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This is a fantasy adventure in which a missing magic wand disrupts the weather on Rainspell Island. Rachel and Kirsty try to outsmart Jack Frost and keep the Earth clean and green.

This story brings together a hidden prince with magical powers and Jemma’s ambition to attend stage school, offering both fantasy adventure and a family-centred goal.

This is a magical quest adventure combining a child’s life of thievery with a mission to help people in a dangerous kingdom.

A magical village adventure sits alongside a story about siblings finding a more welcoming home. Expect mysteries and eccentric characters, with the children taking an active part in what happens.

A portal-fantasy adventure about three girls tasked with protecting magical animals, with friendship and the natural world among its stated themes.

This blends cosy bakery activity with a magical search, giving the story both familiar routines and an unusual recipe-led puzzle.

A mysterious prediction sends Peter on a search for the sister he believes may still be alive, with an elephant tied to the possibility of finding her.

A lively myth-inspired adventure begins with a mission to bring scriptures from India to China. Monkey’s magical abilities and the joining of Pigsy and Sandy set up a group quest.

A culturally rooted fantasy adventure combining Filipino mythology, humour, friendship and a quest involving a stolen soul key. It places grief and family longing alongside supernatural peril, while presenting courage, empathy, gratitude and teamwork as important values.

A magical theatre rescue story combines an audition, missing talent, fairy helpers and goblin disruption. It may particularly appeal to children interested in performance, imaginative adventure and recurring fairy characters.

A fast-moving fantasy quest built around a magical timepiece, a threatened fairy queen and a race to save an entire kingdom. Expect imaginative creatures, magic, a witch’s spell and a humorous heroic tone.

A gentle fantasy adventure about two girls helping fairy allies tackle litter on a beach. Environmental care is central, alongside friendship, teamwork and a search for a missing wand.

This is a light fantasy about friendship, sport, cooking, family friction and magical encouragement. Jess’s failed gesture towards her mother creates the immediate conflict, while Ms. M’s arrival brings comic, surprising support.

A good choice to explore alongside a reader who enjoys imaginative fantasy with an emotionally unsettled protagonist. Its strongest interest appears to lie in how magical danger intersects with loneliness, family belonging and friendship.

This offers an unusual fantasy of human-and-animal identity, endangered magic and a kingdom in crisis. Its emotional centre is a restrained relationship tested by changed bodies, difficult choices and the demands of a larger quest.

This is an atmospheric supernatural mystery about identity, family neglect and an attempt to change a dangerous future. Its humour sits alongside isolation, approaching evil and difficult family relationships.

A mystery-led magical-school adventure with a distinctive idea: Charlie can hear voices in photographs. Its strongest pull is uncovering hidden histories while deciding whom to trust inside an institution that feels secretive and controlling.

This is an imaginative fantasy sequel centred on magic, competing loyalties and conflict between magical and anti-magical groups. It offers friendship, compassion, courage and teamwork, but its adventure includes disturbing death imagery and broad comic material.

Expect pony-centred children’s fiction with friendship, riding and horse care at its heart. Depending on which Pony Tails volume is intended, the story may focus on training a new pony or on concerns about a pony behaving unusually.

Expect a playful portal fantasy built around dressing-up, friendship and Cinderella imagery, alongside a kidnapping threat. Its central appeal is imaginative adventure; its tension comes from Amber needing to act quickly.

A light fantasy adventure about two girls helping a lollipop fairy restore sweetness after a magical charm is lost.

This is a brief fantasy adventure about a lost magical feather and disrupted weather. Its appeal lies in fairies, fog and a helping mission; the complete ending and depth of the challenge are unclear.

This is a magical rescue adventure centred on friendship, fairy royalty and sweet treats. Its appeal lies in a clear mission: recover the stolen tiaras before their missing magic spoils a celebration.

Expect an atmospheric fantasy involving puppetry, magic, poverty, bereavement and dangerous power. Its story is eventful but unfolds slowly, with multiple characters and viewpoints that may reward patient reading.

Expect a playful fantasy built around journeys, magical settings and friendship. The two linked adventures offer imaginative escapism, with Mollie and Peter repeatedly encountering strange places and helping their pixie companion.

A playful fairy adventure centres on a missing magical object, a threatened sweet factory and Rachel and Kirsty’s attempt to help. Expect imaginative Fairyland elements, candy-themed magic and a clear problem-solving storyline.

This is a suspenseful historical fantasy combining Victorian London, faerie politics, street survival and a contested magical object. It offers a determined heroine, an improvised family and frequent crises, though some readers may find events implausible or the plot difficult to follow.

A tea-centred fantasy of competition, palace intrigue and family devotion. Ning’s search for a cure gives the plot emotional urgency, while brewing, tasting and reading ingredients become ways to investigate danger and negotiate power.

This offers a magical rescue adventure built around a stolen spell book, a poisonous flower and a threatened island.

Expect atmospheric Cornish tales where folklore, ghosts and magic meet farms, the sea and family life. The collection includes linked stories, including one about William, whose disability brings exclusion and cruelty from others.

A thoughtful migration story combines everyday hardship with magical realism. Leelu’s loneliness, her brother’s difficulties and the family’s uncertainty make belonging feel complicated rather than instantly solved.

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.

A humorous, emotionally serious story about a boy facing bullying, family disruption and caring responsibilities, with a fantastical wish premise. It may offer reassurance while still presenting difficult circumstances that merit thoughtful discussion.

This is a humorous, emotionally serious story about a guarded young person whose magic, friendship and care for her grandmother bring questions about love, loss and opening up.

A lively, twist-filled family adventure built around magic shows, vanished landmarks and a journey to Las Vegas. Middy’s practice contrasts with Nathan’s showmanship, giving the cousins different ways to face trouble and uncertainty.

This is a mysterious, emotionally serious novel about a child helping a strange being while his family faces a baby’s dangerous illness. Its imaginative uncertainty and lyrical language may appeal to readers who enjoy stories that leave some questions open.

Seed combines family difficulty and bullying with magical gardening, an unlikely adventure, friendship and dreams of escape. Its emotional material is presented alongside humour, wonder and suspense rather than as a purely realistic story.

This is an imaginative fantasy adventure about a child pursuing answers about her family in a magical plant world. It offers lively action, inventive world-building and clear conservation themes, while also introducing peril, hostility and loss.

Expect a brisk moral fantasy rather than a cosy animal adventure. The story turns outrage about hunting into comic, threatening reversal, asking readers to feel the consequences from the animals’ perspective.

A magical friendship story follows Lewis after he discovers an angel on the roof. The angel’s presence appears to alter relationships around him, while Lewis is drawn towards seeing difference and other people differently.

This is a straightforward magical quest centred on recovering a rose fairy’s missing petal. Its appeal lies in fairies, flowers, friendship and an identifiable struggle between helpers and goblins.

This is a magical rescue story about caring for young creatures, using powers wisely and searching for animals who have been stolen. Its central appeal is likely the blend of fairies, a phoenix or firebird, and an urgent quest.

A magical rescue adventure about Gwen, Flora and Moonlight searching for Evie and the other Spell Sisters. Its main ingredients are friendship, courage, enchanted powers and a struggle to save Avalon from Morgana Le Fay.

This is a magical rescue story set alongside a child’s difficult response to a parent’s remarriage. Its most distinctive idea is that solving the immediate problem involves both a vision of the future and forgotten memories.

A fantasy quest is suggested: a fairy’s missing magic has disturbed the forest’s sleep patterns, and two friends need to help. The emphasis appears imaginative and problem-solving rather than realistic danger.