- Stella by starlight, Sharon Draper
- Lulu the one and only, by Lynnette Mawhinney, PhD ; illustrated by Jennie Poh
- Dangerous skies, Suzanne Fisher Staples
- All-American Muslim girl, Nadine Jolie Courtney
- Third and goal, [by] William R. Cox. --
- Juba!, a novel, by Walter Dean Myers
- The unsung hero of Birdsong, USA, Brenda Woods
- The runaways, Fatima Bhutto
- Star Knights, Kay Davault
- Freakling, Lana Krumwiede
- Children of blood and bone, Tomi Adeyemi
- Casi alcanzar todo, Matt Mendez ; [translated by Juan Ellas Tovar Cross]
- How to find what you're not looking for, Veera Hiranandani
- Dreaming in color, Melanie Florence
- Tips on having a gay (ex) boyfriend, Carrie Jones
- True son, Lana Krumwiede
- Roll of thunder, hear my cry, Mildred D. Taylor ; introduction by Jacqueline Woodson ; illustration by Kadir Nelson
- Saving Shiloh, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- The constant rabbit, Jasper Fforde
- All the days past, all the days to come, by Mildred D. Taylor
- The Watsons go to Birmingham, 1963, Christopher Paul Curtis
- Lizard in a zoot suit, Marco Finnegan
- Angel of Greenwood, Randi Pink
- Linked, Gordon Korman
- Finding my voice, Marie Myung-Ok Lee
- Barely missing everything, Matt Méndez
- Color me in, Natasha Diaz
- The music of what happens, Bill Konigsberg
- No true believers, Rabiah York Lumbard
- Genesis begins again, Alicia D. Williams
- A difficult boy, M.P. Barker
- Why, a conversation about race, written by Taye Diggs ; illustrated by Shane W. Evans
- This light between us, a novel of World War II, Andrew Fukuda
- The garden of martyrs, Michael C. White
- Big lies in a small town, Diane Chamberlain
- A very large expanse of sea, Tahereh Mafi
- Dig, by A.S. King
- Clean getaway, Nic Stone ; [illustrations by Dawud Anyabwile]
- Black & white, Malorie Blackman
- We are not free, Traci Chee
- Juliet respira profundo, Gabby Rivera ; traducción de Eva Ibarzábal
- Mississippi bridge, Mildred Taylor ; pictures by Max Ginsburg
- The soul of power, Callie Bates
- Saying goodbye, Marie G. Lee
- Plague year, Stephanie S. Tolan
- A tall history of sugar, by Curdella Forbes
- Dark and deepest red, Anna-Marie McLemore
- Internment, Samira Ahmed
- Can't take that away, by Steven Salvatore
- Six truths and a lie, Ream Shukairy