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This family story follows Cassie through a crisis at home, a period away from her family and the difficult possibility of repairing damaged relationships.

This is presented as a comic story of mismatched impressions and eccentric circumstances, bringing two teenagers together in a residential home for older people.

This is a story of a young person trying to find stability and make a way forward while moving through institutions, schools and homes that the book presents as difficult places to thrive.

Expect a character-led fantasy mystery with two narrators, a homecoming and an investigation. Friendship and banter sit alongside questions of blackmail, suspicious fires and Michael’s unease about being useful.

A family who fosters puppies takes in Rascal, a small dog whose mischief gives Lizzie and Charles a challenge. Their task is to find him someone who will care for him.

A dog’s search for a home gives the story a clear emotional focus, while his journey brings both loss and hope. Expect a serious arc rather than an account limited to rescue and comfort.

This is a story about a bereaved teenager seeking a way forward through street performance. It places Ally’s hopes alongside the instability of foster care and life on the streets.

A horse-rescue story runs alongside a mystery: Jas grows attached to Shadow, then investigates a clue about his identity. The plot also places her in a new foster home.

This fantasy follows Rage as she tries to protect two worlds from an endless winter linked to a powerful Stormlord and other people’s despair.

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 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 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 historical story about children managing family responsibilities and practical work during a storm, while also facing uncertainty about illness, separation and an immigrant family’s future.

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.

A reflective picture-book story about Eva’s connection to Ethiopia after adoption. It contrasts difficult access to water and food with practical comforts in her new home, while holding memory, loss and belonging together.

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.

A coming-of-age novel combining stage magic and family strain with serious mental-health, financial and bereavement themes. Ellie’s efforts to help her father create a fast-moving story, while the subject matter can become emotionally heavy.

This is a gentle woodland story about preparing for a storm, helping neighbours and recovering after Badger’s home is damaged. Detailed illustrations and a hopeful rebuilding sequence support shared reading and discussion.

A fast-moving mystery-adventure about children building a home together while uncovering secrets around a missing billionaire, a threatening uncle and a possibly real sword-wielding protector.

This is a school story about the harm caused by judging people by appearance. It offers two viewpoints on being teased and also includes a child’s difficult home life.

This is a character-led story about a teenager balancing home rules, friendships, school, family loyalties and hopes for change. Kendra’s architectural sketches and private thoughts suggest a young person forming ambitions while adults’ decisions shape her circumstances.

Its emotional centre is the search for a new meaning of home.

This is a tender story about finding comfort amid displacement, then recognising another child's loneliness. Its emotional centre is Lubna's difficult decision about a treasured object.

A thoughtful migration story combines everyday hardship with magical realism. Leelu’s loneliness, her brother’s difficulties and the family’s uncertainty make belonging feel complicated rather than instantly solved.

A visually led story about migration, courage and belonging, with no written narration to settle meaning. Its animals and expressive images invite readers to infer what leaving, travelling and arriving might involve.

A warm, busy story about making something together when home and family security are under pressure. Its strongest appeal is the blend of theatre-making, farm life, friendship and practical determination.

A playful, high-energy quest turns familiar ideas upside down. Its central appeal is the combination of gaming-style adventure, colourful illustrations, unusual allies and a clear goal: return to the real world.

A gentle adoption story that acknowledges frightening beginnings, uncertainty about change and lingering sadness or anger, while offering comfort through foster carers, social-worker support and a loving adoptive family.

A whimsical quest combines magical characters, tongue-in-cheek humour and determined friendship with a strong longing for home. Its imaginative surface is interrupted by abrupt, casually narrated violence that may surprise readers expecting gentler fantasy.

A short, visually expressive story about a newcomer, suspicion and the possibility of belonging. Its emotional centre is the contrast between what the animals assume and what they learn about the stranger’s past.

This is a visually led story about forced movement, family resilience and the search for safety. It may help children consider refugees as people with fears, relationships and hopes, rather than as an abstract issue.

A tender story of Waverley the cat and Donald’s separation, set alongside illustrations of a homeless war veteran. Its emotional focus is friendship, waiting and the contrast between kindness and people being overlooked.

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.

This is a serious, emotionally focused novel about returning home, confronting painful memories and imagining a future beyond harmful family dynamics. Flooding and climate danger provide an urgent backdrop, while romantic love adds another strand.

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.

This is a lively, comic adventure about identity, family and belonging. Film-making, mistaken identity and celebrity create the fun, while Rafa’s disrupted home life and concern for Cillian give the story a more serious emotional thread.

A gripping, humane mystery follows Ayrton, Stanley and Sen as family secrets bring them together. Its emotional centre is friendship: the three young people face very different pressures while trying to understand adults and their own identities.

A lyrical island story about making connections when home means different things to different people. Tilda’s friendship with Albie brings questions of belonging, change and loss into a landscape shaped by community memory and the natural world.

A tender, focused true story about a child’s forced displacement and growing loneliness, balanced by the emotional significance of an unexpected gift. Its strongest offering is a humane entry point into refugee experience and kindness.

A thoughtful verse novel about a child facing an unwanted move and gradually finding steadiness. Its imaginary-friend narrator gives Ray’s worries a distinct voice while the story broadens towards kindness, refuge and understanding others.

Mandy’s recorded account combines humour with sadness as she faces a chaotic family life, school trouble, and worries about whether the adults around her can care for her properly.

This is an emotionally attentive story about a child whose secluded woodland life is abruptly disrupted. It explores unfamiliar family relationships, different ways of experiencing the world, and the possibility of connection without requiring October to become someone else.

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.

This is a substantial historical fiction work about foundlings, family, and orphan care in England.