Swimming Against the Storm
By: Jess Butterworth
4.05
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
Our land is sinking. It's disappearing into the water. And no one knows how to save it.
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1. The Girl of Ink and Stars
By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
3.68
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017, and the British Book Awards' Children's Book… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
- adventure
"India is a place where colour is doubly bright. Pinks that scald your eyes, blues you could drown in."-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Girl of Ink and Stars
2. The Dragonfly Pool
By: Eva Ibbotson
4.05
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Tally Hamilton is furious to hear she is being sent from London to a horrid, stuffy boarding school… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
- adventure
"Just because we've never done it doesn't mean we can't do it."-Eva Ibbotson, The Dragonfly Pool
"You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair."-Eva Ibbotson, The Dragonfly Pool
3. Journey to the River Sea
By: Kevin Hawkes , Eva Ibbotson
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Sent in 1910 to live with distant relatives who own a rubber plantation along the Amazon River, En… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
- adventure
"They were steaming out of the station before Maia asked, 'Was it books in the trunk?' 'It was books, admitted Miss Minton. And Maia said, 'Good."-Kevin Hawkes, Journey to the River Sea
4. The Star of Kazan
By: Kevin Hawkes , Eva Ibbotson
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
Annika has never had a birthday. Instead she celebrates her Found Day, the day a housemaid and a co… read more
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5. Greenwild (Greenwild, #1)
By: Pari Thomson
4.20
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
Open the door to a spellbinding world where the wilderness is alive and a deep magic rises from the… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
6. The Final Year
By: Matt Goodfellow
4.71
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Life can be tough in your last year of primary school. Tests to take, preparing for the change to h… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
7. HappyHead (HappyHead, #1)
By: Josh Silver
4.04
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize, 2024 Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing, 2024 An Ama… read more
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- fiction
8. How to Build a Boat
By: Elaine Feeney
3.78
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
This is the story of a remarkable boy and his search for his mother, told with warmth, tenderness a… read more
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- fiction
"To some, the world is filled with threats. To others, opportunities."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"That's dedication and if life's taught me anything, we go to what we love, eventually - we mightn't find it straight away, but we get there."-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"...[W]hile language came readily to Tess when dealing with herself alone, having one-way conversations over all of her choices on her long walks in the woods, or on her way to school, now she no long…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
"How can I miss someone I have never met? Jamie said. Grief was profoundly different for both humans. One felt an intense anger he had never recovered from, the other knew something was missing, a vac…"-Elaine Feeney, How to Build a Boat
9. Mad Woman
By: Bryony Gordon
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
What if our notion of what makes us happy is the very thing that's making us so sad? Ten years o… read more
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10. The Last Bear (The Last Bear #1)
By: Hannah Gold
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An instant classic with a bear-sized heart, Hannah Gold’s debut novel is a touching story of kindne… read more
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- childrens
- adventure
- middle grade
- animals
- fiction
- environment
11. The Polar Bear Explorers' Club
By: Alex Bell
4.15
Format: 336 pages, ebook
It sounded like a respectable and worthy enough death for an explorer - tumbling from an ice bridge… read more
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- childrens
- adventure
- middle grade
- animals
- fiction
12. Sky Song
By: Abi Elphinstone
4.13
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
In the snowy kingdom of Erkenwald, whales glide between icebergs, wolves hunt on the tundra and pol… read more
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- childrens
- adventure
- middle grade
- animals
- fiction
13. The Lost Whale
By: Hannah Gold
4.40
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A gorgeously written standalone from the acclaimed author of The Last Bear, Hannah Gold's second no… read more
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- childrens
- adventure
- middle grade
- animals
- fiction
"A patchwork of blue, emerald and turquoise, with white horses dancing like diamonds on the surface. The water stretched out forever until it melted into the sky."-Hannah Gold, The Lost Whale
14. The Lion Above the Door
By: Onjali Q. Raúf
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
From Onjali Q. Rauf, the award-winning and best-selling author of The Boy at the Back of the Class … read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
15. The Tale of Truthwater Lake
By: Emma Carroll
4.21
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
On one side of the underwater street is the remains of a house . . . It's beautiful here, and eerie… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
16. The Night Bus Hero
By: Onjali Q. Raúf
4.15
Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition
From Onjali Q. Rauf, the award-winning and best-selling author of The Boy at the Back of the Class … read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
- adventure
17. Tiger Heart
By: Penny Chrimes
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
One magical friendship. One roaring adventure. The magical tale of a bold young chimney sweep an… read more
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- childrens
- adventure
- middle grade
- animals
- fiction
18. The Distance Between Me and the Cherry Tree
By: Paola Peretti
4.04
Format: 256 pages, ebook
A novel about a young girl losing her sight, inspired by the author's own life story. Mafalda is… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
19. Kat Wolfe Investigates (Wolfe and Lamb Mysteries #1)
By: Lauren St. John
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When twelve-year-old Kat Wolfe starts a pet-sitting agency, she soon finds herself unraveling a mys… read more
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- childrens
- adventure
- middle grade
- animals
- fiction
20. The Runaway Children of Chennai: Action adventure based on the true stories of street children in India (The Secret Children of India Book 1)
By: Caroline Boxall
4.18
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
This gripping story of survival and courage follows Rish, a young boy living in one of the poorest … read more
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21. The Forbidden Expedition (The Polar Bear Explorers’ Club, #2)
By: Alex Bell
4.22
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Stella and the gang travel to Witch Mountain to save Felix and what they find along the way could c… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
- adventure
22. Read, Scream, Repeat
By: Jennifer Killick
3.99
Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition
A spooktacular collection of scary stories by thirteen of the most exciting and diverse authors in … read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
23. My Friend the Octopus
By: Lindsay Galvin
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
England, 1877, and aquarium fever is at its height. Twelve-year-old Vinnie Fyfe works in the tea… read more
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- childrens
- adventure
- middle grade
- animals
- fiction
24. When We Were Warriors
By: Emma Carroll
4.19
Format: None pages, ebook
An irresistible return to World War Two for the Queen of Historical Fiction. A body washed up on… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
25. Kat Wolfe Takes the Case (Wolfe & Lamb)
By: Lauren St. John
4.25
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
Join brave Kat Wolfe and her animal sidekicks in this second mysterious adventure filled with frien… read more
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- animals
- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
26. Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more
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- childrens
- fiction
- adventure
"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
27. Rosie Raja: Churchill's Spy
By: Sufiya Ahmed
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A thrilling and empowering coming-of-age WWII adventure about the French resistance and their Briti… read more
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28. Swimming Against the Storm
By: Jess Butterworth
4.05
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
Our land is sinking. It's disappearing into the water. And no one knows how to save it. read more
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- animals
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- environment
29. The Storm and the Sea Hawk (Geomancer #2)
By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
4.32
Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition
The thrilling second Geomancer book in the epic fantasy trilogy from the bestselling, award-winning… read more
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30. Turtle Moon
By: Hannah Gold
4.70
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
Journey to the heart of the jungle in this unforgettable adventure from the author of bestselling a… read more
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