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English
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Description
Your hardworking heart started beating eight months before you were born and continues to beat about one hundred thousand times a day. "By the time you're seventy years old, it will have beaten about 2.5 billion times." Find out the story behind each beat on a journey through the body's circulatory system.
2) Blood
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Series
Publisher
Copper Beech Books
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Explains what blood is, what it does, and how it circulates in the human body.
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Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
�2012
Language
English
Description
"HP Newquist's thrilling volume explores the dark and often gruesome tales about blood. Though common among living beings, this substance is anything but ordinary. People have always feared and respected blood. It spills out at both birth and death--its bright red color like a warning sign--indicating events of the utmost significance. Ancient civilizations couldn't perform religious rituals without the revered liquid. Doctors up through the nineteenth...