Collection: Junior Fiction

Oliver Wormwood is sure his new job in the library will be boring. Until he learns that books hold great power -- and danger. By the end of his first day, Oliver has witnessed a death, been frozen by a book, met a perplexing number of cats, and fought off a horde of terrifying creatures. With onl...

Who wouldn't want to live in a treehouse? Especially a 13-storey treehouse that has a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a tank full of sharks, a library full of comics, a secret underground laboratory, a games room, self-making beds, vines you can swing on, a vegetable vaporiser and a m...

Forced to participate in an extra credit project in the middle of nowhere, classmates Baxter, Abigail, Turner and Emerson must survive the wilderness with only a survival handbook and each other after their instructor goes missing.

What a lot of hats Bartholomew has in this imaginative and clever tale! Find out what happens when the king asks him to remove them...one by one. Bartholomew Cubbins is in trouble, and all because he won't take his hat off for the king! But he has, hasn't he...? Find out what happens in this clev...

Andy and Terry's incredible, ever-expanding treehouse has 13 new storeys, including a watermelon-smash-ing level, a wave machine, a life-size snakes and ladders game (with real ladders and real snakes), a rocket-powered carrot-launcher, a Ninja Snail Training Academy and a high-tech detective age...

Join Pokemon Trainers Liko and Roy as they travel on an airship helmed by Captain Pikachu in search of adventure. This treasury is packed with beloved Pokemon, exciting battles, and lots of friendship and fun.

Zombie is all over this snow thing. In fact, he is so confident in his wicked scare-boarding moves that he decides to hike up the highest peak to ace the steepest run. But then an avalanche hits, and when it clears, Zombie has no idea where he is. And the Abominable Snow Golem thinks Zombie has c...

Ash, Pikachu and their friends are on a new quest through the Alola region. This action-packed adventure will see the beloved Trainer and his team take on foes new and old with some cool new Pokémon by his side.

Jen and her father are making their way across a deserted world after a technological collapse brought civilization as people knew it to an end. The Flood took out all all technology, but also many people who were connected to a central information hive. Those who are left behind must find each o...

Three classic adventure tales from the bestselling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, now together in paperback for the first time. Imagine living in the heart of Africa. Imagine living in a place where the sun rises every morning over blue mountains. Akimbo and his parents live on the...

When Alexander the Great was just a boy, he met a horse that he really wanted to own. But this horse could not be ridden ...

Alice-Miranda and her friends are off to Switzerland to ski, sightsee and experience the unique White Turf racing event. St Moritz is as glamourous as they expected and their hotel is beyond belief - as are its owners, the overly friendly Otto Fanger and his frosty wife, Delphine Doerflinger. Mid...

After a disastrous fire in the village leaves a family without a home, Alice-Miranda and her friends pitch in to help. They decide to hold a music festival to raise funds. The only trouble is, not everyone's as keen on the idea. Things are also heating up in Winchesterfield-Downsfordvale Academy ...

When Roy and Fuecoco are separated, their search for each other takes them to a battle between the Rising Volt Tacklers and the Explorers. When Roy's Ancient Poke Ball activates and unleashes a legend, it changes the course of everything! Complete the picture puzzles, word games and trivia challe...

Three young people find themselves face-to-face with deadly animals -- and must summon all their courage to survive. From the shark-infested waters of the HMS Birkenhead in 1852 to the haunting roars of the Tsavo lions in 1898 and the ruthless Sankebetsu brown bear in 1915, three short stories br...

Ash, go! Is a Poké́mon lost, missing or acting strange? Ash Ketchum, Poké́mon P.I., is on the case. With the help of is friends and trusty sidekick, Pikachu, Ash is solving mysteries involving Poké́mon like Hoothoot, Spinarak and Stantler.

Team Rocket is rounding up Pokémon in the Johto region! They can't wait to get their greedy hands on Ledyba, Hoppip, and Wooper. It's up to Ash to protect these Pokémon or so he thinks. These Pokémon have a plan of their own!

It is school holidays and Jasper is spending it with his family at a caravan park. Jasper and his friends venture into a cave to find spider poison to make a potion... a magic potion for his crush!

Just when Zombie's life seems to be getting back to normal, it gets turned upside-down again. Adorable little gnomes are appearing on everyone's lawns, but nobody knows where they came from or why they're there. But they seem pretty cute, so Zombie doesn't mind. At the same time, people are...

Eva's football skills make her stand out while playing at break-time at school, so her friends can't understand why she's reluctant to join them in playing for their local team, the Lightmoor Lionesses. Horribly bullied at her last school due to a painful skin condition, Eva is terrified that the...

Zombie finally made it through 7th grade… And he even made it through one really crazy summer! But will Zombie be able to survive through the first weeks of being an 8th grader in Mob Scare School?

Gotta catch this action-packed adventure about Ash, Pikachu, and their friends! This chapter book features classic characters featured on Netflix and in Pokémon Go! Trouble seems to be following Ash and his team around! A Quagsire takes the GS Ball. A young boy at a Pokémon Trainer school tries...

Ash can't wait to complete the next step of his Pokémon journey. He's determined to win a Z-Ring and learn to do Z-Moves, special attacks that only Trainers who've passed Alola's Island Challenge can use.

Bear and Bird are best friends! And while they don't always understand each other, they both agree: all they want is to make the other happy. So, when Bird feels poorly, Bear arrives with a backpack of goodies to make her feel better. And when they hang out with Mole, who tells absolutely hilario...

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...

Mo would be the first to admit he's a bit of a scaredy cat. It's hard not to be in a town like Shiver Point, with its urban legends about Blue Bessie: the ghost of Shadow Hill Cemetery who likes to play deadly games with anyone foolish enough to chant her name. But when Mo tries to prove that he ...

Warning: You are about to read my utterly biggest secrets. Can I trust you? OK then. I'm Ella, and this is my diary. Join Ella in this bind up of two of her hilarious and relatable best friends forever stories, in which she navigates school plays, cooking projects and the ups and downs that come ...

Luna rides a battered old broom that keeps crashing itself into the school pond. She has a witch's hat and wand and sometimes she's quite good at magic, but she isn't completely sure that she's a real witch. She doesn't have a familiar for one thing, and she doesn't know where she came from-only ...

For Red, growing up in Wonderland has been no piece of cake (literally -- dessert is outlawed, along with birthdays, dancing and merriment of any kind). Her mum, the Queen of Hearts, rules the kingdom with an iron sceptre, while Red longs for a life of her own, away from the madness. She's heard ...