Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

"Welcome, children! Nangga! Nangga! Yakarti! Tonight will be our Ceremony. Our family gathers as the fire burns.The smoke rises up as we take it in turns. The smoke rises up as we take it in turns... Then clapsticks tap - one, two, three - but a stick is missing! Where could it be?"

Barnaby is a pavement artist. This morning he started drawing me. I have a head that can think, eyes that can see, ears that can hear and legs that can run. Best of all, I have a heart that can feel. Thank you, Barnaby.

Summer loves sport. She would love to charge down the field towards an open goal, or soar through the air over the basket. She would love to be part of a team. But instead she always seems to be the last one picked. That is until the day her life changes forever... Until the day Summer becomes TH...

The Jindaberg Jets season is well underway, but the Jets are still without a win and the team is out of sorts. Charles seems to have lost his ability to score goals - coincidentally, he's also lost his special boots! Meanwhile, Benji is struggling with co-captain Charlotte's super serious approac...

Charles was the best player in the boys' football team. Charlotte was the best player in the girls' side. But this season they're both playing in the same mixed team. Is there room for two Champion Charlies on one side? And can they get past their rivalry to help form the greatest football team J...

At a quarter past ten, Joseph Kaye notices something odd about the kettle... Thus begins a remarkable day for Joseph, a day in which everything seems to change in the most peculiar of ways. The washbasin grows feet, the armchair becomes a gorilla ... Joseph's father had said when he'd left that m...

Charlie's little sister Lola likes to stay up late. Charlie tries everything to get Lola to go to bed - from making tigers pink milk to shooing whales down plug-holes. Will Lola ever be sleepy and want to go to bed?

"I probably do not have time to go to school. I am too extremely busy doing important things at home," Lola says to her older brother, Charlie. But Lola agrees with Charlie that it would be handy to learn to write to Father Christmas, read bedtime stories to an ogre and count biscuits for elephan...

Charlie has a little sister Lola. Sometimes he has to give her dinner. This is a hard job because she is a very fussy eater. One day he plays a good trick on her...

From the moment Mum offers Charlie and Lola one thing from the shop, they can't stop counting. Top negotiator Lola takes on numbers in everyday life and bends them to her endearing and unique will.