Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

Join Becky as she builds a cubby, performs magic tricks, gives her toys a bath, make fairy bread and put on a pupet show. She might be hard to keep up with but she's so much fun!

Frances finds it difficult to go to sleep with the strange noises and menacing shapes that seem to fill her room after dark.

Who said bedtime was hard? Dad's got bedtime sorted! Lenny and the twins have a bath without water spilling over, brush their teeth without toothpaste spraying onto the mirror, and go to sleep straight after their story. Perfect! Dad can finally settle down to his dinner... But then -- My pyjamas...

We hear much about the plight of the bumble bee population and its implications for our planet's future. This beautiful picture book makes the story personal and brings a message of hope. A little girl befriends a bee, which takes her on a journey of discovery.

It's finally hive day! Willow has been waiting all year for groundskeeper Tom to split the school's native stingless beehive in two so she can take home her very own hive. Everything needs to be just right to help so that the bees forage and thrive in their new home. An amazing look into Australi...

Darkus is miserable. His dad has disappeared, and now he is living next door to the most disgusting neighbours ever. A giant beetle called Baxter comes to his rescue. But can the two solve the mystery of his dad's disappearance, especially when links emerge to cruel Lucretia Cutter and her pencha...

As a soldier's daughter, Romola has changed school five times, always having to make new friends... and now enemies. Meanwhile, Sebastian's mum is about to make the biggest mistake of their lives, unless Sebastian can find his dad in time to stop her. Thrown together by chance, these two thirteen...

When Agatha was born she had her father's nose and her mother's ears. When her relatives get together, it's clear that she doesn't quite fit in. And when she starts kinder, she realises just how different she is to everyone else...Then one day Miss Tibble, the kinder teacher, tells her class that...

Jack is in Year 6 now and still loves his photography, surfing, and crazy family. Things are going well for him, particularly at school where he isn't bullied any more. But he notices that his best friend Christopher is being taunted and is starting to miss school and hiding out and avoiding ever...

It's not eggsactly easy being Jimmy Baxter 'cause: The real Jimmy's hiding inside; Ned Kelly's giving him the evil eye; Mum's stopped going to work and stays in bed; There's no eggs in the fridge -- or anything else. AND there's new jobs, bad-at-school brains and a whole lot of trouble called Duk...