Books by Ruth Owen

Book SynopsisInside this delightful book, young readers will meet families of every kind from all around the world. As they turn the pages, they will have lots of opportunites to: understand similarities and differences between themselves and others; learn about different people, places, communities and traditions; understand feelings and be sensitive to others' needs; make comments and ask questions; make descriptions and discuss their own lives and experiences; read and understand words and simple sentences.

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Book SynopsisIn this book, kids will learn about the different stages humans go through in their life cycle; the differences between men and women; puberty; making a baby; fertilisation of the egg; the growth of the fertilised egg; genes; the birth of a baby and a baby''s first year. Illustrated with colourful images this is a sensitive introduction to the life-cycle of a human and birth of a baby. The book includes critical thinking questions and answers and it is supported with downloadable worksheets.

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Book SynopsisThis colourful book will give young readers the chance to practise counting from 1 to 20, build on their understanding of more or less, practise simple adding and subtracting and try solving problems including doubling, halving and sharing. As kids turn the pages they will have lots of opportunities to make comments and ask questions and to read and understand words and simple sentences.

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Book SynopsisThe life-cycles of different animals and insects can differ greatly. In this book kids will discover how eggs develop into mature animals and the fascinating range of changes they may undergo in the process. Readers will learn the life-cycle of a frog, a bird, a butterfly, a bee, a mouse, and a sheep. Some mammals change very little during their life-cycle in this book we learn how insects and amphibians undergo many changes. The book includes critical thinking questions, activities and experiments, and it is supported with downloadable worksheets.

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Book SynopsisIs it living or non-living - can it move on its own? Does it need air? Does it need water and food? Does it produce waste? Does it react to things that happen around it? Does it grow? Can it reproduce? Ask these questions about the things around you to learn if they are alive or not alive. From cats to plants; robots to skin cells and toys to clothes; using fun experiments and activities and answering critical thinking questions kids will discover if things are alive, were once alive or have never been alive. This title is supported with downloadable worksheets.

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Book SynopsisWhat plants and animals live in a garden? What do these living things need from their habitat? And who eats who? In this title, readers will explore a garden, woodland, rock pool and desert habitat. They will also discover what plants and creatures make their home in a tree stump micro-habitat. This book introduces simple food chains and helps students discover how living things in a habitat depend on each other for survival. Look for the download button throughout the book. It shows there are free downloadable worksheets and other resources available for that topic.

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Book SynopsisThe lives and habits of insects can be truly incredible. Some, however, are so gross you probably won''t even want to read about them. Oh . . . You do? Each book in this new series is packed with truly unbelievable facts about some of the smallest members of the animal kingdom. From wasps that turn cockroaches into zombies to help them take care of their larvae, to beetles that repel predators with stinking, poisonous, boiling-hot farts.

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Book SynopsisThe lives and habits of insects can be truly incredible. Some, however, are so gross you probably won''t even want to read about them. Oh . . . You do? Each book in this new series is packed with truly unbelievable facts about some of the smallest members of the animal kingdom. From wasps that turn cockroaches into zombies to help them take care of their larvae, to beetles that repel predators with stinking, poisonous, boiling-hot farts.

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Book SynopsisThe lives and habits of insects can be truly incredible. Some, however, are so gross you probably won''t even want to read about them. Oh . . . You do? Each book in this new series is packed with truly unbelievable facts about some of the smallest members of the animal kingdom. From wasps that turn cockroaches into zombies to help them take care of their larvae, to beetles that repel predators with stinking, poisonous, boiling-hot farts.

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Book SynopsisThe lives and habits of insects can be truly incredible. Some, however, are so gross you probably won''t even want to read about them. Oh . . . You do? Each book in this new series is packed with truly unbelievable facts about some of the smallest members of the animal kingdom. From wasps that turn cockroaches into zombies to help them take care of their larvae, to beetles that repel predators with stinking, poisonous, boiling-hot farts.

