Will Holding in a Fart Make You Explode: Quirky Questions and Intriguing Answers for Teens

Your own farts never seem as bad as everyone else's, and this book explains why. It collects around fifty odd questions for curious teenagers, each answered on a single page, so it works equally well as a read-through or a book to dip into. Some questions come from playground rumour, such as whether cracking your knuckles does lasting damage, whether going out with wet hair can make you ill, and whether brain freeze can actually hurt. Others are stranger, including how fish could possibly fall from the sky and why one yawn sets off a whole room.

The tone is cheeky, but the publisher and the explanations stick to real science, so every laugh comes with a little biology attached. The short, self-contained answers suit a teenager who would rather not sit through a textbook. The book is pitched as a gift for hard-to-buy-for teenage boys, and it will appeal to dads, brothers and trivia fans too. The title question gets its answer as well.