Children’s / Teenage general interest: Inventors, inventions and experiments
Kingfisher Amazing Machines Shiny Snow Machines
Book SynopsisSnow planes, sleds, and snowmobileszoom across the snow.You can see them coming, as they shine and glow!Amazing Machines: Shiny Snow Machines follows Bird, Mouse, and Rabbit as they wrap up warm and explore things that go in the snow! Each page is filled with details that machine-mad kids will love including zambonis, ice trucks, snow-making machines, snowgliders, and much more.From tractors and trucks to robots and rockets, the bestselling Amazing Machines series is the perfect way for children to learn about all sorts of machines and vehicles! Each book introduces a new vehicle or machine and the many jobs it can do. Ant Parker''s bright, engaging artwork, and Tony Mitton''s simple, rhyming text combine to make these fantastic books for young children. Kids will love getting to know the friendly animal characters who feature throughout the series and reading about their fast-paced adventures!Continue to explore
£11.69
Kingfisher Amazing Machines Shiny Snow Machines
Book SynopsisSnow planes, sleds, and snowmobileszoom across the snow.You can see them coming, as they shine and glow!Amazing Machines: Shiny Snow Machines follows Bird, Mouse, and Rabbit as they wrap up warm and explore things that go in the snow! Each page is filled with details that machine-mad kids will love including zambonis, ice trucks, snow-making machines, snowgliders, and much more.From tractors and trucks to robots and rockets, the bestselling Amazing Machines series is the perfect way for children to learn about all sorts of machines and vehicles! Each book introduces a new vehicle or machine and the many jobs it can do. Ant Parker''s bright, engaging artwork, and Tony Mitton''s simple, rhyming text combine to make these fantastic books for young children. Kids will love getting to know the friendly animal characters who feature throughout the series and reading about their fast-paced adventures!Continue to explore
£6.99
DK Car Science An UnderTheHood BehindTheDash Look at
Book SynopsisFrom Top Gear's Richard Hammond, Car Science is an intuitive and exciting children's science book on all things cars. In four sections, Car Science includes a timeline of automotive invention; a how it works guide to modern cars, with exploded diagrams, cutaways, and computer graphics; key physics concepts, all relating to cars and how they run; and a look into the future of cars, including eco-friendly concept cars. This car book for kids is the perfect resource for curious minds.
£19.79
Crabtree Publishing Company Changing Materials Working with Materials
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£9.43
Tundra Books Snow Amazing Cool Facts and Warm Tales
Book SynopsisJane Drake and Ann Love, the acclaimed authors of Cool Woods: A Trip Around the World’s Boreal Forest, explore the fascinating, beautiful, and sometimes dangerous world of snow. They write about snow as a habitat, the significance of snow on the environment, snow’s impact on the people and animals who live in it, and snow stories and lore from around the world.From the science of snow to the magic of a winter wonderland, this book is a comprehensive must-read. Not only is the information presented with clarity and brisk good humor, but with urgency. As the polar ice cap melts, we are becoming aware of its critical impact on all of the earth’s living creatures.Illustrated with Mark Thurman’s detailed drawings and magnificent photographs from the authors’ own collections, this is a wintry treat to enjoy all year.
£16.96
Chicago Review Press Alexander Graham Bell for Kids
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£16.10
Abdo Publishing Company Stem in the Ocean
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£30.80
St Martin's Press The Girl Who Built a Spider
Book SynopsisIn this fun-filled, action-packed middle grade novel, three young inventors are offered the chance to work at the renowned Dr. Flax''s laboratorywhere dazzling science, new friendships, and killer robots await. When Theresa Brown wins the Charleston County Middle School Science Fair, she receives the opportunity of a lifetimean invitation to celebrated scientist Dr. Flax's laboratory and a summer spent building the invention of her dreams. Along with the second- and third-place finishers of the science fair, Theresa is whisked off to a world of robots, excitement, and danger. Dr. Flax claims his inventions are going to help stop climate change and make the world a better, safer place, but is that true? And can Theresa and her friends get to the bottom of the mysteries of his laboratory?
£13.99
Roaring Brook Press Maker Comics Conduct a Science Experiment
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£12.46
WW Norton & Co Darkwhispers
Book SynopsisIn this spirited sequel, the Brightstorm twins venture to hidden lands in search of a missing explorer and the secrets he uncovered.
