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You Are Weird: Your Body's Peculiar Parts and Funny Functions

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By Diane Swanson
Publisher Kids Can Press, Limited
You Are Weird: Your Body's Peculiar Parts and Funny Functions
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Your body sports more hair than a gorilla. About 600 different species of bacteria are living in your mouth. Your head is full of holes. Back when you were a twomonthold embryo, you had a tail. Face it you are weird! All these wonderfully weird body features make us human. They also show that were part of an animal kingdom whose members share a lot more than the same planet. This book tackles those weird questions that everyones curious about but nobody seems able to answer. What does your appendix do? What exactly are goose bumps and why do we get them? Why can some people wiggle their ears? You Are Weird answers these questions plus many more, backing up answers with the latest scientific theories. Take a guided tour around our oddball organs and freaky body functions that make us who we are wacky, wonderful and weird, weird, weird.

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8170 words8,170 words
40 pages40 pages
Lexile 920LLexile 920L
Grade 3 to 7Grade 3 to 7
Age 8-12Age 8-12
Published 2009Published 2009

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9781554532834

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