Peregrine Quinn and the Cosmic Realm by Ash Bond, edited by Ruth Bennett (Piccadilly Press)
Songlight by Moira Buffini, edited by Alice Swan (Faber)
The World Between the Rain by Susan Cahill, edited by Mikka Haugaard (Everything with Words)
The Love Interest by Helen Comerford, edited by Carla Hutchinson (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)
The Boy in the Suit by James Fox, edited by Lauren Fortune (Scholastic)
Skylar and the K-Pop Headteacher by Luan Goldie, edited by Megan Middleton (Walker Books)
This Dark Heart by Zeena Gosrani, edited by Hayley Fairhead (Firefly Press)
Wild East by Ashley Hickson-Lovence, edited by Katie Sinfield (Penguin Random House)
The Exes by Anam Iqbal, edited by India Chambers (Penguin)
All the Hidden Monsters by Amie Jordan, edited by Rachel Leyshon (Chicken House)
These Stolen Lives bySharada Keats, edited by Julia Sanderson and Genevieve
Herr (Scholastic)
Bringing Back Kay-Kay by Dev Kothari, edited by Emma Lidbury and Susan Van Metre (Walker Books)
The Whisperwicks by Jordan Lees, edited by Carmen McCullough (Puffin)
Badgers Are Go! by Susannah Lloyd, illus by Nici Gregory, edited by Meggie Dennis (David Fickling Books)
Glasgow Boys by Margaret McDonald, edited by Alice Swan, assisted by Ama Badu (Faber)
The Virtue Season by L.M. Nathan, edited by Tierney Holm (Scholastic)
Mayowa and the Sea of Words by Chibundu Onuzo, edited by Hannah Sandford (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)
The Untameables by Clare Pollard, illus by Reena Makwana edited by Emma Dai’an Wright (The Emma Press)
Apocalypse Cow by O.R. Sorrel, edited by Bella Pearson (Guppy Books)
The Boy to Beat the Gods by Ashley Thorpe, edited by Sarah Stewart (Usborne)
