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This is a baseball-centred school story about ambition meeting competing responsibilities. Roy wants to impress a future high-school coach, while his academic difficulties, tutoring and strained relations with teammates complicate that goal.

Sticky notes spread around the school, carrying both friendly and cutting messages.

This is a teen romantic comedy about trying to repair a relationship after a mistake, set in a school where gender and sexuality norms are unusually playful.

This is a school-and-family story about Nora balancing a new aunt role with assignments and a difficult science-fair partnership. Her interest in organising facts gives the story a distinctive focus.

A lively school adventure uses a missing ant and an unusual journey to bring its class into contact with ant life. The book also aims to explain how ants work together.

A private-school social circle becomes the focus of a murder mystery after Samantha disappears and is found dead. The earlier killing and the claim that the murderer belongs to the school community set up a suspect-focused investigation.

A horse-centred school story combines Ash's recovery and changing relationship with Lightning with friendship, riding ambitions and efforts to keep a local riding club going.

Expect an ensemble story rather than one central storyline: the teenagers’ separate concerns overlap, and the tone is deliberately exaggerated and absurd.

A school comedy built around a high-status pupil whose settled routine is disrupted when his uncle arrives.

Dan’s effort to keep a low profile is disrupted when he intervenes in bullying, and other pupils interpret his actions as heroic. The story also identifies him as having bullied someone in the past.

A Minecraft-inspired adventure pairs an outsider character with a bullied girl as monsters enter her school. The characters team up under pressure.

This is a comic-sounding story about young people challenging a corporate coffee chain, with friendship, a crush and a campaign involving their gym teacher also in the mix.

This is a story about an unlikely friendship built around two boys’ different strengths, with football and school both part of their lives.

A school-and-friendship story centred on Lucy’s place in her group, with her friends’ public exploits providing a contrast to her private fear.

A horse-and-school story about a child who cares deeply about art and wants to support her grandmother's effort to benefit the school's arts programme.

This is a relationship-and-future-choice story: Clara’s college opportunity, her boyfriend’s commitment, and her writing ambitions pull her in different directions.

This is a comic school adventure built around role-playing, a video game and a scheme to outsmart another pupil. Its central appeal appears to be the mismatch between the game’s fantasy and school life.

This combines school-theatre rivalry with a creepy-house Christmas setting.

A lively fantasy adventure combines school settings, friendship, humour, magic and imaginative creatures. Felix and Betony must use their wits across conflicts involving Rhino, a djinn and the Japegrins, while the story builds towards a threat affecting two worlds.

A short fantasy adventure centred on school, magic and recovering a stolen magical object. Its science-related problem creates urgency, while the available details do not show how the conflict is resolved.

A brisk school mystery centres on Frank and Joe’s teamwork as they confront a secret team culture built around intimidation. Expect investigative momentum alongside uncomfortable scenes involving captivity, assault, threats and reputational manipulation.

Expect a sports-focused children’s fiction title connected with competition, teamwork and friendship.

This is a comic dystopian adventure about pupils navigating bullying, cliques, shortages and an unsafe society while trying to use intelligence and teamwork. Expect absurdity alongside ominous circumstances, including bombs, danger, spiders and threatened schoolmates.

This is a relationship-focused coming-of-age story about a student balancing boarding-school tensions, romantic uncertainty, writing ambitions and possible work in New York. It may suit readers interested in emotional decisions and changing friendships, though the conclusion is not fully established here.

This is a family-and-friendship story about adapting to relocation, comparing yourself with a successful sibling, and rebuilding trust when sisters begin keeping things from one another.

This is a school-centred story about a boy discovering that writing can attract attention and create change. It connects personal effort with homelessness, employment barriers and the limits of a well-intended community proposal.

This is a school-and-community adventure about a child trying to behave, campaign for student council and manage attention-grabbing mistakes during a Capitol trip. Its appeal centres on Keena’s lively perspective and determined efforts.

A warm, humorous portrait of childhood unfolds through linked episodes rather than one tightly described plot. Family, school, neighbours and memorable mishaps give the book an affectionate, community-centred feel.

A lively story about a child whose entrepreneurial idea grows rapidly, testing friendships and responsibilities. It offers an engaging way to think about ambition, persistence and the consequences of taking risks.

This offers a school-start story about friendship and belonging, with a particular focus on how Pelly’s difference affects her relationships with Tangle and Eno.

A lively, first-person school story combines farcical problem-solving and slow-burn romance with serious family instability. Its emotional centre is Aideen’s habit of helping others while struggling to address her own circumstances.

This is a relationship-focused school and family story about donor conception, confidence, friendship and adapting to change. It offers two children’s perspectives as they move from resentment towards working together, though the final resolution is unclear.

A comic adventure about an underestimated child confronting a frightening threat, while the adults and children around him face the consequences of past choices. Its imaginative monster story also explores belonging, courage and changing relationships.

This is a gentle, realistic story about a child negotiating identity and belonging after moving countries. It offers a clear starting point for discussing names, pronunciation, welcome and cultural pride.

A gentle, direct introduction to anxiety, depression and loneliness, centred on the beginning of a supportive friendship. It makes talking, seeking help and finding suitable support networks part of the story.

A practical environmental story about children turning part of their school grounds into a wild area, involving shared effort, planting, and patience before something positive happens.

A clue-driven mystery set among gifted students, pairing investigation with questions about grief, friendship and the human cost of treating crime as an intellectual puzzle.

A lively school-election story about finding allies, challenging unfairness and turning strong feelings into action. Its campaign plot combines humour, friendship and political participation with a developing lesson about listening and working constructively with opponents.

A poetic picture book follows a girl whose ordinary school day is shattered by war. Alone, she travels through dangerous displacement before encountering a school that initially excludes her. The story presents destruction, bereavement and possible drowning indirectly, then turns towards welcome, solidarity and hope through children’s practical kindness.

A contemporary YA romance about two former friends reconnecting under very public circumstances. Alongside the prom storyline, Elena's campaign to protect the community centre and Robbie's experience of being watched create a coming-of-age story about belonging and self-definition.

This is a family-and-community story in which Nadia’s interest in journalism grows alongside her understanding of Ramadan and the effects of flooding. It offers cultural, religious and environmental perspectives through a child’s developing viewpoint.

A lively school story about rebuilding friendships while organising to save a much-loved library. It offers humour, urgency and a strong sense of libraries as welcoming places for different interests and activities.

A coming-of-age story about identity, belonging and disclosure, balancing painful social pressures with friendship, family love and romantic possibility. It offers a queer Mexican American protagonist whose choices are shaped by school, faith and immigration-related family separation.

A suspenseful school mystery follows three boys of colour who are treated as suspects after a principal’s murder. Their investigation brings together different perspectives while exploring prejudice, unequal schooling, friendship, determination and the pressure of protecting their futures.

This is a breezy, witty murder mystery about two friends trying to become investigators while navigating popularity, school cliques and complicated friendships. Its comic voice contrasts with recurring deaths and deliberately grotesque details.