Your Body's Heroes and Villains: Microexplorers : Learning Aobut Immune Cells : The Tiny Defenders That Safeguard Our Lives Against Nasty Bacteria and Viruses (Microexplorers Series)

By Patrick A. Baeuerle, Norbert Landa, Patrick Bauerle

Book Overview

Continuing Barron's Microexplorers series, readers watch as viruses of a common head cold invade a human body and as bacteria cells invade the body through a small wound. These are the body's villains, but they are fought off and finally overcome by hero antibodies-- produced by our bodies to protect us from harmful microscopic invaders. Full-color illustrations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764150510
• ISBN13: 9780764150517
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
• Length: 46 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.2" x 11.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7