Isambard Kingdom Brunel reincarnated! A 9-12 year old novel which will enthuse young readers about physics and engineering, challenge gender stereotypes - and is an exciting mystery at the same time! Ideas and facts referred to in the novel relate to key concepts in Key Stage 2 science - Materials, Forces and Motion. It also features a dedicated website, with Key Stage 2 teacher resources, linked to educational, Brunel-related and social networking sites.
This book is suitable for Key Stage 2. KS2 covers school years 4, 5 and 6, and ages 8-11 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks.
There are 110 pages in this book. This book was published 2010 by Parthian Books .
Derek Webb is a video scriptwriter and successful playwright. He has previously dramatised many Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl and Children's Classics for audiobooks published by Hodder Headline, Harper Collins and Random House.
This book contains the following story:
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Dido's sister, Is, travels north to try and find her lost cousin. But instead of the promised Playland, she discovers an underground kingdom where children work as slaves in the worst conditions imaginable - under the rule of the sinister Gold Kingy. . .