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This is a romance built around a pursuit that Sue resists, with Chris treating her refusal as a challenge. A taken kiss and an intimate kitchen encounter bring consent and romantic boundaries into focus.

A political adventure about loyalty, leadership and stopping a coup, following Halt and Crowley as they try to bring the Rangers together and protect the kingdom.

This is a wilderness journey shaped by Billie’s doubts about her people’s legends and by the environmental dangers she has learnt about at school.

Caroline is troubled by her changing bond with Brenda and by Casey's illness. She grows closer to Aimee, while strange occurrences near the river bring uncertainty and a supernatural thread into the story.

A woman’s refusal to marry is followed by deception and her father’s failure to protect her; she ends up alone beneath the sea and becomes a powerful spirit. The story names her through several Inuktitut names.

Expect a sports adventure with familiar events, interplanetary settings and a rescue involving athletic skill, rather than a story centred on wholly futuristic sports.

A threatened magical safeguard, a revenge plot and unsettled royal families converge around Gracie, with a tournament and gathering werewolves adding complications.

The children try to raise money for their family's New Year meal by selling crafts. Their market attempt fails; a shrine visit and a thoughtful gift precede an unexpected turn of fortune.

Trinket seeks seven stories that will help her become a bard like her missing father. Her adventures draw on magical and folkloric figures, and the last tale reveals what happened to him.

The story follows a new student trying to find her place while her family is changing. Its central dilemma is whether collecting personal details is truth-telling or gossip, and what can happen when private information reaches others.

Henry faces illness in the family and an absent father while trying to make sense of unsettling sights around Hope House. She ventures into the nearby wood and makes a consequential discovery.

The story combines school life and romance with a magical matchmaking premise: Mimosa fears that falling in love will cost her the talent that defines her role as an aromateur.

A humorous historical adventure told as an imaginary diary, pairing knightly training and castle life with an attack and a mystery to solve.

An adventure about a girl who must cope with a tropical island’s challenges, while confronting her belief that a little litter does not matter.

Expect a fantasy quest that starts with Drue trying to find her cat and widens into a conflict between animals and humans, with shape-shifters drawn into events that could affect the future.

This is a rural murder mystery shaped around Ronnie’s isolation after a family move and her growing determination to investigate a child’s death.

This historical novel follows Lucía and her little brother as they leave Cuba for the United States without their parents. It focuses on Lucía’s adjustment to life in Nebraska and her questions about home, family and who she will become.

Jeremiah’s message puts him at odds with false prophets and royal officials as Babylon’s army surrounds Jerusalem. The story frames the people’s response as a consequential choice about whether to follow God’s instructions.

A princess who has imagined being rescued is chased and locked in a tower. She chooses to take matters into her own hands.

Adele is a welcoming café owner who struggles with rainy days and wants to stay in bed. Someone begins leaving her small gifts; the story follows her curiosity about who is doing this and why.

The story centres on friendship, fitting in and a difficult choice: Abby wants to help Hilary, but worries that speaking up could feel like betrayal.

Expect a varied anthology rather than one continuous story: poems by many writers sit alongside Blake’s witty illustrations, with sections devoted to absurd and fantastical ideas.

Follow Jo and Aunt Lily from the California desert into the strange society of Eldritch City, where bizarre customs and quests accompany revelations about Jo’s identity and possible role in the city’s fate.

A storm leaves the narrator alone on the Oregon Trail, separated from family. A Shoshone girl joins the journey, while the reader chooses routes through a survival story with multiple possible endings.

A Christmas Eve gift leads Marie and her brother into a dream adventure. They face a threatening army together, then travel to the Snow Queen’s realm.

This fairy-tale retelling centres on an imposed identity swap, Magdalen’s proposed marriage and her effort to uncover a plot with a shepherd’s help.

The story follows two sisters from survival in Poland to a new life in South Africa, with orphanhood, migration and adoption shaping Devorah’s experience.

Hili's hoped-for fresh start becomes difficult when classmates are unfriendly and a mean remark sparks sides-taking. Friendship and the challenge of speaking up are central to the story.

This instalment combines twin-sibling uncertainty with a struggle involving magic, monsters and plans to summon a powerful being. Several groups act in different places, and the ending leaves the conflict open.

