Flowers for Algernon

ISBN-13

978-0-15-603030-4

Author

Daniel Keyes

Publisher

Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

First Published

1959

Print Year

2004

Lexile

910L

Genre

Science fiction

Synopsis

Charlie Gordon agrees to have an experimental brain surgery that may increase his intelligence. Before Charlie, this surgery was successfully performed only once on a lab mouse named Algernon.

Themes

Appreciation of Diversity and Justice; Special Needs; Physical and Mental Health; Happiness and Contentment