Take a look at our favourite stories for junior readers, as part of our autumn Go Wild! programme – all free to borrow with your library card!
Find out more about our Wild Reads programme and explore our suggested books for wildlife enthusiasts of all ages.
Afternoon on the Amazon
Jenny Laird
When siblings Jack and Annie discovered a magic, time-travelling tree house at the end of their garden, they stumbled upon an adventure that would take them through time and space. This time, Jack and Annie have been whisked away to the Amazon rainforest. Watch out for the crocodiles!
Jack and Annie are in for a wild ride as they continue their quest to save their friend, Morgan le Fay. From killer ants to vampire bats, the siblings never know what they’ll run into next! Of course, it’s not long before they’re hopelessly lost. Can they find their way through the rainforest before it gets dark?
This fun-filled series of graphic novel adaptations allows younger readers to develop their reading confidence while solving exciting magical mysteries alongside Jack and Annie.
Dungeon Runners: Forest Frenzy
Kieran Larwood
Kit can’t wait for the next dungeon – especially as he and his teammates, Sandy and Thorn, have been promoted to the next league.
But with new challenges, bigger monsters and meaner opponents, as the dungeon being set high up in a forest, Kit will need to keep his wits about him, as well as his balance!
Five and the Forest of Secrets
Chris Smith
Maddy, Fran and Tom – plus Gilbert the dog – are off on a camping trip with Professor George, and they can’t wait!
There will be sausages to cook over the campfire and amazing places to explore, but before long, the New Famous Five discover there’s a bigger adventure in store for them.
A famous scientist has gone missing and a criminal gang wants to use his research for nefarious purposes. Can the children solve the mystery, rescue the scientist and stop the criminals in their tracks?
Greenwild: The Forest in the Sky
Pari Thomson
With the support of the Iffenwilders and their mighty water magic, Daisy and her friends are finally setting off to rescue the Botanists held prisoner in the heart of the Amazon rainforest – including Daisy’s Ma.
But when an unexpected attack sends the rescue mission spinning off course, Daisy and Max are separated, and Max shipwrecked on an impossible shore with no way of escape. Even Daisy’s arrival in Amazeria – the stunning Amazonian pocket of the Greenwild, teeming with green magic – is in jeopardy as the mysterious Great Reaper draws ever closer.
In the shadows of the great rainforest, it’s impossible to know who to trust. Daisy and her friends must draw on every ounce of courage they have to fight for Daisy’s Ma, for the Greenwild, and for everything they hold most dear.
24 Hours in the Wilderness
Ashe de Sousa
Gigi, Moyo and their Uncle Dee have come from the city to explore the Great Bear Rainforest. But, when their kayak goes adrift, carrying most of their things with it, they find themselves stranded in one of Earth’s deepest tracts of wilderness.
What will they do for food and shelter? What if they encounter a bear? And how will they get help in this remote place without roads and without phones or radios?
Dee shows them all the tricks they need to survive, telling them all about life in this ancient forest – and why the wilderness needs to be preserved.
Indigo Wilde and the Unknown Wilderness
Pippa Curnick
On Thursday, the doorbell rings at Indigo Wilde’s house on Jellybean Crescent. It’s a moon bear – an enormous winged bear covered with stars, the rarest of all rare creatures.
The bear tells Indigo that her parents were studying it in its habitat in the Unknown Wilderness – and now they’ve vanished. Indigo and her brother Quigley head off to rescue their parents. On their journey they come across many magical and extraordinary new creatures, but their parents are nowhere to be seen.
Fortunately, there are other people studying the wildlife in the Unknown Wilderness. But do the people Indigo and Quigley meet really have the best intentions? Or are they capturing the magical creatures for their own gain?
Foxlight
Katya Balen
Fen and Rey were found curled up small and tight in the fiery fur of the foxes at the very edge of the wildlands.
Fen is loud and fierce and free. She feels a connection to foxes and a calling from the wild that she’s desperate to return to.
Rey is quiet and shy and an expert on nature. She reads about the birds, feeds the lands and nurtures the world around her.
They are twin sisters. Different and the same. Separate and connected. They will always have each other, even if they don’t have a mother and don’t know their beginning. But they do want answers. Answers to who their mother is and where she might be. What their story is and how it began.
