This graphic novel was banned in America – but Netflix rightly snapped it up
Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper: Volume 5 continues the multi-million-selling tale of young gay love. In truth, it’s a gently-told, age-old tale
Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper: Volume 5 continues the multi-million-selling tale of young gay love. In truth, it’s a gently-told, age-old tale
Michael Foreman’s novella The Amazing Tale of Ali Pasha, rightly republished, tells of the (real-life) bond between a seaman and a tortoise
MG Leonard’s latest novel, The Ice Children, takes Andersen’s classic The Snow Queen and infuses it with quickfire prose and new characters
Nicholas Bowling's latest novel The Undying of Obedience Wellrest is a marvellous blend of supernatural adventure and teenage anxiety
Frances Moloney’s new novel is less Apple Won’t Jump than The Apparatchiks are Here – a stirring tale of a young girl standing up to power
Frances Hardinge’s novel Island of Whispers is a creepily enchanting triumph that will appeal to all age groups – bar the very young
Katherine Rundell’s Impossible Creatures begins a new fantasy series, and even in a crowded contemporary field, it’s a tour-de-force
Sally Nicholls's latest historical novel Yours from the Tower is a rewarding read for youngsters that never feels like a dull lesson
Clive Gifford is out to save children’s non-fiction from terminal decline, and he’s back with the dizzyingly informative The Book of Time
Cloudlanders, the debut novel from Christopher Mackie, is an enjoyably eccentric story full of imagination and thoughtfulness
Peril on the Atlantic, the first in a series by best-selling novelist AM Howell, is highly suspenseful and full of exciting twists
In Judith Eagle’s spry new novel, The Stolen Songbird, a little girl in 1950s London investigates her mother’s disappearance
Feminist retellings of Greek myths may be in vogue – but Bea Fitzgerald’s debut novel on Persephone still feels like a breath of fresh air
The Skull, written and illustrated by Jon Klassen, is an eerie and beautiful tale of a girl who meets a strange forest-dweller
One Chance Dance, a sumptuous but snappy novel by Efua Traoré, follows a 10-year-old who runs away to smoky Lagos on a quest
The Lovely Dark, a beguiling new novel by Oxford-educated philosopher Matthew Fox, follows a 12-year-old girl through the afterlife