Elementary Students:
LRFO = Let’s Read and Find Out early readers
Links that are crossed out are “broken links,” however, I have found that most of them actually do work if you click on them.
- Body Bones by Shelley Rotner (gr. K-2)
- The Skeleton Inside You by Philip Balestrino (LRFO 2, gr. K-4)
- Look at Your Eyes by Paul Showers (LRFO 1)
- Eye: How It Works by David Macaulay (32 pp.)
- Ears Are for Hearing by Paul Showers (LRFO)
- How Many Teeth? by Paul Showers (LRFO 1)
- How You Talk by Paul Showers (LRFO, inc experiments)
- Hear Your Heart by Paul Showers (LRFO 2, gr. K-4, inc experiments)
- What Happens to a Hamburger? by Paul Showers (LRFO 2, gr. K-4)
- A Drop of Blood by Paul Showers (LRFO 2, gr. K-4)
- I Know Why I Brush My Teeth by Kate Rowan (gr. K-4)
- I’m Growing by Aliki (LRFO 1)
- My Five Senses by Aliki (LRFO 1)
- The First Book of Human Senses by Robert Tidd (143 pp.)
- You Can’t Smell a Flower with Your Ear! All About Your Five Senses by Joanna Cole (gr. 3-4)
- Sleep Is for Everyone by Paul Showers (LRFO 1, gr. P-3)
- Germs Make Me Sick! by Melvin Berger (LRFO 2, gr. K-4)
- Why I Sneeze, Shiver, Hiccup, & Yawn by Melvin Berger (LRFO 2, gr. K-4)
- Wonders of the Human Body by Anthony Ravielli
- The True Book of Your Body and You by Alice Hinshaw (48 pp.)
- What’s Inside of Me? by Herbert Zim (32 pp.)
- How Things Grow by Herbert Zim (64 pp.)
- Christian Liberty Nature Reader Book 5, Worthington Hooker (211 pp.)
MS and HS Students:
- Alvin Silverstein books on each system of the body (look for the ones published by prentice-hall, because the new printing in 1997 are NOT the same and not as good.)
- The Respiratory System
- Cells: Building blocks of life
- Exploring the Brain
- The Excretory System: How living creatures get rid of wastes
- The Muscular System: How living creatures move
- The Skeletal System: Frameworks for life
- The Skin: Coverings and linings of living things
- Circulatory Systems: The rivers within
- The Digestive System: How living creatures use food
- Future Life: The biotechnology revolution
- The Endocrine System: Hormones in the living world (also search The Endocrine System – Amazon has a typo)
- The Reproductive System: How living creatures multiply
- The Sense Organs: Our link with the world
- The Nervous System: The inner networks
- Men of Medicine by Katharine Shippen
- I Am Joe’s Body by Radcliff (select chapters, not the whole book as it starts to drag on and on.)
- Exploring the History of Medicine by John Hudson Tiner
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (for 11th or 12th grade)
- William Harvey and the Circulation of Blood by Thomas Henry Huxley
- Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery by Richard Hollingham
- Lifeline: The Story of Your Circulatory System by Leo Schneider (667 pp.)
- Dr. Jenner and the Speckled Monster: The Search for the Smallpox Vaccine by Albert Marrin
- Louis Pasteur: Enemy of Disease by Carol Greene
- To Heal the Heart of a Child by Helen Taussig; MD by Joyce Baldwin (a woman pioneer in pediatric cardiology)
- Great Lives: Medicine by Robert H Curtis (38 biographies of people important to the history of medicine)
- Solving Crimes: Pioneers of Forensic Science by Ron Fridell (144 pp)
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks (259 pp, stories of mental illness, neurology, psychology)
- Double Helix by James D. Watson
- Dr. Beaumont and the Man with a Hole in His Stomach by Sam Epstein
- Fearfully and Wonderfully Made by Philip Yancey (224 pp)
- Bones by Herbert Spencer Zim
- Blood by Herbert Spencer Zim
- The Vitamin Pioneers by Herbert Bailey
- The Vitamin Hunters by Albert Von Haller
- Notes on Nursing by Florence Nightingale
- Florence Nightingale by Ruth Fox Hume (Landmark)
- Gifted Hands by Ben Carson (this was made into a movie too)
- Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between by Theresa Brown
- How Not to Die: Surprising Lessons on Living Longer, Safer, and Healthier from America’s Favorite Medical Examiner by Jan Garavaglia
- The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine by Francis Collins, M.D., PhD.
- Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shapes the Rest of Our Lives by Annie Murphy Paul
- Grey’s Anatomy coloring book by Freddy Stark
- Human Anatomy Coloring Book by Joe Ziemian
- The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body by David Macaulay (beautiful resource!)
- The Human Body for Every Kid by VanCleave (experiments)
- Beginning Biochemistry: A simplified guide to the chemistry of life by William Berman
- Genome by Matt Ridley
- The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery by Sam Kean
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