Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

What's a witch to do? Zelda is likely to end up in a truckload of trouble if she can't even follow the rules she sets herself. Especially when there's an impressionable young witchling in the class, and the vice principal is on the warpath. Soon both Zelda and the secret witchling are battling un...

Imagine if you read your teacher's diary... and discovered she was a witch! With courage, imagination and a certain amount of recklessness, Zelda Stitch begins her first year of teaching primary school - as an incompetent (incognito) witch.

When Stillwater the giant panda moves into the neighborhood, the stories he tells to three siblings teach them to look at the world in new ways. Includes factual note on Zen.

A moving story about a little girl whose family has lost almost everything. Ziba, her mother, and other women and children from a tiny village escape the approaching war in Afghanistan to travel in an overcrowded fishing boat to a new life and freedom.

All week long Ziggy looks forward to the spectacular Moonlight Show on Saturday night. But this Saturday she discovers that a stripy bird has lost her chick, and immediately offers to help. But the black and white shapes in the reeds are only a chorus of croaking frogs, and the stripes in the gra...

Zizzy is a baby sloth who likes nothing better than to hang upside down in a tree. Occasionally he catches a glimpse of blue through the rainforest trees and wonders what it can be.

With their new teacher's help, the kids in class 5D ride to school together in a bicycle bus. Olivia can fix a puncture in no time and Max can ride on one wheel. Lily wishes she wasn't quite so wobbly and Jordi's been waiting forever to ride on the road. Dylan has a speedy getaway from alley cats...

Princess Pearl, Sir Gadabout and Zog the dragon are the flying doctors. There's much to do as they soar over the countryside, tending to mermaids, lions and unicorns. But, Pearl's uncle, the King, doesn't think it's fitting for a princess to be a doctor.

Most of the time, the only sign Jack sees of his dad is a cold teabag left on the kitchen sink in the morning. But when they go on holidays, Jack sees an unexpected side of his Dad...

Benjamin Roy lives for the undead. He plays zombie video games, watches zombie movies. Ben's pretty sure he'll never get enough of the undead ...Until the day he stumbles across a secret doorway at school.

Benjamin Roy lives for the undead. He plays zombie video games, watches zombie movies. Ben's pretty sure he'll never get enough of the undead ...Until the day he stumbles across a secret doorway at school.

Benjamin Roy lives for the undead. He plays zombie video games, watches zombie movies. Ben's pretty sure he'll never get enough of the undead ...Until the day he stumbles across a secret doorway at school.

Benjamin Roy is now a zombie. Well, a half-zombie to be exact. The trouble is he can't tell anyone about his new infrared vision and super-speed. Not even his best friend, Sophie, because he's pretty sure the government or the police or, even worse, his parents will lock him up if they find out. ...

Benjamin Roy is now a zombie. Well, a half-zombie to be exact. The trouble is he can't tell anyone about his new infrared vision and super-speed. Not even his best friend, Sophie, because he's pretty sure the government or the police or, even worse, his parents will lock him up if they find out. ...

As Benjamin Roy has finally learnt to control his infra-red vision and super-strength, he's sure that his undead life is about to get easier. But, being a zombie isn't all grave-dirt and brains. There's bad stuff, too. Like the creepy teacher at school, watching his every move. Then, there's the ...

A yellow moon hangs in a satin sky the night Cinderella, barefoot and in hand-me-downs, slips at the top of the stairs ... and dies. But not for long. The Shadow of Death arrives to breathe life back into her bones and, for three nights only, Cinderella goes forth as ZOMBIERELLA. With her skin as...

"Three 12-year-old boys and the world's sassiest teenage girl join forces to defeat the zombie hordes before the world is plunged into a new Dark Age. The quartet's weapons of choice? A light-sabre that doesn't have any batteries, a sack of doorknobs, and a non-existent Pegasus. What could possib...

One morning young Oscar jumped up, wide awake, he headed for breakfast, but stepped on a snake! What will Oscar do when he wakes up to find his house... is a zoo?!