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This is a relationship-led story about two outsiders taking a chance on first love, despite expecting it may not last. Their school-year setting places the relationship in a teenage social world.

A magical-object adventure becomes a search for treasure and answers, bringing together Rabé and Benja. The story also promises a mystery tied to the suitcase’s former owner and a past accident.

This is a detective-style mystery centred on Marika’s efforts to understand the unusual attention surrounding her new friend. The appeal is likely to be the puzzle and its successive twists.

A speculative story combines a struggle over control of Earth with Adelice’s discovery of secrets about her past and uncertainty in her romantic attachments.

This fantasy centres on family roles, hidden pasts and political change. Anselm’s effort to understand what has happened connects uncertainty within his family to a wider, shifting world.

This is a tense friendship-and-mystery story about loyalty, truth and the consequences of agreeing to lie in court. Shana’s choice is made in the context of her belief that Carrie is facing abuse.

This is a pursuit story built around a witness on the run, a powerful secretive organisation and an uncertain pursuer. Its central tension is whether Phin can escape and whom he can trust.

This is a small-scale story about a child navigating a crush, with a grandmother offering advice and sharing her own experience.

This is a speculative story about how people respond when a frightening prediction seems to offer guidance. Nickie’s interest in helping gives the crisis a personal perspective, alongside the town’s attempts to interpret the vision.

This is a supernatural adventure about a boy’s attempt to find his father, alongside a ghostly companion. Horses, fear and mysteries about the past and the wider world shape the premise.

This is a fantastical rescue adventure in which a group’s journey becomes difficult and unpredictable. Akiko’s decisions and ability to cope in an unfamiliar place are central to the outline.

This historical story focuses on how persecution disrupts ordinary routines, as Ruth’s family and community face mounting restrictions and danger.

This is a fantasy adventure built around being stranded in a dangerous, unfamiliar world. The central pull is whether the group can find a lasting route home while Senna remains missing.

This is an adventure about young characters facing a sudden emergency away from their intended destination, with Jedi, an inventor and a droid among the group.

A comic predicament puts Bobby’s hopes of staying settled alongside trouble at the crumpet factory and a changing friendship. The crumpet-themed premise may suit readers drawn to everyday dilemmas with an absurd twist.

A year of diary entries follows Clem through school and shifting relationships. The book explores attraction, rejected advances, family life and the uncertainty of coming out, in an informal voice.

This is a horror mystery built around Abby’s effort to learn what happened to her mother. Its appeal may lie in the unanswered disappearance and the group’s encounter in the cave.

A frightening mystery draws Alexis into investigating her sister’s unusual behaviour and unsettling changes in their house. Alongside supernatural danger, the story touches on family strain, school life and a budding relationship.

This instalment centres on belonging and shared territory, with uncertainty about whether the Clans can maintain their fragile balance. It offers a community-level conflict rather than a clear account of how that tension resolves.

This is a gentle-sounding adventure about wanting to explore beyond a familiar view and accepting help from friends. The story centres on Tiny Narwhal’s growing readiness to venture out.

A suspenseful family story follows Mei as she tries to do her tutoring job while becoming drawn into the Morisons’ troubles. Her fear of what may be happening at night adds a ghost-story element.

This fantasy follows Rage as she tries to protect two worlds from an endless winter linked to a powerful Stormlord and other people’s despair.

This is a pony-centred story about an unexpected claim to Star and the people Mary and Jody turn to for help.

This is a romance about a long-standing crush becoming a relationship, alongside uncertainty over what the future may bring.

This fantasy romance follows Brighid as she navigates a forbidden attachment and an unexpected spiritual power, while a vision raises the possibility of danger to those she loves.

This is a horror mystery built around siblings trying to understand several disappearances and a murder, with suspicion extending to someone living in their home.

This is a social story centred on friendship, dating and a getaway that becomes entangled with other people’s mysteries and relationship changes.

A summer romance and a mystery meet in a beach-town fantasy, as Sam tries to understand the unusual girls and the secrets surrounding their community.

Three school mysteries featuring the same friends offer young investigators clues to follow: a missing friend, unsettling messages and an inventor who collapses. The collection mixes friendship and puzzle-solving with moments of danger.

This is a character-led story about a boy whose worries keep multiplying, and a new friendship that unsettles his routines. Family questions sit alongside the humour.

A series of separate adventures centres on familiar animal friends and Christopher Robin, with episodes involving a house-building, a new arrival and a game.

This is a story about two children forced to leave home, facing an unfamiliar city and uncertainty about their family. Its focus is their predicament rather than a general account of Nigeria or refuge.

This is a supernatural fantasy that places personal uncertainty and growing affection alongside a threat to Earth involving Lilith, political power and ancient objects.

A science-fiction survival story begins with humanity’s destruction and a small group’s attempt to find a new home. Its central puzzle is whether the unfamiliar world is somewhere they can live.

This is a summer romance built around competing romantic attention and Celeste’s uncertainty about what she wants. The resort setting also brings her family’s work and a guest’s behaviour into the situation.

A supernatural school story combines Lily’s new magical abilities with friendship, a crush and a conflict involving Reapers. Sebastian’s offer introduces uncertainty about whom she can trust.

A school invitation draws Travis into a sequence of puzzles and challenges, with the identity of the sender left uncertain.

This is a high-stakes story about a teenager whose ordinary routine is disrupted by a family kidnapping, set against the backdrop of Mexico’s drug war.

A school-set supernatural mystery follows two teenagers amid unsettling disappearances, Natalie’s search for answers about her sister, and Will’s connection to the town’s hidden danger.

A fast-moving premise combines a secretive organisation, a flight into hiding and a mystery tied to Jimmy’s new experiences. The book appears to centre on what he can prove and whom he can convince.

A suspenseful supernatural adventure about Mia trying to piece together her past while facing danger. Its central pull is the gap between Mia's initial belief and what her returning memories may reveal.

This fantasy centres on Frost, whose feared supernatural possession complicates her attempts to find safety and connection. Suspicion among the warriors and her feelings for two men add interpersonal tension.

A suspenseful story about Franny weighing loyalty to her girlfriend against concern for her parents, amid threats connected to their abortion work.

This pairs an end-of-the-world prediction with teenagers’ questions about belief, alongside a developing romance. The dual viewpoint lets readers encounter both Marina’s and Jed’s perspectives.

This is a mission-led Star Wars adventure about Anakin and friends pursuing a lost lightsaber. Its hook is the possibility that someone else may also know where it is.