- Amiri and Odette, a love story, poem by Walter Dean Myers ; paintings by Javaka Steptoe
- Loving vs. Virginia, a documentary novel of the landmark civil rights case, by Patricia Hruby Powell ; artwork by Shadra Strickland
- Me dicen Güero, poemas de un chavo de la frontera, David Bowles
- Little dog lost, Marion Dane Bauer ; with illustrations by Jennifer Bell
- All the broken pieces, a novel in verse, by Ann E. Burg
- Like water on stone, Dana Walrath
- Some girls bind, Rory James
- With a star in my hand, Rubén Darío, poetry hero, Margarita Engle
- Home of the brave, Katherine Applegate
- The lonely ones, Kelsey Sutton
- Singing with elephants, Margarita Engle
- Me (Moth), Amber McBride
- Enemies in the orchard, a World War 2 novel in verse, Dana VanderLugt
- Prince Puggly of Spud, and the Kingdom of Spiff, Robert Paul Weston ; [illustrations by Víctor Rivas Villa]
- Samira surfs, Rukhsanna Guidroz ; illustrations by Fahmida Azim
- We belong, Cookie Hiponia Everman ; illustrations by Abigail Dela Cruz
- White Rose, by Kip Wilson
- The poet X, a novel by Elizabeth Acevedo
- A girl named Mister, Nikki Grimes
- A seed in the sun, Aida Salazar
- The firefly letters, a suffragette's journey to Cuba, Margarita Engle
- Hurricane dancers, the first Caribbean pirate shipwreck, Margarita Engle
- Bull, a novel by David Elliott
- Clap when you land, Elizabeth Acevedo
- Ask me how I got here, Christine Heppermann
- I am Kavi, Thushanthi Ponweera
- Turtle under ice, Juleah Del Rosario
- Knockout, K.A. Holt
- The snow fell three graves deep, voices from the Donner party, Allan Wolf
- Blue birds, Caroline Starr Rose
- Miss Emily, Burleigh Mutén ; illustrated by Matt Phelan
- Emmy in the key of code, by Aimee Lucido
- Orphaned, Eliot Schrefer ; book design and illustrations by Abby Dening
- On pointe, Lorie Ann Grover
- Ode to my first car, Robin Gow
- We are the ashes, we are the fire, Joy McCullough ; with illuminations by Maia Kobabe
- Beyond me, Annie Donwerth-Chikamatsu
- All the fighting parts, Hannah V. Sawyerr
- Wave, Diana Farid ; art by Kris Goto
- Before the ever after, Jacqueline Woodson
- What my girlfriend doesn't know, Sonya Sones
- The you I've never known, Ellen Hopkins
- Identical, Ellen Hopkins
- We come apart, Sarah Crossan, Brian Conaghan
- Pearl verses the world, Sally Murphy ; illustrated by Heather Potter
- Hidden powers, Lise Meitner's call to science, Jeannine Atkins
- Worst-case Collin, Rebecca Caprara
- When my sister started kissing, Helen Frost
- Collateral, a novel, Ellen Hopkins
- A slip of a girl, by Patricia Reilly Giff