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The Museum of Odd Body Leftovers: A Tour of Your Useless Parts, Flaws, and Other Weird Bits
by Rachel Poliquin (Author) and Clayton Hanmer (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Welcome to the weirdest museum you’ll ever explore–the one inside your body.

Did you know your amazing, incredible body is a walking, talking museum of evolution? Tour guides Wisdom Tooth and Disappearing Kidney lead readers through a wacky museum dedicated to vestigial structures: body parts that were essential to our ancestors but are no longer useful to us–even though they’re still hanging around.

From goosebumps and hiccups to exploding organs and monkey muscles, each room in the museum shows us that these parts have stories to tell us about our past. By the time we make it to the gift shop, we’ll understand that evolution is not only messy and imperfect, but also ongoing. Our bodies are constantly changing along with the environment we live in–and there’s so much that is still unknown, just waiting to be discovered.

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It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

The Most Haunted House in America
by Jarrett Dapier (Author) and Lee Gatlin (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: When the Skeleton Drummers receive an invitation from the First Lady to perform at the biggest Halloween party of a lifetime–or afterlife–the band must pack their instruments, rise from the earth, and prepare to rock the White House. With gusto and bone-rattling beats, the skeletons BOOM! BANG! and CLANG! as the crowd of trick-or-treaters dance on the president’s lawn. But when the party moves inside, something’s not quite right: there’s a chill in the air and a prickle of fright. There’s one thing you might not know: The White House is haunted from top to toe!

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