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This is a historical account centred on the assassination and its aftermath, with attention to how Lincoln’s death affected the causes of freedom and equality.

This paranormal novella centres on Emily’s transition from constrained family responsibilities into a supernatural life, with grief, romantic longing and a wish for vengeance shaping her situation.

This is a relationship-focused story about two teenagers seeking change: Félix wants to turn his life around, while Frédérique wants to make choices for herself.

This is a relationship-led coming-of-age story with a serious gang-violence strand. Its central tension brings Misha’s attraction to Dwayne into conflict with her mother’s warning and Dwayne’s concealed life.

This is a high-stakes story of cooperation under threat, alongside a relationship strained by a recent break-up and betrayal.

A fantasy novel with an unusual time-based world and a forbidden romance at its heart. It may particularly appeal to readers interested in steampunk-like settings and LGBT protagonists, while its darker content merits advance discussion.

This is an inventive, fast-moving apocalypse fantasy built around Vincent’s attempt to protect his family.

This is a dramatic series conclusion built around Ella and Reed’s relationship, a murder mystery, family secrets and threats involving the law. It combines romance, danger and teenage angst, with a quick-moving plot and a reportedly sudden resolution.

This offers a plot-led fantasy involving assassination, magic, royal duty, secrets and romance. Its central appeal is the partnership between an ambitious apprentice and a highly dangerous royal agent, while the volume leaves major messages unresolved.

A dark, intense revenge fantasy about a teenager confronting sexual violence, seeking to save someone important to her and using magic that comes at a stated price. Expect horror, suspense and graphic imagery.

This is a richly imagined sequel where magical danger carries emotional consequences. Alongside romance and wonder, the story examines whether compassion, memory and mercy can interrupt cycles of violence and inherited fear.

A high-concept conclusion built around time travel, duplicated selves and a looming conflict between worlds. It offers ambitious speculation and difficult choices, but depends on intricate events and relationships established across earlier Pathfinder books.

A ghostly quest combines danger, memory and moral choices. Riley’s efforts to free her friends and other spirits give the story an emphasis on understanding rather than defeating pain by force.

Choose this for supernatural intrigue, Korean folklore, a slow-developing romance and emotionally complicated family relationships. It combines action and mystery with characters who struggle with guilt, isolation, attachment and difficult choices.

A fast-moving fantasy conclusion combining mermaid-world politics, relationship uncertainty and rescue adventure. Its strongest appeal is likely the mixture of romance, invented societies and a new community whose apparent harmony may be tested.

This is a compact, suspenseful story about a girl confronting the consequences of indifference. Its animal narrator makes a difficult conflict approachable, while the events invite careful thought about what one person can and cannot change.

A lively comic adventure that may make reading feel playful and social, especially through visual storytelling, absurd humour and drawing prompts. Its energetic action and deliberately rough language sit alongside kindness, loyalty and forgiveness.

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.

Expect a relationship-focused supernatural story in which Lindsay weighs a publicly declared mate against an intense attraction to someone else. Her decision is complicated by expectations from her family and community.

This is literary fantasy rather than a gentle fairy tale: a refuge formed after abuse becomes a setting for examining protection, secrecy and the daughters’ developing agency. Expect symbolic transformation, vivid bodily imagery and abrupt movement between beauty, humour and brutality.

A relationship-centred coming-of-age story about loyalty, reputation and self-trust, with romance and mystery around a past assault. It may suit discussion of how social approval can shape difficult personal choices.

A tense, perspective-driven school story that asks what people owe one another when violence is threatened. Its strongest material is the contrast between aggression, unawareness and choosing not to act.

This is a supernatural coming-of-age romance about Violet’s emerging powers, divided loyalties and difficult choices. Expect action, angel mythology and a love triangle, with the story told through Violet’s perspective.

A tense frontier survival adventure in which three children evade outlaws, endure severe hardship and discover treasure. It offers resourcefulness, loyalty and historical setting alongside frightening danger, bereavement and family separation.

This offers a fast-moving investigation with teen protagonists, police procedure and several connected criminal acts. Its strongest appeal is suspense, while its gritty treatment of crime may merit a parent–reader check-in.

Expect an unsettling horror story involving people whose identities and bodies are altered by an alien force. Its speculative premise also raises questions about humanity, control, pain and the cost of protecting others.

This is a tense school-set story about coercion, belonging and escalating knife-related danger. Its focus is less on glamour than on how fear, loyalty and pressure can narrow a teenager’s choices.

This is a high-stakes fantasy sequel combining a love triangle with battles, prophecy and threats to whole populations. Its strongest appeal is likely the mixture of romance, magic, creatures and extreme peril.

This is a school story about the harm caused by judging people by appearance. It offers two viewpoints on being teased and also includes a child’s difficult home life.

This is a plot-led fantasy about power, conquest and moral choice, balancing prophetic gifts and political intrigue with military training, pursuit and repeated danger. Landen’s struggle with revenge gives the story its clearest ethical tension.

This is a politically charged war thriller that gives competing state and federal positions some strength while showing how quickly resistance, loyalty and justice become morally difficult.

A bleak, high-pressure small-town horror story combining mystery, supernatural menace and survival. Its central appeal is the group of very different teenagers forced to work together while adults lose control and the town becomes increasingly dangerous.

A brisk, gadget-filled spy adventure centres on Alex’s mission against Herod Sayle. Its appeal lies in danger, mystery and implausible ingenuity; its intensity comes from repeated threats, killings and peril rather than quiet character development.

A fast-moving fantasy about siblings protecting a rare book while confronting tyranny, imprisonment and loss. Expect mystery, magical adventure and moral decisions, alongside darker material involving death, torture and violence.

This is a richly layered historical coming-of-age novel about a book-loving girl negotiating family duty, education, friendship and romance while a murder’s consequences reach into her community.

A tense, emotionally charged survival story for readers drawn to alien threats, shifting loyalties and determined characters. Its strongest human focus is on protecting others and holding on to trust when fear encourages isolation.

Expect a swashbuckling fantasy centred on a young woman trained to protect islands while facing a violent parent. Pirates, ships, political manoeuvring, romance and threatened loyalties shape the central conflict.

This is an adventurous, emotionally charged fantasy combining dragons with Cold War intrigue. It follows danger, friendship, romance and hope while confronting racism, bereavement, political violence and the destructive consequences of power.

This is a familiar supernatural romance viewed through Edward’s inner conflict. Readers receive another perspective on the same story, with loyalty and self-sacrifice set beside danger, controlling behaviour and repeated moral hesitation.

This is an emotionally serious but often humorous story about a child trying to solve an illness he cannot control. Its interest lies in Colin’s urgency, bold schemes and changing understanding of help, responsibility and loss.

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.

A high-stakes fantasy about two sisters whose loyalty is tested by liberation, empire, dragons and divine power. Expect complex political and family tensions alongside action, sacrifice and questions about who deserves protection.

This is a contained survival mystery built around seven teenagers, hidden culpability and an escalating moral game. Its central appeal is likely the pressure of deciding whom to trust while the group’s secrets gradually shape the danger.

A brief, visually striking fable about how judging groups by appearance can escalate into war. Its simple storytelling carries difficult ideas, while the final uneasy glance leaves the future unresolved.

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.