£10.14
Scholastic Inc. George Washington Carver More Than The Peanut Man Bright Minds
Book SynopsisMeet the inventors and scientists of color who changed the world!Born enslaved during the Civil War in Diamond, Missouri, George Washington Carver was an agricultural scientist and inventor. He promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. Among his many accomplishments, he developed more than 300 industrial and commercial products from peanuts. It is time to remember how George Washington Carver's inventions and his contributions changed our society... and our world!ABOUT THE SERIES:Many inventors and scientists of color have made incredible contributions to our modern life. Each volume in this much-needed new series will be devoted to the life and work of one of these inventors and scientists. With a vivid writing style that will use humor as one of its primary ingredients, and illustrated with a combination of real photos and pictures featuring graphic art, each title in this series will describe how these he
£8.99
Disney Book Publishing Inc. Shinji Takahashi and the Mark of the Coatl
Book SynopsisOne of the most beloved stories from The Walt Disney Parks is now a romping middle grade adventure series! High-tech wizardry, old world legends and a little bit of Disney magic all shine through in Shinji Takahashi and the Mark of the Coatl, the first book in the Society of Explorers and Adventurers series from renowned best-selling author, Julie Kagawa.One cannot fight destiny, boy. Even if one did not ask for it. The idol calls for you, and you must answer its call...Shinji Takahashi is just an ordinary kid. An ordinary homeschooled smart-alecky kid being raised by his globe-trotting aunt Yui. But when a magical guardian decides to use him as a conduit to awaken its power, Shinji?s life takes a turn for the anything-but-ordinary. Captured by the menacing Hightower Corporation, which is bent on using the guardian?s magic for its own nefarious purposes, Shinji must team up with a brilliant young tech whiz named Lucy and her robot mouse, Tinker, in order to escape. Together the two turn to the venerable Society of Explorers and Adventurers and its ragtag cast of spelunkers, hackers, mapmakers, pilots, and mythology experts (among other things) to return the guardian to its rightful home and release Shinji from its magic?which seems to be draining his life force. Time is ticking, the Hightower Corporation is in hot pursuit, and success or failure might depend on one small thing?Shinji finally coming around to the belief that he is anything but ordinary.Based on the Society of Explorers and Adventurers lore that exist across the Walt Disney Parks, Shinji Takahashi and the Mark of the Coatl is the first book in an all-new action-adventure series that brings S.E.A. into the twenty-first century through a blend of science and magic.
£12.99
DK Inventions A Visual Encyclopedia
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£26.99
DK Look Im an Engineer
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£12.34
DK How to Be an Engineer
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£17.99
DK Tech Lab
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£17.99
Capstone Press Do it Yourself Simple Machines Forces in Action
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£9.99
Tyndale House Publishers Faith and Science with Dr. Fizzlebop
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£13.29
Laurence King Hello Nature Activity Book: Explore, Draw, Color,
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£12.34
Candlewick Press,U.S. Become an App Inventor: The Official Guide from
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£20.69
Candlewick Press,U.S. Brand New Boy
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£16.14
Candlewick Press,U.S. Masked Hero: How Wu Lien-teh Invented the Mask
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£16.14
Candlewick Press,U.S. Bath Time Physics
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£8.54
Candlewick Press,U.S. High Chair Chemistry
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£8.54
Candlewick Press,U.S. Playtime Engineering
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£8.54
Candlewick Press,U.S. Big Science for Tiny Tots Four-Book Collection
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£28.77
Lerner Publishing Group Cool Kid Inventions
£12.52
Capstone Press The Future of Energy: From Solar Cells to Flying
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£30.59
Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. ¡FUSHHH! / Whoosh!: El chorro de inventos súper
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£15.29
Astra Publishing House Ice! The Amazing History: The Amazing History of
Book SynopsisThink of a world without cold drinks, ice cream, and frozen foods. Believe it or not, such a world DID exist! Learn all about this fascinating history in this nonfiction book. In the early 1800s, people began to harvest ice, store it in ways that limited melting, and transport it to homes and businesses. Eventually, almost everyone had an icebox, and a huge, vital ice business grew. In this riveting book, acclaimed writer Laurence Pringle describes the key inventions and ideas that helped the ice business flourish. He points to the many sources of ice throughout the East and Midwest and spotlights Rockland Lake, "the icebox of New York City," to offer a close-up look at the ice business in action. Pringle worked closely with experts and relied on primary documents, including archival photographs, postcards, prints, and drawings, to capture the times when everyone waited for the ice man and his wagon to deliver those precious blocks of ice.Trade Review★ "A coolly fascinating, nostalgic glimpse into life as it was over a century ago. . . Pringle's writing is as clear and sharp as well-hewn blocks of ice, and the book is a visually refreshing treat. . . fast-paced, absorbing historical reading. Very well-documented, even including links to some short Edison films. Readers will regard their refrigerators and freezers in a whole new, respectful light." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review"Tells a kid-friendly slice of social and technological history. Aided by an impressive collection of archival photos and advertisements, Pringle has a good eye for side stories..."—USA Today"Pleasingly designed with short blocks of crisp text and ample illustrations consisting of archival photographs, drawings, and images of the ice cards customers used to communicate their needs to the deliverymen. Readers will be enticed."—Booklist
