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Expect frontier adventure built around a group of young companions, their mission, wilderness travel and encounters with enemies.

This is a brisk child-centred mystery in which Benjie’s enthusiasm for spying and Pete’s protective actions help uncover burglaries. Suspense comes from the family’s vulnerability and Benjie’s capture, while humour and animal loyalty soften the danger.

A buoyant, unusual adventure pairs a determined child with a loving guardian and a rooftop community. Its imaginative freedom sits alongside peril, precarious living, family uncertainty and moments of physical harm.

A lively visual story about making a home from mishaps. Its strongest pleasures are comic accidents, inventive machinery, expressive illustrations and the animals’ growing community.

A lively detective adventure centred on sisters, friendship and a tightly connected high-rise community. The mystery moves through clues, suspects and reversals, balancing comic sibling exchanges with the seriousness of murder and its effects.

Expect a lively rescue adventure centred on Molly’s courage and cleverness. The pirate setting, island peril and treasure chase offer momentum, while Molly’s role gives the story an assertive child protagonist.

This is a survival adventure centred on resilience, resourcefulness, grief and connection with nature. Karana's growing self-sufficiency drives the story, while her isolation and the treatment of Indigenous characters add weight beyond the adventure.

A richly illustrated autumn adventure combines a young mouse’s separation from home with harvest preparations, changing weather and encounters with helpful communities. Its detailed sensory world may reward unhurried shared reading and close attention to pictures.

A dark, atmospheric story for readers who enjoy ghosts, folklore, natural magic and narratives that connect across time. Three girls face danger and loss while their stories gradually converge around a threatening presence in the woods.

Expect an imaginative café adventure built around peculiar food requests, mythical creatures and the partnership between Rene and Glumfoot. Its rhyming, visually led presentation makes the story’s grotesque culinary comedy a central part of the experience.

A tense climate-emergency adventure that combines rising floodwater and urgent problem-solving with questions about identity, friendship, bullying and finding courage. The children’s changing relationships are central to the story’s momentum.

Expect exaggerated gross-out humour, insults and repeated cruelty from the central couple. The monkeys’ resistance and the bird’s help provide a counterpoint, but the overall comic style may make harmful behaviour feel deliberately outrageous rather than realistic.

This is a survival story shaped by isolation, difficult choices and questions of identity. Miyax’s struggle connects traditional knowledge, modern expectations and belonging, with the wolf pack offering an important but unfamiliar form of community.

This is a playful speculative adventure built around altered physical laws, time reversal and the comic predicament of two teenagers becoming babies. Its central appeal appears to be imaginative problem-solving rather than realistic everyday experience.

A supernatural mystery about a teenager confronting deep fears while searching for his missing mother. It combines coastal horror, strange allies and escalating danger, with family loss and courage at its emotional centre.