Children’s / Teenage general interest: Inventors, inventions and experiments
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Thomas Edison Lighting the Way
Book SynopsisLearn about the life of Thomas Edison in this early reader biography.Most people today know Thomas Edison as the inventor of the light bulb—except, he isn’t!
£6.91
Zondervan LEO Inventor Extraordinaire
Book SynopsisLEO, Inventor Extraordinaire is a novel for ages 8-12 about an orphan searching for his family, a kid genius who is always getting into trouble, and the mysterious fate of a genius toy inventor. Perfect for fans of The Invention of Hugo Cabret and The Copernicus Legacy series, this book is filled with adventure and humor.Trade Review'In LEO, Inventor Extraordinaire, Luke Cunningham has created an utterly engaging and charismatic protagonist and an absorbing mystery filled with spectacular inventions, vivid action, an occasional life lesson, and a hearty dose of humor.' * Clinton Kelly, TV personality and host *A Northern Lights Book Awards Winner in the Middle Grade Fiction category for 2021 * The Northern Lights Book Awards *
£999.99
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company Inside Biosphere 2 Earth Science Under Glass
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£9.99
Random House USA Inc Frozen in Time Adapted for Young Readers
Book SynopsisNonfiction for kids interested in science, biography, and early entrepreneurs, this work explores the life story of Clarence Birdseye, the man who revolutionized the frozen food industry and changed the way people eat all over the world. Adapted from Mark Kurlansky’s adult work Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man. Adventurer and inventor Clarence Birdseye had a fascination with food preservation that led him to develop and patent the Birdseye freezing process and start the company that still bears his name today. His limitless curiosity spurred his other inventions, including the electric sunlamp, an improved incandescent lightbulb, and a harpoon gun to tag finback whales. This true story of an early inventor/entrepreneur is not only thrilling but also explains the science and early technology behind food preservation. Simultaneously available in a hardcover and trade paperback edition. Each edition includes an 8-page black-and
£7.59
Random House USA Inc Trex
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£8.54
DK LEGO Amazing But True
Book SynopsisAn eye-popping fact book with a LEGO twist – discover amazing information about the world around us with the help of LEGO minifigures and bricks! Did you know a Goliath spider weighs the same as 75 2x4 LEGO bricks? Or that LEGO bricks and minifigures in various forms have travelled to Saturn, Mars, and the International Space Station? And did you know the Taj Mahal gets a mud pack treatment to remove pollution stains? Or that hummingbirds are the only birds that fly backwards? From unbelievable space and nature facts, to mind-boggling inventions and technology trivia, children will be amazed and entertained with incredible information about the LEGO world and our own. ©2022 The LEGO Group.
£17.99
DK DK Super Readers Level 4 The Future
Book SynopsisTake a leap into a possible future! Make reading your superpower with DK’s beautiful, leveled nonfiction.Use your reading superpowers to learn all about how we might live in the future - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to help children progress. The Future is a beautifully designed reader all about how futurists imagine we might live, with exciting new technology changing travel, fun, houses and cities. The engaging text has been carefully leveled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about space tourism, future food, and farms for algae!
£13.49
DK DK Super Readers Level 4 The Future
Book SynopsisTake a leap into a possible future! Make reading your superpower with DK’s beautiful, leveled nonfiction.Use your reading superpowers to learn all about how we might live in the future - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to help children progress. The Future is a beautifully designed reader all about how futurists imagine we might live, with exciting new technology changing travel, fun, houses and cities. The engaging text has been carefully leveled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about space tourism, future food, and farms for algae!
£6.24
DK DK Super Readers Level 2 Which Inventions Changed
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£13.49
DK The Most Exciting Book of Science Inventions and
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£20.89
Kingfisher Kingfisher Readers L3 Robots
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£11.69
Kingfisher Engineer in Training
Book SynopsisLearn how to become an engineer in this exciting title! Packed with bitesize information and fun facts about the life of an engineer, Engineer in Training will tell you how engineers use maths and science to create the buildings and machines we see every day! Simple activities will test your skills and reinforce the information you read in the book. Can you help to repair an amazing vehicle? Or design a skyscraper? Or even invent a brand-new machine? Take a look inside to find out!
