Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

He's an unusual fellow, really quite quirky. He has many names, but let's call him Bush Turkey! His bald head is red, he's very well dressed. And right now he's building a nest! With timber and sticks slapped together with plaster ... will Bush Turkey's nest be a hit? Or a wonky disaster?!

An accessible and reassuring picture book that teaches children what they need to know about bushfires so they can understand what's happening and be smart and prepared, not scared.Australia is a big country with all sorts of weather. And sometimes extreme weather like bushfires. Bushfires can ma...

"Lou was BUSTING for the loo. But the loo had quite a long queue! What on earth was Lou to do?"

Banjo loves collecting buttons. Some he finds way up high, and others he finds low and buried beneath leaves and twigs. It's amazing how many buttons you can find when you're looking!

Buttons is shipped off to Ranktwerp Island Education Fortress for Gifted Lame Unruly Minors, a.k.a. R.I.E.F.G.L.U.M., a boarding school on a remote island, somewhere in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and Antarctica. His parents are missing under strange circumstances and there are bogus ba...

Ivan's old house had always been so warm and friendly. This new one was NOT. Ivan finds his new house strange and can't sleep. He lies awake and then sees a shimmering light come down. The light turns into a creature called a Moji, and it takes him on a fabulous night-time adventure, up high into...

It's Valentine's Day and everything's changing. Indigo's in love and wants to do something special to win over Sarah, Saffy has a strange new boyfriend who teaches her all about the stars and Caddy has fallen in love and is getting married . . . but not to Michael. With a wedding to plan, promise...

The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.

'The Call of the Wild' (1903) and 'White Fang'(1906) are world famous animal stories. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, 'The Call of the Wild' is about Buck, the magnificent cross-bred offspring of a St Bernard and a Scottish Collie. Stolen from his pampered life on a...

Harper McCoy, twelve, joins the school musical hoping to get past "dancer's block," but her Dance Starz teammates are not pleased, especially since they will soon compete against their biggest rivals, The Belles, in Regionals.