- Secret engineer, how Emily Roebling built the Brooklyn Bridge, Rachel Dougherty
- Get the picture, a mind-bending journey among the inspired artists and obsessive art fiends who taught me how to see, Bianca Bosker
- Little platypus, Anna Brett ; illustrated by Rebecca Pintos
- Impossible escape, a true story of survival and heroism in Nazi Europe, Steve Sheinkin
- Something spectacular, a rock's journey, Carmela LaVigna Coyle ; illustrated by Carly Allen-Fletcher
- Incredible jobs you've (probably) never heard of, by Natalie Labarre
- The undefeated, by Kwame Alexander ; illustrated by Kadir Nelson
- The sky is not the limit, Jérémie Decalf
- When the schools shut down, a young girl's story of Virginia's "lost generation" and the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision, written by Yolanda Gladden ; as told to Dr. Tamara Pizzoli ; illustrated by Keisha Morris
- Stiff, the curious lives of human cadavers, Mary Roach
- Marcel's masterpiece, how a toilet shaped the history of art, by Jeff Mack
- If my parents are divorced, how to talk about separation, divorce, and breakups, written and illustrated by Dagmar Geisler ; translated by Andy Jones Berasaluce
- Narwhal on a sunny night, by Mary Pope Osborne ; illustrated by AG Ford
- Tiny bird, a hummingbird's amazing journey, Robert Burleigh ; illustrated by Wendell Minor
- A brief history of Earth, four billion years in eight chapters, Andrew H. Knoll
- The book of turtles, by Sy Montgomery ; illustrated by Matt Patterson
- The elements, written by Adrian Dingle
- Deinonychus goes hunting, [illustrated by] Marie Bollmann ; [written by] Elizabeth Gilbert Bedia
- Do nothing, how to break away from overworking, overdoing, and underliving, Celeste Headlee
- Alphabetical diaries, Sheila Heti
- Concrete, from the ground up, Larissa Theule ; illustrated by Steve Light
- Ella persistio en la ciencia, mujeres brillantes que marcaron la diferencia, escrito por Chelsea Clinton ; ilustrado by Alexandra Boiger ; traducido por Adriana Domínguez
- Moth, an evolution story, Isabel Thomas ; illustrated by Daniel Egnéus
- Do nothing, how to break away from overworking, overdoing, and underliving, Celeste Headlee
- My name is Bana, Bana Alabed ; illustrated by Nez Riaz
- Cézanne's parrot, by Amy Guglielmo ; illustrated by Brett Helquist
- Partly cloudy, Deborah Freedman
- Yummy, a history of desserts, Victoria Grace Elliott
- Look what I found at the beach, Moira Butterfield ; illustrated by Jesús Verona
- Farming, by Gail Gibbons
- I am I.M. Pei, Brad Meltzer ; illustrated by Christopher Eliopoulos
- The science of storytelling, why stories make us human and how to tell them better, Will Storr
- Fly Guy presents, scary creatures!, Tedd Arnold
- What do we know about the kraken?, by Ben Hubbard ; illustrated by Robert Squier
- Amazing animal journeys, Philippa Forrester ; illustrated by Tim Smart
- The hospital book, by Lisa Brown
- Honeybee, the busy life of Apis mellifera, Candace Fleming ; [illustrated by] Eric Rohmann
- Making more, how life begins, Katherine Roy
- Oak Flat, a fight for sacred land in the American West, Lauren Redniss
- Stargazers, Gail Gibbons
- The blue house, collected works of Tomas Tranströmer, Tomas Tranströmer ; translated by Patty Crane ; introduction by Yusef Komunyakaa
- The Eagle Mother, by Hetxw'ms Gyetxw (Brett D. Huson) ; illustrated by Natasha Donovan
- Professor Wooford McPaw's history of cars, Elliot Kruszynski
- Big book of animals, illustrated by Britta Teckentrup ; written by Harriet Blackford
- Señorita Mariposa, Ben Gundersheimer also known as Mister G ; illustrated by Marcos Almada Rivero
- The code of life, all about genes, DNA, genetic engineering, and why you are the way you are, Carla Häfner, Mieke Scheier
- Big book of zodiac signs, [illustrated by Alyona Achilova]
- What about men?, a feminist answers the question, Caitlin Moran
- Unspeakable, the Tulsa Race Massacre, Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrations by Floyd Cooper
- Napoleon vs. the bunnies, written by Jenny Fox ; illustrated by Anna Kwan