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This is a horse-centred mystery-adventure about Hailey, her friend Elaine, and Freedom, a foal with unusual connections to the past. Suspense grows through a disappearance, a dangerous flood and a threatening adult figure.

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 faith-centred biography that presents Isobel Kuhn’s personal change and missionary journey as an adventurous, challenging life story.

A historically grounded creative-life story in which the origins of Curious George are closely tied to a Jewish couple’s flight from wartime Europe. Its strongest elements are human connection, artistic work, and a tense escape.

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.

This offers elaborate gothic atmosphere, supernatural mystery and visual storytelling, with children confronting disappearances, spirits or monsters and difficult choices.

This is a varied speculative-fiction collection rather than one continuous story. Its appeal lies in imaginative settings, changing moods and morally pressured situations, but the individual stories may differ considerably in intensity and subject matter.

This is a reflective coming-of-age story about bereavement, family relationships, friendship and ideas of beauty. Melissa uses memories and her father’s journal while trying to understand love and decide how to live in the present.

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.

A good fit for readers who enjoy ghostly mysteries, clues and twists, especially when a story also explores family changes. The suspense is prominent, though the narrative may feel crowded and its conclusion is described as contrived.

A contemporary fantasy adventure follows Charlee from relocation and social difficulty towards visions, self-discovery and a potentially world-changing responsibility. The mysterious bicycle appears central to how she confronts the danger.

This is a magical rescue adventure in which Arica responds to the unicorns’ call and confronts a threat to their world. Expect fantasy creatures, danger, loyalty and a child making consequential choices.

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.

Expect an urgent survival adventure in which two children must respond to rising danger after extreme weather separates them from their group. Its environmental focus sits alongside friendship, courage and the pressures of fitting in.

A gentle intergenerational story combines farm life, family memory and a practical challenge: a grandson helps his grandfather learn to read and write before travelling to Australia.

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 lively introduction to women’s contributions across history and different fields, presented through colourful illustrations, short profiles, facts and quotations. Its page-by-page structure supports dipping in, revisiting individual figures and noticing links between personal achievement and wider social change.

This is a serious, emotionally layered coming-of-age novel about how family difficulties, social media and friendship choices shape Taylor’s life before and after catastrophe.

This is an imaginative, issue-led adventure about environmental collapse, inequality and resistance, balanced by family loyalty and hope. Its vivid language may invite close discussion as much as straightforward plot-following.

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.

This is an imaginative adventure combining friendship, mystery and a robot with a society changed by water scarcity. It also gives sustained attention to Auden’s experience of achromatopsia and his changing relationship with that difference.

A folklore-rich quest about a girl protecting her home and family. Its imaginative setting, magical companions and nature imagery sit alongside questions about self-belief, inherited responsibility and whether the past can be repaired.

A tense coming-of-age story follows Kadeen as football offers connection and purpose in a new home. Her secret involvement with the team is complicated by her aunt’s opposition and the need to avoid recognition.

This is a historically grounded coming-of-age story about a girl pursuing football while working in wartime industry. It offers determination, teamwork and questions about who gets opportunities, alongside setbacks when social and institutional attitudes change.

This is a serious, emotionally focused novel about returning home, confronting painful memories and imagining a future beyond harmful family dynamics. Flooding and climate danger provide an urgent backdrop, while romantic love adds another strand.

An intense survival adventure centred on persistence, practical problem-solving and changing self-understanding. Brian’s isolation makes ordinary needs—food, shelter, fire and safety—into urgent challenges, while the wilderness remains dangerous rather than comfortably picturesque.

A fast-moving Irish fantasy about protecting a magical world from destruction, combining folklore, adventure and danger. It offers an imaginative quest while bringing contemporary concerns, including bullying and climate change, into an ancient-myth setting.

This is a family adventure shaped by sudden loss of security and encounters with people connected to the railway. Its central interest is how the siblings respond to changed circumstances.

A whimsical, suspenseful fantasy about escaping ordinary life and confronting danger, with a bittersweet focus on childhood and growing up. Its imaginative appeal sits alongside language and attitudes that require historical distance.

A warm, strongly moral story about an orphaned girl, changing homes and the relationships she forms. Its emotional centre is the contrast between Heidi’s mountain life and her unhappiness in Frankfurt.

This is an imaginative fantasy adventure about siblings entering a winter-bound world and taking part in its liberation. Its moral framework includes courage, sacrifice, repentance, forgiveness and explicitly Christian allegory.

This is a brisk, fantastical adventure about determination, danger and becoming a firework-maker. Lila’s journey combines perilous tests, a family predicament and a spectacular public performance, with illustrations contributing to the imagined world.

Expect a humorous adventure shaped by Benji’s determination to help his uncle, alongside more tender material about his parents and the possibility of family change.

A spirited magical adventure about a girl pursuing family answers, learning witchcraft and building friendships in Hedgely. Expect a picturesque but spooky setting, folklore-inspired creatures, exciting escapes and a heroine whose courage develops unevenly.

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.

This is a family-history story in which discovering wartime secrets changes how Liv understands her grandmother, loyalty and courage. It combines contemporary friendship worries with Jewish sisters’ separation, Resistance work, loss and rebuilding a life.

Expect an adventurous, supernatural story in which George faces challenges while trying to help captured companions. Its altered London setting and continuing conflict raise questions about how power should be used.

This is a reflective story about losing a familiar home and friendship, then slowly finding steadiness elsewhere. Its poem-by-poem structure gives Diana’s changing feelings room to emerge through observations, notes and everyday family moments.

This is an action-led transformation fantasy about fear, courage and responsibility. Cory must survive unfamiliar environments, make alliances and repair the consequences of opening a forbidden medicine bag, while seeking a way home.

This is a historical family story about fitting in, responding to school teasing and deciding whether to challenge unfair blame directed at Japanese-American friends. Its central interest lies in personal choices made amid wider wartime uncertainty.

A varied historical-fiction collection following protagonists through moments of cultural encounter, disaster, illness, family upheaval and racial hardship in Canadian history.

A playful fantasy adventure centres on friendship, magical mishaps and a heroine learning to manage a changing identity. Its appeal appears to come from comic characters, imaginative creatures and a purposeful journey.

Expect a fast-moving fairy-tale adventure involving illness, magic, strange creatures, rival pursuers and travel through unsettling settings. Red’s fear, friendship with Goldie and changing understanding of others drive the story.

This is a historical novel about a newly freed Black family confronting the gap between legal freedom and lived opportunity. Matty’s story combines fear, discouragement and community life with an eventual movement towards hope.