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Zoe must make sense of a changed life, including new technology and a social position unlike the one she remembers. Her efforts to revive her friendship with Jonah sit alongside questions about popularity and returning home.

This is a comic story about two boys whose efforts to influence their parents’ relationship bring together family upheaval, a school event and the boys’ own changing relationship.

This is a pony-camp story that brings together fitting in and the possible loss of a valued shared place. Brooke also turns to online friends for help.

The book pairs a holiday linked to Analí’s birthplace with a story about friendship facing possible change. Both strands centre on the girls’ relationships and experiences.

Dani’s diary follows her as she faces the aftermath of rape and a court case, adjusts to a new school, and draws on support from Reggie and people around her.

This coming-of-age story introduces unusual abilities and uncertainty about G. J. 's control of herself.

A speculative story about waking into an unfamiliar future, with a personal dilemma that connects Tegan’s own choices to questions about challenging injustice.

This is a story about adapting to sudden change and deciding whom to trust. Its teenage protagonist faces shifts in family circumstances, schooling and social life.

This is a friendship-and-reunion story spanning the girls’ shared childhood and their lives after wartime separation.

Choose this for a reader who enjoys mysteries that keep changing shape, supernatural uncertainty, unusual friendships and playful humour. Its island setting, volcano journey and hidden secrets offer adventure without revealing the final explanation.

This is a light, episodic school fantasy in which magical animals appear from Ms Plum’s cupboard and become catalysts for pupils’ changing behaviour, confidence, friendships and worries.

This is a fast-moving Tudor adventure centred on loyalty, injustice and a child’s effort to protect his father. It offers contrasting views of courtly wealth and London poverty, alongside historical detail about power and religious change.

A high-energy monster adventure with an unusual science-fiction premise. Expect multiple plot strands, London under threat, a genetically altered dinosaur, nanobots and fantastical elements, rather than a restrained or technically rigorous science-fiction story.

A family-and-school story about three sisters balancing wedding preparations, a romantic bet and an attempt to support a new pupil dealing with bereavement. It also offers Indian-British family and cultural context, with bhangra music central to one arrangement.

This is a child-centred historical story about family work, community strain and changing social relationships. Its central challenge is how a small act of welcome might matter when prejudice and hardship affect a whole town.

A historical adventure about starting again after disaster, building friendships and trying to protect a new home from moving sand. Expect family upheaval, school conflict and an ending whose precise emotional shape is unclear.

This is a reflective family story about a child adjusting to a parent’s imprisonment, a confession that changes her understanding, and relatives whose lives have moved on. Its central interest is emotional change rather than action, with forgiveness presented as part of Glennis’s eventual development.

This is speculative young-adult fiction about a young woman and her male counterpart negotiating an unusual shared existence. It combines departure from a hometown where Jill faces public judgement with romance, sexual choices, family conflict and the practical question of how either identity can build an independent life.

This is an intense historical coming-of-age novel about Nora’s attempt to find a future while danger surrounds her home and neighbourhood. Its period detail, family conflict and social history offer substantial material for discussion.

This is a comic teen story about friendship, flirting, misunderstandings and the difficulty of managing a situation that keeps expanding. Jess’s plan involving Fred, together with Flora and the visiting French students, contributes to the complications.

This is an ensemble teenage drama built around one formal dance: five girls bring different hopes, secrets and romantic complications, while the evening promises heartbreak, danger and life-changing surprises.

This is a character-led summer story about three au pairs whose work, friendships and romantic situations become intertwined. Eliza’s changed family circumstances add a social and financial dimension alongside the beach setting and wealthy-family culture.

This appears to offer a child-focused fiction setting around friendships, girls’ experiences and family or school life.

A grief-heavy supernatural romance with visible danger, strong momentum and a newly invented zombie mythology. The story emphasises emotional intensity, attraction and discovery more than sustained classic horror or subtle psychological realism.

A light romantic coming-of-age story about two contrasting teenagers who influence one another while handling school expectations, new experiences and relationships with friends and family.

A fast-moving supernatural thriller about friendship, belonging and resisting pressure, with a frightening bodily transformation at its centre. The plot combines school conflict, investigation and action.

Expect a comic school adventure about friendship and fitting in, with a new pupil whose influence leads Zombie into trouble. The book also includes Minecraft-style monster humour, social embarrassment and references to school trouble.

A fast-moving historical fantasy about investigations, accusations and escape, set within medieval religious institutions and restrictive expectations for women. Its central interest lies in how characters interpret apparent evil, authority and difference.

A brisk alien-adventure story places a group of friends in danger after mysterious lights appear above a reservoir. Alongside rescue and escape, it raises questions about pollution, technology, heroism and how people respond to the unknown.

This offers a tense continuation of Lena’s transformation from grief-stricken survivor to resistance fighter. Its appeal lies in suspense, action and complicated feelings, while its emotional weight comes from loss, deprivation, political control and the cost of opposing authority.

This appears to offer a coming-of-age fictional framework associated with girls and bullying, but the available details are too limited to show its distinctive plot, voice or resolution.

Expect a light, ensemble relationship story built around dates, ex-partners, social events and competing responsibilities. It also gives readers access to characters’ thoughts and motivations beyond what a television episode could show.

This is a coming-of-age story about how clothing, rules, work and freedom shape ideas of gender. Its strongest offering is a child’s perspective on identity, family expectations, friendship and life for girls in Afghanistan.

This is a character-led story about a teenager’s self-image and changing relationships, set alongside Cassie’s disability and her family’s circumstances. Its several viewpoints invite readers to consider how people’s inner lives may differ from what others can see.

This is a faith-centred relationship story about preparing for marriage while friendships shift and personal difficulties surface. Its central contrast is between investing in a lasting marriage and pursuing an expensive or “perfect” wedding.

A nature-centred friendship story about Jessie, whose summer becomes unsettled by a new arrival and by local opposition to a coyote family. It offers island atmosphere, animal observation and a child confronting a community dispute.

This is a historical coming-of-age story about disrupted education, factory work, family hardship, artistic ambition and women’s rights, with love and the looming First World War shaping Opal’s experience.

A fast-moving historical crime novel with alternating viewpoints, moral uncertainty and romantic tension. Caitlin’s determination drives a search through sharply unequal New York, while William’s divided loyalties complicate ideas of justice and personal change.

A character-led teen romance about revenge, filmmaking and changing assumptions. Its strongest appeal may be the tension between Wren’s determined judgement of Beckett and her growing uncertainty about whether she understands him.

A socially engaged teen romance about challenging gendered expectations while navigating popularity, leadership, family pressures and cultural identity. Its central tension asks whether pursuing justice can coexist with fairness, empathy and personal relationships.

This is a serious, emotionally layered coming-of-age novel about how family difficulties, social media and friendship choices shape Taylor’s life before and after catastrophe.

This is a character-led wartime coming-of-age story: relationships and growing up receive sustained attention before and during the conflict. Its view extends beyond the front to family life, nursing and shortages in England.

A supernatural friendship story follows Suzy as she lives with bereavement, self-consciousness and uncertainty about Rhiannon. Its emotional centre is the possibility of reconnecting with life while learning that friendship can change.

This offers an atmospheric fantasy adventure rooted in Irish folklore, while following a family adjusting to a move. Expect mysteries, mythical possibilities, sibling and cousin relationships, and a child drawn towards danger.

A thoughtful contemporary romance about finding ways to communicate, with disability, anxiety, friendship and family relationships treated as substantial parts of the story rather than simple obstacles.