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Reading Books
Interest Age 8 – 14 years | Reading Age 6 – 7 years
There are currently 36 reading books in the Trailblazers series, each covering a different popular non-fiction topic. The books combine fact and fiction, starting with a fascinating fact-finding section followed by a beautifully illustrated story on the topic.
Comets
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841674247 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 1 |
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Millions of years ago a giant meteorite killed all the dinosaurs. Find out how! Will humans all be killed in the same way? Find out what we can do. Is there life on planet Mars? Scientists think maybe the answer is yes. Find out why.
Then read a scary story about what might happen: 'Doom from Space'.
Football
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841674254 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 2 |
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Do you want to be a great football player? Explore the history of football. Find out which are the greatest teams and who are the greatest players. Try the football quiz to see how much you know.
Then read a really cool football story about the greatest footballer ever (or is he?). It's 'Rob of the Rovers'.
UFOs
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841674230 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 2 |
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UFO means 'Unidentified Flying Object'. What are UFOs? Are they real? What do UFOs look like? This book will tell you. Do aliens exist? What colour are they? Have aliens visited the Earth? Who has seen them? Have people really been taken away by aliens? Get the facts.
Then read a great story about aliens invading Earth: 'The Valley of the Zombies'.
Formula One
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841674285 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 2 |
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Find out how motor racing started. Learn about the greatest Formula One drivers. Understand how Formula One cars work.
Then read a great Formula One Story about the fastest car in the world: 'The Man of Mystery'.
Extreme Sports
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841675909 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 3 |
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Dirt bike racing, bungee jumping, paragliding, skateboarding. Cheese-rolling, extreme ironing and going over the Niagara Falls in a barrel (yes, really!). Get the facts about all kinds of crazy and not-so-crazy extreme sports.
Then read 'The Climb' and find out what it's like doing extreme sports, not because you want to but when you have to – to survive.
Sea Killers
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841675923 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 3 |
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The sea is a dangerous place. There's sharks of course, but the real dangers are much smaller. Like a killer octopus the size of a golf ball. And it's not just animals: there are pirates, and giant waves that can break boats in two. Get the facts.
Then read Shark Attack! – a great diving story about what to do when a shark is after you.
How to be a Pop Star
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841675947 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 3 |
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So you want to be a pop star. Where do you find a band? How do you get a gig? What's recording all about? And most important - do you look cool? Get the facts.
Then read the story 'The Stormers' and find out what happens when pride gets in the way of making great music.
Manga
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841675930 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 4 |
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What is Manga? What is anime? What's it got to do with Pokemon, Samurai and the Ninja? Here are the answers. Get the facts.
Then read a great Manga story about a new superhero – Boffin Boy, who must defeat an evil robot from ancient Japan.
Death
Author: Helen Orme |
ISBN: 9781841675916 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 4 |
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Why do people die? How do you know if you – or anybody else – is dead? What happens when people die? What happens to the body? What happens in other countries? How do people remember their friends who have died? Get the facts.
Then read a sobering story about how it could happen to anybody: 'Not My Fault!'
Weird Places
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841675893 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 4 |
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From Death Valley to jungle temples where humans were sacrificed, from a giant lake under the ice to pirate treasure that nobody can reach. There are some weird places in the world. Find out all about them.
Then read 'The Lost Tribe', a story about what might have happened to a race of tiny humans.
Speed
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841676470 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 5 |
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There's going fast and then there's going faster! But how fast can you really go? What's the top speed on land? Can you go faster in water? Or in the air? What about in space? Do you know what can travel at seven miles a second? Get the facts.
Then read 'All About Speed', a story about rally driving at the very limit.
Fashion
Author: Helen Orme |
ISBN: 9781841676500 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 5 |
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What is fashion? What are mods? Or rockers, hippies, chavs and goths? Would you know one when you saw one? What kind of jobs are there in fashion? How do you become a model? It's all in here. Get the facts.
Then read 'Fashion Shoot', a story about getting a job in the fashion business.
Extreme Science
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841676487 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 5 |
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How did the universe start? How will it end? Will we ever visit the stars? Can we take short cuts through space? Can we travel in time? Could we live forever? This is extreme science. It's very weird. Find out all about it.
Then read 'The Man in the Machine', a story about aliens who create universes inside computers.
Crime
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841676517 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 6 |
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What links pirates, body snatchers, gangsters and people smugglers? The answer is that they are all criminals. Find out about crime through the ages – and how the Internet is now being used for new kinds of crime. Find out about the silliest punishment ever.
Then read a true story about body snatchers who couldn't wait for people to die: 'Burke and Hare'.
Don't Try This At Home
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841676524 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 6 |
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Could you eat 8 kilos of cow's brain in fifteen minutes? Could you jump through fire? How about pulling a truck – just you and a rope? Thought not, but these are just some of the fantastic feats covered in this book. Get the facts.
Then read the story 'Feat of Endurance' and discover the crazy things that some people will do just to be famous.
Great Journeys
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841676531 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 6 |
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Find out about the greatest journeys ever! Modern human's first great journey took more than fifty thousand years to complete. What was it? Who discovered America? Who was first to reach the South Pole? Who was first to land on the Moon? Get the facts.
Then read 'The Big Sleep' – a story about a man who takes a fifty year journey to the stars. What does he find there when he arrives?
Great Disasters
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841676944 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 7 |
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What is a disaster? What causes disasters? Check out natural disasters and man-made events. Wars, terrorism, tornadoes, hurricanes and things just made badly. Then find out about mega-disasters that might happen in the future. Get all the facts.
Then read 'The Eruption', a story about living and dying in the path of a volcano.
Vampires
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841676920 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 7 |
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What is a vampire? How do people become vampires? Did Dracula really exist? Are vampires real? Are there really creatures that drink blood? Now you can find all the answers.
