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This is a cancer story about friendship and coping with illness, rather than a romance-led plot. Zac and Mia's connection begins in hospital and continues as they encounter difficulties outside it.

The friends are navigating distance, college life and uncertainty about relationships. Maddie’s roller-derby plan gives their effort to stay connected a practical focus.

This is a wish-and-mystery story about a teenager adjusting to a family move, with hopes for friendship and romance alongside a supernatural-seeming mirror and a family death.

The book pairs the Floods’ magical takeover of financial markets with a comic, self-interested approach to helping during a recession.

The story brings romantic rivalry and a damaged friendship together with the looming Chicago fire. Emmeline, Fiona and Anders are childhood friends whose changing circumstances put their relationships under strain.

A summer romance follows Gwen as she weighs her hopes of leaving her island home against her ties to family, friends and Cass. Class differences and a complicated romantic past shape the situation.

The sisters face the loss of their parents and an unwanted move into their grandmother’s care. A sewing shop and new friendships become part of their life in Camden Falls.

Linda's friends blame her, putting their friendship at the centre of the fallout.

Rusty's journey from housecat towards becoming a warrior is supported by friends and unfolds amid rival clans, forest secrets and a developing plot.

This fairy-tale romance centres on Violet’s effort to win a place beside Richard despite his parents’ expectations. The royal contest gives her a chance to show her character and resourcefulness.

The story combines contemporary war with Slavic folklore: the girls meet Mara, a guide to the Beyond, after the war-tortured dead become unable to see her. Ghosts, friendship and belonging feature alongside the protagonists’ struggle to survive.

This is a fast-moving fantasy adventure built around a rescue mission and a scheme to take over the world. Expect magic, faeries, goblin impersonators and an unusual twist on cereal-company villainy.

Expect a friendship-led comic adventure, with Phoebe and Marigold sharing funny exploits. Their contrasting personalities and the way they value their bond are central to the book.

At the heart of the story is Jesse’s friendship with Roxanne, a thirty-year-old neighbour whose arrival changes Jesse’s outlook. Jesse also carries unresolved feelings connected with her baby brother’s death.

A mystery about a possibly valuable painting draws Theo into questions of family responsibility, art and her grandfather’s past. The search also brings her into contact with new friends across Manhattan.

This is a faith-centred family and school adventure in which Lenten choices sit alongside a spelling bee and a Bigfoot quest.

This historical fiction follows Drucilla as she tries to keep her place in a new family while witchcraft accusations sweep Salem Village. Her own accusations add to the danger facing innocent people.

Gwen’s music-school ambitions and her partnership with fellow student Robert unfold alongside the mystery of her grandfather’s disappearance and her great-uncle’s increasing pressure.

Follow the girl’s vivid animal adventure alongside her parents’ anxious search. Much of the storytelling happens in the illustrations, which let the child’s joyful vision and the adults’ worried perspective unfold side by side.

Tiffany’s effort to rescue her baby brother gives the fantasy adventure a family-centred goal. She faces the threat with help from the Wee Free Men, a fierce, sword-wielding clan.

This sequel brings together wartime danger and Ada’s questions about who she is, whom she can trust and what she ought to do. Its household includes a Jewish girl arriving from Germany.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 seriously ill boy sets off with his dog to pursue a mountain-climbing goal; his best friend faces a difficult question of loyalty. The story centres on illness, friendship and a risky runaway journey.

Linn is pushed into flight by demands to abandon her faith and marry. A mysterious arrow-shaped wound and a path through Maether draw her towards the lysefolk and a quest tied to the world's future.

A clique friendship story about loyalty, belonging and the strain caused by one girl’s control over group membership. Each girl gets a say in the story.

The forest’s animals are falling ill after the pomelos are poisoned. Three friends investigate, weighing Iris’s claim of moon monsters against the possibility of a more earthly explanation, and seek a cure.

A family and friendship story set amid Cold War suspicion, centred on Marjorie's efforts to find her own voice and decide how to treat others.

A dinosaur mother’s search for a safe nesting place leads from a world of predators to a modern farm, where keeping her hatchlings safe brings a rescue mission.

This is a mystery driven by two friends’ different reactions: Parker is determined to prove Evans guilty, while Matt remains cautious. Their search takes them into an antique shop, where a tense encounter unfolds.

Kate longs for the sister she never knew, and believes Emma’s return would solve her family’s problems. When a stranger claims to be Emma, she proves very different from Kate’s imagined sister.