Collection: Junior Fiction

Jack knows every wrestling move there is, and when he's recruited as a training assistant to Waldo's Wrestling Trolls. Little does Jack know that he's actually part troll - that when his new family is in trouble he morphs into the terrifying Thud.

Meet the Sinister-Winterbottoms: brave Theo, her timid twin, Alexander, and their older sister, Wil. They're stuck for the summer with their Aunt Saffronia, who doesn't know how often children need to eat and can't use a smartphone, and whose feet never quite seem to touch the floor when she glid...

The journey of a lifetime! The world of A Wrinkle in Time is full of surprises, as Meg Murry discovers on her adventure to rescue her father from a dark intergalactic source. Along with her brother, Charles Wallace, and her friend Calvin, and under the guidance of celestial beings known as Mrs. W...

A beautiful and sensitive exploration of the experience of child poverty.

Claire used to love her dad's fantastical stories, especially tales about her absent mom-who could be off with the circus or stolen by the troll king, depending on the day. But now that she's 12, Claire thinks she's old enough to know the truth. When her dad sells the house and moves her and her ...

Emma and Pip just cannot seem to get along. This shouldn't be a problem if it weren't for the fact that Emma's dad is getting married to Pip's mum. Emma tries to keep the peace, until Pip's book of spells accidentally turns her into a witch. She never wanted to be a witch and there seems to be a ...

A swarm of insects threatens the Montgomery Orchard and Xander's fruitful summer job. Luckily, the so-called bugs aren't actually bugs. Unluckily, they're unicorn-hating fairies from Pegasia! If Xander and his unicorns can't rid the orchard of these pests, their secret will be blown like a stomac...

Xander Stone travels to the home world of the Rainbow-Barfing Unicorns and it smells surprisingly good! Once banished for being stinky, zombielike, upchucking creatures, the Rainbow-Barfing Unicorns (still stinky, zombielike, upchucking creatures) return to their home world, Pegasia. Twelve-year-...

Sometimes Xavier wakes up feeling hopeless. Every new doctor ... this will fix it. Removing him from school ... this will fix it. The therapy group ... this will fix it. And his dad moving out. Maybe, this will fix it. His daily affirmations seem to be helping, yet the black dog never really goes...

Apart from the company of her flying pet ferret Fernando and her auntie Carla, 13-year-old Nessa Santiago is alone. Her mother died in a circus accident and she has never known her father. But when the day finally comes for Nessa to meet him, everything goes wrong. Her auntie unexpectedly leaves ...