Kid Detectives: A Curious Adventure in Genetics

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Adam Bushnell

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Paperback / softback

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Kid Detectives

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Releases 26 Dec 2024

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Join a group of four kid detectives and help them find out about STEM while developing problem solving, observation and deduction, and investigation skills. Our four detectives, Farah, Isla, Mohammad and Sam, are having a sleepover in the treehouse when they notice a mysterious light coming from Isla's neighbour's garden. It looks like some of the plants are glowing! But how can this be? Join the Detective gang as they meet a botanist and a geneticist, who will help them discover more about plants, genes and DNA. Featured interactive elements: - Search and find clues in the illustrations - Gather crucial information from info panels about genetics and bioluminescence - Work out how to trick a snowdrop into flowering early and why roses have thorns - Help the geneticist correctly reorder the steps in her diagram Through interactive adventures that combine facts, brain-teasing puzzles and lively illustrations, these books impart STEM knowledge in an original way to inspire a love of the subject. The story in each book will have the reader solving puzzles, finding clues, cracking secret codes and uncovering mysteries. Perfect for aspiring detectives aged 7+.

Author Biography:

Adam Bushnell (Author) Adam is a former teacher who turned his hand to writing full time in 2007. He has written both adult teaching guides and children's fiction books and is often touring schools and libraries and running creative writing sessions. He lives in Durham. John Haslam (Illustrator) John Haslam has been working as an illustrator for most of his professional life. John worked in advertising for 10 years and worked on various projects including TV storyboards, to illustrating for all kinds of accounts from Pritt Stick (the Pritt Stick Man was his invention), to comic pages such as Danger Mouse, Disney and Transformers.

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December 26th, 2024

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