Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

Ten year old Mandy must endure torment from three nasty bullies in school, but she finds solace in a new friendship with an older girl. Mandy has been picked on at school for as long as she can remember. That's why she is delighted when cheeky, daring, full-of-fun Tanya picks her as a friend. Mum...

They sound like the Bad Guys, they look like the Bad Guys and they even smell like the Bad Guys. But Mr Wolf, Mr Piranha, Mr Snake and Mr Shark are about to change all of that.

All hail Crown Prince Marmalade! SURRENDER to his evil magnificence! KNEEL before his butt-handed glory! Or . . . like . . . DON'T! The BAD GUYS and even BADDER GIRLS might have been knocked down, but does that mean they'll stay down? NO WAY, CHICOS! Whip out your war cry and pull on your party p...

The Bad Guys -- I mean, Shadow Squad-G -- have saved the world from butt-handed evil and now it's time to party! But Mr Snake doesn't feel like partying. Ohhh, no. He's way too powerful for that. Mr Snake would rather mess with things that could rip open a doorway into a whole new world of horror...

Seriously WHAT is going on with Snake? Terrifying powers! Evil allies! Inter-dimensional doorways! WHAT IS HIS DEAL?! And that's not all! Why is Agent Fox suddenly so mysterious? Who IS she, exactly?! Dang it! We need answers!Wolf and the gang are back. And they're even more confused than YOU. Th...

A MYSTERIOUS DOORWAY! (Sure, it's in a restaurant that serves poop, but that doesn't make it any less mysterious. OK?) Behold! What lies beyond?! An evil centipede? An alternate universe? A few decent explanations? VRRRING! NING! NING! NING! Hey, was that a CHAINSAW?! Let's see if you can read an...

YOU are on the roof of a SKYSCRAPER. EVERY FLOOR of that building has NASTY THINGS that JUST DON'T LIKE YOU. And you REALLY need to get to the BASEMENT. WHADDAYA DO?! (And no, you can't just join the B-TEAM and fly away in their glamorous new spaceship.) THINK QUICK, chico, because THE MULTIVERSE...

Weird? Nothing weird ever happens in The Bad Guys. Like, you would never see a chainsaw monster confronting a velociraptor who has eaten an elderly piranha, or the disturbing antics of a deranged dentist running amok with an oversized drill. Nope. None of that nonsense here! – Episode 15 ...

OK. A lot of the stuff we said on the back of the last episode was not true. We now admit that The Bad Guys is weird. We also admit that it features all the weird stuff we said it didn’t. Plus there’s now a whole bunch of even weirder stuff involving an over-sharing bat, a really scary new charac...

OK. It's time to stop messin' around ... In this episode, The One is going to be reunited with The Others. You are going to actually meet the real dread Overlord Splaargon. And one character is going to change everything you thought you knew. This is the one you've been waiting for ... the Bad Gu...