Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

Macca the Alpaca and his best-pal, Al, have been waiting for the perfect day to go on a picnic. But when the sun finally comes out, will their picnic go as planned or turn into an al fresco fiasco?

There's a track winding back, to an old-fashioned shack, Along the road to Gundagai...' The words are familiar, but the story they tell may not be. Andrew McLean's illustrations bring to life the story of the men who went to the Great War, many of them never to return home.

Jasmine is thrilled when she gets to catsit for her neighbours while they're away on holiday for Christmas. She adores looking after the beautiful Star and only wishes she could keep her forever! Star loves playing with Jasmine, and soon the pair are inseparable. But what Jasmine doesn't know is ...

9yr old Allie Finkle has rules for everything - is even writing her own rule book, but her world's turned upside-down when she learns her family is moving across town, which will mean a new house, school, best friend, and plenty of new rules.

The start of the alphabet is a wonderful place to live... unless you're allergic to apples. After an accidental tumble through the alphabet, Alpaca must find his way back home to his friends, Ape, Alligator, Albatross, Anteater and Aardvark. But the longer Alpaca is away from home, the better he ...

Samira wants to do well, her parents want her to do well, her teachers want her to do well, but the pressure is starting to tell. Can her friends rescue her when it all gets too much?

A personal almanac of a little girl and her family that opens a window onto each month of her year. Each spread is devoted to one month and we are taken on a journey through the Australian seasons as well as this girl's loves and family traditions. It's everything that's fun about being a kid - a...

Uncle Kev is lost. Can you help us find him? He's looking for the rare Bearded Night Parrot, and we're looking for him! Pack up and join us on another trip of a lifetime, across the Nullarbor and all over Western Australia.

Perry Angel has found a home with Tishkin and the Silk family, but there are so many new things to get used to. Starting school brings even more challenges and Perry is finding it hard to talk about how he feels. Then Mr Kadri, the owner of the Colour Patch Cafe, announces a special art competiti...

The ants come scurrying one by one, hurrah, hurrah! Quickly they're followed by swooping barn owls, trundling wombats, jumping kangaroos, striding brolgas and other favourite Australian animals (koalas, crocs, echidnas and dingoes) - all in their race to get to the ark before the flood.