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This is a fast-moving fantasy sequel built around a prison rescue, a dangerous pursuit and competing loyalties. Its world combines imperial oppression, rebellion and magic, while three viewpoints explore freedom, power, friendship and the personal cost of resistance.

This is a reflective story about a teenager processing the loss of her best friend through letters, while reassessing their friendship and her own sense of responsibility.

A richly imagined story of a displaced fairy-tale prince living under another identity in wartime France. Love, memory and storytelling drive his search for traces of home, while the narrative gradually connects people, worlds and times.

This is a fast-moving science-fiction continuation focused on divided allies, escalating danger and resistance. It offers action, suspense, superpowers, shifting viewpoints and series-wide revelations, while grief and revenge shape the characters’ choices.

This is a wartime historical story centred on a soldier facing the consequences of leaving his unit. It combines battlefield danger, bereavement, uncertainty and moral pressure rather than presenting war as straightforward adventure.

This is a historical school story combining basketball, friendship and a risky practical joke. Manny’s wish to stay connected to his friends leads to invented sports reporting, while wartime uncertainty affects family conversations and everyday choices.

A light fantasy adventure set around a camp stay, where two girls help a firefly fairy after Jack Frost takes the fireflies. Expect magical problem-solving, night-time searching and friendship-focused action.

Expect a tense supernatural adventure combining ghost investigations, dark humour and escalating danger. The team’s changing relationships matter as much as the cases, while Lucy’s contact with ghosts brings disturbing experiences and difficult choices.

This is a dual-timeline adventure about a girl’s search for a lost family object and her discovery of an older generation’s wartime story. Its focus falls on loyalty, memory, courage and helping others in crisis.

This is an action-led coming-of-age story about grief, courage and belonging. Siki challenges expected gender roles while training as a warrior, and her personal questions connect with the wider struggle to protect Apache land and community.

This is a high-stakes fantasy finale about survival during spreading environmental catastrophe, as characters oppose Ruin and try to preserve a future for their world. It combines large-scale conflict with questions of faith, responsibility and sacrifice.

This is a poetic survival story in which creative expression and learning become ways for Amira to retain possibility after violence and displacement. Its emotional force comes from contrasting family love, community life and profound loss.

This is a war story centred on women’s practical support: feeding, nursing-related work and driving ambulances. Midge’s changing understanding of courage moves the narrative from imagined adventure towards demanding service and confronting wartime consequences.

This is a tense science-fiction adventure about a group whose war has reached their families and allies. Its main interest lies in whether adding new members can help without repeating an earlier betrayal.

This is a wartime coming-of-age story seen through family affection, community routines and a child’s uncertainty. Expect comic boyhood episodes alongside waiting, separation and the pressure to live up to admired heroes.

Expect a slow-building, twisty fantasy mystery centred on invisibility, secrecy and pursuit. Reuben’s adventure brings suspense, traps and danger, while friendship and trust become increasingly important to how he responds.

This is a serious coming-of-age story about recognising cruelty, judging people by their actions and choosing whether to speak when others remain silent. Its moral questions are emotionally weighty rather than neatly resolved.

This is a verse novel about two young people whose friendship develops amid homelessness, mental-health difficulties, family strain, disappearance and guilt. Molly’s wish to help Red also prompts her to face her own unresolved pain.

Expect a brisk mythological adventure: Percy and friends navigate a perilous Labyrinth while an approaching war threatens their camp. The book mixes monsters, quests, humour, emotional choices and large-scale conflict, with Greek mythology shaping both its world and its plot.

This is a reflective story about ordinary family and community life alongside the demanding work of mining. Its quiet rhythm and contrasting imagery invite attention to what the boy notices, remembers and wonders about.

A family-centred wartime fantasy that uses a returning magical creature to connect domestic change with life at the front. Its strongest offer is an emotionally direct way into the First World War’s human consequences.

This is a character-led family story about a child making sense of adult failures without surrendering her own needs. Cooking, artistic ambition and friendship offer purposeful threads alongside uncertainty and emotional upheaval.

