Collection: Junior Fiction

Apart from the company of her flying pet ferret Fernando and her auntie Carla, 13-year-old Nessa Santiago is alone. Her mother died in a circus accident and she has never known her father. But when the day finally comes for Nessa to meet him, everything goes wrong. Her auntie unexpectedly leaves ...

The X-Men glimpse into a dark future, and then must try to prevent it from becoming a reality.

This chapter book identifies the main characters in the X-Men universe.

To say Jeevan Singh has an unusual life is an understatement. Not many kids his age can say that they have a Neanderthal best friend and a Dodo for a pet. Even fewer could claim to have a rescued a T-Rex! When a freak accident at his Mum's fossil lab brings all sorts of extinct animals back to li...

The sequel to the award-winning "Yakkinn the swamp tortoise: the most dangerous year". Yakkinn has survived her first year and now she grows and matures despite the environmental changes that threaten her very existence. A very positive story which introduces important ideas about conservation to...

Long ago (or maybe it was yesterday?) after the Nothing but before our world's beginning, the Story Realm was already ancient. A small and wonderful universe, where the Great River flows deep and powerful, feeding every part of that world . . . But at the time of this story, something was very wr...

Long ago (or maybe it was just yesterday?) all of the universes were linked together. But one day, after millions of years of peace a great war broke out, and the fibres that held the woven universes together broke.The Story Realm grew in harmony on its own for the longest time, until the day a g...

Long ago (or maybe it was yesterday?) in the depths of the cool dark bush, under fallen trees and lime green moss, lived an ancient magic. A magic that, despite what you might imagine, did not belong there at all. It especially didn’t belong at a 10-year-old’s house. Tane was looking for adventu...

Meet Yasmin! Yasmin Ahmad is a spirited second-grader who's always on the lookout for those "aha" moments to help her solve life's little problems. Taking inspiration from her surroundings and her big imagination, she boldly faces any situation, assuming her imagination doesn't get too big, of co...

Meet Yasmin! Yasmin Ahmad is a spirited second-grader who's always on the lookout for those "aha" moments to help her solve life's little problems. Taking inspiration from her surroundings and her big imagination, she boldly faces any situation, assuming her imagination doesn't get too big, of co...