- Summer Bird Blue, Akemi Dawn Bowman
- Queen of the tiles, Hanna Alkaf
- The dollar kids, Jennifer Richard Jacobson
- How to make friends with the dark, a novel, Kathleen Glasgow
- The thing about jellyfish, Ali Benjamin
- When we had summer, Jennifer Castle
- Clap when you land, Elizabeth Acevedo
- Where do they go?, Julia Alvarez ; illustrated by Sabra Field
- Ravenous things, written and illustrated by Derrick Chow
- The Gray, Chris Baron
- Harry & Hopper, Margaret Wild ; [illustrations by] Freya Blackwood
- The window, Amelia Brunskill
- History is all you left me, Adam Silvera
- What comes next, Rob Buyea
- Mr. Gedrick and me, Patrick Carman
- Wrath becomes her, Aden Polydoros
- The Einsteins of Vista Point, Ben Guterson ; illustrated by Petur Antonsson
- Who I was with her, Nita Tyndall
- I'd rather burn than bloom, Shannon C.F. Rogers
- Where echoes die, Courtney Gould
- A home for goddesses and dogs, Leslie Connor
- Middle school, the worst years of my life, James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts
- Dead girls don't say sorry, Alex Ritany
- The light in the lake, by Sarah R. Baughman
- Two, by Kathryn Otoshi
- The sky is everywhere, Jandy Nelson
- What's coming to me, Francesca Padilla
- Aviva vs. the Dybbuk, Mari Lowe
- The 9:09 project, Mark H. Parsons
- Bird Lake moon, Kevin Henkes
- Imaginary, by Lee Bacon ; illustrated by Katy Wu
- Sal & Gabi break the universe, Carlos Hernandez
- Meet me in the middle, Alex Light
- Funeral girl, Emma K. Ohland
- From you to me, K.A. Holt
- The Einsteins of Vista Point, Ben Guterson
- Sal & Gabi break the universe, Carlos Hernandez
- I'll give you the sun, by Jandy Nelson
- Just like that, Gary D. Schmidt
- On a good horse, Darby Karchut
- Hope in the holler, Lisa Lewis Tyre
- The line tender, Kate Allen
- Matylda, bright & tender, Holly M. McGhee
- Sparrow, Sarah Moon
- Tim's goodbye, written and illustrated by Steven Salerno
- The care and feeding of a pet black hole, Michelle Cuevas
- Kaleidoscope, Brian Selznick
- Bookish and the beast, a novel, by Ashley Poston
- All that's left to say, Emery Lord
- Rana Joon and the one & only now, Shideh Etaat