Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.8
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
3363
Points per Word
0.000297
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.020833
Series
We the People
Description
This book presents a short history of the Library of Congress, which began in 1800, and describes its growth over two hundred years from when the library faced two devastating fires that destroyed much of its collection to being rebuilt in 1886.