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Dandi Daley Mackall
The story centres on Ellie’s effort to find Colt a horse as their friendship changes. Her brother’s baseball difficulty and her parents’ commitments add pressures to the family situation.
Dianne Bates
This is a serious story about a teenager navigating disrupted care, mental-health difficulties and treatment. Tentative connections with other young people sit alongside a troubling crossing of therapeutic boundaries.
Lesley Choyce
This is a short, issue-focused story about a bereaved teenager navigating care, exploitation and attachment. Its strongest offering is a morally unsettled relationship in which practical survival and harming others are kept in tension.
Maureen Johnson
A clue-driven mystery set among gifted students, pairing investigation with questions about grief, friendship and the human cost of treating crime as an intellectual puzzle.
Chris Naylor-Ballesteros
A short, visually expressive story about a newcomer, suspicion and the possibility of belonging. Its emotional centre is the contrast between what the animals assume and what they learn about the stranger’s past.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
This is a serious family story about a young person carrying adult responsibilities, developing an alcohol problem and beginning recovery. It combines difficult choices with an account of support, accountability and possible change.
Sonya Sones
This is a verse novel about two young people whose friendship develops amid homelessness, mental-health difficulties, family strain, disappearance and guilt. Molly’s wish to help Red also prompts her to face her own unresolved pain.
John Green
This is a thoughtful, emotionally intense coming-of-age story in which the mystery and romance frame Aza’s experience of intrusive thoughts. Friendship, empathy and the effort to keep living with ongoing difficulty matter more than solving the case.
Richie Tankersley Cusick
Miranda’s move to a historic Louisiana home coincides with whispers, shadows and a pleading voice. As she recognises a possible ability to communicate with spirits, her group members’ reactions and a growing responsibility to help them become part of her changed life.
M. Jakubowicz
A young protagonist must adjust when an unfamiliar younger guest enters her home, while balancing kindness, choir ambitions and a frightening personal challenge. The guest’s situation and the final outcome remain unexplained.
Martha Freeman
This is a friendship-led camp adventure built around trying to help a distressed counsellor. Expect a puzzle, secret planning, a magical element and an escapade involving another camp.
Holly Webb
A story about loving and wanting to protect an animal while respecting another family’s responsibility. It may invite thoughtful discussion about grief, boundaries and what practical help really means.
John Burningham
A playful fantasy turns a bedroom into a gateway to the zoo. Sylvie’s affectionate experiments with small bears, penguins and monkeys are funny and unruly, while the forgotten door introduces a clear shift from controlled adventure to possible pandemonium.
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