Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

These BAFTA award-winning series of refugee stories were originally produced as animations for the BBC, now in book format, they describe real-life testimonies of young refugees seeking asylum & adjusting to life in new countries worlwide.

A country child, Alice ran barefoot. On smooth waxed floorboards, over dusty clay in the yard, through icy water in the creek... she refused to wear shoes. After losing her sight and hearing through illness, Alice slowly made her way back to life and became the first deafblind person in Australia...

One hot, lazy summer's afternoon, young Alice is drowsing on a grassy bank, idly pondering upon daisy-chains. To her utter surprise, she witnesses a waistcoated White Rabbit flash past, fretting over his lateness. Interest piqued, she follows him down a rabbit-hole - and ends up falling headlong ...

By falling down a rabbit hole, Alice experiences unusual adventures with a variety of nonsensical characters.

On an ordinary summer's afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole and an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange, fantasy world, with even stranger characters, Alice finds herself growing more and more curious by the minute. During her extraordinary adventures in Wonderland, she meets the the cha...

Mischief and mayhem at Winchesterfield-Downsfordvale It's the beginning of term and Alice-Miranda is delighted to be back at school, especially when she hears the news of Miss Reedy's and Mr Plumpton's upcoming wedding. Meanwhile, Caprice and Millie's bickering reaches an all-time high and things...

Alice-Miranda is thrilled to be back at school, where the girls are preparing a play with the neighbouring boys' school. But it's not all glitter and stage lights...

Alice-Miranda has a birthday to celebrate and a village show to look forward to! One of the highlights of the Winchesterfield show is the Queen's Cup horserace. But Aunty Gee's prize racehorse, Rockstar, is refusing to leave the stables.

Alice-Miranda and Millie have made a dazzling discovery in the woodlands near their school. They vow to keep the secret to themselves, but it seems that a greedy politician and a pair of old friends are searching for the same treasure.

Alice-Miranda Highton-Smith-Kennington-Jones has survived her first term at Wincesterfield-Downsfordale. Now Jacinta Headlington-Bear, the school's second best tantrum thrower is joining Miranda's family for term break.