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At its heart, this is an adventure about belonging and moral choice, asking whether someone can be defined by their parentage or by their own actions.

A fast-moving finale combines mythological adventure with questions of identity and belonging. Its emotional centre lies in characters confronting painful memories and deciding what they owe to friends, communities and the wider world.

This offers gothic fantasy, imaginative magic and a strong twin-sister relationship, with family secrets and romantic restrictions at its centre. The story also leaves the sisters facing an ancient curse, supernatural peril and difficult choices.

Expect a historical adventure centred on Sally and Roger, their mother’s efforts to protect gold, and the threat posed by approaching British forces. The book also foregrounds family loyalty, courage and a woman taking charge.

A horse-centred story about returning home, changing relationships and deciding whether to remain with a familiar life or pursue an uncertain new opportunity.

Expect a high-stakes resistance story centred on loyalty, oppression and difficult choices. Its speculative world includes a plague’s aftermath, time-travelling operatives and a society controlled through medicine, walls and surveillance.

This sequel combines supernatural adventure, nineteenth-century London, a love triangle and moral choices about loyalty. It offers determined female characters and selfless friendships, alongside mature romance, substance dependence and violent confrontations.

This is a fast-moving historical adventure centred on a young protagonist navigating war, captivity and divided loyalties while trying to protect her family and home.

Expect fast-moving fantasy adventure: Emily and her friends train, discover powers and attempt a dangerous rescue while war approaches. Family tensions and questions of trust sit alongside battles and emotional uncertainty.

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 clue-led historical adventure about a young protagonist acting under pressure to help her imprisoned father. It offers travel, ancient objects, a companionable magpie and a mystery that links art and evidence.

This is a reflective historical fantasy combining medieval life with an Arthurian story seen through a magical stone. Its strongest appeal is Arthur’s search for identity, belonging and a future of his own.

A suspenseful story about a teenager carrying adult responsibilities while secret activities and threatening communications pull her into another person’s scheme. Expect twists, uncertainty and a morally complicated power dynamic rather than a straightforward adventure.

This offers an atmospheric supernatural mystery centred on mortality, family loyalty and a young woman questioning restrictive social expectations. Its emotional appeal lies in Gothic tension, romance and Signa’s developing self-understanding.

A fast-moving mystery about a child trying to clear her father’s name, with computer crime, family pressure and danger. Victoria’s intelligence, courage and persistence drive the investigation.

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.

Choose this for a fantasy adventure rooted in family love, storytelling and legend. Its quest structure offers momentum, while stories within the story invite attention to how tales shape courage and understanding.

This is a family mystery built through letters and remembered events. Its emotional centre is Lynnie’s attempt to understand her parents and grandparents without assuming that a troubled family past fixes her identity.

A tense mistaken-identity mystery centred on Cathy, who is publicly identified as a missing relative. Family members and an FBI agent seek answers, while Cathy faces competing claims about who she is and whom she should trust.

Expect a fast, high-stakes superhero science-fiction adventure centred on six teenagers, crowd-dependent powers and a new threat that tests their loyalties, identities and leadership.

This is a dark, fast-moving fantasy about a young man caught between government power, organised crime and intimate loyalties. Its strongest offering is sustained moral uncertainty rather than simple heroes and villains.

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

This is a historical family-and-identity story about Jane negotiating divided loyalties while seeking independence. War, romance and personal courage place her between competing claims about home, family and who she wants to become.

A lively mystery with a threatening edge, told through Bowser’s investigation of a break-in and the unresolved death of Birdie’s father. Its appeal appears to lie in clues, danger, unusual characters and the dog’s protective role.

A fast-moving fantasy adventure about Max and her winged adopted family, combining rescue, escape and battles with questions about experimentation, loyalty and whether a young person can carry a world-changing purpose.

This is an imaginative, high-stakes adventure about a teenager whose family history and future may be altered by time travel. Its appeal lies in movement across cultures, eras and legendary worlds, alongside a developing romantic connection.