Centered on Finlay and Banjo, two boys who grew up in the care system, the debut novel explores friendship, family, class, and the difficulty of growing into young manhood. Set against a vividly drawn Glasgow backdrop, it follows how damaged relationships begin to find their way back through words.

In the streets of Glasgow, two boys begin to untangle the feelings caught between their past and their future.

This verse novel braids the myth of Theseus with a modern boy’s search for his father. Myth, family, and ideas of masculinity intersect throughout.

Mythic labyrinths meet the confusion of a modern family.

The English translation of a Welsh novel about a mother and son living after a nuclear disaster. It shows persistence and change in a ruined world with remarkable delicacy.

Even after the end, the parent-child bond keeps changing quietly.

October, a girl who lives in the woods, faces change after an accident and the return of her mother. The novel ties the feel of nature closely to the pain of growing up.

Freedom in the woods is shaken by the reality of change.

A collection of ten short stories about small events that occur on the way home from school. Although each episode is independent, the themes of urban life, friendship, fear, and hope resonate with each other and depict the growth of the characters.

A collection of ten short stories about small events that occur on the way home from school.

Brothers Nicky and Kenny face survival challenges on the North Yorkshire Moors.

Brothers Nicky and Kenny face survival challenges on the North Yorkshire Moors.

A verse novel about a Harlem teenager finding her voice under family expectations and religious pressure. In the rhythms of slam poetry, suppressed feelings gradually turn into language.

A girl who has been denied a voice rebuilds herself through poetry.

In 1727, boys and men left on a sea stac off St Kilda to harvest birds are forced to survive when no one returns for them. Inspired by a real event, the novel explores hunger, fear, faith, authority and the breakdown and remaking of community.

On a sea-bound rock, boys try to survive while fearing that the world they knew may have ended.

第二次世界大戦末期、複数の若者の視点を交互に描く歴史小説。戦火を逃れる難民の旅路と秘密、罪と生存の葛藤を追い、最終的に史上大規模な海難事故（MS Wilhelm Gustloffの沈没）につながる悲劇を描く。

第二次世界大戦末期、複数の若者の視点を交互に描く歴史小説。

Built around conjoined twin sisters Amy and Tilly, this verse novel explores family, illness, and self-determination. Its restrained language makes the emotional density of the relationship stand out even more sharply.

Two sisters who share one body are forced to rethink how each can choose a life of her own.

Set in 1910s Jamaica, this historical novel follows Alfred, a boy taken into a mounted regiment, as he comes of age. His search for a place within the realities of colonial rule gives the story its force.

In colonial Jamaica, a boy searches for where he belongs.

Set in an oppressive fictional state, this dystopian novel follows Standish, a boy who cannot read or write, as he steps with a friend toward a hidden truth. Its short chapters and symbolic images make the story of resistance and courage powerfully memorable.

A boy’s gaze cuts a path beyond a sealed world.

A tree-like monster appears to Conor, a boy dealing with his mother’s illness, and speaks to fear, guilt, and the pain of loss. Though it deals with grief, the story also presents imagination as a force that can sustain the heart.

Inside the fear is the power to give grief a voice.

The final volume of the Chaos Walking trilogy, in which war, choice, freedom, and responsibility force the young protagonists toward impossible decisions.

The explosive conclusion to the Chaos Walking trilogy.

A fantastical coming-of-age story in which a baby who loses his family is raised by ghosts in a graveyard and later faces danger in the world beyond.

A graveyard becomes a child’s home.

Set against the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the novel follows a boy who discovers a bog body and is drawn into family tensions, political violence, and buried history. It balances mystery with loss, hope, and the pressures of coming of age.

A bog body leads a Northern Irish boy into family secrets and the shadow of the Troubles.

A historical fantasy that reconstructs the Arthurian legend by foregrounding the politics of power and storytelling. Seen through a boy's perspective, the myth becomes more ambiguous and more human.

A legend changes shape each time it is retold.

A YA novel that uses emergency preparedness to explore love, death, and the fear of the future with great delicacy. Beneath the light humor, it quietly asks how to accept life itself.

A boy who prepares for everything begins to think about the shape of the future.

A wartime novel in which a young woman is drawn into family secrets, espionage, and hidden loyalties. It builds suspense from the pressure of history on identity, love, and duty.

