Including an enhanced exam section containing: expert guidance on approaching exam questions, writing high-quality responses and using critical interpretations, plus practice tasks and annotated sample answer extracts. This text guide has your key skills covered: focused tasks to develop your analysis and understanding, plus regular study tips, rev...

They're not called the Awesome Egyptians for nothing! The foul pharaohs and their suffering slaves got up to all sorts of terrible tricks. Read this book to... Meet some fabulous pharaohs... and their mummies. Make revolting recipes for 3000 year old sweets. Discover which king had the most blackheads. Find out why some pharaohs wore false beards....

Climate change is still, arguably, the most critical and controversial issue facing the world in the twenty-first century. In the third edition, Mark Maslin includes crucial updates from the last few years, including the results of the 2013 IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, the effects of ocean acidification, and the impact of changes to global populat...

Ancient Sumer looks at one of the most fascinating and advanced ancient civilisations. Through structures as imposing as a ziggurat or objects as simple as a stone seal, readers aged 9 and up gain a picture of who was whom in the ancient Middle East and how the civilisation in which they lived really worked. Perfect for Key Stage 2, each book in th...

Deep down, inside our bodies, lives the soul. No one has ever seen it, but we all know it's there. There is a "soul bird" who lives inside us all. This special bird opens and closes the drawers of our soul, in which we keep all our feelings. There are drawers for our innermost secrets, but also places where we hide away our happiness, anger, joy, j...

Learn maths and let out your inner rebel! From the Horrible camp (where else?) this is maths gone wickedly funny. And nuttier than a jar of Sunpat. Meet a crew of yucky villains who would happily slit your throat, but are much too busy making you die of laughter. Killer sums, prime suspects, sneaky signs. Maths according to Professor Fiendish, Chai...

Horrible Geography takes you under the sea with Odious Oceans. Discover where in the world you can tuck into a poisonous pufferfish, spot some perilous pirates and explore the savage seabed! Horrible Geography is the perfect escapism from miserable maps, rotten rock piles and dire diagrams. Hold tight!

What looks like a nice normal hill - until it explodes in a supercharged spurt of boiling lava? A volcano, of course. So what are you waiting for? Let's go and visit some! Plan an explosive holiday with the volcano vacation guide. Get clued up with the spotter's guide to eruptions. Or read the terrifying diaries of volcano survivors. Warning: aband...

The Day the Sea Went Out and Never Came Back is a story for children who have lost someone they love. Eric is a sand dragon who loves the sea very much. Each day, he watches it going out and coming back. His sea is beautiful indeed to him. But one day, the sea goes out and does not come back. Eric waits and waits, but it does not come back. So he f...

A glorious celebration of trailblazing women. Women in Science highlights the contributions of fifty notable women to the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, from both the ancient and modern worlds. The extraordinary women profiled include well-known figures like the physicist and chemist Marie Curie, as well as lesser-...

What does it mean for people to have to leave their homes, and what happens when they seek entry to another country? This book explores the history of refugees and migration around the world and the effects on people of never-ending war and conflict. It compares the effects on society of diversity and interculturalism with historical attempts to cr...

How would you describe yourself? Do you like to stand out, or fit in? Are you an Instagram junkie, or is Snapchat more your thing? Are you watching Zoella on YouTube, or reading Rookie on your phone? We're all different, and no-one's teenage years are the same. But we do all have one thing in common - being a teenager is about discovering who we ar...

Penguin presents the unabridged audiobook edition of Annie, read by Annie Potts. 'Annie' began in 1924 as the heroine of a comic strip cartoon called LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE. Her adventures ran in newspapers in America for over 40 years before it was turned into a Broadway musical. It's 1933 and for as long as she can remember, 11 year old Annie has be...

This House Is Not For Sale Araminta Spookie lives in a wonderful old haunted house, but her crabby Aunt Tabby wants to move. Aunt Tabby is determined to sell their house - Araminta has to stop her! With the help of a haunted suit of armor named Sir Horace, a ghost named Edmund, and a lot of imagination, Araminta hatches a plot for an Awful Ambush t...

This is the first audiobook to be produced for World Book Day - it's a hugely entertaining and touching story of a boy called Alfie who likes to keep to strict routines and schedules. It's all rules, rules and more rules in Alfie's life. When a new babysitter arrives called Mrs Stokes to look after Alfie he begins to realise that rules aren't every...

Tess and her brother, Max, are sent for the summer to their aunt's sleepy village in the English countryside, where excitement is as rare as a good wifi signal. So when Tess stumbles upon an old brass key that unlocks an ornately carved gate, attached to a strangely invisible wall, she jumps at the chance for adventure. And the world beyond the gat...

What if playing video games was prepping you to solve an incredible real-world puzzle and locate a priceless treasure? Twelve-year-old Ted Gerson has spent most of his summer playing video games. So when his great-uncle dies and bequeaths him the all so-called treasure in his overstuffed junk shop of an apartment, Ted explores it like it's another...

Nancy Drew believes her friend's guardians are trying to steal her inheritance. As she investigates, she has a perilous experience near a deserted bungalow. It's up to Nancy, George, and Bess to investigate! But as the trio dig deeper into the mystery, they learn about the mysterious patents dealer Felix Raybolt and his possible involvment with the...

Something's out of control in the classroom! Jake and his class are going to the opening of Wilf's Wild Adventure Theme Park. Things get a bit too wild, though, when Jake's teacher-Mr Hyde-ends up turning into Creature and causing chaos! Jake and his friends will have to find Creature and get him to turn back into Mr Hyde before the truth about the...

Dirty Bertie - the boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits - is back with another helping of comic chaos! Join Bertie in some hilarious new stories. In Germs! he attempts to catch sister Suzy's horrible illness, and in Loo! Bertie finds himself desperate to go to the loo while on the school coach. More tales of comic chaos.

Join Bertie as he attempts to bath a rather smelly Whiffer, give Miss Boot the fright of her life on a school trip, enjoys having a sneaky hand in the design for the new school uniform, takes on the challenge of beating Know-all Nick in a sledge race, breaks a revolting world record, and changes the course of history during a battle re-enactment.