Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
5.1
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
2925
Points per Word
0.000171
Page Count
44
Points per Page
0.011364
Description
A snail, after traveling the world on a cord around the neck of an adventurer, comes to rest around the neck of Yago, a boy who can barely move and cannot speak but responds to those around him by changes in his heartbeat.