This book is part of a book series called Chain Reactions .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 384 pages in this book. This book was published 2008 by Capstone Global Library Ltd .

Dr Carol Ballard worked for many years as a school science co-ordinator. She is now a full-time writer of information books for children and teenagers. Andrew Solway has written over 60 books for children. He won the UK Literacy Association's award for best non-fiction children's book in 2004. The author, Sally Morgan, is an experienced nature photographer and writer of books for children. John Farndon has written many books for children, specialising in popular science and astronomy. He has twice been shortlisted for the "Copus Science Book Prize. "