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Expect a brisk puzzle adventure: children explore a new library, follow book-based clues and compete to find an escape route. The illustrations make the setting and visual puzzles part of the reading experience.

Jemmy has been made to take the prince’s beatings; when Prince Brat runs away, Jemmy is forced to go with him. Their flight turns into a ransom plot involving two highwaymen, and the boys have to cooperate.

This is a fast-moving time-travel adventure about friendship, a powerful medallion and the struggle to help an island under threat. Billy and Allie encounter traps, caves, a prison and a hostile enemy as they search for a way home.

Ophelia is set a diamond-stealing challenge, while Oscar’s inventions and a rival cousin add complications. The caper combines a mystery-adventure plot with comic illustrations and frequent feline puns.

A working dog, his trainer and their allies undertake a hazardous rescue mission involving a captured UN official. The adventure also follows Charlie's return to SAS service after mastering the use of prosthetic legs.

Five pups have their own morning routines, then go to the park. When a raccoon takes their baseball, they join forces to get it back.

Frida and Bear turn drawing into a shared game: one starts with a shape, the other completes it as a picture, and they take turns. The book also invites readers to try their own versions.

A dove, owl and whale set out to help a forest replaced by desert. Animals bring seeds from different parts of the world, and a boy brings water; together they produce a seedling.

A light fantasy adventure about two girls helping a fairy recover a stolen charm and put baking back to rights.

A light fantasy mystery sends two friends looking for a missing baby goat amid comic animal mix-ups. The adventure centres on helping at a farm and working together to put things right.

This is a space-set mystery about an uneasy journey, a missing cultural symbol and two young travellers who try to help one another get home.

A true account follows Patience and the other penguins from their damaged aquarium to temporary care in California, then back to New Orleans after repairs.

A comic mystery pairs Dog Man with a feline sidekick. Petey’s involvement adds another thread to their adventure.

A magical search story links flowers in the human world with fairies’ petals. Rachel and Kirsty help Danielle and the other Petal Fairies look for what has been scattered.

This fantasy adventure follows Tessa as she helps Lizzie and the shelter animals during a storm, while trying to uncover Lizzie’s wish.

This is a spooky, folksy fantasy about two girls whose quarrel unleashes a graveyard full of angry ancestors. The story pairs that supernatural danger with questions of friendship, family history and finding a place to belong.

A puzzle-led fantasy adventure, with riddles readers can try alongside the characters. The appeal is the unfolding quest and imaginative mix of worlds; the story is part of a continuing series.

This is a comic-sounding adventure built around friendship, changing superpowers and a deliberately unpleasant practical problem. Its appeal may lie in the boys’ imaginative challenge rather than realistic everyday situations.

This is a school-and-family story about Nora balancing a new aunt role with assignments and a difficult science-fair partnership. Her interest in organising facts gives the story a distinctive focus.

A Christmas-gift caper centres on a boy’s strong wish for a games console and his plan to recover the presents taken from him and his cousins.

A school event brings competing ideas and practical preparations together with Claudia’s wish to ask someone to dance. The focus is on navigating plans, friendships and a personal challenge under time pressure.

A set of five separate character pairings gives the collection a friendship-focused, ensemble feel rather than one continuous story.

A lively school adventure uses a missing ant and an unusual journey to bring its class into contact with ant life. The book also aims to explain how ants work together.

A family holiday becomes a rescue adventure through magical realms, where the sisters must find allies and learn to use powers they did not know they had.

This combines sibling bickering and mysterious happenings with a fantasy battle. The brothers’ rivalry becomes a practical obstacle when danger calls for them to act together.

A school-year story about wanting to be seen differently, finding a close friend and coping with a parent’s drinking at home.

This is a high-stakes group adventure about trying to prevent war. The focus shifts from protecting the friends’ own people to a wider effort, while their plan is complicated by divided loyalties.

A wildlife story about hunger, hunting and an unexpected sharing of food, with ravens and wolves both seeking a meal in a harsh winter setting.

A fantastical adventure pits three friends against a cereal company’s world-taking scheme, with goblin impersonators, faeries and a journey through a space-time rift. The friends aim to rescue the Queen and halt an invasion.

A comic neighbourhood contest turns an established boys-versus-girls rivalry into a shared challenge, with prizes for winners and a slime-pit penalty for losers.

This is a fast-moving fantasy adventure built around a team’s dangerous mission, clues and a pursuit. Its unusual janitor-magic premise may appeal to readers who enjoy school settings with high-stakes fantasy.

This is a fantasy about a boy caught between a prophecy and a promise, with dragons and dragonlings central to the coming danger.

A Minecraft-inspired adventure pairs an outsider character with a bullied girl as monsters enter her school. The characters team up under pressure.

This is an adventure about dogs trying to find a home amid fragile alliances and a new threat. It may suit readers drawn to animal-centred fantasy and survival stories.

This is a high-stakes fantasy adventure built around a group of morally complicated outsiders, a dangerous magical object and uneasy cooperation.

This is a life story that connects Wilson’s rise through university and state politics to his presidency and international ambitions.

A fantasy adventure centred on granting wishes, with Sage facing unfamiliar life on another planet and a mission governed by a deadline.

This is a fantasy rescue quest set among Arthurian characters, with friendship, a kidnapped companion and growing magical powers at its centre.

This is a fantasy about two girls from sharply different circumstances whose powers—or lack of them—bring them into a shared struggle. Their cooperation is central to the premise.

A lively-sounding fantasy pairs two very different heroines in a cosmic rescue mission, blending magic, adventure and a mathematical idea.

This is a wilderness-survival story in which practical resourcefulness and the need to cooperate sit alongside a strained relationship between two stranded boys.

This is a multi-strand fantasy about resisting an expansionist ruler. Evan seeks help for the threatened queendom, while Alyssa may be able to oppose the empress from inside her stronghold.

This is an adventure about a group seeking a more sustainable home, with their survival tied to how they manage life alongside other cats.

This is a large-scale fantasy adventure about dragons’ bid for freedom and the effort to stop them from taking over the world.

A comic fantasy adventure centres on Tiffany’s growing understanding of witchcraft and an urgent effort to bring her missing younger brother back from Fairyland.