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Your hardworking heart and spectacular circulatory system : find out how your body works! / Paul Mason.

Your hardworking heart and spectacular circulatory system : find out how your body works! / Paul Mason.
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Shelf Location Collection Volume Ref. Branch Status Due Date Res.
J 612.1 MAS
Junior Non-Fiction   Childrens . Available .  
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Field name Details
ISBN 9780778722243 (pbk.)
Classification 612.1 J MAS
Personal Name Mason, Paul, 1967-
Title Your hardworking heart and spectacular circulatory system : find out how your body works! / Paul Mason.
Production & Copyright Details Catharines, ON New York, NY Crabtree Publishing Company, 2016.
©2015
Physical Description 32 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Content type text
Series Your brilliant body!
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Note Your thumping heart -- Heart parts -- What makes a heart beat? -- Blood (and iron) -- What color is your blood? -- Types of blood -- Blood vessels -- The body's delivery service -- The body's garbage service -- Defence against microbe attacks -- Your circulation - out of this world -- Helping hearts -- Maintenance and servicing -- Heart words -- Hearty information.
Summary Note What is blood made of? Is it always red? How does blood reach your toes and travel back to the heart again? Your Hardworking Heart and Spectacular Circulatory System takes readers on an entertaining tour of the body's heart and circulatory system. Every spread opens with an amazing science fact about the human body, then goes on to explain the science behind the fact. Detailed diagrams and amazing images illustrate the lively text.
Target audience note Age 8-12.
Grade 4 to 6.
Subject - Topical Term Blood -- Juvenile literature
Heart -- Juvenile literature
Cardiovascular system -- Juvenile literature
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