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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
At the time, Phineas Gage seemed to completely recover from his accident. He could walk, talk, work, and travel, but he was changed. Gage
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"A boy with face blindness and a girl who struggles with weight fall in love"--
No one takes the time to look past Libby Strout's weight to get to know who she really is. Following her mom's death she picks up the pieces in the privacy of her home, dealing with her heartbroken father and her own grief. Now she's ready for high school, for new friends, for love-- for everything life has to offer. Jack Masselin's got swagger, he's mastered the impossible...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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"--
6) My brain
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Gives young readers an introduction to the importance and function of the brain"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this volume, Fahama has been kidnapped by a mad scientist and his zombie assistant, and they are intent on stealing her brain! She'll need to learn about the brain as fast as possible in order to plan her escape! How did the brain evolve? How do our senses work in relation to the brain? How do we remember things? What makes you, YOU? Get an inside look at the human brain, the most advanced operating system in the world... if you have the nerve!"--...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In India, in 1941, when her father becomes brain-damaged in a non-violent protest march, fifteen-year-old Vidya and her family are forced to move in with her father's extended family and become accustomed to a totally different way of life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 war-journalist father, who will undergo brain surgery after being injured in Afghanistan.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson's stirring novel explores how a family moves forward when their glory days have passed. For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone's hero. As a charming, talented pro football star, he's as beloved to the neighborhood kids he plays with as he is to his millions of adoring sports fans. But lately life at ZJ's house is anything but charming. His dad is having trouble remembering things and...
13) The brain
Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books/Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Brains. 78% water, 100% delicious. A zombie chef who has sworn off eating brains salivates over this super powerful organ in this . . . picture book. From learning about how the brain processes messages from our five senses, to learning why wrinkly human brains are so much more powerful than smooth mouse brains, this is an introduction to the organ that does it all"--
Author
Publisher
Little Pickle Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This innovative and timely picture book teaches children that they have the ability to stretch and grow their own brains. It also delivers the crucial message that mistakes are an essential part of learning. The book introduces children to the anatomy and various functions of the brain in a fun and engaging way.
16) Big head!
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Examines the various features of the body associated with the head, particularly the brain and how it functions.
18) My brain
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the different parts of the brain and how they function.
19) Inside the brain
Author
Series
Publisher
Smart Apple Media
Pub. Date
2005, [i.e. 2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
