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This is a supernatural investigation with two strands of tension: competition between agencies and a mysterious object that the authorities consider dangerous.

A portal-fantasy adventure about three girls tasked with protecting magical animals, with friendship and the natural world among its stated themes.

This is an adventure about young characters facing a sudden emergency away from their intended destination, with Jedi, an inventor and a droid among the group.

This is a high-stakes adventure built around an unusual alternate-history premise: electricity returns to a steam-driven world, with monsters and a secret society at the centre of the danger.

Expect fantasy adventure centred on a team effort to confront a dangerous, shadowy threat, with spirit animals bound to the human characters.

This is a fast-moving spy adventure built around a missing ring, a threatened witness list and a team of investigators. The case also touches on Dylan’s past.

A fast-moving science-fiction adventure about young Jedi racing to prevent a deadly plague from being released, amid a wider battle and a confrontation with a dangerous adversary.

A lively contest drives the story: the children try to raise money and earn a choice connected with the Strawberry Festival.

This is a child-centred mystery adventure combining seaside exploration, hidden places, secrecy and a rescue involving a royal child. Its appeal appears to lie in teamwork, discovery and sustained pursuit, though the ending and the intensity of the danger are not described.

A lively superhero adventure centres on Harley’s schemes, performances and investigation of a carnival that seems wrong. Her distinctive humour and abilities are treated as assets, while friendship and teamwork remain important.

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 offers energetic fantasy adventure, imaginative magical abilities and a friendship group facing escalating challenges. Its tone appears playful as well as perilous, with candy-based humour alongside imprisonment, manipulation and attempts to control young characters.

This is a clue-led children’s adventure about investigating a disappearance after an accusation of theft. Its central appeal is the Secret Seven working together, with a younger sibling presented as a possible complication.

This is a mission-driven seafaring adventure in which a crew pursues a former rival who has become a pirate and slave trader. Friendship, courage and restored honour shape the action.

A fast-moving detective adventure set around an extreme theme park, combining sabotage, undercover investigation, skateboarding and danger. The central mystery may appeal to readers who enjoy action, clues and continuing series storylines.

This is a comic school adventure built around a winter charity contest, a child’s wish to impress others, and conspicuous bodily humour. Illness changes George’s plans and gives his friend Alex an important part in the event.

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 fast-moving ensemble mystery combines threats and secrets with friendship, romance and personal change. Its strongest appeal is likely the continuing Bayview relationships and the question of who is targeting the group.

A fast-moving supernatural mystery about a lamp, an underground tomb and a struggle against unleashed evil. Expect occult imagery, threatening forces and adventure, alongside a style that may feel familiar and a plot judged predictable.

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.

Expect a brisk, gadget-driven adventure in which five teenagers apply specialised skills to missions involving computers, surveillance, buildings and criminal adversaries.

A brisk comic adventure about children investigating suspicious adults at a phone-free retreat. Expect secret trips, lizards, alligators, captivity and criminal schemes alongside friendship, teamwork and characters learning from new information.

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.

This offers a lively quest built around an inexperienced performer, an unusual travelling companion and a widening circle of allies. Humour, peril and court intrigue sit alongside questions of courage, usefulness and inherited expectations.

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.

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.

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 fast-moving Minecraft adventure centred on teamwork, construction and defending a community.

A tense, atmospheric mystery about responsibility and taking action, with an underground workplace, a threatening diary and a close friendship group balancing the darker material with humour.

This is a high-stakes spy adventure with an animal lead, clues, gadgets and a race against time. Its central appeal is action-led problem-solving, supported by a team of animal allies.

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 warm, illustration-rich story about rebuilding a neglected hotel through practical work, creative problem-solving and cooperation. Its main tension comes from whether Anna and her team can meet an inspector’s challenge.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This is an action-led fantasy about a trans teen navigating a dangerous divine competition, with friendship and social inequality at its centre. Its imaginative mythology and representation may appeal, while the sacrifice premise and sustained peril make the emotional stakes substantial.

This is a clue-led historical mystery with an active young protagonist, a strong seaside setting and a family crisis at its centre. It offers atmosphere, teamwork and a determined character whose limb difference is part of her life, not the whole plot.

A football-centred story about pressure, responsibility and learning to co-operate, with Roy juggling his place in the team, college, family duties and coaching. It offers both match-focused excitement and everyday-life concerns.

This is a fantasy adventure combining K-pop performance culture, martial-arts action and supernatural danger. Its emotional centre is a friendship group learning to work together while facing fears that affect them and others.

A festive, clue-led murder mystery for readers who enjoy solving puzzles alongside a team. Its emotional centre is a group of five neurodivergent children combining different strengths while trying to protect their out-of-school club.

This is an imaginative fantasy adventure centred on magical theatre: Harper joins the travelling Wonderia, learns spellcraft and works with new friends while danger threatens their school. Expect theatrical spectacle, mysteries, peril and a lively, rapidly unfolding world.

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 humorous adventure about a reluctant child facing unfamiliar activities, social pressure and team expectations. Tim’s practical idea in a challenge suggests that contribution need not depend on sporting ability.

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.