- Patina, Jason Reynolds
- Blue heron, by Avi
- Sunny, Jason Reynolds
- The sky at our feet, Nadia Hashimi
- The abduction, John Grisham
- Hate list, by Jennifer Brown
- If a tree falls at lunch period, Gennifer Choldenko
- The turning pointe, Vanessa L. Torres
- Liar, liar, Gary Paulsen
- Paper chains, Elaine Vickers
- Becoming Naomi León, Pam Muñoz Ryan
- Let's call it a doomsday, Katie Henry
- North to Benjamin, Alan Cumyn
- Harbor me, Jacqueline Woodson
- Doll bones, Holly Black
- The education of Ivy Blake, Ellen Airgood
- Just another day in my insanely real life, a novel, by Barbara Dee
- Theodore Boone, the accomplice, John Grisham
- Al Capone does my shirts, Gennifer Choldenko
- Zhara, S. Jae-Jones
- Life in a fishbowl, Len Vlahos
- The Duff, by Kody Keplinger
- Hopeless in Hope, Wanda John-Kehewin
- Leaving Lymon, Lesa Cline-Ransome
- Happyface, by Stephen Emond
- Burned, Ellen Hopkins
- Rules for stealing stars, Corey Ann Haydu
- 17 Snow Lane, Josie Angelini
- Moonrise, Sarah Crossan
- The Baby-sitters Club, the summer before, Ann M. Martin
- The time of the fireflies, Kimberley Griffiths Little
- Raymie nightingale, Kate DiCamillo
- Summer at the Garden Café, a novel, Felicity Hayes-McCoy
- White fur flying, Patricia MacLachlan
- Tight times, Barbara Shook Hazen ; pictures by Trina Schart Hyman
- Sold, Patricia McCormick
- Far from fair, Elana K. Arnold
- We are all made of molecules, Susin Nielsen
- When we collided, by Emery Lord
- The mending summer, Ali Standish
- Gilda Joyce, psychic investigator, Jennifer Allison
- Expelled, James Patterson and Emily Raymond
- For black girls like me, Mariama J. Lockington
- Waiting for normal, Leslie Connor
- A place for vanishing, Ann Fraistat
- Back home, Julia Keller
- Sunny, Jason Reynolds
- Doll bones, Holly Black ; with illustrations by Eliza Wheeler
- Towers falling, Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Big & little questions (according to Wren Jo Byrd), by Julie Bowe