Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

April and Esme Underhill have never collected a tooth before. Mum and Dad always do it. But tonight it's their turn. So, equipped with a bag, a coin and a mobile phone, the sisters head for Daniel Dangerfield's house, and a very unusual first tooth visit.

Arabella is a very happy only child living a perfectly pleasant life. Until she gets a baby brother who utterly upsets everything! So Arabella erases Avery with her magic pencil. Problem solved. She’s sure her life will go back to being perfect now … won’t it?

Archie Green receives a mysterious present on his birthday. Deep within an ancient wooden box is an old book, written in a language he doesn't recognise. With the book comes a Special Instruction - Return the book to the Museum of Magical Miscellany.

Archie’s Letter tells a story of an ordinary man who went off to fight in World War II. His experiences included the Burma Railway, where he was under the command of Australian war hero, Weary Dunlop. Archie’s Letter also tells how he dealt with his wartime experiences; how, at the age of 91, he ...

When Archie is given a scrapbook for his tenth birthday in 1914, he chronicles the next four years of his life using documents, artifacts, and comic strips.

"Hen is counting the days until her eggs hatch. But one night a wild storm scatters them far and wide. The other animals start searching high and low. But are they all Hen's eggs?" -- Back cover.

The car trip to Grandma's house is taking forever. 'Are We There Yet?' explores the amazing possibilities of imagination on a long, boring car journey, as time slows down so much that it starts going backwards. Featuring dinosaurs, ancient Egyptians, knights and pirates, this is one amazing journ...

Tells the story through 8-year-old Gace's eyes, of her family's three month journey around Australia.

Small Panda has lost his bottom. It was there when he went to sleep but now it has disappeared. He searches high and low, and finds stripy bums, pink butts, feathery derrieres. 'Are you my bottom?' he asks, but none of these bottoms are his. Finally, he spots a furry bum which just has to be his ...

A mother bird sat on her egg. She flew away to get her baby food. When the baby bird hatched, he couldn't find his mother and decided to go looking for her.