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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
Why is it important to chew your food? Can you guess how long it takes for food to travel through your body? Could you possibly have twenty feet of small intestines? Where does that bad-smelling gas come from? Your digestive system is out of sight and out of mind -- until things don't go right. Then you may wonder how these important organs work! You'll find the answers in Seymour Simon's smooth, well-organized, and fascinating introduction to the...
Author
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this updated edition of a worldwide bestseller, Giulia Enders reveals the secrets and science of the digestive system--including new research on the connection between the gut and the brain. For too long, the gut has been the body's most ignored and least appreciated organ. But it does more than just dirty work; our gut is at the core of who we are. With quirky charm, science star and medical doctor Giulia Enders explains the gut's magic, answering...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
900L
Physical Desc
95 pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"With supercool facts, clever rhyme, and hilarious illustrations by Steve Björkman, acclaimed author Joanne Settel will answer kids' most burning questions about their bodies in this fascinating, fun exploration of the science of our digestion."-- Provided by publisher.
8) My stomach
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
31 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shows the path of food through the body.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Despite being told that she is nothing but "empty calories," Candy is excited by her big break--being digested by the body, in this humorous exploration of the digestive system, presented as a Broadway musical.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Travelling from ancient Greece to Victorian England, eighteenth-century France to modern America, cultural historian Elsa Richardson leads us on a lively tour of the gut, exploring all the ways that we have imagined, theorized, and probed the mysteries of the gastroenterological system. We'll meet a wildly diverse cast of characters including Edwardian bodybuilders, hunger-striking suffragettes, demons, medieval alchemists, and one poor teenage girl...
13) Digestion
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
24 pages
Language
English
Description
Describes the parts of the digestive system and how they work to help the body process and use nutrients.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
145 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An illustrated book about the digestive system and microbiome for young readers, from famous (and funny) scientist Dr. Jennifer Gardy. Everybody eats, and everybody poops. Pretty ordinary stuff, right? But what happens in between is far from ordinary! That's where your digestive system-also known as your gut-works its magic. It Takes Guts is an excellent, science-based resource for classroom learning and home-schooling for kids age 9 to 13, with information...
17) Why do we poop?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Why Do We Poop? describes digestion -- what happens to our food when we eat it" -- Publisher's description.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1070L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Describes what life would be like without poop."-- Provided by publisher.
Although poop is considered waste matter, it's much more than just parts of food that our bodies don't use. Woolf explores the science of digestion in humans and animals, the history of manure, fertilizer, and sewage systems, and ways dung and scat are used around the world.
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