Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
8.0
Points
18.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
101230
Points per Word
0.000178
Page Count
381
Points per Page
0.047244
Description
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.