Collection: Junior Fiction

In the city of Drakopolis, dragons and humans have co-existed for centuries. Dragons burn the city's garbage, taxi its busy citizens from place to place, and even compete in vicious underground battles for ganglike kins. But the dragons also compete in legal sports, like the spectacular aerial ra...

Once, dragons nearly drove themselves to extinction. But in the city of Drakopolis, humans domesticated them centuries ago. Now dragons haul the city's cargo, taxi its bustling people between skyscrapers, and advertise its wares in bright, neon displays. Most famously of all, the dragons battle. ...

Things have quietened down in the town that used to be Perfect. But stories reach Violet and Boy of five missing scientists. And then they discover something odd in the forest outside Town - a mirror maze hiding a huge castle. Creeping inside, they overhear a terrible plan - a zombie army is abou...

Book Week is always the best week of the year! But when Alice Toolie and Jimmy Cook get involved, it's set for disaster. From kooky costume ideas to accidental author visits, nothing is safe. It's no wonder they've been fired as Library Monitors! The only way they'll get their jobs back is by win...

Vic and her younger brother and sister Bert and Maud have been left alone at home, which means they will surely get into mischief. But not just any ordinary kind of mischief, because Vic and her family are pirates. The only problem is Dad sunk the family pirate ship and now the family is stuck in...

Evil Pharaoh, Oba, has imprisoned the gods who protect Egypt. Only one boy can help... Akori must brave the crocodile-infested waters to battle two evil gods - the terrifying Crocodile King, and his gruesome wife, the Frog Goddess.

This is a first chapter reader suitable for children with a Reading Age: 6-8 who are beginning to read alone. The Level 9 - Gold book band focuses on developing independence, fluency and comprehension with longer sentences and increased vocabulary. Listed are common words that a child may find tr...

This is a collection of traditional Wongutha / Wangkatha stories from the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia, retold by May O'Brien.

Why should you be a friend to trees? Trees are a valuable natural resource. People depend on trees for food, and animals depend on trees for food and shelter. But most important, we depend on trees because they add oxygen, a gas we all need, to the air. While trees give us many wonderful product...

When Tanisha spills grape juice all over her new dress, her classmate contemplates how to make her feel better and what it means to be kind. From asking the new girl to play to standing up for someone being bullied, this moving and thoughtful story explores what a child can do to be kind, and how...