Sputnik’s Guide to Life on Earth by Frank Cottrell Boyce (Pan Macmillan)
The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon (Orion Children’s Books)
The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock (Faber & Faber)
The Stars at Oktober Bend by Glenda Millard (Old Barn Books)
Railhead by Philip Reeve (Oxford University Press)
Beck by Mal Peet with Meg Rosoff (Walker Books)
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys (Puffin)
Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk (Corgi)