Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.8
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
9160
Points per Word
0.000218
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.041667
Description
This history of disease and pestilence, told from the point of view of the bugs and pests that cause them, features case histories of specific epidemics and eyewitness accounts from the rats, flies, ticks, and creepy-crawlies that spread diseases.