The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Skloot, Rebecca
AAAS/Subaru PrizeBiographies/AutobiographiesBlack PeopleALA Outstanding Books for the College BoundMedicineEthics/Morality
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AR Book Level
8.0
AR Points
18
Word Count
101,230
Interest Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Genre
Nonfiction
AR Quiz #
238389 EN
About this book
This book examines the experiences of the family of Henrietta Lacks, who, twenty years after her death in 1951, learned researchers took cells from her cervix without consent, which were used to create the immortal cell line known as the HeLa cell.