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This is a community-conflict story as well as a first-love plot: Hoodie is caught between someone he cares about and the Orthodox Jewish community he has always known.

This is a music-centred story about a young performer facing a choice between a high-profile opportunity and a commitment made in her hometown.

This historical story centres on Esther’s place in a royal court and the danger facing her people. It combines a threatened community with a possible romance.

This is an illustrated action adventure about Sonic and his friends responding to attacks on villages. The story includes teamwork and newly introduced allies, alongside a continuing threat from robotic forces.

A superhero adventure built around a political bid, a destructive invention and heroes combining forces to protect Gotham.

This historical biography brings together two contrasting figures whose shared concern for the American colonies leads them to cooperate. It offers a way into both individual lives and a period of American history.

This is an animal story about a new household taking shape, with school, clothes and seasonal preparations among its everyday concerns.

This story brings together a community project and local politics, with a hopeful but uncertain effort to secure a library. It may suit a reader interested in teamwork and civic life.

A comic supernatural crime-fighting adventure, featuring a vampire spy and a werewolf partner. The appeal appears to rest on their unusual partnership and confrontations with monster criminals.

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.

This is an animal-centred survival adventure: Lucky’s independent way of life is disrupted, and he needs to cooperate with dogs whose previous lives were with owners.

A fantasy adventure shaped by divided loyalties, perilous plans and the prospect of war, with the brothers’ relationship under strain.

A fantasy adventure centres on a rescue mission amid resistance to Malvel’s rule, with Tom facing capture as well as a powerful creature.

A light-hearted sibling story sets the twins’ drive to outdo one another against Leo’s wish to join in.

A boarding-school mystery about belonging, conformity and noticing when a prestigious institution’s promises may come at a cost.

A family and their dog try together to pull an exceptionally large turnip from the ground. The story also introduces Grandma Lena’s care in tending her garden.

This combines school-theatre rivalry with a creepy-house Christmas setting.

The central appeal is a group mystery: several friends work together to find out who took the scooter plans and why. Their investigation begins after a family holiday plan is abruptly cancelled.

A lively magical quest built around retrieving an escaped ghoul, with a chaotic heroine and a grumpy, difficult witch as partners.

A child’s excitement about joining a baseball team meets the challenge of sharing it with a bully. The story sets up a practical question about what good teammates do when team life is difficult.

This is a fantasy quest story centred on Four Winds, a young warrior trying to save his tribe. The journey involves a spirit horse, hostile forces and a dangerous final adversary.

Expect a short, illustrated superhero adventure centred on Superman’s powers, courage and attempts to protect people or a place. The precise setting and sequence of events remain uncertain.

A warm, humorous friendship adventure follows Humphrey and Og through camp activities, cabin rivalry and unsettling surprises. It offers a small-animal viewpoint on nervousness, helping friends and adapting to unfamiliar experiences.

A fast fantasy adventure combines hidden power, darkness, a threatened city and family secrets. Its mixed comic-and-narrative form may make the story’s movement between panels, captions and dialogue especially important to follow.

Expect a lively, absurd animal adventure built around friendship, danger and rescue. Its distinctive appeal lies in comic names, playful language, a fantastical setting and illustrations intended to invite shared noticing.

A light, episodic collection built around SpongeBob and his friends, with comic, sea-themed situations ranging from neighbours and school-like monitoring to valentines, fame and a rocket.

This is an energetic animal fantasy about survival, territory and loyalty. Expect danger, competing packs, resource shortages and a protagonist forced to make difficult choices between established relationships and a new community.

Expect a seasonal picture-book story about two mice and an Easter basket contest.

This is a child-centred account of noticing unequal classroom participation, discussing it with others, and creating a Girl Scout pledge and patch programme to encourage girls to speak up.

A light fantasy adventure centred on an imposed responsibility, a puzzle and a changing environment. The story’s interest appears to come from Rani working out what matters most while managing the troublesome clouds.

This is a socially engaged sports novel: football brings two North American teenagers into contact with marginalised local players, while different experiences of race, class and belonging become increasingly difficult to ignore.

A culturally rooted fantasy adventure combining Filipino mythology, humour, friendship and a quest involving a stolen soul key. It places grief and family longing alongside supernatural peril, while presenting courage, empathy, gratitude and teamwork as important values.

Expect a cat-centred adventure that combines fear, monsters, friendship and comic mischief.

A witty, humane fantasy about growing into responsibility while facing fear, prejudice and loss. Tiffany’s work as a witch centres on caring for people, while the story also brings darker threats and emotionally difficult relationships.

This is a humorous Minecraft fantasy built around a looming threat, friendship and action. It may suit a child seeking a familiar game world, silly situations and a fast-moving battle rather than realism.

A lively graphic mystery about music, belonging and friendship, with Chris moving from feeling like the new girl to joining a secret vigilante group. The premise offers humour, action and a hopeful outlook on not having life figured out.

This is a grief-centred thriller about vulnerability, belonging and coercive influence. Ruby’s attraction to Fox’s community develops gradually, shifting the atmosphere from apprehension towards horror as its rules and secrets become more troubling.

A truck adventure about an older worker facing replacement by technology, then potentially proving valuable when a newer vehicle is stranded. Its central appeal is machinery, action and a question of purpose.

This is an adventurous animal-fantasy quest built around a threatened community, a stolen cultural object and young characters taking responsibility. Expect suspense, battles, pursuit and a strong contrast between courage, loyalty and ruthless ambition.

A fast-moving finale combines mythological adventure with questions of identity and belonging. Its emotional centre lies in characters confronting painful memories and deciding what they owe to friends, communities and the wider world.

This is a serious family drama about a teenager carrying responsibility for a struggling parent. Its strongest material lies in showing how trauma affects relationships, choices and the possibility of accepting support.

A magical theatre rescue story combines an audition, missing talent, fairy helpers and goblin disruption. It may particularly appeal to children interested in performance, imaginative adventure and recurring fairy characters.

This is a child-centred historical story about family work, community strain and changing social relationships. Its central challenge is how a small act of welcome might matter when prejudice and hardship affect a whole town.

A fast, illustrated special-forces adventure built around a hostage crisis, military tactics and an international standoff. It may suit a reader interested in combat detail, while its treatment of force and political conflict merits discussion alongside the action.

Expect a brisk story about cars, wrongdoing and trust. Its central appeal is the combination of hot-rod restoration and action, while Miles’s response to suspicion gives the plot a clear moral and personal dilemma.

A fast-moving horror mystery places two newcomers inside a cheerleading squad beset by danger. Its central appeal is suspense: the sisters must work out what is happening while the threat to the team escalates.