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A horse-centred story about a foster teenager offered another home and a chance to build trust, alongside Christian themes and practical horse-related back matter.

This is a sports-centred story about competing loyalties: Alex wants to concentrate on baseball, while his relationships and Matt’s return complicate the season.

As the second book in the Divergent trilogy, this continues Tris Prior’s story.

This is a contemporary-feeling story about a teenager whose hopes for a pivotal school year are disrupted, leaving her to reckon with guilt and changed relationships.

A supernatural murder mystery combines a deadline, school secrets and Taylor’s effort to secure justice for a former bully. The plot also introduces the possibility of romantic feelings.

The collection offers seven distinct food-character stories, with recurring opportunities to discuss behaviour, self-image and how people relate to others.

This is a family story about pressure to forgive, changing identities and Joey trying to hold on to his own judgement amid unsettled plans.

A brisk, playful fairy-tale mash-up centres on a resourceful girl whose petty theft has consequences. Expect magic, mischief, action and uncertainty about which characters can be trusted.

Expect an imaginative fantasy journey centred on a brother and sister. Alongside crystal landscapes, unusual characters and confrontations, the book explores family strain, inner fears, courage, forgiveness and finding a sense of home.

This is a horse-centred mystery-adventure about Hailey, her friend Elaine, and Freedom, a foal with unusual connections to the past. Suspense grows through a disappearance, a dangerous flood and a threatening adult figure.

This is a reflective family story about a child adjusting to a parent’s imprisonment, a confession that changes her understanding, and relatives whose lives have moved on. Its central interest is emotional change rather than action, with forgiveness presented as part of Glennis’s eventual development.

This is a teen romantic comedy built around an awkward reunion, travel chaos and the possibility of moving beyond heartbreak. Expect a light, mishap-driven premise rather than a detailed account of every emotional development.

This is a lively historical novel about sisters navigating an emotionally distant mother while encountering Black Panther community work and racial injustice. Its strongest offering is the combination of distinct girl characters, family complexity and a child’s perspective on a changing society.

A tense young-adult family drama about a private history becoming public. Its strongest stated features are suspense, emotional pressure, and questions about belonging, loyalty, and whether a relationship can survive betrayal.

A myth-infused fantasy about a prince whose calling demands endurance and difficult choices. It offers sustained attention to character, family and moral responsibility, with reconciliation and forgiveness emerging alongside grief, danger and questions about divine power.

This is a character-led story about a child whose unusual familiarity with funerals does not protect her from grief, friendship strain or difficult choices. Its tone combines humour with sadness and emotional upheaval.

A fast-moving ensemble mystery combines threats and secrets with friendship, romance and personal change. Its strongest appeal is likely the continuing Bayview relationships and the question of who is targeting the group.

Choose this for supernatural intrigue, Korean folklore, a slow-developing romance and emotionally complicated family relationships. It combines action and mystery with characters who struggle with guilt, isolation, attachment and difficult choices.

A direct, encouraging guide for young men, combining personal experience with advice about identity, education, friendships, family, money and sexual behaviour. Its strongest offering is a supportive mentor voice addressing difficult social pressures.

A lively comic adventure that may make reading feel playful and social, especially through visual storytelling, absurd humour and drawing prompts. Its energetic action and deliberately rough language sit alongside kindness, loyalty and forgiveness.

This is a grief-centred coming-of-age story that uses sharp humour alongside painful family loss. It offers a gay teenager’s perspective on guilt, friendship, emotional connection, filmmaking and beginning to imagine life after bereavement.

This is a family-centred coming-of-age novel about unanswered questions, changing relationships and choices under medical pressure. Its emotional seriousness is moderated by humour, warmth and sympathetic characterisation.

This is a fantasy comic about belonging, hidden identity and courage, combining school life with battles against other-dimensional enemies. Its Christian storyline gives forgiveness and new life a prominent place.

