Mary Corcoran
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Your hardworking heart started beating eight months before you were born and continues to beat about one hundred thousand times a day. "By the time you're seventy years old, it will have beaten about 2.5 billion times." Find out the story behind each beat on a journey through the body's circulatory system.
5) The body
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The circulatory story: Simple, humorous text and comic illustrations explain the basics of the circulatory system--the systemic, pulmonary, and coronary circuits. Readers follow a red blood cell on its journey through the body, and in the process learn how the body combats disease, performs gas exchanges, and fights plaque.
The quest to digest: A very wild tale explains one very wet day. Gus's mom asks what he did at school and he gives his usual...