- Tricks, Ellen Hopkins
- Macy McMillan and the rainbow goddess, by Shari Green
- Before the ever after, Jacqueline Woodson
- Chlorine sky, Mahogany L. Browne
- Paper hearts, Meg Wiviott
- The perfect nine, the epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o ; translated from the Gĩkũyũ, original by the author
- Traffick, Ellen Hopkins
- The most dazzling girl in Berlin, by Kip Wilson
- Booked, by Kwame Alexander
- The deepest breath, Meg Grehan
- Long way down, Jason Reynolds
- Crazy, Linda Vigen Phillips
- A slip of a girl, Patricia Reilly Giff
- Unbound, a novel in verse, Ann E. Burg
- The dark man, Stephen King ; [artwork by Glenn Chadbourne]
- Voices from the Oregon Trail, by Kay Winters ; illustrated by Larry Day
- The red pencil, by Andrea Davis Pinkney ; illustrated by Shane W. Evans
- The lightning circle, Vikki VanSickle ; with illustrations by Laura K. Watson
- Like carrot juice on a cupcake, by Julie Sternberg ; illustrations by Matthew Cordell
- Salt, a story of friendship in a time of war, Helen Frost
- Gone camping, a novel in verse, by Tamera Will Wissinger ; illustrated by Matthew Cordell
- The Lehman trilogy, a novel, Stefano Massini ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon
- The crossover, by Kwame Alexander