Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

Asterix and Obelix meet Chief Timandahaf the Viking, his fierce warriors and his daughter Abba when the Vikings visit Gaul to learn the meaning of fear. They believe fear will lend them wings, and they'd love to fly. Trendy young Justforkix from Lutetia claims to know all about it.

Eleven-year-old Aster attends a school for gifted kids, but she doesn't think she's special at all. If she was, her mother wouldn't have left. Each day Aster must do a good, right thing-a challenge she sets herself, to make someone else's life better. Nobody can know about her things, because the...

The account of Monday through Friday of last week. That's when Oscar found himself on a quest to locate nine separate pieces of a key, held by nine separate people, in order to unlock a gluggy silver spell that had trapped the Elven city of Dun-sorey-lo-vay-lo-hey. The quest was an urgent one. Fr...

Featuring Greek myths and fractured fairytales as told by Nanny Piggins (the world's most glamorous flying pig), a mystery investigated by Friday Barnes (girl detective) and a series of tales so tall they will give you altitude sickness.This book will delight children from four to one hundred and...

The astronaut's cat is an inside cat. And she likes it like that. The astronaut's cat is an inside cat... on the Moon! But she dreams about the strange outside world -- and the mysterious blue ball that rises into the ink-black sky...

Deliveries usually come in a van. Deliveries are often heavy boxes or oddly shaped padded bags. Deliveries do not come late on a school night. They don't come in a speeding car. And they don't cry -- When Poppy Campbell's dad opens the front door to find a small, very distressed child clinging to...

This richly detailed book about the quintessential Australian beach holiday, is guaranteed to occupy children for hours, as they look for objects that have been lost (by the artist), and found (by the family dog). Humorous postcards on each spread convey the joy of summer holidays.

Told from the perspective of a pet dog, At the Vet is proof that a great time can be had looking at all the wacky and wonderful animals in the waiting room!

1750, when times were tough and teeth were rotten... As part of an ancient family tradition, young Atticus Van Tasticus narrowly escapes a life down the coal mines - or worse, going to school - when he gets to choose the gift of a pirate ship from his Grandnan's treasure pile. It's ...

Atticus Van Tasticus is back. And this time he means business. Having escaped certain disaster on the high seas, he’s on the scent of treasure. Then the call comes from above: 'Ship ahoy, Captain, ship ahoy!' If only it were good news, which of course it ain't. Vicious, mean and mighty unclean Bj...