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The story centres on three characters whose lives connect through a factory town shaped by scarcity and hardship. It brings together friendship, family ambition and resistance to the town’s rules.

This is a family story about two sisters getting to know their unconventional grandmother through a shared journey and her recollections. Her earlier life includes leaving home as a teenager and military service during the Second World War.

A light, magical school story about a child who dislikes Valentine’s Day and must deal with the effects of her own candy-heart messages.

Expect spooky adventure: the threats include a ghost, dangerous swamp creatures and a haunted setting, while the reader chooses which routes to follow.

Laila shares journeys about character, with making good choices presented as a way to support positive lives for herself and others.

This is a supernatural fantasy about Joy’s Sight, an assassin’s threat and a consequential choice involving Ink and the Twixt. Her decision may affect those close to her.

This is an alien-invasion survival story centred on Jesse, whose escape and unexpected powers leave others treating him as a possible saviour. The immediate stakes are stark: most people have been killed or enslaved, and further aliens are expected.

The story follows the consequences of a hit-and-run across four teenagers’ lives, including a choice to conceal what happened and the pressure of protecting a future in sport.

A fantasy finale about a young hero confronting a death prophecy and defending a city under attack. Family protection and the prospect of peace sit alongside the danger of war.

This fantasy brings a rescue adventure into the run-up to a wedding. Creel’s friendships and loyalties are central, alongside the possibility of peace between humans and dragons.

This fantasy instalment follows several connected conflicts: Zoey’s opposition to Neferet, Rephaim’s struggle to remain free of his father’s influence, and the arrival of Aurox, created as a weapon.

A group of exiled teenagers face a survival choice in an undead-infested setting, while secrets among them complicate their search for safety and other survivors.

Readers encounter explanations of fossil fuels and how they provide energy, alongside discussion of environmental and resource effects, costs, investment, and possible futures.

A collection of true childhood stories, written by children and adults recalling their own childhoods. They touch on friendship, choices and qualities including honesty, kindness, forgiveness and perseverance, with cartoon strips featuring the Souper Kids.

This historical romance centres on Anna’s uncertain engagement, family inheritance and growing attraction to Ewan. Her interest in poetry and doubts about love unfold alongside a plot against Ewan.

Sola’s tightly monitored society uses public battles in which Demonstrators kill criminals. After a kiss draws her into the role, she faces more fights and a romance with a killer while hoping to return to her father.

Expect court and kingdom tensions alongside a developing romance, sibling bonds and choices about love and duty. The story also includes magic and a threatened invasion.

Sam’s attachment to print clashes with a proposed online school newspaper, and she learns her best friend supports the change. The story also follows Sam’s school-paper interests and her budding crush.

Expect a contemporary-school setting alongside shifters, fairies, witches and fairy-tale rules. Bryar’s resistance to her assigned role and the unwanted marriage plan sits alongside dreams, romance and a threat to lives and magic.

A Holocaust novel centred on a teenager confronting camp life and her father’s involvement in Nazi propaganda. It also follows her thoughts about friendship, romance, family and religion.

The book connects weather and seasonal changes with what children might see outside and what people wear. It includes simple facts and prompts to notice the day’s weather together.

This science-fiction adventure centres on time travel, conflict with Eyewall and a choice between protecting loved ones and trying to avert a grim future.

A choose-your-own-adventure structure puts the reader in charge of decisions, with over 20 possible endings. The island setting mixes holiday exploration with supernatural threats, so choices can lead towards different kinds of peril.

A supernatural mystery combines ballet, friendship and a music box that appears to influence Emma’s dancing. The suspense builds as the box behaves strangely and Emma becomes increasingly reluctant to give up its musical effect.

A horse-centred mystery adventure, with Sophie and Liv searching for a missing herd after their grandfather’s stallion is badly injured. The ranch setting brings encounters with rattlesnakes and a varied local cast.

A visit from cousins brings cursed armour into the story, and choices open different spooky routes. The adventure promises more than twenty endings, so the reader helps steer what happens.

This is a fantasy adventure built around a boy on the run, a returning threat and the possibility that his love of old stories will prove important.

The central pressure is practical: Pierre takes on a long voyageur journey to earn money for his family after his father is injured. The trip is physically demanding and places him among older, teasing brigade members.

Sam must confront the possibility of teenage fatherhood after Alicia tells him she is pregnant. He looks to skateboarding hero Tony Hawk for answers and faces decisions about what comes next.

A fantasy adventure about a teenager learning where she comes from and what she can do, with friendship, betrayal and choices at its centre.

The journey brings four bears towards warmer lands, while Toklo weighs his friends’ company against the possibility of finding a place among brown bears.

Expect a varied collection rather than one continuous story: essays and short pieces explore environmental choices, with practical tips and facts interspersed. Topics range from composting and energy to school life, shopping, wildlife and speaking up for the environment.

A paranormal school story brings together Arianne’s ability to see the dead, her feelings for Niko, and a Reaper’s code. An accidental loss and its possible consequences put their relationship and Arianne’s survival under pressure.

This is a romance-centred coming-of-age story about a girl pursuing a boy and making plans to attract his attention. The summer job brings her into the same setting as Jim, while his girlfriend is also part of the conflict.

This is a story of celebrity, relationships and gossip, centred on Amy’s choices after a blackmail threat. Her secrets and interference in other people’s lives bring social consequences into focus.

You take Freya’s role in a quest to recover Thor’s lost hammer. Choices affect the story’s progress, so the reader helps shape the adventure rather than simply following a fixed path.

A football story about a young player questioning whether he wants the future others expect for him. James’s wish to choose another path—and his worry about his father’s disappointment—sit alongside tournament action.

A retelling-inspired adventure gives readers choices that affect Goldilocks’ fate. Blank spaces let children add illustrations, and the story’s choices are linked with respect and empathy.

A fantasy premise turns an expected future upside down: Liz must find her place in an afterlife where people grow younger. Her adjustment brings grief and frustration alongside friendship, love and personal choices.

A historical coming-of-age story about Donata’s attempt to claim more freedom and learning within a noble family’s strict expectations. Her excursions bring her into contact with Venice’s Jewish community and poorer residents, as well as questions about her family’s future.

Expect a hands-on adventure: readers make decisions about supplies and actions during a camping emergency, with practical survival know-how included along the way.

Ali’s pregnancy disrupts her expectations for college and her relationship with Matt. The story follows her dilemma around responsibility and choice, with support from her friend Monica.

Ari wants a different future from the family bakery; meeting Hector brings baking and a developing romance into that conflict. The story also foregrounds decisions and the support loved ones may offer.

An eerie survival adventure built around reader choices, with a shipwreck, a haunted island and a quest for a legendary bird. Its branching decisions invite readers to steer the expedition rather than follow one fixed route.

Ana’s choices are shaped by both her concern for Izzy and the risk of being separated from her. A secretive contest offers a possible route out, but also brings unknown consequences.