Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.1
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
54582
Points per Word
0.000165
Page Count
255
Points per Page
0.035294
Description
This is a fictionalized autobiography of Marie van Goethem, the impoverished student from the Paris Opéra ballet school who became the model for Edgar Degas's famous sculpture LITTLE DANCER AGED FOURTEEN.