Then read 'Blood In My Eyes', a story about vampire hunters who find what they're looking for.
Endangered Animals
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841676913 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 7 |
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Some scientists say there could be two hundred million different types of living things in the world. Actually, nobody really knows. But there is a problem. Many of these types of living things are becoming extinct. Find out why. Find out which animals are in danger, and what we can do to save them. Get the facts.
Then read 'Where the Forest Ended'. It's a story that shows how sometimes there are no easy answers.
Spies
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841676951 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 8 |
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What is a spy, or spook? Which are the world's famous spying organisations? Who were the most famous spies? Now you can find out. Get the facts. And if you want to be a spy, get some useful tips. See if you can crack the secret codes.
Then read 'The Secret Agent', a story about the dangers of being a spy.
Life in Space
Author: Helen Orme |
ISBN: 9781841676906 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 8 |
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What do you need for life? Why is the Earth right for life? Where else might there be life? How did life start on Earth? Did it come from Space? What is weird life? So many questions: get the answers.
Then read 'The Search for Life', a great story about how life started on one planet in the universe.
Science Fiction
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841676937 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 8 |
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Science fiction stories are about things that seem impossible, but might be possible one day. Things like space travel and aliens. Amazing inventions and time travel. Disasters and the future – both good and bad. It's all in here. Get the facts.
Then read the story 'The City' and see how the future might not be a great place to live.
Ancient Mysteries
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841678016 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 9 |
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Who built a space port for aliens? Who lost the lost city of Atlantis? What's a Big Foot? Do Yeti exist? And what's the secret of the Great Pyramid of Khufu? These are some of the ancient mysteries we still need to solve. Get the facts.
Then read 'Doorway to Demons', a story about what happens when you're both the good guy and the bad guy.
Body Art
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841678085 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 9 |
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Tattoos, body piercing, jewellery and face painting. People have been decorating their bodies for thousands of years. Who thought that flat heads were the latest in fashion? Who had a 4,000 year-old tattoo? Now you can find out. Get the facts.
Then read 'Death by Arsenic', a story about what happens when you start to believe the adverts.
Bugs and Spiders
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841678061 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 9 |
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Which bug has the most legs? Which bug is the fastest runner? Which spider is the most poisonous? And what's the deadliest bug of all? You might be surprised! This is the world of bugs and spiders. Find out all about it. Get the facts.
Then read 'What's Bugging You?', a story about alien explorers who get a BIG welcome from the local insect life.
Plagues
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841677989 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 10 |
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What was the Black Death? How many people did it kill? And how did it kill them? Find out about plagues we have now. What causes them? What can we do about it? Get the facts.
Then read 'The Lost Village' – a story about plagues and people. After a thousand years, who's the winner?
Sharks
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841677972 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 10 |
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Which type of shark do you most NOT want to meet in the water? But if you are attacked – where's the best place to poke a shark? Great White Sharks, Bull Sharks, even Whales Sharks – it's all in here. Get the facts.
Then read the adventure story 'Swimming with Sharks'. Learn the big lesson of the day: don't bleed when there are sharks around.
Weird Creatures
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841677996 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 10 |
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Which octopus has floppy ears? How do you spot a see-through squid? Which creature stands without moving for sixty days? Outside. And in winter. Are you hungry? How about 3,000 ants for breakfast? And again for lunch. Welcome to the world of weird creatures. Get the facts.
Got that? Then read a scary story about a creature that refuses to die: 'Is It Alive?'.
Lost Animals
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841678078 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 11 |
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This book is about animals that have disappeared – animals that are now extinct. How does it happen, and why? Find out all about alien species and mass extinctions. Find out about animals that seemed to come back from the dead. And which animal went extinct when a tree fell on the very last one in the whole world? Get the facts.
Then read 'The Last Mammoth', a story about where the past meets the present.
Great Gadgets
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841678009 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 11 |
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Find out about some of the coolest gadgets ever. What's the most important gadget ever invented? How do mobile phones woork? What about email? What do robots look like? Who said the world only needs five computers? (Duh! ) Get the facts.
Then read the story 'Bludworld3' and find out what happens when you prefer computer games to real life.
Fear
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841678054 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 11 |
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What are you frightened of? Spiders? Snakes? Or just ghosts and monsters? How about the skull that lay in its grave – and screamed. Scary enough for you? Can fear ever be a good thing? Which creatures do you never want to meet? It's all in here. Get the facts.
Then read 'Wolf at the Door' – poems about dreams that are real and horror you cannot describe.
Inside the Earth
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841678047 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 12 |
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What goes on inside the Earth? Where is the longest tunnel in the world? Do people really live in caves? Can you live, work and shop – all underground? Find out about fossils – and the bones of dragons. Get the facts.
Then read 'The Railway Ghost', a story about what happens when the past meets the present – and you are facing death.
Killer Plants
Author: Helen Orme |
ISBN: 9781841678030 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 12 |
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Plant's can't hurt you, right? Wrong. Meet the killer plants. These plants don't bother with sunlight or water. They eat meat instead. Insects, rats, mice ... Remember – you could be next! Find out which bean is 12,000 times more poisonous than rattlesnake venom. Get the facts.
Then read the story 'Where's Mr Potts?' You'll be a bit more careful next time you cut some flowers.
Magic
Author: David Orme |
ISBN: 9781841678023 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 36 |
Set: 12 |
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How do magicians cut a person in half – and then put them back together again? How can you read other people's minds? Is it magic – or is it for real? Then find out about one of the greatest magicians – ever. And find out what to do if a witch puts a curse on you. Get the facts.
Then read 'The Disappearance', a scary story about being a magician's assistant. It might cost you your life!