Wounded Brains: True Survival Stories

by Sandra Markle

- 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...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822587041
• ISBN13: 9780822587040
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8