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Three separate dog-centred adventures offer distinct starting points: Alpha’s life before leadership, Sweet’s search for a Pack, and Moon’s transition after disaster. The collection’s emphasis is on survival and life among Packs.

This is a speculative adventure built around a prophecy, a group of unusual companions and a powerful portal. Its central mission connects personal discovery with the possibility of changing life across Clandoi.

This is an overview of underwater science as both research and practical work, from living arrangements and equipment to the questions researchers investigate.

This is a leadership dilemma in a clan of intelligent wild cats: Ratha must decide how fire and her authority should shape the community’s future.

A focused introduction to water scarcity, linking access to safe drinking water with pressures on freshwater resources around the world.

A school comedy built around a high-status pupil whose settled routine is disrupted when his uncle arrives.

This is a pony-camp story that brings together fitting in and the possible loss of a valued shared place. Brooke also turns to online friends for help.

Dan’s effort to keep a low profile is disrupted when he intervenes in bullying, and other pupils interpret his actions as heroic. The story also identifies him as having bullied someone in the past.

This historical story centres on Young-Wolf’s suspicion of Kirkland and his growing uncertainty about the missionary’s teachings.

This historical fiction places a young Pueblo character under Spanish rule, with imposed demands on his work, worship and resources at its centre.

This is a story of an unlikely intergenerational bond, with Jan’s changing outlook alongside Al’s terminal illness. Its focus is on relationships and the possibility of imagining a different future.

A Clan faces a crisis while its members try to protect their community. The shifting warrior code adds questions of loyalty and rules to the immediate trouble.

A group of feral cats must respond to threats to their homes and nearby landmarks, while three newly arrived kittens seem to have an unexpected appeal.

A fantasy quest follows Molly as she investigates her changing magical gift and seeks a cup said to bind people together. The journey leads to a mysterious, dangerous city tied to her family history.

This is a hopeful fable about a sad kingdom whose people start working together. Its central idea shifts attention from a magical object to the people joining hands and hearts.

This is an animal-centred survival adventure: Lucky’s independent way of life is disrupted, and he needs to cooperate with dogs whose previous lives were with owners.

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 useful introduction to video games as an industry rather than simply a pastime, showing the many specialised workers, skills and educational routes involved in making them.

A historical adventure about starting again after disaster, building friendships and trying to protect a new home from moving sand. Expect family upheaval, school conflict and an ending whose precise emotional shape is unclear.

This is an intense historical coming-of-age novel about Nora’s attempt to find a future while danger surrounds her home and neighbourhood. Its period detail, family conflict and social history offer substantial material for discussion.

A fast-moving ensemble mystery combines threats and secrets with friendship, romance and personal change. Its strongest appeal is likely the continuing Bayview relationships and the question of who is targeting the group.

A broad, structured introduction to New York City’s history, linking people, places, politics, geography, conflict and change. It suits a reader who enjoys learning through chronological chapters and visual material, with optional hands-on activities alongside the historical account.

A family-centred coming-of-age story about coping with a parents’ impending divorce while living with grandparents, learning origami and forming new connections. Its emotional concerns are serious, but the presentation is described as honest, compassionate and sometimes humorous.

A warm, idea-led picture book about how music travels through people and communities. Its linked “because” structure connects past composers, performers, concert workers, audiences and children, showing creative influence as shared rather than solitary.

A rescue story about a racer who can no longer race and takes on firefighting instead. Its central premise is the shift from racing to helping protect a national park during a wildfire emergency.

A fact-rich investigation of rubbish as a cultural, economic and environmental problem, combining statistics and history with vivid people and practical examples of communities reducing waste.

A fast-moving supernatural thriller about friendship, belonging and resisting pressure, with a frightening bodily transformation at its centre. The plot combines school conflict, investigation and action.

Expect a relationship-focused supernatural story in which Lindsay weighs a publicly declared mate against an intense attraction to someone else. Her decision is complicated by expectations from her family and community.

This is a compact historical adventure centred on curiosity, travel and discovery. Michele’s encounters with visitors seeking beauty, adventure and something elusive create an inviting story about how an unusual arrival can open new possibilities.

A funny, thoughtful fantasy about a community facing upheaval. Its appeal lies less in grand spectacle than in practical problem-solving, social observation and seeing familiar life from the Nomes’ radically different perspective.

This is a coming-of-age journey about bereavement, uncertain family ties and making a fresh start. Kendall’s encounters with Evie, Miss Clare and Marcus broaden the story beyond her search for one relative.

This is a gentle woodland story about preparing for a storm, helping neighbours and recovering after Badger’s home is damaged. Detailed illustrations and a hopeful rebuilding sequence support shared reading and discussion.

A nature-centred friendship story about Jessie, whose summer becomes unsettled by a new arrival and by local opposition to a coyote family. It offers island atmosphere, animal observation and a child confronting a community dispute.

A playful historical legend turns potato-growing into a contest between royal authority and public resistance. The book’s visual storytelling, including potato prints and photographs, makes an ordinary vegetable central to a suspenseful, humorous narrative.

A warm, humorous portrait of childhood unfolds through linked episodes rather than one tightly described plot. Family, school, neighbours and memorable mishaps give the book an affectionate, community-centred feel.

This is an animal fantasy adventure with an ecological crisis at its centre. It offers family bonds, difficult belonging and questions about how communities respond when food and habitat become scarce.

A magical friendship story combines snowy adventures with questions about fear, loneliness, community and letting go. Tasha's bond with Alyana is central, while winter's persistence may affect other people around them.

This is a supernatural thriller about a transgender teen whose post-operative recovery is interrupted by a werewolf attack. Friendship, bodily change, prejudice and the pull of revenge sit alongside the horror premise.

Expect a playful ecology read: Fern leads attempts to raise a fallen tree, while forest characters contribute information about their roles. Its main pleasures are inventive puns, cartoon exchanges and the eventual shift from rescue mission to ecosystem insight.

This is a relationship-focused school and family story about donor conception, confidence, friendship and adapting to change. It offers two children’s perspectives as they move from resentment towards working together, though the final resolution is unclear.

This is a friendship-and-identity story in which a disrupted routine opens space for music, independence and new connections. Its interest lies less in high-stakes danger than in ordinary emotional change and finding a direction.

A focused, dual-narrative historical novel about displacement, survival and access to water. Its language is spare, but the experiences include war, deaths and severe deprivation, balanced by perseverance and collective problem-solving.

A visually rich, wordless comparison of family life in Australia and Morocco. Its mirrored structure and detailed collages encourage children and adults to notice routines, places, relationships and connections rather than relying on written explanation.

This is an action-led coming-of-age story about a troubled child entering an extraordinary spy-training organisation. It offers perseverance, teamwork and personal change alongside danger, bereavement, coercion and language some families may wish to discuss.

This is a survival adventure about dependent pets forced into an unknown, dangerous world. Its emotional centre is the animals’ struggle to cope, cooperate and change when familiar human protection disappears.