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A puppy’s imagined adventures while his owner is at school are the premise. The book combines a pet-centred situation with imagination and play.

This is a faith-centred family and school adventure in which Lenten choices sit alongside a spelling bee and a Bigfoot quest.

A fast-moving space adventure mixes a travelling circus, monster-taming and the friends’ hot-dog business. Cosmoe’s past also comes into view, alongside danger for the group and the challenge of keeping their business going.

A threatened magical safeguard, a revenge plot and unsettled royal families converge around Gracie, with a tournament and gathering werewolves adding complications.

Trinket seeks seven stories that will help her become a bard like her missing father. Her adventures draw on magical and folkloric figures, and the last tale reveals what happened to him.

The mystery centres on a stolen hydrofoil and the Hardy Boys’ investigation of criminals associated with zodiac signs. Danger escalates to the boys being kidnapped, while Chet’s escape brings the Coast Guard into the effort to stop the vessel.

The group’s final summer adventure begins when Amelia joins them to investigate a spooky old house. Their unexpected discovery of stolen goods turns a quiet town into the setting for a mystery.

Two friends’ attempt to save a life takes them into another world, where a sorceress threatens enslavement. Their adventure also shows the making of Narnia, with Aslan’s song bringing the new land into being.

Felicity aims to enter medical school despite institutional resistance to women in science. A journey funded by a mysterious young woman becomes a perilous quest, while Felicity also navigates an estranged friendship and a suitor’s proposal.

A humorous mystery-adventure combines the runaway ostrich search with questions about the children’s family and Penelope’s origins.

This is a supernatural adventure in which Mitsuko faces a spirit's demands with help from Goranu, a mischievous shape-shifter. Japanese myths and legends shape the journey, alongside a star-crossed-love element.

A moonlit route draws David from his fishing village into an enchanted garden. The adventure includes a giant to battle, along with a flying horse and golden riches.

Ready’s resourceful exploits and the balloon ascent set an adventure in 1853 San Francisco, with the city’s post-gold-discovery daily life as part of the setting.

A fairy-led adventure combines exploration of Key West with a journey into its past. The lighthouse and the 1835 hurricane bring local history into a story of time travel, hazardous weather and a rescue question.

Orion must respond to an emergency at a space station by decoding alien messages, tackling security and playing a laser game. Computer programs and a reference manual accompany the adventure.

A gently described adventure follows Solo from one discovery to the next. The mystery of her mother’s whereabouts gives the exploration a thread of uncertainty, alongside a fright in the cellar.

An adventure about Han’s ambition to become a pilot takes him from Corellia into a dangerous criminal-underworld job. Chewbacca and smuggler Lando Calrissian are among the characters he meets.

Ming’s search for the tomb links a present-day family predicament with accounts of Emperor Qin and the ancient terra-cotta soldiers. The story also includes photographs of village life, the Great Wall and the excavated tomb.

This is a magical retrieval adventure: Rachel and Kirsty try to get Scarlett’s stolen garnet back. Its loss disrupts the fairy’s size-changing magic, while the larger series quest concerns finding seven jewels.

The story centres on friendship under pressure and a powerful invention whose control could affect money, culture and politics.

This is a woodland fantasy about defending a threatened home, with a squirrel queen, magical allies and a quest involving her grandmother’s Heartstone.

This is an animal fantasy adventure with a moral dilemma at its centre: Veil’s choices are shaped by the welcome he receives, the crime that leads to his exile and his connection to his father.

A school mystery with science-fiction and spooky elements follows Duncan as he tries to work out which teacher may be an alien. The aliens’ interest in pupils’ qualities adds an unsettling twist to the school setting.

The scouts are unsettled after time-related events, and Jen sets out to encourage them through a search for a jackalope. They encounter a young cowgirl living in the woods with unusual animals.

A family’s financial hardship leads to the sale of Joe’s collie, Lassie. After repeated escapes, Lassie is taken far away, and the novel follows her arduous attempt to return home.

This is a perilous adventure about a boy pursuing escape and reunion, with a fantasy thread built around his father’s unfinished dragon story. Benji’s disability is central to how he sees himself and how others treat him.

A supernatural adventure built around a missing-father mystery, a secret society and threats involving evil sages. Christian symbols are part of the boys’ equipment and the story’s spiritual-warfare premise. In the revised version, added scenes and twists heighten the hunt and battle.

Expect a fantasy adventure centred on a riding competition, a lost magical helmet and help from two friends. Horses, fairies and goblins are part of its story world.

A missing magic hoop gives Rachel and Kirsty a clear quest amid preparations for the Fairy Olympics. The goblins’ threat makes the competition’s fate part of the adventure.

A close-knit scout group’s summer outing becomes a supernatural adventure, with friendship, camp routines, an unexpected encounter with the Cloud People and unicorns.

The companions’ goal is to restore the Belt of Deltora by finding its seven gems and overthrowing the Shadow Lord, who has taken control of the land.

A relationship ending and the prospect of a new connection sit alongside Ronette’s determination to make the most of a chance she has been given.

Megan's move and difficult start at school lead into a mystery involving a haunted-house rumour, an archaeologist's diary and clues to a secret linked to the Parthenon.

Timothy is drawn from his ordinary school day into the game alongside Simon Belmont. Their journey involves battling monsters and ghouls on the way towards Dracula.

A teenage heroine’s strange inheritance draws her into a perilous struggle involving monsters, assassins and a family appeal to join the “family business”.

Expect a historical mystery-adventure: the friends investigate a suspicious death, seek proof about an earlier imperial murder, and encounter danger on the Roman frontier.

A family’s fortunes change when a company launches a free rival to Ray’s anti-hacker programme. Heather and Ray then face escalating trouble, including a journalist’s kidnapping, a flight from the company and Ray’s capture.

This is a comic adventure about three space-minded pets facing separation from their humans, a clinic escape and a secret-laboratory mystery.

A family’s beach day is presented as a fun adventure.

This is a family-centred adventure built around pirate and ghost lore, a treasure rumour and historic island sites. The pirate’s reality is left as a question in the story’s premise.

A varied set of short comics follows Venus through familiar childhood interests and imaginative escapades, with a possible dreamlike trip beyond Earth.

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 football-obsessed boy’s kick sets off a comic-scale adventure, taking the game from Earth to the moon and bringing football-mad aliens into the story.

Expect a collection of short adventures built around Mrs Pepperpot’s sudden changes in size. The situations include a crafty fox, a monstrous mousetrap and enormous food.

A fairy adventure brings sewing and other creative activities together with a stolen-thimble problem for Rachel and Kirsty to tackle.