After another exciting and busy year, Team Your Kid's Next Read has consulted our brilliant members and compiled book lists based on their recommendations. The Your Kid’s Next Read community now comprises 39,000+ members, connected via our Facebook group, the Your...
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Your Kid’s Next Read Faves 2025: Middle Grade
After another exciting and busy year, Team Your Kid's Next Read has consulted our brilliant members and compiled book lists based on their recommendations. The Your Kid’s Next Read community now comprises 39,000+ members, connected via our Facebook group, the Your...
Your Kid’s Next Read Faves 2025: Junior Reads
After another exciting and busy year, Team Your Kid's Next Read has consulted our brilliant members and compiled book lists based on their recommendations. The Your Kid’s Next Read community now comprises 39,000+ members, connected via our Facebook group, the Your...
Your Kid’s Next Read Faves 2025: Chapter Books
After another exciting and busy year, Team Your Kid's Next Read has consulted our brilliant members and compiled book lists based on their recommendations. The Your Kid’s Next Read community now comprises 39,000+ members, connected via our Facebook group, the Your...
Your Kid’s Next Read Faves 2025: Picture Books
Can you believe it's that time again? After another exciting and busy year, Team Your Kid's Next Read has consulted our brilliant members and compiled book lists based on their recommendations. The Your Kid’s Next Read community now comprises 39,000+ members,...
125 books that boys are reading (and loving) right now
Have you seen the headlines? Boys aren't reading. Again. Still? It seems as though the topic of boys and reading flares up in a media tsunami every couple of years and then subsides, and 2025 has definitely been one of those years. In fact, in 2025, we're focused not...
50+ (mostly) new adventure books for kids of all ages
What does adventure mean to you? This year's CBCA Book Week theme is 'Book An Adventure' and it got the Your Kid's Next Read team thinking about the many different types of adventure stories there are – and the many brilliant adventure books for kids out there that...
Let’s talk about ‘Danger Road’
I'm in the middle of preparing author talks and workshops for 'Danger Road', my cold-case crime thriller for middle-grade readers, launching on 1 July. It's always so interesting to sit down and consider exactly where ideas for stories come from and how they go from a...
Romance novels for tweens
Romance is in the air in all aspects of publishing and all over BookTok, and it seems that tween readers can't get enough of it – giving the adults in their lives the tough job of finding age-appropriate reads. The number of requests for recommendations in the Your...


















