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Lynne Kelly
This is an energetic, emotionally serious story about being understood. Iris’s efforts to connect with Blue 55 combine Deaf experience, whale science, sound technology and a suspenseful journey.
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Its emotional centre is the search for a new meaning of home.
Kenneth Oppel
This is an urgent science-fiction adventure with horror elements: invasive plants threaten communities, while three young people investigate why they are unaffected. Alongside survival, the opening gives attention to illness, self-image, friendship and family relationships.
Ann Clare LeZotte
This is an adventure-led historical novel centred on Deaf community, sign language and human dignity, while exploring how inherited prejudice shapes relationships between communities.
Patrick Ness
This is an adventurous, emotionally charged fantasy combining dragons with Cold War intrigue. It follows danger, friendship, romance and hope while confronting racism, bereavement, political violence and the destructive consequences of power.
Lupita Nyong’o
A tender fantasy about colourism, self-image and belonging. Sulwe’s painful wish to change her skin is set alongside maternal reassurance and a Night-and-Day legend, leading her towards self-acceptance rather than a change in appearance.
Stuart Gibbs
This offers a contained lunar mystery with clues, suspects, suspense and humour. Its appeal lies in Dash’s investigation, the unusual space setting and the contrast between boredom, danger and intellectual challenge.
Norman Hunter
Expect inventive comic mishaps, misunderstandings and an eccentric central character rather than a serious science story. The humour often comes from failed inventions and Branestawm’s difficulty with everyday social situations.
Christopher Edge
Expect a playful space adventure centred on a father and son, with absurd alien details, school embarrassment and moments of danger. Its emotional centre is the difficulty of recognising a parent’s love beneath embarrassing behaviour.
Amy Bond
This is a fantasy adventure about a young witch who loves robots, enters the City seeking robotics education, and confronts a secret threatening the balance between magic and technology.
Kristyna Litten
A gentle, visually playful story about curiosity, invention and noticing nature. Norton and Alpha’s discovery gives children a clear contrast between a mechanical home and the living world outside.
Brian Selznick
Expect an ambitious illustrated adventure in which two sibling seeds face separation, danger and uncertainty while learning about Earth’s history and living systems. Its emotional centre is family loyalty, alongside a sustained interest in survival, connection and the natural world.
Jon Scieszka
This offers a lively route into scientific curiosity: invention, robots and jokes are paired with explanations of antimatter, atoms, robotics and the scientific method. It may particularly engage readers who enjoy illustrated, idea-rich adventures.
Christopher Edge
Expect a brisk, high-stakes science-fiction adventure built from movie-like set pieces: secret hideouts, monsters, lost cities and missions. Its emotional centre is the friends’ changing reliance on friendship, loyalty, trust and teamwork.
Mary Shelley
A morally serious Gothic novel about creation, abandonment, responsibility and revenge, with opportunities to discuss scientific power and the treatment of outsiders alongside unsettling violence.
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