Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.6
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
3712
Points per Word
0.000269
Page Count
64
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
Before the planet Krypton explodes, the scientist Jor-El and his wife send their only son into outer space. The child's rocket crashes into a Kansas cornfield, where a farmer and his wife discover the boy and his strange powers.