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Trade Paperback : $6.99 Buy	Question Time: Human Body Question Time Angela Wilkes Kingfisher Why do you have two ears? How do muscles work? and Why do some people wear glasses? These are some of the questions answered in this informative and lively...

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New York Times Deadly Invaders

Virus Outbreaks Around the World, from Marburn Fever to Avian Flu

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Denise Grady Kingfisher

An epidemic strikes the United States, plunging the country into chaos. New York Times medical reporter Denise Grady uses this terrifying scenario, taken from...

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Side Effects

Amy Goldman Koss Square Fish

Izzy knows her cancer could kill her. But that’s no reason to lose her sense of humor.

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Hardcover : $16.99 Buy	Who Am I? The Amazing science of existence by Richard Walker Kingfisher Starting with the basic questions, "What does it mean to be human?" and "What does it mean to be me ?" this book is an exciting, unusual, and thought-provoking...

Hardcover : $16.99 Buy	Human Body Factory The Nuts and Bolts of Your Insides by Dan Green, illustrated by Edmond Davis Kingfisher Human anatomy has never been as entertaining as this look at a day in the busy human body factory. From the CEO sending out orders in the brain to "waste"...

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The Head Bone's Connected To The Neck Bone

The Weird, Wacky, and Wonderful X-Ray

Carla Killogh McClafferty Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Through an engaging text and numerous photographs and illustrations, Carla Killough McClafferty tells the history of the X-ray, from its discovery to its uses...

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Invisible Allies

Microbes That Shape Our Lives

Jeanette Farrell Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Mmm-mmm, microbes! Although we are accustomed to equating the presence of microbes with disease, in fact most microbes play a vital "friendly" role in...

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Hardcover : $19.99 Buy	Invisible Enemies, Revised Edition Stories of Infectious Disease Jeanette Farrell Farrar, Straus and Giroux Updated to include the most recent breakthroughs First published in 1998, here are the surprisingly fascinating stories of seven diseases that changed the...

Hardcover : $15.95 Buy	Dragon Tooth Trouble Sarah Wilson; illustrations by Sarah Wilson Henry Holt and Co. Losing a tooth isn’t easy—especially when you’re a dragon Ginger has a loose tooth, and she is in dragon-size pain. But she will never, never, NEVER go the...

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The Boy Who Saved Cleveland

James Cross Giblin; illustrations by Michael Dooling Henry Holt and Co.

If not for Seth Doan, the city of Cleveland wouldn’t exist today... In 1798, Cleveland, Ohio, was in danger of being wiped out by a malaria epidemic. Based...

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Paper Over Board : $12.95 Buy	Kingfisher Knowledge: Epidemics and Plagues Kingfisher Knowledge Richard Walker Kingfisher Plagues have been an ongoing feature of human history, and this addition to the award-winning KFK series places today's heightened interest in global health...

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Madame Squidley and Beanie

Alice Mead Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The story of a girl whose mother has a chronic illness Beanie's mom used to be a lot of fun. She still is, when she pretends to be the amazing...

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Guinea Pig Scientists

Bold Self-Experimenters in Science and Medicine

Leslie Dendy & Mel Boring; illustrated by C. B. Mordan Henry Holt and Co.

It was August 27, 1885. In a hospital in Lima, Peru, a student named Daniel Carrión was preparing to infect himself with a dreaded disease . . . He had...

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The Shrouding Woman

Loretta Ellsworth Henry Holt and Co. BYR Paperbacks

A young girl’s awakening as she becomes an apprentice to a shrouder It was once common practice for small towns to have a shrouding woman to help put their...

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The Last Best Days of Summer

Valerie Hobbs Frances Foster Books

For twelve-year-old Lucy Crandall, the last week of August is the most perfect time in the world. It’s the week she gets to spend with Grams at the lake house,...

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Jack Tumor

Anthony McGowan Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Hector is being hectored by an unlikely bully: a talking brain tumor. And it’s not just a talking brain tumor. It’s a know-it-all, pain-in-the-arse,...

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