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This is a space adventure about leadership under pressure, with a rebellion, royal succession and a romantic thread. Qole and Nev face different choices about power and where their loyalties lie.

You take Freya’s role in a quest to recover Thor’s lost hammer. Choices affect the story’s progress, so the reader helps shape the adventure rather than simply following a fixed path.

The appeal is in a lively, wayward hero whose choices propel a string of comic and perilous adventures. The book also offers a clear thread of advice about behaviour and responsibility.

The appeal is active decision-making: readers choose how Han and Chewie respond, rather than following only one fixed route through their predicament.

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 choice-led scare story: the reader decides what to try, and the route can lead to different endings. That structure may suit a reader who enjoys making decisions while reading.

This is an interactive space adventure: the reader takes command, makes choices and follows the resulting path through a mission to protect planets.

This is a contemporary thriller about craving adventure, taking a risk and discovering that a promising escape may be dangerous.

This adventure novel centres on Johnny, Kaspar and Johnny’s new friendship with Lizziebeth, an American heiress.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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

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 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.

Expect a festive fantasy built around bedtime, dreams and exploration. Maddie and Murphy encounter the North Pole’s Christmas world and respond to a problem, offering imaginative material for shared reading and discussion.

A warm, episodic family story in which each child encounters a different mishap or opportunity. It combines humour and adventure with working life, financial constraint and the affection holding a large family together.

This offers a participatory version of a familiar pig story: readers help determine what happens, then add their own drawings. Its main appeal is choice-led storytelling rather than a fixed narrative.

A relationship-led coming-of-age story, best suited to readers who enjoy friendship groups, romantic complications and reflective themes more than a heavily event-driven plot.

A suspense-led Star Wars adventure about siblings trying to escape capture while their family remains separated. Its central appeal is the combination of peril, space exploration and a shared rescue goal.

Choose this for a reader who enjoys high-seas adventure, mermaids, treasure hunts, riddles and brisk action. The story also offers a character-led exploration of identity, friendship, prejudice and belonging.

A spooky Cornwall adventure with a mystery at its centre, this book brings together a young conservation-minded protagonist, an unusual dog, family members and a new friend against a curse that poisons and destroys the land.

This is a comic crime story about guilt, impulsive problem-solving and the complications of trying to make amends. Its appeal appears to lie in fast-moving mishaps, heist ideas and an adolescent protagonist.

A magical historical-fantasy adventure about identity, family and friendship, with mysteries uncovered through flashbacks. Expect spells, Fairyland, talking animals, shapeshifting and a curse rather than a realistic everyday setting.

Found offers a warm, imaginative seaside adventure centred on a close grandparent–grandchild relationship. The rescue of a seal pup brings excitement and peril, while the artwork shifts from realistic beach details towards strikingly fanciful scenes.

Expect inventive comic mishaps, misunderstandings and an eccentric central character rather than a serious science story. The humour often comes from failed inventions and Branestawm’s difficulty with everyday social situations.

This is an emotionally engaging family story about a child trying to understand separation, a parent’s newly disclosed sexuality and the limits of fixing adult problems. Friendship, humour and Pride’s community provide energy and hope.

Expect a fast-moving fantasy mystery rooted in a Nigerian village, Yoruba myths and family relationships. Its atmosphere shifts between joy and dread, with danger often suggested rather than directly shown.

This is a magical forest adventure centred on Hilda and Twig’s partnership. Its distinctive offer is a more active role for Twig, alongside storm sheltering, mysterious surroundings and a rescue-shaped challenge.

Expect a brisk, high-stakes science-fiction adventure built from movie-like set pieces: secret hideouts, monsters, lost cities and missions. Its emotional centre is the friends’ changing reliance on friendship, loyalty, trust and teamwork.

A playful food-finding caper with expressive squirrels, jokes and a gentle visual style. Its central scheme involves altering fortune messages to influence people, creating opportunities to discuss cleverness, honesty and consequences without treating the antics as realistic guidance.

This is an energetic animal adventure about responsibility, deception and persistence. Marty’s first working day becomes hazardous after a prank, while friendship and comic illustrations help keep the story lively.

Expect children’s fantasy involving the named protagonists. Its appeal lies in lively family exchanges, problem-solving and events shaped by the children’s decisions.

This is an adventurous friendship story set around hiking, camping and outdoor survival. Its emotional centre is Vincent’s struggle with school, coordination and belonging, alongside classmates whose different circumstances affect how the group works together.

A lively child-led detective adventure: Emil responds to theft by following the suspected criminal through Berlin and working with other children. Its appeal lies in pursuit, teamwork and the contrast between a small town and a large, exciting city.

Expect a warm family adventure built around four sisters with distinct personalities, their father, and Jeffrey, a boy they meet during a summer stay at Arundel estate.

A whimsical, suspenseful fantasy about escaping ordinary life and confronting danger, with a bittersweet focus on childhood and growing up. Its imaginative appeal sits alongside language and attitudes that require historical distance.

Expect an Amazon-set adventure centred on a boy and a girl, with opportunities to discuss character, friendship, choices and ideas about living a “big life”.

This is an action-led wartime story in which children acquire dangerous military power and try to control events around them. Its strongest interest lies in adventure complicated by fear, loyalty and responsibility.