This audiobook brings together the facts about Ethiopia. It explores the country in depth and features the latest issues, historical background and current opinions. Suitable for KS2 and KS3.

The Hogg family are bursting out of their small house, so Mr Hogg challenges his three sons to build an extra bedroom themselves. An utterly original and engaging story filled with facts about the environment. Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award 2006 - Best Book with Facts.

In this audiobook, learn more about the science of the animal kingdom and how observation and experimentation have enabled us to discover facts about animal species, survival techniques and behavioural patterns.

Meet the man who created radio, an invention that made travel safer, transformed warfare and brought live news and entertainment into our homes. Follow his life story and find out how his greatest discoveries are still affecting us today.

Meet the woman who provided unique insights into the lives of mountain gorillas, who strove to protect them and their environment and who revealed the similarities between gorilla and human behaviour. Follow her life story and find out how her discoveries are still affecting the world today.

Meet the man whose investigations into eletricity, chemistry, magnetism and electrolysis eventually led to the invention of motors, generators, electroplating and many other scientific breakthroughs. Follow Faraday's life story and find out how his greatest discoveries are affecting us today.

Spud's not Superman, but he wants to save the planet! Spud is an easy-going chap who's taken on a tricky New Year resolution. It's 1st January and he's decided to go green - and this is his diary to prove it! The year starts well: he learns to grow food, recycle rubbish, and look after wildlife. It all seems to be going according to plan... With th...

It's maths with the laughs added in! How can maths rescue someone in deadly peril? Which famous mathematician was murdered? How did time begin? Plus all the tricks, tips and short-cuts they don't teach you in school!

A young boy comes face to face with the hardships of everyday life for poor Mexicans when he joins his photographer father, who is helping to smuggle a Mexican family across the border into California.

Evolution and genetics are like a map for exploring the whole world of living things. Along the way, we've discovered some pretty shocking stuff about the links between poodles and polar bears, and fruit flies and people! Trace the history of life right back to our earliest ancestors and you'll be amazed at what you'll find. This book tells you e...

A riotous journey through the dangerous and dastardly antics of the adventurers who discovered chocolate, tobacco and other useful plant products!

Can our hoodie hero make it through nine circles of Hell and back again? Will he find love with his soulmate, Beatrice? Discover the city of Dis where everybody disses everybody. Meet Frankenstein, the lovesick bouncer with the bling-bling. Come face to face with the Furies, a gang of snake-haired females in T-shirts. Prepare for a host of gluttons...

Meet Henry, an ordinary boy in an extraordinary house... There's a big bug in the wardrobe and a scorpion in the shed! Step inside Henry's House and join Henry, Jaggers the caretaker and a quirky cast of characters as they find out about creepy-crawlies. Fact-packed, fun-packed, get packed ... and head for Henry's House!

Imagine physics as a community full of wacky characters, the building blocks of the universe each with a unique personality. This book throws open the doors and welcomes you into their amazing world. From gravity to the theory of relativity, this unique book provides visual interpretations of complex concepts, designed to make learning physics easi...

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...

In more than 100 interviews, children and young adults reveal their personal tips and tactics for honing the creative benefits of dyslexia, enabling them to thrive in school and beyond. Strategies include ways to develop confidence and self-belief. The contributors have outlined specific approaches they feel have helped them, and others that haven'...

Simon lives three seconds ahead of everyone else, which creates embarrassing problems, such as answering questions that haven't yet been asked and trying to walk through doors that haven't yet been opened. This inventive story takes you on a journey through space-time, while offering valuable lessons in acceptance and understanding. A great mix of...

There is evidence of the past all around us, if we know where to look. Old buildings, roads, ruins and weapons are all clues that tell us a lot about how people live. This audiobook looks at different sites where evidence of Victorian times can be seen and it explains how what is left behind can tell us much about life in Britain in Victorian times...

This is the ultimate audiobook on King Arthur! It combines the best-known stories about Arthur and his court with fascinating research on who Arthur really was and where Camelot was built, and the relationships between the main characters in the legends. The book was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Award 2010.

Whenever disaster strikes, mild-mannered weatherman Cliff Thornhill and his dog are transformed into Captain Fact and Knowledge! Miniaturised to the size of a molecule, our heroes are injected into a real live human body. Here they must investigate innards and examine earwax to hunt down a vicious virus that's causing a transglobal outbreak of bott...

What is politics? How does parliament work? Is the great British democracy even a true democracy? And why are politicians such massive liars? This audiobook provides the information that teenagers really want - and need - to know. Complete with equally irreverent footnotes and a 'get involved' section with a list of websites and further reading, th...