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Things That Make You Go Yuck!

Extreme Living
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Things That Make You Go Yuck!: Extreme Living explores the extraordinary ways organisms survive in harsh environmentsβ€”from the ocean's depths to icy peaks, scorching hot springs, and even space. Discover creatures that are bigger, smaller, stretchier, and grosser than you imagined, showcasing the wild diversity and resilience of life in nature.
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This educational book is ideal for children aged 9-12 interested in nature, biology, and discovering the unusual adaptations of incredible creatures.

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Life isn't always easy, but some organisms take hard living to the extreme. Things That Make You Go Yuck!: Extreme Living looks at organisms living in the weirdest of ways: swimming miles deep in the ocean, freezing on icy mountaintops, boiling in hot springs, or even floating in space.

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Life isn't always easy, but some organisms take hard living to the extreme. Things That Make You Go Yuck!: Extreme Living looks at organisms living in the weirdest of ways: swimming miles deep in the ocean, freezing on icy mountaintops, boiling in hot springs, or even floating in space.

You'll also find critters bigger, smaller, softer, longer, and stretchier than you ever thought possible. Whether it's nature's slimiest organisms or the weirdest mutations, Things That Make You Go Yuck! celebrates survival of the fittest, grossest, craziest, and creepiest things in nature, proving once and for all that life in the wild is anything but ordinary.

Ages 9-12

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781618215680

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 November 2016

Country: United States

Imprint: Prufrock Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 165.0mm

Height: 165.0mm

Weight: 210g

Pages: 112

About the Author

By day, Jenn Dlugos writes science textbooks, assessments, and lab manuals for grades K-12. By night, she writes comedy screenplays, stage plays, and other ridiculous things with her Things That Make You Go Yuck! coauthor, Charlie Hatton. Her favorite creepy crawlies are spiders.

Charlie Hatton is a bioinformatician, science fan, and humorist living in the Boston area. Charlie enjoys working with genetic and other data to support cancer research, learning about new and interesting scientific areas, and referring to himself in the third person in biographical blurbs. Charlie has collaborated with Jenn Dlugos to coauthor the Things That Make You Go Yuck! science book series, as well as several other, far more ridiculous, projects.

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