Educational: Sciences, general science

The human body is an amazing machine, capable of great feats of strength, flexibility, and delicacy.

Our world is incredibly diverse, and plants and animals must adapt in order to survive.

How high up do golden eagles build their nests?

How do spiders make their webs?

How big can polar bears grow?

Why do sharks have so many teeth?

How big can elephants grow?

Why do lions roar?

Can you lick your own elbow?

Could a robot make my dinner?

Could I sit on a cloud?

Could a walrus play the saxophone?

Can you imagine what our lives would be like after an outbreak of super-plague?

Can you imagine what our lives would be like after we run short of vital fossil fuels?

Can you imagine what our lives would be like after a devastating asteroid strike?

When police are called to a house, they find three bodies.

When students at a school fall ill, it becomes clear a serious outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) is occurring.

An unfamiliar noise stops shoppers in their tracks: cars and a truck are crashing into each other.

When Ben discovers that his Facebook page has been changed, he is worried.

The calm of the night is shattered by an explosion and flames: a chemical factory is on fire, and a dangerous gas is drifting across town!

Books in the Animal Babies series take a simple look at different classes of animal babies.

Books in the Animal Babies series take a simple look at different classes of animal babies.

Books in the Animal Babies series take a simple look at different classes of animal babies.

Books in the Animal Babies series take a simple look at different classes of animal babies.

Books in the Animal Babies series take a simple look at different classes of animal babies.

Books in the Animal Babies series take a simple look at different classes of animal babies.

In this book the mysteries of space and the night sky are revealed and explained.

Acorn books provide carefully levelled non-fiction to introduce key curriculum concepts.

Acorn books provide carefully levelled non-fiction to introduce key curriculum concepts.

Acorn books provide carefully levelled non-fiction to introduce key curriculum concepts.

Acorn books provide carefully levelled non-fiction to introduce key curriculum concepts.

This amazing book utilizes real-size photographs to teach young learners about simple machines.

This amazing book utilizes real-size photographs to teach young learners about different materials.

This amazing book utilizes real-size photographs to teach young learners about different animals.

This amazing book utilizes real-size photographs to teach young learners about different plant parts.

This amazing book utilizes real-size photographs to teach young learners about different types of rocks and soil.

More than any other strange phenomena, the existence of life on other planets has sparked the most discussion.

For many years, people in the mountains of North America have reported sightings of a strange being that appears to be very large, very hairy, and very smelly!

Over the centuries, there have been reports of ghosts, haunted houses, and other eerie phenomenon.

Vampires and Werewolves are certainly popular these days.

We depend on electricity in nearly every facet of our daily lives.

Energy comes in many forms, and we depend on it in many ways.