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Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.

"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!"--

Ms. Frizzle's class learn about the incredible systems that work together to make the human body function.

The Cat in the Hat takes Sally and Dick on a trip in his Inside Your Outside Machine.

"Welcome to the Human Body Theater, where your master of ceremonies is going to lead you through a theatrical revue of each and every biological system of the human body! Starting out as a skeleton, the MC puts on a new layer of her costume (her body) with each 'act.' By turns goofy and intensely informative, the Human Body Theater is always accessible and always entertaining." --

A simple explanation of how the human body works, discussing the five senses, muscles, bones, digestion, the heart, and the brain.

Illustrations and simple rhyming text show that while the body parts of various human and Muppet characters may look different, they have similar uses.

Text and "exploded view" photographs reveal the human body and how it works.