Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.5
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
40175
Points per Word
0.000149
Page Count
199
Points per Page
0.030151
Description
Eleven-year-old Saara, a Finnish immigrant, describes in fact-based detail, her challenging time at home in northwestern Ontario and aboard the great "Empress of Ireland," which sank in the thick St. Lawrence River fog on May 29, 1914.