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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.

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.

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.

A playful Easter hunt pairs a story with opportunities for children to help locate and count chocolate eggs and notice a dotted pattern.

Expect a speculative adventure combining a search for a missing brother with demon-hunting work and interdimensional intrigue. Ehrich must also conceal his origins and work out whom to trust.

Tina sees the Ohio River as peaceful and worries about railway safety; Charles values the railway’s power and speed. Their family’s views on slavery and a possible move to Kansas bring the period’s conflicts into family life.

A Holocaust novel centred on a teenager confronting camp life and her father’s involvement in Nazi propaganda. It also follows her thoughts about friendship, romance, family and religion.

This historical adventure centres on Chico’s friendship with a donkey amid wartime animal transport. The story also brings together people of different ages and nationalities.

Jillian faces a move, a changed family and summer camp, then gets a break from camp and makes a new friend through catsitting. Neighbour-watching leads her and Emily towards a mystery and an attempt to help.

This is a relationship-focused story about Mason negotiating friendship, sexual feelings and romantic hopes after Kat wants to leave their encounter behind. His interest then turns towards Colette, an adult several years older than him.

A lively animal adventure centres on Butter’s energetic dancing, the bears’ search for him, and their adjustment to his transformation and independent path.

Follow Erich as ordinary concerns give way to exclusion and hardship under Nazi rule. Alongside the discrimination, the story includes friends and neighbours who remain loyal despite the risk.

This is a romance set against conflict between African American and Somali students. Rodney and Jawahir’s relationship brings questions of loyalty and social division into the foreground.

Eleven Christmas tales bring together authors including Alcott, Dickens, O. Henry and Conan Doyle. Several are drawn from longer works; the selection also includes “The Gift of the Magi” and “The Snow Queen”.

Yasmin’s daily reading routine is disrupted when the mayor’s actions threaten Book Uncle’s lending library. With friends, family and neighbours, she tries to make the community’s voice heard during an election campaign.

This is a diplomatic-setting mystery about a teenager pursuing answers about her mother’s death while navigating other people’s disbelief and uncertain loyalties.

Art is Perry’s favourite activity, and drawing gives him a way to express what he finds hard to say. The competition creates an opportunity for that communication.

Leena wants both to keep her Ramadan fast and to attend a friend’s party. Her choice brings her into contact with the observance’s daily demands and with iftar, the meal that breaks the fast.

Paul and his family try to protect Henri and help him reach safety, while Paul takes on responsibilities at home and joins the Resistance. The story follows their choices amid occupation and suspicion.

A festive teen romance pairs a breakup with a family-run sequence of blind dates. Sophie’s returned ex complicates the matchmaking, while her large family supplies the holiday bustle.

A speculative romance joins two teenagers across time, while family upheaval and other historical and supernatural elements compete for space. The central relationship may not be the novel’s only substantial focus.

A bleak but lyrical story about siblings navigating unstable care, homelessness and self-invention. Its poems bring attention to the dreams and difficulties of young people without secure homes.

This is a coming-of-age fantasy about belonging and ambition, shaped by a martial-arts contest, a prophecy and a web of linked destinies.

The mystery pairs seasonal spookiness with a more personal puzzle: how to judge coincidences when you are worried. Mary Anne’s friends are part of the investigation, not just bystanders.

Expect a historical novel that shifts between ancient, wartime and present-day settings, with an emotional thread linking experiences across time.

A historical story about a girl’s attachment to a Japanese doll during wartime, and the pressure to choose between that personal bond and national loyalty.

This is a realistic school story in which harassment grows from insults and humiliation into physical attacks. Piddy also faces questions about identity and family, while trying to keep up with school and work.

This is an animal fantasy built around a quest for belonging and restored honour, with ravens and wolves linked through an ancient partnership.

A fantasy caper built around a criminal boy’s plan to ransom a fairy, with high-tech opponents and a possible clash between species.

This is a sports-focused account of two celebrated rivals, with attention to how different backgrounds and playing styles coexist with a shared drive to excel.

A historical family story about wartime change, German-American prejudice and Carl’s first summer living away from home.

A playful fantasy adventure built around a birthday party repeatedly interrupted by monster alarms, with Princess Magnolia balancing her guests’ celebration and her secret superhero identity.

This is a football story with a family-move dilemma: Oliver has found a place on his new team and begun to make friends, but another move may take both away.

This is a school-and-family story about coping with upheaval and trying to start afresh.

A playful magical mishap drives the story, with Lili’s dislike of bad spells setting her apart from what her aunt wants her to become.

A lively school-set relationship story centres on Becca’s paid schemes to split couples, with a complicated assignment bringing her back into Huxley’s orbit.

A family-centred story about a new living arrangement, a much-wanted outfit and cousins who plan a pageant together, set during and after the Second World War.

A set of five separate character pairings gives the collection a friendship-focused, ensemble feel rather than one continuous story.

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.

The mystery centres on the callers’ silence and Claudia’s suspicion. The group’s investigation has “mixed results”, though what those involve is not specified.

Four stories follow club members through a radio-station job, a summer camp, new friendships and a decision to move. Their circumstances bring practical responsibilities and changes in relationships into focus.

A story about two sisters rebuilding everyday life after losing their parents, with new friendships and a small-town community shaping their sense of home.

This is an imaginative adventure that shifts Fergus from familiar school-and-family routines into a world of strange machinery, secret identities and a distant rescue challenge.

This is a coming-of-age story about Andy’s first relationships as a gay man, set alongside memories of a painful family life and his attempt to make a new start at college.

At its heart, this is a story about a bereaved teenager whose life begins to shift through an unexpected friendship with an adult neighbour.