Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

10yr old Auggie Pullman. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, has been home-schooled by his parents in an attempt to protect him from the stares and cruelty of the outside world. Now, Auggie is sent to a real school - and he's dreading it.

This book has been beautifully illustrated by Kristjana S. Williams with supplementary textual content by Jenny Broom, it offers a feast for the eyes. Wander in and look about you as you stroll through five dazzling environmental habitats, where animal life in all its variety abounds. Explore a r...

The answers to life's biggest questions can be found in the smallest places, once you're ready to look. Get set for an insightful (and hilarious) peek into what we can learn from the world of the ant.

Welcome to the Home for Wayward and Misbegotten Creatures, an institution run by evil Miss Carbunkle, a cunning villainess who believes her terrified young charges exist only to serve and suffer. Part animal and part human, the groundlings toil in classroom and factory, forbidden to enjoy anythin...

Gaming and time travel collide in this thrilling middle-grade adventure, from bestselling author Jennifer Bell. When thirteen-year-olds Arthur, Ren and Cecily investigate a mysterious explosion on their way to school, they find themselves locked in a cabin aboard The Principia - a pirate-research...

Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Set fifty years apart, these two independent stories - Be...

In this very funny, cumulative song, each page tells us something new about the donkey until we end up with a spunky, hanky-panky cranky stinky dinky lanky honky-tonky winky wonky donkey, which will have children in fits of laughter! There is much fun to be had by listening to the song and tryin...

In this very funny, cumulative song, each page tells us something new about the donkey until we end up with a spunky, hanky-panky cranky stinky dinky lanky honky-tonky winky wonky donkey, which will have children in fits of laughter! There is much fun to be had by listening to the song and trying...

This anthology brings together five stories by Craig Smith. They are read and sung on the accompanying CD.

In a strange and sinister world, Ben is in hiding from the 'woolvs'. His only ally, Missus Radinski, doesn't believe the woolvs exist - until it is too late. Alone, Ben must go out into the streets and confront his fears.