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Your Body Battles an Earache    
by Vicki Cobb, illustrated by Andrew N. Harris
Series: Body Battles
OW! You know how much an earache can hurt. But did you know that it’s the start of a battle? The pain is a signal that your body is working to fight off the germs that are attacking the cells in your ear. These infected cells send out an alarm that calls your body to action. Blood vessels open wide to bring extra food and oxygen to the area. Specialized white blood cells arrive on the scene to kill the invaders. It is a major battle, one that your body has an excellent chance of winning all on its own. Get a close look at this body battle with comic illustrations and ground-breaking photomicrographs. The photomicrographs magnify the actual cellular processes tens of thousands of times, offering you a front-row seat for all the action.
Reading Level:
Grade 4
Interest Level:
Grades 2-5
Ages:
7-11
Copyright:
©2009
Imprint:
Millbrook Press
Trim Size:
9 x 9
Pages:
32
ATOS:
4.9
Points:
0.5
Quiz:
128157
Lexile:
840
SRC Level:
5.00
Book Features
Full-Color Illustrations • Full-Color Photographs • Further Reading • Glossary • Index • Websites
ISBN-10:
0-8225-6812-8
ISBN-13:
978-0-8225-6812-4
Format:
Library Bound
List Price:
$ 25.26
S&L Price*:
$ 18.95
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Reviewed by:
School Library Journal
Review Excerpts:
  • "These titles succeed in demystifying and explaining the science behind common childhood experiences. The body is described as a battlefield where superhero cells work hard as a team to mend a broken bone, fight off plaque, and battle an infection. To this end, many of the vibrant illustrations anthropomorphize various cells and other 'battle' participants, making the science explained approachable and easy to understand. Photomicrographs further illuminate the text. These amazing pictures, taken with a scanning electron microscope, are greatly magnified and colored to highlight certain features. Although the information at the close of Earache is perhaps simplistic and overly optimistic in terms of the body's ability to heal itself without the use of antibiotics, all three titles would be good additions to most libraries."
    --School Library Journal
 
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