- Mars!, Earthlings welcome, by Mars (with Stacy McAnulty) ; illustrated by Mars (and Stevie Lewis)
- Making more, how life begins, Katherine Roy
- Animal facts by the numbers, a book of infographics, Steve Jenkins
- Fat and queer, an anthology of queer and trans bodies and lives, edited by Bruce Owens Grimm, Miguel M. Morales, Tiff Joshua TJ Ferentini
- Giraffe math, by Stephen Swinburne ; illustrated by Geraldo Valerio
- Brutalities, a love story, Margo Steines
- She persisted in science, brilliant women who made a difference, written by Chelsea Clinton ; illustrated by Alexandra Boiger
- My incredible India, Jasbinder Bilan ; illustrated by Nina Chakrabarti
- Spiders, worldwide webs, Tait Howard
- She caught the light, Williamina Stevens Fleming : astronomer, written by Kathryn Lasky ; illustrated by Julianna Swaney
- The secret life of the sea otter, Laurence Pringle ; illustrated by Kate Garchinsky
- Honey, the dog who saved Abe Lincoln, written by Shari Swanson ; illustrated by Chuck Groenink
- The backyard bird chronicles, written and illustrated by Amy Tan
- The cat who lived with Anne Frank, David Lee Miller and Steven Jay Rubin ; illustrated by Elizabeth Baddeley
- Sutherland Springs, God, guns, and hope in a Texas town, Joe Holley
- The science of baking, by Andrea Beaty and Dr. Theanne Griffith ; illustrations by Steph Stilwell
- Team photograph, Lauren Haldeman
- Ida B. Wells marches for the vote, written by Dinah Johnson ; illustrated by Jerry Jordan
- Go for the moon, a rocket, a boy, and the first moon landing, Chris Gall
- The secret life of the red fox, Laurence Pringle ; illustrated by Kate Garchinsky
- Shackleton's endurance, an Antarctic survival story, Joanna Grochowicz
- We are golden, 27 groundbreakers who changed the world, Eva Chen ; illustrated by Sophie Diao
- Frida Kahlo, she painted her world in self-portraits, written by Amy Guglielmo ; illustrated by Natalia Rojas Castro
- Something about the sky, Rachel Carson ; [illustrated by] Nikki McClure
- The green piano, how little me found music, Roberta Flack with Tonya Bolden ; illustrated by Hayden Goodman
- Mr. McCloskey's marvelous mallards, the making of make way for ducklings, Emma Bland Smith ; illustrated by Becca Stadtlander
- If you had your birthday party on the Moon, by Joyce Lapin ; illustrated by Simona Ceccarelli
- The magic school bus explores human evolution, by Joanna Cole ; illustrated by Bruce Degen
- When I grow up, the lost autobiographies of six Yiddish teenagers, Ken Krimstein
- Small places close to home, a children's declaration of rights, written by Deborah Hopkinson ; illustrated by Kate Gardiner
- Come and join us!, 18 holidays celebrated all year long, Liz Kleinrock ; illustrations by Chaaya Prabhat
- Iguanodon's horn, how artists and scientists put a dinosaur back together again and again and again, Sean Rubin
- The capitol, a meet the nation's capitol book, Lindsay Ward
- An American quilt, unfolding a story of family and slavery, Rachel May
- The tribe, portraits of Cuba, Carlos Manuel Álvarez ; translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne with Rahul Bery
- The spacesuit, how a seamstress helped put man on the moon, written by Alison Donald ; illustrated by Ariel Landy
- Pluto!, not a planet? not a problem!, by Pluto (with Stacy McAnulty) ; illustrated by Pluto (and Stevie Lewis)
- Hold on to your music, the inspiring true story of the children of Willesden Lane, by Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen ; adapted by Emil Sher ; illustrated by Sonia Possentini
- Grandma's gardens, written by Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton ; illustrated by Carme Lemniscates
- The animal toolkit, how animals use tools, Steve Jenkins & Robin Page
- Ancestory, Hannah Salyer
- Birds of prey, terrifying talons, Joe Flood
- The fastest drummer, clap your hands for Viola Smith! / Dean Robbins ; illustrated by Susanna Chapman
- The snow man, Jonah Winter ; illustrated by Jeanette Winter
- Sex matters, how male-centric medicine endangers women's health and what we can do about it, Alyson J. McGregor, MD, MA, FACEP
- Concrete, from the ground up, Larissa Theule ; illustrated by Steve Light
- Elephants, living large, written by Jason Viola ; illustrated by Falynn Koch
- Yoshi, sea turtle genius, a true story about an amazing swimmer, by Lynne Cox ; illustrated by Richard Jones
- The last winter, the scientists, adventurers, journeymen, and mavericks trying to save the world, Porter Fox
- The hiding game, Gwen Strauss ; illustration by Herb Leonhard