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Expect a high-stakes time-travel adventure in which recovering the right keys matters as much as deciding which people Kate can save.

A concise introduction to African dance, connecting its history and regional differences with health and fitness. Chapters range from Capoeira and modern pioneers to preserving African roots and European influences.

A family curse and a bargain with a faerie queen set up a fantasy about loyalty under pressure. Fenella's promised freedom depends on destructive acts against the family she wants to protect.

This offers a women-centred account of scientific work on the Manhattan Project, bringing several scientists’ contributions into focus.

A reluctant participant in historical reenactments becomes responsible for stopping a fellow time traveller who intends to alter the Civil War’s outcome. Humour and a historical adventure premise sit alongside the battle setting.

This is a mythological quest centred on Nico and Will, combining supernatural danger with a relationship under strain. Nico’s grief and experience of being outed are part of his background.

This combines historical adventure, time travel and family mystery. Its emotional centre is two siblings trying to make sense of divorce, relocation and separation while pursuing clues across centuries.

A disadvantaged horse moves from failed racing to carriage work, learning about history, reading, languages and different political systems. His later involvement in a crisis gives the story an adventure arc, but the precise resolution is unclear.

A gentle introduction to Laika, space and the historical setting, combining a dog’s personal voice with factual material. Its bilingual presentation and illustrations may invite shared reading, while the real history gives the story emotional weight.

Expect a modern jungle adventure centred on Tarzan, Jane and Robbie, with a missing-person search, rescue and environmental conflict. Family debt, illegal logging and a concealed personal history add pressures beyond the action.

A family travel adventure blends historical learning with folklore. Readers follow the Johnson children through historic coastal places, while Bobby faces danger and the children also take part in a crabbing trip despite knowing they should not.

An imaginative science-fiction fantasy about a rare black cheetah facing pursuit, discovering an unusual heritage, and navigating a bond with a human in a damaged future world.

A warm, historically grounded account of how a rescued bear became connected with Winnie-the-Pooh. Its layered storytelling, photographs and family records offer both an engaging animal story and an introduction to memory, wartime history and literary origins.

This is an Iceland-set fantasy adventure that layers a missing-parent mystery over an inherited spell. Its main appeal is the meeting of modern teenagers with sagas, Norse mythology, memory changes and dangerous magic.

A fact-rich investigation of rubbish as a cultural, economic and environmental problem, combining statistics and history with vivid people and practical examples of communities reducing waste.

This is a family-centred coming-of-age novel about unanswered questions, changing relationships and choices under medical pressure. Its emotional seriousness is moderated by humour, warmth and sympathetic characterisation.

A mystery-led magical-school adventure with a distinctive idea: Charlie can hear voices in photographs. Its strongest pull is uncovering hidden histories while deciding whom to trust inside an institution that feels secretive and controlling.

A heartfelt time-travel adventure about a boy trying to understand and help his grandfather, with humour alongside grief, family upheaval and the unsettling effects of Alzheimer’s.

A focused introduction to Janusz Korczak as a doctor devoted to children, with potential to prompt reflection on how children should be treated and valued.

This is a dark, suspenseful Viking voyage to Vinland, blending historical detail, mythology, magic and monsters. Peer and Hilde face deceptive adults, secrets and danger, while the story explores truth, responsibility, maturity, love, loss and longing.

This is a child-centred historical mystery about uncovering a town’s African-American past. It combines cemetery restoration, family stories, community reticence, and Raisin’s personal consequences after she sneaks out.

A supernatural adventure about a girl whose unusual experiences lead to questions about family history, parallel worlds and disrupted time. It offers mystery, lively characters and a blend of real-world and fantastical settings.

This is a fast-moving supernatural mystery about trust, responsibility and courage under pressure. Will must investigate his apparent involvement in the theft while confronting escalating threats to his community.

