When seventeen-year-old Sam, who has cerebral palsy, is once again excluded from a class trip because the school bus is not wheelchair accessible, he decides to start a fundraiser to raise money for an inclusive bus. While the bus may be the catalyst for this story, what unfolds goes far beyond any fundraiser.
Twelve-year-old Leonie is a force to be reckoned with. Having escaped the clutches of the wicked Wishmaker Institute, she finally feels free; her magic no longer caged, she begins to become an everyday girl.
Set in Nova Scotia, during a seemingly endless winter, A Million Tiny Missiles draws on the author’s experience of growing up as a neurodivergent child in a small town in the Canadian province. Central to the narrative is the relationship between the narrator, a neurodivergent fourteen-year-old, and his older brother, who has fallen into a life of addiction and criminality. They live with their policeman father, and part-time teacher mother, whose relationship is showing the strain of the challenges facing them.
A well-paced, and engaging paranormal YA which draws on folklore, The Binding Spell explores a family moving to the country sometime after losing their mother. Their father’s grief has led to the parentification of Morgan, the protagonist, who has a deep sense of duty to her family, and in particular her two youngest siblings, Callie and Wulf. Her rebellious brother Johnny, however, has reacted differently, rejecting the responsibility and engaging in risky behaviour.
Loosely based on the visit of an Indian Maharaja and his daughter to Queen Victoria in 1852, Nush is a strong and independently-minded princess who doesn’t understand why she can’t inherit the crown from her father. She also doesn't understand why the British East India Company continues to invade and plunder the Maharaja’s kingdoms
The little town of Cowslip Grove seems to be safe and orderly, full of neat gardens and tidy streets. That is, until two mismatched friends, Levi and Kat, discover a dark and terrifying secret beneath the surface: children are going missing, and nobody even realises it. Everyone—their family, their teachers, their friends—has forgotten they even existed!
In Hollow-in-the-Marsh, a village where reading and writing are frowned upon, we meet six sisters whose futures are being shaped by fear and superstition. Life is full of hard work for Willa, Grace and Freya and their three younger sisters. All six live in fear of their obsessively superstitious father, and with their mother gone, their futures seem hopeless.
Orla Carson has closed herself off from the world when her Ma died. All she wants is to be left alone in her garden with her horse and the plants whose whispers she understands. But when a mysterious illness comes to the village of Thorn Creek and the blame is cast on nature and the wild, she must leave and embark on a journey in search of a cure. With only her Ma’s book of plants and remedies as a guide, she must begrudgingly team up with Idris and Ariana, who are hunting for the cure for their own reasons.
Aarti and Aunt live in a state of anxious self-sufficiency on Aunt’s Scottish island. Aunt apparently rescued orphaned Aarti, and took her to safety away from ‘a world full of bad, cruel things.’
When Ajay, a young Mumbai orphan, realises his dream of becoming a journalist - thanks to an abandoned printing press and the help of his friends in creating their own paper - he uncovers political corruption which threatens the city's slum dwellers.