£8.92
Kingfisher Discover It Yourself Garbage and Recycling
Book SynopsisThis book is packed with scientific facts, experiments, and activities linked to garbage and recycling, and making our environment a cleaner, safer place. It brings a lively, hands-on approach to practical science experiments. Children can find almost everything they need for the experiments around the home. The materials and instructions are simply, safely, and clearly presented. This STEM-focused book will show readers how to sort trash for recycling, collect some animal decomposers, build their own compost heap, and much more.
£7.59
Kingfisher Discover It Yourself Animals In Action
Book SynopsisDiscover it Yourself: Animals In Action is packed with scientific facts, experiments and activities linked to the world of animals.It brings a lively, hands-on approach to practical experiments. Children can find almost everything they need for the experiments around the home, and the materials and instructions are simply, safely and clearly presented. Written by Sally Morgan, this STEM-focused book will show readers how to test a hamster's IQ with a home-made maze, observe nocturnal animals, keep a diary of the changing seasons and much more.Kids will learn, explore and discover STEM in the world around them with the Discover It Yourself series.
£8.54
Kingfisher Everyday Stem SciencePhysics
Book SynopsisDiscover how physics is part of our daily lives with Everyday STEM SciencePhysics. Explore how physics is all around us! Learn how physics keeps a plane in the air, find out about light and dark matter, and meet the scientists who have brought physics to life, including Shohini Gose, Michael Faraday, and Vera Rubin. Readers can also carry out cool physics experiments at home. With easy-to-understand text written by STEM expert Dr Shini Somara and lots of colorful artworks, photos, and diagrams, readers can best explore where we encounter physics and why it's even important at all.The Everyday STEM series makes science relevant to tweens. Instead of telling kids STEM is important and is the key to their future success, these books show readers how we use science, technology, engineering, and math in our everyday lives. While the topics sound high-level and complex, this series makes these concepts age-appropriate and accessible. So, while
£16.19
Kingfisher Basher Science Mini Artificial Intelligence
Book Synopsis What does ancient Algorithm have to do with super-modern AI? How does Facial Recognition spot a face in the crowd? Who do International Space Station astronauts call on when their hands are full?Come and meet the smartest artificial intelligences of the past, present, and future. This cutting-edge book introduces pioneering AI machines such as Watson and Sophia, and lifts the lid on how they work. Meet machines that look like humans, pit your wits against AlphaGo and Deep Blue, and seek advice from Recommendation Engine. With The Code Room, there is even a chance to imagine what it is like to be an AI yourself. There's nothing smarter than that!Basher Science Mini: Artificial Intelligence explains what AI is and how computers are aiding humans in everyday tasks. AI is already shaping the world and computers will be taking on more and more human-type tasks in the future. But there's no need to be afraid of AI. It is here to help, n
£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
£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
Capstone Press First Look at a Black Hole How a Photograph
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£999.99
Capstone Press Surviving Social Media Shut Down the Haters
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£999.99
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
Wisconsin Historical Society Press Ole Evinrude and His Outboard Motor Badger
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£11.66
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 Brightstorm
Book SynopsisCritically acclaimed in the UK, Brightstorm is a fast-paced fantasy adventure novel that will set imaginations soaring.Trade Review"“[A] pacy tale of lies and greed versus loyalty and derring-do"" -- Guardian"“Stand[s] out”" -- Kirkus Reviews"“Enjoyable.?.?.?.?Marvelously imagined.”" -- Publishers Weekly"“A ripsnorting yarn.”" -- School Library Journal
£9.94
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 George Washington Carver
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£999.99
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
Capstone Press The Future of Energy From Solar Cells to Flying
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£999.99
Capstone Press The Future of Entertainment From Movies to
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£999.99
Capstone Press How Does Streaming Work High Tech Science at Home
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£999.99
Capstone Press How Do Virtual Assistants Work High Tech Science
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£999.99
Capstone Press How Does WiFi Work
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£999.99
Capstone Press How Do Smart Homes Work High Tech Science at Home
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£999.99
Capstone Press Cool Rides That Fly
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£999.99
Capstone Press Cool Rides in Water
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£999.99
Capstone Press Cool Rides on Rails
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£999.99
