The Magic School Bus: Inside Ralphie - A Book About Germs

by Joanna Cole

Other authorsBruce Degen (Illustrator), John Speirs (Illustrator), Beth Nadler (Author)

Paperback, 2010

Status

Available

Call number

616.079

Publication

Scholastic (2010), 30 pages

Description

It's Broadcast Day in Ms. Frizzle's class. Ralphie promised everyone he'd figure out what kind of show they should put on. But, Ralphie is sick and can't come to school. So, everyone climbs aboard the Magic School Bus, because if Ralphie can't come to class Ms. Frizzle's class will come to him! Join the class as they travel Ralphie's bloodstream to find out how germs make him sick and how his body can make him well again.

User reviews

LibraryThing member bwilhelm09

Genre: Science Fiction. This story is science fiction because we travel in to another human's body, which could never happen. Although this book is highly informational, this could never actually take place. Even though the story uses technology that does not currently exist, we can still learn

from the facts that are provided. The class takes a field trip inside a sick classmate's body and discovers what is making him sick and what his body is doing to help him get better with the help of medicine and by natural bodily functions.

Setting: Inside the human body. This setting is important because it helps the reader to discover not only more about germs, but how the human body reacts to germs and fights them off. We see pictures and diagrams to help us better understand this process. The cells inside of our bodies are shown and through the inside of the human body we gain insight on battling germs.

Media: colored pencil

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LibraryThing member SABC

When Ralphie becomes sick, his class has another unusual class lesson, on infections of the body.

LibraryThing member LaurenYoung

There's action! Adventure! Excitement! All inside Ralphie's body. He's sick and has to stay home from school. So Ms. Frizzle and the class take the Magic School Bus to Ralphie's bedroom. They shrink, go inside his body, and travel in his bloodstream to his sore throat. The kids find out what's

making Ralphie sick, and see his white blood cells fight the bacteria in a raging battle. Ralphie's winning! But there's one problem. Now the white blood cells think the Magic School Bus is a germ. How can the class escape?

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LibraryThing member hphipp2

This book is an interesting mix of fantasy and non-fiction. When Miss Frizzle's class finds out that Ralphie is sick, they want to know what's causing it. So, they get on the bus, shrink down to microscopic size, and go into Ralphie's body through a scrape on his knee and find out themselves.
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book is more engaging than if the information were presented without the shrinking of Ralphie's classmates. It makes the reader feel like they're really there, even though they could never really go inside Ralphie to see what a germ looks like. It's very informative as well as very fun.

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