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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Explores the human body through illustrations and photographs, including how our bodies are organized, the role DNA plays in our makeup, how the brain and nervous system conrol our movements, why we have dreams and memories, and how we sense the world around us..
3) Parts
Author
Series
Parts books (Tedd Arnold) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A five-year-old boy thinks his body is falling apart until he learns that new teeth grow, and hair and skin replace themselves.
Description
A comprehensive guide to the human body which provides anatomical and physiological information on each system and includes diagrams, photographs, illustrations, fact boxes, special topic sidebars, glossaries, brief biographies of significant figures, a time line of medical discoveries, and more.
Author
Series
Parts books (Tedd Arnold) volume 3
Description
A young boy is worried about what will happen to his body when he hears such expressions as "I'm tongue-tied," "don't give me any of your lip," and "I put my foot in my mouth."
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Formats
Description
This book lets us peer into the world of microbes -- not as germs to be eradicated, but as invaluable parts of our lives -- allowing us to see how ubiquitous and vital microbes are: they sculpt our organs, defend us from disease, break down our food, educate our immune systems, guide our behavior, bombard our genomes with their genes, and grant us incredible abilities. While much of the prevailing discussion around the microbiome has focused on its...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"From the kidnapping of Einstein's brain to the horrifying end of Louis XIV's heart, the mysteries surrounding some of history's most famous body parts range from medical to macabre. Carlyn Beccia explores the misadventures of noteworthy body parts through history and uses them as springboards for exploring topics such as forensics, DNA testing, brain science, organ donation, and cloning. The engaging, conversational tone of the text, the wonderfully...
14) Leech
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron's doctor has died. The doctor's replacement has a mystery to solve: discovering how the Institute lost track of one of its many bodies. For hundreds of years the Interprovincial Medical Institute has grown by taking root in young minds and shaping them into doctors, replacing every human practitioner of medicine. The Institute is here to help humanity, to cure and to cut, to cradle and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
This book introduces creatures that live on the body, such as head lice, crab lice, fleas, mites, mosquitoes, ticks, bedbugs, threadworms, tapeworms, roundworms, tsetse flies, and viruses that cause chickenpox and measles.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Everybody has a body. Whether you're short, tall, fat, thin, hairy, bald, whether you use a wheelchair or have a limb difference, we all rely on our bodies to take us through the world. From hiking a mountain to playing baseball to exploring an aquarium, debut author Molli Jackson Ehlert and illustrator Lorian Tu show us all the different ways that bodies can look and the things they can do, with representation of all different types of bodies"--...
19) Inside the brain
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Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Explains how the human brain works, including the brain stem, midbrain, and the medulla.