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This is a serious story about a teenager navigating disrupted care, mental-health difficulties and treatment. Tentative connections with other young people sit alongside a troubling crossing of therapeutic boundaries.

This is a teen relationship story set against the prospect of a band’s success. Its focus is on friends balancing music ambitions with romantic uncertainty.

A school-and-horses story about ambition, belonging and building trust with a guarded pony. Malory’s hopes for her future at Chestnut Hill are tied to whether she can bring out Tybalt’s potential.

The book combines learning about horse care and showing with friendship and a look at problems in the competition world.

This is a mystery that combines tension between two children with an uncanny sighting and a parallel thread of animals protecting and caring for one another.

This is a story about two siblings hoping for a stable, loving home while unsure whom to trust. Its focus is their invitation into new experiences and the possibility of belonging.

A fast-moving supernatural murder mystery about twins, secrets and social performance, with a strong identity-swap premise. It offers suspense and clues, while leaving the central crime unresolved at the close.

A fast-moving YA mystery with a wry protagonist, social commentary and an extravagant Southern setting. It combines questions about identity and family with secrets, revenge and danger beneath formal manners.

A thoughtful fairy-tale adventure about a girl whose exceptional singing cannot protect her from shame, manipulation or unfair judgement. Its strongest thread is Aza’s movement towards belonging and self-worth, though beauty remains a powerful force in the story.

A culturally grounded vampire story pairs supernatural suspense with a teenager’s struggles over home, family, trust and belonging. Its unusual perspective may invite thoughtful discussion as well as emotional preparation.

This is a period mystery adventure built around collaborative problem-solving. Expect several cases, historical technology and questions about honesty, responsibility and justice, with community-minded values prominent in the characters’ world.

A horse-focused story about balancing care, ambition and personal priorities. Amy’s dilemma gives the book an emotionally serious centre, while the Heartland setting emphasises trust, responsibility and helping horses recover.

This is a brisk child-centred mystery in which Benjie’s enthusiasm for spying and Pete’s protective actions help uncover burglaries. Suspense comes from the family’s vulnerability and Benjie’s capture, while humour and animal loyalty soften the danger.

This is a short, issue-focused story about a bereaved teenager navigating care, exploitation and attachment. Its strongest offering is a morally unsettled relationship in which practical survival and harming others are kept in tension.

This is a horse-centred story about belonging, trust and protecting someone vulnerable when adults do not believe Cindy. It may particularly engage readers interested in horses while opening difficult questions about care, authority and desperate choices.

A horse-centred story about returning home, changing relationships and deciding whether to remain with a familiar life or pursue an uncertain new opportunity.

This is a story about rebuilding sisterhood after family separation. Its magical identity swap creates comic complications while Jamie and Siri confront damaged relationships, changing ambitions and the challenge of becoming themselves.

A comic, emotionally purposeful journey about reproductive choice, friendship and self-presentation. It gives substantial attention to the practical and emotional hurdles around abortion while using road-trip mishaps to explore growing confidence.

This is a historical horse story about two sisters seeking security while caring for an injured animal. Its emotional centre is Margret’s wish to keep both Flynn and a dependable home.

Caraval offers an immersive fantasy built around uncertainty: Scarlett must find her missing sister while trying to decide what within the game is real. Sisterly protection, escape from control and choosing one’s own path are central strands.

This is a relationship-led story about a young mother trying to manage childcare, money, family life and renewed romantic feelings. Expect lively social conflict and a light treatment of difficult circumstances rather than a deeply detailed account.

This is a character-led story about a teenager’s self-image and changing relationships, set alongside Cassie’s disability and her family’s circumstances. Its several viewpoints invite readers to consider how people’s inner lives may differ from what others can see.

This is a brisk family mystery built around bereavement, public scrutiny and uncertainty about who caused a parent’s death. Its strongest pull is the siblings’ effort to face painful events and question the accepted story.

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.

