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Science and Technology Audiobooks

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    She Persisted: Rosalind Franklin

    by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Chelsea Clinton ...
    Narrated by Chelsea Clinton, Jayne Entwistle ...
    series She Persisted

    Unabridged

    48 min

    Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger, a chapter book series, adapted for audio, about women who spoke up and rose up against the odds--including Rosalind Franklin!Rosalind Franklin loved science, but when she was young, there weren’t many woman scientists. Still, she persisted in pursuing her dreams, becoming a scientist and playing a ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Who Is Neil deGrasse Tyson?

    by Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso, Who HQ ...
    Narrated by Kevin R. Free ...
    series Who Was?

    Unabridged

    1 hour

    Discover how Neil deGrasse Tyson became one of the world’s most successful and well-known scientists in this new addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling series.When he was nine years old, Neil deGrasse Tyson went on a trip that would change his life. While visiting the Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Natural History in New York City, he discovered the world of astronomy and felt like the ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Elon Musk

    by Kaitlyn Duling ...
    Narrated by Clayton Hansen ...
    series In the Spotlight

    Unabridged

    In this book, early readers will learn about the life, accomplishments, and contributions of innovator Elon Musk. Vibrant, full-color photos, and carefully leveled text will engage emergent readers as they learn about his life.A timeline helps readers identify major life accomplishments in Musk’s life, while a picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary. Features reading tips for teachers and ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    DK Life Stories Marie Curie

    Amazing People Who Have Shaped Our World

    by Nell Walker ...
    Narrated by Penelope Rawlins ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 27 min

    Discover the inspiring story of Marie Curie - the scientist who made more than one world-changing discovery, and the first woman to win a Nobel prize - in this fascinating kids' biography.Born to poor school teachers at a time when women could not attend university in her home country of Poland, Marie Curie sought out an underground university and worked hard to save money for further study in ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Who Was Steve Jobs?

    by Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso ...
    Narrated by Rob Shapiro ...
    series Who Was?

    Unabridged

    1 hour 2 min

    Steve Jobs, adopted in infancy by a family in San Francisco, packed a lot of life into fifty-six short years. In this Who Was…? biography, children will learn how his obsession with computers and technology at an early age led him to co-found and run Apple, in addition to turning Pixar into a ground-breaking animation studio. A college dropout, Jobs took unconventional steps in his path to success ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Starstruck

    The Cosmic Journey of Neil deGrasse Tyson

    by Kathleen Krull, Paul Brewer ...
    Narrated by Cary Hite, Janina Edwards ...

    Unabridged

    37 min

    Young Neil deGrasse Tyson was starstruck when he first visited the sky theater at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. He couldn't believe the crowded, glittering night sky at the planetarium was real—until a visit to the country years later revealed the impossible. That discovery was like rocket fuel for Neil's passion about space. His quest for knowledge took him from the roof of his ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Unexpected Light of Thomas Alva Edison

    by Raymond Arroyo ...
    Narrated by Raymond Arroyo ...
    series Turnabout Tales

    Unabridged

    27 min

    Read by the author with an audiobook-exclusive interview!From New York Times bestselling author and news anchor Raymond Arroyo comes the first book in the Turnabout Tales series—a biography of one of America’s most famous inventors, Thomas Alva Edison, and a story about how a small spark can create a big light.No one thought much of young Thomas Alva Edison. He couldn’t focus at school and caused ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson

    by Heather E. Schwartz ...
    Narrated by Book Buddy Digital Media ...
    series STEM Trailblazer Bios

    Unabridged

    15 min

    What do you want to be when you grow up? When Katherine Johnson was young, women weren't expected to go into the math and science fields. Johnson loved math, but she never thought she could be a mathematician. After studying math in school and teaching for a few years, she learned that the organization that would later become NASA was hiring women to complete mathematical equations. As an African ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Science Educator and Advocate Bill Nye

    by Heather E. Schwartz ...
    Narrated by Book Buddy Digital Media ...
    series STEM Trailblazer Bios

    Unabridged

    16 min

    Do you think science is fun and exciting? Bill Nye does. In fact, he wanted to become an astronaut, but NASA rejected his applications. Instead, Nye has spent his career helping other people understand science and showing them how cool science can be.Nye went to college to become a mechanical engineer, and he got a job working for an aircraft company. But soon, he began focusing more and more on a ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD

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    I am Amelia Earhart

    by Brad Meltzer ...
    Narrated by Jennifer Lim, Various ...
    series Ordinary People Change the World

    Unabridged

    9 min

    We can all be heroes. That’s the inspiring message of this lively biography series from New York Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer.“Kids always search for heroes, so we might as well have a say in it,” Brad Meltzer realized, and so he envisioned this friendly, fun approach to biography – for his own kids, and for yours. Each audiobook tells the story of one of America’s icons in an ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    I Am Marie Curie

    by Brad Meltzer ...
    Narrated by Various ...
    series Ordinary People Change the World

    Unabridged

    17 min

    The first woman to win a Nobel Prize, physicist and chemist Marie Curie is the 19th hero in the New York Times bestselling book biography series about heroes.This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. Each book tells the story of one of America's icons in a lively, conversational ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Polio Pioneer

    Dr. Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine

    by Linda Elovitz Marshall ...
    Narrated by Linda Elovitz Marshall, Gilli Messer ...

