Clot & Scab: Gross Stuff about Your Scrapes, Bumps, and Bruises

Have you ever crashed your bike and torn up your knee? Or have you been hit in the face by a ball and gotten a big shiny bruise around your eye? Have any of your scabs ever oozed with gross-looking pus? Blood, bruises, and scabs are all part of your body's healing process. Learn how your body repairs itself and what happens when something goes wrong, like getting gangrene (eew!). With lots of disgusting facts, this book tells all about the gross science behind your body's functions.. But sometimes you need a little extra help - from stitches, staples, or maybe even maggots and leeches! Hey, people do crazy things

lovemykids said GREAT GROSSNESS. Great education but GROSS! My little guy loves it. Keeps a bookmark in there at all times.. High Interest! A great, high interest book for all!. Factual, and enough gross-out to keep them reading Boys are odd little people. I am raising boys, and it amazes me what they find fascinating. Bodily functions are high on the list.This book features blood, scabs, scars, pus, and even gangrene. With photographs -- most are not too horrible -- and short, factual chunks of text. There is a great page on why you get "pins and needles."Good glossary, including terms like arteries, bacteria, capillaries, hemoglobin, transfusionWell done book. Factual, and enough gross-out to keep them reading M. Heiss Boys are odd little people. I am raising boys, and it amazes me what they find fascinating. Bodily functions are high on the list.This book features blood, scabs, scars, pus, and even gangrene. With photographs -- most are not too horrible -- and short, factual chunks of text. There is a great page on why you get "pins and needles."Good glossary, including terms like arteries, bacteria, capillaries, hemoglobin, transfusionWell done book. 4th graders like it.For littler readers, check out "A Drop of Blood" by Paul Showers, with HILARIOUS illust. th graders like it.For littler readers, check out "A Drop of Blood" by Paul Showers, with HILARIOUS illust