Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.3
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
5872
Points per Word
0.00017
Page Count
63
Points per Page
0.015873
Series
First Book
Description
Attracted by cheap land and wide-open spaces, a great number of Americans moved west. The rivers, lakes, and canals were the great highways over which they traveled into the interior.