This is a contained, high-pressure murder mystery with horror elements: an isolated theme park, a stalking mascot, successive deaths and a buried history that the protagonists must unravel.

This is a tension-led fantasy romance about a hidden witch and the witch hunter pursuing her. It combines alternating viewpoints, political intrigue, blood-based magic, secret identities, deception and a slow-building relationship between enemies.

This is a fast-moving mystery-romance centred on recovery, guilt and uncertain trust. Its atmosphere combines a summer setting with disturbing discoveries, while journal flashbacks gradually disclose the protagonist’s past.

This is a character-led YA romance combining K-pop, classical cello, Seoul, family ties and coming-of-age pressures. Jenny and Jaewoo’s ambitions matter alongside their relationship, while school, performance and family obligations shape their choices.

A friendship-focused YA fantasy in which a varied group of young characters face dangerous, action-packed moments. Its emotional emphasis falls on empathy, trust and choosing to stand by one another rather than on graphic or gruesome detail.

A tense story about a young person trying to escape a parent’s extreme survivalist rules while navigating foster care, distrust and the possibility of being found. Its emotional force comes from Amber’s guarded, sharply ironic voice.

A fast-paced adventure follows Ollie into The Haven, a child-run refuge and investigation network. The story combines criminal danger, missing children, bereavement and a threat to London, with friendship developing between Ollie and Dodge.

This is a humorous, emotionally serious story about a guarded young person whose magic, friendship and care for her grandmother bring questions about love, loss and opening up.

This is a character-led story about foster care, adoption, friendship and the effects of introducing an artificial intelligence into school life. Its tone combines humour with poignant circumstances and thought-provoking questions about human–AI relationships.

A fast-moving historical fantasy that places a child and a growing phoenix inside the Great Fire of London. Maps, historical events and an imagined creature create an adventurous route through danger, trust and responsibility.

This offers a tense journey story alongside a close account of sibling care. Clem’s storytelling, memories and uncertain perspective add emotional depth, while the political setting invites reflection on belonging, surveillance, displacement and how families preserve hope under pressure.

A strongly atmospheric horror adventure centred on a young carer who must recognise danger, face frightening experiences and reconnect her family after bereavement. Its emotional focus is grief and resilience as much as supernatural menace.

This is an adventure about survival and an unusual cross-generational friendship. Alongside practical danger, it gives substantial space to loneliness, care, learning and the ways a relationship can change someone’s view of the world.

A suspenseful story about a teenager carrying adult responsibilities while secret activities and threatening communications pull her into another person’s scheme. Expect twists, uncertainty and a morally complicated power dynamic rather than a straightforward adventure.

This is a thoughtful survival adventure in which Roz learns by watching, earns trust through helpfulness and cares for an orphaned gosling. Its accessible episodic structure supports shared reading, while the island’s dangers and losses may prompt pauses.

This is an intricate fantasy adventure combining magic, legends, secret societies and peril with a bereaved boy’s search for identity. Its quick movement is balanced by layered clues, relationships and questions about loyalty.

This offers a contemporary child’s perspective on poverty and family difficulty, deliberately read beside Oliver Twist. Its strongest feature is the connection between classroom literature and problems affecting Shona’s life.

A tense historical adventure about separated siblings and Jan, a young thief who joins them. Its strongest qualities are resourcefulness, loyalty and compassion, alongside a serious portrayal of children navigating war’s aftermath.

This is a contemporary survival story about two children carrying adult worries, seeking trustworthy help and finding support in one another. Its central concerns include family instability, homelessness, friendship and the meaning of home.

This is a fast-moving historical adventure about two young people and an elephant travelling towards safety while others pursue them. Expect suspense, changing loyalties, grief, humour and questions about who has the right to claim an animal.

This is a nature-centred coming-of-age story about grief, friendship and caring for a wild bird. Will and Omar’s discovery of an osprey nest creates an adventure while reflecting their own unsettled lives.