Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

When 8-year-old Agnes is signed up for SPEARS (the Society for the Protection of Endangered and Awesomely Rare Species), she has no idea of the adventures that lie ahead with her elephant-shrew mentor Attie (short for “Attenborough”). Operation Honeyhunt sends them to the Brazilian rainforest, on...

A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.

Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, is frightened when he discovers that noted gangster Al Capone, a prisoner there, wants a favour in return for the help that he secretly gave Moose.

Retold from the original fairy tales, these lively stories will captivate readers with their delightful illustrations and fun lift-up flaps which really add to the action.

School time, dinner time, play time, bedtime - Albert's world is moving too fast. Sometimes he wishes things would just stop. Then the night comes, his parents go to bed and the world really does seem to come to a standstill.

Albert was not a puppy any more. Albert was a big dog. But when his baby brother Henry came along, something very strange happend... He started to feel small. -- Publisher.

In this book discover the life of Albert Einstein, the legendary scientist. Little Albert grew up in Germany, where it took him four years to formulate his first word. He was fascinated by how objects worked and, although he didn't love school, he loved physics and maths books. His brilliant mind...

Alby the guide dog is getting used to the cat next door. It saved his life, after all. Alby was almost fond of it. Then, suddenly, the cat disappears...

While working at summer jobs in San Francisco, twins, Sophie and Josh, find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over possession of an ancient and powerful book...

A few kookaburras laugh in the gum trees. Alex grins - they don't often come up this far. His grandpa told him that if kookaburras laugh late in the afternoon, it will rain next day. 'Ha, someone needs to tell the rain to listen, hey Tangi?' She grins at him like it's a good joke. Alex wishes it ...