AuthorSusan Gates
NarratorNigel Lambert
Duration3h 45m
CategoriesChildren and Young Adult Non-Fiction and Educational Titles, Science
Key StageKS2
PublisherChivers
VersionUnabridged
Smiler's grandad turns an old fort into a Laughter Club for children. He rents out part of the building to the mysterious Dr Maudlin. Smiler and Coriander, the only other member of the club, discover that the doctor is meddling with genetics in an attempt to eradicate head lice. She has a prisoner - a Neanderthal boy brought to the fort in a terrible electric storm and now trapped out of time, together with Neanderthal lice and the terrible metal-eating primeval slime! She must be prevented from wiping out a species. Another storm returns the boy to his proper time and destroys Dr Maudlin's work - but unbeknownst to anyone, the slime has escaped!
Author: Susan Gates
Author Susan Gates
Narrator Nigel Lambert
Duration 4h 16m
This is a potato with attitude! It's come from outer space and it's landed in the council rubbish tip. It's growing bigger by the minute and it's looking round for things to eat. Only Cruncher, his Grandad and a potato-obsessed professor are around to stop it before it wipes out the human race. The bad news is that the crash has upset the rules of...
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Author: Katherine Johnson
Author Katherine Johnson
Narrator Heather Alicia Sims
Duration 5h 19m
The inspiring autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who helped launch Apollo 11. As a young girl, Katherine Johnson showed an exceptional aptitude for math. In school she quickly skipped ahead several grades and was soon studying complex equations with the support of a professor who saw great promise in her. But ability and opportu...
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Author: Susan Gates
Author Susan Gates
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 2h 43m
Maggot's gran is upset when her fiance, the explorer Jack Dash, stands her up at the altar. All she can find at his farm is the last bucket of mushrooms he picked with the words 'help me' carved on the side. Maggot is suspicious as Jack has also left behind his treasured African spitting-pot.
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Author: Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano
Author Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano
Narrator Tara Sands
Duration 1h 16m
If a black hole is not a hole, then what is it? Find out what black holes are, what causes them, and how scientists first discovered them. Learn how astronomers find black holes, get to know our nearest black-hole neighbor, and take a journey that will literally s-t-r-e-t-c-h the mind.
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You Wouldn't Want To Live Without Coding!
Author: Alex Woolf
Author Alex Woolf
Narrator Mariam Keen
Duration 30m
Coding means creating a set of instructions (or algorithms) that tells a computer how to perform a task. Another word for coding is programming. Learn about the origins of coding, how it is done and how much control it has over our daily lives
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Author: Chelsea Clinton
Author Chelsea Clinton
Narrator Chelsea Clinton
Duration 20m
Did you know that blue whales are the largest animals in the world? Or that sea otters wash their paws after every meal? The world is filled with millions of animal species, and all of them are unique and special. Many are on the path to extinction. In this audiobook, Chelsea Clinton introduces young readers to a selection of endangered animals, sh...
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Author: Stacy Mcanulty
Author Stacy Mcanulty
Narrator Taylor Meskimen
SeriesOur Universe, Book 3
Duration 19m
From writer Stacy McAnulty and illustrator Stevie Lewis, Moon! Earth's Best Friend is a light-hearted nonfiction audiobook about the formation and history of the moon-told from the perspective of the moon itself. Meet Moon! She's more than just a rock-she's Earth's rock, her best friend she can always count on. Moon never turns her back on her frie...
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Author: Susan Gates
Author Susan Gates
Narrator Daniel Hill
Duration 2h 10m
Danny doesn't know what to think when his little brother, Tid, tells him about Wolf, with his terrifying yellow eyes and silver teeth. Who is Wolf? Is he really out to get Danny? And isn't it strange that Tid knows so much about it?
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Author: Steven Johnson
Author Steven Johnson
Narrator Steven Johnson
Duration 2h 57m
Did you drink a glass of water today? Did you turn on a light? Did you think about how miraculous either one of those things is when you did it? Of course not-but you should, and New York Timesbestselling author Steven Johnson has. This adaptation of his adult book and popular PBS series explores the fascinating and interconnected stories of innova...
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Author: Lesa Cline-Ransome
Author Lesa Cline-Ransome
Narrator Bahni Turpin
Duration 20m
Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or astronauts walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used their knowledge, pencils, adding machines, and writing paper to calculate the orbital mechanics needed to launch spacecraft. Katherine Johnson was one of these mathematicians who used trajectories and comp...
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