- Black Boy Joy edited by Kwame Mbalia
- Being Clem by Lesa Cline-Ransome
- The Only Black Girls in Town by Brandy Colbert
- JD and the Great Barber Battle written by J. Dillard and illustrated by Akeem S. Roberts
- Take Back the Block by Chrystal D. Giles
- Ophie’s Ghosts by Justina Irelan
- The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon
- We Were the Fire by Sheila P. Moses
- A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée
- Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Root Magic by Eden Royce
- Clean Getaway by Nic Stone, with illustrations by Dawud Anyabwile
- The Unsung Hero of Birdsong, USA by Brenda Woods
