Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

A wistful picture book about a boy's quest for a little rough-and-tumble dog of his own. A story about the need to love and be loved. Descriptive words add to the mood of the story.

Idris is a child refugee, born into a world of tents and fences. He has known no other life than this. He has no memories of the world outside. Then the Wisp arrives, floating in on the evening breeze. Everyone who holds it finds their memories reawakened, their hopes of freedom reborn. But what ...

When Elsie Pickles offers to house-sit the mysterious home of local witch, Magenta Sharp, she has no idea what she's getting herself into. Left with a talking raven and a scruffy dog for company, a magical tower that has a mind of its own and a book of instruction called Everything You Need to Kn...

It's Tiga's first Witchoween - when everyone celebrates how brilliant witches are! Peggy has asked Tiga and Fran to make a documentary about Sinkville's most famous witches, with Fulffanora helping out as wardrobe director. The intrepid film crew delve into every hidden corner of Sinkville and fi...

Beware. Real witches dress in ordinary clothes and look like ordinary women. But they are not ordinary. They are always plotting and scheming with murderous, bloodthirsty thoughts - and they hate children. The Grand High Witch hates children most of all and plans to make every single one of you d...

Jessica and Miss Strega go off to source the Brewing ingredients, to the Market at the Very End of the Earth.

Jessica learns how to 'spell backwards,' which means she can now travel backwards in time and find out the history of some of the more interesting spells she is learning in witch training.

Miss Strega decides Jessica has to learn not only how to be charming but how to do charming. She takes her on holidays where Jessica finds a lucky pebble that will help her with her charm skills. But, things do not work out as expected.

Jessica thinks she is an ordinary ten year old but she is actually on the way to becoming a very bright young witch. When she sees the broomstick for sale outside the hardware shop, Jessica's apprenticeship in witchcraft begins.

Jessica is off to the Witches' Games to compete in the championship hurdles. She soon discovers the other witches are determined to win and will even use trickery. This adventure is full of lots of high-jinks and low tricks.