A wartime novel in which a young woman is drawn into family secrets, espionage, and hidden loyalties.

A warm, comic novel about two brothers who find a bag of money just before Britain changes currency, then wrestle with what to do with it before it becomes worthless. Its humor is rooted in family feeling, moral choice, and a childlike sense of wonder.

A warm, comic novel about two brothers who find a bag of money just before Britain changes currency, then wrestle with what to do with it before it becomes worthless.

Ruby Holler follows twins finding love and a home in the care of an unexpected older couple.

A quiet refuge becomes a found family.

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents follows a rat-led scam about a talking cat, clever rodents, and a town under threat.

Pratchett turns a familiar fable into sly comic fantasy.

The Other Side of Truth follows siblings fleeing a corrupt regime after their mother is killed, carrying the truth with them.

The truth is dangerous, but silence is worse.

Postcards from No Man's Land follows a young man in Amsterdam whose present-day visit folds into a wartime family story.

Two timelines uncover what family has kept buried.

A boy who is coping with family crisis meets the mysterious Skellig in an abandoned garage and begins to learn about friendship, recovery, and the meaning of life.

A boy who is coping with family crisis meets the mysterious Skellig in an abandoned garage and begins to learn about friendship, recovery, and the meaning of life.

River Boy follows a boy helping his dying grandfather return to the river and finish a final painting.

Art, memory, and mortality flow together.

Lyra sets out north to rescue her missing friend in the opening novel of a parallel-world fantasy cycle.

An adventure around Dust and the alethiometer gradually opens onto the structure of the world itself.

Whispers in the Graveyard follows a dyslexic boy drawn into eerie messages and a graveyard mystery.

A quiet cemetery hides a confrontation between good and evil.

Stone Cold follows a homeless boy living on the streets of London and confronting hidden danger.

Homelessness becomes a thriller without safety.

Flour Babies follows a school science project that turns into a lesson about care, responsibility, and empathy.

Looking after babies changes the class.

Dear Nobody follows two teenagers facing an unplanned pregnancy from alternating viewpoints.

Fear, responsibility, and love collide in adolescence.

Thirteen-year-old Cassy lives with her grandmother until a mysterious late-night visitor sends her to stay with her free-spirited mother Goldie in a London squat. As she helps produce an educational wolf play with the resident troupe of actors, Cassy cannot shake the feeling that something is stalking her. Little Red Riding Hood haunts her dreams recast through her own fears. Eventually she learns the secret that has been kept from her all her life: her father is a notorious IRA terrorist. Winner of the 1990 Carnegie Medal, this gripping thriller interweaves wolf symbolism with themes of fractured family, identity, and the search for truth.

Wolves never desert their families — so why did her father leave?

Goggle-Eyes follows a family story seen through a sharp-eyed child who mistrusts her mother's new boyfriend.

A child's suspicion changes the shape of a household.

A Pack of Lies follows a metafictional novel in which stories nested inside stories swirl around an antique shop.

Truth and invention keep changing places.

The Ghost Drum follows a fairy tale of a girl trained by a witch to become a woman of power.

Power, folklore, and the dead meet in a mythic register.

Granny Was a Buffer Girl follows a family gathering that opens into interwoven stories across generations.

One evening becomes a map of family history.

A story about a girl who enters the supernatural to save her brother. Growth, romance, and fear overlap while the novel keeps a quiet tension.

Magic that sits just beside ordinary life forces a choice.

A children's novel about a city girl drawn to a summer world of motorcycles and repair work, where a light surface carries the hint of independence.

A summer holiday changes the direction of a life.

The Haunting follows a shy boy receiving frightening visions that uncover a family legacy.

Supernatural images expose what has been hidden at home.

The Scarecrows follows a teenage boy terrorized by scarecrows while visiting the mother and stepfather he resents.

Family strain turns into rural horror.

City of Gold and Other Stories from the Old Testament follows a set of Old Testament retellings that reshape familiar scripture as stories for young readers.

Ancient scripture is recast as living narrative.

Tulku follows a boy who escapes the Boxer uprising and travels onward toward Tibet with unexpected companions.

Adventure opens into travel, danger, and spiritual mystery.

The Exeter Blitz follows a child in Exeter learning how ordinary life changes under wartime bombing.

