Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
4.7
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
2051
Points per Word
0.000244
Page Count
40
Points per Page
0.0125
Series
Tales of Young Americans
Description
Once each year, Kimo and his grandfather placed a flower lei atop a stone monument at Laupaoehoe Point. It is not until after Grandfather's death that Kimo learns of the 1946 tsunami that took the lives of twenty-four schoolchildren and teachers.