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- Treacle Walker, Alan Garner
- Secret passages in a hillside town, Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen ; translated from the Finnish by Lola Rogers
- Fault lines, Nora Shalaway Carpenter
- The mending summer, Ali Standish
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- The takeout, Tracy Badua
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- Magic, once upon a faraway land, Mirelle Ortega
- The witches of Moonshyne Manor, Bianca Marais
- A tiny upward shove, Melissa Chadburn
- The Recoleta stories, Bryon Esmond Butler
- Emily Wilde's encyclopaedia of faeries, Heather Fawcett
- Witch of wild things, Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
- The crane husband, Kelly Barnhill
- Shubeik lubeik, Deena Mohamed
- The love scribe, Amy Meyerson
- She would be king, Wayétu Moore
- Ours, Phillip B. Williams
- The magic of lemon drop pie, Rachel Linden
- Skip to the end, Molly James
- The missing sound, by Susana Illera Martínez ; adapted by Nicole Johnson ; illustrated by the Disney Storybook Art Team
- One Christmas morning, a novel, Rachel Greenlaw
- The rat queen, Pete Hautman
- The unmaking of June Farrow, a novel, Adrienne Young
- The love scribe, Amy Meyerson
- Luckenbooth, Jenni Fagan
- The scent of burnt flowers, a novel, Blitz Bazawule
- Dust, Dusti Bowling
- The Carnivale of Curiosities, Amiee Gibbs
- How to be remembered, a novel, Michael Thompson
- The apology, Jimin Han
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- The lost bookshop, Evie Woods
- My Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
- Boys of Alabama, Genevieve Hudson
- Gone like yesterday, a novel, Janelle M. Williams
- The making of Yolanda la bruja, Lorraine Avila
- Spells for forgetting, a novel, Adrienne Young
- Forty words for love, Aisha Saeed
- Best wishes, Sarah Mlynowski ; illustrations by Maxine Vee
- Tristan Strong keeps punching, Kwame Mbalia
- The immeasurable depth of you, Maria Ingrande Mora