A richly imagined coming-of-age fantasy that joins Cromwell’s England to a fairy-tale realm. Coriander is curious, persistent and resilient, but the story also brings bereavement, coercion, danger and moral conflict into her journey.

This offers a supernatural murder mystery rooted in Prohibition-era New York, alongside folklore, occult ideas, jazz-club life and vivid secondary storylines. Its horror is central rather than incidental.

A fast-moving fantasy adventure with Greek mythology, magical objects and competing aims. Its strongest distinctiveness lies in combining a dangerous quest with questions about family, history and the motives behind an apparent villain.

This is a brisk speculative story about music, family history and the consequences of interfering with the past. Liam’s ghostly perspective combines mystery with questions about identity, choice and whether rescuing someone might change who exists.

A reflective coming-of-age story about leaving home, family bonds and uncertain love. Its shifting structure and unresolved elements may suit readers who enjoy atmosphere and emotional questions more than fast-moving plot.

A suspenseful historical novel linking a present-day investigation with a teenager’s experience of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre. It combines mystery, racial history and questions about privilege, social inequality, identity and justice.

A fast-moving supernatural mystery about a teenager searching for her missing mother, then uncovering concealed family history and a strange inheritance. It offers suspense, folklore, friendship and a seaside setting, with the pace reportedly slowing after the opening.

This is a contained, high-pressure murder mystery with horror elements: an isolated theme park, a stalking mascot, successive deaths and a buried history that the protagonists must unravel.

Expect a visually led, imaginative space story rather than a reliable account of Laika’s life.

This offers imaginative fantasy alongside sustained questions about Black identity, friendship, prejudice and self-determination. Its dual perspective gives Tavia and Effie distinct forms of identity exploration, though the opening may feel slow before the action intensifies.

A tense survival adventure places young people in a natural disaster and gives Dylan and Louie difficult practical and emotional problems to solve. Its strongest thread appears to be movement from suspicion towards cooperation.

Expect an energetic fantasy quest combining Caribbean-inspired folklore, spirits, gemstones and magical battles with a warm friendship story. The central characters face fear, grief, abandonment and morally difficult decisions while trying to protect their island.

This is a brisk time-slip adventure with a strong historical backdrop, combining moon-landing excitement with an intimate story about family, memory, change and the emotional effects of loss.

This offers a lively blend of Ancient Egyptian history, mythology and danger, centred on a young princess who must rely on cleverness while uncertain allies and supernatural forces complicate her task.

This is a lively time-travel comedy that combines ancient-Rome information with peril, slapstick and a rescue mission. Expect cartoon action, repeated catchphrases, potty humour and bright panels, with factual sections and a drawing lesson at the end.

A thoughtful time-slip adventure about two boys separated by centuries but connected by hardship. Its mystery framework brings contemporary housing insecurity and Victorian workhouse life together, while the boys’ friendship gives the story an emotionally hopeful centre.

Expect a highly atmospheric Christmas fantasy: cosy feasts and snow sit alongside wolves, criminals, magic, shifting time and pursuit. Its strongest appeal is the uneasy movement from delight into responsibility.

A dark, emotionally driven faerie adventure about a sister trying to rescue—or reclaim—someone whose wishes may differ from her own. Expect Welsh folklore, social history, perilous magic and a romance shaped by conflict, vulnerability and changing understanding.

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.

A sweeping, emotionally serious story linking personal betrayal and family relationships with Afghanistan’s recent history. Its movement towards forgiveness and redemption is set alongside graphic cruelty, sexual assault, death and distressing language.

A lively supernatural adventure pairs comic disruption with curiosity about local history, memory and the passage of time. It may appeal to children who enjoy ghostly mysteries where the unexplained is explored through investigation rather than treated only as frightening.

This is a quest fantasy about siblings facing separation, magical danger and inherited family trouble. Its appeal lies in Fairyland, nature-linked magic, riddles, storytelling and a movement from grief and hardship towards courage and hope.