Best New Supportive Short Reads

These satisfying and supportive short reads are our favourites from those published in the last year. They are at the expected reading age for classes across KS2 but offer adventure, diverse characters, emotional engagement, humour, action and mystery in slimmer volumes with some supportive features. With these gripping stories from notable authors, there is no need to spend half a term or more wading through one 300-page tome to get your reading fix when you can get plenty of reading pleasure across a variety of genres, racing through these more manageable texts including from super-readable publishers such as Barrington Stoke.