Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
7.6
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
29524
Points per Word
0.000169
Page Count
192
Points per Page
0.026042
Description
This account of the mysterious disease that spread across the American South in the early 1900s, which left people weak, disfigured, and sometimes caused their deaths, discusses how doctors and public health officials found the cause and cure.