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A real-life adventure about a runner and a stray dog whose companionship develops during an ultramarathon, followed by Leonard’s effort to bring Gobi home.

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.

A school competition, strict boundaries and mysterious island details set up a fantasy mystery. Anne’s search for the reason she was admitted becomes entangled with the school’s hidden rules and the possible danger to people she loves.

The story pairs a spy mission with a rivalry that shifts as Caden develops feelings for Dylan. Its central tension is between the organisation’s lethal competition and the boys’ unexpected connection.

This is a competition adventure built around mech battles, with Titch facing fierce opponents and pursuing answers about his missing father.

A magical saxophone and a TV talent contest drive the adventure, as Rachel and Kirsty try to stop Jack Frost’s goblin band and protect their fairy friends.

Hannah faces disappointment over basketball selection alongside a friendship that is becoming more distant. Her effort to improve her game and confidence gives the story a sporting goal as well as a relationship question.

A magical-object theft sets up an adventure around lifeguards, helpfulness and an award. Rachel and Kirsty are involved as the fairies’ plans are disrupted.

Karate is not the only pressure: Cole’s choices also affect how he gets along with his best friends.

A fashion-minded teenager pursues a school show-director role while juggling creative ambition, peer competition and a crush. A paid offer to influence the contest brings a difficult choice into her story.

This instalment juggles Sam's pursuit of the Dreamers with Alex and Shiva's attempt to escape and Eva's competition. Its action includes pursuit, captivity, explosive devices and terrifying monsters.

A brisk-sounding invention adventure combines railway engineering and business rivalry with threats to Tom and his friends.

This is a coming-of-age fantasy about belonging and ambition, shaped by a martial-arts contest, a prophecy and a web of linked destinies.

This is a melancholy coming-of-age story about sisterhood under pressure, told in two forms. Its myth-inspired comics strand offers another way into the story, though the strands may take time to make sense together.

A light sports-day story about joining in and keeping attention on a race. Its beginner-reader format also makes practising repeated words part of the experience.

This is a sports-focused account of two celebrated rivals, with attention to how different backgrounds and playing styles coexist with a shared drive to excel.

This is a high-stakes ballet competition story, with the dancers’ ambitions entangled with accusations, bullying and personal loyalties.

This is a football story with a family-move dilemma: Oliver has found a place on his new team and begun to make friends, but another move may take both away.

This is a sports-centred story about competing loyalties: Alex wants to concentrate on baseball, while his relationships and Matt’s return complicate the season.

This blends an unusual skating-and-martial-arts ambition with school competition and a mystery about damage at the academy. Peasprout’s effort to prove herself sits alongside the need to address an accusation.

This is a Hardy Boys mystery built around a reality-show survival contest: Frank and Joe must investigate threats while joining the cast. The prize and concealed crew secrets add possible motives.

This is a school-and-family story about coping with upheaval and trying to start afresh.

A cooking contest brings friendship and rivalry together with a mysterious ingredient whose trouble keeps growing. The premise blends school competition with a fantastical slime threat.

A school rivalry drives this story: Louise expects to be the star, while Manon’s answers in French, football in an unexpected outfit and apparent popularity unsettle her. The opera production provides the setting for their contest.

Expect a school social drama driven by crushes, competing romantic attention and a secret from a boyfriend’s past, with a holiday party providing a shared backdrop.

This is a supernatural investigation with two strands of tension: competition between agencies and a mysterious object that the authorities consider dangerous.

This is a space-race adventure in which three cadets monitor rival ships and become involved in uncovering foul play connected to Titan’s crystal-mining operations.

A piano competition provides the setting for a mystery involving threats to finalists, sabotage and blackmail, alongside Ted’s romantic interest in Nancy.

A comic farmyard contest drives the story, while the contestants’ prize turns out to be something quite different from the honour they expect.

This is a children’s detective story built around a contest between two school sleuthing clubs and a missing item. The details given do not establish whether the mystery is solved successfully.

This is a Christmas-themed story about Flora's self-importance and her rivalry with a star decoration. The premise centres on a small contest for a place at the top of the tree.

Ana hopes to manage her problems like Ruby Redfort, her favourite fictional detective. A school spelling competition worries her, while her mischievous classmate Carlitos gets into trouble. Ana must face her fears and consider what it means not to leave a good friend aside.

A family upheaval and a determined musical ambition set the story in motion; the journey also gives Maya room to reconsider what makes a place feel like home.

This is a fashion-centred school rivalry, with four friends competing over a Halloween accessory design. The sketches and patterns add a hands-on creative element alongside the fictional story.

A magical quest story built around a contest for a powerful talisman, with Jackie’s setback prompting a secret plan from Uncle.

This instalment focuses on the pressure of keeping a place in a school social circle, alongside friendship and a contest for Social Chair. Its Hollywood setting adds a show-business backdrop.

A fantasy finale built around a race for a contested crown, with September’s companions caught up in the upheaval and her parents searching for her.

A light fantasy premise centres on Dash choosing between a responsibility and a winter competition, with a troll’s challenge bringing the two strands together.

This blends a family’s observance of Lent with school-life plots, including a Bigfoot search and a spelling bee. Its events run through the season to Easter Sunday.

A friendship story about three very different companions whose contests turn into quarrels, then give way to consideration and appreciation. Instructions for a related whole-body game are included.

This is a sports-centred story about striving to excel while navigating a new team and a changing relationship with a rival.

Four linked adventures follow the Cheetah Girls through an unexpected fashion trend, music-industry opportunities and preparations for a major concert. One storyline introduces Dorinda's newly discovered sister, who is white and coming to town.

This is a mystery centred on a fashion competition: Nancy, George and Bess create designs, then investigate interference that threatens the event.

The collection offers seven distinct food-character stories, with recurring opportunities to discuss behaviour, self-image and how people relate to others.

A school baseball story that also follows Mike through pressure at home and a troubling situation at school.