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A year of diary entries follows Clem through school and shifting relationships. The book explores attraction, rejected advances, family life and the uncertainty of coming out, in an informal voice.

A diary-style royal comedy combines school pressures with Mia’s uncertain public role. The two stories also bring in romance, social plans and personal discoveries.

Mia faces a demanding course load and renewed student-council responsibilities as she begins junior year.

This is a story about shifting friendships and group belonging, as Mel reconsiders who matters to her and Jordan’s company crosses group lines.

A friendship-centred story combines an ominous prophecy with wildfire danger. Its three young characters also face changing relationships, private worries and choices about how to respond to an uncertain future.

Expect a high-stakes fantasy sequel with strong romantic tension, jealous rivalry and dangerous powers. Its emotional centre is Dez’s determination to protect Kale while both characters face threats, loss of control and possible separation.

A fantasy sequel driven by investigation and uncertainty: Bryn pursues a missing queen, confronts complicated truths and becomes a murder suspect. Romance matters, but the central pull is discovering whom she can trust as danger gathers around her kingdom.

This is a lively coming-of-age story about a rebellious teenager negotiating parental boundaries, a new relationship with her biological father and an unfamiliar family. Its central interest is Cyd’s shifting sense of belonging, confidence and personal value.

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.

A high-concept conclusion built around time travel, duplicated selves and a looming conflict between worlds. It offers ambitious speculation and difficult choices, but depends on intricate events and relationships established across earlier Pathfinder books.

This is a faith-centred teenage story about living with a parent’s serious illness while friendships, romance and personal convictions are tested. It may suit families wanting discussion of prayer, uncertainty and relationship boundaries.

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.

This is a varied speculative-fiction collection rather than one continuous story. Its appeal lies in imaginative settings, changing moods and morally pressured situations, but the individual stories may differ considerably in intensity and subject matter.

This is a serious story about grief, loneliness and a young person’s uncertainty when an adult teacher offers unusually personal attention. Its central concern is the potentially abusive power imbalance in that relationship.

This is a child-centred historical mystery about uncovering a town’s African-American past. It combines cemetery restoration, family stories, community reticence, and Raisin’s personal consequences after she sneaks out.

This is a familiar supernatural romance viewed through Edward’s inner conflict. Readers receive another perspective on the same story, with loyalty and self-sacrifice set beside danger, controlling behaviour and repeated moral hesitation.

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.

This offers a tense exploration of privacy, online performance and trust, with Connie’s perspective giving the social-media issues emotional focus. It also delivers a substantial murder-and-attack thriller, rather than a gentle discussion of digital life.

A survival adventure built around two sisters, a forbidden rewilded landscape and the challenge of finding a route home. Its imagined future also brings together wildlife, environmental change and questions about human access to nature.

A warm sibling-centred collection in which a very young girl’s curiosity and mischief drive comic family episodes. It offers recognisable domestic situations, while some incidents may invite discussion about consequences and other people’s boundaries.

This is a suspenseful clan drama about uncovering hidden wrongdoing while friendships and loyalties are tested. It combines investigation with battles, a forbidden relationship, grief and a change in leadership.

A humorous coming-of-age story about advice, secrecy and the disruption caused when celebrity attention enters a small-town school community. Jenny’s position between other people’s problems and her own gives the book a strong interpersonal focus.

This is historical fiction about a child caught in a catastrophic day while trying to reach a trusted firefighter. It combines family disagreement, football, emergency work and a sudden transformation of an ordinary city visit.

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.

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.

A character-led boarding-school novel about Willa’s attempt to belong and her consuming friendship with Remy. Its witty, direct voice sits alongside serious material about depression, suicidal thoughts, drugs and addiction, with the emotional direction becoming increasingly troubling.

This is a character-led family story about a child making sense of adult failures without surrendering her own needs. Cooking, artistic ambition and friendship offer purposeful threads alongside uncertainty and emotional upheaval.

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.

This is a coming-of-age story about freedom, belonging and complicated attachment. Its central relationship places a young teenager and a married teacher in an emotionally charged situation, alongside difficult changes at home and school.

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.

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.

This is an imaginative fantasy adventure centred on artistic powers, paintings, supernatural creatures and a demanding conflict between family loyalty and protecting others.

A richly imagined fantasy of sisterhood, secret worlds and divided loyalties, centred on Jena’s struggle to protect home and family while confronting threats from both human and magical realms.

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.

This is a friends-to-romance setup in which Paige seeks dating experience and Grayson secretly hopes their friendship can become a relationship. Its central tension comes from competing intentions within a long-standing friendship.

The story’s central tension is between Trevor’s wish to preserve his relationship with Bea and the realisation that he must first save himself.

A teen relationship collection about prom, attraction and reputation, with romance complicated by friendship or popularity, and with one relationship facing public opposition. Its three strands suggest social awkwardness rather than straightforward fairy-tale endings.

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.

This is a family-centred coming-of-change story about losing a familiar private space and struggling with expectations. Quinn’s anger develops into secrecy, partying and complicated romantic choices, while sisterhood remains an important part of her world.

A friendship story that moves from social pressure into suspense.

Take it as a fast-moving school-and-relationships story involving event planning, competing loyalties, secrets and questions about appearances.