The Snow Baby: The Arctic Childhood of Admiral Robert E. Peary's Daring Daughter
Author: Kirkpatrick, Katherine
Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.9
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
13906
Points per Word
0.000144
Page Count
50
Points per Page
0.04
Description
Born in a two-room, tar-paper-covered house in the far north of Greenland, Marie Ahnighito Peary was destined to have an exciting childhood. Fair-skinned children were so rare in the far North that the local Inuit called Marie "Snow Baby."