Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

The car trip to Grandma's house is taking forever. 'Are We There Yet?' explores the amazing possibilities of imagination on a long, boring car journey, as time slows down so much that it starts going backwards. Featuring dinosaurs, ancient Egyptians, knights and pirates, this is one amazing journ...

Tells the story through 8-year-old Gace's eyes, of her family's three month journey around Australia.

Small Panda has lost his bottom. It was there when he went to sleep but now it has disappeared. He searches high and low, and finds stripy bums, pink butts, feathery derrieres. 'Are you my bottom?' he asks, but none of these bottoms are his. Finally, he spots a furry bum which just has to be his ...

A mother bird sat on her egg. She flew away to get her baby food. When the baby bird hatched, he couldn't find his mother and decided to go looking for her.

Life isn't easy for Margaret. She's moved away from her childhood home, she's starting a new school, finding new friends - and she's convinced she's not normal. For a start she hasn't got a clue whether she wants to be Jewish like her father or Christian like her mother. Everyone else seems reall...

Arno lives in the middle of his parents' junkyard and tends to smell a bit. His school reports always say: "Arnold does not interact well with other children". Arno consoles himself with making clever inventions out of junk, especially a truly brilliant one that he hopes will make him popular at ...

The fox is after the mouse. The mouse is running for its life - around and through and under and all over the place. Suspenseful story with a happy ending.

To fulfil a wager made at the Reform Club in London, Phileas Fogg and his newly appointed manservant, Passepartout, embark on the race of a lifetime to circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days!

What drives so many to leave everything behind and journey alone to a mysterious country, a place without family or friends, where everything is nameless and the future is unknown. This silent graphic novel is the story of every migrant, every refugee, every displaced person, and a tribute to all...

Max wants to be an artist like Arthur, but his first attempt at using a paintbrush sends the two friends on a whirlwind trip through various media, with unexpected consequences.