Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

Ash LOVES tennis. So when it's the school sports carnival, Ash wishes she was playing tennis instead. Will Ash find her school spirit and help her team win the day?

It's the day of the tennis tournament and Ash is so excited to compete! But Ash forgets her favourite hat, there's a flat tyre and Ash wonders how they will ever get there! Will Ash arrive in time for her big match?

'How much money do I have in my piggy bank?' asked Hercules. 'Actually,' said Aunt Alligator, 'I don't think you have a piggy bank, Hercules.' Hercules sighed. No piggy bank, no money. I need a job, he thought. That's what I need. He got out his paints, his paintbrush and a big piece of plain pap...

Asterix and Obelix meet Chief Timandahaf the Viking, his fierce warriors and his daughter Abba when the Vikings visit Gaul to learn the meaning of fear. They believe fear will lend them wings, and they'd love to fly. Trendy young Justforkix from Lutetia claims to know all about it.

Eleven-year-old Aster attends a school for gifted kids, but she doesn't think she's special at all. If she was, her mother wouldn't have left. Each day Aster must do a good, right thing-a challenge she sets herself, to make someone else's life better. Nobody can know about her things, because the...

The account of Monday through Friday of last week. That's when Oscar found himself on a quest to locate nine separate pieces of a key, held by nine separate people, in order to unlock a gluggy silver spell that had trapped the Elven city of Dun-sorey-lo-vay-lo-hey. The quest was an urgent one. Fr...

Featuring Greek myths and fractured fairytales as told by Nanny Piggins (the world's most glamorous flying pig), a mystery investigated by Friday Barnes (girl detective) and a series of tales so tall they will give you altitude sickness.This book will delight children from four to one hundred and...

The astronaut's cat is an inside cat. And she likes it like that. The astronaut's cat is an inside cat... on the Moon! But she dreams about the strange outside world -- and the mysterious blue ball that rises into the ink-black sky...

Deliveries usually come in a van. Deliveries are often heavy boxes or oddly shaped padded bags. Deliveries do not come late on a school night. They don't come in a speeding car. And they don't cry -- When Poppy Campbell's dad opens the front door to find a small, very distressed child clinging to...

This richly detailed book about the quintessential Australian beach holiday, is guaranteed to occupy children for hours, as they look for objects that have been lost (by the artist), and found (by the family dog). Humorous postcards on each spread convey the joy of summer holidays.

Told from the perspective of a pet dog, At the Vet is proof that a great time can be had looking at all the wacky and wonderful animals in the waiting room!

1750, when times were tough and teeth were rotten... As part of an ancient family tradition, young Atticus Van Tasticus narrowly escapes a life down the coal mines - or worse, going to school - when he gets to choose the gift of a pirate ship from his Grandnan's treasure pile. It's ...

Atticus Van Tasticus is back. And this time he means business. Having escaped certain disaster on the high seas, he’s on the scent of treasure. Then the call comes from above: 'Ship ahoy, Captain, ship ahoy!' If only it were good news, which of course it ain't. Vicious, mean and mighty unclean Bj...

The next crackin’ adventure for Atticus Van Tasticus and his brave, if slightly crazy, young crew of The Grandnan.With the Map of Half Maps finally in the hands of Atticus and his crew, the rest should be easy, right? Wrong! Rattling skeletons, ghosts, monsters from the deep, killer sands and a b...

Twelve-year-old Harper McCoy has danced practically since she could walk, and she is making her mark as one of the top dancers at her studio. Until her parents drop the bombshell: the are moving to Florida, which means she'll have to say good-bye to her friends, her classmates - and her beloved d...

Set in rural Australia in 1930, Audrey Goes To Town follows the adventures of a young girl called Audrey and her family as they leave their outback homestead and travel to the tiny settlement of Beltana. There, Audrey and her younger brother Dougie are left alone with a strict old lady called Mrs...

Presents information about Audrey Hepburn, from her youth in Nazi-occupied Europe, through her rise to stardom in some of the era's most popular films, to her dedication to UNICEF.

One night Audrey spots a pale shape hovering in the darkness. What can it be? Audrey thinks it might be an angel, a ghost, or even a bunyip. But when she solves the mystery. She discovers a secret she must keep from everyone she loves

Wonder tells the story of Auggie Pullman: an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face, whose first year at school changed the lives and the perspectives of everyone around him. Auggie & Me is a new side to the Wonder story: three new chapters from three different characters - bully Julian, oldest ...

Eleven-year-old Jones Kirby has just moved to Sydney from her farm in country New South Wales. She's missing her alpacas and wide-open paddocks and can't get used to her family's tiny city apartment. She's also worried that her vision is blurry - she lost her eye to cancer as a toddler. Could it ...