Children’s / Teenage general interest: Physical world

In 1607, settlers from England established the Jamestown colony in North America.

Why is it hot in one part of the world and chilly in another?

Are you fascinated by wide open spaces and like NOT knowing where a path might lead?

Earth has a litter problem.

This quiz book asks questions on a diverse range of subjects including math, anatomy, geography and history.

Do you want to be your own naturalist and watch animals out there where they belong?

What is geology?

On Earth Day, we find ways to help the Earth.

Trying to breeze through weather and climate facts just might cause a brain freeze!

Surfer Bethany Hamilton paddled out into the ocean for a early morning session with friends.

Earth has a trash problem.

How do you organize a big project?

Perch on top of a skyscraper with the Stickmen, then descend to street level and travel below to see all the layers of a city.

On January 12, 1888, a sudden blizzard barreled across Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and the Dakota Territory.

The molten rock just under Earth's solid crust sometimes erupts suddenly and violently, causing streams of red-hot lava and scorching high-speed avalanches called pyroclastic flows.

In 1912, more than 2,200 people sailed aboard the maiden voyage of the Titanic.

Do you want to experience what it's like to chart new territory and survive the unexpected?

Carefully leveled text and fresh, vibrant photos engage young readers in learning about the changes and adaptations fall brings.

Slide down through the layers of planet Earth, from mountaintops to molten core.

Create new technology crafts from old household materials.

On October 8, 1871, a fierce fire broke out in the bustling city of Chicago.

Nature is caring.

Is planet Earth flat?

Let's go to the pumpkin patch to find huge pumpkins, tiny pumpkins, and maybe even a blue pumpkin!

Earth has a water problem.

Carefully leveled text and fresh, vibrant photos engage young readers in learning about winter and its changes and adaptations.

What happens when you find yourself stranded in the big outdoors, without a phone or computer in sight?

¿Sabías que se puede convertir la energía del agua corriente en electricidad?

Is it rainy?

This book is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with UCL Institute of Education (IOE)Seasons is a non-fiction text exploring how the weather changes in different seasons.

What does it mean to forecast the weather?

Are you curious about fire trucks?

Saltando en las hojas, celebrando el Día de Acción de Gracias, viendo animales, ¿qué te gusta hacer en otoño?

Think of this ebook as an eye opener that discusses the huge problems that man caused.

Natural disasters can happen at any time because the Earth is a living planet.

Science stars can transform recycled materials into science-themed crafts.

The Apollo 13 mission began smoothly.

What are tornadoes?

Animal lovers will adore these hands-on projects, which use recycled materials to make animal-themed crafts.

In the mid-1840s, potato blight ruined the crops of impoverished farmers across Ireland.

Aron Ralston went for a normal hike on a normal day.

Have you ever tried to come up with ways to solve a problem in your community?

Brr!

Do you ever worry about the environment?

Imagine facing a storm so vast you can only see it all from space, or winds that uproot trees and hurl cars in the air.

Explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew hoped to be first to cross Antarctica from sea to sea, until their ship became trapped in the ice and began to sink.

During World War II, Louis Zamperini survived a plane crash, 46 days stranded on a life raft at sea, and two years in a prisoner-of-war camp.

If the groundhog sees its shadow, there will be six more weeks of winter.

Let's board the plane and fly across continents to explore China, Mongolia, Japan and Hong Kong.