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A school dance troupe’s journey becomes a story of friendship and helping a young prince in danger, set against the threat of Nazi persecution in 1939.

The story follows CC as she considers her future, guided by an ancient book, alongside children from different backgrounds. Its historical notes may add context to the adventure.

This instalment centres on Hok’s search for a sense of self, alongside a dangerous rescue mission. Martial arts action and cooperation between the young monks are prominent.

This is a fast-moving spy adventure built around a missing ring, a threatened witness list and a team of investigators. The case also touches on Dylan’s past.

This is a supernatural romance with a love triangle and a threat to Elena’s life. The struggle for influence between the brothers adds a family-conflict strand.

This combines a boarding-school story with ghosts, an old abbey and a mystery centred on a persistent supernatural evil. Fiona’s friendships and her efforts to confront the danger offer threads beyond the haunting.

A playful, participatory fantasy: the reader is not just following events but is invited to help shape them with a pencil.

This is a tense journey story centred on two cousins seeking a chance to make their own choices. Jaime’s drawing gives him a personal connection to home as the journey changes what it means to him.

This story centres on a teenager negotiating faith, attraction and the beliefs expressed around him at a Bible camp.

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.

This is a fast-moving supernatural mystery built around codes, riddles and island secrets. It offers an emotionally involved teenage viewpoint, with investigation intertwined with isolation, family conflict and danger.

Expect a character-led fantasy adventure with romantic tension, shifting identities and a heroine negotiating personal freedom against obligations to her country. Its appeal lies in pursuit, hidden histories and gradual character change; the ending continues some series threads rather than resolving every larger question.

This is an imaginative, peril-filled adventure about children confronting witches, water orcs and punkchopgoons in cottage country, sometimes aided by a giant. Expect mystery and fantasy, but not a clear account of the ending or resolution.

This is an intense historical coming-of-age novel about Nora’s attempt to find a future while danger surrounds her home and neighbourhood. Its period detail, family conflict and social history offer substantial material for discussion.

Choose this for a reader who enjoys interactive horror, making decisions and revisiting different routes. Its strongest appeal is variety: the cruise can lead towards experiments, pursuit, survival situations and many endings.

This is a crime story centred on witnessing a killing and trying to identify a serial killer while working with temporary FBI authority.

Choose this for a spooky, participatory adventure rather than a linear story. Its main appeal is agency: the reader travels through a perilous historical setting, makes decisions and may reach one of many endings.

This is a tense survival adventure built around separation, environmental danger and competing attempts to reach safety. Its strongest through-line is how young characters organise, protect more vulnerable people and respond to threats.

This is a wartime romantic story about competing attachments, personal uncertainty and the pressure of circumstances beyond the characters’ control.

This is an atmospheric supernatural mystery about identity, family neglect and an attempt to change a dangerous future. Its humour sits alongside isolation, approaching evil and difficult family relationships.

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.

This is a mystery about discovering and confronting organised racism in a new community. It offers suspense, a young investigator and questions about how prejudice can be spread through technology and social networks.

A brisk, gadget-filled spy adventure centres on Alex’s mission against Herod Sayle. Its appeal lies in danger, mystery and implausible ingenuity; its intensity comes from repeated threats, killings and peril rather than quiet character development.

This is a speculative romance about a compulsory soulmate connection made dangerous by shared pain and mortality. Zoe’s preparedness meets Milo’s risk-taking, creating a survival problem as well as a relationship dilemma.

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 classic-style children’s adventure built around a coastal mystery, teamwork and discovery. Expect suspense from dangerous rocks, suspicious night-time signals, local wrongdoing and the children’s determination to investigate without adult direction.

A lively read-aloud about recovering a treasured teddy, with a bold heroine, pirate adventure, comic goat-riding and illustrations that offer plenty to notice together.

A spooky fantasy adventure about a girl who enters a dangerous forest to understand what happened to her sister, with the story’s central mystery challenging simple ideas of bravery and rescue.

A tense story about girls seeking safety and belonging under Sol’s control. As new relationships and demands unsettle the cabin, the book follows questions of loyalty, selfhood, survival and whether protection can become coercion.

This is a focused contemporary family story about children’s privacy online. It offers a plot-led way to consider sharenting, consent and the consequences when a parent’s public identity depends on children’s visibility.

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 dark, fast-moving faerie adventure that combines monsters, romance and town danger with more reflective questions about self-invention, family secrets, community complicity and whether apparent gifts or beauty can conceal coercion.

A dark, atmospheric fantasy for readers who enjoy folklore, mystery and psychological unease. Alice’s search for her mother carries questions about trust, belonging and who has the right to shape a story.

A friendship-centred science-fiction novel with humour, mystery and emotional weight. Its central contrast—one friend human and one an android—invites readers to think about identity, belonging and the qualities that make relationships meaningful.

This is a serious, emotionally focused novel about returning home, confronting painful memories and imagining a future beyond harmful family dynamics. Flooding and climate danger provide an urgent backdrop, while romantic love adds another strand.

This is an atmospheric picture-book journey in which a child navigates an intimidating city and offers practical-sounding advice about danger, warmth and food. Its central emotional effect comes from seeing a small person try to make sense of a large world.

This offers a brisk supernatural mystery rooted in London, drama, museum history and identity. Its appeal lies in clues, red herrings and links between attacks across time, alongside Niamh’s new friendships and possible romance.

A poignant science-fiction novel about two teenage boys spending their final day together, balancing grief and danger with friendship, love, family ties and attempts to live deliberately.

A mysterious, nature-centred adventure about a child seeking greater independence. Its strongest appeal appears to be the combination of wild landscapes, secrets and emotionally charged relationships.

A magical, atmospheric fairytale retelling centred on Red’s curiosity, a threatened relationship between village and woodland, and questions about who is treated as dangerous. It combines mystery, grief, disability representation and collective strength.

A fantasy adventure about sibling independence and protection, with Fergus’s autism central to his experience. It combines familiar Neverland elements with mystery, danger and a broader cast of Lost Boys and Lost Girls.

This is a character-led road story about a teenager responding to family upheaval and her mother’s illness. Its appeal lies in unusual fellow travellers, shifting perceptions and questions about love, loyalty and identity.

A friendship-centred magical-realism story combining unusual talents with family hardship, secrets and a search into Cottonwood Hollow’s past.