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This is a perspective-led story about girls growing up inside a tightly controlled religious community. It invites attention to how belief, family loyalty and restricted choices can look different from one person’s position.

A fast-moving supernatural mystery about a teenager searching for her missing mother, then uncovering concealed family history and a strange inheritance. It offers suspense, folklore, friendship and a seaside setting, with the pace reportedly slowing after the opening.

A dark, emotionally charged YA mystery about first love, bereavement and unanswered questions. Its alternating timelines gradually reveal what happened, while Dylan’s investigation tests his understanding of Ellis and the people around him.

This is a queer romantic mystery-comedy about rivalry, attraction and uncovering what lies behind public expectations. It offers energetic plotting, multiple queer characters and relationships, alongside a school setting where stigma shapes how people present themselves.

A dual-perspective story about two university students trying to belong while managing depression, anxiety, relationships and self-identity. Poetry and late-night journal entries give the book an intimate, emotionally direct form.

A grief-centred verse novel combining letters, school and home life, and cryptid mystery. Its emotional focus is Noah’s search for connection and belonging while navigating loss and identity.

A historical adventure rooted in the early-20th-century Philippines, following Amihan and Mariposa as they respond to official policy and try to return to Culion. Its emotional centre is family love and friendship.

This is a tense, character-led mystery about returning to a traumatised community, carrying family shame and questioning an accepted version of events. Grief, harassment, cultural identity and a developing romance sit alongside the investigation.

This is a dark historical escape narrative: Alice seeks freedom from family control, but her new community’s leader may impose a different form of entrapment. Its shifting viewpoints broaden the story beyond Alice’s experience.

This is a socially focused YA novel about a young person navigating foster and group-home life, exclusion and threatened displacement, with suspense from arson and a developing romance.

This is a verse novel about two young people whose friendship develops amid homelessness, mental-health difficulties, family strain, disappearance and guilt. Molly’s wish to help Red also prompts her to face her own unresolved pain.

This offers a slow-burn romance set against royal duty, forbidden magic and an investigation into killings. Its strongest appeal appears to be the developing relationship between Denna and Mare, alongside questions about identity and loyalty.

This is a mystery about belonging, memory and fairness: a newcomer follows a disturbing clue, questions the story a community tells about Wil, and becomes involved in putting a past wrong into perspective.

This is a dark coming-of-age story about secrecy, belonging and self-acceptance, using an unusual undead condition to place ordinary teenage wishes beside danger, stigma and questions about who gets to define someone’s identity.