Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.6
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
2105
Points per Word
0.000238
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.010417
Description
This biography profiles the life of Vivien Thomas, the first African American without a doctorate to perform open heart surgery on a white patient in the United States.