    Unabridged

    14 min

    A SYDNEY TAYLOR NOTABLE BOOK • Learn about the importance of vaccines and the scientific process through the fascinating life of world-renowned scientist Jonas Salk, whose pioneering discoveries changed the world forever.Dr. Jonas Salk is one of the most celebrated doctors and medical researchers of the 20th century. The child of immigrants who never learned to speak English, Jonas was struck by ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    DK Life Stories: Leonardo da Vinci

    by DK ...
    Narrated by Joseph Balderrama ...
    series DK Life Stories

    Unabridged

    1 hour 36 min

    Learn all about Leonardo da Vinci and his creative genius in this children's biography.Discover the inspiring story of Leonardo da Vinci, the artist, inventor, and engineer of the Italian Renaissance...Leonardo was a creative genius who wanted to understand how things worked. This audiobook traces his life, from his birth in a hilltop village near Florence, Italy, through to his work as a painter, ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Hidden Heroes in Space Exploration

    by Dionna L. Mann ...
    Narrated by Book Buddy Digital Media ...
    series Who Else in History? (Alternator Books ®)

    Unabridged

    16 min

    Blast off to space with astronauts, mathematicians, engineers, and more who defined space exploration. These heroes reached for the stars by flying to the International Space Station and completing groundbreaking calculations that made space travel possible.Discover some of the many contributions women, people of color, immigrants, and people with disabilities made to space exploration. From an ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    I am Albert Einstein

    by Brad Meltzer ...
    Narrated by Marc Thompson, Various ...
    series Ordinary People Change the World

    Unabridged

    13 min

    We can all be heroes. That’s the inspiring message of this New York Times Bestselling biography series from historian and author Brad Meltzer.Even when he was a kid, Albert Einstein did things his own way. He thought in pictures instead of words, and his special way of thinking helped him understand big ideas like the structure of music and why a compass always points north. Those ideas made him ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Who Were the Wright Brothers?

    by Who HQ, James Buckley Jr. ...
    Narrated by Johnny Heller ...
    series Who Was?

    Unabridged

    56 min

    As young boys, Orville and Wilbur Wright loved all things mechanical. As young men, they gained invaluable skills essential for their success by working with printing presses, bicycles, motors, and any sort of machinery they could get their hands on. As adults, the brothers worked together to invent, build, and fly the world’s first successful airplane. This is the fascinating story of the two ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Mad Scientists

    The Not-So-Crazy Work of Amazing Scientists

    by Sally Lee ...
    Narrated by Various Narrators ...
    series Scary Science

    Unabridged

    24 min

    Drinking vomit. Breathing poisonous gasses. Creating two headed dogs. These mad acts aren’t just the stuff gross out stories and horror movies. They are real things that real scientists have done in the search for scientific answers. ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Drones

    by Betsy Rathburn ...
    Narrated by Dana Fleming ...
    series Cutting Edge Technology

    Unabridged

    6 min

    The first drones were hot-air balloons used in the 1800s! Later, drone airplanes took over the skies. Today, drones are used by the military, delivery companies, and even drone racers! This high-interest text explores each of these uses, as well as the history and future possibilities of drones. A diagram, timeline, graph, and pro/con comparison offer even more information about how drones work, ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Who Was Neil Armstrong?

    by Roberta Edwards ...
    Narrated by Dominic Hoffman ...
    series Who Was?

    Unabridged

    56 min

    On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon and, to an audience of over 450 million people, proclaimed his step a giant leap for mankind. This Eagle Scout built his own model planes as a little boy and then grew up to be a test pilot for experimental aircraft before becoming an astronaut. ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    She Persisted: Kalpana Chawla

    by Raakhee Mirchandani, Chelsea Clinton ...
    Narrated by Chelsea Clinton, Poorna Jagannathan ...
    series She Persisted

    Unabridged

    1 hour

    Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger comes a chapter book series about women who spoke up and rose up against the odds--including Kalpana Chawla!Born and raised in India, Kalpana Chawla was discouraged from pursuing a career in aeronautical engineering because there were limited career options for women in that field. But she persisted, ... Read more

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    Higher, Steeper, Faster

    The Daredevils Who Conquered the Skies

    by Lawrence Goldstone ...
    Narrated by Robertson Dean ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 19 min

    Discover the daring aviation pioneers who made the dream of powered flight a reality, forever changing the course of history.Aviator Lincoln Beachey broke countless records: he looped-the-loop, flew upside down and in corkscrews, and was the first to pull his aircraft out of what was a typically fatal tailspin. As Beachey and other aviators took to the skies in death-defying acts in the early ... Read more

    $45.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Counting the Stars

    The Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician

    by Lesa Cline-Ransome, Andy T. Jones, Andy T. Jones ...
    Narrated by Bahni Turpin ...

    Unabridged

    41 min

    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 complex equations to chart the space program. Even as ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Astrophysicist and Space Advocate Neil deGrasse Tyson

    by Marne Ventura ...
    Narrated by Book Buddy Digital Media ...
    series STEM Trailblazer Bios

    Unabridged

    14 min

    Have you ever stared into the night sky, full of stars and planets? As a kid, Neil deGrasse Tyson was star-struck when he first visited a planetarium. The universe was calling him.Tyson pursued his interest in astronomy and studied to be an astrophysicist. In 1996, he became the director of New York's Hayden Planetarium. He is passionate about teaching people about the universe. Known for making ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD

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    Isaac Newton

    by Kathleen Krull ...
    Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...
    Audiobook 2 - The Giants of Science Series

    Unabridged

    1 hour 58 min

    Kathleen Krull’s biographies for young readers have received accolades from publications such as Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal, and here she profiles Sir Isaac Newton—the father of calculus and the man who pioneered studies of gravityWhat was Isaac Newton like? Secretive, vindictive, withdrawn, obsessive, and, oh, yes, brilliant. His imagination was so large that, just “by thinking ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial