Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
2619
Points per Word
0.000191
Page Count
80
Points per Page
0.00625
Description
On a clear, warm Sunday, a wild wind whipped up millions of specks of dust to form a duster, a savage storm, on America's high southern plains. Sand and dirt fell like snow, people got lost and suffocated, and that was just the beginning.