- The Serpent's Secret - Sayantani Dasgupta
- Stormbreaker - Anthony Horowitz
- Wake Up Missing - Kate Messner
- War Horse - Michael Morpurgo
- Falling Over Sideways - Jordan Sonnenblick
- The Last Invisible Boy - Evan Kuhlman
- The League and the Lantern - Brian Wells
- The Lost Property Office - James R. Hannibal
- School of Fear - Gitty Daneshvari
- The War That Saved My Life - Kimberly Brubaker Bradley