Collection: Junior Fiction - Early Junior Fiction

New friends Franco and Lucas are about to have their first sleepover. They want to know everything about each other. Does Lucas like to rhyme? Is Franco afraid of spiders too? But most importantly: do they both like tacos?

A haunted house, trouble at the zoo, a girl who gets zapped into a computer game, homework-stealing aliens, a pirate war, the loudest kid alive, a princess under a magic spell, racing snails, a family of monsters and much, much more in this collection of seven-minute stories.

Something has been taken from the principal's office at school. It's up to Billie and the Secret Mystery Club to find out who could have done such a horrible thing.

Someone has stolen all of the ripe strawberries from Mika's garden. The Secret Mystery Club is determined to work out who it was. Could it have been the gardener? Or was it the neighbours who just made a batch of strawberry jam? Whoever it was, they won't get far - not with the SMC on the case.

After sleeping off his adventure battling the evil Nightcrawlers, Speed Bump joins Slingshot on a quest to earn their Scavenger Hunt badge.

A brand new full-colour short story from Blyton's magical Wishing-Chair series - the perfect companion to the successful Magic Faraway Tree Adventure series and perfect for readers of 5+ When Mollie and Peter go to buy their mother a birthday present, they discover the most extraordinary thing: a...

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...

When pets go missing in Blue River Creek it is up to Ada to follow the scientific method by making a hypothesis, collecting data, and experimenting to find the missing animals.

When Rosie Revere's Uncle Ned gets a little carried away wearing his famous helium pants, it's up to Ada and friends to chase him down. As Uncle Ned floats farther and farther away, Ada starts asking lots of questions: How high can a balloon float? Is it possible for Uncle Ned to float into outer...