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This is a resistance adventure built around a global threat, a sabotage mission and a betrayal. It continues events from the earlier Earthfall story.

A fast-moving mystery follows Tandy as she investigates alongside her effort to clear her brother. Its suspense also comes from her fear that she may match the killer’s targets.

At its heart, this is an adventure about belonging and moral choice, asking whether someone can be defined by their parentage or by their own actions.

A fast-moving premise combines a secretive organisation, a flight into hiding and a mystery tied to Jimmy’s new experiences. The book appears to centre on what he can prove and whom he can convince.

This is a journey story shaped by serious illness, anger and friendship. Mark’s plan drives one strand, while Jessie’s uncertainty about keeping his confidence provides another.

This is a myth-inspired fantasy about coercion, resistance and identity. Its central tension comes from Jae Hwa’s struggle to retain her humanity while serving a powerful god, alongside a damaged relationship and a threat to Korea.

A lively school adventure about refusing unwanted membership, facing social retaliation and protecting friendships, with election pressures, a threatened secret and continuing suspense. It may suit readers who enjoy fast-moving comedy alongside interpersonal conflict.

This is a fantasy adventure involving dragons, an attempted invasion, battle, danger and a small romance component.

A lively choice for readers who enjoy supernatural danger, a strong teenage voice and romantic complications. Its main appeal is momentum: ghostly conflict turns questions of trust, desire and responsibility into immediate choices.

A warm story about a child meeting a frighteningly energetic dog on his own terms. Its emotional movement is clear, though the friendship’s final turn is presented very quickly.

Expect an adventure fantasy built around exile, disputed inheritance and supernatural threats. Its strongest distinctive feature is Jessa: a young woman presented as the focal and strongest character while loyalty and friendship shape the struggle.

This is an intense, image-rich poetry collection that turns familiar tales inside out. Its poems confront damaging expectations while making room for anger, humour, self-questioning and resistance.

This is a fast-moving, multi-viewpoint fantasy about reclaiming identity and home while organising resistance. It offers intricate alliances, revenge, magic, romance and emotionally charged confrontations rather than a standalone entry point.

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.

This is literary fantasy rather than a gentle fairy tale: a refuge formed after abuse becomes a setting for examining protection, secrecy and the daughters’ developing agency. Expect symbolic transformation, vivid bodily imagery and abrupt movement between beauty, humour and brutality.

This is a supernatural coming-of-age romance about Violet’s emerging powers, divided loyalties and difficult choices. Expect action, angel mythology and a love triangle, with the story told through Violet’s perspective.

A playful but perilous mystery-fantasy, this book combines sensory food imagery, secret societies and puzzles with a kidnapping plot. Its young protagonists confront adults who use deception and threats to pursue extraordinary goals.

An adventurous Arctic quest gradually becomes a confrontation with powerful institutions and adults who control children’s lives. Lyra’s courage, unusual companions and truth-seeking device drive a story that leaves moral boundaries deliberately unsettled.

Expect a brisk fantasy quest built around danger, escape and puzzle-solving. The book spends substantial time in Noradz, where cleanliness is enforced harshly, before moving towards a frightening confrontation in the City of the Rats.

A playful magical mix-up turns a friendship-repair scheme into several unwanted romantic entanglements. The strongest hook is the comic question of whether feelings and relationships can be managed like a potion.

A horror-comedy sequel with a strongly supernatural setting, school friendships and a continuing threat from Charley’s past. Its appeal lies in combining eerie atmosphere with genre-aware humour and a central relationship marked by betrayal.

A suspenseful children’s adventure about siblings investigating unsettling circumstances in a guarded Cornish house. Expect secrets, danger, teamwork and a wartime political backdrop, alongside melodrama and an intentionally improbable child-led challenge to adults.

A tense historical survival story centred on two sisters, with vivid attention to language, place and the aftermath of political collapse. It combines danger and emotional uncertainty with questions about belonging and self-determination.

A dramatic fantasy romance about survival and self-determination, this book offers a Cinderella framework reshaped by court politics, deception, magic and peril. Yining’s search for her past and future sits alongside questions about whom to trust.

A tense coming-of-age story follows Kadeen as football offers connection and purpose in a new home. Her secret involvement with the team is complicated by her aunt’s opposition and the need to avoid recognition.

A football-focused school story about friends responding to a playground ban by creating a secret club.

This is an idea-rich mystery-fantasy about a girl pursuing knowledge and justice within restrictive Victorian expectations.

This is a humorous contemporary fantasy-romance about luck, self-knowledge and changing feelings. Its appeal lies in Jude’s creative interests, playful narration and a central magical question that gradually becomes a question about personal responsibility.

This is a richly illustrated journey through British myth and landscape, balancing magical stories with explanations of their historical and cultural context rather than presenting them as straightforward history.

A character-led YA novel about Deaf identity, changing schools and deciding how far to trust new people. It offers a perspective on agency, communication and inclusion, alongside friendship and romance.

This is an adventurous wartime mystery centred on Mary’s language work, secret assignments and shifting loyalties. Its suspense comes from the uncertainty surrounding her operation.

A lively magical adventure may appeal to readers who enjoy secret worlds, imaginative creatures, London settings and protagonists discovering where they belong. Expect suspense, emotional difficulty and an ending that does not resolve everything.

This is a clue-led historical adventure about a young protagonist acting under pressure to help her imprisoned father. It offers travel, ancient objects, a companionable magpie and a mystery that links art and evidence.

A fast-moving supernatural adventure places young characters in conflict with corrupt authority. Its strongest features are the shadowy coastline, escalating danger and clear moral stakes; its spiritual allegory is direct rather than subtle.

This is a tense post-apocalyptic survival novel about two isolated siblings forced into an unfamiliar society. Its action-driven journey is paired with questions about how stories and memories shape beliefs about people and the lost world.

This is a team-centred science-fiction adventure about young people confronting the organisation responsible for transforming one of them. Expect secret missions, superhuman and alien abilities, technology, fights and an urgent threat affecting millions.

Expect a tense American road story combining mystery and crime with themes of inner strength, self-confidence and personal growth. Jessie and Brooke’s changing relationship is central, with music and cassette tapes forming a recurring creative feature of their journey.

This is a strange, fast-moving fantasy sequel centred on divided loyalties and self-definition. Expect peril, magical conflict, family tensions and a relationship tested by fear, mistakes and attempts to regain independence.

A wide-ranging fantasy mystery about diplomatic danger, family power and personal agency. Its imaginative world places telepathic animals and unusual technology alongside political conflict, environmental questions and the effects of coercive family relationships.

This is a romantic fantasy about a displaced young woman pursuing financial freedom while navigating a marriage system, covert investigations and a brewing rebellion. Mira’s resourcefulness and moral independence drive the story, alongside danger, social pressure and attraction.

A tense young-adult thriller about abuse, betrayal and escape, with Oz writing letters to his dead father as he confronts an abusive home life and a dangerous institution.

This is a family mystery built through letters and remembered events. Its emotional centre is Lynnie’s attempt to understand her parents and grandparents without assuming that a troubled family past fixes her identity.

This is a dark, fast-moving fantasy about a young man caught between government power, organised crime and intimate loyalties. Its strongest offering is sustained moral uncertainty rather than simple heroes and villains.

This is a light historical romance built around Victoria’s lively interference, an engagement involving a fiancé who may not be what he seems, and Jacob’s persistent opposition. Expect relationship-driven entertainment rather than elaborate world-building or a highly complex plot.

A fast-moving mystery-adventure about a girl investigating her father’s disappearance, with clockwork inventions, pursuit and an unusual animal companion at the centre of the journey.