STEAM

This is a book for everyone who has ever asked ‘But why?’
Barnett gives us twenty wonderfully simple questions that invite curiosity with endless possibilities. Big questions, small questions, questioning expectations and assumptions. Questions that lead to stories and questions that precipitate even more questions.

Human 2.0 is, as its subtitle promises, a ‘celebration of human bionics’ encompassing millennia of the ingenuity, innovation and resilience deployed by our species to assist, replace or even surpass human biology.

Inspired by a Tom Lehrer song, from which the title comes, this book delves into the wonderful world of maths, using each song line as a jumping-off point to explore different topics. Whether it’s getting to sleep (counting sheep), baking chocolate muffins (measurement) or playing pool (angles), as the song proclaims, maths is everywhere.

In a vibrant and captivating follow up to the Meet the Planets and Meet the Oceans, Caryl Hart embarks on a playful and exhilarating journey through the diverse weather phenomena found in our natural world.

In the not-so-distant future, the world has finally recognised the threat posed by climate change. When Rory, an adventurous and nature-loving, girl isolated from her schoolmates by family circumstance is granted the opportunity to explore a re-wilded far north, she's thrilled.

Sixteen-year-old Asha Kennedy returns home after work to find her sister Maya’s dead body. Life as she knows it collapses. Without Maya, Asha’s sole guardian, the social services are bound to put her back into the care system that the sisters promised each other they would never return to. Caught in a mess of grief, emotions and questions, and determined to keep that promise, Asha’s fight or flight response takes over.

Did you know that you can’t have a proper cry in space because the tears don’t roll away from your eyes? Or that wireless headphones were invented to free astronauts from trailing wires? There’s something for everyone in this lively and colourful book that promises ‘space as you’ve never seen it before’, and it doesn’t disappoint.

Beatrice Millicent Robinson is a fixer; she is always tinkering and puzzling and working hard to help those around her. Bea is filled with the happy buzz of mending, as she fixes everything from clocks to machines, and even a spaceship or two! But when Bea discovers a mysterious broken ‘thing’, she is struck by the fact that nothing on her tool belt can help to mend a broken heart.

Mara and her father, Gabriel, have lived a nomadic existence for as long as she can remember, moving from place to place in their van and struggling to make ends meet. This has always been Mara’s normal, and she’s never questioned it. Until she makes a discovery – a bundle of letters addressed to someone called the Time Tider, and that someone is her dad.