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This blends magical sea creatures with a story about caring for an injured Aquicorn and deciding how a town should live alongside the sea. Family support and Lana's growing independence also matter.

A gentle fantasy adventure about two girls helping fairy allies tackle litter on a beach. Environmental care is central, alongside friendship, teamwork and a search for a missing wand.

This is an adventure-led environmental story in which children respond to pollution, encounter wildlife and learn about protecting habitats.

This is a playful but pointed reworking of nursery rhymes. Pollution, smoking, oil, logging, food access and over-consumption appear through jokes, reversals and striking black-and-white illustrations rather than straightforward explanation.

A rhyming picture-book story follows the Once-ler’s expansion of a business among Truffula Trees, the resulting pollution and loss of wildlife, and a boy who learns what might help repair the damaged land.

A gentle environmental story about a small, quiet character whose observations are initially overlooked. Whisper’s eventual advocacy involves friends, creativity and persuasion rather than simply becoming louder.

A fast-moving dystopian adventure combines a family search with uncertain alliances, a lottery camp and an environmental mystery. Its central pull is whether belonging means escaping Earth or helping protect it.

A spooky Cornwall adventure with a mystery at its centre, this book brings together a young conservation-minded protagonist, an unusual dog, family members and a new friend against a curse that poisons and destroys the land.

This is a hopeful environmental story in which small actions become more effective through cooperation. Its imaginative ocean encounter gives practical choices—such as reducing plastic and reusing bottles—a narrative setting.

An accessible introduction to plastic’s environmental effects, balancing explanations of pollution with practical actions and examples of children contributing ideas, projects and solutions.

A lively, high-concept eco-adventure: inventive technology, racing and space-bound rubbish drive a race against time, while contrasting communities give the story social and environmental weight.

A fast-moving fantasy adventure about mermaids, Vikings, gods and a threatened ocean. Alongside magic and danger, it offers a clear route into conversations about environmental damage, leadership, friendship and how communities respond to conflict.

This is a richly imagined fantasy adventure about searching for a missing parent while navigating a hidden botanical world. It offers magical danger, family revelations, environmental stakes and questions about belonging.

Expect an imaginative, creature-filled adventure centred on finding sanctuary. Friendship, loyalty, courage and environmental loss sit alongside danger, threatening creatures and occasional insulting language.

A lively, idea-led climate thriller combines speculative plant powers with social inequality, family expectations, romance and collective resistance. Its central appeal is imagining young people confronting environmental damage and corporate power together.

A tense, emotionally serious survival story follows Ade through a collapsing city while his mother withdraws and neighbours become an unexpected support network. Its strongest offering is a child-centred exploration of vulnerability, responsibility and collective care.

A survival adventure built around two sisters, a forbidden rewilded landscape and the challenge of finding a route home. Its imagined future also brings together wildlife, environmental change and questions about human access to nature.

A gentle magical adventure carries a serious environmental problem: the children must respond as trees are threatened, extreme weather worsens and their village floods. Friendship and changing viewpoints help drive the response.

Expect an energetic adventure built around Lunar’s survival, a dragon-human bond and the threat facing Mars. The story offers dangerous journeys, planetary mythology and young characters learning that protecting home may involve wider responsibilities.

This is an environmentally focused story about protecting water, presented through a young person’s stand against a threat to Earth and her community. Its Indigenous-inspired perspective gives the message cultural and spiritual weight.