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- You don't know everything, Jilly P!, Alex Gino
- Light it up, Kekla Magoon
- Conjure women, a novel, Afia Atakora
- Yo! Yes?, Chris Raschka
- The jacket, by Andrew Clements
- Beauty woke, written by NoNieqa Ramos ; illustrated by Paola Escobar
- The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian, [a novel], by Sherman Alexie ; art by Ellen Forney
- Liberty, Kirby Larson
- Go set a watchman, a novel, Harper Lee
- Dreamland burning, Jennifer Latham
- The other side, Jacqueline Woodson ; illustrations by Earl B. Lewis
- Armstrong & Charlie, written by Steven B. Frank
- Strongheart, the lost journals of May Dodd and Molly McGill, Jim Fergus ; edited and annotated by Molly Standing Bear
- Dactyl Hill Squad, Daniel José Older, Book 1
- That kind of mother, Rumaan Alam
- When ghosts come home, a novel, Wiley Cash
- Jazz owls, a novel of the Zoot Suit Riots, Margarita Engle ; illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez
- Kizzy Ann Stamps, Jeri Watts
- Small great things, a novel, Jodi Picoult
- The only black girls in town, Brandy Colbert
- The Guardians, John Grisham
- The lions of Little Rock, Kristin Levine
- What's mine and yours, a novel, Naima Coster
- Boycott blues, how Rosa Parks inspired a nation, by Andrea Davis Pinkney ; illustrated by Brian Pinkney
- The hate u give, Angie Thomas
- Brother, David Chariandy
- A passage to India, E.M. Forster
- The secret life of bees, Sue Monk Kidd
- The finder of forgotten things, Sarah Loudin Thomas
- Such a fun age, a novel, Kiley Reid
- Double play, Robert B. Parker
- This is my America, Kim Johnson
- You don't know everything, Jilly P!, Alex Gino
- Go set a watchman, Harper Lee
- Bluebird, bluebird, a novel, Attica Locke
- Maame, Jessica George
- The sellout, Paul Beatty
- I hadn't meant to tell you this, by Jacqueline Woodson
- The Paragon Hotel, Lyndsay Faye
- Fast break, Mike Lupica
- Small great things, Jodi Picoult
- Invisible son, Kim Johnson
- Iggie's house, Judy Blume
- We are water, a novel, Wally Lamb
- The man who lived underground, a novel, Richard Wright ; afterword by Malcolm Wright
- The Guardians, John Grisham
- Blended, Sharon M. Draper
- Small great things, a novel, Jodi Picoult
- The kindest lie, a novel, Nancy Johnson