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Book SynopsisHow do you fix a giant tortoise's damaged shell? What could cause a red river hog to unexpectedly lose weight? And how do you perform an eye operation on an elephant? It's all in a day's work for a busy zoo vet. In this title, readers will discover how zoo vets use technology and their science skills to take care of wild animals every day. There is also a fun Q&A to help readers decide if becoming a zoo vet could be the career for them!

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Book SynopsisHow can we remove plastic waste from the world's oceans? What can be done to rebuild damaged coral reefs? And is it true that one day there might be a car that can also become a small plane? In this book we meet the inventors and engineers who are using their scientific skills to solve challenging problems and look at the exciting technology of the future. There is also a fun Q&A to help readers decide if becoming an inventor could be the career for them!

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Book SynopsisWe all use it every day but what happens when we throw it away? The BIG problem is that it does not disappear. In this title kids will act as environmental scientists to learn about the problem with plastic; single use plastic; plastics in landfill; plastic in the ocean; microplastics and the dangers to birds, animals and the environment. On a more positive note they will also learn about recycling; plastic free packaging; beach clean-up operations and the actions we can all take to reduce the plastic pollution and save our oceans. This title is filled with critical thinking questions and answers, activities and experiments, and it is supported with downloadable worksheets.

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Book SynopsisCurious kids may ask up to 100 questions each day! For grown-ups that may not always be easy, but here at Ruby Tuesday we''re celebrating those enquiring minds with this new series. Each book explores one of science''s big questions and gives young readers a detailed, but age-appropriate, explanation packed with Key Stage 1 science and fantastic facts.

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Book SynopsisCurious kids may ask up to 100 questions each day! For grown-ups that may not always be easy, but here at Ruby Tuesday we''re celebrating those enquiring minds with this new series. Each book explores one of science''s big questions and gives young readers a detailed, but age-appropriate, explanation packed with Key Stage 1 science and fantastic facts.

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Book SynopsisCurious kids may ask up to 100 questions each day! For grown-ups that may not always be easy, but here at Ruby Tuesday we''re celebrating those enquiring minds with this new series. Each book explores one of science''s big questions and gives young readers a detailed, but age-appropriate, explanation packed with Key Stage 1 science and fantastic facts.

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Book SynopsisCurious kids may ask up to 100 questions each day! For grown-ups that may not always be easy, but here at Ruby Tuesday we''re celebrating those enquiring minds with this new series. Each book explores one of science''s big questions and gives young readers a detailed, but age-appropriate, explanation packed with Key Stage 1 science and fantastic facts.

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Book SynopsisStep back in time to the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods and discover how stone age people lived in Britain and Europe. Meet stone age artists, hunter-gatherers, the first farmers and Otzi the Iceman. Explore the development of human technology and culture in Britain and Europe through the period known as the Bronze Age. This title supports the following Key Stage 2 History Learning Objectives: changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age; late Neolithic hunter-gatherers and early farmers, for example Skara Brae; Bronze Age religion, technology and travel, for example, Stonehenge.

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Book SynopsisThis title supports the following learning objectives for Key Stage 2 science: Identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants including roots, stems, trunks, leaves and flowers; Explore the requirements of plants for life and growth and how they vary from plant to plant; Investigate the way in which water is transported within plants; Explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal; Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways; Identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment and identify how they are adapted to suit their environment.

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Book SynopsisThis title supports the following learning objectives for Key Stage 2 science: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways; Identify that animals get nutrition from what they eat; Construct and interpret food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey; Identify how animals are adapted to suit their environment; Describe the life cycles of a mammal, an amphibian, an insect and a bird; Recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents.

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Book SynopsisThis title supports the following learning objectives for Key Stage 2 science: Identify that humans get nutrition from what they eat and recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function; Identify that humans have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement; Describe the functions of the digestive system, teeth and circulatory system (heart, blood vessels and blood); Recognise that living things produce offspring that are not identical to their parents; Describe the changes as humans develop to old age.

