Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

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...

Being You Is Enough is the perfect antidote for the pressures of being a kid in this day and age., it's a book to help kids with confidence and self esteem. This entertaining and refreshing book will inspire kids be themselves and stand up tall. The bright and fun book uses simple messages and qu...

When Bessie goes away, Belinda won't let Tom milk her, but wily old Tom has got a trick or two up his sleeve to fool Belinda!

It's every little girl's dream to be a ballerina, right? Well, not in the case of Belinda, the ninja ballerina. Enrolled in ballet classes against her will, Belinda would take a headstand over a pirouette any day. But nobody will actually listen to Belinda's protests that she wants to be a ninja,...

Bella's surprised one morning to discover her house has moved in the night - not a lot, just a little. Her parents are too busy to notice, but even they can't pretend it's not happening when they wake up to find their house on the banks of a lake.

Bella has woken up to find that things are not as they should be. Her mother is buy painting. Her father is playing his grand piano. Who will help Bella fix her horrible, horrendous hair problem?