- Bluffton, my summers with Buster, Matt Phelan
- The Bellmaker, Brian Jacques ; illustrated by Allan Curless
- Tree by leaf, Cynthia Voigt
- Waiting, Kevin Henkes
- Flora & Ulysses, the illuminated adventures, Kate DiCamillo ; illustrated by K.G. Campbell
- Where butterflies grow, by Joanne Ryder ; pictures by Lynne Cherry
- Etiquette & espionage, Gail Carriger
- Kinda like brothers, Coe Booth
- Where the forest meets the sea, story and pictures by Jeannie Baker
- The farmer and the clown, Marla Frazee
- Girlchild, Tupelo Hassman
- Let the children march, by Monica Clark-Robinson ; illustrated by Frank Morrison
- Dot, Patricia Intriago
- The Glass Mountain, retold from the tale by the Brothers Grimm and illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian
- A snake falls to earth, Darcie Little Badger
- The ballad of the pirate queens, by Jane Yolen ; illustrated by David Shannon
- Merlin and the dragons, Jane Yolen ; illustrated by Li Ming
- It looked like spilt milk
- Heart on fire, Susan B. Anthony votes for president, Ann Malaspina ; illustrated by Steve James
- Roll of thunder, hear my cry, Mildred D. Taylor ; frontispiece by Jerry Pinkney ; illustration by Kadir Nelson
- Tía Isa wants a car, Meg Medina ; illustrated by Claudio Muñoz
- Space, stars, and the beginning of time, what the Hubble telescope saw, Elaine Scott
- Viva Frida!, Yuyi Morales ; photography by Tim O'Meara
- Son, by Lois Lowry
- The returning, by Christine Hinwood
- West of the moon, Margi Preus
- Adam of the road, by Elizabeth Janet Gray ; illustrated by Robert Lawson
- Seen and unseen, what Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's photographs reveal about the Japanese American incarceration, Elizabeth Partridge, Lauren Tamaki
- Monsters of men, Patrick Ness
- Crow Boy, by Taro Yashima
- The bear and the kingbird, a tale from the Brothers Grimm, translated by Lore Segal ; pictures by Chris Conover
- If rocks could sing, a discovered alphabet, by Leslie McGuirk ; [photographs by Denise Ritchie]
- Balloons over Broadway, the true story of the puppeteer of Macy's Parade, written and illustrated by Melissa Sweet
- Finding Winnie, the true story of the world's most famous bear, by Lindsay Mattick ; illustrated by Sophie Blackall
- Knock knock, my dad's dream for me, by Daniel Beaty ; illustrated by Bryan Collier
- Clockwork prince, Cassandra Clare
- Froodle, Antoinette Portis
- Brothers, a Hebrew legend, retold by Florence B. Freedman ; with illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker
- Drowned city, Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans, written and illustrated by Don Brown
- Six crows, a fable, by Leo Lionni
- Grandpa Green, Lane Smith
- The three brothers, a German folktale, adapted and illustrated by Carolyn Croll
- Where the wild things are, Maurice Sendak
- The elephant scientist, by Caitlin O'Connell and Donna M. Jackson ; photographs by Caitlin O'Connell and Timothy Rodwell
- Gulliver in Lilliput, retold by Margaret Hodges from Gulliver's travels by Jonathan Swift ; illustrated by Kimberly Bulcken Root
- The case of the vanishing little brown bats, a scientific mystery, Sandra Markle
- Diego Rivera, an artist for the people, Susan Goldman Rubin
- The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
- Funny bones, Posada and his Day of the Dead calaveras, Duncan Tonatiuh
- The Luck Uglies, Paul Durham ; illustrations by Pétur Antonsson