Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.0
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
27590
Points per Word
0.000145
Page Count
134
Points per Page
0.029851
Description
Illustrated in period artwork, this book tells the stories of the pioneers of human flight, such as daredevil Sophie Blanchard from Napoleon's France and Salomon Andrée, who led an aerial assault on the North Pole in 1897.