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This fantasy brings a rescue adventure into the run-up to a wedding. Creel’s friendships and loyalties are central, alongside the possibility of peace between humans and dragons.

This is a horse-centred adventure combining film-horse training with Issie’s effort to protect a group of wild ponies. Her friends and the farm manager become potential allies in that effort.

A group of exiled teenagers face a survival choice in an undead-infested setting, while secrets among them complicate their search for safety and other survivors.

A collection of true childhood stories, written by children and adults recalling their own childhoods. They touch on friendship, choices and qualities including honesty, kindness, forgiveness and perseverance, with cartoon strips featuring the Souper Kids.

Sam’s attachment to print clashes with a proposed online school newspaper, and she learns her best friend supports the change. The story also follows Sam’s school-paper interests and her budding crush.

The story centres on a teenager who offers dating advice while navigating a crush and the strain caused when advice goes wrong for a friend.

The journey brings four bears towards warmer lands, while Toklo weighs his friends’ company against the possibility of finding a place among brown bears.

Brady’s friends are implicated in the fatal kayak incident, and Brady learns that he unwittingly gave them the idea for their prank. His reluctance to betray them conflicts with his sense of responsibility.

A fast-moving spy adventure sits alongside Maggie’s school life and relationships. The central dilemma—protecting people close to her while challenging a powerful organisation—gives the action a personal focus.

The central tension is how a group’s attempts to pursue justice can shift towards revenge, with consequences the friends cannot control.

A fantasy premise turns an expected future upside down: Liz must find her place in an afterlife where people grow younger. Her adjustment brings grief and frustration alongside friendship, love and personal choices.

A friendship is tested when Joey’s overdose leaves him in a critical condition. Clay is caught between wanting to help his friend and facing the possibility that he may be implicated in Joey’s injuries.

A murder, its aftermath for the victim’s sister, and the killer’s drive to prove himself to his brothers form the central strands. Secrets and a breaking wall of silence link them.

A gentle Christian adventure combines a woodland search with a story about angels, prayer and friendship. Antrew’s separation from the others brings some suspense, while the search is supported by faith.

The chain-letter mystery sits alongside a family complication: Livvie does not want Peter’s father to date her mother. Her work with Peter on a school project makes keeping the families apart difficult.

A fantasy about balancing an extraordinary responsibility with friendship and uncertainty about life after school; humour and Bailey’s grounded teenage voice help connect the supernatural elements to everyday concerns.

This is a turbulent story about a teenager facing legal consequences and a difficult choice involving a friend and an almost-boyfriend. Expect a plot that includes several crises and a fictional drug.

A warm, everyday school-and-family story follows Ramona through friendship, spelling struggles and the adjustment to a baby sister, with both awkward moments and small successes.

The mystery pairs seasonal spookiness with a more personal puzzle: how to judge coincidences when you are worried. Mary Anne’s friends are part of the investigation, not just bystanders.

A reflective story about Ruby’s grief and regret, with friendship tensions and a quirky town celebration alongside the serious feelings.

This is a camp friendship story built around Gaby’s effort to attract attention and a lie that creates a difficult social predicament.

Expect a fast-moving fantasy adventure built around a global monster attack, Charlie’s efforts to confront the Fifth, and the difficult demands placed on his friends.

A playful fantasy adventure built around a birthday party repeatedly interrupted by monster alarms, with Princess Magnolia balancing her guests’ celebration and her secret superhero identity.

This is a comic-sounding adventure built around friendship, changing superpowers and a deliberately unpleasant practical problem. Its appeal may lie in the boys’ imaginative challenge rather than realistic everyday situations.

At its centre is an unlikely friendship that brings together two teenagers facing loneliness and change. Their lives involve family troubles, romantic relationships and the effort to imagine a future on their own terms.

This is a supernatural adventure shaped by Zoë’s feelings for two very different boys and her responsibility to lead young shifters against the returning Mages.

This is a birthday-centred fantasy adventure in which Tara’s search for unusual objects brings her into contact with eccentric townspeople and new friends.

This is a lively circus adventure centred on Jimmy’s fascination with performing alongside tigers, a friendship at risk, and efforts to find a missing dog.

A lively school-set relationship story centres on Becca’s paid schemes to split couples, with a complicated assignment bringing her back into Huxley’s orbit.

This is a supernatural school-and-sisterhood story focused on Sarah’s loneliness, loyalty and desire to understand her powers. Its central tension is whether she can face the danger without losing the support of those close to her.

A puzzle-led adventure combines geocaching and codes with friendship, secrecy and a race to respond to a dangerous crystal’s power.

The mystery centres on the callers’ silence and Claudia’s suspicion. The group’s investigation has “mixed results”, though what those involve is not specified.

Four stories follow club members through a radio-station job, a summer camp, new friendships and a decision to move. Their circumstances bring practical responsibilities and changes in relationships into focus.

This historical story puts Myrto’s limited choices at its centre: she is given in marriage by her brother and must consider whether to accept the life assigned to her or seek another path.

This is a supernatural school story in which Rose balances friendship and romantic complications with escalating danger. A winter trip becomes a rescue mission after three friends leave to face the Strigoi threat.

A space adventure centres on Rex’s grand ambition, which draws his friends into a conquest and leads to trouble with the Galactic Alliance.

A comic, awkward story about a teenager’s romantic idealisation, alongside lessons in responsibility and friendship. Its focus is as much on how Les sees people as on whether he gets what he wants.

This is a dark story centred on a young person’s growing fixation on fire and the strain in his friendships. Its account signals destructive consequences, but does not explain their nature.

This is a fantasy about managing powerful magic alongside travel, friendship and uncertain relationships. Undine’s inner conflict and Trout’s feelings give the story a personal focus as well as a magical one.

A supernatural horror story about friendship, sculpting and the consequences of helping create something that can live. Davie’s own role in the creation makes his choices central to the premise.

This is a contemporary-feeling story about a teenager whose hopes for a pivotal school year are disrupted, leaving her to reckon with guilt and changed relationships.

This is a family-centred dilemma set against the Animorphs’ secret: Marco wants his mother back, while his friends fear what his determination could put at risk.

This is a peril-filled adventure built around a friendship dilemma: stopping a dangerous threat may mean fighting a friend who has been infected.

This is a coming-of-age story about a young person pursuing creative and educational ambitions amid family expectations, changing relationships and uncertainty about her future.

The premise sets competitive BMX racing against an urgent request from a friend. Jake’s choice brings together loyalty, a potentially dangerous errand and the hope of helping someone who is dying.

This is a fantasy rescue quest set among Arthurian characters, with friendship, a kidnapped companion and growing magical powers at its centre.