Wounded Brains
True Survival Stories
From the Series Powerful Medicine
• A triathlon athlete has part of her skull removed to relieve the pressure on her injured brain after a car accident.
• A soldier, wounded by a mortar explosion in Iraq, works with doctors to retrain his brain so he can speak and walk again.
• Doctors have discovered that administering extra doses of two chemicals naturally produced by the body can help prevent additional neuron damage in the brain following an injury.
That’s powerful medicine!
Explore the power of medicine through the true stories of people who survived life-threatening brain injuries. Find out how doctors and researches use the latest medical breakthroughs to save patients who have traumatic brain injuries and help them return to normal life. You’ll learn ways to protect your brain, as well as fascinating facts about the brain and how it controls the entire body.
| Format | Your Price | Add |
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978-0-7613-6310-1
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$31.99 |
| Interest Level | Grade 5 - Grade 8 |
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| Reading Level | Grade 5 |
| Genre | Science |
| Copyright | 2011 |
| Publisher | Lerner Publishing Group |
| Imprint | Lerner Publications ™ |
| Language | English |
| Number of Pages | 48 |
| Publication Date | 2010-08-01 |
| Reading Counts! Level | 7.6 |
| Text Type | Informational/Explanatory |
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| BISACS | JNF024000, JNF051000 |
| Dewey | 617.4'81044 |
| Graphics | Full-color illustrations |
| Dimensions | 7 x 9 |
| Lexile | 970 |
| Guided Reading Level | Z |
| ATOS Reading Level | 6.6 |
| Accelerated Reader® Quiz | 138543 |
| Accelerated Reader® Points | 1.0 |
| Features | Bibliography/further reading, Glossary, Index, Reviewed, and Teaching Guides |
Author: Sandra Markle
Sandra Markle is the author of numerous award-winning books for children. A former elementary science teacher, she is a nationally-known science education consultant. Markle has received many honors for her series Animal Predators, Animal Scavengers, and Animal Prey. Several titles have been named as National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)/Children’s Book Council (CBC) Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12, and Animal Predators was honored as a Top 10 Youth Nonfiction Series by Booklist.
Over 500 schools participate in Markle’s Book Explorers program which provides free resource-packed emails and classroom activities. Markle lives in Lakewood Ranch, Florida with her husband, photographer Skip Jeffery.
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Powerful Medicine
Explore the power of medicine through the true stories of people who lived through injuries and diseases that impact one part of the body. Award-winning science author Sandra Markle explains how doctors use the latest medical breakthroughs to repair the damage and prepare patients for… View available downloads →
Reviews
School Library Journal, Series Made Simple
“These narratives read like information from the Discovery Health channel, for kids: part fascinating science, part human interest story, and part ‘Eew, gross!’” —School Library Journal, Series Made Simple