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This is a puzzle-led mystery with a spooky turn: Elizabeth explores a remote hotel, works with Freddy on codes and wordplay, and encounters curses, unsettling phenomena and an evil ghost. Personal histories include bereavement and mistreatment, while the story stresses kindness, trust and resisting evil.

A tea-centred fantasy of competition, palace intrigue and family devotion. Ning’s search for a cure gives the plot emotional urgency, while brewing, tasting and reading ingredients become ways to investigate danger and negotiate power.

A tense story about girls seeking safety and belonging under Sol’s control. As new relationships and demands unsettle the cabin, the book follows questions of loyalty, selfhood, survival and whether protection can become coercion.

A thoughtful friendship story with a suspenseful edge, this novel explores how exclusion, secrets and personal circumstances can affect relationships. Its three narrators encourage empathy, though bullying and isolation may merit preparation or discussion.

A gripping, humane mystery follows Ayrton, Stanley and Sen as family secrets bring them together. Its emotional centre is friendship: the three young people face very different pressures while trying to understand adults and their own identities.

A lively, twist-filled family adventure built around magic shows, vanished landmarks and a journey to Las Vegas. Middy’s practice contrasts with Nathan’s showmanship, giving the cousins different ways to face trouble and uncertainty.

A suspenseful story about a teenager carrying adult responsibilities while secret activities and threatening communications pull her into another person’s scheme. Expect twists, uncertainty and a morally complicated power dynamic rather than a straightforward adventure.

This is an imaginative family-and-adventure story about how feelings, books and language can shape relationships. Its fantasy premise sits alongside a contemporary refugee storyline, offering both playful invention and social questions.

This is a wintry supernatural story centred on fear, hidden knowledge, family responsibility and romantic choice. Its appeal is likely to come from an ominous setting and a heroine drawn into a world she has tried to avoid.

This is a magical rescue story set alongside a child’s difficult response to a parent’s remarriage. Its most distinctive idea is that solving the immediate problem involves both a vision of the future and forgotten memories.

This is a fantasy rescue adventure centred on Molly’s search for missing turtles. Its main appeal is likely the combination of mermaids, ocean imagery, animal-keeping and an urgent mission, with danger supplied by Carlotta’s guards.

A lively summer plan becomes a story about concealed feelings, friendship strain and learning to treat oneself with greater empathy. Disability, race and sexuality are central to Andrea’s life without being presented as obstacles to her belonging.

This appears to be a comic space adventure centred on a penguin crew, exploration, rescues and a former comrade who becomes an opponent. A secret decision involving an egg introduces an unresolved complication.

This is a friendship-led camp adventure built around trying to help a distressed counsellor. Expect a puzzle, secret planning, a magical element and an escapade involving another camp.

This is a school-set story about two very different friends who hide in an imaginative private space. Discovery brings adult authority into conflict with their choices, while the boys respond differently to increasing pressure.

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.

This is an imaginative adventure about twins caring for an unusual school pet whose transformation creates secrecy, practical problems and suspense. Its appeal lies in the playful dragon premise and the question of how the twins respond.

A school mystery driven by uncertain friendship: Chanti suspects Bethanie is hiding the truth, then searches for her after she disappears with Cole. Romance and amateur sleuthing compete for Chanti’s attention.

This is a child-centred mystery involving whale strandings, a potentially endangered baby whale and a foster relationship marked by uncertainty. Its central investigation appears to connect environmental danger with the need to gain trust.

This is a story about private writing, family expectations and a journey that does not go to plan. Owen’s efforts to control the situation meet questions about honesty, responsibility and his granddad’s changing behaviour.