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This is an adventure about a grandson’s attempt to honour his grandfather while climbing Kilimanjaro. The journey challenges DJ’s belief that talent and determination will make everything easy.

An adventure that moves from Sam’s return journey to England towards his renewed naval service and preparation for Trafalgar.

Two siblings turn a basement space into a yoga studio for their friends, using borrowed plants and doormats. Their animal-pose class grows from what they have seen their mum do, despite their limited knowledge of yoga.

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.

A failed calculus quiz unsettles Ariel’s carefully managed college plans. Tutoring with Amir develops into attraction, adding a relationship to the demands of study, applications and his other commitments.

Readers help complete an unfinished mystery by writing and solving it themselves. Activities guide them through creating a story, with options to try gothic, mystery or fantasy genres.

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.

A small mystery drives the story: Spencer’s books vanish one by one, and objects are left in their place. He investigates and eventually comes up with a solution.

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.

Delk’s time in Ireland offers travel, cultural activities and a developing romance, alongside her wish to leave family difficulties and grief behind.

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.

Expect an assortment of unusual American-history subjects, from a self-proclaimed emperor and alleged ghosts to secret societies, witchcraft and cemetery stories—not a conventional survey of major political and military events.

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.

A summer by the sea turns into a search for answers when Cassandra meets Lawrence, who claims to be from 1925. Their relationship develops alongside a mystery, with Lawrence’s life at stake.

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.

Jake and Shani are pleased when their reserve is chosen for an elephant relocation, but nearby villagers worry the animals could damage their crops. As a fence is built, Jake suspects the volunteers may not be what they seem; ivory poachers also threaten an elephant.

A puppy’s imagined adventures while his owner is at school are the premise. The book combines a pet-centred situation with imagination and play.

Expect a varied collection rather than one continuous plot: the tales include royals, giants and trolls, married couples, and a far-off castle. The book is also illustrated.

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

The story centres on horses, showing and Amy’s efforts to help Daniel and Amber. It also follows Amy as she balances competing commitments at Heartland.

A relationship setback prompts Becca to reconsider what she shares. Her shift from face-to-face talk to an online alter ego makes privacy and self-presentation central to the story.

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.

A young woman’s uncertainty about a married pastor’s affection becomes entangled with rumours of clergy abuse and a church scandal. Her choices about how to understand and tell what happened sit at the centre of the story.

Emery and Jake are held hostage with the children they tutor by a soldier involved in a custody dispute. The separated teens must try to protect and calm the children while managing the immediate threat.

Anna draws a picture of herself; readers follow along to see how she does. It is presented as a children’s beginning-reader story with a straightforward, participatory premise.

Leah’s new heart comes from a boy at her school whose death is believed to be suicide. She and his twin Matt share dreams and try to piece together his final moments, while their connection grows into a romance.

The book recounts how the Golden Gate Bridge became bright orange after people proposed other colour schemes. Its focus is the architects’ persistence and the choices behind a familiar landmark’s appearance.

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.

This is a survival story centred on protecting a vaccine, evading people who want to take it, and trying to find a safe haven while the group faces strain.

The book recounts the 1904 St Louis Olympic marathon, from the large field of entrants to an unusual finish. Its runners include a Cuban postman, a competitor who travelled part of the way by car, and one helped over the line by trainers.

A fast-moving space adventure mixes a travelling circus, monster-taming and the friends’ hot-dog business. Cosmoe’s past also comes into view, alongside danger for the group and the challenge of keeping their business going.

Painting prompts a chain of surprises as animals appear in different colours. The wordless format leaves the pictures to carry the story, with visual humour and an imaginative-play focus.

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 is a posthumous portrait of a teenager built from the recollections of people in his community. It explores how love and admiration can coexist with an inability to accept someone fully.

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 supernatural mystery about friendship, vampire-hunting and lost memory, with a new horror shop raising suspicions.