Book
Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science
- Published
- 2002
- Genre
- Biography
- Pages
- 96
- Words
- 12994
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1000990.Phineas_Gage?ac=1&from_search=true
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 7.4
- Lexile
- 1030L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 13–17
- Ambleside year
- Years 8–9 · ages 13–17
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Phineas Gage was truly a man with a hole in his head. Phineas, a railroad construction foreman, was blasting rock near Cavendish, Vermont, in 1848 when a thirteen-pound iron rod was shot through his brain. Miraculously, he survived to live another eleven years and become a textbook case in brain science.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780618052523
- ISBN-10
- 0618052526
Tags
Adventure-Life ChangesAnatomyAward Winners-BCCB Blue Ribbon BookAward Winners-NCTE Orbis Pictus Award/Honor BookBrainsHistoryMedicalNonfictionRailroadRecommended Reading-Children's Literature ChoiceRecommended Reading-IRA Teachers Choices/ILA Teachers ChoiceRecommended Reading-NSTA/CBC Outstanding ScienceRecommended Reading-YALSA Best Books for YARecommended Reading-YALSA Popular PaperbacksScience