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This illustrated adventure centres on adoption, friendship and what makes a family. Queen Bee forms a new family with Virelldar and friends while keeping a future reunion with her birth family in mind.

Nina describes the practical change of having one home with her mother and another with her father, and living in each at different times.

At its heart, this is a playful story about a child making a robot companion from ordinary things. Its illustrations are described as bright and comic, with imaginative details to notice together.

The story puts Jade’s wish for her parents to reunite alongside her father’s new marriage plans, with a developing relationship also complicated by uncertainty.

This is an intimate poetry collection about love, growing up and difficult feelings, including loneliness and depression. It may suit a reader drawn to personal, emotionally direct poems.

This is a story of longing, separation and reunion, told through furniture characters. Its central appeal may be imagining what these objects experience when they cannot move themselves.

This is a family-centred story about migration, bereavement and belonging, with Sophie’s own growth alongside Pedro’s uncertain future. A refugee’s experience is also part of the family’s story.

This is a fantasy adventure built around the power of reading aloud and the bond between Meggie and her father. Its central magic carries a cost: a character entering the real world means someone real disappears into fiction.

A family story about Floss’s choice to live with her father, whose failing café brings financial strain and upheaval. School friendships add another thread, and the ending is open rather than fully settled.

This is an emotionally intense story about a teenager’s eating disorder, self-harm, grief and family relationships, with a thread of hope around recovery.

The book combines a forest-set adventure involving a boy left alone with a comic retelling of a legend about a sacred white moose.

This is a supernatural adventure about friendship and a hidden world, mixing demons, martial arts, strange creatures and large-scale battles.

This is a sports-centred story about competing loyalties: Alex wants to concentrate on baseball, while his relationships and Matt’s return complicate the season.

The premise pairs an unexpected meeting with a year in which Lucy and Owen travel farther apart. That contrast gives the story its central tension.

This is a character-led romance about two teenagers challenging family expectations, with Carly’s efforts to reunite her family and Arden’s grief shaping their paths.

Expect a blend of romance and a quest: Simon and his friend El Pollo face unexpected events as Simon tries to settle accounts with his past.

This is a story about the emotional side of moving: Megan misses the friends she is leaving, then finds positive aspects in her new surroundings.

This is a story about a teenager facing legal consequences and a sudden change in family and school life, with skateboarding and police-focused schooling central to the setup.

This is a story about a child facing bereavement, a move to her grandparents’ home and the possibility of going to live with her father in Ghana.

This is a magical romance built around a choice with consequences: Viola has three wishes, while Jinn wants to return home. Their growing attachment makes the wishes emotionally complicated.

This is a fantasy about a child hoping to repair a family in distress, with consequences that reach beyond her home. Its blend of magic, loss and jeopardy may appeal to readers who enjoy emotionally rooted adventures.

This is an adventure of escape and resistance in an imagined underground world, with a focus on David’s efforts to reunite with Dia and rally human tribes against their rulers.

This is a family story about waiting and trying to meet expectations while a parent is away on military duty, told from a child’s point of view.

This fantasy sequel centres on Tania’s return to a devastated Faerie court, where she and Edric must seek help against a powerful enemy.

A perilous group journey drives the story, with the bears pursuing an imagined refuge while facing dangers, divided directions and a lasting change to their travelling group.

A wartime story follows Paul’s involvement in resistance work and an escape route, alongside the devastating news he receives after the war about his friend’s family.

This is a fantasy adventure about a boy separated from his familiar home, navigating a strange realm while trying to find his way back.

This is a family story about a child trying to understand her past while spending time with a seriously ill mother. It also brings Kati to a decision about whether to meet her father.

This is a high-stakes fantasy about a family divided by imprisonment and a rescue mission, with dragons, demons and a mysterious past secret. The teenage characters face dangers in a military compound.

A mythological adventure sequel in which Owen, Jon and Sydney face an outstanding bargain with Hades and Cyclopes threatening their town.

This is an animal-survival adventure told through a young wolf’s journey, with family and the natural world among its stated themes.

This is a friendship story about staying connected through a major change, alongside the social challenges of starting junior high.

This fantasy centres on a threatened kingdom, a mother separated from her egg, and the uncertain future of her son. Its main draw is a high-stakes struggle involving danger, loyalty and hopes for peace.

This sequel combines a Faerie-world conspiracy with a romance under strain: Kelley and Sonny face danger and uncertainty as they try to navigate shifting allegiances and an enemy seeking ancient magic.

This is a suspenseful underground adventure, combining a missing-child predicament with mystery, treasure and a hazardous journey towards home.

This combines an adventure about surviving natural disaster with Zoey’s family-history questions and hopes about her parents. The two diary voices offer a way into both girls’ experiences.

A relationship story about belonging and first love unfolds alongside Curtis’s orders to return to Iraq. It concludes a trilogy, though the story’s ending is not described.

The diary follows Violet’s first months at residential school, including daily routine and her journey home at Easter. Its central dilemma is whether she returns or goes with her family to the trapline.

A fantasy finale built around a race for a contested crown, with September’s companions caught up in the upheaval and her parents searching for her.

A modern fairytale combines a fantastical journey with Masha’s wish to reunite with her mother. The central choice is presented as a question, not an answer.

A gently described island life is shaped by a stark yearly rule: one child arrives and the eldest disappears. Jinny’s new role makes that cycle personal.

This is a story of separation and the possibility of reunion, following a boy and a fox as each faces hardship and moves towards a sense of home.

This blends a child’s worry about a missing parent with a story-within-the-story about Marco Polo. The historical adventures give Mark something absorbing to follow while he waits.

The book offers a sustained animal adventure centred on Lassie’s determination to return to Joe. Its chapter sequence follows her journey through changing circumstances rather than a single brief encounter.

A historical coming-of-age story about a family’s separation and a young person adapting to a new country, culture and language.

A warm, direct story about love continuing across distance and separation. Its central metaphor may help children put words to feeling connected, while its references to anger and a deceased uncle invite more careful, individual discussion.