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Sophie Williams
This offers a visually rich way into deep time: readers learn about changing life and Earth while searching illustrations for creatures, then using the glossary to revisit unfamiliar terms and animals.
Stephan Lee
A high-stakes entertainment story follows Candace as stardom, school, relationships and public activism collide. It offers glamour alongside questions about industry reform, self-expression, cultural identity and the cost of standing by one’s beliefs.
Kristen Ciccarelli
This is a tension-led fantasy romance about a hidden witch and the witch hunter pursuing her. It combines alternating viewpoints, political intrigue, blood-based magic, secret identities, deception and a slow-building relationship between enemies.
Choose this for a fast-moving scientific overview that links geology, climate, anatomy and evolution across immense stretches of time. It favours memorable ideas and lesser-known organisms over comprehensive coverage or visual explanation.
Frances Hardinge
This is an idea-rich mystery-fantasy about a girl pursuing knowledge and justice within restrictive Victorian expectations.
A visually led introduction to a pioneering fossil hunter, linking Mary Anning’s life with discoveries about fossils, evolution, geology and palaeontology. It combines biography with factual explanation and reconstructed imagery.
Coby Coonradt and Cameron Hardy, illustrated by Victoria Stebleva
A playful survival manual built around imagined disasters and fantasy threats. Its humour, contemporary voice and cartoony illustrations may make the subject approachable.
Ruta Sepetys
A politically charged historical story about life under surveillance and repression, with resistance developing amid shortages and public unrest. Its portrayal combines personal dilemmas with explicit, sometimes graphic violence committed by state forces.
Aneesa Marufu
This is a socially engaged fantasy in which an unlikely friendship crosses a sharp class and political divide. Expect adventure, supernatural conflict and sustained attention to prejudice, power, resistance and difficult choices.
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