| | Fusion • The Life and Times of a Drop of Water • The Day the Sun Went Out • Alien Neighbours? These books are something new – they look at science from an exciting and unusual point of view. The series was short-listed for the 2006 Educational Resources Award. Raintree, 2006 |  | | | | Extreme Survival • Deserts • Mountains • Space Deserts and mountains appeal to me because they are wild and hostile. It is amazing how different plants and animals survive here – and people too! People can even survive in space where, as far as we know, no other life exists. Chrysalis, 2003 |  | |
| | Mythic Heroes This is a fun book! It tells the stories of Hercules, Odysseus, King Arthur and other heroes of old. I enjoyed reading original texts to get the details of the stories right. Ginn, 2006 |  | | | | Space Station – Accident on Mir The true story of how British-born NASA astronaut Mike Foale helped to save the space station Mir from certain disaster. Dorling Kindersley, 2003 Look inside this book |  | |