Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

Becky discovers that she has a new next door neighbour, Midge, and immediately she invites her over to play cubbies. The rather neat and proper Midge isn't terribly eager to play and to make matters worse, Becky's cubbies don't work.

Martin is the runt of his family. Without a mother to protect him, his overbearing father and brothers reject him. Aided by the self-sacrifice of loving friends, Martin finds the courage to fight for personal fulfilment.A sophisticated picture book.

When the sun slips in and you wake up, what time is it? Time to take a stroll to the monsters' cave. Where is that? Just along the corridor in mum and dad's room. And when you wake the monsters, what time is it then? Cuddle time, of course!

Tired of being surrounded by a family who cuddles him and wishing only to live alone, Dudley Penguin waddles away from home and encounters something even worse than an affectionate family.

Remember - beauty comes from within... Way back, before once-upon-a-time, there was the Dreamtime when all the birds were white. One of those white birds was a crow called Waan. One day a big storm came through and a magnificent rainbow appeared. When the birds passed through the rainbow, one by ...

Molly made ...... slippery duck pasta for her brother's headmaster, spit-roasted geese for the local police, and Singapore noodles for the Montague poodles! After making a curry for her neighbour Murray, Molly's delicious dishes are in demand. Now everyone wants a taste of her cooking! Before lon...

Ollie is lost. The world he came from is just one of many. Some of them are almost identical to his. Others contain cyborg pirates, living castles, talking cats-and now, hungry vampires too. Getting back home is proving surprisingly difficult..

Fero isn't a spy...but he looks exactly like someone who is: Troy Maschenov - a ruthless enemy agent...But what starts as a case of mistaken identity quickly turns into a complicated and dangerous plan. Fero is recruited to fight for his country. He will have to impersonate Troy, enter enemy terr...

Christmas Eve 1974 is marked indelibly into the Australian psyche, as the night tropical Cyclone Tracy devastated the city of Darwin. Now, over 40 years later, Jackie French's lyrical rhyming text tells the story of a city's indomitable spirit, and Bruce Whatleys illustrations bring to life the p...

But Zellidora ‘Zelli’ Stormclash wasn’t a monster or a creature. She was something far worse. Zelli was a human. Disguised as a minotaur, Zelli keeps to herself and does her work. While in class, Zelli learns of the great human adventurer, Allidora Steelstrike, who oddly resembles her. Could Zel...