Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

It is 1925 and Bert Mueller and his German-Australian family have moved from Ipswich to their new house at 11 Ruby Road. Bert’s father has been deported to Germany after the Great War, and with Dad still absent, Bert is unsure about moving away. But the city means opportunity and jobs for his mot...

Dorothy and her family have moved to the city, and life is very different to the rural one she has known. Ruby Road is bustling – full of families and children, horse-drawn carts and even a mysterious dog. Best of all her new home has a secret writing room that only she knows about. There are man...

Join Andy and Terry in their wonderfully wild and wacky 104-storey treehouse. You can throw some refrigerators, make money with the money-making machine (or honey if you’d prefer, it makes that too), climb the never-ending staircase, have a bunfight, deposit some burps in the burp bank, get total...

Join Andy and Terry in their wonderfully wild and wacky 104-storey treehouse. You can throw some refrigerators, make money with the money-making machine (or honey if you’d prefer, it makes that too), climb the never-ending staircase, have a bunfight, deposit some burps in the burp bank, get total...

Young children will enjoy coming along on an illustrated journey through the animal kingdom with Tasmanian artist Jennifer Cossins while they discover the wonderful world of collective nouns. From an armoury of aardvarks to a dazzle of zebras. Find out some of the history behind English Language ...

20 stories. 20 dangerous situations. 20 brave kids. 10 minutes to escape. Dodi is in the blast radius of an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Gary is stuck up a tree with a giant tsunami wave fast approaching. Tatum is climbing a caldera when an earthquake makes the volcano erupt.

Ten little hermit crabs scuttle to the beach, Down swoops a seagull: 'Screech! Screech! Screech!' A playful counting book starring 10 little hermit crabs with a knack for getting into trouble. Can you count them all?

Take one large cardboard box, two imaginative kids, and a splash of pirate pets... and you have a recipe for adventeure.

There are stories about people who want to live forever, but this is not one of those stories. This is a story about someone who wants to stop. Alfie Monk is like any other nearly teenage boy - except he's 1,000 years old and can remember the last Viking invasion of England. Obviously no one beli...

Daisy is 006 and a Bit, spy extraordinaire. With her black felt-tip moustache, glasses, secret spy gadgets and special spy code, she's poised and ready for action. There's just one problem, nobody can understand a word she's saying!