Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
8.3
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
6489
Points per Word
0.000154
Page Count
64
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
From the discovery of Lucy's bones in Ethiopia to the process of recovering and interpreting them, this book shows how a pile of 47 bones led scientists to discover a new species of hominid, ancestral to humans.