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Nonfiction How My Grandfather Stole a Shoe (and Survived the Holocaust in Ukraine) Julie Masis; Felix Lembersky, illus.
Children’s Amazing Annie: The Spectacular and Mostly True Adventures of Annie Kopchovsky Stephen Krensky; Adriana Predoi, illus.
Nonfiction The Boys in the Light: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival, Faith, and Brotherhood Nina Willner
Nonfiction Louis Graveraet Kaufman: The Fabulous Michigan Gatsby Who Conquered Wall Street, Took Over General Motors, and Built the World’s Tallest Building Ann Berman
Nonfiction Life Must Go On: The Remarkable Story of Sol Lurie, the Kovno Ghetto, and the Tragic Fate of Lithuania’s Jews Bea Lurie
Nonfiction Promised Lands: Hadassah Kaplan and the Legacy of American Jewish Women in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine Sharon Ann Musher
Children’s Jella Lepman and Her Library of Dreams: The Woman Who Rescued a Generation of Children and Founded the World’s Largest Children’s Library Katherine Paterson; Sally Deng, illus.
Children’s The Girl with the Secret Name: The Incredible Life of Doña Gracia Mendes Nasi Yael Zoldan
Children’s Abzuglutely!: Battling, Bellowing Bella Abzug Sarah Aronson; Andrea D'Aquino, illus.
