Collection: Junior Fiction (Academy Use Only)

Grimpow had no idea who the dead man was, but hidden in his leather bag was a treasure that would change his life for ever. And clutched in the man's firm grip - a stone. A stone that will shape Grimpow's destiny. For when he holds it in his hand strange things begin to happen.

With honesty and words that resonate long after reading, 'A Hurricane in My Head' tackles the themes of friendship, bullying, technology and the life of a modern teenager.

"Amal is a 16-year-old Melbourne teen with all the usual obsessions about boys, chocolate and Cosmo magazine. She's also a Muslim, struggling to honour the Islamic faith in a society that doesn't understand it. The story of her decision to "shawl up" and its attendant anxieties (like how much e...

Janey Mack! Layla's back! And she's getting her inventions ready for the Grand Design Competition. But when her grandmother is taken ill and her family must go to Sudan to be by her side, Layla starts to feel like she is being pulled in so many different directions. Can she stay on the inventions...

Layla's mind goes a million miles a minute, so does her mouth - unfortunately her better judgement can take a while to catch up! Even though she believes she was justified for standing up for herself, a suspension certainly isn't the way she would have wished to begin her time at her fancy new se...

Max Remy wants to be a super spy. Anything would be better than living with her luvey mother. But when her mum farms her out to her crackpot aunt and uncle and their weirdo friend Linden for the summer, Max isn't exactly ecstatic. Luckily, though she can hide in Spy Force, the imaginary world she...

Marc Abraham introduces a cast of loveable characters in this story of his life as an emergency vet. From the bouncy retriever puppy with a sore tummy to the tiny gerbil pregnant with triplets, every poorly pet is cared for in Marc's busy surgery.

In the far reaches of space, deadly manhunter robots attack a small planet and its people. Luckily, Hal Jordan, a member of the Green Lantern Corps is close by! The super hero stops the first wave of mechanical killers, but hundreds more quickly follow. Soon, Hal is overwhelmed, unable to hold of...