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A lively fantasy adventure combines school settings, friendship, humour, magic and imaginative creatures. Felix and Betony must use their wits across conflicts involving Rhino, a djinn and the Japegrins, while the story builds towards a threat affecting two worlds.

A lively, fast-moving adventure blends slapstick humour with the playful fascination of miniature things. Its central appeal lies in the collision between an ordinary boy’s unusual power and consequences he cannot control, alongside friendship and school tensions.

This is a historical romance about a young woman whose commitment to women’s rights conflicts with family expectations and competing romantic attention. Its appeal lies in combining personal choices with a vividly positioned historical cause.

This offers a fast-moving blend of friendship, fantasy, science-fiction ideas and mystery: children investigate dangerous artefacts while a school science project, a missing ring and a legendary creature complicate their search.

A relationship-centred coming-of-age story about loyalty, reputation and self-trust, with romance and mystery around a past assault. It may suit discussion of how social approval can shape difficult personal choices.

This offers an accessible introduction to a pioneering doctor and inventor, combining a poetic life story with scientific and historical detail. Its strongest appeal is the connection between personal ambition, medical discovery and wider questions of equality.

A fast-moving continuation for readers who enjoy post-apocalyptic danger, guarded communities and protagonists trying to rescue people they love. Its strongest appeal appears to be sustained action and suspense rather than intricate new revelations.

This is an eventful historical adventure combining religious secrecy, family loss, theatre and Shakespearean surroundings. It offers a young protagonist facing danger and moral pressure, while presenting Elizabethan England as both culturally vibrant and marked by persecution.

This is a mystery thriller with a questioning teenage protagonist, combining suspected murder, danger, romance, jealousy and questions about belief. Its appeal is likely to come from following Poppy’s investigation as appearances become increasingly unreliable.

This is an energetic, emotionally serious story about being understood. Iris’s efforts to connect with Blue 55 combine Deaf experience, whale science, sound technology and a suspenseful journey.

Its emotional centre is the search for a new meaning of home.

This is an urgent science-fiction adventure with horror elements: invasive plants threaten communities, while three young people investigate why they are unaffected. Alongside survival, the opening gives attention to illness, self-image, friendship and family relationships.

This is an adventure-led historical novel centred on Deaf community, sign language and human dignity, while exploring how inherited prejudice shapes relationships between communities.

This is an adventurous, emotionally charged fantasy combining dragons with Cold War intrigue. It follows danger, friendship, romance and hope while confronting racism, bereavement, political violence and the destructive consequences of power.

A tender fantasy about colourism, self-image and belonging. Sulwe’s painful wish to change her skin is set alongside maternal reassurance and a Night-and-Day legend, leading her towards self-acceptance rather than a change in appearance.

This offers a contained lunar mystery with clues, suspects, suspense and humour. Its appeal lies in Dash’s investigation, the unusual space setting and the contrast between boredom, danger and intellectual challenge.

Expect inventive comic mishaps, misunderstandings and an eccentric central character rather than a serious science story. The humour often comes from failed inventions and Branestawm’s difficulty with everyday social situations.

Expect a playful space adventure centred on a father and son, with absurd alien details, school embarrassment and moments of danger. Its emotional centre is the difficulty of recognising a parent’s love beneath embarrassing behaviour.

This is a fantasy adventure about a young witch who loves robots, enters the City seeking robotics education, and confronts a secret threatening the balance between magic and technology.

A gentle, visually playful story about curiosity, invention and noticing nature. Norton and Alpha’s discovery gives children a clear contrast between a mechanical home and the living world outside.

Expect an ambitious illustrated adventure in which two sibling seeds face separation, danger and uncertainty while learning about Earth’s history and living systems. Its emotional centre is family loyalty, alongside a sustained interest in survival, connection and the natural world.

This offers a lively route into scientific curiosity: invention, robots and jokes are paired with explanations of antimatter, atoms, robotics and the scientific method. It may particularly engage readers who enjoy illustrated, idea-rich adventures.

Expect a brisk, high-stakes science-fiction adventure built from movie-like set pieces: secret hideouts, monsters, lost cities and missions. Its emotional centre is the friends’ changing reliance on friendship, loyalty, trust and teamwork.

A morally serious Gothic novel about creation, abandonment, responsibility and revenge, with opportunities to discuss scientific power and the treatment of outsiders alongside unsettling violence.

A creepy mystery with a strong investigative thread, this book pairs supernatural suspense with questions about local history, friendship and family support. It may suit readers who enjoy unsettling atmosphere alongside a clearly developing mystery.

A dark, romantic retelling built around inherited identity, scientific experimentation and family secrets.

This is a playful school adventure about a child investigating owl pellets, facing interference from bullies and encountering unexplained magical objects and events.

This is a dark summer story about twin brothers whose close relationship is tested by contrasting choices, a laboratory experiment, rural family life and troubling secrets connected with the past.

This is a high-stakes science-fiction thriller about searching, divided loyalties and responsibility after an epidemic. Parallel efforts to find Callie and confront Dr Cross bring the characters towards a dangerous reckoning.

A historically grounded story about fear, racial prejudice and divided loyalties, centred on Shad’s choice as his community responds to emancipation and economic insecurity.

This is a speculative story about memory, disappearance and a changing universe, rooted in Ozzie’s relationships with Tommy and Calvin. Its emotional centre appears to be Ozzie’s effort to hold on to someone everyone else has forgotten while facing new feelings and limited time.

This is a dystopian escape story centred on Rhine’s loss of liberty and attempts to regain it. Alongside danger and mortality, it explores unequal relationships, trust among wives and servants, and the moral cost of pursuing a cure.

A school story about loneliness, a strong interest in rocks and the awkward work of collaborating with someone who may not welcome your ideas.

Expect a collection of twenty fantasy stories set in modern-day realms of magic, with examples involving prophecy, family trouble, mysterious cats and a werewolf prank.