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Lynne Reid Banks
This is a fantasy journey shaped by Dakin’s three wishes: reaching a distant mountain, meeting a gargoyle and finding a prince. Her choices and encounters appear central.
Mary Hogan
This is a fictional story about Susanna’s attempt to secure an international magazine scoop while navigating professional pressure and changing circumstances.
Alastair Humphreys
This is an ocean adventure about attempting something others doubt, preparing carefully, coping with difficult conditions and discovering capability. It also brings ocean wildlife and pollution into the story through Lucy’s classmates.
Rosemary Clunie
A gentle, imaginative flying adventure about wanting something extraordinary, meeting an unusual new friend, and discovering that home still matters after a thrilling journey.
Rebecca Stevens
This is a historically grounded coming-of-age story about a girl pursuing football while working in wartime industry. It offers determination, teamwork and questions about who gets opportunities, alongside setbacks when social and institutional attitudes change.
Jessica Jung
A celebrity-centred sequel about ambition and loyalty, offering backstage drama, fashion-business aspirations and relationship tension while questioning the costs of perfection and public success.
Mina Finch
This is a fantasy adventure combining K-pop performance culture, martial-arts action and supernatural danger. Its emotional centre is a friendship group learning to work together while facing fears that affect them and others.
Marie Lu
This is a fast-moving virtual-reality adventure with a capable but vulnerable protagonist, combining tournament gameplay with a mystery about a threatening player and technology’s real-world consequences.
Kwame Alexander
A story of sporting ambition and family inheritance, shaped by segregation and racial prejudice. Its verse form brings rhythm to Charley’s determination, while historical danger and a consequential choice give the narrative emotional weight.
Philip Pullman
An imaginative, morally charged fantasy centred on Lyra, animal daemons and a rescue mission. Its adventure is accompanied by kidnapping, experimentation, bereavement and graphic violence, while bravery and protecting others are strongly emphasised.
Dan Freedman
This is a high-pressure family and sports story about twins whose ambitions, rivalry and difficult circumstances lead them towards separate dangers. It combines emotional conflict with themes of loyalty, adversity and recovery.
Ashley Hickson-Lovence
A lyrical verse novel about grief, relocation, racism, belonging and the effort to turn anger into creative purpose. Ronny’s experiences centre young people’s challenges while presenting perseverance and artistic expression as possible ways forward.
Philip Pullman
This is a brisk, fantastical adventure about determination, danger and becoming a firework-maker. Lila’s journey combines perilous tests, a family predicament and a spectacular public performance, with illustrations contributing to the imagined world.
Ed Vere
A young elephant wants to join a lifeboat crew, but his size appears to prevent this. When a storm puts the crew in trouble, Gabriel may be able to help, creating a story about belonging, courage and finding a way to contribute.
Kathryn Fitzmaurice
This is a character-led family story about a child making sense of adult failures without surrendering her own needs. Cooking, artistic ambition and friendship offer purposeful threads alongside uncertainty and emotional upheaval.
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