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This is a good fit to explore how siblings can see the same duties differently, within a richly established Clan world. Its continuing-arc structure means the book leaves some mysteries open.

The progress-report format brings you close to Charlie's changing perspective. His growing understanding is accompanied by loneliness and painful memories, so the story is not simply an uplifting account of scientific success.

A fantasy romance about a curse, a prince’s transformation and Harper’s arrival in a magical land, with disability and family hardship also part of her story.

The collection offers a range of fictional adventures and everyday situations centred on disabled teenagers, with an explicit aim of moving beyond stereotyped portrayals.

This is a suspenseful abduction story centred on Cheyenne’s attempt to navigate danger while blind and ill.

This is a perilous adventure about a secluded boy entering an unfamiliar city, with an unfinished fantasy story woven into his attempt to escape and find his mother.

This is a historical adventure shaped by books, friendship and mysteries tied to Glastonbury’s legends. Hugh’s disability and separation from his father form part of his situation, alongside the group’s quest.

This is a coming-of-age story about a young man whose inability to feel physical pain shapes his independence, relationships and understanding of empathy.

This is a high-stakes story about a young hacker pulled towards a criminal world, with identity and the boundary between good and evil at its centre.

This is a first-person account of childhood experiences with disability and a brain tumour, centred on the author's efforts to make sense of feeling different and her use of writing to cope.

This is a reassuring account of learning differently, centred on a child’s experience of confusion at school and the idea that strategies can help.

This is a coming-of-age story about a high-school student balancing friendships, school, a job and difficulties at home. Its focus is Kirk's relationships and changing circumstances.

The appeal is likely to centre on extraordinary powers, investigation and a team of teenage allies confronting a powerful organisation. The bind-up also includes a handbook presented as being from an Elgen leader.

Time travel pits the teens against renegades seeking to reshape history; romance also forms part of this first Castleton-series adventure.

A character-led story about grief, guilt and anxiety, balancing painful experiences with humour, friendship and a slowly developing first relationship. Petula’s movement towards connection is central, while Jacob and the therapy group bring different burdens and perspectives.

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

This is an emotionally engaging school story centred on a bright child whose thoughts are overlooked because she cannot communicate conventionally. It offers sustained attention to dignity, family advocacy, friendship and the consequences of assumptions.

A poetic, emotionally serious story about two traumatised teenagers seeking connection and truth. Its unusual voices and recurring poems offer rich interpretation, while difficult experiences and contested ideas about healing require thoughtful engagement.

This is an inclusive, informational picture book that introduces children to different conditions and abilities through a shared gardening project. Its central invitation is to ask respectful questions, recognise individual strengths and see difference as part of community life.

This is a character-led fantasy about recovery, political negotiation and widening loyalties. Chaol’s treatment and Nesryn’s separate path give Antica importance beyond scenery, while romance and the approaching wider conflict develop alongside them.

This is a character-led story about a teenager’s self-image and changing relationships, set alongside Cassie’s disability and her family’s circumstances. Its several viewpoints invite readers to consider how people’s inner lives may differ from what others can see.

Kate Ferris works towards establishing a riding stable, faces disruption before a show, and must decide how to respond when Melissa’s horse is injured. The story is character-led and centres on Kate’s changing attitude.

A humorous but emotionally serious story about grief, disability, friendship and perseverance. Noah’s relationships and physical therapy provide a route towards facing loss and a changed sense of self.

This is a compact Norse fantasy about an overlooked boy who responds to hardship with ingenuity rather than force. Its adventure introduces gods, giants and morally complicated mythology while leaving room to reflect on courage, loss and belonging.

This is an outward journey that becomes a test of belonging. The apprentices bring practical skills to another community, but the story questions whether competence gives outsiders the right to decide what help should look like.

This is a myth-influenced fantasy adventure about friends mounting a rescue, confronting an ancient foe and relying on one another. Its emotional centre appears to be loyalty, belonging and the pressure of trying to save someone.

A bright, rhythmic school-community portrait where children learn, play, share food and celebrate together. Its central refrain gives the book a clear, reassuring shape, while the illustrations carry much of the representation.

Expect atmospheric Cornish tales where folklore, ghosts and magic meet farms, the sea and family life. The collection includes linked stories, including one about William, whose disability brings exclusion and cruelty from others.

This is an emotionally direct school-and-family story about being misread, finding ways to communicate and learning to recognise a person beyond appearance or speech. Harriet’s perspective gives disability, irritation, humour and courage a central place.

A tense contemporary mystery about how online attention, rumours and conspiracy theories can escalate. Quinn’s investigation is interwoven with friendship strain, disability, bullying and the pressure to keep an audience engaged.

A focused biography about curiosity, family support and persistence: Louis Braille loses his sight, encounters inadequate books and develops a six-dot system to make reading and writing more accessible by touch.

A fast-moving London quest places a blind heroine at the centre of a supernatural crisis. Its strongest offering is Ella’s practical experience of blindness, alongside friendship, family tensions, mythology and a high-stakes struggle against darkness.

A friendship begins when two boys meet during a beach trip. The story makes room for difference, uncertainty and everyday kindness, alongside questions, frustrations and confusions.

This is a clue-led historical mystery with an active young protagonist, a strong seaside setting and a family crisis at its centre. It offers atmosphere, teamwork and a determined character whose limb difference is part of her life, not the whole plot.

This is an imaginative adventure combining friendship, mystery and a robot with a society changed by water scarcity. It also gives sustained attention to Auden’s experience of achromatopsia and his changing relationship with that difference.

A good fit for readers drawn to eerie fairy-tale retellings, magical quests, mysteries and determined protagonists. Its central journey carries genuine danger, while its romantic thread and unresolved ending may shape the reading experience.

A spooky adventure places family duty alongside questions about death, memory and letting go.

This is a tender, nature-centred story about a boy’s bond with a seal and his grandfather. Its strongest offering is emotional range: delight in the sea sits alongside physical danger, disappearance, the grandfather’s absence and the passage of generations.

A romance about two teenagers navigating disability, belonging and pressure: Ellie confronts ableism after leaving her Deaf school, while Jackson faces frightening bodily changes and demanding expectations. Their connection is presented alongside anger, uncertainty, compassion and questions of self-determination.

A character-led YA novel about Deaf identity, changing schools and deciding how far to trust new people. It offers a perspective on agency, communication and inclusion, alongside friendship and romance.

A thoughtful contemporary romance about finding ways to communicate, with disability, anxiety, friendship and family relationships treated as substantial parts of the story rather than simple obstacles.

This is an emotionally focused story about adapting to sudden deafness while holding on to music, friendship and ambition. Sophie’s route is not simply about returning to her old life: it involves discovering different ways to experience music and confidence.

This is a determined young protagonist’s story about completing personal ambitions while navigating a prosthetic leg, a lost friendship, school travel and the gap between online presentation and lived difficulty.

A detailed garden-year book that blends children’s activities with practical information. Its pleasures are observation, making and growing together, supported by illustrations, recipes and ideas that can extend beyond the page.

This is a serious, emotionally intense YA novel about three girls whose connection begins in a suicide pact and develops into mutual support. Its hopeful direction is accompanied by continuing struggle rather than an easy cure.