Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

It's Christmastime, but Flick and Birdie are missing their Granny Aggie. To cheer them up, Mum and Dad invite the neighbours over to decorate gingerbread houses. All is going well until Mrs Mortlake brings up Christmas wishes, giving baby Birdie all the wrong ideas. How can Flick spread the joy ...

Imagine if your baby sister could make wishes come true... Flick has just found out her little sister has a special gift. Birdie has wished for a super-fabulous unicorn party and it has magically appeared in their backyard! There's a rainbow slide made out of sour straps (surprisingly slippery),...

Flick's got more than a running race to worry about when her little sister Birdie's in a wishing mood. How can she keep everything under control and avoid their secret getting out? It's school sports day and Flick is ready to race! So is Dad. He's been training for the parents versus teachers ev...

A wistful picture book about a boy's quest for a little rough-and-tumble dog of his own. A story about the need to love and be loved. Descriptive words add to the mood of the story.

Idris is a child refugee, born into a world of tents and fences. He has known no other life than this. He has no memories of the world outside. Then the Wisp arrives, floating in on the evening breeze. Everyone who holds it finds their memories reawakened, their hopes of freedom reborn. But what ...

When Elsie Pickles offers to house-sit the mysterious home of local witch, Magenta Sharp, she has no idea what she's getting herself into. Left with a talking raven and a scruffy dog for company, a magical tower that has a mind of its own and a book of instruction called Everything You Need to Kn...

It's Tiga's first Witchoween - when everyone celebrates how brilliant witches are! Peggy has asked Tiga and Fran to make a documentary about Sinkville's most famous witches, with Fulffanora helping out as wardrobe director. The intrepid film crew delve into every hidden corner of Sinkville and fi...

Beware. Real witches dress in ordinary clothes and look like ordinary women. But they are not ordinary. They are always plotting and scheming with murderous, bloodthirsty thoughts - and they hate children. The Grand High Witch hates children most of all and plans to make every single one of you d...

Jessica and Miss Strega go off to source the Brewing ingredients, to the Market at the Very End of the Earth.

Jessica learns how to 'spell backwards,' which means she can now travel backwards in time and find out the history of some of the more interesting spells she is learning in witch training.