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MUSCLESMUSCLESRELATED TITLES & PRODUCTS

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

What's Inside:
  • The Body's Major Muscles
  • How Skeletal Muscles Work
  • The Heart and Other Involuntary Muscles
  • Muscles Used in Facial Expressions
  • Exercise
  • Muscle Problems
  • Animal Muscles
Features:
  • LEXILE® READING LEVEL: 880L
ITEM #: 175
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Sample Text
"Muscles are the parts of the body that let you stand, walk, run, bend, and reach. They make it possible fro you to smile, cross your fingers, and roll your eyes. They are even involved when your mouth waters at the thought of your favorite food."
RELATED TITLES & PRODUCTS
HEARTHEART
"As you read this, your heart is pumping about five quarts of blood throughout your body. The blood is traveling through more than 60,000 miles of blood vessels (arteries, veins, capillaries). That's enough to circle the equator twice, and then some! A heart works tirelessly over a lifetime. During an average life span, the heart beats three billion times without a single break. Not bad for a. . . "
BLOODBLOOD
"Blood is a life-and-death issue. How does blood keep you alive? Every second of every day, blood delivers vital nutrients, oxygen, and other chemicals to all of your organs. It also carts away your body's waste. In addition, flowing blood can cool you off or warm you up, when necessary. Blood is also your best weapon against germs and other invaders. Your bloodstream creates microscopic defenders . . . "
BONESBONES
"Believe it or not, you have fewer bones in your body today than on the day you were born. All of us start off with more than 300 bones, yet by the age of 20, we have only about 206. What happens in those two decades is nothing strange -some bones simply grow together to make the skeleton stronger. Our skeletons make us part of an exclusive club-the three percent of animals known as vertebrates. . . "
LUNGSLUNGS
"They're squishy like sponges and stretchy like balloons. You use them every day - and night, too - no matter what you're doing. And, most likely, you never even think about them. They're you're lungs - those elastic bags with millions of tiny air pouches inside. All day long, those sacs in your chest fill and empty with the breath that feeds your body the oxygen it needs to stay alive. But, breathing isn't the only way these pouches help you be you."
VALUE-PACKED SETS
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
  • Muscles, by Jen Green. Stargazer Books, 2005.
  • Understanding Your Muscles and Bones, by Rebecca Treays. EDC Publishing, 2006.
  • Why Do Bones Break?: And Other Questions about Bones and Muscles, by Angela Royston. Heinemann, 2002.
ADULT BOOKS
  • The Concise Book of Muscles, by Chris Jarmey. North Atlantic Books, 2003.
WEBSITES
  • Discovery Channel Kids: Your Gross and Cool Body
    http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/body/pg000123.html
  • Inner Body Online:
    http://www.innerbody.com/image/musfov.html
  • Kids Health
    http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/body/muscles_noSW.html