# Flowers for Algernon

**Author(s):** Daniel Keyes
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/flowers-for-algernon/verdict.json
**Genres:** literary-fiction, sci-fi, middle-grade, young-adult, psychological-thriller
**Pages:** 224
**Publisher:** Bantam
**Published:** Wed Aug 22 2018 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780553274509
**ISBN-10:** 0553274503
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/flowers-for-algernon

## Description

Until he was thirty-two, Charlie Gordon --gentle, amiable, oddly engaging-- had lived in a kind of mental twilight. He knew knowledge was important and had learned to read and write after a fashion, but he also knew he wasn't nearly as bright as most of the people around him. There was even a white mouse named Algernon who outpaced Charlie in some ways. But a remarkable operation had been performed on Algernon, and now he was a genius among mice. Suppose Charlie underwent a similar operation...

## SageChimp reader verdict

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- **Unpaid reviews:** 0
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