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Expect a lively pirate-themed adventure blending time travel, historical-seeming encounters and references to classic pirate stories.

This is a choice-led scare story: the reader decides what to try, and the route can lead to different endings. That structure may suit a reader who enjoys making decisions while reading.

This is a comic animal-detective adventure built around an investigation, a mistaken accusation and a race involving a lost city and treasure.

A humorous adventure with a Western setting.

Three linked adventures feature Stampy and friends: an interrupted outing, Barry’s castle rumour, and a forest escape involving guards, flaming arrows and dangerous mobs.

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 playful premise pairs sibling detectives with fantastical communication: one talks to animals and the other to insects. It may appeal to readers who enjoy mysteries with an imaginative twist.

This adventure combines a pursuit in Havana with a family-history mystery and a threatened Florida treasure. Its plot spans several settings and strands rather than following just one quest.

This is a coming-of-age story centred on Joel’s private nighttime adventures and the changing bond with his father. Its appeal may lie in the mix of mystery, independence and family adjustment.

This is an animal-character adventure that pairs challenges and friendship with reflection on helping others. It also includes love, loss, fear and loneliness.

A humorous comic novel follows Aldo’s attempts to make a dull January more interesting, from trying unfamiliar hobbies to skiing with his brother. A recurring Hawaiian dream also draws his attention away from everyday life.

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 combines a family-discovery story with glimpses of wartime life, including perspectives beyond the RAF pilots.

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

A magical quest story built around a contest for a powerful talisman, with Jackie’s setback prompting a secret plan from Uncle.

Luvli has an idea about who is causing trouble in Monstro City and must try to stop Dr Strangeglove and his Glump-a-tron.

This is a clue-led adventure that shifts from a family day out to a more serious hunt, with Disneyland, hidden treasure and the Disney legacy at its centre.

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 is an adventure shaped by a harsh, depleted landscape, with resourceful twins pursuing a mysterious treasure. The discovery at the journey’s end complicates the promise of a straightforward gold-hunt.

This blends a child’s worry about a missing parent with a story-within-the-story about Marco Polo. The historical adventures give Mark something absorbing to follow while he waits.

Expect a comic adventure built around a family held hostage by pirate cats, with light suspense and lively visual presentation rather than a purely realistic story.

This is a fantastical rescue adventure in which a group’s journey becomes difficult and unpredictable. Akiko’s decisions and ability to cope in an unfamiliar place are central to the outline.

This is a school-and-circus story about fitting in and trying to contribute when you lack an expected skill.

A friendship-led story contrasts Cornelia’s retreat into books with the lively travel stories of her neighbour. It may appeal to readers who enjoy imaginative adventures shared through conversation.

This is a summer story about Jane seeking adventures beyond her immediate family. The episodes include Bible deliveries with a pastor, babysitting, a balloon ride and encounters connected with her mother’s past.

A child-centred fantasy built around imaginative journeys and the possibility of learning more about friends, family and oneself. Its appeal seems to lie in wondering where the wall might lead.

This is a Star Wars adventure centred on Luke Skywalker and a lost Jedi temple, adapted from an earlier story by the same author.

A magical-adventure collection centred on a wish-granting chair, with Mollie and Peter travelling to unusual places and encountering a pixie, a giant and a magician.

This is a story of friendship under strain, told through three girls’ distinct summer challenges: family expectations, an aspiration tied to thinness, and a family coping with bereavement and divorce.

This is chiefly a hands-on puzzle book: the appeal is tracing paths through pirate-themed mazes rather than following a conventional story.

This is a character-led story about a young girl whose experiences include a summer camp trip. Muffy, her little dog, is part of her adventures.

This is an interactive space adventure: the reader takes command, makes choices and follows the resulting path through a mission to protect planets.

This is an animal-led adventure built around a search for missing friends, with courage and wit tested by a difficult mountain journey.

This is a contemporary thriller about craving adventure, taking a risk and discovering that a promising escape may be dangerous.

This is a myth-based fantasy adventure built around a striking reversal: a god must navigate the modern world as an ordinary teenager. Its premise combines Greek mythology with quests and action.

A Halloween ghost mystery combines with a robbery investigation involving the girls’ friends, giving the story two cases whose clues may intersect.

This is an animal adventure about an unexpected change of setting and Bernie’s effort to return to a familiar city routine.

A moon-bound fantasy adventure combines September’s wish for change with friendship and a high-stakes task.

A lively fairy-tale adventure pairs a hair-related magical mishap with a mission to protect Grimm Academy, featuring Rapunzel and familiar fairy-tale friends.

This adventure novel centres on Johnny, Kaspar and Johnny’s new friendship with Lizziebeth, an American heiress.

A dog-centred adventure pairs an unlikely companionship with Fritz’s military past, including a tour of Iraq. The story also introduces a hurricane and trouble in the dogs’ town.

A Batman-themed bedtime story links familiar evening preparations with a little superhero's imagined-sounding city adventure.

Expect imaginative, nonsensical fantasy built around Alice’s encounters with unusual characters, rather than a realistic adventure.

Expect a comic mystery-adventure built around a threatened family home and a question of truth, rather than a purely realistic account of property disputes.

A frontier adventure about three companions pressing on towards home, with new encounters and a secret they carry.