- Iveliz explains it all, Andrea Beatriz Arango ; [illustrations by Alyssa Bermudez]
- Forever is now, Mariama J. Lockington
- Audacity, Melanie Crowder
- Three shots, Katy Grant
- Moo, Sharon Creech
- Blood water paint, by Joy McCullough
- Inside out & back again, Thanhha Lai
- Yellow star, by Jennifer Roy
- The land of the cranes, Aida Salazar
- Teeny little grief machines, Linda Oatman High
- 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
- The cure for cold feet, Beth Ain
- Garvey's choice, Nikki Grimes
- Out of the dust, Karen Hesse
- Warrior girl, Carmen Tafolla
- Like bug juice on a burger, by Julie Sternberg ; illustrations by Matthew Cordell
- Voices, the final hours of Joan of Arc, by David Elliott
- African Town, inspired by the true story of the last American slave ship, Irene Latham and Charles Waters ; introduction by Joycelyn M. Davis, descendant of Clotilda survivors
- Once in a blue moon, Sharon G. Flake
- The snow fell three graves deep, voices from the Donner party, Allan Wolf
- Hate that cat, Sharon Creech
- Land of broken promises, Jane Kuo
- Knockout, K.A. Holt
- When my sister started kissing, Helen Frost
- Home is not a country, Safia Elhillo
- Somewhere among, Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu
- The boy lost in the maze, a story told in poems by Joseph Coelho ; illustrated by Kate Milner
- The deepest breath, Meg Grehan
- Swing, Kwame Alexander with Mary Rand Hess
- Turn the tide, by Elaine Dimopoulos
- The Lehman trilogy, a novel, Stefano Massini ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon
- Forest world, Margarita Engle
- Unbound, a novel in verse, by Ann E. Burg
- Formerly Shark Girl, Kelly Bingham
- All he knew, Helen Frost
- The poet X, a novel by Elizabeth Acevedo
- Booked, by Kwame Alexander
- Hidden powers, Lise Meitner's call to science, Jeannine Atkins
- The crossover, by Kwame Alexander
- House arrest, K.A. Holt
- Worst-case Collin, Rebecca Caprara
- The order of things, Kaija Langley
- Call me Adnan, Reem Faruqi
- Chlorine sky, Mahogany L. Browne
- With a star in my hand, Rubén Darío, poetry hero, Margarita Engle
- Lion Island, Cuba's warrior of words, Margarita Engle
- Clap when you land, Elizabeth Acevedo