Collection: Junior Non-Fiction Science & Technology

A car breaks down on the motorway. It wont go. What vehicle can help? A breakdown truck! Breakdown trucks carry broken vehicles to garages so they can be fixed and get back on the road. Young readers will find out about breakdown trucks, their main parts and how these important vehicles are used.

Build your way through thirty fantastic STEM experiments, brick by brick! Fun projects that are perfect for fans of LEGO Masters and science subjects! Does your young scientist love LEGOs? Then this is the book for them! Contained within these pages is an assortment of experiments and activities ...

Engineers design bridges to help solve the challenges of barriers that block the movement of people. Young readers will learn about the steps in the engineering design process and see how different types of bridges suit different types of obstacles. They will also discover what materials are used...

'A Brief Illustrated History of Science' charts the history of scientific discoveries all the way through from prehistory to Aristotle, then through the works of Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Linnaeus, and right through to the incredible scientific breakthroughs of today. With stunning full-color ...

Introduces the women who invented automobile heating, Monopoly, dishwashers, syringes, and other articles, and explains the reaction in their day and how their ideas lie behind successful current devices even when they were ahead of their times.

The machines that dig build and demolish are big noisy and fascinating. In this book you will see the best of them the biggest and the most amazing. Whether they are at work in mines on building sites or in your own street these machines are STEM in action.

Pilots don't get to build their own aircraft, but you can! Launch a rocket with just air and waterpower or make your own kite and add a parachute for extra pizzazz. Build an airship to fly or helicopter lifted by a balloon and much more. The sky's the limit!

Theres no better way to learn about the world around you than to test how things work. The projects in this book help you understand how to build robots while learning more about how machines work.

Following on from the incredible Invented by Animals, Built by Animals introduces us to the creatures who have inspired the materials and techniques that are used by humans in the building world today. Meet over 26 animals behind the most amazing building tech, humorously brought to life by Yeji ...

Fast machines thrill us with the noise of their roaring engines as they race past us in a blur. Wouldn't you like to see them up-close?