Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
7.2
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
1915
Points per Word
0.000261
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
This biography of former astronaut and United States Senator John Glenn describes his childhood, military service during World War II, and journeys into space both in 1962 aboard the "Friendship 7" and again in 1998 aboard the space shuttle "Discovery."