Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.6
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1939
Points per Word
0.000258
Page Count
40
Points per Page
0.0125
Description
This story resets Hans Christian Andersen's tale THE UGLY DUCKLING to the Northern Piney Woods of Alaska, where a baby moose is raised by a family of ducks who try to teach him to waddle, quack, and fly, but cannot see his true beauty.