Collection: Junior fiction

Eleven-year-old Millie Nakakura is starting sixth grade at a real school for the first time in her life. Previously home schooled, Millie dreams of finally making friends and having a little bit of freedom. Though this proves trickier than she expected. Then she spots a flyer for an after-school ...

Mike had no idea that his best friend Alex was a Gris-kwok - someone who can turn into any animal he chooses! But Mike's naughty little sister Molly is a Gris-kwok too. Alex and Mike are about to take on the worst babysitting job in the world.

When Fern moves from the rainforest to the city she feels entirely uprooted. But soon she meets a little plant that understands her every word, and things are looking up! That is until strange things start happening in the city: giant lily pads on the Thames, monkey vines on the London Eye... Can...

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...

Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. She's a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn,...

"Thirteen-year-old Rowan is helping her older sister Ash paint her bedroom when she discovers a mysterious ring that transports them both back in time to 1999. To a party being held in the very same house! While Ash dances, Rowan unwittingly disrupts the laws of time, and when she wakes up back i...

William, Edmund, and Anna aren't terribly upset by the death of the not-so-grandmotherly grandmother who has taken care of them since their parents died. But the children do need a guardian, and in the dark days of World War II London, those are in short supply, especially if they hope to stay to...

Twelve-year-old Rae is content as the adopted daughter of shepherds, helping with the flock and revelling in the beauty of her family's hillside farm. But after a frightening encounter with a wolf-to whom she feels a sudden, peculiar connection-Rae realizes there is much more to her past, and her...

Natalie (Nutty to her friends) knows turning 12 is a big deal, and even though she doesn’t like change AT ALL, she’s prepping for: a) having the best bat mitzvah party anyone has ever been to b) graduating from primary school and c) hopefully getting a boyfriend. But there’s even more headed Nutt...