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Lily’s care for Adam and her wish for independence run alongside her growing concern for Nori, a dolphin in captivity for treatment. The story brings family responsibility into tension with animal welfare and the question of release.

A family-and-basketball story: Billy is caught between his father’s expectations on court and the upheaval at home, while his brother Ben’s piano recital competes with the championship game.

A fast-moving adventure mixes cousinly competition and outdoor challenges with a science-fiction mystery about a meteorite—and what it may have brought with it.

A family under financial pressure is at the heart of this story. Jackson’s imaginary cat brings humour and companionship as he faces the possibility that his family’s housing troubles may return.

Readers follow Einstein’s life alongside explanations of his scientific contributions, with experiments and thought experiments intended to help make the ideas tangible.

Huck and Jim travel down the Mississippi, encountering scams, feuding families and difficult moral choices. Huck’s comic, vernacular narration turns their adventure into a story about conscience, slavery and the gap between respectable behaviour and cruelty.

A close-up account of eaglets growing up, combining a narrative thread with factual sidebars and reference features.

Expect a brisk puzzle adventure: children explore a new library, follow book-based clues and compete to find an escape route. The illustrations make the setting and visual puzzles part of the reading experience.

A magpie takes Splodge along with a shiny object, prompting Bug Belly and the other froglets to attempt a rescue. Their route brings dangers from owls and snakes; Bug Belly relies on an inventive plan and gadgets.

A lively introduction to BTS’s members and career, with the band’s rise set against the wider K-pop scene. It is particularly suited to readers who want the group’s story as well as some context for how K-pop idols meet pop audiences.

Billy’s bond with Kes gives him a focus and a chance to show knowledge and skill. Around that, the novel depicts a troubled household, school bullying and corporal punishment, against a background of limited opportunities for working-class children.

Jemmy has been made to take the prince’s beatings; when Prince Brat runs away, Jemmy is forced to go with him. Their flight turns into a ransom plot involving two highwaymen, and the boys have to cooperate.

Charlie’s letters follow his friendships and family relationships as he tries to understand his place between adolescence and adulthood. The story combines everyday coming-of-age concerns with difficult experiences that shape his perspective.

The fold-out layout offers a visual overview of natural history and human civilisations, with a timeline running alongside regional sections. Readers can also explore selected events through newspaper-style articles.

Readers encounter core organic-chemistry ideas, from carbon bonding and chains to polymers, alongside everyday applications and a biographical section on Friedrich Wöhler.

Ophelia is set a diamond-stealing challenge, while Oscar’s inventions and a rival cousin add complications. The caper combines a mystery-adventure plot with comic illustrations and frequent feline puns.

Owen and Hannah run a relationship-advice blog for local teenagers. Owen hopes it will bring Kamryn closer to him, but his plan uses fraudulent tactics, which lead to consequences.

The essays examine juvenile crime, its possible causes, justice-system responses and prevention. The collection presents differing viewpoints and includes visual features and fact boxes.

A school invention project gives Charlie and Marv a challenge, and Lola may bring fresh ideas. The story centres on trying to make something new when the task proves harder than expected.

Expect a comic, surreal quest rather than a straightforward illness story: Cameron and his companions encounter fantastical figures and ideas while searching for a cure.

Fox leads Knox through rhyming word-puzzles that grow increasingly tangled, from socks and boxes to elaborate beetle-and-poodle sequences. Knox struggles, then turns the challenge back on Fox. The focus is playful sound and performance rather than a complex plot.

The story combines friendship and adjustment with practical details about Braille, cane use and working with a guide dog. Jimmy’s recovery of confidence and independence is central.

This is a browsable introduction to ocean animals, with profiles covering creatures’ size, diet, habitat and physical features. Photographs, captions and fact boxes sit alongside short passages; questions, a quiz and activities offer ways to revisit the facts.

A comic animal adventure driven by clever schemes and escalating trouble. Mr Fox’s efforts to feed his family widen into a rescue for other hungry animals.

A first-person account of growing up as a Maasai cattle herder in Kenya, this memoir follows Lekuton through schooling, soccer and eventual study in America. Personal episodes also introduce Maasai community life and practices.

A fantasy premise turns an expected future upside down: Liz must find her place in an afterlife where people grow younger. Her adjustment brings grief and frustration alongside friendship, love and personal choices.

A murder accusation drives this family-centred story, with Dovey trying to clear her name while her sister’s future and her brother’s safety are caught up in the conflict.

This biography links Bourgeois’s childhood, her mother’s weaving and their close relationship with the artist she became.

A question-and-answer guide to armoured dinosaurs, with illustrations and fact boxes. It covers how different dinosaurs’ features could protect them, alongside their names, physical traits and habitats.

A letter-by-letter European adventure pairs travel and tasks with Ginny’s growing sense of herself. Its tone includes humour, emotional muddle and a touch of romance.

Expect a broad historical tour told through individual scientists’ lives and work, rather than a single subject in depth. Topics range from geometry and medicine to cosmology, atomic particles and the Internet.

Why Do We Sleep? by Cathy Evans, illustrated by Polya Plavinskaia, introduces sleep through topics including body rhythms, dreams, sleep stages, animals and hibernation. It also covers sleep-related myths and ways to think about sleep habits. Bright collage-style illustrations accompany short sections of information, with a glossary and a flow chart about sleep quality.

A playful, romantic fantasy about finding courage to approach someone you like, told through both Zuzana’s and Mik’s perspectives and shaped by an elaborate treasure hunt.

A bleak but lyrical story about siblings navigating unstable care, homelessness and self-invention. Its poems bring attention to the dreams and difficulties of young people without secure homes.

Expect a grim, disorientating fairy tale rather than a reassuring adventure: Otto is often frightened and uncertain, while magic offers power without straightforward control.

This is a good fit to explore how siblings can see the same duties differently, within a richly established Clan world. Its continuing-arc structure means the book leaves some mysteries open.

A narrative account of a real spaceflight emergency, following the astronauts’ effort to return and events at Mission Control.

A family story about Floss’s choice to live with her father, whose failing café brings financial strain and upheaval. School friendships add another thread, and the ending is open rather than fully settled.

A brief, illustrated introduction to Lincoln’s life, told through selected scenes and free verse rather than a comprehensive biography.

A reflective story about leaving a familiar home, remembering what matters and finding a way to carry those memories into a new place.

A fantasy school adventure where a feared escaped prisoner casts a shadow over Harry’s year. Suspense, frightening magical beings and a time-travel plot sit alongside friendship and school life.

This is a spooky, folksy fantasy about two girls whose quarrel unleashes a graveyard full of angry ancestors. The story pairs that supernatural danger with questions of friendship, family history and finding a place to belong.

A brisk, illustrated introduction to Tudor rulers and their times, with ferret commentary and a separate view of ordinary people alongside the main historical story.

A playful, offbeat tale that pairs an unusual word sequence with colourful illustrations; its story may feel deliberately odd rather than neatly explained.

A compact sports-history account centred on one striking photograph, its moment in the ring and the controversy that followed the 1965 fight.

A lyrical fairy tale with atmospheric illustrations and a cinematic flow. Its central appeal is the developing bond between Maude and Tony.