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A familiar Cinderella framework is recast as a Faerie-court adventure, with Ornella bargaining for freedom while becoming involved in danger surrounding the Winter King.

A school dance troupe’s journey becomes a story of friendship and helping a young prince in danger, set against the threat of Nazi persecution in 1939.

Secret spellcasting gives Eliza and her housemates a taste of freedom and power, but a spell’s deadly consequence changes the stakes. The book pairs boarding-school life and sisterhood with supernatural danger.

This fantasy finale centres on Bertie’s wish for family and the weight of choosing amid competing obligations and affections. The theatre’s uncertain state adds another strand to her dilemma.

This is a large-scale fantasy adventure about dragons’ bid for freedom and the effort to stop them from taking over the world.

This paranormal novella centres on Emily’s transition from constrained family responsibilities into a supernatural life, with grief, romantic longing and a wish for vengeance shaping her situation.

This is a contemporary thriller about craving adventure, taking a risk and discovering that a promising escape may be dangerous.

A fantasy adventure blends an alternate history with invention, rebellion, spying and a developing attraction. Verity must navigate life within a powerful family while taking risks for a cause.

A family curse and a bargain with a faerie queen set up a fantasy about loyalty under pressure. Fenella's promised freedom depends on destructive acts against the family she wants to protect.

This is a historical romance set against storms and social inequality, with Madelaine’s search for freedom at its heart. The relationship crosses a sharp difference in wealth and status.

A dog’s-eye adventure about divided loyalties: McKinley is pulled between his human family and the freedom Lupin offers. Animal characters speak English, giving the story a fantastical element.

This is a quest fantasy in which music has unusual power and animals’ inner voices matter. Its imaginative conflict is paired with emotionally weighty separations, giving the adventure a tender as well as threatening atmosphere.

This is a horse-centred mystery-adventure about Hailey, her friend Elaine, and Freedom, a foal with unusual connections to the past. Suspense grows through a disappearance, a dangerous flood and a threatening adult figure.

This is a myth-inspired fantasy about coercion, resistance and identity. Its central tension comes from Jae Hwa’s struggle to retain her humanity while serving a powerful god, alongside a damaged relationship and a threat to Korea.

Expect a historical adventure centred on Sally and Roger, their mother’s efforts to protect gold, and the threat posed by approaching British forces. The book also foregrounds family loyalty, courage and a woman taking charge.

An adventurous survival story told through horses’ understanding of humans and the natural world. Its strongest material is the herd’s gradual cooperation, set against historical violence and repeated threats to life.

This is a paranormal school adventure about discovering an extraordinary identity, navigating exclusion and questioning rules. It combines dragon lore, friendship, attraction, danger and a determined protagonist who resists simply going along with authority.

This anthology offers contrasting kinds of supernatural romance: wistful, thoughtful, unsettling and eerie. Its short-story structure lets readers compare how different writers handle love, strangeness, freedom and uncertainty.

This is a high-stakes fantasy finale centred on rescue, resistance and changing loyalties. It offers alternating viewpoints, elemental powers, magical warfare and a romance shaped by separation, regret and difficult choices.

This is a frontier adventure about two friends seeking new beginnings, with danger arising after a mistake. Its central appeal appears to be action combined with a friendship tested under pressure.

This is a romantic fantasy about people negotiating marriage, status, belief and social expectations in a fictional world resembling colonial America. Friendship, adventure and intrigue accompany a relationship that becomes a passionate marriage.

A buoyant, unusual adventure pairs a determined child with a loving guardian and a rooftop community. Its imaginative freedom sits alongside peril, precarious living, family uncertainty and moments of physical harm.

This is a child-centred story about moving from hospital into a spirit world, where imaginative freedom, friendship and questions about life after death shape Jamie’s experience.

This is a brisk, high-stakes heist adventure centred on twins discovering one another. It combines family secrets, friendship, escape and fantastical moonstones, with plot momentum taking priority over detailed character development.

This is a fast-moving science-fiction fairy-tale reworking, centred on determined young characters facing divided loyalties, prejudice, identity and difficult choices about power. Its adventure is accompanied by graphic violence, frightening attackers, torture, deaths and some romantic and drinking-related content.

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 friendship-centred story about young women seeking room to choose their futures within restrictive social and family structures. Its strongest appeal may be the tension between loyalty, independence and everyday acts of defiance.

This is a coming-of-age story about how clothing, rules, work and freedom shape ideas of gender. Its strongest offering is a child’s perspective on identity, family expectations, friendship and life for girls in Afghanistan.

This is an action-led fantasy centred on a young woman resisting an oppressive marriage system. Magic, court danger, loyalty and romantic tension drive the story, with freedom and protection shaping Kalinda’s choices.

Expect a brisk fantasy adventure centred on twins, a mysterious amulet and a city shaped by magic, religious authority and rebellion. The narrative links the characters’ contrasting responses to an unfamiliar world with a sustained atmosphere of suspense.

This is a politically charged war thriller that gives competing state and federal positions some strength while showing how quickly resistance, loyalty and justice become morally difficult.

A forceful historical adventure about enslaved people resisting plantation rule. Moa’s choice to join Tacky’s uprising brings friendship, courage and hope into direct conflict with coercion, danger and the possibility of death.

This is an imaginative, issue-led adventure about environmental collapse, inequality and resistance, balanced by family loyalty and hope. Its vivid language may invite close discussion as much as straightforward plot-following.

This is a high-stakes historical pirate adventure centred on Kemosha’s determination to regain freedom and help people she loves. It offers action, survival, romance and a Black heroine confronting slavery and racial cruelty.

Follow Nathaniel from a Jamaican plantation to England, where his belief that English soil means freedom is tested. His hopes for escape and his family’s future drive the story.

A suspenseful historical mystery set around Pompeii, combining a children's investigation with vivid historical detail and the looming eruption of Vesuvius. Expect friendship, curiosity and adventure, but also sorrow and frightening material near the conclusion.

A sweeping fantasy sequel about friends divided by danger and prejudice, with witches, magic, political responsibility and a developing romance. It offers an immersive world, tense escapes and battles, while leaving parts of the journey open for a later book.

A gentle family story centred on two male penguins who care for an egg and raise Tango. Its main emphasis is belonging, parenting and adoption, with wider questions about what makes a family.

A high-stakes fantasy about two sisters whose loyalty is tested by liberation, empire, dragons and divine power. Expect complex political and family tensions alongside action, sacrifice and questions about who deserves protection.

This is a school-set novel about how a group experiment changes relationships, authority and public debate. Its central interest is the tension between belonging and independent judgement, with the school newspaper representing a challenge to growing conformity.

A dramatic fantasy romance about survival and self-determination, this book offers a Cinderella framework reshaped by court politics, deception, magic and peril. Yining’s search for her past and future sits alongside questions about whom to trust.

This offers court intrigue, magic, desert adventure and a relationship shaped by unequal power, betrayal and difficult choices. Its central appeal is the girls’ developing bond and their resistance to a brutal system.

This is an adventurous, suspenseful environmental dystopia about siblings resisting control and learning what the wider world contains. It combines survival challenges with wonder, family loyalty and questions about freedom.

This is a richly illustrated journey through British myth and landscape, balancing magical stories with explanations of their historical and cultural context rather than presenting them as straightforward history.

A two-strand adventure contrasts Connor’s life among pirates with Grace’s confinement aboard a vampire ship. The supernatural setting creates mystery, while the twins’ determination to reunite gives the story its emotional centre.