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This is a lively historical novel about sisters navigating an emotionally distant mother while encountering Black Panther community work and racial injustice. Its strongest offering is the combination of distinct girl characters, family complexity and a child’s perspective on a changing society.

This is a dark mermaid fantasy built around revenge, danger and a swift romance. Its distinctive creature mythology may appeal to readers seeking a less familiar version of mer-people, while emotional and character choices invite scrutiny.

A myth-infused fantasy about a prince whose calling demands endurance and difficult choices. It offers sustained attention to character, family and moral responsibility, with reconciliation and forgiveness emerging alongside grief, danger and questions about divine power.

A ghostly quest combines danger, memory and moral choices. Riley’s efforts to free her friends and other spirits give the story an emphasis on understanding rather than defeating pain by force.

This is a character-led story about a child whose unusual familiarity with funerals does not protect her from grief, friendship strain or difficult choices. Its tone combines humour with sadness and emotional upheaval.

A fast-moving ensemble mystery combines threats and secrets with friendship, romance and personal change. Its strongest appeal is likely the continuing Bayview relationships and the question of who is targeting the group.

Choose this for supernatural intrigue, Korean folklore, a slow-developing romance and emotionally complicated family relationships. It combines action and mystery with characters who struggle with guilt, isolation, attachment and difficult choices.

A lively comic adventure that may make reading feel playful and social, especially through visual storytelling, absurd humour and drawing prompts. Its energetic action and deliberately rough language sit alongside kindness, loyalty and forgiveness.

This is a family-centred coming-of-age novel about unanswered questions, changing relationships and choices under medical pressure. Its emotional seriousness is moderated by humour, warmth and sympathetic characterisation.

This is an emotionally tense story about two former friends facing grief and guilt after a tragedy. Its alternating viewpoints offer different perspectives on damaged trust, private struggles and the possibility of moving forward.

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 an emotionally serious coming-of-age novel about love, forgiveness and family connection. Its shifting possibilities invite readers to consider how different choices might change relationships, while the central family situation gives the romance additional weight.

A richly detailed historical adventure for readers drawn to horses, chariot-racing and Roman life. Dido’s story brings together danger, relationships and moral questions, while the volume’s density and links with earlier books may make it most rewarding for confident, independent readers.

This is a powerful but deeply distressing story about a child enduring abuse and isolation, with friendship providing moments of refuge. Its suspense comes from the gradual disclosure of what happened after.

This is an emotionally direct coming-of-age novel about friendship, group identity and social division. Its first-person voice invites closeness while leaving room to question how Ponyboy understands and presents the people around him.

A tense, idea-led story about an AI-created relationship, shaped by grief, family rupture and revenge. It offers momentum, twists and ethical questions, while character development and some connections may feel less fully developed.

This is a supernatural family drama about a dead teenager’s unexpected return and its consequences. It offers emotionally serious reflection on grief, regret, identity, memory and the possibility of repair.

This is a contemporary identity-and-relationships novel centred on the effects of an unwanted public outing. Its emotional focus is Felix’s response, alongside friendships, romance and questions of trust, forgiveness and revenge.

This is a lively but grief-heavy coming-of-age story: boarding-school camaraderie, pranks and desire give way to questions about guilt, responsibility, idealisation and how little one person may know about another.

This is an emotionally layered YA novel about two Muslim Somali girls whose difficult family circumstances bring them together. Its central movement is from resentment and isolation towards understanding, with school, faith, culture and community shaping their experiences.

A high-stakes fantasy finale about two queens whose choices, powers, and family ties may determine whether their world is saved or destroyed. It offers intricate perspectives, reversals, emotional conflict, and a sustained struggle over agency and redemption.

A dramatic fantasy about grief, loyalty and political change, following Roa as she weighs her people’s freedom against love, family and the chance to recover her sister. Expect emotional conflict, magic and intrigue more than sustained action.

This is an imaginative, peril-filled fantasy about a brother’s disappearance, a sister’s rescue effort and a widening conflict between dragons and opposing forces. Its strongest thread is Seth’s struggle to decide who he is without his memories.

A relationship-focused Christian YA novel about friendship, changing plans and the uncertainty of leaving school. Lissa’s final term brings social pressures, family strain, romance and questions about how faith should guide difficult choices.

This is a verse novel about two young people whose friendship develops amid homelessness, mental-health difficulties, family strain, disappearance and guilt. Molly’s wish to help Red also prompts her to face her own unresolved pain.

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.

A whimsical, mystery-tinged story brings together orphaned children, an enigmatic boy and an older woman whose plans follow emotional deception. Its central promise is that seemingly separate lives may meet through friendship, forgiveness and love.

A dramatic young-adult story about the consequences of a jealousy-driven kiss, sudden death, public scrutiny and private guilt. Samantha must confront how she sees herself after an event she never intended to cause.

A grief-centred story about a child trying to understand a friend’s death and her own regret. Scientific facts, imagination and the natural world provide ways into Suzy’s feelings, while love and hope shape her search for self-forgiveness.

A grief-centred relationship story about two people connected by Dustin’s death and his son. It brings together guilt, resentment, family responsibility, withheld truths and attraction that may conflict with existing loyalties.