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Expect supernatural mystery alongside questions of loyalty: Zoey and Stevie Rae share a secret, while friendships and enmities shift around them.

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.

Expect a war story centred on Joseph’s bond with Adonis, rather than a battle narrative alone: the struggling zoo and its animals are also central to the plot.

Jakob’s disclosure puts his family at risk; his imprisonment at Auschwitz and belief that Ivan has abandoned him shape his drive for revenge. After liberation, a revelation about Ivan challenges Jakob’s understanding of what happened.

Penny’s plan to steal a basketball playbook is tied to both a sorority initiation and her wish to impress Brandon. Her growing feelings for Woody complicate the betrayal she has agreed to carry out.

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.

Katy and Daemon’s relationship grows closer amid a dangerous effort to free loved ones. Katy also confronts her changing abilities and the threat posed by an organisation targeting hybrids.

Katie’s friends each entrust her with a secret, and she finds keeping all four difficult. Their confidences include crushes and cheating on a maths test, bringing questions of trust into the Cupcake Club.

This is a contemporary family-and-romance story about Frank negotiating his parents’ expectations, his relationships and his Korean American identity. A serious illness and bereavement also shape the family story.

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

Victor’s search for work becomes a struggle to survive, shaped by his responsibility to his family and his friendship with Rico. The journey brings him into contact with smugglers and the risks of crossing the border.

A wintry fantasy adventure pairs truck-driving and mechanical problem-solving with magic, rebellion and a difficult journey. Sylvi’s attachment to Winter and her response to change sit alongside the action.

This is a high-stakes fantasy quest centred on a fractured team, an elusive animal kingdom and a guarded talisman. The book is part of a continuing series.

A short, high-interest story about a teenager facing distress, secrets and changing friendships. The plot centres on Darcy’s efforts to recover and support a friend, rather than on an informational account.

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

This is a spooky, folksy fantasy about two girls whose quarrel unleashes a graveyard full of angry ancestors. The story pairs that supernatural danger with questions of friendship, family history and finding a place to belong.

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 teen romantic comedy about trying to repair a relationship after a mistake, set in a school where gender and sexuality norms are unusually playful.

This is a school-set fantasy about a young person confronting a threat that powerful authorities refuse to acknowledge, with loyal friends alongside him.

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 fairy-tale school adventure built around Gilly’s punishment for theft and her discovery that the school is not what it seems. Expect familiar villains in teacher roles and a focus on good and evil.

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

A club-saving mystery driven by four friends’ attempt to secure money intended for their Boys Club.

A coming-of-age story about trying to build genuine friendships after relying on an invented social life, with college offering Caroline a chance to start over.

A mystery about identity and family trust, alongside a school project that brings Sam together with Caroline, who may help him read. Sam’s own difficulty reading is central to how he seeks answers.

A fashion-and-school story about Emma’s invented persona, Allegra Biscotti, and the pressure of keeping it up.

A fantastical adventure pits three friends against a cereal company’s world-taking scheme, with goblin impersonators, faeries and a journey through a space-time rift. The friends aim to rescue the Queen and halt an invasion.

A high-profile friendship group faces pressure around reputation, secrecy and risk, with a death before graduation signalled in the premise.

A mystery built around a discovery, a suspect Parker distrusts, and an investigation that draws in his more cautious friend. Their search leads to a frightening secret and a tense situation at the shop.

This is a story about a teenage online creator coping with bereavement and a changed social world. It brings together family loss, online attention and the uncertainty of starting at a new school.

A friendship-focused story about the gap between who Amanda seemed to be at camp and who she feels she is at home, with a secret complicating new and existing friendships.

This is a tense friendship-and-mystery story about loyalty, truth and the consequences of agreeing to lie in court. Shana’s choice is made in the context of her belief that Carrie is facing abuse.

The setup has a comic contrast between Lindy’s dislike of cucumbers and the festival’s cucumber dishes, with an unsupervised goose adding to the mix.

A school-set romantic story about a reluctant investigator whose attempt to help a friend becomes personally complicated, with an academic cheating scandal also in the mix.

A camp mystery drives the story, with Sam and Ally following clues while friendships and threats complicate their search. The mountain setting is part of the adventure.

A Halloween ghost mystery combines with a robbery investigation involving the girls’ friends, giving the story two cases whose clues may intersect.

A fairy-tale adventure about a group of friends responding to expulsion and banishment by seeking allies and trying to expose a powerful headmistress.

A school accusation drives the conflict, with friendship and the fear of being seen as a thief at stake. Faith is presented as guidance, and Anika is described as using her own ingenuity.

A family move sets up a story about adjusting to new relatives while navigating attraction to someone already involved with a stepsister.

This is a serious story about a teenager navigating disrupted care, mental-health difficulties and treatment. Tentative connections with other young people sit alongside a troubling crossing of therapeutic boundaries.

This is a growing-up story about a friendship that changes over time, with Morgan’s gender identity central to her hopes for the future.

This is a supernatural adventure built around a quest, a sudden family reappearance and an escalating threat to the community. The outcome is not stated.

This is a teen relationship story set against the prospect of a band’s success. Its focus is on friends balancing music ambitions with romantic uncertainty.

This is a suspense-driven story about Max trying to uncover a mystery while on the run. Its combination of hacking, political intrigue and shifting alliances may appeal to readers drawn to fast-moving digital-age plots.

This is a lively summer story about friendship and competing interests, with a rumoured hidden fortune adding a mystery thread.

A close-quarters story pairs a winter survival predicament with a developing connection between Autumn and Dax, who initially seem very different.