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• Parrotfish Has a Superpower

  Esbaum, Jill,

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  A parrotfish describes its amazing biological role in producing the sand that beaches are made of - by pooping!

• Who Gives a Poop?

  Surprising Science From One End to the Other

  Montgomery, Heather L.,

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  The author explores various scientific and medical applications of poop. Really!

• Darwin's Super-pooping Worm Spectacular

  Owen, Polly (Children's author),

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  The silly true story of how Darwin discovered that the earthworm is one of the most important species on the planet. Without their life-sustaining poop, there would be no plants or animals on Earth.

• It Takes Guts

  How Your Body Turns Food Into Fuel (and Poop)

  Gardy, Jennifer,

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  It Takes Guts explores of all the amazing things that happen when we eat and drink: the different tools that the body uses to break food down for digestion, how acids do their part without burning a hole in our stomachs, why we want lots of 'helpful…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dung for Dinner

  a Stomach-churning Look at the Animal Poop, Pee, Vomit, and Secretions That People Have Eaten (and Often Still Do!)

  Virnig, Christine,

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  A deliciously disgusting introduction to some of the grossest things we humans put in our mouths--often without even realizing it! Check out the stomach-churning sequel, "Waist Deep in Dung".

• Space

  the Final Pooping Frontier

  Bondor-Stone, Annabeth,

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  This is a scientific history of pooping in space. From the earliest NASA missions up through the innovative results of their recent Space Poop Challenge design competition, we'll see the evolution of pooping on the final frontier.

• What Poo Can Do

  How Animals Are Fighting the Climate Crisis

  Ridge, Yolanda, 1973-

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  This nonfiction book for middle-grade readers, illustrated with photographs throughout, explores how animals are fighting the climate crisis by living, breathing and pooping.

• You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Poop!

  Woolf, Alex, 1964-

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  Poop is much more than just parts of food that our bodies don't use. Woolf explores the science of digestion in humans and animals, the history of manure, fertilizer, and sewage systems, and ways dung and scat are used around the world.

• Chasing Guano

  the Discovery of a Penguin Supercolony

  Taylor, Helen, 1982-

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  Who knew that giant piles of poop could lead to scientific discoveries!

• Battle of the Butts

  the Science Behind Animal Behinds

  Rish, Jocelyn,

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  Butts may not necessarily be as inherently gross as poop, but they are definitely funnier!

• Get the Scoop on Animal Poop

  From Lions to Tapeworms, 251 Cool Facts About Scat, Frass, Dung & More

  Cusick, Dawn

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  Poop gets a bad rap, but it's really very cool and useful. Animals use poop in many different ways: to trick predators and prey, send messages, feed themselves and their babies, build homes, mark their territories, and more.

• The Great Stink

  How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London's Poop Pollution Problem

  Paeff, Colleen,

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  This funny and informative picture book tells the story of Joseph Bazalgette, a 19th century engineer who designed London's first comprehensive sewage system to deal with all the poop. In doing so, he saved thousands of lives from cholera outbreaks…Read moreRead more of this annotation