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This verse novel follows a teenage artist through wrongful imprisonment and his effort to preserve his humanity and pursue the truth.

A practical introduction to how laws may protect or restrict LGBT young people, with attention to decisions made by schools and other local officials.

A comic farmyard contest drives the story, while the contestants’ prize turns out to be something quite different from the honour they expect.

A historically grounded adventure that also asks who receives credit for exploration and what costs expeditions impose on the people they encounter.

A Christmas gathering brings Evelyn together with children from three other families. Their shifting enthusiasms, quarrels and plans, including attic explorations, shape a story described as a fictionalised account of childhood.

This picture-led story uses archival photographs and imagined children’s dialogue to bring school desegregation into view. It offers a historical perspective through children’s experiences, rather than a purely factual account.

A child’s family memories meet the excitement of a planetarium visit and the world of theatre, with a play that openly says mistreating people is wrong.

This story brings together a wetland ecosystem, a newcomer’s view of town divisions and a friendship that opens onto Blackfoot culture and stories.

A pony-centred story about Jess’s riding holiday, her hopes of riding a favourite pony and the suspicion that follows a run of trail accidents.

A supernatural murder mystery combines a deadline, school secrets and Taylor’s effort to secure justice for a former bully. The plot also introduces the possibility of romantic feelings.

A fantasy journey driven by loyalty and a rescue mission, with a former thief at its centre. Weasel’s past may shape how he approaches the people and choices he encounters.

A combination of Christmas and secret-agent adventure, with Santa and a new recruit facing a scheme that threatens to change the world’s climate.

This is a historical family peril story centred on Delia’s effort to help her brothers after their arrest. Sir Geoffrey’s suspicions add a second perspective on the accusations.

A fast-moving paranormal adventure about public exposure, hostility towards shapeshifters and a group of companions caught up in a wider conflict.

This is a historical account centred on the assassination and its aftermath, with attention to how Lincoln’s death affected the causes of freedom and equality.

This is a high-stakes caper about a group testing the limits of rule-breaking. Its appeal may lie in the elaborate plan and the question of what the characters think they can justify.

A family’s response to wartime bereavement is entwined with an extraordinary cloning premise and a community’s prejudice towards a Japanese man.

This is a school story about exclusion, friendship and a class responding to sabotage. The plot moves from Amin’s arrival to the pupils’ attempt to address classroom relations.

This is a school-and-sibling story built around a flag-football rivalry and a dispute over extra test time. The twins’ different concerns give the competition more than one stake.

This is a globe-spanning crime adventure centred on a heist framed as returning a jewel to its rightful owners. A supposedly cursed emerald and the crew’s failing methods add mystery and pressure.

A compact historical account centres on four college students’ peaceful challenge to racial segregation at a Woolworth’s lunch counter.

This is a time-travel story that uses six children’s visits to different periods to explore England’s past. History is joined to questions about how people are governed and treated.

This is a coming-of-age story about Nick's emerging romance with Bobby and the gap between his private self and a public image shaped by others.

Expect comic mishaps, wordplay and exaggerated solutions to ordinary problems, rather than a realistic account of family life.

A historical biography links Morgan's safety invention to its development and use in rescue work and wartime protection.

This is a broad, illustrated account of youth and social change in 1960s America, moving across several movements rather than focusing on one person or campaign.

This is a wartime story centred on service, family separation and friendship, with the Pacific setting bringing military danger into Hank's life.

This is a multi-character story about young people in a Brooklyn neighbourhood. Gingerbread’s claim that “life is funny” sits beside the difficulties described in the outline.

This is a fantasy romance built around a reimagined fairy tale, with competing survival needs and a relationship that challenges Isra’s inherited beliefs.

A broad country profile, moving from physical geography and public life to culture and leisure. Its opening gives particular weight to wellbeing, equality and economic competitiveness.

This is a spy story about a young woman seeking training and help to find the person she holds responsible for her mother’s death. A second strand is Reagan’s struggle to be herself without aliases or disguises.

A comic-spirited business scheme sits alongside a story about friendship, bereavement and learning to express feelings.

A bilingual life story linking Cris Plata’s Mexican American family background and migrant farmwork with his development as a musician and his eventual home in Wisconsin.

This is a story about consequences and freedom: one girl regrets cheating and resents a strict punishment, while another’s rare day off takes a risky turn.

The book brings a close friendship into conflict with the changing treatment of Jewish people in pre-war Austria, using a teenager’s journal to tell the story.

This fantasy centres on an unjust accusation and a risky alliance with someone Bryn distrusts, amid political secrets and the threat of war. Loyalty and romance complicate her choices.

A child-centred sports mystery combines a disputed accusation with clues to interpret. The appeal is likely to rest on following the investigation, rather than on sports details alone.

A broad account of post-1945 US history, with civil rights at its centre and political, social and cultural developments also in view.

Expect a structured debate rather than a single narrative: articles address whether a wall is justified, practical, affordable or preferable to other approaches to immigration and border security.

Ava’s predicament brings together a crush, kindness and her place on a football team. Alex’s funding choice adds a school-community disagreement about supporting sport or the arts.

A teen story that brings together debating, a first crush and a disagreement at home, with Phoebe facing the challenge of speaking up for herself as well as in competition.

Its site-by-site approach connects particular places with African American history, bringing together achievements and hardships across different periods and parts of the United States.

A family move opens Kathryn’s eyes to struggles in her Métis relations’ lives, alongside a local mystery involving a Highwayman. The story combines family discovery with an apparent attempt to pin a crime on him.

A family’s car journey becomes a story about how racial prejudice changes the sisters’ experience of a trip they had anticipated with pride and excitement.

A warm-hearted adventure balances the sisters’ humour and imaginative games with their efforts to endure unjust treatment and help others.

A layered teen mystery combines the search for truth about Roberta’s mother with questions about racism, media, politics and standing up for oneself.