Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Nonfiction >> Health & Daily Living - Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries

-What's for dinner?- seemed like a simple question--until journalist and supermarket detective Michael Pollan delved behind the scenes. From fast food and big organic to small farms and old-fashioned hunting and gathering, this young readers' adaptation of Pollan's famous food-chain exploration encourages kids to consider the personal and global health implications of their food choices.

In a smart, compelling format with updated facts, plenty of photos, graphs, and visuals,...

Are hospitals scary?

Do you want to help, but don't know how?

Here's a little superhero who can show you the way. It starts with a story...

Jonny is a little superhero with a BIG problem. His Mum is sick. How can he help?
JOIN Jonny and Bear, as they go to the hospital to investigate.
LEARN who the staff working in the hospital are and what they do.
DISCOVER Jonny's secret weapon

Includes two pages of bonus material:

1. A queston page written by teachers for teachers and families to promote discussion about how to help

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Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic--dinosaurs, coral reefs, the solar system, volcanoes, bats, flying machines, and more. These gorgeously illustrated graphic novels offer wildly entertaining views of their subjects. Whether you're a fourth grader doing a natural science unit at school or a thirty-year-old with a secret passion for airplanes, these books are for you

This volume: In PLAGUES, we get to know the critters behind history's worst diseases. We delve into the biology and mechanisms of infections, diseases, and immunity, and...

Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic--dinosaurs, coral reefs, the solar system, volcanoes, bats, flying machines, and more. These gorgeously illustrated graphic novels offer wildly entertaining views of their subjects. Whether you're a fourth grader doing a natural science unit at school or a thirty-year-old with a secret passion for airplanes, these books are for you

This volume: In PLAGUES, we get to know the critters behind history's worst diseases. We delve into the biology and mechanisms of infections, diseases, and immunity, and...

What does an elementary school nurse do? In this delightful book, Nurse Amy Johnson describes that well. From the many places in schools where students can get hurt to accidents with staplers. From other adults in schools who can help students when the nurse is not there to what a nurse does for a wound. From injuries that need more medical help to treatments these may require. She also includes head injuries. Her tale takes readers through the treatments, paperwork, and healing processes. Throughout the story, Nurse Johnson's positive and compassionate nature radiates. She wants students...

The Spanish Flu was the worst epidemic in this country's history, and the search for its cause is still one of science's most urgent quests. In this riveting account, acclaimed nonfiction author David Getz tells young readers the story of the mysterious flu known as the Purple Death--the virus responsible for the worst epidemic in American history.

It was 1918, the last year of World War 1. Thousands of men lived in the crowded army training camps that were scattered all across the United States. That spring, a strange flu struck the soldiers at a camp in the Midwest....