Abby is a teenager, and she doesn't talk much to her parents. Abby's dad works hard for an oil company, and Abby's mom doesn't like her friends. Then, one summer, Abby stays with her crazy Aunt May in California. Here – with Aunt May and her neighbours Diego and Bianca – she learns to see things differently. But, one night, there's an oil spill on the beautiful beach near their home. What can Abby, her aunt, and the neighbours do? And who answers Abby's call for help? And how?

Read and discover all about how we make products. How many parts are there in a car? How do we make chocolate bars? Read and discover more about the world!This series of non-fiction readers provides interesting and educational content, with activities and project work.An Oxford Press Audio production.

Read and discover all about our galaxy and everything in the universe. What are stars made of? When did the first person walk on the Moon? Read and discover more about the world!This series of non-fiction readers provides interesting and educational content, with activities and project work.An Oxford Press Audio production.

Read and discover all about the materials that people use to make products. How is glass made? What are microchips? Read and discover more about the world!This series of non-fiction readers provides interesting and educational content, with activities and project work.An Oxford Press Audio production.

In 2008, Usain Bolt became the fastest man in the world. He won three gold medals at the Beijing Olympic Games that year – and he did it again in 2012, and in 2016. So how did a boy from a little Jamaican village become the world’s greatest athlete? And why do his fans love him so much?

Stephen Hawking was one of the greatest scientists and thinkers of our time. He was famous around the world because he wrote and talked about cosmology – the science of the universe – in a way that people could understand. He had a terrible disease called ALS, and he could only move and speak with the help of machines. But this did not stop him working to try and understand our world better. Will people travel in time one day? Where did the universe come from? Most of us cannot even begin ...

The human brain is an amazing organ, but it is also very complex. So how does it control everything that we do and feel? How does it change as we get older? And what happens when it goes wrong? We know the answers to some of these questions, but others are still a mystery. In this book, you’ll read about people who changed the history of neuroscience. You’ll discover some amazing facts about science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM). You’ll also be able to test your own brain and ...

In the Indian jungle, a boy lives like a young wolf with his wolf family. Meet little Mowgli … Mowgli grows up with his wolf brothers, but there are many other animals here, too. There are friends like Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther. There is important Akela, leader of the wolf pack – so many wonderful animals to learn from. But Shere Khan the tiger is a man-killer, so there are very big dangers, too, in the jungle. Enjoy the classic Rudyard Kipling stories about Mowgli, as an exc...

‘What does the world look like from the moon?’ ‘How do our bodies work?’ ‘Is it possible for people to fly?’ ‘Can I make a horse of bronze that is 8 metres tall?’ ‘How can we have cleaner cities?’ All his life, Leonardo da Vinci asked questions. We know him as a great artist, but he was also one of the great thinkers of all time, and even today, doctors and scientists are still learning from his ideas. Meet the man who made a robot lion, wrote backwards, and tried to win a war by moving a ...

‘One day, I’m going to be famous,’ John Lennon said when he was young – and soon he was! His band The Beatles became one of the greatest in the world, and people loved them. After John Lennon went solo, he wrote some of the most important songs of all time. He was a family man and a peace protestor – he wanted to change the world. But one autumn day, four gun shots rang out across New York City, and took away that dream forever...

You’re fast asleep, and nothing is happening. Or is it? In fact, your body is hard at work. Your lungs are taking oxygen from the air, and your heart is pumping blood round your body. Millions of pieces of information are travelling backwards and forwards to your brain all the time. Muscles are repairing themselves, and in your lymph nodes special cells are cleaning germs and waste from the body. You may think that nothing is happening, but in the extraordinary machine that is the human bo...

Our world is changing fast. We can travel and speak to people around the world, and use computers to do all kinds of things. But in some places, children go to bed hungry at night, and cannot drink clean water. Thousands of people cannot go to school, or live freely. And many species of animals and plants are now in danger as our climate changes and pollution worsens. These are just a few of today’s many important global issues. So how and why are they changing, and are there any answers t...