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Author Owen, Ruth, 1967-

Title Gross body invaders / by Ruth Owen.

Imprint New York : Bearport Pub., c2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PCMS Jumpstart Non-Fiction  578.6 OWEN    ---  Available
Description 24 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Series Up close and gross. Microscopic creatures
Note Includes glossary.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 24) and index.
Contents Who's living on and in your body? - Itchy, scratchy head lice - Face-invading eyelash mites - Deadly mosquito bites - Bloodsucking black-legged ticks - Rat fleas and the bubonic plague - The horror of hookworms - Terrible tapeworms - Hungry horseflies.
Summary This book introduces body invaders, such as fleas, head lice, eyelash mites, black-legged ticks, Oriental rat fleas, hookworms, and tapeworms.
Audience 4-8 Medialog, Inc.
IG 990 Lexile.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR Middle Grades RL 5.8 0.5 quiz: 142630
Reading Counts RC 3-5 RL 7.40 3 quiz: 53074
Subject Parasites.
ISBN 1617721271 (lib.)

 
    
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