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A family birthday pirate show is disrupted by missing items and Poppy’s injury.

Tilda chooses to keep an unexpected egg warm and protect it.

This combines sisterly family life and growing up with vampire appetites and danger. Its central tension includes the sisters’ effort to avoid feeding on people.

This is a serious story about a teenager navigating disrupted care, mental-health difficulties and treatment. Tentative connections with other young people sit alongside a troubling crossing of therapeutic boundaries.

This is a socially engaged play in which a beggar’s protest sets a fantastical condition for the park’s community. Its central concern is how people treat those living in poverty.

A school-and-horses story about ambition, belonging and building trust with a guarded pony. Malory’s hopes for her future at Chestnut Hill are tied to whether she can bring out Tybalt’s potential.

This is a story about a bereaved teenager seeking a way forward through street performance. It places Ally’s hopes alongside the instability of foster care and life on the streets.

The book brings Christian Bible stories into Daisy’s adventures, linking what she observes to forgiveness and the love behind gifts. It may suit a family looking for story-led engagement with Christian ideas.

A high-school social comedy built around a choice: KJ is urged to trade her kindness for popularity with a boy she likes.

A horse-rescue story runs alongside a mystery: Jas grows attached to Shadow, then investigates a clue about his identity. The plot also places her in a new foster home.

This collection moves between animal encounters, sharing, and a small festive delivery adventure. The three separate plots may offer variety, though the brief outlines leave much of each story’s development unknown.

A branching adventure invites readers to make choices between a Paris trip and a space journey with talking pets. Its appeal is imaginative play and deciding which route to follow.

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

This is a light-sounding animal story built around a wedding-day task: getting two playful dogs ready to take the rings down the aisle.

A horse-centred story about adapting to demanding riding training, competition and change in Ashleigh’s life.

This historical fiction centres on an older brother's responsibility for a younger sibling, while religious conflict and a werewolf belief shape the danger around them.

These poems offer a portrait of an important friendship: Blue shares time, conversation and everyday pleasures with Damon, while Damon works out who he is.

This fantasy follows Rage as she tries to protect two worlds from an endless winter linked to a powerful Stormlord and other people’s despair.

This is a family-and-adventure story about teenage werewolf siblings balancing school and sibling relationships with a threat to the woods they secretly use.

This is a fantasy adventure centred on two siblings investigating a possible cure for ill dragons. A hatching dragon and a cryptic diary give their quest both a caring purpose and a puzzle to solve.

This is a cadet adventure built around a real training mission, with competition and self-doubt alongside a high-stakes decision about responding to danger.

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

A school mystery adventure built around friendship, a scavenger hunt and a puzzle, with wordplay and geometry woven into the search.

The story pairs Flora’s ambition to become a ranger with fantastical dangers and a threatened city. Her efforts to help a friend and uncover family revelations add personal stakes.

A school-and-friendship story centred on Lucy’s place in her group, with her friends’ public exploits providing a contrast to her private fear.

A horse-and-school story about a child who cares deeply about art and wants to support her grandmother's effort to benefit the school's arts programme.

A warm family-centred story built around the Baby-Sitters’ effort to give mothers a break.

A series of separate adventures centres on familiar animal friends and Christopher Robin, with episodes involving a house-building, a new arrival and a game.

This is a friendship story about two girls whose different circumstances shape how they approach making friends. Their meeting brings companionship and change into both their lives.

This blends magical sea creatures with a story about caring for an injured Aquicorn and deciding how a town should live alongside the sea. Family support and Lana's growing independence also matter.

This is a fairy-tale-inspired school adventure centred on Gilly’s effort to help her younger sister. Its setup combines familiar storybook figures with a reform-school predicament.

This historical story centres a servant's perspective on a pilgrimage, giving attention to the labour and hardship behind the travellers' religious journey.

The book combines learning about horse care and showing with friendship and a look at problems in the competition world.

A fable told through a basket’s role in one family’s life, linking everyday work with changes across generations.

A fantasy quest centres on a girl whose unusual ability to understand dragons may help her find a way to aid someone she loves.

This is a supernatural romance-and-horror story in which a dangerous, addictive substance threatens Kaylee’s friends and draws her and Nash into trying to stop its spread.

A warm, practical introduction to life with a new baby, centred on the older child’s perspective and combining information about babies with ideas for helping and playing.

This is a light adventure built around a teen taking responsibility for babysitting and finding the evening less straightforward than expected.

A dystopian story about a brother who questions the beliefs enforced by his society, and the consequences for him and his sister. It foregrounds the conflict between individual doubt and state authority.

This is a supernatural adventure built around a mystery: Salt and Pepper must work out who Stephen Beecombe is and what help he needs.

This is a fantasy adventure built around a music festival mishap and a search for a missing magic note. Its mix of friendship, fairies, music and make-up may appeal to readers who enjoy playful, magical problems.

Kieran wants to fit in at school, but his cousin Bon becomes a target for teasing. Kieran must choose between acceptance by the other children and standing up for Bon. The story also involves jealousy, family secrets and unexpected kindness; how these strands develop or end is unclear.

This is a fantasy adventure built around a stranger whose martial arts set him apart in a magical world. The contest and his unexplained origins provide the central mysteries.

This is a family-and-cousins story about trying to connect across different expectations, with a misunderstanding that strains the relationship before Kanani makes a caring effort.

This is a Cinderella-like retelling centred on Rose's bereavement, her attachment to her mother's garden, and her difficult relationship with a stepfamily who take control of her home.

This is a supernatural suspense story about Jane’s encounter with a threatening presence from the past, with her young aunt taking on the struggle to protect her.