American

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Unknown author

Once Upon a Town

Bob Greene

Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun

Rhoda Blumberg

Flat Stanley: His Original Adventure!

Jeff Brown

Chez Panisse Cafe Cookbook

Alice L. Waters

Chain of Command

Seymour M. Hersh

This Fierce People

Alan Pell Crawford

Night Watch

Kevin Young

African Town

Charles Waters, Irene Latham

The Peach Rebellion

Wendelin Van Draanen

The Swag Is in the Socks

Kelly J. Baptist

Track Star #4

Kelly Starling Lyons

Bad Influence

Claire Ahn

Giving Thanks

Denise Kiernan

Small-girl Zora and the Shower of Stories

Giselle Anatol

Contenders

Traci Sorell

The Turning Pointe

Vanessa L. Torres

History Smashers: the Underground Railroad

Kate Messner, Gwendolyn Hooks

Don't Throw It to Mo!

David A. Adler

Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln

Jean Fritz

The Art of Desire

Selena Montgomery, Stacey Abrams

This American Ex-wife

Lyz Lenz, Random House Audio

Means of Control

Byron Tau

Justice on the Brink

Linda Greenhouse

Stuck

Ari Fliakos, Yoni Appelbaum

Everything We Never Had

Randy Ribay

Yes We Will: Asian Americans Who Shaped This Country

Kelly Yang

Making It in America

Rachel Slade

Never Whistle at Night

Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

Brothers of the Gun

Mark Lee Gardner