Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.9
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
20165
Points per Word
0.000149
Page Count
131
Points per Page
0.022901
Description
Fifteen-year-old Jill Boswell and her thirteen-year-old brother, Alex, are sent to summer camp in an unusual badlands region, where young people dig up words that are fossilized in rock, revealing the history of the English language.