Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

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.

Charlie and Marv are in search of strange and tricky creatures. They would like to do this without Lola bothering them. Luckily, Lola knows exactly how to catch strange and tricky creatures and gets a little help from her invisible friend, Soren Lorensen.

Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last, and only five lucky children will be allowed inside. But what they find is even wilder than any of the wild rumors they've heard!

Inside the Great Glass Elevator, Willy Wonka, Charlie Bucket and his family are cruising a thousand feet above the chocolate factory. They can see the whole world below them, but they're not alone. The American Space Hotel has just launched. Lurking inside are the Vernicious Knids - the most brut...

My name is Charlie Ian Duncan. I will be 12 on 2 February. I have written this history of my war with the grannies because I need everyone to know that I didn't mean for Mrs Cyclopolos to blow up. I just wanted a paper round. The grannies started it when I asked them about a paper round and they ...

Charlie McGuffin is just an ordinary boy dealing with a range of typical problems. However, one day his life is completely turned upside down when he discovers he can transform into different animals! How will Charlie find a way to deal with his new powers and keep clear of the resident school bu...

A circular tale in which each new book character is reading about the next, beginning and ending with Charlie Cook.