Books with author Ben Hubbard

From the mid 18th century, new machines powered by steam and coal began to produce goods on a massive scale. This was known as the Industrial Revolution. Workers were badly paid and their working conditions were harsh. Life was even harder for working women, who received lower wages and fewer rights than men. Some women, however, would not stand for the poor treatment of themselves or others. These are the stories of four trailblazers who achieved amazing things in difficult circumstances: Known as the "Angel of the Prisons," Elizabeth Fry brought about changes for female and child inmates. Florence Nightingale did the unthinkable for a woman of the time and, instead of getting married, became a nurse and reformed the nursing system. Sarah G. Bagley was a pioneering labour activist who fought against harsh factory conditions. "Mother" Jones earned the title of "most dangerous woman in America" by travelling around the country urging coal miners and mill workers to stand up for their rights. Many of the rights women have today are down to their actions. They helped change society's image of women forever.

Where are you, teddy? The girl felt around with arms and legs. Not under the sheets anywhere, and not tucked up in bed. Naughty teddy! He must’ve fallen on the floor.The girl pushed her head over the edge of the bed, looked down in the dim light, and saw him straight away. There you are! I can see your furry leg, sticking out from underneath the bed.But then a thought made her shiver, like a cold breath down her back. I can’t swing my legs out from under the blankets, because the monster under the bed will get me.So the girl reached, fingers squirming, down from the safety of her bed. Almost, almost there! Stretching forward, she reached and reached, and snagged him by the paw, snatching him back into bed. She held him tight, wriggling to slip back underneath the quilt. But there it was again, that cold feeling, making her turn towards the bedroom window, which yawned open like a black mouth onto the darkness.Then the girl was gone, and teddy found himself all alone. No protection against the monster, who hadn’t been hiding under the bed after all.

In a two-dimensional world a story cannot begin once upon a time, only once upon a place. The place was a point upon the plane far from the brightness of the Zero. Here lived the blues, who definitely did not come in all shapes and sizes. Everybody was a quadrilateral, mostly rectangles who dreamed of being squares, and the squares themselves, whose hierarchy ranked them in order of size. The blues knew and accepted that the big squares enforce the Rules, although some whispered that the squares wrote the Rules to suit themselves (or at least interpreted them that way). But these whispers, most often by disgruntled quads who would never be square enough, would always be betrayed to the big squares, who sent out squads of squares to deal with anti-geometric behaviour. So it was not unusual to see a group of squares chasing some poor old trapezium along the x-axis, or banishing a bitter oblong to the furthest co-ordinates of the blue plane; and nobody would bat a convex angle at the sight of a bunch of blues marching the heretic Indigo, a rebellious rhombus, in for questioning. In fact it was during such an interrogation, with Indigo facing a row of senior squares, that it happened. This is the story of how one brave blue changed the world.

Look inside natural disasters and discover how they work!Natural disasters devastate communities. They reshape the landscape and can alter people's ways of life in an area for years after the event. Learn all about Earthquakes and Tsunamis. Find out how they form, where they are most to happen and how scientists study them through diagrams and case studies.Explore how natural disasters work by cracking them open and looking at them from the inside. How do they happen? How are they destructive? What happens on the inside of each phenomena? And where in the world are the danger zones? This series explore each of these questions in detail.This series uses detailed artwork, cutaways and images from real-life to give a rounded view of each event. Perfect for readers aged 9 and over.