Science Stories For Kids

Dive into an enchanting underwater adventure with "The Mermaid’s Alliance: The Battle for the Ocean Realm," a captivating children’s bedtime storybook that will immerse young listeners in a world of magic, friendship, and bravery. Follow the journey of Lila, a curious and courageous young girl, as she heeds the mysterious call of the sea and discovers a realm teeming with wonder and danger beneath the waves.

Welcome to the busy, industrial port city of Steamkettle Bay, the second-largest city in all of Industralia. It's filled with manufacturing factories, airship docks, inventors, artists, and lots and lots of streetwise, clever kids. It's a warm Saturday in the summer of 1872, and somewhere in Steamkettle Bay, bad things are happening. Can Paisley Pockets and Christopher Cogan stop a crime in progress? They may be just a couple of kids, but where there's a will, and some smarts, there just might be a way.

Humble Heron flapped his big, blue wings as fast as he could. He knew he shouldn't have flown so far away from Fala Forest on Gathering Day. Especially not the day before the festival. But he really, really wanted to see the sparkly white beach his good friend, Jolly Blue Jay, told him about. The sand sparkled like diamonds and the waves crashed to the shore with loads of bubbly bubbles. But now he needed to hurry home. He didn't want his family to worry. His wings began to tire out. But he didn't want to be late. So he beat them faster, again, and again, and again.

Wild Wallaby and Kind Koala decided it might be a good thing to have this crocodile along for the journey after all, even if she was a little cranky. They approached her and asked if she'd like to stick together for a while. She gave a full-toothed smirk. "It might not be a bad idea to always have a couple of plump snacks nearby." Wild Wallaby laughed and hopped off. "You'd have to catch me first." The Cranky Crocodile snapped her jaws at him. "Don't tempt me." Kind Koala couldn't tell whether or not she was joking.

The creator of My Liddle Peony, Mommy's Liddle Helper, and the Modest Liddle Bloomerguards, to name only a few of his many inventions, is first encountered through the memories of his wife, Letitica Liddle, in The Flight to Brassbright. But many years before, Gerard was a young kid growing up in the idyllic town of Quartz Corners, and already toying around with his very first inventions. Learn more about this prolific inventor's early days through four amazing inventive adventures.

Join young Oliver, a curious and courageous explorer, as he discovers a mysterious golden box hidden away in his grandmother's attic. What begins as a simple curiosity soon turns into an epic quest that will take Oliver to the farthest reaches of his imagination and beyond.

Three girls try to verify the legend of the headless trainman - a ghost of an engineer who was decapitated in a derailment. The girls make a papier mache head and go looking for him by the tracks so they can give him a new head with a smiling face. They flee when they spot him hovering over the tracks. When they return home, their fake head is in the kitchen - and it now has a scowl.

Here's the story of Santa, Kasandra, Eddie, their first encounter, and how through a childhood adventure, one special little girl came to influence how Santa would embark on his extraordinary journey on the most magical night of the year.

Government cuts, unregulated care homes, inadequate staff training—campaigner and care home consultant Chris Wild has seen it all. The low standards and frequent abuse of children in care has long been a focal point of his loud message: we are failing our young people and something needs to change. Chris delves deep into the lives of care home kids, from experiences with county lines, drugs, trafficking, knife crime, gang violence to child exploitation and sexual abuse.

Brave women from diverse backgrounds make the world a better place through their businesses in this inspiring companion to the best-selling Girls Think of Everything by Sibert-winner Catherine Thimmesh and Caldecott Honor winner Melissa Sweet. For fans of Women Who Dared and Women in Science.

Two boys who are having trouble with math get help from an old nun who mysteriously appears and disappears in Room 333.

After moving into an old house, sisters discover a secret chamber in the attic that holds a sealed trunk. They break it open and find an urn. That night, an invisible force attacks them and chokes them before they escape. With their dad in their room the next night, unseen icy hands pull the girls out of bed and slam them against the wall.

Two kids get lost in a dark, snake-infested, alligator-thriving swamp as night approaches. Suddenly, a mysterious girl appears and leads them to safety. But who - or what - is she?

During a slumber party, girls play with a Ouija board and a spirit named Zebyn makes itself known. The room suddenly fills with a putrid smell and a loud banging noise, driving everyone out of the house. The next day, furniture flips over on its own, kitchen drawers open and close by themselves.

A cat that boys are chasing for fun is killed when it gets run over. Then the boys are kept up at night by unknown eerie yowling. They find a snake, rat and dead bird in their homes. They get scratched by invisible claws and cat prints appear on tables.

A boy knocks over the gravestone of a kid who shares his name. Then the boy is terrorized at home by a ghostly kid. Find out how he makes the haunting stop.

A troop of Boy Scouts, camped by a Civil War battlefield, discover a rusty knife. Late at night, the ghost of a Confederate soldier limps toward them and they flee. They discover that the knife was the one the soldier used to kill a former Union soldier.

With their dog, twin sisters snoop around an abandoned farmhouse that had been the scene of a woman's murder months earlier. Her missing husband is the main suspect. The girls sneak inside and the dog freaks and runs off to the barn. They follow and see a glowing ball with a hideous face float out of the barn and hover near a tree. Authorities dig around the tree and find the husband's body.

While two kids are fishing in a narrow ravine, a strange boy in wet clothes warns them of danger. They ignore him, but he persists. Suddenly a flash flood sweeps the boy away and the other two kids barely escape. They run for help only to learn that the boy who warned them had died two years earlier in a flash flood.

Twelve-year-old Jeff and genetically engineered spy dog Chipper are on the run from the mysterious and sinister organization known only as The Institute, with help from Harry, the summer guest at Jeff's aunt's fishing cabins. Due to a combination of bravery, luck, and some of Chipper's more useful modifications, they've managed to evade their pursuers so far. But The Institute is closing in and Chipper and Jeff will have to keep one step ahead if they want to stay alive.... Harry seems to have a plan to keep them hidden, but now even he seems to be acting suspiciously.