Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.1
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
27842
Points per Word
0.000144
Page Count
176
Points per Page
0.022727
Description
The author describes how, while training for a long-distance swim off the coast of California, she encountered a baby gray whale that had become separated from its mother, and recounts her efforts to find the baby's mother.