Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.4
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
12994
Points per Word
0.000154
Page Count
86
Points per Page
0.023256
Description
Phineas Gage was truly a man with a hole in his head. In 1948, when a thirteen-pound iron rod was shot through his brain, he miraculously survived to live another eleven years and become a textbook case in brain science.