Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story about Brain Science by John Fleischman
	List Price:   $9.95 Unit Price:   $7.96 You Save:   $1.99 (20%) ISBN-10:   0618494782 ISBN-13:   9780618494781 Publisher:   Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Sandpiper Edition:   illustrated Category:   Non-Fiction, Science Books, Young Adults Pub. Date:   November 2004 Pages:   86 Format:   Paperback Ages:   8 to 12 Grades:   4 to 6
Awards
2004  Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (USA)  Nominee/Honoree  2005  Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award (USA)  Nominee/Honoree  2005  William Allen White Children's Book Award (USA)  Nominee/Honoree
Subjects
BRAIN DAMAGE_PATIENTS PERSONALITY DISORDERS
Description/Notes
Phineas Gage was truly a man with a hole in his head. A railroad construction foreman, Phineas was blasting rock near Cavendish, Vermont, in 1848 when a thirteen-pound iron rod was shot through his brain. Miraculously, he survived another eleven years and became a textbook case in brain science. But he was forever changed by the accident, and what happened inside his brain will tell you a lot about how your brain works and what makes us who we are.