OUT 28 NOVEMBER 2026
Hide & Seek Hero
The world’s greatest game has never been played like this!
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PUBLISHED
PRICE
£8.99
2026
AGES
PAGES
9-12
288
PUBLISHER
ISBN
Troubador
978-1806348435
“
My kids couldn’t put this book down. They loved it.
— LEA YPI award-winning author of Free
About the book
11-year-old Joshua is miserable. He’s just been cut from the football team at his London primary school and his friends no longer want to hang out with him.
But when a mysterious billionaire announces a World Hide and Seek Championship, Joshua faces a choice. He’s always been strangely good at hide and seek. Ever since he was little, he could just sense the best hiding spots.
Now his school is forming a team to compete in the tournament, but Joshua knows his friends will laugh at him if he plays.
Hide and seek isn’t a real sport, after all. Or is it?
A brilliant reimagining of the world’s most popular game, Hide & Seek Hero is a big-hearted adventure about friendship, empathy, and being true to yourself.
COMING NEXT
Hide & Seek Hero 2: The Valley of Apricots
The adventure continues as Joshua and his teammates arrive at the World Championships to take on the best hide and seek players on the planet.
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