Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.2
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
569
Points per Word
0.000879
Page Count
22
Points per Page
0.022727
Description
This illustrated story is about Owen, the baby hippopotamus, that was rescued after the 2005 Asian tsunami and brought to live at the LaFarge Park in Mombasa, Kenya, where Mzee, an aging tortoise, became his surrogate mother.