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This is a Victorian-set steampunk mystery combining deduction, action, supernatural danger and an international dispute. The central partnership contrasts Mina’s reasoning with Evaline’s practical, vampire-slaying approach.

This is a tense survival adventure built around separation, environmental danger and competing attempts to reach safety. Its strongest through-line is how young characters organise, protect more vulnerable people and respond to threats.

This is a vehicle-rich Christmas adventure: elves design competing sleighs, while one works independently on another solution. It offers imaginative machines, busy illustrations, rhyme, sound effects and a clear focus on making and problem-solving.

A suspenseful children’s adventure about siblings investigating unsettling circumstances in a guarded Cornish house. Expect secrets, danger, teamwork and a wartime political backdrop, alongside melodrama and an intentionally improbable child-led challenge to adults.

Expect fast-moving fantasy adventure: Emily and her friends train, discover powers and attempt a dangerous rescue while war approaches. Family tensions and questions of trust sit alongside battles and emotional uncertainty.

A classic-style children’s adventure built around a coastal mystery, teamwork and discovery. Expect suspense from dangerous rocks, suspicious night-time signals, local wrongdoing and the children’s determination to investigate without adult direction.

A creepy, energetic adventure that combines frightening creatures and suspense with banter, humour and an emphasis on four unlike students learning to support one another.

A lively fairy-tale reimagining where three heroines encounter magic, danger and friendship. Its central movement is from Rumaysa’s enforced confinement towards escape, shared adventure and protagonists who act as their own rescuers.

A lively child-led detective adventure: Emil responds to theft by following the suspected criminal through Berlin and working with other children. Its appeal lies in pursuit, teamwork and the contrast between a small town and a large, exciting city.

A seasonal collection follows Beti through birthday events, a journey to a waterfall, berry picking with Mam, a storm, and winter responsibilities. Friendship, family reassurance, practical problem-solving and living alongside nature shape the book’s gentle world.

This is a team-centred science-fiction adventure about young people confronting the organisation responsible for transforming one of them. Expect secret missions, superhuman and alien abilities, technology, fights and an urgent threat affecting millions.

This is a lively historical mystery built around a disabled heroine, a group heist and strong friendship. It combines perilous secrets, inventive problem-solving and questions about how disabled children are treated, while keeping the adventure playful and suspenseful.

A high-energy fantasy adventure centred on a family of explorers, with Brian and Wren facing an unusual threat alongside their driver and butler. Its tone appears deliberately extravagant rather than realistic.

This is a fantasy adventure about a teenager discovering a dangerous inherited role. Dragons, training, teamwork and a search for another Slayer drive the central conflict, with urgency created by hatching eggs and approaching maturity.

A team-based fantasy adventure: Lucy starts afresh at a prestigious academy, builds new friendships and faces a zombie attack alongside girls whose different abilities complement hers.

Expect a friendship-led story about organising a school concert despite parental restrictions and rivalry. Its described appeal is lively humour and group energy, with music-event drama and romantic attention signalled; fuller treatment is unknown.