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Aisha Saeed
A clear, child-centred novel about a girl whose education and future are threatened by family expectations and coercive power. It offers determination, moral courage and hope alongside serious social injustice.
Matt Faulkner
This is a visually told historical story about a young person treated as an outsider both outside and inside an internment camp. Its strongest offering is a personal route into prejudice, citizenship and belonging.
Judy I. Lin
A tea-centred fantasy of competition, palace intrigue and family devotion. Ning’s search for a cure gives the plot emotional urgency, while brewing, tasting and reading ingredients become ways to investigate danger and negotiate power.
Thiago de Moraes
A lively fantasy about an ordinary child entering an extraordinary school, balancing comic invention with peril, uncertainty and the discovery of friendship. Its invented gods and visual humour are central attractions.
Liz Kessler
Choose this for a reader who enjoys high-seas adventure, mermaids, treasure hunts, riddles and brisk action. The story also offers a character-led exploration of identity, friendship, prejudice and belonging.
Cornelia Funke
Expect a brisk, comic swashbuckling story: pirates take Molly, but her courage and cleverness unsettle them. The story’s main pleasure is the reversal of who appears powerful and who needs to be feared.
Gillian Cross
A fast-moving school thriller that turns familiar rules, routines and adult authority into a mechanism of control. Its central tension is whether individuality and independent judgement can survive pressure to comply.
P. J Canning
This is a team-centred science-fiction adventure about young people confronting the organisation responsible for transforming one of them. Expect secret missions, superhuman and alien abilities, technology, fights and an urgent threat affecting millions.
Alastair Chisholm
A fast-moving environmental dystopian adventure about polluted air, family survival, invention and corporate control. Sparrow and Miriam face a powerful opponent while trying to make clean air available beyond one supplier.
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