Collection: Junior Fiction

Livvy and Annabel have been best friends forever. Together they've survived kamikaze magpies, wacky mothers and a nemesis named Summer. Together, they've carried their netball team all the way to the finals. When Annabel moves away, Livvy is crushed. At her mum's insistence she embarks on a fast-...

My dislikes: Being an orphan, having red hair, being called 'carrots' by Gilbert Blythe. My likes: Living at the Green Gables with Marilla and Matthew, my bosom-friend Diana, dresses with puff sleeves. My regrets: Dying my hair green. Smashing a slate over Gilbert Blythe's head. My dream: To tame...

Our red-haired heroine finally marries her true love and sets off with him to the mist-shrouded shores of Four Winds Harbor. The new setting provides a fresh cast of friends and neighbors, including a yarn-spinning lighthouse attendant, an outspoken spinster, and a mysterious young beauty with a ...

Fifth-grader Annie writes lists to keep track of changes in her life when her family moves from Brooklyn to the small town of Clover Gap.

When ten-year-old Zavion loses his home in Hurricane Katrina, he and his father are forced to flee to Baton Rouge. And when Henry, a ten-year-old boy in northern Vermont, tragically loses his best friend, Wayne, he flees to ravaged New Orleans to help with hurricane relief efforts-and to search f...

Tiggy has always had the ocean in her blood and lately, she's been dreaming of mermaids but she's a high-born girl on the Isle of Fortune, forced to wear dresses, attend balls and (worst of all) comb her wild curls. But then the Pirate King strikes, wielding deadly turquoise magic, and Tiggy's yo...

Eleven-year-old Aurora Petrequin's best friend has never spoken a word to her. In fact, Frenchie Livernois doesn't talk. Aurora is bouncy, loud and impulsive. Making friends has never come easily. When Frenchie, who is autistic, silently chose Aurora as his person back in third grade, she chose h...

When Australia pledges its support to Great Britain at the outbreak of World War I, mates Roy Martin and Wally Cardwell are among the first to enlist. But what the friends first thought would be an adventure soon turns to disaster The day after the landing at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915, more tha...

5 Worlds meets Spirited Away in this graphic novel of a girl fighting to return home from the spirit world. Anzu has just moved to a new town during Obon, a time for families to remember and celebrate their ancestors.