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A suspense-led story about Scarlett piecing together an obscured childhood while facing the people who want her returned to their group. Romance is part of the premise, alongside danger and questions of trust.

A lonely boy and a curious new friend explore a mansion and try to stop someone stealing a long-lost family treasure.

Expect a puzzle-led adventure with travel, rival teams and historical mysteries, rather than a quiet standalone story. The search also touches on the Cahill siblings’ parents and the circumstances of their deaths.

This is a family-secrets story about a young person tracing her origins and Jewish heritage across a journey from Ontario to Germany.

A school project draws Haley into a mystery involving her family’s past, a haunted glove and possible vampire activity. Alongside the supernatural investigation, she is grieving her cousin’s impending death and adjusting to a changed family.

A historical coming-of-age story about Donata’s attempt to claim more freedom and learning within a noble family’s strict expectations. Her excursions bring her into contact with Venice’s Jewish community and poorer residents, as well as questions about her family’s future.

Tally’s pursuit of a musician tied to her family past leads her to Maddy and a love that unsettles her assumptions. Family secrets and questions of identity sit alongside friendship and supernatural elements.

This illustrated family-history story traces Jewish roots through generations and connects them with African-American and Geechee heritage. A recurring Friday-night candle-lighting tradition remembers the family’s Jewish ancestry.

A sibling-centred historical story combining middle-school pressures and family strain with interest in space and the Challenger mission.

This combines a rhyming Christmas story with a hands-on cake-making tradition, so it may suit families who want an activity to accompany the reading.

A young orphan finds herself in a mysterious family home, where ghosts connect her present to Colonial-era romance and intrigue. The story also includes a romance of Peggy’s own.

This is a mystery about art and family history, with Theo’s search unfolding alongside financial pressure and the effort to make connections with others.

This adventure combines a pursuit in Havana with a family-history mystery and a threatened Florida treasure. Its plot spans several settings and strands rather than following just one quest.

A family story built around a famous aunt, a previously unknown cousin and an old rift between siblings. The children’s curiosity brings them into their parents’ unresolved history.

This is a suspenseful mystery built around Charity’s restricted life, her unexplained condition and a dream that seems connected to a hidden part of the house.

This is a family story about a child trying to understand her past while spending time with a seriously ill mother. It also brings Kati to a decision about whether to meet her father.

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 combines an adventure about surviving natural disaster with Zoey’s family-history questions and hopes about her parents. The two diary voices offer a way into both girls’ experiences.

This is a dystopian story about Rhine seeking answers while facing a life-threatening virus, tangled relationships and the consequences of a resistance movement.

A supernatural mystery combines a ghost’s warning, which makes Alexander a hero. Uncle Miles knows the secret story behind the ghost, whose body must be dug up and laid to rest.

A fast-moving historical time-travel adventure links haemophilia, gene therapy and the Romanovs’ fate through a journey between 1916 and 2010.

A family story brings Jewish history into a conversation between a daughter and her father, with a prayer book linking his childhood experience to Ruthie’s discovery.

Expect a high-stakes time-travel adventure in which recovering the right keys matters as much as deciding which people Kate can save.

A fantasy adventure that connects a rescue quest with a journey through Halloween’s past and the question of what the celebration means.

This is a wish-and-mystery story centred on a teenager adjusting to a family move, with romance and supernatural elements in the mix.

This is a family-centred story shaped by Valena’s experiences and the stories she hears about earlier generations. Its linked episodes range from striking natural events to ordinary family life.

A fast-moving mystery follows Tandy as she investigates alongside her effort to clear her brother. Its suspense also comes from her fear that she may match the killer’s targets.

A family curse and a bargain with a faerie queen set up a fantasy about loyalty under pressure. Fenella's promised freedom depends on destructive acts against the family she wants to protect.

An imaginative prequel built around two brothers’ discoveries and journeys, with identity and the history of their land among its mysteries.

This illustrated story pairs a child’s imagined Old West adventure with time spent listening to his grandfather, while drawing attention to Black history.

This is a family-history journey told by an adopted girl, with migration and travel across Canada at its centre. Place names also serve as vocabulary, so the story has a clear language-learning element.

A family story of bereavement and unsettled relationships is entwined with a time-slip mystery rooted in Welsh history and the legendary bard Taliesin.

A fantasy adventure about siblings displaced by a castle’s magical towers, with a griffin, wizards and a lost community entangled in an old dispute.

A child and her rag doll provide the viewpoint for a family’s connection to the Civil War, linking domestic life with a major historical period.

A family move opens Kathryn’s eyes to struggles in her Métis relations’ lives, alongside a local mystery involving a Highwayman. The story combines family discovery with an apparent attempt to pin a crime on him.

A fantasy adventure combines fairy magic and exploration with a journey into a historic hurricane. The lighthouse and its keeper’s work bring a real-world historical setting into the story.

A family saga shaped around baseball links individual lives with changing American life. The nine-inning structure offers distinct family stories rather than one continuous account of a single protagonist.

This is a mythological quest centred on Nico and Will, combining supernatural danger with a relationship under strain. Nico’s grief and experience of being outed are part of his background.

This combines historical adventure, time travel and family mystery. Its emotional centre is two siblings trying to make sense of divorce, relocation and separation while pursuing clues across centuries.

A cross-generational mystery unfolds through Henni’s investigation and emails with Leo. Alongside puzzles and friendship, the book examines migration, prejudice, belonging and the pressure placed on people whose home is questioned.

This is a concise, illustrated Christian biography combining life events with Calvin’s writings, ministry, theology and sixteenth-century setting. It includes personal relationships, bereavement and illness, while presenting Calvin within a distinctly Reformed understanding of church history.

A dark Tudor fantasy finale centred on magic, danger and strained relationships.

This is a reflective recovery story about memory, identity and relationships. Olivia’s attempts to reconstruct her past bring questions about whether remembered experience, present feeling or other people’s accounts should define who she is.

This memoir offers a candid account of surviving sexual assault, rebuilding a voice and turning lived experience into writing, while widening the focus to consent, rape culture and other survivors’ stories.

Choose this for a reader who enjoys brisk fantasy quests, pirates, magic, monsters and loyal friendships. It is especially suited to someone willing to follow an ongoing series rather than expect every thread to settle at once.