| A | B |
| A Tale and Grimm | Adam Gidwitz |
| After Ever After | Jordan Sonnenblick |
| Bamboo People: a novel | Mitali Perkins |
| Borrowed Names: poems about Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C. J. Walker, Marie Curie, and their daughters | Jeannine Atkins |
| The Crossing: how George Washington saved the American Revolution | Jim Murphy |
| Crunch | Leslie Connor |
| The Dreamer | Pam Munoz Ryan |
| Flygirl | Sherri L. Smith |
| Forge | Laurie Halse Anderson |
| Ghostopolis | Doug TenNapel |
| Happenstance Found | P.W. Catanese |
| The Hive Dectives: chronicle of a honey bee catastrophe | Loree Griffin Burns |
| A Long Walk to Water: a novel: based on a true story | Linda Sue Park |
| The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg | W. Rodman Philbrick |
| Out of My Mind | Sharon Draper |
| The Search for WondLa | Tony DiTerlizzi |
| Slob | Ellen Potter |
| Sources of Light | Margaret McMullan |
| Surviving the Angel of Death: the true story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz | Eva Mozes Kor and Lisa Buccieri |
| Virals | Kathy Reichs |