No and Me by Delphine de Vigan

To escape her home life, Lou goes often to Gare d'Austerlitz, where she sees the homeless, meets a girl called No, only a few years older than herself, and decides to make homelessness the topic of her class presentation. Bit by bit, Lou and No become friends until, suddenly, No disappears...

Themes: Paris, social issues, homelessness, friendship

Safiyyah’s War by Hiba Noor Khan

War comes to the streets of Paris and Safiyyah's life changes for ever. Her best friend's family have fled, and the bombing makes her afraid to leave the mosque where she lives. But when her father is arrested by the Nazis for his secret Resistance work, it falls to Safiyyah to help out the Jews seeking sanctuary.

Themes: WW2, Islam, Paris, friendship, bravery

Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell

Everyone tells Sophie that she was orphaned in a shipwreck - found floating in a cello case on the English Channel. But Sophie is convinced her mother also survived. When the Welfare Agency threatens to separate her from her guardian and send her to an orphanage, Sophie takes matters into her own hands.

Themes: Paris, family, friendship, adventure, survival

Everyone tells Sophie that she was orphaned in a shipwreck - found floating in a cello case on the English Channel. But Sophie is convinced her mother also survived. When the Welfare Agency threatens to separate her from her guardian and send her to an orphanage, Sophie takes matters into her own hands.

Themes: Paris, family, friendship, adventure, survival

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

For Marie-Laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazes. The miniature of a Paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way home. The walled city by the sea, where father and daughter take refuge when the Nazis invade Paris. A future, which draws her to Werner, a German orphan...

Themes: WW2, family, Paris, survival, friendship, hope

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

In the heat of the French summer of 1910, young Englishman Stephen Wraysford arrives in Amiens to stay with the Azaire family. But soon a secret passion emerges that threatens to destroy the household. Six years later, Stephen finds himself on the Western Front with civilization itself in the balance.

Themes: WW1, France, war, family, love, survival

Taylor Blake Is a Legend by Laura Jane Williams

Taylor’s entire social life consists of her two best friends Star and Lucy, who are a couple and always together, plus her sometimes embarrassing but hilarious Grandma and Grandad. Her school is about to play host to some French exchange students - can she use this opportunity to get her first kiss?

Themes: French exchange, friendship, relationships, language

Eagle Strike by Anthony Horowitz

Teenage spy Alex is in the South of France, hoping to sever his links with MI6. But when a sudden attack on his hosts plunges Alex back into a world of violence, he soon uncovers a plan called Eagle strike – a discovery more terrible than anything he could have imagined.

Themes: South of France, spies, peril, survival

Now or Never by Bali Rai

Private Fazal Khan has been brought from India to fight at Dunkirk. However, not everyone has welcomed the help brought by the Royal Indian Army Service Corps. Now Fazal is forced to question why he is even there and why he is expected to be loyal to a king whose people don't all see him as their equal.

Themes: WW2, France, India, racism, colonialism

Private Fazal Khan has been brought from India to fight at Dunkirk. However, not everyone has welcomed the help brought by the Royal Indian Army Service Corps. Now Fazal is forced to question why he is even there and why he is expected to be loyal to a king whose people don't all see him as their equal.

Themes: WW2, France, India, racism, colonialism

Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot

Lizzie is stranded in London after breaking up with her long-distance boyfriend, so her best friend Shari invites her to join her in the South of France, catering weddings in a 16th century chateau. One glimpse of the gorgeous Chateau Mirac, not to mention the son of the owner, and Lizzie is hooked...

Themes: South of France, friendship, romance

Sky Chasers by Emma Carroll

Pierre’s family, the Montgolfiers, are desperate to be first to discover the secret of flight. Together with Pierre, pickpocket Magpie is soon caught up in a world of inflatable bloomers, spies and a trio of unruly animals in a race to be the first to fly a hot air balloon - in front of the King and Queen of France.

Themes: French history, Paris, friendship, hot air balloon

Sunny Side Up by Holly Smale

Harriet Manners knows many facts. And she knows everything there is to know about Paris… except what to do when you’re the hottest new model at Fashion Week. Can Harriet find her ‘je ne sais quoi’ or will it be ‘sacré bleu!’ on the runway?

Themes: Paris, fashion, travel, modelling

Harriet Manners knows many facts. And she knows everything there is to know about Paris… except what to do when you’re the hottest new model at Fashion Week. Can Harriet find her ‘je ne sais quoi’ or will it be ‘sacré bleu!’ on the runway?

Themes: Paris, fashion, travel, modelling

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris to join the King's elite guards, but almost immediately finds he is duelling with some of the very men he has come to swear allegiance to - Porthos, Athos and Aramis, inseparable friends: the Three Musketeers. He soon becomes part of their close band, but danger lurks...

Themes: Paris, adventure, friendship, romance, peril

Under Cover of Darkness by Pat Thomson

The Nazis have occupied France. Michel knows that there are Resistance fighters in his town and he's desperate to join them. Will his mother agree to it? With his father AWOL, she needs a man around the house. But when someone's injured, Michel gets his chance. Can he help without being shot by the Nazis?

Themes: WW2, France, family, survival

The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie

An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course. But why is the dead man wearing his son's overcoat? And who was the impassioned love-letter in the pocket for?

Themes: murder mystery, France, golf, relationships

White Lies and Tiaras by Marilyn Kaye

Arriving for her ex’s weekend wedding, Alice and her best friend Lara, their boyfriends in tow, are all set for a romantic few days in the city of lovers. But weddings have a way of shining a light on relationship issues, and it isn't long before Alice is questioning her feelings for her current boyfriend...

Themes: Paris, friendship, relationships, romance