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This is a colourful, humorous graphic-novel adventure about Berry finding a companion, Terry causing havoc, and Berry trying to prevent his departure. It offers playful fantasy, energetic visual storytelling and a friendship-centred problem to follow.

This is a richly illustrated mermaid adventure about protecting a home from development. Its diary format, playful language and underwater world may invite shared reading, visual exploration and discussion.

This is a spooky, funny family adventure centred on a child’s fear of a pirate ghost and an older brother’s teasing. Its appeal lies in the uncertainty between an alarming story and a practical joke.

Expect affectionate family humour: a child’s perspective celebrates a dad’s jokes, songs and familiar habits, with animal characters helping express why their dads feel special.

A lively read-aloud built around personified eyebrows, comic transformations and visual surprises. Its central movement is from rejecting a distinctive feature to recognising its value, while the eyebrows’ strange careers create opportunities for playful participation.

A horror-comedy sequel with a strongly supernatural setting, school friendships and a continuing threat from Charley’s past. Its appeal lies in combining eerie atmosphere with genre-aware humour and a central relationship marked by betrayal.

Its emotional centre is the search for a new meaning of home.

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.

Expect a brisk, comic fantasy in which an ancient Egyptian pharaoh becomes an unexpected household guest. Its appeal lies in absurd situations, family reactions and a light adventure involving grave robbers.

A comic mystery begins when Grandad shouts that he has been robbed.

A playful search story built around surprise: Louis’s failed-looking tricks become an entertaining show. Its visual humour, colourful illustrations and diverse audience create a warm, upbeat reading experience, with a final reveal involving the rabbit.

Expect lively, performative poems alongside serious real-world concerns. The collection can invite laughter, close attention to word choice and discussion about fairness, nature, animal treatment and how poetry communicates ideas.

Expect inventive comic mishaps, misunderstandings and an eccentric central character rather than a serious science story. The humour often comes from failed inventions and Branestawm’s difficulty with everyday social situations.

A playful football-themed poetry collection, best suited to sharing jokes, wordplay and different poetic forms.

A warm, humorous queer coming-of-age story set against a restrictive period in British school life. Its romance is developed through reading and anonymous correspondence, while the unusual footnotes, stage directions and editorial asides give the storytelling a playful, self-aware shape.

A funny, relationship-focused YA novel set around high-school theatre, it explores heartbreak, attraction and assumptions about sexuality through Jackson’s backstage perspective and his changing feelings about Liam.

A dark, fast-moving supernatural adventure about a girl learning to manage dangerous spirit-related powers while uncovering mysteries around the Uncles, her family and the wider paranormal world.

A creepy, energetic adventure that combines frightening creatures and suspense with banter, humour and an emphasis on four unlike students learning to support one another.

A comic supernatural story about Moth’s half-vampire identity, with friendship at its centre. Its appeal appears to come from an unusual hero, playful vampire details and a mix of awkwardness and adventure.

A silly contest between Pizza and Taco turns food preferences into a question of friendship and winning. Its very short, joke-driven structure and visual presentation may suit shared reading and repeated participation.

A humorous diary novel about starting a new school, managing friendship changes and feeling self-conscious while family life also shifts. Drawings and comic mishaps give Lottie’s worries a light, accessible presentation.

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.

A lively school-and-family story about handling change, friendship and unfair treatment through humour and imagination. Omar’s Muslim identity is part of everyday life, not a separate lesson.

A lively fantasy quest with a determined heroine, comic creatures and a school setting. Bronte’s pursuit of knighthood challenges traditional expectations while the story explores courage, responsibility and standing by others.

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.

Expect comic poetry about growing up, using exaggerated everyday situations such as sibling conflict, an unwanted shirt and a spider. The collection appears suited to reading aloud and sharing reactions.

This is an illness-and-school story that gives Ross's anger a central role rather than presenting cancer only through hope or life lessons. Friendship, embarrassment, creativity and humour shape his efforts to retain an ordinary identity.

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.

A playful picture book presents itself as shy, hiding, asking to be left alone and gradually becoming more comfortable through questions and reader interaction. Its personified book-character approach explores shyness, confidence, friendship and expressing feelings, with humour, disguises, searching and call-and-response opportunities for shared reading.

A humorous coming-of-age story about two cousins moving from conflict towards a brotherly bond. It combines lively teen dialogue with grief, family disruption, gang culture, misogyny, homophobia and questions about masculinity.

This is a compassionate but harrowing wartime story in which reading and storytelling help Liesel understand her world. Its warmth and humour sit alongside persecution, bereavement and the deaths of loved characters.

This is a comic coming-of-age diary in which Adrian interprets family upheaval, school problems and first love while presenting himself as unusually sensible and mature.

Expect a series of self-contained, startling tales rather than one continuous plot. Children encounter odd powers, unusual creatures, bodily changes, animals in danger and emotionally difficult family situations, usually within a comic or bizarre framework.

A lively, voice-driven story about friendship, family pressure and a risky plan. Its humour and invented slang sit alongside shouting at home, money worries and the tension of deciding whether to join in.

A lively, voice-led coming-of-age novel combining humour and friendship with family strain, social pressure and gang-related danger. Lemar’s art and relationships offer warmth, but the story also reaches a killing and difficult choices.

This is a lively Greek-myth fantasy where comic gods and a young goddess accompany Elliott through danger. Its emotional centre is a child trying to care for his unwell mother while protecting his family’s home.

This is a historical novel about friendship under Nazi persecution, combining Felix’s optimism and humour with fear, loss and moral danger. Its child’s-eye viewpoint may make a vast history feel immediate, while keeping the human cost in view.

Expect a fast, twist-filled fantasy adventure that treats a frightening grandmother as an exaggerated comic villain. Joe’s difficult family life sits alongside grotesque peril and suspense, so the tone is more unsettling than an ordinary family story.

This is a humorous, emotionally involving story about a boy seeking his absent father while family and school life keep changing around him. Its lively voice sits alongside difficult questions about separation, belonging and hope.

Expect playful poems that invite laughter and imaginative thinking, balancing recognisable childhood moments with fanciful questions, surprising creatures and deliberately silly situations.

Expect comic, twist-led stories rather than one continuous adventure. Children encounter ordinary problems, relationships and small acts that can affect people around them, with serious subjects treated through persistent humour.

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.

A funny, offbeat family portrait told through Clarice’s sharp commentary. The visual design is part of the reading experience: fonts, collage and stray dialogue help convey voices, moods and relationships.

A poetry collection to dip into rather than read as a continuous story: poems celebrate animals, stars, trees and the wider planet, combining playful invention with ecological seriousness and reflective moments.

A playful friendship story about two lonely characters whose misunderstanding develops into shared laughter and play. Its rhyming dialogue and expressive artwork suit a read-aloud experience.

Expect a lively, illustrated fantasy quest built around an underdog team. The story combines dungeon challenges, comic world-building and a friendship arc, while Kit’s impulsive decision creates the central problem.