- Paradise Estate, Max Easton
- Ghost boys, Jewell Parker Rhodes
- T, Alan Fyfe
- Prima facie, Suzie Miller
- Treasure of the world, Tara Sullivan
- Sālʹhā-yi shikastah, rumān, Rūḥʹangīz Sharīfiyān
- The many meanings of Meilan, by Andrea Wang
- Maizy Chen's last chance, Lisa Yee
- Class act, Jerry Craft
- Baby love, Jacqueline Wilson ; illustrated by Rachael Dean
- And then he sang a lullaby, Ani Kayode Somtochukwu
- Punching the air, written by Ibi Zoboi with Yusef Salaam ; illustrations by Omar T. Pasha
- Before you suffocate your own fool self, Danielle Evans
- Mixed up, Gordon Korman
- Homebodies, Tembe Denton-Hurst
- Mina and the big bite, written by Louis Growell ; illustrated by Chris Jevons
- Kim Jiyoung, born 1982, a novel, Cho Nam-joo
- Śuddhi, Vandanā Yādava = Shuddhi : novel / by Vandana Yadav
- The unbreakable heart of Oliva Denaro, a novel, Viola Ardone ; translated from the Italian by Clarissa Botsford
- Wishing upon the same stars, Jacquetta Nammar Feldman
- Clouds over California, Karyn Parsons
- There goes the neighborhood, Jade Adia
- Storylines, Carrie Cox
- A boy and a ball, Phil Cummings, Phil Lesnie
- Walking for water, how one boy stood up for gender equality, text, Susan Hughes ; illustrations, Nicole Miles
- Ḥaṣād al-shawk, riwāyah, Imīl Mundhir
- Iskra nadezhdy, roman, Dzhodi Pikolt
- Don't skip out on me, [written and] read by Willy Vlautin
- Beast rider, a boy's journey beyond the border, Tony Johnston and María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
- The kindest lie, a novel, Nancy Johnson
- Mercy Street, a novel, Jennifer Haigh
- Fragments, journeys from isolation to connection, Maura Pierlot
- The list, Yomi Adegoke
- Ichāmatī, Vibhūtibhūṣaṇa Bandyāpādhyāya ; parivartanaya, Kumāri Văḷihinda
- Cousins, a novel, Aurora Venturini ; translated from the Spanish by Kit Maude ; with an introduction by Mariana Enriquez
- The impatient, a novel, Djaïli Amadou Amal ; translated from the French by Emma Ramadan
- Bōryū no kisha, Honjō Masato cho
- XX, Angela Chadwick
- Turning red, the junior novelization, adapted by Cynthea Liu
- A good girl?, C. Pearce
- The samosa rebellion, Shanthi Sekaran
- Prophet song, Paul Lynch
- Troublemaker, John Cho with Sarah Suk
- Code red, Joy McCullough
- Yāqūt, riwāyah, Maryam Mishtāwī
- Ahaṅkāra, Premacanda
- The heaven & Earth grocery store, James McBride
- I rise, Marie Arnold
- Moonwalking, Zetta Elliott, Lyn Miller-Lachmann
- Sadé and her shadow beasts, Rachel Faturoti ; illustrated by Rumbidzai Savanhu