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A character-led teen novel about using scientific curiosity to change everyday habits, while asking how body size, appearance and other people’s attention affect identity.

This is a character-led family story balancing humour with poignant questions about divorce, remarriage, family reputation and growing into a more compassionate understanding of oneself and others.

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 school-based detective adventure follows two sisters as they investigate a threatening note, pursue puzzling clues and confront danger surrounding a newly acquired bronze fountain.

Expect a brisk fantasy quest built around danger, escape and puzzle-solving. The book spends substantial time in Noradz, where cleanliness is enforced harshly, before moving towards a frightening confrontation in the City of the Rats.

A character-led coming-of-age novel about seeing beyond glamour, managing peer influence and becoming more independent. Humour, romance and suspense sit alongside family difficulties, social uncertainty and a serious later turn.

This is a visual fairy tale centred on a princess whose unusual rainbow coat, concealed identity and appearance at a masked ball drive the story. Expect transformation, mystery and social-status contrasts rather than everyday realism.

A spooky fantasy adventure about a girl who enters a dangerous forest to understand what happened to her sister, with the story’s central mystery challenging simple ideas of bravery and rescue.

A fast-moving dark fantasy about vigilance, ingenuity and family loyalty, with comic grotesquerie alongside genuine suspense. Its imaginative premise may appeal to confident readers who enjoy frightening stories with a strong emotional centre.

This is a family-centred coming-of-age story: Katy’s energetic adventures give way to pain, dependence and gradual change. Its strongest appeal lies in a vivid household, an imperfect heroine and a sustained focus on how relationships respond when ordinary life is disrupted.

Expect a gently comic adventure in which a boy, a dragon and St George confront expectations about what dragons and heroes should be. The story makes room for poetry, friendship and a staged solution rather than presenting fighting as the only answer.

This is a grief-centred young-adult story that combines family disruption, social pressures, artistic identity, secrets and an unexpected relationship. Its emotional territory is serious, with mystery-like questioning following a sudden death.

A comic vampire adventure about twins managing separate lives, school rules and mistaken identity. Expect playful fright imagery, a concert-related disguise, and confusion around Olivia’s efforts to dress like Ivy.

This looks like a brisk fantasy adventure centred on a resourceful child whose habits of survival bring her into contact with real magic. Its strongest offer is the tension between streetwise independence and the possibility of trust, training and change.

This is a dark coming-of-age story about a teenager trying to claim her own identity while confronting a disturbing secret within a close mother–daughter relationship. Fairy-tale imagery frames questions about beauty, storytelling, concealment and what it means to make a life one's own.

A culturally focused fantasy adventure about a teenager who enters another world through a family heirloom. Its central movement is from rejecting part of her heritage towards confronting its significance amid prophecy, danger and family conflict.

A tense supernatural crime story about belonging, frightening visions and trying to prevent danger. Darla’s new-school difficulties sit alongside a mystery that asks whether the future can be understood in time.

This offers a fantasy about an outsider entering an extraordinary world, with imaginative creatures and a loyal dog companion. Its central appeal appears to be wonder, belonging and emotional transformation.

A school-based story about Love Bukowski, whose privileged-looking life feels socially lonely. Her father’s role as principal shapes her friendships, while an intense interest in an unattainable senior challenges her ideas about love and reality.

A light, quick-moving school story about peer acceptance, personal style and the pressure to change presentation in order to fit in.