Collection: Junior Fiction

Eleven-year-old Ailsa Craig is always late! To everythingher own birth, school and even her own house exploding! Although it is certainly better to be late for that than early ... But then one day, Ailsa discovers the secret of a lifetime: An extra hour in the day. The Magic Hour, which exists in...

Welcome to the city of Bedlam. Enter if you dare! Bedlam is one of the most dangerous places on Earth -- home to a host of wicked villains. Nothing and nobody are safe from these evil criminals. The city needs its own superhero to defeat the supervillains. But who? Robodog!

There's a reason families usually live together, to contain the horror and not inflict it on others. A family holiday is a really, really bad idea! After getting stranded on a deserted island and then escaping an erupting volcano, Jakob thought his holiday troubles were over. Now onboard the luxu...

Edie Eckhart is a little bit different. She has a disability called cerebral palsy, so she talks slowly and falls over a lot. But it has never really bothered her because she has never known anything else. This term, Eddie has a lot on her mind. Why is she the only one who doesn't know what she w...

How far would you go to save your enemy? Attica Stone has fantastic friends, a great life and a massive problem: her bestie, Jinni Miscamble, suddenly hates her. Attica doesn't know why - but she does know Jinni's done something bad. Really bad. And only Attica can help her deal with the conseque...

It only takes one strike: Bridie works hard to feed her family, selling matches on the streets of Victorian London. After an incident leaves her with only three matches left, the magical strike of each one sees her tumble into visions of a brighter future. Realizing she has the power to change he...

With the Ark of Ideas resisting even Professor Steampunk's attempts to learn its secrets, the team is at a loss as to how to fulfil the mission set by renaissance genius Eartha Quicksmith. But then a dream discovery and a freak accident sends Kip and Timmi hurtling on a dangerous quest through im...

Have you ever had a bad week? Justin Chase sure has and this is it! His mum has just married a vampire. His dad is driving a giant toilet on wheels. His cat has probably been abducted by aliens. A psychotic bully is making his first day at a new school miserable. And right now, he's hanging off t...

When Kip Bramley receives a cryptic invitation, delivered by a beetle-shaped drone which appears to be breathing, his world will change forever. Soon he finds himself chasing riddles and solving puzzles on a crazy treasure hunt set 400 years earlier by a mysterious genius. As things get dangerous...

It's time to face the final trial . . .The battle for Camp Jupiter is over. New Rome is safe. Tarquin and his army of the undead have been defeated. Somehow Apollo has made it out alive, with a little bit of help from the Hunters of Artemis. But though the battle may have been won, the war is far...