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Caroline B. Cooney
This is a character-led family story balancing humour with poignant questions about divorce, remarriage, family reputation and growing into a more compassionate understanding of oneself and others.
Nelson Suit
This is an imaginative animal quest centred on a missing mapmaker, an unlikely travelling group and encounters beyond home. It offers adventure alongside ideas about kindness, cooperation, friendship and following one’s own heart.
Lorraine Carey
Gertie is pressured to behave badly before the ball, seeks instruction from fairy-tale villains, and instead forms an alliance with the Wolf. The story playfully questions who is truly good or wicked.
Eva Howard
A fast-moving historical adventure places a young protagonist between friendship, justice and danger. Its Robin Hood setting is paired with questions about hunger, power, reputation and what makes someone a hero.
Sarah Henning
A playful supernatural mystery about reputation, friendship and suspicion, with a popular witch at its centre. It offers magical-school atmosphere, social drama, a murder investigation and romantic tension rather than a purely cosy school story.
Bill Cameron
A tense mystery about a foster-care survivor whose efforts to build an independent future are threatened by suspicion after a classmate’s serious injury. The story places questions of trust, reputation and responsibility alongside Joey’s struggle to grow up.
Ann Rinaldi
This is a family-centred historical story about confinement, freedom and feared inherited illness. Its child narrators place responsibility, secrecy and uncertainty inside a household shaped by Sarah’s distress and Patrick Henry’s public reputation.
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