Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

Girltopia - as everyone now calls the city - is in the grip of a strange virus that affects only men and boys. In the race to find a cure for the virus, Clara and her bestie Arabella have a secret to keep. And it's a big secret. When Clara starts receiving strange messages from a mysterious group...

'You won't drown! Look, I'll come up there and hold your hand ... I'm the boss of this pool and I don't let it drown people.' Shelley can't believe she's doing this: teaching a boy with an intellectual disability how to swim. Ben can't even get into the pool - he's terrified of water ...

The Eastern Barred Bandicoot is one of Australia's most threatened species. When their existence came under extreme threat from habitat loss, predators and human development, Eastern Barred Bandicoots found refuge in the most unlikely of places -- a rubbish tip.

I am a collector. Always looking, finding ... and keeping! Bowerbird loves blue. Magnificent colbalt. Brilliant, vibrant blue! But something is missing. What could it be? This new picture book from Aura Parker stars a beautiful bowerbird on the search for blue! It’s a moving story of longing and ...

Liam and Kai are the best of friends. They do everything together. Each day in the park they race around in their box cars, pretending to be everything from policemen chasing down bad guys to chauffeurs driving around movie stars! One day they notice a little girl watching them, she's keen to joi...

The kings battles with the dragon were always mighty and loud... Boy lived in a silent world and couldn't hear the fighting. But Boy could see the fear around him... and how everyone would be much happier.

A wordless picture book in which a boy comes up with an inventive solution for getting his toy airplay down from the roof.

The boy lives in a city, where everything is fast and loud. But amidst the bustle and the noise, the boy has a secret ...In the overgrown lot next to his apartment building, deep within the green, he has a friend. But one day progress arrives, bringing with it plans for something new, and the boy...

One day a man invented the best toy in the world. He gave the toy to his son. The boy thought the toy was marvellous. It could do anything! But as time passed, the boy started to wonder about the toy. Was it really the best toy in the world?

There used to be an empty chair at the back of my class, but now a new boy called Ahmet is sitting in it. He's nine years old (just like me), but he's very strange. He never talks and never smiles and doesn't like sweets - not even lemon sherbets, which are my favourite! But then I learned the tr...