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An imaginative prequel built around two brothers’ discoveries and journeys, with identity and the history of their land among its mysteries.

This is a late-series instalment built around a continuing quest: characters seek the eleventh Gear and race towards the Dream Gate as the larger story nears its end.

A fairy-tale fantasy centred on a princess who is adventurous and clever, with a forbidden story and a trapped evil being setting the adventure in motion.

This is a family-centred fantasy adventure: Birdie discovers a connection to fairy godmothers and travels to Aventurine to address a problem involving a broken talisman and a spreading shadow.

This is a peril-filled journey home, followed by a return to a household changed during Odysseus’s absence.

A family visit to an art-gallery party turns from a dull-looking outing into an adventure. The story’s central appeal appears to be comic mischief and seeing an ordinary event differently.

A fantasy adventure pairs a determined squire with a schoolboy unexpectedly cast as a prophesied paladin. Their quest centres on a dragon, a magic key and learning to cooperate.

A playful, fantastical premise turns an ordinary kitchen task into an adventure with siblings.

This is a fantasy quest about retrieving a final relic, with danger, an unexpected revelation and trouble affecting the neighbourhood. The central goal is clear, but the outcome is not.

A fly’s search for food provides the story framework, while words in Tamazight and English offer a language-sharing element.

A space-opera adventure centred on Han and Chewbacca, set just after a major Rebel victory. Their hopes of collecting a reward and settling debts sit alongside the Empire’s continuing effort to find the rebels.

A missing-parent mystery drives a time-travel adventure. Sam’s journey includes historical settings and a practical challenge: finding what he needs to get back to the present.

A classroom adventure uses a magical bus to explore how the cardiovascular system works, blending a fictional outing with science content.

This pairs a high-achieving student’s school ambitions with mythic adventure, placing a modern teen and the Monkey King in the same story.

This is a fantasy adventure built around a mistaken trade, a journey to set things right and a frozen kingdom. The central predicament leads Rudi and Susanna Louisa into danger.

Expect a gadget-led spy adventure in which young members of a secret organisation use science and technology to pursue a dangerous plot across several countries.

Expect a fast-moving adventure built around invention, exploration and competing deadlines, with a second challenge involving an aquarium and rare deep-sea species.

This is an adventure story set against a family bereavement: Chad, Kate and their father try to build a new life while travelling for their company.

The title suggests daring adventures, and the children’s-fiction listing points to a young readership.

This combines an adventure beyond home with an interactive sticker task. The story’s practical goal is to help Clifford with a carnival contest and get back to his family.

Expect a short, illustrated superhero adventure centred on Superman’s powers, courage and attempts to protect people or a place. The precise setting and sequence of events remain uncertain.

This combines historical adventure, time travel and family mystery. Its emotional centre is two siblings trying to make sense of divorce, relocation and separation while pursuing clues across centuries.

A light, episodic collection built around SpongeBob and his friends, with comic, sea-themed situations ranging from neighbours and school-like monitoring to valentines, fame and a rocket.

This is a compact retelling of Luke’s journey, supported by striking early concept art. Its unusual strength is the pairing of familiar story material with visual designs that show how the Star Wars world developed before the films were finalised.

This appears to offer a Mars adventure centred on Belle, family provision and friendship, with an imaginative city setting and unspecified dangers. Because the detailed account names Tharsis City rather than simply Redworld, treat the plot identification cautiously.

Choose this for a child drawn to imaginative adventure, airborne fantasy and unusual inventions. The central appeal appears to be entering an extraordinary kingdom rather than following a realistic everyday story.

Expect a cat-centred adventure that combines fear, monsters, friendship and comic mischief.

Expect invention-led space adventure, with a striking premise involving matter being broken apart, transported and reassembled.

This offers playful, episodic adventures about managing nerves, disappointment, friendship and unexpected problems. Its appeal lies in Splat’s comic mishaps and recognisable feelings, while the ending of each story may vary in clarity.

A truck adventure about an older worker facing replacement by technology, then potentially proving valuable when a newer vehicle is stranded. Its central appeal is machinery, action and a question of purpose.

A comic fantasy mystery built around unusual weather, an imprisoned uncle and a determined group of friends.

This is an imaginative, peril-filled adventure about children confronting witches, water orcs and punkchopgoons in cottage country, sometimes aided by a giant. Expect mystery and fantasy, but not a clear account of the ending or resolution.

This is a fast-moving flight narrative that combines danger, travel and comic mishaps. Its central perspective brings migration, residence in Germany and fear of deportation into an adventure about an unlikely friendship.

A lively historical adventure centred on Nell’s resourcefulness and her relationship with Aunt Kitty. Investigations, disguises, humour and puzzles drive the story, while family mysteries and the realities of loss add emotional weight.

This appears to concern wholehearted love, risk-taking and the idea that love can be approached consciously. It may particularly interest readers drawn to questions about strong feelings and their consequences.

A whimsical journey follows Olive as her beloved hair outgrows ordinary ways of managing it. The central appeal is imaginative problem-solving: she explores striking possibilities while looking for a place where both she and her hair can belong.

This offers a historical-fiction setting involving Jerusalem, knights and the fictional Pagan Kidrouk. It may suit a reader curious about medieval worlds, but the available details do not show how the story handles conflict, belief, orphanhood or crusading.

A family travel adventure blends historical learning with folklore. Readers follow the Johnson children through historic coastal places, while Bobby faces danger and the children also take part in a crabbing trip despite knowing they should not.

A sweeping historical adventure centred on Hekja’s resourcefulness, loyalty and determination to find a place in a world shaped by raids, journeys, service and competing forms of leadership.

This offers a period adventure shaped around romance: a young woman encounters pirates, wartime danger and competing visions of her future. The emotional centre is her choice between security and risk.

This is a mother-search story shaped by longing, reunion and uncertainty, balanced with playful cat adventures. Its mysteries range from ordinary household questions to explorations beyond home, giving the emotional storyline a curious, companionable setting.

This is a Halloween mystery built around competition, investigation and adventure.

Expect a child-centred fictional story shaped by imaginative play and visual scenes. Jamie appears in adventurous roles, but the available details do not establish the complete storyline, tone or resolution.

This appears to offer supernatural fantasy associated with teenage girls and folklore-inspired elements.

A lively, imaginative visit combines a public setting, friendship and a touch of rule-breaking. The book may work especially well as a shared read-aloud, with pictures and rhythm supporting discussion.