Collection: Junior fiction

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...

"Have you ever had a bad week? Justin Chase sure has. And this is it! He barely made it through Monday, but now it's... Tuesday! His cat is still missing, probably abducted by aliens. His dad is more embarrassing than ever. He's unexpectedly gone viral online in the worst possible way. And when s...

A dark mystery set in the Welsh mountains. Wren lives in an ancient castle in the mountains near the sea. The wind whistles through it and the walls sing to her. Wren is busy inventing things, and her father is busy disapproving. But the castle contains a mystery and as Wren is drawn further into...

A beautiful and sensitive exploration of the experience of child poverty.

Wylah has already accomplished the unbelievable feat of uniting the five Guardians, but her journey is far from over Together with her megafauna friends, she must travel through the treacherous and forbidden Valley of the Spirits to face off against the Dragon Army. Can Wylah defeat the perils th...

Sometimes Xavier wakes up feeling hopeless. Every new doctor ... this will fix it. Removing him from school ... this will fix it. The therapy group ... this will fix it. And his dad moving out. Maybe, this will fix it. His daily affirmations seem to be helping, yet the black dog never really goes...

"Winston is a Minecraft wolf on a mission: to work out who, or what, is haunting The Nether! After receiving a nether star from his nemesis, Winston and his junior agent, Brian, follow the clue to a nether fortress. Can they help the hostile wither skeletons uncover what the ghosts are up to befo...

Have you ever wondered what life is like for a Minecraft Zombie? Take a peek into the diary of thirteen-year-old Zack Zombie. He's just like any other kid, only a lot more dead! And in a lot more trouble! When Zombie puts his undead limbs on the line to save an old Ender-Lady, his good deed sends...

Fred's family is a mess. Fred's mother died when she was six and she's been raised by her Pop and adoptive father, Luca, ever since. But now Pop is at the Rye Rehabilitation Centre recovering from a fall; Luca's girlfriend, Anika, has moved in; and Fred's just found out that Anika and Luca are ha...

Yesterday Crumb is in London to watch The Wild Feast, a magical cooking competition. But when the teashop Yesterday and her friends call home is stolen by the Faerie Queen, she must join the competition to win it back. Except the Faerie Queen is not going to make winning easy for her and blames Y...