Collection: Junior Fiction

Dad is a Master Baker and Albert is expected to one day follow in his footsteps. There's just one problem ... Albert doesn't care about baking, he only cares about football, tennis, cricket and any other sport you can think of. When his dad invents The 'Doughmaster 5000' to help out around the ba...

Alex is a typical kid, funny, curious, a little forgetful, and always hungry. His world is turned upside down when he finds a monster in his bedroom. Where did it come from? From The Book of Monsters, of course! That's where the little monster lived before the evil Dr. Brut chased him out. Mr. Fl...

Hi! My name is Alex Pianola. If you've read Here Comes Mr. Flat! then you and I already know each other. If not, let me warn you: I live in a bedoom full of monsters. Where did they come from? From The Book of Monsters, where they lived before the evil Dr. Brut chased them out. Now, they live her...

For as long as Alex Neptune can remember, the ocean has been trying to kill him. So he's not too happy when a bunch of sea creatures drag him to the abandoned aquarium on the hill, where an imprisoned water dragon needs his help. But how can he say no to a magical myth? Recruiting his tech-genius...

Alex Neptune is struggling to get to grips with his new oceanic powers... so the last thing he needs is Haven Bay being attacked by pirates in a ship made of rubbish. The marauders are hunting for the missing egg of the elusive water dragon -- and Alex is determined to reach it first to stop them...

Catching the school's runaway guinea pigs is not giving Alex job satisfaction, but how can he find a bigger test for his and Jess's awkward superpowers? Jess is more worried about the bullied new boy, whose Mum runs the animal sanctuary. She volunteers at the sanctuary, but soon realises that som...

Alex Sparrow is a super-agent in training. He is also a human lie-detector. Working with Jess who can communicate with animals, they must find out why their friends, and enemies, are all changing into polite and well behaved pupils. And exactly who is behind it all.

The Zumbies are on the rampage -- members of the Cherry Tree Lane zumba class are apparently dying and then mysteriously coming back to life! Alex, Jess and Dave have to put a stop to it before Alex's mum and nan join the living Zumba dead or there'll be no family Christmas. But why are the Zumbi...

"Alex Always is a normal, everyday kid, living in a normal, everyday city. Axel Stormward is a monster-slaying hero, living in a world of magic. But when the two boys mysteriously swap places, each of them ends up being mistaken for the other. With zero experience of heroism, Alex is thrust into ...

Welcome to the summer of the apocalypse. One 12-year-old boy leads the charge against the forces of evil as he tries to stop the Four Horsemen from taking over the world in the start to a wildly funny and addictive fantasy series about accepting yourself and finding your inner hero.