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A supernatural adventure about a girl whose unusual experiences lead to questions about family history, parallel worlds and disrupted time. It offers mystery, lively characters and a blend of real-world and fantastical settings.

Expect a supernatural mystery with spring-break travel, stranded characters, unexplained cattle deaths, a stalking predator and an increasing body count. The story also follows Maggie’s psychic abilities and her attempts to understand what is happening.

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.

A claustrophobic sea-set mystery with supernatural and mythological elements, it offers suspense, eerie atmosphere and questions about trust. Liv’s scholarship places her among wealthy influencers, giving the investigation a social-inequality strand alongside disappearance, romance and horror.

A good choice for shared reading about family history, friendship and how the past shapes present relationships. Its historical strand offers substantial discussion, while the school setting gives children an immediate way into questions about belonging and courage.

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 a bleak, transgressive psychological novel whose first-person voice can make horrific material feel intimate, dryly comic or unsettlingly complicit rather than simply shocking.

This is a grief-centred novel with a supernatural frame, offering a serious exploration of contradictory feelings rather than a light adventure. Its short, spare narration contrasts with the monster’s larger, ambiguous tales.

This is a character-led dystopian thriller in which an apparently helpful happiness project becomes increasingly strange. Its strongest material concerns pressure, identity and the meaning of wellbeing; its ending is abrupt and leaves the story hanging.

A richly atmospheric mystery for readers who enjoy eerie settings, puzzles and gradually revealed secrets.

Expect a gothic, suspenseful reading experience: a storm isolates two children with a sailor whose sea stories involve pirates, plagues and storms. The framing situation creates unease, while a later revelation intensifies the disturbance.

Expect a slow-building, twisty fantasy mystery centred on invisibility, secrecy and pursuit. Reuben’s adventure brings suspense, traps and danger, while friendship and trust become increasingly important to how he responds.

This looks like a character-led story about an unlikely friendship formed amid loneliness, secrecy and competing space programmes. It combines an animal’s struggle to trust people with a child’s effort to understand unsettling changes around her.

This is a diary-framed story about a young teenager facing family upheaval and a troubling relationship with a teacher. Its strongest focus appears to be emotional confusion, isolation and the difficulty of recognising when attention is unsafe.

This is a mystery-led coming-of-age story about a teenager confronting trouble, bereavement and an unsettling haunting. Its focus appears to be Paul’s search for truth and the change that follows.

This is a teenage coming-of-age story shaped by mourning, secrecy, attraction and social pressure. Its focus is Skim’s emotional confusion as school events and personal relationships unsettle her.