Tara Binns: Futuristic Physicist

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When Tara Binns opens her dressing up box something exciting happens …

Tara Binns is a physicist! A group of scientists are trying to find new uses for maglev technology, from designing flying trains … to flying cars … and even flying people! It takes a few tumbles for Tara to bring the team together to turn mighty magnetic forces into futuristic fun.

This exciting title in the Tara Binns mini-series is written by Lisa Rajan.

Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.

Text type: An adventure story

Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.