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Three teenage girls from different generations navigate difficult family lives and choices about their futures. Their stories eventually converge, and each finds strength and hope.

This is a horse-centred adventure about dreams, learning to ride and show, and trying to save a horse from a cruel trainer.

Fishkill uses violence to intimidate other pupils and obtain food. A friendship with Duck-Duck and help from her mother create a possible alternative, while Fishkill’s mother’s return complicates that fragile arrangement.

A gentle animal-friend story follows Bear and Bunny as they wonder what makes a good pet. Their talk introduces the idea of caring for and feeding an animal, while their candidate pets lead to light, playful possibilities.

Millie tries to gather food for Bear, who is hungry before his winter sleep. Her small size makes the task difficult, and the story follows her persistence in trying to help.

A horse-centred story about a foster teenager offered another home and a chance to build trust, alongside Christian themes and practical horse-related back matter.

Expect a tense escape-and-journey story shaped by David’s guarded outlook. New sights and ordinary comforts become striking discoveries, while the threat of being caught shadows his encounters with people who may help him.

A reflective, illustrated story told in short conversations rather than continuous prose. Its appeal lies in pausing over the friends’ thoughts and the drawings, and returning to individual pages as well as reading from cover to cover.

The appeal is in a lively, wayward hero whose choices propel a string of comic and perilous adventures. The book also offers a clear thread of advice about behaviour and responsibility.

A cheerful celebration of reading, with imaginative examples and small pieces of text hidden in the pictures for children to spot.

A bleak but lyrical story about siblings navigating unstable care, homelessness and self-invention. Its poems bring attention to the dreams and difficulties of young people without secure homes.

This fantasy adventure follows Tessa as she helps Lizzie and the shelter animals during a storm, while trying to uncover Lizzie’s wish.

This is an animal adventure in which a curious young monkey faces predators, with her father nearby. It also introduces readers to pygmy marmosets.

This is a Christian story about kindness and love, including loving people who are hard to like. Grampa explains these ideas through Little Cub’s questions and relationships.

A serious family story about finding belonging amid unstable housing, grief and caring responsibilities, with Cora’s tree-climbing and friendships offering threads of connection.

A warm, lightly playful set of stories about a young bear and his mother, mixing everyday family moments with a fanciful journey.

A family picnic turns tense when Lily feels her younger sister is disrupting her play. Her father’s response and an old journal bring in a practice of wishing kindness towards oneself and others.

The story centres on Maggie’s decision to help someone who is enslaved, against the backdrop of a religious revival and early abolitionism.

This is a speculative story about unusual experiences, medical scrutiny and a meeting shaped by bereavement. Emery’s wish for an ordinary life sits alongside the mystery of her loops.

A playful, offbeat tale that pairs an unusual word sequence with colourful illustrations; its story may feel deliberately odd rather than neatly explained.

This is a magical rescue-and-recovery adventure, with the environmental mission alongside the search for Lily’s wand. Rachel and Kirsty’s involvement makes helping others part of the central journey.

A fact-led introduction to animal sanctuaries, combining photographs and information about the animals and people involved. Questions and text features invite readers to engage with and locate information.

This is a bleak but ultimately hopeful family story: the children’s resourcefulness and the quiet help they receive are set against hardship and cruelty in their community.

A fantasy caper built around a criminal boy’s plan to ransom a fairy, with high-tech opponents and a possible clash between species.

Sticky notes spread around the school, carrying both friendly and cutting messages.

A historical family story about wartime change, German-American prejudice and Carl’s first summer living away from home.

This is a fantasy quest driven by Luka’s effort to save his father. Enchanted companions and perilous challenges shape the journey; family love and mortality are also named as themes.

This is a contemporary Alice-inspired story that mixes a hospital setting with dreamlike memories, friendship and an unsettled question about finding a way back.

A character-focused story about anger, consequences and learning to accept help, with a human–animal bond at its centre. Iris’s work with dogs brings her into contact with animals and people facing difficulties.

This is a historical account of rescue during the Holocaust, focused on Sendlerowa and the people who helped her. The book’s central emphasis appears to be courage and assistance.

A paranormal Jack the Ripper mystery follows Abbie from bereavement and hospital volunteering into visions, murder investigations and a dangerous hunt. A romance also develops alongside the historical setting.

This is a linked-mystery adventure: Nancy follows a coded pigeon message while investigating a strange nighttime signal. The appeal centres on clues, danger and solving how the cases fit together.

A lively, comic animal adventure, with an eccentric family and a cat whose unusual condition drives the plot. Billy’s collecting hobby and the pet-show challenge add extra strands to the story.

This is a farm-set story about an unusual friendship: Peter sees more in Ninnyhammer than the village label suggests, while Ninnyhammer helps Peter’s family.

This is a holiday mystery built around a family trip, uneasy new neighbours and a possible link between strangers and unexplained money.

This story brings together a hidden prince with magical powers and Jemma’s ambition to attend stage school, offering both fantasy adventure and a family-centred goal.

An animal-focused account that combines information about seal pups and wildlife rescue with Miles’s effort to help. It may suit a shared read about people responding to vulnerable wildlife.

This is presented as a comic story of mismatched impressions and eccentric circumstances, bringing two teenagers together in a residential home for older people.

The story combines a household mystery with whimsical fantasy: Henry tries to discover what Harvey’s unusual work means, while music, poetry and kindness shape the characters’ experiences.

This fantasy centres on conscience, grief and an unlikely bond, set against danger to a kingdom’s survivors. Its central tension is whether Jordam can resist his violent impulses.

This is a story of a young person trying to find stability and make a way forward while moving through institutions, schools and homes that the book presents as difficult places to thrive.

A compact life story of a basketball player, with attention to Durant’s sporting achievements and brief mention of acting and helping others.

The central appeal is Charlie’s comic knack for getting into scrapes, with sibling and friendship dynamics alongside a spooky-house adventure.

Expect a character-led fantasy mystery with two narrators, a homecoming and an investigation. Friendship and banter sit alongside questions of blackmail, suspicious fires and Michael’s unease about being useful.

A lively animal-centred class-trip story combines comic mishaps with Clifford helping a baby whale. The overview does not explain how the trip’s accidents are put right.

A fantasy adventure follows Mella as she takes on a mission involving a dragon’s egg, a journey away from home and an unexpected travelling companion.