Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

Imagine if you read your teacher's diary... and discovered she was a witch! With courage, imagination and a certain amount of recklessness, Zelda Stitch begins her first year of teaching primary school - as an incompetent (incognito) witch.

When Stillwater the giant panda moves into the neighborhood, the stories he tells to three siblings teach them to look at the world in new ways. Includes factual note on Zen.

A moving story about a little girl whose family has lost almost everything. Ziba, her mother, and other women and children from a tiny village escape the approaching war in Afghanistan to travel in an overcrowded fishing boat to a new life and freedom.

All week long Ziggy looks forward to the spectacular Moonlight Show on Saturday night. But this Saturday she discovers that a stripy bird has lost her chick, and immediately offers to help. But the black and white shapes in the reeds are only a chorus of croaking frogs, and the stripes in the gra...

Zizzy is a baby sloth who likes nothing better than to hang upside down in a tree. Occasionally he catches a glimpse of blue through the rainforest trees and wonders what it can be.

With their new teacher's help, the kids in class 5D ride to school together in a bicycle bus. Olivia can fix a puncture in no time and Max can ride on one wheel. Lily wishes she wasn't quite so wobbly and Jordi's been waiting forever to ride on the road. Dylan has a speedy getaway from alley cats...

Princess Pearl, Sir Gadabout and Zog the dragon are the flying doctors. There's much to do as they soar over the countryside, tending to mermaids, lions and unicorns. But, Pearl's uncle, the King, doesn't think it's fitting for a princess to be a doctor.

Most of the time, the only sign Jack sees of his dad is a cold teabag left on the kitchen sink in the morning. But when they go on holidays, Jack sees an unexpected side of his Dad...

Benjamin Roy lives for the undead. He plays zombie video games, watches zombie movies. Ben's pretty sure he'll never get enough of the undead ...Until the day he stumbles across a secret doorway at school.

Benjamin Roy lives for the undead. He plays zombie video games, watches zombie movies. Ben's pretty sure he'll never get enough of the undead ...Until the day he stumbles across a secret doorway at school.