The Texas City Disaster cover

The Texas City Disaster

Author: Scher, Linda

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 4.9
Points 0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 2053
Points per Word 0.000244
Page Count 32
Points per Page 0.015625

Description

This book describes the events of the Texas City disaster of 1947, in which bags of fertilizer exploded on a docked ship, and discusses the disaster's causes, tragic cost, and aftermath.