The mystery centres on a stolen hydrofoil and the Hardy Boys’ investigation of criminals associated with zodiac signs. Danger escalates to the boys being kidnapped, while Chet’s escape brings the Coast Guard into the effort to stop the vessel.

Mouse’s summer combines friendship, a dance contest, a father’s attempted return and the possibility of finding long-hidden money. The story is set in Harlem and follows Mouse and his friends.

The story centres on a shared Eid ul-Adha celebration, with children from the neighbourhood, families in need and an orphanage included in the plans.

The group’s final summer adventure begins when Amelia joins them to investigate a spooky old house. Their unexpected discovery of stolen goods turns a quiet town into the setting for a mystery.

This is a family road-trip adventure with a humorous premise: Ronnie travels with an irritable grandfather and a lively younger brother while hoping for a bigger life beyond her small town.

A family disagreement over surfing sits alongside a mermaid-and-magic mystery. Lena’s pursuit takes her towards dangerous waves, while her father’s refusal is tied to his past near-drowning.

Young members of the Tribulation Force try to escape the Global Community’s grasp and free friends, while satellite tracking may expose them. A teenager’s contact from New Babylon raises doubts about a possible rendezvous. As people prepare to take Nicolae Carpathia’s mark, the group uses computers to spread warnings about its consequences.

Seven demigods travel on the Argo II, seeking the Mark of Athena while trying to avert wider conflict between Greek and Roman groups. Annabeth’s quest, shifting alliances and mythic dangers drive the adventure.

An orphan’s question about his sister’s fate leads to a fortune-teller’s startling prediction: an elephant will guide him to her. The novel follows the remarkable events that begin with this answer.

Two friends’ attempt to save a life takes them into another world, where a sorceress threatens enslavement. Their adventure also shows the making of Narnia, with Aslan’s song bringing the new land into being.

A small railway character’s feeling of being overlooked leads into a mountain-climbing predicament, where its braking helps keep the train on the tracks.

Ninja, Cowboy and Bear enjoy doing things together, but quarrel and compete over who is best. The rivalry brings resentment before they learn to be considerate of their differences. Instructions for a whole-body game are included.

Felicity aims to enter medical school despite institutional resistance to women in science. A journey funded by a mysterious young woman becomes a perilous quest, while Felicity also navigates an estranged friendship and a suitor’s proposal.

A humorous mystery-adventure combines the runaway ostrich search with questions about the children’s family and Penelope’s origins.

Landon and Broden’s rivalry gives way to a fantasy adventure involving strange creatures and a dangerous battle. Working together becomes central as they confront their fears.

A climate-and-energy adventure pairs a practical problem—smoke from factory generators—with a young leader’s effort to win adults’ support for a different energy solution.

Expect a horse-centred friendship story with a spooky mystery: Elli and Jonah try to discover whether a ghost is unsettling the guests and threatening the family’s new business. The haunting is presented as a possibility to investigate, rather than an established fact.

This is a Moon-colony mystery about a boy seeking answers after his father fails to return from a mission officials deny ever happened.

This is a playful story about turning an impossible wish into a sequence of experiments. Its appeal lies in the boy’s imaginative plans and the surprising distinction between a star in the sky and something star-shaped.

A focused, dual-narrative historical novel about displacement, survival and access to water. Its language is spare, but the experiences include war, deaths and severe deprivation, balanced by perseverance and collective problem-solving.

A gentle story about moving from a very small comfort zone into wider experiences. Mabel’s journey offers opportunities to discuss fear, curiosity, confidence, changing seasons and supporting someone who is hesitant.

A family’s fear grows as a huge black dog watches their home. Small Hope faces it, leads it on a chase, and discovers a playful way to bring it inside.

A gentle nature story combines a small character’s change of circumstances with information about oak trees, seasons and the many species associated with them.

This is a creative introduction to feelings, using alphabetic rhymes and animal imagery to give emotions memorable forms and language. It may work especially well as a shared conversation book.

This is an active read-aloud: children can watch each animal, hear a movement prompt, and answer “I can do it!” before copying the action. The sequence introduces body parts and movement words through repetition and colourful collages.

This is a gentle story about staying emotionally connected when physical contact is not possible. It offers several concrete, non-touching ways to show affection, while keeping the reason and duration of separation unexplained.