Books in Step-up Adventures series

Do you want to be an astronaut, a zookeeper, a firefighter, or maybe a paleontologist digging for dinosaurs? Well you need to use math to do these and other amazing jobs. Follow an imaginary working day with 50 simple math puzzles and activities as these people go through their daily work. Included are tips to help improve math skills, as well as full answers to all of the puzzles and activities. Addition, subtraction, measuring, and sorting are all used to engage and improve math skills. This series shows that math can be fun and relevant in everyday life.

Part of Rigby Star Independent, this Pirate Cove books is part of a series children will want to read over and over again. Using a character-led approach, Pirate Cove is packed full of tall stories about pirates and mermaids and full of fact books to spark young readers' imaginations as they learn about pirate ships, mysterious islands and treasure. Great for boy and girl adventurers.

Use your math skills to be a topflight airline pilot. Pass your cadet assessment in flight training, and then travel the world. To become an officer, you will need to read information from a bar chart, use fractions and division to complete flight checks on a jumbo jet, use a compass to answer flight plan questions, and more . . . . All of this is accompanied by some weird and wonderful flying facts, some Flight Crew Tips for help with the math, and answers when your aircraft touches down!

Who wouldn’t want to be a zookeeper? What an amazing job. Use your math skills to experience what it would be like if you were a keeper for a day. You will need to solve problems to find what crate would be safe to transport a giraffe in, what fluids you need to give in an emergency, and what amount of medicine you give to each animal depending on their weight. How would you work that out? There are also brilliant animal facts to entertain along the way, case tips to help with your math, and answers at the end of the day!

When Lisa Onions' magical Great Aunt Gladys turns up unexpectedly in her flying dustbin, Lisa is whisked off on a brand new adventure. This time it is Lisa's cousin, Gary Spriggs, who seems to be in need of help. He has turned from a kind, helpful boy into the most feared bully at Orange Road Primary School, and his main target is a skinny boy who works hard in class - Sam Harrison. Lisa joins the school as Aunt Gladys's undercover helper. Together with a new gang of friends, she seeks to unravel the mystery of Gary's sudden change.

This story you are going to read was told to me by a chicken I met from a battery egg stand. The poor woman was locked in a cage with the lights on twenty-four hours a day. They did that with the intention of deceiving her, so she wouldn't fall asleep and lay eggs and more eggs without stopping. That hen was not alone on the floor: hundreds of them, by their side, laid an egg behind another, clumping extraordinary stories that only the initiated hens knew ...