 elected the winners and up to two honor books in each category by voting on the pool of 40 nominees chosen by the committee. The winners and honor books are as follows: K-1: Winner: One Chicken Nugget by Tadgh Bentley (Balzer + Bray) Honor Books: Chickadee, Criminal Mastermind by Monica Silvie, illustrated by Elina Ellis (Kids Can Press) Sprout Branches Out by Jessika von Innerebner (Roaring Brook Press) 2-3: Winner: The Skull by Jon Klassen (Candlewick Press) Honor Books: Virginia Wouldn’t Slow Down!: The Unstoppable Dr. Apgar and Her Life-Saving Invention by Carrie Pearson, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter (Norton Young Readers) Stranded!: A Mostly True Story from Iceland by Ævar Þór Benediktsson, illustrated by Anne Wilson (Barefoot Books) 4-5: Winner: How to Stay Invisible by Maggie C. Rudd (Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers) Honor Books: My Head Has a Bellyache: And More Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups by Chris Harris, illustrated by Andrea Tsurumi (Little, Brown and Company) Strikers: A Graphic Novel by Kiel Phegley, illustrated by Jacques Khouri (Graphic Universe) 6-8: Winner: Four Eyes: A Graphic Novel by Rex Ogle, illustrated by Dave Valeza (Graphix) Honor Books: The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh (Roaring Brook Press) Buzzing by Samuel Sattin, illustrated by Rye Hickman (Little, Brown Ink) 9-12: Winner: Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting by Kindra Neely (Little, Brown Ink) Honor Books: Together We Rot by Skyla Arndt (Viking Books) Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley (Henry Holt & Co.) Votes on the 2025-26 Nominations may be submitted until January 11, 2026 on the MRA’s website. The committee maintains a web presence at <http://www.michiganreading.org> www.michiganreading.org/great-lakes-great-books<http://www.michiganreading.org/great-lakes-great-books> and on social media: @MichGLGBooks on Facebook and Twitter, and @GreatLakesGreatBooks on Instagram. ### Jesse Shirtz (she/her<https://pronouns.org/>) Library Director Ishpeming Carnegie Public Library 317 N. Main Street Ishpeming, MI 49849 906-486-4381 www.ishpeminglibrary.info<http://www.ishpeminglibrary.info> co-chair Great Lakes Great Books Award<http://www.michiganreading.org/great-lakes-great-books> Michigan Reading Association