- Full cicada moon, Marilyn Hilton
- Three shots, Katy Grant
- Like pickle juice on a cookie, by Julie Sternberg ; illustrations by Matthew Cordell
- Under the broken sky, Mariko Nagai
- Inside out & back again, Thanhha Lai
- The land of the cranes, Aida Salazar
- Charlotte, a novel, David Foenkinos ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor
- Izzy Kline has butterflies, a novel in small moments, Beth Ain
- An appetite for miracles, Laekan Zea Kemp
- Here is the beehive, Sarah Crossan
- Garvey's choice, Nikki Grimes
- Wave, Diana Farid ; art by Kris Goto
- Out of the dust, Karen Hesse
- Nothing burns as bright as you, Ashley Woodfolk
- Iveliz explains it all, Andrea Beatriz Arango ; [illustrations by Alyssa Bermudez]
- Wings in the wild, Margarita Engle
- Moo, Sharon Creech
- Blood water paint, by Joy McCullough
- White Rose, by Kip Wilson
- Yellow star, by Jennifer Roy
- Silver people, voices from the Panama Canal, Margarita Engle
- Teeny little grief machines, Linda Oatman High
- I am Kavi, Thushanthi Ponweera
- Moo, Sharon Creech
- Mirror to mirror, Rajani LaRocca
- The cure for cold feet, Beth Ain
- Angel & Hannah, a novel in verse, Ishle Yi Park
- Only on the weekends, Dean Atta
- Rez dogs, Joseph Bruchac
- The one thing you'd save, by Linda Sue Park ; illustrated by Robert Sae-Heng
- Some girls bind, Rory James
- Every body looking, Candice Iloh
- Samira surfs, Rukhsanna Guidroz ; illustrations by Fahmida Azim
- Loving vs. Virginia, a documentary novel of the landmark civil rights case, by Patricia Hruby Powell ; artwork by Shadra Strickland
- Punching the Air, written by Ibi Zoboi with Yusef Salaam ; illustrations by Omar T. Pasha
- Inside out & back again, Thanhha Lai
- A time to dance, Padma Venkatraman
- Red, white, and whole, Rajani LaRocca
- When clouds touch us, Thanhhà Lại
- Singing with elephants, Margarita Engle
- Your heart, my sky, love in a time of hunger, Margarita Engle
- Mascot, Charles Waters and Traci Sorell
- A slip of a girl, by Patricia Reilly Giff
- Four months past Florence, Emily Paige Wilson
- The crossover, by Kwame Alexander
- The black flamingo, Dean Atta
- Forget me not, Ellie Terry
- Flipping forward twisting backward, Alma Fullerton ; illustrated by Sarah Mensinga
- Moonwalking, Zetta Elliott, Lyn Miller-Lachmann ; illustrations by David Cooper
- Jazz owls, a novel of the Zoot Suit Riots, Margarita Engle ; illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez