Collection: Junior Starter

Teacher Appreciation Day is on Monday! At first, Poppy and her best friends, Ollie and Cassie, are excited. They love their teacher, Ms Green. But soon they run into a problem. They don't have a present for her! Maybe they can make something on the farm. But what? Can Poppy and her friends come u...

Hana joins the Moonlight Mystery Agency to help Spark the bionic unicorn find her missing birthday cake in the first of an exciting new series from bestseller Vashti Hardy.

Destiny is really looking forward to her cousin Lola's birthday party. Lola and Destiny love doing everything together! Drawing, dancing, you name it! But when Destiny arrives at the party, things are different. Lola is so busy playing with her friends, she doesn't have time for Destiny and Desti...

Poppy is determined to win a blue ribbon for her cucumbers at the county fair. But Vincent Van Goat is always butting in - as goats do. He gobbles up her cucumbers before the big day! Poppy must come up with a new plan. Luckily, she knows a lot about fast-growing vegetables - and Vincent's eating...

Hana and her family have recently left Syria to stay with a boy called Oscar and his family in the UK. Hana is confused and lonely when she first arrives - she doesn't speak very much English, and while her host family seem kind, she misses her friends back home. Then Oscar introduces her to the ...

This story is part of 'Reading Champion', a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE). In this retelling of a traditional tale, a young shepherd boy gets fed up when he looks af...

Frankie's mama is leaving to cover a breaking news story. Frankie, Papa and Frankie's teenage sister, Raven, are all proud of Mama, even though they miss her when she's away. But Frankie has a great idea: she can make her own news show! After all, Mama has told her that news is happening around h...

Get ready for a wild ride with Bunny and Clyde! These by-the-rules buddies, a rabbit and a chipmunk, are sick and tired of being good. For once, they want to know what it's like to be baddies - rotten to the core! They want thrills and excitement! But to get really good at being bad, they're goin...

Buzz is keen to win the love (and biscuits) of his New Family. He wants to be the perfect pet - but who is Pack Leader? Britney, the small but shouty one? Her brother who secretly gives Buzz snacks? Or Mum who holds The Lead? Should Buzz be silly Sausage or brave Wolf to impress them? Too much of...

Dash is a little firefly. One of his wings is shorter than the other so he flies more slowly than everyone else, but that doesn't stop him getting where he wants to go. When he's happy, his bottom lights up! And he's happiest when he's eating custard and hanging out with his adoptive brother, Dri...