Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.4
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
52003
Points per Word
0.000135
Page Count
274
Points per Page
0.025547
Description
Persephone runs off to the Underworld with Hades, with whom she has fallen in love, but when her mother, Demeter, takes out her grief on thousands of peasants, she agrees to come back once a year to visit her mother and to bring spring back to Earth.