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Zak Ebrahim
This is a personal account of rejecting inherited hatred and choosing peace. It offers a way into questions about responsibility, identity and prejudice, while engaging with terrorism and family history rather than treating them as abstract subjects.
Shaunta Grimes
Expect a high-stakes resistance story centred on loyalty, oppression and difficult choices. Its speculative world includes a plague’s aftermath, time-travelling operatives and a society controlled through medicine, walls and surveillance.
Jane R. Wood
This is an adventure-led environmental story in which children respond to pollution, encounter wildlife and learn about protecting habitats.
Nancy Springer
This is a brisk detective adventure led by an inventive young protagonist. It offers missing-person puzzles, disguises, sibling tension and eventual cooperation, with humour and suspense rather than an informational or realistic treatment.
Davinia Tomlinson
A practical introduction to personal finance, this book explains saving, spending and managing money while also addressing investing, salary negotiation and retirement savings. It aims to build confidence and positive financial habits through clear, relatable explanations for girls and young women.
A practical, illustrated introduction to habitats and conservation, moving between wildlife facts and achievable actions. It may help children connect distant environmental concerns with things they can do closer to home.
An accessible introduction to plastic’s environmental effects, balancing explanations of pollution with practical actions and examples of children contributing ideas, projects and solutions.
Jules Howard
This offers an unusual way into evolution: each decision moves the reader towards another organism, making traits, environments and survival part of an active exploration rather than a page-by-page narrative.
Nazneen Ahmed Pathak
A fast-moving magical quest gives Chompa a determined central role while opening discussion of Indian and South Asian folklore, colonial power and cultural loss. The journey spans India and London, with friendship and new skills supporting her search.
Chris Van Allsburg
This is an arresting historical biography about a woman who turns a desperate search for security into an extraordinary public feat. Its interest lies both in whether she survives and in what happens when recognition and reward do not follow.
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