9th to 12th Grade Division
- The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
- Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough
- The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones
- Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
- The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
- The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
- Pride by Ibi Zoboi
- Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
- Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee
- They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
- Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
6th to 8th Grade Division
- Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed
- Amina’s Voice by Hena Khan
- Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Greenglass House by Kate Milford
- If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric Gansworth
- Mark of the Thief by Jennifer A. Nielsen
- The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty
- Moving Target by Christina Díaz González
- New Kid by Jerry Craft
- The Next Great Paulie Fink by Ali Benjamin
- No Fixed Address by Susin Nielsen
- Refugee by Alan Gratz
- Sal and Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos Hernandez
- Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
- Squint by Chad Morris & Shelly Brown
- Undefeated by Steve Sheinkin
3rd to 5th Grade Division
- Before They Were Authors by Elizabeth Haidle
- Bob by Wendy Mass & Rebecca Stead
- A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold
- Changeling by William Ritter
- The Dragonet Prophecy by Tui T. Sutherland
- El Deafo by Cece Bell
- Fatty Legs by Christy Jordan-Fenton & Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
- Front Desk by Kelly Yang
- The Night Fairy by Laura Amy Schlitz
- Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story by Nora Raleigh Baskin
- Power Forward by Hena Khan
- Small Spaces by Katherine Arden
- Space Case by Stuart Gibbs
- Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer by Kelly Jones
- The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser
- A Wolf Called Wander by Rosanne Parry