AuthorNick Arnold
NarratorRichard K. Hodson
Duration3h 19m
CategoriesChildren and Young Adult Non-Fiction and Educational Titles, Science
Key StageKS2
PublisherScholastic Audio
VersionUnabridged
Horrible Science: Shocking Electricity is packed with sizzling zap-fillied facts to electrify every reader. Children can find out about the scientist who gave electric shocks to his eyeballs, that lightning can strike you with heat five times hotter than the sun and much more besides!
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: Gail Herman
Author Gail Herman
Narrator Suzanne Elise Freeman
Duration 1h 20m
Learn more about what climate change means and how it's affecting our planet. The earth is definitely getting warmer. There's no argument about that, but who or what is the cause? And why has climate change become a political issue? Are humans at fault? Is this just a natural development? While the vast majority of scientists who study the environ...
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Horrible Science: Terrible Time
Author: Nick Arnold
Author Nick Arnold
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 2h 54m
Want some really horrible science? It's about time! Go time-travelling with this icky book and discover all the terrible time facts you've been waiting ages to find out. What happens if you go too close to a black hole? How do flies tell the time? Why do the years zoom past faster as you get older? Find out who was killed for changing the calendar....
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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: 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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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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The Horrible Science of Everything
Author: Nick Arnold
Author Nick Arnold
Narrator Greg Patmore
Duration 3h 13m
Bored of biology classes? Totally fed up of physics? Couldn't care less about chemistry? Hmmmm. Dare you discover. Why you're breathing in dinosaur burps? What poos in your bed 20 times a day? What happens when you drop a rabbit through the centre of the earth? If you're sick to death of science, you need THIS BOOK! From the dizzy science of daydre...
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Horrible Science: Fatal Forces
Author: Nick Arnold
Author Nick Arnold
Narrator Ian Collington
Duration 3h 12m
Learn about the scientists who discovered "Smashing Speed", "Gruesome Gravity", and "Facts about Friction". Tons of interesting facts about the forces of nature are packed into this latest instlament in the Horrible Science series.
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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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