Your thumping heart and battling blood system
Subtitle: find out how your body works!
By: Paul Mason
Series: Your brilliant body!
Publisher: Wayland
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780750292405; 9780750292412
Subjects: Cardiovascular system; Juvenile literature; Blood; Human body
Description: Packed with amazing facts and eye-grabbing images, Your Thumping Heart and Battling Blood System takes a different approach to teaching the reader about the heart and circulatory system. Every spread opens with an amazing science fact about the human body - for example - Your heart generates a tiny electrical charge each time it beats! - then goes on to explain how scientifically this is possible. By exploring these attention-grabbing sections, readers will build up their understanding of how the heart and circulatory system work. Detailed diagrams and amazing images illustrate the lively, factual text. Your Thumping Heart and Battling Blood System looks at the structure of the heart and how it works to keep blood flowing around your body. What is blood made of? Is blood always red? How does blood reach your toes and travel back to the heart again? Answers to all these questions and many more can be found in this fascinating title.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Human body basics; title: You thumping heart; title: Heart parts; title: What makes a heart beat?; title: Blood (and iron); title: What colour is you blood?; title: Types of blood; title: Blood vessels; title: The body's delivery service; title: The body's garbage service; title: Defence against microbe attacks; title: Your circulation: out of this world; title: Health hearts; title: Maintenance and servicing; title: Hearty words!