Oh, yuck! : the encyclopedia of everything nasty
(2000)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
J/031.02/MASOFF,J

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Kids' Nonfiction J/031.02/MASOFF,J Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Workman Publishing, c2000
DESCRIPTION

ix, 212 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

ISBN/ISSN
0761107711, 9780761107712, 0613365658, 9780613365659, 9780761107712
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Acne: Look Out Below, Your Zit's About to Blow! -- Ants: Some of These Creepy Crawlies Are No Picnic -- Bacteria: The Good, the Bad, and the Stinky -- Bats: It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a Fuzzy Mammal? -- Beetles: The Things That Go Crunch in the Night -- Blood: How Something so Gross Can Be so Good -- Body Lint: Would You Like Toe Jam with Your Toast? -- Body Odor: I Sweat Therefore I Stink -- Burping: A Belch Is Born -- Cannibals: Let Them Eat ... Fred? -- Cockroaches: Or, How to Live for 135 Million Years on a Diet of Pure Garbage -- Crocodilians: From King of the World to Swamp Thing -- Dandruff: Snow for All Seasons -- Earwax: Great Big Gobs of Brownish Gunk -- Edible Bugs: Waiter, There's Some Soup in My Bug! -- Eels: Slithery, Slimy Swarms of Fish -- Eye Gunk: Mr. Sandman, Meet Mr. Mucus -- Farts: A Burp from Below -- Fleas: This Joint Is Jumping! -- Flies: Puking and Peeing: A Day in the Life of a Fly -- Foul Feet: A Step in the Wrong Direction -- Freaky Fish: Swim or Be Swallowed -- Frightening Fashions: Outfits Wackier than Your Great-Aunt Ida's -- Fungi: There's a Fungus Among Us! -- Gross Grub: If You Think Broccoli Is Bad -- Halitosis: Wake Up and Smell the Stench -- Icky Insects: To Buzz or Not to Buzz -- Jellyfish: Put on Your Pantyhose and Dive In! -- Leeches: A Blood Buffet -- Lice: Too Much Attention Can Go to Your Head -- Lizards: Relax, Take Your Tail Off -- Maggots: Decaying Dead Deer? Dinnertime!! -- Miserable Meats: A Soda, Some Fries, and a Double Eyeball Burger with Cheese -- Mites: Mighty Microscopic Munchers -- Mosquitoes: A Midsummer Night's Scream -- Mucky Medicine: This Will Only Hurt for a Second -- Mummies: Are You My Mummy? -- Naked Mole-Rats: Rough, Tough, and in the Buff -- Parasites: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner -- Pee: They Call Me Mellow Yellow -- Poop: A Bum Deal -- Pus: Green, Goopy, and Good for You Too! -- Quicksand: I'm Sinking and I Can't Get Up! -- Rats: Long-tailed, Sharp Toothed Disease Buses -- Raunchy Recipes: Today's Specials: Totally Nasty -- Scabs: A Crusty Coat of Armor -- Scorpions: Mini-Monsters of the Night -- Shrunken Heads: A Nightmare for Your Noggin -- Sickening Seafood: This Chapter Is Not for the Faint of Tummy -- Skin Eruptions: Rashes, Blisters, and Warts. Oh My! -- Skunks: A Putrescent Perfume -- Slugs: Confessions of a Naked Snail -- Snakes: Do the Fang Tango -- Snot: You May Think It's Candy, but It's Snot -- Spiders: They're Not All Itsy-Bitsy! -- Spitting: Welcome to Loogie Land -- Tar Pits: Stuck in a Rut -- Ticks: A Bunch of Suckers -- Toilets: A Royal Flush -- Vile Vegetation: Fearsome Flowers and Vindictive Vines -- Viruses: Invasion of the Body Snatchers -- Vomit: Bring Along a Barf Bag--This Is Gross! -- Vultures: Chow Time at the Roadkill Cafe -- Worms: Spaghetti That Squirms -- X-Periments: Making Muck of Your Very Own

An alphabetical collection of articles about disgusting things, from acne, ants, and bacteria to worms, x-periments, and zits

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