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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 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 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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

A maritime survival adventure follows Fable’s effort to leave an island and seek a place with her father, while building a working alliance with West.

This is an animal-led adventure built around a search for missing friends, with courage and wit tested by a difficult mountain journey.

Expect a comic, high-energy circus adventure, mixing friendship and a rescue mission with a ghost and a villain’s scheme. Its outrageous character details suggest a taste for deliberately silly, over-the-top humour.

A fairy-tale adventure about a group of friends responding to expulsion and banishment by seeking allies and trying to expose a powerful headmistress.

A lively fairy-tale adventure pairs a hair-related magical mishap with a mission to protect Grimm Academy, featuring Rapunzel and familiar fairy-tale friends.

A fantasy adventure following four bear cubs from different circumstances as their paths lead to a shared destination and a struggle to survive.

A teen science-fiction adventure about loyalty under pressure: Khya must decide whether to follow her clan or act to protect her brother, while relying on a rival.

A group project brings out competing ideas about who should lead and whose design to choose. The story may suit readers interested in friendship tensions and working together.

This is a friendship-and-mystery story: two girls connect through clay sculpture and become involved in an attempt to stop a thief. Stella’s pin carries personal symbolic meaning.

A light adventure about two very different characters trying to get home, with mishaps involving machines and a focus on cooperation.

A puzzle-centred adventure puts the four friends on a time-limited mission to find Mr Benedict, with their teamwork central to the challenge.

This is a story about an unlikely friendship built around two boys’ different strengths, with football and school both part of their lives.

A magical quest gives the friendship theme a clear adventure engine: two friends need to cooperate to recover what has been taken.

A series of separate adventures centres on familiar animal friends and Christopher Robin, with episodes involving a house-building, a new arrival and a game.

The appeal is likely to centre on extraordinary powers, investigation and a team of teenage allies confronting a powerful organisation. The bind-up also includes a handbook presented as being from an Elgen leader.

This is a space-adventure story pairing a missing-crew mystery with a cadet-in-danger situation. Data’s search for identity gives the external crisis a personal dimension.

This is a fantasy adventure built around a music festival mishap and a search for a missing magic note. Its mix of friendship, fairies, music and make-up may appeal to readers who enjoy playful, magical problems.

A family and their dog try together to pull an exceptionally large turnip from the ground. The story also introduces Grandma Lena’s care in tending her garden.

This combines school-theatre rivalry with a creepy-house Christmas setting.

A warm, humorous friendship adventure follows Humphrey and Og through camp activities, cabin rivalry and unsettling surprises. It offers a small-animal viewpoint on nervousness, helping friends and adapting to unfamiliar experiences.

Expect a lively, absurd animal adventure built around friendship, danger and rescue. Its distinctive appeal lies in comic names, playful language, a fantastical setting and illustrations intended to invite shared noticing.

Expect a seasonal picture-book story about two mice and an Easter basket contest.

Expect a cat-centred adventure that combines fear, monsters, friendship and comic mischief.

This is a humorous Minecraft fantasy built around a looming threat, friendship and action. It may suit a child seeking a familiar game world, silly situations and a fast-moving battle rather than realism.

A magical theatre rescue story combines an audition, missing talent, fairy helpers and goblin disruption. It may particularly appeal to children interested in performance, imaginative adventure and recurring fairy characters.