This is a serious, emotionally charged story about a boy seeking acceptance and a grandmother carrying painful memories. Its Zimbabwean settings and two connected personal histories foreground prejudice, fear, guilt and forgiveness.

This is an emotionally tense story about two former friends facing grief and guilt after a tragedy. Its alternating viewpoints offer different perspectives on damaged trust, private struggles and the possibility of moving forward.

This is an urgent science-fiction adventure with horror elements: invasive plants threaten communities, while three young people investigate why they are unaffected. Alongside survival, the opening gives attention to illness, self-image, friendship and family relationships.

A serious, emotionally concentrated verse novel about family knowledge, loss and self-definition. Its strongest appeal is likely for readers who welcome reflective relationship-centred fiction rather than spectacle or elaborate genre mechanics.

This is an emotionally serious coming-of-age novel about love, forgiveness and family connection. Its shifting possibilities invite readers to consider how different choices might change relationships, while the central family situation gives the romance additional weight.

Read this as a warm, symbolic conversation between an adult and child about making a life together. Concrete building, imaginative journeys and emotional “tools” sit alongside ideas of protection, hope and forgiveness.

This is an imaginative, politically charged fantasy for readers interested in languages, dragons and morally complicated loyalties. Vivien’s translation work opens onto family upheaval, rebellion, class divisions and a war whose human and dragon costs are visible.

A hopeful, character-focused magical-realism story about friendship, grief and coming of age, combining tender romance with secrets, mystery and the pressure of a strictly limited second chance.

This is a powerful but deeply distressing story about a child enduring abuse and isolation, with friendship providing moments of refuge. Its suspense comes from the gradual disclosure of what happened after.

This is a family-centred journey through Harlem and African American heritage, with Amara trying to understand her roots while adults confront an old estrangement. Expect warmth and humour alongside grief, family tension and moments of uncertainty.

This is an emotionally direct coming-of-age novel about friendship, group identity and social division. Its first-person voice invites closeness while leaving room to question how Ponyboy understands and presents the people around him.

A tense, idea-led story about an AI-created relationship, shaped by grief, family rupture and revenge. It offers momentum, twists and ethical questions, while character development and some connections may feel less fully developed.

This is a supernatural family drama about a dead teenager’s unexpected return and its consequences. It offers emotionally serious reflection on grief, regret, identity, memory and the possibility of repair.

This is a contemporary identity-and-relationships novel centred on the effects of an unwanted public outing. Its emotional focus is Felix’s response, alongside friendships, romance and questions of trust, forgiveness and revenge.

This is a lively but grief-heavy coming-of-age story: boarding-school camaraderie, pranks and desire give way to questions about guilt, responsibility, idealisation and how little one person may know about another.

A vivid island adventure about two grieving girls whose hostility gradually becomes friendship. It combines mystery, ocean danger and village traditions with sustained attention to apology, forgiveness, cultural understanding and learning to live with loss.

This is an action-led historical mystery about resilience, friendship and justice. Vita’s perilous journey through Roman London and the gladiatorial world combines family upheaval, betrayal, disguise and vivid historical atmosphere.

A summery island setting frames a mystery about friendship, family and a missing part of Clara’s memory. The story appears to combine exploration and emotional discovery, with its central truth deliberately held back.

This is a warm, socially focused story about a child questioning expected crushes and trying to preserve friendships. It offers room to discuss belonging, queer self-discovery, honesty and the possibility that friendships can change without ending.

This is an emotionally layered YA novel about two Muslim Somali girls whose difficult family circumstances bring them together. Its central movement is from resentment and isolation towards understanding, with school, faith, culture and community shaping their experiences.

This is a humorous friendship story about inventing words, receiving attention, feeling jealous and trying to repair a damaged relationship. Its ancient setting also invites curiosity about language and inventions.

A dramatic fantasy about grief, loyalty and political change, following Roa as she weighs her people’s freedom against love, family and the chance to recover her sister. Expect emotional conflict, magic and intrigue more than sustained action.