Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved 'Blue Babies' and Changed Medicine Forever
by Jim Murphy
“Blue baby syndrome” was the result of a heart condition known as tetralogy... read more
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 2015
Word Count 16,419
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1170L
- ATOS Reading Level: 8.3
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 178900, 3 AR Points
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- Subject Headings
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / Anat
- Heart--Surgery--Juvenile literature
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiograp
- Blalock, Alfred, 1899-1964--Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - 20th Century
- Cardiovascular system--Surgery--Juvenile literature
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / Unite
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology
- Thomas, Vivien T., 1910-1985--Juvenile literature
- Thomas, Vivien T.
- Surgeons
- Surgery
- Cardiovascular system
- Taussig, Helen B
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Science & Nature / Anatomy & Physiology
- Maryland
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / African American
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Anatomy & Physiology
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / 20th Century
- Heart
- Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
- Taussig, Helen B. (Helen Brooke), 1898-1986--Juvenile literature
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Biography
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
- Blalock, Alfred
- Surgeons--Maryland--Biography--Juvenile literature
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Awards & Distinctions 4
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Nonfiction Selection, 2016
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