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A lively mystery set around art, deception and relationships, with a bold young investigator at its centre. Alongside suspense, it explores artistic value, loyalty, jealousy and the difference between legal wrongdoing and deeper moral harm.

This is a compact, straightforward adventure about caring for wildlife when family work and personal convictions pull in different directions. Mystery and pursuit keep the story moving, while Maya’s choices centre responsibility, trust and competing needs.

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 reflective coming-of-age story about bereavement, family relationships, friendship and ideas of beauty. Melissa uses memories and her father’s journal while trying to understand love and decide how to live in the present.

This is a supernatural camping adventure centred on two siblings confronting a frightening creature. Its strongest offer is atmosphere: mountains, forest, a loch and an ancient cave frame mystery, family interaction and danger.

A gentle intergenerational story combines farm life, family memory and a practical challenge: a grandson helps his grandfather learn to read and write before travelling to Australia.

This is a creepy, atmospheric adventure for readers who enjoy forests, folklore, faerie magic and monsters. Its central appeal appears to be suspenseful discovery, with Pippa investigating what is watching from the trees.

This is a celebratory rhyming picture book about dads’ different skills, interests and ways of showing care, including playfulness, tenderness and resilience.

This is a historical mystery about a child navigating wartime separation, an unwelcoming household and unanswered questions. Gardens, hothouses and a Suffolk estate provide a vivid setting for secrets, suspicion and friendship.

This is a high-pressure family and sports story about twins whose ambitions, rivalry and difficult circumstances lead them towards separate dangers. It combines emotional conflict with themes of loyalty, adversity and recovery.

A brisk environmental adventure about a reluctant visit becoming a relationship with a grandad, a local stream and its wildlife. Kyle’s growing responsibility gives the story an encouraging focus on courage, care and standing up for a place.

This is a wartime story about a child whose ordinary village life is disrupted by evacuation, military preparations and a missing cat. It combines danger, friendship and a later family connection across generations.

This is a family-history story in which discovering wartime secrets changes how Liv understands her grandmother, loyalty and courage. It combines contemporary friendship worries with Jewish sisters’ separation, Resistance work, loss and rebuilding a life.

This is a reflective story about losing a familiar home and friendship, then slowly finding steadiness elsewhere. Its poem-by-poem structure gives Diana’s changing feelings room to emerge through observations, notes and everyday family moments.

This is a verse novel about a teenager living with family secrecy and the effects of her mother’s mental illness. Its central movement is towards understanding, while school, friendship, romance and art remain part of Laura’s everyday world.

This is a historical family story about fitting in, responding to school teasing and deciding whether to challenge unfair blame directed at Japanese-American friends. Its central interest lies in personal choices made amid wider wartime uncertainty.

This is a warm portal-fantasy adventure centred on cousins working together. Expect magical mystery-solving, talking creatures and family revelations, with the story placing courage, love and family bonds at its centre.

This is a historical family story about a child living with hunger, poverty and uncertainty, while Christmas highlights what the family cannot afford. Booky's spirited response sits alongside serious pressure at home.

A supernatural family mystery with a teenage protagonist, a ghostly romantic interest and difficult questions about home, school and the meaning of the past.

Winicker moves to Paris because her mother starts a new job and strongly dislikes her new circumstances.

Expect a fantastical adventure centred on a small child facing authority, isolation, and imprisonment, with family pressures and assistance from allies.