Montgomery Bonbon: Murder at the Museum by Alasdair Beckett-King, illus Claire Powell, edited by Gráinne Clear (Walker Books)
Glow Up, Lara Bloom by Dee Benson, edited by Ruth Bennett (Hot Key Books)
Gwen and Art are NOT in Love by Lex Croucher, edited by Hannah Sandford (Bloomsbury)
Finding Phoebe by Gavin Extence, edited by Chloe Sackur (Andersen Press)
Digging for Victory by Cathy Faulkner, edited by Leonie Lock (Firefly Press)
Crossing the Line by Tia Fisher, edited by Emma Matthewson supported by Tia Albert (Hot Key Books)
The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow, illus Joe Todd-Stanton, edited by Charlotte Hacking (Otter-Barry Books)
How Far We’ve Come by Joyce Efia Harmer, edited by Lucy Pearse (Simon and Schuster)
Vivi Conway and the Sword of Legend by Lizzie Huxley-Jones, edited by Eishar Brar (Knights Of)
The First Move by Jenny Ireland, edited by Ruth Knowles with Sara Jafari (Penguin Books)
The Detention Detectives by Lis Jardine, edited by Katie Sinfield and Millie Lean (Puffin)
Safiyyah’s War by Hiba Noor Khan, edited by Eloise Wilson (Andersen Press)
Steady for This by Nathanael Lessore, edited by Ella Whiddett and Ruth Bennett (Hot Key Books)
The Swifts by Beth Lincoln, illus Claire Powell, edited by Ben Horslen and Julie Strauss-Gabel (Puffin)
You Think You Know Me by Ayaan Mohamud, edited by Sarah Stewart (Usborne)
The Kingdom Over the Sea by Zohra Nabi, edited by Ali Dougal (Simon and Schuster)
Last Girl In by Cheryl Diane Parkinson, edited by Sonya McGilchrist (Dinosaur Books)
City of Stolen Magic by Nazneen Ahmed Pathak, edited by Natalie Doherty and India Chambers (Puffin)
The Destiny of Minou Moonshine by Gita Ralleigh, edited by Lauren Atherton (Zephyr)
The Witchstone Ghosts by Emily Randall-Jones, edited by Rachel Leyshon (Chicken House)
Influential by Amara Sage, edited by Alice Swan (Faber)
Yomi and the Fury of Ninki Nanka by Davina Tijani, illus Adam Douglas-Bagley, edited by Mattie Whitehead and Karelle Tobias (Little Tiger)
Greenwild by Pari Thomson, illus Elisa Paganelli, edited by Emma Jones (Macmillan)
The Sleeping Stones by Beatrice Wallbank, edited by Janet Thomas and Rebecca F. John (Firefly Press)
Never Trust a Gemini by Freja Nicole Woolf, edited by Non Pratt (Walker Books)
