- One white dolphin, written by Gill Lewis ; illustrated by Raquel Aparicio
- Love & other carnivorous plants, Florence Gonsalves
- The first rule of punk, Celia C. Pérez
- Nate the Great and the wandering word, by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat and Andrew Sharmat ; illustrated by Jody Wheeler in the style of Marc Simont
- Lemons, Melissa Savage
- The doldrums, written and illustrated by Nicholas Gannon
- The red hat, by David Teague ; illustrated by Antoinette Portis
- Zeroes, by Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan, and Deborah Biancotti
- The house with chicken legs, Sophie Anderson
- Vampirina ballerina hosts a sleepover, written by Anne Marie Pace ; pictures by LeUyen Pham
- Ten rules of being a superhero, Deb Pilutti
- Tight, Torrey Maldonado
- A taxonomy of love, a novel, by Rachael Allen
- Fish in a tree, by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
- The thing about jellyfish, by Ali Benjamin
- The extra yard, Mike Lupica
- Sunny, Jason Reynolds
- To the forgotten castle, written by Kiki Thorpe ; illustrated by Jana Christy
- Lalani of the distant sea, Erin Entrada Kelly ; illustrations by Lian Cho
- Trouble at school for Marvin & James, Elise Broach ; illustrated by Kelly Murphy
- Rita and Ralph's rotten day, by Carmen Agra Deedy ; illustrated by Pete Oswald
- Eat Pete!, Michael Rex
- Neverseen, Shannon Messenger
- Found, Salina Yoon
- The care and feeding of a pet black hole, Michelle Cuevas
- Big Foot and Little Foot, by Ellen Potter ; illustrated by Felicita Sala
- Jake and Lily, Jerry Spinelli
- Fort, Cynthia DeFelice
- Einstein the class hamster, Janet Tashjian ; illustrated by Jake Tashjian
- App of the living dead, by Kim Harrington
- Kitten and the night watchman, written by John Sullivan ; illustrated by Taeeun Yoo
- Traps and specters, by Bryan Chick
- Attack of the not-so-virtual monsters, Kim Harrington
- My best friend, maybe, Caela Carter
- 13 stories about Harris, Amy Schwartz
- Ada Lace sees red, Emily Calandrelli with Tamson Weston ; illustrated by Renee Kurilla
- The stolen chapters, by James Riley
- The girls, Lauren Ace ; Jenny Løvlie
- Leah on the offbeat, Becky Albertalli
- Snappsy the alligator and his best friend forever (probably), words by Julie Falatko ; pictures by Tim Miller
- The one and only Ivan, by Katherine Applegate ; illustrations by Patricia Castelao
- Spotlight on coding club!, by Michelle Schusterman
- The girl in the locked room, a ghost story, Mary Downing Hahn
- Ghost, Jason Reynolds
- The Vanderbeekers to the rescue, by Karina Yan Glaser
- Greenglass House, by Kate Milford ; with illustrations by Jaime Zollars
- Crenshaw, Katherine Applegate
- It all comes down to this, by Karen English
- Roll, Darcy Miller
- Someday, Narwhal, Lisa Mantchev ; illustrated by Hyewon Yum