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Book SynopsisThis title supports the following learning objectives for Key Stage 2 science: Compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties; Describe how fossils are formed and recognise that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited Earth millions of years ago; Recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter.

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Book SynopsisThis title supports the following learning objectives for Key Stage 2 science: Describe the movement of the Earth and other planets relative to the Sun in the solar system; Describe the movement of the Moon relative to the Earth; Describe the Sun, Earth and Moon as approximately spherical bodies and use Earth's rotation to explain day and night and the apparent movement of the Sun across the sky.

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Book SynopsisStep back in time to discover a story of invasion and empire. Learn what everyday life was like for a Roman citizen back home in Rome. Join centurions as they march across Europe to invade Britain. And experience life as a Roman immigrant living in Londinium (modern-day London) 2000 years ago. This title supports the following Key Stage 2 History Learning Objectives: The Roman Empire and it's impact on Britain; The Roman Empire by AD 42 and the power of its army; successful invasion by Claudius and conquest; Hadrian's Wall; Romanisation of Britain.

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Book SynopsisStep back in time more than 1000 years and go on a fascinating voyage into the world of the Vikings. Learn how Viking families survived in the icy north of Europe. Discover how the Vikings' bravery and ambition led them to take to the seas in longships in search of treasure, trade, new lands and adventure. And visit Jorvik (modern-day York) to see a bustling Viking city, home to craftspeople and traders from around the world. This title supports the following Key Stage 2 History Learning Objectives: Viking raids and invasion; the Danegeld.

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Book SynopsisThis title supports the following learning objectives for Key Stage 2 science: Identify how sounds are made; Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear; Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it; Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it; Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases.

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Book SynopsisThis title supports the following learning objectives for Key Stage 2 science: Recognise that light is needed in order to see things and that dark is the absence of light; Notice that light is reflected from surfaces; Recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines; Explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into our eyes; Recognise that shadows are formed when light is blocked by an opaque object; Explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them and find patterns in the way that the size of shadows change.

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Book SynopsisThis title supports the following learning objectives for Key Stage 2 science: Identify common appliances that run on electricity; Construct a simple electrical circuit, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers; Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit; Associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit; Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors.

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Book SynopsisThis title supports the following learning objectives for Key Stage 2 science: Notice that some forces need contact between two objects, but magnetic forces can act at a distance; Observe how magnets attract or repel; Compare and group everyday materials on the basis of whether they are attracted to a magnet; Describe magnets as having two poles and predict whether two magnets will attract or repel each other, depending on which poles are facing; Explain that objects fall towards Earth because of gravity; Identify the effects of resistance and friction; Recognise that levers, pulleys and gears allow a smaller force to have a greater effect.

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Book SynopsisThis title supports the following learning objectives for Key Stage 2 science: Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases; Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled; Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle; Know that some materials dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution; Use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated, including through filtering, sieving and evaporating; Demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes; Explain that some changes result in the formation of new materials, and that this is not usually reversible.

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Book SynopsisAn inspirational CALL TO ACTION for all young conservationists, The Problem with Plastic combines nature, science, beautiful photography and a fact-packed handbook. Kids worldwide care about this issue and this new book gives them the information they need and pratical solutions they can put into action TODAY!

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Book SynopsisDinosaur eggs, battling dinosaurs, the earth-shaking giants, how dinosaurs became fossils, the extinction of the dinosaurs, the exciting work of fossil hunters - all young kids love dinosaurs, and will be keen to become part of The Dinosaur Club and build their reading confidence. Key features include repetitive and predictable text / High-frequeny and familiar sight words / Fantastic artwork

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Book SynopsisDinosaur eggs, battling dinosaurs, the earth-shaking giants, how dinosaurs became fossils, the extinction of the dinosaurs, the exciting work of fossil hunters - all young kids love dinosaurs, and will be keen to become part of The Dinosaur Club and build their reading confidence. Key features include repetitive and predictable text / High-frequeny and familiar sight words / Fantastic artwork

