Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
4.2
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1085
Points per Word
0.000461
Page Count
40
Points per Page
0.0125
Description
In 1810s Massachusetts, young Mary Elizabeth Sawyer nurses a sickly lamb back to health and becomes the subject of a famous nursery rhyme. The book includes facts about the real Mary, writer John Roulstone, and Lowell Mason, who set the rhyme to music.