Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.4
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
34227
Points per Word
0.000175
Page Count
235
Points per Page
0.025532
Series
Childhood of World Figures
Description
This biography of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie focuses on her childhood in Russian-occupied Poland, the deaths of her mother and eldest sister, and her father's encouragement of her ambition to get an education.