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Science:

Be a KS3 science scholar by reading:

  • Horrible Science – Chemical Chaos (Chemistry)

  • Horrible Science – Blood, Bones and Body Bits (Biology)

  • The Human Body Book by Steve Parker (Biology)

  • The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf (Biology)

  • Horrible Science – Fatal Forces and the Fight for Flight (Physics)

  • Horrible Science – Shocking Electricity (Physics)

  • The Usborne Illustrated Dictionary of Science (General)

  • New Scientist – Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? (General)

  • New Scientist – What Eats Wasps? (General)

  • Bad Science by Ben Goldacre (General)

  • It’s Not Rocket Science by Ben Millar (General)

 

Be a KS4 science scholar by reading:

               

               

  • A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson (Human Biology)

  • The British Medical Association Illustrated Medical Dictionary (Human Biology)

  • The Human Body Book by Steve Parker (Human Biology)

  • McMinn’s Colour Atlas of Human Anatomy (Human Biology)

  • Creeping Killers: Extreme Plants (Extreme Biology) by Louise Spilsbury (Plant Biology)

  • The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World
  • from the Periodic Table of the Elements. Sam Kean  (Chemistry)

  • Molecules: The Elements and the Architecture of Everything. Theodore Gray (Chemistry)

  • The Science of Can and Can’t: A Physicist’s Journey (Physics)                                        

  • Through the Land of Counterfactuals. Chiara Marletto (Physics)                                  

  • Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Material that Shape Our Man-Made World. Mark Miodownik  (Physics)               

Be a KS5 science scholar by reading:

  • McMinn’s Colour Atlas of Human Anatomy (Biology)

  • The Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin and Richard Hawkins (Biology)

  • The Double Helix  by James Watson  (Biology)

  • Genome Matt Ridley (Biology)  

  • Mutants  Armand Marie Leroi  (Biology)

  • Adventures in Human Beings; Gavin Francis (Biology)

  • Oxygen Nick Lane (Chemistry)

  • The Periodic Table Primo Levi (Chemistry)

  • Super Heavy Kit Chapman (Chemistry)

  • The Elements Theodore Gray (Chemistry)

  • The Shocking History of Phosphorus: A Biography of the Devil’s Element  John Emsley (Physics)

  • A short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson  (Physics)

  • Why don’t penguins’ feet freeze? – NewScientist  (Physics)

  • The Quantum Universe: Everything that can happen does happen – Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw (Physics)

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