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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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Nine family episodes link baseball to changing lives in Brooklyn, from 1845 onwards. Expect a multigenerational story rather than a single player’s season, with moments of achievement and heartache.

Kim’s friend Natalie is pregnant and set to marry Ben, who does not love her. Meanwhile, Kim considers whether to reconnect with her birth mother and whether she and her father might take in her cousin Maya.

This retelling combines a Cinderella-like courtship with repeated rebirths and a violent final punishment. Its ending may prompt questions about whether revenge brings justice or simply extends the harm.

Connor is taken to an island camp intended to make him change after coming out. He plans to escape with other teenagers and expose the camp’s secrets.

A comic-sounding Christmas caper brings cousins together around a shared attempt to recover their presents.

The renewed Empire’s assault on the Rebels unfolds alongside a threat to Han and Leia from Jabba’s heirs. Luke’s possible opposition adds a close personal uncertainty to the struggle.

The story follows the children as they learn about a family rift and try to uncover the past. The newly discovered aunt and cousin bring excitement, while their father’s silence leaves the reasons for the estrangement unresolved for the children.

This is a family story about Cassie’s love of violin, her father’s explosive moods and the effects of past violence. It follows her flight to a homeless shelter and her family’s struggle to repair relationships.

This is a story about siblings who have been moved between foster homes and an older couple who invite them into their lives. It centres on belonging, trust and the possibility of a loving home.

Cassie’s family struggles to preserve their land and dignity amid racism in Depression-era Mississippi. The story also contains threats, mob violence and other serious harm.

This is a coming-of-age novel about a gay teenager navigating family expectations, work and love. A parallel supernatural thread follows a murdered girl and an otherworldly Queen, giving the story an eerie counterpoint.

Rafe’s move away from home and worry about his father lead into a fantasy adventure involving classmates, angels and other mythical beings. His search for a way back becomes tied to a threat to the heavens.

This novel brings a missing-child crisis into the same small-town setting as Samara’s strained family life and changing relationship with faith.

Maddie’s first trip abroad combines exploration of Northern Ireland with questions about Ryan’s family past. Her changing ideas about her future and developing friendship with Ryan run alongside the mystery.

Three siblings discover they are heirs to a legendary kingdom and flee north. The route includes monsters, hostile people and a threatening factory, while tensions within the family add another challenge.

The boys share games and basketball interests, while Jamal’s family food, mealtime customs and occasional special clothes differ from Joseph’s. Their friendship is the story’s central focus.

The story centres on three characters whose lives connect through a factory town shaped by scarcity and hardship. It brings together friendship, family ambition and resistance to the town’s rules.

This is a family story about two sisters getting to know their unconventional grandmother through a shared journey and her recollections. Her earlier life includes leaving home as a teenager and military service during the Second World War.

Louis’s reasons for joining include wages and the Union’s fight to end slavery. The story follows his experience in the Irish Brigade and brings together the perspectives of an Abenaki teenager and the Civil War.

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.

A family’s escape from an abusive father begins as an adventure for Jayni, who adopts the name Lola Rose. As money runs out, the family’s new life becomes harder to sustain.

Bayliss’s grief and fear of change unfold alongside her parents’ plan to foster two homeless girls. The story centres on sibling love, loss and the possibility of making room for new relationships.

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.

Lily’s care for Adam and her wish for independence run alongside her growing concern for Nori, a dolphin in captivity for treatment. The story brings family responsibility into tension with animal welfare and the question of release.

This is a grief-centred story about a teenager facing her mother's death, state care and successive foster homes. It also follows her relationships with friends and the possibility of finding family in unexpected places.

A teen’s attempt to turn grief into a list of brave experiences drives this novel. Drawing, friendship, family strain and a developing crush all shape Georgia’s search for what living fully means to her.

The story combines family tensions, a ghost and Sami’s adjustment to life at the manor. Her attraction to Adan crosses the boundary of the old feud, though romance is not the sole focus.

A family-and-basketball story: Billy is caught between his father’s expectations on court and the upheaval at home, while his brother Ben’s piano recital competes with the championship game.

A lively family wedding story, with Ellie’s worries about bad luck alongside humour, mishaps and Jewish wedding traditions.

A fast-moving adventure mixes cousinly competition and outdoor challenges with a science-fiction mystery about a meteorite—and what it may have brought with it.

A Batman mystery combines a threat to Gotham’s bridges with flashbacks to the city’s formation. Dick Grayson is Batman, and other costumed allies take part.

This is a direct, emotionally serious story about a child living through her mother’s death. It offers language for grief, shows that support can coexist with loneliness, and uses a familiar garment to represent continuing love and memory.