Understanding Our Muscles

By Lucy Beevor

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Capstone Young Readers
• Release date: May 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781410993410

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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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