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This is a contemporary-feeling story about a teenager whose hopes for a pivotal school year are disrupted, leaving her to reckon with guilt and changed relationships.

This is a dark horror story combining a young person’s pregnancy and guilt with an ominous family move and unsettling stories about violence.

A football story in which Rocky tries to manage extra responsibilities while feeling responsible for a friend’s injury. Changing team roles and friendship tensions complicate his efforts.

This is a supernatural search-and-rescue story, with Indie’s witchcraft efforts failing and the search leading to a perilous alternate dimension.

This is a tense story about a young person facing a difficult decision after a fatal fight.

This is an emotionally intense verse novel centred on a teenager’s grief after her twin’s suicide. Its strongest focus is inward: guilt, shame, family responses, cultural belonging and the consequences of losing control.

A paranormal school mystery driven by Thomas’s confusion, family upheaval and risky choices. Its humour may soften the tension, while attacks, blackouts and a mystery drug make the situation feel consequential.

A tense, emotionally driven mystery about damaged family bonds, guilt and protection. Its fractured structure and multiple plot strands may appeal to readers who enjoy twists, though the mature material is substantial rather than incidental.

A character-led story about grief, guilt and anxiety, balancing painful experiences with humour, friendship and a slowly developing first relationship. Petula’s movement towards connection is central, while Jacob and the therapy group bring different burdens and perspectives.

Expect a warm family story with humour and emotional depth. Batty’s efforts to earn money, her singing talent and the changing relationships around her provide several strands beyond the central grief.

This is a horror-thriller built around a fatal-looking crash, moral unease and escalating intimidation. Its central hook is whether the apparent prankster is a witness, a survivor, or someone else.

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.

An imaginative, action-led science-fiction adventure built around odd powers, unusual companions and a dangerous quest. Its elaborate world and mysteries may appeal to persistent readers, though the journey is deliberately expansive.

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.

This is a faith-centred teen novel about performing, friendship, relationships and emotional consequences. Chloe’s ambitions sit alongside questions about responsibility, attraction, guilt and whether her music should serve a spiritual purpose.

A thoughtful story about how children’s curiosity can become humane attention. Its emotional centre is Carl’s dance, which makes hidden wartime suffering visible while preserving his dignity and complexity.

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 an emotionally charged story about bereavement, guilt and family pressure, with a relationship that draws Amber into trouble. Its suspense and changing impressions of characters may suit readers who welcome difficult feelings and revelations.

A dark, plot-driven fantasy about surviving occupation and reclaiming identity, with court intrigue, resistance and magic. Its central journey from frightened captive to leader is accompanied by graphic brutality and morally difficult choices.

A tense, atmospheric mystery about responsibility and taking action, with an underground workplace, a threatening diary and a close friendship group balancing the darker material with humour.

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.

Choose this for a brisk teen mystery with romance, social intrigue, secrets and danger. Its appeal lies in Scarlett’s investigation and the glamorous, melodramatic atmosphere rather than realism or quiet reflection.

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.

A fast-moving futuristic spy thriller follows Augusta as she lives under a secret identity and confronts a violent hostage situation. Alongside action and humour, it explores family separation, responsibility after a fatal mistake, surveillance and the costs of technological progress.

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 substantial sea adventure combining invention, marine biology, pirates and underwater danger with grief and moral uncertainty. Fidelia is presented as knowledgeable and determined, while Merrick’s motives become more complicated as his history emerges.

This offers atmospheric supernatural suspense, a mystery to unravel and a protagonist forced to face personal and communal secrets. It may suit readers who enjoy eerie settings, countdowns, twists and psychologically unsettling dilemmas.

This is a serious historical novel about Hiroshima’s bombing and its long aftermath for one family. Its movement between prose, poetry and haiku gives the story a distinctive shape, while the paper cranes connect grief, promises and hope.

This is a comic crime story about guilt, impulsive problem-solving and the complications of trying to make amends. Its appeal appears to lie in fast-moving mishaps, heist ideas and an adolescent protagonist.

This offers an atmospheric historical fantasy with a strong emotional centre: a grieving girl is drawn into a dangerous magical bargain while working in her family’s sweet shop and seeking a way to repair the past.

This is a contained survival mystery built around seven teenagers, hidden culpability and an escalating moral game. Its central appeal is likely the pressure of deciding whom to trust while the group’s secrets gradually shape the danger.

A fantastical mystery carries a grieving teenager through questions of compassion, identity and who gets to control another being’s story. The emotional centre is mother loss rather than the supernatural premise alone.

A mythic sea adventure carries Phoebe through danger, quests and encounters with gods and monsters, while her real-world worries about Cass, memory and loss remain central.

This is a refugee journey told through Sami’s changing circumstances: a familiar life in Damascus gives way to displacement, danger and attempts to rebuild in England. Family bonds, guilt, anxiety, kindness and discrimination shape the experience.

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.

A fast-paced school murder mystery with an outsider detective, sharp humour and a retrospective voice. Alongside the investigation, it explores privilege, class, racism, guilt and the ways young women may be judged.

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 psychologically focused school novel about a friendship altered by envy and a damaging act. War forms the wider pressure, while Gene’s later reflection gives the story a serious, morally questioning tone.

This is a dark, absurd literary novel about an individual facing an authority that refuses explanation. Its unresolved legal nightmare offers sustained material for discussing power, guilt and whether reason can help within an irrational system.

A sweeping, emotionally serious story linking personal betrayal and family relationships with Afghanistan’s recent history. Its movement towards forgiveness and redemption is set alongside graphic cruelty, sexual assault, death and distressing language.

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.

A thoughtful wartime story about displacement, difficult loyalties and the stories people tell to explain frightening events. It offers an accessible surface narrative alongside deeper questions about guilt, power, family conflict and how childhood experiences can endure.

A remorseful coming-of-age story about the aftermath of rejection and loss. Theresa tries to escape her past, but relationships—including one with a determined child—bring her back towards facing it.

This is a reflective story about a teenager processing the loss of her best friend through letters, while reassessing their friendship and her own sense of responsibility.

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.