Collection: Junior Fiction

A gently lyrical story about discovering Country and the importance of family, friendship and the magic of the bush. When eleven-year-old Alex moves to Adelaide from London after her mother gets engaged to a man across the globe, Alex must negotiate a new country, a new school, and (most difficul...

A girl stays with her grandmother in Trinidad for the summer and discovers that she comes from a long line of witches. Thirteen-year-old Darika Lovelace is in big trouble. The kind of trouble that means she's being sent off to her grandmother in the Caribbean. She should be grateful, but instead ...

Meet Buzz Sausage Wolf! A hilariously silly sausage dog who's determined to be the PERFECT pet - but how? Funny and friendly cosy full-colour illustrated story about being yourself, ideal for newly independent readers moving on from picture books. Buzz Sausage Wolf is keen to win the love (and bi...

Running a bustling caf is Hope's family's dream - it's just not hers! Hope has a lot on her plate starting secondary school, but a surprise side dish of outrageous auntie makes things extra spicy in this hilarious new series from much-loved author Catherine Wilkins. While Dad and Gran battle it ...

Meet Violet Grumble: a music-loving, guitar-toting tween whose dream is to compete at BandChamps. The problem is that none of her friends can play an instrument. Violet won't let that stop her! But things get tougher when the band's gear starts to go missing - what's going on? Can Violet solve th...

The second book in the absurdly funny Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody series by multi-award-winning author Patrick Ness. When Daniel arrives at the school bus stop sporting a salmon-coloured hat, Zeke is shocked. Don’t only birds wear hats? As if this isn’t strange enough, the school suddenly has a...

What would happen if Cinderella found herself in the beast's castle, and Beauty woke up in some evil stepmother's home? Fairy tales meet Freaky Friday in this series, where there's a magical mix-up for every princess! Ella's spent her life dreaming about adventure, but it's hard to have adventure...

Daisy is NOT excited about today's plan. Her mum and nan are taking her clothes shopping because of all the "incredible" sales. What could be more BORING than that?! And everyone knows Daisy doesn't handle boring very well. It always leads to TROUBLE...

The best-selling series returns for a new generation of Go Girls! Charlie is buzzing ? she?s just had her first ever modern dance class! But it?s not all perfect. She?s in the wrong dance clothes. The trendy girl?s tease her. And now there?s the concert to worry about. But non of that seems t...

Since Ferris Foster's dog got famous, life has taken another surprising turn. Ferris's new foster-brother, Nile, has arrived and he's causing mischief wherever he goes. An unexploded second world war bomb was discovered at school, causing it to shut down. Ferris is still a cartooning genius, but ...