Red Madness: How a Medical Mystery Changed What We Eat
by Gail Jarrow
A compelling account of a real-world medical mystery in the early twentieth century... read more
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Nonfiction
Year Published 2014
Word Count 29,524
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 990L
- ATOS Reading Level: 7.6
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 166188, 5 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Health
- History
- Science
- Social Studies
- STEAM
- Subject Headings
- Public health--United States--History
- United States. Public Health Service--History
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Health & Daily Living | Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries
- Physicians
- Physicians--United States--Biography
- Malnutrition--Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - 20th Century
- Public health--United States--History--Juvenile literature
- Southern States--Social conditions
- Epidemics--United States--History
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | History of Science
- United States. Public Health Service--History--Juvenile literature
- Southern States
- Pellagra--History
- Epidemics
- Southern States--Social conditions--Juvenile literature
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction
- Malnutrition
- History
- Epidemics--United States--History--Juvenile literature
- United States
- Social conditions
- Public health
- Physicians--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Pellagra--History--Juvenile literature
- Pellagra
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- It's a Mystery
- Life Science, 6-12
- Humans and Animals, Biology and Health
- Literary Science 2
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