What Are You Looking For?

A wilderness adventure about Matt’s wish for solitude, his new acquaintance with Forrest, and the choices that arise as their relationship develops.

This is an adventure about a missing young horse, a search across rugged country and two sisters’ wish to establish their place there. Tracking and horse-riding are part of the search.

This is an eerie mystery built around ghostly children, a prophecy and clues that Jim must interpret. The stakes are presented as serious: the overview says innocent people may die if he fails.

This is a comic adventure built around a holiday, an unusual dog-led mission and danger from a crocodile and hunter. The humour includes farting-dog jokes.

A linked collection of love stories, it ranges across family ties, relationships and community life, rather than following one central plot. Its situations include both comic passion and serious family and wartime pressures.

This is a supernatural school story in which Rose balances friendship and romantic complications with escalating danger. A winter trip becomes a rescue mission after three friends leave to face the Strigoi threat.

A crime thriller about witnessing violence, living under police protection and trying to build a new identity, with athletics and relationships also part of Joe’s changing life.

This is a crime mystery built around a team investigation, an unusual pattern of killings and a code to decipher. The stakes rise as the investigators get closer to an answer.

A school dance troupe’s journey becomes a story of friendship and helping a young prince in danger, set against the threat of Nazi persecution in 1939.

A piano competition provides the setting for a mystery involving threats to finalists, sabotage and blackmail, alongside Ted’s romantic interest in Nancy.

This is a speculative story about survival under strict social rules, centred on a young protagonist whose unexpected choices bring serious stakes.

A magical-object adventure becomes a search for treasure and answers, bringing together Rabé and Benja. The story also promises a mystery tied to the suitcase’s former owner and a past accident.

This is a speculative mystery built around Janelle’s return from death, an FBI investigation, and a countdown that may signal global catastrophe. Romance adds another tension to her attempt to discover what is happening.

This is a mixed-format character annual: stories sit alongside colouring, posters and puzzles. It may suit a reader who enjoys dipping between reading and activities rather than following one continuous narrative.

This is a relationship-led mystery about missing-person rumours, trust and deception. Kalah’s feelings for Beth are set against a friendship group shaken by Beth’s disappearance and Britney’s death.

This is an animal-survival adventure told through a young wolf’s journey, with family and the natural world among its stated themes.

This is a detective-style mystery centred on Marika’s efforts to understand the unusual attention surrounding her new friend. The appeal is likely to be the puzzle and its successive twists.

This is an adventure of a soldier adapting to an unfamiliar world, with a captive princess and the possibility of romance.

The story follows CC as she considers her future, guided by an ancient book, alongside children from different backgrounds. Its historical notes may add context to the adventure.

A high-profile friendship group faces pressure around reputation, secrecy and risk, with a death before graduation signalled in the premise.

This is a suspenseful underground adventure, combining a missing-child predicament with mystery, treasure and a hazardous journey towards home.

This combines an adventure about surviving natural disaster with Zoey’s family-history questions and hopes about her parents. The two diary voices offer a way into both girls’ experiences.

This instalment centres on Hok’s search for a sense of self, alongside a dangerous rescue mission. Martial arts action and cooperation between the young monks are prominent.

A school adventure with a mystery at its centre, the book pairs animal-focused fantasy with Sunday’s ambition to carry on her father’s path.

This fantasy combines a family mystery with political intrigue, following Kassia from precarious market life into flight and danger. Her discoveries concern both her father’s disappearance and her own sense of worth.

This is a comic fantasy adventure built around a treasure-seeking expedition, with Borgon and friends needing help to enter a ruined temple and facing hazards along the way.

This historical story centres on Young-Wolf’s suspicion of Kirkland and his growing uncertainty about the missionary’s teachings.

This is a Hardy Boys mystery built around investigating sabotage on a film set in India. Its action includes threats involving explosives, machetes and a cobra.

This is a fast-moving detective adventure combining a family crisis with threats to people and the natural world. The Hardy brothers investigate several dangers while trying to reach their father.

A wartime mystery combines family separation, village rumours and a coded message, with Jill trying to work out whom she can trust.

This is an adventure about learning a demanding warrior’s way while facing pursuit and fear. Jack’s training and the frightening ritual give the story a strong focus on courage under pressure.

The premise sets competitive BMX racing against an urgent request from a friend. Jake’s choice brings together loyalty, a potentially dangerous errand and the hope of helping someone who is dying.

A survival adventure places a young character in the path of a real volcanic disaster, drawing on the contrast between her familiar mountain surroundings and sudden danger.

This is a paranormal summer romance with a suspenseful edge: Samara’s attraction to Caleb sits alongside her suspicion that he may be dangerous. The story also places her loved ones under threat.

This is a supernatural horror setup built around a childhood game turned genuinely dangerous. The central tension combines a threatened life with a relationship disrupted by a rival's possessiveness.

A science-fiction comic about a newcomer living with the fallout of another person’s past behaviour, while a dangerous object puts her in peril.

This is an adventure built around a shift from exploration to an urgent rescue mission, with climate change and Greenlandic culture among the expedition’s stated interests.

This is a fantasy adventure about a newly adopted child who discovers a hidden connection to his family’s past and chooses to help someone trapped in another world.

Three sisters discover that a spell has given each of them a different power, drawing them into a conflict with a warlock who wants those powers.

This is a character-led story about a mouse seeking a place to call home, with art, nature and friendship woven into its historical setting.

This is a clue-led adventure: the sisters pursue a family mystery, and their determination to unmask their enemies drives the investigation. Expect suspense alongside the puzzle.

A camp mystery drives the story, with Sam and Ally following clues while friendships and threats complicate their search. The mountain setting is part of the adventure.

A supernatural fantasy finale built around Grace’s attempt to protect people she loves, with a romantic storyline and urgent, potentially catastrophic stakes.

A fantasy quest puts a timid sister in an unfamiliar role: seeking a cure while facing dangers she feels unready for. Sisterly devotion and the search for courage are central.

The central thread is a mission to recover archives and avert an attack, with interstellar travel and an unfamiliar species adding science-fiction elements.

This is a horse-centred adventure about a young stunt rider, film work and a search after a frightened horse escapes during travel.