- Little Taco Truck, by Tanya Valentine ; illustrated by Jorge Martin
- Big pumpkin, Erica Silverman ; illustrated by S.D. Schindler
- Fishing in fire, Trent Reedy
- The way back home, Oliver Jeffers
- The great truck switcheroo, by Bob Shea & Brian Won
- Coral, Molly Idle
- Ellie McDoodle, most valuable player, written and illustrated by Ruth McNally Barshaw
- Bloom, Doreen Cronin
- That fruit is mine!, Anuska Allepuz
- This pup is stuck!, by Bob Shea & Brian Won
- The gigantic turnip, written by Aleksei Tolstoy ; illustrated by Niamh Sharkey
- Ladybug Girl and the Bug Squad, [pictures] by David Soman and [text by] Jacky Davis
- The maze runner, James Dashner
- Ashlyn's unsurprise party, by Valerie Tripp ; illustrated by Thu Thai
- The plan for the gingerbread house, a STEM engineering story, pictures by John Joven ; by Darcy Pattison
- Light years, Kass Morgan
- The Wildwood Bakery, Rebecca Elliott
- Lulu walks the dogs, Judith Viorst ; illustrated by Lane Smith
- Little Kunoichi, the ninja girl, written and illustrated by Sanae Ishida
- Linus the little yellow pencil, Scott Magoon
- The clockwork three, Matthew J. Kirby
- Alone in the woods, Rebecca Behrens
- Bigger than me, written by Erica Simone Turnipseed ; illustrated by Kara Bodegón-Hikino
- Isobel adds it up, by Kristy Everington ; illustrated by AG Ford
- The Sugar Plum Bakers, a tale of 12 holiday treats, by Pat Tanumihardja ; pictures by Bonnie Lui
- Class dismissed, Allan Woodrow
- Prince and Pirate, Charlotte Gunnufson ; pictures by Mike Lowery
- Alien summer, by James S. Murray & Carsen Smith
- The biggest Christmas tree ever, by Steven Kroll ; illustrated by Jeni Bassett
- Katt vs. Dogg, James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein ; illustrated by Anuki Lopez
- Sardines, Sashi Kaufman
- The book that almost rhymed, written by Omar Abed ; illustrated by Hatem Aly
- The sandcastle that Lola built, by Megan Maynor ; illustrated by Kate Berube
- The clubhouse, story by Anastasia Suen ; illustrations by Allan Eitzen
- Ellie, engineer, Jackson Pearce
- Pete the cat and the tip-top tree house, by James Dean
- The biggest apple ever, by Steven Kroll ; illustrated by Jeni Bassett
- Blink and Block build a fort, by Vicky Fang
- Fox has a problem, Corey R. Tabor
- Time to be a hero, adapted by Daphne Pendergrass from the series PJ Masks
- Team Chu and the battle of Blackwood Arena, Julie C. Dao
- Cool cat versus top dog, Mike Yamada
- Escaping Ordinary, Scott Reintgen
- Just ask!, be different, be brave, be you, Sonia Sotomayor ; illustrated by Rafael López
- When Glitter met Glue, story by Karen Kilpatrick ; illustrated by Germán Blanco
- A thousand no's, written by DJ Corchin ; illustrated by Dan Dougherty
- Battle of the books, written by Melanie Ellsworth ; art by James Rey Sanchez
- Summer, written by Cao Wenxuan ; illustrated by Yu Rong ; translation by Yan Ding ; adapted by Erin Stein
- Milton & Odie and the bigger-than-bigmouth bass, Mary Ann Fraser
- The pups save Christmas!, adapted from the teleplay by Ursula Ziegler Sullivan ; illustrated by Harry Moore