Chapter 1: Hooray for humans! Introducing amazing you! ; People power ; Seeing inside ; All systems are go! ; Got guts? ; You and your cells ; Different cells, different jobs --
Chapter 2: Your amazing exterior. The skin you're in ; Layer it ; Drip, drop! Sweating it out ; Ouch! Scratches and cuts ; Skin colors ; Sizzling in the sun ; Hear, hear for hair ; Colors, curls, and cowlicks ; Hard as nails ; Healthy nails, healthy you ; The zoo on you! --
Chapter 3: Run, bend, jump : us in motion. Your bony body: The skeleton ; A bone's structure ; Rubbery bones: Cartilage ; Making
Joined by joints ; Hooray for hands! ; Fancy footwork: Bones of the feet ; The brain box: your skulll ; Your superfine spine ; Muscle power ; Making muscles work ; Tendons; Your muscles' ropes ; Achy muscles --
Chapter 4: Fueled by food : the digestive system. Mac & cheese, please! ; First stop: The mouth ; Your spectacular spit ; Down the hatch: Your throat ; Meet your stomach ; A big bath of acid! ; Love your liver ; Digestive juicers: Gallbladder and pancreas ; The not-so-small intestine ; Next stop: The large intestine ; The scoop on poop ; The zoo inside you! ; My stomach hurts --
Chapter 5: Your blood, breath, and beating heart. River of life: your bloodstream ; What is blood? ; Red blood cells ; Rescue squad: Other blood cells ; Your hardworking heart ; The beat goes on ; The blood vessel highway ; Take a deep breath! ; Inside the lungs ; Speak up! ; Ah-choo! Colds, coughs, and sniffles ; Gotta go: The urinary system --
Chapter 6: Your amazing brain. What a brainiac! ; Your magnificent mind ; Put on your thinking cap: The cerebrum ; Two sides of the brain ; You have a lot of nerve! ; Body electric ; The happy chemicals in your head ; Emotion in motion ; Remember to remember! ; Good morning! Good night! ; Dreaming the night away ; Handle with care --
Chapter 7: Making sense of the senses. Your body makes sense ; Look out! ; Seeing is not believing ; Awesomeoptical illusions! ; Do you hear what I hear? ; The nose knows ; The bumpy road to taste ; Feeling your way ; Amazing animal senses --
Chapter 8: The life cycle. Genes: What makes you, you ; Reproduction ; Before you were born ; Babyhood ; It's great to be a kid ; The teen years ; Being a grown-up ; Getting older ; Coming full circle --
Chapter 9: Being strong, staying well. Your immune army ; The invaders are coming! ; Going viral ; Germs, stay out! ; Cell block ; Annonying allergies ; Heroes in germ history ; Fuel your body ; Fit and fun! --
Chapter 10: Our future bodies. What's next? ; The gene scene ; Building new parts ; Smart parts ; Limbs from limbs ; Exploring the brain ; Brain, meet computer ; The doctor is in the computer? ; Unstoppable students --
Body atlas. The skeleton ; The skeletal muscles ; The nervous system ; The circulatory system ; The respiratory system ; The female reproductive system ; The male reproductive system ; The digestive system ; The urinary system ; The endocrine system ; The lymphatic system.