Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.7
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
7935
Points per Word
0.000126
Description
This book describes the life and career of Selman Waksman, the microbiologist and chemist who discovered streptomycin and first coined the term "antibiotic."