Susannah’s popular spy-adventure series for young girls has now sold nearly three quarters of a million books in Australia and New Zealand alone, with a copy currently being sold every 15 minutes.

By optioning the series, Ambience Entertainment plans to create a riveting TV series that will fully engage the growing fan base with the stories, characters and adventures played out in the much-loved books.

Monica O’Brien, Executive Producer, Ambience Entertainment said of the announcement, “We’re so excited to be working with Susannah on the development of this awesome children’s series. EJ12 is a solid Australian brand that will soon become an international success.”

Yeay for this new exciting adventure for EJ12! Stay tuned for more info.

The books – taken from each of her hugely successful series EJ12 Girl Hero, Boy Vs Beast and Little Mates – will be used for Ardoch’s education and wellbeing programs as well as in their partner school libraries.

Susannah is a big believer in the power of education and the fabulous work that foundations like Ardoch are doing in the community.

For more information on Ardoch you can visit: https://www.ardoch.asn.au

Fast-paced and loaded with high energy whilst maintaining a low word count and simple sentence structure, Boy vs Beast takes reading to young boys on their terms.

Only a wall divides Earth from the Beasts of Beastium. Only a boy and his dogbot defend the wall and protect Earth. Kai Masters. Border guard and beast battler. Let the battles commence!

Perfect for beginner and reluctant reading boys.

Special Agent EJ12 cracks codes and foils evil plans all over the world. Emma Jacks worries about mean girls, gym comps and not having perfect hair. EJ12 is Emma Jacks. Saving the world is the easy part!

Perfect for newly confident chapter book readers.

EJ Spy School introduces the hugely popular character Emma Jacks as she first joins the secret agency SHINE spy school and starts to train as a SHINE agent.

With careful choice of age appropriate words, concepts, sentence lengths and chapter lengths, EJ Spy School is the perfect series to help build the reading confidence and enjoyment of beginner readers.

Suitable for beginner and newly confident chapter book readers.

Join Emma as she starts Spy School!

Featuring new look covers – but packed with the same action, adventures, beasts and battles as the original series – Books 1 to 8  were a hit with fans when released in September last year.

The Boy Vs Beast series takes reading to boys on their own terms. Using carefully planned pages and stories and engaging graphics, even the youngest reading boys can develop their reading skills while losing themselves in a story packed with action.

Books 9 to 12 in the series will hit stores from 1 March, but in the meantime you can check out the new look website at boyvsbeast.com where you’ll find games, battle cards, and more.

The perfect first chapter book series for young girls and beginner readers, EJ Spy School helps them to build reading confidence and enjoyment through its careful choice of age appropriate words, concepts, sentence lengths and chapter lengths.

The series introduces the much-loved character Emma Jacks as EJ10 as she first joins the secret agency SHINE spy school and starts to train as a SHINE agent. A great companion website features age-appropriate activities, games and story extracts as well and can be found at www.ejspyschool.com.

Kai must mix things up. Can he win against the water mutant?

Previously published as Aquaterros.