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This is an illustrated animal adventure about aspiring to be a hero, searching for magic, and getting a chance to help a friend. Its final question leaves Monty’s wish unresolved.

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.

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 perilous adventure about a secluded boy entering an unfamiliar city, with an unfinished fantasy story woven into his attempt to escape and find his mother.

A science-fiction story of mutation and dangerous powers, set in a world threatened by a virus and conflict. It begins a trilogy and continues the world of Gone.

This is a superpower story about pursuing a demanding ambition despite being born without the ability that seems essential to it. An unexpected opportunity shifts the central character’s prospects.

Essie and her cat Bouffon imagine becoming superheroes after watching their favourite television programme. As Super Essie and Super Bouffon, they save good characters and fight bad ones. The story begins with Essie wishing to be admired, but the wider course of the adventure is unclear.

A fantasy quest puts a timid sister in an unfamiliar role: seeking a cure while facing dangers she feels unready for. Sisterly devotion and the search for courage are central.

A fantasy adventure begins with Taran’s restless hopes and Hen Wen’s escape, then turns into a hazardous mission. Heroism is presented as more demanding than Taran first imagines.

This is a character-and-adventure scrapbook, combining Kim’s exploits with dossiers on villains and details about her inventive equipment.

This is a story of hardship, legend and Gwyn’s response to a heroic example. Its central appeal may be her choice to act on a tale.

This is a Western lawman story centred on a Black marshal whose life began in slavery. Its blend of history and invention may appeal to readers interested in a real historical figure recast through a frontier adventure.

A comic supernatural crime-fighting adventure, featuring a vampire spy and a werewolf partner. The appeal appears to rest on their unusual partnership and confrontations with monster criminals.

This is an adventurous animal-fantasy quest built around a threatened community, a stolen cultural object and young characters taking responsibility. Expect suspense, battles, pursuit and a strong contrast between courage, loyalty and ruthless ambition.

A high-stakes spy thriller about Alex Rider’s mission against people-smuggling gangs, with questions about his parents and a returning enemy connecting the adventure to his past.

A lively comic-book adventure about imagination, identity and heroic responsibility, with Josh trying to save a fictional sidekick while his own life seems to follow the same story. Its playful design is part of the experience.

A fast-moving fantasy adventure combines an unusual underground world with a serious rescue mission. Its strongest appeal is likely the combination of sibling care, loyal alliances, prophecy and difficult choices during conflict.

This is an adventure-led fantasy built around survival, pursuit and escape. Its imaginative underwater setting and mythic figures may appeal to readers who enjoy continuing series, though the ending leaves major questions unresolved.

A fast-moving historical adventure places a young protagonist between friendship, justice and danger. Its Robin Hood setting is paired with questions about hunger, power, reputation and what makes someone a hero.

A brisk alien-adventure story places a group of friends in danger after mysterious lights appear above a reservoir. Alongside rescue and escape, it raises questions about pollution, technology, heroism and how people respond to the unknown.

A brisk, gadget-filled spy adventure centres on Alex’s mission against Herod Sayle. Its appeal lies in danger, mystery and implausible ingenuity; its intensity comes from repeated threats, killings and peril rather than quiet character development.

This is a myth-influenced fantasy adventure about friends mounting a rescue, confronting an ancient foe and relying on one another. Its emotional centre appears to be loyalty, belonging and the pressure of trying to save someone.

This is a high-stakes spy adventure with an animal lead, clues, gadgets and a race against time. Its central appeal is action-led problem-solving, supported by a team of animal allies.

This is an atmospheric fantasy quest in a desperate winter-bound world. Quill travels towards danger and discovery, while ancient mythology, supernatural beings and a threatened balance between light and dark shape the adventure.

A dark, fast-moving faerie adventure that combines monsters, romance and town danger with more reflective questions about self-invention, family secrets, community complicity and whether apparent gifts or beauty can conceal coercion.

This is a brisk gateway to interconnected Greek myths rather than a single narrowly focused war story. Its sweep includes the war’s background, the conflict itself and the difficult returns of several heroes.

A Chinese myth-inspired adventure places Kai and her mother Wen alongside the Monkey King, dragons, scrolls and other fantastical elements. Its strongest stated focus is a mother–daughter relationship shaped by learning and listening.

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 lively fairy-tale reimagining where three heroines encounter magic, danger and friendship. Its central movement is from Rumaysa’s enforced confinement towards escape, shared adventure and protagonists who act as their own rescuers.

Expect a quest-led fantasy centred on bravery, friendship and teamwork. Magical creatures create danger, while the conflict is framed as a struggle against an evil wizard’s spell rather than realistic wrongdoing.

Rumaysa’s search for her parents leads into a magical adventure involving a queen, traditional fairy-tale figures and unusual creatures. The story combines danger, humour and a heroine who takes an active, compassionate role.

This is comic fantasy adventure about an underestimated boy whose intelligence, courage and loyalty matter more than physical strength. Its lively illustrations, eccentric names and slapstick tone may make the story especially inviting.

This is a tense superhero story about young people confronting inherited wrongdoing, dangerous adults and complicated friendships. It combines investigations and emotional conflict with perilous confrontations, including threats, coercion and graphic-sounding physical violence.

Expect an expansive superhero adventure centred on competing ideas of justice and vengeance. The story combines secret identities, combat, bereavement, romance and moral uncertainty rather than presenting a simple hero-versus-villain conflict.

This is a wartime coming-of-age story seen through family affection, community routines and a child’s uncertainty. Expect comic boyhood episodes alongside waiting, separation and the pressure to live up to admired heroes.

This is a suspenseful historical adventure about a boy facing uncertainty about his father, a lighthouse builder and a perilous attempt to protect sailors during a powerful storm. Courage develops through fear and responsibility rather than fearlessness alone.

Expect a dark fantasy quest built around poison, healing, magic and political tyranny. The book offers wry humour and ghoulish imagery, but its elaborate style and complicated plotting may make sustained reading effort worthwhile.

This is a mystery-tinged collection or account centred on legendary Rangers and other Araluen warriors. Its apparent appeal lies in uncovering stories behind familiar names, alongside adventure, battles and acts of protection.

A light, fantastical superhero adventure in which a successful villain changes the hero into a potato, but cannot remove his powers or his determination to pursue justice.

This is a school-years story about a child whose clumsiness, unusual responses and wholehearted enjoyment make him stand apart. Its central movement appears to value individuality over fitting in, while showing that failure may matter differently from reputation.

This is a child-centred fantasy adventure built around a threatened community, an ancient prophecy and a mission that changes direction. Its strongest apparent hook is the gap between Eric's expected heroic role and the truth he discovers.

A fantasy adventure about two friends separated between fairy and human worlds, each facing different responsibilities. Its central tension is whether they can protect people and relationships while conflict between humans and fairies grows.

This is speculative fiction about gifted young people, family legacy, military conflict and the consequences of being celebrated, blamed or misunderstood. It combines linked stories with a previously published novella.

This is a psychologically focused war novel about fear, shame, courage and heroism, rather than simply a sequence of military events. Its opening also shows soldiers responding to rumours, uncertainty and anticipation before combat.