Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.9
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
9665
Points per Word
0.000103
Page Count
88
Points per Page
0.011364
Description
Tuk and the people in his camp cautiously welcome strangers, or Qallunaat, who arrive on the biggest boat anyone has ever seen. Together, the strangers and the men in Tuk's camp venture out onto the ocean to hunt the prized arvik, or bowhead whale.