Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
6.8
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
3635
Points per Word
0.000275
Page Count
40
Points per Page
0.025
Description
In 1810, a British naval officer and surveyor, Francis Beaufort, developed a scale to give sailors a common language for describing the wind. In this fictionalized account, witness how the wind affected day-to-day life on a ship in the 1800s.