Stickmen's Guide to Your Mighty Muscles and Bones

From the Series Stickmen's Guides to Your Awesome Body

  • Interest Level: Grade 3 - Grade 6
  • Reading Level: Grade 4

Muscles help you run, jump, play sports, and even sit still long enough to read this book. Your bony skeleton holds you up and keeps everything in its place. Let the Stickmen give you a tour of your incredible body! Find out why muscles are strong and how they get even stronger, how many bones make up your skeleton, and how your body twists, bends, and moves. Along the way, you’ll discover the world’s oldest skeleton, the longest and strongest muscle, and more. Colorful illustrations and fascinating facts reveal the inner workings of your muscles and bones.

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Interest Level Grade 3 - Grade 6
Reading Level Grade 4
Genre Science
Category 5 Kinds of Nonfiction, 5KN: Browseable Nonfiction, 5KN: Traditional Nonfiction
Copyright 2018
Publisher Lerner Publishing Group
Brand Hungry Tomato ®
Imprint Hungry Tomato ®
Language English
Number of Pages 32
Publication Date 2017-08-01
Reading Counts! Level 7.3
Text Type Informational/Explanatory
BISACS JNF051050, JNF051030
Dewey 612.7
Graphics Full-color illustrations
Dimensions 7 x 9
Lexile 940
Guided Reading Level Y
Features Author/Illustrator biography, Charts/Graphs/Diagrams, Index, and Timeline

Author: John Farndon

John Farndon is a Royal Literary Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK, and the author of a huge number of books for adults and children on science, history, technology and nature, including such international best-sellers as Do Not Open and Do You Think You’re Clever?

Illustrator: Venitia Dean

Venitia Dean is a freelance illustrator who grew up in Brighton, UK. She has always loved drawing, ever since she could hold a pencil! As a teenager, she discovered a passion for figurative illustration, and then when she turned nineteen she was given a digital drawing tablet for her birthday and started transferring her work to the computer. She hasn’t looked back since! As well as illustration, Venitia loves reading graphic novels and walking her dog, Peanut.