Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
8.3
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
23130
Points per Word
0.000173
Page Count
144
Points per Page
0.027778
Description
This book relates the story of thirty-two whaleship vessels which became trapped in huge sheets of ice and whose passengers faced a nine-month-long winter and possible death in 1871.