- Becoming Billie Holiday, Carole Boston Weatherford ; art by Floyd Cooper
- When you never said good-bye, an adoptee's search for her birth mother : a novel in poems and journal entries, Meg Kearney
- Love & leftovers, a novel in verse, Sarah Tregay
- The moon within, Aida Salazar
- House without walls, Ching Yeung Russell
- Hate that cat, a novel, Sharon Creech
- Ask me how I got here, Christine Heppermann
- Unsettled, Reem Faruqi
- Audacious, Gabrielle Prendergast
- Rebound
- Nothing burns as bright as you, Ashley Woodfolk
- Booked, by Kwame Alexander
- Loving vs. Virginia, a documentary novel of the landmark civil rights case, by Patricia Hruby Powell ; artwork by Shadra Strickland
- Forget me not, Ellie Terry
- Bull, a novel by David Elliott
- Solo, by New York times bestselling author Kwame Alexander, with Mary Rand Hess
- Eugene Onegin, a novel in verse
- House arrest, K.A. Holt
- Birdie, by Eileen Spinelli
- Being Toffee, by Sarah Crossan
- Reckless, glorious, girl, Ellen Hagan
- We are the ashes, we are the fire, Joy McCullough ; with illuminations by Maia Kobabe
- Worst-case Collin, by Rebecca Caprara
- Smoke, Ellen Hopkins
- Stone mirrors, the sculpture and silence of Edmonia Lewis, Jeannine Atkins
- 500 words or less, Juleah del Rosario
- They call me Güero, a border kid's poems, by David Bowles
- Orphaned, Eliot Schrefer
- What if?, Anna Russell
- Under the broken sky, Mariko Nagai
- Clap when you land, Elizabeth Acevedo
- BenBee and the teacher griefer, K.A. Holt
- The pilgrim's progress, a poetic retelling of John Bunyan's classic tale, Rousseaux Brasseur
- When we make it, Elisabet Velasquez
- Capricious, Gabrielle Prendergast
- Booked, Kwame Alexander
- Inside out & back again, Thanhha Lai
- Shark girl, Kelly Bingham
- Emmy in the key of code, Aimee Lucido
- Other words for home, Jasmine Warga
- All he knew, Helen Frost
- Rez dogs, Joseph Bruchac
- Dust of Eden
- Dona Juanita and the love of boys, Gabrielle Everall
- The door of no return, Kwame Alexander
- Little cat's luck, Marion Dane Bauer ; illustrations by Jennifer A. Bell
- The lonely ones, Kelsey Sutton
- Garvey's choice, Nikki Grimes
- Izzy Kline has butterflies, (a novel in small moments), Beth Ain
- The best and hardest thing, Pat Brisson