A city at war is seen through a child's eyes.

The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler follows a rebellious schoolchild whose final term at Cricklepit hides a gender reveal.

Identity is revealed only after the school term has already taken shape.

Thunder and Lightnings follows a boy settling into a Norfolk village and bonding with a classmate fascinated by RAF Lightning jets.

New places, old tensions, and the roar of aircraft.

A children's novel in which a group of children find a machine gun after an air raid and hide it while confronting wartime reality.

A children's secret turns into a wartime confrontation.

A historical novel set in the Orkney Islands, following Coll as he helps his people prepare for Roman raids.

A young man helps his community face the Roman threat.

The Ghost of Thomas Kempe follows a boy haunted by the ghost of a seventeenth-century sorcerer who wants him as an apprentice.

A ghostly apprenticeship turns everyday life uncanny.

Watership Down follows a band of wild rabbits forced to leave their warren and search for a safer home.

Survival becomes a journey across danger and community.

Josh follows a fourteen-year-old poet whose week in rural Australia turns tense and unsettling.

A quiet visit becomes a pressure-filled coming-of-age test.

The God Beneath the Sea follows a retelling of Greek myths about the creation of the world and the powers that govern it.

Creation, rivalry, and destiny unfold in mythic form.

The God Beneath the Sea follows a retelling of Greek myths about the creation of the world and the powers that govern it.

Creation, rivalry, and destiny unfold in mythic form.

The Edge of the Cloud follows a young girl determined to support her fiancé's dream of becoming a pilot.

Love and ambition rise toward the sky.

A historical fantasy built on the Noah's Ark tradition, following a journey through ancient Egypt and the desert. Its humor and mythic sweep make it memorable.

Using the Ark tradition as a starting point, the story opens out into desert and myth.

A pattern on a set of owl plates and a Welsh myth return in the present, drawing three teenagers into a tense summer.

A pattern on a set of owl plates and a Welsh myth return in the present, drawing three teenagers into a tense summer.

An adventure novel set in Darnley Mills where friendship, landscape, and a historical mystery intersect. Comic energy and real danger sit side by side.

Between hills and river, the boys' exploration widens into a bigger world.

A children's adventure novel set in the borderlands of Wales, where ancient earthworks and local lore shape the story. It joins landscape memory with a child's urge to explore.

Old earthworks and local lore deepen the children's adventure.

The 1963 Carnegie Medal winner follows a bookseller's family in 1801 London as political persecution and social unrest close in around them.

A family tries to protect its bookshop while the pressures of the time tighten around them.

Twelve wooden soldiers once belonging to the Brontë children are rediscovered in an attic and come alive in Max's imagination. As history and childhood play overlap, what seemed lost begins to breathe again inside the story.

A handful of attic-found soldiers become the moving center of the story.

The fourth Green Knowe novel follows children who encounter Hanno the gorilla and, through him, reflect on captivity, freedom, and the strange pull of Green Knowe itself.

What lies beyond the cage asks what freedom really means.

A children's nonfiction book that traces how humanity emerged, using fossils, evolution, and early human life as its guide. With illustrations throughout, it presents the transition from ancient animals to Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in clear, accessible language.

An illustrated, easy-to-follow account of human origins.

A historical novel set in post-Roman Britain that follows Aquila as he tries to find a path between revenge and renewal after losing his home. It builds the details of a war-torn age with care while quietly deepening the question of what can be carried forward after loss.

A story about not letting go of the light that keeps you moving forward after loss.

A children's biography reshaping the life of Marie Curie. It traces her scientific passion and her path as a woman researcher in an accessible style.

Marie Curie's life is retold in language that reaches young readers.

A realistic children's novel about children who join a traveling circus. The story is shaped by apprenticeship, work, and the tension of a life on the move.

Behind the circus lights, the children learn how to live.

A children's novel that follows the working-class Ruggles family with warmth and humor. Beneath the bustle of a large family, it quietly reflects class and everyday life.

The family's lively everyday life becomes the novel's own source of power.

The Swallows and Amazons children head into a moorland summer of gold prospecting and homing pigeons. The novel centers on independence in nature and the teamwork that grows out of shared adventure.

On the summer moor, exploration and discovery make the children even more free.