{"product_id":"learn-physics-through-stories-paperback-bundle-paperbacks-all-digital-materials","title":"Learn Physics Through Stories Paperback Bundle [Paperbacks + All Digital Materials]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFive full books in print — 936 pages of story with real physics inside it, for readers ages 9–12 — plus every digital resource that goes with them: four browser games, worksheets with answer keys, simulations and bonus stories, on a private page that keeps growing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRead a sample of three of them: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0678\/8395\/8338\/files\/Sample_The_Hopeful_Queen_of_the_Clockwork_Court.pdf?v=1788968338\"\u003eThe Hopeful Queen of the Clockwork Court\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0678\/8395\/8338\/files\/SAMPLE_Allora_and_the_Puzzles_of_Archimedes.pdf?v=1782319513\"\u003eAllora and the Puzzles of Archimedes\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0678\/8395\/8338\/files\/Sakura_and_the_Many-Layered_Sea_Paperback.pdf?v=1782319909\"\u003eSakura and the Many-Layered Sea\u003c\/a\u003e, from Physics Fables\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe five paperbacks\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNewton's Laws: A Fairy Tale\u003c\/em\u003e (2nd Edition)\u003c\/strong\u003e — 123 pages. Forces, motion, and Newton's three laws. The best place to start, and the newer edition, with the science woven through the story rather than collected at the back.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Hopeful Queen of the Clockwork Court\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e — 294 pages, the longest book in the series. A princess who plans everything and a prince who plans nothing have two weeks to break a curse, using pressure, buoyancy, siphons, Bernoulli's principle, Archimedes' Screw and the history of timekeeping to do it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAllora and the Puzzles of Archimedes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e — 197 pages. An apprentice turns off friction by accident and has to put the world back, by way of levers, pulleys, torque and a real 2,000-year-old puzzle.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGravity: A Fairy Tale\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e — 206 pages. Gravity, orbits, and falling objects, from the center of the Earth to a nearby moon, guided by the echoes of Aristotle, Newton and Einstein.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhysics Fables\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e — 116 pages of short tales, one topic each: special relativity, density and buoyancy, magnetism, polar coordinates. The cover says ages 8–10, and it's the gentlest way into the series.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat the books do, and what they don't\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese are novels first. The science arrives where the story needs it — in \"Notes from the Librarian\" set between the chapters, with pronunciation guides and things to try using a straw, a glass of water, or a chair that spins. The notes are optional by design; skip every one and the stories still work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat that means in practice:\u003c\/strong\u003e none of these five books ends with a set of quantitative practice problems and a worked answer key. The math lives in the digital worksheets instead, where it's optional, and in the algebra workbooks for readers who want it. If it's algebra practice inside the novels you're after, the earlier books — collected in \u003cem\u003eFairy Tale Physics: Books 1–4\u003c\/em\u003e — are the ones built that way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eIf you already own some of these\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWorth reading before you buy, so nobody pays twice for the same book:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAll five paperbacks are also sold individually in this shop.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGravity\u003c\/em\u003e here is the same book that appears inside \u003cem\u003eFairy Tale Physics: Books 1–4\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e. If you own the omnibus, you own this Gravity already.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNewton's Laws\u003c\/em\u003e here is the 2nd edition\u003c\/strong\u003e, which is a different book from the original in the omnibus — rewritten, with the science integrated into the story rather than set behind it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLight\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFluid Mechanics\u003c\/em\u003e are not in this bundle in print.\u003c\/strong\u003e Both are included as PDFs and ebooks in the digital materials. \u003cem\u003eLight\u003c\/em\u003e's only printed home is the omnibus; \u003cem\u003eFluid Mechanics\u003c\/em\u003e is the short 2014 original of the story that became \u003cem\u003eThe Hopeful Queen\u003c\/em\u003e, and is no longer printed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003ePlus every digital resource I've made\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYour order includes access to the Map of the Realm — a private page holding everything, with three ways in: a guided path from beginning to end where each item builds on the last, a browse-by-topic list for the unit you're teaching this week, and a browse-by-age route for ages 7-8, 9-12, and 13 and up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn it:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePDF and ePub versions of all seven books\u003c\/strong\u003e — the five in this bundle, plus \u003cem\u003eLight: A Fairy Tale\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFluid Mechanics: A Fairy Tale\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFour interactive browser games\u003c\/strong\u003e — The Sorceress of Circuits (electricity), The Case of the Seven Reflections (optics), Scientific Notation Quest, and A Castle of Math and Motion (kinematics)\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWorksheets and answer keys\u003c\/strong\u003e — the Energy Robot, Momentum and 1-D Kinematics Quests, Free Body Diagrams, Friction Explorer and Calculating Friction, and the Flower Garden Riddles\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eArchimedes' Puzzle Book\u003c\/strong\u003e, a 28-page PDF of lever and pulley puzzles with a full answer key\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Starlight Starship workbook\u003c\/strong\u003e — the inverse square law and 3D shapes, worked through as an interstellar voyage\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSimulations\u003c\/strong\u003e — the Friction Explorer, the Doppler effect, and types of waves\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBonus stories\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003cem\u003eAbigail's Totally Purposeful, Definitely Not Accidental or Dangerous Adventure\u003c\/em\u003e (pendulums) and \u003cem\u003eGerald and the Many Unsettling Details\u003c\/em\u003e (the photoelectric effect, told darkly and funnily)\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Ostomachion printable\u003c\/strong\u003e, and the individual Physics Fables stories as separate PDFs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow you reach the map:\u003c\/strong\u003e your download is on the confirmation page the moment you check out, and your order confirmation email has a \u003cstrong\u003eView Order and Downloads\u003c\/strong\u003e button that takes you back to your order page any time. What you download is a PDF holding your link to the map.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere are also two Algebra 1 workbooks on the map if you want them — straight math practice rather than stories, so they read quite differently from everything else. Useful if algebra is what you need, easy to skip if it isn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd it keeps growing — everything I make from here on gets added to the same map, and you won't pay for it again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA note about math.\u003c\/strong\u003e No math is required to use these books, but there is some optional math available for those who would like it. You can read the stories and the explanations together, or just read and enjoy the stories, or go on to the activities and practice problems. I know some people really love the math and others have had very stressful experiences with it, and I want this to be delightful either way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShipping:\u003c\/strong\u003e these are print-on-demand paperbacks — please allow 2–3 weeks for printing and delivery. If you need them sooner, the books are also available individually on Amazon with faster shipping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSarah Allen tutored math and physics for twenty years before becoming a full-time writer. She has a physics degree from the University of Washington (graduated with college and departmental honors) and a master's in Cognition and Learning from Columbia. 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