Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
8.9
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
7456
Points per Word
0.000134
Page Count
64
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
This book traces the history, current issues, and future of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare, sometimes genetic, disorder that affects the brain and is part of the same group of illnesses as "mad cow disease."