Collection: Junior Fiction

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...

Rauffe Radcliffe laid this stone to lye forever: AD 1655... so says the mysterious stone laying on Written Stone Lane. When the stone is moved years later, murderous ghosts and ancient spectres are released. The only one that can save the world from murder and destruction is Preston Oldcorn, a 15...

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 ...

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-...

The X-Men glimpse into a dark future, and then must try to prevent it from becoming a reality.

This chapter book identifies the main characters in the X-Men universe.

To say Jeevan Singh has an unusual life is an understatement. Not many kids his age can say that they have a Neanderthal best friend and a Dodo for a pet. Even fewer could claim to have a rescued a T-Rex! When a freak accident at his Mum's fossil lab brings all sorts of extinct animals back to li...