Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

Charlie met the wild one when he was young. Together they caught tadpoles, chased butterflies, and watched spiders weave their webs. But as the sun rose and fell, and the moon circled the earth, Charlie began to forget about the magic of the wild one - until it was almost too late to remember...

A gloriously illustrated story of a robot's adventures in the wild - When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is - but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a fierce s...

Roz is no ordinary robot. After being washed up on the shore of a remote and wild island, she learned to adapt and make it her home, befriend its animal inhabitants and even adopt a small orphaned gosling, Brightbill. But a new life is now beginning for Roz - she has been taken away, far away fro...

Roz the robot has made an unlikely home for herself on an idyllic island dense with forests, wildflowers and friendly animal inhabitants - including her own young son Brightbill the gosling. Life on the island is perfect, until a dying seal washes ashore and warns of dangerous, cloudy waters that...

Colin Thompson's acclaimed stories of the lives of the inhabitants of one particular garden are noe avaible in this one collection.

When her baby brother is kidnapped by crows, Prue McKeel ventures into the forbidden Impassable Wilderness, a dangerous magical forest in the middle of Portland, Oregon, and finds herself involved in a war among the various inhabitants.

A young girl's midnight seance awakens a long-slumbering malevolent spirit. A band of runaway orphans allies with an underground collective of saboteurs and plans a daring rescue of their friends, imprisoned in the belly of an industrial wasteland. Two old friends draw closer to their goal of bri...

Things Wilf was worried about before: 1. Lion dentists. 2. Creepy crawlies wearing wigs. 3. Marmite. Things Wilf is worried about now: 4. The most evil man in the world. 5. Anyone called Alan. 6. Alan deciding to become a pirate and destroy the world. Alan is Wilf's self-styled evil lunatic next-...

Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge lives next door to a nursing home in which several of his good friends reside. Of course, his favourite is Miss Nancy Alison Delacourt Cooper, because she has four names just as he does. The only problem is Miss Nancy, who is 96, has "lost" her memory. Undaunted,...

Willow the wombat and his friend Marshall the hopping mouse stumble upon a clue that leads them on a treasure hunt. Together they travel north, east, south and west, making many new friends along the way.