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Expect an energetic fantasy quest combining Caribbean-inspired folklore, spirits, gemstones and magical battles with a warm friendship story. The central characters face fear, grief, abandonment and morally difficult decisions while trying to protect their island.

This is a richly illustrated journey through British myth and landscape, balancing magical stories with explanations of their historical and cultural context rather than presenting them as straightforward history.

This offers a lively introduction to Welsh folklore through brief, retold stories with magical, humorous and emotionally resonant elements. It may particularly suit shared reading or readers curious about Wales, names and traditional tales.

A mythic sea adventure carries Phoebe through danger, quests and encounters with gods and monsters, while her real-world worries about Cass, memory and loss remain central.

A nature-rich memoir that follows a young birder’s family travels and growing public activism. Its strongest interest may lie in the way birdwatching connects personal identity, family life, conservation and a search for belonging.

A funny, relationship-focused YA novel set around high-school theatre, it explores heartbreak, attraction and assumptions about sexuality through Jackson’s backstage perspective and his changing feelings about Liam.

This is a relationship-centred YA story about second chances, shifting friendships, and communication. Its distinctive element is Ollie's deafness and the way sign language, texts, and context shape interactions.

This is a visually rich coming-of-age story about Deaf identity, belonging and taking action in a troubled near future. Its warmth sits alongside food scarcity, environmental collapse, political corruption and questions about access and community.

This is a slow-burning, atmospheric thriller for readers who enjoy uncertainty, dreamlike fantasy and family mysteries. Its strongest interest lies in how Shelby’s changing understanding of herself reshapes the story around her.

This is a character-led story about a Deaf teenager using graffiti and art to express herself while navigating exclusion, friendship and the expectations of hearing people.

This is a coming-of-age novel that combines personal stories with substantial exploration of Deaf culture, language and rights. It may suit readers interested in how identity, communication and community shape one another.

A character-led YA novel about Deaf identity, changing schools and deciding how far to trust new people. It offers a perspective on agency, communication and inclusion, alongside friendship and romance.

A coming-of-age story about finding community while questioning where one belongs. Lilah’s summer at a Deaf and blind camp combines friendship, first love and self-acceptance with exploration of ASL, hearing devices and different Deaf experiences.

This is an emotionally focused story about adapting to sudden deafness while holding on to music, friendship and ambition. Sophie’s route is not simply about returning to her old life: it involves discovering different ways to experience music and confidence.

This is a near-future science-fiction novel about friendship, grief and self-acceptance. Cora’s involvement with holographic recreations of people brings questions about identity, power, loss and whether technology can preserve someone.

A friendship-centred science-fiction novel with humour, mystery and emotional weight. Its central contrast—one friend human and one an android—invites readers to think about identity, belonging and the qualities that make relationships meaningful.

A thoughtful speculative story about whether a digital recreation can be treated as a person. Its emotional centre is Isla’s changing relationship with her returned sister, alongside family disagreement and the island community’s divided response.

This is a humorous but unsettling story about whether an android’s fear, jealousy and desires indicate genuine feeling. Ivy’s viewpoint makes ordinary human behaviour seem strange, inviting empathy and close attention.

A funny robot-double premise gradually becomes a thoughtful exploration of what makes a person unique. The book offers visual detail, imaginative problem-solving and a gentle way into questions about self-knowledge.

Expect a tense mystery driven by anonymous messages, exposed secrets and changing alliances. The book combines a fast-moving school thriller with commentary on racism, privilege and the pressures placed on marginalised students.

A lively monster-school adventure combines comic rule-breaking, inventive creatures and investigation. Eddie’s friendships become central as she learns more about herself and tries to protect others from danger.

A thoughtful school-transition story about the pull of popularity and the cost of trying to meet everyone’s expectations. Its strongest interest lies in Sabina’s changing friendships, family pressures and uncertainty about whether unusual abilities genuinely improve her life.

This is a school-based story about first romantic feelings, friendship, creative ambition and self-acceptance. Astrid’s changing emotions are central, while her relationships and disappointments give readers opportunities to consider identity and resilience.

