Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

When best friends Rory and Trang become the proud owners of a nanny goat, she turns out to be quite a hoof-ful. Jellybean likes escaping, eating everything under the sun and keeping the neighbours awake at night. Still, the boys think she's the best goat in the world. Especially when she gives th...

Meet the utterly irresistible Miss Petitfour (a name of unknown origin but possibly descended from bakers of tiny delicious cakes). She loves baking and making and dancing with her cats, but most of all she loves to fly. All she has to do is pick up a favourite tablecloth (preferably the one with...

Riley, uncle Max (a biologist), aunt Martha, cousin Alice, go on a South African safari. Mission - study baby wild animals and predator/prey relationships. Encountering cheetahs, lions, elephants, wild dogs, baboons, giraffes, and a rare black rhino.

Lil is a pirate, a good sort of pirate, and when there is someone to save,she'll do what is right (if it takes her all night). Yes, she'll always be bold and be brave. On a trip to the museum, evil pirate Stinkbeard tries to steal an old king's ruby ring, and it's up to schoolgirl and secret pira...

A newly illustrated edition of this classic tale. On the banks of the Mississippi, Tom and his friends seek out adventure at every turn. Then one fateful night they witness a murder. The boys swear never to reveal the secret.

A newly illustrated edition of this classic tale by one of Australia's greatest children's book illustrators. On the banks of the Mississippi, Tom and his friends seek out adventure at every turn. Then one fateful night they witness a murder. The boys swear never to reveal the secret.

A newly illustrated edition of this classic tale. On the banks of the Mississippi, Tom and his friends seek out adventure at every turn. Then one fateful night they witness a murder. The boys swear never to reveal the secret.

After the excitement of his adventures aboard the Highland Falcon Thief, Harrison Beck can't wait for the opportunity to go on another amazing train journey. So when his Uncle Nat invites him aboard the California Comet, the iconic three-day train journey from Chicago to San Francisco, he leaps a...

Harrison Beck is reluctantly joining his travel-writer Uncle Nat for the last journey of the royal train, The Highland Falcon. But as the train makes its way to Scotland, a priceless brooch goes missing, and things suddenly get a lot more interesting. As suspicions and accusations run high among ...