Fiction 5+

Zookeeper Fred loves snakes, but his favourite is a tiny green snake named Vern. Vern is sneaky and constantly tries to hide in Fred's lunch. When Vern gets loose in the zoo and lands atop a boy's head, it's trouble! A few citizens demand that all the snakes must go and the Mayor closes the zoo u...

Aaron Slater loves listening to stories and dreams of one day writing them himself. But when it comes to reading, the letters just look like squiggles to him, and it soon becomes clear he struggles more than his peers. When his teacher asks each child in the class to write a story, Aaron can't ge...

When Eva finds a hamster hiding in the dustbin at her grandad's garden centre she's determined to find out who he belongs to. All the signs point to Katie, the unfriendly girl who's moved in to Ash Tree Manor, but how can she prove she's right?

Abdul works hard on the farm, but his sons never help. They are far too lazy! Then Abdul thinks of a clever trick to make them work very hard indeed.

Abdul works hard on the farm, but his sons never help. They are far too lazy! Then Abdul thinks of a clever trick to make them work very hard indeed.

Meet Ackbar's underwater army in this Level 3 Clone Wars Reader. Two decades before the events of the original Star Wars trilogy, future Rebel leader Ackbar fights in the Clone Wars, leading his fellow squid-headed militants into an underwater battle on his aquatic homeworld of Mon Calamari.

Together Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester and Grandmama are the Addamses - a wonderfully ghoulish family who delight in the gothic and macabre, and are completely unaware of how bizarre they appear to their neighbours. In this tory of the movie, the Addams clan are gathering thei...

Adder's all set to start her new job at Badger's Cleaning Company. But when she climbs a ladder for the first time, she quickly finds she has no head for heights. Can anything help her overcome her fears?

'Reading Champion' offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills. Original stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child's reading ability, enco...

Adnan is a stunning story about a boy refugee, his mother, and the power of creativity.