Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

Beth is a child convict, caught stealing on the streets of London and sent to Australia on the First Fleet. Through Beth's story, we discover the unbearable hardships those first convicts suffered, not only on the long journey to Sydney Cove but also in the two years of near-famine following thei...

This is the story of two brave boys, Billy and Jack, and their exciting adventures in the rainforest. It celebrates the pleasures of reading, especially reading in bed.

Bev is tall and Kev is mall. An unlikely pair! Could this be the beginning of a very big friendship? A tale about learning to love yourself and the value of a true friend.

When two wolves escape one night from his fairy tale book and threaten to eat him, Herb enlists the reluctant help of Cinderella's fairy godmother.

The funny, exciting and warm story of a special friendship between the BIG FRIENDLY GIANT and the little girl, Sophie. Luckily for Sophie, who has been snatched from her bed by the BFG, she discovers that the BFG is far more jumbly than his disgusting neighbours. They guzzle and swallow nice litt...

In September 2008, Colin Thompson visited Cambodia with Save the Children, and was inspired to . create THE BICYCLE. Featuring the illustrations of fourteen internationally acclaimed artists, including Quentin Blake, Tony Ross, Shaun Tan and Freya Blackwood, this is a celebration of how much we c...

Purdy the cat and Barker the dog live together in a sky-blue house on top of a hill. But while the two friends share a house, they are as different as cat and dog can be. Purdy has big dreams, while Barker likes to potter in the garden. Purdy likes to eat fish, but it is Barker who must scoop the...

Big and Small are a couple of machines who work together. Sometimes Big goes a bit wobbly and Small has to find a way to help him.

This is a song by Bob Brown, author of Give Me a Home among the Gum Trees, about the exploits of a Big Bad Bushranger. On the run from the law he hides his loot in a cave on a hillside. Known as the Terror of New South Wales, he rides the countryside on his big black horse holding up banks and sc...

Cricket-mad twins Millie and Maggie are on holidays in Queensland at their uncle’s caravan park. Straight away, they notice a group of kids on the oval playing cricket. The girls are dying to join in, but apparently it’s ‘boys only’. Millie and Maggie are not impressed – they’re huge Hobart Hurri...