Collection: Junior Fiction

Eleven-year-old Roswell Johnson is obsessed with conspiracies about extra-terrestrial life, an interest he inherited from his late father. When Roswell is accidentally abducted by aliens, his biggest dream comes true: he learns that aliens are real! But when he discovers Earth is in grave danger,...

"Did you know frogs can find their way home? It's called a 'homing instinct' ... no matter where they are, they know where they belong. I think I know how frogs feel." Eight-year-old Ella hates her new house. She wants to be back in her old house with her best friend Viv next door ... until one d...

When her dad is kidnapped by a woman with a giant hamstoceros, Bitsy and best friend Kosh are swept into a secret world of ancient meteorites and strange beasts called magicores, each conjured using a different emotion. Using a powerful bestiary called Magicalia, the friends must quickly become c...

Bea and her mum are moving in with her grandparents, which will mean a new school, new friends, and big changes for Bea. All Bea can remember about Granny and Grandad's house is their big, beautiful garden with its colourful flowers and secret hide-and-seek spots, but when Bea and her mum arrive,...

"What if the one who wrote the note stole the goat?!" When sisters Hildegurp, Yuckmina, and Glubbifer arrive in the town of Covenly to set up a pet store, not all of the town residents are so sure about their new neighbors. Do they look a bit. . .weird? So when their first customer, nine-year-old...

Adventure has a new name and it is MOOKi! Join MOOKi and his best friends Cindy and Ralph as they climb an EPIC mountain, facing HEART-STOPPING challenges and meeting AMAZINGLY UNEXPECTED characters along the way!

Benny the bin chicken and his friends, Scrap and Tweeter, are in a flap! A cheeky little duckling is following them everywhere, and the seagulls have stolen their breakfast! Can this trashy trio come up with a plan to get their chips back?!

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 a...

Maddie and Clare live in a quiet, palm tree-lined dead end with their dad and pet chicken, Terrible Chicken. It's not a place where not much happens, except for the odd small incident. Like a mass uprising of angry chairs. And the appearance of a prehistoric mutant fart gas. And an invasion of ki...

Rusty Fizzbang, vet to magical beasts, needs an apprentice. Ember Spark, looking for adventure, is his newest recruit - and together with an unlikely friend, Arno, she is sent to help a baby dragon whose parents have gone missing. But keeping magical beasts a secret isn't an easy task, especially...