Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

Banjo is a Hoofball star. He and his friend Bella just love the game. But when Banjo gets injured, it's only too easy to stay in bed and play Haystation and suck on molasses. Can Bella help him get back on track?

The Barefoot Book of children takes its readers on a visual trek across the globe, where they discover that--despite our different clothes and homes and languages--we are more alike than different.

Barry may be no larger than a can of beans, but his powers are awesome. The trouble is he has been trapped down the back of the sofa for over fifty years unable to do the job he was built for. His creators have gone back to their own planet and without his control the Earth is gradually falling a...

Lizard wants to eat crocodile so he tricks bat into spearing crocodile

Bored with another normal, inky evening, bats discover an open library window and fly in to enjoy the photocopier, water fountain, and especially the books and stories found there.

Mission: The Battle of Issus, 322BC and the Battle of Kursk, 1943. Mission Objective: Two battles have become mixed up in one book! It's up to BB005 to break up the fight and put each army back in its right place.

Mission 9: White War. Christmas Day, 1914. The Western front, near the town of Ypres, Belgium. Mission objective: very unclear. There is something BIG that Professor Perdu is not telling Battle Boy. His mission begins knee-deep in mud, in the middle of No Man's Land, where he encounters the last ...

Edward is anxious about starting knight school. It's sure to be terrifying with all those ogres and dragons about! So he puts on his armour, and prepares for battle. But what if he has more in common with those ogres and dragons than he thought? perhaps if he takes his armour off, he might even f...

Dennis is an ordinary boy who expresses himself in extraordinary ways. Some children do show-and-tell. Dennis mimes his. Some children climb trees. Dennis is happy to BE a tree... But being a mime can be lonely. It isn't until Dennis meets a girl named Joy that he discovers the power of friendshi...

Early one morning, Pink Piglet leaves his mother's side for the very first time. Cam this timid little pig become a brave explorer?