Miku, a transfer student who never smiles, arrives at an elementary school in a small seaside town. Hoping to make her laugh and become heroes, two boys invite her to their secret rocky hideout, where the three gradually begin to share their time together. This is a fresh story of friendship about children learning to connect after an unexpected encounter.

They want to make the transfer student who never smiles laugh. First, though, they may have to become friends.

Suz, a second-year middle school student, falls into a pond while visiting her grandfather in the countryside during summer vacation and finds herself in the liminal world between life and death. During seven days of training with Saemon, a guide who sends souls on their way, she reconsiders what it means to live and to part from those she loves.

A seven-day story of Suz's training to become a guide of souls in the liminal world between life and death.

A children’s novel about twins confronting gender discomfort and trying to live as their true selves.

Not limited to one-sixth: toward a seventh kind of courage.

A children's novel in which elementary-school student Rika works as a counselor for yokai and listens to their troubles. Through a plan for a yokai parade, it depicts the pleasure of listening to others and solving problems together.

People have all kinds of lives, and so do yokai. Rika's work as a young counselor begins.

おでん町探偵・Wナンシー is a 小説 work by 小路すず associated with the 2016 大賞 record. The entry summarizes the work from award records and bibliographic checks, focusing on its subject, publication status, and reading context.

おでん町探偵・Wナンシー by 小路すず is a work whose subject and publication status can be traced through award and bibliographic records.

野ざらし語り is a 児童文学 by 泉田もと associated with the award record. The entry checks public bibliographic sources, award documentation, and book-trade records to identify its publication status and reading context.

野ざらし語り by 泉田もと is a work whose publication status and outline can be traced through award records.

The puppy Tomoki meets, Hatchy, turns out to be an assistant investigator from the Space Federation. Tracking a culprit's trail to South America, the two discover unexpected truths and finally face a desperate crisis.

The cute puppy was an investigator's assistant from outer space.

A children's adventure novel by Rinko Kabe. A boy befriends a transfer student named Sosuke, discovers his ninja-training-like secret, and steps from ordinary school life into adventure.

A boy's everyday life changes into a ninja-training adventure after he learns the transfer student's secret.

百花怪談あやしの火 is a prize-recognized literary work built around urgent subject matter and a prose texture designed to leave a clear impression on readers.

百花怪談あやしの火 is a prize-recognized work by 三木聖子.

コクリの子 is a work by 深月ともみ. 『コクリの子』は深月ともみによる作品。受賞歴を通じて知られ、人物の感情や時代性を軸にした読み味を持つ。

コクリの子 presents 深月ともみ's literary concerns through a compact and memorable form.

After children begin investigating their school's seven mysteries, ghost stories start becoming real around them. As they pursue the identity of the mysterious seventh wonder, they confront a succession of monsters.

When the truth behind the mysterious seventh wonder is revealed, what awaits them?

滝まくらの君 is a 児童向け冒険ファンタジー by 牧野礼. The work develops its subject through a focused narrative voice and leaves room for readers to consider the emotions and social questions behind the story.

A focused 児童向け冒険ファンタジー that follows the pressure points hidden in everyday life and memory.

Our Yokai Sealing is a children's adventure novel in which a boy descended from yokai hunters and a shrine priest's daughter investigate the disappearance of stones said to seal away monsters. It connects old folklore with a modern town and follows the case through curiosity and action rather than simple fear.

A folklore adventure about children and the vanished stones that sealed yokai.

Suiko no Mori is a children's fantasy by Reiko Hiroshima. Through a story of encountering mysterious beings in the forest, it depicts awe toward nature and personal growth.

An encounter with a water spirit deep in the forest changes the children's world.

An adventure story about the legend of a lake priestess and a dragon in a village surrounded by mountains and valleys. Through a boy and a girl facing danger to their home, it explores folklore, courage, and communal memory.

青き竜の伝説 is a work in which 久保田香里 draws out the time and emotion beneath its subject.

ねこまた妖怪伝 is a fictional work by 藤野恵美. As the award-recognized work, it builds its appeal around the images and human movement suggested by the title, giving even a compact form a sense of layered time.

The title ねこまた妖怪伝 conveys the atmosphere and tension at the center of the work.

ぼくらは月夜に鬼と舞う by 藤沢コウ is known as a ジュニア冒険小説大賞 winning work, shaping its subject through relationships, memory, and the atmosphere of its time.

ぼくらは月夜に鬼と舞う is an award-recognized work by 藤沢コウ.