So when a fox appears late one night at the house, Fen and Rey see it as a sign – it’s here to lead them to their truth, find their real family and fill the missing piece they have felt since they were born. But the wildlands are exactly that: wild.
The Wilderness War
Julia Green
A summer spent in the place Noah and his friends call the Wilderness, is a summer spent making dens, sleeping under the stars, and toasting marshmallows over an open fire. It’s freedom.
Until one day their Wilderness is sold and set for development and their dens torn down to make way for houses. For Noah and his friends this means war and they’ll do anything to stop the Wilderness being destroyed.
The Wild Folk Rising
Sylvia Linsteadt
The City Brothers thought the Country a barren place. Now they know it’s teeming with stargold, Country girl Comfrey and City boy Tin must save the magical Wild Folk from their evil clutches.
On a journey from the deadly Underworld to the highest mountain, they’ll need all their courage and ingenuity to stop the devastation of the land they love.
The Wild Way Home
Sophie Kirtley
When Charlie’s longed-for brother is born with a serious heart condition, Charlie’s world is turned upside down. Upset and afraid, Charlie flees the hospital and makes for the ancient forest on the edge of town.
There Charlie finds a boy floating face-down in the stream, injured, but alive. But when Charlie sets off back to the hospital to fetch help, it seems the forest has changed. It’s become a place as strange and wild as the boy dressed in deerskins.
For Charlie has unwittingly fled into the Stone Age, with no way to help the boy or return to the present day. Or is there?
Swifter Than Starlight
Cerrie Burnell
Long ago, on a winter’s eve, two sisters walked into a wolf-wild wood but only one returned. The Faraway Wood is full of twisting thorns and sharp teeth. Stirring with myth and music. It’s the perfect place for bandits, thieves and secrets to hide – until a prince goes missing.
Lilac is a strong girl, happy with her found family, yet searching for her sister. Clover is a determined girl, eager to find what’s been lost to her, though scared to leave her village. Hester is a smart girl, one step ahead of trouble, and ready for adventure.
Together, they will unite the realm.
Asha & The Spirit Bird
Jasbinder Bilan
Asha lives in the foothills of the Himalayas. Money is tight and she misses her papa who works in the city. When he suddenly stops sending his wages, a ruthless moneylender ransacks their home and her mother talks of leaving.
From her den in the mango tree, Asha makes a pact with her best friend, Jeevan, to find her father and make things right. But the journey is dangerous: they must cross the world’s highest mountains and face hunger, tiredness – even snow leopards.
And yet, Asha has the unshakeable sense that the spirit bird of her grandmother – her nanijee – is watching over her…
The Girl Who Stole an Elephant
Nizrana Farook
Chaya, a no-nonsense, outspoken hero, leads her friends and a gorgeous elephant on a noisy, fraught, joyous adventure through the Sri Lankan jungle where revolution is stirring and leeches lurk.
Will stealing the queen’s jewels be the beginning or the end of everything for the intrepid gang? Can Chaya leave village a thief but return a hero?
The Boy Who Saved a Bear
Nizrana Farook
Nuwan works at the library, delivering books. One day, he accidentally takes away a very valuable key that’s been hidden inside one of the books, and in the process thwarts the plans of some very dangerous thieves.
On the run, he hides in a cave, only to discover in the middle of the night that he is sharing it with a big, hairy, terrifying bear!
After some hair-raising moments, he and the bear reach an understanding and they travel on together, evading the bad guys and hoping the key will unlock the answers to the mystery so that they can stop running and return home.
Wildlands
Brogen Murphy
Twenty-five years into the future, no humans are allowed in the Wildlands – a vast area in Britain where wolves, lynx and bison roam free. The only exception is a high-speed train line between London and Glasgow that crosses right through the heart of the project.
Thirteen-year-old Astrid and her little sister, Indie, are onboard when their train slows to a brief, unexpected stop – and they find themselves accidentally left behind. Stranded in this place of astonishing natural wonders and terrible dangers, they have only a rucksack, a phone without signal – and each other.
As every wrong turn takes them deeper into the Wildlands, do they have the ingenuity and determination to survive? How far would YOU go to find your way home?
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