Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.5
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
42662
Points per Word
0.000164
Page Count
222
Points per Page
0.031532
Description
In 1892, an Iñupiat Eskimo mother finds herself far from the village at winter camp, and her husband has died. Although Qutuuq is far along in pregnancy, and her children are only seven and nine, the family sets out toward the Bering Sea coast.