Rebecca Stead: When You Reach Me

Jason Reynolds: A Long Way Down

Sara Pennypacker: Pax

Patrick Ness: A Monster Calls

Jacqueline Woodson: Brown Girl Dreaming

Siobhan Dowd: Bog Child

Laurie Halse Anderson: Chains 

A. S. King: Dig

Ann Petry: Harriet 

Natalie Babbitt: Tuck Everlasting

 

*Please note: This list is a) already incomplete and b) always growing.