Collection: Junior Fiction

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...

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...

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!

Underwear has never been so much fun to wear! It's story time at Hickleberry Elementary with Stinky the stuffed skunk! You've probably heard of the boy who cried wolf, but do you know what happened after no one believed him? Well, according to Stinky, the boy moves away to the Big City, where he ...

Mabel and Will Greystone are looking forward to an exciting holiday with their aunt Lucy, a famous relic hunter in the land of Marvolia. Using an ancient map, they are searching for the legendary lost town of Umber, famous for the invention of clockwork, which was mysteriously abandoned hundreds ...

It's story time again at Hickleberry Elementary with Stinky the stuffed skunk-and this time the class is reading the classic Jack and the Beanstalk! Everyone knows the story ends with the giant falling from the sky, but only Stinky knows what happened next! Jack went on to sell all those golden e...

Maisie thinks her dad is the most boring person in the world. For fun he likes to do origami (but only basic triangles) or jigsaw puzzles of a cloudless sky (yep, every piece is blue). He writes cool-sounding books like How To Wrestle A Crocodile and How To Defuse A Bomb, but he's never actually ...

Millie Magnus has huge love for many things - her mom, her friends, her baby chicken, Extra Spicy, and even her hot pink rain boots. She loves school, too, and can't wait for Field Day, when her mom - the mayor of Washington, D.C. - will be her partner in the three-legged race. Millie Magnus does...

"At the start of the summer, Tia is excited to see all the visitors arriving for their holidays on Gull Haven Island, and she's delighted to make a new friend. But Tia's feelings change when some selfish tourists upset a newborn seal pup and its mother, and then she sees how people are carelessly...