Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
9.0
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
19444
Points per Word
0.000206
Page Count
96
Points per Page
0.041667
Description
This illustrated overview of the history of New York's first subway discusses why it was necessary to build, Alfred Beach's vision for the system and efforts to see it through, resistance to its construction, and other related topics.