Collection: Junior Fiction

Becky Culpepper lives at 34 Rufus Street. You might be surprised to know that is her name, because most people think her name is Becky Brush-your-hair. But no matter how many people tell her, or how often, Becky never brushes her hair. One morning, just as Becky was leaving for school, her mum ca...

'There's a word missing.' Terry pointed to the book. 'The maid plucked the... ready for the spit.' He flipped back a page. 'It said she was sitting beside a black hen, right?' It was true. The words 'black hen' were gone. All that remained was a larger-than-usual space. A gap. An emptiness. A hol...

Underwear Fairy, Oona Brambelgoop, and her friends Horace and Lucy (the Tooth Fairy) are trying their hardest to prove they are responsible citizens of Fairydom, and catching the culprit of the great glitterberry warehouse theft is the perfect way to do it. But when the leprechaun gold Lucy has g...

Finn has the worst foster parents in the whole world! But he's powerless to save himself and his foster siblings from the TERRIBLE Mr and Mrs Grimshaw ... ... until he buys a magic pen at a market stall, and it seems like all his problems are solved. Armed with the pen, Finn discovers he has the ...

Meet the Heist squad. AKA a motley crew of hot-headed misfits who HATE each other but LOVE chocolate. But then they discover a sinister chocolatey plot, right in the bowels of their high school, that will threaten the entire human race with utter annihilation. Can they put aside their differences...

Twelve-year-old Caspia hates big cities, especially one as busy as New York. So she isn't thrilled by the news that her parents are taking her to stay in Brooklyn. It's summer devouring bad luck! But everything changes when Caspia discovers a bundle of letters, hidden in an old chest of drawers. ...

There's only a week to go before the school play when things start going wrong in rehearsals. Sets crash over, lights go on and off and the fog machine has a mind of its own. There are rumours that a headless ghost has been haunting the dressing rooms and ruining rehearsals with its ear splitting...

There are two things about the Soul Spinners' greatest creation on which everyone agrees - one, that the Notes have the power to grant a single wish, and two ... that the Notes are lost. When a ghost-eating wraith appears in the forgotten seaside town of Elston-Fright searching for the magical No...

Brock the Croc loves BUSTING MOVES on the D-FLOOR, adores CARVING IT UP on his MOTORBIKE and lives to SHRED his GUITAR till his claws bleed! On top of all that, these days he's trying to be a good leader too, but life in Saltbush Swamp isn't always ONE BIG PARTY. It's hard to keep everybody happy...

Readers, be warned! This book is set on Monkey Island and contains a super-smart gorilla called Harold, two regular kids called Poppy and Billy, and the world's greatest inventor, who happens to be their mum. BUT, it also features a villainous kidnapping, a secret volcano, pirates on yachts, a hu...