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Yelena’s hoped-for reunion and magic training are complicated by feeling out of place, a strict deadline and competing dangers. The story also brings her into a political struggle over Ixia’s throne.

An arrest changes Kalifornia’s living arrangements and school life. She must adapt to her father’s rules and police-academy drills while navigating a new partnership and trying to help someone in danger.

A witty, sharp-edged Cinderella variation follows Becky through sudden glamour and public attention, while she tries to hold on to who she was before the transformation. Expect satire alongside questions of beauty and belonging.

Elly has bonbons, pretty clothes and help from maids, but wants to be with other children and join in their baseball. A fairy godfather arrives as she hopes for a change.

Expect a speculative adventure combining a search for a missing brother with demon-hunting work and interdimensional intrigue. Ehrich must also conceal his origins and work out whom to trust.

Expect a character-led ghost story, with the supernatural mystery intertwined with bereavement, loneliness and the effort to belong in a new family.

The story centres on a family’s displacement and Chris’s growing awareness of poverty, cultural identity and belonging. His pull towards the landscape of his Wiradjuri ancestors gives the novel a strong focus on connection across generations.

Auralia’s unusual colour-making gift brings her into contact with rulers, a wizard and a prince with dangerous secrets. Her discovery links a personal mystery to wider upheaval across the Expanse.

This is a story of grief, adjustment and friendship, set against risky bike stunts and activism. Grey and his friends use online attention to challenge prejudice and police pressure, while their choices raise questions about the costs of becoming more visible.

Photographs and poetic words explore friendship, imaginative play and belonging, with an afterword about the stories behind the images.

This illustrated story centres on a child adjusting to a move between countries. Christmas and family traditions shape Eduardo’s gradual experience of finding home in his new surroundings.

Turtle’s new life brings family secrets, scams and a treasure hunt into an adventure set against hard times in 1930s Florida.

This family story pairs bereavement, a difficult move and money worries with a ghostly mystery. The siblings’ search for answers unfolds alongside their adjustment to a new home.

Hillary's efforts to earn friendship through her abilities fail; acceptance comes when her scales change, and her happiness coincides with turning pink again.

Charlie’s letters follow his friendships and family relationships as he tries to understand his place between adolescence and adulthood. The story combines everyday coming-of-age concerns with difficult experiences that shape his perspective.

The story follows a bereaved girl adjusting to a remote island, where a new friendship and her bond with a wild horse become important as the horse family faces a threat.

Gurl’s new invisibility ability offers a way to act in a city where she has felt out of place. The story pairs her escape plan with mysteries about identity, family history and the city’s strange inhabitants.

Bod’s life among the graveyard’s ghosts and other supernatural residents gives him an unusual upbringing, while he faces dangers from both the living and the dead.

A murder investigation, family revelations and a prophecy converge as three siblings confront secrets that challenge their place in ThunderClan and their understanding of its rules.

Four stepsisters bring competing ambitions into a newly joined family: school popularity, modelling and a hoped-for romance all create friction. The book centres on how the girls navigate these rivalries and their changing relationships.

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

This illustrated adventure centres on adoption, friendship and what makes a family. Queen Bee forms a new family with Virelldar and friends while keeping a future reunion with her birth family in mind.

Lily’s self-image as the sensible one is unsettled by a moment of attraction to Daniel. Around her, teenagers and grandparents face separate dilemmas that connect through the family.

This fantasy adventure follows Charlie as he enters a school for people who fight monsters. His unusual power, new friendships and a dangerous portal bring the threat from his nightmares into a struggle involving his family and Earth.

Anna’s family travels to Canada for seasonal farm work, and Anna imagines what it would be like to have a settled home. The story connects her personal feelings with the wider experience of migrant workers.

A friendly guided tour introduces museum roles and spaces, with Stub meeting characters responsible for protecting and archiving artworks. The combination of artworks, playful characters, fun facts and a glossary gives the story an informational strand.

Maggie’s prized Shopkin disappears during a camping trip with her friends. Her suspicion falls on Ava, who has been admiring it; Maggie follows clues while the group’s friendships are under strain.

A science-fiction thriller about two teens caught between human institutions and aliens, alongside Reese’s unresolved feelings for her ex-girlfriend and David.

Rose feels lonely amid her busy, unconventional family, while school brings a strict teacher and pressure around tests. Her friends’ Christmas zoo-trip plans offer a new focus, and Rose’s developing interest in reading is part of her story.

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

A first-person account of growing up as a Maasai cattle herder in Kenya, this memoir follows Lekuton through schooling, soccer and eventual study in America. Personal episodes also introduce Maasai community life and practices.

A prehistoric survival adventure follows Dusk, an unusual bat-like creature rejected by his colony. When predators attack, he helps lead survivors towards a new home, while facing questions of belonging and difference.

This is a school story about wanting to belong, changing friendships and a dangerous activity that enters Windy’s new social circle. Her uncertainty about joining in gives the peer-pressure conflict a personal focus.

A warm picture-book story about a cat with two homes, and two sisters whose family life also spans households.

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

Expect historical adventure built around a sibling-rescue quest, with Roman military life and Fronto’s effort to find his place in Britain at its centre.

This is a space-set mystery about an uneasy journey, a missing cultural symbol and two young travellers who try to help one another get home.

Tally’s pursuit of a musician tied to her family past leads her to Maddy and a love that unsettles her assumptions. Family secrets and questions of identity sit alongside friendship and supernatural elements.

A horse-centred story about a foster teenager offered another home and a chance to build trust, alongside Christian themes and practical horse-related back matter.

This historical supernatural story combines Gemma’s visions and the spiritual world with boarding-school life, strained belonging and an unsettling mystery around the young man following her.

A dystopian survival adventure about Jen and Father, an AI who has cared for her since she was a baby. Their search for a new home brings danger, new connections and a difficult secret.

Spark’s search involves accepting friends’ offers while recognising that their homes do not suit him. The story ends with friends helping him create a place of his own.

A bleak but lyrical story about siblings navigating unstable care, homelessness and self-invention. Its poems bring attention to the dreams and difficulties of young people without secure homes.

A gentle picture-book quest about waiting to be imagined, finding a friend and feeling more at home in an unfamiliar world.

This is a family-centred story about migration, bereavement and belonging, with Sophie’s own growth alongside Pedro’s uncertain future. A refugee’s experience is also part of the family’s story.

The appeal is a young outsider’s transition into a skilled role, set against a looming threat to his kingdom.