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This is a school-and-monsters adventure built around ghosts and a brewing battle. It also brings back creatures from earlier books, so familiar series characters appear alongside the new crisis.

Sam’s attachment to print clashes with a proposed online school newspaper, and she learns her best friend supports the change. The story also follows Sam’s school-paper interests and her budding crush.

Billy’s bond with Kes gives him a focus and a chance to show knowledge and skill. Around that, the novel depicts a troubled household, school bullying and corporal punishment, against a background of limited opportunities for working-class children.

The appeal lies in the contrast between Lily’s ordinary challenge of being the new girl and Daisy’s extraordinary magic. Their sibling relationship sits at the centre of this comic fantasy.

A school competition, strict boundaries and mysterious island details set up a fantasy mystery. Anne’s search for the reason she was admitted becomes entangled with the school’s hidden rules and the possible danger to people she loves.

The mystery centres on seven students’ attempt to keep their school running after two deaths. Clues include antique coins and a sound heard in the garden; the students also fear the killer may strike again.

Expect a collection of linked student perspectives rather than one continuous account, with relationships and emotional change at its centre.

A school prank sets off the search for a misplaced borrowed object. Alongside that thread, the book gives space to school routines and sport, especially cricket.

This is a school-and-friendship story about a girl making music, zines and a place for herself while negotiating rules and fitting in.

This is a school-set murder mystery about the fallout from a violent clash between two students. Its six boy narrators offer different perspectives as friends and enemies face loss, suspicion and racial tensions.

A school story about a teenager who feels out of place and is troubled by her weight. When her supportive teacher is removed from school, Marcy joins a campaign to bring her back and finds confidence in using her voice.

Expect a school-based mystery alongside friendship and family dynamics, with acting and celebrity culture in the background. The central puzzle concerns missing photographs and suspicion falling on a newcomer.

Follow Erich as ordinary concerns give way to exclusion and hardship under Nazi rule. Alongside the discrimination, the story includes friends and neighbours who remain loyal despite the risk.

This is a festive fantasy adventure centred on missing Snowball, a baby Bigfoot. The children balance school and sanctuary responsibilities as they try to help, with mythical animals and winter weather part of the setting.

This is a story of two brothers on the run, with skateboarding, a search for family and wilderness survival shaping their journey.

This is a baseball-centred school story about ambition meeting competing responsibilities. Roy wants to impress a future high-school coach, while his academic difficulties, tutoring and strained relations with teammates complicate that goal.

A paranormal school story brings together Arianne’s ability to see the dead, her feelings for Niko, and a Reaper’s code. An accidental loss and its possible consequences put their relationship and Arianne’s survival under pressure.

Mia faces a mixed reception in Genovia: her fashion sense is applauded, while her position on public parking meters meets resistance. Royal lessons and politics sit alongside cancelled dates, Algebra and her struggle to stop biting her fingernails.

A talking cat leads Zeke from everyday family and school difficulties into an eccentric underground fantasy, with zombies, spies and other unusual characters. The mix promises comic adventure alongside the pressures of home and school.

This is a cycling road-trip story about three schoolmates whose public journey brings friendship and national attention. Its plot combines social-media fame with self-acceptance and humour.

This fantasy adventure follows Charlie as he enters a school for people who fight monsters. His unusual power, new friendships and a dangerous portal bring the threat from his nightmares into a struggle involving his family and Earth.

The story follows Melissa as she seeks the role of Charlotte in her school play and, with Kelly’s help, makes a plan to let others know who she is.

At its centre is Jamie’s effort to hide his sexuality and the experimental drug he hopes will change his attraction to boys. His choices also affect his connection with Celia and the people closest to him.

This is a romance set against conflict between African American and Somali students. Rodney and Jawahir’s relationship brings questions of loyalty and social division into the foreground.

The book considers why young people in America kill one another and offers safety advice for neighbourhoods and schools, as well as suggestions for coping with surrounding violence.

Grace and Arthur lose their schooling to mill work, while Sunday lessons and their letter to the Child Labor Board offer a route to challenge the situation. Lewis Hine’s photography brings attention to their lives.

Clifford’s dog-school lessons lead to comic mishaps, but his value is not measured by how well he follows commands. The story turns on his helping Emily Elizabeth when she is in danger.

A brisk school mystery built around a missing cello, a firm deadline and Chase’s hopes of joining the orchestra. Expect clues, red herrings and a school-day race against time.

Art is Perry’s favourite activity, and drawing gives him a way to express what he finds hard to say. The competition creates an opportunity for that communication.

Use it to introduce school-related social skills through an A-to-Z structure; the adult section offers ideas for supporting the transition.

This historical supernatural story combines Gemma’s visions and the spiritual world with boarding-school life, strained belonging and an unsettling mystery around the young man following her.

The appeal is in a lively, wayward hero whose choices propel a string of comic and perilous adventures. The book also offers a clear thread of advice about behaviour and responsibility.

Katie’s move and efforts to make friends place her first-love experience within a wider story of adjusting to a new school and family life.

A warm, everyday school-and-family story follows Ramona through friendship, spelling struggles and the adjustment to a baby sister, with both awkward moments and small successes.

A school story about balancing newspaper work with a crush, friendship disagreements and a wish to try gymnastics.

A family story about Floss’s choice to live with her father, whose failing café brings financial strain and upheaval. School friendships add another thread, and the ending is open rather than fully settled.

A broad tour of India featuring photographs combines places, wildlife, history and culture with details about family life, food and the economy.

Sticky notes spread around the school, carrying both friendly and cutting messages.

This blends a supernatural undercover mystery with school identity, family changes and relationship concerns. Its appeal may lie in watching a goth protagonist navigate cheerleading as well as vampire-slayer duties.

This is an ensemble story of affluent teenagers whose spring-break plans bring friendships and romantic relationships into contact. The plot moves between Sun Valley and Manhattan.

This is a teen romantic comedy about trying to repair a relationship after a mistake, set in a school where gender and sexuality norms are unusually playful.

This is a contemporary Alice-inspired story that mixes a hospital setting with dreamlike memories, friendship and an unsettled question about finding a way back.

A queer teen romance about second chances, changing behaviour across social settings and the uncertainty of deciding whether to trust someone again.

A character-focused story about anger, consequences and learning to accept help, with a human–animal bond at its centre. Iris’s work with dogs brings her into contact with animals and people facing difficulties.

This is a school-and-family story about coping with upheaval and trying to start afresh.