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Book SynopsisDinosaur eggs, battling dinosaurs, the earth-shaking giants, how dinosaurs became fossils, the extinction of the dinosaurs, the exciting work of fossil hunters - all young kids love dinosaurs, and will be keen to become part of The Dinosaur Club and build their reading confidence. Key features include repetitive and predictable text / High-frequeny and familiar sight words / Fantastic artwork

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Book SynopsisDinosaur eggs, battling dinosaurs, the earth-shaking giants, how dinosaurs became fossils, the extinction of the dinosaurs, the exciting work of fossil hunters - all young kids love dinosaurs, and will be keen to become part of The Dinosaur Club and build their reading confidence. Key features include repetitive and predictable text / High-frequeny and familiar sight words / Fantastic artwork

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Book SynopsisDinosaur eggs, battling dinosaurs, the earth-shaking giants, how dinosaurs became fossils, the extinction of the dinosaurs, the exciting work of fossil hunters - all young kids love dinosaurs, and will be keen to become part of The Dinosaur Club and build their reading confidence. Key features include repetitive and predictable text / High-frequeny and familiar sight words / Fantastic artwork

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Book SynopsisDinosaur eggs, battling dinosaurs, the earth-shaking giants, how dinosaurs became fossils, the extinction of the dinosaurs, the exciting work of fossil hunters - all young kids love dinosaurs, and will be keen to become part of The Dinosaur Club and build their reading confidence. Key features include repetitive and predictable text / High-frequeny and familiar sight words / Fantastic artwork

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Book SynopsisDinosaur eggs, battling dinosaurs, the earth-shaking giants, how dinosaurs became fossils, the extinction of the dinosaurs, the exciting work of fossil hunters - all young kids love dinosaurs, and will be keen to become part of The Dinosaur Club and build their reading confidence. Key features include repetitive and predictable text / High-frequeny and familiar sight words / Fantastic artwork

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Book SynopsisDinosaur eggs, battling dinosaurs, the earth-shaking giants, how dinosaurs became fossils, the extinction of the dinosaurs, the exciting work of fossil hunters - all young kids love dinosaurs, and will be keen to become part of The Dinosaur Club and build their reading confidence. Key features include repetitive and predictable text / High-frequeny and familiar sight words / Fantastic artwork

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Book SynopsisDinosaur eggs, battling dinosaurs, the earth-shaking giants, how dinosaurs became fossils, the extinction of the dinosaurs, the exciting work of fossil hunters - all young kids love dinosaurs, and will be keen to become part of The Dinosaur Club and build their reading confidence. Key features include repetitive and predictable text / High-frequeny and familiar sight words / Fantastic artwork

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Book SynopsisDinosaur eggs, battling dinosaurs, the earth-shaking giants, how dinosaurs became fossils, the extinction of the dinosaurs, the exciting work of fossil hunters - all young kids love dinosaurs, and will be keen to become part of The Dinosaur Club and build their reading confidence. Key features include repetitive and predictable text / High-frequeny and familiar sight words / Fantastic artwork

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Book SynopsisDinosaur eggs, battling dinosaurs, the earth-shaking giants, how dinosaurs became fossils, the extinction of the dinosaurs, the exciting work of fossil hunters - all young kids love dinosaurs, and will be keen to become part of The Dinosaur Club and build their reading confidence. Key features include repetitive and predictable text / High-frequeny and familiar sight words / Fantastic artwork

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Book SynopsisThis new 10-book series from Ruby Tuesday Books covers the entire programme of study for science at Key Stage 2. Features include: Experiments and investigations / Discussion topics & critical thinking questions / Brings STEM to life for young students / Beautiful images and a high impact design. Each book gives students the chance to work scientifically: Ask questions and use scientific enquiries and evidence to answer them / Set up simple pratical enquiries and tests / Make observations, take measurements, use scientific equipment / Gather, record, classify and present data using scientific language, drawings, labelled diagrams and charts / Use results to draw conclusions, make preditions and ask new questions

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