Insulin cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level 10.6
Points 5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 23169
Points per Word 0.000216
Page Count 112
Points per Page 0.044643

Description

The discovery of insulin transformed diabetes from a feared and deadly disease to a manageable one. Yet insulin was not easily discovered. It took a pair of young scientists in Canada one remarkable summer to succeed where so many had failed.