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Without muscles we would not be able to move. Muscles keep our digestive system working too, and our heart is a large muscle that works all the time. This book looks at how muscles, tendons and nerves all work together to help us move every part of our body.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherCapstone Young Readers
Release dateMay 1, 2019
ISBN9781410993410
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Lucy Beevor
Lucy Beevor is an experienced editor and children's author. She has worked on hundreds of titles during her career – ranging from sharks to superheroes and everything in between! – and is the author of several nonfiction books for leading children's publishers in both the United States and UK. She was longlisted for the UK School Library Association's Information Book Award 2019 and edited the winner of the People’s Book Prize 2012.
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Understanding Our Muscles - Lucy Beevor
Brains, Body, Bones!: Understanding Our Muscles by Lucy Beevor
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Your Active Body
Getting Under Your Skin
Get a Move on
Deep Down Inside
Muscle Power
See Inside: Muscles
Glossary
Read More
Index
Copyright
Back Cover
YOUR ACTIVE BODY
Imagine you are playing in a basketball tournament, and the final seconds are counting down. Your team needs one point to win. The crowd cheers as you jump up and throw the ball toward the basket. You score! During all the action, you probably didn’t even think about your muscles. But around 640 muscles kicked in to make the play a success. It’s a great moment for your basketball team. But it was your muscle team that made it happen.
If your body were a machine, your muscles would be the engine. A car engine uses the energy in gasoline to turn the wheels. Your muscles take the energy from the food you eat and use it to power all of the
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