- Looking for Alaska, by John Green
- Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy, by Gary D. Schmidt
- Olive's ocean, by Kevin Henkes
- My family plays music, by Judy Cox ; illustrated by Elbrite Brown
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Ann Brashares
- I stink!, Kate and Jim McMullan
- Run, boy, run, by Uri Orlev ; translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin
- A northern light, Jennifer Donnelly
- Into the wild, Erin Hunter
- Abarat, Clive Barker
- The miserable mill, by Lemony Snicket ; illustrations by Brett Helquist
- Skeleton man, Joseph Bruchac
- The tale of Despereaux, being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread, Kate DiCamillo ; illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering
- Al Capone does my shirts, Gennifer Choldenko
- My car, written and illustrated by Byron Barton
- The race to save the Lord God Bird, Phillip Hoose