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Hear Your Heart REV & Newly Ill Edition
Contributor(s): Showers, Paul (Author), Keller, Holly (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0064451399     ISBN-13: 9780064451390
Publisher: HarperCollins
OUR PRICE:   $6.29  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2000
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Annotation: "New York Times" journalist Paul Showers and illustrator Holly Keller introduce readers to human anatomy and explain how the heart works, providing a clean and accessible look at the circulatory system. Full-color illustrations.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature - Anatomy & Physiology
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Readers - Beginner
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Health & Daily Living - Fitness & Exercise
Dewey: 612.17
LCCN: 99041336
Lexile Measure: 500
Series: Let's-Read-And-Find-Out Science 2
Physical Information: 0.16" H x 9.81" W x 7.94" (0.34 lbs) 40 pages
Themes:
- Theometrics - Secular
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 46565
Reading Level: 3.3   Interest Level: Lower Grades   Point Value: 0.5
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

Read and find out about how your heart works in this colorfully illustrated nonfiction picture book.

Night and day, whether you're asleep or awake, your heart is always beating. This overview of how the heart works is a good overview for youg readers.

Hear Your Heart also includes a find out more section on how to measure your heart rate, how to exercise your heart, and how to make a stethoscope.

This clear and appealing science book for early elementary age kids, both at home and in the classroom, is a Level 2 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out, which means the book explores more challenging concepts for children in the primary grades. The 100+ titles in this leading nonfiction series are:

  • hands-on and visual
  • acclaimed and trusted
  • great for classrooms

Top 10 reasons to love LRFOs:

  • Entertain and educate at the same time
  • Have appealing, child-centered topics
  • Developmentally appropriate for emerging readers
  • Focused; answering questions instead of using survey approach
  • Employ engaging picture book quality illustrations
  • Use simple charts and graphics to improve visual literacy skills
  • Feature hands-on activities to engage young scientists
  • Meet national science education standards
  • Written/illustrated by award-winning authors/illustrators & vetted by an expert in the field
  • Over 130 titles in print, meeting a wide range of kids' scientific interests

Books in this series support the Common Core Learning Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) standards. Let's-Read-and-Find-Out is the winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Science Books & Films Prize for Outstanding Science Series.

Contributor Bio(s): Showers, Paul: - Paul Showers wrote twenty books for the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science series, including favorites such as What Happens to a Hamburger? and Where Does the Garbage Go? Mr. Showers worked on the Detroit Free Press, the New York Herald Tribune, and for thirty years, the Sunday New York Times. Keller, Holly: -

Holly Keller has illustrated a number of books in the Lets-Read-and-Find-Out Science series, including Be a Friend to Trees. She is also the author and illustrator of many picture books, including Island Baby and Horace.

Ms. Keller lives in West Redding, Connecticut.