Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
9.0
Points
21.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
113030
Points per Word
0.000186
Page Count
340
Points per Page
0.061765
Description
This biography is an examination of the professional and personal life of Marie Tharp, a geologist and oceanographic cartographer who mapped the ocean floor at a time when women were all but barred from the scientific field.