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Bo's story combines a mistaken accusation, prison labour, a dangerous tundra setting and an illegal football team. A runaway artificial intelligence adds a mystery: Bo must decide whether to trust the programme he created.

This is a diplomatic-setting mystery about a teenager pursuing answers about her mother’s death while navigating other people’s disbelief and uncertain loyalties.

This is a coming-of-age fantasy about belonging and ambition, shaped by a martial-arts contest, a prophecy and a web of linked destinies.

A playful fantasy adventure built around a birthday party repeatedly interrupted by monster alarms, with Princess Magnolia balancing her guests’ celebration and her secret superhero identity.

A lively school-set relationship story centres on Becca’s paid schemes to split couples, with a complicated assignment bringing her back into Huxley’s orbit.

This is a tense survival story centred on the bond between an isolated teenager and a stray dog, with a wider crisis putting their loyalty and trust under pressure.

This is an imaginative adventure that shifts Fergus from familiar school-and-family routines into a world of strange machinery, secret identities and a distant rescue challenge.

This is a story about a reluctant ranch summer, a horse partnership and a discovery that gives Paley a reason to act bravely.

This is a wartime secret-agent adventure, combining a sabotage mission with uncertainty about possible double agents. Its focus is action under pressure rather than a broad account of the war.

A historical coming-of-age story about Annie’s attempt to move beyond her mother’s scheme and claim a life of her own.

The book combines witchcraft and a magical social event with Rachel’s choices about keeping her powers private. Dating and divided feelings add another strand to her decisions.

A science-fiction comic about a newcomer living with the fallout of another person’s past behaviour, while a dangerous object puts her in peril.

A mystery-horror story pairs a family visit and an affectionate dog with a scientist’s artificial-intelligence experiments and unsettling consequences.

A supernatural mystery drives the plot, with Tavia trying to uncover what happened around her parents’ deaths while deciding whom to trust.

This is a teen social-life story about self-presentation: Lucy has changed how she presents herself and now faces the challenge of sustaining that version of herself at several parties.

This is a horse-centred mystery about Jas’s search for a mare she loves, with rescue-farm life and a suspected insurance fraud shaping the conflict.

This is a supernatural adventure built around a quest, a sudden family reappearance and an escalating threat to the community. The outcome is not stated.

This is a teen relationship story set against the prospect of a band’s success. Its focus is on friends balancing music ambitions with romantic uncertainty.

This is a friendship story shaped by change and a difficult choice: Abby must decide what to do after discovering that Hilary has an eating disorder.

The story pairs a magical transformation and a search for chocolate-making work with Aventurine’s changing sense of identity. Friendship and betrayal are part of her new life in the human city.

This is a fast-moving comic adventure built around magical powers, a dangerous predicament and a team learning to cooperate. Malik’s recent arrival adds a question of trust as well as teamwork.

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.

A summer change of routine brings Stacey a new job and new companions, while her earlier friendship rupture still shapes what she is missing. Trust becomes an unsettled concern.

A historical novel about a teenager who resists Nazi rule by distributing leaflets, told partly through his recollections while imprisoned.

This is a friendship mystery led by an imaginative young detective. Its stated mix of humour and intrigue may appeal to readers who enjoy wondering what is behind a friend's puzzling behaviour.

A lively mystery set around art, deception and relationships, with a bold young investigator at its centre. Alongside suspense, it explores artistic value, loyalty, jealousy and the difference between legal wrongdoing and deeper moral harm.

Expect a tense wartime adventure centred on a boy whose loyalty is unsettled by family revelations and encounters with Nazi brutality. Its main appeal is the combination of suspense, historical setting and moral awakening rather than light-hearted adventure.

A portrait of Chanel’s rise in fashion sits alongside discussion of poverty, prejudice, self-invention and wartime controversy. The book offers achievements and faults together rather than presenting an uncomplicated style icon.

A horse-focused story about balancing care, ambition and personal priorities. Amy’s dilemma gives the book an emotionally serious centre, while the Heartland setting emphasises trust, responsibility and helping horses recover.

This is a wartime mystery-adventure about bereavement, abandonment, danger and the difficult beginnings of family trust. Expect suspense around a killing, a disappearance and a hazardous rescue, alongside Florida landscapes, historical conflict and a blood-moon legend.

A spooky, folklore-rich mystery about returning to a ruined abbey and trying to repair an old wrong. Expect atmosphere, supernatural creatures, friendship and questions about preserving the past.

This is a brisk faerie fantasy built around artistic skill, dangerous customs and a relationship tested by unequal power. Its appeal lies in atmosphere, humour, resourceful characters and romantic tension rather than extensive worldbuilding.

A horse-centred mystery set around training and a major club competition, with friendship and teamwork alongside sabotage and an injured rider.

This is a character-led story about trying on a new identity, seeking acceptance and discovering that gossip can involve people close to home. Its central tensions combine workplace belonging with changing family relationships.

A horse-centred story about returning home, changing relationships and deciding whether to remain with a familiar life or pursue an uncertain new opportunity.

This is a horse-focused story about Tilly and Magic Spirit, whose close partnership is linked with pursuing dreams.

A relationship-focused young-adult story about jealousy, trust, second chances and choices made while school ends and adult plans approach. Its central conflict involves whether revealing concerns helps or harms.

This is a serious, character-led account of friendship tested by colonial injustice. It offers a personal route into Kenya’s history, showing how fear, racial privilege and silence can damage people across divided communities.

This is a character-led story about anger, shoplifting, secrecy, family change, accountability and healing, with community service and a developing romance shaping Morgan’s summer.

A tense school story about belonging and the cost of acceptance. Jericho’s growing unease gives readers a close view of how group loyalty can compete with judgement, while the initiation exposes humiliation, coercion and danger.

This is a relationship-focused coming-of-age story about a student balancing boarding-school tensions, romantic uncertainty, writing ambitions and possible work in New York. It may suit readers interested in emotional decisions and changing friendships, though the conclusion is not fully established here.

This is a mystery thriller with a questioning teenage protagonist, combining suspected murder, danger, romance, jealousy and questions about belief. Its appeal is likely to come from following Poppy’s investigation as appearances become increasingly unreliable.

This is a relationship-led story about a young mother trying to manage childcare, money, family life and renewed romantic feelings. Expect lively social conflict and a light treatment of difficult circumstances rather than a deeply detailed account.

This is a detective mystery built around forged comic-book art, competing suspects and a potentially dangerous convention investigation. Its strongest offer is a focused puzzle linking creative work, money and criminal deception.

A supernatural mystery about a young artist whose disturbing visions become real, combining friendship and family tensions with bloodshed, possible powers, and the uncertainty of whether an ally is the killer.