Books with title The Skeletal System

This new science and health series goes in-depth in examining how the human body operates. Each book corresponds with one of the body's eight major systems, including the muscular, circulatory, and reproductive systems. With diagrams and pictures to highlight the easy-to-read text, young readers will be transported into the inner workings of the body. A great resource for research and reports.How does that soft lump of human flesh get out of bed every morning? How does it walk to school, work out in the gym, and carry its schoolbooks home every day? The skeletal system makes this all possible by providing a rigid framework of hard bones to support the soft tissues of the body and make movement possible.

The human skeletal system is the scaffold for the human body, holding up all the pieces into an amazing functioning unit. This helpful guide to the skeletal system explores the main bones of the human body and introduces the cells, fibers, and other elements that make up each bone. Readers will learn what happens if part of the system is damaged or missing. Through exciting photographs and diagrams, intriguing sidebars, discussion questions, and fact boxes, readers are given the tools to understand this fascinating part of the human body.