The Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath) and School Library Journal (SLJ) have announced 40 recipients of the 2025–26 Mathical Collection Development Awards. The funding program that is aimed at getting fiction and nonfiction inspiring a love of math into the hands of K–12 students in Title I schools will provide $850 grants to each school to purchase titles from the Mathical Book Prize list.

The Mathical Book Prize recognizes outstanding youth trade fiction and nonfiction selected to inspire a love of math in the world around us. It is awarded by SLMath in partnership with the National Council of Teachers of English and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and in coordination with the Children’s Book Council. The prize is made possible with support from the Firedoll Foundation and the Guru Krupa Foundation.

Prizewinning books span grades PreK through 12 and feature novels, biographies, chapter books, and picture books and are selected every year by a committee of math teachers, reading teachers, mathematicians, librarians, early childhood experts, and others. 

The following schools will receive the 2025–26 Mathical Collection Development Awards:

Floyd Middle School for Mathematics, Science, and Technology, Montgomery, AL

Highlands Elementary School, Huntsville, AL

Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary, Huntsville, AL

Bassett Street Elementary, Lake Balboa, CA

Dale Junior High School, Anaheim, CA

Euclid Avenue Community School, Los Angeles

Grant Union High School, Sacramento

Boca Raton Elementary School, Boca Raton, FL

East Hall Middle School, Gainesville, GA

Washington Elementary School, Wheaton, IL

Sippican Elementary School, Marion, MA

Powhatan Elementary School, Gwynn Oak, MD

Washington-Parks Academy, Redford Township, MI

Ypsilanti International Elementary School, Ypsilanti, MI

Magnolia Middle School, Moss Point, MS

Barbara Gilligan Elementary Library, Brockton, MT

Iron Station Elementary School, Iron Station, NC

Wheelock Elementary School, Keene, NJ

Grove Street Elementary School, Irvington, NJ

Lake Parsippany Elementary School, Parsippany, NJ

Eldorado High School, Las Vegas

Edythe and Lloyd Katz Elementary School Library, Las Vegas

IS 61 Leonardo Da Vinci Intermediate School, Corona, NY

PS 181Q The Brookfield School, Springfield Gardens, NY

Robert Moses Middle School, North Babylon, NY

Wheelerville Union Free School, Caroga Lake, NY

Columbus Spanish Immersion Academy, Columbus, OH

Defiance City Schools, Defiance, OH

Tangent Elementary School, Tangent, OR

Selinsgrove Area Middle School, Selinsgrove, PA

Selinsgrove Area Intermediate School, Selinsgrove, PA

Whitehall High School, Whitehall, PA

Carver-Edisto Middle School, Cope, SC

Haynes Middle School, Nashville

Advanced Learning Academy at Fox Tech High School, San Antonio

Ben Milam Elementary School, Dallas

Berry Middle School, Mesquite, TX

Moss Elementary School, Mesquite, TX

Guadalupe Center, Salt Lake City

Lander Middle School, Lander, WY