A grief-laden investigation gradually turns a picturesque summer academy into a threatening, psychologically unstable place. The novel combines queer identity, family pressure and gender-role criticism with folk-horror imagery, suspense and disturbing supernatural danger.

A horror premise places Charity and her friends inside a frightening version of the attraction they work in. Expect slasher suspense, dark humour, romance, disappearances and graphic violence, alongside questions about survival and familiar genre roles.

A supernatural horror story rooted in a family homecoming, with queer romance and questions of belonging. It combines frightening events with explorations of Vietnamese American identity, colonialism and family history.

This is a high-intensity horror story centred on a transgender teenager, queer community and survival after an apocalypse. Its appeal is likely strongest for readers who actively want graphic body horror alongside questions of identity and belonging.

This is a supernatural survival story grounded in sibling loyalty and Filipino folklore. Its main appeal is the tension between keeping hidden, protecting a community and deciding what to believe when danger makes familiar rules unsafe.

A dark, fast-moving supernatural adventure about a girl learning to manage dangerous spirit-related powers while uncovering mysteries around the Uncles, her family and the wider paranormal world.

A comic supernatural story about Moth’s half-vampire identity, with friendship at its centre. Its appeal appears to come from an unusual hero, playful vampire details and a mix of awkwardness and adventure.

This is a multi-viewpoint historical romance about four young Black women balancing love, work, family expectations and social change in 1910 Chicago. It offers ambitious characters and a setting shaped by racial inequality and restricted opportunities for women.

A thoughtful historical coming-of-age story about desire, identity, family loyalty and imagined futures. Lily’s romance unfolds alongside Chinese American community life, scientific ambition and the pressures of 1950s racism, homophobia and anti-Communist suspicion.

A richly detailed historical adventure for readers drawn to horses, chariot-racing and Roman life. Dido’s story brings together danger, relationships and moral questions, while the volume’s density and links with earlier books may make it most rewarding for confident, independent readers.

This is an emotionally charged historical animal adventure: Delta uses courage and resourcefulness to search for separated friends while Pompeii faces catastrophe. It offers suspense, relationships and a window onto Roman life, including the unequal position of enslaved people.

This is an adventurous wartime mystery centred on Mary’s language work, secret assignments and shifting loyalties. Its suspense comes from the uncertainty surrounding her operation.

A fast-moving historical fantasy that places a child and a growing phoenix inside the Great Fire of London. Maps, historical events and an imagined creature create an adventurous route through danger, trust and responsibility.

A silly contest between Pizza and Taco turns food preferences into a question of friendship and winning. Its very short, joke-driven structure and visual presentation may suit shared reading and repeated participation.

A thoughtful university coming-of-age story about discovering that romance is not the only way to understand love. Its central journey may offer recognition around asexual and aromantic identities, alongside humour, friendship and emotional uncertainty.

This is a dual-perspective queer romance about learning to resist pressure from friends and family. It combines warmth and humour with uncomfortable moments involving identity, belonging, prejudice and competing expectations.

This is a relationship-led YA story where secrecy places friendship under pressure. Its central situation brings authority, loyalty and protection into conflict, while Eden’s family experiences and academic expectations add emotional and social layers.

A contemporary coming-of-age romance about Simon’s identity, friendships and first relationship, told alongside anonymous email exchanges. It offers LGBTQ+ representation, humour and emotional growth, while placing personal discovery alongside school conflict and online communication.

This is a gritty coming-of-age story that challenges fashion’s glamorous surface. Jana’s rapid rise brings money and opportunity, but also pressures that affect her independence, wellbeing and connections with people she loves.

This is a tense, gritty coming-of-age crime thriller, but its world also includes warmth, humour, teenage banter and nuanced relationships. Expect mystery and danger alongside questions about loyalty, identity and belonging.

This is a socially engaged Manchester story about three Black teenagers whose lives become connected after a stabbing. Its central interest lies in contrasting viewpoints, unequal experiences and the friendships formed in the aftermath.

A warm, issue-rich coming-of-age romance about being seen honestly within family, faith and school life. Its humour and friendships sit alongside serious questions about racism, homophobia and cultural ownership.