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The two stories offer a fantasy adventure centred on ninja facing a new threat and a separate challenge involving Zane. The volume is designed to be turned over to read the other story.

This is a quest-led adventure centred on a young character taking on responsibility for his community. Expect fantasy dangers and battles to be part of the journey.

This is a high-stakes fantasy adventure built around teamwork, magical objects and opposing forces. Its fourth-in-series position means some character relationships or earlier events may already be established.

This combines sibling bickering and mysterious happenings with a fantasy battle. The brothers’ rivalry becomes a practical obstacle when danger calls for them to act together.

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 fantastical adventure pits three friends against a cereal company’s world-taking scheme, with goblin impersonators, faeries and a journey through a space-time rift. The friends aim to rescue the Queen and halt an invasion.

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

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

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 fantasy about cats on a dangerous journey, with a parallel thread of upheaval at home. Prophecies, different beliefs and whether the cats can help their Clans shape the central conflict.

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.

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.

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

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 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 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 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 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 space-adventure story pairing a missing-crew mystery with a cadet-in-danger situation. Data’s search for identity gives the external crisis a personal dimension.

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.

This historical story centres on Esther’s place in a royal court and the danger facing her people. It combines a threatened community with a possible romance.

A fantasy adventure shaped by divided loyalties, perilous plans and the prospect of war, with the brothers’ relationship under strain.

This is a fantasy quest story centred on Four Winds, a young warrior trying to save his tribe. The journey involves a spirit horse, hostile forces and a dangerous final adversary.

This is a humorous Minecraft fantasy built around a looming threat, friendship and action. It may suit a child seeking a familiar game world, silly situations and a fast-moving battle rather than realism.

A fast-moving horror mystery places two newcomers inside a cheerleading squad beset by danger. Its central appeal is suspense: the sisters must work out what is happening while the threat to the team escalates.

A lively family adventure pairs a serious kidnapping situation with comic sibling behaviour and improvised plans. The children’s contrasting personalities drive much of the story, especially during their confinement and attempts to influence or outwit their captors.

A lively fantasy adventure built around two very different twins: Myles plans and analyses, while Beckett acts instinctively and communicates unusually well with nonhuman beings. Their complementary strengths drive a chaotic struggle involving magical creatures, powerful technology and determined enemies.

Expect frontier adventure built around a group of young companions, their mission, wilderness travel and encounters with enemies.

This is an intense historical coming-of-age novel about Nora’s attempt to find a future while danger surrounds her home and neighbourhood. Its period detail, family conflict and social history offer substantial material for discussion.

This is a fast-moving disaster story centred on children confronting a hurricane’s danger, while also carrying family worries, illness and efforts to reach or help people and animals.

This is a brisk child-centred mystery in which Benjie’s enthusiasm for spying and Pete’s protective actions help uncover burglaries. Suspense comes from the family’s vulnerability and Benjie’s capture, while humour and animal loyalty soften the danger.

This is an energetic animal-fantasy adventure about belonging, travel and collective resistance. Its lively cast, music and narrow escapes may appeal to readers who enjoy high-stakes action alongside playful invention.

A fast-moving detective adventure set around an extreme theme park, combining sabotage, undercover investigation, skateboarding and danger. The central mystery may appeal to readers who enjoy action, clues and continuing series storylines.

This is a tense survival adventure built around separation, environmental danger and competing attempts to reach safety. Its strongest through-line is how young characters organise, protect more vulnerable people and respond to threats.

A festive princess adventure turns from anticipation of presents to responding to theft and hardship. Its central movement is towards generosity, practical help and a Christian understanding of Christmas.

A brisk school mystery centres on Frank and Joe’s teamwork as they confront a secret team culture built around intimidation. Expect investigative momentum alongside uncomfortable scenes involving captivity, assault, threats and reputational manipulation.

A fast-moving Hardy Boys mystery combines exploration, investigation and danger. Frank and Joe follow the mystery of a swallowed statue into tunnels and an abandoned underground city, where a criminal group threatens Bayport.

A fast-moving supernatural mystery about a lamp, an underground tomb and a struggle against unleashed evil. Expect occult imagery, threatening forces and adventure, alongside a style that may feel familiar and a plot judged predictable.

This is a gothic teen romance about an outsider drawn to a mysterious family, with a vampire question at its centre. Its main appeal is atmosphere, romantic fascination and a story about finding belonging beyond surface judgement.

A sports mystery built around a strained friendship, team pressure and an investigation into threats and sabotage. The buried-treasure connection adds historical intrigue, while danger raises the stakes beyond the football pitch.

A fast-moving survival adventure places Sam and Delphy in immediate danger from wildfire while their developing friendship becomes central to their effort to reach safety.

A richly imagined quest about grief, loyalty and finding meaning in a strange new world. Talking animals, folklore, riddles and snowbound landscapes create wonder, while the busy plot may reward patient reading.

Expect a relationship-focused supernatural story in which Lindsay weighs a publicly declared mate against an intense attraction to someone else. Her decision is complicated by expectations from her family and community.

This offers a lively quest built around an inexperienced performer, an unusual travelling companion and a widening circle of allies. Humour, peril and court intrigue sit alongside questions of courage, usefulness and inherited expectations.

This is a comic dystopian adventure about pupils navigating bullying, cliques, shortages and an unsafe society while trying to use intelligence and teamwork. Expect absurdity alongside ominous circumstances, including bombs, danger, spiders and threatened schoolmates.