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A hotel-dwelling mouse gets the chance to ride a toy motorcycle, turning his wish for excitement into an adventure involving a young guest.

A family story built around a famous aunt, a previously unknown cousin and an old rift between siblings. The children’s curiosity brings them into their parents’ unresolved history.

This is a gentle-sounding adventure about wanting to explore beyond a familiar view and accepting help from friends. The story centres on Tiny Narwhal’s growing readiness to venture out.

This is a social story centred on friendship, dating and a getaway that becomes entangled with other people’s mysteries and relationship changes.

A family visit to an art-gallery party turns from a dull-looking outing into an adventure. The story’s central appeal appears to be comic mischief and seeing an ordinary event differently.

A fantasy adventure centred on Juniper’s rule-breaking, risk-taking and friendship with Oak.

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.

This is a school-based mystery about a girl who is unsure of her future, notices suspicious behaviour, and decides to investigate. It combines career imagination, friendship and possible jewel theft.

This is a mother-search story shaped by longing, reunion and uncertainty, balanced with playful cat adventures. Its mysteries range from ordinary household questions to explorations beyond home, giving the emotional storyline a curious, companionable setting.

This is a youth mystery combining hockey, family secrets and school relationships. Bromm’s investigation gives the story a problem-solving focus, while his uncertainty about his parents and his aunt’s work adds personal stakes.

A thoughtful story about how children’s curiosity can become humane attention. Its emotional centre is Carl’s dance, which makes hidden wartime suffering visible while preserving his dignity and complexity.

This is a grief-centred coming-of-age story that uses sharp humour alongside painful family loss. It offers a gay teenager’s perspective on guilt, friendship, emotional connection, filmmaking and beginning to imagine life after bereavement.

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 fast-moving blend of friendship, fantasy, science-fiction ideas and mystery: children investigate dangerous artefacts while a school science project, a missing ring and a legendary creature complicate their search.

This is a compact historical adventure centred on curiosity, travel and discovery. Michele’s encounters with visitors seeking beauty, adventure and something elusive create an inviting story about how an unusual arrival can open new possibilities.

A supernatural mystery built around the Bloody Mary legend, it offers an unfolding investigation, repeated twists and a frightening atmosphere, with some interpretation left to the reader.

A warm animal story about a stray donkey finding care, friendship and a place to belong. Flash’s curiosity, inventions and collecting lead to mishaps as well as helpful discoveries, while the other animals model kindness and practical support.

Expect a gentle adventure centred on Brownie Scouts, outdoor play, and the imaginative possibility of a tree house.

This is a character-led story about self-image, belonging and change, balancing daydreams with a developing real-world adventure. Zoe’s family relationships, friendship and connection to the nursery provide the main emotional setting.

A lively historical mystery follows Scooter from helping with staged séances to investigating a death after finding a dead man in Houdini’s torture tank. It offers adventure, period atmosphere, supernatural imagery and a brisk first-person voice.

A lively read-aloud about a lost dog’s imagined adventures, using rhyme, humour and expressive illustrations to explore survival, landscape, curiosity and the pull of home.

This is an adventure-led historical novel centred on Deaf community, sign language and human dignity, while exploring how inherited prejudice shapes relationships between communities.

This is a gentle, realistic story about a child negotiating identity and belonging after moving countries. It offers a clear starting point for discussing names, pronunciation, welcome and cultural pride.

A suspenseful historical mystery set around Pompeii, combining a children's investigation with vivid historical detail and the looming eruption of Vesuvius. Expect friendship, curiosity and adventure, but also sorrow and frightening material near the conclusion.

This is a mystery adventure built around exploration, hidden places and a group of children acting together. Its strongest appeal is likely the remote coastal setting, animal companions and escalating danger.

This is an imaginative, politically charged fantasy for readers interested in languages, dragons and morally complicated loyalties. Vivien’s translation work opens onto family upheaval, rebellion, class divisions and a war whose human and dragon costs are visible.

A gentle adventure about curiosity becoming a shared project. Arthur and his father respond to rumours about the forest by building towards a view beyond it, while bread, neighbours, a storm and a dog add warmth, suspense and opportunities to notice how the community responds.

Expect a curiosity-led city adventure built around an unlikely friendship. Its main appeal lies in the contrast between Catherine’s orderliness and Big Cat’s wild, chaotic nature, alongside detailed artwork and discoveries hidden in familiar places.

This is a visually led story about a frightened newcomer trying to return home. Its emotional centre is Leaf’s isolation, while the woodland animals’ changing response opens space to discuss fear, curiosity and welcome.

A clue-driven mystery set among gifted students, pairing investigation with questions about grief, friendship and the human cost of treating crime as an intellectual puzzle.

A short, visually expressive story about a newcomer, suspicion and the possibility of belonging. Its emotional centre is the contrast between what the animals assume and what they learn about the stranger’s past.

A gentle, visually playful story about curiosity, invention and noticing nature. Norton and Alpha’s discovery gives children a clear contrast between a mechanical home and the living world outside.

A supernatural horror story rooted in a family homecoming, with queer romance and questions of belonging. It combines frightening events with explorations of Vietnamese American identity, colonialism and family history.

A spooky social-media horror story about amateur ghost hunters pursuing missing vloggers into a dangerous house. Its distinctive video-diary presentation and page progress bar are intended to make the investigation feel immediate.

This offers a lively route into scientific curiosity: invention, robots and jokes are paired with explanations of antimatter, atoms, robotics and the scientific method. It may particularly engage readers who enjoy illustrated, idea-rich adventures.

This is a coming-of-age story about a boy navigating family disruption, curiosity and an unsettling local legend. Its appeal appears to lie in the meeting of everyday summer life with friendship, fear and magical possibility.

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.

This is a brisk mystery-adventure rooted in African mythology. Yomi and Kayode investigate Ninki Nanka’s disappearance through storms, secret meetings, legendary creatures and Beast Hunters, with their different temperaments contributing to the investigation.

Expect a fast-moving, atmospheric slasher mystery built around teenage friendship, investigation and uncertainty about whether a haunting is real. The central appeal is suspense and clue-following rather than realistic crime analysis.

Expect an imaginative fantasy built around ordinary household objects seen from a tiny family’s perspective. Its appeal lies in clever details, family relationships and the contrast between the Borrowers’ hidden life and the human world.

A gentle, episodic story about meeting fear with curiosity. Plop’s conversations introduce several ways of understanding darkness, alongside owl facts and moments of comic mishap as he learns to manage a new experience.

A warm sibling-centred collection in which a very young girl’s curiosity and mischief drive comic family episodes. It offers recognisable domestic situations, while some incidents may invite discussion about consequences and other people’s boundaries.

This is an atmospheric circus fantasy about curiosity, belief and stepping into the unknown. Its strongest features are theatrical build-up, magical transformations and artwork that makes the mysterious Place Between feel vivid and slightly uncanny.

A warm, sensory market outing invites children to notice foods, smells, textures, colours and sounds while following Zeki and Mum from stall to stall. The story’s pleasure lies in everyday exploration rather than a dramatic problem or high-stakes plot.

This offers a gentle but bittersweet story about being lost, misunderstood and welcomed. Its strongest feature is the space it gives children to interpret Beegu’s feelings, experiences and unanswered questions.