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This is historical fiction in verse, giving three young women distinct perspectives on the Salem witch trials and the choices made as accusations spread.

This is a story about bereavement, family strain and a young person facing pressure to protect people and institutions around her after an assault.

This is a tense survival story centred on the bond between an isolated teenager and a stray dog, with a wider crisis putting their loyalty and trust under pressure.

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

A new leader inherits a weakened Clan, with strained relations among the four Clans and an approaching threat. The story’s central pressures are leadership, survival and rebuilding after a major battle.

This is a supernatural team-conflict story with romantic tension: Jenn must decide how much to trust Antonio while the hunters confront a strengthening enemy.

A fantasy adventure about Midge’s encounter with fairies facing a threat to their existence, as their world meets the human one.

This is a multi-strand fantasy about resisting an expansionist ruler. Evan seeks help for the threatened queendom, while Alyssa may be able to oppose the empress from inside her stronghold.

A time-pressured adventure centred on Storm’s captivity and her attempt to protect her Pack. It is the series’ sixth instalment, so the wider conflict may rely on earlier books.

Three young animals face distinct challenges: Thorn must confront betrayal in his troop, Sky seeks answers, and Fearless faces a usurper. Their efforts connect to a wider search for truth.

A Clan faces a crisis while its members try to protect their community. The shifting warrior code adds questions of loyalty and rules to the immediate trouble.

A teen science-fiction adventure about loyalty under pressure: Khya must decide whether to follow her clan or act to protect her brother, while relying on a rival.

This is a family-centred street-fiction premise, with twin brothers pulled in different directions by ambition, trouble and urgent family needs. Deion’s decision is posed, but its outcome is not given.

This is a community-conflict story as well as a first-love plot: Hoodie is caught between someone he cares about and the Orthodox Jewish community he has always known.

A fantasy adventure shaped by divided loyalties, perilous plans and the prospect of war, with the brothers’ relationship under strain.

This is an energetic animal fantasy about survival, territory and loyalty. Expect danger, competing packs, resource shortages and a protagonist forced to make difficult choices between established relationships and a new community.

A fast-moving finale combines mythological adventure with questions of identity and belonging. Its emotional centre lies in characters confronting painful memories and deciding what they owe to friends, communities and the wider world.

Expect a brisk story about cars, wrongdoing and trust. Its central appeal is the combination of hot-rod restoration and action, while Miles’s response to suspicion gives the plot a clear moral and personal dilemma.

A lively family adventure pairs a serious kidnapping situation with comic sibling behaviour and improvised plans. The children’s contrasting personalities drive much of the story, especially during their confinement and attempts to influence or outwit their captors.

This offers energetic fantasy adventure, imaginative magical abilities and a friendship group facing escalating challenges. Its tone appears playful as well as perilous, with candy-based humour alongside imprisonment, manipulation and attempts to control young characters.

This is a fantasy sequel about Azra learning what being Jinn means while navigating human and Jinn worlds, official scrutiny, hidden information and a possible uprising affecting more than her immediate circle.

A fast-moving ensemble mystery combines threats and secrets with friendship, romance and personal change. Its strongest appeal is likely the continuing Bayview relationships and the question of who is targeting the group.

A dark, atmospheric supernatural story combines family mystery, a dangerous isolated community, visions and romance. Its imaginative premise may appeal to readers who enjoy intense paranormal fiction, though the plot and character motivations may feel difficult to follow.

Expect an adventure fantasy built around exile, disputed inheritance and supernatural threats. Its strongest distinctive feature is Jessa: a young woman presented as the focal and strongest character while loyalty and friendship shape the struggle.

A fantasy adventure centred on an ageing Clan member’s promise, loyalty and search for a way to help his community. Graystripe’s departure creates a tension between staying faithful to home and seeking answers elsewhere.

Choose this for a reader drawn to Greek mythology, modern fantasy and high-stakes competition, provided graphic violence and mature themes are not likely to overwhelm them.

This is a frontier adventure about two friends seeking new beginnings, with danger arising after a mistake. Its central appeal appears to be action combined with a friendship tested under pressure.

Expect an atmospheric fantasy involving puppetry, magic, poverty, bereavement and dangerous power. Its story is eventful but unfolds slowly, with multiple characters and viewpoints that may reward patient reading.

A tense, atmospheric mystery about responsibility and taking action, with an underground workplace, a threatening diary and a close friendship group balancing the darker material with humour.

This is a wartime story about a child trying to understand occupation, separation and moral choice. Its strongest thread is Marit’s changing view of courage, loyalty and compassion amid danger.

This is an imaginative fantasy adventure centred on three siblings navigating a strange house, shifting time and dangerous or uncertain encounters. It offers a large-scale quest alongside sibling conflict, loyalty and comic touches.

This is an ensemble fantasy about cats facing leadership uncertainty, personal loyalties and unsettling mysteries. It offers relationship dilemmas, humour and character change, but its later conflict is darker and may feel less clear or controlled.

This is an adventure about entering a tightly organised cat society, learning its customs and deciding what loyalty means when belonging brings both protection and pressure.

This is a supernatural thriller about a transgender teen whose post-operative recovery is interrupted by a werewolf attack. Friendship, bodily change, prejudice and the pull of revenge sit alongside the horror premise.

A warm football adventure uses Pickles’s humorous viewpoint to explore a family trying to stay together while money problems and housing insecurity affect everyday life.

A richly imagined mystery combines Ghanaian mythology with advanced technology and a Black diaspora community in future San Francisco. Akoma’s investigation centres on family loyalty, ancestral power and trust, while the story also includes tense magical danger and morally difficult decisions.

Expect fast-moving fantasy adventure: Emily and her friends train, discover powers and attempt a dangerous rescue while war approaches. Family tensions and questions of trust sit alongside battles and emotional uncertainty.

This is a survival adventure about dependent pets forced into an unknown, dangerous world. Its emotional centre is the animals’ struggle to cope, cooperate and change when familiar human protection disappears.

A dramatic, atmospheric story of companionship and courage, moving from cosy village life to stormy seas and back to communal celebration. The cat’s unusual power gives the legend a magical, memorable turn.

A warm, humorous coming-of-age story about Joe Morelli’s attempt to save his family café. Alongside business ideas and community life, Joe explores his Italian heritage and the history of Italian immigrants in Wales.

A determined girl enters a spirit world to protect her brother, recover what has been taken from her and address an enchantment threatening human and spirit communities. Folklore, gods and political conflict drive the fantasy adventure.

Expect a darkly funny, morally complicated fantasy heist: Elle rebuilds her crew to pursue a seemingly impossible rescue from the Afterlife while translating a mysterious manuscript and avoiding powerful syndicates.

A football-centred route into First World War history, this is an emotionally direct story about ambition, enlistment and survival. Its accessible presentation may support readers who want a gripping historical novel without dense prose.

This is an emotionally engaging family story about a child trying to understand separation, a parent’s newly disclosed sexuality and the limits of fixing adult problems. Friendship, humour and Pride’s community provide energy and hope.

A dark, fast-moving faerie adventure that combines monsters, romance and town danger with more reflective questions about self-invention, family secrets, community complicity and whether apparent gifts or beauty can conceal coercion.

Expect an intense crime thriller about grief, anger and the pursuit of revenge. The brothers face secrecy, hostility and danger while investigating their sister’s death, with an unsettling atmosphere and a strongly action-driven climax.