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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 competition-centred story that combines equestrian ambition with questions about trust, rivalry and a coach’s past.

This is a high-stakes adventure built around an unusual alternate-history premise: electricity returns to a steam-driven world, with monsters and a secret society at the centre of the danger.

A fast-moving historical time-travel adventure links haemophilia, gene therapy and the Romanovs’ fate through a journey between 1916 and 2010.

A princess befriends a visitor who has a special connection to a fierce lion. Belzékor, described as demonic, sees a way to endanger the princess, setting up a tale of peril and escape.

This is a science-inflected time-travel adventure, pairing encounters with historical scientists with a mystery involving an invention and a missing diamond chip.

This is an adventure about a trek turning into an urgent search for help. Raven’s separation from her family and difficult situation drive the story.

The adventure combines a fantastical prize, an unlikely food-making challenge and a race against another competitor. The twins’ rivalry is central, but the crisis requires them to act together.

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

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

This is a globe-spanning crime adventure centred on a heist framed as returning a jewel to its rightful owners. A supposedly cursed emerald and the crew’s failing methods add mystery and pressure.

A frightening mystery draws Alexis into investigating her sister’s unusual behaviour and unsettling changes in their house. Alongside supernatural danger, the story touches on family strain, school life and a budding relationship.

This is a supernatural fantasy centred on Clementine’s attempt to make sense of her past and her town’s troubles, with a mystery, local politics and a complicated attraction shaping the story.

This is a fantasy conflict centred on Brambleclaw’s struggle to remain loyal to his Clan while a dangerous quest for revenge unfolds around him.

A Hardy Boys mystery built around a paranormal investigation, with several possible explanations for disturbances at a juvenile detention centre. Whether the haunting is genuine remains part of the mystery.

This is a supernatural adventure built around a quest, a sudden family reappearance and an escalating threat to the community. The outcome is not stated.

This is a fantasy adventure built around a frightening dream figure, a prophecy and a young protagonist facing a threat. The story also promises secrets and magic.

A fast-moving fantasy finale combines a strained love story with questions of magical power, danger to Faerie and the effort to restore a theatre company.

A spooky mystery combines a ghostly presence and a hidden chamber with the Goodman children’s first holiday with their separated-from father. Hugh’s curiosity leads the siblings into danger.

A fantasy mystery built around Billy’s hope of finding his missing father, with a Christmas countdown, puzzles and help from his best friend.

A fantasy adventure following four bear cubs from different circumstances as their paths lead to a shared destination and a struggle to survive.

This is a branching, spooky adventure built around choices, rather than a single fixed route; readers can explore more than 20 different endings.

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

This is a fast-moving spy adventure built around a missing ring, a threatened witness list and a team of investigators. The case also touches on Dylan’s past.

This is a wartime story centred on service, family separation and friendship, with the Pacific setting bringing military danger into Hank's life.

This is a fantasy-tinged robot mystery built around an investigation and a race to avert a large-scale threat. Its mix of gadgets, magic and monster detectives may appeal to readers who enjoy those elements together.

Expect a fast-moving fantasy quest that mixes the real world with worlds from fictional books, with the Walker siblings trying to prevent a collision between them.

This is a fantasy adventure built around three people from different eras being caught in the same perilous time-travelling contest.

A gothic supernatural story blends Cynda’s uneasy place in a changed family with a mysterious guest and the haunting history of an isolated inn.

This is a family drama shaped by a child’s urgent predicament and a dog’s attempt to draw attention to it. Several households face troubles of their own.

This is a story about two bereaved companions learning to trust: Justin has lost his brother, while Max has lost his handler. Their growing bond is tied to Justin’s family life and to questions about Kyle’s death.

This is a spooky adventure built around an overnight school trip, a cave legend and friends caught in danger.

A myth-inspired fantasy adventure built around a repeating Saturday, a quest for magical runes and the attempt to awaken a group of guardians.

A supernatural mystery follows Mackenzie as she investigates disappearances that seem connected to her, while trying to regain her footing after a dangerous encounter.

This is a horror mystery built around siblings trying to understand several disappearances and a murder, with suspicion extending to someone living in their home.

This historical setting combines a family’s exile and growing danger with a developing romance. The central tension is whether Anastasia and Sasha’s bond can protect her.

This is a fantasy mystery with a romantic thread: Ileni must teach assassins, conceal her lost magic and investigate two earlier tutors’ deaths.

This is a dinosaur adventure centred on Jan and Tim following an injured Apatosaurus into a cave.

Three school mysteries featuring the same friends offer young investigators clues to follow: a missing friend, unsettling messages and an inventor who collapses. The collection mixes friendship and puzzle-solving with moments of danger.

This is a fast-paced investigation with twins Troy and Macy, clues to follow and high-stakes threats. Its central appeal is suspense and problem-solving rather than a clearly described real-world explanation of computer viruses.

A fast-moving contest story combines a hacker pursuit with Marisa’s hope of helping her family and the pressure of a tournament where winning may mean survival.

This is a family-centred street-fiction premise, with twin brothers pulled in different directions by ambition, trouble and urgent family needs. Deion’s decision is posed, but its outcome is not given.

This story combines a royal courtship contest with friendships, rivalries and growing threats outside the palace, bringing the trilogy’s competition towards its conclusion.

This is a fantasy adventure built around Meghan’s family upheaval and discovery of a magical heritage, with a war and a dangerous prince shaping the stakes.

This is a farm-set mystery about loose llamas, unexplained events and a telescope that may be watching the group. The children investigate, with Jean eventually joining the team.

This is a supernatural fantasy that places personal uncertainty and growing affection alongside a threat to Earth involving Lilith, political power and ancient objects.