This is a humorous story about a child whose repeated tattling affects his relationships and is followed by a striking tongue-related problem. Its central distinction is between unnecessary reports and warnings about matters that may require attention.

This is an adventure about trying to save a den by recovering lost title deeds through time travel. Its mystery unfolds alongside friendship, disappearing companions and the approach of World War One.

Expect an inventive science-fiction adventure about belonging, friendship and responsibility, told through an alien teenager’s struggle to understand human life while helping oppose an invasion.

Expect a fast, high-stakes superhero science-fiction adventure centred on six teenagers, crowd-dependent powers and a new threat that tests their loyalties, identities and leadership.

A historically grounded story about two young people whose connection exposes how dictatorship, wealth and silence shape personal choices. It combines romance and danger with questions about freedom, identity and responsibility.

This is a high-stakes historical adventure about four teenagers undertaking a dangerous sabotage mission after an earlier attempt has failed. Its setting combines wartime urgency with prolonged exposure to freezing conditions.

Miranda’s move to a historic Louisiana home coincides with whispers, shadows and a pleading voice. As she recognises a possible ability to communicate with spirits, her group members’ reactions and a growing responsibility to help them become part of her changed life.

This is a gentle, repetitive introduction to self-awareness: children are encouraged to notice thoughts and feelings, recognise their capacity for choice, and direct their actions towards loving and helpful behaviour.

This is a stark wartime survival story centred on a teenager caught inside an army and conflict he scarcely understands. Its central tension is not only physical danger, but whether his desperate plan can remain undiscovered.

A wartime family story about worry, practical help and growing food, with Teresa’s confidence tested by events she cannot control. Gardens connect everyday care with a wider conflict, while the ending appears emotionally serious.

This is a wartime coming-of-age story about a young girl who forms a significant connection with a German prisoner who has escaped. It brings personal empathy, divided loyalties and family pain into a dangerous historical setting.

A warm, responsibility-focused story about a child’s changing attention to a pet. Rosa’s loneliness and separation create emotional stakes, while her return and Brandon’s realisation show what he nearly lost without establishing whether his care changes afterwards.

A dark detective adventure centred on a family trying to understand a father’s disturbing death. Secrets, a secretive group and a valuable jewel drive the investigation, while strained partnerships and personal losses deepen the stakes.

This appears to be a comic space adventure centred on a penguin crew, exploration, rescues and a former comrade who becomes an opponent. A secret decision involving an egg introduces an unresolved complication.

This is an atmospheric adventure about being uprooted, gaining unexpected freedom and the mystery of a house's hidden history, with vivid island wildlife adding wonder and strangeness.

A school-set story about ambition, friendship and matchmaking, with Gemma using invented horoscopes to influence romantic hopes. Its central tension is between helping friends and recognising what may be happening in her own life.

A playful farmyard mystery built around mistaken appearances: Bitzer’s hunger, a strange howl and a barn shadow make an ordinary night seem threatening. The humour comes from competing explanations and an apparently outrageous plan.

This is a tense space-survival story centred on a human–Zoid conflict, with York relying on hunting, killing and salvaging to help his endangered community endure.

This is a historical adventure about a teenager confronting state power, family loss and wartime upheaval. Its central tension comes from living close to privilege while discovering how fear and repression shape ordinary choices.

This is a mythic war story about competing gods whose contest has consequences for human lives. Its central interest appears to be the tension between Ares’s chaotic power and Athena’s clever strategy.

This is a fantasy adventure about a girl navigating a dangerous bargain, family poverty and an object tied to her kingdom’s future. Its central appeal is the combination of dragons, moral choices and high-stakes consequences.

This is a horse-riding mystery about loyalty, risk and persistence. Vivienne balances training and competitive ambitions with an investigation into Joel’s death, while troubling stable events, past relationships and new feelings complicate her choices.

This is a linked supernatural fantasy about secrets, bargains and loyalties in the Shadow Market. Its broad timespan brings together Jem’s search, recurring relationships and separate episodes involving romance, sin, war, souls, inheritance and ghosts.

A mystery-adventure centred on Sammy’s search for her missing cat, amid disturbing discoveries, school hostility, an intimidating warning and a destabilising revelation about her age.