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Adam Selzer
This is a comic-sounding story about young people challenging a corporate coffee chain, with friendship, a crush and a campaign involving their gym teacher also in the mix.
Eleanora E. Tate
This is a child-centred historical mystery about uncovering a town’s African-American past. It combines cemetery restoration, family stories, community reticence, and Raisin’s personal consequences after she sneaks out.
Maureen Johnson
A clue-driven mystery set among gifted students, pairing investigation with questions about grief, friendship and the human cost of treating crime as an intellectual puzzle.
Amy Bond
This is a fantasy adventure about a young witch who loves robots, enters the City seeking robotics education, and confronts a secret threatening the balance between magic and technology.
Kat Cho
A contemporary YA romance about two former friends reconnecting under very public circumstances. Alongside the prom storyline, Elena's campaign to protect the community centre and Robbie's experience of being watched create a coming-of-age story about belonging and self-definition.
L. C. Rosen
This is a queer romantic fiction about a self-assured young man whose matchmaking project unsettles his rules about friendship, sex and love. It combines social observation with relationships shaped by shared communities and personal loss.
Anna James
A lively school story about rebuilding friendships while organising to save a much-loved library. It offers humour, urgency and a strong sense of libraries as welcoming places for different interests and activities.
Brogen Murphy
A survival adventure built around two sisters, a forbidden rewilded landscape and the challenge of finding a route home. Its imagined future also brings together wildlife, environmental change and questions about human access to nature.
Monika Singh Gangotra, illustrated by Nicci Martin
This is a music-themed community story about neighbours learning that their individual choices affect others. Its central movement is from clashing sounds and complaints towards listening, cooperation and a shared performance.
Cora Carmack
Best suited to readers who enjoy high-stakes fantasy, unusual weather magic and court intrigue. Expect romantic tension, dangerous storms and a deliberately unfinished-feeling first instalment.
Holly Webb
A story about loving and wanting to protect an animal while respecting another family’s responsibility. It may invite thoughtful discussion about grief, boundaries and what practical help really means.
Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki
This is a teenage coming-of-age story shaped by mourning, secrecy, attraction and social pressure. Its focus is Skim’s emotional confusion as school events and personal relationships unsettle her.
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