Wounded Brains

True Survival Stories

From the Series Powerful Medicine

  • Interest Level: Grade 5 - Grade 8
  • Reading Level: Grade 5

• 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.

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978-0-7613-6310-1
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Interest Level Grade 5 - Grade 8
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
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

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