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Zanib Mian
A lively school-and-family story about handling change, friendship and unfair treatment through humour and imagination. Omar’s Muslim identity is part of everyday life, not a separate lesson.
Andrea Wang and Jason Chin
A family roadside stop becomes a meeting point between a child's embarrassment and her parents' difficult memories. Watercress offers a compact story about family history, migration, hardship and a growing understanding between generations.
Steven Butler
Expect a playful fantasy adventure centred on an unusual hotel, magical visitors and comic world-building. The story appears designed for momentum and imaginative enjoyment, with short chapters, action and humour rather than a complex plot.
Brian Gordon
This is a comic school adventure about embarrassment, reputation and the wish to become popular. Dante’s supernatural surroundings, friendship plots and illustrated presentation offer energetic humour alongside questions about confidence and belonging.
Katya Balen
A lively Thames-set fantasy about three friends whose mudlarking leads to an underwater adventure. Expect imaginative world-building, comic eccentricity and an active quest rather than a quiet, realistic story.
Andy Shepherd, illustrated by Ellie Snowdon
A gentle magical adventure carries a serious environmental problem: the children must respond as trees are threatened, extreme weather worsens and their village floods. Friendship and changing viewpoints help drive the response.
Nicola Davies and Cathy Fisher
A classroom story about meeting difference with empathy: the new girl’s loneliness and strength sit alongside the class’s harsh words, creating space to discuss how people treat one another.
Helen Cresswell
A curious fantasy about Polly Flint’s unusual way of seeing, and her involvement with people caught outside their proper time. Expect mystery, strangeness and an imaginative hidden world.
Trudy Ludwig
This is a gentle school story about feeling unseen, noticing someone on the margins and making room for them. Its central movement is from social isolation towards connection through thoughtful, practical acts.
Eva Ibbotson
Expect a comic, episodic adventure in which children help gentle yetis seek refuge. The story combines absurd details and rescues with sharper material about captivity, animal cruelty, hunting and threatened communities.
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