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This is a time-travel story that uses six children’s visits to different periods to explore England’s past. History is joined to questions about how people are governed and treated.

An adventure story that uses Alfred's travels to bring him into contact with sharply contrasting experiences of India and with a boy whose intelligence is noted despite his homelessness and illiteracy.

This is a child-centred historical story about family work, community strain and changing social relationships. Its central challenge is how a small act of welcome might matter when prejudice and hardship affect a whole town.

A warm, unusual story about an orphan girl and a gorilla forming a family, while facing official scrutiny and prejudice. Its humour and tenderness sit alongside uncertainty about belonging and justice.

Expect an imaginative fantasy built around a dangerous darkness, paired roles and a developing relationship. Its strongest focus appears to be how people resist restrictive expectations while learning to trust someone very different from themselves.

A dark, atmospheric Dracula retelling centred on two sisters, captivity and resistance. Its strongest offering is the way female relationships, Traveller identity and collective courage reshape a familiar vampire story.

This offers a tense journey story alongside a close account of sibling care. Clem’s storytelling, memories and uncertain perspective add emotional depth, while the political setting invites reflection on belonging, surveillance, displacement and how families preserve hope under pressure.

This appears to be children’s fiction shaped partly by the author’s experience of meeting young people in the youth justice system.

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 thoughtful, visually rich story about how the same encounter can look different from different standpoints. It offers emotional and social complexity without relying on a single narrator’s version of events.

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 familiar flood story is reframed through Mrs Noah’s quiet choices. It offers a warm, gently humorous read-aloud with striking artwork, while inviting attention to who gets to make decisions and whose actions are noticed.

This is comic fiction about Norm’s difficult day-to-day world: blame, family embarrassments, moving house, bodily jokes and a friend’s apparent changes.