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The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body (Magic School Bus)

The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body (Magic School Bus)

by Joanna Cole

Talk about a change of plans! Ms. Frizzle and her class are on the Magic School Bus headed for a museum. They have been studying how the body turns food into energy, and now they are going to see an exhibit on the human body. Things seem fine until they stop for lunch. A strange mishap causes the bus to shrink and then be swallowed! Ms. Frizzle's class is suddenly inside a real human body!

A Child Is Born

by Lennart Nilsson, Lars Hamberger

This completely revised edition of the beloved international classic is now entirely in color, with historic, never-before-seen photos in every chapter and an entirely new text.

Bonk

The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

by Mary Roach

The best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and infectious wit on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. The study of sexual physiology—what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better—has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists as far-ranging as Leonardo da Vinci and James... (more)

You: The Owner's Manual

by Gary Hallgren, Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet Oz, Mehmet C. Oz

Between your full-length mirror and high-school biology class, you probably think you know a lot about the human body. While it's true that we live in an age when we're as obsessed with our bodies as we are with celebrity hairstyles, the reality is that most of us know very little about what chugs, churns, and thumps throughout this miraculous, scientific, and artistic system of anatomy. Yes, you've owned your... (more)

The Cat in the Hat's Learning Library: Inside Your Outside: All About the Human Body (Cat in the Hat's Lrning Libry)

The Cat in the Hat's Learning Library: Inside Your Outside: All About the Human Body (Cat in the Hat's Lrning Libry)

by Tish Rabe

The Cat in the Hat takes Sally and Dick for a ride through the human body where they visit the right and left sides of the brain, meet the Feletons from far off Fadin (when they stand in the sun you can see through their skin), scuba dive through the blood system, follow food and water through the digestive tract, and a whole lot more!

Holy the Firm

by Annie Dillard

In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death, and the will of God. In Holy the Firm she writes about a moth consumed in a candle flame, about a seven-year-old girl burned in an airplane accident, about a baptism... (more)

Gee Whiz! It's all About Pee

by Susan E. Goodman

Kids love to read about gross things like pee. But few realize how fascinating, and even educational, the subject can be. You can learn about all sorts of things from pee—American history (Civil War belles hoarded urine for making gunpowder); the animal kingdom (when lobsters fight they squirt each other with pee from bladders on either side of their eyes); even espionage (scientists are using urine to... (more)

The Human Body: Revised Edition

by Jonathan Miller

The Ultimate Visual Dictionary of Science (The Ultimate)

The Ultimate Visual Dictionary of Science (The Ultimate)

This reference work is a guide to the main scientific disciplines, from the workings of plants, animals and the human body, through the principles of physics and chemistry, to the fundamentals of the universe. Each section provides an overview of an area of science and its main terms. An introduction explains and defines, while the extensive labelling of images should help the reader to understand. Special... (more)

Skeleton (Eyewitness Books)

by Steve Parker

This reference book gives detailed information on the skeleton. It has been structured so that the individual themes of each spread make up a complete visual story and a self-contained module of information. It is part of the "Eyewitness Guides" series.

Encyclopedia of the Human Body

by Richard Walker

DK continues its commitment to providing comprehensive reference books for young readers with the Encyclopedia of the Human Body. Perfect for use as a family guide to understanding how the body works and for supporting the science studies of school-age children, this volume is packed with bold illustrations and easy-to-follow text. The most challenging anatomical concepts, from how our skeletons support our body... (more)

The Magic School Bus Fact Finder (Magic School Bus, Fact Finder)

The Magic School Bus Fact Finder (Magic School Bus, Fact Finder)

by Jackie Glassman

Take a page from Ms. Frizzle's book. Better yet, read her class notes and learn all about skeletons. No bones about it - this is your chance to get the facts from Ms. Frizzle's class!

The Quest to Digest

by Mary K. Corcoran

Grade 2-5–This graphically appealing, colorful, and fact-rich story describes the importance of food to the body by following an apple as it goes through the human digestion system. While there is no index, it is fairly easy to find information on each stage of digestion, from eating, saliva production, and movement through the esophagus, stomach, and intestines to the happy ending. Abundant, humorous cartoons and... (more)

Young Genius: Brains (Young Genius)

by Kate Lennard

Young Genius is a bright little boy who escorts children through the pages of this amusing and instructive color-illustrated book. Kids will discover answers to many interesting questions about their brains. For example: How can you look at your brain without taking it out of your head? Where do headaches come from? What is imagination? Does having a big brain make you more clever? Young Genius books explain... (more)

Before you were a baby, (Let's-read-and-find-out science book)Paul Showers, Kay S. Showers

Before you were a baby, (Let's-read-and-find-out science book)

by Paul Showers, Kay Sperry Showers

Describes briefly the male and female reproductive system, the union of the sperm and ovum, and the stages in the development of the baby in the womb.

Body Atlas

by Steve Parker

Treating the body as a map rather than as a machine, this book takes younger readers on an expedition of the body. Anatomical drawings are supported by illustrations, photographs and fact-filled text. The precise labels reveal layer after layer of the body's interior in detail.

Alcohol (Freestyle, Teen Issues)

by Jim Pollard, John Townsend

This title looks at the bizarre extremes of the human body and brain. From fire walking to mind control, discover a world of mystery where there are more questions than answers.

The Human Body

by Tony Smith

The Truth about Poop

by Susan E. Goodman

We call it a waste product, but poop can also be bricks to build a house, fuel to power a trip to Mars, wipes for a baby’s bottom, buttons for your next sweater. Poop? YES! POP! And that’s not all. Birds drop it as bombs. Mole-rats use it as a password. Sharks track their prey with it. People cook with it, sculpt with it, and even use it as a Frisbee! While we politely avoid the subject, amazing things are... (more)

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by Joanna Cole

by Lennart Nilsson, Lars Hamberger

The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

by Mary Roach

by Gary Hallgren, Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet Oz, Mehmet C. Oz

by Tish Rabe

by Annie Dillard

by Susan E. Goodman

by Jonathan Miller

by Steve Parker

by Richard Walker

by Jackie Glassman

by Mary K. Corcoran

by Kate Lennard

by Paul Showers, Kay Sperry Showers

by Steve Parker

by Jim Pollard, John Townsend

by Tony Smith

by Susan E. Goodman

by Isaac Asimov