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This is a dark, suspenseful Viking voyage to Vinland, blending historical detail, mythology, magic and monsters. Peer and Hilde face deceptive adults, secrets and danger, while the story explores truth, responsibility, maturity, love, loss and longing.

This is a fast-moving survival adventure rooted in Welsh landscapes and folklore. Its emotional centre is a sibling group dealing with danger, responsibility and questions of belonging while trying to protect one another.

A fast-moving supernatural mystery about a teenager searching for her missing mother, then uncovering concealed family history and a strange inheritance. It offers suspense, folklore, friendship and a seaside setting, with the pace reportedly slowing after the opening.

A dark, atmospheric thriller combining a competitive K-pop setting with unresolved friendship, grief and supernatural dread. Its strongest appeal is likely the gradual shift from celebrity drama into psychological and body horror.

A determined girl enters a spirit world to protect her brother, recover what has been taken from her and address an enchantment threatening human and spirit communities. Folklore, gods and political conflict drive the fantasy adventure.

This offers immersive folklore, a slow-building relationship and a heroine confronting shame about her magic. It may suit readers who enjoy gothic atmosphere, complex myth-making and emotionally difficult fantasy rather than a light fairy-tale retelling.

Expect an energetic fantasy quest combining Caribbean-inspired folklore, spirits, gemstones and magical battles with a warm friendship story. The central characters face fear, grief, abandonment and morally difficult decisions while trying to protect their island.

This is a character-led story about four lonely children becoming connected. Its emotional focus is stronger than its action, with distinct voices, friendship and courage developing alongside questions about fate and belonging.

This is a supernatural survival story grounded in sibling loyalty and Filipino folklore. Its main appeal is the tension between keeping hidden, protecting a community and deciding what to believe when danger makes familiar rules unsafe.

This is a magical forest adventure centred on Hilda and Twig’s partnership. Its distinctive offer is a more active role for Twig, alongside storm sheltering, mysterious surroundings and a rescue-shaped challenge.

Choose this for a reader who enjoys horses, richly imagined landscapes, folklore and a slowly tightening mystery. Its emotional centre is a complicated family whose love and resilience coexist with absence, suspicion and uncertainty.

A fast-moving Irish fantasy about protecting a magical world from destruction, combining folklore, adventure and danger. It offers an imaginative quest while bringing contemporary concerns, including bullying and climate change, into an ancient-myth setting.

This is an intense retelling that gives a traditionally vilified woman an inner voice without excusing her actions. Its folklore, dark magic and shifting emotional perspective make the story morally complicated rather than comforting.

A lively supernatural adventure pairs comic disruption with curiosity about local history, memory and the passage of time. It may appeal to children who enjoy ghostly mysteries where the unexplained is explored through investigation rather than treated only as frightening.

A magical adventure about a reluctant heroine whose new powers arrive alongside political danger. Its strongest offering is a culturally distinctive fantasy centred on Aya’s courage, relationships and growing responsibility.

Expect atmospheric Gothic fantasy: a boy investigates unsettling events in a cold, impoverished village while family history and vampire folklore shape the mystery. The tone is menacing, symbolic and sometimes visceral.

A spirited magical adventure about a girl pursuing family answers, learning witchcraft and building friendships in Hedgely. Expect a picturesque but spooky setting, folklore-inspired creatures, exciting escapes and a heroine whose courage develops unevenly.

Expect a domestic sibling situation that leads into an English-and-Chinese retelling connected with old Chinese folklore.