Collection: Junior Fiction

Frog--and Science Hero--Professor Albert Hopper travels with his niece Polly and nephew Tad to the centre of the Earth, encountering prehistoric cavefrogs, dinosaur fossils, and Yeti on the way.

Aldrin Adams is an ordinary boy with an extraordinary superpower. When he eats cheese, just before he goes to sleep at night, he can enter into other people's dreams, and their nightmares! But why has he got this power? What is he supposed to do with it? And why doesn't it come with some kind of ...

A few kookaburras laugh in the gum trees. Alex grins - they don't often come up this far. His grandpa told him that if kookaburras laugh late in the afternoon, it will rain next day. 'Ha, someone needs to tell the rain to listen, hey Tangi?' She grins at him like it's a good joke. Alex wishes it ...

After her adventures in Tasmania, Alex is back home in Melbourne and ready for the next one. But Grandpa Jacob wants to keep Alex protected, and he wants her to go back to being a regular kid and forget that she is the saviour of the world. Why can't he understand that she's not normal, she's spe...

Alex is expecting a pretty boring summer. But when Mum takes her to visit her mysterious grandfather on his farm in Tasmania, weird things start to happen. For starters, her grandfather's pet alpacas can talk! When things go from strange to scary, Alex must use all her brains, brawn and bravery i...

Middle school student Sam is comfortable with their nonbinary identity, and their family has accepted it too (as long as they do their homework and chores), so when their history teacher assigns as a project coming up with a proposal for the new statue honouring a historical Staten Islander (ther...

Alice the anteater has a dream - she's going to be a film star! So she finds herself a pair of high-heeled sandals, a frilly satin dress and some film-star sunglasses and sets off for Hollywood. Soon Alice is the talk of the town, but there's just one problem - will she ever get to star in a film?

"One summer afternoon, a curious young mouselet named Alice follows a strange white rabbit with a pocket watch down an even stranger robbit hole. That's the beginning of a wonderful and fabumouse journey through Wonderland, a world full of unusual characters and unforgettable adventures."-- Back ...

Maths-whizz Alice has already solved a mystery or two. Persuaded by wannabe sidekick Sammy to investigate a scientist's disappearance, she's soon entangled in her trickiest case yet. Dr Learner is reputed to have invented an invisibility suit, but is whacky science really to blame for his vanishi...

More than 70 original illustrations by Robert Ingpen complement the complete and unabridged text in this edition published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll's first Alice book in November 1865. When Alice steps through the looking-glass in the drawing room one drowsy winter afte...