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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
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When brain surgery makes a mouse into a genius, dull-witted Charlie Gordon wonders if it might also work for him. With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Charlie, twelve, who has autism and obsessive compulsive disorder, must endure a cross-country trip with his siblings and a strange babysitter to visit their father, who will undergo brain surgery.
Author
Publisher
B&H Pub. Group
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Plagued by grief and despair over the brutal attack that killed her husband, Lisa Newberry participates in a medical trial in which a microchip is implanted into her brain to help cure severe depression.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Sixty-eight-year-old David has a brain tumor that he attributes to Agent Orange exposure. He wakes up from surgery repeating the name of a Native American soldier whom he was once ordered to discipline, and decides to return something precious he long ago stole from that man.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
"Inspired by the true story. Maddie is a normal twelve-year-old, but when a CT scan reveals she has a brain tumor, it will take all her imagination, courage, and support from her friends and family to meet this new challenge"--
Author
Publisher
Libros de Seda
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Primera edicion.
Physical Desc
347 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
Twelve-year-old Charlie, who has autism and obsessive compulsive disorder, must endure a cross-country trip with his siblings and a strange babysitter to visit their father, who will undergo brain surgery.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
570L
Physical Desc
134 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After a sharp-tongued fifth-grader undergoes surgery for a brain tumor she is uncomfortable because suddenly everyone is unnaturally nice to her.
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