Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

In Victorian London, Albert Garrick, an assassin-for-hire, and his reluctant teenaged apprentice, Riley, are transported via wormhole to modern London, where Riley teams up with a young FBI agent to stop Garrick from returning to his own time and using his newly acquired scientific knowledge and ...

'Wabi Sabi, a little cat in Kyoto, Japan, had never thought much about her name until friends visiting from another land asked her owner what it meant. At last, the masterSays, "That's hard to explain." AndThat is all she says.This unsatisfying answer sets Wabi Sabi on a journey to uncover the me...

Cecil's mum wears long black boots, an even longer sword, and makes her enemies walk the plank. Putrid Percival serves sea monster soup for dinner when Cecil would rather eat pizza. Filthy Frederick stinks - but hey, he's good at maths, and nobody's perfect. Cecil gets seasick and all he wants is...

There′s no such thing as a normal family! But some are wackier than others... Cecil′s Mum wears long black boots and carries a sword; Gunk′s dog Spot loves lettuce and seems to be growing awfully big, awfully fast; Horace′s Dad has silver wings and a green and orange tail; and Tom′s family circl...

The story of the ingenious way Grandpa, Grandma and Jonathan protect themselves from the swooping, waddling, giggling, gargling magpie who is determined to protect her nest.

Wait! Just wait!' You find yourself saying this all the time, right? Well, we're sorry, but you're gonna hate this book! This book is going to make you wait too. Once you and the kids start reading it, you can't do anything else until it's finished. You'll just have to ... wait. And the kids wil...

The central character is a young boy who has an obsessive interest which dominates his life and that of his family. This is a trait often present in children who have an Autism Spectrum Disorder. The story is narrated by Hugo's older sibling, who grapples with acceptance of her brother's eccentri...

Even though Nancy is big, one day she feels small. She asks her mum, brother, cousin, aunt and grandfather to play with her. They're all busy and inevitably reply, 'Later.' So Nancy climbs a tree in her backyard to wait for later.

A mother reassures her child about the wind, lightning, and thunder when a storm passes through.

Stella Montgomery is in disgrace and the Aunts have decided there is only one thing to be done. She is to be sent to Wakestone Hall, a grim and dreadful boarding school where the disobedient are tamed and the wilful are made meek. Life at school is lonely and miserable, and when a friend disappea...