£12.99
Flash Point Bomb: The Race to Build--And Steal--The World's
Book SynopsisPerfect for middle grade readers and history enthusiasts, New York Times bestselling author Steve Sheinkin presents the fascinating and frightening true story of the creation behind the most destructive force that birthed the arms race and the Cold War in Bomb: The Race to Buildand Steal--the World''s Most Dangerous Weapon. A Newbery Honor book A National Book Awards finalist for Young People''s LiteratureA Washington Post Best Kids Books of the Year titleIn December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned three continents.In Great Britain and the United States, Soviet spies worked their way into the scientific community; in Norway, a commando force slipped behind enemy lines to attack German heavy-water manufacturing; and deep in the desert, one brilliant group of scientists, led by "father of the atomic bomb" J. Robert Oppenheimer, was hidden away at a remote site at Los Alamos. This is the story of the plotting, the risk-taking, the deceit, and genius that created the world''s most formidable weapon. This is the story of the atomic bomb.This superb and exciting work of nonfiction would be a fine tonic for any jaded adolescent who thinks history is ''boring.'' It''s also an excellent primer for adult readers who may have forgotten, or never learned, the remarkable story of how nuclear weaponry was first imagined, invented and deployedand of how an international arms race began well before there was such a thing as an atomic bomb. The Wall Street JournalThis is edge-of-the seat material that will resonate with YAs who clamor for true spy stories, and it will undoubtedly engross a cross-market audience of adults who dozed through the World War II unit in high school. The Bulletin (starred review)Also by Steve Sheinkin:The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & TreacheryThe Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil RightsUndefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football TeamMost Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam WarWhich Way to the Wild West?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn''t Tell You About Westward ExpansionKing George: What Was His Problem?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn''t Tell You About the American RevolutionTwo Miserable Presidents: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn''t Tell You About the Civil WarBorn to Fly: The First Women''s Air Race Across America
£21.24
Nomad Press Microbes: Discover an Unseen World
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£20.09
Nomad Press Explore Forces and Motion!: With 25 Great
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£14.11
Nomad Press Innovators: The Stories Behind the People Who
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£20.11
Nomad Press Innovators: The Stories Behind the People Who
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£16.24
Nomad Press Industrial Design: Why Smartphones Aren't Round
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£20.27
Nomad Press Industrial Design: Why Smartphones Aren't Round
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£16.36
Nomad Press Big Data: Information in the Digital World with
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£20.27
Nomad Press Big Data: Information in the Digital World with
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£16.39
Nomad Press Crazy Contraptions: Build Rube Goldberg Machines
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£17.05
Nomad Press Bots! Robotics Engineering: With Makerspace
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£21.80
£17.05
Nomad Press Water Cycle!: With 25 Science Projects for Kids
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£18.95
Nomad Press Fairground Physics: Motion, Momentum, and Magnets
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£21.80
Nomad Press Fairground Physics: Motion, Momentum, and Magnets
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£17.05
Astra Publishing House The Flying Man: Otto Lilienthal, the World's
Book SynopsisThe Flying Man – Otto Lilienthal, the World’s First Pilot Here is the little-known history of Otto Lilienthal, a daring man whose more than 2,000 successful flights inspired the Wright Brothers and other aviation pioneers. In 1862, balloons were the only way to reach the sky. But 14-year-old Otto Lilienthal didn’t want to fly in balloons. He wanted to soar like a bird. Scientists, teachers, and news reporters everywhere said flying was impossible. Otto and his brother Gustav desperately wanted to prove them wrong, so they made their own wings and tried to take flight. The brothers quickly crashed, but this was just the beginning for Otto, who would spend the next 30 years of his life sketching, re-sketching, and building gliders. Over time, Otto’s flights got longer. His control got better. He learned the tricks and twists of the wind. His flights even began to draw crowds. By the time of his death at age 48, Otto had made more than 2,000 successful glider flights. He was the first person in history to spend this much time in the air, earning the title of the world’s first pilot and paving the way for future aviation pioneers. Beautifully illustrated - this books will absorb you into the story with fascination, excitement and ease!Trade ReviewBank Street Best Book of the Year"A soaring tribute to a pioneering German aviator who had a dream and the perseverance to achieve it... The author chronicles years of determined research, observation, trial and error, and crashes as Otto and younger brother Gustav work hard at attaining their goal despite skepticism from those around them." —Kirkus Reviews★ "Readers will marvel at Lilienthal’s perseverance of his dream over the span of his life and the research he did into the flight of birds as it related to his designs.... [and] will enjoy learning about a not very well-known designer and inventor of flying machines, making this book a missing link in collections about aviation and flight." —School Library Journal, starred review
£14.39
Rockridge Press Kitchen Science for Toddlers: 20 Edible Steam
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£12.34
Rockridge Press Awesome Art Activities for Kids: 20 Steam
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£17.09
