- Graceling by Kristin Cashore
- The Doll People by Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin, illus. by Brian Selznick
- Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus
- The Unsinkable Walker Bean by Aaron Renier
- The Search for WondLa by Tony DiTerlizzi
- Bink and Gollie by Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee, illus. by Tony Fucile
- Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier