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Achoo!
Cover Achoo!
Author: Trudee Romanek
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Product: Book (40 pages)
Ages: 9 to 14
Cost: $6.95
Achoo!, part of the Mysterious You series by Kids Can Press, gives you the goods on germs. Author Trudee Romanek describes how viruses and bacteria get to us, how your body fights back, and how medicine fights back. Activities include one experiment that teaches you how to grow your own “penicillin” (no eating, just for show-and-tell). And lots of real-life gross-outs that will make you shudder and run to the sink to wash your hands.
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Reviewer: Alex Gawn
Age: 10

I thought that this book was really interesting! I found out so much about germs that if you asked me to recite them all, you’d be sick before the end.
    The cover page caught my eye as soon as I saw it. It has a colourful illustration that clearly indicates what the book is about. This book was a great one for me. I love germs, and I’m never taught anything about them in school.
I liked this book because it was fun to read. It didn’t just stick to the facts, like other non-fiction books. I didn’t like the activities much. I thought they were quite boring. But, I liked this book so much that the only thing I would change would be to make it longer.
    I learned a lot, including the difference between viruses and bacteria, and the way to fight them. I loved the illustrations. They all matched the writing perfectly. I would give this book 10 out of 10! It is even as good as the fiction books I read!

(Originally published in the May/June 2004 issue of YES Mag.)


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