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This is a family-and-team story about Blair trying to choose what is right while facing hazing and uncertainty about whether his brother will support him.

This is a sibling story about Bernard’s interest in clothes design and the difficulties that follow when other children mock him. Sara is concerned about helping without worsening the situation.

This is a varied comics collection, moving between character-focused episodes, childhood material, bedtime rhymes and broader adventures.

A peril-focused fantasy adventure follows siblings facing a curse, dwindling supplies and a threatening discovery.

This is a family-centred story about Keysha’s response to her mother’s return and her brother’s romantic pursuit, with danger complicating the relationships.

A lively contest drives the story: the children try to raise money and earn a choice connected with the Strawberry Festival.

This is a light adventure built around a teen taking responsibility for babysitting and finding the evening less straightforward than expected.

This is an adventurous historical novel that places two vulnerable siblings amid harsh nineteenth-century poverty. Its fast-changing journey offers suspense, vivid Manchester settings and questions about family, survival and social change.

A school-based friendship story with a comic, consequence-focused episode. EllRay’s attempt to secure companionship creates an awkward situation, making the book useful for discussing how a plan can affect another child.

A fast-moving detective adventure set around an extreme theme park, combining sabotage, undercover investigation, skateboarding and danger. The central mystery may appeal to readers who enjoy action, clues and continuing series storylines.

This is a historical story about children managing family responsibilities and practical work during a storm, while also facing uncertainty about illness, separation and an immigrant family’s future.

Expect a high-stakes resistance story centred on loyalty, oppression and difficult choices. Its speculative world includes a plague’s aftermath, time-travelling operatives and a society controlled through medicine, walls and surveillance.

This is an adventure-led environmental story in which children respond to pollution, encounter wildlife and learn about protecting habitats.

A playful premise drives a story about wishes producing unexpected results.

This is a child-centred horror adventure built around a frightening dummy, sibling behaviour and uncertainty about whether Slappy has become alive. It offers suspense without establishing the full outcome.

A fast-moving fantasy adventure combines an unusual underground world with a serious rescue mission. Its strongest appeal is likely the combination of sibling care, loyal alliances, prophecy and difficult choices during conflict.

This offers a gentle coming-of-age story about finding a voice, resisting people-pleasing and building trust through friendship and romance. It also brings family relationships, music, social media and a disconnected summer setting into the same narrative.

This is a brisk, high-stakes heist adventure centred on twins discovering one another. It combines family secrets, friendship, escape and fantastical moonstones, with plot momentum taking priority over detailed character development.

A fast-moving portal fantasy about twins, family upheaval and an urgent search to protect two connected worlds. Its imaginative creatures and action may appeal to fantasy readers, though the crowded narrative offers limited clarification of characters and events.

A suspense-led Star Wars adventure about siblings trying to escape capture while their family remains separated. Its central appeal is the combination of peril, space exploration and a shared rescue goal.

This is a fast-moving survival adventure rooted in Welsh landscapes and folklore. Its emotional centre is a sibling group dealing with danger, responsibility and questions of belonging while trying to protect one another.

This is an action-led coming-of-age story about a troubled child entering an extraordinary spy-training organisation. It offers perseverance, teamwork and personal change alongside danger, bereavement, coercion and language some families may wish to discuss.

This is an ocean fantasy about two siblings seeking their vanished father while discovering a second world and a changing connection to the sea. Mystery, magic and family feeling drive the adventure.

A gripping island survival thriller combines puzzles, geocaching and competition with escalating horror. It offers capable friends, shifting loyalties and personal revelations, but includes graphic and disturbing material.

This is a clue-led historical mystery with an active young protagonist, a strong seaside setting and a family crisis at its centre. It offers atmosphere, teamwork and a determined character whose limb difference is part of her life, not the whole plot.

Expect an intense crime thriller about grief, anger and the pursuit of revenge. The brothers face secrecy, hostility and danger while investigating their sister’s death, with an unsettling atmosphere and a strongly action-driven climax.

This is an adventurous, suspenseful environmental dystopia about siblings resisting control and learning what the wider world contains. It combines survival challenges with wonder, family loyalty and questions about freedom.

A two-strand adventure contrasts Connor’s life among pirates with Grace’s confinement aboard a vampire ship. The supernatural setting creates mystery, while the twins’ determination to reunite gives the story its emotional centre.

A visually detailed, comic family story about welcoming a new sibling whose faulty arrival creates escalating household disorder. Cathode’s practical intervention helps restore order, while the final “TWINS!” discovery leaves the family facing another surprise.

This is a tense, gritty coming-of-age crime thriller, but its world also includes warmth, humour, teenage banter and nuanced relationships. Expect mystery and danger alongside questions about loyalty, identity and belonging.

A coming-of-age story about identity, belonging and disclosure, balancing painful social pressures with friendship, family love and romantic possibility. It offers a queer Mexican American protagonist whose choices are shaped by school, faith and immigration-related family separation.

A humorous diary novel about starting a new school, managing friendship changes and feeling self-conscious while family life also shifts. Drawings and comic mishaps give Lottie’s worries a light, accessible presentation.

A historically rooted survival and migration story, centred on siblings whose loyalty persists through violence, poverty, separation and an unfamiliar culture. It offers substantial scope for thinking about belonging and family responsibility.

A strongly atmospheric horror adventure centred on a young carer who must recognise danger, face frightening experiences and reconnect her family after bereavement. Its emotional focus is grief and resilience as much as supernatural menace.

An energetic adventure about clever siblings confronting secret tests, technological danger and a world-scale threat. Its strongest appeal is likely momentum: trials, gadgets, mystery and high stakes, alongside questions about responsibility and confronting fear.

A warm but potentially emotionally charged story about a neurodivergent teenager responding to unfairness, protecting her sister and challenging a culture in which bullying can be enabled by silence.

This is a family-centred coming-of-age story about trying to help people you love while recognising that their problems may exceed your control. Humour, winter and school performance sit alongside serious pressures.

This is a quest fantasy about siblings facing separation, magical danger and inherited family trouble. Its appeal lies in Fairyland, nature-linked magic, riddles, storytelling and a movement from grief and hardship towards courage and hope.

This is a family-centred coming-of-age story: Katy’s energetic adventures give way to pain, dependence and gradual change. Its strongest appeal lies in a vivid household, an imperfect heroine and a sustained focus on how relationships respond when ordinary life is disrupted.

A warm set of everyday adventures about brothers whose activities include helping at home, spending time with friends, caring for family, and engaging with their local environment.

A wartime adventure about loyalty and protection: Ronnie is troubled by his brother’s secret work for dangerous people, while bombs fall on London and the boys face choices about whom to trust.

This is a thoughtful, wistful fantasy about a child resisting change. Its strongest appeal may be the combination of village detail, imaginative uncertainty and emotional honesty, while its pace and melancholy mood may suit readers who enjoy reflective stories.

A warm sibling-centred collection in which a very young girl’s curiosity and mischief drive comic family episodes. It offers recognisable domestic situations, while some incidents may invite discussion about consequences and other people’s boundaries.

Marya and Georgi set out alone after their parents are arrested and separated. Their route towards Siberia brings danger, uncertainty and encounters with people who may help, while Marya’s narration follows the strain of caring for her younger brother.

This is a coming-of-age story about curiosity, family expectations and finding a possible direction in life. Calpurnia’s observations of animals and microscopic life connect scientific discovery with questions about independence and being a girl in her time.