Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
4.6
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
1980
Points per Word
0.000253
Page Count
40
Points per Page
0.0125
Description
Betty Mae Jumper, the daughter of a Seminole woman and a white man, grew up poor and isolated in Florida's Everglades before becoming a nurse and returning to her tribe, where she became a community activist and the first female elected tribal leader.