Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
4.7
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
2079
Points per Word
0.000241
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
This biography profiles the life of Vasco Núñez de Balboa, the Spanish explorer who was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean and conceive the idea of a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.