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This is a fantasy adventure centred on two siblings investigating a possible cure for ill dragons. A hatching dragon and a cryptic diary give their quest both a caring purpose and a puzzle to solve.

A warm, humorous friendship adventure follows Humphrey and Og through camp activities, cabin rivalry and unsettling surprises. It offers a small-animal viewpoint on nervousness, helping friends and adapting to unfamiliar experiences.

This is a socially engaged sports novel: football brings two North American teenagers into contact with marginalised local players, while different experiences of race, class and belonging become increasingly difficult to ignore.

A culturally rooted fantasy adventure combining Filipino mythology, humour, friendship and a quest involving a stolen soul key. It places grief and family longing alongside supernatural peril, while presenting courage, empathy, gratitude and teamwork as important values.

A magical theatre rescue story combines an audition, missing talent, fairy helpers and goblin disruption. It may particularly appeal to children interested in performance, imaginative adventure and recurring fairy characters.

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 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.

A rescue story about a racer who can no longer race and takes on firefighting instead. Its central premise is the shift from racing to helping protect a national park during a wildfire emergency.

An energetic pony adventure combining horse handling, competitions, a film-set setting and mysteries. Friendship is central to Issie’s attempt to manage lively horses, while a troubled actress and possible danger to ponies add complication.

This is an imaginative fantasy sequel centred on magic, competing loyalties and conflict between magical and anti-magical groups. It offers friendship, compassion, courage and teamwork, but its adventure includes disturbing death imagery and broad comic material.

A tense frontier survival adventure in which three children evade outlaws, endure severe hardship and discover treasure. It offers resourcefulness, loyalty and historical setting alongside frightening danger, bereavement and family separation.

A fast-moving mystery-adventure about children building a home together while uncovering secrets around a missing billionaire, a threatening uncle and a possibly real sword-wielding protector.

The Ocean Fairies are described as keeping sea creatures safe and happy, while the quest aims to restore peace and safety to the oceans.

A warm football adventure uses Pickles’s humorous viewpoint to explore a family trying to stay together while money problems and housing insecurity affect everyday life.

A playful, high-energy quest turns familiar ideas upside down. Its central appeal is the combination of gaming-style adventure, colourful illustrations, unusual allies and a clear goal: return to the real world.

This is an action-led coming-of-age story about a troubled child entering an extraordinary spy-training organisation. It offers perseverance, teamwork and personal change alongside danger, bereavement, coercion and language some families may wish to discuss.

This is a child-centred detective adventure in which solving a mystery becomes a way to learn about Gran’s life, memory and the importance of understanding people as individuals.

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.

A funny school-and-family story about disrupted routines, fostering and learning to cooperate when two boys must tackle a shared challenge.

This is an adventurous friendship story set around hiking, camping and outdoor survival. Its emotional centre is Vincent’s struggle with school, coordination and belonging, alongside classmates whose different circumstances affect how the group works together.

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.

Expect a fast-moving, imaginative adventure in which time travel connects family relationships, grief and responsibility. The story also makes room for humour, friendship and emotional growth, with Al facing both practical dangers and difficult choices.

A small whale who keeps to himself finds purpose through friendship and action when his brother is in danger. The lively rhyme and colourful sea imagery frame a reassuring story about courage that is not measured by size.

This is an imaginative fantasy adventure about a child pursuing answers about her family in a magical plant world. It offers lively action, inventive world-building and clear conservation themes, while also introducing peril, hostility and loss.

A light fantasy adventure about dance and recovering a missing magical object, with Rachel, Kirsty and Jessica opposed by Jack Frost’s goblins. Its main appeal is likely the combination of movement, friendship and a simple quest.

An action adventure about a young team whose aid mission becomes a pursuit across the Sahara. Desert survival, kidnapping and a child-slavery plot drive the story towards confrontation with the villains.

A magical rescue adventure about Gwen, Flora and Moonlight searching for Evie and the other Spell Sisters. Its main ingredients are friendship, courage, enchanted powers and a struggle to save Avalon from Morgana Le Fay.

A fantasy quest is suggested: a fairy’s missing magic has disturbed the forest’s sleep patterns, and two friends need to help. The emphasis appears imaginative and problem-solving rather than realistic danger.

This is a fantasy rescue adventure centred on Molly’s search for missing turtles. Its main appeal is likely the combination of mermaids, ocean imagery, animal-keeping and an urgent mission, with danger supplied by Carlotta’s guards.

This is an emotionally involving story about a child who expects another temporary placement, then develops attachments through shared work and danger. It offers suspense alongside questions about what makes somewhere feel like home.

A lively family journey turns moving house into an effort to save a collection of fruit trees.

A playful farmyard mystery built around mistaken appearances: Bitzer’s hunger, a strange howl and a barn shadow make an ordinary night seem threatening. The humour comes from competing explanations and an apparently outrageous plan.

This is a magical search adventure about restoring weather after stolen feathers disrupt Fairyland. Its central tension comes from finding the cloud feather and understanding whether Pearl can help while gloom affects Wetherbury.

A rescue adventure about finding a missing kitten, set among snowy scenery and new friendships. Its central choice involves whether the princesses should share their secret with Freya.

Expect a lively superhero adventure balancing comic ideas with genuine peril: friendship, empathy and clever problem-solving sit alongside threats to Earth, altered history and an uncertain attempt to avert catastrophe.

A lively mystery-adventure about Logan and his friends investigating disappearing dogs. The story combines an unusual alien explanation with an urgent attempt to help the animals, while presenting the investigation as humorous and heartwarming.

A magical adventure about cousins who become responsible for a newly hatched dragon, combining practical problem-solving with a threat from the dragon’s long-lived enemy.