- The door of no return, Kwame Alexander
- One too many lies, L.A. Bowen
- Closer to nowhere, Ellen Hopkins
- Land of broken promises, Jane Kuo
- The moon within, Aida Salazar
- High, Mary Sullivan
- I am water, Meg Specksgoor
- Street love, Walter Dean Myers
- Nothing burns as bright as you, Ashley Woodfolk
- A slip of a girl, by Patricia Reilly Giff
- A work in progress, Jarrett Lerner
- The one and only Ruby, Katherine Applegate ; illustrated by Patricia Castelao
- A warning about swans, R.M. Romero
- Switch, by A.S. King
- Turn the tide, by Elaine Dimopoulos
- The song of us, Kate Fussner
- Ariel crashes a train, Olivia A. Cole
- The perfect nine, the epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o ; translated from the Gĩkũyũ, original by the author
- Wolfpack, Amelia Brunskill
- Wave, Diana Farid ; art by Kris Goto
- The road to after, written and illustrated by Rebekah Lowell
- Aniana del Mar jumps in, Jasminne Mendez
- Dreaming of you, a novel in verse, Melissa Lozada-Oliva
- Land of the cranes, by Aida Salazar
- Baby teeth, a novel in verse, Meg Grehan
- Four months past Florence, Emily Paige Wilson
- We come apart, Sarah Crossan, Brian Conaghan
- What goes up, Christine Heppermann
- Ruptured, by Joanne Rossmassler Fritz
- Reckless, glorious, girl, by Ellen Hagan
- When clouds touch us, Thanhhà Lại
- Grasping mysteries, girls who loved math, Jeannine Atkins ; [illustrations by Victoria Assanelli]
- Ronit & Jamil, Pamela L. Laskin
- Recipe for disaster, by Aimee Lucido
- All the fighting parts, Hannah V. Sawyerr
- Becoming Billie Holiday, poems by Carole Boston Weatherford ; art by Floyd Cooper
- Golden girl, Reem Faruqi
- 500 words or less, Juleah del Rosario
- D-39, a robodog's journey, Irene Latham ; [illustrated by Jamie Green]
- Enter the body, Joy McCullough
- One big open sky, Lesa Cline-Ransome
- Caravan to the north, Misael's long walk, Jorge Argueta ; pictures by Manuel Monroy
- A million quiet revolutions, Robin Gow
- The last one, Fatima Daas ; translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud
- When you ask me where I'm going, by Jasmin Kaur
- Wings in the wild, Margarita Engle
- The deepest breath, Meg Grehan
- Lawless spaces, Corey Ann Haydu
- The do more club, Dana Kramaroff
- The magical imperfect, Chris Baron