Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.9
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
12780
Points per Word
0.000156
Page Count
112
Points per Page
0.017857
Series
Recordbooks
Description
As a boy, Ned Hanlan rowed himself from Toronto Island to school on the mainland. People said he was born in the water, but no one knew this son of a poor Irish fisherman would become the most famous athlete of his time.